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WHEN SHOULD LOVER8 BREATHE cIl
THEIR VOWS. he
When should lovers breathe their vows? PU
When should ladies bear them I ha
When the dew is on the boughs, its
When none else are near them. wn
When the moon shines cold and pale, ba
When the birds are sleeping, gu
When no vole in on the gale, mi
When the rose in weeping. of
What the stars are bright on high. leo
Like hopes in young love's dreaming, wi
And glaneing round the light couds fly, Ht
Like soft fears to shade that heaming,. he
The fairest smiles nre those that live ph
On the brow by starlight wreathing; tel
And the lips the richest Incense give mi
When the sigh isatmidnight breathing. wl
Oh I softest is the cheek's love-ray ki
When seen by moonlight hours; o00
Other roses seek the day go
But blushes are night flowers. st
Oh I when the moon and stars are bright, o'
When the dew-drops glisten, Al
Then their vows should lovers plight, cc
Then should ladies listen. T
fry
U"PLEASE LET. BER GO HOME." o0
THEl PLEA OP A LITTLE GIRL IN A m
JUSTICE'S COURT IN HER C
MOTHER'S BEIIAL. s
(Chicago Tiees.] m
"Please, sir, let mamma go home tl
with nus. If you send her away there'll m1
be no one to take care of little Alice;
and then she's so good to all of he. P
We won't let her go away again and Inl
-and get drunk, and she won't want y
to, we love her so. Please let her go." P'
"But doesn't your mother spend n
her money for drink which ought to P
buy you bread and butter 1" 0
"Only once in a while, sir; there 0
never was a better mamma than ours,
and we'll take such good care of her "
and be so good that she won't want
any more whisky, 'curse it's that, sir, a
which makes her bad once in a b
while."
"What have you to say, madam t P
You have been let off so many times a
,on good promises, that I am losing
faith in you."
Your honor, I know I don't deserve
any mercy at your hands, but for tihe
sake of these darling children, let me
try once more to be the.good mnother
they think l am. God only knows why t
I can't help drinking, and why I should t
degrade mnyself by getting drunk and
then abusing these innocent little chil- t
dren. I thought this would be the Y
last time, and that they would be so n
Imuchi better off without me, that I n
said I would drown myself, and I was 1
angry when a policeman pulled inme i
out of the lake and saved my misers- t
ble life. I don't do anything to feed I
and clothe them; why do they love t
and pity me so I only spcnd their I
hard-earned money for drink. IHow '
munch better for them if I could be t
dead! More than once, your honor, f
have they gone hungry for days, and '
been dressed almost in rags, just be
cause I had spent the last p~ennios for '
drink. I have a helpless little bhabe
at home who was alnost starved, I *
know, and yei none of thenm ever
complained. I ani not fit to go back 1
to them; send me to the Bridewell, I
where I may find At companions in I
drunkards and outcasts, and can scrub 1
and dig at the lowest work till I make
myself forgetful that I ever had a
hnoe and such precious children. My i
Gotd, what a thing I am! You don't
know bow I despise myself. Is there
any hope for me, do you think, sir? I
wish I could deserve their kindness
and love, and your mercy. If you
can let me go again my broken prom
ises shall be renewed and I' swear
by the help of my Maker to keep them
in the future."
"Let the Ane be one hundred dol
lars, but I will suspend it and try her
again."
A scene in the North side police
court on Monday last is only half pro
duced in the above narrated colloquy
between Jastice Kauffman and two
others-one a woman forty-tfve years
years of age, but with an apparent
experience of the saddest kind stanmp
ed on her features, and the other a
child not yet nine years old. Thlere
were other partiem% present, who did
little but smother the sobs which
choked off any attempt to speak.
There were other children of the dis
sipated mother-a daughter of twenty
one years of age, very neatly but
plainly drcessd, and with an intelli
gent and somewhat cultivated conim
tenance; a son two years youniger,
and another boy about seven, This
last child and a little girl who pleaded
for her mother were standing on either
side of the woman and clinging to her
dress and hands.
The woman was Mrs. Mary Creigle,
who lives in rented rooms at the cor
nor of Ene and Franklin streets, and
she was before Justice Kauffman for
being drunk and disorderly. The
term "disorderly" is well known to
cover a multitude of sins and misde
meanors, and in this case applied
more to attempt to commit suicide
than anythling else. On the day pre
vious an officer had seen her wander- TIL
ing along the lake shore, and kept so
5 close a watch on heI movements that
he was enabled to be at hand and
r pull her from the lake soon after she
had plunged head foremost beneath dei
its waves from one of the piers. She thi
was recovering -from a drunken de- his
bauch, and had settled so low Into the ibl
gulf of despair, that she had deter- th?
mined to rid the world and her family of
of respectable children of her worth- dik
less life. She pleaded with the officer, on
with tears and prayers to let her die,. no
Ho was inexorable, and conducted eti
her to the police station. She was Di
placed in a cell and her eldest daugh- Ba
ter sent for. That dutiful young wo- an
man never uttered a word of blame m
. when she arrived, but in the tenderest wl
kindness set about making hermother ag
comfortable. She removed the wet Mi
garments and replaced the soaked thi
stockings and underclothing with her ha
own. Food was brought from home, or
Sand everything done that could be to Ei
comfort and cheer the poor woman., as
The other children came and shed the Hi
fragrance of their love and affection on
on the heart of their despairing di
mother. On the following morning m:
A morning they appeared in the police in
court and became her attorneys in th
simple pleas for mitigated punish- wi
ment, which outweighed any defense in
oe that the ablest lawyer could have fe
il made. of
,; Mrs. Creigle was once tihe wife of a re
,s. prosperous and comfortably-situated tip
id man of business. He died the second et
nt year after the fire, but left the family hi
.2 provIded with a good home and the gi
id means ofsulpport which a well-equip- I
to pod and well-stocked grocery store fe
could fumrnish. All these were clear T
re of debt and furnished a good income. o0
SSoon after Mr. Creigle's death the hi
or widow commenced to drink, and be- i
t came an actual drunkard. Six months ce
after her husband died a child was w
a born, which has lived till to-day, but ii
which is physically helpless. The b
I property was mortgaged from time to es
es time, as the business in the store do- G
dined through lack of attention, to '1
furnish her with the means of dissipa- 11
tion. At length all the property had Ii
lie slipped fronm her, and she became to
e destitute. d
er The children were always kind to nI
Iy their mother, and did what they could tl
ld to furnish support for the family. A
id Now tihe eldest girl, a young lady of oa
il- twenty-one, and the oldest boy, two p
he years younger, have good situations, e
so and, each week, turn in to their q
I mother with which she pays rent,
as buys coal, provisions and clothing for
no herself and the smaller children. With c
,Jt the balance of their wages they su,
1il port themselves. They deplore deeply
ve the disgraceful conduct of their only
,ir parent, but have endured it for years
z without a murmur or the least inmdica- et
be tion of wavering affection. They say
mr, they never snw a better mother than
nd she when she lets liquor alone.
ic- It is only once in three or four I
for. weeks that she yields to the overpow
.e ering temptation to drink, and then L
I she indulges in a prolonged "spree"
er of several inlays. Their entreaties
nk have always been in vain, and at
hl, length they had patiently submitted
in to this affliction in their otherwise
nb happy life, and tried to keep her from
rko harm.
a The children are all honest and
My industrious, and have made the most
n't of their narrow resources for improve
,re ment mentally. They are highly re
Sspected by the. neighbors and deserve
m encomlums for their filial affection
'o such as few others deserve. Tho
'in- eldest have occupied themselves in
ear earning money; tihe youngot in stay
em ing faithfully at home. and caring for
their six-year-old helpless little sister.
I1g. The family consists of eight children,
her and when it is considered that but
two of them succeed in turning in
lice any money for the support of the
ro- wl'hole, the circumstances approach
lay nearer to the pitiful.
,1eO An Irishman called on a lady and
are gentleman in whlosc employ he was
ent for the purpose of getting sonme tea
ip- and tobacco.
a a "I had a dream last night, ytcir
eore honor, said he, to the gentleman.
did
"What was it, Pat 7"
rich
,ak "Why, I drained that yor honor
die- made me a present of a pound of to
baccy, and her ladyship thero
but Ileaven blee her, gave ine some tay
blli- for the good wife."
"UM* "Ah, Pat, dreanms go by contraries,
you know," said the gentleman. *
r, "Faith, and they maythat," said
dad Pat; so her ladyship is to give the
bhmer tobacey, and his honor the tay !"
her The Louisana Capitolian, edited biy
Leon Jastremeki, and published at
gle, Baton Rouge, is Iy.far the brightest
eor- and newsiest paper thay have had in
and that town for years. Its editorials
Sfor are marked by a good deal of indc
The pkndent strength; and its news
I to department shows enterprise. Mr.
ide- Jastromaki is well known in this city
'lied and has many friends in this inmme
lide diate neighborhood\.-Uli Iemn.
AN AFFEOTING SENE, 801s
TILDEN AT THE BEDSIDE OF TIE DYING
GEN. TAYLOR. A
t Lon
SWeehlisgton Post.]
e 8. M. L. Barlow, in speaking of the
h death of Gen. Richanrd Taylor, said stat
e that Gen. Taylor realized the fact that out
his death was Inevitable, and, with
ntd
e his usual culmness, expressed a de and
tlhit his funeral ceremonies shoaide beei
Y of the most simple character. "If I dreg
die," he said, "bury me like a soldier, thai
r, on a tented field; I desire no pomp, der
,. no floral offerings; lay me to rst qul- mot
d etly, and I shall sleep all the quieter." the
a During the day the residence of Mr. Is i
I. Barlow was besieged by visitors, the
p. among whom were many military
le men and a number of Southerners of
at who fought under him. Some time th
,r ago Mr. Samuel J. Tilden called at for
t Mr. Barlow's reseldence to inquire after
id the health of to. General, whom he sea
nt
rr had known intimately for the past ten no
a, or twelve years. On hearing that the hu
to Ex-Governor was below, Goh. 'raylor t
it. asked to have imh shown uip o t ) at ocl. fio.
teo His attendants tried to diss,umme him, i,
an on the ground that in his critical con
ig dition tihe excitementof the interview "u
ig might prove diangerous.. The General I
ie insisted on seeing and conversing with i
in the visitor, however, and Mr. Tilden tial
It. was summoned to his bedsnide. The WI
so interview which followed was an af- th
ve fecting one. Mr. Tilden took the hand 11a1
of the ,dying man, and expressed his th
a regret at seeing him in such a condi" tt
id tion. Gen. Taylor pressned the Gov- ha
id ornor's hand in return and thanked an
ly him for his sympathy. Mr. Tildon a
wi'
he gazed at the dying face and then, of
p- bendling over kissed hima upon the th
re forehead. ' "No man," hlie said to Gen.
ar Taylor, "has ever had a wiser, trnuer ti
to. or more unselfidsh friend than you
he have been to me." Mr. Tilden first t"
e- met Gen. Taylor at the P'hiladelphlia P4
his contvention in 1866(1. Ile was struck th
as with his wit, candor and other engag- mm
ut ing qualities, and tihe two speedily ti
he beclame warm friends. D)ring his fA
to sublsequent visits to the North the A
le- General called frepquently upon Mr. tr
to Tilden, and tihe friendship, begun in br
ºa- 1866, ripened into a close intimacy. it
ad In the campaign of 1876(i the ueneral
me took a very active interest in Mr. Til- ha
den's eInvUas, and was one of tihe
to most eflicient workers in the contest b3
mld that ended in his friend's election. hi
ly. Mr. Tilden entertained the highest '
of opinion of Gen. Taylor's esagacity, and '
we particularly ensteeniel him for his mtod- d1
is, crate and statesmanlike vievs upon l
eir questions growing oiut of thile ate wtr. a
lit, b
for A MYSBTERIOUS GARMCNT, fo
ith COULD SEND IT HIOME IF lIE DIDN'T
I 1 NEED IT ANY LONOEIR. m
I~ly a
l [Montgomery Adr(rmtfer.] of
ly A few evenings since two younig
m gentlement of Montgomimery paroceeded
ca- to the residence of three young ladies a
of their acquaintatice in time suburbs,
lan to request tihemn to attend a surprise
party. Tho, ladies not having ex
pected ench au invitation, were en
gaged in sewing upon certain inyste
rious articles necessary to the fenalle K
es toilet. Two of thim laid their work 431
at work away when tIhe visitors arrived, v
ted while the third, having got ulp hastily 'v
ise to answer the call, threw time garment tl
oisitshe was sewing upon down on a chair. t(
The gentlemen were invifed to be t1
mnd seated, and one of them happened to ri
oest deposit himself upon that very chair. a
A moment later they olberved the tl
IVe
,e young ladies smiling mischievously as ]
rye they glanced toward him, amd hle took
ion the opportunity to look around and I
Fhe see what amused them. To hmis dis
in may he discovered a portion of a white A
a-garment occupying the seat withi hitin, mm
Sand lie broke out into a cold sweat am a
for tie thought flashed over him that a n
rn portion of wearing apparel had broken
hut otof conofnement and was disposed B
hi to make itself p~romuinent. IIis an
the guial of mind can better be imagined h
thani described. As rapidly A possi. C
ble, when he thmouglt no one was look
ing, he tucked tite muslin omit of sight.' 3
and lie thmomught it a hailppy circunmstance
was ithat two of the girls left the roown a
tei whileli he was thus engaged i but ihe .
would have felt queer if le hlb known '
yemr that they had detected the approiria- I
tion of the garment, realized his ntis
take, and hlad to go somewhere to
mior htavo a good luIught. When he got
Fto- home and found what lie had donme,
ro- he would have felt happy if tme house
tay had fallen upon0 him. Next day he
had recovered a little and was able to t
rice, laugh whle lie received message I
that4' lie "had taken a pattern of that t
piece of property, ind didn't need it
tui any longer, he might send 'it back
the homec."
The New Orleans Times says now
1 by that its statement that the lost books
I at of the Auditor had been found, was
itest only ant April hoax. According to
d in the moral rule it laid down in the
rals IRoberte-New matter, it does no harm
ide- to publish a falsehood if you acknowl
tews edge its falsity next day. Most read- 1
Mr. ers of the Times have come'to the
city conclusion that thle first day of April,
une- with it, lasts all the year rounzL-
Sharel'e'port Tmces.
SOME OP THE HOBBIBLE 0OE ES 01
OP THE FAMINES I EGYPT, It
An oceasinal correspogefit of the
London Daily News, who has just F
been up the Nile inquiring into the
state of the villages personally, with
out a dragoman, writes from Cairo: N
It is an unpleasant truth, but an T
undeniable one, that the people have
been and still are starving by hun- F
dreds on the Nile, for no other reason
than that they have been unable, un
'der their crushing taxation, to save
- money or stores against the-failure of
a their crops; and the immediate result ci
is naturally a famine. So long have
the fellaheen now been accustomed
Sto work for the tax-gatherer instead
of for themselves, that no man ever
Sthinks of making more tlhan sufilcient
for his waste from day to day. tin,
From Sint to the Cataracts there is cor
e scarcely a village or town which can of
not count its dead by fifties, somie by tr
e hundreds: At each of the larger
towns along the banks' the fellahs 9
front ihe inland villages have crowded w
wa
iii, sought for relief or for work, have Su
mund IInonIe, and have lain dowVn and sal
sturved. 'The sight of these p4oor'
l wretches in sickening. Their condi- wC
h tion is only comparable to that of the rt
nnatives in the last Indian famine.
soi
SWith shrunken skin and staring bones, f
f they resemblle the mummies of their I
g land more than follow-creatures. In w
is the open miarket places they lie pros- pJ
trate in thie' bun, covered with fliesn,
h-alf or wholly naked, till death puts c
r-co
dan end to their asufiferings. As lotig to
n as they have strength they fight like to
wild beasts over the smallest morsel
Sof food, and when they are past this ev
Sthey die with less attention paid them ci
or than if they were street dogs. th
At Belyaneb, Bagour Hau and suech
'at towns the people have been and are
ia starving in utter neglqct. Sittingg n 1i
k the fields and in the open streets,
many of thLem have been supporting o
Sthemselves for days on sorrel and the
ly d
is foul refuse from the cane factories.
li All human feelings e'are lost, and in i
[ri trying to distribute a few mornsels of M
in bread at Belyaneh the stronger tore M
it from the lips of those weaker than w
a themselves, and str Wled till ex
- hausted for tile merest scrap.
he At Edfoo thlere lay an old wolllan
lt by the bank, with the water washing a
n half over her, loo weak to move or J'(
in. o
t speak. Her eofes were sunk into her ea
1d head, and her whole skin was like I
d- dried parchmuent from the sun. Her
on body was shriveled to the size of an ft
r. applo. She could not swallow except°
by friction, whilst another woman re
forced the food down her throat. This Ce
was no uhcomnIton casO, Woieti andll
T children from their smaller strengtll h
affording the most ghastly spectacles N
of tile march of famine. b
iig
ed A GOOD STORY. 01
"5I5, I'M TOUR UUCKLuBERRY, WIHAIR'S f8
ber, YE PlEDGE.,
vso
leea
,x. A temperance lecturer who has cI
in- been at work iii tile towns up the .
to- Hudson has been giving a reportcr of tl
ale Kingston Courier a page from lis a
wkl early experience in Michigan. Pre-I
ad, vious to his arrival In a small town t1
ily where he illtended to do some work, f
Bnt the boys agreed among themselves a
sir. to go to the meeting, but not to sign g
be the pledge. ie appealed in vain lfr (a
I to recruits in the temperance cause. Not t:
tir. a man would move. At this stage of I
the the procodtings the belle of the tA)wn 5
Sas sraMng to her feet and crfcd out: t
sk "Boys, this is really tod bad. Won't I
uLtl you sign time pledge I"
lis- Not a seol moved from his seat.
tite Again the fair belle appealoed to the f
imt, mel's ihotter nature, bit it was of no
;, avail; thley hadpromnised they would I
ta not sign. Finally the lady said: 4
en "Boys, I'11 kiss the first titan wvho 1
sed ilgns the pledge." e
an'- At this juncture ill) jumIped a tall
nod backwoodtmmn, who drawlingly ex- 1
eAil caimed i
ok- "Sis, I'm your Ihuckleobrry; wllar's
ht.* yer pledge 1"
nCe The brave gill kissed the fellow,
oln and the cheering which followed made I
1e .$he building rattle. This incident
,wn broke the ice, and before the lecturer
rina- hlad left the town nearly every one
s-had donned the ribbon.
t A BEAUTIFUL EXTRAOT.
got 0
ne, A iaval officer, being at sea in a
ense dreadful storm, his wifo sitting in the
he cabin near hIim filled with alarm for
o to thteldafoty of the ship, who so Bar
age prised at his serenity and coniposure,
;hat that she cried o()t:
d it "My dear, are you not afraid? How
ack is it possible you can be so calm inl
sech a dreadful storm?"
ow He rose from his chlair dashed it to
10eks the deck, drew his 'sword, pointing it
was to the breast of his wife, exclaimed:
"Are you not afraid?"
the "No I" she immediately replied.
am "Why noWt" inquired the officer. 4.
wlI- "1cc nue," replied his wife, "I
mad- know that the sword is in the hands
the of my husband, and he loves me too
well to hurt tue."
pril, Then," said hb, "I know in whom I
1- believe, and He who holds the winds
in His hands is my Father."
B Oh, the aflck Afihle weather?
It scarcely holds together H
* For a day.
First it snaweth, then it bloweth,
WThen the angry tormeoloaud goeth
Right away.st
But theore's udokle, mickle weather whi
T t would sait us all together Tm
e Just the sname;
- For, take us all together, the
n We're nas fikle as the weather-- Ia
Whlo's to bjaime -.21aaseript tool
cots
A ORUEL WRONG!1 %
It O(N. SLOCUM TAL 5ttBN3-Kiys. SItUR- and
'e RAT MURIRIED-'TWAS NOT THlE the
o, GOVMRtNMNT,15iUt11iB1EN. sani
get
, SUCH MEN WE DESPISE ' the
"t Gen. W. H. Slocum, one of the did. Z1a
tingsdehod of our brigade: division AN
corps,,and grand division. conminder she
Sof the war, recently delivered a lee
'Y tore in Brooklyn on events of the yo
er not
o great struggle, during the course of no
Swhich he expressed the opinion, al
ways held by the Union, that Mrs. a
v Surratt was a murdered woman. He W
rd of 1
said:
or 81
or "I am going to speak to you oneR
Sword about the execution of Mrs. Sur- di
re att at the close of the war, for I think is
esole good lessons can be learned 1g
' from the story of her trial and death.
In I believe any people situated as we on
were, ought to be cautioned against
- placing implicit confidence in evidence A
S' given at it time of high excitement. I
coutld statnd here to-night and relate [
ge to yeou fifty incidents that would serve
ol to caution everybody against taking QE
evidence against others when the peo- wi
Splo were all in a state of intense ex- of
citement. There never was a day, NI
cli there never was an hour, that I did wI
not believe that Mrs. Surrutt was as di,
a irnnnocent a woman as there is in this so
isn
h ball. (Applause.) She was the keeper pr
Sof a boarding-house in Washington. in
h She boarded Wilkes Booth and a half w]
hIe
O. dozen other rebel sympathizers, and dit
i1 she 11ha a son, Joihn H. Surratt. tlu
of Wilkes Booth was guilty of shooting he
e Mr. Lincoln, and this poor woman pr
tuwas brought to trial in connection 0o
sx- with Wilkes Booth, and in the excite- n
ment of the times, her nck was o
n111 brought to the halter. Her daughter, eI
a young gir` eighteen or nineteen of
iuK
ing years of age, on the " morning of the til
,,r execution, went to the President's
ike room anId begged permissionl to may a gi
ter few words in behalf of her umother, sc
anad a United States Senator from our ,
I own State, who acted door toendor, a
,a repuilsed betr, saying: "No, no; you (tl
his can not go in." Worse thanI that, g,
utl meaner than that, hOe poor girl three p
gth lor four y'ears fterwards, amnried a ft
c clerk in thei Treasury )Department. o0
No charges were made against himt,
but, because lie married the daughter tl
of -ir-. Surratt, lIe was disc.harged. t(
Let us learn to look at our faults o
iR'SI fairly and squarely in the fiace and b
acknowledge them when we have 4,
has cause to.
the e. *The murder of Mrs. Surratt was r,
r of *thte mIost cruel and cowardly act ever 'j
his com"titted in any civilized country. e
ire- It is a curious and suggestive fact o
>wn that all who are chiefly responsible to
)rk, for the excention of that intocent wo- I
[ves t4nai have felt the unseen hand of the (
,ign great Avenger. Stanton, Secretary
for of War, who was perhaps the worst of
Not the number, comnmitted asicide in a
'e of tit of remorse, although the fact was
>wn sought to be concealed. Preston King, '
the Senator from New York, who re
on't pulsed Anlie Surratt at the Presi- t
dent's door, in a like manner, ended 1
seat. his own life by deliberately jumping
the fromt a ferry-boat in the North liver
no at New York, and drownving hiinself. t
)utll Andrew Johnsomi, who signed the
death warrant, and despotically sus
who ponded the writ of habeas corpus that
had eoen granted by the court, was
tall etrikemn suddenly with death upon
his return to the Senate after hle had
left the Presidency. Judge Advocate
tar's Holtwhio conducde the prosecution,
long ago disappeared from public I
low, view, and whether dead or alive no
iade body knows anl nobody cares. And
dent John A. Biughamn, who assisted Holt,
urer was driven from Congress in disgrace
as one of the Credit Mobilier bribe
one
takers, and sought refuge in Japan,
where we believe le no'w is."-Ifock
ester nhdon.
in a A Hackensaek man wais at midnight
the creeping softly along the bed room
I for fdoor on his hands and knees, and was
sur- feeling carefully under tho bureau for
nire, something he had hidden there the
evening before, but his wife awoke
How pnd said:
in itn "Peter, what under the heavens
are you doing there 1"
it to "Dear," said he, "I'm walking in
ig it my sleep, and dreaming lthat I am
,d: p)lacking some water-lilles from the
soft, blue bosom of the lake."
How to get that flask out of there
before she got up in the morning, was
!r. ei. what worried him more than the
"I water-lilies did.
ands A le
too A bill 1mfore the Legislature od Ala
bama appropiates ten thlousandl dol
om I lars for the payment of seventy-fve
rinds dollars each to soldiers who lost an
arm or leg itn the Confederate service.
Howr SHE *?.r~~*
It`wna while p~~gi
she .*a4 thets
embsdre at ie j 1eA s
which was te al a
Thii aforyk i1@4
given by Priuc et t
the English 1 ;.ito
Madaae Beonasparrk.: 1na .t ra :;
roo prious to the dinpervus' $odn
coav emed 0UOstOI
poison, whoom t a E! ' '
and Madame Bonapartea lin d .
the Enbastesador fbtd soutfrd ohper h4
satrcalsm. At nesr he, tljt t
get even with ais oppounent. .b " wli.i
the soup was over b asakol her if he `
had read Mrs. Trollope's bookion the
Americal Madanme Bonpa said the
Sshe had. Al
"Well, Madame," he asluk 4 e"did
ºyou nbtice that Mts. Trollope pro..
r nounces all Americans vulgariansi" t"
"Yea," replied Madame Bon'sparte, I*
"and I am not suirprised at that. Po
Were the Americans the desiendants
of the Indians or the Esquinoaux, I
Sshould be astonished; but being the
direct descendants of the English, it "q
Sis very natural that they wore vual- e
l garians." tal
The emnbassador said nothing more to
son the subject.-llalfore Gauette. &g
1fl4
e A WOMAN BUINED ALIVE AS A in,
WITI*. th
o (80 1'eltersburg Govrnmelnt Meenger.] Ce'
e Early last month a woman named WI
g Agradena Ignatieva was burned as aW
- witch by the peasants in the village in
of Wratehevo, In the government of
, Novgorod. It seems thatthe wretched 01
d woman, who was the widow of a aole W
is dier, had the reputation of being a t
is sorceress and witch, and strove to
'r promote this delusion by every nicans a
I. in her power. The peasants of the ar
If whole neighboring district had such a W
clI dread of her powers of mischief thatl
t. they endeavored el& to anticipate I
ig her wishes, and, although an absolute r
a pauper, she lived very comfortably A
n on the contributions spontaneously
'- made to her. There were many per
is ,sons in the district suffering from os
r, epilepsy, and It was popularly belev- di
u ed that the witch had thus punished d,
e tihem for of'eunding her in some way. p
' One of. these epileptic sufferers, a E
It girl fronm a distant village, besonght ]l
r, somen peasants to burn the witch, and t(
Irso reletse her from suffering. At an b
r, assemnbly of hIeudnien and seniors of Is
)lI the village, it was resolved to extin- a
t, guishi the source of mischief. They J
eC proceeded to her lut, which they fA
" found fastened up. They broke it k
it. open, discovered the wretched wo- tl
Il man, charged her with the crime, and b
or then nailed up the window and doora
d. to prevent her esc-ape. By this time
Its over three hundred men lied assem
id bled around the hlut, and amid their e
ve jeers and shouts of exultation it was a
set on fire, and the whole crowd 'l
11 remained until it was quite consumed, a
er The sum of twenty-one rubles and
Y* eligrty copecks (nearly $10.50) was
At collected and offered the rural pollce
ile mnan'¶s a brile to secure lis silence.
'o- But Ihe rejected it, and so this terrible
hie tragedy came to light.
ry
of A GREAT EVIL.
,, A "toy-pistol" that merchants have c
4 with criminal thoughtlessness been I
e- disposing of to young boys of the
si- town, was accidentally discharged
Led this morning in the hands of one Nel- i
ng lie Clark, and a colored lad named
rer Julins Gray was shot in tihe side with
if. the hulh, with which it was loaded. 4
the These pistols are loaded with regular
Cartridges to make them appear like r
nut "a real man's pistol," we presarcne. It
tas was so much like a man's pistol that1
mu the ball passed clear through the 1
I side, entering just above tihe groin on :
ate the' left side, and emerging in a
n straight line from behind. The affair
,lic occnrr~ed in a hovel opposite the mar
no- kethouse, and created considerable
Lud excitement, until It was defnitely
at, ascertained that tihe wound was not
uce dangerous. Parents had better take
iae an inventory of the articles in posses
an, sion of their young hopefuls. The
oh- foice with. yvich the ball from this
pistol was propelled, if directed to
wards a vital spot, would have caused
ghlt death. Such is the character of "play
om things" that are manufactured and
ras sold every day to children. The po
for lice report that numbers of boys in
the tihe city are provided lith these dan
rke gerons weaponts.-8 hrereport Stan-d
ard.
ens '
Pete, of Memphis, was a great ox
g in horter in camp-meeting, and always
am concluded his exhortation by saying
tire that whenever the Lord called for him
he was ready to go. So darkey Sam,
ree to prove Pete's sincerity, called one
th night and knocked at Pete's door.
"Who dat?" shouted Pete. "The
Lord," responded Sam. "What de
La- Lord wantl" asked Pete. "Come for
oPete," answered Sam. "Oh!" return
an ed Pete, "dat darkey moved from
cc. Memphis nigh on tree years ago!"
*1
Alpga~ aoe i ttiac
voo howning5
:rd
A wrTit in
j "Thle IIPotoS~dagAl l~lP~~tc ; inti
killed.1 4 _'
fery easy eaMtI in a loible. pootf e
take an~ eighlt Inch po,~t ,4Irkpqdh
b ottomi hole, sawd ~~~ its enah
tless 9sad to inl ( `thg trofo
poio pot to the.
then Pulace, 4h e
y easy matte 4 hIn m~
5 wtht ond, plece adpInt , t ntno
loaition, and fill wit;1 ater bg pour
SInng onto tihe gma;l tpo esl
A onter oitwlloout piy, b 6ii Pt
. warm, and plenty n wate r db pot u
the pot.
D "In the summer I place the pot on
ia fence, in the hottest place I can Audi
e and in in nter in a s1th window o( A
Swarm room. As Isoon as rooted, the
t slips must be transferred to good seoil.
I, have never found any trouble in
Srouting anything in s thi way."
A Ip.0 plOTIVE II QtUIsKSArND.
S The Leaventworthl (rKa.) Times
Ssays: lMention was made er the Times
- "during the summer of a scegthar eacct
d dent which occaured on the Kansas
' Pacifie road, at the bridge crossing
a Keows creek, thirty-two miles east of
at Denover, in which an enginre attached
d to a freight train went through tihe
n binge into the bed of the creek, in
) stntly dinsaplearing in the quickeand
T- andbaeling all attemnpts to recover it.
S1 For the pasit six months the Tearch
Y for the misAing oaomotive hIas been
it kept up, reocudting in tucesse ano or.
"i three days ago, when it was found
' the scene of the disabpearance of the a
fr begied a lydreele ram being fouicknd
Y tlost ad r aT sarc of si mon t teeh
rd This indtancey one of the mon t re
d. Isanrkb.le o ha record b
Id .
as OUTDONE BT A liY.
SA ladin Bston rathler small for his
Sfgeworks in an ofleeas yrranrd boy
for four gsetlnemaft who wered chafceoll
him a little daoul being so small, and
said to himl:
"Well," said ae,"ar small as I mnth I
re can do soanething wleh none of your
on Ifor mea on cdo."
he AAnd what is thatth said they i
ed aItdon't know us i oughst to tell
a- you," he repliedm
ed l lut thsya re anxioss to know,.
Ith and urge~d him to tell what he could
e can do that none of them were anle to do.
Ifr mI can keed from sweari"g," said
kl the little fellow.
It Thtey were some some olheknsown
mt four nmanly faces, and there seemed to
ho he very little anxiety for further infor
on mation on that point.
a *
air A very proper lady to her French
ar governte5: "I am shocked to find
ble that my daughter has been receiving
letters in French from a young min."
rot GovernOss: "Pardon, madame; it is
ike only my little ruse to cheat mam'sle
es- into study. When she would reply to
'he 6n unknown lover-a Frenclhman
ils mon Dieu, how quickly she will learn
t my language i"
ed A colored child had a fall from a
my- seeond story window the other day,
aid and his mother, relating the occur
po- rence at a grocery, said: "Dar dat
ain child was a coming down, feet that,
'n- wid every chance of befng killed,
' when de Lord he turned him over, de
. chile struck on his head, and 4ere
ox- wasn't so much as a button ftew of."
ays A Chicago po1fceman testified in
mug court as evidence that a prisoner vas
jim drunk when arrested, that he was try
""' ing to warm his feet at a grating in
mne the sidewalk, supposing that he was
sn lhading on a register.
['he
de The gvailable mineral wealth of
for Kentucky has been augmented by the
.n- discovery of a rich field of lead ore in
'om Bullitt county. The vein Is of exl- .
lent quality and eight feet thisk.