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o 3 V SENSATION IN A CHURCH. Catholic Cliftdrnn of St. L.oul to b Kept Out ofllio Public Schools. St. Louis dispatch: Tho Rev. Father James McCaffrey, of St. Patrick Catholic church, in this city, created i ensation Monday morning by announcing from tha pulpit that the Catholicchildrenof his par ish who attend tho public schools will here nfter be barred from the celebration of tha holy communion. "What I mean is," said tho priest when questioned, "that we hava no time to prepare children who attend public schools for their ilrst communion. Vo liavo a largo school hero and nil tho teachers necessary. We can teach every child that is brought to us, and no one can Ret away on tho plea of poverty, for we will teach them free. They must bo taught in the parish schools if they nre to become Catholics. They are in no way prepared to receive tho sacrament in tho public schools. Now wo don't propose to per mit our children to attend tho pub lic schools and then come hero and get a apocial preparation for their communion. The children who go to public schools aro not fit to receive their first communion. They havo received no religious training at nil, and what I say now is that they shall not bo given their first communion in this church." Vicar General Brady has been appealed to, and seems to side with Father McCaffrey. Father Joyce, a leading priest, says: "wo aro doing all that wo can to prevontour children from going to the pub lic Bchools. This evil is great. There is a largo number in every parish in St. Louis. Tho ovil is not confined to St. Louis. It Is in every largo city of tha country. Tha Catholic clergy must do everything they can to ovcrcomo it. Wo must educate our own children. They aro educated in tha public schools merely as an animal would be educated. Their aoula aro not attended to." THE POLITICAL WOULD. Tho Colorado republicans nominated Hon. Samuel II. Elbert, of Denver, for judge of the supremo court. Resolutions were adopted indorsing tho resolutions of the Denver silver convention of last Janu ary; denouncing tho importation of con tract labor; favoring arbitration in labor troubles, and demanding a strict enforce ment of tho civil servico laws. ISx-Secrc-tary Teller mndo a speech advocating tho unlimited coinngo of silver and defended his administration of the interior depart ment. In the Dakota constitutional convention blanks of election in tho form provided by the schedule report, were filled in with tho names of the stato executive committee. Tho convention then took a half hour's recess for tho republican members to hold n caucus to decide upon putting a stato ticket in tho field, and to elect county boards. Hon. A. C. Millet, chairman of tho territorial republican central commit tee, was instructed to issuo a call for a etato convention for tho purpose of nomi nating a state ticket. In tho New York democratic stato con vention Roswell 1. Flower wns nominated by acclamation for lieutenant governor; Frederick Cook, of Rochester, wns nomi nated on tho first ballot for secretary of 6tate; A. A. Chapin, present incumbent, wns renominated by acclamation for comptroller; Dennis O'Brien, present attor ney general, was renominated; Lawrunco J. Fitzgerald, of Cleveland, was nominated for stato treasurer by acclamation; Nathan Sweet, of Albany, wns renominated for etato engineer and surveyor. The Special Delivery System. The post uiiihter general is about to issuo nn additional circular of instruction to postmasters where tho special delivery ser vice has been established. Among other things tho eirctilnr will adviso postmasters to impress upon the senders of letters bear ing a special delivery stamp the necessity of an accurato address, giving tho namo of the street and number of houses wherever practicable, or, failing in that respect, an indication of tho business of tho person addressed. This last precaution is deemed necessary in small towns where no system of numbering houses prevails, and where thoro may bo two or moro individuals bearing similar names. Tho public will also bo reminded of tho advantngo to bo derived from writing requests for returns of non-delivered matter upon tho envelopes. Chac-iiim Pasha, formerly Minister of War in Egypt, lins been naturalized in Italy, thus transferring his immense property, generally supposed to belong to tho dissoluto ex-Khedive, to tho pro tection of that power. Thero is great disgust in oilicial circles at Cairo over this pieco of sharp practico, and tho Khedive has emphasized his wrath by degrading Chnchiin and forbidding his return to Egypt. 1 Ho that has no charity merits no 'mercy. A century plant The burial of a oentnnnrian THE MARKETS. OMAHA. wnEAT No. 2 07 ra nAitLrr no.s mm M Hvr.-No. s Cohn No. 2 mixea 28 Ci 2SM Oats-No. 2 18 CS 10 JlUTTEU Fancy croamory.... 23 to liOTTEit Cholco dairy . 12 13 Uutteii Best country 12 8 15 Unas fresh .. 12 i 13 Chickens Per Uoz. 2 oo ft 2 25 Lemons Cholco 7 6) 8 oo Bananas Cholco 2 75 & 3 &o Oiianoes Meslna 6 00 tfi 0 40 Onions Por bnl i 00 f 4 4 75 Potatoes Now 25 Co 30 Oueen Apple rorbbl H f 0 C4 3 25 Seeds-1 Imothy ? 1C1 (I 2 2) SEF.ns-BluoGrns J 35 Co i 40 IUv-Bnlot. por ton 050 CO 701 Hay In bulk 0 00 Co 7 01 lions Mixed jmcklnjr 3 30 C3 4 35 Beeeves Butchers' Btock... 2 60 6 2 75 NEW YOUK. TVnEAT Na. 2 rod 05 H M Wheat Ungraded red 78 CO 79 Coiin-No.2." O 0 P Oats Mixed western - 28 & a-i POItK 11 25 O 11 50 Laud S a 46 CHICAGO. FLOun-CboIco Winter 4 51 Co 6 25 Flouii Spring extra 8 50 CO 4 25 WHEAT-Per bualiol 84 0 8( CoiiN-Pcr bushel i'lWti 42K OATS-Por bushel Wi& 20 Point 8 65 lis 8 70 "AHn 6 42 CO 6 47 .loos-Paeklntr and shipping. 2 60 & 3 00 Cattle Stookers 2 50 CO 4 00 tiiiKEP Medium to irood 2 00 i 3 75 ST. LOUIS. Wheat-No. 2 red. 92f5 92 CoiiN Per bushel 4t4 4H4 OATS-Perbusbol....... ....... 24UCJ 24M Cattle stookers aud feeders 5 60 Co a 40 fiunu-Westrn 2 00 Ci 3 60 KANSAS CIT1T. Whkat Per buooel 7&Q T8 Cons Por bushel S2ffl 33 Oats Per bushel 2i4 fc Cattle Kx ports. 4 60 is 6 10 Boas Assorted 8 05 Ci 4 05 Chief Common to good 1 60 ii 8 00 CONFEDERATE BATTERY. n Tho Hoy Cannoneer of Klrliiuoml. Tho Pnrker Bnttery (Confederate) Association, of Richmond, Va., have made n pood selection of a historian. The battery was largely composed of boys, who required written permission from their parents to enlist. It was organized in tlie spring of 1SGL', and after service, East and West, saw the last of the war at Appomattox. Its storv is given to the world in a book in which the lights and shades of war aro genuinely mingled. The realities of fighting and marching with a bat tery are doubtless as graphically pic tured hero as in any volume to be found. The author was not a seces sionist, and his mother wept when she saw tho Hag of the United States hauled down in Richmond. Ho en listed, however, because ho was a Vir ginian, a distinction that in turn would havo given trouble to tho Southern Confederacy if it had suc ceeded in its war for separation. The boy battery had its baptism by fire at tho second battle of Manassas, where it waspostedin alineof eighteen guns between Jackson and Longstreet. The guns broke one of the most dangerous of tho Union infantry charges, that of Porter with about five thousand men. The light at this point lasted half an hour. Leo had placed tho guns so thickly thero that tho cannoneers almost elbowed each other. "Every man wns at his post. No talking; no ducking of heads. All was intense- earnestness. Tho face was flushed; the eyes full; and the arm stronger than is wont. It was a strug gle for life. It seemed that the very lieavcns wero ablaze; or that two clouds, surcharged with electricity and wafted by opposing winds, had met in terrific struggle." The battery had several men wound ed in that battle. At Antictam it passed through a fearful ordeal, losing twenty-ono'men in killed and wound ed. When tho Confederate army fell back across the PotomncatSheperds town the author noticed General Leo standing at tho ford giving directions oven to teamsters. Soon nfter that campaign tho-livingin the Confederate army became less elaborate. Only commissioned officers had servants. Tho commissary issued littlo except fresh beef. The battery had but one man wound ed at the battle of Fredericksburg. During tho following winter, tho Con federates had many amusements in their winter-camp. The private soldiers fought snow-ball battles; but ono of their most relished diversions, was to yell a: citizens in tall hats: "Come down out of that tall hat, and join the soldier-boys, and help whip tho Yanks," was the cry. A hundred voices would take up tho shout with "conio down! como down! I know you nro up there, 1 see your legs." The author was captured, with about a third ot his company, by Sedgwick's charge at Chancellorsville. Tho prisoners wero treated well, and in three weeks, havingbeen exchanged, wero back at tho front. At Gettysburg, Parker's battery wns among theseventy-iivoguns with which Leo rained iron upon tho Union posi tion as a prelude to Pickett's great charge upon tho heights. Lee's artil lery suffered heavily, during this bom bardment, and expended nearly all their amuninion. Parker's battery nlono fired 1,1-12 rounds. Jts loss was three killed, and ten wounded. The retreat from Gettysburg was be gun in torrents of rain, but Leo's army was held well in hand, and pursuit of it, even by fresh troops, could not have been pushed rapidly. When Longstreet was onlcred to Georgia, Parker's Battery went with the two divisions, but did not arrive in time to tako part in the battle of Chickamauga. The battery was post ed on Lookout Mountain for a time. A Union picket in front of them was heard ono night to remark that things went wrong at Chickamauga, .but "as soon ns Longstreet goes away we'll givo you tho d dest whipping you over had in your Hie." The bat tery moved with Longstreet to East Tenncsseo, where the living was hard and tho fighting without tangible re sults. More than that, the Confeder ates wero for tho first timo hostile. Tho men of tho'region wero either hid den in tho mountains or were in tho Union army. Tho women wero spirit ed, not to say saucy. During an en gagement near Bean's Station a wom an camo out of a house and ordered tho Parker gunners to "move them things out of my yard." At this mo inent a gunner's leg wns struck by a pieco of shell, and his pocket book thrown out upon tho ground. He said: "Well, I always thought tho Yankees wero mighty smart, fellows, but I didn't think thoy could pick a fellow's pocket a milo off." It was not considered safo for a Con federate to sleep in nn East Tennessee cabin about that time. Tho bnttery returned to Leo on tho Rnpidan and remained with him to tho close of tho war. In tho Wilder ness nrtillery could not bo used, and tho battery was not engaged. "During this campaign, when tho inces sant fighting and marcliinghad truned might into day, and wo had hardly time to eat, wo wore joined by tho bat talion of heavy infantry which had been stationed for a long time in tho defense lino of Richmond. Thoy had seen no active service, and ono of our boys nsked a privato of this battalion how long thoy would stay with us. 'I don't know,' was tho sincere reply; 'but wo can't stny over Sunday any how, for wo didn't bring any clean clothes with us.' " "Soon after tho bnttlo of Cold Har bor, on tho ad of Juno, 1801, I saw General Lee. He was riding slowly past our battalion, which had halted on tho roadside. He was apparently in deop abstraction, his head slightly bowed, and eyes seeming not to range beyond his horse's mane. Ho himself was probably thon in doubt as to tho next movo of his groat antagonist. Thoro was in tho battalion a simple witted fellow nicknamed Possum. U'his man planted himself in front of General Lee, and, looking up into his face, grinned and said, 'Howdy do, dad?' General Lcc, rc&scd from his reverie, looked up, and, in a kindly sad voice, answered, 'Howdy do, my ninn?' and rode on." In the campaign around Petersburg the Confederacy ordered out the last reserves. They came in citizens' clothes, and looked so rueful that their presence was discouraging. Food for me'i was scarce, and the horses .gnawed the trees in their hunger nnd died by hundreds. On the night of April 2, 1805, the battery cautiously moved away from the work it had occupied solong, and plodded west in the darkness along melancholy swamp roads. In the morning it reached Chesterfield Courthouse." Explosion's in the rear told that Richmond had fallen. After an hour's rest the bat tery toiled on again. That night some of the company was missing, and fhe Captain made a speech urging bis men to bo truo to tho last. Tho Union cavalry swooped in like Cossacks here and there in the retreating lines, tak ing each time a few men and wagons, niidnerhups a gun. In one of these dashes the author was captured be fore he or his comrades had a chance to pull a lanyard. This faithful little history abounds in sentiment, descriptive passages and anecdotes, as well as purely military facts. Tho author, though not a preacher, had a pious training, nnd sometimes acted ascliaplain. Beforoa battle soldiers often camo to him to talk religion, and to tell him they liad just been converted. At Gettysburg, during a lull m the firing, one of his battery com rades informed him that he had felt a spiritual change. Thero was a marked reform in this convert "until wo were pleasantly encamped somewhat re mote from tho(enemy, but not longer. Laugh as we may after tho war about the noisy artillery, and how littlo it was feared compared with tho cold gleam of tho infantry bayonet and the deadly whiz, of theminie, I confess that to my ear there was something mourn fully suggestive in the booming of can non and shrieking of shell. The ininie may hit, nnd the object of its wrath may live to tell the tale; but when the solfd shot or bursting shells find their victim, it generally leaves him a disor dered mass of quivering flesh." Tho authorat theend is able to avow his belief in the indestructability of the right, and to say, "Perish the wrong, whether hid beneath Southern gray or Northern blue." Tho book has nine heliotypo portraits of ofliccrs. AUKELL'S STKANGE STOKY. Going TliroujjH it Situ of l'lio Hut Not Kllluil. Saratoga Correspondence New York World. One of tho most active of tho men darting in and out of various con ferences was W. J. Arkell, the pub lisher of the Albany Journal, and a new forco in Mohawk Valley politics. Ho is very earnest in his advocacy of tho claims of Joseph W. Drcxel. Mr. Arkell, who is only .'J 1 years of age, lias a mo4 remarkable history, lie is tho son of Senator Arkell. Ho was in his father's factory when he was 17 years of age, at the moment of a ter rible gasoline explosion. Tho work man who was with young Arkell was blown out of sight." Not enough was left of him to be gathered together for identification. Young Arkell, who did not lose consciousness, covered his mouth and eyes and made a dash for the door. Tho building in which this explosion took place became filled at once with a black smoke. The boy butted his way with his head through five doors, going literally through fire. In this passage ho became frightfully burned. The time of the accident was winter. When he finally reached the outer air ho rolled in Hie snow and left in tho jsnow the front and back of both his hands and the covering of much of the lower part of his face. Ho was burn ed so hopelessly that the doctor for a long timo despaired of him. Senator Arkell, who was on ono of the upper floors of tho building when tho explo sion took place, escaped by dropping from a window down a fall of twenty five feet upon a strip of bare rock. His son was in bed for two years. His face was so badly burned that it was impossible for the natural skin to recover it. His hands wero equally afllicted. Senator Arkell discovered in his readings experiments in tho way of transplanting skin from one per son to another. Ho asked tho sur geons in chnrgo of his son to try this experiment. Tho result was ono of tho most interesting known in tho history of surgery. Upon tho face of young Mr. Arkell thero wero trans planted 850 pieces of skin from tha arms of various peoplo. Tho result is that his face was entirely built up, so that to-day, while he bears very heavy scars, ho yet looks very well consider ing what lie- has been through. He has indomitable courage and pluck, and aspires t o a high position us a publisher of nowspapers. A Slerrti Arolcnno. From tho Virginia City (Nov.) Chronicle News reached Candelaria from Bishop Creek that a volcano had burst forth in tho mountains sixty miles southwest of Bishop Creek. A party of frightened aheap-herders rodo into tho latter place. Thoy wero covered with dust and nshosand had numorous holes burned in their clothing. They i reported that they wero startled by nn I unusual rumbling noiso aud trembling of tho ground. At first they mistook I tho noiso nnd rumbling for thunder, but it wns quickly followed by a tre mendous oxplosion, and on looking up they weronppnlled at seeing a mountain not far away bolching forth a column of flames and smoko several hundred feot in hoight. Tho air was soon filled with fiory cinders and hot ashes which camo down upon them in clouds. I Tho affrighted men immediately drovo their sheop to a placo of safety and rodo to tho nenrost sottlomont with tho startling news. Several par tios havo started from Candelaria and Bishop Creek for tho sccno of tho erup tion, which is near tho deserted town of Mnmme,h, recently described in the Chronicle. Tho bright pink glow ob-1 oft-able in the southwesternhoriou tho past two nights doubtless lias bcin caused by tho orupaiop. SHERMAN'S 1MJOS13 rOKM U Anil How It lun llron Honilort-il Into Vort. IlKAIMJt- UtTKIt I'lPTKKNTII A it MY Coltl'8, 1 t'ninnon Wis HIaok Kiver. Autnixt S, ISOtt. J Hon. K. M. Stanton, Secretary of War. Sin-. I take the liberty of asking through yon that something be done for a lad named Arion P. Howe, of Waukogan, III., who belongs to tho Fifty-lifth Illinois, but at present at home wounded. 1 think he is too young for West Point, but would be the very thing for a midshipman. When" tho assault at Vicksburgwas nt its height, on tho 10th of May, and I was hi front near the road which formed my lino of attack, this young lad came up to me, wounded and bleeding, with a good healthy boy's cry. "General Sherman, send some cartridges to Col. Malmborg, the men are nearly out." "What is the mat ter, my boy?" "They shot me in tho leg, sir: but I can go to the hospital. Send the cartridges right away." Even where we stood tho shot fell thick, and I told him to go to the rear at once, I would at tend to tho cat ridges; and off ho limp ed. Just before hu disappeared on tho hill he turned, and called as loud as he could "Calibre 51." I havo not seen the lad since, and his colonel (Malmborg) on inquiry, gives mo the address ns above, and says ho is a bright, intelligent boy, with a fair pre liminary education. What" arrested my nttcntion thon was and what renewed my memory of the fact now is that one so young, carrying a mUsket ball through his leg, should havo found his way to mo on that fatal spot, and delivered his mes sage, not forgetting tho very impor tant part oven of the calibre of his musket 51 which you know is an unusual one. I'll warrant that tho boy has in him tho elements of the man, and I com mend him to the Government 113 ono worthy tho fostering care of somo ono of its national institutions. I am, with respect, your obedient ser vant, V. T. SnnuMAN-, Major General Commanding. c.vi.THiti: vi rrv-Kouu. "Say, General, payl" the courier snid (A boy ot thirteen yearn), "Our tvjiiiiiout'H Meant of powder and load; MohI out, the Colonel fourn. Tho men, they have held the ground, whilo I Thin iiu'HtmKe swiftly bore. Bo quick, and send 'em a fresh supply I It'n a calibre lilty-four." "Now you nre young," tho General snid, "To run mj ntern a race; Some older man inisht como inntond, Through Mich n dangerous place." 'They couldn't be spared," the hoy began; "I'm tho youngest of tho corps; And ho but, hiiy, bo quick old man! It'tt aealibro lifty-four." "Now your hurt," tho General said; "There's blood hero on your breast. Go back to the rear and tako by bed, Aud havo some needful rest." "Not much!" said tho boy, with halt-hid sneer; "I can't bo spared no more; Mv regiment's nowhere nigh the roar it's calibre fUty four." "Hut whoro'syourhorso?" tho Genoralsuid; "Afoot you cannot bo?" "Oh, a cannon ball toro off his hcail. And didn't como far from me; And bullets wurbled round, you bet (Ono through my right nrin lore); But I'm a home, and colt to letl I'm calibro fifty-four." "Your parents, boy?" tho Genoral said; "Where nro they? dead it HceniH." "Oh, they aro what tho world calln dead, But come to mo in dreams; They tell mo to bo brave nlwuy,' Ah father wiw before. Then mother kisses mo but, sayl It's a calibro fifty-four." "They'll booh bo hero," tho Goncral said, "Those cartridges you claim; My staff's host horso you'll ride, instead Of that on which you camo." Away tho boy, his spurs sharp sot, Across tho Held of goro. Still shouting back, "Now don't forgot! , It's calibre fifty-four." Will Carleton in Harper's Weokly. A Pow'fnl Lediiro on Tempcr- I m ico. From tho Foxboro Keportor. i rM,., nr rwnwl 1 1 ,lw,.3 nnnnn r,l1 m n r, and thootherayoungono. Thoyoung ono took off his apron and started out ot tho door. "Yo'sgwan to got a drink, Jim?" asked tho elder. "Pat's what I's gwan to do." "Go and git yo drink. I yoost tor do de snmo ting when I wuz. young. hen I wuz fust married (fall was a gin-mill next door to tho shop wha' I wucked, and I spent in it fifty and sebenty cent's a day outon do dollnh an' a half I calmed. Well, onomawnin' I went into do butchah shop, and who should como in but do man wat kep' do likkor shop." . "Gib me ten or twolvo pounds po'tor houso steak,' ho said. "Ho got it and went out. Isneakcd up to do butchah and looked to sco want monov I had lof. "'What do you wan'?'" said tho butchah. "'Gib mo 10 cents wuf of libber,' wuz my remark. "it wuz ail Jcouiupaviur. rowyo o nndgotyo' drink. You'll eatlibbor, ut do man wat soils yo' do stuff will havo his no'terhouso steak. Do man behin' do bar eats po'teriionso-do man in front eats libber. I ain't (touched tho stud in thirty years, uir I pm oatin' po'torhouso myself." . Of tho seven Prosidonts who havo hold tho office in tho last 28 years five aro dead; two Hayos and Arthur are alive; while of tho sovon candi dates for tho difforont terms in thoso 28 years five Fremont, McClellan, Jsoymour, Tilden and Hancock nro nhvo, untl only two DJiUbu and Greely aro dead. AN IRISH .110. A correspondent of tho Rockland (Me.) Courier-Gazette visited Iroland recently, nnd writes home in the fol lowing amusing style: "Can you direct mo to Mrs. Kelle her's?'' 1 said, accosting a biuenrmed woman, w ho had just picked up a bun dle of baby that had rolled out of an open door. "Tich bcynnt, sir," she cheerfully responded, unceremoniously lucking the baby tinder one arm, that she might the more freely " point with the other. On the corner of two streets oppo site a public pump stood a small two story structure, built of stone, of coursik, unci plastered over with mor tar of yellow hue. Above the door appeared the name wo were searching for. We pushed into a low, small shop, whose stock intrude consisted of baker's bread, milk, nnd otherstom achic necessities, to which was added the dispensing of such liquors ns the thirsty population might lequiro and pay for. Behind a sort of bar were congregated a number of men and women, whom I took to bo friends of the house, ami ono of these, a stout proportioned lady, with lnr hair combed very closo about her head, stepped forward and wanted to know what we would have. "Is this Mrs. Kelleher?" I asked. (Instant attention on tho paitoi tho people behind the bar.) "It is, sir," she replied respectfully. "Well," I continued, "can I find Mrs. Mahoney here?" (Attention of peoplo behind the bar visibly increasing.) "You cannot, sir," was tho reply, in rather less of a brogue than wo had yet enconn:ered. "Mrs. Manny, the old country, pro nunciation of Mahoney, M-s. Manny, who is my cousin, sir, is. not living here now, but ut Mr. Jones' tho con stable's an' a dnivnt place it is, too. Would ye bo afther wanting to see her, sir?" "Yevy much," Isaid. (Peoplo behind tho bar getting al most too impatient to wait. A bare headed woman starts forward.) "Plaze, sir," thobarchcaded woman exclaimed, "I can run and fetch her." "In how long a time?" "Oh, sir, not above fifteen minutes jist." "All right," Isaid, "start alongnnd tell her," I added, "that a gentleman from America wants to see her who comes direct from hen daughter No rah." "What!" tho woman screamed, while hereyes stood straight out from her head, from No rah Manny?" "Aye." "Then sure," sho' exclaimed, whilo her face stretched and wreathed with joy, "its myself that won't bu gpno a jilly." And with that sho was off liko a shot, whilo the peoplo behind tho bar have by this time fairly exploded with excitement. As wo started out tho door the propriotoross hailed ns. "Houldon, gentlemen, hould on!" sho called, while sho made speed to get through the littlo half-door leading behind I ho bar and for which sho was a very snug lit. "She's going to hug you," whispered the judge, as he stooped; and faith I though sho was but sho stooped on the very verge of- that demonstra tion, and fervently ejaculated: "An' sure you don't mean to say that Norah is after living at sorvico wid yor own blessed self?" "Sho certainly is," I replied with a North American smile. "Tho likes of that!" shecried, look ing alternately from mo to tho now completely petrified observers behind the bar. "Well, its right glad hermoth er w:ll bo to meet yez!" Hereupon, after several intorchangcM of liko remarks, tho judge and I passed out, promising to return directly, which promise, after a short walk along tho narrow, crooked streets, wo fulfilled. A fine looking old lady, in a white cap and tho provailing long blaekcapo and hood, meet in at the shop door. Sho wns trembling violently with emotion, and as she was introduced as Norah's mother and wo shook hands sho burst into tears. I fail utterly to bringing tho scene beforoyou thecuri ous littlo shop, thoiutcrcsted and sym pathizing knot of Irish peoplo at the background, and hero tho judgo ami L and this old woman, handsomo Btill in epito of her yearn of struggling toil, quito brokon down at this unexpected meet ing with ono so short a timo frcm her girl beyond the sea. "Your health gonotlomon, an' God bless yez!" heartily cried thohostoss, and with loud acclamation tho toast was drank, whilo tho judgo nnd I bow ed our acknowledgements courteously. At this juncture n singular looking individual hugging a bagpipo of seedy appearance undor his arm, trotted in at tho open door and hobbled slowly across tho uneven floor, "It's Blind Jerry, tho piper," whis pered a woman who sat on a bench noxt tho judgo "An1 it's noble gontlomin yez is, I'm certain of," tho blind nipor ejaculated as ho ambled past and sought out a Btool "Noblo gontlomin hero's yoz health, and God's blessms on yez!" As wo both turned to curiously re gard this singular accession to our number, tho woman next tho judgo intimated with many a nod and wink that Mrs. Kellohor could turn a reel with tho host of them. Tho judgo im parting this valuable information to me, I promptly called for a display, thon and there, of that lady's terpsi cherenn accomplishments. Ah, bo off wid yo, Mrs. Fitzgerald, for Buggostin' it! Mrs. Kelleher re proachfully said: "Why, I haven't llung a step this ton year an' it's not for mo, oh! ns I am and 180 pounds, to bo dancin'!" But Mrs. Mahony informed ua in an undertono that Mrs. Kelleher had on ono or moro occasions 'danced down a man,' nn achlovment rarely accom plished, let mo tell ywu, and wo re doubling our soliciation, the Indy was finally porsundod to givo us an exhibi tion of hor powers, nnd a pleasant 'jed young woman in a new Bilk dross, who had dropped in to ;eo what wart going on, being prevailed on to stand up as a partner, and the blind pipor having, after a tremendous deal of backing and filling, got his asthmatic, bagpipe to wheezing, at it they went amid unbounded applause. Arrah? then, but now they did go ifc arms ukiinbo now heel now toe now shufllu whist but never wns thro anything toequalit. Step it uptherc, Jerry! Faster! man! Now they'ro at it strong! Whoop! how tho floor shakes! how the very, rafters rattle! Musha! but wns there over a reel liko imto this ono, with the weighty Mrs. Kelleher, burdened by her size, but warming to the work" mightily, look ing her opponent square in tho eyo with the sternness nnd gravity that the occasion demanded. Jerry, man; are your pipes a-shl-'pin? Faster, yo spalpeen! do you hear? Ah, thin! rat tle it out with the heels now cross now swing tare-an' hounds, but what nm could stand up before it! and all in ii heat the reel was finished and the crowd applauding, and Mrs. Kelleher panting, Illind Jerry, who had followed "every note of his pipes, with grotesque contortions of ins mouth, wiped the perspiration from his sun tanned brow, and drank to us again with the utmost satisfaction. A Double Execution in Paris. Pakis, Aug. 1 0. Tho two notorious criminals Gaspard, who murdered tho old man Delaunay in tho Ruo d'Angoulemo, and Marchandon, who cut tho thront of tho Creolo lady, whoso servico ho had entered, accord ing to his custom, for tho purposo of plunder wero guillotined shortly after daybreak this morning. It was ex pected that tho wretches would bo re prieved, as Gaspard had had an ac complice, and Mnrchandon's friends had mndo energetic ellorts tosavehim from thoguillotine. Their appeals.how over.wero rejected, and both the crimi nals wero handed over this morning to t heconunon executioner.M.Grovy hav ing signed their sentences beforo his departure for tho country on Satur day. At 1 o'clock this morning tho Placo do la Roquette, outside the prison of tho condemned, was full of peoplo, who,' as is customary on such occasions, had remained up all night to witness what, in tho annals of recent sensation, was an exceptional sight, namely, a double execution. At 1 o'clock a moving light wns seen appioaching. It preceded a largo dark mass scarcely discernible through tho enveloping darkness. This was tho ear conveying tho terrible bonis do justice, or guillotine, which hadonco more been removed from its resting placo in tho vicinity of tho prison. lb was followed by Deibler and his assis tants, and was well guarded by police men. Turning tho corner of tho Ruo Folio Regunault, tho ghastly caravan lumbered heavily into tho Palnco do la Roquette, and stopped beforo tho door ot the jail. Tho guillotino was promptly dis mounted, and by 2 o'clock everything was ready. Deibler, having superin tended tho preparatory measures, wont into the jail with two of his men, and thero was then a long spell ol waiting and expectation, during which the day dawned on tho impatient and chattering crowd that filled tho Placo do la Roquette. At -i o'clock tho numbers wero increased by work men and others who wero obliged to bo up early, and barricades wero put up by the police to provont tho peoplo from filling up tho approaches to tho placo of execution. A long, narrow basket was now placed near thoblock of tho guillotine, and at ten minutes to fi tho huge, heavy, and gloomy doors of tho prison swung open amid a deadly silenco, only broken by the sharp rattling of tho gendarmes' swords as they wero drawn from their scabbards. Jas pard was tho first of tjio felons led to death. Tall and muscular, ho walked firmly between two priests, whoso ministrations ho had rejected until tho approach of his term. Hisfacowas palo and his features contracted convulsively as ho neared tho guillotine. Hero ho stooped to ward tho prison chuplain, tho Abbo Fauro, ana embraced first tho priest and then a crucifix hold by tho latter in his hand. Ho was now seized by tho executioners, h head was placed in tho lunette, and, nfter an awkward pause, during which Deibler seemed to havo lost momentary control of his instrument, tho knife descended, and the headless trunk of tho criminal foil away from tho bascule. Tho head was then put into tho basket. Tho guillotino was now washed, and everything set in order for tho noxb oxecution. After tin interval of sovon teen minutes, during which tho clamor ous crowd scorned to have lost its grotesquo gayety, tho doors of tho prison again opened, and Marchandon, looking liko a palo boy of 17, tottered feebly out, supported by tho Abbo Fauro and tho other priest who had assisted Gaspard. Tho criminal was evidently moro dead than alivo. Ho still woro tho patent leather boots with pointed too caps which ho had on when arrested, in his country house at Complegno. Aftor having convulsively ombrnced tho priests ho was caught sharply by Diobler and thrust into tho lunotto. Tho knifo again refused to work, and nearly four seconds elapsed beforo it fell on tho criminal's neck. When it did so a doublo jot of blood spurted out for nearly two yards, and sprink led tho adjacent ground. Tho bodies wero then taken, escorted by mounted gendarmes, to tho Ivry Cemetery for mock burial, a' tor which thoy wero handed over to tho School of Medicino for the usual oxponmontal purposes. - im hi Mr. Dorrick A.Rauphorn,a wealthy farmer of Orange county, Indiana,1 was taken ill several days ogo of phucumnnia. Shortly aftor tho two physicians who woro in attendanco pronounced him dead, and nrronge inents wero being mndo to protmro the remains for thocoflin, when all atonco tho corpse started up in bed and "ask ed for a glass of water, Mr. Rnup-, horn breathed freely, and ia now d- clarcd out of danger. ' i