Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1873, Page 6

POLITICAL POETS. Songs of the City Grangers, © | dcoam of a beantifai ¢ ‘When the world shall be When eiepnants and hyen is ‘Shail blossom on every ire. ; ‘When tamarinds and poratoes Shail cease their drea ful rear, And the turnip tree shail blossoms In the zacden evermore. . : . » * But gone are the days of childhood, And manhood’s dreams are mine, Yet f long for by-gone hours As I sit ‘neath the tarkey vine, wreathe your blossoms around me, And soothe my aching breast, While the mulberry pislatively warbles And calms me ftito rest.”” . * * . o “ The sly curculio I'll delude, On the weevil put up a job; Whack in with the cute potato buz, dr give him one for his nob, I'll sweetly blarney the caterpillar, While yet "tis leafy June; And when the crop is garnered in I'll shake the gay cocoon.” —a ON THE TRAP. was only a clown, a painted, grinning clown, ttached, on a small salary, to a theatre in the apital of one of the little datchies into which which Germany was divided before the genias and ambition of Bismarck had effected its con- yrole was pop a olidation into the empire. M ar because everybody likes to laugn, an: one who puts them in a laughing mood. bi rous applause. must be mare o India-rabb aid be tw ed and distorted into such strange expressions. fe, and my success made it But I hi ft the more and more dt. ‘One night I wer im body and mind. years old, a asterul. home completely wor My ister Ada, tit also seemed dispirited and wo, Deen ranning nights, an My make-up was considered a marvel of pertection. My song* always took, and my gestares and grimaces nevcr failed to elicit the most raptu- It used to be said that my face ont light and graceful as asylyh, who ‘was engaged as a dansense at the same theatre, The play had the whole com. pany Was heartily sick of it. But it was not this alone which exerted a depressing intluence on Thad the Principal danseuse of the theatre, who was no n mind and heart than in her per- She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen; tall, well-formed, graceful; with a een; large, thoughttal eyes; What tirst drew me my Syirits thatevening. Formang week: Deen losing my lmart to Fraulein D. Tess love! son. step like a fairy and a sweet winning smi! to her was her kindness to my This romised to becom her profession. because Ada is the rule, aud generosity the exception. learned ty li and then to love her. #0 did everybe lace fell iti love with her, and raved about her auty and her dancing, in the way that nearly drove me wild with jealousy. the old-fashioned way we read of in no’ am not asham ss it—eager to kiss th ‘ound on t, and would not b jeve that a1 puld love and worship her with th T mustjn say that Dora, in th displayed the most « one else ame devotion. way nded, to and from the th dignity to demand it; but obstinacy makes no by her mother; and always returned the | differencein the things themselves; and those b presents which were showered upon he who are atfected with this intirmity will, for Among all who paid court to Dora, I almost nothing, carry things to the most pain- only one, the young, rich, handsome, and | ful and alarming extremes. Love, Friendship, complished ant Ernest von Walters, who | the happiness and Lopes of families, they will pressed his chan Yet I fanciedg need not despair of winning her. Did she love my sister, and praised my acting aud ing? But this day [had learned the wors that her kindness to me sprang only from a gen tle and friendly feelin e ha had promised ‘ount von Walters. to my lodging= with My litt t with unremitting ardor. no} become the wife of What wonder that I went pair in my heart! er exorted herself to make things cheerful in our quiet sitting-room. «She su tent to resist the malignant spell it throws upon ected nothing of the real my down- | them. And itis the direct fruit of this weak earted 2, mm n every- | and abject bondage under which they lie to th: thing else, had never been int the | own wishes, that they attempt an intolera secret of my mooly silence, pr n about | tyranny over the minds of all others who com: a@vamber of unpicasant matters. She wasin- | in contact with them. They seem to think terrupted by a knock at the door, followed by the entrance of our landlady. The good soui | happiness itself; and that to fail in this poin apologized tor coming tn at so late an hour, but | to sutter one of the greatest evils of which the the postman had brought @ letter for me just | present life admits, They are ignorant that after we had left for the theatre, and a foreign post mark, she thought it might ‘tant I should get it that evening. | th: mechanically, but a glance © po caused me to tear F open with eager and trembling finge’ my father speak of an only brother who had settled in England in early youth, and from whom vague reports came, trom time to tim Of eucceseful mercantile career. Khe letter was postmarked Loudon, and the heavy black bor- der lines told the story before the seal was br ken. My uncle was dead. He had never mar ried, andon his death-bead, remembsted his ony brother, he had lett a! wealth to 4 i orto his children. For a moment [ reit stun and faint; and Ada, throwing her arms at my neck, begged me to tell her what bad r was ard pale. | nm my letier to make u k heron my atre * No, child s ring what she cou but tell x ou should want 1 can leave at on ai prettier than she was, anda and that | ehoald ha the ticst was a great ¢ better dancer place in the new dai they are to pat on the stage ne: Oh, 1 would like to have sack atriumy It would be such a pleasant way to say good by to th. ee Peoult! deny her nothing, my little sister; and though for me it was like guing into the torcure- Foom of the In jnisition to enter the theatre an! gee Count Ernest on such familiar terms with Dora, I consented (or the present to conceal my good fortune from our friends, and go on jus the same as if nothing had happened ‘The eventfuievensug came at length. The play was interspersed with ballet-dancing, aut was to end with a grand transformation scene in which A: and Dora were to rise as sea nymphs, in @shell-like car, from the waters of a mimic lake. Itso lappened that, just before the last scene, I went into the room underneath the stage, where the machinery for raising the car was placed, impelled by a strange forevod- | ing of impending mistortane, to assure myself that everything was ip order; and that no pre- caution against aceilent had been neglected. ‘There 1 iound the master machinist, a dark and gloomy visaged man, standing by the car, muttering to himself in an undertone. “ Better she should die than marry the Coant. He has bewitched her, as he does ail women. A little shit wo: “What are you muttering to yoursel I asked him, suddenly; ‘+ and what do you mean by these mysterious words 7” He faced me, as if struck by an unexpected low. 1 was only exam that itwas ali right, turned away. I carefaily examined the cords by which the car was raised. Everything appeared to be in good order; and I went back to my place, try- ing to laugh myself out of my apprehe But though it was easy to argue tbat all was right, that my fears arose merely from s9¢ explicable disorder of the brain, L could not feelsecure. I was positive that some frightfal misadventure would occur before the play was over, and every nerve was strained in the eifurt to mautain a calm exterior. ‘The play progressed. The curtatn rose upon the miticent transformation scene, and the pe ‘audience @rew tumultaous asthe splendors unrolled before them. At length the ear began to rise slowly and mulestically, to wt strane of music. I watebed, with ing heart and bated breath, the of the beautiful vision—jor @ vision it looked, rising and still rising, the car Tesplenmewpwtit ail the tinsel, which shone like gold, silver, and diamonds. A sound as of many tinkling fountains mingled with the strains of delicious music; fairly-land seemed opening upon the sight, with arching bowers and far-reaching vistas, and myriads of eitin forms disporting on the ground aud in the air. For a moment [ was fascinated, when Ada ani Dora, in all their beauty, rose above the lake, their ee = seemingty lifted by invisitje hands. [ my apprehensions, and once mote breathed freely. Suaden! wild cry tilled the house. The car had fallen. For an instant, [ felt rooted to the spot wher: 1 was standing, and then recovering my senses rushed forward to leara the worst. As I ng the machinery to see 2 answered sullealy, and pg a jh the par Lage! FE gle ys some one say ina wa thi she will never dance ng ‘Bich waz it? Ada? Dora? my wi through the crowd of actors and and saw my little Ada I: on my of mine. “ a4 ster, whom she took every opportunity to befricnd and assist in was the more surprising, dangerous Fival; and, in the theatrical profession, jealousy So Ail the gentry of the | encounter under the stage. I was in love in Is—1 mit to midst of all this adulation, | ed. crcetand modest behavior. | shows itself when the occasion is of sufficient there was a dreadful crash, anda hand. “Better she than my love!” he murmured. eel Dev. gave him a quick look of reproof. “This | * no time for love-making,” she answered, withdrawing ber hand. ‘‘Have yoa no feeling forthe poor girl ‘ying here, whose whole life must be one of mys -ty and sorrow?” What is this ballet girlto me’ the count, stung <o the quick, and a moment thrown off his guard. “Of course, I am sorry for her,” he acded the next moment, “‘bat—" At this moment Ada opened her eyes again, and a faint blush struggled with the paleness in her cheeks, as she gazed fell upon the count. A beautiful smiled played on her trembling lips and she reached her hand toward him. *‘Oh, my love,” she said in a low whisper—a whisper which first sent the blood mantling into Dora's face and then lett it paler than snow—‘you are near and |" Something in the count’s face stopped her words. “The girl is wandering,” he said, coldly. “* She does not know what she ix saying.” She had fainted again. “Go, count,” said ; “your presence is not wanted € mer was decided, and even | perious, and the count did not venture to di: obey, but ashe left he cast upon Ada a look which caught the other's eye, and from the expression that came into her tace I kne knew even then, that he could never more hold a e ee in her heart. e carried Ada home, and through the long illness which followed, Dora was her constant companion. To this dear friend was contided with many tears the secret of her heart. He had won her love and had promised to ask my consent to their union. Unsuspecting and con- fiding, she knew nothing of his attentions to Dora, and it was by his wish that she had never mentioned his name tome. I heard afterward that he and Dora met but once after the ac dent. and that he endeavored to defend his par- fidy on the plea that he was only amusing him- self with Ada, and never bad seriously thoug! of making her his wife. 30 much the wo for you, count,” said the trae-hearted woman “I shall never be your wife, and never want to see your face again.’ We are married now, Dora and I. From loving Ada she learned in time to love me, ani the sweet and gentle invalid, who nevet in will walk until she steps upon the beavenly shore, is happy in our love. No murmar ever escapes her lips. Her sweet face ts never clouded. Since Dora learned her sad story, the count’s name has never passed my sister's lips, nor has she in any way alluded to num. But Dora found her one day weeping silently over a picture which she put away without (t's being seen. T have not told how the The master machinist, hi: Dora. had cut several strands of the cords by which the car was secured. He openly avowed his crime, and only regretted that Dora had not been killed. “She rejected me with scorn,”” he said on bis trial. “I was resolved she should never give her hand to another.” Hewas man ifestiy a maniac. I can never forgive myself for not watching him more closely after that * answered ecient happened. rself in love with Obstinacy and Firmuess. Obstinacy prodaces as much mischief in con nection with the smallest matters as with those | his own choice in the most trifling aiftirs, as in What | dash to the ground, rather than force thems had the poor clown against that man’ he were only out of the way I | matter at issue is sometimes so trivial, tha | | or the brother of the | learned to love like asister,and | other reason, than a blind and insuperal | | that to have their own way on all occasions bore | im- | iked | to another's pleasure isa ark | purer satisfaction, than can result trom for I had often heard | |. DesrERaTE STRUGGLE | | pia of the greatest importance. A person of obsti- nate disposition insists as resolutely on having those of the utmert consequence to all concern- Firmness is a wise and noble virtue, which to say, ‘I submit; The let it be as you preter.” looking upon it on all stles, we are unable t find areason for the stubborness with which ta kind of people of whom we are sp to their side of the subject in d are forced to the usion that there is 1 inctance to follow any will but their own. T are slaves to whatever their own minds hay to suggest as proper to be done. {t charras them like # serpent, and they are utterly im, there are a thousand things which ar than to have one’s will; and that kindly urce of fallest success in having things according one’s mind.—s. 2”. Herre ITH A BEREAVED WLY —A iew weeks ago Dr. Swain, of this went ona hunting expedi! about one hundred miles from eastera part of Monterey county. pany Was an old mountaineer, called who had becom morning I Roc e famous as a bear huate »cky started out of camp, laboriously toiling along a narrow trail side of a steep canon, when, ina wild py of the mountain: won the opposit ub on two young gTassy beach ot land. y revolving ritle was at his shoulder, One cub he killed instant long enough to cry, almost like a child, for the MRS. HAYCOCK’S KEYS. For some 1 have been the owner of a bunch of ke @ gool big bunch, of which, _ however, oniy two were practicable. Fura long | time I had resolved to sort that bunch of keys, most of which were waifs and strays. There were two or three latch-keys, one, I verily believe, of a house in London at which [ live! fifteen years ago; one of a house in Brightoa long ago given up diis manibus. Memor: retases to affix titles to therest. At last, how ever, a happy fate has relieved oe of the in- cubus of this useless bunch of metal. A change of residence has deprived m2 of the two last working keys, and lett me uneacumbered. OF what use are keys to me? I have never more money than I can conveniently carry in | my pocket. The few letters that I receive all the world is welcome to read; they are read ex- | tensively in the household, 1 Know. 1 have long since thrown epen my skeleton cupboard, and finding the grizzity spectre I dre: @ mere harmless Moist of some decayed old building, with a few laths nailed across it, srmalating ribs and vertebre, 1 have burnt it upon the domestic hearth and +cattered its ashes to the four winds, ‘Thus bare as my cupboards may be, they are at least clean and whitewash and my soui is emancipated trom locks and ers. ‘n this state of happy freedom I was one day sitting by the open window, smoking the fra- grant matutinal pipe, and conning over the Times, placidly conscious of the pleasant morn- ing sounds and sights; bells jangling sofey the town hard by, the clank of a scythe in field below; the cry of the man with the table-cart; a dog barking, fowls clucking, dren at play—according to one of the Welsh triads, the three signs of an inhabited country. It was @leisare time with everybody at home. My wife seemed for once to be In an id'e mood. Sailors, you know, when there comes an idle time—when the wind blows fair and steady, and the sails draw as evenly as if they were mould ed in papier-mache, when all the shi be layed, and they have finished ropes round big ones; when even the ti 2 tenant wears an unratiled brow, and the bow swain has ceased from piping, atu there is nothing whatever to do—Sack or Tom proceet forthwith to overhaul their chests. So wit women, I think—something, in idle moments, they will overhaul; in this case the work- basket. Ends of ribbon are sorted, bits of lace turned over and mentally appraised, half-fin- ished undertakings are sighed over; the eldest daugliter looking gravely on, with a view to the weltare of her chest daughter Dolly. At the bottom of the basket is a deris of unconsidered trifles. ‘Ned, here's something of yours,” the wife says; ‘‘here’s a bunch ot key: * Don't, for goodness sake, gi I don’t want them, shouldn’t put them.” “Then what shall f do with them? leave them in my work basket.” “Throw them away.” A bunch of keys, however, are not things of which one can dispose at a moment's notice. It you threw them away. you would see them ad- vertised in the next ‘day: paper; they would be traced to you, money would be demanded— there would be bother of some sort. No, it wouldn't do to throw them away"? Look here, we're going on the river to-night; We'll drop the keys overbuard and make an end of \hem.” Betore this doom, however, bad been carried into effect, a claimant appeared for the bunch ot keys. They were not mine, it seemed, bat nurse’s—Nurse Maycock’s Nurse came in with her young quite breathless at the dang ‘Lor! whatever should £t had thrown my keys away She is a comely old lady, of dignified presen with a brown face and a dsome double ¢ aquiline nose, which approaches her chin more closely than of old, owing to her lack of te a very drams full of and ge omfort body “You're quite ’ said my wite. «Bless you, mat down into a chair. She is not strong on he pins, and we don’t exact rigit ceremony from “Why, I can tell you the nistory of the whole * ’em Mrs. May: like other story-tellers I know, ires very delicate Landling. [1 you let her e that you expect a story trom her, sh shuts up altogether or spoils her tale by ort. She must be left toherself, and gently ned to discourse of her experie To bi ard in full perfection, her narrative must flow ly tro! imstances. With the late cock I had no personal ac: : ut I formed a vivid mental picture of him’ from bis widow's ive them to me; know where to I can't ac avery sure are your keys said nurse, sink sional descriptions. He was thin and smail, rather lame, a reserved, flery-tempered man, who had a vivid sense of” his own dignity and a rather contemptuous opinion of the le sex He was an upper workman of some sort, earn- ing good wages and laying by a little money—a valuable man in his own way, and well thought of by his employers ‘To return to nurse. Her attention is divert- ed fur a moment by the youngster on a who makes a desperate pall at her cap-strin and almost succeeds in demolishing that elab- rate fabric “ Bless his little ‘ar ed narse; “ain't he playful sir? He do take after you sv, Master Kale I don’t see e wife; +1 don't see th “But look at his ey little ways; oh, he dot t} fond of t 1 of book ma’am, and ther sure mother bear. Soon a cracking of bushes wa heard behind, and Rocky turned just in time to see the mother, enrage:l and e ved, alow pon the slayer of her off=pring. hunter again raised his rifle, bat be could nse it the bear, by one stroke of he erfu! paw, hurled it from his grasp far reaeh. A’ hand to hand encounter wa: only way out of the ditticulty, and Rocky drew his huge knife. He raised if, and swiftly it de seended, gleaming through the air into the heart of the bear, and none too soon, for struck, the bear also dealt him a powerful on the side, which stretched him in: some distance from the scene of the encounter the knite remaining buried to the hilt in th bear's shaggy side. “After atime the hunter overed sufficiently to «rag himself to the eamp, where he was obliged to remain tor several day betore he recovered fyom the terrible blow fi had received. Other members of the party went to the place and found the cubs, dead, ant ashort distance from them the old bear, also dead.— Wi aronian. J. B. McCuttaan, of the St. Louis Globe who was long a resident Washington correspon- dent, undertakes to tell how Hon. G. H. Wil- liams first attracted national attention: ‘He had kept silence inthe Senate for the first year, which ia conventionally thought to be proper in anew Senator. But inthe sammer session of 1 he modestly asked Mr. Fessen den if it would be possible for him to get an op- portunity to make a speech on recoustraction. More out of courtesy to 2 new member than from a desire to have his assistance tn the de bate, Mr. Fessenden consented, and, ashe had charge of the bill, he named the day and hour for the Oregon Senator’s debut. The case was | iy baal me against him. There was anideathat e couldn't make much of 8 speech or say any thing new, and Mr. Williams spoke to a slim Senate. As he advanced with his argument he began to rivet the attention of those who had remained, and before he had spoken half an hour it was evident that his was no average ability. He received so much praise that those who didnot hear dul him the honor to real what he said, and from that day he coul! g an attentive audience on any subject. Sinse that speech his a in public life has been both rapid and brilliant. Yetrow Fever anxp Evectricity.—A cor- respondent writing from Fayette, Mississippi, to the Scientific American, gives a curious succes- sion of observed facts, which may lead to a clearer understanding of the conditions under which yellow fever is generated, and asa co sequence to new methods of preventing or cur- ing the disease. He says that prior to the breaking out of the fever, that during the pre- valence of the epidemic the rairs are unaccom- panied by lightning and thunder, which in other seasons are common, There was only one peal of thunder heard in this county between the middle of September and the latter part of October. In 1855, at a school lebration, @ sufficient amount of electricity could not be generated to Pe the simp! experiment with the electrical wor ‘and shortly there- after the yellow fever broke out and raged ter- ribly. The writer draws the conclusion from these facts, that the ‘alence of yellow fever is dependent upon electrical condition of the atmosphere, and suggests that science may be made to supply the uecessary conditions to public health. ‘apel is mentioned as rector of the Catholic university in Eagland. 7G: 5 ronald parties are a winter amuse- made S7Lancaster, N. H., has had the thermome- ter 33 below zero s S7°A dispatch from Bayonne It is ru- says: mored that Lizarrago has captured and u cure of Santa Craze ee if attendants, s7Peter Mailman is to be executed on the senseless in Dora's | 30th instant, I took | of his wife. at Halifax, N.S., forthe murder ‘Passengers from the West report Pn Riper ig Boor roar Phy Bley Bb in the Litt is fond of books od nurse, “Ho's tored t of father better be take “But about the keys, sir, a3 1 was telling you the way I knows ’em. ‘This here one with the ‘ole in it is the key of my chust of drawers, aud these two just alike—ah, you sees them two to- gether, sir?” “Yea, I see them.” “Well, one of them was poor Maycock’s key the key of his box, where he k ures; and, sir, he just were caretul of this here key, and this one,” went on nurse, with a twin- kle in bereye, “1. had mare a purpose exactly like the other, so that I could get at Maycock’s box whenever I pleased.” Mrs. Maycock laughed I join jolly laugh, in w! . Perhaps it Thad owned a’ bun: keys of my own I should not haye laughed so freely. The wife looked doubtrully at the eld. estdaughter. Was there any fear of such loose principles being infectious ““Maycock was very stric’, you see, ma'm,”” wenton nurse, ‘‘and very stingy about his im» ney. So much a week doled out regalar every Saturday, and no more if you dies for it, s often enongh it wouldn't rau to it. Every week a pound; and whether I was brought to bed, or whatever happened, there was no more. So [ contrived this here key as would open his box, and when I really couldn’t manage any other way I'd used to unlock Maycock’s box and take out a suyrin’; never no more than that, | assure you, ma’m. And J don’t think he missed it ever! He took out his money every now and then, when it growed to be a great jump, ant divested it somewhere, and then he'd frown and shake his head over his box sometimes, as it he could'nt make it come right; but he never said anything to me, no more did I to him; no, and never breathed a syllable to any living soul how I managed it.” Here Mrs, Maycock took breath,and then went on: “But one day I wanted something very bad for my second litttle girl—a cloak, or a hood, or something. I went tohis box and took out a suyrin. His store was got very low then, for there was only three pounds, and when I took mine there was only two, don’t you see, sir’ Well, after Dd done it I grew frightened, for thinks I, perhaps he'll go to his box, and he's sure to recollect as he'd left three there before, and then there'd be a desperat® to-do. So what does Ido but get hold of a new farden, and | slips it into the box along with the two savrins and glad [ was I fone it. tor presently in cou Maycock looking as biack as you please. “’Master’s off to Binchestor,’ says he, ‘and left word as I’m to follow him; but he ain’t lett me the money for expenses. Perhaps it’il be a fortnight’s job,’ says he. “What will you do, Maycock ” saysI. Says he: ‘I must berrow some of my own money.’ ‘Oh,’ eays I, feeling quite faint; but then again, thinks I, he'll never notice it. “Well, his train didn’t go afore a quarter- past seven; but you never did see how he fidg- eted. It wasn’t five o’clock then, but every minate he calls out, ‘Jane, what o’clock is it?’ and presently he 7 ‘Jane, | must have a shirt and a pair of stockings; p'raps I sha’n’t get home next Saturday. Jane,’ says he, ‘will yu look after that?” “All right,’ says I. Well, n another quarter of an hour he'd say again, ‘Jane,’ says he, ‘how avout that shirt and pair of stockings!” ‘Bless your ‘art,’ says I, ‘don't fidget like that;’ and then he shuts up for ten minutes and begins in. ‘Jane,’ says he, ‘ain't it time to be getting ready?” ‘And so he kept all on, that I was thankful when the time caine for him to start. * *You'll leave me my wi Maycock’” says as he was bustling about. ‘To be sure,’ 83} with that he goes had to . = E i # Be i i 4 z: eg 5 F ; é & F i i - Street-car Morality. RESPECTABLE PASSKNGERS WHO NEVER PAY AND CONDUCTORS WHO ARE NEVER CAUGUT. (From the New York Tribune.) It isan admitted fact that, in a considerable Proportion of cases, if the conductor neglects to ask for the fare the passengers him. There are few of us who have not seen a man whose appearance would presuppose 4 well-lined pocketbook anda balance in bank, | sitting for a while with a five-cent pieee between | his thumb and finger, and after the contuctor | has passed by quietly slipping the coin back in to his vest pocket. There is, however, a greater trust on the part of the car compat average honesty of the passengers than in th of the conductor. The ‘‘patent-box” s more in yogae in other cities than our own, pends upon this faith. Yet we are info | thateven this soon indicates a progressive de | cline of morality. The patrons of tho new route pay as they enter with great promptitude and honesty; but it is the conviction of the roal- owners that after a year or two they are carcy- ing a considerable number of regular passengers who seldom or never pay their fares. But the deterioration of morals in the case of conductors, if report speaks trath, is something frightful to contemplate. At all events, all systems of management at present are based upon the supposition that condactors are dis- honest. From time to time a change of ti method or the introduction ot some contrivan le cir previous demoralization. The remarkabl cumstance is that sooner or iater all che: contrivances are more or less ev old piltering is resumed. The index t to be placed in cars to show the nam er of far Proved valueless on long routes, be conductors soon discovered that would not trontle themselves al The patent box was intron Toad, and snddenly raised | cent.; hut gradually they fell away. months they were at their previous We ail admit that there is a high about the atmosphere of Boston tliat ex hopeless envy. Yet from that bli there came some time ago a tal horse-car immora! ° y which would rais ash on the indefinite cheek of a New York cond: tor. A company there had intro: punch-gong system. Each consuctor took a fare, was obliged to squeeze which marked its record on a slip of pa simultaneously rang asmall gong the punch. ‘The passenger was to of the gong. For a while the largely swelled. ‘T’hen they declined they reached a lower point than ever be Detectives rode up and down in the cars, liste faithfully for the note of the gong with tare, heard it every time, and yet the rec were short. Months elapsed, and the pr pur 2and tors were at their wits’ end. At hth was discovered. An ingenious artisin had far nished almost every condactor on the road wit! a small duplicate gong, which, carried concealed in the hand, did tae ringing without the record ing. The Strange Story of a Poacher. {Translated trom the yin In the Bavarian mountains, near chen, the traveller often meets a with hollow cheeks and wild ey blond hair toate around does not attempt toinjure any or ery W A tew yearsag: the brightest and prettiest young g Nr mountain She became the or Joseph F art young f n time their union was blessed wilh two c uid not vail apo! yet she A pone ¥ had gon with his ritle on I der on a ling excursion, he was fo by @ part lorest keepers who t to capture him. One who ventured too near was shot by Falkner, and the others took t flight er hovered around the v ter this occurrence, am ed his wife and children. now began to hunt Falkner star rying his tc } opr er. ar for the Aus’r ar ald boy w e, Ant ry rting the roadway wh were concealed were sleeping. He t gendarmes,” frighted on her bosom. efforts of the mother her bosom only caused it te gendarmes d halted Falkner snatebed the in arms and placed his hand ¢ For ten minutes the pursue roadside, for ten minutes th 's tirm b suppressed the sobbing of the child. At len the gendarmes rode on, and the mother so with ber warm lips to infuse life inte the ones of her baby. In vain, the ch Falkner cried. “Ob!” he put ack and Marie followed with th At daybreak the border was ri countered an employee of the Ar toms—Have you any to give aske Nothing,’ said Falkner, « wife, however, stepping forw dead child whom she had carr and said: “1 ha s man is a mur 1”? Falkne: His ol or inthe T and either sits motion! n herr ders on the mountains and thro She takes but litle nourishment and wi die. Wrar Har tid nt from i rthe i s 1 fat > moi ited by the up? ss ym. OF A Daxuvry Gu FROM SEEKING 1 Man Tunovot Wrinkiy Guass. a-glass in win dows is not an abby: Every house inthe eits French below the surta which occurred Sunday afternoon illust the grievous defect of the Ar glass. A young lady living on Kose Hi seated herself at the window which commanded arange of the road to wait fora young man whois allin allto her in thislife. When he came in sight she was ranging through one of those panes which are capable of almost an an limited number of changes. She p her lover as he appeared over the hill, and re nized bim at onee. Immedis become her John: and closed up to a waddiing party of about four hundred pounds burde he suddenly split in two lengthways and each half bobbed up and down toward her. Shc would have shirieked in horror, but now a new transformation turned the tide of ler emo! The parts came together agaia and shot great altitude, and immediately sunk again, and what but one moment before w her admired John was now an object of mans revolving legs, like a beetle drunken with new wine. The poor girl was so atfected by this marvellous change that she burst into an \in- controllable langhing fit, and cmergad trom it Dg: he ceased ix a maniac. She was removed to Middletown this morning, accompanied by her distressed parents, and all that medical art can do will be done for her relief; but the case appears almost hopeless.—Daniury News. Rice.—Dan » the old clown, has fallen under his evil star, and his mistortunes wil provoke no little sympathy. After quite a suc- cessful summer tour he reached Louisville about three weeks ago he rented the Expositi building, and fitted It up at great expense. The first week turned out badly, and for the second the price of admission was reduced to 15 and 25 cents, but the show did not draw. Asa conse- quence the whole concern was attached, anil on Saturday last horses, canvas and genera! para phernalia were sold by anction, the celebrate t Bind trick horse. bein g $123. Th performers, musicians, and all the emp!oyé= were minus their wages, Dan not having a ‘tol lar left to pay them. himself, with his blind horse, etc., was travel with another company in Canada, at $1,009 9 week,{and that, too, went up,’ leaving him minus $27,000, Trat Queer KuMoa AnouT THE ATLANTIC UN¥FoUNDE! ‘The rumor to which our Boston correspondent gave currency that the Atlantic was about to become a Methodist organ has not the leas’, foundation in fact, we are authorita- tively informed. It is true that one of the firm of Hurd & Houghton is a Methouist, {but one is an Episcopalian, one iaa Noa ip ationalist and one isa Unitarian. The tact is, that the Atlan- tic will not be the organ of any sect or party, either in religion, literature or in politics. It will aim to urely @ literary and critica! magazine, and that of the highest character, welcoming to its hospitable pages the best talent that the country has. Its imprint wil! continue to be 0, and it will lose nothing of that literary atmosphere which has been its characteristic.—Hartford Courant. Tae Uppgr7 90k Mugper Casx.—The mo- tion for a new trial of Wm. E. Udderzook, con victed of the murder of Winfield 8. Goss, argued before Judge Butler at Westchester yesterday. The prisoner's counsel relied prin- cipally upon the affidavits of two witnesses, which set forth that two of the jurors, prior to their summoned, had decided During the summer Dan & A PAPER CHURCH BUILDING is said, by rier setae tee oes te im i dibding te clrewlag with ae palling ies ly we CAN'T war Srarn—or rather if S; writh Cuba. The « protecal al two items: 1. Shoot Burriel.—St. Louis at Reed not Take the is- Globe. Isto remind | An incident | | i ds metarpeot | and | HE EXTENT AND ATTRACTION OF ‘space | GOODS AT THIS HOUSE SURPASSES ANY- A Brother's Vengeance, i TRE MAGRIAGE OF A ST.LOUIS GIRL TO HER | MOTHER'S COACHMAN INDEFINITELY POSt- | PONED BY THE MURDER OF TRE BRIDEQROOM. | Sr. Lovis, December 10.—Thuralay evening last, while preparations were being made for the nuptialsof Richard Botticher aud Miss Cora Cronenbold, at the residence of the mother of the lat at Grand avenue and Chippeway street, Charles Cronenbold an uncle, and Ben- jamia F. Crouenboid, a brother of the young lady, and F. W. Weber rudely entered the house and peremptorily ordered the assembled party to disperse, and forbade the marriage. During followed, Botticher was yer. Charles Cronenbold ted and bated, and Bot- <= woord dressed. retarned to Mrs. Crone: ‘# house, where he has since | remained. | Yesterday afternoon Benjamin F. Cronenbold and Weber went to Mrs. Cronenbold’s residence and demanded to see Botticher. This was re- tused; but after a time Botticher left the house | and started to run down Grand avenue. Young Cronenbold pursued, and fired four or five shots | at bim, three of which entered bis body, one of them passing through his heart and killing him instantly. Cronenbold and Webster were ar- rested and locked up, and Charles Cronenbold will probably be arrested to-morrow, as facts | have been developed to-night which seem to prove that there was a premeditated plan on for checking the receipts, indicates the extent of | the part of these three men to kill Bottieher. ‘The affair has created a great sensation, as M Cronenbeld is the widow of the late County | adge Cronenbold. a man of wealth and po tion, and all parties, except Botticher, are highly connected. Further developments are to the effect that Botticher had seduced Miss Cronenpold; that their marriage was favored by Mrs. Cronenbold this account, and that young Cronenbold® urdered Botticher to avenge the wrong do’ ticher was35 years old. Me had Mrs. Cronenbold as a coac! -work about the house, and won the atfections of Miss or e of young Cronenbold in enbold is only 16,and her en employed and ma’ Neged ¢ Crenenbold and effected her ruin last samo aring the Miss Cro vears old. Urey brothe A Hornimee Story of ov rage has been made public in the town of Warren, 12 miles from Detroit. A year and a halt ago ries Louis Alton was employed to teach Koman Catholic school at Warren, and act as sexton of the ch During ttos period Alton outraged the person schoo! girls, none of whom were over 14 3 old. It appears the crimes were committed in the church, which ad. # the school house, and that the tiend succeeded in territying his vic tims into silence tor over a year. The ne’ borhood is settled by Hollanders, ganerall educated, and the children were all of that na- tionality.’ Alton escaped. f no less than eig! ReecuPTION oF Work.— town manufacturing extab ishments in Phila- delphia that h n closed up for the past six or eight weeks, have resumed work, runt from three days in the week to fnll with a fall complement of hands reduction in wages from ten te fifteen p ‘The mills in {Manayunk are starting up yot them have done so within the past K,and it i “that the balance of them will be ru by the first of the yeas everal large up- A Deravirine P G. Jones, bookkeeper and di ant jntetly disap, 000 of the b It ia now rk att Southern bank in Savanna ed Jast February with abouts s in currency 3 bat attempt be tal resalts, Jones cou- apture. tended with probable fessed his guiit after his &7 Promotions banks now—there ax When pid in some nai h running away. Milwaukee rou g cut onal Was Her fortune’? has just i. It will speedily be followed by Cheek Was What ade Him.” ers of New nia recommended the es to stock the Delaware the proposed statue of Pit has been ted i Park, New York, and the work has & ®?°A gentleman who rather suspect one was peeping through the key Mice door, investigated w a syringe f pepper-sau home to find his w had been GROCERIES, ée. ONLY RoRO S. H. BACON, Market Space, three doors from 7th st. stnatopaeEAMULY GROCER, a8 for sale 100 bbi«. Apples sele dl for ty 00 bush ie once fic Ror oy Bs ri Fi extra and Extra Cream T hecse. sin the country. Tuuent Java, Maracalbo vored @. P., Oolong, and Japan Teas Hsing, Currauta, Oiron, Figs, aud Nats of t flavored , <usrantecd pure, and supertor, Family trade v1! 6 my stock and cheap p: Brandies, Whiskies and New Mackerel, very fat tto their benefit toexamine 6 octl5-ly ELPHONZO YOUNGS & C0., GROCERS, MASONIC TEMPLE, Corner 9h and F rects, OPPOSITE U. S. PATENT O#FicR, + HAVE ON RAND THE FINEST GRAPES, TEE CHOICEST GUSHEN BUTTER, HE FINEST QUALITY SUGAR-CURED HAMS, THE WHITEST FLOUR, THE RICHEST CUFFEES, THE FINEST TEAS, THE HIGHEST GRADE SPICES, AND HE HIGHEST GRADE CIDER VINEGAR, TO BE HAD IN WASHINGTON. GIVE US A CALL. KLPHONZO YOUNGS & Cv, GROCERS, Masonic Temple, corner *th and F streets, sepas-tr Opposite U. 8. Patent Office. GREAT REVOLUTION IN PRICES IS NOW GOING ON AT THE GREAT CARPET BD DRY GOODS HOUSE KNOWN 48 ARCADE, THE INDUCEMENTS NOW OPEN a? THIS ESTABLISHMENT TO CONSUMERS, BOTH IN CARPETS AND DRY GOODS, MORE THAN WONDERFUL. THING IN WASHINGTON. once THE CHANCES WERE NEVER BETTER TO PROCURE REALLY HANDSOME CAR- PETS 80 CHEAP AS BEFORE THE WAR. HOLIDAY GooDs. Retnrock HOLIDAY GOODS, Ss 919 PENNSYLVANIA AVEN The public are of FINE NGS. Pc FRAMES and finest stock of VE FRAMES ard LYONS 8! ever op-ed in thts o SRLS, NAILS, RINGS, Prices very low. deck! (Deext invited to inepect my CHROMOs, EN Nas. PL 4 ES '! 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You will find a 24 and 50 cent TUY DEPARTMENT, A429 and 60 cent FANOY ARTICLE DEPARTMENT, An unsurpassed DOLLAR DEPASTMENT, TOYS AND FANCY GOODS, And the Basemont is packed with ROCKING HORSES, DOLL CARRIAGES, WAG ONS, SLEDS, SHOO-FLY HOSES, ROCK ERS, WHEELBARBOWS, CARTS, &c., Banging in price from 50 cents up to $12. COME NOW. . B. SILVERBERG, METROPOLITAN DOLLAR STOKE, 312 SEVENTH STREET, _deca-tr Nerax Pexnstvaxia AvEseR, NEW GOODS FOR THE HOLIDAYS. New York Buckwheat, New Pranes, Dew Vork Sweet Cider, © New Tamarinds, New York Butter, New Figs, Oboice Roll Butter, New Currants, Silver Drip Byrap, New Raisias, Stabler’s Corn, French Candies, Canned Fruits, Canned Vegetanies. In store and fcr sale as low as at any house in town. WE ROAST OUK OWN COFFEES, CHOICE NEW CKOP TEAS. P. P. LITTLE & CO., decd-t242! Cor. 8th and E streets, Navy Yard. GBEAND STOCK FOR THE SEASON AT EUBOPEAN PRICES. aa. ‘2,000 Ibs. French Candies, eee Oil sons 30 to 40c. per Ib. be a ag Msingn drapes t3.porib LEMON and OBANGE PEEL 2c. per pound, STABLEB’S OOEN, finest in the market. Cc. WITMER, Rovas-tr 1918 Pennsylvania avenue, re AT HEILBRUN’S, re 402 7rn STREET N. W, CLOSING OUT SALE OF $60,000 WORTH OF GENTS FINE STITCHED BOOTS, PIANOS, &e. ~~ | PESTIMONTAUS IS FAVOR OF THE CE’ BRATED CHICKERING & SONS PIANOS AND THE Famovs WEBER PIANOS It ie very oncert ofp quality Your tpstroments posseas nobility and power of the tovch, harmony, t avd preatay. and thi of perfrctions,to U 5 of ‘least pretensions witl Gnd moans ot ng from them acreeable effects, and ( such prodocte—whicu truly do humor to the art of thy comtructton of instraments—the role of th. ert them tgrit Simple as that of the public; the one bas Diand them conscientiously and With qggtre satisfa tion, and the other bat to pi 1h the same man In congratulating you « and Geciaive saveess obtained Paris, | am pleased to a: ation of he same tn beard Apri ne { estoen a “rely pon the @reat the Ex poet tiotpate the Rappy laces where your enthoeinen very grent 2 Weber upright Many thanks, autiful upright p thee he Acad My Ftiest wishes tor n JOHANN STRAUSS. ss timony te certaiuls agreal con at to an P tn . au obs pa jar. — New York a re ae ' ant’ Strauss tn call ber Pianos 2 ertainiye high com Pliment for Mr. Weber, She writes as follows July 23, my de erand pianos whic any rmaire a. The ton tao powerful, tint t# inv retarn t hem thr love pln; tog the conatey ARABELLA GODDARD THE WEBER PIANO MME. LUCCA AN y PAULINE LUC A J/OUN F. ELLIS a ce., 7 Ponnsyivania avena SOLE AGENTS FORK THE ABO iANOS Also, SMITHS ANEKICAN OKGANS. 4 Wren STerwars riayos nae EXTRACT FROM THE OFFICIAL REPORT JUBY ON MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, EXPOSITION UNI\ ERSELLE, VIENNA, i575 MAESTRO PETRELIA, Pr HEKL DIME t View Pr Prof. Dr LISSAJOUS BALVATOKE MA Dr. RDWAKD HA F. CERVENY. fe» JOHANN HELZFE . HKD GALAIT, NO FURUTEr, Spain, NKENS. Belciumy WEBER, Switzerland La LOCHE.R Dr. OSCAR PAUL, Prof { the Catwers Leipzig, Oficial Bi r Jury op Musiont Inetromemts Vienna World's Fair, i AR, September 34, 15 that tor pears you Atter ® with w hich I romal Pea to Drillie finger ral admiratic m that modern act preduced. STEINWAY & SON'S PLANOS, A large assortment of GRAND, SQUARE aed UPRIGHT PIANOS alway on band @ r 6rS8tand METZEROTT & CO Ex, Jan, 1, 73. de W.G New FREE THe DECKER PROS ; PATENT PLANO, After having examined the Piano Fort Messrs. DECKEB BROTHERS very carefally, bave come tothe conclusion and cheerfally testify, that they are in every respect superior instr Their tone is pu rich, brilliant, very distinct, and of an entirety nv ‘Their work mansbip is of the very best, plainly demonstrating that pone but the beat materiats ased, aud their touch, evenness and quality of tone throu ut the whole compass of the key-board, onsurpased by y other pianoforte we have ever seen, THEODORE THOM4S, WILLIAM MASON 5. B MILLS, Fu. TER. TH. BUNAWITZ, ALFRED H. rEark, DECKER BRO.'S PATENT PIANOS, G KUHN. Agent, 632 New York Avenae, PIANOS! der to make room fur my newsteck of Pisnow which Lampow receiving, LD will sell for « sh: tine at greatly redneed prices. I mention in cehtratd STECK FULL GHaND PIANO, & cated SUC ALE Gia ND PIANO of the world.-re- Sowned fake tf Wa. Kosbe & Co. Boaasiful ent fort ye At the agency of Wo ae a on Sand Wn McCammon's Cel- brated yO ‘iene Lr rent, and Sxcbange en a Ce PIANO WARBROOMS, 423 Lith stroet, above Pa. avenue, G*®4t REDUCTION LN PBICES! SCHOMACKER & CO. CELEBKATED GOLD MED. vente cal character. anos taken in ACH s PIANOS, Teeived the