EUGENE CITY GUARD
EASTERN.
Pnddsat Hare Talk f the Paclflc
ImiI People.
TniLADKLPHM, Aug. 27. The Ledger3
ew York special correspondent nays:
There ia a disposition at republican head
quarters to attribute important political
consequences to tbe president's iburney
to California. No one supposes be will
make a stump speech of a partisan char
acter, but it la expected be will talk freely
to Pacific coast people on tbe Chinese
question, the importance of commercial
treaties with Mexico and Central Amer
ica, development of their manufacturing,
mining and marine Industries, and other
matters pertaining to the business and in
dustrial development ofthe conn try. In
this way they think the president will be
able Incidentally to convince the people
of both Oregon and California that the
worst tiling that could happen to their
material interest just now would be a
change of administration for the sake of
change. I don't know what means the
New York Republican politician have for
thus forecasting the president's mission
if it is a nmsion, but the circumstance
that aucb of them as are vouching for
these intentions on his part have but re
cently returned from Washington, would
Mem to imply that tbey aro dealing In
something more substantial than conjec
ture. The Gallows Ckeated.
Palestine, Tex., Aug. 27. Great ex
citement baa been caused by the an
nouncement that Koland Kuker, who was
to have been hanged here for the murder
of K. P. Grayson and wife, had committed
suicide. When the prison authorities
visited the cell at 5 this morning they
found him in the last agonies of death.
Near him waa a large pool of blood, end
blood waa issuing from a wound in bis
left wrist, which he had made with a pen
knife. Railway Freight Redaction.
Chicago, Aug. 27. The Chicago and
Alton railway company has given notice
of a large reduction of rates on freight
destined to point in New Mexico. The
reduction is equal to twenty cents on first
class, fifteen on second, fifteen on third
and ten on fourth, nnd five on special less
than tariff rates per hundred pounds.
This bas been necessitated by reaion of
the reduction mad" by the fit. Louis and
ban rrancisco railroad company.
HU Jullen Lower Iht Retard.
II A ut fori), Aug. 27. St. Julien trotted
against time to-day at Chester Oak Park,
and on the second trial made a mile in
2.11 J.
Desertion from SlItlnK Ball.
CmcArio, Aug. 27. The Tribune says
Sitting Bull is being deserted by his war
riors, at what must ue to him an alarming
rata. About HXJO Kioux have already
surrendered at Fort Keogh and are being
sent to the Cheyenne river agency. A
report comes from Fort Peck that about
IUOO others are coming Into that post, and
now the doughty Indian warrior bas
only about 150 fighting men.
v Attempted Aeaaealaatloaj.
Londox, Aug. 27. A dispatch fur Thay
etmayor says: Reports are received from
Manualay of an attempt to assassinate
King Theobald. A Poughee went to the
King's apartment where he was stopped.
Questioned, bis replies were unsatisfac
tory, and he waa seised, when a dagger
dropped from his garments. He had
twelve associates. The 1'oughee and one
of bis associates were put to death.
A Notable MatlveCallrornlan.
New York, Aug. 27. Gen. Manuel Cas
tro, a native of California, who com
manded tbe California forces opposed to
Commodore Stockton and Gen. (theu
Capt.) Fremont in the Mexican war in
18-10 and 1847, arrived in this city List
night, it being his first visit to the east.
He is en route to Mexico to lend his ser
vices to tho government there to aid in
quieting the agitation in c'onora. It is
understood the general desires to plunt a
colony of Americans and native Californ
ians in Sonora to settle under the laws of
the Mexican republic.
Steamer Burned Near Detroit Several
. Persona MUiif.
Detroit, Aug. 20. The steamer Marine
City, running below Mackinac, this port
and Cleveland, took tire at 2 o'clock this
afternoon two miles olT Alcona and thirty
miles from Alpena, and burned to the
water's edge. Hhe had a large load of
passengers; 130 are reported saved. Some
are known to be lost.
Death of Ouray. -Trouble Eipeeled.
Washington, Aug. 20. Tho announce
ment of t lie death of tho Ule chief, Ouray,
remove! all hopes of the treaty being
signed. OtllclaU of interior department
fear that settlers who have been waiting
for the signing of the treaty t9 enter the
reservation will conclude to go in any
way now that Ouray is dead, not believ
ing that tbe treaty will be signed at all.
This it is belleved'the Indians will resist
and another war is not improbable.
It ia considered fortunate that Gen.
Sheridan is there and can give personal
attention to tbe matter.
Convention of lnfld!
tie iicobd mates.
t, Julian Trot a Mil lu Sill 1-4 at Cfcar-
ter Oak far. , ,
The OroatMf BCvent la Ik II Mary aftn
Tmt-f iiiimm ovaiua so stereo
and Driver ,
ST Ttas event of th day al
of St.
HirroriD. A or.
Charier Oak Dark wa tbe RMvieeofiil effort of
Julien lo beat hi record of 114. Tbe day and
track were fsvorabl. ae4 walla wan were pre-
diction that In bona would aooompiiaa in reel,
lb reneral impression waa that lb raoord wuuij
not ba lowered. When St, Jullen earn an th
track appearing la floe eoodlilou, b and
bla owner and driver, fllckok, were lloarall
applauded by larra eronda of (pecuior. tb
b in Jocied awhile and loan trolled amlla In
t.H lo nana blm for a (real effw. A few mln
nlea later lie came on train for lb trial. Getting
under a oifber speed Hlcknk noddal fur in
word a ba came to lbs wire, and loa bona want
down ibertratcb and around tbe luin al bis mas;,
niflrent and even (ait. working Ilk apiaueof ma
cblnery Hondrnie ol watcbe were In band and
every eve fo.kiwed in bona wltb Inlena interest
Waiebe (' lb first quartet al or a 11 (ill,
and many of theeiitniilaim cra bfgan in ex
claim " E will do IL" Hi. action traa neaatiiul
down tb back stretch, and be ci lo lb hall
mil poi In 1.05, or at a 2uu icalt. Tue exciteinext
Increased, a did lb eonli leuceof the crowd lu
me success ofthe attempt. T4a third quarter was
made in and rtt Ju leu tame borne at a
magnificent epeed around ihe curve and upon the
tbe bomelreb:b A be appruat-hed the turn Uiera
was a Ibrlll of pprenenjiu lo the crowd ou die
covering lhal Uie drivor cf ibu drag wlilih bad
been smoothing tb track to make It perfect fir
lb borse in siiU at bis wore. aiiJ It seemed that
be would turn tbe bor.j Ir-im bit course
or cauae uim to bre.k. but a qui.
turn of Uie drag to Uie outside wa
made and the bone came an unimpeded and with
out sauovauce Hearing, some iecfator tnougbt
that there wua iligni i:iitiM( of apeed. II
there waa slackeolug ll waa nit mouiutilarr for
tl Julien went lo tse wlr wltb a Iremendua
bnnt of apeed, and la ao Initaut watcbe were
consulted od then were r-houia of "won." and
enrer upon cheer went up from tbe fraud itsud
and from tb crowded section of Ihe judges' (land,
where many prominent ciiizen a ad vlltlug turf
men bad gatbert d. tome gave Uie lime al 2:11
other 2:11 but all at knovkdni-d that tbe rccjid
was beaten and four out of five agreed to lb Umo
afterward officially anntunoed, tiVi. St Julien
Jogged back to tbe Judges' stand, lb apecatora on
lb grand aland riairu to their Itt cheering and
waving bats and handkerchief Hictok lilted
bla bat In reaponre and waa m-t bv an official of
lb (aroclatlon and presented wltb a beautiful
floral wreath. A fl irat cushion waa piaoed npia
tb anlki and Bu Julien was blsuketed and lea up
and down lu front of tbe itand wltb Mr. Humph
rey, an enthusiastic admirer, following wl:b baud
upon tbe mlkv. frraident Harbison aunoooce-1
that In addition to the pur.o of liVO which had
been won bv beating tbe record. Ihe association
bad triUu extra lo give Hickok Tbe avociaUou
herald bad been sorely disenpiiluKd by tbe with
drawal of Maud S. but Hu Julieu bad come to
the Iront and given a performance equal to
a ijjth lug which could have been expected from
MaudH. He proposed three theen for Su Julieu
wblcb were given with a will. Hickok wa bean
lly congratulated by Invited guests on tbe Judgt
stand, bu Julitn was led away and tb rrea ctt
event In hie blttory of IrotUrig was over. Tbe
manigen of tbe Charter Oak park track feel re
Joked mat their track from ahtcb St. Julieu wa
purvhaMd by Hlckoi tbrve years ago bad rieen
Uie scene of Ihe grsudcal iriumi'b of trotllog. Rr
u made tbe best acble'emei't onture be wa wltb
drawn from the turf and tm y -ar Harness aod
other noted burae bare Impruved their record
bei.
at. Jullen for hale.
Has raanatco. Aug 28 Hubert Morrow, owner
of si Julien, denies a report telegraphed from tbe
rant that Ibe borne bad be.n fold lo Y. H. Vauder
bill; butexprease a wlllinguetetosell foraeveuty
five tbousaud dollars. Ibla waa before receiving
the news of bit yesterday' performance
WASHiaoToa tubutokt.
Cannery Inearnaratsal. i
Ssattls, lag. 26. Articles of Ineorpora
tlon of ibe Paget Bound Balmon Packing and
Canning Company were filed to-day in tba
auditor' office. Tbe incorporator are O. W.
Wilson and John Leary, Kq , of this city,
and Geo. T. Mj era of Portland, Oregon.
A Ulnar Baaaa fraaa tks Mart ham Cans.
Poar Towaaiao, Aug. 27 Tba J'flT-rsnn
county repnblicao conventioo yrdav aim
ad Dr. T. T. Mioor, B, D Altridgt and C. If.
Bradsbaw delegatei to the territorial convu
lion at Vancouver. Tbe convention ad.
jouroad to September 18tb, lo nominste
county officers. - Whatcom county delegates
are Conner. Engl, White, Breckenrtrig and
Calhoun, K tap delexates, George Leveay,
8. W. Uovey, N. McCallam and C. A. Sreveua.
Jeffenron. Iiland Clallam. Sin Juati, Kitsao
and a majoritv of Whatcjm coaoty delegates
favor Dr. Minor for delegate to congress.
Last al Mm.
Tbe hark Martha HidtOut, 26 days from
Unnulii, arriffl lt niajtat. and reports that
on tUtaMtv, tbK 2lt ins'. . wtiil irs Utl'ade
46 north, loin it'i 1 132 west, Andrew Neil
en, a resoian, foil over the veetei's bow aod
wa dronrd. Every effjrt was made tu re
cover hi body, but without avail, aa be di.
sopesrer) almost instantlv. Deceased was a
native of Denmark, ag-td S3 yean.
Pleree uaty for Breaia.
Saw TacoMa, A us. 28 Tbe couo'y con vet-
tioi elec ed to ihe teiritorial convention ai
4imi, 0neral J. W 8praiiie, Prof. John
H Hall. GeoKeE. A'.kinaon, William Lyle
and John Salter. The last named four are
rmtupoketi for the renornination of llqa.
Tbomsill. Brent as delegnt to congreag.
The Tillage Post Office.
CAlilFOKIsl.V.
Ho TldlUfjs.
8ab Fbarcmco, Aug. 27. The British steam
yacnt Lancathire H'ilch, which wan dispatcbtd
teveral weeks ago to Socorr ialund, in aeaicb
of tbe crew of tbe ill-fated ilitU&i, re'uraed
to-day. Mo t dings of tbe W,
Progress of tue Southern Pad Ac.
Bas Fbahcisco, Aug;. 28 Tbe end of tbe
track of therj luibcrn Paciflo railway it now
within 190 miles of El I'm i, and ft la the In
ter lion to reach tbat point ou or before Jon
oary 20, 1881. On tbe 23d Inst , a part; at
tbe front bad surmounted all obs'scles rn
conntered In tbe Dragoon mountains. Tbe
boundary line between New Mexico and Art
aona, will be reached in twelve day.
Another Bnnanta Bolt.
Bqalre P. Dewey bas filed a voluminous
complaint In the superior court against John
W. Mackey, Junes O Fair. James C. Flood
and James W. Co!rman. executor of Wil
liam 8. O'ilrieo. the Pacific I u ruber and
flume company, tbe Nevada bank, tbe Faoiflo
refinery and bullion excliange and .be Cali
fornia mining company demanding an ac
counting lo the Califiruia mining company
and ill atociholdeni fur alleged wrongs,
frauds and breaches of trust ; and on sucb
accounting, to re-pay said company for tbe
rise of its stockholders all protlu end proper
ty to ibe company obtained by defendants by
means of transact ion set forth in tbe com
plaint, wbiob contains elruihr allegtUons as
are made iu the famous Burks suits against
tbe bonaoii firm. Tbe sum involved is rep
resented to be In the region of ten million
dollars.
Arrangements for the Katertalnment of
Hays at Bacrtmentw.
President Hayes and party daring their
stay at Sacanieulo will be tbe guests of ex
Gov. Leland Stanford. Tbe mayor of Sacra
mento baa called a meeting of citizens lo
prepare for tbe president's reception.
Causa, Stocks."
8olomon Jacobs left bis home, 1450 Mission
street, yesterday and to-day bla body waa
found ai the corner of City street aud Cen
tral avenue with a bullet wound la the
iiioutb. A slip of paper on a twig mar tbe
body gave bis name aud residence ; caaie,
klOCKS,
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Maiwiiali.town, Iowa, Aug. 28. A state
mass convention of Infidels closes to-day
after a three days' session. It a as pre
sided over by Matthew Farming-ton of
Brenne county as president and Dr.
ISbortlaiid Harris of tbe Cbicogo Tinui aa
secretary. A numbes of add rentes were
delivered, among the moHt noted being
bv Ilerron C. Land of New York city,
Mrs. Ijike t'f California, and V. A. Jame
son of Chicago, lien. A. O. Phelps of
Kanaas speaks to-ktiight, subject "tbe
garden of Eden." Wtutt the convention
Tacked in numbers it made tip in enthus
iasm. All I be day and night meetings
were held iu tbe Urgent opera bouse in
tbe cltv.
Modesty.
Detroit, Aug. :U the authorities of
this city have jut refused license to
Lvon's company of bare legged blondes
who sought to exhibit their pase charms
here.
Bonnar Want t Buy St. Jnllen.
Chicaqo, Aug. 28. It is rumored that
Bonner made a bid for 8t. Julien after he
bad made bis record. No particulars.
Paalai;t sianges.
Wasiiinuton, Aug. 20. Following are
postal changes for tbe week ending Sat
urday: litabllahed Wilkensheim, Klick
itat county, W. T-, Martin Thompson,
postmaatcr. Postmasters appointed
Jaui.s P. Fan II, Connor Crenk, iiaker
county, Ogo; John W. Belknap, hummer
Lake, Lake county. Ogn.
Tbe Rev. John Morse, clergyman of
.Dexter, Me., baa been suspended by a
' church council because of his "freaky
ana mulisn spirit of perversity. This
is supposed to correspond to murder in
the second degree.
The Breken ( able A llaiardnue Project
felutarprlse at Vala sCce.
A steam terry boat bas beeu eetablished
by I ha goTernmeut serosa the cable break,
aod communication will be more frequent.
Tbe new cable, twenty-six mile In length, is
expected from England in December, and
will be laid as soon as received.
It I authoritatively reported tbat the finan
cial scheme for the construction of Ihe Cana
dian Pacifio railroad baa been floated In
England.
VicToaiA, Aug. 27 An Umpt b being
made to run a steamboat through ths Frsaer
river canyons to tbe smooth wa'r above
T'ie enterprise is deemed exceedingly bat
anions by steamboat men.
Bub-cotitracta bare been given out tot tb
Eaquimalt dr7 dock, and work will be.ln In
March.
Yale has been reballt since the fire, aud Is
better than beiore.
Wmk af the II. B. Co.' Steamer "Otter
Victosia, Aug. 28 Indians who arrived at
Nanaimo lo-day announce ihe wreik of the
Hndun Bay Co.'s steamer Offer, near Bella
De:ia, about 600 miles north of this port, on
sUiurday hut. The steam-r waa tilled with
ihe sraaou'a catch of Ihe flthenea on Skeena
river, which waa very heavy according to tbe
Indians' report, wbirb any be exaggerated.
r .ie vewl lie in a very precarioue ailuation.
Asiatatic will be sent.
The snip Antiock sailed from Nitialmo wl'.h
Wellington coal for Sail Francisco yesterday.
IT A II.
Visit t tail Lake af Callfarnln KnlgttU
Taaaplar.
Salt La a a, Utah, Aug 27 Last evening a ,
numuer vi auiarnia soiguii utnipiar ao
comnied by tbe second regimental band,
arrived la Ibis city from Cbicagv. They are
guesis or Ihe L lab commandery. Lverythlng
i being don to make 'heir vWIt to rtali Like
axtremeiy pleaaani. This morning tiey were
eondoc'ed around the city in arriage. thence
to Fort Douglass, where tbey were hand
comely entertained by the officers In tbe
afieroooo tbey were taken to Orrat Salt Lake
on a special train, where they enjoretl
pleasant bath In lia bnoyant waters In the
evening at the hall ol the oommandery tbey
were banqu d. Tbi arteruoon tbey leave
for bom.
Half an hour before the arrival of the
daily mail tbey begin to come in the
merchant who expects a letter the
blacksmith who thiuks he may possibly
one the carpenter who has not liad one
for a year, but who still lives in hopes
the laborer who hasn't the slightest idea
tbat he will ever get anything more in
teresting than a circular advising him to
insure his life before it is infernally too
late the farmer who bas frieuds out
West or down East, and who can confi
dently count on his weekly paper, any
how. As the mail-boy arrives at the
door there is a ripple of exoitement
which extends even to the barefooted
boy who has been sent down with three
big coppers to mail a letter directed in a
cramped, old-fashioned hand. One can
see from the way he looks from the letter
to the jars of candy in front of the store
that he is speculating on the risk of
dropping the missive into the river and
investing the money where it will do
Uncle 8am no good.
rliere is a hush while the mail is being
distributed. The pampered aristocrat
who can afford to pay box-rent at the rate
of 40 cents per year keeps his eye on his
particular box, while the down-trodden
citizen, who is compelled to go into the
"general delivery," silently argues that
the heavier the mail bag the more chance
he has of being favored. Just at this
moment the postmaster is "a bigger man
than old Grant," or old anybody else,
and if he does not feel at leant 99 per
cent, of his official importance it is be
cause he has to stop now and then to do
Cipher the superscription of a letter.
After what seems an interminable de
lay, the window is opened and a general
rush is made, and in ten minutes the on
ly person left cautiously approaches the
window and inquires:
"Anything for any of us?"
"Nothing," is the reply, as the letters
are rapidly overrun.
"Anything for Brother Jim's folks?"
"Nothing."
"Walker wanted me to inquire for
hira."
"Nothing for any of the Walkors."
"Old Mrs. Lee hailed me as I driv by
and said she was looking for a litter from
her son Bill in Lcadville. I 'spose it
ain't any use to inquire, for Bill couldn't
write a letter in three weeks."
The man started to go, but suddenly
recollected himself he turned and said:
"Come to think of it, McArthur's hired
man has sent off for a lottery ticket. He
won't draw nothin', of course, for them
lotteries area dead swindlo, but it's about
time ho got it, and he hollored at me
from tho barn this morning and asked me
to inquire. His name is Sam White,
but l never asked him how he spelled
it."
"Nothing for him," was the monoton
ous reply.
"Well, that's all, I gnoss. Purty bad
weather on wheat, ain't it? Looks like
rain, but may bo it'll send around." De
troit Free I'reu.
A Havdhomk Pclpit. A brass pulpit
has recently been completed in Philadel
phia for St. John's Episcopal church,
Troy, N. Y. It will be erected as a
memorial by William Stone Smith, a
very wealthy gentleman of that city, to
his deceased wife. The pulpit is about
seven feet high to three feet square, and
is made entirely of polished brass, except
the floor, treads and handrail, which are
of solid mahogany. The ornamentation
consists of rosettes, intersected with
twisted rods, after the style of 1850. The
eight posts or columns are intersected at
given spaces with square grooved
blocks, and the balustrades are round
and twisted in the center. There
is a scalloped apron below the
flnnr. hjtrtiliuirnAl V nrnatiiAnt.h.1 wliif.fi
greatly adds to tiie appearance of the
pulpit. The whole ia heavily braced
and counterbraccd, aud is exceedingly
strong and ma-nsive, though it has a
light and graceful appearance. The
reading desk is of brass, and will lie
covered- inside with scarlet velvet.
There are four small gas jets, and the
light will be hid.km by a nickel plated
reflector from the audience and the
Seakpr. Thia not the least ingenious
part of this beautiful piece of art. It
is inscribed in old English letters,
cathedral style, in colors: "In memo
riam. Fannie Btirdett Smith. From
Faith unto Fruition. March 2, 1880."
The cost of the memorial to Mr. Smith,
which inclndes handsome steps, alcoves,
to., will be 510,000.
A New Discovert ih Abt. An Aus
trian savant, M. Winter of Vienna, has
just discovered and patented a very curi
ous process by which pictures may be
produoed on artiats' canvas by tho aid of
photography. Ho has named the uro-
cesa Linography, and it ia just no at
tracting considerable attention in Paris
ian art circles. By the aid of a stereo
type plate. M. Winter has succeeded in
fixing upon canvas whatever image he
desired to n?pnxlooe. The results are
striking, and the pictures closely reaem
ble such aa are produced by the brnsh.
It is eXDOCted that the diamine a. 11 of
What kind of far did Eve wear the, feet ouita a revolution in Ua th..tixrvanh.
first winter 7 Bare akin, of coarse. ic art.
A EOIAKE.
" Can't von tell me something new?
asked a Commercial reporter yesterday
afternoon of a venerable acquaintance
with whom he waa shaking hands on
Fonrth street.
"Something new," mused the old gen
tleman. "Ah, my son, I might tell yon
something new. and yet it would be al
most a half century old. You know,"
he added, with a mild attempt at wit,
"that the Dntch have taken Holland?
"Yes, yes," replied tbe newspaper
man; "and it is hinted tbat tbe Irish are
loose in the streets of Dublin; but tell
me this item of yours the item that you
sav is both new and old.
"So I will. Let ob take a seat," and
tbe sage led the way into a neighboring
business establishment, where chairs and
a couple of cigara were furnished.
"Xow. to begin," said he, "do you see
that house?" and the narrator pointed his
cane towards a large jewelry establish
ment that stands immediately opposite
the ew lork store, on Fourth avenue,
The scribe gave an affirmative nod,
acd the old gentleman continued: "Well,
forty years ago there stood tbe most
fashionable dress-making establishment
in Louisville. At that time, you know,
newspaper reporters were not active
like they are now, and the romance I am
about to relate was never put in print.
I said forty years ago, didn't I? W ell, I
guess that s about right. Uno pretty
day in June, forty years ago, a hack
drove np to the door of the establish
ment J. have mentioned, and there
from a well-dressed young gentleman
and a beautiful girl. The couple
walked immediately back into the
private room of the lady who owned the
place and called for au interview witu
that personage. The young gentleman
stated that the girl was his sister, and
that he wanted her to learn the trade of
dressmaker. The lady was perfectly
willing to take the girl as an apprentice,
and, after a short conversation relative
alone to the contract, tho young gen
tlenun went away and left his sister at
the dressmakers. 1 remember her well.
She was a beautiful girl, if there ever was
one. A brunette of the strongest southern
type, with sparkling black eyes, and the
loveliest complexion I ever saw. She
proved to be as amiable and intelligent
as she was handsome, and soon became a
great favorite with her associates. The
next prettiest girl about the place was
the daughter of an old gentleman who at
that lime kept the toll-gate just outside
the city limits, on the Bards town pike
This girl I shall call Amelia. Amelia
presented a striking contrast to her
southern friend. She was a blonde,
sweet-tempered and bonnie. Those two
girls became fast friends, and every Sat
urday evening Clara (Clara was the
brunette's name, I think) would go out
into the country with her friend and re
main until Monday. I lived in that
neighborhood then myself, and I have
seen the two together a thousand times
They were the prettiest blithest couple
in the country, and there wasn't a beau
in the neighborhood who wouldn't have
walked a mile to catch a glimpse of
either of them. Well, after two years
bad passed by, Amelia was wedded to .a
worthy young man whom she had known
from childhood, and Clara was deprived
of a portion of her dearest friend s love.
Their intimacy, however, was kept up,
and during one of Clara's visits to her
friend's house she met a wealthy and
resiiectuble old bachelor who lived
in the neighborhood. The gentleman
was immediately struck by the Southern
girl s beauty, and after a short acquaint
ance he became her most devoted ad
mirer. To make a long story short he
ottered her his hand, his heart and a good
homo. Clara accepted. She gave him
in return her undivided love alas, poor
girl, she had nothing else to give and
promised to make him a good -wife,
About two months after this time they
were married, and Clara went to live
with her husband in the country. I think
I have never seen a happier home than
theirs. Ihe disparity in thoir ages
amounted to nothing. Ho was honest,
brave and noble; she, confiding and
tender.
"At the end of a year a child was born
to them, and I thiuk on the day of that
interesting event, the husband and
father received the startling intelligence
that his wife was a slave, an octoroon,
and the illegitimate daughter of a
wealthy planter, who lived in the neigh
borhood of Nashville, Tenn. It seems
that the young man who had loft her at
the dressmaker's was unfortunate enough
to be tho son of tho same father, and
consequently her half brothor. In ap
prenticing and deserting her he had only
obeyed his lathers bidding, though I
presume he was base euough himself, fur
that matter to havo acted from impulse.
"But to return to tho home of this un
fortunate girl. As soon as her husband
became convinced of the facts I have
stated, ho decided upon a separation,
and, although I know it almost broke his
heart to send his wife and child from
him, he took thorn over to Jeffersonville
and loft them iu charge of tho minister
who married them. I forgot to state
that after the girl's father aud master
found out that she had married claimed
her as his property, his slave, and com
pelled her husband to pay 1200 for her.
"I he good old minister took the dis
carded wife and child iuto his own family
and kept them until they both died, two
years later. I met him at Woodvillo,
Mississippi, a good many years ago, and
he told me of the girl s fast illness. Her
greatest desire during that time was that
her child should die first, and it didn't
live but a few months after her death.
She remained true to her husband, and
died without a word of reproach for
what some might consider his cruelty in
discarding her."
Here the old gentleman ended his
story with the declaration that every
word of it was true to the letter, and
could be easily proven if necessary.
"What became of the planter the
girl's father, I moan?" asked the inter
ested reporter.
"Oh, yes, I neglected to tell you that
part of it. His home was wrecked more
completely than waa the happiness of his
beautiful octoroon daughter and her
miserable husband.
"Fifteen years after her death the
brother, who had apprenticed his sister
to the dressmaker, waa killed on the
streets of Nashville.
"One of the daughters of the planter
eloped with her father's overseer. She
subsequently left him, and when I last
heard of her ahe was leading the life of a
courtesan in New Orleans.
"The father himself lived only long
enough to suffer for hi own and repent
his ehildrens' sins. He was blown to
eternity not long after bis daughter's
elopement, while standing by the boiler
of a saw mill on bis plantation. There)
are others of tha family still living, bat
I don t think tbey amount to mncii.
"Thia ends my story, and if you find
anvoouy wuo uouuia ua iruiu or avcu1
racy, send them to me, and I will con
vince them in very abort order." Louis
ville Commercial.
Kodera SptrUUm.
Notwithstanding the decay of religions
faith which has been so perceptible sinoe
since the beginning of our century, two
great beliefs have survived the general
theological wreck, 'inougn the time-
bonored creeds and catechisms, "Confes
sions of Faith" and "Bodies of Divinity,'
so revered in the days of our grand
fathers, are covered with the dust of
oblivion, and are regarded as belonging
to the curiosities of a past era of thought
that has vanished forever, these two
great doctrines of an overruling Provi
dence, and ot man s personal immor
tality, still retain a powerful hold upon
the 'human mind. Physical science,
though in its general spirit and ten
dency unfriendly to these ideas, is
powerless to destroy them, since it can
never demonstrate thoir negatives, what
ever may be the force of its analogies or
the improbabilities it may suggest. The
order of the material universe, with its
vast systems of worlds, the great harmo
nies of nature, the wonderful phenomena
of life in all its gradations from plant to
man, irresistibly suggest the idea of an
underlying design and intelligence. The
consistent and uniform operation of in
flexible laws in the world of moral action,
the certainty with which retribution fol
lows wrong in the affairs of individuals,
families, communities and nations, as
inevitably suggest the idea of a moral
governor. The other belief, the hops of
a mode of individual existence after phy
sical dissolution, is less easy to hold with
out disturbing doubts. When we strew
with flowers the corpses of our dead.
and adorn their tombs with garlands, we
seem to be practicing an illusion upon
ourselves, and striving to disguise the
forbidding feat a res of a repulsive reality
in an alien atmosphere of beauty and
hope. The earthy brow and rigid linea
ments seem like a solemn mockery of the
freshness and bloom and perfumo of
flowers. It is hard indeed for the fond
est or the firmest faith to contemplate
the cold clay once instinct with life and
intellect without faltering in the belief
that any spark of vitality survives.
let there aro probably a million or in
telligent and cultivated people in Eng
land aud the United States who hold
firmly to the belief that death is but the
portal to a higher and ampler mode of
existence, and who bold this, not upon
theological grounds, or as a doctrine
of revealed religion, but as a fact
susceptible of the same kind of rational
proof that can be adduced in support of
any accepted truth. In this city there
are many hundreds of persons of uninv
peachable character who claim to have
had occular proof that the spirits of the
dead survive and have the power, under
certain conditions, of returning from the
land of BnadoB and communicating with
the living. A multitude of witnesses
solemnly declare that they have again
heard the sound of remembered voices
after they were supposed to have been
forever hushed; that they have actually
known "the touch of the vanished hftnd
and gazed face to face into eyes
long sealed in deuth. The belief
in existence beyond tbe grave
when it rests upon a religious
basis, is often rudoly shaken when the
mourner finds his intense yearnings for
a sign from the beloved one denied
Wordsworth, in his exquisite poem
'The Affliction of Margaret, has de
scribed the skepticism sometimes engen
dered even in pious breasts when the
earnest cry, "give me a sign," meets
with no response:
Tla falsely said
Tbat there was ever Intercourse
Hetwlxi tbe living and tue dead,
For aureiy iben I should have sight
Ur blm I wall for day and night
Wilb love and lunging lnflalie.
But how can he doubt who is per
suaded that he has seen the well known
form and held familiar converse with the
departed on subjects of which few others
had any knowledge And those who are
thus porsuaded, who claim this kind of
personal experience, are numbered in
even so materialistic a community as
this by the thousands. There are
among them men and women of more
than ordinary intelligence and acquire'
ments, many of them as sincere as the
mam character in Mr. Howells recent
remarkable story, "The Undiscovered
Country." With the professional im
postors who figure before the public as
"mediums the community is tolerably
familiar. The genuine enthusiast, who
is bewildered by the "phenomena he
has witnessed, or supposed he has wit
nessed, does not often appear in the
role of a professional who offers his or
her services for money, as a medium of
communication between the living and
the dead, let it would be a harsh and
wholesale judgment to donounce the en
tire class of professional mediums as
conscious impostors. Meantime modern
spiritism would seem to have passed its
culminating point and to be now on the
decline, both in Great Britain and the
United States. S. F. Chronicle.
Watchlas; One's Blo4.
"UooD Old Iime. Almost every
body thus expresses himsell; but the
Denver Republican records onr senti
ments when it says: "We don't believe
in them. 'The happiest time is now.'
The best times are those we live in. The
pxr man has more of the comforts of
life, and more of its enjoyment than tbe
rich man had fifty years ago. When a
man grumbles about the present affairs,
aud talks about the good old times, when
men were happy and prosperous, we
wish we could turn back the pages
of life's book, and read the history
of those old times. Recently, we were
reading the life of Salmon P. Chase. His
uncle was an Episcopalian bishop, of the
Diocese of Ohio, and in 1825, young
Chase visited him to finish his education.
Wheat that year brought 25 cents a
bu. bel, and corn 15 cents, while it cost
25 cents to pay the postage on a letter.
if carried over 100 miles. The income
of Bishop Chase, as a bishop, did not
quite pay his official postage. That
gives one an idea of what good old times
were in Ohio, among the best class of
people fifty years ago. How many of our
readers would like to go back to them ?
An ingenious method has just been
devised, for. ctnlly obser ring the
circulation of the blood of man.
Hitherto, except in the case of Pun
kinje's experiment, in which an
observer can see the circulation of
bis own retinal blood vessels, the
evidence of circulation in the human
subject has been entirely circum.
stantial, derived from facts of struc
ture of circulatory organs, and from
the manner in which the blood flows
from severed arteries and veins. But
by means of a simple arrangement,
invented by Dr. C. iluter, of Griefs'
wald, it ia now possible to witness
the actual flow of blood in tbe blood
vessel of another person, and that
with sufficient accuracy to detect
uty abnormality in the circulation,
and so to obtain invuluallo assistance
in tho diagnosis of disease.
In Dr. JIuter's arrangement the
patient's bead is fixed in u frame
something like that used by photo
graphers, on which is n contrivance
lor supporting a microscope and
amp. The lower lip is drawn out
und fixed by means of clips on tho
stage ot the microscope, with its
inner surface upward, a strong light
is thrown on this surface by a con-
donscr, and the microscope, pro
vided with a low power objective, is
brought to bear upon the dolicate
network of vessels, which can be
seen in tue position indicated, even
with tbe naked ey?.
The appcaranco presented is, at
first, as if the vessels were filled with
rod inioctioa. But by focusing a
small superficial vessel the observer
is Boon able to distinguish the move
ment of tho blood stream, rendered
evident by tbe speck like red cor.
puscles, tho flow of which, in tbe
corkscrew-like capillaries, is said by
Iluter to bo especially beautiful.
The colorless corpusclos are distin
guishable as minute white specks,
occurring now und again in the
course of tho red stream. Besides
the phenomena of the circulation,.
the colls of pavement epithelium
ining the lip, and their neucloi, can
roadily be distinguished as well as
the apertures of mucous glunds.
Bosidos the normal circulation,
various pathological conditions can
be obsorved. By a pressure quite
insufficient to cause pain, the phe
nomena of blood stagnation tho
stoppage of tbe flow, and tbe grace
ful change in color of tbe blood from
bright red to purple aro seen. A
momentary stopping is also produced
by touching the lip with ico, a more
enduring stasis by certain reagents,
such as glycerine or ammonia.
Uuter states that he bas already
proved tbe great use of "cheiloan
gioscopy," as he calls the new
process, in his medical practice. The
variation ot the blood now and in the
diameter ofthe vessels the crowding
together of tho red corpuscles, tho
increase of the white corpuscles, oc
curring in certain diseases, all these
may be obsorved readily and exactly.
It will, indeed, bo at once obvious
how great is the importance of a
method like this, by which an actual
observation of the circulation is made
possible, especially when it is borno
in mind trat even tne rougu ana
ready method of feoling tho pulse
affords a valuable indication of the
state -of health. Nineteent h Century-
How to be Wcatherwlso.
John H. Tice, the weather prophet of
St. Louis, gives the following directions
to those who aspire to be weather wise:
As everybody is interested in tue
weather so each one should qualify him
self or herself to read the sky, and to in
terpret the meaning of. the winds, sky
and clouds.
An intensely blue and serene sky in
dicates heavy rains and severe storms in
from twelve to forty-eight hours. A
gray, hazy sky indicates a continuous
dry and generally hot weather.
A southeast wind indicates tne exist
ence of a low barometer, if not a storm
center in the northwest. The aspects of
the sky and clouds will tell whether it
means mischief or not. An almost im
mediate cessation of rain may be ex
pected as soon as the northwest wind seta
in. It matters not what the aspects of
the sky are when the west wind sets in,
fair weather will ensue it, and continue
from three to four days. The passage of
a storm center from the gulf and south
ward of our locality is a partial excep
tion only so far that it clears off more
tardily.
There are reallv but two primary
kinds of clouds, namely (1) those that
float at a great height above the earth's
surface, and (2) those that float low.
Those that float high, say from six to
to nine miles, are of a fibrous and gauzy
structure; they are hence called cirrus,
that is hair or tuft clouds. The clouds
that form in the lower strata of the at
mosphere, say from one to three miles
above the earth, are irregular in struc
ture, and of a more or less nodular form.
They are called the cumulus, that ia the
heap or pile cloud.
While the cirrus remains neouiar iu
atmr-inrA and indistinctly dennea
againrt the sky no rain need be expected.
Under the low baromeier, however, they
develoo bv accretion, become smooth
and compact in structure and much en
larged in volume. They now sink
lower and become sharply defined against
the blue sky. Rain may now be expected.
especially if they unite with the cumu
lus forming the nimbus or rain cloud. If
the cirrus, instead of forming the nim
bus, reascends, it dissipates, and no rain
need be expected until it lowers again,
which generally is in twenty-four
hours.
The following mixture is recom
mended for the destruction of parasites
v. - 1 111 m'
on plants: uoracic svcia, i iT. '
salicylic acid, 5 parts; rectified spirits,
20 parts, and water 200 parte. Ihe
liquid ia applied by means of a TnJ
produoer.