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Eime cowre obipwrrcked mariner I stant; “ Abierunt ad Plures.” | | \ j a save Joe Johnson trom the 7 Poor fellow, A. it does look like it. my. Protessor, Joe Johnson is fortunate eno: to have in mea devoted friend, as well » I have un- o ed ap by graves. dertaken to save him, and he rball be saved. In Fr at Mihase tee ech eT eaves, | order to thie end it will be toremove in Yass Boa mens | from the face of the earth not uiiy the garverest this | dear smayerormn worm sph te eeful land acre te, on ae eee | ; shes are Sphow wilt tenfoltre- | tei wen feet that make no Kenran teeny ome wale Along the pacseges they come ‘The strane + at my fireside cannot os knowledge of a score of years I — have given for power to utter one single He took me in hisarmsand placed ns che and bound me to it, — rom a side pocket = another ro; Ant myself win was io hang instead of Joe ‘The formes I see, nor wear ids I hear. Be bot perecives whee to, while emermns ‘All that bas been is visible and clear. around this world of sense init workd a: Johnson? Wane through (hee mrthls mots coe rernerndense | NO; you. He placed the line, ine, patley-liks, over ‘The vital breath of parits minist'riag an arm of the {Lentfeliow. al too slight a support even for one of A CHEMISTS STORY. BY DR. Ross WILSON. lamachemist. M pg = nder frame. It was not to be hanging | To one en of the rope he attached a wei; “3 and raised it, by pailing the ie tel feet from the floor. The loose end be sec to the sink. Washe mad? Did he mean to draw | me under this weight, | world in a novel way by ny, doubtiess, would find alt to deine what the duties of a chemist asked. To sach [ say, achemist is acol- Teeter rot facts. itis the business of his life to aid im unmasking, for the world’s benefit, the pod andevil hovering even in the air we breathe, arrowing in the ear tread, mingling with the food we eat, and swimming in what we im, the law waits on the chemist. A human being bas passed suddenly away. Som2 body thinks there has been foul play. The chemist examines the body of the supposed vic~ tim. The law listens, hat in hand, w science. ‘The oracular lips of the chem:st moves; henames eut one of the fearfal lists of poisous. ft is strychnine, prussic acid, or that deadly oll of bitter almonds. ‘The law them pats on its hat, takes the decision into court, amd hangs the pris ener. In short, the chemist mast know the why and wherefores of everything in the phenomena of life, ax far as feeble man can know. The com ition of the ocean he must defarailier awith; ust be able to name the gasses of the air, and capable of resolving the human bodyinto | iaitle vapors. Iam the sceupant, of this re- sponsible and important position in the Medical College of P- It was about eleven o Felock on a stormy even- ing that I bade good night Richards, at the door of my laboratory, south énd of the college baitding. + Good night, Professor,” said Tom, “we are going to have a fall of hydrogen, oxygen anda trace of saline.” wiyioeen and send me out of the letting it fall and dash- my brains out ? | ET nak end he attached a long yellow | seri idler the weight on the floor he placed the ae of nitro-glicerine! 1 recognized the yeliow string; it was a fuse and would burn sixty minutes. It would burn across the marble slab— there was ne hope of its “that would warn my frien “De you b to wee through i asked Joe Johnson's I believe I cursed him with my eyes. I could ouly breathe through my nostrils, and great — were swelling and growing hot in my ture- Drawing a match from his pocket, he lighted and a oogeed, it to the fuse, that little tyrant tat gave a man an hour to live, and killed the end of it—that little frresponsible terror that, less than merciful Providence, told a man the seeond he was to die, it fright ‘and horror him to itself ! Slowly the flame crept, snake-like, around the twine. 2B oO hour,” said the prisoner's brotiter, if Iwill ser iting any substance him at will be in Meaven or hell. th you for halt on heer, and owl ome ae ma chair, watch- ing the dame. Then he arose and took the piece ‘* mark of porcelain, with the mi from the table, and sleok his head gtoomily. “Lam chemist hough to know itis arson he said. * Yes, ogen ancl oxygen—in our nomenclature, | Bae of tue" ene: ‘Selence, mpeg 9 ill my brother! save “Thope,” said, In answer to Tom’ words,“ thiut it will not Fain before I see in whese Tats tho art most powerful H me it-wen't for on hour max who by thy aid bid thepoison | , Metallic eyes, a The Toate with a slghcnoeicine thar ene. | Tises and writes in brilliant characters the fou mercury in my barometer was raj apily iatling, 9 | cbt r nareeet sa Boe gn ot 8 isle eae, “Se ee ee | Bid, the whole confession and thy chosen . nihilated. ‘good ‘Tom was very to know what would icals, the bad brother ‘only nekses keep me after twelve o'clock; so [told him! | ithe ean of mites oar as about to commence analyzing the stom 1 eek oe 5 but, eroat Mrs. Johnson, whose husband now lay in | peavens! it was my oe, ‘and not’ my ears, that 1, just across the road from the colle busiest then! For, beneath the table, that he was the murderer. To: | were had worked hard neues that da covered by the crimson cloth of which I have | before spoken, and which I faced, appeared the and deserved the night to myself. He spoke tis | ‘was rampled, andthe futh. St, T had delayed examining the | pred of schili. The hair wae rimpiod, andthe Woman's stomach =o long, and the trial so near | intelligent forchead was wrinkled strangely. It at hand, that Teonld not in cons-lence pat of Yas my bog, Bali waa afraid ihe would cry the examins ation. further, although I heard sev- papa.” If he did, the implacable man would geal classes recite eh the aiieep ee ake eel pS pr dr Cap diy pone epee alt tard in the morning, had delivered a lecture io tho | finer. ‘Tenlege, Drover, Bat atternoon, And one in the | "Bat my boy did none of this. He had, T sup- TaboBatory that evening. besides attending. to Fose, crept under the table unknown to me, and several duties as police surgeon during the ) fyijch asleep these. I tried to tell the little fei- day low to hide again, and wait for the final half < was passing out of the colle; va get hodr when my tormentor would be ne rou: ec gate, bis head turned, bid: t, be bravhed against a man standin; pack to the college, and his face toward the prison. The street-lamp showed me that the man was clad in the police sniform. mtering my laboratory, I took down a en jar from the shelf, and sat down before my sink to examine it. The jar, which contained Whether he understood me or not, ai what he had heard. 1 did not Rudw: bat ie quickly withdrew his little curly head, first kiss- ate lightly at me, and then saking his Shing so belligerently his ane half hour wore slowly away. O heavens! hat did | suffer!—not for myself, but for — ‘eered.eatcogs, and proveriy sexte! ny cilia” A light ale might discover his ft . and pet ed with my official seal in red wax. peemenes; the ee foncr than was expected. Me might bo mre dered or blown ite fone burasd on gas he UAlP ROUt lo apt The brother of the murderer rises to go! « Commit through the cloth and seal, I lifted the con Out with a dissecting-hook and laid it on the white plaster before me; then became busily en- din applying the tests te ite contents by ¢ your sout to God's keeping, "he suid. a prosence of injurioussaly “ You hold the evidences of my brotcr’s guilt. an bout. had passed since the Ggutaee of Nevithtisat he tacasd to" take his hat from the young Richards. I had labored hard to discover | _ With that he turned ta ce grain traces of poison in all this, but had been ungue- | covered with crimeon, cloth. b = cexstal. Joe Joknson, the suspected man, Attention ‘He held out hie hasds and: leaned Leen a student of mine a few years before. I had rthought he bad discovered ms bart thought him & good-hearted, intelligent fellow, | NoVne‘ ess ‘arise seagething in Shier Baek Saly,a tttle wild. and really’ began t hope that | the'wires of the el ctrie battery! in another in- he might prove innocent, phen Seay erated food I ous com 5 ind 4 use of ay = eer i was then certain I had distovered arsenic; but to make assurance doubly sure, I deter y 1 Recordin s T Sincea a ate op et AS were waves: of vanism leaped, - Zeit and bed oe re a an he Sie Rrenerrgana snd iber, Still aay bo boy was iaflex- ame, and Late Eis eccant ro oy ted and ., Unper- mark, worthy of h is the Sey oy ‘and signet ot the Poison Fiend Yes,” Lexcisimed, as f saw the fae) ee idence of that mark = me no power h can save him from the d you really think so’”’ said a calm, squeak- img voice behind me. turned qaickiy and discovered a tall, slim «Joe Johnson is ths marderer of bi thee must let him tree. Help! help! help! Alas! I could not answer iceman, having red, weak and watery eyes, one see ce door and staring in. His | fuse ts burned PR Tee T0Pe, heh ang Re Dody losked as Uf it had been rolled ox: lang te | piizp-smeerine aa maek, haa, honed Swen his hands like a molamescandy stick. Hix | Srson a midnight visitto the sick, bas heard nose was nwrely an elongated, fleshy plug, and his fapathe tout d, but Bis Toreticacl wat decorated with two red streaks eee ee ri esos instead of eyebrows. ak m0 Np oa eng gy ny expression at all im his face, and liceman’s hat was so large that it threste: to settle down on his shoulder. His wniform reassured me, and ! addressed him with some impatience. ¥ friend, 1 supy \quest—or what ; the man ain't Anytbin, in the surgical way 7” : for he acyacro ares ‘a knife, and thus escaped dead yet.” A a View or Ir—A correspondent of ee ice surgeon a¢ well 48a coroner. the ¢ allot things Yo elf, then, why am I son! for at this time of bead & favor of what he to call ‘men’s bt hits.” “+1 am,” he seys, “a bachelor, 31 years jon't bother, Professor: the man ain't dead | otage,im sound health, and in recelptof a salar no eeaontines _—— for a» ann maitr west moy 3 yet Sed i remain unmarried from principle, and will | remain single until the pay are so altered as said the official, “* ~ 5 a4 tov mach ‘knowledge tuto Liss, that be | the owner of real estate acquired by my mm labor. control me in the Loot pale thi mien it.” <xebsal ducder, ea” ¥ it’ asked the may. » disarder, 4 aca; something wrotlg say forebead, aud se did he, a: be Lit I'd drop in and tell e station to- mortyw to tak: ido net en eeleeaet Semen = eee simply because she ‘abo be my wife. She would have done nothing. tow earning that property, and, —— have ba, moral right in ith sale. Any law giv- ing ‘ber a dower third ts simply 6 me, the more so as the law does not give me any dower chird in her property. And theh the cere- mony 0 days give me a merely gives me a woman who can leave Rowe ever she pleats L cannot keep her er wishes. She may go back to ber father father er elsewhere, and I een % Eompel her to come back; but should { leave hee =: amy reason she can have me arrested and ' velage to support her. Such a thing is one- pee and upfair. A woman hel a loose | tie is not, in my opinion, a wife in the holy way a decent’man has shrined in his thoughts. The laws have degraded her into acencabine.” All the ladies will join us, We are sure, in the opin- jon that this man is a perfect brate. : wiped his f several times, tre-giycerine explosion 7.2 Ls the ® fron | A Siveviar Acorwestat Deata—t{Paris hundred tellow-mortais Correspondence of the London News.j—A sin- H gular story of an aceidental death is by A tecting, wety." Heré he rubbed his mogth | the local journals. A young man of 23, living kot bishand. *-Profestor, what is | near Orleans, who figured as syolunteer in the glycerine made o€ army of the Loire, was ete ‘ a birth- spe Per nner somaya ered, | day festival by ac upele in ste Bay kno “it hae nearly | Paks. gad Sd ths Fou ‘al lee the d weween of gunpowder hero iy ike it, does aot expiodeon the sp; ‘of | his hair A red bot coal tay tuto it willpotex- | he plode it. It will treese; ft is yelHow and greasy. dying. Its sy Spat A ee --) aan St “+ | told Linn if it were pressed,or anything fel! en it, wt woukl ex «- Place it umler the srct 2 weight full oe i — it with: Set a weight fall te replace in the Cg at wh fame beret ftom th i H i beard the poticeman remark, ¥ a delivers ¥aules tous, “Yeu ontario? | ‘eamnot be too The next jpoment l ley cu mg heat with handle the: » my mouth, terri ‘and sick " heart. “Over jae stood and #he. Obioge sivertise that Sret thing Gat functi = 2 ce a week, on om ght the eye— ‘Rose!. =, 2 thew Siasselt of lie eyebrows hair, cup, amd Fou became a decormined-loeking fellow, with the LT seen ‘is cye> of 4 bend, and the nose of g Bomax, ed may say. ea | - saw that acca‘ lat Swe sar | ities. Ay beother wo im jail and thoy will not | “Phat terrible deed was in hia brain hatchi | Was he going to murder me? Thehard-carael THE YANKEE FISHERMEN. A Sketch of Their # abits aud Natare. ‘The fishermen of our coast are vory different im their mode ot life from thoseof £1 . They are men who are more or ident with the wrecking business, one the northern mately engaged as fishers. "The Massceaianets Bay are enterprising, ambitious ae pretty — srinees:. that dot the heights and G! together for mutual assistance ‘snd safety. There are no more beautiful vessels to be seen on out Sshermen are citizens at , per earn a com and live Si nanos fisherman is owner of his vessel; perhaps the four or five others who tail with him are similarly sitaated. Oue of the number is chosen or A new hand or boy is cook. of the vessels are as large as seventy tons burthen, or more. The crew are , several hours be- os ty if the w wind serves, are on the fish- ing groun: Coufish is the main b; rh b ‘k, hake, and other fish are taken at tims. ratio chick sleet ait ak “sr, uly Pp y #0 { a soaked with tar. Once well cured” they are impervious to water, and resist the coll effect. ally. So cumbersome are these buois, it is «it~ cult to understand how they can be at all useful to the owner while managing his frail dory Yet it is auld their great weight assists in hold ing the body steady while the boat rocks beneath the fisherman. A heavy pair of socks are worn inside. ‘The mittens are important, and indis- pensable for winter use. 3 yar made of yarn, knitted by hand, and very h became acquainted with and gentleman, Hurlburt by ‘After ountou'of of fourteen months Hurlburt died suddenly, leaving her his entire He Inthe fal to $10,000, This was in In the fall of 1870 she once more promised honer and obey a husband, this time a Mr. Sherman, for whose murder she is now on trial. Sherman, like the fore mer two, was 4 widower, and had four children. In ‘less than six months after this marriage po ae Sherman, the youngest of the family, | They are constantly wet by contact with x4 ed, after a day or two's sickness, with violent | lines. In freezing weather the men keep them ys and vomiting. In less than two months, | pliable aud the hands warm by continually im- w Year's eve, a second child, Ada, fifteen years aed, | beantitwl and me village favorite, died x — jone appeared more ‘flected “tha the mother, who had de- herself to tho suterurstine & real parent. Suspicion was not even then aroused, but when three months wegen the Were esi with ex- actly similar symptoms, pL. -mad by» mersing them in fresh water. This seems a mystery to the uninitiated; but it is a valuable custom, as we can personally testify, having Spent one of the winter dayson board a fishing boat ina “fall suit.” There is nothing like a cold sensation experienced; the hands are pet- fectly warm, though the outside of the mitten be frozen. artived on the fishing When the vessel, has found each man preparcs to leave Is dorv, ite.are piled on deck, one within thé i bat mauy saucers, and each man has his own. ‘The vessel is left in charge of the cook, ho fishes as best he may, from the vessel's Side. ‘The men thee row "Gr neal their boats anywhere in sight of the vestel in search of tish. ‘They usual) ineach ether at noo: board, ami take their dinner, epg esac stomac! fessor bat | Reeied ae ee Levins yrs oa © presence of arsenic in jaauti- ties. The graves of the two children were secpetly opened and the same deadly found in bodies aleo. ‘This was damning proot |, and so had the the long- covered grave of After afew hours’ more work the vessel picks Hurlburt also his remains examined. | UP her men, and starts for home and a market, ry gg pete pee bh ete pr the mien sell their eatch “but one or gg conclusion, and the stepmother Was arrested. ‘The indtetment has to do with only these four murders, but the probabilities now My oe to her * the murderers of her first family as weal, and onthe beach, or the Same night it is taken in wagons to Boston, Lowell, and back into the country. Inthe summer, when the weather is such tat they pn mpg hay ‘ht of it, they go to Boston direct, goin to their homes only on Sat- ASONG OF THE FUTUBE. Here fe siecpe beneash tis ban bank, The ite earth be Rig alti eer orcas: id rest, And in her aged path some Of earthly sop, ebowld Time Pa — eee. Se me (emrmcTED Fi! val irene all greet Moxon, » Hoe's Hab Canrss.—Put hog’s head in salt find water for two days, then wash and scrape them clean, and boil until all the bones com> out. Take it up, pick all, the bones oat, and rS it fine; season it with sage. pepper. Sral’e little ‘cayenne, with a small spsonial of spice. Put it in acioth or tin pan, cover it, and put heavy weights on to pres it. When cold, take it out of the mould and cover it with vinegar. Cut it in slices for the table as cold souse, or beat it up and fry it, with or without butter. Quince AND ArPLe Jetiy.—Cut small and core an equal oss tof tart apples sad quinces. Pat the quinces In kettle, with Pelee to cover them, = boil tn sort; add the les, still keeping water to cover them, and bol dit the whole‘is nearly a pulp. “Put the whole into a jelly-bag. and strain without press- ing. A CELLAR which opens inside a dwelling house should be kept faultiessly clean all the Year round ax any other part of the honse, ~— Cause its atmosphere is constantly ascending, and impregnates every room in the Louse wica its ‘own odors. How To Make Cream Pie.—For each pie take one tablespoonful of dour and twoof suger, well mixed with half a teacupfal of cream: into it about one-third of a medium-sized ‘nut. meg, @smalilump of butter. and the whiteof an egg well beaten. This pie has no upper erast. Bake quick and serve warm. Leaxy tin pans and iron articles are easily and quickly mended by hammering asmall nail or tack of soft lead to fit the whole; cut off each side and rivet it down. Rivets of soft iron or other metal may be used to mend kettles, ete. bao Caxe—The Lacie three and the whites of five one pound of sugar; one pound of butter, and one Of flower; cream the bat and sugar together; then add the ee beaten, ely; Toll in sugar, and place them far cnough, hart to k to keep them ‘trom running together, aud dake quick. TopEstRoy moths incarpets, wring a coarse towel out of clean water, spread it smoothly on the carpet; iron it dry with a good hot iron; re peat the Operation on ali parts of the e: suspected of oaing, intested with moths, need to press hard, and neither the nor the color of the carpet will be injured, and the moths will be destroyed by the heat and steam. To KEBR QUINCES, comged the fruit at the psual time, then put them carefally into bar- Tels, so as not to bruise, rejecting all but the Perfeetly sound; then fill with water, bead ap, The, put in the cellar. They will keep all win- if acquitted on the present she will un- | Urdays to Rpenid Sabbath. the are, as g@ | ‘ter, retaining all the peculiar qualities and fa- doudtedly be held to answer for the Strack mor- | class, churel People. One will'see them, | yor of the quince. tallty. | After the preliminary examination in | onthe Sabbath with their families, dressed in”| | Wants ox Homses.—Castor olf applied to the July she was taken to [olen Aang! in New | their Dest clothes, 8 attending church, warts daily will cause them to disappear in a i, oe bron _ ng lao few days. lere she has been visi ‘@ large number of A Queer Wii SULPHUR FOR ARIMALS.—A correspondent persons, and, among others, by a Toei maga = ve" of the Willamette Farmer feeds his stock va tables Who yesterday had Sn intorviow with were lam Dunlop, ot | shoonful of sulphur to each animal, with their fectiy tt ease, wan fashionably aad ackey | Setwrald, Calborue townsiniy, C."W.daparcad | sat, once in two five el pa pp lo nis life, leaving the foito 1 no vermin has troubled ther, and his cows have rested, carried an elegant gold wate at nse | Pog Ne, caving the now being contested in i waist, and in appearance and conversation im- Pressed me as a lady of cultare and refinement, Aller passing the ordinary preliminary com: places of conversation, I remarked that iauapee the district of Huron, on th tligt the testator was imeancs ot 7? (20 ground In the name of God, Amen, I William Dunlop, of G. she mast find her present life very monotonous SLE Nena: Se the Sowrnah’ oes mL en ppecnmer Sete: cary eens coef in sound health, and my mind just as ee erty | usual, which my friends who flatter ms aay is Bo gréat shakes at the best of time, do make “1 pomnniebho tao would like as earlya trial as } this my last will and testament, as follows: Tcontinued. PT sboald tink that the weight of so terrible ne croing: ea ‘tif other ieee an accusation — wear upon you.” Findiine I may die sisters: i 1t would, indeed, tir, were 1 not conscious of | Fit, Boyle Stor anf at, ‘Boyle io Dene: eis marr iste, Ui et yee sere alka that the appearances | Wie, {0! m (God help) hotp) abe the tc be Z argat present againet cause she is married to nobody. hor is she ilkely Perhaps so; but it (smiling) one musn’t judge | to be, for shels naciamnd eat ‘matket-ri, by Appearances, you leave to them and thei, ir heirs Suppose one of the we strong points in the de- fence is the abeence of any apparent cause for Spe roe, tat omnis the ar the atleged crimes 2” ‘ie r Brother be reserved; and if either should ‘That will beone sno doubt: Iidon’t | gie without issue then, the other to inherit the gee why I should have taken any of their lives. | whole. 1 tonto a my sister-in-law, Louisa Dun- J am sure no one can say but what Iwas an af- | jop, all my share of the houschold farniture and fectionate wite and mother such traps, with the exceptions hereinatter THE PROBABLE LINE OF DEFENCE. mentioned.’ I leave my silver tankard to the ‘This will undoubtedly be a plea of insanity. It | eldest sun of old sohn; as tative of is stated that Mr. Watrons, her counsel, intends | the family; I would leave it to rt Rae himself, » genie a the factsand the « far as goticlusions aot he would melt it down to make temperance uct 3 therefrom, iota Perhaps goin : at ue be nate act , and that would be sacrilege; however, eae my big horn snuff-box to him; 3 he can only make temperance horn-spoons with that. as leave =y me denny ae Bible, v formerly © property of m: eat-grandmother, Bertha ‘Hamilton, or voodbait , And when she knows as iaucp of’ the spirit of he as she does of the letter, she be another Christian than she is. Proceed to prove her eat «en | Trades Disputes im Germany. Att Chemnitz, in Saxony, one of the most im- t fae! yy, there are at epresent moment £,000 engineers and iron- motiderson a strike for areduction in inthe hours | [ also leave my late brother's watch <5 ‘bor from twelve to ten @ day. For some | brother Sandy, exhorting him at the ame tims Hime past the factory workers of Saxony, liky | to give up Whiggery, Radicalitm, and all ote bey ot of Switzerland and Belgium, have S ceeried sins that do most easily beset him. I leave my mn for ten hours’ wor! any ~ brother Allen m: ‘silver snaif box, I derthe of prominent members of the | informed that Bo intetoee cascent Geren international. costs of the m: to Some with a swag belly and a jolly face. T leave Part son Chevaseic (Maggle’s husband) the small box Sethe soled 00 « nties us upon the engineers ‘Sere and ironmoulders of Chemnitz, but the employ- Niger de for the rete Tas Oone tae ers tui a ear to their solicttations. fare! in takings tuser that no man of taste Having gone through the usual prelim{aarics to mosidhaye takes. I leave John Cadeel a silver the reduction of the working , to the end that he may drink toa t pap ey a week and 25 per cent. extra pay fon ta eomfort him under ue ailionee Che. br tapenade without con) the em, rs eral wife. Lleave ave my books to my brother of the justice of | “ ‘the demand, ‘ewasresolved | Andrew, because he has been so long a jangh: 2S, = fortnight ago, ‘and. and 6,000 men igen wallon, that he may learn to read with them. ¥ town re m: eGtal }, With a soverui; it, nei oder at wee the action or ak the strik- Oster, Janet 4 Demian uote en ere unanimously indoraed and the obda- ua maid pab pe hererore, will neces- raed ad ae no pled ee "honing. oe ae ener sete orkingmen of Chemis te axa i af ie hell, a# it looksdecent to see an old woman at their for an Imperia) In witness ereof, ten foury’] Jaw for the whole of Germany; and to hand seal, ma whereot, ita eee rhe A ae oe en Se Sot ie satel aw _ our Lord one thousand eight hi dred and forty. er = whatever. This resolution has hitherto been |‘ (Signed) Loot ot strictly adhered to, though, according rn ore somo of the strikers, Rowse police oles atthortie avi ma wuld be feo glad 20 | fad "pat the strike down by main force. have turned their backs oe the iicuvitiin mae into the men, —$—$_—___*! PHENOMENA oF ForEst Fires.—The cooler- heailed survivors of the great fires at Peshti and other points agree in the statement that fire did not come upon them generally. from burning trees andother o bye the windward, _ the first notice they had of it was a whirl- have offered to reduce the work- ind of fame, in great clouds, trom above the ine’ oars toil oday, 7, which, however, the men Tora oe te the trees, which ‘ell upon and enveloped will not ccopts Th police authorities of Leip- pis The _ seemed one of He have ited puble meetings in favor gr | ine’ The inl oo it, or the intense- the strikers to raise money.—Londlon Times, 1ith, | ly hot air, and Rnd iit down dead dead. ‘This is veritied vy the appearance of many of the corpses. The: 4 Prison Romance. were found dead in the toads and open spaces The Chicago Evening Fost: Every prison has | where there were no visible marks of fire neat in Ap are qty one of the poo earemend at | by,!with not a trace of burnin; upon their imgston, Canada, is worth nting. In | bodies or clothing. At Sugar Bush, which is a yeas near Toronto, the serving man of a Cap- *tain'Kinnear murdered his master to obtaina clearing fonr miles wide at some points, corpses sum of money which was in the house. re found in the n road, between fences, After | which were only slig) shightl; burned, No mark of killing bim oe wretch also slew the hoase- | fire was arte, them, b but the: ot Boys ngd as if keeper. He was arrested, and at his trial im- agleep. iis seemed to explain why so many plicated a x ic fifteen, named Grace Marks, | wer; killed in compact m: ‘ences and pied oe liv! in feo, Begeo as at poemaies, cleared - ne Tire buroding othand elsewhere alleging that e murder of the | not touched. Fish were kill sl master before that of the Hoaskeoper took ie ze a eeppzceme, place. Her story was that he threatened hor | SUrmis® rarries are very pleasant, things with death if she gave the alarm; but as she Lad | if properly understood. But if they are mistaken been on intimate terms with the murderer, it | for anything else the consequences are apt to was discredited. He was han; abd she was ed to the penitentiary for life, Alitost thirty years have elapsed, an‘ she is il @ prisoner, no more a blooming girl, but an old woman, pale, sad, silent, permaturely gray be a trifle awkward, to say the least. A large company of ladies and gentlomentin Bridge| arrapged one of these parties the other night and earried with them an unlimited ‘quantity. of provisions, expecting to haye Btine ‘supper. ‘But m time to time some newspaper ipon- | the bya surprised, supposed thi ir to. io it, visi the institation, hears and publishes = of donation visit, aud very, coolly de story. is talk of a petition for her Lat mr nto the pantry. The party rene ngs, “tis pitiful, ‘eels wondrous pitiful, wn: , dics away. Even ifthis wom: ed a8 © ry an bears, nd are like] tohave were imme of impri % | theirment party better understood. NovHine Personat.—tin one of his recent Bee, 4 ote vost Panton wee, son of hot- nrc or butop bey. Ona da hegosg ick streets. Her kindred are deat, Soa, sped Ber very eumtenee ‘and history are ‘un- not been affected with ganget, nor hissheep with grub in the head. He has practiced this twenty years. Sometuine Wortu Renenngama—The London Lanc+t, excellent aathority, gives the following recipe for the cure of bone felon: As soon as the disease is felt, put directly over the spot a fly blister about the size of your thumb nail, and let it remain for six honrs, at the expi- ration of which time, directly under the surface of the blister may be seen the felon, which can be instantly taken out with the point of a neadle or @ lancet. Making @ Fish-Pond. F. I. N. writes that “he has good facilities for making fish-ponds, with abundant springs are swamp or waste land, and that many farmers in bis vicinity are in like condition.” There is no difficulty whatever in his having fish-ponds, well stocked, in a few years, It he will make the ponds and put in the fish.’ It is not expensive to make a pond, wherever there isa permanent brook flowing through a hollow orswamp. Of course, the size of 1 will the lay of the land and the stream. Sometimes dollars spent on _ —_ will flow fifty acres or more. Often oe fees ere, al aré already made for reservoirs or ‘milli and are just as a tor tabing fish 4 ie they they were constructe: fas agreed for that purpose. If a brook is already stocked with trout, they will multiply much faster with the aid of a pond. ‘Nothing need be done bat to stop fishing in the brook, and Jet the trout multiply for three or four years. They will increase faster if son supplement natural by artificial breeding. Ten thousand young fry put into the brook every spring, will help the stock very much. You can raise the fry yourself, or buy them, as suits your means and convenience. Itis merely a question of collars and cents. In brooks and ponds stocked with other fish than trout, we haye no hesitation in sec temas, the Black Bass rystes nigricans) tor ail northern waters. sie tish has been thoroughly tested, in mg experiments, for over twenty years, and is admitted by all sportsmen to be u —— 4s a game-fish. It is many prolife than the trout, and will make fine ‘hing in less than half the time. walk en much more rapidly, and in three years the egg you one and two pound cs In ‘old ponds, suas feed ts abundant, they are frequently taken weig) ching from four to six pounds. will hold their own amid the most destructive fresh-water fishes. Many claim that the flesh is quite as good as that of the trout and salmon. All we claim for it is that it is an excellent table fish, good enough for anybody. In any well-stocked water it requires no feeding, The owner has only to put in his adult Blac] Bass, and they will take care of themselv: es, and make money for him while he sleeps. Scores ot segs in the northern and eastern States have ‘n stocked with this fish, and we have yet to a of any dissatisfaction. We know of one 1, stocked two years ago, tha: pvc ere ig $10,000, and it will probably part i the interest on that sum as long as Beh ru? American ‘Apricallart A FonziGy Waive notes some curious ef- fects of the peculiar dryness of the American climate. Housekeepers are less annoyed by mouid; it is.safe to move into new houses mach sooner than in the old countries; articles of ‘Woot are with more difficulty kept from shrink- a Americans use more hair oil than Enro- bs; as a rule they are more lean, for which Teason they appear to have longer necks, and the women to be more ‘delicate and ethereal.” Among other effects of the dryness of our cli- mate is the nervousness of the Americans, of which this is regarded as at least one of ‘the causes, A Froripa GzxTLeMaN has made a curious discovery. He observed that the nity of a new railroad had driven all the eurcalios to the extreme end of his garden. Then, a calm night, he exploded two pounds of pow: im the hollow of a stump, which dreve every curculio and every wingedinsect from the orchard, F. ring a platol, ina reom full of ruitoes, pro- ed asimilareffect. If it be true that e E demic arm pao] “4 th fh agency of animaleule, here 1s a way not only to destro’ ‘ious insects, but to chec! X the J of such diseases. Letour boards of lay iam good stock ofgunpowder. “& WRITER in Hearth and Home volu volunteers the following excellent advice: + , fathers! Mothers, cultivate ‘ atter-supper talk; play* dames uneeaaprer WJaE: Re HR aan a oat find Err ad yi eee Smoaarees mooel sitting acl sing not ) are Teported to ° parents horse-ears: Sembee the past few out {sto put « ring Pant ne rr arene CLOTHING. ([HE GRAND -ONE IDEAT N ANNHeCOD CLEAN SWEEP CLOTHING SALE INAUGURATED THIS DAY, NOY. 17, 1871, AT @AK HALL, $23 Trn STREET, OPPOSITE POST OFFICE, IN THe And to be continued daily until our entire stock of FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING, comprising $37,000 WoaTH of every quality and variety of SUPERFINE, FI E, MEDIUM AND COMMON YOUNG AND RISING GENERATION cLOTMING, Including ever description of fashionable DRESS AND BUSINESS SUITS OVERCOATS, WRAPPERS, “GS AND SHAWLS, OAPES, CARRIES The vegetative powers of life are strong, but in» few years how often the pallid bu, the lack Instre eye and emanciated form, aad the impossibility of application to mental effort, show their bac«fal in fuence, It soon becomes evident to the observer that some depressing influence ie checking the ¢ velopment of the bedy. Consamption ix talked of, ‘snd perbaps the youth is removed from school aud rent into the country. This ie one of the worst move ments. Removed from ordinary divers! of the ever-changing sceuss of the city, the powers of the Dody, too mach enfeebied to give rest to bealthfot and roral exercise, thoughts are turned inwar BO 8’ SUITS, OVERCOATS, &c “ONE IDEA” isto SELLE!12 S7 At eny apd every haserd, until we shall have ly made upon themselves. cman Oasee If the patient be a female the appronch of the 2 menses is looked for with anxiety as the frst #) mp bree er er apes tom in Which nature is to show her saving power in diffusing the cireulation and visiting the check with a the Loom of health. Alas! increase of appotite has grown by what it fed on. The energice of the systen OUR REASONS are prostrated, andthe whole economy is deranged The beautiful end wonderful period in which body For this extracrdimary effort to center aii the trade | and mind undergo so fascinating a change from child of Washington and vicinity at | to woman, is looked for in vain. The parent's heart | bicedatm anxiety and fancies the grave but waitins OAK HALL for ite victim. Are so simple as te be readily understood ant ap prectated, and need only to be mentioned to thor oushiy divest the announcement of ail appearance of Aumbug or misrepresentatton. ! cing convinced early last summer from the great | peamatocton the markets that aries in the price of siaple and fancy must spesdil took alvantageof the market to kes #tores in apticipation of unusually open fall and continued bates waa: ‘her of September and October has left a large band than we can prodently Teouncile ourselves to ence - HELMBOLD'S PRUDENCE, CAUTION AND NECESSITY EXTRACT BUCHU Have decided us to offer this surplns stock at euch meat as must command ready sales. FOR WEAKNESS ARISING FROM EXC! OB BARLY INDISCRETION, vrefore we announce thet for the mex! Afty days. SSES or io a CLEAN SWEEP is made Pp Sig et stock, thas sale will continue from day to day,and that mo reasomable sacrifice wild iewed to stand tm the way of a thorouth reazation of our inten- trons, end wiil refuse mo offer for amy Garment ai ali covering the cost of manufacture. 3 Boeke ae, replenished daily from the gv of Clothing in our extensi ‘de mm Ba iimcre “iasiade, Sos, 49 re der! 4 jo eee tog re street attended with the fellowing symptoms: Indisposi- tion to Exertion, Loss of Power, Loss of Memory Difficnity of Breathing, General Woakness, Horror of Disease, Weak Nerves, Trembling, Dreadful Horror of Death, Night Sweats, Cold Fest, Wake fulness, Dimness of Vision, Languor, Universal Las- situde of the Muscular System, Often Knormocs Ap- petite with Dyspeptic Symptoms, Hut Hands, Florh- ing of the Body, Dryness of the Skin, Pailid Counte- nance and Eruptions op the Face, Pain inthe Back, Heaviness of the Eyelids, Freynently Black Spots Flying before the Eyes, with Temporary Suffasion and Loes of Sight, Want of Attention, Great Mwbili ty, Restlesness, with Horror of Society. Notuing ie more desirable to such patients than Sutitude, and nothing they more dread, for fear of themselves; no no repose of Manner, no earnestness, no speculation, but @ burried transition from one question to another, Nos WALKER « co., 611 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, Between 61a anv 71H Sts. CLOTHING FOR MEN AND BOYS. Mpa en Scene eta eet Dest custom ook, and fally 90 per cent. cheaper . FALL OVEECOATS, at reduced prices, nore: SCHOOL and on mgt SUITS, in nd from pop em ‘upwards, in great veriety of qaali- BOYS’ OVERCOATS and TOGAS, MEN'S OVEROCOATS, of various Seprtce, phaptnd the at tamemake of goods can be purchased elsewhere baa) Colored and Cassimere SHIRTS, of superior MEN'S and he py! ERSHIRTS and pray. EES, GLOY SCARFS, BOWS. dc. WS: ae., Ee Tiecooner to |. F. London & Oo.,) CITIZENS, ARMY wave, MERCHANT Ate BOOTS AND SHOES. PUY 200ts asp stom ru FOR THESE SYMPTOMS, IF ALLOWED To Go ON—WHICH THIS MEDIGINE INVARIABLY REMOVES-SOUN FOLLOW LOSS OF PowER, FATUITY AND EPILEPTIO PITS, IN ONE OF WHICH THE PATIENT MAY EXPIRE. During the superintendence of Dr. Wilson at the Bloomingdale Arylum, this sad result occnr-ed to two patients. Reason bad for a time left them, and both died of epilepsy. They were of both sexes, and about twenty years of age. ‘Who can say that these excesses are not frequentiy followed by those direfal diseases, Iueanity and Consumption? The records of the Insane Asyiums, and the melancholy deaths by Copsumption, bear ‘ample witness to the truth of these assertions In Lunatic Asylams the most melancholy exhibition appears. The countenance fs actually sedien an quite destitute; nesther mipth wor grief ever. vhkivo it. Should a sound of the voioe occur it is rarely ar ticulate. yis-tr “ With wofal measures wan despair Low sullen sounds their crief beruiled.”” While welregret the existence of the above dis eases and symptoms, we are prepared to offer an valuable gift of chemistry for the removal of the con- sequences, LADIES, GENTLEMEN, MISSES, - BOYS, AND CHILDREN, ‘We are daily in receipt of the most approved styles HELMBOLD'S FLUID EXTRACT OF BUCHU. FALL AND WINTER WEAR, ‘There ie ho tonic tke ft. It is an anchor of hope to the phykician and patient. ‘This is the testimony. slo's witinsertenns had si cdl i of all who have used or prescribed it. workmanship. : ‘Beware of counterfeits and those cheap decoctions Called Buchu, most of which are prepared by selt- styled doctors, from deleterious ingredients, an ” offered for sale at ‘lems price” end “larger botties, ac. They are unretisble and frequently injurious . SL BURNS 2 ©9., Ask Sor Helomboid’s. Take me other. (01.85 per bottle, oF 6 bottiss for O6.y. pier 008 PENNSYLVANIA Ay EmUB | gicommusiceicn ee mMome in Bare the tetye MOLIBAY ghee 5 ge Bar. for

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