Advance, The (Newspaper) - January 23, 1873, Greenville, Pennsylvania Babys One step Two steps bless the little feet Three steps move the tooties Tour way to go Rye steps that was bravely Six steps dont you like the f Seven steps never mind the Eight steps the beet of Nine steps what not tired yet Ten steps little Eleven steps turn and Twelve steps mammas arms again The It is strange what a world of What a watching Hangs about the its music to sit in her And Im not ashamed to tell Its heaven to catch but her She rubbing the well might madden The stoniest slave of In if you want to know sweetness And deftness and magical Youve only to look At the You as were off on a Borne duties must fall to the girls So Mary is boiling the who wouldnt be an old kettlo To mirror those tumbled And sing near her heart for Charley and by tho Are opening pickles and peaches The others are making a table like the fox in the Sit vainly and look At the f Shes swear And sober that mischievous laugh Willing A follow cant Though she knows how I long to ask Or guesses it mere than Which answers nearly as I ask her what To go a short way in the And always Jove Is she flushing Over that What if I roee and took cook MERCEK Mine by the grand old beeches Mine by the pickles peaches Mine I by tho rippling brook Mine by tho Mine by the starlight tender the cook SHE TORN The date was that of the civil war be tween the Parliament and King Charles The two parties had taken up and were carrying on the The kings array had been de several and those of his adherents taken with arms in their hands were led before judges appointed by Cromwell in every to be con as Sir Nicholas one of those He wag a man of but without fanaticism his de votion to the new government was well and Cromwell had a special es teem for His weakly constitution did not allow him to serve in arms for the cause which he thought the just but he was looked upon as the most ac and I would give years of my life to be able to shake hands with him at my At that moment a glass was held out toward Sir who lifted his eyes in It was the royalist who laughingly proposed a toast To the memory of the torn curtain at Westminster But upon my Sir your memory is not so ac curate as It was not twelve blows that I but twice having exposed another to and not at once declaring myself to You are right now I remember but in what a situation in what a service exclaimed the Tn the service of my Sir Nich I was not going be the first of my family who had played the My father has already died in and I expect no better Never mind 1 only ask one thing God save the king With these words the royalist return ed to his place among the and continued his That very after having given orders that the prisoner Vas to be well he left home without saying where he was and was gone three On the fourth day he and ordered the royalist officer to be brought before Are yon going to settle my affair at length asked he It is time to do were it only for They treat mo so well at your Sir that before long I shall come to wish to retain my My said the a grave but iu a voice trembling with twenty years ago you said to Do not meddle with the for the cane hurts Here signed by the Lord Protector but in my turn I say to Do net take up arms against the for Cromwell is not easy to deal Funeral I can imagine what is going en in Honolulu says a letter du ring this month of for I was there when the late Kings Tic David Kalakaua a of the Household how is for a title is no doubt standing guard now over the closed keeping out all whites but officers of State and the Christianized heathen are howling and dancing and wailing and carrying ou in the same old savage fashion that obtained before Cook discovered the I lived three blocks from tive and as well as the most vigor when Victoria was being lament just magistrate in the One evening Sir Nicholas was at supper his family and a few of his when a band of soldiers arrived with a royalist whom they had just succeeded in It was an cer after the rout of Charles had been vainly trying to reach the find means of escape to Sir Nicholas ordered his hands to be and another table to be placed near the It is my said and I wish to finish merrily the supper which I have Give refreshments to this chevalier and the At present I would be his in an hour I will act as his The soldiers thanked and sat down at the table near their who did not appear to be much affected by his position and fell to on tho pro visions set before him with as good an appetite as any of Sir Nicholas returned to his place at the head of the large table and resumed the conversation that had been inter by the arrival of the soldiers with the I was telling he contin fliat at the 15 I waa still so weak and puny that every one scorned my feebleness and took advantage of it to I to endure Uie bad treatment of a then that of my Courage in boys is only the consciousness of their My weakness made me a and for from hardening the roughness and harshness to which I was exposed made me only more shrink ing and sensitive to I lived iu a continual state of but above all I feared the masters Twice I had suffered this cruel and I had preserved such an accurate remem brance of the that the very thought of a third infliction made me tremble all I was at Westminster as I have already told The forms ware taught in a large room to and were separated one from another by a which we were ex pressly forbidden to One Sum mer day drowsiness had overcome me for a moment in the middle of a Greek lesson then a slight noise starting me out of my I only saved myself from falling off my seat by catching at the which was close beside It i my and to my horror saw that I had made in it a tear big enough to see the next class masters turned round at the and at once perceived the damage that had The blame ap lie between me and boy nexi the curtain on the other aide but my confusion jointed me put as the and my master angrily or dered me to come and have a dozen of the I got like a drunken man I tried to speak to ask but fear had glued my tongue to my mouth my knees trem bled under me a cold perspiration broke out on my The instrument of punishment was already raised over when I heard some one say Do not punish It was my fault It was the boy on the side of the He was at once called for ward and received the dozen My first was to prevent this un just punishment by confessing the truth but I could not summon enough to do and when tie first blow had been given I was ashamed to When the flogging the boy passed near me with bleeding and whispered to me with a smile that I shall never forget Do not meddle with tke curtain The cane I sank down in a fit of and they had to send me out of the Since that day I have been disgusted my and have done all I to overcome I hops 1 have not been altogether And do you know this low one of his you ever seen him again He was not IB any form and left the school soon Ah God knows that I have often wished to meet with the gallant and for thirty nights ki succession the mourning powwow defied All that time the christianized but mor ally unclean lay in state in the I got into the grounds one night and saw some hundreds of half naked savages of bofh sexes beating their dismal and wailing and caterwauling in the weird glare of in numerable torches and while a great band of swayed and jiggered their pliant bodies through the intricate movements of a lascivious dance called the they chanted an accom in native I asked the son ef a missionary what the words He said they celebrated certain admired gifts and physical excellencies of dead I inquired fur but he suid the words were too foul for translation that the bodily ex were that the capabilities so and so glorified had better be left to the He said the King was doubtless sitting where he hear these ghastly praises and enjoy That the late cultivated Kamehameha And mind one of his titles was tke Head of the Church although he was brought up in tho religion of the and educated in their schools and col he early learned to form of and had im the English system and an Eng lish and bossed the works him You the that is making the night hideous the palace grounds where Majesty is lying in Texas Cows as Here very few farmers have barns or even sheds for writes a Texas farmer to an Last Septem ber I reached this I am a and coud get neither milk nor butter for family I accordingly bought a cow and paying therefor The calf was the cows second At the first milting the cow gave me one pint of I gave her some corn which she ate but on offering her some corn she not touch I then bought some bran at 10 cents per mixed it with salt and but she would not go near it she would eat nothing but grass and corn I mixed bran for her every day for three days before she would taste She then licked the salt the of course getting some of the The next time she ate a quart of Then I gave her some and bran of which ske finally ate and her milk increased in one weeks time to two quarts per milk or one gallon per I feed her one bucket of seven ears of and two bundles of oats night and and now get three quarts at a We put the milk in a crock by the fire and let it set there over in the morning we pour the mornings milk into what we obtained the night and at night churn the and get from to 1 pounds of butter from Hie two From my limited I judge this cow to 1 for I have been told that it did not pay to feed cows here in Winter I find there are very few who do Last week we had very cold rain and sleet for two During that time there were thirty to fifty head of standing in an open lot near my and not a mor sel of food did they get in that except the dried brier stalhe ki the VERY Cou freight trains were snowed in during a late storm between McGregor and The snew was packed in tight that the snow ploughs had no ef fect on and it had to be shoveled out All that could be seen of some trains of a brake pro Have i trading above the and nothing but tke smoke stack of the engine mark ed the whereabouts of the The thermometer ranged from 20 25 de grees below the blowing a perfect The drivers of the relief lost on the As a romantic element in national history the redmen have lost nearly all the idyllic character with which tile genius of Cooper graced his aboriginal and degenerated into the comparatively and truculent succedaneum of mere kid Warring as ever against the inexorable encroachments of the white these unhappy ghosts of the old romance can no longer afford to indulge inthe idealities of friend and revenge and hence the modern personal episodes of their steadily weakening and frantic death fight involve more of despair ing last resort dramatic or pic The capture of wo and children as hostages against present or future discomfiture is the event most commonly yielding what little is left of Indian romance in these and such an occurence is the be ginning of the following savage story from the Topeka Commonwealth In 1868 a predatory band of raiding from the southern wilds of their own Territory into Llano visited the place of a wealthy cattle dealer named after various captured and carried away a boy of eight years son and grand son of the joint proprietors of the The older Friend and his knowing the Indians habit of de white children as prisoners un til one or more of their own warriors might be redeemed captivity by did not believe that their lost lad would suffer any serious vio and accordingly resolved to re lax no measure for the childs recovery while they had life and means to follow the flying Father and grand father were together in the pursuit at the start as the story is told the former seems to have been dis early in the long leav ing kis father to continue tiie march So for several years this old man devoted liis whole time and means to trailing the captors of his grand child never tiring under any nor turning back for any hearing that the band he sought was here or there iu the vast trackless prairie or woods of the Indian and had its hostages a little he rode and tramped onward indefatigably over and spent at least Continually breaking their en and moving by circuitous ways further toward tho the as has been elud ed aged pursuer and all his de agencies for four years in the meantime treating their yonng hostage not though training him to forget In the fall of last a party of white under Major came suddenly upon them not far from the Kansas and in a sharp battle killed many and captured The cap tives of this affray were taken to Fort and thither followed the remnant of the routed band to redeem their squaws and children with the white Thus was the latter restored to his grandfather at though in such bar barous guise and assimilation of as made him seem raore like an Indian than an When lately on his way homeward with the old man through in Kan he had learned to remember his proper name and regained some facili ty in English but his and ideas are still those of his late asso he delights in talking in the Comanche tongue with those who can converse with him and months if not years must elapse before he con have been rehabilitated in civilization to lose the wildness of kis experience in the redmans Had to Pay for The suit of Jean Picot against to recover for personal came on for trial in the Twelfth District Court of San Picot alleges in his that defendant was the proprietor of a grocery and used in his a and vicious and on the of plaintiff was walking along the the horse carelessly driven by an of who was too young to be intrusted with such an animal ran against and so severely injured him that he was unable to attend to his business that he was forced to employ a physician and purchase medicines at a cost of in denies that the horse was wild and or that he was carelessly driven by a person too He also denies that plaintiff was so seriously injured as to incapacitate him for Defendant alleges that he was using kind gently driven that the horse became suddenly alarmed and ran away with the and that before he could be stopped by ordinary human prudence and did strike plaintiff and inflict upon him certain but not to the extent alleged in the Tho defendant had to pay THE DEBT THE as sessed valuation of property in all tke States and Territories of the United according to the census of was The nations of the world more money than this mighty stretching ocean to and peopled with forty millions of would bring if put up at Among the heaviest of these debtors which owes Great Brit the United 82 000 SHOULD BE Journal of Health asserts should rest until she has taught her daughters do well the following things To moke a cup of coffee to draw a dish of tea to bake a loaf of bread to cook a potato to broil a stoak or chicken to and moke a dress to set a tidy For every woman to BO understand these seven as to be able to do them er to teach others how to do them would bring material comfort into thousands of who suffered BO much for I teams were badly Nor TOO Dearme that is a charming Its new to Have you ever heard it Algy think I of Arthur I The snowwhite or Tha snow lies dont recollect I and its all the same The My has sold but and is going There has been a Hans around Simpson for some time trying to pur chase his At last Hans got Simpson thinks he sold it at a Doubtless Hans thinks he got it at a I had an errand down to Simpsons the other I had not heard that he had sold his farm but upon my entrance into the I saw by the look on the faces ef the family that some unusual was ani mating youre going lose me for a was Simpsons first words after I had got settled in the chair his daughter Sal ly handed me and the whole Simpson family looked at me as if they expected I would jump out of that chair on ac count of the with a suddenness and force only equaled by an explosion of glycerine under But I did I simply Hows that Ive Sold what The To whom That was the whole I didnt need any further explanation but Simpson pro to say You see the old farm is completely run I cant moke the two ends meet the Ive got tired ef tumbling around the and Im going where theres some virgin soil that will produce I struck up a trade with He has been after off and for a year or I wanted per acre for the old He offered me Finally lie offered me 830 after considering the subject I told him I would take it if he would pay me cash Hadnt any idea he would do it but he said if I would throw in the stock and farm im he thought he could raise the I finally told him I would and what do you Sir He hauled out of his greasy old pants pocket a and handed it to me to bind the and said as soon as the papers were receipted hed pay me the which he has done I feel kind o sorry to part with the old place but the thing is and theres an end on it What dye think All this time my Crumple nature had been rising within me like on inspira Here was this man Simpson who inherited this one of the finest in the who had skinned it without scruple until it would scarcely raise white beans under his system of And he had got to or mortgage the farm of his to live on Then here was who came into the neighborhood with his lot of little ones and his frau five years with only his and his fraus strong and willing economy and They had rented a wornout farm which they had finally and paid and had saved with which to pay for Simpsons 100 So in answer to What dye think I was ready to respond and I did in What do I think Im glad youre neighbor Simpson Im glad Hans has got tho He deserves the farm you He has got brains and industry you havent got Under your management the farm is a disgrace to tho Hans will make it a Your farm lying next to depreciates the vakie ef my land 10 per I shall be the richer for your I am glad you are have seen Simpsons and his They grew cloudy and Simpson said Youre pretty rough on an old neigh now that hes I thought you and I had always been Ive tried to be good and ac Youve been a good one to and Im sorry to you but if you are glad Im Im not serry let us understand each As a so far as intercourse is Ive no fault to and am sorry you are In talking about you as n are and always have been n poor No man with such a farm as yours ought to want to least there ought to be no necessity for sel But you are not a You got a single quality to make a good In the first you detest the business you dont take any pride or interest in it you dont care whether your land improves under cultivation or not you want to get all off it yon cnn without taking the trouble to pay anything back you skin it year after and cry out against the sea you denounce every man you deal with as a sharper or swindler be cause yon do not get the prices for your products people do and yet you do not seem to know that the reason is that products ore poor in quality and put on the market in miserable shape your stock has been running down ever since your father died you havent built a new fence and scarcely repaired an old one your manure has not been hauled sut and judiciously used on the farm your pigs have both ered your neighbors more than they have benefited you your cattle have become and I have had to shut them up in my stables in order to keep them out of niy grain yon have distributed corners mere weeds than any farmer know and thus your tidy neighbors more trouble than your favors to them would In it is time for you to You ought to have a virgin farm It will take you but a few years to strip it of its fertility then youll have to move and keep You belong to a very large class of farmers who are a curse to any The is yon are never and never will be a farmer in the right sense of that Yon are only a You live bv of the soiL And it is not neighbor Simpson You had better seek some other vocation now that youve got the ash to start You like you know horses you can talk horse frem daylight till dark you be fooled with horses you like to trade horses you had better go into some smart town and start a livery make money at it youll never making any money farming grow poorer poorer the longer you attempt Just then Sally Simpson clapped her hands and said Thats Havent I told yon so Mother and I have often talked it over Crum and you are just as right as can be and father knows it if he would only say I know yon too well and youve done us too many kindnesses for us ever to forget to believe that YOU have talked to fether ki the way you out of any unkind It is every word of and you ought to neighbor for talking just as he thinks I do and I dont think a bit the less of either Then Sally burst into and Simpson drew a long breath and sighed in a way that indorsed all Sally had said and Simpson got and cama over to me and said I do believe your right I only wish you had talked to me in that style ten years It shant make a bit of differ ence in eur good feeling toward each old fellow and 111 never forget how you once saved my there Simpson enough of Its all If I can do any thing for you before you let me and he shook my hand with a strong grip as I passed out of the back The Sandwich The natives of the islands number only about and the white about chiefly According to the natives numbered less than a hundred years But tke traders brought labor and fancy di other deliber infallible For nearly a century the natives have been keeping up a ratio of about three births to five and you can see that must result No fifty years a Kanaka will be a curiosity in his own and as an investment will be su to a I am sorry that these people are dying for they are about the most interesting savages in Their language is soft and it has not a hissing sound in and all their words end with a They would call Jim Fisk for they will even do violence to a proper name if it grates too harshly in its na tural These people used So go but the missionaries broke that up in the towns the mem wear clothing and in the country a plug hat and a Nothing but religion and education could have wrought these admirable The women wear a single loose calico that falls without a break from neck to These natives are the the the most unselfish creatures that bear the image of the Where white influence has not changed they make any chance stranger and divide their all with trait which has never yet been found among any other They live only for to day is a that does trouble them at I had a native boy in my employ in graduate of a missionary college and he divided his time between translating the Greek taking care of a horse of Whenever this boy could collect his he would go and lay out the entire all the way up from fifty cents to in poi whick is a paste made of the taro and is the national and coH in all the native ragamuffins that came along to help Him eat And there in the rich un der the tamarind the gentle sav ages would sit and gorge till it was all My boy would go hungry and contented for a clay or and then some Kanaka whom he had probably never seen would in vite him to a similar and give him a fresh The Missing Much apprehension continues to ex ist in regard to tko actual whereabouts and condition of the Swedish arctic ex under the command of Pro which to Spitzbergen during the past as already consisted of two steamers and a sailing vessel and the whole were known to have reached Sreen on the west coast of 4th of Au On the 1st of September the steamer with the sailing vessel iu started to pass Hinlopen the other the following two days The wag the only vessel expected to winter at Parry the other two vessels intending to return as soon had escorted their companions to their anchoring But as at the end of October nothing had been heard of the two it was feared that with a fleet of Norwegian had been stopped somewhere in the and it was thought they had not a sufficient amount of provisions to keep them through the The Norwegian government accordingly determined to send an arctic steamer to search for the lost vessels and the of the Norwegian left on the 10th of No for the succor of the though it is feared she will be unable to penetrate the It is by no means certain that the Norwegian sailing vessels are with Professor expedition but it is thought that neither party has provisions enough to last till March or in which case there is great danger of their freezing or starving to Contest for a Bankrupts Life An important question was decided in the English Vice Chancellors Court by Vice Chancellor Malins as to the per son entitled to a sum of money payable on a life policy effected in 1869 with the Law Life Assurance Company by a Samuel who became bankrupt in The contestants were the as signee in and under the circumstances the company paid the money into Without going into the facts of the we shall to refer to one point that is of great im to the large body of traders take the assignment of the life policy as collateral security for indebt It appeared that the assignee for value was the first to give notice at the head office of the Company but it was contended on behalf of the assignee in bankruptcy that an equivalent to a notice had been previously given on his behalf to the country agent of the com The Vice Chancellor was of opinion that notice of an assignment of a po licy given to the country agent of the assurance company was not but that notice to be valid should be given to the head whence alone an answer could be He said that an assignee Jb bankruptcy was just as much bound to use diligence in given notice to an assurance company as an assignee for for he af forded an opportunity to the bankrupt to commit It ought to be held in memory that assignees in j are in no better position than assignees for and that it is as incumbent upon the former as upon the latter to sovereignly of the popular foreshadow the policy of a na The Sew While pausing to contemplate the ad vent of a new fraught our destinies in an immediate it is but natural to cast a retrospective glance upon the as upon ot matters which have transpired we in base anticipations of inci dents to The year which hus just closed upon us has witnessed many scenes of national and domestic tending to inculcate durable lessons as to our conduct in the We have passed through the excitement and trials of a presidential and emerging bowing in deference to the we can tional government for a term of years before This important fact deter have we no reason for rejoicing that the clouds obscuring the political horizon have been dissolved and a calm and undisturbed sky dawns upon smiling benignantly upon our common prosperity During the same period we have heard of many domestic if they have not been brought directly to our teach as a the many uncertain the numerous afflictions universally attending prosecution of a aim in an ambitious We have witness ed the fearful ravages of devastating sweeping away portions of of towns and of We have been presented with records of innumerable disasters upon the surface of treacherous of marine through fire and of commer cial and what fs more of human almost at eve of the new years we were called up on to mourn the sudden taking of and good the tenor of whose entire mortal career had been an exaltation of intellectual and industrial while the moral of whose sudden death contributes a noteworthy lesson as to practical value of a solitary life in the management ef our prosperous While we cannot bury memory of times thai are we welcome the promises of the newborn year with sin cere Bygone afflictions are mere trying the energies of national and personal existences simple passing through which we ore rejuvenated shaking off forever errors and Have we no reason to welcome the New Years coming with joyous if not with a veneration similar to that with which the pagan worshipper was wont to adore the rising sun Assuredly we have not one but Our beneath a republican form of government denied struggling humanity in other parts of the rich and grown more prosperous with each ad is blessed with peace abroad and at Every section of our broad domain not only offers fields for honest toil and honest but invites simply the industry of the coming year to lay basis for unlimited profit and prosperity And as we the journey of renovated life it should be not with care and trepida but with a gleeful a stout heart and a merry Happy New Year These are no words of meaningless no canting phrase of idle no delusion a thoughtless On the New Year we are for it would be in rebellion to the laws of nature to be inasmuch turning our back upon the we stand at tho portals of the made joyous through anticipation of promised blessings and brilliant by the mere burning torch of And in the of our happiness we are prompted to communicate a portion of it to our for we have within us a wealth of which we can never be in any degree Happy New Year In the mouth of schoolboy it is no mocking in friendly for his little heart beats with an honest enthusiasm that another year is to be added to an existence of harm less Uttered by a man of mature years it is a solution of agement that others may prosper as he has Falling from the lips of ven erable age it is an of sym bidding youth hope and the povertystricken to be of placing their trust in the rebirth of whose course works Ta king all sources of enjoyment into con it is not singular that New Years Day is the most popular and most scrupulously observed of festivals in this cosmopolitan city of and the only one although thoughtlessly absurd in some bids fair to to the end of our municipal Then let us drink and be for the dark days of positive toil and trouble have comparatively and the dawn of a new light is upon A French The Figaro apropos of a reward of one hundred dollars offered in its columns for the return of five recalls an incident which occured a few years A having lost a large offered a reward of one hmn dred but with very slender ex of regaining his Much to his a man came to him a few davs to announce that he had pocketbook containing the missing seven notes of one thousand francs He forthwith proceeded to say in returning the he had only done his and for no but that times had lately gone terribly hard with kim that he would be grateful for the hundred dol lars as a to be repaid so soon as fortune began to The worthy much protested that the proffered reward was nothing more than a meet recognition of his and thanked him Before leav the restorer of the purse begged him to see that the number of the notes was and they were forthwith When the man the mer chant repaired to madames apartment in great He told superlative honesty to his story of an admiring half mechanically re commenced his examination of his Horrible to a close examination proved instead of be a thousand francs they were for that number of other the notes were so besides the original the merchant was minus the their title by giving due of raised pounds of popcorn on two f our cents o or But little intelligence kas been re from the ava It is asserted that twelve men The slide came from the a distance of a with frightful speed and The storm prevented any warning of its approach being given until it was upon the lines of teams passing at the point where it crossed the and sacks of were washed away like The body of snow where the force of shovelers are at work is very and excavation is very Sweet Home in A writer in the Journal tells the following related to him by Payne Payne had strong sympathy for the red mans rights and and without thought of exciting anger expressed his kindly feelings to any one and every It was at the time when the people of of the Indian had suffered by massacres and night fires and till they could endure the outrages no and President Jack son was favoring the removal of the tribes to the west of the Travelling alone as Payne with out much so simple fand out spoken in his it was not long before he excited suspicion as an In dian and when they reached the next stopping place it was whispered about that he was an in sympathy with the Indians who had so often com mitted terrible outrages upon the white as to exasperate every one to bitter enmity to them and on their Uot dreaming of the cause they took tied his hands behind most girlish man in the marched him off between two fully armed He saw his and began to tremble and beg and explain who he but to no On they marched for perhaps half a mile through thickets and passing toward an unusually lighted and respectable ap log It was quite late in the still the inmates seemed to be and as the party approached nearer they heard singing finally Payne could distinctly recognize the music of Home Sweet He protested arid tried to break loose and get to They held him One of the guard went to the in compassion for the to get some for he had Meeting an officer from the which proved to be the headquarters of some of the United States soldiers not long said tLey had brought of the spies of the Indians who claimed to have written some song about which I never heard tell The officers curiosity was hearing the song at the some went immediately with the guard to see the whom he found stretched on the What is your name asked the Howard said the prisoner only a little over i is it possible said the Unbind him and bring water at or Ill blow the drains out of every onp of yo take some of handing him i rude camp while ho raised his lead with his own hands that he might Soon half was earned to the There the whole matter was and our hero was soon in as comfortable a room as could be surrounded by officers and who did everything in their lower to calm and comfort the author without a home Cheated the the wife under of death at com mitted escaping the gal A local paper Jim fellowprisoner of Wil iam entered the cell a ew minutes before two oclock and found the wretched man in the agonies of death by Taylor at once gave ho alarm to the jail who called in In order to give doctors opportunity to do the pa ient justice in their he was removed from the cell in which he When brought out in the passage way a was brought into by means of which it was loped to remove the swallowed y the dying Emetics were also but without and Cluck died in about half an hour from he time ho was first seen under the in fluence of the fatal There were present at the time a number of his fel the and one of the He died and seemed luring the last few moments to be in rat little The corpse was laid out and dressed in a plain black and in an hour or two after it was placed in a coffin by the An inquest was held over body of the but the evidence produced merely showed that the man died of The crime for which Cluck was con to die was instigated by jeal Born in England in Cluck was a resident of East Tennessee at the breaking out of the late wara widows with two He went to Indiana and enlisted in the Seventeenth Indiana nf and while on duty as a soldier at in he mar ried his a Clementine the mother of one The two he removed to and the war being over rejoined them and made the city the place of his per manent A couple of years later he to his that his wife was not a as he had sup but the of one Frank who was not as but still alive and in correspondence with This to gether with after suspicions of adultery Dn her part with two citizens of Indian drove him to hard and when drunk he would unmercifully abuse her and her and once he even attempted to kill Unable to Eut up with the hard she at tst left him and went to tho honse of a to applying to the courts on April for a Cluck at heard of this application and became making many threats against her getting drunker than and then going to revolver in and with many compelled his wife to start with him for his On the way the woman tried to when Cluck chased her and shot her seven killing Same of the shots were fired into the body even after life had Cluck then made a weak attempt to commit su icide by cutting his throat with a com mon and cured of his he was taried for murder in the first and sentenced to be hung on December and was sub sequently respited to January 3d by Facts and Austria wants an that of The convicts at the Peni average days wages of 55 making The Lucy at is the largest in fte United and produces about 580 tons of pig An Iowa man bought a chair at a dol lar store the other and before night he fell through the same and broke couple of his TJie Methodist being little to see how patroni zing the new school of sceptical is to the The Postoffice Department decided that neither nor companies can combine to rent and use the same postoffice During the first nine months of 1872 England made away with gallons of gallons more than she drank during the corres time in Over seven thousand kangaroo hides have been worked up into fine boots for the young men of San They are said to excel the patent leathers as a dress boot for I wish you would pay a little atten tion to what I am saying roared an irate lawyer at an exasperating wit I am paying as little as I was the calm The very best way to clean a stained steel knife is to cut a solid potato in dip one of the pieces in brick such as is usually used for and rub the blade with Those who believe nothing often make others most as the best actors in our theatres are those who re tain the most perfect command over their voice and Two men exert themselves to no pur is the man who tries to have the last word with his wife and the other is he having had the last tries to make her confess that she is in the A French chemist has devised a new form under which raw beef may be ad ministered without being disagreeable to either taste or It consists of the lean meat chopped and dried in an air current and The wife of a railroad employe in At lanta thrashed a barkeeper for selling him treated the master of the machine shops to a similar dose for giving him and took the ated individual home by one of his The Chicago having bonsted that one of its carriers has fallen hoir to the Louisville Courier says that if one of their should pay the slightest attention to BO contemptible a they would dis charge him on tho Imogen Brown has been engaged to sing forenoon and afternoon on Sun days Bartholomews New at a In the evening she is to sing in Christ for another thus realizing from her beautiful voice and culture about a A divorce has recently been granted to a Hindostan woman for the singu lar reason that her exercised over her such an over powering mesmeric influence that when ever she was in his presence she liately foil into a sleep from which there was no waking Two doctors one Have you heard how our friend Wilson is He died re plied the How cried tho first I did not think he was so ill aa What could yon expect said tho in atone of Ifa trusted to his own A system of for your Vied in the sew buttons on your husbands shirt do not rake any grievances protect the young and tender branches of your family plant a smile of good temper on your and carefully root out all angry and expect a good crop of The Vermont Legislature passed an act at its recent session prevent the use of The first sec lion reads as follows Any person who shall without point or aim any at or toward nny other shall bo guilty of a and shall bo subject to ft fine riot more than fifty dollars and not less than five The wool product of tha entire or rather that which finds its wny into amounts to about 000 including Russia in produces pounds Great Britain and pounds the and the ted pounds Austra The officers of tho Masonic bodies of warn the Fraternity and the public against a lottery under the name of Gift Con cert for the purpose of aiding a board of trustees to erect a Masonic Templo at and state that it is earned on without the or of any of the Masonic bodies of that city or State and that lotteries and gift en are contrary to the principles of shot Fisk on the first Saturday in and was convicted of murder in the greeon the first Saturday in Fisk died on the 6th of was sentenced to death on the 6th of The Chinese Sew Of all the tho and the heathen Chinee has says an among much of what seems to us child ish the most enlightened custom that ever blessed Other people settle their accounts at the years end so does the variously according to their various kick up their in joy if the Chinaman kicks more ob than we do we can afford to pardon liim because he is only a poor He burns yaper money and before senseless stocks and stones he lets off firecrackers innu and rejoices to be hid in a cloud of gunpowder smoke ho drinks whose fault is we wonder too much of Melican mans bad whisky out in and tho police do fol low But if a poor Chinaman can while we have been building and pulling down our debtors establishing and breaking bankruptcy and divers other civilized follies to secure each of us in his rights of depraved Celestial has forgiven his debtors every New Years and started again with cleaned In the mother it is deemed so disgraceful for a Chinaman to be unable to square ac counts at the years end that the high spirited debtor frequently ends his woes i by It is noticeable that this barbarous and heathen practice fades rapidly on our Western coast in the light of the grand American TAKING rr all policies of life these among a host of other questions occur Age of if living Age of if A man in the who filled up an made fathers if 120 and his mothers The agent was amazed at this and fancied had got an excellent subject feeling somewhat dubion remarked that came longlived y replied the i many years bu be aged as there J said
