Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 18, 1876, Page 7

conclusion of the Eastern Series of Ball Games. The ChicagosRevenge Themselves upon tho Mutuals. Bartford, and Philadelphi st. Lonis, Aire Py ist adelphia iotorions. annual Regatta of the Chicago Yacht Club. g The Jerome Park Meefing---Sportsman’s Convention, Etc. BASE BALL. WEITE STOCKINGS VS. MUTUALS. Special Dispatch 10 Thie Trivune. Xgw York, Junc 17.—The Chicagos to-day t beautifully even with the Mutuals for the Acfeat of Thursday, marking up a good game by the decisive score of 10 to 8. There were sbout 8,000 people on the grounds, it being one of the largest audiences of the season. The Mutes lost the toss. After the first two men were out Treacy sent a hot one to Anson, and the Jatter not only fumbled the ball, but sent it away over McVey’s head, and the runner took third, whence he was sert home by Hallinan's pt for a base. The Chicagos also took s rn in this ioning, on Barnes' bit, which was well backed up by White’s two-baser. The same player scored ngainin the third in- ning on an error at the Mutual third base. The patting mania broke out badly in the fourth inning,when Anson took first on & clean hit, and every man from there arcund to Hines hit ifdy. The result wis five runs, though only three of them were earned. In the next fnning Mines was badly muffed by Craver, and, taking first in that way, was sent home by Anson’s fine three-baser to the dressing-house. The Mutes took arun in the sixth inning on a wild throw by Peters, and another in the ninth on & muft y eVey: SCONE: “CHicago. HEEEEE L 2b.... - EEEEER Barves, EEEEEF 51 0| 3 of 0 523231 5| 1f 2| 7f o] 1 jenn. =5 E‘,..mng, Peasns 411100 Addy, - 1. 4113 0] 0 42101627} 8| 4 EESER tart; 1b.. s’r:’l';!- 41411 Hallinan, 8. & 401331 Craver, 3b... 400213 Hicks, 'c.. 3l 0f 2| 3/ 0] 1 Booth, . 1 4ol o] 8 1} 1 Mathews, p. 410140 Nichols, 8 boo. 1ol 300 13 2 Total. s aE Tnntngs— 12834507809 chicagts 10152000 1-10 Mutual 100001001-3 Two- ite, 13 Spalding, 1. Three-bace hits—Anson, 1. “Total bases on hits—Chicago, 20: Mutaal, 4. Baces on errors—Chicago, 8: Mutual, 4. on bases—Chicago, 4; Mataal, 4. ire—Charles Daniels, Hartford. :The fine playing of the c was done by Barnes, Hines, Anson, and Glenn; for the Whites, and _Hallinan, and Treacy for the Mutuals. The large number of brilliant plays made the game the most interesting of the sca- son to look at. The resume of the trip shows 12 games played with League clubs and 10 of them won. ])1'1 them the Chicagos have scored 86 runs, as against 35 for their omnents. The sésson beine now a trifie more than one-third done, the Chicaros show a clear lead in 15 won, having . captured 20 out of 34 played, making in the ageregate 159 ruus as against 72 for all_their opponents. The batting average shows Barnes in the Iead, with Hines next, and White a good third. _The Whites left for Chi- cago this’ evening. They will play in London, Ont.; Monday, and arrive home Tuesday morn- tog.~ - s JLARTEORD V5. L%xsj%u:, Special Dispatch t une. Hanreon, ‘Contr, Juno 17.—The. Loulsvilles were beaten w-d!ny by iha Hm(urgz bya amrg PLos AR i b HE yind prevented both clubs. The fielding was perfect, two hycmrs only being made, those by, the Louis- villes. In eight innings the Louisvilles were retired in striking order, and the Hartfords in four. The game, though close, was uninterest- inc, and awakened no_ enthusiasm among thé 500 people present. The following is TRE SCORE. “Tlartford. % | B]P| A Bardock, 2b. olol1 20 R:mm}:’r_ 012200 Higham, r. yadng o113 0 1} 0} 1| 6| O 0] 1/ 11 0} O 0| 122{ of 0 0} 0 0 0 1B o 0] 0| 0] 0| 0 ololoj10 01210 0} 0;13| 0| O oj ol 28 1 0/ 0] 8] 3] 1 00| 220 0| 0| 1] 0j O 0| 0| 3{00 .ol Tieriisl 2 ingi— 23458780 u-‘fl"'f’;;"l’gf..... -é 0100000 01 Louissille 0000000000 Runs catnod—ilarifords, 03 Louisvillcs, 0. struck out—Iiartford, 2; Louisville, 5, Left on baees—Liartford, 3; Loutsville, 1. Totsl bace hlw—flurt!nrdaa: Louisville, 1. Double plays—Fulmer and Gerhandt, 1; Hague and Somerville, 1. Time of e—One hour and thirty minutes. Umpimi‘l’: ‘William McLean, of Philadelphia. 2 CINCINNATI VS. ATRLETIC. Specic to The Tribune. ,Pnn.mm;‘u, 2., June 17.—Five hundred rsons were present to-day. Ilcmnrkn\;}rv eavy batting was the order of the day. Hull ‘made two home-runs and a three-base hit. The following is TnE scoRE: Cincinnafl. TR B P 412 FEEEEE 5|2 30/ 1] 2 6l 35 2 11 5| 3| 3] 5 4 2 511012 6|2 3l 540 3 2| 211 of 0 5| 0f o3l of 2 5| 0} 1] 0| o] 0 48/152027(13[12 723270 gl iaie 6 32340 6l &l 50311 ol 2l 4| 0 0 B 6 4] 5/ 6{ 0| 1 o 2401l o 2| 3(4f o[ 3 5 3| 2| 8/ 0| 0 Tl coer oo s sensnece ione 4,23120127114117 Tnningi— 1234507808 Clncinnati, 10021043415 e -5 3 7.0 223 b Ornatt 0 Athletic, 15 une earned—Cincionati. 83 etic, 15. ‘P;_imxbns% by emu;(glincinmm 4; Athletic, 3. mpire—Gogrge Houbel. Al Tiale of game-Two hours and thirty minutes. TEERPORT U8, ROCKFORD. | Spectal Dispatch to, T FREEPORT, 111, June 17.—The return game of the series between the Red Stockings, of Freeport, and the Forest Citys, of Rockford, was played at Taylor's Park, in this city, to-day. e game was called at 3:30,—the Rcdslocklnfif InZ to the bat. At the close of the seven ning, the score _stood 11 to 6 in favor of Free- rt.” In the eighth inning the Reds had made our runs, when the game was stopped by a heavy storm of wind and rain, which continied without interruption until nightfall. The game was, therefore, declared by the nmpire to have been won by the home club: ecore, 11to6. The following is the score by innings: Inringe— 1234567 - Red Stackings 2300300311 Forest Citys. 00301118 nmu:urol.fidvs:’ ml‘PnAm‘;n 1 INDIANAPO) ., June 17.—. ‘base-ball l)ctvrn;s'enLhe i’hflnde]phh and Indinn- layed here to-day. On ac- count of t.henlnghe game was called st the ¢end of the fifth inning, the score then standing:- TPhiladelphis, 1; Indianapolis, 2. " pecist Biapaten to Toe Trivune. m"l!omdx, June 17.—Tho Bosmeplav);:fl :: nue;; e and a r game to-day, Brot Lowells, who ey engeged o5 change-catch- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JUNE 1 ISI—SIXTEEN PAGE his first ngrbcmnce, and Morrill Playis second base. The Bostons were badl. out-batted and out-field he A how pades led. The score will show Cele St e B e N VSR 5L Louis. T|R|B|P| 4B e ttcles Gt G .4 ol ot Cathbert, 1. 1. 6l 3 2[4 0|2 lapp, T. f. 6| 3 3 0| of o McGeary, el 1l 2 5l o 3 ke, c. f 5/ 01 2/ 1 of 0 5/ 0] 0] 2[ 2| 2 4)3]1] 0l 5| 3 521 1f1]3 5 1f 111f of 1 6 1] 0,3 31 81121227121 /17 5l 11 1f 1] of 2 40/ 112 ol 1 42113 00 431 8l of 1 40/ 0| 3/ of 3 #1117l 2 5 4 0j 0 1) 1].0 4l 1] 2| 4f o 2 40/ 1) 0ol 7 37l 8| 8l27] glet 33188080 Boston, 1 200710-8 00 4 Runs earnodS. Touia, 15 ) 0. Striils oateBatiin sad Brsiiog ™ * (o First tase on calicd bails—St. Lous, 5; Bos- irst baso on other errors—st. Lauls, ; Bos- Strikes called. H i "%‘7101541’\;‘9- 14.—012 Bradley, 18; off Manning, 5; alls called: 3 3 J"];EP“!:{- 1“|~ —On Bradley, 24; on Mannlng, 8; on ouble playa—Mack and Dehlman. 1; Pearce, Mack, and Deblman, 1; Shafer and Murnan, 1. Time of game—Two hours and forty rainutes. TUmpire—AL. 0. Tilden, of Fall River. RECORD OF THE WHITES, The record of the Chicago Club up to and in- cluding Thursday’s game with the Mutuals shows Yery creditable work on thelr part. The following table gives each player's ruas, base- hits, average base-hits to a e, and errors, with the cxception of Bielaski, who lns only phayed in half-a-dozen o8, harnca, in runs an base-hits, heads the list, as might be ex- peeted: ENIEE] s g 3 S| 8] 3 L 3 1.63 10 3| L [ 117 18 1,10 7 096 8 0.81 7 5 i 0 7 1752 9 From a comparison of the record of each play- cr in his position with that of (I!]nycrs in other clibs, the Chicagos show to advantage. White has less errors than any other catcher in the country, Clapp baving nearly twice a5 many in the same nuwber of games. Peters is king-pin in his position, and will average less than one crror in every thrce games, and less is heard nowadnys of ‘George Wright's wonderful play and more of Johnny Peters’ pickups and throws, The real work is yet to be done, however, and for the nest four weeks the base-ball air in ihe West will be blue with games lost and won in. the quadrilateral formed by Chicago, Cincin- nati, %L Louis, and Louisville. St. Louis is now beaten out of sight for first place, and Hartford and Chicago will have to settle the question of the pennant. THOE CHAMPIONSHIP. The following table shows the standing of the several clubs contesting for the League cham- pionship. Chicago still leads, with Hartford a good sccond : RINEE B b, SISIEjE g8 : |SF|E g| § 5 =l 8 2| 4} 3 20 3f 3 4 18 -1 3 2 14 1. 8 10 1 . 10 1f 2 1 10 1) 3 8 2| 1 4 Games lost........ : 4(10:14/14113{1520! 94 CAUGHT OX THE FLY. McRBride will pitch for the Bostons on their Western tour. 8t. Louis tackled nutmeg-graters in Con- necticat, and got badly scraped. The Hubites call Barnes Roscoe Conkling. Wrong. Ross can run and Rogcoe can’t. ‘The Boston papers spoke of the Louisvilles as wearing dirty uniforms, and the Louisvilles got mad and waxed the Bostons three times. Andy Leonard, at second base, made nine er- rors iu onc game with'the 8t. Louis Club. That’s tha nnmhar TRess Dusiuce uade in fyenty-one games. ‘Walsh, of Louisville, has been agreed on, it is said, as the umpire for the forthcoming games in Chicago with the Eastern clubs. He al- ways given satisfaction bere. - Just previous to the commencement of one of the Cincinoati-Mutual' games, a well-known gambler approached Craver in the field and let ‘him have a daisy-cutter right under the ear. He was immediately arrested. The New Haven Club has deféated the Hart~ ford and St. Louis Clubstwice each, the Bostons once, and the Athletics once. _The New Haven Club would have evidently made a better show- ing in the race than the Cincinnatis. Previous to the opening of the last game be- tween the Louisvilles and Bostons, Devlin rot a telegram from Bechtel at Philadelphia, stating that be would like to have Devlin throw the me and they could make $500. *Nervy » im spurned the bribe, showed the telegram to Chapman, and the managers will probably one- two-three Bechtel. Every time the Lonisville team is defeated the Courier~Journal discovers that Devlin hasa new boil somewhere about him to account for it. A good idea—an excellent idea. Wonder whether we couldn’t find a few boils on Fisher ocensionally by a careful examingtion. The in- dications are that the ** Cherokee” had no less than fuit%'-flve boils on him Wednesday,—Cin~ cinnati Enquirer. YACHTING. ANNUAL REGATTA OF THE CHICAGO CLUB. Yesterday afternoon the annual regatta of the Chicago Yacht Club took place. The course selected was figured at 13 miles from the foot of Twelfth street, a considerable distance south to a buoy placed aboutl mile from shore; thence north, via the crib, around a buoy about amile east of Diversey avenue; thence south to home buoy, at the foot of Twelfth street. SEVEN YACHTS WERE ENTERED as follows: Frolic, Peri, Fleetwing, Zephyr, Lulu, and Lucy. The were divided into three classes, ond, third, "and fourth. There is no first-class yacht recognized in Chicago. The Frolic, occupying the first place, is rated as second clase. She had no competitor yesterday save time. The race was between the other six yachts, rated as third and fourth class. To the first in, in the second class, was offered a win- ning pennant, to be sailed for at any regetta; to the two first in, in the third closs, fa silver cup and $50; to the two first in, in the fourth class, $75 and $50. i 1t was arranged thot the pretty little the judges, O e bor of friends. So laden th Harte left Clark-street bridge at about 1:15 yesterday afternoon and steamed out south to Twelfth street. In her wake followed a propel- ler with music and meny passengers, sovernl tug-loads, and o vessel literally black—rigging anfi all—with interested spectators. Along the pler 8 large gathering of small boys deserted their fishing tackle and awaited paticntly the Cary, craft see- i first to go was e st o B rpagTvinG, She glided out gracefully under & brightened d a stiffening, breeze at 2 o'clock 48 min- ;‘;—tyzsfid%sewndsg.’ Then followed Frolic at 9:45:37; Lucy at 2:50:08; Peri at 2:52:45; Zephyr at 2:52:47; Lulu at 2:54:20; Caryat S The Bret. Harte brought up the rear. carry- ing sbout twenty passen| ers,—the three judges, Redmond_Prindiville, C. Ducat, and A. R. Atkins; the timekeepers, Messrs. Hamilton and Rowe; reporters of the Fild, Journal, and TiE IRIBUNE; Gen. Sherman, Frank Wentworth, J. L. Marsh, David A. Gage, and others. A fair breeze gave the Frolie the lead, which eae kept increasing as far as the second stake. The Peri and Cary seemed to be left between eight and thirteen minutes at this stake, and the Iucy, Fleetwing, Zephyr, and Lulu somewhat, hind. is pointin the race Yas reached about 4 c'ggéi'.po'lghfi!mu 'was insuspicious for Frolic. The wind boomed up right away from the south, md as THE GRACEFUL LITTLB YACET reared the home buoy steadily, waxed wilder tntil what with squalls and {:}lfln rain der aew most certainly bad their hands full. The THarte, anxious, steamed briskly up behind ber, md watched her kecnly battling with the un- friendly elements untll they subsided. Whea they did they evinced no me; F g or a ;lga\} calm succeeded, leaying her hclprc{ass about o rleenmrmul the home Buoy. In valn she nrbe to move. Tt was useless. There was not at mtgi m,‘%:e sv;mald flsunk, exce‘:t onenow uth, twenty-five minutes, At lcnl;flmw el SHE PASSED IN HOME ot 8 o'clock 8 minutes and 30 seconds. ‘ghiafla the Frolic was powerless, however, her i ters were in full sall coming the very way SC ¢ came under astiff breeze from the north. ‘onsequently the Peri camo home abont twelve ¥lnuten after her, with the rest close on her. tie Perimade_the home, buoy st 6 o’clock 13 minutes and 283¢ seconds; tge Flectwing at 6:18:43; the Zephyr at 8:19:02; the Lulu at 3 the Lucy at 6:21:33; and the Cary at ‘Thus the Frolie won the pennant In the sec- [ ond class; the Peri the first and the Zephyr the second in the third class; and the Lulu the first In the fourth class. It b’e!nfi Intimated that the B‘lzué':t'v:l‘l;;,; Efif the Lucy . hnson account of her known w] prize in the fourth class. RO ie 2ot DURING THE RACE the Cary In some wayor other got near the Government pler and fost between ten and f- teen minutes. The Peri bad her first trial, and showed superior qualities. Under the clreum- rencherons wesiner b 020, 0007 DUt the cather prevents criticism as to the real safling qualitics of any of the yachts, THE TURF. TIH JEROME PARK RACES. New Yonk, June 17.~The American Jockey Clubhad a good day and attendance for the races at Jerome Park. The first race for a purse of $500 for three-year-olds which have ot won a purse this year, onc mile, was won by Ambush. Leamington sceond, Woodland third. Time,1:45. Woodland was the favorite, The Centennial stakes, 23¢ miles, was won by Tom Oclifltree, after a spirited race, Acrobat sccond, Olitipa third. T 094, tb;ectg'orlsns ‘sl{'nrl!cd“ = lmi SO:X ey n the 1 mile steeple chase, Lo rode James G. Bcnne:ws ze]dlnzfd mdf?\?g?!‘?‘lvf rence rode his own horse, Resolute, and won. The fourth race for the Consolation purse, 8 of amile, resulted in a ‘deadheat. between %;:stmlmila Kand Pera. Waco and Cyril also ran. me, 1:1911, ‘The fifth race; frec handicap sweepstakes, 136 miles, was won by James A., Egypt second, Huckleberry third. Leander amf’greebuotcr MEIE’hn“fnh ime, 2:00. St ¢ sixth race was s privaf X Backs, e furlongs, A B Paries. oaDoss lass’ grey mare, first; Griswold on Hamlef, sce- ond; ¢nd Scott, on Captain, third. nkle, ;g;m 3 byi;.‘\[r. Howland, fell and was badly hurt. i 1 It. *he seventh Tace, handicap steeple chase, nbo\ndz miécsR nnd‘nchn.lfi]g‘?uii‘ckungstnnford second, an csolute tl ‘0 other horses threw their riders. i ‘This was the last race on the programme, but the erowd remained to witness Australian and Pera decide thedead heat of the third race. ‘The former won; Pera at his shoulders. Time, L rnpzle;,m;‘crnf-n%sz MEN.Y rolt Free Pres. Mrs. Crocker, of Detroit, loves to read a dafly aner. She begins at the name and reads to the ust line on the fourth page, skipping nothing. She hasn't a first-class college educal fon, but it is seldom that anything printed In the papers is too much for her.” She got *stuck? the other day, however, and this fs how it happened: ‘There was a report of horse-race, and she be- a to read it. She got dovn to where it said * Jolin Jay names g. &. Dick,” and ehe mused: “ He names g, &, does he? Now; what in the world is f gt re been, to races several times, and I never saw a g. g. around there.” She puzzled over it untif old Mr. Thompson came over to borrow a fow clotli¢s-pins, and she asked him what {t could mean. ‘‘John Jay names g. g.,” he mused. *Why, that’s a5 plafn as day. He nnmes a gray goat, ]c)t[ «im'l’rse’ and the name of that gray goat is “What is a ufiont doing at a horse-race?” asked Mrs. Crocker. “I'don't know,” he replied; “but John Jay had one there, sure’s you're born.”” She took the paper and read thatJames Thomas named b. m. *Troubadour,” and she wanted to know what on carth that meant. “That means—that means,” he replied, seratching his head, ‘“that means that James ‘Thomas has his big mule there, and that his big mule was nanied Troubadour.," “Lnever heard of a mule trotting at a horse- race,” she protested. ““But it scems that this was a big mule, and 8o they let him in," he explafned. The vext thing _she found was that Peter Black named his b, ¢. “Nancy” for the 2:40 h, “You know what that means, do you?" she asked, us she handed the old man the paper. “Yes, 1do,” was the {Ammpt reply.. “If T knuv:‘my business, and I think I do, for I have b o hnrods and_cloren sulkys In m. Time, that means tat Peter Dlack named hiy black calf for that dash." & 40Oh, pshaw I “Very well, Mrs, Crocker. If about racing, why did you ask me “Do {ou suppoae I'm fool enough to belicve that a black calf is named to trot in a hotse race? You are getting to be a fool, Mr. Thompson 1* T gucss not,—I guess I know my business.” “You get out of ihfs yard, sir!’ she yelled. “Idon’t pretend to know much, but I knoir more id a minute than you do in fourteen days!? Y Very well, Mrs. Crocker, very well. Iwas wolng to borrow some of your clothes-pins, but uow I won’t,—no, hang meif I do!”" She ran for the hoeand he for the gate, and if anybody has wondered over secing a Crawford street woman rashing a baldheaded man along the sidewalk this article can be taken as an cx- planation. The man doesn't live who can make old Mrs. Crocker helieve that a black calf has anything to do with a race-track, THE TRIGGER. ‘THE SPORTSMEN’S CONVENTION. The Tiinofs State Sportsmen’s Convention will be held in the Audubon Club-Rooms (Nos. 19to 22) in the McCormick Block, corner of Randolph and Dearborn strects, Tucsday after- noon at 3 o'dock. It is proposed to remiodify the whole business, and Instead of individual representation the Clubs will be represented hereafter. A large attendance of all the sports- ‘men is anticipated, and if the weather is fine & big State shoot will be held at Dexter Park Wednesday. The following is the programme: At 9 o'clock a. m., the State Sportsmens' Asso- ciation will offer for competition to all members of nn‘mnlzed clubs in the State the following class ne elegant fold medal, xalued at 130, One eolid sllver set (12) kuives, with elegant ‘morocco satin-lined case, valued at §75. One large silver ice-pitcher and goblets, valued at 560, On $20-gold plece. : State Astociation rules to govern. _Ten birds to qach contestaut. - Entrauca fe, 5, fncluding Dirds, At2 o'clock a. m. the State Assoclation will of- fer for competition among the several elubs admit- ted to the Association an elegant gold medal, vai- ned at $150, as & supremacy medal. Each club to furnish a team of foar members, and the clzh mak- re'to be the posscesor you know all ing the greatest azyregate s oF the prize. The. contest 1o bo at ffteon sinzie birds each man. State ciation rules to gov- ern. Entrance fee, price of birda only. The Gon- tests are open to any one. Mr. Turrill will continue_the sport under his’ management Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. On the first named day he will give in five rizes, and $425 in five more. Next day follow- ng $425 will bo %eu in five_premiums, $450 in five more, and $900 the last doy. The shooting commences each day at 9 o’clock. But the great “wind-up" to all the sport is to be a shoot in which the newspaper editors and reporters are to engage. 3ir. Turril sct Saturdsy afternoon” next as the time, and has laid out five single rises at 21 yards for the shooters. The entries and birds are to be free, and the prizes $15 to the first, $10 to the sccond, and $5 to gthe third. The only thing which puzzles the newspaper men’s brains about it is: How can they get the. money unless they hit a bird? for not oue of them can shoot straight, and they must depend solely on an accidental shot. Wagers are laid thn’vl‘nrrlll will have ‘to give them two whole days for the work or keep the moncy himself. Abbey will fetch along some of his best guns for the purpose. PEDESTRIANISM. CAUGHT NAPPING. . Speclal Dispatch to The Tridune. SPRINGFIELD, 1Il., June 17.—Lavery, of this city, & pedestrian, who undertook to walk 100 miles in twenty-four hours at xd\;]naryg ".gn"‘ ommencing at 9:20 last night, en at 9:20 to- glght, lmvingg walked 74 mi?nst.’ He was allowed to oversleep himself this morning, and o lost too much time to catch up. BILLIARDS. ANOTHER BIG RUN. New YoRx, Jupe 17.—Slosson made the ex- traordinary run of 311 points in his brilliant match with Garnler last night, bot, becoming ‘ervous, subsequently lost the game. ——————— A Hearty Old Gentleman. Portjand Oregonian. ‘There is a gentleman aged &4 years, living on Pine Creek, Wasco County, who has been mar- ricd five times, and has twenty-five children, is Dale and hearty, and bids fair to live twenty or thirty yeara longer, and bave two or three more wives! He raiscs stock of all kinds; also grain, vegetables, and everything his Inm(iy consume, and when he wants 2 mess of venlson he 2o some of his bogs take thelr guns and hounds, §o to the mountains, and soon 2 fat buck or wo and bring them home in trinmph. He (the patriarch, not the buck) has & hand-mill and grinds his own grain, his women and make their own clothes; an old fellow is happy. A e EDWARD BROWN, STOKER. ‘We were very quiet, Mary and I, as we stroll- ed out of the charchyard, down ome of the lanes, and then crosslog a stile, we went through a couple of ficlds, and sat down on another stile, with the high hedge on either side of us, and the meadow that they were be- ginning to mow at the other end, one glorious bed of flowers, and soft, feathery grass, ““Polly,” I says at last, breaking the silence, “aln’t this heavenly?” E “ And you fecl better?" she says, laying ber hand on mine. “Better! ! I says, taking a long draught of the soft, sweet-scented air, and filling my chest, “ better, old girl! I feelas if I was growing backward into a boy.” 3 ¢ And you 50 last week! ¥ she says, _“Yes,” Lsays, smilng, “and you 47 next week.” And then we sat thinking for a bit. ‘¢ Polly,” I says at 1ast, as 1 sat thero drink- ing in that soft breeze, and feeling it give me strength, * it's worth being {1l only to feel as I do now.” ; For you see I'd been very bad, else I dare say I'm not the man to go hanging about church- yards and watching funerals. I'ma stoker, and my work lics in steamers trading to the East. T'd come home from my lust voyage bad with fever, aud been carricd home to die, as my mates thought, and it was being like this and getting better that had set me thinking so seri- ously and made me so quict. Not that I was ever a nolsy sort of mau, as any one who knows me will say. And now, after gettingbetter, the doctor had safd I must go int6 the country to get strong; 0, a8 therc Was no more voyaging till I was strong, there was nothing for it but to leave the youngsters under the care of the eldest girl and a neighbor, and come ana take lodgings out in this quiet Surrey village. Polly never Lhm:fiht I ghould get better, and one time no more did I; for about a month be- fore this time, 95 T lay hollow-eyed and yellow on the bed, knowing, too, how bad I looked, for T used to make young Dick bring me the look- ing-glass every morning, the doctor eame as usual, and, like o blunt Englishman, I put it to him flat. “Dactor,” I says, ‘‘you don't think I shall get better?™ and I looked him strafght in the ace. <O, come, come, iy man!* hesays smilag, “we never look at the black side like that.” “None of that, doctor,” I says. Out with it like a man. I canstand it. I'vebeen expectiny to be drowned or blown-tip half my life, so shan't be scared at what you may say.” “Well; my man," be gays, “‘your symptoms are of a very grave nature. You sco the fever had undermined you before you came home, and, unless—"" “All right, doctor,”” I says, “I understand. You mean tihat, unless Jou can get a new plab’eyin the boiler, she won't stand another voy- e. * Oh, come Wwe won't look upon it as & hope- less case,” he says. “There’s always hope.” After a little more talk, he shook hands and went away. Next day, when he came, I had been think- ing it all over, and was ready for him. Idon’t believe I was a bit better. In fact, T know I was drifting fast, and I saw it in bis eycs as well. Twaited till he bad asked me his different questions, and then, just as he was getting up to g0, T asked him to sit down again, ““Polly, my dear,” I says, *I just want a few words with the doctor; " and she put her apron u{n to her cyes and went out, closing the door alter her werf; softly, while the doctor looked at ‘me curious-like, and waited for me to speak. “Dactor,” 1 says, **you've about given me up. There, don’t shake your head, for I know. Now, don't yon think Y'm afraid to die, for 1 don'l believo T am; but look here. There's seven children down stairs, and if 1 leave my wife a widow, with the few pounds I have been able {o save, what’s to become of them? Can't you pull me through?? %My dear fellow,” he says honestly, “I've done everything I can for your case.” “That's what you tkink, doctor,”” I says. «But look here. T've been ab cea thirty years, and in seven wrecks. It's been like dodging death witleme a score of times. Why, I pi my wifo there.regularly out of the hands of gcmth. :u;g I'm not going to give up now. I've en— i “Stap, stop," he says gently. “You're ex- citing yourself.” £ Not a bit,” I says, flmu§h my voice was quitea whisper. “T'vehad this over all night, sn(é lyt’mmu to think I must be up and doing my uty.! ‘But my good man—"" he begun. “Listen to me, doctor,” Isays. ‘““A score of times I might have gives up and been drowned, but I made a fight {or it and was sayed. Now, 1 1 mean {0 make a fight for it right kere, for the sake of the wife and bairns. dou’t mean to dic, doctor, without a struggle. I believe this ‘There, that life is given o us all as a treasure to keep. We might throw it away by our own folly at any time, but there’s hundreds of times when we might preserve it, and we never know when weth"s:wc It till we try. Give's adrink of that water.”. 1ie held the glass fo my lips and I took a big draught, and went on, he secming all the time to be stopping to humer me in my madness. “That's better, doctor,” 1 says. . **Now, ook lmn:I gir, epeaking as one who has sailed the sces, it's a terrible stormy time with me. There's 5 lee shore close at hand, the fires are drowned out, and, unless we can get up a bit of gail, there’s no chance for me. Now then, doctor, can you get up a bit of sail?”? “I will go and send you something that will quict you,"” he said, rising. “Thankey, doctor,” I says, smiling to my- sclf. “ And now, look here. I'm not going to give up till the last, and when that last’ comes, and the shl’p‘s going down, why, I shall have a try if I ean't swim o eafety. If that fails, and 1 can really feel that it is to be, why, I hope I slmll[go down into tlmfrcat dceg calmly, like a- hopeful man, praying that Somebody aliove will forgive me afl I'vo done amiss, and stretch out Hig fatherly hand to my little ones.” e went away and I dropped to sleep, worn out with my exertion. When I woke, Polly was standing by the bed- side watching me, with a bottle tnd glass on the little table. As soon as she saw m{ eyes open, she shook up the stuff and pourcd it into a wine-glass. “1s that what the doctor sent?” I says. “Yes, dear; you were to take it, directly.” * Then I shan't fake it,” I says. “ Ie's give me up, and the stufl’s only to keep me quiet. Polly, you go and make me some beef-tea, and make it strong.” She looked horrified, Jmor girl, and was about to beg me to take bold of the rotten life-belt he'd sent me, when I held out n:fi shaking hand for it, took the glass, and let. It tilt over,—there was only about a couple of teasoonfuls in it,— and the stuff fell on the carpet. I saw the tears come in her ci:;s, but she said nothing—only put down the glass, and ran out tomake the becl-tca. The doctor didn’t come till late next day, and Iwasl; very still and drowsy, half-aslcep- like, but-[ was awake cnough to hear him whis- per to Polly, “Sinking fast; " and I heard ber give such a heart-broken sob th:ni as the mnext great wave came on the sea wherel was floating, TI'struck out with all my might, rose over it, anc floated gently down the other side. . For the next four days—putting it as a drown- ing man striving for his life Iike a truc-hearted fellow—it was like great f"““““%fl“"‘s comin, to wash over me, but the shore still in sight, an me Lrging hard to reach it. ‘And it was a grim, hard fight; a dozen times I could have given up, folded my arms, and eaid good-by to the dear old watching face safe on shore; but a look at that alwavs cheered me, and I fought on again and agsin, till at last the sea scemed to go down, and, in utter weariness, 1 turned on my back to Boat restfully with the tide bearing me ghoreward, till I touched the sands, crept up them, and fell down worn out, to slecp in the sun—safe! That's a curioas way of putting it, you may say, but it secms natural to me to mix it up 7 ing life, and the man- with the things of sesgoing life, . at in and weave, In short, the very independent, contented, and per in which I've seen 50 many their lives. It was just like agsfln in_the midst of a storm to mc-Z and, when at [ast I fell into a deep sleep, I felt surprised-like to find myself Iying in my own bed, with Polly watch- ing by me; and when I stretched out my Land and took hers, she let loose that which she bad kept hidden from me before, aud, falling on her knees by my bedside, she sobbed for very. joy. t As much beef-tea and brandy as you can get him to take,” the doctor says that after- noon; and it wasn’t long before I got {rom slops to solids, and then was sent, as I told you, into the country to get strong, while the doctor got 0o end of praisc for the cure be made. I never sald a word though, even to 1’01!5f for heg]lg{zis besz;dbm I‘gon 't think any medicine would have cured me then. 1 was saying a littlg while back that I pulled my wife regularly out of the hands of death, and of course that Was when we were both quite oung, though, for the matter of that, I don’t eel much different and can’t well sce the change. That was {n one of the Cape steamers when I first took to stoking. They were little, rams| e sort of boats in those d‘{s' and how 1t was that more weren't lost puzzles me. It Yas more due to the weather than the make or finding of the ships, I can tell vou, that they used to find thelr way safe to port; and yet the Dasseppers, poor thinms, knowing no better, used to take passage, aye, and make & voyage too from which they never got back. Well, I was working on board a steamer, as they used to call the Equator, and heavy-laden, aud with about twemf passengers on board, we started down Channel with allwell till we got right down off the west const of Africa, when there came one of the heaviest storms 1 was ever fn. Even for a well-found steamer, such as they can build to-day, it would bave been [y lmrd' fight, but with our poor, shaky wooden tab, it was a hopeless case from the first. f Our skipper made o brave fight of (t, though, and tried hard to make for one of the ports; but, bless you, what can a man do when, after tén days’ Enocking about, the coals run out, and the fircs that have been kept golng with wood and oil, and everything thst can be thrust into the furnaces, are drowned; when the paddle- whecls are only in the way, every bit of sall sct is blown elean out of ific boit-ropes, and at last the ship begins to drift fast for a lee shore? That was our case, and every honr the sca seemed to get higher and the wind more fierce, while T heard from more than one man how fast the water was Mning below. 2 My mateand Ididn't want any telling, though. We'd been driven up out of the stoke-hole Hke 4 pair of drowned rats, and came on'deck to ind the bulwarks ripped away, and the seacvery now and then leaping aboard, and washing the lum- ber about in all directlons. . The !quper was behaving very well, and he kept us all at the pumps, turn and turn in spelle, but we might as well bave tried to pump thesca dry, and when, with_the water gaining fast, we told bim what wo thought, he owned it wes no use, and we gave u?. ‘We'd all been at it, crew and passengers, about forty of us altogether, including the women— five of them.they were, and they were all on deck, lashed in a sheltered place, close to the PoF. And very pitiful it was to sce them fight~ n% ard at first and clinging to the side, %ut to grow weaker, half-drowned as they were; and I saw two sink downatlast, and hang droop- ing-like from their lashings, dead, for not a soul could Ao them a turn. I was holditig on by the shrouds when the mate got to the skipper’s side, and T saw in his blank, white face what he was telling him. Of course we couldn't hear his words in such a storm, byt we didn't want to, for his lips said plain enough: “8he’s sinking ! 1" Next moment thero was & rush made for the boats, and two of the Imsscngcrs cut loose a touple of the women; place was made for them before the first boat was too full; she was low- ered down, cast off, and a big wave carried her clear of the steamer. Isaw her for a moment on the top of the ridge, and then she plunged down the other side out of our sight—and that of everybody else; for how long she lived, who v:nr‘:‘ say? She was never picked up or heard of again. Giving a bit of 2 cheer, our chaps turned to the next, and were getting in, when there came a wave like 2 mountain, ripped her from the davits, and, when I shook the water from my eyes, there she was hanging by one end, stove in, and the men who had fried to launch her gone,—skipper and mate as well, There were only seven of us now, and I could see besides the three women lashed to the side, and only one of them was alive; and for a_bit no one” moved, evervbody being stunngll-like with horror; but there came a Iull, and, reeliny that the steamer was sinking under our_feet, shouted out to the boys to come on, 2nd we ran to the last boat, climbed in, and were casting off, when I happencd to catch sight of the women lashed under the bulwarks there. ¢ Hold hard!” I roars, for I saw one of them ‘wave her hand. “Come on, you fool!"” shouts my mate, ** she's golng down ¥ ; I pm?‘ I may never be put to it agafn Iflve that, with all a maw’s selfish desire for life fighting sgainst him. Fora moment I shut my eyes, and they began to lower; but I was obliged to open thein agai, and, as I did s0, 1 sai @ wild, scared face, with long, wet halr clinging roune it, and a pair of little white hands werestretched otk to me as if for help. & Hold hard!” I shouts. “No, no,” roared out two or three, * there {sn’t a moment; and, as the boat was being low- ered from the davits, I made a jump, caught the bulwarks with my hands, and climbed -on board, just as the boat kissed the water, was unhooked, and floated away. | st Then, as L crept, band-over-hand, to the giri's side, whipped out mé knife, and was Cfltfln}; her looee, while ber weak arms clung me, I felt a ortible feeling of despair come over me, for the boat was leaving us; and I kiew what a coward Iwas at heart, as I'had to fight with myself 50 as not to leave the girl to her fate and !eflg overboard to swim for my life. I gotthe better of it, though, went down on my knees, 60 as not to sce the boat, and got the poor trembling, clinging creature loose. “Now, my Inss,” I says, qulck?—and T raiged her up—* hold on by the side whils I make Tast a rope around you.” And then I stood u ‘bont as warn't there, for in those brief moments she must have capsized, and we were alone on the sinking steamer, which now Isy in the troughs of the sca. As goon as T got over the horror of the feel- ing, a sort of stony despair came over me; but whon T saw that pale, npgcn!ing face at my side, looking to me for help, that brought the man- Tood back, and, in saying cncouraging things to her, I did myself good. My first idea was_to make something that would float us, but I gave that up directly, for I could feel that I was helpless; and, getiing the poor girl more into shelter, I took ‘s bit of tobacco in a sort of stolid way, and sat_down with a cork life-buoy over my arm, one which I had cut Toose from Where it hiad hung forgotten behind the wheel. But I never uscd it, for the storm went down fast, and the steamer floated still, w;\tervlo%gcd, for 'threc days, when we were plcked up by a passing vessel, half-starved, but hoping. And during that time my companion had told me that she was the attendant of onc of the lady- passengers on hoard; and at last, when we parted at the Cape, she kissed my hand, and called me her hero, who had saved her life— poor grimy me, you knoyw. 3 ‘We warn’t long, though, before we met again, for somehow we'd settled that we'd write; and, & twelvemonth after, Mary was back in England, and my wife. That's why I safd I took her Iike out of the hands of death, though in a selfish sort of a way, being far, you know, from per-'| feet. But what I say, Speaking as Edward Brown, stoker, is this: Make a good fight of it, no matter how black things maylook, and leave the rest to Him.—Once @ Week. » CENTENNIAL CAMPAIGN, Awake, Columbia! sound the prafse Of your Centennial Chieftain. llayes, ‘Who leaves the strifes of other days— The conflict of the Blues and Grays— To Tend vour sons in peaceful ways. The past is past; and he who stays To fan its fires, repeat its frays, Or backward turns the Nation's gaze, The futare of the race hetrays. ) Onr leader ia he who obeys o ‘The voice of Honor when it says: **The Nation's faith is sacred}" pays 1ts debts with gold, or that which weighs K At equal worth: his name is Hayes. % Allen's Rag-Bahy's ghost he lays, — None but a finlden sceptre 8ways. Now is the time the flag to raide, — "The hour sdmits of no delays; Already are.the hills ablaze Vith the new light that on them plays, D While ita ascending, quickening rays ‘The leaders of the blind dismay(s) : To sickened, hopeless hearts it strays, Arousing them o new easays, ‘And for tho conflict all arrays. What poet will, with fitting phrase, While the new century he surveys. Strike the keynote of coming days, And sing. in true, melodious lays, The praise# of onr Chicftain, Hayes, And crown him with unfading bays, . While with our **Ayes™ we drown the “0)\ Profits of Texas Cattle-Ralsing. | Houston (Tez.) Letier. ‘The profits arising from the investment of ‘money in pasturing stock in this region are enor- mous. h& Alfred Smith, a promincnt citizen of Austin, Tex., whom I met in the Indian Na- tion on his way home from a trip to New York, informed me thatst the close of the War he in- vested $2,600 in horses. By judiclous sales from the large pumber of horses this amount pur- chased, and by the shrewd Investment of the money thus realized in the purchase of other horses, and by the natara! increase of his stock e is now the owner of 4,000 head. How much beside he made in cattle, sheep, and land be did not inform me, but when io Austin Iw%s in- formed by a prominept banker that “Old Smith ™ had realized half a million by his faith in the stock pasturage of Western Texas. Sheep-raising is [d to he a source of surer profit than either hortes or cattle. The sheep ranges of Western ‘Texas are uns sed. It is almost impossible {or any person who gocs into the sheep business in Western Texas with a little capital to Keej from getting rich. A great many of the capl talists'of EasternTexas buy & few thousand to hail the boat—the’ sheep on the frontier when mesquit-grass can he had, and then give them in charge to somepart; Who personally attends to_them, who pays all the expenses, and takes half the gross profits for his pay. Mr. Willlam Kellcher, of Austin. a prominent ahe:(p raiser, informed me that he nmade an annual profit of from 30 to 40 per cent- um on the amount invested. ‘To understand the enormous profits made in sheep-raising in this section it Is only necessary to state that one man can take care of and prop- erly attend 2,000 sheep. Taking into considera- tion accidents, disease, etc., the shecp double themselves every three years. No feed is re- quired during the winter cxcept the mesquit- grass so plentifully afforded, and the genial and wild climate preciuds the necessity of housing during the same period. But while this country is marvellously adapted for grazing, it isalso 3 fine agricultural country. NASBY. Mr. Nasby Goes ta Washington in the Yn- terest of A Demacratic Candidate—He Has Mouey Furnished Him to * Influence” Delegates to St. Louls—Iis Pleasant Ex- perience. Toledo Blade. CoxeEDRIT X ROADS, WICH I3 IN THB STATE U KENTUCKY, Joon 9th, 18576.—I determined to hev a hand in the nominashen to be made in St. Lools, for in case we elect our candidate 1 heva ruther pressin’ desire to hev suthin’ to say in the distribooshen uv patronage,—that division uv spofls wich {5 alluz so pleasin’ to the weary soljer who has won his fite. ‘wuzn't eggsakly pertikeler ez to wich candi- date I supported, for, jest at this time, [ am ez flexible in my preferences ez a kid glove. I simply determined to throw my inflooence to the man who cood the best enable me to git square with the peorle uv the Corners, who hev solong and pashently pive me credit for the f00d T hev et, and the Iikker I hev consoomed. Cloze I don't keer much for; for the summer is onto us, and people will hang linen cloze ot on the lines to dry, and cf an enterprizinman can’t keep hisself comfortable at this season, it Is becoz he is averse to midnite rambles. I shan’t say who it wuz, or wher it wuz done, ‘hut a prominent Dimocrat, who is anxious to be ersuaded to serve one term, at Ieast, ez Presi- lent, did furnish me with money to goto Washington to inflocence such delegates ez mite be there, in his interest. g When I got to Washington, I wuz trooly sor- that Ihed undertaken the work. . I feared T should fail, and twict T seriously thought ef it woodent be best, to save my reputashen, to quietly go to Canada, and remane there perma- mently.” But I felt that wood be a breach uv confidence, and, beside, ther wuzn't money enuff to keep me till the affare shood be forgot- ten, and I cood come back honorably. So I'de- termined that X wood be honest, and carry out mhcantrnck faithfully. e question with me wuz, how to do it1 ‘Wood Dimocratic delegates take mouey for thefr yotes in o Convention that wuz to decide the fate uv the kentry? Never! Ifeltit wood be an insult to offer’it to 'em, aud I really didn’t dare to. And my feer increesed when I heerd a dozen on 'em denouncin the yoosin uvmoncy to inflooence del!finte!. andIfelt I shood hev to g0 back and refund the cash, which nearlybroke my hart. I wuzsadin hevin money to yoose among men uv sich Spartan virchGo that not wun uv ’em wood fech & cent of it for their votes. But it happened ane nite I wuz standin in the bar room at Willard’s, a-quietly takin another wun with a passel uy Democratic frends, when, under the inllooense uy the last wun, I hap. ned injoodishusly to drop the remark that T K:d money, and that I wuz there to yoose it for a favorit son. I hev been leeky for some time past when I hey_takin eight or ten drinks too much, and' this wuz lecKiness that wus fnex- coosible. But I sed it, and hed to abide the consekences. There wuz sich a change come oyer that crowd cz I never saw afore come over mortle men. “Wat is the number uv your room?" askt a dozc; uv em glowrin at the rest, with looks v Wrat] “ Wat hour kin I see yoo, to-night?” eagerly demandid a dozen more. “T controle the delegashen uv my 8tate!” whispered fn my eer a dozen more. And immejitly twenty delegates undertook to ut their arms ne, and haul me off in glfleren! dirceshung, and fl:cy pulled so vishusly that my coat, wich 1 borered uv Deekln Pogram to cum in, wus well-nigh rooined. 1 got away from em, finally, and Fnt into my room. Then cards commenst comin up from delegates from every State in the Yoonyun, to wich I pald noattenshun, for I saw the box I hei got into. Inabout five minits the cards commenced comin_theirselves, and I locked the door. But this did not avale. Four uvem got into a row at the door ez to wich uv em shood Tev the first lick ut me, and In_the skrimmage they fell agin the door. and bustid it open. There wuzno _escape. The crowd poured In; and I waz pulled and hauled wus than any stranger is by Noo York hackmen.’ B4 kin controle the delegashun uv my State,” shouted one, *and wat yoo Lev to yoose on that State yoo want to give fo me.” “Tt's o lie!"” shouted another patriot, I hev that State in the holler uv my hand, and wat Yoo hev devotid to that State will be wasted ef X dom’t get it? ““I don’t keer a cuss wat candldate yoo are figgerin for,” shoutl! another, 0o can’t nom- inate him till yoa b7 seen me.? 7 Gentlemen ! <noutid L 7 “ Heer?” yelle? they all. o And one entes isin man Enned me to one eldc and remarked that he hed the power to nominate any man he choosed, ef a trifle over four thousand dollars cood be hed to fix4 fow refractory delegates who were than in Washin- ton. They worried me so that I waz well-nigh dead —at least I almost wished Iwere, and in despair I rushed to my burow-drawer, deteraifued to take wat hed bia entrustid to me and throw it among ¢m, hopin in the scramble that wood en— €00 to get out sale. So & Rooshn mother throws her children to the wolves to save herself. Frautically I rashed to that drawer, bat, shus heavins! it wuz open and the pockit- fior:k wuz gone! "An akoot delegate hed stolen it,while the rest ty éin were fitin over me. And wat wuz more azgravatin, he had taken m; ‘other shirt and a box of paper collars that hog been bot for me that I mite make a decent ap- pearance among the Waskinton Dimoerisy. Tht moment this wuz aanounsed they all left me, and went in pursoot uv the delegate wat hed the spoils. But, thank Yieaven, they didn't ketch him. Y. It's ruther dlscama#fi:g whea men who are in pursoot uv reform hev to eccounter sich ve- nality. Wat can be expectid uv & Government when a party devoted to reform treets its mishunaries in this way? How am I ever agoin to meet my candidste Is more than I know. I am weery and sad, and besides, I hevn't got money enough to take me home. s PeETROLEDM V. NASBY, Wich hobes to be Postmaster. JUNE SONG. All over the world To the Lreeze unfarled, i\ R':';“" I?‘l‘ [;n;lcn Vith & golden sheen, When Summer was bride of the Springt And jewels, and gems, And rare diadems, Did the bride to the bridegroom bring. Tlis banner orfrm.-n Canght its golden eheen From her sunny treeses, the while The wotld grew fair ‘With a beauty rars 1In the bride-Qucen's beantiful smile. O'er meadow and hill, By brooklet and rill, Tler treasures the Summer-Queen strowa; “And clover-heads, bright S'h“Ii“h cflmmnllhld white, t -8he nce where grecnest grass grows. A the e ones Laow ‘Where faircst buds grow, And the fairest are they of themall! White fect brush the dew From violets blue; Eyesbluer than they on them fall,— ‘Eyesbright as the gleams Of the shadowy beams ‘Which the sunlight over them throws; Cheeks glow, raby-red As leaves that are shed. Frcni‘n rny)l,ln!tfnénton June-ross. e singing,— o th:i‘“)"; rlngl:i‘l Would rival the birds' sweetest tone; The glad strains will rise Beyond the blue skies, ‘To the King on the Pearly Thronel O lztle ones, dear, Be your tones aa clear For many and many & day; ‘And long may your feet In§ A blithely and joyoualy stray. ‘When vr’enry Wl& ufl{ e And the world’s tarmofl, And the tempest's terrible etrife, Ip #ad Decerber, e Deataita Juae g of it e beautiful June-time of life. T T Ldrme M. Roex. ———— ¢ A Cat That Sticks By the Ship. A correspondent of the Hartford Times tells the following storv, “on the authority of the owner of the cat:” “She {sa Boston cat, but her home is on the high seas. Pussisa brave sailor, and has taken many a voyoge from Bos~ ton to the Azores and back ou the Eood ship Kate Wi commanded by Capt. Beebe. Whenerver the ship reaches Boston puss always lands and hasa social time with old friens on ehore—feline fricnds among others, probably. Onc day she was so entertained with her visit that she stopped a little longer than usual, and when she returned to the wharl she found the ship had sailed without her, She gazed with longing eyes far out over the water, and sniffed her whiskers as if scenting out the track of the receding and now fnvisible ship. But she knew ftwasof no use. She kmew the waysof the shiptoo well. Every day for three months she appeared on the wharf with clock-like Ly, avd sniffed and gazed, and gazed ane -niflc& There were plenty of ships mnln? and ing, but they Were hothing to her. Af last fi: right one came. It had hardly fouched the wharf before a w? grown thin and gaunt with anxious months of wuuniunuw:mmnn sprang on board and made a_dash for the Captain’s room, where, finding him, she sprang; on to him, put her nose in his neck, and meow-wow-wowed. meow-wow-wowed, and talked, and talked, and told such a pitiful feline tale as never greeted & Captain's ear before. That ship nevor has & chance to leave puss on shore now. She Is safl- ing the scas in high feather to-day.” A BIG LIZARD. flra: Dad Case of Jim-Tams, rrespondence Denver Newa. -LAS AN1as, June S.—With an fssue of the Vewes of a week or since before me, in which the usual ridicule is made of the marine monster kuown a5 the sea-serpent, {n connection with a Brobdingnagian specimen of the Species gaid to have been seen comparatively recently in the Indian Ocean, I have but to marvel at the incred- ulity of my-race. You are not willine to ac- kanowledge the possibllity of the vast caverns of the deep containing denizens, which, after all, are not constructed on much larger plan than the familiar whale, -vhile the very plains that sure round your city are the home ol monstersof by- gone ages. Within a short hundred leagues of Denver may now be found a reptile,compared t¢ which the famous African serpent that omce kept Rome’s lewions at bay could not hold a candle. With my own eyes, hardly forty-eizht hours ago, did I ‘behold this ble creature, the like of which I could not bave conceived tq exist in the heavens above, nor in the earth be- neath, nor in the waters under the earth. Last eveniog, just at dark, I was travelin, ‘horseback-wise along a stretch of country, aboul 200 miles cast of here, which, for 'a long distanco merits the appellation the old geog raphies gave this entire region, of the Greaf American Desert. As far as tbo eye could reach, not a living thing, or object created by the hand of man, could be scen. Thc solitnde was as entire as if cattle on a thon: sand hills were not grazing within less than 5t milés, and theiron horse did not draw his heavy freight onliv-bjusn beyoud the line of vision. Ox eyery side the horizon only bonnded the view, and not even whers the sky kissed the plain did aught but the scanty pralric grass, already burned to brown under the rays of the fast sum- mering sun, life itself, dotted here and there by 4nnumerable cactl, from mother earth. And thg silence. Save the quickly recovering thud of my horse’s hoofs 2s he_loped aver the prairie, not a sound was to be_heard, and the stillness was g0 profound that I almost expected to hear fi;e r:lasing ofi:he NZI': :ih’i?;'fl:‘ on the poing of setting, as it quen according to anclent science, in the Pacific Ocam.e' 5 But the silence and the solitnde were not for long. AsIwas about to seck a place to build a firc and bivouac for the night, suddenly a long tralling form started from the earth in the very path of the setting sun, and 8 queer rumbling crly was_borne to my ears upon the western wind. Tat first thought it was the fnitfal train of some opposition to the Banana Line Railway, and tried to distort the noise I had beard inta the whistle of 2 locomotive, but my horsg taught me better. Hardly had the sound dled uPon the alrwhen an inténse trembling seized his every llmb, and, with expanded uosgrfls and dilated eye, be began looking on all sides us if to 1§n41 a way of escap:.zd’m\t"li now tka same strange cry was re| and my terr: fled cight perceivad thot what T Bad taked to b arailway traln was an encrmous reptile, half serpent, balf quadruped, that was now running, now creeping along the earth, with incredible Tapidity.” Although my limbs’ almost refused to perform their office for terror, I iad turned mechanically to leap on my horse; notwith- standing that I knew that the pace the monster was coming was far faster than that of a horse at fall gn!\mm the beast had broken away {rom where tied him, and was quicaly de- vouring the earth with rapid feei " Not, how- ever, away from the coming dauges, Although destruction stared me in the face, I almost Iost consclousncss of my peril in viewing :he stran; scene that followed. As goon aa the terrili: thing pereeived that the horse was able to run at a rate that compelled an inconvenient degrea of speed tocatch up with him, he suddenly slnp(YEd in his carecr and for a moment remain. ed silent and motionless, and the only sound ts Dbe heard was that made by the rof % horse, which wns growing faintef and fainter., Imme. - diately, ere it had become quite lost to the ear, the cause of the brute's flizht began to utter & sonorous roaring that one moment sounded like some brutish mother calling her young, and an- other o weird imitation of the cooing of a dove. ), Hardlyhad the sound been uttered when the ‘horse, which was now almost lost to sight inthe ripidly-growing darkness, stopped. Presently he turned around and began with hasteuing steps to retwn. The noise still continued, ans cven to m[;hnmnn hearing seered to have a pleading, inviting note in it. The Brodingnagisn beast, 60, had assumed the shape at once of 8 cat ready to play with her kittens, and of a ser- pent when trying to charm its preyinto jts folds. And now Iet me deteribe the monster, more terrible than which never creature lived since those long past periods, when all of nature’s animated formations were egually great and grotesque, hnEe and horrible. " Like other san- rians, it had the body of a lizard, uplifted on, as near as I could jndgg eight fect, but its propel- ling power, as alreac { noted, seemed to exist chicfly in its tail, which streamed behind the body ot least 100 feet. The trunk of the mon: stermust have been 30 feet long by sbout balf that figure in width, and at least fom & w0 10 feet through. The fect scemed Httle more than . dles with which fo push #us h“‘ie ody along, and apparently had little supporting power, the creatnre’s belly touch- ing”the ground, except when its rapid mo- tlon foreed] 1t forward In the alr. And the head: It secmed as large as an ordivary omnibus,. while {t was flattened at tho top as if having undergone in youth ‘the experfence of the pa- aoscs 6f the Fiathead In and towered igh up over the body on a neck firmtcrln diameter than a barrel, and fully feet in Jength, The eyes, which, like those of the dog jn Hans Christian Andersen’s story, were as large as saucers, and appeared lareer than mill- wheels, werc abont a yard and a half apart, and gleamed like Innterns on efther side of a car- riage. Thus far, the mouth was only y open to emit the sound akave noted, so that in the comparative darkness ¥ eould not sce It dis- tinctly, but the opportumity to witness it to more advantoge sd0n camne. The color of this extraordinary elephant wea a dark purple, such s {s sometimes used in churches at Lenten time, mottled with black. . By this time the horse had come within th: cmbrace of the seducer, and the charming all at once ceased. Another movement, and the tevrl- ble mouth, which I now conld see was as I 88 a barn-door, opened, and a forked wngue darted out and pulled my poor bezst within, Then came the sonnd of the teeth crunchine and the breaking of bones, mingled with the stificd death-cry of as faithful a brute as ever man be- strode. “Then all was still, and the frightful creature lay motionless, as if digesting Its meal. Presently it stirred, and, giving myself up for lost, I made up my mind to be its next v&flm, when, turning, it rapidly rolled away In the di- rection from which it came, without as much as looking at me. More dead than alive with ter- ror, I made the best of my way to this place, where I arrived, horscless as I' was and ncarly all my provisions gone, this morning. — —— YOURS, TRULY. NisRVILLE, Tenn., June 17.—At a sponia- neous gathering of representative citizens to- day, to express gratitude to Commodore Van- derbilt for bis donation of $1,000,000 for the establishment of & university, a resolution was ld':gted by a standing vote offering to Mr. Van- derbilt the expresslonof _their profound appre- ciation of his noble liberality; thatso munificent ‘a_gift, and 80 spontaneous on the part of Mr. Vanderbilt, entitles him not only to our grati- tude, but places his name among the forcmost benefactors of our country; that such acts myst and will go far towards mmgluhlng that anlon of hearts on tho partof the citizens of this great country, and so deeply needful to our common good. BUNKER HILL ANNIVERSARY. Bostow, Mass., June 17.—To-dsy beiog the anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, busi- ness is generally suspended. The decorationg arc tastefal, and p: es are well attended. The Ethics of *Cuffing.” Toronto Glove. Ottawa school matters are undergoinga ‘somewhat vigorons discussion in the local press. Some time ugo one of the teachers was insulted hmu\:u after school hours, and by way of re- pi he “ cuffed " the lad next moruing, taking the precantion to inflict the punishment befvru 9 o'clock. The matter was taken mp by tha 8chool Board and referred to a committee, which summoued the teacher to attend the investign- tion. This the latter refused to do, on the ground that, asthe offensc wascommittedand the punishment inflicted outside of school honrs, the matter was beyond the competence of the - Board to deal with, and the only u‘mm‘:?fl-‘ to the boy was to prosecute him as he would any other citizen, for. sssault. The Board then dis- missed the teacher for refosing to obey its sum- mons - . . E