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TOPICS OF THE DAT.
Th recent growth of Paris is in re
markable contrast with former years.
In the reign of Henry II, during the
sixteenth century, it contained about
12,000 houses. About two hundred
later, in 1760, the number had only in
creased to 20,000. In 1817 there were
but 26,761; in 1834, 89,000. In 1878,
after a lapse of only forty-four years,
there are 75,273.
lie
Thb royal house of Saxony ranks
among the oldest reigning families in
Europe. It gave an Emporor to Ger
many as early as the beginning of the
tenth century: but the house subse
quently spread into numerous branches,
the oldest of which, called the Ernes
tine line, is represented at this moment
by the ducal families of Saxe-Altenburg,
Saxe-Coburg-Ootha, Saxe-Meiningen,
and Saxe-Weimar; the younger, the
Albertine line, sunrives in the rulers of
the kingdom of Saxony.
The Globe diffused through London
the awful intelligence that the Mayor of
Wakefield, haying declared himself a
teetotaler, caused ginger beer to be se.
before his guests at his inauguration
banquet. This ginger beer has caused
such an eflervascence of fceli,g in the
city of London that a deputation has
already waited on the Lord Mayvr to
ascertain his sentiments on the great pop
question, and to pop jie question to him
whether he will evej think of saturating
his fellow citizens, with this sort of tip-
London VfWays:"MeetingNilseon
at tbe Kangarian tavern at the Exhibi
tion the other day, listening to the Tzig
aae and drinking tokay, I learned that
is was taking holiday, having' declined
mil engigmenta in England and abroad,
even refusing t sing in Paris. 'For
when I sing,' she said, ' I can do noth
ing else, and can not venture on sight
teeing for fear of cold and sore throats;
and so I know of nothing of either En
gland or France, though I am so often
there.'"
VOLUME VI.
SOMERSET, OHIO, THURSDAY JUNE 27, 1878,
NUMBER 12.
ened them that they ran into a pass
with only one outlet. He built fires
along the mouth of the outlet, and heap
ing enough fuel on to keep them burn
ing for hours, he rode to town and hired
thirty men to build a strong fence at the
hole, thus keeping them in the inclosure.
He has slaughtered a great many, but
there are about one hundred yet. He
would like to hear from the managers of
menageries and others who desire ani
mals of this class.
REVIEW OP DOMESTIC EWS.
In Sweden education is compulsory
from tbe age of nine, and in case of per
sistent neglect the children are taken
from their parents and sent to boarding
school, while their parents are made to
pay their board. The Swedish Govern
ment is determined and very properly
'determined to extinguish ignorance.
It has established a complete hierarchy
of schools, at all of which tuition is
free, from the lowest elementary schools
up to the two great universaties of Up
aala and Lund. The schoolhouses are
quite famous for their neatness and
completeness. .
A lady in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, while
walking along the bank of a large creek
about a month ago, clipped and fell
into the water. She was an expert
swimmer and in a short time would have
been on shore had she not been caught
in a mass of weeds, which completely
paralyzed her lower limbs and rendered
her farther advance toward the sh- re
without assistance impossible. She
managed to keep her head above water
for hours and cried for help until she
was hoarse. She eventually fainted,
and, from that time until she was res
cued by a gentleman next morning, she
remained unconscious. When she was
found a log of wood floated on the water,
and on it her head was pillowed, thus
preventing her from drowning. How
the portion of the tree trunk came to be
under her head is a mystery. The gen
tleman had to work for an hour before
her nether extremities were released
from the weeds. She had been in the
water nearly twenty hours before help
came.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol
lara have thus far been expended upon
the construction of the Keely motor ap
paratus, while over a million and a half
have changed hands in the rise and fall
of stocks. Keely is now making his ar
rangements for a final test, and when
everything is in order, he proposes to
Invite Edison and others to his laboratory,
and either blow the whole affair through
the roof or demonstrate his claim to be
ing the greatest inventor that ever Bhed
blessings upon humanity. The general
impression is that the motor machine is
like Orpheus U. Kerr's cannon.
There died not long since, in En
' g'and, a gentleman named Mytton, who
had earned the highest character as land
steward to Lord Kilmorey. Mr. Myt
ton's father had succeeded to an ances
tral estate of $100,00 a year, but spent
the la-t years of his life in the Queen's
Bench prison. He lost $350,000 in one
year on the turf, and left his family
penniless. And lately comes Sir Charles
Nugent, aged thirty-one, into the bank
ruptcy court, who, too, has lost $300,
000 on the turf. Cases of similar com
plexion, though perhaps not of quite
such magnitude, will readily occur to
all intimately acquainted with the inside
track of New York society.
In Cambridge, Mat's., there lives one
George Bonham, who is one hundred and
forty years of age, and has been blind
three times, but has as often received
his sight again. He recently cut two
eye-teeth, which caused him the most
excruciating pain. When he walks the
streets he stoops so much that his head
cannot be seen when looking from be
hind. He was George Washington's
school teacher for a short time, and well
remembers how the Father of his coun
try licked him when it was his intention
to have matters just the reverse. He
says Washington was a bad boy and
used to steal eggs and suck them, besides
committing sundry other small deprada
tions usual among country lads.
HOW THE PEOPLE ARE FED AT THE
PARIS EXPOSITION.
Persons who are acquainted by ex
perience with the heat of Paris during
the summer months, especially in the
low-lying grounds where the Exhibition
is situated, wi 1 be anxious to know what
provisions have been made at the Tro
cadero and the Champ de Mars to quench
the thirst and gratify the appetite of
visitors. In the exhibition of 1867 there
were many picturesque inns, cafes, and
bars in which food and drinks were
served after the fashions of several coun
tries, by waiters and waitresses dressed
in national costumes. There are on the
grounds four first-class restaurants,
t rench and a Belgian at the Champ de
Mars, near the Point d Jena, and
French and a bpanisn restaurant on
each side of the cascade of the Trocadero
At each of the corners of the Palace of
the Champ de Mars are luncheon bars
for the sale of cold meats and drinks.
These are considered insufficient for the
great building. In the garden facing
the Ecole Militaiie are two immense
restaurants, a Duval establishment and
a Strasbourg oresserie. Two prix fixe
restaurants are established, one near the
Porte de Tourville, and the other on
the bank of the Seine in the middle of
the agricultural exhibition. Near the
railw y station an immense restaurant
of 1,800 square feet is constructed, out
side the Exhibition inclosure. It is
calculated that 16,000 persons can
breakfast at the same time in the two
narks of the Champ de Mars and the
Trocadero. Besides these establishments,
there are several picturesque ones which
should be mentioned. Near the Avenue
de Suffren is a Hungarian cuarda or inn,
in which there are Tzigane concerts.
Tunisian, Moroccan, and Algerian cafes,
with music, coffee, conscousson, and
other African viands, have been estab
lished in the Trocadero Park.- Cigars of
the French regre are : sold in all
the restaurants. Easterp tobacco will
be found in the Moorish cafes, and Rus
sian cigarettes in an Mbah, a pretty
wooden structure near the Avenue de
Suffien. Havana cigars are sold in a
special kiosque near the Point d'lena.
Iff the hollow of an oak tree, near
Lebanon, I1L, Mr. Anson Gottlieb, while
searching for a nest of eggs recently,
found a human skull was inverted, that
is the upper portion was on the ground.
Mr. Gottlieb attempted to tret the skull
Choosing a Wife.
Dr. Fletcher says : A man's first
necessity is to find a woman physicially
able to support the cares and duties which
attend that position. Solomon, who from
a large experience with wives ought to
know what constitutes a good one, de
scribed his favorite wife as one who spun
wool and flax and took care of the house,
etc. ; in short, he means to say that she
shall possess a large share of physical
potency. It is the power to do, without
which no woman deserves the name of
wife. Within the past decade some
young men in choosing wives have dis
regarded tnis advice or raoiomon s, ana
have since repented. But young men
.v. v ....u I j . . are last Decomwff more careiui ana wise
iyui iuo lire vui cuiiiu not. IDU. wisn- l . . . rt-, . .
,"" I !n tVia matter Thpv r Iparnino- that. a.
ing to learn the reason, he procured an
ax and made the hollow larger. When
he next tried to get the skull from the
cavity it came readily, and to his sur
prise, the complete skeleton of a man
followed. The bones were covered with
moss and a rat's nest had been made in
the ribs. When Mr. Gottlieb handled
it, the bones parted and fell to pieces, mends, and who will
The bones were buried in Mr. Gottlieb's without such a one. I
orchard.
Tub Centennial celebration at Valley
Forge on Jnne 19, was a grand affair.
Twenty thousand people witnessed the cere
monies. Edwin A. Andrews, cashier of the
wrecked Greenwich Bank, Washington
Connty, New York, hanged himself a few
days since.
During the session of Congress just
closed 6,629 bil s were introduced more
than 5,000 of the number in the House of
Representatives.
It is ronghly estimated that the aggregate
of the appropriations made by Congress for
the fiscal year ending June 18, 1879, will be
about $170,000,000.
The schooner Eothen sailed from New
York, June 19, for the Arctic regions, to
search for the relics of Sir John Franklin.
A distinguished party accompanied the
schooner as far as Sandy Hook.
The Maine uemocraey in Convention in
dorsed the Potter investigation, favored leg
islatio.i to secure to each man, as nearly as
possible, just reward for his labor, and op
posed further issue of Government bonds.
A brilliant but select wedding took
place at the White House on the 19th June.
The President's niece, Miss Emily Piatt, and
Colonel Russell Hastings, of Illinois, were
the contracting parties, Bishop Jagger, of
Ohio, officiated.
Farmers in Coshocton and Muskingum
County, Ohio, have received notice anony
mously telling them that they must not use
their reapers, mowers and other machinery,
and threateng the destruction of their prop
erty by fi e ii they do so.
The body of a farm laborer named
Brunner, was found the other morning on
the track of the B. & O. R. B., in the north
ern suburbs of Newark, Ohio. The passing
train had terribly mutilated the remains,
rendering recognition almost impossible.
At Newport, K. I., George Tiffany, twelve
years old, the son of a wealthy gentleman
in New York, with his tutor, Wm. Smith,
were fishing from the rocks at the foot of
Narragansett-avenue, when Tiffany slipped
off the rocks. The tutor sprang in to save
him, and both were drowned. Smith was
formerly principal of the Dayton, O., night
school. Moses A. Wheelock, for twenty-seven
years Chairman of the New York Stock
Exchange, committed suicide recently, at
his boarding-house, in Twenty-third street.
He was fifty-three years of age and leaves a
wife and three sons, the eldest twenty-three,
and had an active and prominent business
career. Dissipated habits is the alleged
cause.
The following are the horrible particulars
of a ferocious attack by a savage bulldog on
four boys who were bathing near Lewiston,
Maine : A boy named Egan, seven years of
age, bore the brunt of the attack, tne others
making their escape. Egan has eighteen
wounds, which are all over his body and
legs. The dog literally ate a large piece out
from under the arm, so that the ribs can be
seen.
The grave of Perry Bowsher, the mur
derer banged at t hillicothe, Friday, was
robbed the same evening. Some unknown
parties excavated sufficient earth to reach
the head of the coffin, bored through the lid
with a brace and bit until a piece could be
broken off, and then, dragging the body to
the surface, earried it off, in what direc
tion is not known, but it is thought to Cincinnati.
The body of a man, found in Lake Erie,
at Cleveland, was identified as being that of
John Senn, a well-to-do farmer of Bricks-
ville. A few days before he was placed in
he county jail for abusing his family, and
he was bailed out. He was to have had
his trial before a Justice, but not appearing
in court the bail was declared forfeited. It
is supposed thatassoon as he was released
he started for the lake. ,
W.' G. WaLrMHk WeUs-Fargo express
messenger at Suit Lake, Utah, has been
found guilty of robbery, which occurred on
he Utah Central two years ago. Williams
was found bound and gagged when the
train arrived at Salt Lake, and claimed
it was done by men who entered the car at
the last stati n and hen jumped off. Seven'
teen thousand dollars were stolen, which
have not been recovered.
Henry J. Betemeyer, a young man
aged about twenty-seven, shot and instantly
killed in the most premeditated and cold
blooded manner an o d German named
Frank H. Voss, at the lower end of Bremen
and Kossuth-avenues, St. Louis, Wednes
day. Betemeyer fired two shots, one ball
taking effect in the base of the brain, the
other in the heart. Tbe mnrderer was ar
rested. The cause of the act is said to be
some trival erudite against Voss of two
years' standing.
The nirety-seventh anniversary of the
battle of '76 was celebrated in an old fort at
Columbia, S. C, Tuesday, the 18th, with
great enthusiasm, despite the most unfavor
able weather which had prevailed for
sev ral days. Fully five thousand people
asaemb'ed to participate in the ceremonies.
Owing to the peculiar character of the soil
reported a declaration of principles,
embracing nineteen resolutions. It provides
that the party shall.be called the " National
Labor Greenback Party." It demands the
repeal of the specie resumption act, and
the issue of absolute money or greenbacks
equal to gold and silver; but that all bonds
now subject to redemption be immediately
redeemed in absolute money equivalent to
coin, and that the Federal Constitution be
amend' d so as to limit and restrain Con
gress from exemp ing any proper y, stocks,
bonds, or credit from taxation and from
gi anting all subsidies.
The Academy of Music and Chamber of
Commerce Blocks, on East Market Street,
two of the finest structures in Akron and
two of the finest west of the Alleghanies,
were destroyed by fire recently, except
the stone front and portions of the walls.
While the conflagration was in progress, a
falling chimney buried three firemen, Abe
Glick, Wm. Anderson and Phil Kearny iu
the debris. They were only liberated by the
superhuman efforts of their comrades.
Glick is not seriously injured, although he
was the last one out and came near being
burned to death. Remy suffered a compound
fracture f the right thigh above the knee,
the bone protruding. Andersen is injured
internally, also in the back, and will proba
bly die. The fire broke out in the west store
room of the Goode Commerce Block, occu
pied by J. P. Scbring as a dry-goeds store.
A warrant was sworn out against Mr.
Sebring for setting the building on lire,
and he was arrested.
The Iowa Republicans in Convention on
the 19th of June nominated Captain J. A.
T. Hall for Secretary of State ; B. R. Sher
man, State Auditor ; George W. Bemis, State
Treasurer; J. K. Powers, Register of Land
Office; J. H. Rothrock, Supreme Judge;
John 8. Runnels, Supreme Court Reporter,
and E. J. Holmes, Clerk of the Supreme
Court. A number of resolutions were
passed. On the finances they say: "The
wisdom and financial policy of the Re
publican party is evident from its results
in practical resumption, already accom
plished, refunding the national credit;
and any change in the policy is de
nounced as wholly evil and injurious.
On the Presidential title : " The Presidential
title was definitely and fina ly settled by the
Forty-fourth Congress, and any attempt to
reopen it is dangerous, illegal, and uncon
stitutional, and the Republican party of
Iowa will resist all efforts not founded on
the Constitution and existing laws to dis
place the present possession of said title ;
and it is a source of sincere congratulation
that the firm attitude assumed by the Repub
lican party of the country in this regard,
forced a majority of the Democratic mem
bers of the House of Representatives to dis
avow the real but covert purpose of the sa
called Potter investigation."
The Vermont Democratic State Conven
tion organized on the 20th, at Montpelier,
with George L. Watermans as Chairman,
and nominated W. H H. Bingham for Gov
ernor, Jerome W. Pierce for Lieutenant
Governor, and George E. Royce, of Rutland,
for Trea nrer. Resolutions congratulate
the country on the restoration of home rule
in the South, and the overthrow of military
combination, brought about in response to
the demands of the National Democracy.
and demand retrenchment and economy
in the Federal and State administrations,
Strict accountability of all officials, honest
pa ment of the public debt, home rule, no
Federal interference in municipal or State
elections, just and equitable revenue tariff,
one currency for all, and the gradual substi
tution of greenbacks for national bank bills.
The resolutions further state that i.i view of
the overwhelming majority f r the late can
didate for President, the Democracy of Ver
mont resolve that the thanks of the people
are due the men who originated the present
investigation of the Electoral frauds, and
that the revelations already made before the
committee, criminating the Secretary of the
Treasury and the Republican Senator from
Ohio, leave no room to doubt the wisdom of
this investigation, and that while they would
sancti. n no assault upon the official title of
President Hayes, they urge the prosecution
and punishment of all who aided the frauds
by which the Presidency was wrested from
the Democracy.
he swore that the purported signature of
AVeber to the Weber-Anderson . state
ment was not genuine.
Jen ks also swore th it he never had any
knowledge of the alleged Sherman lettor,
and that Anderson's testimony that Weber
had taken it from his pocket "when Weber)
Anderson, and Jenks were together in New
Orleans, and given it to Jenks to read, was
untrue, and that nothing of the kind ever
occurred. Jenks also testified as to the gen
eral intimidation in East Feliciana, and
as to Anderson's full knowledge of it.
Mrs. Jenks was called before the Com
mi tee on June 22. She was on the s and
for fou"- or five hour", first under fire from
Butler, and afterward from VcMahon. She
was quick, sharp, self-possessed, and quite
a match in repartee for either of the gen'le
men who questioned her. She swore that
she dictated the so palled Sherman lette-,
and gave it to Weber. Fhe never knew
what became of it. Secretary Sheruinn
had nothing whatever to do with it,
and knew nothing of its existence. She
said that while Anderson was the sublimest
villain that ever stood on earth, still, she
really thought he was honest in thinking
the so called Sherman letter genuine.
Her story ot the production of the letter
Was that Weber and Anderson wanted
guarantees from Sherman, as Anderson
testified, and that they wrote the joint
note to siiernian, ot which Anderson pro
duced a copy, and gave it to her to deliver.
She took this to the parlor occupied by
the Visiting Statesmen . and , there
dictated .this pretended Sherman
letter at a side desk. She would not ted
who took- it from her dictation. After it
was finished she put in an envelope and
took it back to Weber. She never delivered
the Anderson-Weoer note to any one. Her
testimony was full of lively points, but Buch
as do no1 bear direct!" upon the charges
which the Potter resolution contain.
Hanging of Six Murderers.
CONQRESSIONA L.
FOREIGN SUMMARY.
The custom of kissing the Fope's toe
was introduced about 708. Adrian I
caused money to be coined with his
name, 708. The first Pope who kept an
army was Leo IA, 1004.
pretty face and form, though doubtless
desirable accompaniments, are not the
whole requisites of a good wife. It is
true that there are some thoughtless ex
ceptions among the young men, but they
are simpletons. But above them are
thoughtful men, who do not and will
not fall in love blindly, but who are look
ing: for the wife which Solomon com-
not De satisnea
do not wish to
reveal any one's secrets, but I have had
men say to me when talking upon the
subject of this discourse, uiris, nowa
days, are too frail to marry." Does any
one think the young man to blame who
says this and then stands aloof from the
marriage altar? Surely not. And does
tbe young lady who is too weak to sweep
think that such a young man will hasten
to propose T If so, she is mistaken;
young men of to-day are fast becoming
wise through the experience of their
unfortunate friends.
In 1077 Greg
ory VII compelled Henry IV, Emperor her own room, or to make her own toilet, I son was called,
of Germany, to stand barefooted in the
snow at the gate of the Castle of Canosa.
The Pope's authority was established in
England in 1079; and in 1161 Henry II
held the stirrup while Pope Alexander
III mounted his horse. In 1191 Celes-
tine III kicked the crown from off the
head of the Emperor Henry VI to show
his prerogative of making and unmaking
kings. Kissing the Pope's to and
other ceremonies were abolished by
Clement XIV in 1773. The Pope was
deprived of the remains of his temporal
power in December, 1870.
the star redoubt, which is an earthwork, the
mines, parallels, and other features of the
fort, are nearly as distinct as when evacu
ated by Lord Rawdon.
An Austin (Nev.) dispatch says: The ru
mor is current in town that the Shoshones
have left Smoky Valley in a body and gone
north, headed for Beowawe, on the Central
Pacific Railroad. It is supposed they are
on their way to join the hostile Bannocks.
These Indians have always been well treated
by the whites, and can not have any griev
ances against the white people. They must
in their route north, cross the line of the
(. P. Railroad somewhere between Battle
Mountain and Palisade.
The Matthews Committee of the Senate
met on the 21st June, and James E. Ander-
He refused to testify with-
A Vienna special says eleven Socialist
Democrats have been arrested at Prague on
the charge of high treason. -
DURING an interview between Bismarck
and Gortschakoff, the large Danish dog of
Bismarck made a ferocious attack on Gorts
chakoff, who was rescued after considerable
trouble.
John Burke, aged one hundred and nine
teen years, died at Ballyanihan, Glanworth,
County Kerry, Ireland, recently, after
fortnight's illness, being the only sickness
he had known during his life.
The Paris Moniteur asserts that the
Khedive of Egypt recently proposed to ab
dicate, leaving the management of affairs to
England if tbe civil list and his son's suc
cession were assured. Tbe offer was de
clined and the Khedive repeated it.
The Fraud Committee.
Spice.
A sweet craft Court ship.
A man in St. Louis has had a suit in
court about a dog for over a year a case
or dogged obstinacy. '
We are not prepared to say that the
investigation at Washington is a failure.
but certainly the lie abilities that have
been shown are tremendous. ..
No new family hotel has been erected.
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Bismarck, Dakota Territory, about three lf 6there ia one thing 99 Vi cent.
weeks ago chanced to come upon a herd m, mnw;fi,inr than urmtbor it ;u
of buffa'oes while riding near the town I sit square and plump down on your new affidavit oa which he was arrested states he
wnere ne uves. i ne nera contained one spring style of nat instead ot another
hundred and fourteen full-grown ani- fellow's.
mals and sixty calves, and as Zumbun- Somebody says deeds are fruits while
an was a verv Vn. m- v. j words are but leaves; and somebody else
en was a very cute man he managed to if tW. v. true the 't be
secure every animal in the lot by build- knee-deep and more than half the fruit
ing a fire behind them, which so fright-1 crop rotten in Congress.
eut counsel. He said he had no desire to
throw obstacles in the way, but Senator
Matthews was a lawyer, looking after his
interests, and he did not see why he shonld
not have a lawyer to look after his own
interests. It was decided that, in the ab
sence of the Senate, the Committee had no
power to punish Anderson for contempt,
and the Committee adjourned subject to
the call of the Chairman.
. John O'Connor, expelled from the Ohio
Legislature last May, was arrested at Co
lumbus, lately, by United States Marshal
fpenoer. on the charge of sending forged
pension papers to the United States Com
missioner of Pensions. The offense, it is
charged,, took place in 187S. O'Connor
procured blank applications for pensions
of one Arnold, a Cincinnati agent for pro
curing pensions. To these blanks, the
forged, or procured to be forged, the name
of Dr. Leavitt, surgeon f the United States
gunboat Owasco, certifying to O'Connor's
having bein disabled in the service.
The Committee on Platform of the Green
back State Convention, in session at
Sedalia, Mo., after eight hours' labor,
The Potter Investigation Committee had
a Bhort session, June 17, and H. Conquest
Clarke, late Private Secretary to Governor
Kellogg, was cross-examined Dy Mr. Ale
Mahan relative to the second set of Louis
iana electoral certificates. Witness said:
The two lists of returns lay on the table
in the Committee room at New Orleans, ac
cording to his present memory
until ne gathered them np lor
forwarding to the Secretary of State after the
signatures were complete. The onlv parties
signing in the presence of witnesses that he
remembers, were Governor Kellogg and Mr.
Brewster. He thought there were one or
two others who signed in his presence, but
could not be positive as to ihat. Did not
know where Levissee or Joffrion were at the
time of the signing of the second set of cer
tificates, and could not say positively
whether or not they signed personally, but
was oi tne opinion nar. tne signature ap-
5 earing on the cert ficates is that of
offrion, being familiar with ihe gentleman's
signature.
Q. Wasn't it a well known fact amone
the politicians in Louisiaua that Judge
Levisee was not in town at the time the
papers in question were signed?
A. li was certainly not Known to me.
Mr. McMahon questioned the witness as
to who signed the names of Joffrion and
Levisee, and witness replied he knew ab
solutely nothing about it.
The rotter ommittee met on the 21st of
June, and Captain Thomas A. Jenks, of
New Orleans, was examined. He said
that he was present when Anderson signed
and swore to the protest which he nw de
nies ; that subsequently Anderson tried to in
duce him to make an afladavit that he
(Anderson) was tight when it was Mgned,
and that on another occasion, Anderson
tried to have him state that, while he signed
it, he did not in fao swear to it. These re
quests Jenks refused. Anderson informed
him that he (Anderson) cou d mnke any
money bv denvinn the protest.
One of the most important points in his
testimony was that he was well acquainted
with Weber's handwriting, and after iden
tifying several documents and letters as his,
Friday, June 21st, was a day to be re
me inhered for the numberof its executions.
At Chillicothe, Perry Bowsher expiated the
terrible crime ot murder, lue heinousness
of his awful deed, as well as the reckless
and violent course of bis life previous to
the bloody tragedy lor which he ascended
the gailows, left him not a siiigle Sympa
thiser or friend, other than the charitably
disposed who sought to give him comfort
and religious consolation in his last hours.
The crowning villainy of this wretched
man's life was committed on the night of
Friday, October 26, 1877. The scene of the
tragedy was at a tullgate house on the Cir
cleville pike, six miles north ef Chillicothe,
occupied by Edward S. McYey and his wife,
Aun McVey. people Who lived in Chilli
cothe more than fifty years, but had become
luhrm, and accep ed tne humble place as a
means of liveliho d. A girl, thirteen years
of age, named Alice Duan, lived with the
old couple in the capacity of a domestic.
and she alone of the family escaped to tell
the tale ot jjowsher s iiorrioie butchery.
When Bowsher was led out to the callows
he appeared to realize for the first time that
something was about to happen. He gazed
around him and down at the fatal trap with
a dazed look and edged away from it. Then
he eyed tne audience ot reporters and
witnesses before him without a spark of
feeling shown in bis face. Sheriff Mackey
then asfced Bowsher whether he had any
thing to say. "No," said Bowsher. "I
hav'nt anything to say," Dr. Hirst, who
stood beside the miserable Man, asked
whether he should pray for him. " No,"
sai Bowsher, "there ain't anything going
to happen."
Bowsher was then placed on the trap, his
knees strapped together, the black cap
pulled down, the r ( e adjusted, and the
lever sprung without delay. The fall was
about three and a half feet, and Bowsher's
neck was broken. The heart ceased action
in eleven minutes, and he was pronounced
dead. After the expiration of twenty
minutes he was cut down and placed in a
neat comn, and taken to a lobby in the jail.
During the entire time Bowsher stood upon
the scaffold his expression of color never
changed, and not a muscle quivered. He
died in all retpects game.
Georee Sherry ana Jeremiah Connelly
were hanged on tbe same day at Chicago.
The crime for which these men atoned
is one of the most unprovoked deeds
of blood that have disgraced the criminal
records of the country. About 8:30
Saturday evening, January 19, 1878,
George Sherry and Jeremiah I onnelly
deliberately inebriated themselves, and se
cured a long, sharp Dutcners' Knite trom
long shop, and armed with a slung-shot,
began an indiscriminate assault on whom
soever came, by lll-iortune, in their path.
While thus engaged in running amuck,
after wounding several persons, they met a
man and a girl, Hugh McUmviile and his
niece, Miss Rosina McConville, a young
lady of eighteen years.
One of them hit the girl in the lace, and
crowded her against a wall, she freed her
self and ran across the street. McConville
was of an inquiring turn of mind, and
asked them why they had treated his niece
in that way. They answered by plunging a
long knile into his left side. It went in
straight; ltwaswel aimed; it strucK not
far be ow the heart, and within twelve
hours poor Hugh McConville, as honest and
peaceable a man as ever breathed, died
from internal hemorrhage. His wife, who
was an invalid, received a shock so terrible
that within a week she followed him to the
last home.
Edward H. Costley, alias Dorsey, for the
murder of his cousin, Solomon Costley, on
the 4th of April, 1877, was hanged on the
same morning at Frederick, Md.
Jacobs Levels, colored, was hanged in the
Countv Jail yard at Little Rock, Arkansas,
for the murder of another colored man. No
cooler man ever stepped on a death engine.
He ascended the steps as firmly and with as
little emotion as a man would walk np to a
banauet.
CharleB Burns wa 1 executed at Paris. III.,
for the murder of Elijah Birdwell, October
30. 1877. The facts are bin ny as follows
On the date mentioned, uiruweii, acting as
a Deputy Constable, in company with other
officers, attempted 10 arrest one jjicit rro-
cise, at the house ot the latter, near iiaiu
winville, 111., on a charge of burglary.
Burns was in tbe bouse, ana in assisting
Procise to resist arrest, he shot and killed
Birdwell. Burns and Procise both escaped.
The murderer was arrested a few days later
in Terre Haute, Ind., and turned over to
the proper authorities. He was indicted
for murder and Was arraigned for trial
Aorii 3. On the 5th of April the trial
ended, with a verdict of nuilty, the jury as
sessing tbe penalty of death by hanging
Strons efforts were made to secure a com
mutation of sentence, but without, avail
Burns was twenty-six years of age, and was
a native of Osweiro County, New York,
where his father, Patrick Burns, still re
sides.
In the Senate, June 17, after a brief dis
cussion, but without amendment, tne nouse
bill to organize the liiesavmg serrice
passed. It authorizes the Secretary of the
treasury to estamisn a nntnoer oi new
stations on the sea and lake eoasts( pro
vides for the appointment of a Genefal
Superintendent by the President, and the
appointment of a District Superintendent
for the Gulf Coast by the Secretary of the
Treasury, etc. Dy a vote of yeas 24, and
nays 30, the Senate refused to reconsider
the vote by which the joint resolution in re"
gard to the eight hour law was postponed,
and it was postponed Until theneXt session.
A large numherot amendments were mane
in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill.
An amendment for expenses and compen
sation of commission appointed ny tne
President to go to Louisiana, $6,000, or as
much thereof as may he necessary, after a
sharp discussion was laid oh the t-ble 32
to 22. The bill was not finished at adjourn
ment. In the House, Mr. Thompson
offered a preamble and resolution, reciting
the depressed condition of iabor and in
dustry throughout the country, ana pr- via
ing for a select committee to act during the
recess, to inquire into the Causes thereof,
and recommend remedies thereof. Adopted.
The House, after spending nearly eight
hours of to-day's session in discussion and
dilatoriness, passed the obacco Bill by a
fair majority, which is an end of it for this
session, there being no chance nor expecta
tion of sec iritis; act on upon it in the Sen
ate. General Banning Succeeded in having
tacked on the bill the followingamCuditienti
"That the word gallon,' wherever used in
the Internal Revenue law relating to beer,
lager-beer, ale, porter and other similar fer
mented liquors, shall e held and taken to
mean a wine gallon, liquid measure, con
taining two hundred and thirty-one cubic
inches'' Mr. Sayler killed the Impracticable
proposition offered ih the form of an amend
ment by Judge Kelly, proposing to Stamp
each cigar. A resolution requesting the
Senate to give Mr. Matthews leave to testify
before the Investigating Committee was
passed. Mr. Harris, from the Committee
on Eiections, reported that Robertson, of
Louisiana, and Elam of Louisiana, the sit
ting members in the contested cases, are
entitled to their seats, an ' that in tie Ala
bama contested election cSse of Harolson
and Shelly, additional testinlOrlv may be
taken. The reports were agreed to.
In the Senate, June 18, when ths doors
were reopened ft resolution to extend the
session until Wednesday evening was
passed. Consideration of the Sundry Civil
Appropriation Bill was then resumed.
Among the amendments agreed to was one
appropriating $5,900,000 to pay the award
of the Halifax Fishing Commission, In pur
suance of the Treaty of Washington, if, after
correspondence with the Brirish Govern
ment on the subject of conformity of the
award to the requirements of the treaty,
and to the terms of tlie question thereDy
submitted to the Commission, the President
shall deem it his duty to make the
payment without further communica
tion with Congress. The bill was
read a third time, and passed
The President pro tern, laid before the Sen-
HbihA with ihe sundrv civil bill, which
was immediately signed by the President
pro tem., and then sent t the President of
the unitea states ior ni wguuuir, mr
President being in his room at the Capitol,
having remained the e during the night
Mr. Anthony submitted a resolution provid
ing for the appointment ef a Committee of
two Senators to join the Committee of the
House of Representatives to wai upon the
President BJd Inform him that Congre;,
having finished its business, is now ready t;
close its session by adjournment. Agreed to,
and Mr. Anthony and Mr. Thnrman were ap
pointed the committee on the part of the
Senate. The Senate then held a brief ex
ecutive sessi n, and when the doors were
reopened, Mr. Anthony, frem the committee
appoi- ted to wait on the Presi dent of the
United States, reported that they had per
formed that duty, and that the President re
plied he had no farther communication to
make. President pro tem. Ferry then con
gratulated the Senate on the termination of
the session, and thanked them for their
faVor, their 'confidence and their courtesy,
and the second session of the Forty
fifth Coneress adjourned tine die
In the Honse, the session extended till
seven o'clock. A committee of three was
appointed o wait on tbe President. Mr.
Franklin offered a resolution declaring that
In the investigation of the charges preferred
against ihe late Doorkeeper of the House
J. W Polk, nothing has been shown affect
ing his personal integrity or reflecting on him
as an honorob e man, and allowing him two
months extra pay. Agreed to. At 6:45
Mr. Rainey, of the Committee on Enrolled
Bills, appeared in the House with the en
rolled sundry civil service bill, which the
speaker laid before ihe House and signed
amid applause. After remarks from the
Speaker, the House adjourned.
Babbits.
Harper's Weekly.!
One of the prettiest sights of the
country is to be found on the outskirts
of a wood any fine evening, particularly
if the wood adjoins a grass field or place
of young wheat. Rabbits are skipping
about, feeding and chasing each other
in all directions, but all provided with
an instantaneous mode of retreat, either
into the forest or into a burrow, should
the observer make an incautious move
ment. If suspicious, the rabbit-merely
squat afid remain motionless; should
their surmise, of danger prove correct,
one stamps loudly, and an immediate
stampede results. This curious stamp
ing may otten be noted, ana attentive
observation shows that it forms a kind
of universal rabbit language, expressing
on occasion love, news of abundant
food, satisfaction, danger, watchfulness,
a challenge to combat, and so on
through all the gamut of a rabbit's in
telligence. Each f these t-tates of feel
ing has Its appropriate stamp or stamps,
and when the publicinterest is involved,
as when tidings of dang r are thus ex-
almost instantaneous teie-
an
ate House resolution requesting the Senate I graphic communication flashes through
graui. periumHiou iu uu. uiwin; i me community, xvauoitsugiinn very
t errant nermission to Hon
Matthews to appear before the Potter Com
mittee. A resolution was submitted, grant
ing permission, and the whole subject was
referred. A message was received Irom the
HouS-5 of Representatives announcing the
non-concurrence oi that body in the Senate
amendments to the Sundry Civil Appropri'
ation Bill, and requesting a conference
thereon. Messrs. Windom, D rsey and
Beck were appointed conferees on the
part of the Senate In the House,
the senate amendments were concurred in
to the bill to carry into effect the provisions
of the treity of 1858 between the TJ ited
Srates and China, and to give the Court of
Claims jurisdiction in certain cases. After
concurring in the Senate amendments to
various District bills, the Senate substitute
for the bill repealing the Resumption Act
was reached. The Senate attl end ments were
finally non-concurred in for want of the
t o-thirds majority 140 to 105 so that the
bill fails. Amendme- ts were to make green
backs receivable for t-e four per cent.
bonds and for customs duties. -The vote
was taken after much uproar and excite
ment, and was a mixed one, both as to
politics and localities. At noon the parlia
mentary dav of Monday closed by adjourn
ment, and that ot Tuesday Degun at quarter
past twelve o'clock. The Senate resolution
extending the time for adjournment until
Wednesday at bix p. m. was coneurred in
On motion of Mr Atkins, Senate amend
ment to the bill appropriating $20,000 for
the expenses ef the Presidential Election
Investigating Committee was concurred in.
The amendment adds $20,000 for the Senate
Committees, and $10,000 for investigation of
the DeDartmentof Justice.
In the Senate, June 19, three hours were
spent in executive session at the opening of
the day s session. I here was a long debate
on the District Commissioners, but they
were finally confirmed. Opposition to Fen-
ton on the silver Conference was very
strong, arising from two causes: the silver
men believe him in favor of a gold standard
alone, and there was a political element
which entered also. There was some op
position to Groesbeck, 'but the Democrats
carried him through. The President was
given a chance to withdraw Fen ton, but did
not see btto no so. Uen. Walker was con
firmed without difficulty. A persistent at
tempt was ma e in tne senate to pass the
House hill makinggreenbacks receivable for
customs, but failed. Mr. Allison submitted
the following: "Resolved, That the select
committee appointed under resolution of the
;th lust., to make inquiry concerning tbe a -leged
connection of Senator Matthews with
matters relative to the Presidential election
in Louisiana, in exercising the power hereto
fore granted to sit during recess ef Congress,
may hold its sessions at such place or places
as it shall deem most convenient tor
the pnrposes of investigation." Agreed to.
The House bill relating to claim agents and
attorneys in pension cases passed. It makes
it unlawful for any attorney, agent, or other
person to demand or receive for his services
in a pension case a greater sum than ten
dollars, and provides that no fee contract
shall hereafter be filed witli the Commis
sioner of Pensions in any case. At a late
honr in the night a message was received
from the House of Represents ives, an
nounciug concurrence of that body in the
report of the Conference Coram ttee on the
sundry civil appropriation bill. Mr. Win
dom. "Chairman of the Committee on Ap-
expl nation,
singular manner, with perpetual re
course to what French boxers call the
savale. Each endeavors to leap over the
other in a duel of this kind, and to kick
his adversary's head in doing so. . These
tactics, if most amusing to a spectator,
often Inflict much pain and in jtj upon
the combatants, as they spring over each
other so quickly that the eye can
scarcely follow their movements. An
other exciting and common scene
at harvest-time is to watch the
cutting of the last few yads
of a corn-held. The reaping machine
drives round and round, momentarily
contracting the amount of shelter within
until there is at length, a rusb ol be
wildered rabbits among tbe men, b ys
and dotrs that beset the patch, on the
lookout for the escape of these animals.
Loud is the cheering and laughter, and
great the agility evinced hy portly
laborers and sagacious sheep-dogs in pur
suing the hapless, terrified animals, but
a large proportion gets clear ofE There
is no need to descant on the enormous
numbers of rab its annually exported
from Ostend to afford the British artisan
a savory dinner at a low price. Regular
rabbit farms are maintained on the sand
banks of the Low Country, where the
creatures are daily fed with grass and
turnips, like so many sheep, until their
time comes to be sent over sea to Lon
don or Grimsby in large flat hampers.
Dealers frequently keep them alive at
these ports under sheds until the demand
erows. brisk. We have seen two hun
dred of them thus kept, and being black,
fray, fawn-colored, and the like, they
rmed a pretty sight. In one year re
cently no fewer than one hundred and
fifty thousand rabbits were sent from
Ostend to London weekly during the
season, some million and a half are
annually sold by the licensed game
dealers of England and Wales. Add to
these enormous number of rabbits con
sumed throughout the country without
coming into dealers' hands, and then,
It is among the Indians that knowl
edge is pow-wow-er. ' .-- -
Qceky for our naturalist readers
Can a cat dog your footsteps T
How few faults are there seen by us,
which we have not ourselves committed 1
The heart is a book which we ought
not tear in our hurry to get at the con,-
tents.
It is with life as with coffee ; he who .
drinks it pure must not drain it to the
dregs. "
Some men are so awful slow that the
ony time they get ahead is when they
buy cabbage.
' Duty is not pleasant, but cheap. Per
severance is the best school lor every
manly virtue.
Speaking of a tornado which had vis
ited her town, an old lady said : " Every
thing was swept as with the beeswax of
destruction."
The Hawleye tells of a tramp who
asked for a loaf of bread, a plate of po
tatoes, and a round of beef, " to fill a
long-felt want."
There is a wonderful power in imagi
nation, but it' gets weak in the knees
when it undertakes to shoulder circus
lemonade. Breakjast Table.
All prosperous men can give good
counsel, and they like to do it; it costs
them nothing. It is easy to declaim .
against feasting, when the stomach is
fulL '
Saving is a habit like smoking or '
taking snuff, or like extravagance. If
you begin it and go on with it for a
little time, you come to have a passion
for it.
Why is playing chess a more exem
plary occupation than playing cards?
Because at chess you' play with two
bishops, and at cards you play with four
knaves.
Thr nnlw war to know the leneth.
breadth and thickness ov a parent's luv,.
is to bekum a parent yurself, and 1 ad
vise yu to do it the fust honest chance
yu kan git.
The difference between the preacher,
the builder, and the architect of the
church, is simply this : One is the rector,
the other the erector, and the third
the director.
BRYANT 1794 1878.
" The melancholy days have come,
The saddest of the year,"
When he we lored and lauded long.
As poet, patriot, seer
Struck by the eerta u common doom,
Lies pulseless on his bier.
We mourn his death, a nation's loss;
Buch was the high esteem
All beld the sage's household name,
That none will ore to deem
This trua-1 trir-ute to his worth,
Aught but a heartfelt 'heme. .
Erratic Emique, tn jr. Y. Pott.
Kit down and think it ver. Did you
ever know a little man who could cut a
watermelon or make a motion at a cau
cus without an air of fussy importance?
Breakfast Table.
Professor " Miss Q., tell me what
is that instrument called by which we
a8cerain musical pitch?" Miss Q. (hes-
ltatingl v ) "A pitch-lorK." An auaioie
giggling in the class.
A pretty schoolmistress in Maiden,
Mass., kept a boy fifteen minutes after
school as a punishment, and when the
time was up he asked tier it sue couian i
make it half an hour.
In most quarrels there is fault on
both sides. Both flint and steel are
necessary to the production of a spark.
Either of tnem may nammer on wooa
forever, and no fire will follow.
Gtjstave Dore is finishing a sculp
tural group called "The Prize of Glory,"
which represents a young hero dying be
neath the Kiss of Glory. What a pity
that Frenchman r-an't say " Yum, yum 1"
" No man," said a wealthy but weak
headed barrister, "should be admitted
to the bar who hadn't an independent
landed property." " May I -ask, sir,"
Baid Curran, " how many acres make a
wiseacre?"
. It will be many years before the tele
phone and the phonograph succeed the .
red-hair- d woman with a sun-bonnet
who lives in the center of the village,
and who inquires daily over her back
fence what the news is.
There was a period of over one
thousand years in the history of this
world when doors had no keyholes, and
a citizen could be seen feeling all over
the door without exciting the least sus
picion against bis social standing.
TWO TO ONE.
Thou bast two ears, and but one memth ;
Remember it. I pray ;
For much there Is that ttaoa mast bear.
And hitlesmy.
Thou hsst two eyes, and but one mouth;
Fonder tbe reason well ;
Full many t nines thou an to see.
And few things tell."
Thou t'fcsl two bands, and but one month ;
Nature has rightly done.
For she bss gien tws for work,
For eating, one.
A story was told of a man who got
very tipsy at a count" y nouse, was
tarred and feathered and put to bed.
He awoke, still tipsv. in the morning,
reeled over to the looking-glass and ex
claimed " Become a bird, by Jove 1"
" Who was the doubting disciple?"
asked the Sunday-school teacher.
"Peter," promptly replied the small
bad boy. "No, Thomas," aaid the
teacher. " Then what do people always
say ' Petered out' for J" asked the smart
bad boy.
The Praeger Landwrihschafiltchet
Wochenblait recommends the sting ef
bees as a cure for rheumatism." But
what does it recommend for lockjav
computing their value at the low figure I caused by the patient attempting to pro
nounce lis name i rrooaoiy tne ium i
a mule would unlock it.
She (bewitchingly ) " Oh, I'm so glad
you are going to see me to my carnaee,
Mr. Brown I,? He (flattered! " Indeed!
And may I ask why T' She "un.oe
cause the girls are so jealous, and I
want to prove that l ao not monopuuw
all the good looking men."
of a shilling each, the most determined
farmer's friend must hesitate before he
exterminates this orettv race of animals.
and deprives rural walks of one of their
greatest cnrms.
The Serpent of Handale.
Handale is in the pariah of Lof thouse,
in Cleveland, England. A small abbey
of Benedictine nuns was founded there
bv William, son of Richard de Percy,
no remains of which now exist. The
situation is truly delightful and pic
tureseaue: the sea. only three miles dis
tant, ad ts variety to the scene, while the
profound seclusion of the woods, tne
lie Took the Hint.
The Duke of St. Albans, the heredi
tary Graud Falconer of England, is a
great goose-breeder, and employs a large
number ot goenerus to tena tne Dirus
upon one of his estates. Last autumn
His Grace presided one Saturday at the
payment .f his laborers, bimon limit,
an intelligent boy, a gosherd, ten years
old, was called up to receive eighteen
pence, his week s wag s. ine Doy re
fused to take the money. Upon being
pressed for the reason of his denial, he
renlied :
"Why. 'cause all the geese on Monday
morning flied away, and how could I
take money for looking arter birds when
there was no birds to look arter T
The Duke, returning home, imme
diatelv sent in his resignation as sinccu-
rist Falconer. In humble imitation of
Simon Bluff, he even refused to take
the current quarter's salary.
" A youg Oil citizen," remarks the
Derrick, " calls his sweetheart Revenge,
because she is sweet. And the young
married man on South Hill calls his
mother-in-law Delay; because she is
dangerous.- Burlington Hawkeye. And a
Cincinnati man calls his coachman Pro-
1 craBtination because he stole his watch.
propriations. made a brief
and the report of the Conference Committee
was then agreed to, and the bill passed I By pilgrims wandering
In the House, General Ewing.after working I jn ancient time
some tune to aeieat tne senate 0111 mount
ing resumpti n, had a vote on his own
measure to-day, and where a two-thirds vote
was necessary, tailed to receive even a
majority, the vote being 109 yeas to 114
nays. The vote on the bill to retire national
bank notes and substitute greenbacks
showed the Sonth and West to be acainst
the East. The onlv votes from the South
agaiustit were three colored Republicans.
The one New England vote was Butler's.
There were only fif y-three votes rgaiust
the bil making greenbacks receivable
for . customs after October 1.
Mr. Atkins made a conference report on
the bundry Civil Appropriation Bill. Mr.
Atkins examined the report, whichhow
ever, he had not signed, because, r e said, of
the appropriation lor the llaliux award,
which he thought unjust. The bill, he pxid,
as originally reported, appro- riated $16-
A Dutch Arctic Expedition.
On the 6th inst.. a little schooner,
the Willem Barents, an eighty-ton craft,
sailed from Amsterdam for a six months
cruise in the Arctic regions. The whole
shin's com Dan v consists of fourteen
deep solitude and repose of the glens, six scientific experts and eight sailors
and the quiet and retirement around, and officers. The enterprise is
carry back the thoughts to that remote strictly i ational, foreign aid having been
period wnen I retusea, ana noining even uiis
Their hells were heard t evening swelling clear I asked OI tne UUtcu uuveriiuiciii, ui
o er the neatn-ciaa aiu. i MP-thinf heinir su milted bv voluntary
these quiet woods ,ntribution. The schooner will pur-
a . I .
were intestea Dy a nuge serpent, pos-1 sue tne track of previous Dutch navi
ses?ed of most singular fascinating pow- tors, along the northwest coast of
ers, which used to beguile young damsels giUbe-ten, to Nova Zenibla, and
from the path of truth and duty, and
afterward to feed on their dainty limbs.
At this time there lived in these parts a
brave ai d gallant youth named Scaw,
who felt greatly incensed at the ravages
which the serpent made among his fair
acquaintances, and determined todes roy
the vile monster or perish in the a tempt.
Therefore, amid the tears and prayers of
his fr ends and sweethearts he buckled
on his armor and proceeded to the ser
pent s cave.
Mriking the rock with bis sword, the
reptile immediately issued from his den.
breathing fire from hi nostrils, and rear-
thence as far to the northwest as can
be reached in season for the schooner to
return before next win er. An immense
crowd assembled in Amsterdam to bid
the intrepid navigntor good-bye.
The sinirle state is no diminution of
the beauties and utilities of the female
character; on the contrary, our present
would lose many of the com torts, ana
much, likewi-e, of what isab olutely es
sential to the well-being of every part of
society, and even of the proper home,
without the unmarried female. The
sinirl woman is a- important an element
548,(XK; as it passed the House, 17ftXM, ing high his crested head to trantix the of social and private happiness as the
and as it passed the Senate, $22,0o,100, jjjfo intruder with his poisonous sting, married woman. The utilities of each
Nothing daunted, theyounghero fought are different; but it is vulgar nonsense,
bravely, and. after a lonir and severe 1 unworthv of nianlv feeling, ana ais
contest, succeeded in kiiiihk mo mou
exclusively for the appropriation for
the Halifax award. As it came from
the Conference Committee, the bill
had been eut down to $10,250,000,
also exclusive of the Halifax award.
A discussion ensned regarding the Hali x
award, Messrs. Hewitt, of N. Y., Warfield
and Hale favoring, and Butler and Cox
of N Y., opposing. The House then pro
ceeded to vote on the couferenoe report,
and it was adopted, its opponents being in
too siuull a majority to onlpr either the
yeas nud miys or tellers, and a vote on a
divison being yeas, 129, nays, 39. The
announcement of the result was bailed with
applause.
In the Senate, June 20, time of session was
extended to seven o'clock. At 6:35 the
Clerk of the House of Kepresentatives sp
ster. Young Scaw forthwith married
an earl's daughter found in the cave.
and thus by his valor rescued from a
cruel death, by which marriage he ob
tained va-t estates, ihe wood where ne
slew the serpent is called "Scaw
Woods " to this day. and the stone cof-
fiu in which he was buried is yet shown
near the sight of the priory.
' A fall down a well is generally fatal
The man nearly always " kicks the
I bucket"
creditable to every just one, to de
preciate the unmarried condition.
Adversity exasperates fools, dejecta
cowards, draws out the faculties of the
wise, puts the modest woman to the ne
cessity of trying her 8k 11, awes the opu
lent, and makes the idle industrious.
Much may be said in favor of adversity,
but the worst of U is, it has no friends.
Todleben. the great Russian General,
is described as rigid as granite, as rough
as a file, and as solemn as doom.
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