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T[ ' / ' Eufrfc* IVot^HitMWfeRjr X IliLrNOIS. PAST WEEK* DOMESTIC NEWS. }fr * . svn • f, ... ? s»3fe« ;. S%* . Vtr'U ; Sv% r r^« wi The East. ^IF^EX-G^*. STEARNS, of New Hampshire, totted At Boeton, last week... .A Are In the Cath- olic Publication Society's building at New York naumul jmiip of 150,000; ktsurod....Three jpenweiv killed by an explosion Itt a giant pow- manufactory in Passaic county, N. J., a few days sgo. N The works were the pfop&ty * '<*£ the I*ftin <k Band Powder Company ljfow Tors papers announce that Vaoderbilt, the CKilway king, baa established an ooean freight line in connection with his Central railroad and Ivanehes. His ultimate purpose is apparently to control the ooean freight traffic. His fleet at present consists of fourteen large iron, screw freight steamships, brand-new, each of 2,000 Udb burden. 'PRESIDENT HAYE£ was in attendance tfcon the Bryant memorial exercises at New ®wk, OD the 30th alt... .A fire in the Oocbece Print Works, sitnatod at Dover, N. H., damaged the bail ding and oontetits #75,000; in­ sured The Haveretraw Savings Bank, <at Al­ ton?, N. Y., has been closed by the Attorney CjperaL *;NEW YORK city is suffering from an , ||idemic of scarlet fever. The Health Cftficor's T statement shows that 100 cases were reported dtiring the last week in November ; 120 cases storing the first week of December; 168 during ,\v-" '• the second week, and M8 during t̂ e tjrfrd i^r • ai.-.. y< mi­ tt !"i • -i~Tf U?rr%i* i.i'+f&t . U3K&- •ifcWj • «t1 $ • Mt#v Mi ! ROBERT "W MADTTF, FORMER State Stoeaflnrer of Pennsylvania and a prominent , jP îtician, died at Philadelphia last week, , CALEB Cusmxo died at Newburyport, on the 2d of January, agedTS J;)JRE8UMPTIOK of specie payments was aajporopliwhed at New York on Jan. 2, with BO eaftcitement or evidence of anything nnoanal oc- «irring. " , VR;T'CK>y. *TALBO^ of Massachusetts/^WAS ' abfcngurated Jan. 2L His message shows that the funded debt Of the State is *33,090,464. There is now no temporary loan... .The police records of New York city for 1878 show that 7SV141 persons were arrested during the year. ... .Dnring 1878,917 failures took plaoe in New fork city, with liabilities of 164,000,000. This jbi §. worse shewing than in any former year. j*"1. . The Wmt..[' . .F 3TBR FBED. ARXDT, of Milwaukee, was &B recipient of a triple present on Christmas day, in the shape of throe bonncing baby boys from hie wife... .At Cleveland, Ohio, the great bridge aeross the Cuyahoga river, so long in fbocenef eonstracSon, connecting the oast and wist sides of the city, his just been completed <1UN! dedicated to public use. Whereat the • Cfevrfandem' rejoice with exceeding great joy. THE people's $100,000 for a new ex­ position building at Cincinnati has been raised, which secures Mr. Springer's additional sub­ scription of 950,000. CHARLES T. SHEBMAN, of Cleveland, Judge of the United States District Court frost 1867 to 1873, died there recently, aged 68. '""'"AH event of interest to the people of , Michigan occurred on New Year's at Tawing, being the formal dedication of the new CapitoL The uow Stole House hss occupied su yssrs is ' construction Rockdale Mills, near ' - DUbuque, • 'iowa, ' Swift' destroyed- 'Bjf *n .ex- 'ploeion of' four dust- and conseqttetft fire the ot f ee? n i gh t - I • - , u i A CONFLAGRATION at Elgin,111., de- T^noyed a, Ome-sbary book 'basinees block of „»x stores, ty the heart qti the«iif.. Less about #ioo,ooo^ ' , ^ ( . PEPORTS indicate feat flie recent cold weather is the most intense and general of any­ thing experienced in the West since 1874. •. .The : Beeond Baptist Church, of St Louis, burned last week. Lbss, 1140,000; insured for'#100,000. , ̂ ' ..#ta . ;ff i * / • • • TketkHith. • ^^ow"®'eviB^ Comibisfflion lias *8|)fened its Work in New Orleans. and tlie initial proceedings indicate that a searching investiga­ tion in to be made. Witnesses Will be sum- , foiled from every place where the scourge' , prevailed, and a comparison of the testimony .thufcr obtained > will be, made... -The Bobert E. Xee Monument Association, has issued circular 'letters requesting that every county in the ' '"ftewlli be canvassed on the l&fii of Jan navy, the .anniversary- of his birth, lor contributions to . suable the society to complete the mikiument JWghteen fhoussnd dollars haralrMdy beea Jtaised. « t «• OVER 10,000 bales of cotton, togethw with the warehouse containing it, burned »t Charleston, 8. C., on New Year's day. *The loss was about #575,000. /!JTHE James river, in Virginia, 'has ' Men frozen over for the first time ip many 'years, and the people of Washington have given tip carrying fanii iNlt • ' • THE opinion of fhe Finft Comptrol- sir of the Treasury as to the use of #20,000 for the Blaine committee, we learn from a Wash­ ington telegram, has finally been overruled, Acting Attorney General Phillips thatf . voder a fair construction of the law, the Senate 4MKQ use the appropriation for any investigation whatever. Blaine's Teller investigation will • Immediately proceed, and a sub-committee will be either sent to South Carolina and Louisiana, or prominent witnesses will be summoned to _ , J|je capital. A PORTION of the Senate special oom- #lttee, appointed on a sub-oommittee, started tor New Orleans Jan. 3, and began at once the taking of testimony relating to alleged fraud violence in the Louisiana election. . .. THE Teller Committee voted to ask » 'iPl® President and Attorney General Devens for information, and, in response, has been fur­ nished with a number of documents going to show violence and fraud in several parishes of louisiana, and election frauds, by tissue bal­ lots, in parts of South Carolina. Letters have been received by the committee from Messrs. Blaine and Thurman, mentioning alleged cases of intimidation and violence at the Hputli, and sndue influence of voters in the. Northern and started for Washington, leaving two Com­ missioners behind to take, certain depositions which are wanted. AT the last New Orleans session of the Potter Committee, a bundle Sf documents left in a store by Mrs. Agnes Jenks, and ad­ dressed to her, was produced before the com­ mittee. Among the documents was one pur­ porting to bo the alleged origin&l "Sherman letter." Chairman Potter made a statement to the press tq the effect that ihe«e lineaments had been dropped by Mrs. Jenks for the pur­ pose of imposing upon the committee. He de­ clared that the so-called copy of the Sherman letter was a forgery. A UNION of the Greenbaok-I#abor party of New England was recently formed at a meeting ia Boston, at which the substitution of greenbacks for oational- t>ank notes was enunciated as one of the principles of the party. An Executive Committee was also chosen for Work in the New^England Congressional districts.... Alonzo Garcelon has been elected Governor of Maine by the Legislature of that State. Mr Garcelon is a Democrat, but received the sup­ port of the Bepublican members in preference to Smith, the Greenback outdtdale. There was no Bepublican candidate. * Washington* THE Secretary of the Tseasnxy has issued the seventy-sixth call for the redemption of five-twenty bonds of 1865, oonsols of 1867. The call is for ten millions--six millions of coupon and four millions of registered bonde-- the principal and interest to be paid on and after the 1st of April, 1879.. . .A Congressional census has been taken by the friends of the Texas Pacific railroad project, and the count of noses is said to have discovered a majority of seven in the Senate and six in the House for the subsidy. THE public-debt statement shows an increase of the debt for December of #1,233,- 785, and the following balances in the treasury: Coin, #224,8ft5,477; currency, #4,515,550; cur­ rency held for the redemption of fractional cur­ rency, #10,000,000; special deposit for the re­ demption of certificates of deposit, #3,455,000; ooin and silver certificates, #24,076,830; out­ standing legal tenders, #340,681,016; fractional currency, #16,108,154. Miscellaneous. COL. FRED GRANT has left to join his father upon his trip to China. THE Secretary of the Treasury has issued a new and consolidated circular in re­ gard to subscriptions to the 4-per-oeot. bonds. The points of interest to the public are two: First, United States notes, as well s î coin, can now be received for subscriptions; and, second, instead of paying a commission on all subscrip­ tions, the department will pay no commission m any subscription less than #100,0001 FltlCSH Tories. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, A SMALL insurrection lyis broken out in fiie province of Barcelona, always one of the most turbulent I& Spain. The number of the insurgents seems to be small at present, and, as the Government has acted with much energy in similar cases lately, this little disturbance will probably be very quickly stamped out.... Eighteen Mexicans were hung as a sequel to a recent fî t between national troops and in­ surgents. . AN account of the riot of the stu­ dents of the University of Kieff, Russia, says that the students in a meeting outside of the town decided to protest against the closing of the university. A number, well-armed, pro­ ceeded to the university, forcing their way in after disarming the polioe, and fixed on the blackboard an energetic protest against the arbitrary proceeding of the authorities. Two .companies of local militia tried to disperse the students. A collision ensued, and eighty persons were killed and wounded. The cavalry force finally cleared the square in front of the university. Many students were arrested. Similar riots on a ffl&alles* scale have broken out in other universi­ ty towns. The polioe are instructed to stop the smuggling of revolutionary pamphlets, and to prevent the entrance of revolutionary emissaries from Germany Henry Vincent, the well- known English lecturer, is dead. Kin visit to this country several years ago will be remem­ bered, AFTE& a retrospective glance at the condition of England in 1878, the London Times remarks that "industries have been disorganized, credit shaken and failures multi­ plied on every hand." About 5,000 more bank­ ruptcies were reported than in the preceding year. Wages were reduced, many thnna^mta of artisans kept in idleness, and as many thou­ sands of persons above the artisan class either placed in actual want or on its confines. And the worst of it is that no signs of improvement are visible, in the morning twilight of the coming year. ... .The Princess Mary of Lichtenstein, formerly Miss Fox, adopted daughter of Lord Holland, and authoress of several works, died recently in Styria. THE reduction in the wages of ma­ sons, plasterers, etc., announced by the master buildera of Sheffield, England, to go into effect Jan. 1, resulted in a general strike. THE bursting of a 38-ton gun on board the British war-ship Thunderer created terrible havoc. The turret in which the mon­ ster cannon was rigged was completely demol­ ished, and seven men were killed outright and forty wounded. 4 ;' THE P6tt# Committee, ori iJaii. 1, re- <fcived a communication of Secretary Sherman's *»unsel, in which that gentleman refused to furnish testimony, for the reason that his wit­ nesses would be ruined by the mere fact of meir appearance. The oommittee thereupon jjonlshned its mission to New'Orleans fulfilled, 8HM WOULD MIDM BACKWAMJh Years ago the Boston and Albany rail­ road made a rule that passengers should not ride on tickets intended to be used in the opposite direction from that ixi •which they were journeying. One day the conductor came to a well-dressed, middle-aged lady, just after leaving Worcester on the western-bound ex­ press, who handed him a ticket from Palmer to Worcester. He protested that, although very sorry, the rules of the company wouldn't allow him to take that ticket for a moment. The lady said that she had bought it in good faith, but had never before had an op­ portunity to use it, and intimated, with studied politeness, that all such regula­ tions were senseless. And finally she remarked, "I am willing to ride back­ ward all the way, if that will be any comfort to you." He took the ticket.-- Springfield (Mans.) Republican. FORTY acres of pigeons roost nightly in the Indian Territory about fifty miles southwest of Joplin, Mof Ex-Goy. SEYMOUR, of New York, would revive the whipping post, and substitute scourging for imprisonment in the oases of certain classes of incor­ rigible criminals. ̂ ---- -"mi . <«((•»' • FIVE members of Hie Forty-ffftJi Cori- gress have died--Messrs. Welch, of Ne­ braska; Leonard, of Louisiana; Quinn, of New York; Williams, of Michigan, and Douglas, of Virginia. EDISON can have his potent, lor * di­ visible electric light on application at the Patent Office in Washington and payment of the final fee. Bat he will wait a while, for policy's sake, his appli- catidha&tr patents in Europe being so situated that publicity might hinder their issue. By delaying the payment of the final fee, and this delay can be continued six months, the patent re­ mains seoret. PROBABLY the oldest married couple in existence are now living in the in­ firmary of Gallia county, Ohio. Their names are William J. and Luey Ann Davis. Both were bofn in Pennsyl­ vania, he in November, 1771, ahe in February, 1778, both being over 100 years of age. Each had been married twice before. They have been living together forty-three years, and are in possession of their faculties and health. The old lady reads without glasses. Re­ cently they walked two miles to call on a friend, and were not fatigued. Four years ago they walked to Jackson, a dis­ tance of thirty-two miles, in two days. The old man has never been rack a day in his life, and never took a dose of med­ icine. ! He chews tobacco, and his teeth are in perfect preservation. Wmated, Ct., has a couple named Sturgis who are almost as old, he being 97 and his wife 94. They have been married over 73 years. AN Eastern contemporary suggests that an insurance society could be or­ ganized, which, for a moderate premi­ um, could insure bank premises against burglary. It would then be the duty of trained inspectors to examine into the security of the safes and locks, and to order the adoption of the latest and strongest safeguards; and, should these be broken through, the reserve fund of the insurance company would make good the loss, which would thus be equally distributed over the community. Possibly an organization of this sort might be useful. It would have to be very careful in its agents, however, lest it be converted into a source of danger through the collusion of inspectors and burglars. In this, as in other cases, prevention is better tlmn core; it -#4uld be better, as well as cheaper, for the banks to forestall the burglars with scientific safeguards. There is no fear of time-locks and electric alarms be­ traying combinations. { THE Chinese are so much an institu­ tion in San Francisco, Sacramento and thereabout that Wells, Fargo & Co. have found it to their interest to issue a business directory of the leading Chi­ nese houses, printing the names of the firms in both English and Chinese characters. In San Francisco 424 Chi­ nese business houses are enumerated, as follows: General merchandise, 77; groceries, 54; cigar-makers and dealers, 49; shoe factories, 32; dry goods, 29; drugs, 25; laundries, 23; butchers and grocers, 16; slipper factories, 14; res­ taurants, 12; jewelers, 12; tinsmiths, 10; clothing factories, 9; rice, 6; ba­ zars, 6; poultry dealers, 6; boarding houses, 5; ladies' underwear, 5; retail opium dealers, 4; doctors, 3; pawn­ brokers, 3 f confectionery, 1; Chinese newspapers, 2; wood and coal, 2; bean cake, 2; shirts, 2, and toys, photogra­ pher, undertaker, fruit and merchan­ dise, rag dealer, Chinese immigration, butcher, bootmaker, umbrella repairer, carpenter, opium and merchandise, fan­ cy goods and fish, 1 each. BZ8MARC1C8 RKLIOIOX. Prince Bismarck is very outspoken in reference to his religions belief. In Dr. Busch's book he is quoted as say­ ing: "I cannot conceive how a man can live without a belief in a revelation, in a God who orders all things for the best, in a Supreme Judge from whom there is no appeal, and. in a future life. If I were not a Christian, I should not remain at my post for a single hour. If I did not rely on God Almighty, I should not put my trust in Princes. I have enough to live on, and am suffi­ ciently genteel and distinguished with­ out the Chancellor's offiJl. Why should I go on working indefatigably, incurring trouble and annoyance, unless con­ vinced that God has ordained me to ful­ fill these duties? If I were not per­ suaded that this German nation of ours, in the divinely appointed order of things, is destined to be something great and good, I should throw up the diplomatic profession this very moment. Orders and titles to me have no attrac­ tion. The firmness I have shown in combating all manner of absurdities for ten years past is solely derived from faith. Take away my faith and you de­ stroy mv patriotism. But for my strict and literal belief in the truths of Chris- tianity, but for my acceptance of the miraculous ground-work of religion, you would not have lived to see the sort of Chancellor I am. Find me a succes­ sor as firm a believer as myself, and I will resign at once. But I live in a gen­ eration of pagans. I have no desire to make proselytes, but am constrained to confess my faith. If there is among ns any self-denial and devotion to King and country, it is a remnant of religious belief unconsciously clinging to our people from the days of their sires. For my own part, I prefer a rural life to any other. Bob me of the faith that unites me to God, and I return to Var- zin to devote myself industriously to the production of rye and oats." BITS OF SCIENCE. Excerpted from Prof. Tyndmir* Writings. WE place food in our stomachs as so much combustible matter. THE two theories of free will and ne­ cessity come to the same in the end. ^ EVERY raindrop which smites the mountain produces its definite amount of heat. THE nerves pull the trigger, but the gunpowder which they ignite is stored in the muscles. SOUND in air moves the rate of 1,100 feet a second; sound in water moves at the rate of 4,000 feet a second. IF a whale seventy feet long was struck by a harpoon in the tail, a second would elapse before the disturbance could reach the brain. * THE muscles of a laborer whose weight is 150 pounds weigh sixty-four. When dried they are reduced to fifteen pounds. THERE is nothing gratuitous in physi­ cal nature, no expenditure without equivalent gain, no gain without equiv­ alent expenditure. WE can do with the body all that we have already done with the battery-- heat platinum wires, decompose water, magnetize iron, and deflect a magnetic needle. A MAN weighing 150 pounds consumes, in lifting his own body to a height of eight feet the heat of a grain of carbon. Jumping from this height the heat is restored. - DOES water think or feel when it runs into frost-ferns upon a window pane? If not, why should the molecular mo­ tion of the brain be yoked to conscious­ ness? LIGHT In ether moves at the rate of 100,000 miles a second, and electricity in free wires moves probably at the same rate. But the nerves transmit their messages at the rate of only seventy feet a second. THE sun0 Warms the tropical ocean, converting a portion of its liquid into vapor, which rises in the air and is re- condensed on mountain heights, return­ ing in rivers to the ocean from which it came. IF to any of us were given the priv­ ilege of looking back through the eons across which life has crept towards its present outcome, his vision would ulti­ mately reach a point when the progeni­ tors of this assembly could not be called human. From that humble society, through the interaction of its members and the storing up of their best quali­ ties, a better one emerged. NO OLD MAIDS. There are very few old maids in Rus­ sia, because the Russians are a marry­ ing people, and dispose of their chil­ dren early. In the middle or lower classes men marry at 20 when not drafted by the conscription; in the higher aristocracy ^ young man goes the "grand tour" before settling down, but he is often betrothed Before start­ ing to a young lady not yet out of the school-room, and he weds her immedi­ ately upon his return. The great ridi­ cule attached to the title spinster, when not borne by a nun, has possibly some­ thing' to do with the unwillingness of ladies to sport it. When a girl has reached the age of 25 without finding a mate, she generally sets out on what she calls a pilgrimage, if poor--on a round of travels, if rich; and in either case she turns up some years later as a widow. Widows are as plentiful as old spinsters are scarce, and widows whose husbands were never seen are more nu­ merous than the rest. Etiquette for­ bids any allusion to a lady's dead hus­ band in her presence, and thin is, per­ haps, sometimes convenient. A LEISURELY POMT. Those writers who think that thought should spring into the mind full armed and equipped, and who consider it be­ neath their dignity to correct and erase, should see Tennyson at work writing and rewriting his poems over and over, or rather printing them, for the poet laureate rarely uses a pen. He keeps a printing press, and has his poems set in type, line by line. Imagine %hat a nice, leisurely time the poet must have strolling about on his lawn smoking cigars, with that eccentric Texan hat of his slouched over his moody brow com­ posing a verse a day! Perhaps if some of our prolific American poets would try the verse-a-day plan they might get something like the prices the poet lau­ reate receives. ' ( • " OLLA-TOBRTDA. SONNET. Gads? this ev» across the plain, DWk And stream and grove, I mark the distant apire That shades the shrine whose saint doth me in­ spire, And gives me every recompense for in ThlB life affords. Love, keep your magic «M>1 To surely change the baser things of eaiOt (Libo fabled fount of youth's immortal birth), And lead your devotee jnot yon will. Across the distance that between us lies, My thought, more fast than flashing lightning, files, And fancy gazes in your splendid eye«. The setting sun lights np the happy spot "Tv"* •* I love. Ah! when my life remembers not" v ' Its happiness, then, sweet, you'll be forgo£ , CHICAGO, 111. ELI OMAL. As THE animal system does not ad­ mit of two excitements at the same time, most morbid affections are relieved by new excitements, and, these abating, the disease abates, and is often cured; This is called sympathy, and the stom­ ach and brain appear to be the common centers of it. - ------ , THE OLD TEAS AND THE -Ml#.-' v- Oh his death-bed lying, tffce Old Year is dying; His lips are cold, " , And bine with mold; • '• ;Me&r his heavy nighing-- . "ASWst his life Is flying. So worn with age, Old Y#l|r, So filmy-eyed and drear," v-M; Gaze on the moon, While Old wives eroon A death-song round thy bier, And fashion thy death-gear. Hark l what a shriek of pain t li^ jThe Old Year has been slain I • Come, haste away! The sky la gray With guilty murder-stain, - the New Year comes to reign. Burner ABMOUI. * THE Antiphonary of Gall is the oldest musical manuscripts in existence. The original is preserved in a cloister in St. Gall, Switzerland. It was copied from the. Antiphonary of Pope Gregory (A. D. 590-604), under the direction of Pope Adrian, at the request of Charle­ magne, in the year 790. It shows the neumw notation which superseded the letters derived from the ancient Greeks. ' CONCEALED. Yon ask me to teU you my troubles, And say you would gladly share them; I doubt not yon would, but still I alone am the one to bear them. I know, my darling, you love me, And your sympathy's heartfelt and deep, But I have no wish to distrees you. So lock them up in my bosom and weep. And there I will hoard them forever, As a miser would hoard up his gold; Such treasures are galling and bitter, And will cause me misery untold. But I'll scoff at the pangs they engender, As I frequent the haunts of the gay; I'll laugh when my pain is the keenest, And dance the gay, festive hours away. PrrrwKiEr.D, Mass. HATTIK E. 8. CBESST. "Do YOU think," writes a young stu­ dent of human economy, "do you think the human race is decaying?" Not at all, not at all. Part of it isn't decaying because it is yet alive, and the portion of it that is dead doesn't decay because the medical student don't give it a chance. Oh no, the human race was never, in all its history, so well protect­ ed against decay as at present. Be thankful that you live in an age when the grave has been so shorn of its power that it can't hold a man so long as a sieve would hold a spoonful of quick­ silver.--Burlington Hawk-Eye. NEW-YEAR'S DAY. HIS FIB8T CALL--10 A. M. Miss Smith, how d'ye dot You are looking quite charming; Happy New Year! Ah, thanks. Many calls, did you askf Oh, this is the first that I've made--it's alarming. Two hundred to do--yea, of course, 'tis a task. "Your drees is perfection. Oh, no, I don't flatter. Must go now--so sorry! Ah, what will I take? Well, thanks, just a glass of egg-nog--wine dont matter. Thanks, thanks, awful thanks--just a bit of that cake. "Now, really, this caU has become quite a long one. Forgive me--so good!--my regards to mamma. No, no, not a drop. Yes, that hat is the wrong one; fere's mine. Charming visit! Adieu--ah, ta- ta!" MIS LAST CALL--MIDNIGHT. "Mia Brown, come to say oompl'm'n'a of (hie) sea­ son. Wis yer hap (hie) New Year, and ah (hie), how d'ye dot Miz Brown, win you'd tell me (hie) whaz izzer rea­ son There's anusaer Mix Brown right beeidc yon--aee two. , "I'm dry as the deuot, Mid this room ia (hie) reel­ ing. Yes, lez have some .wine (hie), a glaaser punch, do. Last call (hie) this is; what a miszerble feeling! My boots (hie) too tight, and (hie) gueesl am, too. "Souse me, Mis Brown, but my head Is ^splitting; I think that I'll (hie) just lie down on the floor. - Hi! here.' vow let go.' Here, old man, tcho yer hU- ttngf Awl Met/"--and he finished outaide the froi^- door. CHATTKRTON recorded in a book which he took with him from Bristol to Lon­ don his literary gains, and it, stands on record that for nine months' labor in London be received from the booksel­ lers for whom he wrote $24. For the "Constiliad," a poem of over 270 lines, he got $2.60, and Mr. Hamilton, owner of a magazine, gave him for two contri­ butions 50 cents, and for sixteen songs which he published $2.00! It is easy to understand how this treatment led up to liis writing, "Suicide is sometimes a noble insanity of the soul, and often the result of a mature and deliberate approbation of the souL If ever a crime, it is only to society. It may seem a paradoxical assertion that we oannot do wrong to ourselves, but ii ia certain we have power over our own ex­ istence." And so he died at 18 from opium taken to allay the pangs of ( .... € r I4" WMTMR BLAKK I*A* "OIR^"VBTUI«^ :̂' . MWS PRESENTED BY THR AUTKOS TO A UBT OF HIS ACQUAINTANCE. " £ • W o u l d y o u , w i t h d r e a m - w i n r r s , s o a r a w a y From troubles, and from every eare This world contains, into a world-- f ' The muse-world of the poets--where " The soul, enraptured, finds continual Wislf i i Wouldst journey there? I'll show the way# Put by all thoughts upon the world, And take a book of poems, such as this, Then read and think--and yaii'Ilbe llimi.].;: ~'y. IOWA CITY, Iowa. HALLKT H. TBK MYSTERIOUS SHADOW. * A curious thing is said to hav» happened in the year 1659, at Crossen, in Silesia, of an apothe­ cary's servant. The chief magistrate of that town at that time was the Princess Elizabeth Charlotte, a person famous in her generation. In the spring of the year, one Christopher Momgh, a native of Serbest, a town belonging to the Princess of Anhalt, servant to ah apothe­ cary, died and was buried with the usual ceremonies of the Lutheran church. A few days after his decease, a shape ex­ actly like his in face, clothes, stature, mien, etc., appeared in the apothecary's shop, where he would sit himself down, and walk sometimes, and take the boles, pots, glasses off of the shelves, and set them again in their places, and some­ times try and examine the goodness of the medicines, weigh them in a pair of scales, pound the drugs with a mighty noise in a mortar--nay, serve the people that came with their bills to the shop, take their money, and lay it up safe in the counter; in a word, do all things that a journeyman in such cases used to do. He looked very ghastly upon those that had been his fellow servants, who were afraid to say anything to him, and, his master being sick at the time of the gout, he was often very troublesome to him, woul&vtake the bills that were brought him out of his hand, snatch away the candle sometimes, and put it behind the stove. At last, he took a cloak that hung in the shop, put it on and walked abroad; but minding nobody in the streets, went along, entered into some of the citizens' houses, and thrust himself into company, especially of such as he had formerly known, yet saluted nobody, nor spoke to any one but to a- maid-servant, whom he met hard by the church-yard, and desired to go home to his master's house, and dig in a ground chamber, where she would find inestim­ able treasure; but the maid, amazed at the sight of him, swooned; whereupon he lifted her up, but left such a mark upon her flesh with lifting her that it was to be seen for some time after. The maid, having recovered herself, went home, but fell desperately sick upon it, and in her illness discovered what Monigh had said to her, and accord­ ingly they digged in* the place he had named, but found nothing but an old decayed pot, with a haematite or blood­ stone in it. 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