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PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.
William B. Astor, oue of the holiest men in
he United States, died in New York last week,
lie ww the oldest son of John Jaoob AHtor,
hIio died in 14. and who left the bulk of
hia immenae fortune to him. The father ac
cumulated hia fortune in the fur buaineHH.
and the son has increaaed the portion left to
him by rentala from improved real estate, in
New York city, Tho deeeaaed owned 3,000
houses in the city of New York, and hia fortune
is estimated at f50.000.000 to 75,OO0,0O0. He
leave two sons, who are in active bueineaa in
New York.
Another heavy New York tea house- that of
ISaats A Clark- baa gone to tho wall.
Mrs. Charlotte Chew and her daughter Laura,
were burned to death at Camden, N. J., tho
other day, by the explosion of a keroaene
lamp.
A Knocking murder in reported frcm Pitts
burgh. A woman employed in a public hospital,
went iuto the room of a lunatic named Hile, to
clean it. He seizod and choked her until she
was insensible, and then drove the Hmall end
of a broomstick into hor brain.
Plymouth Church ban acceded to Mr. Moul
ton's projionition to Hubmit her complaiuta to a
mutual council of tho Congregational churches
of New York and Brooklyn.
Another New York murderer haw escaped tho
hangman's noose by the insanity dodge. John
Scannell, for the murder of Thomas Donahue,
ban jam been tried tho third time-the two
previous trialM having reunited in a disagree
ment of the jury and acquitted on the ground
of insanity. The murder was a cold-blooded
and premeditated one, and the presiding Jndge
expressed much indignation at tho verdict.
An immense rubber shoe factory at Mulden.
.Muss., was burned last Monday. Loss. .X)0.
000.
The house of Albeit Wood, at Pony Hollow,
near FJmira. N. Y.. was hnrned last week, and
Ins wife and three children perished in the
anies.
The wost.
There was stored in Chicago elevators on the
SMAhiMk, 1,188,897 bushels of wheat; 045. HP.)
bushels of corn; 878,710 bushels of oats; 188,887
bushels of rye, and 2f',2.tsl bushels of bailey,
making ft grand total of 2,547.'.1() bushels,
against 1,882,276 bushels at the sumc period
last year.
Parry Sullivan, tho world-renowned trage
dian, commences an engagement at McVicker's
Theater, Chicago, Nov. This is the first
time in nearly twenty years that this great
actor has visited the United States. The Beat
em cities are lavish in their praise of his act
ing, particularly his renditions of Hamlet,
lhchard III., and other Shakespearean char
acters. An old man named Frederick Happel, iivmg
near Fort Wayne, Ind,, recently murdered his
wife by shooting her with a ntle. Me then re-
loaded the weapon and ended bis own life by ;
jaitting a bullet through his head.
A youthful trapeze performer was fatally in
jured while performing in a Cleveland theater,
few days ago. by falling from the trapeze to
stage.
Chicago was the scene of a cold-blooded and
unprovoked murder on 'IliankHgiving.Day. The
victim was Mr. Charles Whyland. oue of the
best-kuown restaurateurs in thecitv. and one
of the proprietors of the St. Elmo Kestaurant,
attached to Kuhn s Hotel. The murderer is a
notorious gambler named Henry Davis. There
ia much indignation in OhiOfJO OVW tho das
tardly deed, and there aro threats of cleaning
out tho wbolo gambling fraternity.
The schooner Sunshine lias been wrecked on
the Oregon coast. She carried thirty passen
gers and a crew of ten. all of whom are proba
bly lost.
Tho Black Hill are said to bo full of miners,
who are working without interference, tbo
troops having been withdrawn.
The trouble with the Apache Indians at tho
Cimarron Agency, New Mexico, grows threat
( tang. The aavagae, numbering HO warriors,
have lied to the mountains, where they are
awaiting reinforcements from tho hostile Utes.
It is feared that they will attack the settle
ments, as they havo often done heretofore.
Tbo place of tho striking OOftl miners, at
Carbon aad Book Bpringa, Wyoming, on the
Union Pacific Itailroad, aro being tilled with
Chinamen
Another party of Russian Mennonitos has ar
rived at Topeka, Kan. Theie are now about
5,000 of these people along tho line of tho
Atchiaou, Topeka and Santa Fe Itailroad.
The bark Florence has been wrecked on tho
Pacilic cat. Seven of tho crew perished.
The United States Grand Jury, at St. Louis,
has indictod Daniel V. Munn. late Supervisor
of Internal Revenue for the Chicago District,
on a charge of complicity with the whisky
frauds. D. T. Linigar, of Cairo. Munn's for
mer law partner, is also indicted.
Chicago elevators contained on the 1st inHt.
1 ,M,MI buahels of wheat: 448,092 bushels of
corn; 372.759 bushels of oats: 1HH.8H4 bushels
of rye, and 314. 507 bushels of barley, making
a grand total of 2,367.287 bushels, against
1 S32.27G bushels at the same period last i ftT
The developments in the trial of William ().
Avery, at St. Louis, were very damaging to
Gen. (. K. Dabcock. Testimony was nitro-
du. ed verifying as Oen. 15aU,ck s tho hand-
writing Of certain telegrams forwarded frflm
Washington to Joyce, and giving information
as to contemplated raids nptai tbo whisky ring,
lialx-ock, after Uie case was cloaed, telographed
to Ht. Lotus asserting his innocence, and de
manding that be he called aa a witness in
'ourt.
Tho 8outh.
Tony Nellum and Alice Harris, colored,
were hung at Monroe, La., on the '2'ith of No
vember for the murder of tho latter's husband.
On the same day, at Hardis, Miss., ben Kdwards
ami i )- nr l'r - nian, si-oe.ilored, were executed
for murder and robbery.
Advice from the Uio ( Iran lo represent that
the trouble aloig; that river growing out of the
cattle ra.d by Mexicans are a bad as ever.
The Mexican ra dcra have a contract to deliver
IS ' n i bWJfl of eattle at Monterey, and they ex
pect to stel them from Texas.
Washington.
Orders have U'un received at the Nv. De
partment for the fitting np of five more iron
clatls. Tliis make a total of twelve ironcll
winch, within lew Uian foiu: weeks, have mvle
ready for active service.
The contested election caaea in the Houae
will exceed in number thoae of any previoua
aeaaion. Papera in fifteen oaaea have already
been filed. In one that of the Fourth Maaaa
chusette District -the papera are so volumin
ous that the Eleotiou Committee can never
hope to read them all. They weigh over half a
ton, and it required aix men to carry the box
containing them iuto the Capitol.
Gen. lieuet, Chief of the Ordnance Bureau,
in his annual rejxirt, urges an increase of the
annual appropriation for arming and equipping
tho militia. The sum expended for thin pur
pose is to-day no larger than it was in 1H0H,
when the population was H.000,000. He gives
the following as the aggregate strength of the
nulitia of the United States i Organized, H4.7'24;
unorganized, 3,701,977. Gen. Benet makes a
plea for improved Hmall arms, and more
of them. He thinks our arsenals should
bo well Htocked with a large reserve supply of
the best rilles and carbines. He also refer to
our inferior aitillery, and Hays "ride guns of
a size, endurance, and power to enable us to
meet on fair and equal terms a foreign foe
must, be provided while wo bavo the time, and
it is certainly not the part of wisdom to delay
i making such provision until tho enemy invades
our shores."
The report of Secretary Bristow. it is said,
will be very pronounced in favor of hard
money. Tho Secretary will smtaiu the polit y
of the act of last January, providing for tho
redemption of United Statos notes in gold in
lK7i, and urge its retention. The Secretary is
of tho opinion that additional legislation will
be necessary to render other ortions of tho
law practicable, and he will probably recom
mend a bill for tho funding of greenbacks im
mediately into gold bonds bearing 4 or 4K2 per
cent, interest, and having a long time to run.
The Secretary thinks that tho resumption law
is entirely reasonable, and that it can bo car
ried out with entire safety to the Government
and the business of tho country.
It is said that I new bill will bo introthu 1
early in the session of Congress, providing some
more efficient way of guarding against the
oflices of President and Vice-President being
made vacant by death.
The expenses of tho Postoflice Department
for tho last iiscal year were ?;$5.)00.000. and the
receipts $27,000,000.
The Postmaster-General had a conference last
week with several publishers, and informally
discussed the question of the repeal of the law
imposing a double rate of postage on third-
class matter. He told them he would consider
tlje matter, and git bk opinion respecting it
iu a communication which he was preparing
for Congress.
A Washington telegram of Nov. M says i
"The mysterious naval activity continues.
Three more ofiiccrs wen to-da ordered to one
ot the ironclads that are at the rendezvous at
Norfolk. Their orders duect them to report
there Dec. 4. The curious thing about all
these orders is, that while a law numtier of
vessels have been ordered into commission und
furnished with a complement of officers. DO
naval stores or stores of any kind havo been
sent to the vessels, nor have orders for tho sup
ply of any stores been mado."
'onimissioner I'ratt declines to rotisi'ler the
appeals for a reconsideration of the OMtft of
officers displaced by tho recent executive on h I
consolidating internal revenue districts, as the
question is ono for tho President's altimate
decisiou.
The mysterious naval preparations are still
iu progress. It is reported from Washington
that the entire Mediterranean squadron has
beeu ordered home.
Mr. Clapp. the Congressional Printer, in his
annual report says the actual expenses for
printing and binding for tho year ending S t.
30. 1H75. are: Public printing, fGOS, 098 ; pa
per, 387.471 : binding, i477.857 ; lithograph
ing and engraving for Congress - !2.7'tj : map
ping for tho Supremo Court of the United
States, $725 ; for salaries, etc.. in the office of
the Congressional Irinter, l(i,C17 ; ( 'nt'jr .--tional
BaaaM $88,959.
A rumor comos from Washington of an im
pending ditliculty between Spain and Guate
mala, which may involve tho United States.
Captain ienernl Yaltuaseda some time ago
demanded that Guatemala revoke btr
recognition of the belligerent rights of
the Cubans, threatening tho vengeance
of Spain if it should not be done.
This she refuses to do. and has notiticl the
other South American DOWeTB, who aro pledg
ing their Hiipport. As the Patted Sta'en. un
der the Monroe doctrine, cannot permit Spain
to dictate to Guatemala or any other power ou
the American continent, this affair is given as
an explanation of the naval preparations now
going on at Washington.
Tho report of the tOOKtoOef of the 'urrencv.
while defending she pn east system of National
Bank ooxranoy and leeoaaanending its continu
ance, suggests various important amendments
to the Ranking law.
K. S. Tobey. of Roston, declines the Coninns
sionership of Indian Affairs, tendered him by
tho President.
Jndge-Advocate-General Joseph Holt, of the
Army, has been retired, upon his own applica
tion, and Assistant Judge-Advocate- Jeneral
William McKee Dunn has been appointed to till
the vacancy.
The Secretary of the Navy has issued orders
to leerattha oBoafl lO enlist all available men
for the naval service.
Political.
The President jm tt iiijirt of the Senato,
; Hon. Thomas W. Ferry, of Michigan, becomes
j Acting Vice-President of the United UatM
through the death of Vice President Wilson.
Mr. Ferry is a native of Michigan, is lifty years
j nd 1,aM Horved iu Oeaffani a numher
ol yeen
Tlie Repebhoea State Central (kimmittee of
Indiana have issued a call for a State Conven
tion of the party at Indianapolis, on the 22d
of February next, to nominate a cambdatc for
Governor and other State offices.
The Governor of Connecticut has appointed
ex-Gov. English United States Senator iu place
of Hou. O. S. Ferry, deceased.
K. 8. Tobey, of liowton, has been appointed
Commissioner of Imbau Affaire. viceSni.th.
rcnignod.
Secretary Chandler is swinging the ax right
and left among the employe of the Interior
Department.
Conoral
The news of Vice-President Wilson's doath
( created a general feeling of orrow throughout
the entire country.
A National lUilway Conyention, called in the
nit rent of the Southern Pacific road, was hffJi
in St. Louis last week, and was largely atteud
I ed. Judge Staidey Matthews, of Cincinnati,
prnsided.
The National Grange of Patrons of Hus
bandry has just concluded an interesting sos
i sion at LooisviLe, Ky. Tho following ofhoerw
were elected for the ensuing year i Master,
John T. Jones, of Arkansas ; Overseer. J. L.
Woodman, of Michigan , I .eel urer. A. B. Smed
ley, of Iowa . Steward, A. J. Vaughn, of Mis
sissippi ; Assistant Steward, Mortimer White
html, of New Jersey ; Chaplain. S. H. Ellin, of
Ohio ; Treasurer. F. M. McDowell ; Secretary,
O. H. Kelley, of Kentucky ; Gatekeeper. O.
Dmwiddie, of Indiana; Ceres. Mrs. J. T.
Jones or Arkansas. ,
A Washington corresiKuidout aavs there is
aavs there is
much strong comment there oveRhe manner
in which the body of the late Vice
President Wilson was cut up by va
rious surgeons who lushed to the
( apitol upon hearing of his death. Ho was
scarcely cold before they had taken out bis
brain and weighed it, and had other parts of the
lody pretty generally distributed around the
Vice President's chamber. Now there are
many questionings as to tbo authority by which
this cai ving up of the second officer of the na
tion was done.
It is stated that Vice-Pro-ideut Wilson was
engagod to be married to Mrs. John A. Jackson,
of Williamson County, Teun. The vows were
to be consummated on the recovery of his
health. It was his object mainly to see her
that he visited Nashville last spring. They
met lirst at Washington, and had kept up a
constant correal tondence since. Mrs. Jackson
is one of the most distinguished and highly
cultured ladies in the South.
A reunion of Federal and Confederate sol
diers is proposed at Philadelphia next year.
The otiaoquies of the late Vice-President Wil-
son were begun at Washington on Friday morn-
ing, Nov. H and ended at Natu k. Mass.. Ml
native town, on Mondav, the Nth, The remains
were con veNed from Washington to Philadel-
phia. where they were placed in state in fade-
pendence Hall, and viewed by thousands of
people. On tho arrival of the funeral cortege
at New York, it was met at the depot ami es
eorted through the city by one of the most im
losing military and civic processions ever wit
nessed in this country. From Now York tho ;
remains were taken direct to Boston, arriving
on Sunday morning. They lay in stao' m Dork
Hall from noon of Sunday to noon of Monday
and were viewed by many thousands of people.
From theoea the body was escorted by an im
posing prooeaaion to Cottage Farm, where it
was delivered to tho citieus of Natick. and by
them consigned to its native earth.
Secretary Bristow has written a letter to the
District Attorney at St. Fouis, m which he do- i
nounces as " absolutely and unqualifiedly false'
the story started by tho whisky-ring thieves
that he was interested m a distillery at Ixiuis
ville. He adds : " I beg to repeat tho request,
heretofore communicated to you, that these
frauds on the QoVW iiment shall be probed to
the very bottom: thai even ramification of tho i
ring shall be followed in every part from he
ginning to end. and that no one having con
nection with or uiltv knowledge of its opt ra-
ttonaahau be permitUd to escape. So far as
this Department is concerned. I ask that every
allegation agaitiht any otlicerof it. from its boatl
to Ito hniahlaat nmploja. be thoroughly investi-
gated and vigorously prohecuted. if any ground
exists therefor. I have read this to the Presi-
dent, who repeats his injunction, 'Let no
guilty man escape.' "
The Commission appointed to inquire into
; the route for the ptopoaod ship canal to con -I
neot the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans report
' that they are of tho opinion, after a full in
vestigation, that the Nicaragua route is best,
and estimato that the work from the harbor of
; Rreto. on the Pacific, to QfOytOWli, 00 the At
lantic, can be constructed at total cost not ex-
ceeding W5,000,000.
Gens. Popo and Schoficld, in their reports,
i recommend that the Indian Rureau bo trans
I ferred to the War Department, and that troops
bo stationed on each reservation to watch the
Indians and prevent IheaQ from going on raids.
Recent lires : At Rellville. Canada loss, j
1150,000; Obariin, .. M0,000 Wheeling, w.
Vft., 110,000) Ottawa, 111., $12,000; Melrose.
.Mas.-!., 70.000; Lowell. Mass., !?50,000.
Foreign.
The Russians havo had a great battle with
the Kiptschaks in Khokand, Asia, achieving a
victory, the enemy fleeing and looting 3. SOU of
their dead ou tho field.
Advices from the seat of war in Rosnia rep
raeent that the insurgents have resolved to
continue oik rations energetically all through
the winter. They have recently gained several
edrantafjee, k contention of the people wU
uhortly be called to proclaim a National (Jovern-
ment.
Tbo London organ of the Carliats bombastic-
ally pioolahna that Don ('arlos has saved Cuba
and the honor of NpiMti, his recent offer of
truce having caused the Americans to modify
their attitnde.
Much distress has been caused in Liberia on
account of the war with the natives.
It is reiortod that I'.ngland has bought a
$20,000,000 iuterest in the Suez Canal.
Bpafal continues to send reinforcements of
tfoopa t Cuba.
The Trench (iovernment warns newsnaners
against reproducing Paul de Cassagnac's recent
Bonapeftiel apt aoh I'nyx, one of the load
ing journals of Paris, has already been seized
for this oOTenoOt
A movement is on foot in Savoy looking to a
separation from fbWOl and reannexatiou to
Italy.
A Madrid telegram says "It has l)een aser
tainoI from official sources that tho negoti
ations Between Spain and the United States are
proceeding favorably. The rumors spread by
newspapers that dilticulties have arisen are ab
solutely incorrect. The relations letween the
two countries ma be r garded as excellent.
A telegram from Alexandria savs that tne to hear whaf the preacher suvs about
Kvssinians surprised and killed 1,100 Kgvp- Jesus," said Matt h.as Smith, of Kittan
ms, including seventeen ofii " t Wlfati J fefl
Ahy
tians, inclumng
Aeeowata from IUHa repreaeae the Baaaaaai
lu-Mesas heavv in the recent rising at Kho-
, kand. A part of the garrison was inaMacred.
The French Assembly ha carried through it
final passage tho electoral bill which ha been
pending before that body for several weeks.
The arrondis-emcnt sjstem of voting, con
i tended for by tho Ministry, and vigorously
combated by the ultra Itepublicans, is nicorpo
j rated in tlie measure.
A Berlin dispatch announces that Count Von
j Arnim ha Wu indicted and will lx tried for
treason.
A Mi an Ski. Yesterday afternoon a
very seedy chap juiumu1 into the river
near the fet of Third street, but was
pulled out none the worsts for his bath,
The crowd scattered, and after a few
minutes, when he sat in the sun drying
lus clothes, a hack man asKed :
" Don't you wish you hadn't?"
"This is no town, this isn't," replied
the vagi ant, elevating his mm "I've
.jumped into the river at Toledo and had
more u titty men ask me to drink !
Fur Prut.
The First Lot ouiuthc and l'lisscilger-
Car.
Stephenson hiul boon called a lunatic
when he said that his locomotive could
run twelve miles an hour. One vn m
distinguished oflioer of the KngliHU Gov
ernment, whose duty it was to see that
the mail were carried as rapidly aa jk8
sible, laughed at the iilea, and said that
"if ever a locomotive ran ten mileH an
Hour wun a man iug itenimt ii, nc
would eat a stowed engine w heel for his
breakfast
There was Home little excuse for this
disbelief, for the first locomotive was a
very clumsy machine. It was called the
'Locomotion." StepheuHon, when he
built it, was the only man besides his
son Robert who believed it would go at
all ; and some of the learned members of
the English Parliament declared that it
could not run against strong wind ! It
was a small, oIuiiikv affair, weighing not
more than one-fifth as much as an engine
of the present tune.
The first improvement on it the
" Hockett " was even more ridiculous
in appearance ; but it was found to be
faster and stronger. Heiore it was ac
cepted by the railroad company it was
put in a race with three other engines,
manufactured by other engineers : and
of the judges ami thousands ol persons
who witnessed the race. " nine-tenths
were against the ' Uocket,' because of its
appearance." Hut Stephenson received
the prize over the other competitors, one
( of whom was Capt. John Ericsson. His
locomotive was run fifteen miles Ml hour,
and once actually drew thirteen tons at a
Ml,,'',i (,t' twenty-lime miles an hour,
That l''ormance decided the late ot
loeomoiive.i, ami eiigmeei s. .11 oiie.e
wt nt to work to improve the new motive
power.
The lirst railroad passenger-ear avus
simply an old boa 00 wheels, with seats
running along the sales, ft door at the
rear end, and ft Beat in front for the
driver, like the box of an omnibus. It
was called by Stephenson, who invented
it, the Experiment," because it was
not generally bettered thai people would
travel on the railway. In 1825, about
the time the lirst line was finished, oue
ol the first papers of England said that
nothing could be " more ridiculous than
the proopect of locomotives traveling
twice as fast as stage coaches !" And it
added that people would as soon " sutler
themselves to DO filed off upon one d'
Congreve's rockets tJ to trust themselves
bo the mercy ot such a machine going at
such a rate." Stephenson, however, linn
in his belief that passengers would travel
by rail, declared that the time would
come, ami he hoped to live to see it,
when it would be cheaper to ride than to
walk. This prophecy threatens to be
more than fulfilled in a few vears. It is
proposed in England to Bend paaoenarera
by rail at ordinary English letter rati'S,
and under a system of tickets like post
age stamps a six-cent stamp entitling
the holder to go by any route to any part
of (Ireat Britain. But George Stephen-
son was not bettered then, and the peo
pie continued to call him " Daft GrBOT
dv," which means Crazy George." It
was not long after the (Stockton and I Is
lington road was op. Qed that more passenger-ears
were needed. The first im
provement on the " Experiment " was a
double ear, made out of two " mourning
couches. " This car was lighted at flight
by a single omdlfli St, JftohoftU fOft
h 01 inhi r.
Tke Signers.
Tlu' ddest of the tifty-six signers of
the Declaration of Independence, at the
time that historic instrument was adopt
ed and signed, on the 4th of July, 177f',
was Henjamin Franklin, of lVnusvlva
ilia, who was in his 71st year. The
youngest was Edward Rutledge, of
South Carolina, who was in his 27th
TOai. Three of the signers were OTef 90
years of age when th' V died, ten were
over 80, and eleven over 70 years. The
last survivor of the signers was Charles
Carroll, of OBROllton, Bid., who died on
the 1 1th of Wot ember, 1883, in his 96th
year. John Adams and ThomM JehVr
soti died oti the same dav, July 1, ls2.",
the former in his 01st year, and the lat-
ter in hia 84th Teart and when ther were
gone, Charles Carroll was the only re-
niainmg one ot the hand ol patriots who
signed the " Declanitiou."
Punishment Klinilgtl.
g the Tolice Court yesterday was a
witness who had refused to obey a sul-
pomu, and who was accordingly brought
to terms with the aid of an attachment.
VV hen the Police Justice asked him what
excuse he had to otVer for his contempt
of court, he replied that at the time they
wanted liim in oonrt be was standitig at
mt aiuir, gixtin manieu.
"May it please your Honor," hur
riedly interposed a bachelor lawyer who
had overheard the apology, "I respect
fully suggest that the man is already
sutliciently punished, and I beg the
Court to deal with him mercifully in
view of his recent affliction. '
"Ah," replied his Honor, "ho it
strikes me. You can go. You are dis
charged, sir, and may Fleaven have
mercy on you." h fmif Fn t Ptttt
Wanted u know. You Know.
" Hurry back from church, for I want
house for church on Sunday morning
last. When she rt turned home after
church she found her husband hanging
by his peck to a rcpe from one of the
beams in the kitchen ceiling. He was
dead, and this note lav on tin kitchen
table :
" Dear Win: : You stayed toe long.
I was so anxious to hear about Jesus
that I could uot wait. I havo gone to
M e him. M. itihas."
Deceased was seventy two years old.
ANTTgliTlKH.
Ihdeh humor, in its
quiet way, is irresistible. A parte if
tourists, in passing through a Uenniin
town, asked a honest looking fellow if
he could direct them to any remarkable
af things, to antiquities of any sort,
which were not known to the . nereltt
; ()t strangers. Antiquities, old thingsc'
he said, after a minute's de, p reflection.
You h ive only to go to the end of that
street, and you will find exactly what you
waul." I iiey followed his advice and
found themselves in front of the Old
, Woman's Hospital.
Ideal Courtship at One-Horse Uulch.
In Bret Harte's new serial story in
Scribrwr' Mimth.'y for leeMnber, the
hero, ( labriel Con t oy, gives to his little
sister the following mendacious ace uint
of his visit to the Widow Marklr on busi
ness matrimonial : j
Illy li td drawn I small box, her favor-
ite seat, between her brother's legs, and
rested the buck of her heed comfortably
against Ins waistcoat. When (labriel
lmd lighted his pipe at the solitary can-
die, he gave OM or two preliminary
pulls, and then, taking his pipe from his
niouth, said gentlv :
"Oily can't be done."
"VhuMn't hd.iiie (hiu '" oueried
the artful Oily, with a swift preconcep
tion of the answer, expanding her little
mouth iuto a thoughtful smile.
Thet thing."
" What thing, Ghabef"
"This yer Hall 1 1 ill' ' Mrs. Markle,"
said Gabriel, with an assumption of
easv, business hke indifference.
" Why V asked Oily.
a a cii i r lit ft
"one woman i new me
natr sant uny, iacfig vwuuj
aroutid. j
(mbnel evaded his ajajlflae erea, and,
looking in the lire, repeated slowly, but
with great ni
" No ; not iur-fur fur a gift!
M8hao a mean ateck-up hornd old
tlntig said Oily, hercd; v. "Id jest like
lO why thar am t a man ass kin com-
larew-ith you, (tube ! Like her impu-
lU'm"' . ,
(.abnel wave.l h.spipeinthe air depre-
catingly, yet with such an evident air o
cheertul resignation, that Oily MOOd
BponUm again suspu-iousiy, ami asked:
" h it did she say '. . .
"She sini, replied uatM aiowiy,
" thet her heart -wee giyea to an-
other. I think sin
and said :
struck into poetry,
My In-art it i another's.
And it never can be tin lie. '
Thet is, I think so. I disreniember her
special remark, Oily ; but you know
women all. rs spout poetry ataeoh tunes.
EnnyhoW, that's about the way the
thing panned out."
" Who was it :" said Oily, suddenly.
"She didn't let on who," said Gabriel
aneeeily. " 1 didn't think it the eqnaie
thing to Inquire."
"Well," sail Oily.
Qabriel looked down still more embar
rassed, md shifted Ins position. " Well," j
be repeated.
M What did tOM say V Mid Oily.
"Tbenr
"No, afore. How did you do it, ;
(lube " said Oily, comfortably tixingher 1
chin iti her hands, and looking up in her ,
brother's face.
Oh, the usual way!" said (labriel,
with a motion of his pipe, to indicate
fague and glittering generalities of
oonrtabip.
"But howl Ghibe, tell me all about
it."
" Well," said ( labriel, looking up at !
the roof , " wimen is baahfoJ at a gen
eral thing, and thar's about only one
way ea a man can get at 'em, ami thai
ez, by being kinder keerietal and bold.
Ves 'e, Oily, when I kem inter the house
I sorter jest chuckled Sal under the
chin thet way, you know and then
Went and put my arm around the widder's
waist, end kissed her two Of three times,
TOO know , jest to be sociable and familiar
like."
"And to think, Gabe, thet after all
thut she wouldn't In v ye," s:iid Oily.
" Nwt at any price," said Gabriel, pos
itively. "The diagUOthV beast!" said (311y.
"I'd jest like to keU'h that Mauty
bangin ronnd yer after that 1 she con
tmued savagely, with a vicious shake of
her tittle tist. "And just to think, only
to day We give her her pick o' them
pupw!"
"Hush, Oily, ye niusn't do anythin'
O the aort." said Gabriel hastily. " Ye
must never h t on to any one anything.
It's confidence, Oily conlidenee, ez
these sort o' things alius is atween you
and me, Resides," he went on reassur
ingly, "that's nothin'. Lord, afore a
man's married, he ban to go throng !i t his
kmd o' thine- a dozen tunes. It's ex
pected. There was a man e. I once
knowod," continued Gabriel, with shame
less mendacity, " ez went through it
ti f t v times, and he was a better m .n nor
DM, U I could shake a thoUOAnd doi ars
' in the face ol any woman. Why, bleae
your eyes, Oily, some men jest likes it
! fa excitement like perepeotnV."
Is the Red Man a Humorist .'
They had a dispute in at Barham'sone
j day, over the assertion that the North
j American Indian has no humor. Moody
said he'd investigate the subject while
on his approaching trip to Colorado, and
would send home an account of the re
; suit. On his way out there the party
stopped one night at a Sioux camp, aud
Moody thought he would undertake Ins
experiment. He led one of tlie chiefs
aside, and said to him contidentiallv :
"Why is a lame dog like an inclined
planer" The chief retained a passive
' OOQntenanoe, and shook his head, and
then Moody said: " lleeause it's a slo
pup," and then Moody laughed vocifer
ously, but the noble savage seowled and
went back to his supper Of baked dog.
Moody tried that conundrum on sixty
four braves, seventy squaws and a pa
pOeee, without inducing a smile, and he
aiaa about to abandon his theory, when
; he happened to remember that the
Sioux have not yet learned the Knglish
language.
He frit then that perhaps something
In the nature of a practical joke would
be more likely to develop the aboriginal
sense of fun; and he got two candle
' boxes out of Uaf wagons ami placed them
1 ou the around about two feet spurt.
Then he spread a blanket over them and
put a bucket of wafer between them.
Then he sat on one box and the driver
I of the mule Wm on the other, and he
invited Kicking Home, the head chief,
J to take a seat in the middle in the soft
place. Jqaj aa the Indian sat down,
I Moody and the other man trot up, and
1 Kicking Horse went sousing into the
bucket. Moody was surprised to ob
serve that the chieftain did not laugh,
j On the contrary, Kicking KotUO at We
I with great tlign'ity, and approached Mr.
Moody. That gentleman thought may
be he was coming to ask how the thing
! was done, so thai he oonM paw it upon
j some of his friends. Hut Moody was
! mistaken. Tho chief tangled Mr.
Moody's hair among his fingers, whipped
j out a knife a couple of feet OOg, and
snatched OtT M; . M I scalp. Then
he sculped the mule driver. end tied
both of them on tin- backs of
their mules and started them acrss thw
country.
A week Inter 'r. Moody sat down at
the hotel at Co. .ratio Springs to write
OJUt his report. He had on an oiled silk
ekulj Oap, held on by a skate strap vhiofe
buckled under his chin, and he looked
gloomy. He admitted in hi.s rejM.rt that
the North American Indian, so uir from
being a humorist, was serious enough
tot an entire funeral procession, and
then ha devoted the rest of the docu-
mi nt to an appeal to Congress to declare
war ' extermination againat the Stall
Indians. Muj Adder.
Biography of the Late Henry Wilson.
The career of the Lib- Vice I'-.m, h ut
Wilson was a remarkable one. He was
emphatically a self-made man. BotH of
poor parents, at Farmington, N. H., in
1812 his father's name was CoiUuth
he spent the early years of his life in
knocking around and being knocked
around the village. His father u is dLs
ripeted, and
an elder broth r was so
i yfg fta$Hj landed in the Peni
tetitiarv. As a boy the aubject of this
WJlK ill)I)r,:nticed to -hoe
mak,ir-H triultl) iuul h am,,! it th roughly,
To cut lo((Hf. from his family connections
WIW nrHt Work h: fap (l his
j tismill lmlm. (;t Jeiemiah Colbaith,
eiiretl to tlu. wrld m Henry
Wi1hou Having aaTed BOIiej by work
ftt th1 he fteal two years in an
a-ademv, devoting hirnsel!' assiduously to
stll(ju ullJ emerging with snJBoienl
book.knowiedge to carrv him through
U4m - -- f uiknnHno
obtained. Leaving the academy,
I Mr. Wilson took up his reaideuce at
Natiow Mass., where be oommenoed
bnaixieeaoa aemaUaoale aa amanuiac
turer of boots ami shoes. Heproeperod;
for he was industrious, eoonomioa and
temperate. He took MD active part m
loewl polities, and iu 1840 be participated
in the Procidentia campaign i anachro
eate of the election of Gen. Barriaon.
He pcowed an offootiTO apeeket on the
stump, ami the nnonodfng vear was
taken up by his fellow-citizens and
elected to the State Logjaleture. He
OOOUpied a stmt in thut bod , tot five
years. He was a delegate to the Whig
Convention in 1848, and made himself
conspicuous by his advocucy of anti
slavery resolutions The.. , edutiona
being rejected, he Withdrew irofll the
convention, ami in connection with other
anti-slavery agitators was active in
organizing the Fret -Soil party. At this
time he purchased the Boston RepubU
ran, daily paper, which he edited fox
two yeetw aa an anti slavery organ, and
displayed considerable ability as a writer.
In lHoi and Ih.vj he waa Preaident of
the Massachusetts State Senate, and at
the National Free-Soil Convention, held
at Pittsburgh in 1803, waachoaen perma
m xt Preaident, The following year he
served M a member of the State ( insti
tutional Convention, and was also nomi
natod as the Free-Soil candidate fox
Governor of the State. In 1865 he was
elected to the United States Semite, and
was re-elected in 18G1 and 18)7. The
National Republican Convention in is72
honored Mr. Wilson with the lecond
place on the ticket, and he was elected
Vioe-Preaident m November of thai year.
His death leaves a vacancy in i:c offioe,
which wilt be supplied by the l'resiih ni
pro tem. of the ornate. During Mr.
Wilson's service in the flonatfl DC OOCtt
pied prominent places on OOmmitteoe,
and during the war was Ohairman of the
Committee ou Military Art'airs, in which
capacity he rendered efficient service.
In the midst of a busy life devoted to
polities, Mr. Wilson found time to de-
vot(, to Horary pursuit,,. In 1864 he
pnblished a " History of the Anti-Slav, rv
Measures of the 'Thirty Tenth and
Tn-i-ty-eighth United Btatce CongreaMO ;"
I in 18it). "The Military Measures of the
i United States Congress;" in iStiT,
11 lestimonuus of Ameruvn Stateemen
and.TuriHtH to the Truths of Ihriatianity;"
in 1868. a " Hiefory of the Reoonetruc-
tion Measures of the Thirty -ninth and
Fortieth Oongreeoee ;" and at the time
of his death he had nearly oompieted his
most important work, "The History ol
the Rise and Fail of the Slave Tower."
Two volumes of this work have already
b. en published.
During a public career of over a quai
ter of ti century, Mr. Wilson has borne
the reputation of being Upright and
honorable m all his public tnmaactionJI.
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