A HABO WINTER.
Hail ! monarch of the leanest crown
Bare seen save, with a gloomy frown,
With ice for scepter, robe of snow.
Thy throne the stream's arrested flow
Stern tyrant ! whom tht hut 'Ding son
Doth loathe to serve, by vapors don
Begirt, a melancholy train, -5
O'er nature holding saddest relink.
Lo ! of thy rigor birds make plaint,
And all things neath thy burden faint.
Nor cheered are they by message cold,
In answer by thy north wind teld.
The enry of thy gre-vtona sway, -Vrhen
thou wonldst drive all hope away
From nature, yearning to restoro
To earth the bliss it knew before,
When summer ruled- with empire mild.
And autumn, still a ruddy child,
Lay cradled mong the greenery
Of whispYing grove and laden tree
The brook that prattled to the air
Of golden harvests, scenes as fair
As poet rapt in fancy's maae
Could scarce enshrine tn mortal lays, "
Now rude and angry hurls along
The hearers of his summer song
The branch and leaf that once repaid
His musio with their tender shade.
And catching zephyr's honey'd tone.
To his sweet tuning joined their own.
Jr bound, perchance, in durance alow,
Full faint he wends, and moaning low.
Kit dirge he makes o'er freedom lost,
' In Joy of which he wanton tossed
The falling blossoms on his wave,
- For water-nymphs to catch and save.
Now stript of his green bravery.
In piteous plight the weary tree
Is blown upon by mocking winds,
Whom changed now he sighing finds
From those gay playmates welcomed erst
In glee by his young leaves when first
They wove their merry brocae taught dance.
And" broke their feathered ledgers trance,
What time the eastern wave did gleam
'Neath fore-feet of the golden team.
Not busy now with tender care, -For
coming brood the birds prepare
Their airy cradle, rocked unseen
By Dryad hands behind the screen
Of leafy curtains, where no eye
Of mischief curious may pry.
The thrush that erst with welling voire
Made ail the tangled brake rejoice
In echoes of his mellowed strain.
To mope in silence now is fain ;
Nor ever pipes from straining throat
The varied wonders of his note.
So bleak the scene, so sad the day.
Too harsh. O winter, is thy away 1
Chamber' Journal.
. SOBER AS A JUDGE.
I don't care ? I say it, and I stick to
it, anil, if it were necessary, I'd swear it
on the biggest testament or prayer-book
that was ever used for taking an oath
upon in any court of justice in, the king;
dom.
You say it's all nonsense, that it was
imagination, that I didn't see 'em ; but,
in the name of all the wise men in the
East, how the dickens can you know ?
Yon can tell what you see, but that's no
reason why you should be able to tell
what I see. My eyes were never in your
head any more than yours were in mine.
So I say it again, and IH maintain it
through thick and thin, round or solid,
that I saw those two as plain as eyes
could see them, and that they were there.
This is how it was. Jack Bigley had
just done walking his wards at Fawkesl's.
His governor had come down stunning,
bought him a share in an old country
practice, and Jack was off to mend
broken legs, liniment old women's rheu
matics, and to take little strangers
whom, as a matter of course, he would
dig up with a golden shovel from under
the large plantation of rose bushes in his
back garden snugly in his coat-tail
pocket to all the married couples in the
district who. needed a supply.
He was always a good fellow, was
Jack ; and many'a the jolly night he's
had in my room in Double street,
Borough. Ill bet anybody a sovereign
even money that there isn't a man living
who could brew such good punch out of
bad spirits as could Jack Dingley.
Oh, the loo we've had, and the rubbers
. we've played ; the oysters we've eaten,
and the songs we've sung long after mid
night t And when, of a morning, we've
gone down to the hospital with a buz
zing in the head and a sensation as of
sick millstones going round and round,
who could evrr contrive better than Jack
a pleasant little pick-me-np in the dis
pensary? one which really did pick you
up, you know, stand you upon your feet,
and set you going wound up tight for
the remainder of the day.
Jack took me by the sleeve one morn
ing in bis last week, just before we were
going into the theater, where old Bogus
was going to perform his celebrated
operation of removing a man's head
without chloroform his operationf'you
know, for turned brain and whispered :
" To-night eight sharp tripe and
onions."
Of course I went, and was there to
the minute. Tripe ! Yes, I should
t.TiinTr there was tripe, and hot potatoes
in their jackets ; four -great dishes of
oysters fat little natives, mind you
none of your shabby Scotchmen, sprawl
ing all over a spongy shell. There was
the biggest lobster I ever saw ; a splen
did salad ; a whack of pickled' Bahnon ;
and, just as I entered the room where
the supper was spread out, the fellow
from the pub round the corner was just
putting a bright pewter pot of porter,
with a head on it like a cauliflower, at
every man's elbow for they were al
ready seated seven, and a place left
forme. :
That was a supper the remains were
not worth much and the noise we had
made over it was only the overture to
the play about to begin ; for no sooner
was the table cleared than Jack's big
spirit stand was fetched out ; a kettle of
' hot was singing on the hob ; the waiter
brought in lemons and sugar, pipes and
tobacco ; Jack put his cigar-box beside
them ; and then, while we religiously
set to work to fill the room with smoke,
Jack slipped out into his bedroom, re
turned with his wash-hand basin, which
he swore was perfectly clean for the oc
casion, andin it brewed the biggest
jorum of punch I ever saw in my life.
It waan t too big for us, for we went
again and again, Jack's face beaming as
he ladled out the steaming compound.
And then the harmony ! Talk about
making the welkin ring I You should
have heard us make the glasses ring till
somebody in the next house hammered
at the wall ; when, taking it for applause,
we immediately sang b,"Bambling
Dan," with the "Hal ha!" chorus, and
the five " Hurrahs !" at the end of every
verse. You mayn't know the song, but
it is always sung with a full orchestral
accompaniment poker, shovel and
tongs teaspoons on the edges of glass
es, and the chairman, of course, beating
time with a hammer upon the mahogany
- table. ,- . .. ; V : , :
We had no sooner finished than there
was a tapping on the wall on the other
side, which of course meant "Encore!"
so we sang it again with two extempor
ized verses composed for the occasion by
Jack Bigley. Directly after this there
was a knock at the door, which opened,
and a man said something about a noise;
but as we all with one consent made a
rush at him he fled, and we were allowed
to enjoy our harmony in peace for the
rest of the evening.
It wasn't all singing, yon now. We
had a game at cards, but it was voted
slow; and Tom Burrows did the frog on
the stone in the middle of the table, with
a candle at each corner. Bob Bumrwns,
too, did his balancing: tricks with three
full tumblers of grog on cane-bottomed
cliair balanced on hS chin witnout
. spilling a drop. - He tried standing upon
his head npen a quart decanter, and got
on pretty well till Tom Burrows spirked
. him in the ribs with the waxy end of a
. pipe-stem, when he went over backward
into the coal scuttle, and then wanted to
fight Tom for half a sovereign.
It was all over, though, directly, bless
you; and they shook hands, and were
the best of friends; when, to keep the
game alive, Jack Bigley went and got a
pint Guinness' stout bottle, cleared the
table, and, putting the neck downward,
sat on the bottom, and spun himself
round. Bless you, it was beautiful. I
never saw anything like it. His hands
and legs flew out, and he went out like a
teetotum or a top, till Tom Burrows must
boil it by making believe the bottle was
his peg, and wanting to take him up in a
spoon.
We were all too good-humored to quar
rel, and we did have the jolliest night
you ever knew. We had more singing,
and when the song hadn't any chorus we
made one a good rattling one, too and
we encored one another two or three
times over, and then began again.
We never had the slightest idea of
breaking up, and should have gone on
until the milk came round if it had not
been for Tom Burrows, who, from being
the larkiost fellow of the whole lot, sud
denly broke down and began to cry.
it was no use slapping uuu ju ura
back and trying to comfort , him he
would keep on crying and talking about
his mother, and saying if she only knew;
till it upset Bob Kununins, who wiped
one of his eyes, and said he liadn't been
to"cliurch for nine Sundays.
That spoiled it, you know, for Bob got
worse than Tom 'Burrows, and would
keep on saying that he meant to turn
over a new' leaf. Then Tom Burrows
came and called him brother, and they
stood and shook one another's hands,
and cried into the same pocket handker
chief ; till Dick Wharton said he would
go home now, and went and laid himself
down under the table amongst the oyster
shells, with a big lobster claw under the
small of his back.
I'm not quite sure about which way I
went home, but I remember how nice
and fresh the cool night air felt, and that
nil the policemen were walking in pairs.
I mention that last, you know, lest you
should thing that I was in the slightest
degree overcome. In fact, when I
dropped my umbrella, and then when
my hat fell off, as I stooped to pick it up,
I remember what I said to the pair of
policemen who were civil enough to pick
them up ; and we chatted so that they
walked home beside me ; and, as I'd got
thick gloves on, they felt in my waist-coat
pocket for me, and got out my latch-key,
and opened the door. i
Just to show you that I was perfectly
correct. I'll mention what the pair of
policemen said, and that was
" Of course you can find your way up
stairs, sir i"
And they wouldn't have said that if I
had been in that reprehensible state
in which some young men return home
from a bachelor's party.
Ah I I recollect everything perfectly.
How they had left no candlesticks forme
in the proper place, and how something
was left in the passage way for me to
stumble over, and then the rug at the
foot of the stairs was rucked up, and two
stair-rods loose, so that three times over
I was nearly stumbling up the stairs.
" There's a light in my room," I re
member saying.
And that accounted, of course, for
there being no candle left in the passage.
So I smiled to myself, as I paused for a
moment on the landing, and tried to hum
over the chorus of "Rambling Das," just
to amuse my landlady, and to let her
know that I was back safe. But I was
so out of breath that I forgot it, and
turning the handle with my left hand
my left hand because I held my umbrella
in my right I walked in.
You see, I am so perspicuous about all
these little facte that it shows you I could
not have dreamed or imagined what I
saw. For there, with my. carnphine
lamp on the table, the bottle of brandy
and a jug of hot water, sat two skeletons
in the easy chairs, one on each side of
the fire. One of them was sitting looking
at the fire, and evidently musing ; his
right elbow rested on the table, and with
Ins left hand he held a long clay pipe be
tween his teeth, and puffed out a cloud
of smoke. The other seemed in a rollick
ing frame of mind as well as body, or
rather bones, for he sat with his legs
crossed and hanging on the arm of the
easy chair ; one of my cigars was be
tween his teeth alight, and he held up a
glass of steaming brandy and water, as
if about to drink my health, nodding at
me as I came in.
I was not frightened, not a bit of it ;
for I'd known these skeletons for the last
two years. They lived, when at home,
in the second case on the right hand side
as you went into the museum at Fawkes";
but how it was that they had taken it
into their heads skulls, I mean to
eome out and visit me, was a puzzler.
So I stood looking at them, when the
rollicking one actually began to chant be
tween his teeth and, mind you, without
dropping his cigar the chorus of " Ram
bling Dan," finishing off by clanking his
bony legs together, his phaianges rattling
like castanets.
",Your health, old fellow," he said
then.
And removing his cigar, he drank a
hearty draught of brandy and water.
" I was frightened, I tell you ; and I
was perfectly clear . in the head, I tell
you ; for I was so surprised then that I
remember looking down into the easy
chair to see if there was a pool of brandy
and water trickling down through the
empty ribs. -
But no I could see the sacrum and
the upper bones of the pelvis, and they
were quite dry.
Absorbed, my boy, absorbed," he
said, laughing ; and : it was a strange,
harsh laugh. Now, then, Rattler, have
a drink of this, " he said to his bony vis-a-vis.
' "'" ' , '
But the other skeleton only nodded his
head slowly twice, and went on smoking,
the wreaths curling up toward the ceil
ing. , ;'- V;
"Shut the door, old fellow," said the
rollicking skeleton to me. "I don't
want rheumatism in my bones, if you do
in yours. That's right," he continued,
as I complied. "Now come and ait
down, and Til give a lecture on osteology;
for you're horribly shaky about your
bones.
"Who told you?" I said, I deter
mined to keep a bold face on the mat
ter. ' I heard old Bogus abuse your artic
ulation paper, and tell you that you'd
I rat the patella in the wrong place. Ha !
1a ! ha ! we hear a good deal, don't we,
Rattler?
The other skeleton nodded its head
slowly again ; and this solemn, slow
movement did give me something of a
chill. As for the rollicking fellow, I
didn't mind bft" a bit ; and to show him
that I didn't, spirked him with the
ferule of my umbrella in the same way
that Rummins did Tom Burrows when
he was standing on his head.
" I say 1 " he said, " don't do that" -"
Why not ? I said. ' What do you
mean by coming and taking possession
of a fellow's room?" "
"Sposal'd got my thoracic viscera
with me, and you'd abraded ; the surface
of my lungs, or scratched my pleura ;
you wouldn't have liked it, I know."
" Well, perhaps not ; " I said, " but
anyhow, I wish you'd go."
" Don't hurry us," he said ; " we
don't often get a night out. a Mix your
self a glass." ;
I did so, and lit a clay-pipe. But I
didn't care for it ; so I j lit a cigar,
and sat, smoked, and looked at them.
' " That's good brandy," said the rol
licking skeleton, after another draught.
" I say, what do you think j I died of t "
.Hung i or burglary, x should say, or
entering people's houses
senoe." i
in their ab-
Get out," he saidJ.
I had d. t.
horribly. Take care of ! yourself don't
you?" : i I
" Not if I can help it," I said.
And than I started, fori Rattler had
gone. Now, I didn't see him go, and I
know he didn't pass my chair. But he
was gone, and there was an end of it.
" It's a curious life, mine," said the
rollicking skeleton, " wired together as
I am. ' I'm glad of a change. A case
bottle's all very well, but af glass case is
too much of a good thing."!
Then he leaned over toward me. in a
curious, sneering fashion, laughing with
his feet, if I may bo express the way in
which he made them quiver ; and he
annoyed me so that I said to him at last :
" Pray keep still."
" I would," he said, " but it's time to
get up." i
And he rose from the choir and walked
into the wall, straight in, without a
pause ; and somehow those (words of his
made such an impression oij me that they
seemed to hang in the air, and they were
the very first I heard later on m the
morning, when my hot water was
brought to the door.;
Ah ! you may say what you like, but
if it's possible for two skeletons to get
out of a case and come down several
streets in the dead of night, and visit a
medical student, those two Visited me.
A Cool Burglary.
The Bryan (Ohio) Democrat gives the
following burglary story : For coolness,
deliberation and audacity the burglary of
Wertz Bros.' grocery, on Sunday morn
ing is without parallel in the criminal
history of the country. So deliberate
and impudent was the transaction from
beginning to end, that it seems like a
huge joke. About 2 o'clock Sunday
morning a gang of thieves,! variously es
timated from five to eight in number,
stole Andrew Smith's horse hitched him
to S. C. Moore's bob-sled and then drove
to the west side of Wertz Bros.' grocery,
southwest comer of the public square
An entrance into the grocery was easily
effected through a side door. Once in
side, the fire was smothered with salt, and
the work of pillage began. Every draw
er was ransacked and the cellar searched.
Some change was taken from one of the
drawers, and several hams lifted from a
barrel in the cellar. Then, to cap the
climax, the audacious rascals actually
lifted and carried out an iron safe,
weighing nearly 1,000 pounds. Once
loaded, they attempted to start, but
Smith's horse was too conscientious for
the business, and refused to pull. Care
fully placing him in the- stable, they
went to David Gettle's stable, over half
a mile away, got out his j dray horse,
drove up through the heart of the village,
hitched him to the bob, and away tliey
went. They drove south On Lynn one
square, then east on Maple, crossing
Main, to near Allen, where; they halted,
turned the horse adrift, and within ten
rods of Mr. Bars tow's residence, delib
erately cracked the safe by smashing the
door to smithereens. . Alas,! for all their
pains they found no lncrei-nothing but
books and papers. Aside from the dam
age to the safe, the loss was inconsidera
ble. It is the impudence j of the trick
that surprises and astounds everybody.
They were heard crossing Main street
between 2 and 3 o'clock. (The safe fell
off the bobs twice en route, and the
thieves carried cord wood and built up a
tramway to aid in reloading. The safe
was smashed within ten rods of where
Bars tow and his family were sleeping.
About 4 o'clock a young man, returning
home from a protracted vinit to his girl,
saw the party at work, but j hadn't suffi
cient curiosity j to go over and see what
they were working at. t
The Host Remarkable of! Casualties.
On Monday occurred in St. Louis
county a casualty so singular in some of
its features that no one would have be
lieved beforehand that such a thing was
possible. The subject was Mr. J. J.
Kelly, nurseryman, who for the past
twenty or twenty-five years has lived neai
Webster, on the Pacific ' railroad. Mr.
Kelly is a lare, heavy man, fifty-eight
years of age. Yesterday he was riding
in a light spring-wagon from Kirkwood
to Webster, and to keep his feet warm
had put a lot of hot bricks in the bottom
of the wagon and covered them with
straw. When about midway between
Webster and Kirkwood the straw burst
into a blaze and set fire to i the wagon.
Mr. Kelly's aize and weight prevented
him from getting out speedily, unless by
the dangerous feat of jumping out, and
he attempted to put out the names with
out leaving the wagon, and in doing so
his clothing caught fire. He then got
out, and, singularly enough, instead of
attending to putting the tire out on his
own clothing, ran to the horse's head and
seized the bridle to prevent his running
away. He stood in that position, appa
rently dumfounded, until) he was so
burned that ; it is considered impossible
for him to recover. One of his ears was
actually burned off. A neighbor passing
on tine road found him in that situation,
and, after extinguishing his burning
clothing, conveyed him to his home near
Webster. It is supposed by some that the
flames did not originate from the hot
bricks, but from a burning match with
which Mr. Kelly had probably lighted
his pipe. St. Lmiia Republican. ,.
A Parisian Confidence Han.
A gay Parisian, who has been famed
for his luxurious apartments and turn
out and general high airs, has just come
to grief and been sent to jail. . His name
is Hyacinthe Anber. , He was in jail
once before, but was pardoned out by
Napoleon III., to whose dynasty he
vowed eternal devotion.. Having a knowl
edge of all the inns and outs of Paris
life, he has contributed in various ways
to the necessities of life at Chiselhurst
since Sept. 4. Upon the occasion of the
eighteenth birthday of the Prince Im
perial several -' deputations 'went from
Paris. One of them was charged to obtain
the Prince's acceptance of a sword enriched
with diamonds, upon the hilt of which
would be engraved such words as " Sol-ferino,".-
" Sevastopol," "Inkerman,"
and on the blade "Semper ubique
fidelis." The order for-the sword was
given to M. Langlon. But as Hyacinthe
Auber found it more' convenient to keep
the 150,000 francs which were to pay for
the order in his own pocket, the sword
was never finished ; and so nice was his
adroitness that it was only after he had
swindled the jeweler out lof 100,000
francs worth of parures that the latter
handed him over to. the police.
A physician stopped at the shop of a
country apothecary, and inquired for a
pharmacopoeia. ." Sir," said the apothe
cary, " I know of no such farmer living
about these parts."
;,.,JL USIQUE DEATH. , .
Hoop Enters the Brain of a Drunken Man
by Way of His Ear and Kills Him His
Widow Recover Damages from the Liquor
Sellers.
Evansville (Ind.) letter to Chicago Inter-Ocean.
A case very interesting to the advocates
of temperance was decided in the Circuit
Court of this county last week under the
famous Baxter law. One of the clauses
of this law provides that the widow of a
man whose death has resulted from in
toxicating beverages may recover damages
from the parties who sold the liquor.
The plaintiff to this suit was a German
widow named Catherine Heilman, and
the defendants two Germans named
Stock and Krach. The circumstances of
the case were about as follows :
The deceased husband of Mrs. Heilman
was a farmer in good circumstances. He
resided in Scott township, about seven
miles from this cityl While returning
home one day from a trip to town he
stopped at the grocery of the defend
ants, where, it is alleged, intoxicating
beverages were sold to him by a member
of the firm. The result was that he be
came hopelessly intoxicated, and was
placed in his wagon by the defendants,
and a neighbor hired to drive the team.
Standing upright in the wagon was a
barrel of salt that Heilman had pur
chased in the city .and was taking home.
While driving along the road, the night
being dark, the wagon was driven over a
log that lay in the road, causing it to
jolt, and overturning the barrel of salt
upon the prostrate form of Heilman. By
some means or other a hoop became de
tached from the barrel, and the end of it
entered Heilman's ear. The constant
jolting of the wagon only helped to drive
it in deeper, and when they had reached
Heilman's house it was found necessary
to draw it forth by main force. Heil
man lay in the wagon perfectly insensi
ble from pain and loss of blood. He was
carried into the hbnsa and placed in bed,
from which he never rose alive, the
wound causing his death in about a month
after the occurrence. The widow was
then thrown upon her own resources for
a livelihood. The farm, with no one to
look after it, soon became, valueless, and
was sold at a sacrifice. ' By the advice of
friends she brought suit against the par
ties who had sold her husband the liquor,
laying damages at $5,000. The case,
while beinsr tried, attracted great atten
tion, it being the first of the kind that
has ever been tried in the State, and was
considered in one way as a test case.
After consuming three days in hearing
the testimony and listening to the argu
ments, the case was submitted to the
jury, who returned a verdict giving the
widow $325. The advocates of temper
ance consider the verdict a victory to
their cause.
The Tollers of Age.
Among those whom Gov. Tildeu in
vited to attend the Bryant reception was
A. T. Stewart, who replied by a polite
note. He could not spare the time. In
fact, Stewart has not been in Albany
since he attended as a lobbyist, in order
to prevent the Broadway railway. Stew
art is 74, and being the owner of many
millions, might indulge in an easy mode
of life, but such is not his disposition.
This leads me to observe that New York
contains a remarkable group of laborious
old men -toilers con a more amateurs
of work, whese zest of life would be lost
without the daily task. In addition to i
Stewart, there is Moses Taylor, who is
nearly oi uie same age. rie is irresi
dent of the City Bank, and is worth
$5,000,000, but his application to busi
ness is of an unremitting character.
Commodore Vanderbilt, at 80, "may be
found daily at his office. This is not in
the Grand Union Depot (his place there
being supplied by bis son William), but
is next to his residence in Fourth street,
a quiet and retired spot suited to a calcu
lator. The front room is occupied by a
clerk, and in the rear office the Commo
dore receives special visitors, and goes
through his daily duty. His library of .
railway reports is well read, and he has
books of calculations upon transportation,
and all the minutiae of his realm, which
are thoroughly studied, fit he omitted
this, he Would soon sink into dotage.
William B. Astor, who is more than ?0,
visits the land office every day, and
keeps a clear view of his immense estate,
although its principal care is in the
hands of his son, John Jacob. George
Law and Daniel Drew are now 76, and
yet attend to their usual engagements.
Peter Cooper is 81, and yet calls himself
a business man, and has a private office
in the institution which he founded,
where he carries on daily routine. Ed
ward Mathews, 75, is eager for tenants to
occupy his suites of offices near Wall
street. Charles O'Conor, at 78, is still
in legal practice, though he objects to
going before a jury. These meat work
in obedience to the law of nature which
makes industry essential to the greatest
amount of happiness. I may add that
all our millionaires (except a few who in
herited wealth) are over CO.
Our oldest working pastor is four years
younger than Bryant. I refer to Stephen
H. Tyng, rector of St. George's Church,
who is 75. He still retains his power to
a remarkable degree, and is able to satis
fy the tastes of a critical congregation.
In his day of fullness Rector Tyng was a
model of. pulpit eloquence. He has now
the mildness, but not the chill, of old
age, but what he has lost in
fire " is gained in love. The next
of our ministry in point of years is Ver
milye, of the Reformed Dutch Church,
who is Tyng's junior by only three
years. To these is to be added the once
brilliant Samuel H. Cox, who, though
nearly 84, still occasionally appears in
pulpit service. -JVew York Cor. Cincin
nati Gazette..
Disease.
The Nornstown jxerata tells this little
story for physicians : Mr. Bunnell was
sick abed when his son William, 15 years
of age, read about a book entitled " The
Influence of Musio on Disease," in
which, it was stated, the writer explained
what diseases it was necessary to fiddle
at, what to play the flute over, and what
to treat to the acoordeon once every two
hours and so forth. William meditated
awhile, and then concluded ha would try
a dose of fiddle on his parent So he
procured that instrument, took a posi
tion in the sick chamber, and com
menced to tune up. , The fiddle only
possessed two strings,' and even William
mentally confessed, as he scraped away,
that the musio emitted was not equal to
Theodore Thomas' orchestra ; but he
couldn't help thinking how much cheap-,
er and simpler the "music cure" was
than to pay a doctor a dollar a visit and
swallow a lot of awful medicine. Mr.
Bunnell ; was dozing ? when his well
meaning son commenced waking wild
strains, and at the first sound the sick
man clutched the air convulsively with
his right hand evidently dreaming that
he heard cats growling in the back yard,
and instinctively reached for a brick, or
a bootjack, or a something that way.
William played wrfil much earnestness,
and before he had fiddled half through
" Mulligan G tsar da " his father had raised
himself to a sitting posture, without a
rest for his back. Thus encouraged,
William slid off into " It will never do to
give it np so," and Mr. Bunnell now
swung his left leg out of bed and gazed
painfully at his son. a William was de
lighted at his success in raising the old
man, and pitched into "The Last Rose
of Summer' with renewed energy, rush
ing through the air without once going
back to pick up dropped notes and
things. And " The Last Rose of Sum
mer" was the last of William. The in
fluence of musio upon Mr. Bunnell's ail
ment was marvelous. It seemed to im
bue him with new life and strength, for
just as William was about to saw out
" Pop Goes the Weasel," his "pop"
popped out of bed, wrenched the violin
from his son's hands, splintered it over
his head, and with his right foot lifted
him out of the room in the most hurried
and emdhatio manner on record.
It is a question now which recovers
first Mr. Bunnell or his son. The
doctor thinks the chances are in favor of
father. . '
Political Memoranda.
The St. Louis Republican calls him
" Amos" Cameron.
The New York Graphic tliinks the
next Senate will be remarkable only for
the men who are not there. -
Wheeler, of the Wheeler & Wilson
Sewing Machine Company, is a promi
nent Democrat in Connecticut.
The Hon. Scott Wike, Congressman
elect from the Quincy (111.) district, in
tends making an extended tour of the
Southern States.
Aniy Johnson will meet in the Senate
only one member who voted against his
impeachment Senator McCreery, of
Kentucky. ,, -
The Democratic gubernatural slate in
Ohio for next fall is made out. For Gov
ernor, William Allen ; for Lieutenant
Governor, S. F. Carey.
Thtjblow Weed has given the Tennes
see Legislature a new name. He says
"the whirligig of time has returned Andy
Johnson to tlio Senate."
Senator-elect Eaton, of Connecticut,
writes a Hartf f ord correspondent, will be
a prominent figure in the next Congress.
He is a bitter opponent, a rabid party
man, and a thorough believer in the Dem
ocratic party. He will say " salt" when
he means salt, and not attempt to pass it
off as sugar.
The Albany Tue reminds us that
while Virginia used to be called the
" mother of Presidents," New York is
earning the title of the mother of Sena
tors. The newly elected Senators from
Michigan, Nebraska and Wisconsin
Messrs. Christiancy, Paddock and Cam
eron were all born in New York.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin says : "In
reply to the numerous reports here and
elsewhere which are in circulation rela
tive to the probability that Senator Car
penter will leave the State and reside in
New York or Washington, we can speak
from authority when we say that he has
' no such intention, and that he does not,
in any event, propose to leave Milwaukee
to practice law elsewhere, or accept any
office which may be tendered him in the
gift of the President. He intends to re
main in this State for the purpose of
showing to his friends that he will stand
by them as they have stood by him, and
will leave the future to determine whether
he is worthy of that generous confidence
they have reposed in him.
The Idyl of the Streets.
She was a stout, florid woman, remark
ably stout and florid, but she was richly
dressed, and as she came down ; Olive
street the manner in which she curled
her lip and turned up her nose at women
whom she passed more plainly appar
eled was frequwat, and painful, and free,
as the poet expresses it. Stie was lead
ing a poodle by a ribbon why is it that
fat, florid women always wear a poodle?
and the dog was a marvel in its kind. It
was very snaall and very vicious, snap
ping at the feet of pedestrians, and its
diminutive and homely body covered
with frowzy wool, was almost concealed
by an elaborate blanket, which left only
head and legs and tail exposed. And so
they came sailing down Olive street, fat,
aristocratic woman and small, aristocrat
ic dog, and they were perfectly satafied
with themselves, though no one else
might be. But tempora mutamtur, et
nos inut&mur in ifliK, and sometimes the
chftngo occurs with depressing sudden
ness. Some careless shop-keeper had
thrown a pail of water upon the sidewalk
the night before, and the bitter cold had
transformed the water into a surface hard
as adamant, smooth as the highway to
perdition. She came along with the
stately tread adapted to her style, but
she did not Bee the sidewalk in its icy
guile. Her double chin was elevated far
too Jiighly, and her eyes too full
of a placid and contemplative
inner consciousness to" admit of
noting things terrestrial. Like a Span
ish galleon of the olden time sue came
still sailing on until she touched the ice
patch. How shall one paint the trans
formation scene ? Two pudgy feet
pawed frantically the glistemng surface,
then shot swiftly ' forward as the body
they supported Started started back.
There was a fierce rush downward of
waving arms and (f ros grai and seal
skin and adipose tissue, and the earth
absolutely shook with the concussion ?
Slowly and painfully the stately female
rose and glanced about her, but the dog :
oh, where was he ? There he lay, but
what a spectacle! Come to the bridal
chamber, Death ; come in consumption's
ghastly form, the earthquake's shock,
the ocean's storm, et cetera, but do not
come to a small dog in the shape of two
hundred and twenty-five pounds of solid
female flesh, if you want to hear him give
a single yelp I Urusned beneatn a mass
of quivering humanity! Truly in the
midst of life we are in death ! ' There he
lay, the aristocratic poodle, and though
he covered ground enough for a good
sixed fighting . dog,' yon ' might have
passed him through a crack in a door.
So late a wonder among pets, he was
now better fitted for a book-mark in a
family Bible I ' And the stately woman
sobbed asthmatically and hired a boy to
carry home the corpse, and the tragedy
was ended. & Louin Republican. ,
Twenty years ago- on Saturday, Feb.
10, 1855 Vice-President Wilson took his
seat jn the United States Senate as the
successor of Edward Everett, ; The Sen
ate then occupied the Old Chamber, now
the United States Supreme Court room.
Of the sixty-one other gentlemen who
occupied seats in the Senate at that time,
thirty-seven have passed away, and of the
twenty-four who survive, the only one
now in the Senate is Hannibal TTa-mlin,
of Maine. The latter has not, however,
served continuously as a Senator, having
meanwhile served as Vice-President, as
Governor of Maine, and as Collector of
the Port of Boston. Mr. Wilson has
kept an autograph album, in which he
has secured the signatures of all with
whom he has sat in the Senate, accom
panied by all the dates of their births.
The signatures now number 260, embrac
ing many of the greatest and some of the
worst of the public men of this eventful
generation. , .
THE CONFEDERATE TREASURE.
A Doubtful story from a California Paper.
When the Confederate army under
Gen. Lee was forced back from the
trenches at Petersburg by the Federal
army, President Davis humedlv ordered
about fourteen millions of dollars, the
property of the banks of Virginia and of
the Confederate States, to be placed on
trains at Richmond and sent South, in
tending to convey it to the trans-Missis
sippi Department, if possible, there to
make a final stand.. The treasure was
carried down to Charlotte, N. C, where
the railroad ended. At this place it was
decided to leave the money belonging to
the banks of Virginia, in keeping of their
officers. The rest of the money, belong
ing to the Confederate States, was placed
in wagons, and the retreat continued.
The brigades of Gens. Basil Duke and
Vanghn, who had succeeded in escaping
from Fast Tennessee, and had arrived at
Charlotte a few days before, were placed
under the orders of Gen. John C. Breck
inridge to act as an escort to the treas
ure, . and the command proceeded
South until Greensboro, Washington
county, Ga., was reached. At this point
information was received that the Federal
General, Wilson, had captured Macon, a
few miles distant, and in the line of
retreat to the trans-Mississippi Depart
ment. The news soon got among the
men. They became demoralized, and a
rush was made for the wagons containing
the treasure. It was speedily divided up
among them, the officers being unable to
restrain the men. Among the lucky ones
were two soldiers belonging to Company
B, Third Tennessee mounted infantry,
of Vaughn's brigade, from Monroe coun
ty, Tenn. One of them was named Al
bert Stevens, and the other we will rail
J. T. Jones. They had cliarge ot a
wagon containing 150,000 in gold; and
when the panic spread among the
soldiers, and the cry was "sauve qui
peut," they retained their presence of
mind, and drove off in the woods, where
they divided the money, making some
$75,000 apiece, and separated, Stevens
taking his to Ins home in Tennessee,
where he buried it, confiding its biding
place to Ids mother, a very old lady.
Finding that it would be dangerous for
him to remain in Tennessee, owing to
the unsettled condition of things there,
the people being equally divided on the
question of the war, he went to Georgia,
wLere he found Jones, who had bought
a small place and was quietly waiting
until it woidd be safe for 1dm to return
home. Stevens staid awhile with Jones,
and then went off to another part of
Georgia to visit some relatives. Before
going, however, he informed Jones about
the hiding place of his money and his
mothers knowledge of its whereabouts.
As soon as Stevens was gone Jones
mounted Ids horse and made a bee-line
for Tennessee, to the place where Stevens
lived. Arriving there he presented his
comrade's mother with a forged letter,
purporting to come from her son, direct
ing her to deliver the money to Jones,
which the old lady did. Jones then
started direct for California. Arriving
here he purchased a large tract of land
in Mendocino county, land being very
low at that time, and has since amassed
a large fortune in addition to his ill-gotten
gains, and is now highly respected and a
member of the church.
Ia the course of time Stevens, having
ascertained that it would be safe, started
for tome, possibly dreaming of a future
life of ease and comfort on some blue
grs8 farm, raising fat cattle and blooded
horses, this being your average ILentuck
ian's or TeiinesRaah's idea of aa earthly
paradise. On reaching home he soon
found out his loss. Buckling on his re
volver, he soured the entire South and
West in search of his faithless friend,
vowing to shoot him. en sight and only
recently ascertained his whereabouts. He
is now in correspondence with a promi
nent lawyer of tkis city, and an attempt
will shortly be made to bring Jones to
account through the courts. San JPraM
cisco Examiner.
Her Hxsbond's Isrtter.
A middle-aged woman had a letter
handed her at the general delivery in the
Post-office yesterday, and aiie sat down on
a window- ill and read iL Her interest
was intense fixmi the start,' and she spoke
up and said ;
" He calls ate his little darling ; that's
good!"
I After reading a few more lines she
i said :
j "And he Misses my society so much !"
Half way down the page she spoke
again :
"And he falls me his sunbeam his
guardian angL"
She climl-d up on the sill a little fur-
i ther. turned the letter over, and mused :
"And he's lost three pounds of flesh
I worrying over my healtli. He's just a
i dear, loving old "darling, that's what he
) is!"
' She reached the top of the fourth page
i and exclaimed :
f. " What ! going to Flint, eh ?"
i ' Further down she growled :
"And he met that red-neaaeU widow
Kernshaw on the cars, eh i 111 see about
that. He probably didn't tell her he
was married !" "
She got down to the " P.-S.," glanced
over a couple of linos, and then yelled
right out : '
" Not coming home until next week !
Trains snowed in ! Great press of busi-
nena f T'll haa whether li A inn't nnmtnff '
Bub, where's the telegraph office f"
And she ran across the street and sent
him a dispatch winch made the opera
tor's hair stand up as he received and
read it. 7-Vce lrcx.
A Snow Writer. Yesterday, while
some negro steamboatmen were being
paid off, the clerk inquired of each one
as he came up to sign the payroll, "Will
you write your name or make an X?"
Tha first one said he could write his
name, and the pen was handed him. He
looked at the pen, scrutinized the pay
roll, and hesitated so long that the clerk
poked him up. " Let's sec," mused the
darkey, as hp looked 1 up- at the clock;
"it's now 10 o'clock, and I've got to
meet a feller at the City Hall at noon;' I
guess I won't write my name, but IH
put down an X. Detroit Free Pre.
-. According to the Memphis Appeal
a queer marriage " took placo at Jasper,
Term., the other day. The bridegroom,
Mr. Martin, had attained his seventy
sixth year, while the bride was a blush
ing girl of only thirteen. To add to the
charms of the little, modest maiden, the
threescore and sixteen gave his bride
$3,000 as a marriage gift. .
The aggregate of imports and exports
with the United States upon the part
of Great Britain, during the past year,
amounted to 105,000,000, or one-sixth
of Britain's whole aggregate trado . with
all the world, or nearly twice as mnch as
she has with France, which comes first
after tha United States.
now the head of the family, re
trtrning from his ' club " through the
sharp midnight air, gently rolls his
sleeping spouse over to the cold side of
the bed, and sinks softly into the vacated
spot with a sigh of thankfulness.
All Sorts
' Miss Kkllogg is said' to b cJeoriiiffr
$2,500 per week for her share in EnglisW-.
opera. .;.-,.'. ',"7: '.'-''. v. ''
'Ik some of the new styles tbpre is no
change. Poor relative are cat the BamT
a? last year.
Tbb value of coal produced annually'
from all sources of England is estimatea.
at $620,000,000.
It is rumored that the Herald eats&Mah
ment will issue an illustrated daily to
rival the Graphic
" A Minnesota main, who ' pTopbocietTt
mild weather for January, was foxmdt
frozen to death in bed.
Wit Is (he number of wise men so small T
Because to be stupid's so easy that's all.
How to be contented Look at tlies
bole in Jones' coat sleeve, and then at th
neat patch on your own. -
Yalk has turned out two hundred Con
gressmen. Fathers, think of this, tvnd
send your sons to Harvard.
'I came off with flying colors, as the
painter said when he fell from the laddcer
with a pallette on his thumb.
Mil. Sherman has introduced into th
New York Legislature a bill regulating;
the time for fishing throughout the Ktateu
Hob & Co. of New York, have a school
room in their factory, and compel their
apprentices to spend two hoars a day in
study. 1
Tub fine of $5,000 imposed upon thi
sender of a scurrillous postal card ixr
New York the other day ought to serve a
as a lesson the world over. .
Last week six vessels; arrived at Balti
more from Rio Janeiro, bringing 28.00D
bags of coffee, containing 3,$24,O0G
pounds, valued at $900,000.
TirjJEM, Bryant, Dix, Booth, JWmsoiv.
Hendricks anil Sheridan havo fall beau
mentioned as possible runner is the
great political Derby of 1876. f
In presiding over the Maine Consti
tutional Qommis8ion, Hon. Edward Kent,
occupies the same chair in which luMag ,
as Governor of the State thirty five yeara
ago. "
It is proposed to increase the dog tax
in England from Be, which it is now, to
10s. The object of the increase is to re
duce the present number of useless
brutes.
Rev. Robkht Laikd Coujcek, who is-.
now preaching at Leicester, England,,
writes that his health is entirely recov
ered, and that he will return to Americnu
in June.
Vaaquzz, the California bandit, luaWi
been convicted of thirty -seven murdeTR. .
I( punished for each offense it would
tak about seven hours for him to strangle
at twelve minutes a hang.
I sever could believe that providence
sent a few men into the world, .jeady -booted
and spurred to ride, and millions -
ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.
Richard liumbold, when ontkoGmaffoid,-,
1685.
Mrs. Ei.t,! who flattered tiie Russian
Czar's nephew out of his diamonds Ned X -Buntline,
Mark Twain, A,. J. Butler -Ben's
brotherand George Butler, hi t
nephew, were all residents at one tixne of T
A Hannibal, Mo.
A mam and his wife both: eloped from i
Kearney City, Neb., on th same night a .
short time ago, each leaving a note for -the
other, saying they had. gone for -good:
"Two sool .with but a single
thought,'' etc r
It is estimated by a New York paper that ;
the average cow yields only 7,000 gallons . .
of pure milk. Let's see 7,000 gallon
of milk 14,000 gallons of water 200
pounds of whiting-well, call it 22,000
gallons altogether.
At Nantes, in France, .the Davenport
Brothers gave their usual exhibition, but ":
the knots were tied by an old sailor. -The
result was bob. as usual ; instead oi.?
five minutes those knots amused the i
spirits for just half, an hour.
In the first week of December there
were 94,999 paupers, indoor and outdoor,,
relieved in London; the second week,.,.
95,879; the third week, 90,557; ' the
fourth week, !357r am addition to. the-
list during December of 2,35Sb
A man accomplished the journey from.'
Brighton, Cat. to Sacramento, the other
day, in a liand-car propelled by the wind.. -In
the absence of a sail, he unfolded hisv
ears and made the trip in about fifteen,,
minutes. Distance, eight miles.
Evf.r friend and admirer of the poet.'
Whittier will be sorry to hear of the great
feebleness of his health this winter.
Never strong, the inclemency of thin
season haa told hardly upon him, and h
immediate friends are extremely anxione.
about him. t
Mr. Petkr BicKEi, .of, Milwaukee, not
knowing a bank I wherein he could safely
deposit his money, deposited $278 in lusv
coai bin. When he went for it he fount!
some one had , been there while be wajB
away. The servant girl admitted that .
she did it with her little scuttle. ,
Nid Vosit used to travel around. Colo
rado with a performing bear, bnt a greato -change
came one day last week, and nov
the bear travels around alone, thinkinw
! over old timcw. nrul nmuinnolU
i . ; 7 ' . j j.iiiuj.
"6"" hot I JJlulg BIJUUUI UltOUKXItt.
his bowels. Ned is inside that bear.
N. Mdller, a member of the Rosoiatfe
expedition to Siberia, has made a tre
mendous discovery, and has communi
cated it forthwith with great nrenxa
Btantiiility to the St. Petersburg (leors.lj-.
cal Society. It ia that the "North Ita2fe
is not an isolated point, but a territory
of a certain extent. And he thinka 1
is going to explore it,
It is a coincidence that Angus Can-.
eron, the new Senator from Wisconsin to
succeed Matt Carpenter, was bom in tltti-.
same town as ex-Senator DoolitUe, wlteaon
Mr. Carpenter succeeded. He pracfid i
his profession at Buffalo for several'
years, but, through dissipation, became
very mnch reduced
though he was recognized as having rw-I
siderable leesd abilitv. Rmnnvinn
Buffalo to La Crosse, in 1857, la trned.
over a new leaf, and, after tilling, aeveraX
pnbhc offices, was sent to, th lWiU
ture, and was- elected! Speaker in 1867,
Cnhaa Spseol&tsoo.
A Havana eorxespondent says : Th
epecnlabve propensity here is aomelhiurr
wonderful. Gold may, open at SiViE
nf?u.bo "6 the afternoon ckv
at 104. Ten, fifteen or twenty per onnt
is a mere bagafceUeeither np or clown,
and is caused by anything or noUxLa'
mav be said to be a Cuban symjW,
makes his atipearance with a nh.
luce, wnispers oonfithngly to a framed!
uuu ugam Barnes, . is tne innoennt cstjsT,
of a rise of perhaps 13 per wr.- i
out comes one of their, exeer !
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