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yowf fey fei tj*adita|te . F* OTW1 (OCWt •ad lake, ~ _ _ j In its footsteps owt^weadln*-*' Wske, my beloved, awake 2 -."I: flroak the doll sleep; «U« knrc% ipita| lkH h IX, a* d rteifSeep of tin fleMing d«Mt I Under our f««t at this wurttutBt ix ymtnuag ' Sum, oc roiupwsuHueM iiigat Love, with its turbulent, mifhty pulsation. Thrills through my veins Is* ike it quickening hMt; Ait >y young lite with its have ( thrown st thy feet. If wild vision of glory should blind me, » A Beach me thy hsnd lest 11 w stumble sjnd MMfe •»' Darkness before me snd darkness behind miv Thou art my life snd my all. Sweet tie to breathe in the balm of thy _ Sweeter to feel the warm gaze of thine eye, While tbe fteet moment* with " Whisper their gladne bright effervesee>ce and die. Thee in the depths of my soul as in slumber. Hear I great voices of world-shaking deeda. And the pale dsy, with ita cares without inimiir, Far from my vision recedes. St, 1i-i - Ere I had seen thee, how tardily . Stole from my breast the faint notes of utyi6a|: Now, like spring freshets, their gates oretthrowteg, Bou the strong torrents along. bjkrl' Pale was tny life, and the white mists above ma Dimmed to my sight the soft splendor of Hay; i that you love me illumines my way. SJ<m, but a glimps? of the hope Lights ana ilium! Darkling I stood; and tumultuous fancies ( Sorgud f • - ; through my soul like Mack biBew* Of nigfei *, , KMv/S Hanrt&e wide fatare, in sun-It enpaaiml, •" ; • • *"*• Radiant bursts oa my eight. ̂ fet&on no Mn. Peacocke, bat in the low through which kt oaly added to this honor was Mr«.P«*oooke 's room thmpe was" *P\ Dost thou not see the dawn ^ beckonins flnper - How the yonsg light, like a full-swelling tide, ' Bimks through Its ifood-gates? linger? Wake, my beloved, my bride! --Sen'bntr for November. Oh, why doat than ¥£&*$& A' VElFIKiKCE TBACT. V* * SOID« years ago a SFRM supposed to -jf be one of those convenient, made-up sto- riefe which help to fill out the bottom of a newspaper column, went the rounds of the press, and died away at last in the extreme rural districts, about the spon­ taneous burning up of an old Tennessee toper. It was said that he put a coal of fire upon his pipe to light it, and while in the act of blowing the coal to ignite • the fcobacoo his breath took fire, a kind blue flame and dense smoke curled .. jiip, and in a minute or two the smoke * 7 - ^cleared away, and all that was leftcf 0V^toper, pipe, breath and all was » heap of •f ."-iasnes. • Nobody seriously believed thq story of f';"v^the Tennessee toper, and yet when one l̂ '̂ oomes to look into the matter he will Jf# find that in different parts of the civil- f̂<<i1ized world cases of spontaneous combus- - .tion of the living human body are on ' record which ore as well authenticated as I;! /; the battle of Bunker Hill. Medical men ffVriihave been acquainted with such facts for - r y / years. Moreover, cases in which per- •!»'» $ sons have thus anticipated purgatory, j i and at the same time disposed of their j bodies by involuntary self-cremation, are j ~ >y no means so uncommon as on© might! V ouuiiB ««»<**«»» OOuktj mvii- j tion numbers and numbers of them, i U about which there can be no shadow of m i| doubt. at,. (5i The cause of such an extraordinary phe- v&Srinomenon as the spontaneous burning up ,of a live human being was at first an im- 1V ̂ penetrable mystery. Juries summoned ' Jin these cases readily arrived at the near- st and easiest way out of the difficulty, ftLi-jand decided that it came by a 44 visita- ^ftltion of God;" and even naw, when visi- Jf* |̂tations of God are not supposed to be so '.̂ Sifeequent as they med to be, the mystery t^j. of spontaneous combustion is not yet wholly solved by science. This much is certain, however: it occurs in elderly parsons of intemperate habits. Both very lean and very fat drunkards are liable to be burnt up. Thirdly, women particularly are apt to be taken out of the world in this awful manner. - .. Death from spontaneous combustion, ?mJ1J ̂«P»»he should sit up in the - c '• %*, as it used to be called, " preternatu- da"k' and 80 toot her candle away and gral fc'onibusUon by visitation of God," " his ooly abolie lbs. BBSOOOIM had burned her way to the What that in found, no stgn.of oandla, oandlastick or fire, exoept a few ooals whiflh had been raked to^eUier and oovered with ashes, to keep m through the night, and which remained undisturbed ana uncovered in the grate. It was dear as daylight that the fire could not have been communi­ cated from these cods. What was it then ? There was but one explanation. In the moaning the Mayor of the city, several ministers and other'honorable- standing and voracious gentlemen visited the scene and decided to the oamplete is&tisfhc&c*! of all parties that sines there was no sign of her having caught fire from anything in her room, and " the extraordinary circumstance of no part of the room being burned exoept the cen­ ter of it, through which she had fallen, added to the well authenticated circum­ stance of her recent diabolical impreca­ tions and lies, obliged every observer to resolve so awful an event into the visita­ tion of God's judgment in the pnmnh- ment of a daring and persevering sinner." When any flame is observed about these spontaneously burning human bodies, it appears like the 3&me of alco­ hol, blue, flickering, T©ry di&eult tc ex­ tinguish by water, and not readily com­ municated to other bodies, even when they are inflammable. Often, indeed, extraordinary te relate, the person's clothing has been found wholly uninjured, while the person inside the clothing was burnt to a cin­ der. Hie body itself is usually entirely consumed, while the head and portions of the limbs are sometimes left un­ touched. The maid of Cornelia Bandi, an elderly Italian Countess, went into her mistress' room to wake her up, one morning. Bhe found no mistress* but upon the floor, a little distance from the bed, lay a heap of ashes, and in this dreadful heap of ashes some little parts of the head, eyes and arms of the un­ happy Countess. This lady had been constantly in the habit of bathing her body with camphorated spirit of wine. All over the room and furniture where the Countess had been consumed, there was a greasy, sooty deposit. This moist, disagreeable deposit of soot, and an offensive odor of burnt meat, always at­ tend and result from the spontaneous combustion of a human body. An exam­ ination of the blood of these unfortunates --that is, where there is any blood left to examine--shows that a considerable quantity is mingled with the watery part of the blood. Bev. Mr. Ferguson, oft Dublin, relates that in the family of one of his parishion­ ers, resided aa old woman who, with her daughter, was in the habit of going to bed in a state of Intoxication ever? night. '?'?>« TT7' fR f_ r? frr* r'TTc! woman, for some days, had been drink­ ing more ardent spirits than usual, when one morning the family were awakened by a horrible-smelling smoke. They hastened to the apartment of the two wo­ men , and found the body of the old wo­ man black as a cinder, and smoking all over. She was quite dead when they reached her, and almost entirely con­ sumed, while neither her daughter, who was beside her, nor any of the bed cloth­ ing was injured in the slightest degree. One poor lady was awfully overtaken in the midst of a matrimonial squabble. One night her husband came home late from a party, and the two quarreled vio­ lently, both being in a state of intoxica­ tion. The wife insisted upon sitting up, the husband upon going to bed. She persisted in her determination, where­ upon her husband vowed that if she Z'tfejgm UJT (JJUVBUUU Ul UVU, IS SiS^alisDtkt instantaneous. One moment the ^unfcrttUiate individual is a live human : bit' being; the next moment he is a heap of î ashos and a bad smell, with perhaps an ^jpSitem or two of a half-consumed head or **H-°£oot left to tell what had been. There r* ft is but one well-established instance in -f i which the spontaneously consumed per- son lived long enough to narrate how he | was attacked. That individual was a Bomafi Catholic priest, Father Bertholi --*'<1 Father Bertholi retired to bed one 1H:> evening HI the house of a relative, if fk few momenta after, " a strargc noise, r^Ti, loingled xritia cries, was heard from the •' • Toom." Tli • people of the house rushed - in, and beheld Father Bertholi standing -on the floor, surrounded by a strange, dickering flame, which receded as they eame near, like a will-o'-the-wisp. A : surgeon was called, who found the skin of the right arm and of the back loos­ ened and hanging down. The patient lived four days, and died in a most horrible manner,too horrible to descriVx'. The only account he could give of the attack was that he had sud­ denly ielt a blow upon the right arm, as if he had suddenly been struck with a dub. On looking at his arm he saw a spaik of fire hanging to his sleeve, which instantly was burnt off his arm. His cap 1 was also burnt off, while his hair was not * even scorched. In this case there was no lire or light in the room. One case of " preternatural combua- lon. wl ich occurred something over sixty yeaocs ago, served an excellent pur­ pose to our good friends the Methodists Who printed it far and wide and made a truly awful example of it. The medical tboa who records this case is at painB to state in the beginning that he does not depend solely for liis facts upon the Methodist Magazine, or even upon the Wesley an minister who first told the story, but that left her. Next morning the maid-servant, open­ ing the windows of the back parlor, per­ ceived something in her mistress' arm chair. She thought at first it had been put there by her mistress' son, as a scare-crow to frighten her. Going nearer, however, she was suddenly hor­ ror-struck to find that this awful " some­ thing " was the remains of her hapless mistress. The trunk of her body was entirely consumed, while her upper and lower extremities were not injured. The trunkless head, with the hair in curl pr, pers, was still leaning upon the right imnd and ag&inist the wall. The fncowas slightly scorched; but neither the hair nor the curl-papers were burnt in the least. The room was full of the offen­ sive burnt odor before mentioned. It was only with the greatest difficulty that the medical profession were able to reach the facts of this case, since the family of the dead woman used evety means in their power to hush the affair up. No wonder! When a human being takes fire inside and burns up of himself, how do^phe do it? The world, especially the medical part of it, having outgrown the theory of the visitation of God on this subject, it became necessary to account for spon­ taneous combustion on rational princi­ ples. This theory and that have been held by different persons, but the most plausible one seen.'8 to be that the com­ bustion is caused by the explosion of in­ flammable gases generated in a diseased and depraved organization. The body of a patient who died in a hospital in France was examined, and when perfora­ tions were made in various parts of it, a gas issued therefrom which took fire from the flames of a candle. The body of a living human being sometimes becomes so diseased that its natural secretions are depraved and per- it was confirmed frbm verted. In this state it is supposed that îaiiher sources. The story of this truly T •. awful example is about thus: *'$ Near 2 o'clock one nighst 'the keeper I of an alms-house in Limerick was awak- M ened bv one of the inmates in great certain inflammable gases are generated, which, mingling with air and oxygen, form explosive mixtures inside the hu­ man body. The generation of these is attended with heat, and off your alarm. There was something fearful go-1 drunkard goes, pop ! and nothing is left ing on in bis room, the person said. The °^him but a greasy smoke and a heap of keeper, Mr. O'Neil, hastened to the spot, and found lying in the middle of the floor a burning human body, which all over of the color of a red hot In the ceiling just above was a o_ hole, on fire around the edges, through which it appeared that the fiery was coal large }n3|ced-hot body had burned its way and dropped down into the room of the in­ mate below. The person occupying the ;» Jaoom above was an old woman named lbs. Peacocke, who was not only a hard- L# *°ed sinner, but an inveterate drunkard besides. Mr. O'Neil rushed up-stairs ' - and . burst open this hardened old sin- .-v V'-MK*a dOwOtt. In wtfwn lift found to --Cincinnati Commercial. Department Expenses. .The Warrant Division of the Treasury P^partment has been ordered by Secre- --7 to prepare, for the Centen­ nial Exposition, a statement showing the 8AT1P BY TkrOliaf Encounter Between a Bank Wstckaiu ud a Oang of Borglan, Oxford (N. J.) oorrespoadttice of the New York Herald: A thrilling af&ir took pKce here this morning, tattly after ifo'clock, in the office of the Ox­ ford Iron Company, *hich ^ras entered by a gang of burglars during the tempo­ rary absence of the night-watehttmn, William H. Bearing, who had gone into the basement of the buiMing* as was his custom, to see that all was light. On re­ turning to the office he was startled to seo crouching behind the sale a human figure peering intently In his direction through a mau, and apfMrenfy ready to spring upon him. It was an awful moment. He was alone, and at once the thonght flashed across his mind that a gang of burglars must be hidden around the office. JHe determined to sell his life dearly, if he must, and, drawing his revolver, he discharged it at the burglar beside the safe, and sent a ball whistling through his heart. A stifling cry of pain, and the thief, with a bound, leaped from his stooping posture and felf heavily on the floor, never to rise again. His three companions, seeing the tragic occurrence, leaped from their hiding-places, their faces being disguised by masks, and one of them, drawing a club, struck the brave watchman with it and knocked him down. Searing strug­ gled with them for dear life, and twice again discharged hie pistol, but the des­ peradoes at length disarmed him and got him completely in their power. Just as they were about to place a pair of manacles upon his wrists, a large dog, named Major, came bounding up the stairs, and seeing the situation leaped into the fray and fought furiously for his master. The struggle was a most desperate and sanguinary one; it was life for life, and for nearly a moitaLttour it lasted, the men and the dog Major rolling up and down the office floor. The faithful aog did noble service, about him with a will, and giving the burglars no quarter, until at length, feeling they had sufficient of his fangs, they fled in the most abject terror, leav­ ing behind them the dead body of their miserable companion lying in his blood upon the floor. As may well be sup­ posed, the watchman snd dog were fairly fatigued, but, fearful lest another attack might be made before daybreak, they stood on guard. The thieves did not return, however. Later in the day, as soon as the community were astir, an alarm was given, and the route the thieves took was traced by a heavy trail of blood, which one of them, doubtless mortally wounded, marked in making his escape. About half a mile distant an old suit of clothes was discovered beside a poel of Wood at the foot of a tree, where the bleeding burglar must have changed Ms apparel,, On the railroad a valise was picked up containing a com­ plete set of hnygWg' tools. The wafesh- man did not laentny any of the rafiiuns. * A 'Winter India.® Campaigm. Gen. Crook, Commander of the De* partment of the Platte, -with headquar­ ters at Omaha, says the uhieago Iwies, has for several nionilispaafc foreshadowed an Indian war by the Bioux and other tribes the coming winter. In older to be properly prepared for the occasion, he has, during the past three months, collected upward of three hundred pack- jacks, with Mexican drivers This new army of transportation has been in daily drill at Fort Russell, in Wyoming Terri­ tory, and has been a subject of much speculation, not only among citiaens, but in military circles, as to the peculiar service in which they were to be em­ ployed, but the reticence, if not abso­ lute refusal, of Gen. Crook to give any information on the subject, has caused niany conjectures, chief among which was that the animals and their drivers were to be employed during the winter months transporting subsistence to. the military camp at present in the Black Hills, in command of Capt. Pollock. A correspondent has unearthed the secret mission that this new transportation army is to be engaged in. As soon as the looked-for Indian outbreak or war commences, these pack-animals, being swift of foot, and less cumbersome than army-wagon transportation, are to be JiiCkcu ™ltu STXp'pisT;AOA u InigS body of cavalry that will b® sent to chastise the 'Indians; each pack-unmid, as soeii- au the pack-load JIM been used, is to be killed, the object of killing them being to prevent them falling into possession of the Indiana The cavalry are then to keep up a rapid pursuit of the Indians, and, wnen they can no longer obtain food, they are to kill a sufficient number of cavalry hearses to furnish them with sustenance, the pursuit to be kept up until the warlike Indians are overtaken and thoroughly whipped. Gen. Crook made a brilliant record in Arizona as an Indian-fighter. Possessing a thorough knowledge of Indian character, he pre­ fers to conduct a campaign against the red-skins in the winter months, when their facilities for sub­ sisting off the game of the moun­ tains and prairies is very limited, and when grass for thek ponies cannot be had in sufficient quantities to make a successful or rapid retreat from the cav­ alry. The three companies of cavalry at present in the Black Hills are to be taken from there, and will form part of the army that is to take the war-path against the Indians. v ' Higher Railroad Freights. , During the past week a darfe^and threatening storm cloud has risen over the business and the financial interests of the West. On its black surface, drawn in the suggestive colors in which Mephisto delights to dwell, appears the form of Commodore Yanderbilt, his foot on the neck of poor John W. Garrett, of the Baltimore and Ohio, and his long, skinny fingers grasping at the splendid crop of the West. Avarice, ghastly and Insatiable, gleams out in every feature ; and yet a sardonic grin may be detected over the millions he hopes to extort from the hard earnings of the West by exorbi­ tant freights on her products to the sea­ board. It may be well to hint to this remorseless pirate, in the course of his expenses of each department of the gov- Bince its organization. This will involve great labor, and will not be completed until some time in June next. • Xshowing for the Navy Department is the only one completed.. From this it appears that the department has cost jftooKooT'811106 ito life levying a more grinding tribute upon the commerce of the country than ever Lafitte did upon that of the Gulf of Mexico, that m the end his grasping avarice will be sure to defeat itself. For the last two years, through the competi­ tion of the Baltimore and Ohio railway, the people of the West have had reason­ able freights. Under its healthy influ- mm the Grangers went to sleep; but are not dead, as Vandmfcitt and hi> •harks fondly hope. This 'on will wakeuMBiinto more dep(>erate!ife thin ever before. Five yean ago tbm burnt corn within lees than^OO puks of 0h£ cage, because extortionAte'frefghti made it cheaper than coal HUM hallway magnates may as well know that the peo­ ple will find a way to break through verted righto, backed even by a bondred Dartmouth College decisions, when ex­ action has reached the limit of endur ­ ance. Let them be wise while they may; be content with reasonable profits, and all will be well. As these extortionate freights must virtually come in part out of every man's pocket «t the west, be he banker, merchant, raantifastnrer, sad eri&fe down to the hod-oarrier- -a mnMfade too numerous and too powerful to be suc­ cessfully resisted--it is hoped the warn­ ing here given may have some effect even upon the selfish greed of Eastern railway managers.--Chicago Tribune, The Williamson County (111.) Kn-Klnx. A letW from Marion, Williamson county, ffl, say® • " The Circuit Court term, which ocinmonced Oct 14 and terminated the 21st, was the most im­ portant in its results ever held in this section of the country. A synopsis of what has been accomplished in the land of the vendetta is herewith appended. A nolle-pros. was entered in the case of Fielding1 Henderson, charged with the killing of Vincent Hinchediffe, for lack of evidence. P. Henderson, convicted of malicious misahief, was sent to the Penitentiary for one year. Three charges of assault to kill Capt. George W. Sisney against Timothy Goyle were dismissed, the confession of Marshall Crain having exonerated Mm. Milton Baxter, charged with murdering Vincent Hincheclifie, gave bail in the wym of $8,000, and had his case continued. In th© case of the State vs. William J. Crain, alias "Big Jeff Grain," alias "Black Bill Crain," and Nash W. Crain, alias " Yellow B:J1 Grain," for the murder of William Spenoe, the first was granted a change of venue to Alexander county, and wffl be tried in January. " Yellow Bill " was admitted to bail in the sum of $5,000. Marshall Crain, who pleaded guilty to the murder of William Spence, and is now under sen­ tence of death, has been very penitent, and his cries are constantly heard by those in proximity to his celL He now entertains the hope that be can purify his soul by embracing religion. He held up with remarkable courage until Fri­ day last, when he broke down complete­ ly, and confessed he was not only the as­ sassin of William Spence but also of Capt. Sisney, and that he swore against Baker to save his own life. On the day mentioned he had George Sisnev, Jr., called to his cell, and told him that he was the murderer of his father. He prostrated himself »©IOJ*h tli® young man, and asked his forgiveness. Sisney replied that he could not forgive the murderer of his father, as forgiveness for such a crime would be unnatural. Crain remarked that he was not in his right mind when he committed the deed." Whisky Made Old by Machinery. There is a very nice case at present being argued before the Commissioner of Internal .Revenue at Washington-- one that possesses great interest to dis­ tillers. For a long time it nas been quite an object to discover some way to age -whisky--that is, to secure the evap­ oration oi the fusel-oil in the natural whisky, so that the best grade of liquor could be reached, Under ordinary ar­ rangements whisjiy requires an age of five years to lose all of its fusil-oil char­ acter. It has been discovered that the shipment of whisky by sea in a brief period accomplishes what time ordinari­ ly is required to do. The constant mo­ tion imparted to the liquor by the mo­ tion of the ship has always had the effect of rapidly hastening the evaporation of the fusel oil, so that a brief voyage en­ hances the market value of whisky in a remarkable degree. An ingenious in­ ventor, who has noted this effect, has patented a process for securing this mo­ tion to the whisky while lying at the dis­ tillery. He introduces a sort of churn into the baireiSj leaves the bung out, while a bit of machinery propelled by stteiiiu animatu; the 'churns' i&d imports a continued stirring of tho whisky. A short time of this process materially ages the wbiaky. Now, as the invention promises to be very popular among the distillers, a very nice question at once rose before the Internal Revenue peo­ ple, and that was whether this process does not come under the head of recti­ fying. If it does, the whisky so " aged " by this rectifying process'will have to go out on the market with a rectifier's stamp on it A Fatal dame of Croquet. Mr. Reuben P. Benton and Mr. J. D. Strickland were engaged in a game of croquet on the groundd in the rear of the Warren and Venango passenger de­ pot. Both gentlemen were on the most friendly terms, and they were in the habit of playing on these favorite grounds almost daily. Mr. Strickland made a misplay, and, as commonly occurs on such occasions among the boys, he peev­ ishly attempted to throw his mallet after the ball. By some unforeseen chance the handle of the mallet caught in the Sleeve of his coat, and it was hurled in the direction of his companion, striking him on the right temple, and felling him %o the ground. The accident was wit­ nessed by a number of bystanders, who, at the time, did not imagine that Mr. Benton was seriously injured. His pro ̂ longed insensibility, however, created considerable alarm, and restoratives were ineffectually applied. Mr. Strick­ land ran in haste for medical aid and a carriage, but before his return the un­ fortunate Benton was carried to his room in an insensible condition. Drs. Moody and Barr were on hand almost imme­ diately upon his arrival, and made a searching examination of the wound. It appears that the blow, which was struck on the right temple, was not sufficient to cause a fracture of the skull at that point, but as is often the case, produced an effusion of blood at the base of the brain. Such an injury is almost inevita- bly fatal, and the patient lingered 6 o clock p. m., when he expired without recovering consciousness. -- TituaviUe {Pa.) Herald. ROACH, of Ledyard, Ot*, was killed last week by an ugly braL CtfiM. The oldest men tion of coffee that •nyyrhete bo found does not go further bMk than 800 years. Nobody knows when it was first used in the East. There Is nothing to go upon, exoept a tradition that the angel Gabriel invented coffee for the especial behoof of Ma­ homet in his old age, to enable him to renew his youth, anf be happy in his loves. Whether ifc had this effect we tin not told, but it is to be supposed th®t Gabriel did his best for the prophet. In any owe, it is certain that coffee is in­ comparable as a stimulant, and will even make up for the want of food. Rossini used to say that it could keep Mm up for a fortnight, the time he required for the composition of an opera. There is no other stimulant that M sustain such a pitch. Opium is wonderfully sustain ing, but it has bad effects, and it tends too much to dreaminess, with a lack of concentration. Alcohol has a force of its own, as we all know; but it requires frequent renewal, and is too speedily followed by reaction and collapse. Tea comes nearest to the Arabian berry as a stimulant, bat it often excites without invigorating. Coffee seems, while wakening up the brain, to make one, for the time at least, independent of food. It ia, indeed, most enjoyed on short ra­ tions ; mid taken on a full stomach, as was pointed out. it neither pleases the palate, nor refreshes the system. Nor is it always quite harmless. Brillat Savarin gave up coffee because he found that it turned his head into a mill whirl­ ing Kouad without ideas of grind. To some people it gives a shaking of the hands and a trembling of the knees. Stories are told of the people who have become cripples through excessive love of it ; other stories of people who have beoome imbecile. MAOTl FOB A8XK& •* unram C H A X D L Z B K O U U D ^ ^ " " *\ssT ~ lajtagfaialli > the dSrwntac rest at man tasks ksMe. likfe i Agsto* my Birds call to birds till ttw J ™ fL The <J»y at besoty tboa dsy is dons,*' brought*©** "«entle snd true. How thy fftlr dawn bss risen on zny ni Turned dark to <i*v §II inisVK From sou of grief won bloom of nsw dstfaM* --Sartbmr/or Aovember. 1*.\ Pith and Point. CAT-AStROPHES--Midnight concerts. Omc of the first symptoms of"1' zootio--Horse-ness. * . A Human Monster. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican says: "LiePage, the suspected murderer of Josie Longmaid, made another des­ perate effort to escape from the Concord Jail Saturday, and has been placed in irons. The accumulating evidence against him indicates that he is not only the guilty man, but is one of the most besotted monsters in the criminal record. According to his wife's account he used a mask when he attacked and outraged her sister in Canada five years ago. He was arrested, but es­ caped by desperate fighting while the officers were binding his legs, and for some time lived in the woods. Some two years -ago he traveled fifty miles to the house of his cousin, and foully outraged her person, escaping with her horse. His wife says that he lias made attempts to ravish his own daughter, fifteen years old, and that they have been afraid of their lives on account of his brutality. The murderer of the Ball girl is proved to have worn moccasins at the time of the crime, and it is known that T woro fciieiii that day, while it has boon Teamed that a short time before the murder he inquired of a girl what road Miss Ball took in returning from school on Friday nights, Th© mask found near the body of Miss Ball has recently been examined, and proves to be fastened with birch withes, Mid wi.th.es were also found near the body of Miss Ball, while a birch withe was found tied around a pine tree close to where the body of the Longmaid girl lay. LePage is known to be an expert in making withes, even mending harness with them. A piece of cloth which looks as though bloody hands had been wiped on it has been found at LePage's house, and his wife says a shirt he wore on that day is missing. Three young girls have stated that they were chased in the woods by LePage previous to the Pembroke murder. Nebraska's Big Corn Crop. Xi&coln (Neb.) correspondence of the Chicago Times: "The farmers of Ne­ braska are preparing to pull their coats to gather the heaviest corn crop ever raised in the State. The best of it stands from 10 te 15 feet high, and the ears measure from 12 to 18 inches in length. The yield will be all the way from 40 to 80 bushels per acre. A story, amply vouched for, came to me last week, that a farmer in Johnson county had gathered 108 bushels and 40 pounds one acre of bottom laud. The ground was accurately measured and the corn was accurately weighed- by a- com­ mittee of gentlemen appointed for that purpose. The measurement was made in a contest for a prize offered by an ag­ ricultural implement firm in Tecumseh, for the best acre of corn." A RHODE ISLAND LOVB Efcrony. --At Pawtucket, R. I., Agnes Rosier hanged herself Wednesday evening. She and her sister lived in a tenement in Garden street, and worked in the Slater Cotton Mill, The sister was to be married to a young man with whom Agnes was deep­ ly in love. The sisters reached home as usual on Tuesday evening, and Agnes went into the yard while the other was getting supper. After waiting a long while, the sister went to look for her, and found her suspended to a tree in the back yard. A corset lacing«donbled two or three times had been used for a noose, and had cut deep into the flesh. From what was said by Agnes some days ago, it is inferred that the act was prompted by jealonsy. NEWSPAPER WAK.--There is a small newspaper war progressing in the Indian Territory. The laws regulating citizen­ ship in that Territory forbid a citizen of the United States from holding property among tne Indian natives, and, in accord­ ance with this regulation, a Mr. Harris, who has been publishing a paper there, called the Indian Progress, is informed that his business must be discontinued. This order creates ill feeling, as it is claimed to be in the interest of a new sheet, shortly to be issued under the name of the ̂Indian Herald, which will be owned bv the Chief of the Cherokees, Mr. W. P. Itoss, though really edited by white men. Br the recent death of Mr. David Steele, at Goffstown, N. H., Mr. Daniel Christie, of Dover, N. H., is left the sole survivor of the class of 1815 of Dart­ mouth College. The last reunion of the class occurred last summer, when Mr. Steele visited Mr. Christie.--New York Pott. / » will, mere's a whey. , " Snnrai® weddings" are sow coming" into fashion. This novel wedding takes place when the first-born ie old enough to spank. • : , MUSHROOMS and toadstools aoe verifr confusing objects in fields. It is impo& tant to know the difference between ' '•* bat it taker years to find out, and author!. : ties differ. The only sure test one. If you die, it is a toadstool,., . " WE have a great many felt slipperfjL now-a-days," said a young lady to hair octogenarian uncle. 4 4 You have, ha# yon f" responded the old man, with great animation; "well, the sHppera, were felt in my young days, too, and no mistake." WB never knew a sooldingperson thai was able to govern a family. What makes people scold ? Because they cannot gov­ ern themselves. How can they govern others? Those who govern weU, amp generally calm. They are prompt «M& resolute, but steady md milcL A MAM of parts--the dresser.--- New York Commercial. And also the Judge in th© divorce ooitrte,--Rochester • E%pres8. Or an actor! Or, for a joiner.--Inter-Ocean. Or a compound ing druggist. --Boston Traveler. Oi the man with the wooden leg and a glass eye. --Lowell Courier; A COUNTRY girl near Utica mistook the meaning of a young man who was look­ ing up pickers for his father's hop yard* and, when asked if she was engaged? sweetly said: "Not yet, but alwavi thought it would be pleasant" The young man rode home quickly, ( dreamed all night of "breach of prom­ ise trials." A TAMJJ slim-waisted woman, aged 40, called &t iiiw V i knjjST and demanded to be registered as d voter. When politely informed that sh6 didn't belong to the voting sex she struck the table with her fist, upset a bottle of ink, and said ; " i ll vote if it takes me a thousand years 1" And she'll keep hear word.-- Detroit Free Press. A DETROIT boy surprised his father the other day by asking ; "Father do you like mother?" "Why, yes, o£ course." "And she likes you? "Of course she does." "Did she eversaj so?" "Many a time, my son." "Did - she marry you because she loved you ?'* "Certainly she did." The boy looked the old man over, and after a long pauae _ asked: " Well, was she as near-sighted then as she is now?" "DESK ISH de brincibles I bolts, And dose in vick I run; Dey if»h teed, firm snd immutspta Ash te course of te 'ternal sun; ' Boot if you don't approve of dem-- Mease notice vot I say-- , 1 shall only pe too happy To alder dem right afay." ^--Satu Breitman. ^ BSD LILIES. Strike fuller chord*, or let the music reet! Of tender eoogs the world has yes, no dearth, Which Bcarce survive the moment of their birth Be thine in passionate cadences expressed, And banish morning-glories from thy bream 1 A purple drean'-flower of the woods i» worth So little in the gardens of the earth; If gift thou givest, give what we love best. Since Life is wild with tears, and red with wrongs Let these red lilies typify thy songs, If with full fame thou would'st be comforted. Since Life is red with wrongs, and wild with tears, . Oh move us. haunt us. kill our souls with fears. And we will praise thee,'--after thou art dead! --SaribtXi-for November. '• , K&tionftl Jicsces ̂ , The annual report of Treasurer New will contain the following statement of the receipts and expenditures by war­ rants for the fiscal year 1875: •inmiw, Customs $157,167,722.35 Internal revenue 110,007,493.58 Lands 1,413,640.17 Miscellaneous sources 19^11,193.00 Total net revenues .1388,000,051.10 l'ublic debt funded, 1861„ 96,606,700.00 United States notes 108,90?,956.00 Fractional currency 36,612,800.00 Oold certificates.... 70,200,100.00 Gold certificates of deposit, United States notes. 80,696,000.00 Total net receipts $675,971,807.10 nrvomrm Customs | Iff,713,707.38 Internal revenue 5,188,613.31 Interior and civil. 4,957,635.30 Treasury proper S8,f>43,962.4S Diplomatic . 8,199,230.84 Quarterly salaries ! 564,517.65 Judiciary 3,803,945.90 Net civil and miscellaneous expendi­ tures War Department Navy Department.. ...t.«.r i.. Interior Department..........<.. Public debt interest Now is the time to inspect1 the musk- rats, the beavers, the bark of the trees, and the squirrels' nests, to find out what sort of a winter we are going to have.. » 71,870,702.9S 41,120,645.30 .... 31,197,626.29 87,840,873.04" ..... 10,309,544. f<T Total net expenditures $274,823,392.34 PUBLIC DZBT. Redemption of bonds $104,650,920.00 Redemption of United States notes. 410,148,001.00 Redemption of national currency.... 40,361,671.48 Redemption of gold certittcates 71,278,900.00 Redemption of certificates of deposit, United States notes. 81,040,000.00 Total, including items on account of public debt #82,000,885.32 Balance of covered money June 30, 1875. 144,702,416.4 Troops Withdrawn from the Black Hills. The military station &t the Curtis Gulch, in the Black Hills, intended ̂to keep the miners out, has been with­ drawn. There is now neither let nor hindrance to those who are waiting to enter the hills. Daily it is reported there are parties leaving Cheyenne for the borth, their destination the gold gulches. It would appear that now sinco the Indians would not accept a reasonable price for the Black Hi.ilss. they are liable to lose their hunting grounds and receive no compensation for them either. PARISIANS sere introducing the Oriental fashion of stuffing furniture with aromat­ ic herbs, which fill the air with an a g r e e a b l e - p e r t a i n * , w g g f ? - K 1