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t (' ' ' ' ' -' ' T ,V 50 .................. 0 1(Kilvf uncu,ty,cclicorA-.....i 00 - S;iirTt '-ru--.. '. ..Ton cents. Sufetmrtl r4 tirilu S ln county will be clmr-tid -20 k-mis extra- f-2 .0 for the year as that is the nmnniit of jiostnse "per ftunnni Uiuh. vri.! arc required to luy on each papes nutiV-Il-jMi. - " One copy, one year. .... buzzing along the tail told roe to be Uvely The re light was burning out faintly; five minutes more and w wouia go our. For an instant iw para lyzed, when a shrill scream fronv" tlie engine brooght me to my senses, and I raw that inside of. two . minutes more she .would he there. , ' .-. . .4 s, J "Seizing the lantern with one band, I struck the last match, and, bending down, laid it carefully inside the straw, il.nii daehrvl forward, waving the W1 lr.Tlii;' The olare from the head- dyoe; and taxed ;him with; itl Steve said nothing, but bo . oulv shook his head and looked gravely .at me wlien 1 1 solved my praised htnr. lie never saiu worsf about Mr. .Fordyoe than that he did no t- beheve in linn. . Steve objected to; roy. intimaey with- him on rather General grounds, and I answered in such an ill. tempered manner that Steve, not being ice, but flint, struck tire and, retorted angrily for the first timer?n.all our . ac quaintance. The j result 'was a' serious coolness. Steve apologized for his wart light shone down the track; and the en-the next day, but I listened coolly aud situation would have been capable o n'i, imovneetedness of the attack uis- I . ,T'-.l 1.t.1 Ottth he let mo go, and l uariccb away with winged feet, aml met aOiCj the ca8f-fl-e. Ot coursoj I tj'f 4 and there; and iy w'i'fr. roiueeiviiat A HESl KIPTIOJi O' ft -P THE TKLKI'IIOKK. 5 It appears that Salem people! 4ave been fcpoeiatli idnclriill ItAfi- pursuit efc'ctncily" rn" passmc netic helis . " Acu'.s for tine Resistor. ill;; '. .' Tlie fiinr-.v5ng nfniic l -iren 1 H-mc-ii arc nuthor-izoil'-f1 iV-it wiiit "lWi-ipt snhwriptlons to IliaiilhiUlEiTKU in liio localUiias mam ion"V : Mt-.r-ifa; Kfrk X: Hm:io .Urownsvinp." ItolMTt f i . .Craw fordsvilltw W. niitlt TTiUwy O. lsTHji',;iHa.,..i,,.s.c......iOiirrisburg j S. II. ".au rhfon U'lnnon. A. Win :t t'o.-i...!.. ....... wi.AJ.i.i.HSMJ. Mc:'oij inllU & IStusilu'.d .. Junction City. j. uTir-H u'.. ... s io. Tlnteif i ! UJ- ;lol Jtf . i. . ... ..... .SUcUl. FltrDAY .. MAKC1I iJT 1877: A B3..IiISn.l5TS'"STOT. Te sir,' said the brakesman, as he Ftofed by tlie stove warhiiiig his numbed hand? after coming in from . brakiug. tl,eoplo.,thiik, as they sit here on their warm beats, and only hear us call out thejdiiTercnt stations, tliat we have a nice, soft, eay time. Jut we know better..; ImagiiKj yourself out on a flat carf all 'ljight, with the snow dashing iiitp your face, your hands on a cold n-cur brake, and think if that's easy; or non to of a frcight car, running along, the wind "cutting like a knife, dark as pitch, and watching for fear you may rui-h suddenly under a bridge arid be swept elf, and perhaps left to die in the snow.- Is that easy t Docs that look like a soft job ? To be sure, when we ar transferred to passenger cars the work is Jiice enough, but the laugers we. Itave to go thro Jgh (fir generally we, have to go on freight cars first) enti tles s for something better ,ou a pas seoger car, ad we aui't sorry, whea we gef orders to lake the head end of such a regular train. . ., .... 'Thc:e are very" few brakemen who caiit teU some neverrto-be-forgotteii in cid'errt eonr.ected" with - their life bri the rail.'ro explain, let me tell you a story ot my own exjerience. I remem ber one night, it was fearfully cold, right" in the middle' of winter, and snWing hard, I was brakeman in the middle of a freight train. " It was run-' ' ning along On slow time that night,and Ave were two or three miles : from the station. I was standing by the brake of a flat car, trying to get wana by .stamp- red litrht the sudden waviim had; put it outon!y screeching he came straight on. ; When the train was almost on me, I jumped to one side, andj slinging the lantern over my head , dashed it i into the cab. The engineer saw the lamp as It broke on the., floor, and, seeing the red glass and battered lantern, whistled the dancer signal and tried to check up. "Looking down the track, I almost j Screamed" from excitement. The last oiat'cfi had' found a dry spot, and the straw'was'blaziag up bright. The train eameto a standstill. She was saved j that's 11 1 remember. - f ' MThe next I knew I Was. in the bag gage car. They said they had . found me lying by the train in a dead faint, aud excuse me, we are going to stop nOW." ; - .i. - -. ; jej L-tii-iinh- j Stamford!" he . 6ung out. if Tho train stopped, and the writer .went home satisfied that a brakesman's life is an exciting oue. . . . . j 1 flirted with Mr, Vordyce more des-. perately than ever after . that, but - the affair had really lost all its relish tor me. I went recklessly on in my foolish course, till Mr. Fordyce in -so many -words aked me to marry. Itiro. I do not know What it was about the mam that all at'once struck-me as' insincere. I knew that he did not mean what he said r and yet he wore a very love-like. MV- rUKTATIO.V. TIT A MARRIED WOMA5T, '! , I had plenty of beaux when I was yonng, and liked that very well. How ever, i had ' heart enough at bottom, and when Stephen: l.ash ley asked me to marry him, in tho , eud T consented, though 1 kept him in suspense along at first. . " ;.. , . i i Xeither Steve nor Iwerd rich. My father had sufficient ineome to keep the family ra a good style of living; but ho saved, nothing, "and I could j expect could go back to tli caboose out of the bitier;al4 whea suddenly , I; felt the traiu ."bumping, and jumping as if a whQtX jhad. broken, and I knew some thhig' was wrong. The whistle "blew to? brake.' and in mighty short time we h5 the tra'h stopped. ' - ' Vith the rest of the men, I went tiack to see what was the matter, think iugjhat I. might get a chance at the stove for I was tiearly frozen. Going lack 'about three hundred feet, we found that-'oSe of 11 e rails lad got loose and waro:it of place, but, as we had Jjeen going slow, we had run over the spot salety. . Our conductor looked up, aud, seeing me, said : , i :i ; '. " 'Jim. get back and signal tho pas scfigcr train. She will be along in no lime, now ; and ; take this, he said, haridirig me a Ted-light lantern 'we'll jo on. Vou cancan come along JwiUi the other train.' ' : ' .'- -'Vith thafcad lianda got on board, aud soon them waa nothing but myself and tlie lantern left. : "A cold grt brought me to myself with- a if nick 'turn, and i then I remem Lcrd wliatLliad to do. .Holdings tlie lautt;ru ujv I saw the light was tiicker iiig, aud, shaking it found ait --alxaost empty, r i'ljeal.began to, feel the re spoiisibirujrof iiny jjositiop- 4 A. lamp withQut pU in.it,4be traibi:4ue .in ten rnumtes with tlie chances" of its. being thrown off the , track,' and lio telling liow manVpeoplo kiUed or wounded 1 Injli case of,4hia kul, sir, every Jbrakes- nbthiiics from him when" I married. Steve had just begun to practice medi cine, and was struggling as young doc tors must. There was a pretty house just outside the town that Steve and I liad out eye on for a long tmie, and I had promised to become his wife as soon as he could call it hia owu, . : 15y dint of such struggling and econ omy as I never could have guessed, he had put by enough T for the first' pay-, meutr and, was , plodding patiently. :on toward the second and lasw .. , , . , I can see now what a 6erfisli creature I was, w hat a w re tch , i nd eed to pi ease myself ri With the flatteries of -others while Steve was woikii g so faithfully ing, wishiug we were at the depot, so I - Tliat sounds astirongli t wasn't going to marry Steve for love, but I was. Our town was something of a ' fash ionable Hjsort fbrMsnwimer boarders and many ; of the people were in the habit of taking boarders theii Father had always" objected to- our doing so ; but this Summer ot which I speak he tell iu witu a stranger, as , I.e was re turning from a long ride in the coun try, who 'having shared his pha?ton with him during the homeward drive, suc ceeded in so ingratiating himself, with my father that he allowed him to board with us. : '" ;' " ! ' ' ' " TTie sti anger was very rhucTi in my line distinguished looking, possessing an eloquent pair of 'eyes, nearly the color of" my own, and having a propen sity to saying "pretty things" that was just delicious to a girl of my turn. It wa? such fmi te draw him out, and then laugh at hirrr; to pretend pleasure, tlien sltyuess;ta invite aud ' repulse in the same breath. If was a genuine flirta tion, as ranch so to him as to nic; .. ' i Steve came often to see me, but lie i did not see me alone, and. l a never stayed late. I .Steve's sister Marian and I wcto intu mate,, and 'spent much., time together. Pwos Steve enjoyed my visits to Iai iau macli better titan lie did see:ng me any where else, and I liked it too, as much because ot;. seeing , liim as larian. It was. then a mlterable piece of heartless ne8s for me to permit Mr. Fordyce the f stranger," !to accompany, me t hither, thus "taradm'!rJ as t: were ' mv eorio uesta roan wpl ao.ms pest tosavc numau lre,, and- tlie accomplishments and attinc- altuougb. he sometimes loses dis. own in tious ot Steve's new jival, in tho most the auejeopt, ana an mat ne gets ior u jg- having Ins' Hams irV the "r p,aper and "being? a" braVe-fellow.' v;!?:. ' "Uuicker tlian Ilell Hi I made up my ruind that the train must . be signaled, lamp or ho lamp. Hut lipw ' to do it as the" question. If I ran ahead with out a Hcrlft 'the engineer might think T disagreeable manner possible., j ) Steve . was good-natured, ami this disappointment . to himself, but he aid not like air. iordvce, and ne was tjuite alone in that. Everybody liked Mr' -lordyce but Steve. He was an immensely 'popular' man" in our small did air, ana fie would -- nave- clasped and kissed me it I had not shrunk swiftly away. . ' I answered him, however, as- though, he had spoken sincerely," and told him, what I do not often acknowledge, I was engaged to Steve "T.ashley. ' No man likes to hear "No"from a woman's lips when even his etition is an idle one. For the first time I saw "Mr. Fordyce's face distorted with a sneer, of mingled ancer and- dislike. and I knew that my poor Steve's strange feeling toward Mr .Fordyeewas reciprocated by that geiw tleman with equal intensity. One night there was a party at Steve's father's. It was Marian's birthday, Mr. Fordyce took me over about eight o'clock. It was a gay party. . e fiad dancing, which we do not always have, and the music and supper, were good. I danced with Steve several times, and, beinr in eood spirits, found : it rather difficult to maintain the distance I had lately adepted toward him. " His 'eyes too; had sucli a sott, tender "light in them, ami his lips such brightness. "Come into the garden a moment, Bell," he whispered to me at the close of a dance; "I have something to sav to you ; " and for the life of me I could not av no. When we were in tho bright moonlit garden, he - stopped 'where a clump of li'ac bushes hid us from the house, and drew from his losom a roll of notes. "fl shall finish paying for our, house, to-morrow, dear, he said in a voice that excessive happiness made tremu lous. "I drew the money from the bank to-day twenty-five hundred dol lars. Ah, bow 1 have worked tor this hour!" -?" .-..:- I should have been harder than a mill-stone it I had not fbrgotteu all my foolish anger at that moment, it I liad , not melted rather from my coldness; tor I was as-glad 'as. he was, and ;I dropped my bead on liis shoulder there in the modnlight, and cried happy, happy, remorseless tears. "Steve," I said, "you will let me keep the money till morning. . I shall, think I have dreamed if .you don't." . Steve laughed, but let me have my war. Ah. what a foolish whim it was! Few women would have dared to take charge of such a sum of money ; aud fewer men would have permitted then. But Steve knew it was as safe, to all common calculation, with me as with himself.: - ' ;;;.;.-. As we turned toward tlie house for a sifgle instant I thought I saw the . .. . t i . snauow oi a mau across our paui ; u, looking back, I saw nothing but the lilac bushes tossing in jJc summer air. "What's" the matter'?,' said' Steve, noticing my backward gaze. '. i "I tiiought I sawlhe figure of a man crossing the path," I replied. x i "i onsCnse. said lie : and ' wre were in-doors. I 1 ;'"' Well, Sieve and I were the: happiest pair there that night ; and Mr. Fordyce saw, and -could not quite keep, his eyes from saying that he hated us both - tor it. or I fancied so. .; ,-, , , . lhe party broke up at 12 o'clock ; that was late for us, and Mr. Fordyce, haying brought me there, took, rqe home. On the way he told me of ah other robbery that had taken place the night" before at one of the hotels. A person had been robbed of ?500 j which he had just received at the bank. sPcr. haps it was that story that mado me, tired as 1" was: bestow some thought on a hiding placo for Steve's; money.i I nrmdArAil vnrv enrtuialv as T f rtnlf flAwn ' J " 'J t mv hair and arranaed for 'the. nicht ? then with a laugh at my own ingenuity I tucked the roll ot notes in my luxuri ant tresses, and drew a net oyer Co.hold au in place, a was asleep ..almost- as soon as ray head touched: the pillow. got into my room my good his escape. Alas, however, he should not have allowed himself to swear, above all, to a woman ot Rich acufc ears as I had. I had heard the voice and knew it be lmiTrrf WMriF6rdvee.t I i Father kii ft; turned paid wnen l tout himg Q j'UeiauUoiicd: me not to betray that I suspected any one present, and he took Steve's money under his special ehare. We all met at breautast. l should have said that Air. roruyce nau made, his appearance about- the same time as the rest of the family whom my, screams: bad! aroused, and in the most natural : '"nianner.; He came; down to breakfast now, smiling, ai.d gust inter ested enough in my adventure. Father went away into town after breakfast, and." -.Mr. Fordyoe sat in tho garden and Muoked. . "The officers who came to arrest him stole upon him from the back wav and secured lnm before he thought ot resistance. ; - ? It1 was... a. plain case. They found proof enough of robberies he h ad been at tl'e bottom of all along, hid Sway in his trunks, and he owned them. at last, with smiling nonchalance turning back his s'ceve actually, when ' no one ,was looking, and showing hie the priuta my teeth had mado on his right arm, and kissing them with the old gallant ein prossment. , ' ' .'.v '" ';;",' ; Of course Steve made bis payment, and we were; married at an early day. t fact that passing 'through a mag- or eoil ot wire, is produc tive of sound, was first discovered by Frofessor CbMe.-lage.'t)f this uWiee as long ago as 1$TJ Bis, dbseryalioiid were published, and, as lie was a maii ot large,..attahimQUts, his 3experiments attracted attention at home and abroad. Other scientists became'; interested - iu tho same line of investigation, among them the late Colonel Francis Pea body, of Salem. -The act,j.hcietoro, that sound could be conveyed electric ally to considerable distances has been j known for some time, and the nature of the expeiimentslheiewith -was shown on Monday'--evening in various Vavs. notably by the transmission from 1 5os ton to l.yccuin ' ITall of a telegvftphic message, which annouuce32itse.lt, rtotby . tlie usual dots fA Twomarr-is a director in a Peoria bank. g fearibaldi is said ,to bo .very jll, aud beyoibd Jione of recovery, f 1- . ' f : ' TJaltinioro is feeding iorfpoor on a bigcale.4 " In three weeks about 50,00.0 people have been fed at tho police tlonftj V -'S P. S. .There were last year: 7,959 deserters : frota the English arrhy,- and dot., some years past the desertions have averaged twenty a day..-. . , . ; A Worchestcr physician recently cut a roan's tongue completely off, the mem ber being diseased with cancer. J.uc patient is doing finely. "Tnc cold.hasbaen intese (for that ro- cion) in Florida.. During Christmas week the mercury several times reached as low as 2S degrees. ,, ,. ,. . .The large 'importations of American beef have at length sent down the price of English ' beef as ' much as 8d ou tho pound in somo'places.3r. " . Reports from the Negro Republic of was a very interesting ex norl and lines of teletrranhv. but by sounds ' of diilereiit' lengths. 1 Tliliena show that ' the condition of tho '" : Travelers who have visited . Brazil speak in glowing terms, of the country. Some who have sailed - up tlie Amazon declare that a vessel cart bo loaded with Brazil nuts at an expense of only a few cetts per bushel. These constitute a valuable article of commerce. All the tropical fruits are produced in Brazil almost without cultivation. Tho soil in many parts of tho country "will pro duce twenty successive crops of cotton, tobacco, or sugar cane, without the ap plication ot manure. No country in tho world approaches in the variety of its forest production. Professor Agas siz states that he saw 117 different kinds of valuable wocds that were cut from a piece . of. land not half, a mile square, i hey represented almost every variety of color, and many ot them were capable ot receiving a high polish One tree furnishes wax that is used tor caudles another pitch, tliat is used for food -and' ulf another yields a luico which is used in the place of intoxicat ing liquor. . Tliere is a single variety of palm from which the natives obtain food drinking, r bedding, cordage, fishing- tackle, medicine' arid the material they manufacture into dwellings, weaiions, harpoons and musical instruments. 1 his metit, But it remained for Professor Bell to discover that articulate sounds can be conveyed by the electrical' -: current This lie has done during his residence in Salem. Professor Bell is a Scotchman by birth, and is engaged in teaching in the State Institution for tho Deal and Dumb in Boston, where he employs the ingenious system of "visible speech," ot which he is the inventor. Associated with him iuJjistielephonic experiments is M r.Tboiriar?iy,J Watson, fof ; Salem to whom ;he-expressed jbis obligations? for valuable assistance ' ? : 1 lie apparatus by which this aston ishing result is secured is wonderfully simple. Only a telegraph wire, a hort-e-shoc magnet, twojielfces,, aikFa vibrat ing disk at each end. The andionce can see a mahogany box upon the table, or the appearance ot an ordinary photo grapher's camera. The tube in tlie end is used in this case to speak into and to hear out of. Within the box is a horse shoe magnet. Opposite each arm of the magnet is a helix of the usual con structiop. One end of the wire ampng the hclicsjs connected ,iyith Jthe ground, and the other with Boston or the place in operating connection. Set up against tho helices, within a sixteenth ot an inch, is a sheet ot thin polished iron, up on which the voice of the operator im "pir.ges when speaking. The magnet in duces an electrical current in the tele graph wire. The vibrating disk im parts potations to this electrical current corresponding .to. the souudswbieh are conveyed to Boston and reproduce them selves upon Hhelyibratingvdiskv- there with exactness 1 tone; and articulation. The little foiiWiiehes of -iron ntters the whole gamut ot theliuman voice. This is indeed wonderful the greatest acl.ievment of modern science. i&alem (.3a.?$.) OUservcr. That Ciikw o" Tobacco. Tobac co chewing is a hard habit to break off. There was once a man who made up his mind to quit chewing and he flung liis tobacco away. He bought gentian' and chewed it : he bought chamomile flowers, he chewed toothpicks and quills, aud. still nothing sa-istiicd him. His mouth : lasted as it it was lull of Gokl cream. The very lip of his tongue seemed to curl in the intensity of his desire for tobacco. He wanted it oh ! hoW badly. And so lie bought another piece." He held it up aud looking at it said : "Are ,you my master, or am 1 yours ? yum-m-m, : I want yon anoth- 'r glaring gaze at the slab. J J5ut I'm a man : you're a weed you re a thing. Look again. Ynro-m-m-m. You black devil, I'll master you ii I -die for, h.! v. It shall "never be said of me llmt 1 as a man am mastered by a thing.1 Ynin-m."1 Puts it into his pocket.) livery time he wanted a clrcw, he d take talk to it. and it got easier till at last he thvew -rll. aw glory of the victory raid tor the sutler tn nfk it'iil , ; , - - - - .. . - 1 "Too much.ee smartcc," was what the moon-eyed child of the Orient said to the ticket seller at the wharf when gold was demanded on three ' tickets to Stockton, at each, making $ 10.50. "You too muchee . smartcc ; you no catchce gold allee time." "Yes John, I must have gold for these tickets low inucuec $10.50. Come out.' one ticket V "Three dollars and a half." "Alio light, mo takec one,'' and he paid his three and a halt in sil ver, then bought anotfjpr, one and paid for it in silver, 'and bought a third in tho same way, thus having paid out 10.50 in silver without showing any gold. With a look of triumph the mild eyed son ot Confucius - gathered- in his - last ticket and said, "too muence emar tee." V ""V-"' The Brilisl if niit titi ll imiUiS lilliu warn. 4a lb ..A "isi and sooonit ciass iravei. j i ii " j the iiUarnuis ai)pearca - at v , i"ti . . - , . ..l .1 . ..1 siaiion anu uougut a iniiii ui von kni.-nr and would not onlv uasn I oil - . V communiiyi-emennsi as no aii wun 1 t ..v. t ,t..t "jij. """ ff ..i .rf , dreamed happy dreams, but I did not. for such thmgg have often been done, arid bearing himself genially, towards c mnnllr;fl,1Ann) LL,mr tn mffl wx, "nu TT 1 1.- 1 1 - nearest to us, lost a valuable horso from Ids stable, And came over to our house villi t on faster than . ever, and maybe try to scald mo asl he locomotiyd rushed by.fcl te!l yoii I felt like praying j?6 then; but brakesmen are not selected for tlxeir aejigipus feeltngs, so I didn't pray rniich'but" looked arouud i and , saw a light shining iii a window 6om distance . --fC I lald doWn my lantern carefully - on. the track,, made a. bee line for the - v kwHM.-nt aeon tny . knock ; brons;ht a woeuaik to the door, who. looked more frigUteued than I waS''at '.:' pay; excited appearance:' It was useless to ask - for sperm oil the only tind we use -so I ciietf outP' -' 6' Ood's sake give me feome 6traw.tr 'She seemed to realize Umi posidorip and f quickly brought a bundle. Feel in g'.ju niy pocket , I found tliree matcbes, findgrarbbirti thS .'straw, 1 fakde mjf way back to thetrack ; tg'l&S'oiQ tlie straw between tjie rails, ' Iukja matcb. and sho yed it pto the, bundle.,f,I,t flickered au: instant and-., then weiit out. I felt and" found the tftiswdnnptiw ' jSJut.tlaenKaidulI, faint, Tumbling $ruad jeamo down-- on the , wind and I. knew she was coming tho train would, "" goa'io there. "a ' V-tsf ' Tf-I stfticit'the-second match, and- it to see about pursuing 5 the thief, Mr. Fordyce, though he had just got home from ar iaunt with some itriends, which kept him most cf the night, insisted on being oimj oft the pursuing party, and, iudead-fluite led it It. was the same when Mc Dudevant's shop was broken open and robbed. ; M . Fordyce went over ana over the g shrewder "guesses as to had been managed Whi hther'tliAftu hf a clmilai- 'n-it.-i 1 and also 'ot lesser1 degree; continued to I addenlywitbout the warning oi'. verand,tm;Ie as f rom time to time. it breath,! was conscious that a, Iiaod was Mr? Fordycrwte lfisisted iv e- w8.!rl?S: WV. p5Ir s r m - .a ,.i i (iw " - - - Some one was in my room. I knew it as well- as' though I could see, and the room was too dark for tlmti -i There was no sound either) but for all that I knew, I was: not - alone. I tried to scream to raise my voice. , I was frozen with terror. ? 4 never once , thouglit of the money, or robbers, or anything that i Know ot- . i was only lnghtcned so that I could not move hand, or foot, or make a noise. . Idon't know but I The I.cwilon Tiller has nitsdoscrip- tiou ot Joseph's creek, tho-rendezvous of Joseph and his band : - . .Iti.empties itself into tno iiranu Ilonde-viver irom the - cast a short mis--: taucc above the tnouth oi tlie 5 rand lionde. - It is described as a small f stream 'ruhtdiig through a deep canyon or gorge ;jn the high" table lands, with vcijy, -uarixiw - bottom "-'lands? along the creelTf)cattits,;,ciyulh, densely covered with cotton-wood -trees and a tfvick nn-deigrowth-:-while-tho 6ides of tlte.cau yoirnrtf very rocky and precipitous, fur- ntsiung a well slieltered place agaiusl an attack of troops in case thofte lndiaus make a hostile stand against the whites. Our informant pays that one hundred resolute' Indians well armed aud sup plied could hold their position against a thousand troops who ; might attempt to dislodge them. : : j , .: " ff 1 tVt"? k PPed Ueathingl I can't.' remember vera measures, prevailed upon the au thorities to 8er largo rewards, for; the apprehension of the ofTenders And made himself so active in tlie matter as to win Gie'gratftade'bf the i whole towrii ?-lIe"6ften loiried eulf sociat gatherings and; became1 tbe-lifeioi' iUvool I - was lnw" , J r ,,,, -(. I did" not thiuk of money even . then. As terror had' stolen my. senses," so now it brought sonie of them baiSkl '4 1 ga.v0 one scream ana sprang from the bed, or tried to. Jwr strong hands stopped me: a firm band held me. whilA. K quite envied fa -bavunr feis escort so fre- other vamiy sought to loose my haia. (jseunyi nu nie inmoi wbh, very soon i xus io uwre uusunaie man nets usu- oirecuaaeu wia we were engaeea-. 'J are-wuia not come on nrooabiv v Steva andj! bad som. words on. the because, in his'lnrrryr my mysterious !' subject aeyerai tiniest, and .because' it assailant was unconscious of its' pliant was sa aausaal for him to insist in such mcsbes. He pufled my liaFr in 'Ma feuched off the straw. A blaze, a. liV-T a matter, I, resented it when he did; and awkward attempts tiortibJy:' The pais tie smoke, and"iT'wasdarfc again, and, f.the ;rnore I suspected myself to be I was nxe a spur to me.- As his arm Jay fuing my eyes, l saw tno neaa-ngm oi wrong, me more x resoiveai wouia not acrosw my arm, i oentmy neaa Bwutiy, l irad told -Mrs.. S boe approacuiiiLi kiaui away iu tuu uio- t uwu i v.v mj wsr iw; wuu: , ntjaru John it tftnee-. JLMID trams uon l crawi, anu nie i i uetectci rieve h uihiikb oi ixvr. rox- map wat wuij- wumau iu my j uaniuei had two Tho -Tonet Washington special says accounts - from- the South show a won- .: . ..... - .... f - - - -. . . derful change of sentiment . Prominent Southerner just from homo believe Hayes la powes to; do. more good tor: the South - thaiTildcn f could possibly have-done had -he been-elected, and al ready IIay$s has moro jcarncst friends among tUo Southern ijeoptetliarvTilden had prior to the dav of election'.'. One ccntleman says thcr Tevoiution is a senti ment beyond belief. and he expresses VIIO -COBVlCtlOIl - Wlim" iriifiirii pi ihvuvmo President Hayes will bo more popular in ! llia South titan ho now is in the North;-' v " '-'X'i'zJ'X ''"r;, : . 'T 1 - - I When a 'wotnarj" Int'e'tfds to wake np an enemy 6heay : '.iSJts.; Jasper told me that rho heard' Fleetwood's wile say that John .Smith's aunt mentioned to her that Mrs.- Busty was present when the widow of -Backus said tlvat Hart well's cousin thonght that Mary Doolit tle's sister believed that old Mi'6. Jack sou reckoned:, that Sam Tucker's wife panlding that she had ummy say - that Airs. husbands." rilaiquis" of Waterford annoys railway managers by always diminishes their ne day aterford ass ticket to liablin. The railway men thought to teach nim a lessou, aud for that pur- ix)se sat a 'chimney-sweep down xesiae hirft in the caiy thinking to drive hirq out. The Marquis snryei'cd his travel ing coppatiion for a! moment and then started for. the ticket-office. "Give me a firs$.las ticket tigMfltfi? Vc said. The thooght thev had., hirrr sure, but he sinaply rctftraied tO"thc third class car. and" making the SA-eep a present of the ticket, escorted him aud his brushes to the first class carriage, and leaving him there returned to his favor ite compartment. -J j, , iu TKMKIY FOK TIIK S.M.T KlIEVM. Tako of nari-ow-dbek' ' roots f scabious and swamp sassafras, equal parts : boil down strong, and add one pound of lard; simmer down to an ointment. Bub the parts atjbotcd throe'' or lonr times a day. It tho complaint is at tended 'with 'an' inflammation," it first must do subdued by,a poultice made of sKippery-elm bark and trceh milk.. Med icines must bo taken to purify the blood. An excellent beer for this latter purpose is made thus iTakelfc root sof,-' sassa fras, burdock' black alder", wild cherry tree ; of this let a strong decoction be made ; then swectcifr'ithi Inolasses of honey ; and, when about blood-warm, add a sufficient quantity bfyeast to fer ment it. The patient should take free ly of this beer. Republic constantly improves, and cx lorts eo flee, sugar and other products to America. - The tunnelling of St. Gothard, in Switzerland is .nearly halt completed, and at the present rate the whole will be finished by the close ot 1880. Turkey intends being represented at tho Parts Exposition of 18 1 s, notwith standing the probable war in which she will be involved at the lime. A London c rrcspondent writes r Tlic? idea seems very prevalent that Lord Beaconfield intends proposing to the Queen tlie creation of the head of the Rothschilds family in London as a peer of the realm. j A New York stevedore had one of his fingers mashed io loading a barrel of lard, and fie brought isuit against his employer for damages. The defenso was contributive negligence, but the plaintiif got 1,000. A monster resident in Iowa, "murder ed his wife and then clojcd with her sister who had poisoned his child. The neighbors followed them up, shot tho woman,;hung tlie man, aud theu burn." ed tlie, two bodies.!,:' W4 M '--W rii According to the London Army and Navy Gazette, recruiting has bean so brisk, owing to general depression m allv trades, that no fewer than .30,000 young men enlisted last year. ' The fact that there has been a great ly increased sale of postal cards within the last half year is taken as evidence that"the people are loo poor to write full-priced letters." U't ; If every one who could would fend only half an hour and half a dollar each week in relieving lhe poor, there would be fewer empty stomachs and more ot us deserving ot God's blessings. The people's indulgence in whisky, beer, and tobacco brought the govern ment, in revenue, $100,000,000 last year. But that isn't a circumstance to the loss entailed by this indulgence. The city of Washington has expend ed 5-f,o00,00O m wooden pavement, which uow have to be removed and arc nearly impassable fifty miles ot soggy blocks, hardly lit for firewood. A citizen of Harwiuton, Conn., has n good condition for eating an apple which he kept for twenty-two yeais by process which he discovered by acci ent. .;. f' Men, who work all dav on the Olym- pia Fair Grounds, will be admitted to the ball in the evening tree of charge. Of course they'll feci like daucing. This is like telling boys that one who eats the most mush can have the most dessert. . The passengers on & Kentucky rail road train became so interested in an eloping couple that,1 when the father ot the girl came aboard at a station to tako her home, they forcibly ejected him In Los Angeles, Cal., a benevolent family took in a tramp and "nursed him auring a long sickness. iow lie sues tor pay for alit tie. work that ho did BDout tno house while lie was rccovcr- mg. - An aged man in Liberty, Tnd., wooed a girl ot sixteen in vain as long as ho stuck to sentiment ; but when ho got down to business and; . oflered to give Ler,aji,led:vof "a " farm, she consented without hesitating. v - v Sitting Bull and his forces are; yet on the war path, and, with blood in their eycsfandells in their nioutlts, are pre paring for the; utter annihilation of the white race"1- next summer. "Lo ! the conquering hero comes." This Louisiana business is perverting the morals and humanity ot the nation A city cat last week returned a count of seven kittens, and then tho lady of tho' honsd assumed ministerial and elcr ical powers, and threw six of. thrill out into the sewer, Jo Lorenzo La wreiicc,? the, Sioux' Indian who was ostracized - by bis jjeoplo for revealing the intended Sioux massacre f ot 1SG2 and guiding so many whites to safety, is now oldi sick and destitute on his little farm near Appleton, Minneso ta. He has never-beou rewarded for his bravery; and faithfulness, f but at this late day thcro is a movement to relievo him ffowant j, , , . f Do n 'f Scoxn.r For tho sate of your children don't do it. j It is a great mis fortune? to have children rcareil in the presence and under the influence of a scold. -Tho effect of , the everlastiiig complaining '.and tault-!ndingof such Xirsons is to make the young-who hear it unamiable,--malicious," and callous-hearted, . The - Burlington, , Iowa... JTuicL-oie says : Who will now deny the: Demo4 cratic love for the "nigger? Cronm was .only coiisidoied vwortb-j $3,000, while 50,000 was oflered fur a South Corolina "darkey." .v - -. -7 vv nen ;a -woman eau leei a mouse crawling along her spinal column, and yet nop to tnniK whether she lias on stiiped stockings, before keeling over in a fit, she is at least qualified to enjoy the elective franchise, r- j -. A' man "whrr jumped overboard re cently to save his wife from drowning ! has explained tho matter satisfactorily to liis lriends. He said sho had a good deal of jewelry on her person, and gold was high. I);.. . :.- ; Have you a cold ? - If not go and get one. It is universally the fashion now- a-uays. - y , ; - s - TniE Sibeiitan- Pr.Ax. An exchange i Lsaysthat a society has been formed in Siberia which compels all males to mar ry when of age, and makes tho wife the head of the family, and the husband a marked subordinate. : There are a good many r families in this commonwealth that are run ou the Siberian plan lios ton , 77raveh: mum"" i i When yon wish-' ... ......... , u Posters. Visiting Cards, Business Cards. Bill Heads, Letter Heads Envelopes, h Ball Tickets, Programmes Labels, Horse Bil!:?v Circular. t Pamphlets, or in fact anything iu the I?rintirfj Xaizio call at the ALBANY R PRINTING IIOIJSI COKNEK FURRY & FIEST-ST3 y Tin : i ' pa I A Lli