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"i ,,,-j •\ : ': .>* I' ' . • . ' ,1- » M- -;vr.K- ?„ -,... ili * i&jniirpv «WEW»I| ILLINOIS, CALENDAR FOB 1881. :i 23 a3 ®4P5 17 23124 »4 »5 20,21 aa • .. I3 27:28,29^0 %i&>. s?£t WEEKLY RENS REVIEW. THE EASY. ALBERT MAGXE, of Bradford, Pa., put »! «««i nwyitamiwg thirty-seven ponnda of nitro- jglyoefine, which had congealed, into a tab of -warm water to liquefy it. Au explosion fol- ^.^towoisad Mageewas blown to atoms... .Three 'r' John Shea, Chester Morse and J. Bruce. - while attempting to cross the Boston and Albany railroad track In a wagon «t Matick, Mass., were strode by a , , train, and all instantly killed Hani- f'lOhm and Griffith, two iron-workers of jntbtooxgh, claim to have discovered a process ty which they can manufacture flue-grade iron, now ousting about §100 per ton, at a cost of $80. | '; Ibeir process will be given a trial in a Pitte- burgh mill.... Henry Ostrander, a yonng man of •&--M years, residing at TJtica, N. Y.. became jeai- •'/'.'(.'MM of his brother George, becauijf their little •r^lsistar Ourrie caressed the latter. He spit tobae- 00 juioe into the girl s face, and. on being re­ monstrated with by George, shot the latter th« grornd and disappeared in the adjoining woods. When Welch gained hi« feet and re­ entered the oar he found the p«f wagers ter­ ribly excited, and nearly all hidden vinde« the seats. Stretched in the center of the a ink) was Dr. J. H. Tayne, of Carroll, Tex. He was mortal I v wounded, and gasped faintly "I am killed." P. P. Jones, of Beaver countv, Pennsylvania, lay across his seat, with the blood streaming from a wound in the arm. His wife, in au op­ posite seat, was wounded in the head. Both will die, it is thought Two other persons were wounded, but not fatally. The assassin is un- j known, and the cause of the shooting is shrouded in mystery Mr. Gardner, a promi­ nent citizen of Hart county, Ky., was murdered in his bum bv two voung colored men, broth­ ers. named Campbell. The murderers were arrested, one of them made a confession, and a mob hung them to th• nearest tree.... The South Carolina Legislature has passed a very stringent law agaiiuit dueling. Any per­ son who is proved to have sent or accepted a challenge shall be disfranchised forever, and may be imprisoned for two years. Killing a person tn a duel is defiued willful murder, and legislators are obliged to pledge themselves against dueling. %. .A railroad collision on tho Jdtobile and Ohio railroad, at State Line, Ala., resulted in the death of an engineer and three pause ngew. ANOTHER frightful railroad accident is reported from South Carolina. The second section of a freight train on the Air Line ran into some cars which had became detached from the first section. Three passengers in th«; caboose were killed, one of them being burned alive, and one was seriously injured.... Jndge Percy Walker, of Mobile, Ala., ex-Mem­ ber of Congress, is dead. AT Smith villa, Vs., a white man named Dunn got into a difficulty with some colored men who had met to organize a military company. He shot two of them dead, eat a third so badly that he will probably die, and inflicted leas serious wounds upon several others -- .The death H announced of Anthony Dieters, of Wheeling, W. Va. He was made a Mason in Prussia sev­ enty-five years ago, was wounded nine times in Napoleon's campaigns, and witnessed the burn­ ing of Moscow. HKAVY snow-storms are reported all through Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina. Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas, and the mercury dropped down several degrees below freezing point No snch weather has been known there lor twenty years. A TEXAS jury has acquitted Abe Both s- child, who was generally believed to have mur­ dered Bessie Moore and oat her into chunks convenient for packing. GENEHAU TUB offices of the following newspar pers were burned oh Christmas eve: Summit (Miss.) Sentinel. Bnrkeville (Ta.) Sentinel, Og- Tta. m.tihted bodfe. of Oogte j fe-gf ^^±5^ S office of the Detroit .Free Frees wag slightly damaged bv tire, and Editor A. M. Conkling, of the Socorro (New Mexico) Sun, was brutal­ ly murdered by Mexican desperadoes William L. Royal, late of Richmond, Va., now of New York, is to issue through E. J. Hale A Sou, of New York, a reply to "Jtonrgee's "Fool's ° r^aad wife, residing near Bethlehem, Pi, having ,Y.j- been found in their bed, Joseph Snyder, who L-t.C • boarded in their family, was lynched for the <*une by a mob. He made a detailed con f from which it appeared that he had been refused the hand of their daughter by his victims, and thought to poasesa her after their death Ber. Dr. Edwin H. Chapin, one of the most ^eloquent and gifted clergymen in the United Errand." A Ciirii-tinas party of six. return­ ing to their home from a friend's house near Lucan, Out., while crossing a railway track iu & ; died in New York on Sunday. He be- a wagon, were struck by a passing train, and ^• , gma his pulpit labors in Richmond, and in 1848 £ jr ^ watt instated as pastor of the Fourth Universal- gjiy.. Church of New York. The total popula- - ration of the State of Vermont is 832,286. * - "The foreign-bora citizens number only iT' 49.496. There arc 1,043 colored - per- '. Mons. 6 Indians, and 3 half-breeds. malts outnumber the females by 1,491 ,f|>' JBy the explosion of a boiler in Dodgt's shoe factory, at Newburyjmrt, Mass., three employes ^ " were killed and several slightly injured The 'JRsilrosd Commissioners of Massaohiuetts have /WjfSr vefMed to permit the. erection of elevated roads Boston... .Two men lo>t their lives during a snow-storm near Ited Bank, N. J. Tax payments at the New York Clear- four of the party--James McGratli. his wife, Matthew M-Grath and Ellen Biake -- were killed. A child IS months old was badly in­ jured. THE soldiers in the Quebec (Canada) citadel have had fifty rounds of ball cartridge served out to them, double sentries have been placed on the walls, and every precaution taken to guard against surprise. It is reported that an imperial spy has been there and has left for Montreal on his way to the United States. II's mission is to ascertain the strength and posi­ tion of the Irish iu America and the move­ ments of the Land Leaguers. 'Pun following ntatement shows the . Ing House for the past year were larger than j population of certain State* and Territories; \ 4?M!se ** Lon'}on* and e*°eed the receipts and I according to the United States census of 1880. \ Urtmrsementa of the United States Govern- i ^ Rtat<)IBeIlt ip ^ ,ubject to eor- . .l,261,2«iNew York.. r»,os.2,m4 ira^vssri i *» rn - y street. New York, has been buried. sKmyir duplication of namee m the hsts of m- flt»,00«.....A block of stores at Mvattc I >->*"">>* • Ot, ha* been destroyed by tire, involving i T7 .Florida S6fi,.<ki|8outhCaraillia,.. <R»5,7IM <Dt New York, is dead J. W. Milne, an em- ; Georgia. i'eunesree. » IJoye of the Pocaaset National Bank, atFaU | iUver, Xaaa., fled to Canada, and a short- i Kentucky Virginia... <U8,m «g« at $7.5ih) In his accounts has been devel- ; Louisiana wit-o .iiHia.. i,3i5,;<8t> »ped. ! Maine fi4H.94.-ijDint. Columbia.. 177,038 .- THE WEKT. | MassachUB«tt«...W(>tldalio ' m . M n. . ^ «, \ MisHouil........ .^WuoyiiMoutana,.,.. A CQMKfREK of the Chicago Boturd o( \ Xebtaska 4;>i,4:v.>\\;tal»...... .. which was appointed some time ago to : " out new quarters for the board, have re- t Sew Jersey l,ia«,Hyi| points, and lasted five days, 600 points being phyea each day. The American maintained * handsome lead the second, third and fourth day* of the contest, and would probably have won the mulch l.ut for a prosslv unlitir decision of the umpire. As it was. tlie Frenchman came out 45 i>oint*> ahead, amid great excitement A detachment- of the Ninety-fourth British regiment, consisting of 250 men. was attacked by the Boers while on their way from Lynden- burg to Pectona, i:i the Tmnsvaal, and 120 of them were killed, and the others were made prisoners. The Boers arc greatly elated at their succeas Many Jews residing in Berlin avoid appearing in public localities. Many familiesare prepanng to emigrate to "Bt lgiuin,' France and England. .. . London advices report that Great Britain is preparing for grave events in Ireland. "The movement of troops has excited a very uneasy feeling. It is generally Ijclieved the Govern­ ment possesses information >varrant:ng the ap­ prehension of danger. The Government has made very complete preparations tor any ocn- tirgencv." Iimhense supplies of provisions, t<A)ts and other -campaigning requisits hn\e beeu stored in the central depots."... .The President-elect of the Swiss republic lately committed suicide by shooting himself. AN attempt was nitule to murder two ladies, mother and daughter, in Monasterbeuce, County Louth. Ireland. The shot missed its murk, and the would-be assassin fled, the younger lady securing his gun....Two gun­ boats have 'arrived at Dublin. Bence Jones has been threatened with death, and anybody working for him or furnishing him with sup* plies is promised the same fate. Many of tne jurors summoned for the state trials have been securely* "Boycotted,1' and failed to respond when their" names were called Tuirty-seven Home-Rule members of the British Parliament held a council in Dublin, and re­ solved to oppose every Government refusing just demands by the Irish people. The horses were detached from Parnelrs carriage, and the vehicle drawn through tho streets by the people Au eaplos'on of fire-damp occurred in a colliery near St. E.ienne, France, while the miners were at work. Several of them were lulled. THE trial of the Irish traversers was begun at Dublin on the 38th of Docetnber. Only eighteen jurors responded to their names. From these a jury of twelve was selected after much difficulty. , Eight of the number are Cetbolics, three Protestauls and one Quaker. Chief Justice May declined to preside in the court owing to the false interpretation which had been placed upon his remarks concerning the traversers, therefore the trial proceeded with Justices Fitzgerald aud Barry on the bench. "AdviceH from South Africa report that the Boers ha ve sei/ed Utreclit. ^ They oconpy Heidelberg with 8,000 and Potchefstroom with 6,000 men. British troops have sailed to re­ inforce the colonists at the Cape. THE foot and mouth disease is spread­ ing among oattle in all parts of England An address to the British nation praying for there-establishment of the independence of Transvaal is receiving nuruerou" signatutes in Holland A St. Petersburg journal says that all the European powers except England have agreed on the arbitration plan for the settlement of the Greek <}uention During the Christmas services in the church at SaillHgott, F-Muce, the building fell, and seven per.ious were killed and about iifty persons re­ ceived fenoiis injury The remains of Mrs. Cross (George Eliot) were buried at H'.gbgate C< mctery, London. Th" mourners included the husband' of the deceased, n nd Profs. Tvndall, Benley, and Cab in. Tlie funeral services were conducted bv Dr. H idler, a Unitarian minister. Among tlio.-e preseut were Herbert Spenc r and Robert Browning. DI8ASTKOTT8 floods are repcrted in Derbyshire, England Spi n has contracted for the construction iu England of several war vessels, and is building gunboats and fast sloo(>w in the arseuals of tue penntula. 1 o' s rv e • in Cuban w ilcs The ste itner Gurntt iiaa been lost in the North sea with seveuteeu men, and the stesmer Montgomeryshire on tho coast of Portugal with thirty men. BJIII boats were British An anti-Jewish meeting, in Borlui, was attended by such crowds that the police were obliged to close the doors Bf ine ijreakmg of dykes iu the province of North linibunt, Holland, eighteen villages have l.een flooded, <;ti using immense damage. All au,i57 l«k,«U7 75,1*) 2u,7aa Euoi poctedin favor of the erection of a new Cham* o*r o)t Commerce ou the vacant tract lying be- ^ •, } , tween the Grand Pacific Hotel and the Hock Wtod depot....Dr. Schooley and a dentist M Mmed Henry had a dispute at New Alexandra, i Jefferson eounty, Ohio. A farmer named r'<vv£i- Buckingham interfered. Schooley drew his re- volver and shot Buckingham in the head. l^! Henry then beat Schooley with a shov- •p - ,>> eL Henry was uninjured. Schooley fei, and Buckingham will probably die "Pte' R K. So»)tt, loriaerly Governor of South Caro­ lina, killed W. G. Drury, a drng clerk, at Na- | S™* °" FoI t S«mter, which ended in secession. • if m- r;-£ Wi-:. i; |>oleon, Ohio. The latter had secreted Scott's aon, who was intoxicated, in his bedroom at g ;; the store, and refused to let the father enter ' u>d take him home. Drury was to have been mameu in a few days. Scott was aptiointed Provisional Governor of South Carolira by President Johnson, and afterward elected Gov- wrnor WHEN the Ute Commissioners returned ,̂ ts Los Pinos, from Denver, they found 1,400 ' J --*agm waiting to receive their installments •f Wl each. Just after the silver was dis- lmned, a white man arrived with tho body of Johnson, the Indian who was killed by the tatebter, Jackson, and for two days the wBdest demonstrations of rage were made, when the Commissioners fled to Denver, which thejr readhed after a rough trip A dispatch »rom Fort Buford says that Scout Alfiacm has arrived there with tfrow King, the leading soldier of Sitting Bull's camp, and Qracmer, a cousin of Siting Bull, both noted chiefs, as delegates from Sitting Bull to hold a «oancil with Maj. Brotherton, so as to make •woo definite settlement about the sur­ render. Allison left Sitting Bull at the •sonth of Milk river, with inmructions not to leave there until he returned for him fKl The City Goui.cil of Chicago has passed the ordi* naoee prohibiting the sale of butterine or " n>& oieotnargariae for the genuine article of butr ter SurveyH «re being made for the St. Looi^ Jerseyviil© and , Spnngtield railroad, ^ which it is proposed to construct next year, at :\.,M a cost of ®3,00i),000... .Under the provision-of the law of Michigan forbidding the sale of .\Uqnor oa holidayti, the temperance agitators of Detroit have secured the arrest of twenty of xftw most wealthy and iutluontial saloon-keep- ' en, as a practical test. ' 1 GOT. SOOTT, who killed young Drury ̂ at Napoleon, Ohio, has been committed to .! prison to aw lit trial, having been refused baiL .-~sl .,. .The boiler of a shingle-mill at Vestaburg, ..ft; Midi., exploded with such force as to tear the structure to pieces, instantly killing Frank Fil- ? kins, the engineer, and Frank Amslv. the . j. night watch. The main part of the boiler was ̂ thrown forty-tivu rods, causing the death of C. Conkey and fatally injuring George Wilcox andM. Turk. THE Homestake Mining Company, of <f* Dead wood, by an expenditure of f1,500,000, has secured possession of the most valuable portion of the gold belt in the B ack Hills A family quarrel at Francisco, Ind., ended iu f'ii? f • ;>c .; 'f ' on In Brazil* -_^^_iinbera of alligntorshavo, v1. ̂ observed frin^inp aloug ' thewwer oourses and in the marginal swamps aud liikes of the Amnzoa, auil even as oork trees iu the beneficent econ­ omy of nature, grow up, expand, and develop a bulky epidermis or bark, foi the preordained purpose of stopping bot­ tles, no, no doubt, are these amiable rep­ tiles accredited with a mission of utility to the manufacturers of port-monnaies, card-cases, shooting-boots, and other ar­ ticles fabricated of the now fashionable alligator skin. A Brazilian paper shrewdly draws the attention of wealthy and unoccupied Englishmen to this re­ markable increase iu the ground-game of a charmingly salubrious, though some­ what sultry district, au industrial enter­ prise of great protit might, it is sug­ gested, be combined with excellent sport, and as tho idea is fast-spreading iu England that the land can not much longer support both the farmers and the rabbits, what could be' better than a migration of sportsmen to the'equatorial home of the noble alligator, whose hide is a natural target for rifle practice, and, if not too nmch riddled by bullets, is iu brisk commercial demand, and rules high in the quotations of the leather market? Where the idligator frisks and frolics, there the Mtealtliy turtle prowls, and, despite his furtive habits, fulls au easier prey to the wilier ami more intelligent hunter. A during and agile Aldermau, with a brace of rifles, good legs and lungs, a salamandarine constitution, and no objection to mosquitoes, might stalk down six or eiglijt alligators before break­ fast, and saunter home with a middling- sized turtle under each arm. Winter is RECENT deaths: Dr. Joseph B. Beck, a prominent physician of Fort Wayne, Ind.; the Dowager Grand Duchcss of Mecklenburg' btrelitz. WASUINUTPN. THE first volume of the history of the war, which is being gotteu up under the aus­ pices of the War Department, has been pub­ lished. It deals with the events preceding the No such gigantic histoiical undertaking Was j ever before begun. I IT is believed in Washington that Jus- I tice Swavne will retire from the Supreme bench in a few days, and that Justices Hunt and Clifford will soon follow him. The Hon. Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, is expected to l)e Justice Swayne's successor, and Attorney Gen­ eral Devens, of Massachusetts, the successor of Justice Clifford Commissioner Le Due has completed arrangements for an experimental tea farm, two miles from Suuimervillc, S. C. THE President, Bays a Washington telegram, has found BO much difficulty in find­ ing a suitable person to act as Secretary of the Navy for two months that he has partially de­ cided to request Secretary Kam-ev to perform the duties of both the Navy and War Depart­ ments until March 4, and, in order to comply with the technical language of the statute, wiii re; ommissiou him Secretary of the Navy every ten days. THB Jndge Advocate General has been ordered to prepare the charges and speci­ fications hi the case of Cadet Whittaker, and a court-martial will be ordered at an early date, tho hessions to be. Le'.d in New York city. The excess of exports over import -i for the month ending Nov. 30. 1880, were fc35,S91.- 34'J -, month ending Nov. 30, 1879. ®28,836,7'Ji ; elevi ii months ending Nov. 30, 1890, #141,361,- 0(12; eleven months ending Nov. 30, 18711, $230,27!*,1W7 • twelve mouths ending Nov. 30, 1880, $162,038,044; twelve months ending Nov. 30, 187'J, *266,245,038. BPKAKKH RANDALL, of the House o! Representatives, believes there is every proba­ bility that the bill to place ex-President GraLt on the retired list of the army, with (he rank a/id pay of General, will be reported favorably by the Military Committee Judge Frcein .n, the legal advi-ter of the Postoftioe Department, declares that printed commercial papers tillfo out in writing are legally subject to letter postage. POLITICAL. GEN. GARFIELU is consulting with his friends about the formation of his Cabinet, and a Cleveland dispatch gives an idea of what has taken place. Although the President­ elect has not vet decided upon anything definitely, it seems to be under­ stood among those who have enjoyed his society of late that Ohio is to be skipped this the death of Thomts Burchlield at the hands 1 tim«*, that James K. Wilson, of Iowa, is to be of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Dorcas Burebtield. The latter is in jail. A COMPANY has been formed to intro­ duce electric light in Cincinnati, Covington, Mid Newport Stieet-car drive s inOiicn nati, in large numbers, have given up their situations, owing to the severity of the weather. Their tiav is 10 cents per hoar A jhy;i-i.-in <f Fond du Lac, Wis., ordered that a Wiir<U fl»t-r JU be applied to the chest of Secretary of the Treasury, and that Blaine, of I Maine. Fillev of Missouri, Hitchcock, of Ne- j braskti, Routt, of Colorado, and Morton, of ! New York, are regarded bv Gen. Garneld with ! confidence. A CALL for a meeting of New York Democrats to reorganize the party in that city was responded to by a largo attendance. Abram H. Hewitt was the chief speaker, the audience rising to its feet when he said Mrs. August Tefiier, who was suffering from Tammany Hall is a thkig of the past. It was pneumoijia. He* drunken husband used tn ! resolved that the t'hairmaiv-appoint a commit- eight-pound iron so hot that it burned its way I tee of fifty ci izen- to re-jrgjtfiize t^j psr.y into the cavity of the chest THE SOUTH. < • OTBELLING tragedy occurred in a MBOking-oar on the Iron Mountain railway at SMlcyvillc, Mo. As Conductor Welch entered Ike imoking-oar he was met by a man who <ao*ered him with a revolver, ordering him to island aside. The man then pushed Welch off the platform, and, turning, tired into the crowded car .several tunes. He then jumped to A B)M.'Cial Cougr<*sional t-kction itT the Third District of New Hampshire*, to till the vacancy caused by the death of the Hon. Evarts W. Farr, resulted in the election of Bay (Republi­ can). | FOKEIGX. %Iar a billiard match at Paris for the championship of the world and $2,000, between Vignaux, of France, and Slosson. of New YoH-. the former was victorious. The game was 3,000 coming, tho Nile is getting overdone by tourists, and the midsummer of an infin­ itesimal latitude never fades from the teemiug mud and fragrant, health- breathing slime of the stately Amazon Let enterprising Englishmen, then, ac­ cept this inviting hint of the Brazilian journal, and join tins next excursion to the Amazoniau swamps.--London Tele­ graph. The Shopping BUto of Wives. American shopkeepers and American shoppers alike should be interested in the case of the large Milk-goods firm of Deltenham & Fee'x>dy in England against Mr. Mellon for the recovery of the cost of dresses furnished to his wife whom he had forbidden to incur bills. Tho case went from court to court up Ko the House of Lords, where it was finally decided bv that auorust tribunal in favor of Mr. Mellon. The Lords expressly ruled that " Where a htiMhaud makes his wife an allowance, and expressly for­ bids her to run up accounts iu his name, lie cannot l*s held liable for any goods she may obtain by drawing utxni his credit; and, indeed, that, unless the soller can show that special authority has been conferred by the, husband on the wife, the seller canuot recover judg­ ment." In this case it was admitted, that, the goods charged for were of a kind suitable to Mivs. Mellon's rank and condition of life, but the piv-sumption usually created by such an admission iu favor of the seller was held to be over­ ruled by an absolute conjugal prohibi­ tion even where the seller was not ap­ prised of the prohibition. It was inti­ mated during the argument that sliop- keepers, before giving a wife credit, might readily protect themselves by making inquiries of the husband, and the court held that due care and caution could not be considered to have been .exercised where tins was not done. | THE Bishop officiating at confirmation in a Catholic church at. New Haven an­ nounced that he would not lay lmnds on any head with banged or frizzed hair. Jk.-L. . tksi. * W i s * . . . ' * t . hi Has and Their F«lk Lore. Although most of as, in daily lite, know tto intrinsic value of a pin--which in a variety of ways is at all times in re­ quest, and often a more than welcome friend when an accident, it may be, of some kind, or faulty workmanship, lias necessitated its assistance in temporarily mending our clothes--yet, nevertheless, few people would have imagined that, under certain conditions, it is regarded as ominous as salt-spilling, the breaking of a looking-glass, or the howling of a dog, not to mention that host of common superstitions which are current among us. Thus, for example, in some local­ ities it is said that on seeing a pin one should always pick it up for the Bake of good luck, as, by omitting to do so, mis­ fortune will assuredly soon overtake those who are heedless of this admoni­ tion. The following rhyme, embodying this fanciful notion, is still in uae: ~ 8ee a pin anil pick it np^ All the day you'll have good luck; See a pin aud let it lie, All the day you'll have to cry. Among the magical properties of pins we may mention their supposed efficacy in the cure of certain diseases. Thus, in Leicestershire, in the case of warts, the patient is taken to an ash tree, where a pin is first stuck into the bark, and withdrawn ; a w&rt is transfixed with it till he feels pain, and then the pin is again pushed into the tree. Every wart thus treated is said to die away gradual­ ly, until it entirely disappears. A few years ago we are told that some trees might be seen thickly studded over with pins, each the index cf a cured wart. In connection with thiB superstition there is a well-known couplet: Aahen tree, ashen tree, Pray imy these warts of me. In place of a pin, a nail driven into an oak is reported to cure toothache. A Gloucestershire remedy consists in rub­ bing the warts with a snail, after it has been pierced with a pin as many times as there are warte. As the snail by de­ grees withers away, so it is believed that the wart impregnated with its matter will do the same. It has been pointed out that most of the charms of this kind are of the nature of a sacrifice, the warts being transferred to a substitute. One of the most popular species of en­ chantment to which pins have been ap­ plied is their supposed influence in coun­ teracting the ill effects of witchcraft. Au interesting case of this land occurred within the last few years in Hus^x. A lady observed upon a cottage hearth a quart bottle tilled with pins, and on, in­ quiring why they were put there, was requested not to touch the bottle, as it was red-hot, ami because, if she did so, she would spoil the charm. " What charm?" she asked, in some surprise. " Why, ma'am," replied the woman, " it has pleased God to afllict my daughter here with falling fits, and tke doctors did her no good; so I was recommended to go to a wise woman residing near Guili'ord, and she said if she was well paid for it she could tell me what ailed the girl, and what would cure her. So 1 said I wus agreeable, and she tpld me that people afflicted with falling tits were bewitched, and that I must get as ^nany puis as would fijl a quart bottle, and put them into it, and let it stand close to the fire, upon the hearth, until the pins were reu-hot. As soon as this took place, they would prick the heart of the witch who had brought this affliction on my poor girl, and then she would be glad enough to remove it." A medical prac­ titioner of the same neighborhood, in illustration of this superstition, narrates that when a house iu Pulborough was undergoing thorough repair a _ bottle containing upward of 200 pins was found beneath i^ybwrth-stone of one of the rooms, tfvtitfPyfa tJ6mg bent,* and some of them nearly in a curve. This mode of enchantment appears to have been of common occurrence, and the workmen, who were engaged in doing up the house in question, ailirmed they often made similar discoveries in repairing houses. Another curious case oi counteracting witchcraft by " pin-sticking" occurred at a recent period m the parish of Uoniton Clyst. A landlord having lost one of his tenants, certain repairs and improve­ ments were found necessary to prepare for the next. In carrying out the work a chimney had to be explored, when iu the course of the operation there was found carefully secreted a pig's heart, stuck ail over with thorn prickles. This is supposed to have been done by the di­ rection of some "wise" or "cunning" person, as a means of taking revenge on the witch to whose incantations the party consider^ some mischief due, in the be­ lief that the heart of the ill-wisher would l>e pierced in like manner, until it finally became as pulseless as that ol the pig.--Chambers Journal. Bookbinding. "Hie bookbinders' craft was at its zenith just before the invention of printing; it has waned since, lxjcfiuse nobody would care nowadays to give such prices as were cheerfully paid for books in the days when it took twenty- five months of a patient scrilni's work to produce one copy of the Bible. The bindings of such costly books were works of art. Milan first, we aro told, acquired a reputation for its bindings of Spanish leather, arabesqued and gilt, which superseded the old-fashionod bindings of wood, metal, or ivory ; but until the close of the fifteenth century the bindinga of presentation volumes and of church books used on tho high altars of cathedrals were mostly of solid gold or silver. Binges produced some beautiful works of this description, like­ wise bindings in cloth of gold wrought I with silk of many colors. At Ypres, the j great cloth mart of North Europe, were hrst mode plain bindings of cloth, em­ broidered more or less ; but these were I used only for small volumes of jests and i ballads, .and for the horn books out of j which the children in noble families i learned their letters. Venice had a name for its bindings in ivory and woods from the East; Florence, like Ghent in Flanders, abounded in brass artificers, and produced brazen bindings gilt or silvered, each one the work of a master craftsman, for none ventured to make book-covers who were not skilled with their tools ; but the most gorgeous bind­ ings of all that were made l»efore the invention of print'ng came from Rome. Here the guild of Italian goldsmiths had its chief hall; and there was always a sure salo for rich bimlings of wrought gold, seeing tliat tho Kings and potentates who came to visit the Papal Sec invariably gave and received pres­ ents of splendid books. . in Owl's Revenge. A remarkable instance of intelligence i shown by an owl in conceiving and car- I rvimr out a project of vengeance ou n i firm laljorer, who\had dei-t royed a who'® | family"©?, young otaes before they hud ! gained the requisite strength to take ! wing, is related bv a\ French provincial ; journal. An owl lnul built its nest in i n j old oak tree, which grew near a farm in j the commune of Beauvry. Its mate ha 1 laid dtui'jg the month of July several eggs, which indue time developed into u promising progeny of yoang b rds. A farm la'iorer, moved by a sentiment of aversion for owls which is common in country parts, determined to cut shorts the lives of the yonng ones, and, choos­ ing a favorable opportunity, put his project iuto execution. The infant owls were taken away from the maternal nest and massacred, but by what followed it will be seen tlte parent birds did not al­ low their tragical fnti; to go unavenged. On several evenings succeeding that during which the nest had been plun­ dered, the villagers leturning from the fields remarked the male owl flying in an agitated manner round ih> farm. Dur­ ing a whole week* it hovered near the farm, biding its time, and at length the right moment arrived. The young man who had so ruthlessly exterminated the brood of owls was crossing the thresh­ old of the farm at' dusk, when the be­ reaved bird swooped down on him from the tree where it was keeping watch, and with surprising swiftness tore out his left eye with its claws. The intolerable pain caused by this sudden attack made the victim of it swoon away. When lie recovered consciousness, aud had had his wound dressed, he related the cir­ cumstances under which he had received it, and a search was instituted to dis­ cover whether the owl wa* still lurking in the vicinity. No traces of it were, howevi r, to be found, but tlie young man will have reason to remember the lodger in the old oak tree, since for the rest of his life he will have to make one eye do duty for two. A Chinese Execution. _ The criminal is conveyed to the execu­ tion ground in a basket slung on a bam­ boo between two coolies. Half stupe­ fied by fear and rendered almost insensi­ ble to the fate about to be suffered from the effects of gam shoo, which is given to tho victim in abundance, tlie procession wends its way between throngs of Celes­ tials. The road is lined, with sedan chairs conveying the officials, both high and low, to witness the sight. Upon arrival at the place of punish­ ment, a crowd of chatteriug Chinese may be Been, some engaged smoking their pipes, others discussing their early l>owl of congee at the stall of the perambulat­ ing venders of edibles. Not the least trace of any feeling of awe or compassion * is exhibited at the tragedy about to be enacted. A stolid indifference marks tho countenance of the assemblage, and it is only when the cortege files into po­ sition before the dais, whereon the Viceroy and the provincial Judge have taken their seats, that any observable emotion animates the crowd. The crim­ inal is made to kneel, while a subordi­ nate officer reads the edict of the Vice­ roy. This sets forth tlie crime and the penalty, and exhorts the culprit to con­ fess fully. All the victim can do is to cry for mercy, of which quality there is apparently a lack. At a given signid from the Judge the two executioners step forward and seize the unfortunate wretch. Divested of every particle of. clothiiig he or she is bound hand and foot to two upright pieces of wood in the form of a Saint Andrew's cross. The minions of the law draw from their belts two short, sharp knives. They are now ready for their bloody work. With a uovilish skill they commence to slit the skin and flesh at the wrists. Prweeed- ing up the arms until the neck is reached, their attention is then directed to the lower limbs. The ankles upward, the fleshy part of the legs and tliiglis right up to the chest are under operation. The whole body is now one quivering mass of strips of skin and flesh, from which the blood is pouring in streams, dying the ground and the executioners' clothes a vivid red color. By this time the vast crowd are on the tiptoe of ex­ pectation, straining their bodias to get a glimpse of the gory figure, and eager to watch the least sound of u sigh or groan. After the shriek of pain which attends tho first use of the knife, frequently nothing but low, agonizing moans es­ cape the lips. While this horrible scene is being enacted, the peanut hawkers, the beancurd and candy hucksters ply their trade, oblivious ot tlie fact that a human being is undergoing torture. With head drooping on the breast, closed eyes, and face bearing an unut­ terable look of pain and agony, the vic­ tim now stands. The Judge, seemingly tiled at the disgusting sight, claps his bauds. The chiel executioner, at the signal, plunges his knife into the breast, and with one hand tears open the tiesh, wliile with the other he pulls the quiv­ ering heart out by tlie roots, holds it up to view, and then dashes it to the ground. Thus justice is vindicated. The Pleasures of Business. No human mind is contented without occupation. No human soul is satisfied without an aim or purpose in life. The greatest success iu life consists not in the mere accumulation of riches, but in being able to acquire wealth with a dis­ position to apply it iu such a manner that it shall be a comfort and blessing to others--not in the mere giving away of money, but in putting people iu u way to labor and help themselves. There is no pleasure in oppression. There is no joy in grinding and exacting gold from tlie poor ; but there is a great deal of genuine satisfaction in being able to offer steady and honorable employment to the many willing hands that have nothing to do. One of the greatest en­ joyments of the prosperous business man consists in being able to comfortably provide for the many employes in his house or manufactory. In doing this he is fulfilling his obligations to society; he becomes a useful aud honored citi­ zen ; business to liirn is a real pleasure ; lie enjoys his successes, when they are fairly won, because he feels that he de­ serves them. When a, business man has tlie right kind of a purpose in life he enjoys his occupation, he ieels a just and worthy pride in his prosperity, he is pleased with tlie respect aud gratitude ot those whom he directs and controls in tlie management of his affairs, and he ieels that in l>enefiting himself lie is confer- ing a favor upon others.--Criterion. Marrying Stepdaughters. Adolphus Andrew Hoagland, of Shade- ville, Va., is 70 years old, anil has had three wives. The first was a widow when he married her. and had a little daugh­ ter. Wheu this wife died her daughter was a widowed mother, aud Hoagland within a few years married lier. There was some feeling, ho says, against his making his stepdaughter his wife, but they were, a happy couple, and the pre­ judice died out. Ten years ago the second wife died. Her daughter was then .15. Five years elapsed, and then *Hoagland again married his stepdaugh­ ter, who was also his stepgrandaughter. She is still living, and her husband's age, aside from the fact that she had no daugh­ ter When she became his wife, precludes the idea of his peculiar system being carried any further. He lias children of his own by each of the three w ives, and the complications of their relation sliips are most endless. Hoagland declares that his matrimonial experience, cover­ ing about fifty years, has been exception­ ally happy. The last two wives inherit­ ed the good qualities of their mothers, and all were so much alike that tliey have seemed to liim the same woman, with her youth occasionally renewed. \,-w Awfal German Wrammar. A person who has not studied German can form no idea what a perplexing lan­ guage it is. Surely there is not another language that is so slip-shod and system- less and so slippery and illusive to the grasp. One is washed about in it, hither and thither, in a most helpless way; and, when at last he thinks he has captured a rule which offers fiim ground to take a rest on, amid the general rage and turmoil of the ten parts of speech, he turns over tlie page and reads, " Let the pupil take note of the following exceptionn.He runs his eye down, and finds that there are more exceptions to the rule than in­ stances of it. So overboard he goes again to hunt for another Ararat and find another quicksand. There are ten parts ol speech, and they are all troublesome. An average sentence iu a German newspaper is a sublime and impressive curiosity; it occupies a quar­ ter of a column; it contains all the ten parts of speech--not in regular order, but mixed; it is built mainly of compound words constructed by the writer on the spot, and not to be found in any diction­ ary--six or seven words compacted into one, without joint or seam--that is, with­ out hyphens; it treats of fourteen or fif­ teen different subjects, each inclosed in a parenthesis of its own, with here and there extra parentheses which re-inclose three or four of the minor parentheses, making peus within pens; finally, all the parentheses aud re-parentheses are massed together between a couple of king-parentheses, one of which is placed ih the first line of the majestic sentence aud the other in the middle of the last line of it--after which come* the verb, and you find out for the first time what the man has been talking about; and after the verb--merely by way of orna­ ment as far as I can make out--the writer shovels in " haben a ind gewesen gchabt haben geworden aein," or words to that effect, and the monument is fin­ ished. Now observe the adjective. Here was a case where simplicity would have been an advantage; therefore, for no other reason, the inventor of the language complicated it all lie could. When a German gets his hands on an adjective, he declines it and keeps on decliuing it until tlie common sense is all declined out of it. Some German words are so long that they have a perspective. Observe these examines: . Freundschaftsbezeigungen. Sladtzuordheteuversammlungen. These things are not words; they are alphabetical processions. And they are not rare; one can open a German paper any time and see them marching majes­ tically across the page and if he lias any imagination he can see the bauuera and hear the music; too.--Mark Twain. r The Lord's Prayer. When the elder Booth was residing in Baltimore, a pious, urbane old gentle­ man of that city, hearing of his won­ derful power of elocution, one day in­ vited him to dinner, although always deprecating the stage and all theatrical performances. A large company sat down at the table ; and, on returning to the drawing-room, one of them asked Booth, as a special favor to them all, to repeat the Lord's prayer. He signified his willingness to gratify them, and all eyes were fixed upon him. He slowly and reverently arose from his chair, trembing with the burden of two great conceptions. He had to realize the character, attributes and presence of the Almighty being he was to address. He was to transfer himself into a poor, sin­ ning, stumbling, benighted, needy sup­ plicant, offering homage, asking bread, pardon, light and guidance. Says one of the company who was present: ** It was wonderful to watch the play of emo­ tions that convulsed his countenance. He became deadly pale, and his eyes, turned tremblingly upward, were wet with tears. As yet he had not spoken. Tlie silence could be felt--it had become absolutely painful--until at last the spell was broken as if by an electric shock, c.8 his rich-toned voice syllabled forth, ' Our Father who art in heaven,' etc., with a pathos and fervid solemnity which thrilled all hearts. He finished. The silence continued ; not a voice was heard, not a muscle moved in his rapt audience, until, from a remote corner of the room, a subdued-sob was heard, and the old gentleman (the host) stepped forward with streaming eyes and totter­ ing frame, aud seized Booth by the hand. ' Sir,' said he, in broken ac­ cents, ' you have afforded me a pleasure for which my whole future life will feel Sateful. I am an old man, and every y, from boyhood to the present time, I have repeated the Lord's prayer ; but I never heard it before, never, never 1' ' You are right,1 replied Booth; ' to read that prayer as it should V.e read caused me the severest study and lal>or for thir­ ty years, and I am far from satisfied with my rendering of that wonderful production.'" Hardly one person in ten thousand comprehends how much lieauty, tenderness and grandeur can l>c condensed in a space so simple. That prayer of itself sufficiently illustrates the truth of the Bible, aud stamps upon it the seal of divinity.--Allianec. What Is a Cold Bath! A cold bath is not necessarily a bath in water of the temperature of the atmos­ phere. A bath is truly aud really cold when it produces a certain physiological effect--a slight momentary shock fol­ lowed by pleasant and lastiug reaction. The effects are for the majority of peo­ ple most pleasantly obtained by bathing in water about 35 deg. to 40 deg. below the temperature of the l>ody--the usual temperature of unlieated water in June and July. Bearing this iu mind we can enjoy out iThysiological "oold" bathos safely and pleasantly at Christmas as at midsummer, and there is no necessity for the most timid or weakly to discon­ tinue his morniug tub because the sum­ mer weather is over. When the water sinks below a temperature of (U) deg., let it be heated to that point aud then used, and we shall still have our "cold" bath, though of heated water. The daily stim­ ulant effect of such a bath is so l>eiieficial to the great majority of persons aud is of such marked service in maintaining health, that it is very important to have it widely known that a cold bath may be taken all the year rouud, provided cdid is not mistaken to mean '• at the temper­ ature of the outer air." To heat our bath during the winter months is too often thought to be unmanly, while iu reality it is truly scientific, aud to bathe iu un­ lieated water all the year round, what­ ever the temperature that water way lie, is to prove one's self an ignorant slave of outward circumstances.--Lancet. THOSE are cute fellows, those New York sharpers. One of them advertised that he could cure a turn-up nose, and would send directions to all who would forward a dollar. A lady sent this amount, and was told in reply to employ a blacksmith to hit her nose ou the end with a sledge hammer. "THKRE is not a corporation on the round globe whose specific gravity is irreater than that of the old IERNA LIFE, of Hartford. It is solid us granite and&s true as gold."--Phila. Weekly Item. ̂S0RT*» A MTTWARKKE policeman has heir to 180,000. A MOTHER with twenty-nine children has passed through Dal ton, Ck, gaiiyr West. THB Ohio editors meet Jan. lSf afc. Zanesville and take an excursion io- Wasliington. QUEEN VICTOBIA is expected to pas* through Paris on her way to Germany in February. A FANTHEB killed in Coahoma county ̂ Miss., measured eleven feet four inchaa in length. Is one grove in California are l,380i trees, none measuring less than six feetf in diameter. VKNNOK, the weather prophet, used to be a workman? in an ax factory at Ballston, N. If. Two OF Gen. Garfield's sons are to enter Williams College next year. One- is 17, the other is 15. ROBRBT TOOMBS, of Georgia, has given 1,000 acres of Texas land to aid in fann­ ing a university in that State. JOSEPH SEUOMAN, the New Ysrti banker, gave away $25,000 on Ohristaia ̂ day--$1,000 each to ten public charities, and $500 each to thirty. GEN. STONEMAX, who lives at Los An- „ geles, Cal., is making money out of grapes. He has just sold his crop of the present year for $10,000. A THIEF at St. Louis was chased oat upon the great bridge by a polioeman, and, rather than be arrested ̂dropped ninety feet and was drowned. THE Si James Gazette asserts that Siberia is a far richer country than Can­ ada, and enjoys a climate neither warmer in summer nor colder in winter. THE " proper caper " at London din­ ner parties now is to have real frnit trees in the dining-room, so that the guests may gather then* own dessert. THEY claim to have a parrot in Cov- entryville, Chester county, Pa., known, to be 60 years old. It has been owned by members of one family for that length of time. THEY are just now introducing the bauk-che^k By stem in Austria, the Gov­ ernment having ordered an investiga­ tion of its merits with a view of its offi­ cial adoption. THE common punishment in a Wash­ ington public school has been confine­ ment in the boiler room, where tho temperature is 110. One little girl was made seriously ill. L. J. JENNINGS, the London corre­ spondent of the New York World, says that the English demand for American canned goods is being ruined by the poor quality of the goods now sent over. A MAN in Montgomery county, Pa., whose family already contained thirteen, children, was electrified one day last week when his wife presented him with three more (triplets), all bright ^and healthy. y LARGE quantities of whisky are being taken out of bond in the Pittsburgh district, the demand for fine grades having increased greatly. All the dis­ tilleries are running, for the first time in several years. IT was reported that President-elect Garfield was sick with dyspepsia. Pack­ ages of medicine are being sent to him from all parts* of the country by persons who would not have an office it it was offered to tlieui. EVANGELIST MOODY'S seminary al Northampton, Mass., is full, containing now about 100 pupils, including the In- Tke-, celleuf, progress in their stucQes. They are very fond of music. JOHN W. MACKAY, the California mill­ ionaire, has announced his infection of giving $50,000 to endow a scholarship in Bowdoin College, aud a Philadelphia gentleman who does not desire his name published will do the same. THE champion fish story comes from Nevada, it being alleged that a party of seven men who went tisliing in Pyramid lake and violated the provisions of the State law for tlie preservation of fish, had to pay fines amounting tc $4,000. JAMES W. ENGLISH, the newly-eleot Mayor of Atlanta, Ga., was a robel dier, who gave up at Appomattox came into tlie city in May, 1865, 1 50 cents in his pocket. He bet work there carrying brick at 50 a day, but is now one of tho city's] meu. THE bridegroom in a mock marrj at Holton, Kan., thought it was earnest. He had pestered the with his attentions, uotwith^tai numerous rebuffs, and she liod coiuJ w i t h h e r f r i e m l s t o m a k e s p o r t o f j A wedding party was gathered, a nioiiy was performed by a pretj clergyman, and the victim did aot j that he had been imposed upon u: time came to retire for the night. they undeceived him. HUMANITY is won sooner by < than by real benefits. THE MARKETS. MEW YOBK. BKKVM HOOK COTTON. ,..* FLOUR--fliiperflcei WHEAT-- NO, J Spring. CORN-- UNGRADED.. OATS--Mixe<l Western POBK--MOM LARD CHICAGO. BZKVM--Choice Onded HUwni.... Cows au<l Hnifer* Medium U> Fair Hoa*. Flour--Fancy White Winter Ex.. Good to Choice Hprinji Ex WHKAT -Na 2 Spring Na S Spring Co**--Na 2.... OATH--Na 2.... Kv»-- Na £ BAULKY-- No. 2 liiTXTRB--Choios Creamery KOOH--Frtwh PORK--M«s8.......i.. Lard J. MliwAtTKEB. WHEAT--No. 1. .1 No. 8. . CORK--No A OATB-- NO.A BYK--No. I UAiu.tv--Na 1 ifr. louxsl WHKAT--Na Sited... CORN--Mixed OATH--NA X RTK POUK--Mem. Linn. 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