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TEXERI''F1S,
ulontic Island8- phantom fair,
Ttrened on the solitary seas,
,mmersedin amethystine air,
Hanntof Hesperldes!
" ffCn; I leave Madeira thus
SeHoly Harbor fading far
teath a blaze of cl nabar.
Tfljat sights had burning eve to show,
prom Tacoronte's orange boweis,
fjom pahay headlands of Yeod,
From Orotava's flowers !
ffhen Palma or Canary lay
flo:2(lrCinctured in the crimson day,
nndbca-wrack, and rising higher
Tiose r'JrPle lnks 'twlxt cloud and Are.
33t oh the cone aloft and clear
ffbere Atlas in the heavens withdrawn
X-.lieni!:Ibere and hemisphere
poparts the dark and dawn !
m vaportms waTes tlmt roll and press !
pjreipalescent wilderness.!
pathway by the sunbeams plowed
tjetsixt those pouring walls of cloud I
tfi wtclied adown that glade of fire
Celestial Iris floating free,
fl-eMw the cloudlets keep In choir
Xhelr dances on the sea;
Ttescarlet, huge, and quivering sun
j-sred his due hour was overrun
Onnstbe last he blazed, and hurled
gjs gi0rr on Columbus' world.
jhea ere our eyes the change could tell.
Of feet bwlldered turn again,
PromTenerifle the darkness fell
Head-foremot oh the main:
ASandreJ leagues was seaward flown
ISe gloom of Teyde's towering cone,
pnl'.'balf the height of heaven's blue
jbat moufctrous 6hadow overflow.'
Tbeaall its twilight; pile on pile
Thesoattered flocks of cloudland close,
in alabaster wall, erewhile
Much redder than the rose !
rallsllke a sleep on souls forspent
Jlajestic Night's abandonment;
ffaies l.te a waking life afar
Hasg o'er the sea one eastern star. ,
Nature's glory, Nature's youth !
Perfected sempiternal whole ! f
Aafl is the world's in very truth
An lTiperclplen t soul ?
Or doth that spirit, past our ken,
Lveaprc'founder life than men,
Avalts our passing days, and thus
la secret places calls to us ?
Oh fear not thou, whate'er befall
That transient Individual breath,
Behold, thou knowest not at all
What kind of thing Is Deahi;
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And here Indeed might Death be fair,
HDcath be dying Into air,
If fonlse vanished mis with thee,
fflamlned heaven, eternal sea.
-F. If. n. 2Iyerx in Macmillan's Magazine.
ODE FEW ZOSE LETEEK.
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Correspondence Nebraska Advertiser.
New York, May 16, 1674.
England furnishes excellent labor
ers. Eplendid soldiers, great novelists
and great poets, but her supremacy
does not end with these. She furn
ishes the most accomplished, reckless,
bralal and skillful burglars that af
flict the world. A gang of perhaps
twenty came over last fall to prose'
cuts their business in the New
World. Four of them were arrested
last week, and I thought, possibly, a
ook at them and their tools, might
result in something. I found two
tnen of perhaps forty years of age,
Hlr low foreheads, small, keen, fer-
Nt-likfi PVP3 short: count, firmrps hilt.
-j ,.... w.IU... 0.,
for wonderful strength, both with the
Small broken nose that seems to al
ways be a token of a life of violence
M dissipation. The third was a
lather handsome young man, whose
fece was as clear and honest as though
he had been in a confidential position
toabauk, and the fourth was a mere
M, whose face, young as It was, was
3 brutal as those of the two older
Rians. The elder villians were re
ticent, but theyoung man was very
communicative and frm, him I got
Mhie items that were, to me, at least,
tfintesest.
"'Why did vou leave Loudon ?" I
a&ed.
"Because it got too warm for us,"
asthe reply. "We were wanted for
Jbs we had performed in almost ev
' 'J city In England. aud we couldn't
-eeP the police off us any longer."
"But, if you have done 60 many
jobs ' you ought to have had money
enough to have retired on by this
time."
"On the contrary we had to borrow
oney to get awav on You see, this
5le of business don't make money
"you are known to the police and
Cernpnnlo B-Kn liwa nFF of nc Tf n
r -- ITUV7 111 U V... w mj - -
j6" who had a good name should
lreak a bank and get 20.000, and get
y with it, it would be a nice
yS for him. But with one like me,
l0r instance, it's different. Last year
all
-y.n.x:u a oanK ana got iuuu sum,
111 good monev. But it took five
of
us to do the fob then the watch-
an of the bank had to be let. in
at made six then three detectives,
ho were employed to work up the
f. got their claws into us, nndf to
-'ePout of prison, we bad to divvy
ltn them, and they kept bleeding
j15- So, after all, I got out of it, real
Vi about $400. And then, to keep
Myself out of trouble, I had to keep
n hlding, and didn't do a stroke of
0rk for over six months.
"The last job before that was a haul
solid eilver ware, that I did all
'0,1e, with no partners, and I got
v7.000 worth of it, and thought I had
"good thiug. I couldn't keep the
Jjjff. and couldn't sell It as it was.
he J6W fenee3 got nold of me arM x
ad to break it up and sell it for just
at they Baw fit to give me, for they
U"J floor me at any time. They
fted It and gave me 600. Itrs a
ad business. I'd rather have a good
"v.and follow an honest life."
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ii&x-ajBiSHED 1856. i
Oldest Paper in tfco State. J
Who and what are these comrades
of yours ?"
"The two older men are regular
cracksmen, that is to say, they were
born to the business, and know noth
ing else. They were once" precisely
like the boy yonder. He was taken
out of an asylum by a craoksman and
brought up to it."
"What use do-you make of him ?"
"He has been trained to pick pock
etsto rob halls, and that kind of
work, when opportunity offers, but
we use him In other ways. He gets
into houses on all sorts of pretexts,
and gets the run of a house that we
have spotted to go through. He will
see more of a house by going through
from the back area to the front, aud
with ten minutes talk with a servant
maid, than you could by going thro'
it from top to bottom. He knows
houses, he does. Then, if we have to
cut a hole through a door, we slip
him through, and he unlocks in a jif
fy without noise. He can climb like
a monkey, and is just about as fear
less. Jimmy is a good boj."
"Do you have to use violence very
often?"
"Very seldom never if we can
help it. Amateurs do frequently a
thorough-bred not twice In a life
time. We get into a house, but al-waj-s
leave a way out a clean, unob
structed way. Now if we are in a
room and the people wake up, we get
out when It becomes dangerous, and
if our outlet is not obstructed it is all
right, and nobody is going to be hurt.
But if a man gets in our way when
we are going out, we dodge him if we
can if we cannot we knock him
down and if he grapples us we use a
knife or whatever is the shortest way
of getting rid of him. We are al
ways prepared, and will of course kill
ruther than be caught."
"You have been communicative
and I am obliged to you."
"I had as soon talk as not for I shall
quit the profession. They can't give
me more than five j'earsforwhatl am
here for, and I shall get out and live
on the square after that. I wasn't
born to it, and don't like it anyhow."
The tools taken with these fellows
were uhown mo, and they were as in
structive as their owner's talk. Keys
to unlock anything thin wedges of
steel to go through safes with, ropes
with which to get into second stories;
,loBgVflexiblo bamboo rods in sections
jiKe. me J8ayJisu;poies, on wnicu
ppngetnrateaSwitiiigisblororormn
are hung.And this, by the jvay, is a
pretty operation:' The bnrglarclimba
by his cord to a second story window
a diamond and a pitch-plaster takes
out a pane of glass without noise
the chloroformed sponge on the end
of the bamboo rod is held to the nose
of the sleeper, and in a few minutes
It is as safe to go into that. room as it
would be were the occupant dead.
Science has thus been subordinated
to crime as well as to legitimate pur
poses. Their weapons of offense and de
fense are extremely ingenious. The
sand bag is a simple bag tilled with
fine sand, with which a terrible blow
can be given without making any
noUe. Then they have a long leath
er weapon shaped like a club, filled
with the eame material. The jimmy,
which is the technical name for a
small steel crowbar, is a terrible weap
on, in addition to which they have
the most deadly and certain revolvers,
and the most murderous knives.
But enough of these fellows. I saw
them in my own bed-room in imag
inationevery night for a week, af
ter my interview with them.
MEAT.
New York is bothered about meat.
The dairymen for hundreds of miles
about the city, never keep calves, for
the calf consumes milk, which is their
profit. Unscrupulous butchers from
the city go out and contract them by
the thousand, and kill them when
they are a week or two old, and this
vile stuff is exposed for sale in the
markets. There is a law regulating
the traffic in meats, and so much
sickness has been caused by unwhole
some meats that the health officers
have taken the matter in hand. One
day last week seven thousand carcass
es of calves, less than four weeks old,
were brought to this city. of course
the butclfer sufficiently unscrupulous
to sell immaturcd veal, would just as
quiokly sell diseased meat of other
kinds. So you see the poor people,
who have to depend upon the lower
grades of butchers and are compelled
to eat cheap meat, have an exceed
ingly good chRnce of living on meat
that will make but a short stay to life.
The better class of butchers are as
honest here as they are anywhere,
but heaven help those who are oblig
ed to depend upon the lower grades.
THE FREIGHT QUESTION
la the ghost of the New York busi
ness man, and is once more under
discussion. The trouble Is terminal
facilities. So long as the Erie Canal
could bring hither all the produce of
the country it was all lovely, out uie
trouble is the production has out
grown the canal and many millions
of bushels had, perforce, to go by rail.
And the railroads have no facilities
for putting it on vessels. In fact, all
rhfttnomesbv rail has lo be carted
and handled by hand, and the cost of
this more than'eats up the profits, ana
is a grevious tax upon the producer.
Hence the trrain trade of the city is
knrn HivorfpH tn other noints "MblT-
uciug " ....
treal.
Pli arte Ddia anil Jt5aiuaiuie.
The Pennsylvania Company have al
i t. Krnnnh t Tnl Pflf OQ?
reaiypuBueur7r:--- r
of the great grain gaiaenm; yumi
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and a vast amount of grain from that
point which formerly went to New
York goes now to Philadelphia. The
Baltimore & Ohio is pushing a line to
Chicago, and another to Toledo, to
take its share, and the great line of
propellers and sail vessels from Tole
do to Montreal is being increased a3
fast as vessels can be built. And.now
New York Is Bwearing over the pros
pect, and is talking of building rail
roads to the water-side, and all that
sort of thing. What New York will
have to do to hold her commercial
supremacy will be to enlarge the Erie
Canal so that lake vessels can pass
turougn witnout breaking bulk at
Buffalo, and thenjfor the winter traf
fic get her railroads down to the dock
where the export vessels can take
grain directly from the cars. Then
there should be a little infusion of
honesty among the officials, so that
the saving in facilities would not be
counterbalanced by stealings. This
would fix New York as the commer
cial capital of the country forever,
and nothing else will.
THE WEATHER.
After the worst winter and spring
ever known, we are at last seeing the
sun every day. And it looks good.
So far, for weeks, it has been nothincr
but rain, rain, rain. But Old Sol has
finally got out and New York is once
more bright and beautiful.
ij us I NESS
is as dull as it can be, and the merch
ants have given up all hope of its be
ing any better this spring. They
hope for a good fall trade, but the
spring they consider hopeless, I guess
they are right. The people ate buy
ing just as little as possible, und pay
ing the same way. May the change
soon come. Pietro.
MOllE "3TUTS" POIt BROWS.
Editor Nebraska Advertiser.
Noticing a remarkable communica
tion from a correspondent hailing
from Peru, I wish to notice some of
his assumptions. He says, "that the
farmers are too busy demanding their
rights, etc." Like as if the farmers,
as a part of the commonwealth, had
no right to demand justice; like as if
the farmer had no rights that a coun
try merchant was bound to respect,
a la dun Broiun. Again he says,
"They have raised the war cry, and
are rushing headlong into the Grange
movement-'' regardless of. others'
rights;'!- ,NowMr. Editor,'. I would
Jlke-to know .what rightsSthefOrder
of "the Patrons of Husbandry have
trampled down or violated. It is the
privilege of any class to unite for the
mutual protection of their just rights,
and to brincr about such reforms as
will best protect the geueral interests
of all classes of society. In organiza
tion and union there is strength and
without it individual effort can ac
complish but little. Now, if this is a
crime and wrong I can't see it.
If your correspondent of Peru wish
ed to join a secret order for his indi
vidual gratification, I concede him
the privilege; it is none of my busi
ness. But when he attempts to as
sume the dictatorial prerogative, and
say that I aud over one million oth
ers of like occupation had no right to
organize ourselves into Grauges, it is
too thin a Brown, and your blunder
buss will hurt the man that pulled
trigger worse than the game -that
you shoot at. And the sneering at
that object of the order whichaims
to encourage education and dissemin
ate information among the tillers of
the soil will not be apt to pan out
very well, to any one guilty of mak
ing such a malicious assertion.
Now, I will briefly notice a few of
the causes that have combined to pro
duce the order of Patrons of Hus
bandry. First, that the farmer could
have a better opportunity to exchange
ideas in regard to cultivation of their
farms, and also be a means of social
entertainment.
Second, We were aware that a?
farmers we were paying more for ma
chinery than we ought; there was no
just cause why the farmer should pay
$200 for a reaping machine that cost
leas than $60, or that a sewing ma
chine that cost less than $20 should,!
be sold at from $60 to$S0. The profits
in the manufacture of agricultural
implements last season was 4S per
cent, of the capital invested, and on
cowMiirr mnnhinea it was 67 per cent.
This is what we would style aggress
ive patent monopoly.
Freights on stock and grain are too
high, but still we hear the cry that
railroads don't pay the owners. In
some cases this may be so. But let
us look a little. Take the Chicago cfc
Alton and their net earnings were 20
per cent, last year. The Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy earned 33 per
cent. net. The Illinois Central near
ly 40 per cent. Now, I am no enemy
to railroads and wish we had more of
them, but it does seem that when
legislatures have guaranteed the
right of way, and in nearly every
case such corporations have been
largely subsidized, that the excess of
a reasonable per cent, of the money
invested is so much wrung from the
producing and consuming classess.
Yet, according to your correspondent,
the farmer has no right to complain.
Now, as to the home merohant. It
is ray privilege, and I concede it to
every other man to buy where he can
bay the oheapest, and if the merch
ants at home will sell as oheap as
elsewhere it is surely to the interest
of every cltfzen to patronize home in
stitutions. The more-consumers that
the farmer has, for his products, and
to ha
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BROWNYILLE, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1874.
door, the better will be his condition.
If the profits of farming are bo
great as your correspondent pictures
them, why did he quit it and go to
retailing groceries ? Probably he for
got that the farmer had sometimes to
contend with drouth, chinch bugs,
grasshoppers, rust and spot in his
grain, sickness among his animals,
&c. But I have already run this out
to a greater length than I intended.
Wm. Bridge.
JPeru, Hay 11, ISft.
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WISCONSIN LETTER.
Editor Nobraska Advertiser.
I am at present writing nearly in
the latitude of St. aut. Waupacca
is three hundred miles north of
Brownville, as well as several hun
dred miles east. It borders on the
pine regions which spread their ever
green verdure to the north and west.
This is the country bordering the
Green Bay, which suffered so severe
ly a few years ago by the terrible fires
which destroyed so much property
aud burned to death so many people.
The great staple article of'export is
the cranberry. A good cranberry
marsh is worth one thousand dollars
per acre. From one acre three hun
dred bushels of cranberries can be
picked, and they Bell for three dollars
per bushel in this market. Fox and
Wolf rivers are navigable each for
one hundred miles. A large packet
steamer makes daily trips between
Berlin and Oskosh. Small tugs tow
large scows loaded with one hundred
thousand feet of lumber fifty miles
up the Fox river from Berlin Into
Marquette county. The general gov
ernment is now at work improving
the Fox and Wisconsin rivers so as to
afford slack water navigation between
the Lakes and the Mississippi. The
Fox river at Berlin la about like the
Little Nemaha from the mouth to
Bennett's mill dam. The boats are
so long that they have to seek a wide
place in the river and then ruu one
end ashore and wait for the current
to swing the other end of the boat
down stream, whenever they wish to
"about face'
Currant bushes, sift maples and ap
ple trees are just leaving out. Wheat
and oats are ju?t comlrig up, and
farmers are ploughing to plant corn.
The railroads are paying no attention
to the new railroad freight and pas
senger tariff law, and the Governor's
proclamation and the;daw are dead
letters-; -T.hG.rn ftppearatofbo.no -diffi-culty
for everybodypays 'whateveHHp
charged without any protest, and are
willing to leave the matter In the
hand3 of the Governor and the courts.
Temperance matters are topics
which occupy public attention to the
exclusion of all other duties of a pub
lic nature. Many Wisconsin cities
have voted for "no license," and this
puts the saloon men On their mettle.
One hears all the old arguments and
prophecies which generally follow a
suspension of the liquor traffic. Ber
lin voted no license, and the hard
drinkers were fouud on the main
street for several days thereafter sow
ing grass seed, and for fear it would
sprout and grow many of the milk
and water temperance men had wise
mise misgivings at the probabledown
fall of that prosperous young city if
the radical temperance men and the
women orusadefs continued their
work. I shall write my next from
Chicago. JarvIs S. Church.
Waupacca, Wis., May 15, toii.
SPIRITUAI.ES3I.
"WONDERFUL FACTSO RELATION
TO AERIAL MINISTERS.
From the St. Joe. Herald. .
To the already avowed spiritualists
the following statement will be but
another drop in the bucket of proof
already full to overflowing, but to
non-believers in spiritual visitations a
thorough investigation of the facts be
low enumerated will prove that there
are some things hard to explain and
harder to believe.
Last night a familj' in the extreme
northern part ef the city were visited
by a wonderful display of spiritualis
tic presence. The family consisted of
a man by the name of Perras and his
wife and two children, one a girl elev
en years of age, the other a young boy
of five years, Mrs. Perras broth
er, Wm. Wilson, and a servant boy.
About half past ten o'clock (the fam
ilj' having retired at nine o'olock)
Mr. Wiieon was awakened by what
he thought was a strain of violin mu
sic, proceeding from,the parlor which
adjoins the room in which he slept.
He listened a momentand was aston
ished to hear a perfect performance of
one of Beethoven's waltzes which be
had been frying to master for some
time. The piece was rendered on the
violin with the matchless power and
brilliancy of Paganiuni.
The muslo had awakened Mr. Per
ras, who now came into the room oc
cupied by Mr. Wilson t to see if he
was yet aware of the performance in
the parlor. He was greatly surprised
.to find Mr. Wilson in bed and not
aware of the identity of the perform
er ; and Mr. W. was a3 much surpris
ed to find that Mr. Perras knew noth
ing about the music
They then concluded that some of
their friends had prepared a pleasant
surprise for them, although they were
at a loss to think who was as fine a
performer as the present manipulator
of the bow. They, however, conclud
ed to- settle their doubts by at onco
proceeding to the room from which
tho melody proceeded.
Besuming- their every-day attire,
they went to the parlor door, but it
had been fastened on the inside by
Mrs. Perras. They then went around
to the front door which was also fast
ened. They now became excited aud
a consultation was held. A neigh
bor, who wbb just passing, was caljed
to their aid. The result of the delib
eration, was a reconnoisance In force
through a side door that communicat
ed by a wall and a bed room into the
parlors. Wilson's violin lay on the
centre table, removed from the box
in which he always kept it when not
in use, and the difHoult waltz was ac
curately produced from it without the
aid of human hands. The bow
was moving as if in the hands of a
master, and the tones produced seem
ed to swell from the very heart of
muslcitself. The strings were press
ed to the finger-board as If by the
human finger, but nothing could be
seen to denote any human or super
human presenoe. As the light which
Mr. Perras carried fejl upon the vio
lin the' music began to decrease and
in a few minutes the bow ceased its
motion and was apparently laid down
by the violin on the table.
After a short consultation Mr. W.
placed his instrument in its box,
which he found locked as he had left
it. Nothing more was heard of the
music during the night, and after a
short time the house-hold retired to
rest.
None of the parties were believers
in spiritualism and they are at a per
fect loss to account for thoruly won
derful phenomena.
This is another unaccountable item
in the daily increasing myMery of the
other world.
A vernal, soxg.
llY .O II. AVEUY.
I saw a blue bird
Free fronl card,
Floating along
Sinning a song,
In the morning air;
Circling down
He lit on a crowrt
Of a King-cup brown,
And nlled its cell
With tremulous swell
Of a silver note
Froirl his throbbing throat.
I saw a crocus
Lifting up
Lifting up
Its dainty cup
To catch a pearl
From a cloudlet's curl
Erelloating light
, . Like acygnet White, ',
'
lb imiu'.Ki.icab
spirit;
A-spfritofliahV i
Downward come
From a golden dome,
Leading along"
A rosy throng
Of violets
And "four o'clock,"
Daisies pied
And spatter-docks;
feeding them dew'
From cloudlets blue,
And adding to this
Her royal kiss.
For she was Queen,
Queen of the Spring
ITeiv York Evening Post'
3ANCTI3IONIOUS
PLAYER.
POKER
From the St
Louis Journal.
About two" years ago a Missouri riv
er steamboat left Fort Benton with a
party of tough and well-to-do miners
on board. There were among the
passengers threeor four "brace men ,"
and before arriving at Sioux City,
they had generally, cleaned out the
pockets of the miners. The boat stop
ped at Sioux City to wood up, and
found, among others waiting to get
on board, a ministerial looking per
sonage, with the longest and most
solemn face on him you can well im
agine. He was dressed in a suit of
black, wore a white stovepipe hat aud
choker collar, ornamented with a
black neckerchief.
Well he got on board, and the boat
started down the stream. For two
days he was unnoticed by tha other
passengers, but one of the sporta at
la3t thought he saw a chance to make
something out of tbe.Bad and melan
choly looking individual. The latter
would once or twice a day step up to
the bar, and with a voice as mild and
gentle as a maiden's, ask for "A glass
of soda, if you please," aud then
wc uld pull a roll of bills from his
I pocket aud take a quarter from their
interior layers. Then he would say
to the bar-keeper, as if under a thou
sand obligations, "Thauk you, sir,"
and walk aft again as if about to com
mit suicide.
This thing had gone far enough,
and the gambler I have spoken of at
last approached him.
"Would you like a game of seven
up. sir?"
"Seven-up? What is seven up?
Please tell me, my good friend ?"
"Why, a gatrfe of cards, you know,
just to pass away the time. Let us
play a game."
"My good friend, I do not know
any thing concerning them."
"Wellf come along, we'll show you
how to do it." And the mild gentle
man in black, after some further pro
tests, at last consented.
They showed him how 'twas done,
and they played several games. The
gentleman in black was delighted.
Gambler wants to know if he will
play poker, five cents ante, just for
the fuu of the thing. Gentleman in
black loses every time-. There are six
men in the game. Each one deals be
fore the gentleman -in black, and the
ante has been raised to a dollar. Gent
in black deals awkwardly and looks
at his hand. Next man to dealer bets
. . IuitSgglowlng 'vestit?BPPj
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$5, it goes round, and bets are raised posed itself tyrannically, lite a dom
to $100. Gent in black sees it, and , Ineering power, against which react.
makes it $100 better. Gamblers look I ed with a superhumau energy all the
surprised, but will not be bluffed. The
bet had reached $500 $1,000. All
draw out except a Pike's Peak miner,
who sees and calls him.
"What have you?"
"Waal," answers thegentin black,
"I have let me see, let mesee waal,
I have four ones."
The gamblers, who have suspioion
ed some time before, now look wild,
and the light began to dawn in the
miners mind. He leaned across the
table and said in the most sarcastic
tones be could command :
"Oh, you have, have you! Youd d
sanctimonious shuffler."
The'gent got up from the table and
handed one of the gamblers his card.
It read, "Bill Walker, New Orleans"
one of the most successful sharpers
In the country.
BRXGGS' BABV.
A contemporary says that Brigcs
has a boy baby, about ten months old,
who is admitted to look just like his
father, and to be the smartest boy ba
by of his age in G street. The other
morning tho child was sitting on the
floor, playing with live or six buttons
on a string, and taking an occasional
nibble at an apple to bring out his
first orop of teeth. Mrs. Briggs and
a neighbor were talking away as only
women can gossip, when the baby hid
the buttons under a mat, and started
to finish the apple. A bit of the skin
got in his throat, and he gave a cough
and a whoop and pawed the air, roll
ed over oh his head.
"Oh, them buttons! He has swal
lowed them buttons!" cried the moth
er, and she yanked him up and shook
him.
"Pound him on the back!" yelled
the other woman, trying to hold the
baby's legs still.
"Run for the neighbors!" cried
Mrs. Briggs.
"Oh, he'll die! he'll die!" scream
ed the other as she ran out. And the
neighbors dame in dnd made him He
on his stomach and cough, and then
turned him on his back and rubbed
his stomach and jogged him about in
all sorts of ways, until he got mad
and went to howling. Then the boy
ran for Briggs, and Briggs ran for the
doctor, aud the doctor cameaud chok
ed tho baby, and ordered sweet oil
and a mustard plaster, and told them
to hold him on his back. Everybody
knew that those six buttons were
lodged in the baby's throat. 'because.
(henvas red in theiface'bfadfbecause he
StraHgIedas- 4tfeHhowle'd ' autT' wepC
t.Tbeypoured down sweefroilf and put
a mustard plaster across him and wept
over him, and his mother said she
could never forgive herself. Thedoc
tor was looking serious, and Briggs
was thinking that he hadn't done
anything to deserve such a blow,
when one of the women pushed the
mat and discovered the buttons.
Then everybody laughed and danced,
and they kicked the sweet oil bottle
under the bed, threw the mustard
plaster at the doctor, and Mrs. Briggs
hugged the howling angel to her bos
om, and called him her "wopsy topsy
hopsy dopsy popsy little cherub."
CURE FOR HYUROPIIOIIIA-REVE-LATIO.VS
Otf A VICTIM.
Under this significant title a scien
tific journal of Paris published a state
ment as interesting to the public gen
erally as to the cause of science. A
man worthy of all confidence was
bitten by a mad dog, and suffered all
the paroxj'sms of frenzy Incident to
that frightful malady. Ho relates the
terrible nature of his frullerings, and
the means by which he Was cured.
We take the account of his experien
ces from the moment the strange hal
lucinations begun :
"I was surprised to see appear from
a black cabinet persons who spoke to
me", rats, enormous spiders, which
ctimed along the furniture, always at
the side. The illusion was such that,
at first, I often incommoded myself to
be satisfied if it were a reality or in
deed an illusion. Then suddenly,
and at the moment when I Jeast ex
pected it, darteu, always from the in
ternal to' tha external angle of the
eye, flashes of light, which instinct
ively compelled nie to turn my head.
These were simultaneotlp, witli a gen
eral sensation of shuddering or trem
bling of the skin, and a sentiment of
unspeakable terror. In dark place?,
or during the night, I have seen my
apartment euddenly illuminated as
by a flash of lightning. Final!, see
ing that nothing seemed to arrest the
march of the irresistible agent h
which I was overpowered, I had re
course to thtf datura itramonim, or
thorn apple (Jamestown weed) the
wonderful efficacy of which was re
vealed some fifteen years ago by
Father Legrand, a Catholic mission
ary. I took a very strong dose of the
remedy, four or five leaves, and be
gan, not without difficulty, to write.
Half an hour afterward the remedy
had not yet opperated, when sudden
ly a strong electrict shock, with a
sound somewhat resembling the ex
plosion of a rocket, or rather the sud
den escape of steam, ran through my
frame from head to foot, producing in
the skin a sensation of heat and a
general shuddering, accompanied by
an instinctive desire to fly and a sen-
l timent of indefinable terror. It seem
ed to me that firesquitra were darting
from my eyes I bounded backward
as if moved by a spring. It appeared
that I was engaged In- a deadly com
bat between the vital and the morbid
principle, which latter had just im
VOL. 18.-NO. 47.
aotive forces at my command. At the
same moment delirium supervened,
and I lost coneciou3n33 of my acts."
The patient preserved iu his de
lirium the ruling idea of moderating
his excitement and seeking to gain
possession of himself.
"Meanwhile, in this oondltion, the
convulsions became more frequent.
They are always acompanied by the
same sentiment of terror and of the
desire to fly. The muscular forces
prodlgously augmented ; the patient
becomes Indefatigable. The weight
of the body seems not to weigh on the
legs ; the person seems to skim over
the earth as in certain- dreams. The
contraction of the hamstrlngB results
In sudden falls. The sufferer fails to
perceive that he is fallen until he Is
roused by the shock, when ho starts
up promptly. The nervous excite
ment Is such 'that he becomes almost
insensible to physical suffering. Tho
most friendly and familiar countence
bear an aspect of fury, menacing and
provoking. And, Unlike the general
sentiment of terror which occurs In
wardly by shocks tho Bufferer be
comes intrepid and ready to face all
external dangers."
The paroxysms of madness com
menced at 2:30 In the afternoon. At
ten in the evening the remedy began
to act, aud on the following day there
remained of the frightful malady
nothing but n general prostration.
The patient attributes to the gas
which is produced in the organic tis
Bues, underthe influence of the virus,
all the phenomena of thi3 madness.
QUAWTKEIiIi.
HOW
THE
DIED
GREAT GUERRILLA
IN KEXTUCICY.
On the 1st of March, 18G5, Quan
trell Btoppod at Wakefield's barn,
near Fairfield, in Nelson county,
In order to find shelter from the
rain, which was pouring down. His
command was then reduced to 15 men.
While In the barn, and not, suspect
ing tho approach of the enemy, Capt.
Ed. Terrell, at the head of 45 federal
guerrillas, charged down upon him,
which took the whole party by sur
prise. Just as Quantrell was coming
out at the door he received a mortal
w"ouud. Biehard Glasscock who
had rejoined him after making his es
cape from Louisville and Clark
Uockersmitb, ;while attempting 'to
put QuantrelLon his horse, were kill,
ed. All the balance of the guerrillas1
suoceeuea in getting away, quan
trell was left at a farm house close by,
and his wounds were considered of
such daherona ehartirtter thnt Terrell
left no cuard over him. He was after-
ward visited by one of his men, who
endeavored to get him to attempt to
escape, but ho declined, sayjug that
he knew ho was mortally wounded,
and that it was his wish la be left
quiet. lie was soon after removed to
Louisville, and iu about a month he
died of his wounds. Ho was general
ly known here injKentucky as "Capt.
Clark," and that was the name he
gave when he was captured. His
men also created that impression
through the country until ofter his
death, when they acknowledged that
"Capt. Clark Wa3 none other than
Quantrell, the famous guerrilla of
Missouri.
Although he wa3 only twenty -seven
years old at the time of his death, yet
one would have taken him to bo a
much older man from his personal ap
pearance. He Was about oft. flinch
es high and weighed over 145 poUhds.
He had rather a well-shapqd head.
His hair was of a light color, and he
wore side-whiskers and a moustache
both of which had a peculiar red tint.
His nose was a little inclined to be
Roman, and he had a keen blue eye.
He talked but little, and then to the
point, though when occasion requir
ed he could talk very fluently, and he
was well calculated to deceive almost
any one. He had acquired a pretty
feir education at odd times, being his
own teacher. He kept his men well
in hand, and impressed them with a
feeling of awe. He never gave a
command twice. His pistol was his
ready argument, and the man who
disobeyed an order received a" bullet
through his head. Though he could
act courteously wheu he had a mind
to, yet he was naturally of a monroso
and revengeful disposition. He nev
er forgave a wrong, and only the
blood of his enemies appeased him.
After his death Henry Porter com
manded the survivors of the company
until tho time of their surrender,
which occurred at Samuel's depot, iu
Nelson county, in the summer of 1865.
Capt. Youug, the commandant of the
post of Bardstown, paroled them, and
by order of Gen. Palmer, who then
commanded the district of Kentucky,
they were allowed to retain their
horses and private arms. There
were 13 who surrended out of the 32
that crossed the Mississippi. The
others had been killed with the excep
tion of two or three who had gone
back to Missouri
Quantrell's command was made up
f mostly of men who hatl, prior to the
war, been a great deal on the western
plains, and were consequently very
fine horsemen, and could handle the
pigtol and carbine with great sKill.
Those whom he brought across the
Mississippi were all young men with-
out families, and had a geat deal ofj
dare-devil in theur. "With scarcely
any exception tney were wen euuca-
.... n-i
i ted, and Would not take one as being
"border ruffians" iu the least.
Of those who surrendered, some of
, them remained in Kentucky, and are
Legaladvertlsements atlegalratosrOne gqnarfc
(lOllneoflTonparellspace.or less,) first Insertion
J1.00; each subsequent Insertion, 50c. .
eS-Alltranscientaavertlsemcnts.must be pale
fori n advance.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THECOTIKTY
now exemplary citizens. Of those'
who roturned to their homes in Mo.,
two or three -of them were killed
soon after by the unionists ; but a
majority of them have "since- mar
ried and settled down, and aro
now "shaklirg'-riainls across the
bloody chasm,r with theirold en
emies; the jayhawkere. Yet, again,
there are few of Quantrell's men
tho James an Younger brothers of
the Gad's Hill gang who have be
come outlaws, and are now engaged
in robbing railroad trains and banks
In their native state, and occasionally
they come over Ihto Kentucky for"
same purpose ; yet taking a oharita
view of the matter, we haVe to attri
bute their waywardnes to their school
ing in the "armce." Courier-Journal
IN THE JAIVS OF DEATH. '
A burglar In greenaburg. Pa., was
recently caught In aremarkable man
ner. Breaking into a closed and un
occupied office of a physician of that
town, the hurglar opened the clossec
(while his companiou with a 'dark
lantern was in another part of tho
room) and feeling for olothing
at about the height of closet hooks
generally, got his hands betw"een'tbe
the jaws of a skeleton, which being
adjusted with a coil spring and kept
open with a thread, closed suddenly
on the intruding hand by the break
ing of the thead. A sudden thought
stiking the burglar of his being
caught by a skelfon in the doctor'
closet so terrified him that he Uttered!
a faint shriek, and when his compan
ion turned the lantern toward hint
and he beheld himself in the ghastly
jaws of Death himself he bacame so
overpowered by fear that he fainted,
fell Insensible to the floor, pullirrg
the skeleton down upon him, and'
making so much noise that his com
panion fled immediately, nnd'the doc
tor, alarmed at the noise and confu
sion, hastened into the' office and se
cured the terror-stricken buglar still""
held by the skeleton. iT. Y. Sun.
A GRANGER'S DREAM.
The Lanark Oazette, a staunch.'
Granger paper, published thtf follow
ing which is too good to be lost: '
A Granger dreamed that he died1
he went straight to the spirit world f
he knocked at the gafd of tho Ne.w
Jerusalem and it was opened unto
hlm7 'TheTiooks were opened?;' ho
was naked, ",Dia'yobl.eveir belong to
any8ecres6cletle6 ? 'to' wnlchitre
1. 1 'dfdfo 'tlffiSfteW'
P'Tifen, siryou cannot bVadmltted,
depart." He then went to the door
of the bottomless pit, where the same'
questions were again hsku m. uj
tne Devil, ami again ue was tuiu iu
depart. After he had gone a little
way off he was accosted by the home
ly ruler of the pit, when the follow
ing propositions were made: "Stran
ger," said Nick, "I will not admit
you here; they do not want you In
Heaven ; but I will sell you two hun
dred barrels of brimstone (or cash, ien
per cent, off, and you can start a little
hell of your own, with no agents or
middle-men."
One of the most remarkable escapes'
ever made was made by M. de Chat
eaubrun during the reign of terrotf
in Paris. He was sunt to execution
with twenty other prisoners ; but af
ter the fifteenth head had fallen, the
guillotine got outofjordsr, andaTVdrk
man was sent for to repair it. The
six remaining victims were Ipft stand
ing in front of the hiaehine with
their hands tied behind them. A
French crowd is very curious, ancf
the people kept pressing forward to- .
see the man arranging the guillotiuo.
By degrees M. de Chatoaubrun-, 'who'
wa3 in the rear of his comjJaolcms,
found himself hi the front line of tho
Spectators, then In the second, atui
finally well behiud those w"hoJ had
come to bee his head cutoft. Before
the man could get the guilotine iri'
working order night began to fall,
and M. de Chateau brun slipped away.
When in the Champ3 Ely-sees he told
a man tbfci a wag had tied bi3 fian'ds
and robbed him of his hat, and this
simple individual out him free. A
few da's later M. de Chateaubriirr
escaped from France.
A euscessful Boston rrerohant, who
was about to sail for Europe, forty
years ago, left instructions to his head
clerk, "Advertise liberally in the city
papers; keep my name and business
constantly before the class of people
who are my patrons." Scores-of old"
merchants can be pointed dot, who
have retired from business with a
competency, who found it greatly tcr
their interest to advertise. judiciously.
Hundreds of thf live firms th Boston?
are to-day witnesses of the value of
advertisements iu well-established pa
pers. The uniform testimony of
these men is that a first-clas9 news
paper is unquestionably the best medium-
yet devised for gaining the pst-
ronage of those who have money tc
expend. In many branches of busi
ness those firms have Ehe largest trio
which most liberalfy patronize tho
press, end to some kinds of business
advertisements in newspapers" are'
now as necessary as astbok-of goode
or a store.
..e finL," telllrigry remarked air
Indianapolis" eidtor, during the late
strike forprinters. 'tyv? Ava caN Go?
oxt owr nepar withant theaidafouy
- -
ofthasa beski" Oniun oomdosutors."
A Hbboken edftor, being challerig--ed,
sent word in reply : "When I
.want to die, I can shoot myself."'
Ml