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BLACSFIODS. SJUI Carrls Heady Tsrtnred Death The Crlsss vVblen Celered Han nad Wlfa in itMwd-Tht JtafftfUn Adapted Cnlld Hrrft Tnat 6ftrm ur-TiMir rt an (MMM'i Inawes. Salem (J. Cot. New York Sun.

Four or five ruileswest of this place, al- most surrousded by a branch of Mannington Creek, ta a hamlet inhabited solely by colored people. The surrounding rtvulet overflow! in the springtime, so as to couTert the low land along its banks into a wast mora. from which throughout the summer is beard the ceaseless chorus of frorfs. When first founded, a score or more years ajro. the settlement was appropriately named Krogtown, butof UU an eubrt has been mads tochsnge this designation to the more euphonious title of Marlborough, apjarently in honor of the (treat Duke of tjueen Anne's time.

Frogtown, or Marlborough, has not a single white inhabitant Its two churches have colored congregations and colored dominie. Its school has a colored teacher, and its single fitiire. where the villagers resort to drink hi! rd cider and gotwip o' nights, is kept by a brother. Tha village contains about -ty or fifty houses. Inhabited by ns many di.

it-rent families, Small as the popalation is it has its social grades and cliques, and its i'T ten give parlies without inviting their nfhbors. Frogtown's Vaaderbilt, too, computes bis wealth with figures far enough I I np in the thousands to make the rich men. of some larger towns envious. About a year ago John Griffin and Ra-' be ota, his wife, a colored couple from Wib niington, added the ruse Ires to this colored They were a shiftless pair, and it lied solely for their support on the muskrats and as mud-turtles are called here, which John caught in the -neighboring swamp. Tuey would eat por-tisns-of the first-named before selling tlieir 5kj us, and so alrnder was the income derived from the sale of their game that weeks would pass with no bread in the tumble-down shanty they occupied, and no flour to make it of.

Despite their poverty, one day last apnng tne woman urougnt a colored girl from Wilmington, whom, ahe ahe bad adopted. The child. who said her name was Carrie Moody, according to all accounts was, when first adopted, plump and active, or, as they say ui rugvow UVM.T AID FKAKT. She soon, however, began to lose flesh, and seemed to no longer have the strength to move around. 8 titled sounds of weeping and wailing, nMngled with the tbnd ot blows.

and the child's person exhibited cuts and bruises. On being remonstrated with by the neiirhliors. Mrs. iriftin declared that the fluid mother had ordered her to correct the child whenever there was occasion, which, she added, there continually was, as Carrie was both a thief and a liar. Time went on until one day, an unseasonably cold Friday in November, the ncghbors saw Carrie from morning until evening in the shanty's yard barefooted and bareheaded, and with her young body protected only by a worn calico frock, which was open in front, and did not reach below the knees.

All day long the child stood out La tlie cruel wind, the neighbors not daring to offer her shelter, for they have a superstitious regard for the maxim, mind your own -A few nights afterward, as late as "twelve o'clock, the Criflifls door waa heard to open, the thermometer ranging far below the freezing point, and the unfortunate child was again thrust out to shiver in the cold. -It was an hour or more, the negro neighbors say, before the door waa again opened to her. boon afterward, and as a consequence of exKMurcs, sores broke out on the victim's feet, and her toes, especially the large toe on tha let foot, showed signs of mortification and once, as a neghbor happened an un- usual occurrence to visit at the Griffins, John Orillln cut off the toe with a razor. At about the same time, Mrs. Gritlin called another neighbor in to hold the child while ahe VUT oirr uaa tohsis.

As a punishment for lying, and the woman actually did hack at the little girl's palate until a portion afterward fell off. What lying Carrie bad done was to reveal, on being questioned by some of the neighbors, a small "part of the cruel treatment with which her adopted parents afflicted hex. What ahe had told about were terrible burns on her hands and arms, produced by Griffin holding them to the stove, because Carrie, half starved, had dared to help herself to the cabbage that was boiling in the pot. The thefts of which Mrs. Griflin accused Carrie were all of a similar character.

Rendered ravenous by being left without fod for hours, and, if the neigbbprare to be believed, for days at a time, A CARRIE WOULO SNATCH BREAD Fronf ahe table, or take jt from the cupboard, aud then, with large gads or sticks she would be beaten "almost beyond endurance," one neighbor says: "Starved, beaten, frozen, with her wasted body covered with wounds and 'bruise, growing weaker day by day, Carrie Mxly was on tlie verge of tin; grave Lel'ore the patience of the long-enduring iieighbors was exhausted, and one wrote an anonymous letter to 'Squire Wodtl, of this place, detailing the crime that wan being committed betore the writer's eyes. Mr. Wood not unnaturally paid but little attention to this chnrge, for which no otic was responsible, until a negro woman from Frog-towi), whom he knew, appeared, and said that the letter was written at her instigation. This was the week before Christmas. lr.

Wiley visited the Griffins, nnd on his finding the condition of the child to be worse even than it bad been represented, Griiiiu was arrested. His wife, however, had gone to Wilmington to visit, it is said, a child ofherowu, whom somebody had adopted as be adopted Carrie, and the problem was to induce her to mine back into New Jersey. where she could be arrested. Her address waa obtained from a letter that ahe had written to her husband, and on Constable Car-nie telling her of Gritfiu's arrest, and that her testimony was necessary to free biro, ahe eaino back to this place, where she was immediately imprisoned. The couple were then committed on a charge of aggravated assault on the person of Carrie Moody.

Meanwhile, the little victim of their cruder, after spending- a few days in the care of Mr. Gibson, a kind-hearted neighbor, who knew of. but had not dared to tell of, her sum-rings, on' the day after Christmas was moved the County Poor-house, about two mile from Woodstown. There she grew weaker and weaker, and hem raoxcx ran MoaTirtcs) 8o much that astipulation was deemed necessary by the physicians, to save Krr front lockjaw. Accordingly, on New-Year's nighyj he left foot 'was amputated above the tH)oinls.

The child's system waa so writkeued by want of food and other deprivation, that she sank rapidly under the' ahock, aud died of tetanus twelve hours aft- -co-ward. An Inquest was htld last week, and the verdict was that Carrie Moody came to her Ct-ath by violence and cruel and inhuman treatment, received at the hands of John and Griflin. lu above narrative was compiled from 1 the evidence given at the inquest, and at the 1 -examination of the Grtulns before Carrie's tfcath. Although the witnesses were re- 3cu untto testify, fearing vengeance iter he should get out of custody, some were graphic in their description of the dev- iltry. A man who lived in the loft of Griffin's story-and-a-faalf cabin told how the frail building was repeatedly shaken by the child's body being dashed against the floor, All bore witness to the stoicism with which Carrie suffered under torture, fearing to cry out lest her punishment would be more severe.

She never more than moaned, they id. The child herself, at the i'oor-house, i KvUied the alleged facts about her tongue being hacked, and her hands held to the stove. I The writer yesterday visited Grittin and bis wiJe, who are now in talent Jail, having been enmmitted without bail to await the action -of the Grand Jury, which meets next week. Grir.in was 'found smoking a pipe, and with li dL bare. He wa the center of a group of CiioiC'l persona, lie is IXTELLIGKT LOOKING JiEORO, Ar.J LfJi cunning rather than brutal In rer'X to qut'ons, he pro-fznorance oi any violence that his wife might have used toward tins Moody girl, as be from borne much of the v.me,nd be declared himself guilUesa of id-trestuient lio had enemies, he sabl, alio slandered him; negroea were always of each other.

To others, however, confessed to cnttiDg off Carrie's toe, 1 tbe putting her out in the cold, al-i he avers that the door was not ea- -t ut "jDst her. Griiiiu was the sole occupant of the quarter of the jail, fehe is an ill-i ii woman, and nbe scowled with evil eves ir ia under the red handker-i liat serred tier for a turban. 'X eve Grd, ef I was so clear o' sm ex Fm 1.ur;.u XluxX chile, Td no need to pray," F-ii 1. tht-n toll how Carrle'a mother had iven her daughter a bad name before ahe i er, and advised her being whipped. ri l.

hardlv a vard hiffh. ilrs. Griilin i 1, r-iling- her cyts in horror, had been and had broken Into bouses. wjs hj tha h.aJ "ilckei Ler but as for beio-; the cause ol bf-r death, GI knew sl was Ura, Irrinla piousJy con-clnded. There is onlv one excuse brought forward in behalf of theGriffina, and that is that, if they did not trive little Carrie Moody sufficient food it, was partly because they bad not auiScient for themselves.

BOXaKCE OF TLSLtLE BIB. IV Eesesnea af at DatblarPesrwith a Bsakr't Daaxhter-Haw tbe Tar rati I1m mt Jrey ILondoa Weak. Januarr Mb. 'Now that we are witnessing the closing flays of the old Bar, Jwhich for about two centuries has marked the dividing line between Fleet street and the Strand, it ia tioasi-ble- Uat our readers may take an interesn a little romance which occu rred nearly a century since to a member of the great firm of Messrs. Child who then carried and still carry on the business of bankers, at the house which adjoined the Bar on the south side, under the sign of the "Marygold," though it now pasaea by the prosaic uauie of No.

1 Fleet street. The "Marygold," as far back as the Stuart times, was a tavern which stood upon this spot, whose customers bore no very high character' for moderation in their cups. It waa next door or very near to two other taverns, the "Apollo" and the J'Devil," familiar haunts of Ben Jonson and other topers of former days. Some relics of these taverns, including a board painted in letters of rold with Bacchanalian verses, are pre served to this day in an upper chamber of the bank of Messrs. Child.

Mr. Robert Child, a grandson of Sir Fran cis Child, erst Alderman and Lord Mayor of Liondon, and at one Ju. V. lot the city, was head partner of this celebrated firm during tue nrst tew years, wben Ueorge 111. was King.

He was a careful and thrifty man, not to say a trine iKianotn; and he had not only traded, but hud lived till middle age with the aiga of the "Marygold swinging back ward and forward over bis head, lie by no means a youth when he removed with his family into the then fashionable quarter of Lincoln a inn lelds. and bad seen more than fifty summers, when, in 1767, be pur chased a house in Berkeley Square, winch. till within the last four or five years, has been the town mansion of his ueacenaants, the Earla of Jersey. 1 One day Mr. Child asked Sheridan, who waa his neighbor in the country, to write for him a lay sermon, which Sheridan very Kindly promised to do.

As tt waa nut money which he had to pay, bheridan kept his promise, and took tor his text a verse in St. Luke's Gospel, which speaks of a "certain rich man." In his discourse he described the personal character and conduct of Mr. Child with such accuracy that no one could possibly mistake as to the person whom "the cap fitted." Child never quite forgave the preacher. The truth is that he was not only very penurious; he was also very pepud. ILe had married a daughter of Paul Jodrell.

who was highly connected among the county families of her time, and had relations, who, on levee days and drawing-rooms, had been used to pay their court to George IL and his (jueea at Kensington, though she consented to become the wife of the owner of the "Mary gold." This marriage brought to him one daughter, who waa born aliout the year 1762, and to whom he was much attached. He named hertiarab, after her mother; and, in truth, be had good reason to be proud of ber, for she grew pp to be very pretty and very charming; and when ahe "came out," in the spring of 1780, she was looked npon aa one of the belles of the season, and it was prophesied that ahe would marry a Duke at the very least. But she was not destined to win the strawberry-leaves of a Ducal coronet. For the tuau of ber choice she waa content to look two degrees lower down among the grades of the peerage, and to secure an Karl waa the point of ambition at which she aimed. Her father, however, did not regard her views with satisfaction.

afternoon a certain noble Earl, a customer of the bank, was dining quietly ttt a fete with sMr. Child in the back parlor under the sign of the "Marygold," no doubt with a view to discuss some question of a loan or a rob table investment. When the money question had been aumciently considered aud tle port had passed freely round. John Fane, Karl of estmoreland for he waa the visitor turned round somewhat abruptly to the old banker aud said: "Mr. Child, I wish for your candid opinion on the billowing case: Suppose that yon were in love with a yountr lady, and that her father refused his consent to her marriage with you, what would you think of doing?" "Why, I should run away with her, of course, was the answer of Mr.

Child, who, at the time, bad no suspicion whaLeverHbat the question waa one which had the slightest reference tohiiu-self or to pretty Miss Surah, who was just eighteen, and whom Lord Westmoreland had met once or twice in society. The dinner over, Mr. Child returned to his suburban mansion in the far West, having dropped Lord Westmoreland en route at his liciiclor lodgings near Leicester Fields, aa they then were called. A few flights afterward, while the old gentleman was quietly dozing alter dinner in bis arm chair, a post- chaise and four drew up under the shadow of the plane-trees which bad then been newly planted in Berkeley Square. At a given signal a young lady stepped into the carriage followed by ber lover.

The postboys drove or rode off aj fast as the four hones could carry them along the northern road which led toward Scotland. It ia said the young lady waa enabled to make her exit from her father's house by the maid being bribed to drug the ever-watchful duenna, who slept in the outer room of Miss Sarah's chamber, and who did not awake till the night watchman of the square, one of the old "Charlies," knocked at the door in the middle of the night and communicated the fact that "the bird was flown." The next step was to call Mr. Child, who, old and penurious as he waa, at once took a post-chaise and pursued the runaways. They had had some hours' start; but whether Mr. Child had the better horses, or whether he had more relays than the young people, np one knows; but certain it is that he overtook them when they were already close upon the Cumberland border, and only a stage short of the famous terminus of Gretna Green.

Finding himself BO hotly pursued. Lord Westmoreland, who carried pistols, after the fashion of the time, and was reckoned a good shot. stood up in hia carriage, and looking back out of the window, anot tne leader ot Mr. cnud a chaise, and ao caused the vehicle to break down and capsize. This bold measure gave Lord Westmoreland and tue fair oompauion of hia flight time to get aafe acrooa the border, where the accommodating Jalackamitb was in readiness, with the prayer-book open at the matrimonial service, his wife standing by as clerk said witness Mi one.

'ilia pair were married and retired to rest at the inn before Mr. Child could overtake them. A marriage thus performed in Scotland by a layman, it is needless to add. was at tnat time as valid as if performed by the Archbiahop of Canterbury in Hanover Square, and what was done on Mar 20. 1782.

could not be tin- done even by the House of Lords or all the liunops ou the oencu. And what course did Mr. Child take? In stead of making up hia mind that "wnt can't be cured must be endured," and reflecting that the holder of so ancient an earldom as that of Westmoreland was, after all, an excellent match in worldly sens for a plain banker's daughter, be allowed his pride to overcome nis sense, ana inrew nun sen into a furioustassion. He vowed that he would never forgive Lord Westmoreland for what he had done, and kept bis word, tt itnin a year he was numbered with the dead, having never recovered the blow. He lived lone enough, however, to witness the birth of a little granddaughter, to whom with dutiful kindness the young people gave the name of Sarah, after ber mother and her grandmother.

Thi -delicate attention ap pears to have touched ms leeungs. as we mar surmise from the fact that be drew up will leaving to the child bis large fortune. The infant, on reaching womanhood, married, in 1804, the arl of Jersey, to whom ahe brought as a dowry her partnership in the house of Messrs. Child A Co. The Lords Jersey themselves and their families have ever since borne the name of Child in addi tion to that of Villiers; and the present Lord Jersey.

Sarah's grandson, is not shamed to own himself a partner in the bouse, which still rejoices in the sign of the "Marygold." It may te added that in tne nrss noor front at Messrs, Childs', through which entrance was gained into the uppcT chamber of Temple Bar, there may atill be seen a full- length portrait ot fcaran, uwt jersey, painted ty Sir Thomas Lawrence when she 1 1 L. 1 A .1 vAm was sun in vue jtnuc vi tuuiouuw, aud that the portrait will ever be regarded as one of the chief heirlooms of the house. In the bank iUclf or "shop" as it is al wars called, by a tradition which dates from the daya when bankers wera goldsmiths also let into the wall above the inner doorway, is the identical 4'Maygold', which once looked down upon the pavement of Fleet street. It Is rumored that Mr. Manton Marble, who is a widower.will soon be wedded again this time to a wealthy widow.

Mr. TrLDEit will spend a part of the Winter ia ami a srir.iT. tXliune mrom Well gap est Tav Shade of Jaba Brack ly, IVb Heltber Lived Se-r JUlsd. Cellared bjr a Plan er, ud Twrata Oat Dr. erdai Hlnalf-A Free FlabS la Seaaee Bwotav.

Philadelphia Times. The spiritualist world has now another opportunity to rise and extUain. Dr. Henry Gordon, bogus materializer, was grabbed last night while playing spirit. Aleaium Uordon, next to the Blisses, is the smartest, most suc cessful and most audacious ot all spiritual humbugs.

His wile is the notorious woman who lived with Dr. Harbison in his Twelith- street harem, and who is now a fugitive from justice, with three bills of indictment, grow ing out of Harbison's crimes hangin; over ber in the Quarter Sessions. Gor don formerly lived in Chicago, but his wife. to rid herself of him, had him placed in the Cook County Axylum for the insane, and then ran away with another man. Atone time she was the most intimate friend and resided with the mother of Josephine Mans-J Held.

James isk well-known companion. She is a relative of Koyal Sammin, charged with being the principal actor in the terrible Kelaey outrage on long Island. Uordon found bis wife in Harbison's house, and when be wanted to see her aha bad hint arrested, charging biiu although be is womanish himself with attempting to shoot her. He was tried in the old Court-house, and after a tm'O days trial be was acquitted. be formerly resided in New York he played medium, but was caught one fine night and partially exposed, the grabbing being somewhat premature.

Finding himself in Philadelphia, be again started in the materialising fcusineen, and moved from bouse to bouse, meeting with varying -success, tie unally located in a targe, mie-looking Spiritualist boardi ng-house at 1017 Fairmount avenue, and here hm gathered around bim a seiect circle of credulous cranks as ever fed a medium's maw. Recently a young ludy residing in the 'lower portion of the city attended one of his seances and saw a form which was represented, and which she believed to be, the spirit of her dead mother. The young lady fainted. Since then 6he had been almost crazed upon the subject. Her friends determined, if possi-lbe, to cure her.

First, they gave Gordon a test. On Monday night of last week among other a furin appeared at the aperture in the cabinet with a long, black beard and black hair. Bunco, au Indian chief, who controls the medium and wlio announces the spirits, but who himself ia never visible, called out: "Brightly! Brightly "If that is Brackiey John Brackiey, perhapsl might recognise Lint," aald one of the young lady's friends. The form disappeared. After the seance the young man informed Gordon of the circumstance the medium, ot course, was in a trance and knew nothing of what transpired at the scancc-and informed sum that his friend Karkhry died in Pittsburg tnree years ago.

votne said tno LHtctor, "and lHtrhaps he may talk to you." a arnuT that kkithkb ljved mob man. Ho such person as Brackiey, by the way. ever existed. On Thursday but. when the next seance was bald, sure enough John Brackiey appeared.

"Great Heavens said the wicked young man, "what a remarkable resemblance! That is, indeed. Jack Brack-ley "Urackiey! liracKiey!" called-out ronco. Me bronght him tiiat time." John Brack ley's capture was then deter mined unon. and. that the vounar ladv miizht be saved from ending her days in a mad house, she was invited to attend the seance last night.

Dr. Gordon room is the eeona-9torv front i the Fairmoimt avenue dwelling. I is ar ranged with knickknacks and ribbons, jttstas a woman would oeauuly tier apartment. Around on the walls hang oil paintings, executed by the Doctor who swears that be can not paint at all wnue lie was in a trance ami controlled by spirits. Even acceptirur the Doctor's oath as verity, it is not difficult to imagine how he could have daubed the paint on the canvas without the intervention of The pictures are a criminal libel on the arrrats in the spirit world.

The' Doctor himself baa long, tawny hair, a longer and a tawnier mustache, and he swings hint-self and bends his head from side to side like a damsel in her teens. His chief assistant is young Mr. Suidam, with black hair and black mustache, but with the same feminine airs thathis chief is afflicted with. The price of admission to Gordon's seances had heretofore been twenty-live cents, bnt finding the room crowded last night with thirty-two persons he at once raised the rate to fifty cents. A Comroittee of Three, consisting of Mr.

Lippincott, a Market street auctioneer, and his two sons, waa appointed by Gordon to examine himself and the cabinet. The cabi net consisted of a curtain stretched across a corner of the room, and behind this was another curtain, merely thrown across a wire. The Committee examined the cabinet and found nothing. Gordon tlien stepped behind the foremost curtain, and after he had time to hide a few articles behind the rear curtain he invited the Committee in to inspect him. They striped him of nearly evrry article of clothing and found nothing.

Then all the lights in the room were extinguished except one Argand burner, which had its "tongue" or lever cut out, so that the light conld not be raised above a feeble glmtnicr. Suidam was placed on one side of the cabinet, and a tall, long-wiiiskered man, named fc-tetson. who was appointed manager of the seance, sat at the other end. snaiTS or DxrABTKD rarainM. A hymn was started, and faces appeared at the aperture.

Dr. Do Young, of Fifth street. near Race, recognised Jane Uallagher, who had been killed by a fall. Her brother, he said, who was in business on Second street. above Arch, recently failed.

Mr. Lippincott thought he recognized the face of a middle-aged lady who could not talk. Mr. Lippin-cott's eldest son walked to the aperture. when the name "Henry" was called.

When be returned to his seat be said: "Tluit was the spirit of my brotlter-in-law. lie attempted to recover a valuable kaife that bad fallen into the water. He waa mistakes in the depth and waa drowned. I know it was he. because ne bekl tne kuite in hia liana.

It is, indeed, a remarkable circumstance." The only figure that walked from the cabinet was "Helen." Mr. Stetson said she would not come out unless all joined hands. Her bead appeared black, there was a white handhercbtef around her neck. and ber gown was black. Dr.

Gordon had evidently taken the rear enrtaia from -off its wire and girdled it around his waist. Helen shook hands with Suidam and the youngest Litppmcott. Helen dematenaiized. sinking into the floor, and a chorus of "wonderful 1" "remarkable I went up. At last there appeared at tne aperture the black-baired and black-bearded individual who represented John Brackiey.

the friend of the young lady's friend. Some ridiculous Spiritualists, however, persisted in recognising him as John Shedwtek, formerly an en gineer on a New Jersey railroad. The spirit, however, persisted in being John Brackiey, and so John Walsh, a South-streei plumber. who has been creeping into the confidence of the medium, was called np to have a talk with John. Mr.

Walsh walked to the aper ture and then stooped a little to peer in. The curtain was between htm and -John Brack- ley. The lean-looking Spiritualists looked on with apparent enjoymeut. A number ef gentlemen of substantial form who were sprinkled through tho audience, looked solemn and serious. JOHH BRACK LXY OBaBBXS.

Suddenly Mr. Walsh sprang forward and grasped in his arms John Brackiey, curtain audalL That little room became a little pandemonium. The substantial-looking gen tlemen each lumped to tneir teet and each collared a pugilistically-dteposed Spiritualist. A young man in the rear struck a match ana lighted a plumber's lamp, with which Mr. Walsh bad provided him, and with this be lighted every burner in the room.

The women mounted the chairs and screamed. The young lady who bad seen the bogus spirit of her mother laughed until the tears came in her eyes. John Brackiey, still be hind the curtain, kicked and struggled in a most mortal never a word said he. A big piri tualist the capturi ng party was not large enough to hold more than a portion of the audience in check ran to John'a rescue and struck Mr. Walsh in the eye.

Mr. Walsh lost his grip, but as the spirit slipped through his arms he quickly put bis baud through the aperture and lifted John Brackiey 's scalp a little skull-cap of black silk. The spirit did not dematerialize, but ran to the other end of the curtain, and here it came in view as Mr. Henry C. Gordon, the medium, and here it was seen to stuff a black beard beneath its vest.

Mr. Walsh, buried beneath the ruins of the foremost curtain, which his last ci utch had brought to the ground, disclosing the fact that the rear curtain bad been removed front its wire to "Helen's" dress, was being poked with Spiritualists' umbrellas. Meanwhile, in front of the cabinet, a regular free fight was progressing between the Spiritualists 'and the ex-posers, Daniel Snyder, a burly photographer, being attacked by Manager ritetson, picked the Utter up and threw him headforemost a-rainst the wnll. Mr. Jonathan Roberts, of Uurlmgion, New Jersey, caughtMr.jSnyder by the arm and was himself grasir by the throat and thrown into a corner.

Gordon having escaped from Wsi-h ran quickly (mm the cabinet into the middle cf the "room. where be was caught by a young man, who threw him on his Manager Stetson this immediately before' he was thrown against the wall pounced upon, the young man. Gordon was again up, and running quickly through the fighting audience reached the door of an adioininr apartment. Here be was agaia laid hold of by another youne gentleman. Who inrew mm ver a small stove.

Suidam struck; the gentleman in the eve. and Gordon, who bad fallen upon his back, turned the stove over onto his as sailant, and, quickly rising, escaped from the roorA and do am stairs. Mr. Itoberts and a few other Spiritualists were highly indignant over what they termed an outrage. Many ot the spiritualists, now-ever, laughed at their own lolly, and quickly left bouse, and, in fart, many ox them who joined the exposing party bad attended the tearica for the purpose of investigation.

but detected the humbug when the spirit waa grabbed. After- a vain attempt to re cover tlieir admission fee the ex posers left the bouse in triumphal procession, with John Brackley's silk black wig in their pos session. ARE SHACKS MAJf EATERS! C'aartwalye Teatiaaeay etve a.M ef ctre sWaeattwat. The question of whether the shark had not been maligned in heing cnargea wjtu tue crime of tuan-eating having answer ia 6an Francisco, a correspondent tf the Chronicle of that city provides the following thrilling testimony on the auoject: Noticing a statement in your issue of the 3d instant to the effect that one of the Fish Commissioners Kr. Bedding bad flatly denied the man-eating propensities of the akark, of any specie, and I happen to be cognizant a cues I unit will settle the question in regard to the propensities oi at leant -one the shark, I send yon au account ef it.

The victim of the occasion was a seaman by the name of Martin, one of the crew fd the United States ahip Saratoga. During a cruise of that ship on the West Coast of Africa in the year 1844, while taking on water at St. Thomas, a email island on the equator, about 300 miles from the African cuoat, Atartia met bis horrible death, which i waa witnessed by at least twe-tbirda of the' sbip'aerew, who happened to be on deck at the time of its occurrence. The snip barge was coming off from shore to She ahip. Having smooth water and a good breeze, she was using her sails instead of oars, and bowling along at a good rate of speed.

When she arrived at the proper position, Martin, the coxswain, put bis helm hard down, to sheer the boat alongside of the ship, and in' doing so pressed too heavily on the tiller, wben ft broke, causing him to lose balance and fall overboard. The boat, being tinder1 sail, ctrald not ee stopped readily, and shot ahead alongside the ahip, leaving Martin in 1 the water. He being an expert swimmer, no danger was apprehended of his drowning. The oflicer oi duty srdered a beat so go and pacai nua up. tdiea the cry ex ebarc was heard, and the dorsal fin ef one of thuse dreadful lish appeared alwve the surface of tlte water in cJuse troximity to tue swimmer.

Then followed a lew moments of terrible snspense to the spectators, who gazed at the monster circling around its victim. But the suspense was of siairt duration, for, after swimming around the man two or three times, it turned and swam directly for luiu. The horror of that moment acuds a chill to my heart to this day when I recall it. One short, sharp, despairing cry from the swimmer and the cruel jaws of the monster closed vjpon him and silenced him forever. Tlie shark lashed the water into foam with its tail, then it disappeared below the surfaoe, and all was still.

A bloody patch of water and a hat floatiug oa the surface was all that was h)ft to mark the spot tie re a moment was a powerful Dwiminer battling with the watery ele- merit. Tlte Saratoga waa commanded by Captain Tatuall, somewhat noted' since in connection with tlie Confederate navy. Admiral Porroct, of the United States navy, was tlien a Lieutenant on board of her, and I presume there are others still living who belonged to her crew. From the foregoing experience I have arrived at the conclusion that whateTor may be tlie propensities of the sharks at San Francisco Bay, the ground sharks found within the tropics are decidedly man-eaters when tliey get a chance to indulge in that aort ot diet. There ia a iecies of shark found in the Chinaiica and around the Indian Islands, called by sailors tlie white shark, which is a very voracious fish, and I have heard some tough stories ef their accomplishments in the man-eating line; but as 1 have never seen these sharks I can not vouch for The blue-water shark, that is, the sharks 'that live altraether in deep sea.

away from land, are said to be harmless. I have often beard of whalemen being overboard among, them, from having their boats capsized or stove, but I have never heard oi any of tbprn being molested by the sharks. To the readers of the Chronicle I would say, never trust to the generosity of a shark, no matter under what name or species he is known, the Fish Commissioners UT the contrary notwithstanding. Yours trnly. Faaa.

Cowan. fcu Francisco, January.5tu. Tnoaxbt lie HadEm Azain. Cincinnati Sniffles bronght his two weeks spree to- a close on Saturday night. He lay on a lounge in the parlor, feeling as mean as sour lager, when something in the corner of tho room attracted his attention.

Kaisihg on his elbow be gazed steadily at it. Kubbing his eyes, he stared, attain, and as he stared bin terror grew. Calling bis wife he asked hoarsely: "Marindy, what is that?" "What is what, LikeyT" Sniffles" name was Lycurgus, and his wife colls luiu Li key for abort aud aeei. "Why, that that thing in the comer," said the frightened man, pointing at it with a hand shaking like a politician. "Likey, dear, I see npthius," replied the woman.

"What! you don't see it7" he shrieked. "Tliea Tve got 'em. Oh, heavens! bring me the Bible, Miranda bring it quick i Here, bare oa tads sacred book. I swear never to drink a drop of whisky. If I break my row may in right band cleave to the roof of my mouth, and" Here, catching another glance of the ler- rible object, be clutched bis wife and begged in piteous tones: "Don't leave me; dwn't leave your Likey And, burying his face in the fold of her drees, he sobbed and moaned himself iate a troubled sleep.

Then bis wife stole gently to the corner, picked up the toy snake, and threw it into theatova. By a Serateav Burlington Hawkey, Jaaaary lVtb. The other day Mr. Middlerib was running across a ten-acre pasture lot, i uat west of town, trying ta reach a seven-rail fence, if it might be, before a large brindie ball, with a curl in the middle of hia forehead, and a bad eye, reached and whea he got on the conservative side of the barrier ha said be just kept wondering all the way across if, in 1 case he failed to make his contract in time, the bull would have come Baahaa upon him. From the fact that Mr.

Middlerib walks now with two canes, and shows ab- Hit aoe bins-1 dred and twenty-eight square inches of new cloth in the after-guard of bis old trowsers every time he stoops down, it is inferred that he reached the fence, made his time and won the race, by a scratch, but honestly. Tub New Year brought death oa the scaffold to a poor wretch in Paris. Karly in the morning one of the keepers asked him if he would drink some "What's the good?" asked Corsenlce; "in a few minutes 1 shall be dead!" Wben he walked to the scanold he had to pass all the other prisoners, drawn up in a double line and every one raised bis cap as the condemned murderer went to bis death." Among those who saw bim pass bv was the man in whose in terest the murder had been committed. 1 As the knife gleamed in the sunlight this man's face was ghastly white, and a moment afterward be shrieked and fell to the ground tm-canscious. But the murderer was calm and self-possessed, even when tha knife feU.

Mostbeal and Chicago are the two cities most conspicuous for failures; Boston and Philadelphia for sneak-thieves; Cincinnati and Louisville for whisky-thieves; Washington and Hichmond for elegant Americans of African descent; New Orleans and Charleston for cotton; San Francisco and St. Louis for Chinamen; Baltimore and Norfolk for Cincinnati is also celebrated for true goodness. Mres JTajskah dm Rothschild, the bright and good young lady whom Karl Eosebery is going to marry, has a fortune of 8he takes the entirecharga of her property, landed and otherwise, and is an excellent woman of buainess. (She is not beautiful, but has a kind, earnest and sincere face. New Yobk Commerciai.

Advertifeb: More stations are to be established along the coast, t. several new ones have oceu wrccker-men-dead. Bridgeport Stvdakd: If the man who wnlc-s anunyinoi letters hns nver stolen t'-ccri, it is rotubiy U.9 fault t'f the sheep. ion: A. CLOSE L1IATE.

Slew Ensjiaeer 0SieI" Taaaed Fanr Ilereee Dmwm the Caaba aad Saved lllsTrmla. Chicago Times. "I reckon you've neern tell of Jim OTKiet, what was 'sassinated down at Bloomlngton the other night?" remarked Jack Key nobis to a reporter on Saturday. The latter acknowledged that be bad beard a good deal lately about the man referred to. Jack Reynolds does the stoking on one of the largest locomotives on the Chicago and Alton Railroad.

"Just wait till I toss in a couple of shovelfuls, 'cause time's nearly up, and we'll be off soon, and I'll tell yousomethin' about Jim." said the fireman, as he pitched some chunks of coal into the roaring furnace. "They don't make better eugiueers," he continued, "than Jim O'Xiel was. lousee. you ioias what ride bark there in them fine coaches, and play poker, and read the newspapers, and onlv look ont when a halt made, and commence readin and playin' agin when the train darts away with a shneK, a roar ana a rattle: you folks. I say.

don't kiow what danger is. No, sir. Just you come ahead here, and stand where Jim O'Xiel stood for eighteen years, and I'll bet your back will raise up sometimea, ju um much. He waa the coolest and the utoat hrast mnn what I ever see in my lite. He acted all the while just like he was ready to die any minute.

And do you know, be would talk to bis engine Just like a man would talk to a woman. He would pet her, and say sweet, sympathizing things to her. When she was seauin" oui ner lerei pew, runniu may ue torty mues an uour. jiu would look lier all over kind of affection ately, and say to himself, with a shake of his bead: ain't well to-day; I don't know whet ails her, but ahe am lectin last Jack opened the furnace door again and dropped in sorae fresh fuel on the slowing coals. "You see, he continued, "Jrm and me run an engine together Bve years, lust as me and mv bom here (bointinir to the en gineer who had that moment stepped into the cab) are doing now.

lie took me on when I was a green hand, and in all the years we stuck together he never epoke a cross word te rat, aud if he'd been a mind te be might nave pitched me out oi the can window any time, for be was a powerful man. I'm eot amid to rannlo' now. and I don't ever bother my head about what's goin' to happen but when Jim O'Niel first took me ou 1 waa awrul scarry, and oiven wished I waa oue of them farmers what we saw holdin tha plow in the neias as we passeo." Kiel had a great many narrow escapes. did he not?" interrupted the reporter. right he had.

replied Jack, "and the half of them ain't been told about in the newsmaners. Jim always knowed wben anv thine was coin' to happen. Once we had nine cars and a big lot of people, and we was rnnnin' to moke up lost time. It. was iu tt a little afore dark, and, takm his eye from off the track, Jim turned to me and 1 says he: "Thera'a trouble ahead; I feel it in my At hrst 1 kinder suspected tnat he was tryin to frijrhten me, but after a bit he said to me: 'D nit, I wish I could look round the big curve and see if the bridge is all That scared me mofn ever.

I noticed that Jim bad bis eye set right down the rails, but it was getting so dark that he couldn't see fur. The old locomotive was just pultin' in ber best licks, and presently we shot through the deep cut and out on to the high nllin' that ran to the bridge. As we made the curve at the mouth ofatle cut. right there in front of us, and not more'n two hundred feet away, waa four horses what was ruuruug their best down the grade to ward tiie bridge. I felt my heart thump agin theToof of my month.

If Jim hadn't looked so eool, i trae.ss I'd have tossed myself through the window; but I thought I'd stay as long as Jim did. He took in the chances at a glance. He know'd if Iheiu horses ever got to that bridge they'd tumble down 'twixt the stringers, and that when we struck em we'd jump the track and go through the bridge into the river, and Ood only knows whether any body of them hundreds of people would have lived to tell what I'm tellin' now. So, quick as a flash for, with a locomotive runnin forty miles an hour, you must dt your figureu' in hurry Jim slapped on all the steam. My God! bow she shot.

She uearly'jumped out from under me. In three seconds the old locomotive just picked up that bunch of beasts and tossed 'em ttotvn the oanas. nicy uian ny-of 'em live to see tlie hind car pass by 'em. "Whea my heart dropped back to its Jlace," added Jack, "I ventured to say to im, 'That was a close shave, wnsn's it?" but Jim never took his eye from the track, and never said yes or no; and, though him and me run together for years and years, he never once spoke of how he scooped them critters into the ditch, and saved Cod only knows how many lives." TIe fftmca the Black Hills. blacks Hills Cor.

St. Paul Pioneer Press. A mining camp is made up of all cla.sses of people and of all nationalities. Among those in the Hills that are pre-eiuinentlv original is Calamity Jane, or Martha Canary. Bom in the midst ot a wiid whirlwind of a dissolute life thrown when a mere child uion the cold world lor sustenance unedu cated, cared for with a mother incapaci tated to love her lather dead surrounded with sadness Jane crew up anionic the rough-and-tumble of the world, and is to-day what delicate society would denominate a strong-minded woman.

She is about twen ty-two years old, nas a dark complexion, high cheek bones, an awkward walk, receding brow, black hair, rather pleasant eye, but wben in passion emitting a greenish glare. Her movements are all free and unstudied, yet in no sense unbecoming. Her conversation as animated, ber language good aud ber heart warm and generous. She imitates no one, is an original in nerseit, de spises hypocrisy and is easily melted to tears. She is isenerous, forgiving, kind-hearted, so ciable, and vet when aroused has all the dar ing and courage of the lion or the devil him self.

Site baa been long is the kills; has been scout in the army; dressed to soldiers' clothes; traveled all over; scaled the mount- ins; rode horseback fought Indians, and. is now dancing in a huray-gurdy house ill Dead wood for a living. Wheu dressed in her own cur men ts she looks comely: equiped as a naanebe baa all tha character istics ot tne sterner sex, wita ner pistols, ner bowie-knives and other weapons of death. Monte erde is a woman about twenty-five years old. She ia probably tba most gifted female in the bills, has a somewhat large figure, dark eyes, dark hair; is a most excellent dancer and singer; has a quiet, unostentatious way, yet fuily self-possessed.

On the stage, in the role of a comic dancer or songstress, she ia greatly admired, in ber origi nal play of the Outcast (which eoa tains, I understand, only points in ber awn life) she ia an excellent tragedienne, and nerer fails to draw tears from ber admirers. When she first arrived at the bills she was carried oa a board (standing upon it) through the streets of Dead wood, born on tue anouiaers or lottr men. She deals "twenty-one," sings, dances, plays excellently, and yet mingles in the appears enchanted with, ber surroundings, and yet am quite comment sue muiks tor a higher and better life, which ahe OMtld adorn with honor to herseix and sex. Nellie, in Central, is one of the-wemen of the hills. No female attracts so much notice as Nellie.

Of course ahe is a gambler, and that here is not derogatory to oae'a charac ter. In the ordinary proprieties of every-day life you see nothing to find fault with, but seated at tne gaming table, surrounded with rough miners, Nellie looks ber best and ber worst best by comparison, worst by ber company not that ber companions are bad. but the place, the scene, the game. Xiut this is a free country. Nellie ia only twenty-oae has a very interesting face, a sparkling eye.

a charming way with ber; ner movements are graceful. Yet she lovea the cards. Kitty Le nor, wuo was killed by ber hus band only a short time ago, who then killed himself. was of small hirure. and bad pre viously been noted aa a jig dancer.

Ehe bad a large Roman nose, cold, gray eyes, a low, cunning forehead, and was inordinately fond of money. 1 saw her oitcn in her "Mint, which was opposite my office, where men congregated to squander their money; and as Kitty was a good player, like the old grave-digger, ehe "gathered them in that is, their money. Men are, in a general sense, fools. A email tress or golden hair, or a bright eye or soft voice will precipitate them into the ocean of folly, and women of the world (and some out of the world) know this fact and play upon the weak string of men's hearts until all is gone ruoney, character and even life. Kitty bad seen much of human nature, enteritis upon her wild career at the age of ten.

She was married three times, and died at twenty-eight. A polite and intelligent German met her. He was doiug weil with his gold claim; she knew it Like the spider, sue spun ber del icate weo about biiu until he poured into her lap in gold, and then when bis claim would yield no more she beat bim over the head with a bottle, and drove him from her door. One and auothef she married, and then when their ruoney was gone, discarded. raj-il succession.

Yet there i soicei-hir: peculiarly magnetic about Kitty. Men 'A love ber, and there are men living to-day who love ber memory. Well, she's gone. I saw her enly a short time since, lying dead by the 'body ef ber inanimate husband, with whom she said she would not live, but with whom she was obliged to pass quietly to the grave. Charles Utter has been a noted scout on' the frontier for many years.

He isasingular looking being small in statue, with, duck legs, thick-set bodylong hair, which falls down over bis shoulders, a mustache and goatee, strong features, a mild, pleasant eye, and his bead capped by a broad-brimmed hat. There is no braggadocio in Utter. He bas murdered no "pard," but has killed and hunted Indian. Never drinks, but mokes constantly. When out of bis particular line of business be deals "St," and of course, has bis Jenny with bim.

who ia as mild and pleasant a woman as Charlie is a man. Utter is very modesL hence newspaper corre- Sfiondenta don write him up: otherwise he would be and ought to be famous among the scouts of the nlains. Aunt Sallv" is a laree neirro woman, al most as broad as she is long, and living in Crook City. She went out in Ouster's first expedition, and was with bim when he first entered the bills. is a walking encyclo- dia of matters and facts connected with this country, and presents a very animated appearance when she rolls up ber great white eyes, shows her beautiful teeth and exclaims with earnestness and animation.

"I'se the first white woman that ever entered the hills." Of course, it would be impolite in tne presence ot a lady to deny the sott iro peacbcjtent, a I simply accepted the state ment as in every sense trae. THE BBOOKLKT. BV AKtlXC LACBA M4TTHKWS, Where the eeMofa eoaaeth. Where ao bunuui foot hath trod, Where no eye hath ever rested. Save the watch ml eye of Una; In the deeo and darkest shadow, UUb a lonely, unary look.

Over roclu and over pebbltw lows a tiny, restless brook. And I liste- te ttsiaonmir, As it creep nun atone to (ton Catch tfca aad, uah4ttd nme eightng this, "Alone! alone!" Merer human drinks lis water. Na aoe eocaes to hear awwg Zteta oly kaw the luwtis, As it slowly oows along. And afar I bear the riven Shaming as they onward run. And to each a nam is gi van, Names of honor every one.

Thu tliey meet and pan together Flowing onward band In uaud, BaaruMc on tbatr misaty bosoms Uieminm lor the wuitiuc land. Ultla brooklet, do not murmur. That thy breast aut so wide. That iby waters are not deeper. That no ship upon thee nde.

Wait yet for a name of boooc. Sing on in that undertone-Keep thy path forever Care not if it be alone. Keep thy waters pure and crystal. Let thy tune no ranrmur be Tbiuk thatooce themlxhtv rivers Cam from brooklets, such as thee. Feel the fliiuda are all thy kindred; (Hill preas onward to tlie light.

Thnn witt somewhere And the rirers. And tha sunahlite warm and bright. -WTHAT CHICAGO GIRL. ne lias Another TerrlMe Barkfsts; Fit Tba IHttAal Caatsfitlan of Mary Kir la -ABtatrterVMu Her ta Her Cell A Ucart-Beadiaf bcb. Some months ago the Observer chronicled tlie appearance of a phenomenal case in Chi cago, that of a girl who bad paroxysms in hicli she barked like a dog.

Thefnter- Ocean gives an account of the progress of her malady, with a truly painful description of its effects" The dreaded barking girl, Mary Klein, of: the North Side, has broken out again. At five minutes after seven last evening she was discovered in an alley near the corner of Lincoln and Uurlbut streets, braying at the new moon. A policeman had his attention called to her. but on his approach to arrest her ahe sped away like a Tightened fawn. Xo policeman on the force can be found who can run her down, and it is only by strategy and gradually surrounding ber that a num ber of policemen could nnaliy succeed in catching her.

Upon being raptured Mary Klein waa to the Webster-avenue Station, and there confined in a cell. A reporter of the Inter-Ocean, hearing of the capture of this barking girl the first one that has ever been heard of, and when she had the first attack of the singular affection, nearly five months ago, an incredulous public accused of assuming the singular malady went to interview her. When the reporter undertook this interview he had little tdea of the subject he had taken in hand. On arriving at the Webster Avenue Station, Lieutenant McAuiey kindly responded to the reporter's request to be shown to the girl. He was led to the aisle of cells, and when he entered this part of the building Le beard a sharp, quick bark that might have come from a black and-tan dog.

lie asked the Lieutenant, in an incredulous tone, if that the girl barking. When he stood by the door of the cell he saw a little strip of a woman's shawl through the tiny hole, and heard, coming from the cell, all the variaus kinds of barks that belong to the gamut of the canine voice. Then he began to believe in tho barking girl. The quick, sharp bark of tlie irritated dog; the low, wailing noise that a dog utters when asking to be let into a house the continued growling sound that tlie animal makes at night when a stranger draws near, were among the phases of this strange and phenomenal voice. The door is not opened, and the reporter wonders.

IIo is told that no one dare enter tliere all alone. Tliat the creature within ia dangerous; that she snaps at and bites all who approach ber, darting forward ber mouth at them while her arms hang listlessly at ber side; But the Doctor, the only one who can control the girl Dr Simon, who is the attending physician at tit- Joseph's Hospital is aent to and told tnat alary has been again attacked with her dreadful malady. In a few minutes he arrives at the station. As Lieuten ant McAuley pat the key in the door to let the Doctor into the cell the little crowd of neighbors around, who have heard of the girt before, and sotwe seen her, draw back, hardly knowing whether to ran er only to get a safe distance away. The Doctor, aa be passes in, ts met by the eirl atnrl possessed more than an average countenance, with symmetrical yet hardly seventeen years old, just blooming into womanhood.

As the Doctor tries to enter ah dashea ber bead and month at bim. while she barks with a low Badergrawl. He speaks to ber soothingly. Agaia she rushes at him and tries to bite, lie seizes ker around the neck with one arm and forces her back into the cell toward the little bench a which the prisoners lie. Quick, sharp, piercine barks, and canine wailinea follow.

1 and a terrible arrngjrle ensaea between the foctor ana uie gin, wno seems possessed with superhuman power. The crowd start back, afraid of the girl, but, after a brief struggle, the Doctor gains the mastery, and she is laid, with the help ef the Lieutenant, on the bench lengthwise, with ber shawl placed under her. The Doctor takes a seat beside ber, holding ber forcibly against the -sjrll, and still contiaaes to keep bis band on U4r neck. Alter a while the Doctor partially succeeds in quieting ber, though ehe con tinues to bark, gradually restoring ber to her normal condition by stroking ber fair fore- i a z.t- i i 1 ucau wiui 1113 uaou. Inquiries show that this is the third time sue baa been visited with ber peculiar ill ness, the last attack, having been about three months ago.

It is said that she bas always been fond of dogs, and baa been in the habit of bringing to the borne of, ber parenia, who live at No. 28 Sullivan street, homeless dogs. Nothing bas been discovered as to what was the first cause of ber malady, but it is remembered that she was first attacked wjth it last summer after bearing of the shooting of a favorite dog that had gone mad. She was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital, but she kept all the patients awaka throughout the night.

and was turned out because it became necessary. On this occasion the attack lasted through three days, or rather nights, for it seems that it is in the night that she barks, being comparatively quiet during the day. It is intended to apply to the Court for her admission to the Insane Asylum. As it is now. every school child in the neighborhood knows her, and rushes away in terror whea they see ber even a block off.

Her old employer, for whom she works when in a sane condition as aewing girl, in one of the large tailoring- enops in icKersonviue, epeaKs oi ner as a splendid and faithful working woman. Of the doctors who have been to see her before, it may De said mat two or tnem nave re fused to enter ber celL 5one have gone to see her a second time. xte id-Mars hax, Louis dk Benedlk, of the Austrian Army, is dead. He was a rian, and after righting against his 'country in IMS and 184'J became promoted in Italy, under Radetcky, to the rank of Major-Gcn- erai. -At bouorino be commanded tue right winu of tlie Austrian Army, but is not to be confouiiilfld with the Rcncdek who com nianded at the disastrous defeat of Sadowa, A Babe Eaten by TJoa-A Child Ret pen by a Bears mt Dasrs and Tan to Pieces in the Marshes.

Where it la Atappeaed ta Ilave Been Abandoned. Philadelphia Times. The marshes of Cooper's Creek, which winds through the eastern suburb of Camden, yesterday gave up a story of a singularly revolting nature. East Camden is an unimportant village, and though within the corporate limits of the city over the river is rarely looked after by the police. It is made np of farmhouses and scattering tenements stretched along the street, but above and below, on the creek, are several large factories.

Near oae of these, occupied by a Company who prepare fluids for varnishing, lives a laboring man named James Sheridan. nea Mrs. Sheridan arose on Thursday morning ahe saw through a window that looked toward -a marsh a nnraber of dogs gathered around some object. Later she beard the dogs growling fiercely, as though fighting over at what she at first supposed waa a bone. Looking out again, Mrs.

bheridan noticed that the number of dogs had increased to ten or twelve, so ahe armed herself with a dub, and about six o'clock started out to. drive the brutes away. Most of the dogs slunk off as she approached, but three of the largest stood over tlie object and showed their teeth. Mrs. Bheridan was near enough to see what she thought was the head of a child, but.

though resolute, made several wary movements before the fierce animals could be frightened. SKJTIKO OI TBS D06S. When a few muvulea had been burled by her, however, all three scampered away.with blood on their chops. Mrs. Sheridan was stricken with horror to find that the dogs bad leen fightim; over the dead body of an fant, about three years old.

Both legs bad been eatep off np to the knees, and the scalp torn from the head. Both arnis were bare of flesh, the entrails were protruding, and ira prints of the curs' teeth could be seen all over the little one's body. Pieces of flesh were found lying on the ground, where they had been dropied by the snarling brutes, rom traces on the eround it waa plain that the mutilated body bad been dragged a considera ble distance daring the night. Mrs. shendan gathered up the remains and took tbem to her house.

Whea her husband returned in the evening he communicated the strange dis covery to Coroner Roberta. Yesterday morn ing tue uoroner transferred the remains toT his office, on North Third street, above Fed eral, where a large number of gentlemen were admitted. The Coroner gave, iU as his opinion that the child a boy was aban doned, while alive, among the reeds along the creek, and that the dogs found it wben it was too weak to otfer resistance. TUX KXMAIKS XX AMIS ED. What was left of the bodv showed, unon medical examination, that at the time of its supposed abandonment the infant was in ro bust health.

The limbs were large and the face was round. As no missing child bas been reported at the City Hall for several weeks, and as inquiry throughout fcjtst Camden yesterday failed to throw any light upon the case, the lolicealso conclude that the boy was-left on the bank of the creek some person de sirous of being rid of him. Coroner Roberts gave the case into the bands of special officers, but at a late hour hist evening they were unable to report that any thing like a definite clue had been obtained. An old lady, residing near Cooper's Creek bridjre. said last evening that just after sundown on Wednesday she saw a middle-sized man standing on the bridge.

He had a child, ap parently about bve years old. u. -bis arms. It was crying, and, after looking over toward a bone-mill, which stands near the Am boy tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the man passed on, going westward in the direction of Camden. She could not describe the dress of the man further than that he wore a fur cap and a dark-brown Overcoat buttoned up to the chin.

MTbe Beautiful Bios Dsaok," The Danube, from it source to its mouth. in an air line, is 1,000 luiioa, but the stream is so tortuous that its actual length is 1,820 miles, and it traverses nearly twenty-three degrees of latitude and five and a half degrees of The Danube and its tributaries drain an area of 800,000 square miles. At Belgrade, the Capital of Servia, it receives the waters of the Have, and then pursues an easterly course, constituting the boundary between Austria and Servia, until it reaches the Transylvania or Eastern Carpathians at the extreme western end of Kouruania. Its course through this range is eighty miles, and the pass offers a great obstacle to navigation. The river is narrowed to less than half its breadth above, and in seven different places there are rapids and whirlpools, of which those in tlie so-called Iron Gate, below Old Orsova, are the most violent.

At this point, opposite the small village of Ticheviztha, the stream is narrowed from the width of a mile to about 180 yards, and with a depth, as far as can be ascertained from tfie violence of the current, of from 800 to l.OuO fathoms. Tlie mountains on either side are very lofty, nearly 6,000 feet high, those on the Austrian side being 1,000 teet higher than those ou the opposite bank. The mountains rise nearly sheer for about 3,000 feet above the stream, and, where not perpendicular, rather overhang the water. When the river is low, the sharp, craggy points of subaque ous rocks begin to show themselves above the stream, and between these the passage is most narrow, winding and shallow, and, in fact, can only be passed by steamers especially built for the purpose, of light draught of water, four paddle-wheels and immense power, and even these steamers make use of a channel cut through the ledge. Having passed the Carpathians, the Dan ube takes a southerly, course, forming the boundary between Roumania and Servia for a short distance, and then becoming throughout the rest of its course the boundary be tween Roumania and the Turkish Province of Bulgaria.

Below Widen it takes a turn to the east, which it pursues until it reaches a point thirty-two miles from the Black bea. Then it takes a sudden turn to the north. flowing in that direction for one hundred miles, to toe junction with the hereto, near Galatz. Then it turns again to east, receiving the waters of the Pruthf which marks part of the Russian frontier. After flowing east about forty miles, ia the vicinity of Ismail and Tultcha it is divided into several branches.

These wind sluggishly throQgh tbs low and dreary alluvial country known as the Delta of the Danube, and empty the waters of the great river into the Black Sea by three principal channels tha Kilia, 8ulina and ftt. Oeorge and. four lesser ones. The most northerly of these the ilia is the boundary at this paint between Buliraria and Rououtnia. and ia twenty-five miles distant frixa tha Russian boundary line, The rapidity of Its current in its upper course, its tortuous windings, the shallowness of the water in the portion which flows through Hungary, and in the outlets into tbs Black Sea, and the reefs, rapids and whirlpools which mark its course at many points, hare rendered the navigation of the Danube so difficult that its commercial use bas not been fully developed, Bfaaatlas; a tsy.

From Scenes in a Carust Camp. "Make my peace with Heaven bow can and no priest to bear my confession? Take me to Estella, that I may, at least, be judged." "Ban, bah I it's useless your wast ing wonu aim nine, uhds, uute my aovics; either say year prayers in yonder corner, or else ait down quietly to a final glass and another As may be imagined, Francisco did not readily abandon the hope of moving the cabecilht to mercy. He begged and prayed to be allowed to live; be reminded him of many incidents of their boyhood ue prumoseu a consiueraoie sum or money, wnicn ne nati ma away, ana or wnicn no one knew but himself; he entreated for sufficient delay that his wife and child mieht be sent for, bat it was of no avail the parti da chief remained obdurate. At length, growing impatient, the latter aaid: "Come, since you wiu neiuter pray, smoke, nor dnnk, we had better finish." and be rose to hia feet. Francisco, with a bound, was across the room at once, striving to unbar the window which looked out on the back, but he was quickly seized by the two partidas and.

dragged down. "JSow, this is behaving foolishly," said Rosas; "you see you are powerless. Again, will you have another glass and a smoker come, 1 do notswiah to be unfriendly; and I should like to see you as comfortable as possible at the last." Ves.yes," replied tne thoroughly beaten man sinking into a chair: yes, give me wine, and plenty of it. And see here," he con tin ued, with something like a smile hovering at tne corners of his moutn, "see here, since the smoke is to be nnaL let it be a long one not a cigarette, but a cigar." The landlord was summoned and desired to replenish the pitcher, and as Rosas possessed nothing but ciearettcs he was also told to bring a puro. 'Xlie longest and the thickest that you have." echoed Francisco, despondently.

And so the wine and cigar were brought, aud the cabacilla again resumed his seat lronting Francisco, whose gla-s he kejjt continually filled. Under the influence of the liquor tlie poor wretch jrrew recklts-ily humorous, anectinj; to treat the whole aT'air aa a capital joke, over which he and Rosas would lauh at some future day. But whenever bis somewhat unsteady face rested on the cold, expressionless face of tha cabar.il la be seemed at ones to realize the position, and instinctively he stopped smoking. Then be would with the quality of the puro, con.plaining that be could not pet it to burn, and making all kinds of difficulties when endeavoring tds relight it Rom at length started to his saying that lie really most bring the matter' (. 1 1 Mi, 1 1 iot.i"i.

a put exclaimed Francisco, in a thick, unsteady voice. "You have agreed to mv smoking a last cigar; if you want me to finish, you hid better give me one thst will draw. Here, it's out again," and he leaned swayingly toward the lamp, missing the wick each time be approached it. Rosas was now pacing to and fro, halting occasionally to watch the apparently futile efforts of the miserable wretch to rekindle the puro. Suddenly be came to a determination.

The revolver was drawn from its leather sheath; a couple of Strides of the sandaled feet brought him "silently to the back of the doomed man; the muzzle was quickly placed at the nape of the neck there was a sharp report, and Francisco and his troubles were at an end. BEATERS IX SCOTLAND. sV Plaea Prepared far Them by a Sfato qats Ilow Ike Animals Work. It is stated in late London papers that an effort has lately been made to reinstate the beaver in Scotland. In a solitary pine wood near Rothesay, Isle of Bote, a space of ground on the property ot the MarqWis of Bute has been walled in so that the beavers can not escape.

Through this beavers' iark runs a mountain stream. Ift to themselves the beavers have quite altered the appearance of this stream, for they have built no fewer than three dams acronsit; the lowest dam is the largest and most firmly 'constructed, as it would appear the beavers were fully aware that it would have to bear the greatest pressure of water. In order to form this dam these intelligent little animals have supported the down-streant surface of it with props of strong boughs as artfully secured as though a human engineer bad been employed ut the work. Immediately above this dam the beavers have constructed their hut or borne. This consists apparently of a large heap of drift-wood.

Upon examination, however, it will be seen that the stocks have been placed with regu larity and order, so that the general appearance of the beavers' home is not unlike a bird's neet turned upside down. The beaver gets into bis bouse by means of passages, the entrance to these passages being always under water. The inside of the house is laid out into apartments and galleries, and tha ground in the neighborhood of the house is excavated in all directions with the runs, boles end galleries which the beavers have made for the purposes of safety or concealment. These clever four-footad carpenters have cut down with their sharp, chisel-like teeth many of the trees in their park. They gnaw a wede-ahaped gap into one aide of the tree till it totters from its weight; they then go round to the other side of the tree.

and gnaw the portion of wood which alone holds the upper portion of the tree uprieht. They somehow or other manage to make the tree fall where tliey want it to go. This is-geu-, erally acrossthecurrcntof the stream. If the gnawed log is too heavy for trans port, they will cut it into pieces aud roll it along tbs ground. It is a mistaken idea to suppose that a beaver- uses his tail like a trowel.

Pictures of beavers flattening down the mud forming the roofs of their but are not un common in old natural history books. The beaver, however, never uses his tail as a trowel it is of great use to him as a steering and propelling organ in his upward and downward movements. When alarmed be 111 give the signal to his comrades bv flap ping the tail with a loud smack oa the surface of the water. Lord Bute's beavers have bred in their beavery, and there are now twelve known to be alive. These animals are very shy, and retire into their holes at the slightest sound.

Besides what vegetable food they pick up, they are fed principally with willow bonirlis, the bark of which they strip off with the neatness of a banket-maker. Oreat HascwJaa Pwer. Mr. Goase relates the following anecdote in the World of Wonders, of a three-hornud beetle, which is not larger thaa an ordinary English stag-beetle: "This insect lias lust astonished me by a proof of its vast strength of body. When it was first brought to nie, having no box immediately at hand, 1 was at a loss here to pnt it until 1 could kill it; But a quart bottle full of milk being on the table, I clapped the beetle for the present under that, the hollow at tho bottom allowing him room to stand upright.

Presently, to my surprise. tne pome began to move siowiy, and glide along the smooth table, propelled by the muscular power of the imprisoned insect. andcontinued for some time to ieramr ulate the surface, to the astonishment of all who witnessed it. 'The weight of the bottle and Its contents could not have been less than three pounds and a half, while that of the beetle wv.3 about half an ounce so that it readily moved weight 112 times exceeding its own. A bet ter notion than figures can convey will bo obtained of the frut by supposing a lad of fifteen to be imrisoned under the great bell of St.

Paul, which weighs 12,000 pounds. and to move it to and fro upon a smooth, pavement by pushing within." Ilow Ladies fclaeuld Dress tat tbe If ant- Ins; Field. lLouduu With reeard to ladies ridine reiralarl to hounds, it must now be considered, an ostab-lished fact that the presence of a considerable number of good sportswomen is always to be looked for with every first-rate pack. As a guide to those of the fair sex who may intend to join in this favorite amusement, the costume of a hard-riding huntress of the present day consists of a short, closely-fitting habit of blue cloth of different shades. or of light gray, with collars ami facings cor responding with the 'uniform of the huut, when it is of a distinctive character, such as the Beaufort or the Pytchley; A tail hat, well curled at tbe brims: a white neckcloth, with a neat gold pin stand-up collar, and last, rfot least, high boots of varnished leather and a bunting-crop, with, of course, a drab Ulster of many capes, to' wear when driving to cover ia a dark-green or oak-colored dog-cart, drawn by a very clever stepper, with the nattiest of grooms alongside, or, if preferred, a tandem or team of first-class nags.

It Is essential that ladies, in the latter case, should take lessons, so that they may be able to handle the ribbons in proper form when they come into the Shires to exhibit their perfections, as they will find many first-class performers already in the field. TflX Sowers known as tritomas are danger ous traps for bees. Dr. A. R.

Wallace says that the boney produced by the flowers is very abundant, and the bees enter the tube of tbe corrolla to rot at it; but the tube. which is only just large enough at the mouth to admit the bee, tapers gradually, and so the bee gets wedged in aud can not extricate itself. suggests that bee-keepers should either discontinue the cultivation of the rtritoma or select only such varieties as have nowers large enough to permit the free entrance and exit of the bees. Rpssiaw cotton-spinners will obtain. In time, a very important position in the manufacturing world.

More than S.5O0.0U0 pounds of cotton now come -yearly to Russia from Central Asia, chiefly by the Orenburg Railway to Nim Novgorod and Moscow, from Bokhara and Khiva. Large quantities also begin to come from Turlan, and of a quality quite equal to any short cotton of tbe United States. Twenty years ago tlie arrival iu Russia of a caravan from "Asia was regarded as an extraordinary event. Ttphoib fever, De Bouchard holds, is a specific, miasmatic disease. "In its production it so happens that the morbific matter coming we know not whence, but not necessarily from an infected organism is capable of developing itself in animal matters, which become then a focus of contagion." The contagion ia always mediate, and tbe morbific matter may contaminate the air, the soil, and the water.

It appears that eggs- exposed to mold are readily jienetrated through tbe shell and tbe fine membrane which lines it by uiuceUineK, but white these low organisms increase greatly inside the shcll-meiubrane they can not pierce the yolk-membrane. Tbe white of tbe egg by tbe. filaineutuua substance of the mold. NewYorkCommehciai.Apvebtik: "Pupa," said a little girl, "give nie a 'ride on your knee, won't your" He took the little Ulop at once. It is said that Professor Swing, of the Clii-cntro Alliance, earns $20,000 a year, of which $7o00 are paid him as a salary by Lii cur.j; rogation.

Oil. Cmr PF.p.r.rcK A mun never cscs h'f thumb-nail for a screwdriver but once. There is no law p.gainst openin; card. a pes is.