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THE JUSTIfc'IAItUS SlICIDK. ., , BT sua. ' ' I met him on the boiler-deck as we Bailed out of port. Beseemed to be a gentleman one of the better sort ; i ,.-... j But he hud a most ferocious look, a maniacal stare tiuch as hunters find in tigers when they rouse them from their lair. ., -.:, i , ... . i; We met again at even, when the cabin lamps were lit Be did byu ancient female in the ladies' cabin ait. Then he wore a look of sorrow such a fearful look of woe - - .. ... . As Niobe with her children on the rn'tfrri canvas show. t . . . .- And we met again at midnight, as we glided down the stream, -And all around was stillness, save the leaping of the steam; Then he had a look of wtldness of misery and de spair, Aa he gaaed into the waters, as if something drew him there. -,... I sought a conversation, and asked him if he knew That we were on a dangerous boat and had a desper ate crew T I told him that the engineers woes carrying : the steam too high, (-.' That any minute we might be meandering torda the And that the pilots both were drunk, so I under- nooo. That they might rink ns on the rocks. ' " I wish to heaven they would ! " . , The stranger cried, " but no such luck will e'er be mine, I trow, For death in any shape would be a pleasure to me now. . I I've sought it at the 'cannon's mouth and on the raging seas, .... .. And on theNorthwestern railroad, and places such as these. Why will it flee T The young and gay are called away too eoon. While I am left, who many years hare craved it as a boon. . X tried to cheer this gloomy man . and draw his thoughts away from dwelling on such dismal things. " Sit down, my friend, I pray ; Have you no living wife nor child, no cherished kin dred dear ? Is there no one you love on earth, no ties to keep you here? 41 Who is that dear lady who is traveling with yon now ? , Can she not clear away the gloom which settles on your brow 1 Ah, there she comes ; - Til ask her asd ; most surely youH repent." But np he jumped, threw off his hat, sod oral board he went. X turned to where the lady stood, and spoke to this effect: Madam, you're his mother-in-law.". She calmly said, " Correct I ALL ABOUT RATS. According to Mr. Darwin, there is a struggle for existence among all living creatures, ending in a survival of the fit test. He does not give a moral meaning to this word fittest ; he is speaking of living creatures generally, as organisms, and of the organic qualities which enable them to fight their way in the world. Naturalists say that this struggle and this survival are unquestionably true in re gard to rats. The two principal kinds known are the black and brown, the lat ter being the more powerful of the two. Both entered Europe from Asia, the black about four centuries ago. Tho brown is also known as the Norway rat and the Hanoverian rat ; the latter a name sarcastically given by the Jacobites, under the belief that the brown rat and the royal family of Hanover reached Eng land about the same time. The brown has waged relentless war against the black, until the latter has almost disap peared from some localities. This dis appearance, or lessening in number, is also due in part to the black rat finding Ms home in roofs, thatch, and old build ings, where rat-terriers and rat-catchers can get at him ; whereas his brown rival has a greater love for drains, sewers, and underground retreats, difficult of access. When some of the slums of St. Giles's were polled down to make way for New Oxford street, a colony of black rats was found in many of the wretched tene ments, driven up from the sewers by the victorious browns. The keeper of a Hantrv F&milv cam had a. fVnr nf thnm and sold them occasionally for high prices to naturalists, wno valued them solely because they are rare as collectors are -very apt to do. A few black, rats still exist in old houses in, London, among me rooi-rarters : out , toey are very few The brown rat is a famous trencher man. - Nothing comes amiss to him. Corn, the ofial of slaughter-houses, cheese, soap, candles, bacon, eaes. jam. pastry, butter, oil, boots and shoes, lev erets and other small game, all serve him when hungry. But, sad, - to relate, he is -also a cannibal : ne eats his own species. When two rats fight, the one killed and -the other sadly mutilated, the soectator- xata set to and eat them both. A lame or decrepit companion shares the samo fate. "Mm. Bat is obliged to conceal her little ones for a time, lest papa or his friends should make a meal of them. . On one (occasion in France, twelve rats were shut np in a box ; the result was nearly as marvelous as the fate of the celebrated Kilkenny cats ; for when the box opened, only three rats remained. , was Even human beings are not quite free from danger. The fingers and toes of babies, lying peacefully in their cradles. Lave been eaten off by rats. , Once an in fant's face was obliterated by. similar means; and (we record it with loss regret) the toes of a drunken man dis appeared through a like agency. j About lour years ago a Coroner's inquest, re ported in the 2 tmcs, brought to light a sad tale. Between Highgats and Horn sev. an old house had lost a respectable tenant on account of its being infested with rats. A new tenant out au day on easiness, and his wife oat temporarily, isree children were left at home in bed. the mother's return, she found the bed stained with blood; one child had -wounds in the head and under the eye lids, and a hole eaten throagh the cheek ; he died three days afterward ; an elder child was bitten in the throat. ? '- Mr. Bat displays a good deal of inge nuity in working out some of Ma plans. He can carry sway eggs, without break ing them ; he stretches out one foreleg under the egg, steadies it with his cheek, and hops away cautiously on the other three legs. Two of them,' working to gether, have been toicwn to carry eggs up stairs ; one standing upon his head, lifted an egg high up on his bind foet ; his confederate, standing on the next step Above, took the egg, and held it Tin til the acrobat had oome np ; after which the same process was repeated again and again. ' A pastry-cook once found that his eggs disappeared in a m; an invests cation showed that rats off with them, down stairs instead of np. A big rat stood on his .hind togs, with his forepaws and head xestmgr on the step above; a smaller rat rolled an egg gently to the proper spot ; the big felkn seized it firmly but carefully in his forepaws, and brought : it dmra ; and so on step after step. One particulars adventure is as amusing as a comedy, wiih. the? ad ditional merit of being ferae, -r Affit lay down beside an egg, folded his body .round it length wise, arid took hid tail be tween his teeth to get a firmer hold ; other rats approached, seized hies by the neck, and dragged him and the egg off together in triumph on what principle the booty was divided, doeanot appear. ; Mr. Jesse narrates an incident, in which a rat helped himself to savory Florence oil in an in genious way ; the aadsfial gnawed at the covering of the? flask, inserted hia tail, and licked off the unctuous treasure which adhered to it. , A. dross. o. figs bean1? wahin sight of a family of rats, fssa-ca got upon the table, npsefc tiie dram, mad aoattered the figs on the floor, Where toe others could easily get at . them. , Some of us are old enough to remember when an atmospheric or pneumatic railway -was constructed at Corydon ; the engineers had so many difficulties to " contend against, that the enterprise was ultimately abandoned ; but one of the most provok ing was that rats cunningly came at night and ate the grease with which the valve along the top of the tubewas made air tight ; each new application of grease served them for supper, ? Mr. Jesse, on the authority of a medical friend, gives a vivid description of a desperate fight be tween a rat and a ferret, in a vault or cel lar which was only lighted with a window on one side ; the rat kept his powerful enemy, at bay. for nearly two hours, by sagaciously securing to himself what prize-fighters call the " advantage of the sun ;" that is, keeping himself al most in darkness under the window, and compelling the ferret to take a posi tion where the light -would enter his eyes and embarrass hi in. One rat was a little toa clever on one occasion. . A publican, going into his cellar, saw a large rat put his foot into the shelly house of an oys ter who temptingly opened his mouth ; the oyster suddenly closed his shell, took the rat prisoner, and' both; were carried alive into the kitchen. Considering what the Happy Family men manage to achieve, we do not know that we are jus tified in disbelieving a story of a theatri cal company of rate, exhibited in Bel gium a few years ago ; dressed like men and Women, and walking on their hind legs, they mimicked many ordinary stage effects ; concluding their performance with hanging a cat and dancing around it t . On the principle of giving every one his due, however sable liis complexion, we must say a word concerning the oc casional kindness and domesticity of these rodent creatures. A Sussex clergyman, one summer evening, saw a number of .rats migrating across a meadow ; a blind old rat was guided along by a compan ion, the two holding the two ends of a stick between their teeth. Mr. Finder, a navy surgeon, was lying awake one evening in his berth, on board the Lan caster, and, keeping quiet, was enabled to observe a curious scene. A rat en tered the cabin, looked cautiously around, and retired ; he came again, lugging along a blind rat tenderly by the ear ; and a third rat, following them, picked up bits of biscuit to place before the poor blind fellow. A .London omnibus man caught a rat while removing some hay. Instead of killing it he took it home, and so tamed it as to make it a familiar com panion to his children. In the evening the rat would stretch itself out at full length on a rug before the : fire ; and he would creep into some warm snuggery on a cold night. In the mor-ning, when the man would say, " Come along, Ikey," the rat would jump into his greatcoat pocket, from whence he was transferred to the boot of the 'bus. Batty guarded his master's dinner, and rushed somewhat furiously against any one who tampered with it. He was proof against all tempta tions sa ve one it was not safe to set rrim to guard over plum pudding. An old blind rat took refuge by the kitchen fire in the house of a physician, and became a favorite, until a strange cat unfortunately one day made his appearance, and put an end to the harmony. M. De la Tude, im his sad narrative ? thirty-five years im prisonment in theBastile, describes how he gradually formed an acquaintance with ten rats in his dungeon ; he gave them distinct names, which they recogn ized, and he got up various kinds of simple gambols or sports, in j which they toon part. Of what use is the rat to man f Well, not very much that we know of : yet a few items may be mentioned. Probably we must not attach much importance to the alleged prophetic powers of the rat that if he gnaws a persons clothes, that person will speedily die ; that if he sud denly quits a house, "the house will very shortly be burned down ; that if he de serts a ship, the ship is in a sinking state. A mill at Peebles was suddenly deserted by a whole colony of rate about twenty years ago ; two hours afterward the mill burned down. But it must be confessed that the logic is very weak, which proves, Xrom tneee tacts, tne possession ot any prophetic power by Mr. Bat. James, in his Military Dictionary, says, " Bats are sometimes used in military: operations, particularly in enterprises for the purpose of setting lire to gunpowder. ; On wthese occasions a lighted match is tied to the tail of the animal. Marshal Yauban com mends, therefore, that the walls of powder magazines should be made very thick, and the passages for light and air so nar row as not to admit rats." We . do not know whether a cruel sport can be called a useful employment of rate ; but an ac count is given of a strange proceeding at Borne. . A large number of rats were dipped in spirits of turpentine, set on fire, and then made to rush down an open flight of steps near the Vatican ; they reached the bottom as masses of charred flesh, amid the shouts of the populace. Bate are werth three shillings a dozen, to furnish a supply to those brutal exhi bitions in which rat-killing terriers show their power. ; The mode of catching the rats alive for this purpose we shall de scribe presently. Bats are also caught for the value of the skin. There is a firm at Paris ; which buys the skin for this purpose. The fur is dressed into a very good substitute for beaver ; while the pelt or membrane is dressed into leather so fine, elastic and close as to be used for the thumbs of the best gloves. If any one be lieves that rate are not used for human food, he must change his opinion. ' In Paris the chiffoniers or bone-grubbers eat them. Gypsies eat such rate as are caught in stacks and barns, and are less strong in flavor and odor than those that feed omnivorously. In China, split rats are bought as a dainty. ' An "English sur geon of some note had them cooked for his own eating. In a man-of-war, where . the rate made havoc with the biscuit, the sailors had a regular battue, and brought down. numbers of them ' Jack made rat pie, baked it, and liked it., At the siege of Malta, the French garrison, when fam ished, offered as much as a dollar a head for rats, or two dollars if barn-fed.. Dur ing the siege of Paris, in the late Franco-German war, many tasted rat who had never tasted it before. ' s v" TStie fecundity of the brown rat is pro digious, and it has been calculated that if Mr. and Mrs. Bat live three years after their first child is born, and if all the children, children's children,- children's children's -, children, - etc. , survive, the family at the end of three years would comprise six hundred thousand mouths. As a rat is credited witn. eating one tenth aa much as an average man, this interesting family , would consume ? as much aa an army of' sixty thousand men.;t ,if :.:t d- -: At ts. : Unquestionably,' whatever may be the wrree Of ; fecundity and voracity, rate are generally a great nuisance, and re- qnir to o lessened m whbuwi " w extirpated. - Let us notice some of the varieties in which the nuisance presenta itself, and the mode of procedure eonse euntly adopted, v-r- ."Vv. tA"M 1 Xlat greatly infest ships, and are by them carried to every part of ths world. Bo indaatetovsly do they toako homB for themselves in the numerous crannies and corners in the hull of a ship, that it is aiinoss impossible to get rid of them. ouips taite out rats as well as passengers and cargo every voyage ; whether the former remain in the ship when in port is best known to themselves. When the East India Company had ships of their own, they employed a rat-catcher, who sometimes captured five hundred rate in one snip just returned from Calcutta. The ship-rat is often the . block species, Sometimes black and brown inhabit the same vessel : - and unless they carry on perpetual hostilities, the one party will keep to the head of the vessel and the other to the stern. , The ship-rat is very anxious that his supply of fresh, water shall not fail ; he will come on deck when it rains, and climb up the wet sails to suck them. Sometimes he mistakes spirit cask for a water cask and gets drunk. A captain of an American merchant ship is credited (or discredited) with an ingenious bit of sharp practice as a means ot clearing nis snip irom rats. Having discharged cargo at a port in Holland, he found his ship in juxtaposi tion to another which had just taken in a cargo of Dutch cheeses. , He laid plank at night from one vessel to the-J otner ; tne rate, tempted by the odor, trooped along the plank, and began then feast. He took care that the plank should not be there to serve them as a pathway back again ; and so the cheese laden " ship had a cruel addition to its outward cargo. . Some years ago the rate wrought such execution at the Zoological Gardens, in the Begent's Park, that it became neces sary to surround the duck-ponds with wire net fencing. Other parts of the garden were, similarly infested, the rate being attracted by the large quantity and variety 01 iood stored there every day. Soon after the construction of the new monkey-house, they ate through the floor, whereupon the floor was filled in with concrete, and the open roof was ceiled ; but they quickly made their way through the plaster of the latter, deter mined if possible to get at the monkey's bread. They also got into the den of the rhinoceros. The cunning rogues were sometimes seen in the evening swimming acrous the Begent's canal, to spend a night m feasting in the gardens, and returned at morn to a secure retreat during the daytime. It became neces sary to hunt them with terriers, and then their carcasses were thrown as dainty bits to tne eagles ana vultures. Parent Duchatelet gives a graphic ac count or the prodigious colony of rats in me abattoirs 01 Jdontiatjicoii, near Pans. "An old proprietor of one of the slaughter-houses had a certain space of ground entirely surrounded by walls, wim nodes only large enough lor the in gress and egress of rats. Within, this enclosure he left the carcasses of two or three horses. The rats swarmed in thickly to partake of the feast. He caused the holes to be quietly stopped up, and entered the m closure, with thick ; stick in one hand, and lighted torck in the other, j They were so congregrated that a blow with a stick anywhere did execution. Before he left the enclosure, he had killed more than two thousand six hundred."; Some years ago (perhaps recent alterations have changed the state ofaffairs) the Paris sewers formed an- extensive hunting-ground for the men who captured rats alive, to sell to the rat-killing sporting iraternity. Several men, ' working in party, formed a plan as to the spot towards which the animals should be driven. Each man carried a lighted candle, with a tin reflector, a bag, a sieve, and a spade. The moment the rate saw a light, they ran away along the sides of the sewer ; the men followed, came up to them, seized them behind the ears and bagged them. When driven to bay from different directions into one spot, they sometimes turned upon their pursuers with desperate fierceness : but the latter were always masters of the situation in the long run. As to London, the excel lent brickwork of the new main drainatre sewers probably defies the rats ; but they still continue their j ramblings from sewers through house drains into the basements of old tenements. Bat-catchers and rat-catching have been written about more voluminously than most persons would think. The royal rat-catcher, in the time of George the Third, was immortalized in an en graved portrait. Eleven years ago, a local board of health, in or near Bristol, granted an annuity of four pounds a year to John Leaky, on the representation of the butchers ; ' for his services rendered in ridding the slaughter-houses from rate, and on condition of his keeping them away for the future." Two celebrated rat-catchers, Shaw and Sabin, claimed to have caught eight or ten thousand rats a year each. As to the modes of capture, they are various. One mode is to select a small room in the middle of a house, lay a trail of favorite food from this to the other rooms, and allure the rats with the savory odor of toasted cheese or red herring. A second is, to allurse by whistling to imitate the rat cry. And there are many others. But in truth the professional rat-catchers do not care to reveal their secrets. Many years ago, the Society of Arte offered a prize of fifty pounds for the best prepa ration to catch rate alive ; but the only men who could give reliable information held aloof, as the reward was too small to tempt them. Prof. James Mackintosh. Suppression of Quacks. A bill has ' been ' introduced in the Senate of Tennessee providing for the establishment of a State Board of Physi cians, to issue licenses to all the physi cians practicing in the State. It provides for tjW' estebmhmenfr in each grand division of the State of a board of regular physicians, who shall have authority to meet annually, at Knoxville,' Nashville, and Memphis, to grant licensee to physi cians and. fix the fees therefor, when the same are not already fixed by law ; to pre scribe a - course of reading for' those studying medicine under private instruc tion ; to grant licenses to practice particu lar branches of medicine at to treat par ticular diseases, and to grant licenses to apothecaries. The bill also provides that physicians who practice ' medicine or surgery for fee or reward in violation of this act stiall be liable to an indictment and fine of five' hundred dollars for the first offense, and imprisonment not to ex ceed three months for the second offense, the fine to go to the School Fund. Druggists violating the proposed law are to be fined from five hundred to one thousand dollars. Physicians now prac ticing are exempt Irom the provisions of the bill, and those of any other than file regular school will be allowed to practice upon their diplomas. ' ' Tex Omaha i Smelting and Beflning Works have been in operation four years. The works turned out $1,000,000 in 1873, and the operation during 1874 may be briefly stated 4 thus : fe Amount of ; base. bullion separated and renned, 7,uuu tons ; ore smelted,' 2,000 tons ; coal and' coke consumed, 6.715 tons : value of gold and silver produced, f 1,850,000 : lead ship ments, 6,500 ' tons, valued at $800,000 ; number of men employed, va ; wages paid, $65,000 ; paid on freight, $250,000 j f or expressage, $10,000. ; - TILTOX TS. BEECHER. Incidents of the Great Scandal Trial. MOULTON ON THE WITNESS STAND. From the New York Tribune. , Moulton entered the room and quickly took the witness chair, laying a package of papers on the floor beside him. . Mr. Beecher looked him in the face, and dur ing the remainder of the session rarely lost sight of him. Mr. Mouyfon crossed his legs, folded his arms in the Napole onic manner and looked at the audience, but so many eyes met bis gaze that his face reddened and he manifested some nervousness. He swung from side to side, took a knife from his pocket and played with it, straightened himself and then drummed with his fingers on the arm of the chair. His voice was clear at the outset, and it was evident that he intend ed, if he could, to answer the questions with prompt, business-like precision, like a man of the world. The first impression which he made was rather favorable, bis answers being frank, unstudied, and un affected ; but the pauses between the words soon became longer, and some of his rejoinders were given in a lisping, careless manner. When he identified the letters he was studiously careful, subjecting every page to rigid scrutiny, and only assenting after he had called them back and glanced at them again. JUDGE MOIOtlS PERORATION A2t ELO QUENT APPEAL. Oh ! gentlemen, what a scene is this, what a spectacle we behold here to-day 1 On the one side you see a man of vast prosperity, surrounded by powerful friends,.,, with unlimited resources. - On the other side you see a man powerless and poor, coming to you from a desolate home. Already he has been made the victim of a foul charge, then the victim of a vile slander, and then again the vic tim of a foul persecution, unparalleled for power and relentlessness. And what has he done ? Why, he was the chance possessor of a loving and beloved wife, of a liappy and of an innocent home, which his bosom friend, his life-long bosom friend, his pastor, his spiritual adviser, taking advantage of that friend ship, taking advantage of 'his absence and taking advantage of his; sacred call ing, has dispossessed and despoiled him of. That home is desolated, the hopes of that family blasted, the pillars of that household have been pulled down upon the idols of his worship, and naiight but desolation reigns there ! Oh, gentlemen, you who have children, you who know what it is to return from your daily labors to the bosom of your happy family, can appreciate the wrongs and the suffering that my unhappv client has endured ; but it is to you, as fathers, and as brothers, and aa husbands, that we come with our case, and as you love your homes, as you love yoiur families and your children, as you regard the sacredness of your homes and as you reverence virtue and respect the sanctity of the family altar, I call upon you in the name of all that has been violated, I call upon you in the name of Christianity, by the teachings of the Savior upon the Mount, by the law thundered from Mount Sinai, by every consideration that is near and dear to us on earth, I call upon you to brand the seducer as his crime deserves to be branded. ' Let it be written on every door throughout the land : " Death, destruc tion to the seducer ;" and when you have rendered that verdict yon will receive the prayers and blessings of every virtuous mother and of every virtuous daughter in the land, and a peaceful conscience will follow you through life, will be with you in the last solemn scenes of earth, and con sole you when at last you stand with your life-record before the ever-living God. Applause. BATTLE OF THE BOUQUETS. , New Tork Telegram. Immediatelv after the ladies took their seats, Mr. Caldwell, a prominent deacon of the church, and a very busy man at the trial, lifted a large bouquet from alongside of one placed at the end of the table opposite Jieecher, and in rather an ostentatious manner, crossed over, hold ing the bouquet aloft, and, with alow bow, presented it to Mrs. Til ton. The ladies smiled and waved their fans. Mrs. Til ton blushed with pleasure. Now this little incident aroused the envy and in dignation of the few friends Til ton had in court. They whispered to each other. This was done in full sight of the jury, and their souls were up in arms to make a counter demonstration. Stamps were put together, a florist who happened t be in court was interviewed, and he re' tired with the cash. Just here, Tilton, with his sad face, his high shoulders, and his long wavy hair, becoming premature ly gray, entered the court, followed by his fast ' friend, Moulton, with his red, good-humored face, his long, tawny hair, and heavy brown mustache, crossing his face like Diana's bow. Moulton car ried a red leather bag containing the documents on the construction of which depends the fate of the Plymouth pastor. eoon after Moulton bad taken the stand, a court officer approached Tilton, and, with a whispered message, present ed to him three magnificent bouquets, the perfume of which permeated the court-room. One of the bouquets was of immense size composed of rare and eostly flowers, and was surrounded by an elegant border of purple leaves and imita tion lace. The plaintiff seemed "deeply affected by this mark of oorisi deration from unknown friends. This little in cident did not, to all appearances, escape the notice ox the Ueeeher party, who were sitting in full view of Tilton; for just then there was a whispering between Beecher, his wife, and their friends be hind, all looking in the direction of Til ton, and smiling as if they considered it all a put-up job. . BEECTEEBfl PROPOSED RESIGNATION. In the ooTiTso of the opening argumenif i or xinoa, duage morris presented uie following letter of resignation," which Mr.- Beecher wrote after the - Woodhull expose, but which Mr. Moulton mislaid until lately : : - - ' To the Trustees of Plymouth Church: - I tender herewith my resignation of the sa cred tniniatry of Plvmouth Church. .For two rwWA. -r- -i . r T aj At yean I have stood with great sorrow among yon In order to shield from shame a certain house hold. ' Since a recent rmbiication makes this no longer possible, X resign ray ministry and retire to private me. . k axsax Waud isebcbxb. . Mr. Moulton savs he persuaded Mr. Beecher not, to forward it to the Trus tees, and Mr. Tilton threatened to shoot him if, by such a confession, he should destroy Mrs. Til ton's character. - YEBT FTJNNY. I Cor. Chicago Times. - Among other . bits which tickled the - church people in court to day, was Moulton's statement that lieecner, speaking of Dr. otorrs speech before the oouncriL said Storrs'. 'speech bad been an unspeakable outrage ; such apeeoJQ ought to damn Btorrs. . Several of the Beecher party stooped their heads and smiled, and the light of a smothered smile twinkled in Beecher'a eyes. An other was the testimony that Beecher said to Moulton that Shearman, who is clerk of the ohnrch, and a staunch sup porter of Mr. Beecher, is a mischief - maker. The audience sniggered ; Shear man held down his head ; Mrs. Beecher laughed ; Mr. Beecher, after a desperate ettort to retain composure, gave a merry BTTiUQa - EFFECT OF MOULTON'S TESTIMONY. . ront tne World. Each hour of Mr. Moulton's examina faon makes his testimony clearer, simpler, more direct. As he grows accustomed to ! the ' place the jury grow accustomed to him, and the letters, in the setting i his clear answers give, read with Mr. Fullerton's matchless emphasis, ore listened to with an empha sis which the familiar sentences did' not win in Mr. Morris's opening speech. ' All this is more or less easy in a direct exam ination. It is none the less easy for Mr. Moulton's marvelous preparation. He never wanders from the point ; he volun teers no more testimony than the ques tion requires ; with ease he " connects" Mr. Beecher in legal fashion with in formation whose relevancy Mr. . Evarte loudly disputes. ' He has not proved, for all his long intimacy with the case and his , personal interest in the plaintiff, one of1 those dangerous, willing witnesses who need perpetual checE'froni- counsel and admonition from the court. Only once or twice has Mr. Evarte caught him in a blunder, and then a ready apology has disarmed criticism. Men do not come to know by instinct the limitations of le gal testimony, and a deal of study and much careful coaching must have formed a part of Mr. Moulton's training for the stand. All this is gradually having its effect. Mr. Evarte' interruptions grow lees frequent. The audience are growing sober. THE LAWYERS IN THE CASE. From the Bon. It was said last evening that six lawyers are employed on various branches of the defense who have not been identified with the public trial. Mr. Beach, ex Judge Fullerton, Mr. Morris, and Gen. Boger A. Pryor have contributed their services to Mr. Tilton, who is without means. There is a mortgage of over $5,000 on the Livingston street property in favor of some wards of Franklin Wood ruff, and his only revenue is twenty-five cents a volume on the soles of " Tempest Tossed. " He has procured a loan on Ins paintings, and by this he has paid the current expenses of his Buit. Mr. Morris told Mr. Tilton before the Investigating Committee were through with their work that he would serve him if he needed legal counsel, and when Mr. Tilton was arrest ed and taken before Justice Riley, Mr. Morris was retained. Ex-Judge Fuller ton entered the case through Mr. Moul ton's influence, and when a senior coun sel was needed, and Mr. Beach was ap plied to, ho said that in spite of Mr. Til ton's inability to pa" a retaining fee, he would enter the casa. Mr. Moulton i3 paying none of tho expenses of the suit. OBJECTS OF PITY. Hew York Dlcpatch. Mr. Beecher is visibly getting aged, since the trial began. There was little sign of life or activity in him to-day, and he frequently remained gazing moodily into vacancy as if he had lapsed into one of the fits of despondency Moulton at tributes to. him. While Judge Fullerton was reading, in Beecher's beautifully worded letter to. Moulton, " I feel that I am preaching my last sermon, and am spending my last Sunday," etc., Mr. Beecher listened sadly and reflectively, as if overcome by the recollection of the feelings which oppressed him when he penned that letter. Indeed, it is clear his days of gallivantin', if ever he was a little naughty, are over. There is some thing, too, in Til ton's eyes and pale, sad face, that must excite sympathy. The Beecher family group is quite a picture. Every day, the venerable, white-haired, and thoroughly lady-like wife, and the great master of oratory, whose fame is world-wide, sit aide by side, with Beecher's left hand frequently passed voer the shoulder of his wife, or resting there lovingly, and a son beside each. To disinterested spectators the whole scene is a painful one ; and both the plaintiff and the defendant are objects of pity. . .. - HOYf THE SCANDAL BEGAN. From the BroolUyn Snn. There are but few people-who know when and whore the first publication was made , which laid the foundation of the great Tilton-Beecher scan dal suit. It devolves upon the Sunday Suit reporter to give to the public an interesting story about the scan dal, which is published for the first time to-day. Four or five years ago vogue and indefinite rumors hinted at unfriendly relations between Mr. Tilton and the pastor of Plymouth Church. Not until about two and a half years ago were the real sentiments of T. T. made known. At j that time he was endeavoring to obtain a certain sum due him from that large headed, meek and lowly Christian, Henry C. Bo wen. Mr. Tilton was editor of the Golden Age then, and while in litigation with Bowen wrote an article 1 1 1 1 1 . . . T 1 Oi.l . X "T enuueu, .rersuiuu outwueub iu this statement Theodore charged old Bowen with having written a letter from Woodstock on June 16, 1863, in which, speaking of Henry Ward Beecher, he said : "I sometimes feel that I must break silence. " It was the first statement made by Mr. Tilton in the Golden Age. For some reason it was suppressed. Sev eral weeks after proofs of the article were handed around for examination among certain well-known journalists of Brook lyn. The . article was submitted to Thomas Kinsella, editor of the Eagle, but he refused to publish it. The proof finally fell into the hands of W. H. Mul doon, now a reporter on the New York Tribune. He copied the . article and returned the proof. Several weeks after he dropped into the office of a wild little sheet entitled the Sunday Zktah, and edited by James McDermott, a wild Irishman. Mao was rushing frantically around the office, blaspheming with a vigor that would have put a trooper to shame. ; " Have ye any copy ?" said he. " The printers are raising the diviL and say they will strike if I don't give them more copy, d n them 1" Muldoon said he would give him a little, and Mao rushed into the composing-room with a look of exultation on his face, to curse the compositors again. M. sat down and wrote an article on Tilton, and attached to it a short extract from Theodore's statement. The com positors were quieted for a short time, and then began to yell for oopy again. Mac struggled with them, and swore he would have more oopy in ten minutes than they could set in a year. Then he rushed into the editor's sanctum and began tohowL ;.;ii?f, s- "For the love of heaven, Muldoon give me some more copy ; give me some more about Tilton and old Bowen. Blast the bloody printers, do you hear them yelling now ?" The appeal was effectual Muldoon gave up the entire " personal statement ' and it was put in type. In the meantime oopy came in, and MoDer mott was saved from the fury of the oompositors. Mr. Tilton was surprised when he aaw the article in print, and mow receives his first information oo&oerninir the manner in which it got into type. i ; . MOUNTAIN PEBILS. Terrible Storms and Snow-Slides to t7tah - Snnjpr Forty Teet Deep. 1 A correspondent, writing from Salt Lake City, Utah, to the Davenport Gazette, says : In one of our mining camps known as 4 ' Big Cottonwood," the mountain peaks loom up to the height of from 11,0W) to 12,000 feet,- and, during the winter, the snow, storms rage inces santly. Consequently the camp is sub jected to the. most terrific snow-slides. One of those storms was of the most fearful character not a little fall of snow of six or eight inches during a night, but that many feet, with the wind howling, and drifting the snow in every direction. There are places up there where the snow is probably forty feet deep. These avalanches are caused by the wind sweep ing up one side of the mountain, and forming a large drift just over the ridge on the opposite side, which soon becomes too heavy, and detaching itself, plunges down the mountain, increasing in size until a moving mass of snow, covering acres, and ten to forty feet thick, sweeps with the rapidity of hghtning down into the canons, carrying everything before it. No soft snow, but packed and jammed togt ther so perfectly solid that the moment the mass stops, heavily loaded ore-teams can be driven anywhere on top of it, the horses' shoes only mak ing an impression. A person in front of one of these slides can commence his prayers none too quick, I Wading in snow anywhere from his knees to his neck, with it blowing so that he can't see four feet in advance of him, he doesn't have the least chance to escape, although he knows one is coming by : the terrible roar it makes, which can be heard at a long distance. . ' One of these slides swept OTer a mine called the "Anna," last Tuesday, killing four men. The mine was working six men, on " eight-hour shifts, which necessarily kept two men at work while four were either . sleeping . or resting. Their cabin, or rather boarding-house, immediately in front of the tunnel they were running, was built very strong, and considered safe from elides. At twelve o'clock at night the shifts were changed, and the two men whose duty came on left two of tho men in the house asleep, and the other two sitting up at the fire. One had commenced writing a letter, and the other was sitting on a stool smokin2 his pipe. ! The two men had jtist reached the face (or back end of the tunnel, which was in a distance of 400 feet), and one bad raised the sledge to strike the drill when they heard the roar of the slide. They ran back to the mouth, which tho slide had ran over leaving it filled with about five feet of snow which they had to dig through, and, on getting out, found noth ing in sight. They raised on alarm as soon as possible, and, getting word up to the mine called the " Prince of Wales," which was running about - 10Q hands, they all turned out and i commenced digging for the house, which was not found until late the next morning. It hod been carried down the mountain about 2,000 feet with about thirty feet of snow on top of it. i Four men inside were found just as tho other two had left them. The snow had broken through the roof, and hod en veloped them so suddenly that they had not moved. They were not bruised iu any way, but had been suffocated. The man sat there at the table in the act of writing, the inkstand not even having tipped over, but tho man smoking had probably heard it coming one second before he was struck, as his pipe lay be tween his feet. There they sat, molded in the snow, looking as perfectly natural as if alive. The two men in bed could not even have woke up they lay in their beds with the blankets over them as smoothly as if just laid on. The men who helped dijr them out, and who brought the bodies into the ' city, said that by the looks of the men they couldn't have awakened at all. Origin of Family Names. Existing names are of different kinds and origin, some designate a trade, ; Tailor, Smith-, Shoemaker (in German, Sinister I, Mason, Baker, , Carpenter, Gardner, Cartwright, Carver. Cook, Bleecker, Miller, Fowler, Foster, Horse man, Adler, Hunter, Fisher, Merchant (in German, Kauffner ; in Dutch, Koop- m an), lyler, VV ashman, Singer, Plumber, Wheeler. Stewart. Bishop. Pope. Brazier. Staker, Barber, Boiler, Oysterman, Sher- ui. uutier, etc., and very naturally when, by civilized organization of society, it wus found necessary to accept fixed names for families and their descendants, very often tho name of the trade pursued by tne Head oi Ltoe lamily was accepted by the children, and thus went down to all the descendants. In other cases, and this was the oldest custom, the sons added to their father's baptismal name the ter mination of son, so when the father's baptismal name was, for instance, Jacob (and we know that the patriarchs had only one single name), the son called himself Jaoobson, and if his baptismal name was John, he was called John Jaoobson, his son William would be called William Johnson, his son again, . say Peter, was called Peter Williamson, and so on. An cient records prove that such was the cus tom in Europe until laws were established requiring a permanent uniformity in the family names.' This was especially found necessary for the enforcement of the laws on the inheritance of property ; hence the names Dickson, Thompson, Jjevyson, Harrison, etc' Other names are evidently derived from the nationality of one of the ancestors ; for instance, we find the family names of Irish, Dutch, German, French, English, etc., or after the cities from whence they perhaps came, as Paris, London, Madras, Berliner, York, etc. Other names again are evidently derived from a nickname, especially those mean ing an animal, as BuU, Bear, Fox, Wolf, Ox, Lion, Hare, Sparrow, Colt, Bird, Stork, Pigeon, Swan, Fish, Pike, Salmon, Duck, etc ; or after a color, as Black, Whiter Blue, Green, Brown i etc, also after some quality, as Small, Short, Long, Low, Sweet, etc But the most curious of names are those derived from objects, as Brush,. Bell, Gun, Anker, etc ; or a material, as Water, Wine, Brandy, Coffee, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Stone, Wood, and even objects of clothing, as Shirt, Vest, Coat, Stocking ; or a part of the body, as Leg, Arm, Trunk, Head, Beard, Whisk ers, etc All. these names are found in the directories of our large cities, and some names are even taken j from the meteorological phenomena, as North, East, South, and West ; Spring, Sum mer, Fall, and Winter ; Moon, Sun, Star, Bain, Snow, Wind, Blow ; and finally we find Angel, Devilgas, Hell, and Dam. . -r. ;.,-. - : 1 i' Lacks. the case, at New York, of the Bussian Countess Faloff, who is suing a railroad company for heavy damages for the loss by it of a large quantity of valuable laces belonging to her, Mr. A. T. Stewart, called by the defense, testi fied that he had never seen laces wort" more than $250 per yard, He had laoea of this value on sale at bis store. He was not an expert in old laoea, having seen but few; if any, of thenx. In his opinion, modem laoea were of greater i value than old or " anaient" laoea, IN STRICT CONFIDENCE. Dui NrLui: I turn to yon, love, to my trouble : I know I ought not, but I mtut speak or die I I've found out at lat that all blim is a bubble Dont think, though, T-lth Jack, there is auht goes awry J f . Our bonne Is superb, snd dear Jack la Just splendid. The baby's the sweetrxt tnat ever you aaw; I think that my home would be heaven descended To earth, were it not for my uiother-in-law. Of oonrse, I set ont wftb a view to adore her Jack's muthr, yoa know I I threw opoa my heart, And daily in hiunbtext ralams bent before her ; To win htr affectionj I tried every art. I credited her with all good in creation, I abut my eyes tight and would not see s flaw ; But now, in spite of all, to my own consternation, I lind niyaeif hating my mother-in-law. If I wish for s thing, shell advise she contrary. She waylays my ordi rs for dinner snd tea, She worries the nurse-maid, and nags cook and Criticises my friends, and politely snnbs me. She tries to control all my household expenses ; She'd keep every key, if she could, In her claw ; With strictures she drives me half out of n-y senses I wonder If Job had a mother-in-law T ' And Jack, if he knew it, of course would be wor- 140,1 : .... But men are so stupid ; snd 111 never tell ! He wonders, I know, why I often seem flurried, Vet to speak would le useless, I know very well In some things no bat than a man can be blinder He'd not understand, but juet answer, " Oh, pa haw ! She doeKut half mean it. Go on and don't mind her" Just fancy " not minding " my mother-in-law 1 If I dance at a party. " Such conduct's Improper ; " scene ; If I bny a new drens, he counts np every copper, And sighs " Such extravagance never wss seen t " She msnagfw always with such a aly knack, too, She makes folks believe she's a saint without flaw ; I half wish I were dead, Sell and baby and Jack, In heaven one can't have a mother-in-law t She ruled her own household ; why can't she permit To govern in turn my own now as well ? If you've any advice (there, it'a post time '.) remit ma The same. Adieu, darling 1 f As sver, yours, .. . . BsXUt. P. 8. Of all wives, Nellie dear, my surmise is, ' Mother Eve was the luckievt thd world ever saw; Though they lott an -state in a certain " Fall Crisis," She and Adam had never a mother-in-law. Wit and Humor. The height of impudence taking refuge from tho rain in an umbrella shop. Why might carpenters believe there is no such thing as stone ? Because they never saw it. A raw clam 'poultice is the latest ama-. teur medical p-raw-clamation iu cases of of diphtheria. : A mokuino paper calls the murder of a son " filicide. " It doubtless meant to say "sonnyside," Bx an Irishman : Why is a storm when its clearing up, like a caatigation '1 Sure, an' ain't it a bating " The rude forefathers of the hamlet" are not Known in utan, nut there are often four rude mothers in a family. - - It is tho Daily of Burlington, 111., and it says : " If this town ain't dead we want to know where to find a corpse. " A convict with a ball chained to his leg said, the other day, that ha didn't like "Locke on the Understanding.' "I All a broken man," sighed a dilapi dated author. " I should think so, for I've seen your pieces," responded a by stander. A man may be properly said to have been drinking like a fish when he finds that he has taken enough to make his head swim. A Detroit Judge keeps the small boy in something like subjection by threat ening to have him pinned to the wall with a crowbar and held until he bleeds to death. ....... The Duchess of Edinburgh has worn all the dresses of her wedding outfit once and her sist?rs-in-law are asking her why she doesn't make her husband buy her something new. A coiOKED preacher, in discoursing to his people on the efficacy of earnest, prayer, delivered himself in this manner, " I tell you, bredren, dis prayer is what gib de debil de lockjaw." " Fob heaven's sake, lend me $5," said a destitute man to his friend, "I have had nothing in my house to eat for four days but rii-e." Bice !" said the other, "if I had known you had rice I would come have around to dinner." Forgiveness of Injuries. An editor of an obscure paper, pub lished hi 'a little village in Missouri, called at the White House and was ad mitted to Mr. Lincoln's presence. He at once commenced stating to Mr. Lin coln that ho was the man who first sug gested his name for the Presidency, and pulling from his pocket an old, worn, defaced copy of his paper, exhibited to the President an item on the subject " Do you really think," said Mr. Lin coln, "that announcement was the oc casion of ldy nomination t " " Certainly," said the editor, " the sug gestion was eo opportune that it was at once taken up by other papers, and the result was your nomination and election." " Ah ! well," said Mr. Lincoln, with a sigh, and assnming a rather gloomy countenance, " I am glad to see you and to know this, but you will have to excuse me ; I am just going to the War Depart ment to se Secretary Stanton." " Well," said the . editor, x wui waus over with you." The PreHident, with that apt good na ture so characteristic of him, took up his hot and said : "Come along. When thevreocliid the door of the Secretary's office Mr. Lincoln turned to his companion and said : "I shall have to see Mr. Stanton alone, and you must excuse me, and, taking him by the hand, he continued : " Good-by. I hope you feel perfectly easy about having nominated me. Don t be troubled abont it ; I forgive you." Washington Chronicle. The United States Senate. The terms of twenty-five Senators ex pire on the 3d of .Maron, and eiecnona have been or are to le made for the suc ceeding terms as follows : For (As suocsedtaf term. UarehS, California Connecticut.... rolaware Florida... Indiana...... HaQrr lluukincham. Kavard ...... Na-wrow Boarrau William W. Oattm. Tltmuu F. Bayard. kjilWt 1T1 Jtmeph B. McDonald. Maine ;......- Maryland ...... slaasachnsetU. . Haiuhn. ..... Hanmuai uamnn. Win. IfnMTvy H Apt. Henry I Pawea. familton.... 'A'aahburn ... Michigan. ...... Minnesota..... . Mississippi Chandler .... Iaaae P. Ohrisuaaey. Ramsey P-a .Mcitpaa ..... Branch K. Brace, . tVaneimM. CocJmll. Algernon 8. Paddock. William Sharon. Busman ....... K ebraaka. . . . . . Nevada Mew Jersey.... 1'ir-roM...... Stewart Staeicton ..... FKirro ..... Thm. V. Xandoiph. fVancui Kmum. Allen O. Thvrmmn. William A. Wmilam, A. K. Barnalde. , A fuirrw JoMnmm. Samuel B. ttacm. New York Ohio Pennsylvania. . Rhode Island... Tennessee. Thftrmun.... Hcrtt ........ Hprairae Brownlow ... Texss Flanaean .... Kdjuunds.... Vermont .. ..... George F. Rdmonda, "Virginia. iLewis. Bortnan .... West Virginia. Wisconsin... Carpenter. Rmnblicans in rontan ; DsmacraU la UaXia ; Inde pendents in svixt. oars. Twit Kaunas Gitv (Mo.) Journal that there is a young lady living in Clay county, about nve xuues tram tne city. twenty-nv j wge, wno naa.xor years shed her finger and too nails ana. her teeth every year.