Painesville Journal, 1871-12-23

AGRICULTURE, which he pinned to my cap with his own hands; aud that is why I have remained a Washington Federalist to this day, and why I shall die one." Mr. Ingersoll followed with an incident not less inter interesting. - esting. interesting. Iu his thirtieth year he had seeu General Washington in Philadelphia. Playing around iiis residence in Market street, near Fifth, with some of the chil chil-dre - dre chil-dre connected with the Washington family, he was persuaded into the house and dined at the bible with the great man, his wife, Mrs. Martha Washington, and his military aids or secretaries. Mr. Ingersoll described Washington as state stately - ly stately and austere. Xo conversation took place during the meal. He filled his own glass of Maderia silently, passed the decanter to his lady, and then took wiue with tlie guests, tlie boys inclusive. It was a long and quiet repast, and the boys were glad when it was over. Washington rose, and passed to his front door, where thrco horses were in waiting iu the liands of the grooms : the General mounted one, the aids the others, and all three rode rapidly out Fifth street. There are not many living who could relate similar experiences. Mrs. Mary Ellct, whose memoir I had the honor of writing, and who lived to be almost ninety, dying iu the city of Philadelphia about two years ago, was full of these reminiscences. There are doubtless old families whose records anil rescllcctions abound in stories of the Revolutionary and ante-Revolutionary heroes and statesmen. As we approach the Cen Centennial - tennial Centennial Anniversary of American Inde Independence - pendence Independence these materials ought to be collected aud edited. Our historical so societies - cieties societies could in no better way honor the day and increase their usefulness than by publishing everything pertaining to the immortal characters who deliberated at Philadelphia during the early stages of the Revolution aud down to the period when the seat of the National Govern Government - ment Government was finally removed to the city of Washington, at the beginning of the century. There is hardly an old State, from Maine to South Carolina, that is net instinct with private and personal recol recollections - lections recollections of these men and their works. In the nearly five years between now and the 4th ol July, 187C, much could be gath gathered - ered gathered from these sources to add to the in interest - terest interest of that auspicious anniversary, and to perpetuate our gratitude for those who first destroyed the British j ower, and then laid the foundations of American liberty on this coutlnent. "COJHPITI.S'BV EDUCATION." C. J. ELLINGOOD. The most dangerous enemy of republi can institutions is ignorance. Even crime is a smaller peril. Educated criminals are comparatively rare, and their power for mischief would be slight but for their, influence over the uneduca ted. The great majority of educated men and woman are peaceable, orderly, well- behaved citizens; and the occasional liu liu-ioft's - ioft's liu-ioft's are only the exceptions making good tlie rule. But ignorance is of itself the precursor to crime, and almost tne necessitator of it, in a community where the average intelligence is high. All doors to wealth . and distinction being shut to the ignorant man, he is doomed by ins very ignorance to poverty, ana poverty, with its privations and heart- burnings and despairs, drives turn too often into crime. In fact, tho higher you raise the average of education in any community, tlie more dangerous and de moralizing vou thereby make tne innti ences of ignorance. Crimes, it is said, are rare among the uncivilized, careless, unitormly ignorant tribes of Africa; they htive multiplied with our so-called civilization because our civilization has only reached a part of eur people. Wherever you find high civilization and low barbarism co-existent in one place, as in Paris or New York, there you Mud a very hot-bed of crime. The ouly safety to any social system lies in mak ing the people homogeneous, undivided into classes ot wide extremes, ana un racked by social jealousies. The.-e is no future for a stratified civilization. If the great laws of solidarity is broken, Na ture revenges nerseit in social outbreaks aud upheavals. Hence the terrible peril to our republic, if we suner the gradual formation of a large minority within it who are sunk in poverty and ignorance. We shall doom our government to sure destruction, unless we can discover aud apply some means of making our people homogeneous- to a reasonable extout equalized on a high common level of in telligence and competence. Ol course there will be disparities; but there must be no despairs. What more irignuul warning could we have had of our growing danger, than the present condition of New York City? The ignorant classes have multi plied there so as to hold supreme political power. Knaves and rogues have fasten ed upon their natural prey; and the Tammany King is the result. 1 he same fate awaits every other city in America in which the same condition shall obtain A mob like that so fortunately put down in New York last July exists in embryo in every town of considerable size throughout the land. This fact, so full of menace to our institutions, is partly due to the great flood of immigration from the Old World, but also in part to our own deficient system ot education What right have we to allow a whole generation of "street Arabs" to grow up in our cities f rnese dovs anu gins are Americans horn and bred ; but instead ot growing up to be worthy American cit izens, they are ripening for the peniten tiary aud the gallows. Tlie roughs and rowdies of the metropolis have been the body-zuardof Tweed and Sweeny, Con nolly and Hall and their accomplices; but it is the vast mass of uneducated voters of the city, innocent of great crimes, that has given them their power. w ltnout the ignorance of the many, the crimes of the few could never have grown to such monstrous and horrible proportions. Let us recognize the fact that it Is gener al Ignorance, far more than occasional criminality, that is sapping tlie founda tions of our commonwealth. Kemove the ignorancc,and the crimes will be very easy to suppress. Now our system of free schools is the only weapon we have with winch to con quer this gigantic demou of ignorance, It is worth infinitely more than whole armies of policemen aud militia-men ; for. instead of shooting down rioters aud hunting down speculators, it prevents the development or their crimes by educa ting the masses into citizeus too orderly and intelligent to be made tools. Free and universal education will flank the mora evils that are now invading the republic as the Hordes of iiuiu and uoths am Vandals invaded the Roman Empire, Political power must, by natural jus justice - tice justice and the logic of American ideas, be tit ll used throughout tne whole people but the safeguard against the great perils or its abuse must be sought lu universal educatian. The whole people must be raised to such a level of intelligence that they shall useUielr power wisely. Suf frage must be Tinlversal; but education must at all costs be made ns universal as suffrage. Whatever stands in tlie way of universal education, whether private caprice and selfishness and stupidity or organized hostility from foreign excres excres-eucesou - eucesou excres-eucesou our civilization, must be tram trampled - pled trampled underfoot. If the Catholic Church, or the Protestant Church, or both com combined, - bined, combined, get In the way of tho free univer universal - sal universal education of the American people so much the worse for them. Such opposi opposition - tion opposition is the worst possible treason against the Great Republic; aud whether it at attempts - tempts attempts to justify itself by tlie authority of Church or Bible, whether it makes its assault iu the name of God or man, it must be put down as sternly as the Slaveholders' Bebelliou was put down. And it will be. Once convince the people that they must fairly choose between Christianity aud Freedom, lietwcou the Church and education, aud the issue is fore-ordaiuetl by the nature of things. The contest may belong aud sharp; but

Hook and Blank Work, Circulars, Letter Heads, Bill ileails. Cards awl every aescripnon of Jol Work, executed with dispatch aid in the neatest style of the art Having au entire new outfit of Types, Presses, anil Machinerv, together witn a lorceoi compe competent - tent competent and skilfiill workmen, we feel that our fa facilities - cilities facilities are second to those of no other eetaolish eetaolish-mcnt - mcnt eetaolish-mcnt in the pliwe. . "A ,ME5iSA ( tT ,IHOHO. , Both of as truiltv awl both of us sad . Ami this Is the end of passion: Anil iwople are silly people are mad WholollowtheliKhuolfH.liii.il; For she was a lielle, awl I was a bean, . ". And both of us Kiddy -headed A priest and a rite a frlitter and show, And that is Uie way wtf wedded. There were want wo never had known before, A nd mutters we could not smother; : ; . . And poverty came in at an oiien door, & .l Invn Mrnnt nut fit Knottier: For she luid been humored I had been spoiled, And neither was stumy-neaneii Both in the ditches and both of lit soiled, " And this is the way we parted, . ; ; ENDEAVOR ; ... A moaning cry, as the world rolls Iry, ' Throiiirh glooiaot' chiud aud glory of sky, - King in my ears forever; , And J know not what it protlts a man To plough aud sow, to study and plan. ' Ami reap the harvest never. -.:.. "Abide, in truth, abide," ' Sloke a low voice at my tide, " ""Abide thou, ami endeavor," . Aniievea though, after care and toil . r I should see my holies from a kindly soil, Thonirh late, yet blossom ever. Perchance the prize were not worth the pain l'en-hitncethis hettinKand wasting of brain, W ins its true guerdon never. , "Abide, in love abide," The tender voice replied, Abide i hou, and endeavor," , "Strive, endeavor; it profits inoru To Ugh. aud fail, than on Time's dull shore To sit an idler ever: For to him who bears his arm to the strife Firm to bis post iu the battle of life. The victory ialleth ntver. "TuereCore, in faith abide," ' ' The earnest voice still cried, " "Abide though, and endeavor." : THIIEE KISSES OF l'ABEWEU, Three, only three, my darling, Separate, solemn, slow; -,. , Not like the swift aud joyous ones We need to know When we kissed because we lovsdcach other Simplv to taste love's sweet, And lavished as the summer lavishes hieat, But as they kiss whose hearts are wrung, , W hen hoie and fear are spent, Anil nothiuff is left to give, except ' A sacrament! First of the three, my darling, Is sacred unto pain: - , We have hurt each other often; We shall again, When we piue because we miss each other, And do not understand How the written words are so much colder Than eye and haml. I kiss thee, dear, for all such pain Which we may give or take; Buried, forgiven before it comes , x If or ur love's sakot ' i J The second kiss-, my darling. Is lull of )oy' sweet thrill: - We have blessed each other always; We always will. We shall reach until we feel each other, Past all of time and space; . We shall listen until wo hear each other luevcry place; The earth is full of messengers, . Which love sends to and fro; I kiss thee, darling, for all joy - Which we shall know. " , 'r ' s ; , J Tne last kiss, on, my darling, My love 1 eiuinot seo Through my tears, as I remember , What it may be. i We iniiy die and never see each other, lie with no time to give , Anv signs that our hearts arc faithful ( To die as live. " Token of what they will not see . ; Who see our parting breath, This one last kiss, my darling, seals Tho seal of death ! . , . RIGHT BEFOJtG CHRIITIHAa. 'Tis Christinas eve 1 the tireless clock is tolling the hours awav. And ray household are all sleeping, dreaming of Clirlstmas aay. - My countless varying duties are finished one by one. Still, there's always something left my work is - nevcrdonc; -. -So I tit down by the cradle my little one to rock. Ami while 1 slug a lunaiiy, l unit tor mm a sock. I've filled some little stockings with candy and And hung thciriby the chimney-place to please I with toys. mv ilMrliliir They're sleeping sweetly in their cribs, I've ooyi luvneu liiu viuvnes iu tiut, I've heard thein say their evening prayer, and kisB'd them both good-uittht. I know that ere the daylight shall through the curtain peep, Their merry Christmas wishes will wake me . from my sleep. I've many, many thoughts to-night and they are sail to me: - . Two stockings hang this year where three were wont to he: . . ' The tears are falling thickly as I think me of the day "When I laid that little stocking forevermore - awav: , For the happy one that hung It there but one short year ago In yoiuier graveyard quietly slcepeth 'ncath .. the snow. How many little stocking?, that on last Christ Christmas - mas Christmas day Were tilled by darling littlo ones, have since been nut awav 1 How many smiling faces, that on our nursery door Came wishing "Merry Christmas," will come again no more I fThelr waxen hands are folded upon .each quiet breast. And the Hhepard God has gathored those littlo . .. luuiDS to rest. How many pleasant visions,and oh what sad ones too. With each succeeding Christmas-eye come viv- uuytovicw! I see again my childhood's home, and' every loved one's face: The stockings hanging, as of yore, around the chimney-place. From the wee red one of baby's to grandpa's sock of irrov. 1 Each in it's own accustom'd place, not even one ' ; away. Bus the pleasant vision passes, and one of dark darker - er darker shado -i Jteveals how many changes each, Christmas eve has made: For those who stockings hung thero so closely side by tide, , In happy days of childhood, are scattcr'd far aud wide ! . . A few still linger here to see this Christmas eve nassbv. - r . But many, many more to-night within the . . cuuron-yara ue. The bahy-s sock is ilnish'd 'tis sprinkled o'er . with teais: r Whore will his tiny footsteps wander in future years? Perhaps this innocent will live to see , as I have none, Tho Christmas eye of childhood steal onward one oy one; : Hat, whether a lite of sorrow, or whether a life ' of toy. ' I feel that I can trust with God my much-loved Theeloek kss struck the hour of twelve! I've put the sock away. And by the baby's cradle I bow kneel dowa to orav To ask that lovtng Ravkmr who on Christmas . morn was given -1 30 save our souls from sin and death, and Jit us alt for Heaven. That He would guide onr footsteps, and fill us with His love. - . , That, we may sing together a Christmas hymn Strange Cnristixias ' Game. BY MRS. J. H. K1PDEIX. IIETf, through the death of a dls- flM&e taut relative, 1, John Jester. succeeded to tho Martiusdale Estate, there could not have been found inthelengtn ana Dreaatn oi rngianu a liappier pair than myself and my only sister Clare. We were not snch utter hypocritles as to affect sorrow for the loss of our kins man. Paul Lester, a man we had never seen, of whom we had heard but little, and that little unfavourable, at whose hands we had never received a single neneilC WHO was, hi aiiorv, u stranger to us as the then -nme pun. ter, the Kmperor or Kussia, or any otner human being utterly removed from our extremely humble sphere of life. , His loss was very certainly our gain. Jlis 1103111 represented to us, not a dreary pa'tlngfrom one long loved and highly linmwcd. ' but the accession of lands, Jionseh'. consideration, wealth, to myself . -.wuoo fo,...: xr .i JOllll ijCetei, Jwiuiic iUaiuilgulUL, I?edfonhrtiJre: wilhom, Jack Lester, ar artist - tist artist and acoiid-floor lodger at 82, Great ttuiitu street, JJloomsbury.. St Wmt itthsrtlngtnue was uiucu oi an estate as county properties go. ine Lestec who had sut'ceeded to that Uo - main furuu tunefcotinus iiuringthe course or a few luin d red years, could by no stretch of iauj-tegv have been called pin iU.iit.mMi. In reirardif tlifiir oosterity they were, Indeed, sewcej hojiet, for tbev nnrtml with manors aud farms, with . common rights and advowsons, in a mail n . - , i . i 1 tier lit once so imrixiiuai uuu so iuiuum- Hess like, tli.it ilartingdalc at length in the liands of Jeremy Lester, tlie last res I. lent owuiw. melted to a mere little dot an the map of JJc'dlorusiure, Concerning uiis ocrvmy iiesier tncre

23, 1871. the result is sure. This continent is sa sacred - cred sacred toLiberty.to Knowledge, to Virtue; and they will triumph over all their loes. It is no novelty to advocate "eouieul- sorv education." Prussia has long prac practiced - ticed practiced it witli what results can be learn learned - ed learned from Sadowa and Sedan. New Hamp Hampshire - shire Hampshire has passed a "compulsory educa tion" law wincn requires that eyery pa pa-reut - reut pa-reut or guardian shall send his child to school twelve weeks in the year, six of which must be continuous, under a pen penalty - alty penalty of a flue of $10 to $20. Michigan al also - so also has passed a somewhat similar law. How many other States may have adop ted the same policy, I do not know. But that a strong sentiment is growing up iu this country, as well as in Europe, since the marvellous triumphs of Germany, In favor of a "compulsory education," is very plain. It is the most hopeful rign iu American politics, for it shows that the Quick intelligence of the American people leaps to the ouly sound solution of the problem of ignorant misrule. The objection Jto "compulsory educatiou" in tne minds or many liberals grows out of a theory of government which limits all governmeutal powers to the direct pro protection - tection protection of life aud property. But the same foresight which prompts a govern ment to prevent tne outbreak or a threat ened riot, instead of waiting to quell it afterwards, should prompt it to forestall Ignorance, the cause or all riots. Pre Prevention - vention Prevention is the best sort of protection. Here in the United States, according to the last census,are Jive millions of child children - ren children of school age, who never attend school! is there no danger revealed iu this ractr What are we about, to leave such a mon strous peril unprovided against? If the nation has itself a right to "life," it must have the right to save its life by timely precautions agaiust this multiplying and magnifying ignorance. in snort, it ouly needs to be made ap parent that no State can permanently livo which permits any large proportion of its people to grow up in ignorance, in order to convince us that the right to ed ucate its citizens is part ot the state's right to protect itself from subversion. there can be no free State without uni versal suffrage, without universal educa education. - tion. education. That is the whole argument I would urge, put into a nut-shell. But the phrase "compulsory" educa tion is very unfortunate. It misleads. It puts the whole subject in a wrong light. The correction of the error out of which this phrase sprang will do much to remove the popular repugnance to the securing of really universal educa tion. No less has the State a right to secure educated citizens, since ignorance on part of the citizens is death to the State. If the State has a right to exist, it has a right to make sure the conditions of exist ence. 1 will not dwell further on this point, having already said enough ; but uo right views on this subject can be tak taken - en taken which do not contemplate it from the children, on the one hand, aud ot the State, on the other. The right of every ehild to be educated, and the right of the State to secure the education ot all Its citi zens, these are the two pillars on which rests the whole theory of universal or compulsory" education. In one sense, all education is compulsory, since nochild win work or study if he can play instead ; and whoever sends his child to school at all enforces "compulsory education" iu this connection ; for 1 scout the idea that it is "compulsory" to guarantee to child ren their native right to be educated. I would "compel" the parents to respect this right ouly as I compel a thief to re restore - store restore tlie nronertv he has stolen. One point, however, ot great import ance remains to be touched upon ; and 1 have never yet seen it mentioned. It is this. While the theory I advocate would oblige the State to furnish free of all cost to the parent, opportunities tor the best possible education for the child, aud thus make it impossible lor any one to plead poverty as an excuse for keeping his child from school, I should not approve a requi sition that all the children should be obliged to attend the public schools. Make if you can, the public schools so good that the parents shall use them by preterence, liut it is the parent's prerogative to choose the mode aud meams or educating his child. If he prefers to educate him in a private school, or at home, the State has uo right to compel turn to adopt a differ ent method. All the Stale has a right to require is theact of education. Provid ed tlie parent does not deprive the child of education itself, be has a right to lollow his own judgment In determining the manner of it. I think that a clear under understanding - standing understanding on this point would obviate many objections to enlorced universal ed ucation. THE niSEBEBB AT ROJIE. BY 3. T. HE.VDLEY. The night on which our Saviour is supposed to tiave died is selected for this service. The Sistine Chapel is dimly lighted, to correspond with the gloom ot the scene shadowed forth. The cere monies commenced with tlie-chanting of the Lamentations. Thirteen caadles, in the form of an erect triauglc, were ligh- . i ... . i i i . Jr.. eu up in tne uckiuiiiii, reprcseuLiux the different moral lights of the ancient church of Israel. One after another was extinguished as the chant proceeded. until the last and brighest one at the top, representing Christ, was put out. As they one by one slowly disappeared in the deepening gloom, a blacker night seemed gathering oyer the nopes anu fate of man, and the lamentation grew wilder and deeper. But as the Prophet ot prophets, tlie Might, the Hope or the world, disappeared, the lament sud denly eeased. Not a sound was heard amid the deepening gloom. . The catas trophe was too awful; the shock too great to admit or speech, tie who had been pouring his sorrowful notes over the de parture or the good and great sceineit struck suddenly dnmb at the great woe Stunned and stupified, he could not con template the great disaster. 1 never felt a heavier pressure on my heart than at this moment. The chapel was packed in every inch of it, even out of the door rar back into the ample hall, and yet not a sound was heard. I could hear the breathing of the mighty multitude, and ainld it tlie suppressed, hair-drawn sigh Like the chanter, each man seemed to say, "Christ is gone, we are orphans- all orphans!" Tlielsilence at length be came too painful. . I thought that should shriek ut in agony, when sud denly a low wail, so desolate yet so sweet so despairing and yet so tender, like the last strain 1 a broken heart, stolo slowly out from the distant darkness and swell ed over the throng, that the tears rushed unbiddeninto my eyes, and 1 could have wept like a child in sympathy. It then died away as if the grief was too great for the straia. Fainter aud fainter, like the dying tone of a lute, it sank away as if tlie last sigh of sorrow was ended, when suddenly there burst through the arches a cry so piercing and shrill that It seem ed not the voice of song, but the lang uage of a wounded and dying heart in its last agonizing throb. The multitude swaved to it like tlie forest to the blast Again it ceased, and brokeu sobs of ex liausted grler alone were heard. In a mo moment - ment moment the whole choir joined their lament and seemed to ween witn tho weeper After a few notes they paused again, and that sweet, melancholy voice mourned on alone, its note is still In my ear. wanted to roe the singer. It seemed as if such sounds could come from nothing but a broken heart. Oh ! how unlike tlie joyful, the triumphant anthem that swept through the same chapel on the morning that symbolized tho (resurrec tion. Rkv. All xakpkr Ei.ms (colored), of Kostoti, lias recovered fttHt damages from the Narmgansett Steamship Company for refusing him a seat at the dinner-table ot the, steamship Providence.

llusiness notices in local columns will betihai'ir- ci lor at the rate of 15 cents per line for Hrst uscrttou ana eiurnt cents tier line lor cacit siui- semient insertion lliisiness earns $1.3j per line per annum. Yc:u'lv advertisers rliscontinuinir their adver- - tfcements liefore the expiration of thcircontraets will lie charged accortlinir to the above rates. Transient advertisements must invariably ho oaiil for in ailvance. Kedilar advertisements to be paid at the expiration ofeiu'h quarter. MKLANGE, The poor man's story The garret. Twins, like misfortunes, never come singly. In season (and in seasoning) Pickled oysters. A noisy piece of creckery The cup that cheers. The last glass before going to bod Tlie looking glass. Things that know no autumn prices (there's no fall in 'em.) Nonnfortnnate trader looks so down in the mouth as a dentist. Shoolboys hear witli pleasure of the de cline iu the whaling business. Tlie reason why they beat the drum is because it called the harp a lyre. How the worst of men can make home happy by keeping away from it. You may find fashion in town, but you meet witli more stiles in the country. That Jamaica child-cater clearly hai a large maw-gage on the human family . Whv is the crow a brave bird ? Be- cause he never shows the white leather. An appropriate hotel for old maids to stop at The Mansion (man-shun) house. TKa eflimnf n Yknn dOt'i-lna ivnvti.f'nii with it. it makes a man a bee-leaver at once. A shiftless Washington inebriate was robbed of his coat, vest, hat, boots and shirt. When you hear a man say, "Life is but a dream," tread on his corns. Life is real. A barn-door fowl and a lawyer who talks for pay pick up their living with their bills. . Why are the letters "oz" like an ad vertisement? Because they are for an nouncement. The Chicago Post asks : "Can you read your title clear to mansions in the burned district?" In too many lamentable instances, the "last scene of this strange eventful his tory" is kerosene. Right Dobbs thinks that, instead of giving credit to whom credit is due, me cash had better be paid. "Best" time on record a mile a min ute on tlie Erie, with reliet stores for the sufferers at Chicago. A new book, just published, asks: "Was she engaged?" We'll engage it was not her fault if she wasn't. They talk of renewing the use of the birch, yet all tlie paers mourn over the 'decline ol tlie wiiaung businss." How to make a dull fellow lively Marry him to a girl named Annie, when, of course, lie becomes Aunie-inatcd. "What substitute can there be for tlie endearments of one's sister?" exclaimed Marv. "The endearments of some other fellow's sister," replied John. A young lady writes to a friend : "Miss Smith is staying with us. We went out sailing yesterday. 1 didn't know there was so much in her." A new punch for use by st ree.t car conductors has been invented. Some cue should get up a punch that the pas sengers can occasionally use on some oi the conductors. "How did you learu that graceful atti tude?" said a gentleman to ofellow leaunig in a maudlin lashion against a post. "I have been practicing at Uie glass," was tlie reply. There are three things which can in no wise be used for geo 1 malice, envy and folly; and thereare three things that can by no means be employed for evil hu humility, - mility, humility, content nent, and liberality. A street car company in New York lately paid a man $12,003 for running over his foot. Twelve thousand dollars per foot would make a whole man worth a good deal. Let Long John consider. It is observable tlie number of red red-haired - haired red-haired persons of both sexes is greatly on the increase. Some physiologists attri attribute - bute attribute this to tlie free use of ginger ale a beverage of somewhat recent introduc introduction - tion introduction here. A Western journal says: Mrs. Ben Bennett, - nett, Bennett, oi Helena, Ark., was wooed by Mr. Fiske, but she threw Fiskc to the dogs. So he inoculated her sou with buckshot, and straightened his own spine witli strychnine, aud she is now without en encumbrance. - cumbrance. encumbrance. A man aud his wife out West recently hanged themselves (or hanged each oili oilier; - er; oilier; nobody knows which) iu a sociable way on opposite bedposts. It is suppos supposed - ed supposed that they had so many breaches le le-tween - tween le-tween them that they couldn't keep up without a pair of suspenders. Points of difference. 1. Between par parsons - sons parsons and poultry Tlie ene is clerical, the others lay. 2. Between a very old hat and Chiselhurst One has the nap whol wholly - ly wholly off, the other the Nap wholly on (Napoleon). 3. Between the same" hat and a gnat in a spider's web The one is, a napless hat, and the other a hapless gnat. A short time after the war a man nam named - ed named Wm. Dozier shot and killed a police police-inau - inau police-inau named Nat hen Haines, on tlie corn corner - er corner of Guy aud Main streets, Kuoxville. About three years afterward Dozicr was shot aud killed on almost the same sjMtt, by John M. Anderson, and on Thursday last Anderson was shot at Sweetwater by au officer of the law. Covington has a colored debating so society. - ciety. society. The other night an argumeiilive citizen, named Henry Graves, rose to a point of order. Jake Brooks, another colored brother, ruled him out. Graves wouldn't be ruled out, and he rose to another point of order with his knife open, slitting Jakey from chin to waist waistband. - band. waistband. The chairman decided the ques question - tion question in the affirmative, and disappeared through a window-sash. A learned clergyman was accosted in the following maimer by an illiterate preaehcr who despised education : "Sir, you have been to college, 1 supjiosp?" "Yes, sir," was the reply. "1 am thank thankful," - ful," thankful," rejoined the former, "that the Lord opened my mouth without any learning." "A similar event," retorted the clergyman, "took place iu Balaam's time; but such things nre of rare occur occurrence - rence occurrence at tlie present day." A gentleman traveling iu Tennessee, just after tlie close of the war, overheard tlie following conversation Iietween two women of that country, who had been in town and were returning home on l lie cars: No. 1 "What has you got in that paper?" No. 2 "Soda." No. l's(l. da! what's soda?" No. 2 "Why, don't you know w hat soda is? that ere stuff what you puts in hlskits that makes 'em git up and hump themselves." Professor Huxley, the most brilliant of modern scientific writers, has found at last use for Spiritualism. Ho says, hi a letter declining toco-operate with a committee to investigate, the so-called science: "The only good 1 can see in a demonstration of the truth of 'Spiritual 'Spiritualism - ism 'Spiritualism is to furnish au additional argument against suicide. Bolter live a crossini: crossini:-sweejier - sweejier crossini:-sweejier than die and lie made to t.ilks twaddle by a 'medium' hired at a guinea a seance!" A California "bach." has this to sav about babies: "A baby is not betiutifui. It isblghcaded, malformed of limb, mis misshapen - shapen misshapen of head, bloated and puffy ns to countenance, and conijiai-ativtiy hairless as to scalp. A baby is not good. It is selfish, wantonly "cruel, thoughtless, greedy mid ungrateful. It Is Immodest, moreover, and Fs always executing sonic shocking atrocity. A lmbv is not ja-r-tonally cleanlv; it revels in dirt, and takes a sharp delight iu being grimv mid smutted of cherk, sticky ot" palm, soiled in its raiment and generally ill-siiielling. 1 write these several iiidiclnienis more iu sorrow than in anger, aud confident iu the justice and truth of them, 1 invite discussion. Sir, vou know the facts are as above stated. Madam you know it,"

accidentally, but discovering we were near neighbours in Hngland nr fact that Mr. Cronson's proiierty lav cls beside Martingdale tlie slight, aequaiii- tance soon ripened Into intiinacv, and ere long-wej wrre frayliQf: l cqippsny. r rom the urst. nareuiu not inucii liKe this arrangement. Tliei-e ; uii f'a little she wanted' the to girl" iu England marry, and Jlr. Cronson lutu a uaugnier whocertainlv was both handsome and attractive. The little girl had not des des-pisei - pisei des-pisei John Lester, artist, wliile 3Iis Cronson indisputably set her cap at John Leste r of tlarungaai anu woumi ' h'e turned" away her pretty face from a poor nan's admiring gaze all this I can see nlainlv enough now. but I was blind then a"nd should have proposed for Mari- belthat . was .her . name belore the winter was over, had news not suddenly arrived of the illness'- oC Mrs. Cronson, senior. In a ;nKnlen the programme was changed ; our pleasant days of for eign travel were at an end. The Cron- sons packed up and departed, while Clare and I returned more slowly to. EogUiuli Utths ouG of humour, jt Iwo be confessed, with each other. It was Uie midille 01 JNovciurjer wnen we arrived at Martingdale, anil found the place anything but romantic or pleasant .Tiia WHtlk ;9i(l; sptl- den.the trees were lealless, there were no Ho .vers save a few Jate pink roses, blooming iu the garden. It had been a wet season, and the place looked niiscMblei Ckirawodbl not aslc Alice down to keep her company in tlia winter, mouthy, asliiaaiiieiiitedyanu for mvJeif, theHh-biisOns tx-re stBr at- sent in Norfolk, where I hey meant to spend Christmas with old Jlrs. Cronson, now recovered. ! Altogether,Martingdale seemed dreary enough, and" the ghost' stories we-' had lauglietl at wniie sunsuine "nooueu tne rooms, became less unreal,' when we had nothing but blazing nres aud wax cam dies to dispel tlie gloom. They became more reid also when servant after ser servant - vant servant left us to seek situations elsewhere : when "noises" grew frequent' in the house; when we ourselves, Clare and 1, with our own ears heard the trani'p, tramp, the banging and the clattering which had been described to us. My dear reader, you doubtless are ut terly free from superstitious fancies. You pooh - pooh the existence of ghosts, and "only wish you could find a haunted house in which to spend a night," which is all very brave aud praiseworthy, but wait till you arc leu in a dreary, tlesolatc old country mansion, tilled with the most unaccountable sounds, without a servant, with no one save an old care taker and his wife, who, living in the extremes? end ' of the building, heard nothing of tlie tramp, tramp, bang, bang going on at all hours of tlie night At first I Imagined the - noises were produced by some evil-disposed persons, wlio wished, for, purposes of their own, V. Il'Vl' "l.. 1......,. - . ' - . " ' ' antable. Still being practical people, and unlike our - oreuece&sors, not Having money to live where and how we liked, we decided to watch and see whether we ooidd tran'e any, human , iulluence in ilhe matter. If notl it w;is agreed that Jwe were to Dull down the riifht wins of the house and the u'rfhcipaV staircase". i or nights and iiiglits we sat up till two or three o'clock In the morning Clare engaged in needlework, I reading, wnu a fuyoivcj lying on me uiuiu uesiue me; but nothing, neither sound uor ap- ,lpearauce rewartieu our yigu. j . ..ThtseouhKined my hrst idea that th sounds were not supernatural ; bift just to test the matter! T determined eu Christinas-eve, the anniversaryxof -Mr, Jeremy' IjCster's disappeariMifcvv -keep watch by myself in the red bed-ehambe'r! Ji.ven to i;r a never ineuuuuuu luyi m tention.-. - ( ,,. , ...! t i About ten, tired out with our urpyioiis opened it naii-au-nour aiierwaras? no mouse could have pursued its way aiong tlie coiridor with greater silence and caution than myself. - . i nrt. .. iniite in the dark 1 sat in the retirooui. For over an hour I might as . well have been in1 my grave for anything 1 could see in the apartment; but at the end of that time the moon rose And east strange lights access the floor aud, uiiouXhc .watt of the hautitd chauibcr, .. . , .... ! . Hitherto I had kept.uiy watch opposite the window, now I changed my. place to la comer near tliOj door, whQie, I 4w as siiaueu. iruni pbservatiou oy tne iieai leavv hangings, of ,. the betTf and ati antique wardrobe, ., ,. , .. ' ' ,' " Still. I sat on. but still uo sound broke the silence. , I. , .was weary" with many, nights.', watching j and ti red of my sol it ary vigil, I dropped at litst into a slumber lioni wliicti l was awakeneu Dy Hearing the door softly opened. " 1 '' j John, said my sister, almost in a wkisiierW t-'Jokur.iiie.yop jie,re?" les, Clare,', l answered : Dut what are you doing up at tins hour ?" ' "Come downstairs," sue renlieu "Wicw are in the oak parlour. 1 did not need any explanation as to whom she meant, , but crept downstairs after her,, warned by an uplifted hand of the necessity for siRnce and caution. ; 1 ,,. By the door by the open door of the oat parious, . sue pauseu anu we notii I looked lu. .... There was the room we left in darkness overnight, with a bright wood fire blaz- 1 :. . - ' i I. T. K ...... 1 .V. . . I. .. ,. tug utl Liic nctiifaii, r.vn,ac9 irn uie; uiniii- ney-pieee, the small table pullett out from its accustomed corner, and two men seated beside it, playing at cribbage. We could see the tace ol the younger player y it was that of mau of about hve-anu-twenty, ot a man wno nail liveu hsreTahd wickedly;' Wholmd wasted; his substance and his health: who had been wliile in the flesh Jeremy Lester, j It would bo ilitlieult tor me . to say , iiow 1 knew this, how in a moment lideuttlied the features of the iilHyer. with those of the man who had been missing for forty- onyear--foryieiie ye:vr tthat very night. He was dressed in the, costume of a by-gone period ; his hair was powdered, and round his wrists there were rurlles of lace. it He looked like one who, haying come irom some great party, nau sat uown after his return home to' play at " cards with an intimate mencr. ' on his little finger .there sparkled a Ting, in the front of his shirt there gleamed a valuable diamond. There were diamond buckles iu his shoes, and .according to the fash ion ot ins time,iie wore knee-breeencs and silk stockings, which showed off advan tageously tne shape or a remarkably good :; He sat opposite to the door but never i:r.,i 1. 1., t.'n ii ' ' ' tti seemeu concentrated on the cards. ! or a time there was utter silence in the nmm. hi-nlcn n,W hv t. n,nmo,ita countimr of the 2 m . ' " " V" , ? " i - -- am vj,h i ,mt , oiinju uuiuillUi Ull breath, terrified and yet fasciuated.by the i scene wmctt was being acted .betorci us. ITie asiies dropiied on the hettrth softly and like the snow; we could bene the rustle of tin; cards, as, they were dealt out anu leu upon tne taDle; we listened to the count flfteenone,; fifteen-two J and so forth,- but there was no other word spoken till at length- the player, whose lace we comu not see, exclaimed, "1 win the game is miuej' . c , Then ins opponent took up the cards sortetl them over negligently fii his hands put them close together, and Hung the whole pack.. in his guest s face, exelaini ing, "Cheat; liar; take that," There was a bustle and confusion a flinging over of chalw, and tierce gestic ulatiou, and such a noise ot passionate 1 voices mingling, that we could hot hear I . . . I . : 7T i ..i.v. I :, i 1 i is nuutuiivv w men wtis iillciuii. I . . AU at once, however, Jeremy ' Lester strode out of the room in so great a hurry thut lie- almost touched ns" where we stood;, out of the room and trauipj' taamp up tne staircase to the red room, M nencc ln.i t . .1 I

I A a yA ginring of her education ; at least, that le should be willing to dispense with being an individual, and with counting or something in her own eyes. The circumstances of my early youth had gre itly disposed me to relish this nd of teaching; the matrimouirl per- ecutions. which on the part of my grandfather hail been like a knife thrust to my heart; the sorrow of having af flicted M. de Montroger, towards whom was so grateful; this mixture ot re- olt and fear, of repentance and pride, wounded tenderness and of insur mountable dread, had made of me a ner nervous - vous nervous and gloomy being, whose thoughts often took refuge in an apeal to suicide. lie day on which the admiral, deprived of his memory and his reason, testified aversion from me, 1 ran to the curt, aud. except for Bel lac, who had guessed my purpose au d followed uie, l wonts; nave thrown myself into the sea. That day the worthy man assumed over me the uties ot a lather, aud he 1 ul til led them henceforth according to the light ot his conscience. He was not deceived by it lerhaps, for . he procured for me calm, health, aud equanimity. He made uie, assure vou, an eutirely new brain, proof against all thefpetty miseries of life, against injustice from one side aud in fatuation on the other, tie taught me to alue myself at my worth, neither more nor less, and, when the need of seden sedentary - tary sedentary studies made itself felt, he brought me back, at peace and reconciled with the past, to his parental mansion where had only just escaped the loss oi my reason and my life. "J- rom that time, my life has ocen stiD- jeet to a thirst for learning, and that is passion which vou do not know so wen as I even you who, in many respects, are probably better educated than my myself. - self. myself. I must explain myself you will understand. ; "A studeous young man, in a free and suitable easy position, lias no other busi ness than to learn, it he lias truly a great ardor joined to a real capacity, he satisfies his thirst, and everything en- ourages him in so doing. It Is not so with a woman, to whom prejudice ac cords no right to be absorbed in study, ami lor whom, moreover, tne conuition of society, and the wish of natuie also, doubtless, creates duties and constraints from the time of her youth. It is in vain that she refraius from marriage and dis dispenses - penses dispenses with the creation of a family. All a family for ner, notwitnstanaing. Woinan is born to be a mother. An in stinct, which is for her a conscience at the same time, enjoins upon her the adop tion, that is to say, a heart-teit solicitude for ignorance or weakness. I do not now if the world and pleasure destroys this sacred instinct; but the search for truth in tlie high regions of thought is a sound and normal thing which elevates the senses of humanity without making it unnatural.. Aly hrst discovery on re turning to my country and my home was, then, the thought of tlie uian3' duties that my wealth and my trecdom created for me. I had not the excuse of being preoccupied by my own family. The morel belonged to myseii, tne more was it enjoined me to extend the field of my cares. , My grandiatner, during ms twelve years of good health passed in re tirement, had done much good. Mis goodness was admirable, and his noble nstincts served him for a sufficient light. He had formed a little colony at La Cau- ielle, recruited from among chosen men who had been mutilated in war anil nau returned to their firesides. ' In the leis- n-e of his old age he had still labored to elevate their intellectual level, and had succeeded; but since his sickness and during my absence many of the old men, his contemporaries, had died, and the succeeding generation was tending to decline.' It wits time to attend to it. The children and the grand-children whom my grandfather had beuefited had became mine. I felt it, and, knowing well that it was a necessity to deal with these people through the persuasion of friendship, 1 resumed the custom under pretext of making an excursion or taking a stroll, of passing til most every day several hours iu their homes, that is to say, on the sea and with them in their houses. They had not forgotten me, out they believed that 1 hid goue away tor ever.' i When, on the contrary, tney saw that I had returned for good, they gave themselves up to ine as they had given themselves up to the admiral, and De- came to me, not only a society and a babit, . but a centre and a family to whom I have never once hesi tated to sacrifice my taste tor Dooks anu solitude. ,. "This maritime hamlet of La Cauiclle is, beside, not the only .. corner of the earth that claimed my attention. I had some large farms which I have cultiva ted by real "peasants, and on which I suppressed tlie employment of the poor by the rich, L have under me, beside, good number of isolated families in tlie neighboring valleys those delicious oases half hidden in the declivities of our great plateaus, nests of verdure, of shade and freshness, and rcceptables of misery and of superstition ; for it is there that the native lives the small proprietor, al most as poor ami ananuoneu as tne uav laborer. 1 nave busied mvsclt niucli witli these people ; I have rendered them wiser and happier. "Last, I had a little circle of the friends of my grandfather in the nobility and middle classes ot the country, l did not wish to break with these families. whom tlie admiral had loved and cared for. I devoted certain days and certain hours to them. It was with them, I ad mit, that I have lost almost all my time, ami that I have exercised the least in fluence. This provincial society, since its servility copies the airs of Paris, has its mind aud heart shut against the ideal and to wish to lead it back to it would be useless, since one would appear ridicu lous in attempting it. , (TO BE CONTINUED.) : " ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC J1EX. BY COL. J. W. FORNEY, NO. XLVII. More than twenty years ago I made the acquaintance of llavid Hoffman, of Baltimore, the eminent lawyer and legal writer, who died of apoplexy shortly alter in the city or isew York, seventy years old. 1 was Introduced to him at the dinncr-taoieot t harles Jaretl ltiger- soil, tnen living In Walnut street, near Filth, in the city of Philadelphia, an cqtiallvlinterestiug character, ot more experience, if not profounder learning. who was born in 1782, and died on the 14th of May, 1802. at the great age of eighty. Marked deeply iu my memory of that afternoon were two anecdotes of General Washington, whom these inter esting veterans had known in thel youth. Mr. Hoffman, while playfully reminding his contemporary and iriend of his ancient Federalism Mr. Ingersoll was one of the ablest of the Democratic leaders at the time, took special pains to illustrate his own consistent attachment to what he was pleased to call the doc trinesaud teachings of Washington, by relating how, as a lad of twelve, he hail met the Father of his Country at Bcltz- Iiocver 8 Hotel, in Jjglit street Haiti more. , An immense crowd had asscm bled to greet the patriot. Hoffman, witli two other boys, lingered alter the con ceursc had dispersed, for au opportunity to see aim converse with the honored guest. Washington had retired to his chamber, but answered the knock of the hoys by opening his door and inviting them iu. In those days tho French re publicans had a large class of imitator and followers iu the United States, and Hoffman's two companions wore what was known as the Jellcrson or French cockade in their caps. After Washington had asked their names lie turned to Hoff man mid said. "I see that you have no cockade; will you allow mo to make one for you?" And calling a servant, he directed him to purchase a piece of black ribbon, and "with this." said Mr. Holl- man, "he cut out for me a black cockade.

uoiiile of raptors under liis arm. t hen he re-eutereii tlie room he gave. as it seemed to us, the other man hU choice of the weapons, and then he tlung open the window, arid after ceremon iously giving place lor ins opponent to pass out first, he walked forth into the night air, Clare and 1 following. Ue went through the garden and down a narrow winding walk to a smooth piece m tnri sheltered irom the north bv a plantation of young fir-trees. It was a bright moonliglit nignt by tins tune, and we could distinctly see Jeremy Les ter measuring oft the ground. - " hen you say 'three,' " he ' said at last to the man whose back was still to wards us. They had drawn lots for the ground, and the lot had fallen against Mr. Lester. He stood thus witli the moon moonbeams - beams moonbeams faUlngfulliipon.hinfeana hand somer fellow I would desire to behold. i"One." began tlie other; "two." and before oim khhriiuti hadtliAklfgatestiiisi hadtliAklfgatestiiisi-picion - picion hadtliAklfgatestiiisi-picion of his design, he was upon him, and his rapier through Jeremy Lester's breast. At the sight ot that cowardly treachery, Clare screamed aloud. In a moment the Combatants hnd disappeared, the moon was obscured behind a cloud, and we were standing iu the shadow of the hr-plaiitation, shivering with cold anil toot,,,,,. ,h nut we knew at last wnat nau Deconie of the late owner of Martindale, that he had fallen, not In fair fight, ,but foully murdered bv a false friend. When late on Christmas morning I avoke, it was' to sefe 'a' white world; to behold the grouud. and trees, aud shrubs all -laden .audi covered with , snow. There was snow every where, such snow as no person could remember have fallen for fory-one years,' ' ' -i .' ' "It was on just such a Christinas as this that Mr Jeremy, disappeared," re marked the old sexton to my sister who had insisted on dragging inc through the snow to church, Vher.eupon Clare faint ed away and was.carried into the vestry, where 1 inaue a lull confession to the V i- car of all we had ' beheld the previous night. ; At first that worthy individual rather inclined to 'ti'eat tlie matter lightly, but when, a fortnight after, tlie snow melted away and the fir-plantatiou came to be examined, he confessed there 'might be more things in heaven aud earth than his limited philosophy had dreamed of . Iu a little clear space just within the plantation. Jeremy Lester's body was toiuid. rWe knew-it by the ring ai)d dia dia-frioifif - frioifif dia-frioifif Dnefties.'and-tlre sparkling' breast-piii,;ji)id-Mr,.CrousoB, who iq hits capac capacity - ity capacity as magistrate' cairie 'river t&' inspect these relics, was visibly perturbed at my narrative.- ' "JPray, !Mr,,' Lester," did you in your dream see tlie lace of of the gentleman . your kinsman's opponent?" "Xo," I answered, "he sat and stood with his back to us all the time." jV'A'ei"4 is nothing more, of course, to be done iii the matter," observed Mr. Cronson. ""qtliing," I replied ; and there the afliiw woukl fleubtless have terminated, but that a few days afterwarils who-i we were diuiug at Cronson Park, Clare all of ;t.sikhm llroppedtife' la.- if water she was carrying to her lips, and ex exclaiming, - claiming, exclaiming, "LookJohn,thereheis!" rose fioin '.her . seat, ; and with a face as white as tlie table-cloth, pointed to a por portrait - trait portrait hanging on the walk- ., '. ,"I 'saw, him for an instant when he turned his head , towards the door as Jeremy Lester left it,' she , explained ; "that is he." 5 " ' " " i Of what followed after this identifica identification - tion identification I have only the vaguest recollection, tiervants Ffishetlhither arnfthither ; Mrs. Cronson dronried ollMier chair into hys terics; tlie young ladies gathered around their mamma; Mr, Cronson,- trembling like one in an ague ht,, attempted some kind of an explanation, while Clare kept pwiying to, be taken awsyJ-ouly to be taken away., . i took ner away,not merely irom ron- son Kirk bnt irom Martmuale. IJetore we left the latter iilace," Irowever, I had an interview with Mr, Cronson,' who said the portrait Clare had identified Was thirt ot his wile's father; the last person who saw Jeremy Lester alive. 'lie is an old man now, lunsiiedMr, Cronson, "a man of over eighty, who has confessed everythlirg td rrie.' 'You won't bring further sorrow aud disgrace upon ns by making this matter, public r ,., 1 promised him I would keep silence, but the story, gradually oozed out,. "aud the Crousons left the country. Mv sister never returned to Marting dale ; she married ami is living in Ixni- doiiv ''I hough 1 assure her there arc no st ra litre noises now in my house, she will not visit Uedlordsh.re, where the "little girl" she wanted me so long ago ; to 'think of ' seriously,',', is'iiow my wife anu tne motuer oi uiy cuiiuren. CEIjIE. !, i: . i BY.-GEOKG E SAXD. COXTIXI'KD. E does not suspect that he af tauistto Doetrv: but he wields 'with easC a Vou yourself may nave sometimes noticed, that l oriinrft et h i-muii a,iv,jti. u-liii.i la crk cleat arid sti'diM, sfc coifipreliehsive and so natural to them that they can unite precision with enthusiasm. My soul be came more efevatcd every day, and was ireed irom its cinldisli preoccupations, At the end of a year I . was conscious of an extroardinary iransfomation in my life. 1 no longer iclt, it 1 may so speak the.burilen ot iny personality, and 1 was no longer the vhtve'of my sex. Iso one could say to me any more, Rememlier that vou arc a woman, and your busi ncss is to lielong to some one. Think, seek, find; provide yon know how to make .vchoiee- which shall be asrreeable and fitting to your circumstances. Ab stain from having an . ideal, or a taste merely, or a preterence. woman nothing, a prudent young girl has no preconceived ideas. She holds herself iu readiness-to submit totwhatevcr degree ot capacity is in ner future master, and meantime she preserves herself iu a state of nnllity. ' Her soul is a light sandjover which she will do well to pass the rake every morning, in order that her husband may find not the least trace of anything upon it, and be' able to write thereon whatever pleases him, provided always ttiat lie knows how to write anything "That is what,' when the ifaculties of my beloved grandfather had begun to 'fair, tlre'whin Vvho'- w-ereamitted to our household, Mine, de Montroger aoovc all, whom 1 tad brought to visi us again, keep repeating to me in all kinds of ways and tones. Rellac himsel held another language: 'What matter lie said, '.whether one be a man or a wo man. Truth litis no preference for eitl r sex ; - she reveals herself to wiunoso- evr seeks for her. - She i n light whicl docs obscuw heinolf according to tlie good' : pleasure f those whose sight is weak. On the contrary, she fills and enlightens tlie eyes that fix. her, The great requisite for being uplifted to tne sphere ot intelligence, which is the sphere of joy and serenity, is to preserve our freedom, l'erhaps some day, how ever, you may uo married, and the motl t-rof a family. - Lay up for yourseif now tlio 1 t'n,icii vfi tlifit r,i,nl.f tswmn, ,t m t cate to the younger minds;, but it is not in a few weeks that you can aecquire i You iireycJrt4fg;Vi-have time befor you; it is u greab advantage, profit by it ' SWA, irv' postponing to the clonrTy future the employment that I intended to make of mly VtKiwlt!!giViitti( lia",H)il me, how ever, asocial and , religious, end wide bound me to human life, and , remlcret my task- serious withoiit being exempt- louai. lie iiui not take it lor grautc that one should marry at the very be

NUMBER 24. CK19IES AND CASUALTIES. William Brown killed his wife in Lyun, Massachusetts, on Saturday, by stabbing her with a durk knife. Thomas Harris, recorder of Sacramen to District, Oreana, Nevada was suffo suffocated - cated suffocated by the fumes of giant powder, in the mines, on Sunday. Captain J. R. O'Brien, formerly of the San Farcisco Fire Department, was burned to death at a fire in .Sacramento, last week. His remains were found on Saturday. At Newville, Ohio, on Sun'dav, the tannery of Mr. Harters was destroyed by nre together with its contents, tioss nearly $10,000. It is thought to have been set on fire. An Harmon Station, near Lawreucc- burg, ludiauna, on Saturday, two en engines - gines engines were wrecked by a collision of freight trains, and J. W. Middaw, one of the engiucrs, killed. Pat Farrel, a carpenter of Meadville, was killed on the Nashville te .North .Northwestern - western .Northwestern Railroad, at Gardner's Station, West Tennessee, Monday, by being crushed between two cars. Mr. Lewis B. Larson, a carriage-paint er, of Sycamore, committed suicide re cently by hangiug himself. He had pre previously - viously previously attempted suicide by hanging and poison. Delirium Tremens was the cause, Tlie execution of John Ware for the murder of his father, took place at Cam den, N. Y., on Friday. He maintained stolid demeanor, and showed uo agi tation. He wrote a long confession, say ing lie killed his father because he ill treated his (John's) mother. At Cookeville, Putnam county, Ten nessee, last Saturday, J. W. Crutcher, Taylor McKenny anil H. H. Dillard, all armed, attacked Charles Burton, who defended himself, shooting and wound ing Crutcher mortally, and McKenney slightly. Whiskey and scandal was the difficulty. At the American House iu Boston, on Friday, Col. R. F. Lawrence, a wealthy gentleman, aged sixty-two, from Elgin, Illinois, in a temporary ht of insanity. leaped from a third story window, and tailing on the iron pickets, sustaining injuries which will probably prove fa fatal. - tal. fatal. One of his legs was terribly shat tered, necessitating amputation. Wednesday morning Edward Brennau, James Ryan and Patrick Couchlan, painters working on a cornice of the new buildings iu Fulton avenue, near St. James place, in New York, fell to the ground and were dangerously injured. The scaftold was imperfectly rigged, and gave way as the men went on it. 'Wiey were all taken to the City Hospital, where it is supposed Couchalan will die from internal injuries.. On Monday last a fiendish murder was committed at Lake Village. Cherout county, Arkansas, by Sanders, Dugau and uarrett, citizens ot the county, upon L. W. Owynn, a young colored' lawj'er who had recently located there. The murder grew out of political dfferences in the late election in that county. Intense excitement prevails, and one hundred armed men were at last accounts pouring into the town, and it was feared the mur derers would be taken from the jail and lynched. A man aged twenty-four years, by the name of t rederick-Cook, committed sui cide by shooting himself through the forehead with a rifle, on Tuesday morn ing, at six o'clock, four miles cast of Bucyrus, Ohio. He was found dead. leaning up agaiust his father's barn, with the muzzle ot the gun lying on his left shoulder. The right foot was divest ed of boot and stocking, for the purpose ot discharging the piece with certainty, Mr. Cook was the victim of religious mo nomania. Mrs. McKnight, living on Bronson street, Detroit, on Tuesday weut out for a short time, leaving her boy five years old, in charge of a neighbor's girl, aged ten, ana during tier absence tlie boy was allowed to draw the teakettle around tho kitchen as a horse. After eating dinner McKnight and wife were suddenly taken sick, called a doctor, and were still quite ill in the evening. The doctor made au examination of the tea kettle, and found in it two or three spools of thread, one of the mother s rubber's a spoon and three or four woolen rags, placed there by the youngster and boiled up by the uousewtte. A most terrible affair occurred at Cuy ahoga Falls, Thursday. Mr. J. J Dun can of that place, iiad a daughter, about fourteen years ot age, who, tor some years has been idiotic and subject to fits. On Thursday, one of these fits coming on, her mother placed her on a bed on the floor in front of a wood stove where she lay, apparently iu ail insensible con dition. Airs. Duncan weut down stairs and in a short time sent a boy up to fix the fire, which he did, leaving the draft open, in about nve minutes the girl was heard to crv, when Mr. Duncan went up stairs and found the bed upon which the girl was lying enveloped iu flames. He took her in his arms down stairs and extinguished the flames, but she was so badly burned that she died at eleven o clock, Thursday night. Her limbs aud tlie lower part of her body were burned to a crisp. ADVICE TO LITBtE UIKI.S. BY MAIIK TWAIN". Good little girls ought not to make mouths at their teachers for every tri fling offense. This retaliation should only be resorted to under peculiarly ag aggravating - gravating aggravating circumstances. If you have nothing but a rag doll st u fled with sawdust, while one of your more fortunate little playmates has a costly china one, you should treat her with a show of kindness, nevertheless. And you ought not to attempt to make a forcible swap unless your confidence would justify you in it, and you know you are able to do it. You ought never to take your little brother's "chewing gum" away from him by main force; it is better to rope him iu witli the promise of the first two dollars and a half you find floating down the river on a grindstone. In the artless simplicity natural to his time of life, lie he will regard it as a perfectly fair trans transaction. - action. transaction. Iu all ages of the world this eminently plausible fiction has lured the obtuse victim to financial ruin and dis disaster. - aster. disaster. If at any time you find it necessary to coricet your brother, do uot correct liim with mud. Ncver.on any account, throw mud at him. It is better to scald him a little, for then you attain desirable re re-suite - suite re-suite you secure his immediate atten attention - tion attention to tho lesson you are inculcating, and at the same time your hot water will have a tendency to remove Impurities from his person, aud possibly tlie akin, in spots. If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to reply that you will do as she bids you, aud then af afterward - terward afterward act quietly in tho matter accord according - ing according to the dictates of your best judg judgment. - ment. judgment. You should ever bear in mind that it is to your kind parents that you are in indebted - debted indebted for your food, and your nice bod, and for your tteautiful clothes, and for the privilege of staying home from school when you let on thatyou'are sick. There Therefore - fore Therefore you ought to rcsiieet their littlo pre prejudices, - judices, prejudices, aud humor their little whims, and put up with their foibles until they get to crowding you too much. Good little girls always show marked deference for the aged. You ought nev never - er never to "sass" old people unless they "isass" you first.