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A SPIRITUAL. S4OMJ. ruox TUB OKKXAH or SOTAUH-- IIT uKonnn MAC- 1O.SJIU. conralatinn, why KO flow 7 Tuy inn ready IOUR Kach to tuif httittferiuR eyni, Ami to thy ulnming father, it forth Out thine oh jitld him iulte: Innocence onlj, pweet chaiue. Haie ktpl him lhat UP came.

Oil liurry him into our arm, Th.it thine may jet breathe wanti Thick upon uruimd 111" iufaut wrap, Aud lou er him into our lap. In riol nvtul him to 111; lu let him grow tremulous; In air ami oil, in ooiiuil anil dew, llraiptlew earUi'H framework through. So Hhall the buly fight, be fought, Si came tin- of hell to tiauuht And, lilouniluic, round her feet The aucieut I'aradire Kirth in bud and WJUK Full of Spirit, all thiiiK" IOIIB To clanp with love the Savior Ktifnt, Aud offer him the mottirr'e bread. The winter A year new-born Olaxim now the mauler'" altar-horu TlR the of a new earth Which this chiUl claiiiut in rijjht of birth. Our they we Savior will.

in thni doth the Hat Jur dwell With hi" bf4d wreathed alKHit. From which uiuMJf Kmciouii out. Ho IK the Ktar he ix tlie HUH IJfe'H well that evermore. will run I'roin herb and Btone, light, eipaUN 1 Uliuinirrx chiliUnu countenance. Jo art hii.

chililiMi Tift, lliH ardent line will He with uncoiinciotiH art, Divinely faal to hurt. To UN a Oml, to hlrnnelf child, He iiu all, If-uliilt'llled llecomcH our drink, our food dean-it to low the Our minery jet more ind more A KliMiiuy Kr'ef jtlliclx nore; Keep him uo loiuer, 1'alher, thim Me will come UK. r'n Mairlt. A ItOKBEK'S It is said tin 1 ilevil is not us black us lie is painted, and the same might apply to John A. Murrill, thu groat Western land pirate.

At the time he figured conspicuously along the Ohio anil Mississippi rivers, steamboating was comparatively in its infancy, and BO sparsely was the country settled that the. red man still retained his foothold, although his absolute sway was over. To the traveler Murrill was. a terror, but to the squatters for many miles around his cave was rather a friend than otherwise, for he had never been known to harm any of them, and he had often lent them his aid in timu of trouble. had ho befriended them from outrages by the savages, and he was not slow to avenge any wrong inflicted upon them by the red man.

Murrill had been idle for some time. It seemed as if he had a presentiment of evil hanging over him, and he had grown listless, and even melancholy. Jlismen ventured to whisper among themselves that their captain was becoming indolent, and some of them declared thut lie had received a 'vast quantity of gold which he had concealed, and that at the first opportunity lio intended to ship to some distant point, and leave them and his former occupation forever. All HUPTiuer the captain had talked of Fueurhions, but they had been delayed from time to time; and nothing had been accomplished. The stock of provisions had become so far exhausted that the 1 robbers were now compelled to subsist principally on game.

They became discontented and some of them openly but a single frown of the chief was tmilicient to impose silence. All day the men hud been lolling leis- nrely.ubont, and us night came on they hugged the (ire closely, and ever and anon they cast anxious glances over the river, us if expecting some important event. Even the captain appeared uneasy, and he strode tip mid down, sometimes pausing, and then continuing his walk at a more rapid rate. Suddenly man on a horse appeared in sight, and the samo tune the shrill blast of a trumpet was heard. Instantly the men were upon their feel, and when the rider come up lies wus surrounded in jin instant, and a dozen questions propounded in the sumo breath.

To one and all he randc the answer The steamer will not come further down than Louisville, but she is a rich prize if we can only capture her. Her cargo is im assorted one, and it will not be removed Until falls, so that it can be taken across to Nashville in sleds, unless a wurin come then she will" come dowii the river up Ht Cumberland." There won't be. any wunn spell this 'robbers. In a weekrthe, OhioVwill! jbctffrozcn up tlmn aid'the Cumberland Js elq6edgrxo must seize her where 1 "Aye, aye!" was the response from JbeeiUiig thetc words, is the -wuter'ibn ilhe falls at Louisville to get lier over, b'iit there has oeeu rain above--the river is rising--and there will" be 'plenty by the time we get there." Are they on the lookout for me?" asked MurriJl. "Yes; and-what is still'worse, I was recognized." The YOB, went on board the boat, and in looking iirotiud I saw a -pair of sharp eyes fixed upon me, and I Jtnew I had been that face before.

I walked carelessly o.ut on the levjje, "when I heard 'tlris dinVjsjiy thnt I ivjis ono ofplnrriH's men, aim then the captain cautioned him to keep qtiiefnntil 'JbeYiJpjiM Secure my aYfest: But fCw' nibnieritS after I wfetride mj- nag, and Uien knew I was safe. But I knew they were on the lookout for von; for, before recog- heard hands say tlwt lie hoped -Mnrrill would como up, for he wanted the, of hanging him." 'vi A fierce frown passed-orer the face of the chief, and turning slmrply around he fallen, either or very badly esclaimed "Men, get ready to move, for wo will bo 08' in an hour. We'll have that boat or perish in the attempt to capture her." A wild cheer burst from the throats of the robbers, and then they set about making preparations for the adventure; and before midnight fifty armed and resolute men were on their way toward Louisville, bent upon plunder and bloodshed. During the day rklurrill himself, in disguise, visited tue city and the boat he hail resolved to capture. On his return his eyes flashed lire, and he exclaimed "Men, some of our bodies-will be floating in the Ohio before to-morrow! morning if v.e attempt this job.

To succeed we may be compelled to flght a terrible battle. What wiy you Shall we go forward "What is the especial danger?" inquired one. Just this. After it was discovered that one of my spies had been on board the Iwat, extra precautions have been taken to guard against an attack by us. Regular picket lines have been thrown out, both up and down the river on this side, and wuteh-iires built and guards stationed upon the other side; and all the hands on the boat are heavily united, and military company is held in readiness to turn out at moment's wanting.

I don't know that I am but I think some of their scouts have already reported the fact that we were on our way up the river. AVhut say yon Shall we attempt the job with such chances against us The chief wan surrounded by a set of men who were physically brave, many of whom absolutely preferred such adventure as was pregnant with danger. So with oni! voice they exclaimed We'll have that steamer or die?" replied Murrill; "you have decided in accordance with my own feelings. We will have that boat or perish in the attempt to capture her. But there is one thing greatlv in our favor.

"What is that?" Tltens is to bo a grand ball in the cabin of the steamer to-night, so the military will not he as vigilant as usual, on account of the large crowd wh'ich will be present; and our approach will not be HO marked, as large numbers will probably be going back and forth from the city to the levee. And now for my instructions." "Let us have them." "Forty of our men must strike buck into the country for a mile or two, and HO the pickets will bo avoided. Ten of that number must puss above the city, reach the river, and then make their way slowly down, neck deep in the water. Select the best swimmers for this duty, as the art will probably be a useful one. The remaining thirty will pass through the city in squads of not more than three, and HO down to the levee by different routes, and all ready to center at the boat at exactly VI o'clock.

with the remaining ten men, will go up the wounded. The alarm hud been sounded, and the trump uf the military could be heard rapidly approaching. Whero were the other thirty men If they had fulled or been captured then all wus But no. The boat begun to move out into the river, and twenty more robbers rushed into the cabin. Using the pistols freeley, the work of blood was soou completed'.

The cabin was red with blood, and all around were men dead or dying, while the terror stricken women crouched in agony, either in the state-rooms or in some corner over the bleeding form of some loved one. Murrill hiiusolf hud entered the wheelhouse, and others had commenced their work at the furnace. And downward the boat drifted toward the fulls. Without having the wheels in motion to propel her, it was iiupoflsiuble to manage the craft and keep her head down the stream, for, us she approached nearer and nearer the falls, it became evident that sho would go over sideways, and, if so, there would be the greatest dmiger, HI Jess she should happen to be exactly in the channel, of which the chief was not certain. Hut the crisis was at hand.

Behind her a hundred boats hud shot out upon the river in pursuit; around her the mud rapids were boiling, seething and roaring, and just below was the descent, known us the falls, over which she must plunge. She trembled, heaved and was going down, when there came crash like the bursting of thusund thunders, mingled with the most awful shrieks--the ship had struck sunken rock, uiul there she hung for moment, while the mad waters rushed over her decks. Then she broke, and it was evident sho was going down, a total wreck. Aud, to add to the horror, a cry of lire was raised, and it soon bucaino evident that nothing could save the steamer from total destruction. It now became every man to look out for himself, and Murrill leaped into the water, it wits with considerable difficulty that he reached the shore, which he lUd at length, in an exhausted state.

Then he seated himself for a few moments, and waited the regathering of his band. But he was not safe at that point, and with only live of the robbers, who had come to the shore, he took his way buck to his cave. Weury, sick and bruised, he could scarcely drag his way along, and his men were reully in worse condition than himself. The consequence was that an unusual length of time was consumed in reaching the cavern. When he did arrive there his appearance was greeted with cheers by those who had arrived before him.

They were not entirely disheartened, as their chief lived, for one of the robbers had brought in news that he was among the slain. Mnrrill gazed sadly around him--he had less than thirty men left--the others, no doubt, had perished. But with one exception this number seemed to welcome his return. The exception was a He frowned the rcjst. remaining.

river, avoiding the guard by keeping man named Kit Blanchard. well into the water. Now, remember just as the clock strikes twelve let every man make a rush, and let every man be at his post. We must have no sluggards. "We shall bo ready." I my.M'lf will spring to the wheel, with two assistants.

Some of you cut the ropes, and let the craft drift out into the stream. Others mnat firr up as quickly as possible, and by the time wu are over the falls we can set the engine in motion." "Well planned, captain." One tiling more, and to this order I want you to give special heed. 1 "What is it." AVe certainly shall have some fighting to do, but use your weapons only when actually compelled to do so, and spare the women, if any man among you harms one of the ladies and I learn the fact, he dies the death of a dog. After we pass the falls, and get up steam, we will land all those we capture, both men and women, and lot them make their way home as best they can." We shall remember, captain." Well, be oil now. It is dark enough to advance with safety." The forty men started to carry out their instructions, while Murrill com-' nionced his advance up tho river, and just as the clock struck twelve, he and his men arrived under the stern of the steamer, and it was evident their proximity not suspected, for not the slightest iibte of idarrn had been sounded.

There were sounds of rcvcly above. The sweet strains of music arose upon the air, and occasionally a laugh would peal out from those all unconscious of I the fact that grim death was hovering around them, and that before the sun I would rise their sun of-life would go down forever. Murrill -was becoming impudent, for the next hour to drug slowly along. He swum around to the prow of the craft, and after waiting there for few. moments his ten men came up--they werf at least half an hour ahead of time.

After a time the first stroke of the distant church clock was heard it was striking twelve and twenty men, like huge monsters, crept out from the dark waters, and stood for 'an instant upon the Then, with lightning speed, they darted', on board the steamer, uiiil ran cabin. In an instant all wa-s confusion. Wild atoum i the powder-flask fell shrieks burst from female throats, and ov CT oanl irfabcmt sixteen feet of water, strongmen shouted Many was as clear as gin, and I could of the women fainted, ittd; not a few of wc ftt Uu 0 ttom. Jake those whom nature form of I hp5n ol swimmer, also diver, he 1 ..1 A I I I I I I 7 vP fiercely, remained apart from and seemed uneasy. Murrill noticed this, but still he gave it little thought.

It was not long after this that the chief entered his cavern. He hud not proceeded far, when his attention was attracted by a groan. He approached the spot from whence the sound proceeded, and there he found a young and lovely girl, bound hand and foot, in such a manner that he was ntiubles to move. He questioned her and heard her story. She was ou tho steamer when it went over the fulls.

Her lover was with her, and he had succeeded in getting her ashore. Scarcely had they- lauded when her lover was struck down dsad at her side by a she was seized ojid brought thither. The robber was entirely alone, with the exception of herself, during the whole journey. Ho told her that Murrill had been killed, that ho was to be captain now, and she should be forced to become his wife. The chief removed the cords which bound her, and led IHT to the entrance of the cave.

He bade her wait a moment, and then he assembled his band. He saw that ono of them was pale and trembling. He called the girl forward, and requested her to single out her captor. Sho pointed to Kit Ulanchard. In an instant the report of a pistol rang out; it was fired bv Murrill, and Kit Blauchard fell deiuL The young lady was restored to her friends.

It was this adventure and defeat that so weakened tho robber baud that they were soon after scattered, and the chief himself captured. His fate is a matter of history. A Talsc Friend. "You may say what you darn please," said Bill Muggins, speaking of a deceased comrade, "Jake was a good loy, he was, and a great hunter," continued Bill; but lie was the meanest man that ever breathed in the State; and he played one of the sharpest tricks you ever heard of, and I'll you how it was. was out shootin' with him one morning.

I tell you the duck was ilenty; and other game we despised ng as ive could see duck. Jake he was too mean to blaze away unloss could shoot two or three at a shot. Jake was blow-in' me up wastin' shot und powder PO but I didn't care--I blazed away. Well, somehow or other, while fussiif i "'UM'U UVIH H1U on.it; i death struggle. Drawing their pistols eniNl lln i cre so Jake ou a pile of they.fought coolly but and oyster-shells ponriu'the powder out of for a time the conflict seemed to favor lny nto Wasn't that mean them.

The weapons of tho twenty rob-, bers were useless, for the powdor had -paper, announces that by IH-COIUO satunited witlt water, but they fought like demons with knives. But more than half 'their number had the recent burning of an ice-house there, tons of ice were "reduced to ashes." Justice. Tho telegraph mentioned some time ago an attempt to burn the little town of Arrow Hock, Missouri. The fires were mercantile venture. Being liquor dealers, the incendiaries wished to destroy all so thu town WAS set on fire ut such places us would be most likely to insure the destruction, of obnoxious suloons.

The men engaged were the landlords of a tavern outside of the limits of the town, named Coiner, Swimey and Elder. Coiner was first arrested. He was bound, but straggled desperately, and at one time tore the rope from his hands and the bandage oft' his eyes, but was brought to terms by a grip on his throat that brought him, to his knees. The effect WUH to full confession. Swimey wan then captured and marched to the ice-boiutil river.

An open place was cut through the ice. He was thrown in three times and three times drawn out, still refusing to confess. By way of variety, Elder, a negro, was strung up and lowered three times, lie, too, was, as a paper expresses it, "as stubborn us a mule." Then these two worthies were confronted with Coiner, who had acknowledged all, und the "three glared ut each other like wild "animals." Coiner and Elder were then sent to juiL Swimey still remained. Silently the spectators drew lots, and five men separated from the crowd, took Swimey in their midst, and departed. At dawn he was found hanging in the TimTM.

Valley of Death. For a time the Upas tree of the Island of Java was the wonder of the age. Its fearfully poisonous.charucter was represented to be positive death to animal and vegetable life within the sphere of its influence. Science has corrected the idea of the existence of that death-dqaling tree, by asserting that poisonous emanation from the ground caused death. That one tree was enabled by its peculiar organic properties to resist the destructive agency of gases thut killed everything else.

Another valley of death is described by travelers in Java quite equal to the Upas territory. Death is uto certain penalty of entering beyond the line of demarcation between vegetation and the sterile plain where desolation reigns in triumph. Mr. London, an English savant, experimented with dogs and fowls forced over the line, and thus confirms the representation of the natives, who say that skeletons are bleaching there, giving the idea of a Golgotha unparalleled for horror. Animals, accidentally entering it in their flight from enemies, and men, ignorant of the rue- phitic vapors that perpetually come to the surface, fall almost instantly by inhaling them.

A dog fastened to pole was forced over the line and died very quickly. In ten seconds the poor creature tumbled over. Fowls there, on being thrown over into the barren basin, were completely dead in minute and half. It is piobable the region is volcanic, and that sulphur is the poisonous usent. Remarkable Case.

On Friday last Dr. Small was called to attend a young man named Clarence Abbott, who was ill at his residence. Dr. Small discovered unmistakable symptoms of lead poisoning. It appears that Abbott was wounded in the thigh by a miunie bullet at the battle of the Wilderness in 18(1, and that the bullet could not be found at the time.

He has suffered somewhat ever since. Drs. Small and Gordon on Saturday montiug etherized the patient, and proceeded to make a surgical examination, which resulted in the discovery of the ball in the thigh. The bullet was incased in a bony substance of about the size of goose's egg, the shell of which was one-fourth of an inch thick. The bullet hud been tumbling about in this cavity foi eight' years, und became worn and polished as smoothly as though it had been done on an emery wheel.

amount of lead, however, had permeated the encasing and entered the system to produce lead-poisoning, which would proved fatal in a short time but for the timely relief afforded. Mr. Abbott was doing nicely I Another Vestnius Horror. The accident last September, by-which an Englishman and American lost their lives while being lowered by into the crater of-Vesuvius, hud a counterpart on July 13, when a Belgian named Le Miux and a Swiss named Schmidt met a similar horribla fate. These fool- liurdy tourists insisted on being lowered, and in spite of remonstrances of the guides, took hold of tho loops and swung over the gloomy void.

The guides' lust warning-to them, not to venture in- WltotherA'-thoyi'were smothered with the fumes of sulphur, or, missing a step, were hurled into the abyss, nobody will ever know. Contrary to the advice of the guides, they let go the looped ropes and ventured into the crater's recesses. The tourists alwve cried out, but no response cnrae. The guides were lowered repeatedly, and several of tho excursionists went as far the ropes would allow, in search of their comrades, but in vnin. This is the third disaster of this nature within the past ten years.

The Foeliiiir in Foreign letters announce that the first symptoms of a republic have appeared in the north of Europe. Sweden jiiht refused to vote the King the cash necessary for a magnificent coronation fete, and'one of the Deputies, Heel en by name, indulged in an address pertinent to the occasion, -which might have emanated from an English agitator. He objected to the proposed pageant on the fftound -that it vMinot" worth while for Sweden to make itself ridiculous. A republican feeling is also said to be growing gradually in Norway and Denmark. PKISTISE PHOVKRIM PH.KfAO.KV FOR pRBoociutm DHI1CATT-1 TO THE BDOCATlON.il.

IIOUIII. Obwtreyon plorniHl fluu! To ffw-'t cajitlralion, Df poult mrtieiM lallne Upon Ida termination. cnneirtlun neitr Ou zzilurral Uut decline ri'j Willie It netflrctii, Xur ItM OWH foul condition The kettle tu IU itorjij OwcortlcationH of tlir gulden Are to allure fovrl. In vaiii. Teacli not a mother to extract einliryo of an by xncJiou Tlut gixhl lady can the tfu.t enact of jour Llud Pecuniary a foreisl To to ajx-ed thw female horse.

The earlimt winded Aud tlwt apiiroi.riate*, the With Hoaji, and lirurh, and tiaunel, you tickle, In valu, tlii Kthlnpic cuticle. Uear not to yon famed city upon the Tyne The carbonaceous jiroduct of the luiue. The meudicant from hU ludlgeuco freed, Aud mounted aloft on the ntved IMttU the nreciiucp tfouu will infallibly Aud conclude Ida career in the rubious Mow. It permitted to the feline race To contemplate eieu a face. 11 timorous.

BOOK-KEEPERS and chickens have to scratch for a living. Our in Nevada, where lynch law is supreme and its execution frequent indulgence, they call it "performances by the string band." "To rather not takea horn with yon," said the loafer to the inad bull but the bull insisted on treating him to two, and the loafer got quite high. KEKP sober and then you can talk straight. One of onr druggists wasquite surprised the other day to hear a fellow inquire if he had any of Mrs. Sooth- low's "Wiiisling Sir'p." Is a discussion as to the number of dog days in a year, among a company oi children, one little child exclaimed: "It's no use trying to find out how many days there are, because every- dog has his day." A PISE Br.TJFP (Ark.) sexton advertises in the village paper that he is to be found at his office at all times of the day, and "all persons making application for burial must first register their names or be subject to a tine." IT is declared by an Indiana editor.

who "can't stand it any longer," that the only difference between the entrance to a barn and a lounger around otlices is, that the first is a barn door and the latter a darn' bore. A NEW HAsipsirniE clergyman, who was asked his price by a young man whom he had just replied that the law gave him S2. The youth promptly handed out fifty cents, remarking that will make up $2.50 for you." JESKS," said a littlo red-headed girl, with a pug nose and bare feet, mother says you will obleege her by lendiii' her a stick of wood, fill this cruet with vinegar, puttin' a little soft-soap in this pan, and please not let your turkey- gobblers roost on our fence." A SEWISO circle was quickly broken up at Gardiner, the other day, by the innocent remark of a lady present I always had a great desire to know how a case of small-pox looked, so I called on a sick lady this afternoon, just before coming to the circle. KATE STAXTOS, in her lecture on "The Loves of Great Men," asserts that planets revolve around the sun by the influence of love, like a child revolves about it- parent. When the writer was a boy he used to revolve around his parents a good deal, and may have been incited thereto by love, but to an unprejudiced observer itlooked powerfully like a trunk- stnip.

Danbitry JVcJtw. A PAKJIER in Kentucky recently made a bet that he could husk eighty bushels of corn in a day, but before he finished the job he ascertained that the man with whom he liad made the bet was making arraiigqrneuts to elope with his wife. He abandoned the job, lost tho bet, but frustrated the designsof the guilty couple to their u-maize-mcnt. "WHAT do you call that?" indignantly asked a customer at a cheap restaurant, pointhig at an object that had been discovered in his pLite of hash. buud with sleeve button attached, sir," saiil the waiter briskly.

Well, do you consider that proper thing, for a man toiiud iuhi.shash?" asked the customer, in wrath. Good heavens, sir cried the waiter, wouid you expect to find ten dollar silk umbrella, in a fifteen cent plate of hash A Mermaid. The Los Angeles Jlsprcex says th.it genuine mermaid is now on exhibition in tJiaf place, having been caught in the Pacific waters few weeks since, and embalmed by a physician of San IJiego. Tt is thus described "The eyes, in large sockets, were pricked to let out the water in the embalming process. The month is' very broad, with twenty- eight curved mid singularly shaped teeth.

The nose is nu abomination of the Bonmn and the snub. The brow i- heavily indented with heavy brain long and brand ears adorn the queer- looking head, and short, -wooly hair covers the head iind sides of the face. The cerebellum and Adam's apple art- very prominent. The arms ore long ami terminate in long claws, consisting of fingers and a thumb, with the sharpest of nails. There 'are eleven ribs extending siround the body and meeting ut the breast.

Here the fishy portion of the thing begins. It is covered with scales-, the spine having the dorsal fin, and the fish continuing in the usual development to the tip of the tail. i.