The Brookhaven ledger., November 18, 1875, Image 1

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Editor Bkookhaven Ledger,
Brwokiiaven, Miss.
BROOKHAVEN, MISS., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1875. NO. Ig.
BROOKHAVEN.
A C. M’NAIK. BKNJ. K1N<>, JH.
.Jfc.Vair X King,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BROOKHAVEN, MISS.,
Will practice in all the courts of I.in
co In and adjoining counties. Ml'1''*1
res s promptly attended to. Sep-Jd tt.
r. F. SESSIONS. H. OASHKBY, JR.
Sessions A* Cassedy,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Brookbaren, - • Hiss..
Will attend promptly to all civil busi
ness entrusted to them in the counties
of Lincoln, Fianklin, Tike, Lawrence
and in the Supreme Court at Jackson.
J. F. Sessions will practice alone in
j criminal cases. Sept. 2-lyr.
J. W. MARTIN. J. M. MARTIN.
E9rs. J. »* & J- •«. Martin
»
! offertlieir professional services-totho’
i eitizeps of
i Rrookhaven and Adioininjr Vicinity.
rrjT.services of both can be bad with
out extra charge. Sept. ‘2-lyr.
I*. B. Watts,
I
SU3CEON DENTIST,
ItrooUlinven, Mi**.,
Is pre/ared, with all the latest im
univenients, to do work in the best
stvle known to the protession. lerms
reasonable, an<l strictly cash. Office
corner JionticidlO ami Jackson el reels.
I Se)>t. 2-lyr.
Strop in at
the office,
IKE COPE, Proprietor,
AND WET YOUR WHISTLE.
lie keeps all kinds of
WIN ES, BRANDIES, WHISKIES, ETC.
Call and see him. Sept. l(5-tf.
John .Yicholas Sch trail,
BOOT cfc* SHOE
IVE-A-IKLIDIFL,
(Cherokee Street,)
liroorflauTi'U, ... Mi**.
Orders solicited, and promptly attend
ed to. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Sept. 2-lyr.
Protect Your Property!
Having received the Agency ot the
PLANTERS’ INSURANCE COMPANY,
of Mississippi,
i am prepared to tnke risks on d welli ngs.
stor houses, stocks of merchandise,
etc., on the most reasonable terms.
Office at K. !>. W ithern 4fc Co,. Railroad
Avenue, Brook lift vo n. Miss.
Sept. 2-tf. R. B. WITHERS.
Sam MAghlfoot,
! FASHIONABLE HAIR DRESSER.
j Has opt*nml a shop under the Court
| Ionise, u lien* he is prepared to do all
l a urk in his line. II is prices for Shaving.
I Cutting Hair and Shampooing are re
murk-lid' low. lie solicits the patron
I age of l lie public, and guarantees satis
faction to all patrons. Sept. 2-1'r.
Stern's SSotei,
llrooUliavrn. - - Mis*.
.JACOB STERN, Proprietor.
Board Per Day, - - $2 00.
Regular and Transient Hoarders ac
eommodated by thuduy, week ormoiuii.
Sept. I-Lf.
tJMaxivelS’s
Bar and Billiard Saloon.
. | West side Front Street,
; nrtxikiiarru, - - Mi**.
Choice Wines. Liquors and Cigars on
i hand. Attached is a splendid Billiard
Table. Sept. 2-»f.
in:, no 1’iiW.
I ! 1 have removed my
SADDLER SHOP
I "jo tlie ITiebatsch brick store, next
door to L. Lewenthal. I can sell a sad
dle and bridle for Stiff; buggy harness,
$10 On; wagon breeching, per pair. $7 00;
i riding bridles, $1 50; and all other goods
low in proportion. Call and see
TI10S. CUMING, SR.
• SPo Y'oa 13 \ml
A NEAT BOOT OR SHOE?
It so give your measure to
5 Wm. AbsHagen,
r BOOT AND SHOE MAKER,
(Adjoining Storm & Son,) Cherokee Street,
5 BROOKHAVEN, MISS.,
Who Is prepared to make the neatest and most
illSIUDUaOD; uuvto anu OJIOOO v#»» uuo nuui ivav »*v
• tice.
A PEREECT FIT GUARANTEED.
) Keeps always on hand for the purpose, the
finest and best leather. sept. 2-tf.
Keep Your
: l MONEY AT HOME, AND PATRONIZE
CHAS. P. BOLIAN,
FASHIONABLE TAILOR,
BROOKHAVEN, MISS.
He is now prepared to do all kinds of cutting,
' making and repairing. A good fit guaranteed.
There is no use sending your work from home
when you can have it done as cheap and good
l here. Shop in rear of Daly building. Sept. 2-tf.
BrookhaveH
- Male Academy,
i
The next, scholastic year of this insti
( tutioii will open
| WEDNKYSDAY, SEPT. 22d, 1875.
The year will Im divided into two
’ terms ot n months oV 20 weeks each eor
e responding to those of Whitworth Col
r lege.
s expenses
FOR FIVE M0NTII8, IN ADVANCE:
„ Primary Department.$15 «0
Intermediate. 20 00
Higher and Classical. 25 (HI
Board and Washing Will coat. 75 Oh
Incidental, per term. 1 00
Pupils received at any time and c ha rtf
cd iu all cases to the close of the curreu
term. M. 8. SHIUK.
Sept. 2 Priosipal,
A Mother's Grief.
Do not look with scorn upon that careworn face,
With the eye so sunken and wild,
Who asks in a half-frightened, trembling voice*
For food to give life to her child.
In her arms, close clasped to her empty breast,
A form like a babe she holds fast,
And oft-murmured words of a mother's lore,
You will hear as she hurries past.
And now a change, and a wild, startled look
Hearns forth from her sad eyes once more,
As she asks, in a voice from want made weak,
For food to give life as before.
Why do you pause with that curious crowd,
Only to turn away again?
Is there no pity within your cold heart,
For that poor, crushed being’s heart pain?
Do you fear pollution lies in her touch,
It’s taint in her poor bony hand?
Ah, man! that motlier-lovc in her sad heart,
Is great in God’s heavenly lund.
*Tis a spring from the purest fount of life,
No staiu of dark sliumc can lie there,
Her poor, crazed brain no deception can feign;
So uusellish her pleadings are.
Some one is leading her swiftly away,
The eager crow d following on,
All uumimifiil their words of bcorn.
Oh, why do we have such moskery here,
The attention so coldly shown—
Duty aloue, so heartlessly carelesa—
The city will liud her a home.
Not for long, poor unloved, lonely mother,
Will charity’s cold hand provide.
There’s a bright home with loved ones awaiting,
Whose boat comes swift on with the tide.
“Over the river they beckon tome,
Lovod ones, wlio’vo gone to the farther side;
The gleam of their snowy robes 1 see,
Dut their voices arc lost in the rushing tide."
A LIVING J5TATUE. •
In the height of the exhibition season of
1S62 there was a great ileal of unpleasant
ness, mystery and suspicion generated in
the Industrial l’aiaee by a constant succes
sion of petty robberies, which took place
nearly every night at the best stalls. Ar
ticles of value were stolen from drawers and
boxes; money left by stall-keepers often
went, unless very securely stowed away;
but the depredators did not venture on
taking any bulky articles, or on breaking
open any receptacle which would require
great force. They knew their risks, that
was evident; and that the thefts wore com
mitted by some person or persons connect
ed with the Exhibition was also beyond a
doubt. Watches hail been set, traps had
l.min v .mil inriin hnf. sill in
vain. When too much had been done in
the way of planting watchmen no robberies
took place at all; and when articles had
been purposely left, apparently forgotten,
but in reality fixed by the minutest wires
to bells which Bounded at the slightest
touch, they wore left untouched. The
thief, if only one, always stole, too,from the
places in the shade, so that he could com
mand a view of the more open spaces, while
he himself was unseen.
One morning, as the sergeant of police
was going his early round before the build
ing was opened for the day, lie came upon
an exhibitor and his st all of assistants, who
were grouped around a box which was open
before them, and at which they were look
ing with apparent interest.
"Good morning, Hr. Basclton,” said the
officer; "a very fine day we are likely tc
have.”
"Fine day, sir! And a very fine night we
have had, too, I suppose,” retorted the ex
hibitor, in atone far less pleasautthan that
in which ho Inal been addressed. “Here’s
a pretty affair! Seven ixrands worth of
Scotch pebbles set in silver—brooches, ear
rings, and so forth—the whole of them
clean gone.”
The sergeant, with expressions of regret,
said he would see the officer who had been
on duty. Mr. Baselton professed to have
lost all confidence in the police, and assert
ed that if he were to watch, the thief
would certainly be discovered the very first
night.
"J wish you would try, then,” said the
Bcrgeant, “I would obtain permission to
watch with you; and if you can suggest
anything fresh, I will gladly support you.”
Although, when he made this assertion,
Mr. Baselton probably meant nothing at
all, yet, after a little talk with the officer,
the desire of finding the thief, and his bo
lief in his own superior acuteness, were
strong enough to make bim volunteer to
watch; and it was agreed that the sergeant
should.join him just as the pal;lee was clos
ing at night, when they would be on the
look-out directly, lor it was impossible to
say at what time ot the night the robberies
were committed.
Strict silence was enjoinedjon either side,
and observed by the sergeant entirely, and
by Mr. Baselton pretty weH, as he men
tioned his plan to Mr. Chatenoux at the
French stall just by, and to his neighbors,
Mr. Hynks and Mr. Carrables. Mr. Carra
V.lc.d Vitt flio iir-ixr nr ia nnl fViavn tViot wiAwn.
ing, so Mr. Baselton told Mr. Glisser, Mr.
Carrables foreman, instead, who, in a
becomingly sympathizing tone, wished him
success.
The evening came, the spies met, and
hung about the passages of the vast build
ing until deepest twilight, and until Basel
ton was pretty nearly tired of being on his
feet.
“Now,” said the sergeant, unconsciously
dropping his voice as he spoke, “we will
take up our quarters. If we can only get
there unperceived, I have arranged what I
think you will tiud a pretty good corner.”
“All right,” returned the exhibitor, in
the same guarded tone, and they stole
noiselessly o*n, passing once or twice, a con
stable; but the presence of the sergeant of
course prevented any questioning. Some
large boxes, lett apparently by accident at
the angle of a stall, were in reality so plac
ed that they formed an almost perfect
screen, and, without any reason to suppose
that they had been notio id, they slipped in,
and sat down.
Presently the moon rose; and aa it climb
ed higher, and its light grew stronger, the
building became visible throughout with a
light which was most unearthly and ghost
ly in its cnaracter. Thiar impressed itself
very much upon Baselton.
“I bad no idea, sergeant,” ho whispered
to the officer, ‘ that the place was Buch a
strange, cemeteryish sort of a place as it is.
I must own, I should not like to be on duty
here all night. However, I have brought
some little refreshments with me, so let us
make ourselves comfortable. In silence
they ate and drank, and in silence, save for
the chiming of the clock, or the occasional
tread of u policeman, the hours crept on.
The policeman passed within a couple of
yards of the watchers repeatedly, but
whether he knew of their presence or not,
Baselton could not judge. The length and
weariness of the hours grew at last intol
erable to him, and seeing that the sergeant
was as cool and wide awake as when they
first entered their lair, he whispered: “I
feel terribly drowsy, sergeant, I always do
about this time. Five minutes’ nap will
make mo as fresh as a daisy. Rouse
me up, if you hear anything before that
time."
His companion smiled, and in the same
subdued tone, gave the promise.
Nothing did happen requiring Mr. Basel
ton’s presence either before or after the ex
piration of five minutes,although tile officer
stealthily looked out a hundred times dur
ing the night. At last the darkness thin
ned away, and then, after a short gray twi
light, dawn came; and the sergeant shook
Baselton by the shoulder.
“Yes, yes, I'm ready,” shimmered the
exhibitor, tnen opened J113 eyes very wine
indeed. “Why, it’s daylight! I must have
slept—”
“Yes, of course you have,” interrupted
the other; “hut Ictus go out quietly. I
don't mind our men seeing us, of course;
but others need know nothing of our
watch.”
“I think the less your men or anybody
else know about the way we kept our watch
the better,” said Mr. liaselton, as they left
the counter; “in fact I shall regard it as a
friendly thing if you say nothing about it.”
The sergeant smiled, but kept his own
counsel; and it may be hinted that Basel
ton was a very liberal fellow, although
somewhat hasty. It turned out that no
pilfering had taken place that night; nor
did any occur for two or three nights after,
a fact which Mr. Glisser attributed to the
influence of Mr. B.iseltun’s vigilance. He
took great interest in the exhibitor’s plans,
and paid him several compliments, which
the latter received with but indifferent
grace, having reasons, that the other knew
not of, for thinking but modestly of this
same vigilance.
One morning a little while after the fruit
less watch, Mr. B.uiclton was in a very bad
temper, for he had sustained a fresh loss.
Hewas leaning against a pillar, a short dis
tance from his counter, thoutrhtfullv bitin?
the eud of his pencil ease, when a man
spoke to him. He looked around at the
sound and saw a police constable, whom he
very much disliked for his apathy and un
businesslike ways, stun ling ciose by him,
he growled out some hardly civil words,
and turned from the man, but the latter
was not to be daunted.
“I am afraid you have had a loss, sir,”
said the man, “and hope it not very seri
ous ; hut, at any rate, 1 should like a word
or two with you.”
“What for ?” retorted Baselton. “I
have lost a gold watch, and, as I have not
breathed a syllable to a soul, I don’t see
how you could know anything of it, unless
some of your lively ‘force’ have—”
“You are too severe, Baselton,” said the
other, finding he had stopped; “you are in
deed, sir,” “Now, sir, I have my opinion
about these robberies, and I think I have
found out the order the thief works in, and
can pretty well guess in what quarter he
will next try. I believe 1 can catch him.”
“You!” exclaimed llesulton, with an
emphasis which was anything but compli
mentary to the officer.
“Yes, sir,” replied the man firmly, “I
can. You have a good deal of influence
with the authorities and if you will ask, I
shall be taken off regular duty, and de
tailed for special service; and I can then
catch him.”
“Well, tell me your plans,” said Basel
1 ton, and in return, I will tell you this:
lOU Know Liieie uru uuuicu vu uue
quiet for the apprehension of the thief.
Find him, and I will make it J!100.”
The constable smiled, and, lowering his
voice, spoke to the exhibitor in whispers.
I When he had finished Baselton slapjied his
hand on the counter with a force that jarred
every article around,and exclaimed :
“You are right. Are you on duty fu
“No, sir,” said the man.
"Then you shall be.”
The application for the constable’s change
of duty was doubtless made, for he disap.
peared from his accustomed patrol.
During the next day or two, Baselton
became loquacious on the subject, and in
conversation with Mr. Glisser, who took a
very kindly interest in the matter, ownod
that he had changed his opinion about the
matter of the robberies. He was convinc
ed, he said, that if the thief came by night,
he would have been caught long before,
| but that everybody was on the wrong aoent,
j and that the thefts were really committed
in the bustle of closing lor the evening, and
! then, not being found out till the morning,
' it was naturally supposed that the tniel
came in the night. Mr. Glissor was much
struck by this view, which' he commended
i highly, and urged increased vigilance about
the time spoken of.
While this was going on, there had been
' no fresh depredations from the counters,
and constable Lowclilfe had been absent
fron duty, although no one seeu.eii to have
noticed it. Whe* the visitors departed
at the close-of the day, all of the interUM
of the building became depressing enough,
as the light faded away, and there were no
places more spectral in their aspect than
those where clustered more closely th<
white statues, which were sprinkled about
Nymphs, Yenuses, Bacchuses and Apollos
Grecian hunters, scriptural and mythlogi
Sal figures, all looked equally ghostly ii
their dim white, when the twilight oi
the mgnt had fallen upon them, so, in tne
gray of the evening, all the statuary looked
mystic and unearthly enough, as the stony
figures looked down from their pedestals;
but none looked more sepulchral than did
a tall sheeted figure which occupied a ped
estal slightly screened—come from which
direction the visitor might—by two or
three large groups. This figure might
have been taken in the distance, and in the
dim light, for a Jewish priest, or a Druid,
or anything of the kind; but had any one
come near enough to inspect, it would have
been seen that the long robo was of linen,
not stone, and that the face was less that
of an ancient hero than a modern one.
And what was rather strange, tliis particu
lar pedestal wa3 empty all day, and only
occupied at night.
Standing at this particular spot, any one
could see in every direction for a consider
able distance, and there was scarcely any
hiding-place near; the Diwid on his ped
estal had no doubt reckoned on these facts
1 laving great weight with the marauder.
| Several nights had gone by and no diseov
I ery made; and yet Ned Lowcliffe crept
i silently to his selected station, and assum
ing his disguise as the shrouded statue,
I patiently watched all through the dark
i ness; so patiently that no one not close
I enough to touch him could have imagined
1 that he differed from the effigies around.
It was yet comparatively early in liia
! watch on a certain night, and a young
1 moon threw just sufficient light here and
there to make everything more uncertain
' than usual, when Lowcliffe, finding liiin
j self a little cramped from standing so long
in one position, prepared to make one of
I the guarded shifts he was forced to indulge
in during the evening; but just as he com
menced carefully to draw one leg behind
the other, he stopped, rolled his eyes eag
l erly around, and then remained so motion
less he scaeely breathed. With a step al
most noiseless—but not quite so for such a
listener’s ear—a man glided round the
j angle of a counter close by, and standing
j close by Lowcliffe, pausod, stopped, looked
round the floor in every direction, then sat
upon an adjacent pedestal, and leaning
against the legs of a Hercules, listened. If
the process of prespir.ition were not wholly a
! silent one, Lowcliffe would have beon be
trayed, for the cold beads came upon his
forehead as he saw how near he was to a
discovery. The man was sitting on the very
next pedestal, a block which almost touched
his own. There he waited quietly lor a
while, not very long, but long enough to
assure himself that no patrol was coming
that way ; then he rose, and in a fow steps
was at the nearest counter, and had tried a
key in the lock ;.oue or two attempts failed,
' hut at last a door opened, and his hood and
■ shoulders were lost to sight; he reappeared
with a small box, which he placed on the
ground before him, anl then tried one or
two keys. Again the luck yielded, the lid
was thrown back, and a few articles were
rapidly transferred to the man’s pocket.
Some object, however, seemed unknown
to him, and he held it up against the dim
IlL^llV, CXXUOi»WilXIJ£ IV 1UU&C UUl *» 11(V v u
was. To his honor, one of the statues
sprang from its pedestal toward him. It
was instantaneous, hut the flash was
enough; the figure all in white moved,
and leapt upon him ; then, with a fearful
yell, which rang from end to end of the
building,the thief fell in a fit upon the
floor. Alarmed by the scream, two or three
officers were speedily at the spot, and turn*
1 ing on their lanterns, were nearly as much
astonished in their turn to see a white
sheeted figure standing by the side of the
man in convulsions.
When their mometary surprise had
ceased upon their discovering who the
sheeted figure was, they proceeded to un
fasten the prostrate man’s scarf and collar,
sprinkled him with water, anil lifted him
from the ground; his struggles ceased,
and a few long breaths announced his
j “coming to.”
“I don’t know him,” said one of the con
' stables.
| “I do, though !” exclaimed Lowtfifie.
i “Well! of all he parties as I could have
supposed, I ver could have supposed
him. Wh it’s that blessed Glisser—from
the next s old Baselton ; a fellow that
looks as ii r wouldn’t melt in his
mouth.”
“Where am I ?—who are you ?” asked
the miserable culprit.
“Oh, we are particular friends of yours,”
returned the officer.
j “But I saw—I saw one of those things
move,” Baid the man, looking timidly
around with a dreadful shuddef. Lowcliffe
j had stripped off his white raiment by this
time, and so did not shock the wretched
Glisser’s eyes.
! “We will tell you all about that in the
' morning,” said the constable. “What you
have got to do is to come along with us.”
It was so—he had to “come along,” and
directly the exhibitors and their staff mus
tered into the building; the intelligence
flew like wild fire that Mr. Glisser was in
custody for breaking into the stalls at
nights.
It was a shock to a large circle of his ac
quaintances and admirers, who could hard
ly believe it; and when on^his lodgings be
ing searched, the hulk of the articles miss
ing from the counters was found, the thing
seemed more incredible still. Mr. Basel
«m was especially „stni.Uiied, because he
had made quite a confident of the young
1 man, and hiul the mortification of remem
I bering how he himself had revealed to Mr.
Glisser the various plans for detecting the
thief; and that, if it had not been for
Level iff e insisting on the ruse of attributing
the pilfering to the afternoon instead of the
night, he probably would have put the
I young man on his guard against the
! scheme, which had proved successful. He
reoovered his watch and other articles, paid
his £100 cheerfully, and gained a reputa
with the “force” for the extreme readiness
with which he put his name down in their
subscriptions for deserving objects.
Mr. Glisser’s proved a very bad ease, and
he was lost to sight for some years after .
A PROPOSAL IN A CAR.
A Pennsylvania paper says that the pas
sengers on one of the trains from Buffalo
to Brocton, last week, wore treated to a
love scene of unusual character. Occupy
ing one of the seats was a fair young maid
en from Corry, and a grey-headed, benevo
lent-looking gentleman from Chicago.
She was handsome, and not above twenty
two. He was on the shady side of sixty,
with flowing white hair and heard, and a
pleasant expression on his countenance.
He had been in her company from Roches
ter, and the few hours pwssed in her society
had again awukened the dreams of love in
his old heart. It was evidently a case of
love at first sight on his p.irt. With her
'twas not. But he told his tale. His wife
was long since dead; his children had
grown up, married, and passed from his
home. He was alone in this world. He
h;ul wealth at his command, but ho longed
for some companion to share it with him.
This was spoken in a low tone, hut suffi
ciently loud to be heard by those in the
seats near him. At last th^ important mo
ment came. The old gentleman said:
“Will you share my fortune with me; will
juu uu xxx^ nut1 i x xi'.'u ojwnu uus uuun.
oil maiden. “I cannot. Your riches are
nothing to mo. If I loved you I would ac
cept ; but that I do not, aud must therefore
refuse your offer.” But the old man still
pleaded. lie asked to he allowed to accom
pany her to C'orry and see her parents.
She declined. His pleadings were con
tinued until the train arrived at Brocton,
when she again refused to let him accom
pany her to Oorry. His train arrived and
they must part. He threw his arms around
her neck and kissed her fervently, unmind
ful of the gazing crowd. Then upon the
platform of the air he took off his hat, and
with his white hair and beard streaming in
the breeze, am? tears running down his
cheeks, this aged lover blessed the fair
maiden, and swore to see her again.
AN EXPENSIVE SPREE.
Mr. William Waddingham owns a great
deal of property in the northern part of St.
Louis, and some large warehouses near
the old Missouri Hotel. He was desirous
of purchasing the Ames pork-house, for the
benefit of his adjacent property. The more
he thought about it the more he wanted
that pork-house. He took a drink to quiet
thinking machine, and a third to make his
resolution stick. Soon after taking the
last of fifteen drinks he met Gen. Cavender
on the street, nd authorized him to buy
that pork-house at $600 per foot. General
Cavender was in the real estate business,
and made the purchase as instructed, and
reported to Waddingham the next day,
but a change had come o’er the spirit of
Mr. Waddingham's dream—or, rather, the
spirit had oozed out of him while ho was
dreaming—and now he did not hanker after
the pork-house any more, especially at $600
per foot. Ho told Gen. Cavender he was
only joking, and that the pork-house and
lot were not worth more than $200 per
foot. Gen. Cavender was not in the habit
of doing business in that way; business
was business, and joking was joking, and
he was entitled to his commission at all
events. Mr. Waddingham refused to pay
commission on a joke, and the General sued
him for $4,000. On the trial Mr. Wudding
haan's lawyer attempted to show that his
client had been druggod, and was not re
sponsible for what he had done; but this
line of defence was ruled out, and the jury
gave a verdict for $2,314.65. Mr. Wad
dingham says that was the most expensive
spree he ever took, and hereafter he will
save commissions by doing bis own trading.
A CLOSE SHAVE.
An exhibition was given in Hingham,
Mass., some two months since, by Tom
Thumb, at which the prices were twenty
five cents for those over ton years of age,
and twelve und a half cents for those under.
Ik was Johnny’s tenth birthday, and his
cousin May, aged thirteen, thought it to be
her duty to celebrate it by taking him, in
the afternoon, to see the dwarf. Arriving
at the door, she put down thirty-eight
cents, and asked fortwo tickets. "How old
is the boy ?” asked the ticket-seller.
“Well," replied Miss May, “this is his tenth
birthday; 6uf he was not bom \intil late in
the afternoon.” The vender of tickets ac
cented the accuracy of the averment, and
handed her the proper certificate of ad
mission. But it was a close fit.
The average value of the trade between
Paris and the United States is said to be
somewhere near $75,000,000 a year. This
estimate includes, however, the sums ex
pended by American visitors in PariB. A
large part of this is for finery and fancy
good—jewelry, hate, gloves, buttons, rib
I bons, etc. Silks alone figured to the
amount of (2,000,000, in the lastannual offi
cial report of the American Consul-General.
«
Don't be too Sensitive.—“There are
some people, yes many people who are al
ways looking out for slights. They can nol
carry on the daily intercourse of the fam
ily wirhont taking some offense. If they
meet an acquaintance on the streets who
hapjiens to he pre-oocupied with business,
they attribute his abstraction to something
personal to themselves, and take umbrage
according. They lay on others the fault
of their own irritability. A fiit efindiges
tion makes them see impertinence in every
one they come in contact with.
Innocent persons, who never dream of
giving offense, are astonished to find some
unfortunate word or momentary taciturnity
mistaken for insult. To say the least, tht
habit is unfortunate. It is far wiser to takt
the more charitable view of our fellow
beings, and not suppose a slight is intended
unless the neglect is open and direct. Af
ter all, too, life takes its hues in a great
degree from the color of our mind. If wi
are frank and generous, the world treats u<
kindly. If on the contrary we are suspi
clous, men learn to be cold and cautious t<
ns. Let a person get the reputation of being
touchy, and everybody is under more or lea
, constraint, and in this way the chance of ai
Imaginary offence is vastly increased.”
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UVUUS'ie-.AS l.VST JtWiUlAL
The world owes a debt of gratitude it can
never pay to the faithful servants who,
through dangers and against obstacles
which the imagination can but faintly pic
ture, bore the dead body of their friend and
master, with all the precious records of his
wanderings and discoveries, from the little
| village where he breathed Iiis last to the
sea-coast of Zanzibar. But for their affec
; tionate devotion these records would have
been lost; and, with the exception of wlut
was contained in the diary entrusted to tho
care of Mr. Stanley, all knowledge of the
important discoveries made by the great
traveler during the last seven years of his
life would have perished. Thanks to tho
fidelity of these poor ignorant men, in the
narrative now givon to the world, covering
seven years of continuous travel and dis
covery, not a break occurs. “We have
not,” says the editor of this deeply intcr
; est ing work, “to deplore the loss, by acci
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“— " — —-- —-O--rf
the time of bavingst one’s departure from
Zanzibar, in the beginning of 18C6, to the
day when bis note-book dropped from bis .
hand in the village of Ilala, at the end of
April, 1873.” The preservation of these
documents appears almost miraculous when
we consider the nature oi the perils through
which they were borne to a place of safety.
The little band of faithful servants had to
make their way with their pi-ecious burden
' hundreds of miles through a wild and ter
rible country, through lands where the de
based and superstitious tribes would have
torn them to pieces had it became known
that they were carrying a dead man, over
the river swollen into raging torrents,
across mountains, and through dense for
ests, where dangers linked in every thick
et. Yet, although at every step besot with
perils, suffering oftentimes from hunger
and thirst, and sometimes almost dead from
fever, the dreaded scourge of equatorial
Africa, they remained faithful to their sa
cred trust, and gave an example of fidelity
and heroism tliat should never be forgot
ten.
TUE PROPOSED NIAGARA RIVER
TINNED.
A gentleman fiom Washington Pa., Mr.
JOBfjm i attcist'ii, ,«uu la a> owiuu umic*,
and who is said to have a profound know
ledge of tunnel work, gained by thirty-five
years’ experience in this and other coun
tries, has been making a careful examina
tion of Mr. Wallace’s plan and profile of
the projected tunnel under the Niagara
River at this point. Ho fully affirms its
practicability, and that it will cost no mors
than any other tunnel in the United States
of the same nature. Mr. Patterson advises
the putting down of a shaft on each side of
the river, and then driving a drift through
under the liver, seven feet by seven in tho
clear. This mode he recommends as the
best under water; first for quickness, since
any number of masons can work in widen
ing out; and second for good ventilation
in the building of masonry. Mr. Patterson
states that he will hold himBolf in readi
ness to enter into contract for the above
named shafts and drifts at any time with
in three months, at a price and under con
ditions given to Mr. Wallace, engineer.
We learn from Mr. Wallace that the price
at which Mr. Patterson offers to contract
1 for constructing the proposed shafts and
drift is $18 per lineal foot, he to be respon
sible for all pumping. The cost at this
rate would be $«f,S120. The cost of subse
i quently enlarging the drift to the neces
sury dimension of a railway tunnel can
| easily be calculated by any engineer or
; contractor, with great accuracy and eer
taiuty.
THE LUMBER TRADE,
The Albany Aryua, in an article 0$
! lumber, says; About six thousand mil
I lion feet of soft wood lumber were cut
in the United States and Canada in 1874.
Recent estimates put the entire manufac
ture of lumber and timber on this conti
nent at about twelve thousand million feet
per year, and if. this estimate be correct,
the pine districts furnish nearly half of
the whole product. The vast pine lumber
supply moves from its sources to its mar
kets in certain well-defined lines or oourses.
and the main currents of supply do not
differ p-reatlv in maimitude. A thousand
million is the estimated measure of this
supply for the season of 1874. In North
1 era New York, the Glens Falls district
: mills are being fully stocked. In the Eaat
1 ern, or Saginaw River district of Michigan,
the logs which will come to the mills in
. 1875 must bo less in amount than the total
of old and new logs that came out in 1874,
In Western Michigan the product of last
year will be exceeded this year, if such a
thing is to be accomplished by virtue of the
most strenuous and persistent efforts. In
the Wisconsin districts, it is claimed, and
apparently with reason, that the nnfavora
; ble Winter will inevitably diminish the
supply, irrespective of the pains of the
lumbermen. In the extreme Western dis
tricts the unprecedented depression of the
I rode, last your, has proved an effectual
iisoouragement of operations the present
Winter.
PUBLIC INSTRUCTION IN ROTPT.
The Khedive has offered the post of
directory of Public Instruction in Egypt
, to Mr. Edward Thomas Rogers, late Her
Majesty’s Consul at Cairo, and Mr. Bogors
is now on his way to England to obtain
the consent of the Foreign Office to his .
acceptance of this poet. The Viceroy is
very desirous that all the public schools in
Egypt should be thoroughly efficient. He
wishes the pupils not only to be taught
lessons, but to be well trained.
"OH. sty friends,” exclaimed an orator,
“that I iiad a window in my heart, that you
might all look in ami sea the truth of whit
1 tell vou!” “Wouldn’t a pain in v.mr stom
ach do just as weir” asked a small boy.