The Falls City Journal from Falls City, Nebraska • 2

DUEL IN PATTERSON Political poetnj had in my mind and partly because she was such a lady i Xoa may drive me to Ealing Station says Bhe in a sort of despairing voice and I druv her The train for Bath was not due for an hour or so and she wanted to try the chemists at Ealing but that I would have nothing to do with A IUB1 WUS1U V- make him acceptable to onr ani they eagerly stripped orf one thing after 4t-another out of the way there shouted another party comm up these resoloo-shens onto him and ready They clapped em over sl gered and gasped but manage elite he $feicl Hake frtt saki about Cincinnati A ver CoL true as I sit here sir Why who 'Then Whiii is your explanation of the two women's my business sir My business was only to drive and you may be sure I did not stop minit more in that house to ask any lit is ever jny opinion that the old Wdy as the fattest was really the poo wind that? Sorrow had made hep take comfort and as for the Other enough to sympathize with so far as drinking the liqnor went But at the time it seemed to me a most terrible start I do assure you the worst thing as has ever happened to me yet since I been on the rank and I have it happen again for twice twewenty-five shillings the station sir: and you see you've got fifteen minutes to spare all along of my good horse which I hope yc will take into account the fare A Story for Moderate Drinkers An old friend of th elate Judge FleChter of Boston related tQ the writer many years ago the following characteristic anecdote: when a young man boarded in the old -Exchange Coffee House Without much consideration he bad fallen with the drinking fashion of the day so far as to have a (dees of spirits and water brought to his room every night to be taken cm going to bed as One day the unusual press of company prevented tbe bartender from carryingup Mr usual night dram The Squire did not regard it as quite the thing for him to go to the bar aud get his grog and he went to bed without his night-cap But to sleep he could not All night long he tumbled about for feck of hie accustomed drink And as he did so his active and discriminating mind worked almost diligently The fruit of his reflections appeared next morning when on getting up weary aud worn by his hard restless night Mr Fletcher went direetly to the bar-keeper: you bring up my branfly and water last night and as a consequence I have slept little or none all The bar-tender was very sorry This neglect should not occur again rejoined Mr Fletcher bring me another drop of liqnor unless I order it If it has come to this that I sleep without the help of a tumbler of toddy it is high time that I stopped drinking and broke up the dangerous From that day Mr Fletcher became a thorough-going temperance man Twi FnachMsa qrrl svtr a Warn an A Ckalleuge Accepted A Duel by Moosllfht Two Mfeota Both Men Wo unde From tbe New York Sam -L A little affair occurred in the quiet town of Paterson on last Saturday night which has throSrtn the citizens of that Tocalityjn-to a high state of excitement It was THE CAUSE OF THE DUEL was a hasty and imprudent observation oh the part ol a French foreman of a silk factory The foreman thought that some silk bobbins were missing and accused cme of the ladies in charge of a machine with appropriating it to her own use The-iady denied having been guilty of such a dastardly act and told her liege who is also employed in the factory of the opinion of her honesty The latter repaired to the foreman endorsed the honesty of his better half and demanded an apology The foreman retracted nothing A day or two after the missing silk was found and still the proud foreman failed to make the amende honorable This conduct of the foreman exasperated the husband beyond the bounds of patient endurance He challenged the foreman to meet him in mortal combat and the latter after due deliberation accepted No time was lost in arranging the necessary preliminaries Seconds were engaged weapons chosen and grounds selected THE DUEL took place last Saturday night The principals were both early on the ground their pistols loaded and their hatred for each other undiminished They waited patiently for some time the arrival of their seconds They came not This was unfortunate The foreman in this emergency proposed that the services of the recreant seconds be dispensed with and that they should give their own signal The workman cheerfully acquiesced Ten paces were measured The men took their position The pistols were raised levelled and the signal given Bim Both men remained motionless As the smoke cleared away the pfale rays of the moon shining npon them revealed the fact that the foreman had received a slight flash wound in the face from which the blood trickled in no little profusion The workman was uninjured ANOTHER SHOT The foreman demanded another shot His antagonist had no objection The pistols were again levelled the signal again given Mid the missiles of death sent on their journey This time neither escaped Both men received painful though not dangerous wounds in the arm The pain and loss of blood that ensued seemed to satisfy their and they desisted but not without promising to each other that the affair should be kept secret They went home No sooner had they left the battle ground before a number of people attracted by the report of firearms in the direction of Dexter Lambert A silk mill rushed to the spot but the birds had flown When they returned to their houses a physician was sent for Dr Moss was first called upon but other pressing professional engagements precluded him from attending Another surgeon whose naine we cannot ascertain was then obtained The foreman lives in a French boarding-house in Greene street opposite the Western Hotel The other man lives in Spring street Row) His wife working in the same mill is not at home and the house is locked up during the day An attempt has been made before Justice Sandford to have the parties arrested but thus far without success A SHARI TRANSACTION A Party ot Gipsies Swindle a Missouri Farmer out of 81000 Me Pursues Them and Recovers his Money From the Anna (111) Herald July 17 Last Monday morning a man woman and three or four children passed through town in a covered wagon and camped out near the brick yards They were about town during the day and the freedom with which they made money fly would indicate that they had plenty of it Late in the afternoon Sheriff Rich with a posse of men went through town and it was soon learned that the campers were accused of stealing $1000 in Missouri The camp was taken possession of by the sheriff and the man being absent a part of the posse returned to town to' find him He was found sitting in front of one of the stores and a man who had followed him from Missouri rode up and presenting a revolver calling him a thief and ordered him to surrender or he would kill him on the spot The man offered no resistance whatever and was taken to the camp In the meantime search had been made for the alleged stolen money and $690 found But this was not enough they must have the $1000 or its equivalent Accordingly they took three of the best horses el rased him and the woman and departed The campers are gypsies who had been roaming about through southwestern Missouri pretending to tell fortunes and Leal the sick Among those who patronized them was a simpleton who was led to believe that he had a gold mine on his place but its exact where abouts could not be known for less than $1000 Visions of the precious yellow dus flitting before his diseased imagination the foolish man paid over the required sum the place of the rich deposits was pointed out to him and he commenced digging Is there a plaoe on the continent besides Missouri where such a fool possessing $1000 can be found? The gypsies very sensibly concluded they had done business enough in that quarter and shook the dust from their feet there and traveled After digging a week or more the superstitious gold hunter began to come to his senses and getting two others te accompany him started in pursuit of those who had victimized him The result has been stated but we are not certain that the dunce ought not to have been made suffer the loss of his money for the knowledge he has gained The gypsies were reduced to two horses but still had money as they afterwards exhibited a considerable quantity of gold coin They said that they would not have given up the money and horses had they not feared that the Missonrians would murder them They left town the next day and said that although it was rare to find a fool with as much money as this one there were plenty with smaller amounts and they had no difficulty in getting it An Elopement The Nashville papers announce an elopement which occurred at Station in Tennessee on the Northwestern and Nashville Railroad last A young man living near Station had been paying bis attentions to a beautiful young lady for several months Being advised by several friends he the to the parents who immediately refused him The two then made up a plan to run away and named Tuesday night at eleven for their departure The father got wind of this little plan by some means or other and when that night came he locked all the doors and armed himself with a double-barrel shot gun and concealed himself behind the house Meanwhile the yonng lady had been adopting some means of escape herself Finding all the doors locked she secured a long rope and fastening it to the bed- Bost she descended to the ground and met er lover who was ready with two horses to arry tbem away The old man having waited some time dozed off to sleep and never woke np until late in the night He proceeded to the house nd thence to his room and upon entering and finding his daughter absfent he was greatly vexed She had written him a note saying that when he would see her again she would be married The runaway couple went to Franklin and were 'there united in the bonds of matrimony They returned home on Wednesday and were met by the father in a friendly manner He ai last consented to give them a fine dinner and party How to Avoid Stjn-Stboxe The season when the rays pour down with the greatest intensity and infliet upon man the dangerous malady known as coup de soliel is now at hand and it is well to remind persons of the fact Very simple precautions will save people from being seized by the malady in question One of the best preventives is a thin piece of sponge ioosely sewed into the top of the hat and occasionally moistened with water in the course of the day We have heard of a man who walked thirty miles under a hot sun with a damp pocket handkerchief inside "the crown of his hat and did not Buffer any inconvenience The precautions are so obvious and simple that persons do not regard them Were they complicated and expensive their use would be more general Miscellaneous items General Baker of Iowa to publish a spelling book is -Thetb le pirso 69 is H5 twi ieago perty in Den-modest ht- dipa to tie gum of -fetimatjijUhree habitajjLjbr every name in the direofory Chicago has now a population of 350000 The flax factory at Dixon 111 turns out an average of a-thousand yards of cotton bailing per day area of unsurveyed lands in the United States is fifteen times greater than tho whole area of France Five thousand persons partook of the love feast at the great National Camp Meeting at Round Lake New York ganga-of river thieves were arrested in New York Monday and a large quantity of stolen property recovered The State Board of Equalization of Indiana have reduced the appraisement of a large number of counties from 5 to 30 per cent An old hunter says he once had an opportunity to buy all the ground that the city of Chicago now standB upon for an old pair of boots A negro woman shot her husband in Jeffersonville Indiana on Sunday A charge of infidelity on the part of the hus-' and was the cause bonus of $30000 has been raised in Omaha to be presented to any speculator who will build and open a first-class hotel s- Olfarles Dickens has donated five hundred volumes of Old Curiosity to the Blind Asylum in Vinton Iowa Weston the pedestrian is recreating in Fredonia preparatory to a trip to San Francisco whence he will walk across the continent A convict in the Ohio penitentiary chopped off his right hand just at the wrist a few days ago in order to be relieved from work A prominent merchant of Chicago Mr Martin Norton is before the courts on a charge of fraud in altering a check from $25 to $125 The proprietors of the Mammoth Cave have fitted up one of its chambers as a ball room whieh is to be opened this month with a first-class hop The new City Directory of Chicago contains 120000 names among which are 1053 Smiths and 330 Jones Of the Smiths only 106 are Johns A defalcation of $17000 to $25000 has been discovered in the Bank of Commerce of Baltimore on the parf of one of its officers The matter is under investigation by the directors of the bank The following are the Cincinnati newspaper returns for the three months to July first: Commercial $64221 Gazette $54-462 Enquirer $38630 Times $22250 Volksfreund $16522 A woman at Houghton Mich administered laudanum to her two children and then swallowed some herself One of the children died the other was restored She took so mnch that it acted only as an emetic She was arrested and confessed the crime A green oil well was lately found near Titus vile Pa in the belt of Shamburg The production of the well is variously estimated at from 100 to 125 barrels a day and seems to be increasing rapidly -Indiana is doing well with her state debt Five years ago it footed up some $9000000 it has sinoe been reduced to $2600000 and of this $800000 was paid off July 1 leaving only $1800000 Another five years will see the state out of debt and a large fund in the treasury if the present prudent management is continued The biggest tree in the world is in Tulare Valley Cal It is of the Washinrj-tonia giganUca species measuring over 42 feet in diameter and exclusive of the limbs would make oyer 1300000 feet of lumber In tbe same valley is an oak which at three feet from the ground measures 28i feet in diameter The University courses in instruction at Harvard College for the current year will be given to' competent persons and women to the official announcement The lessons of the course are to be given by Professors Bowen Hedge and Lowell Ralph Waldo Emerson Mr Howells and others It is said that this is one of the reforms of the new President at Harvard A Boston aper says: sea serpent has again appeared in our waters if accounts from he low are correct It was seen on the 4th inst in the bay sailing about with head erect After displaying itself for some time it moved round in a circle and disappeared Its head was apparently about the size of a bfrrel with series of rings aronnd From the description given we should think it was the of the A nursing Paragraphs Marying women for their beauty like eating a bird for its sweet singing know by a little what a great deal as the gander said when he saw the tip of a tail sticking out of a hollow tree The Waterbary American telegraphed to Col A Fenn at Plymouth us full particulars of the He replied: find them in Genesis A belle of Agra India wears for full dress two shawls thirty bracelets fourteen pairs of ear-rings seven necklaces and nose pendant and a seal ring on each thumb A yonng man of Memphis has appeared in St Loujsto claim the reward ol $100 advertised for news of the missing girl-He married her the other day after a sueceas fol elopement According to the Cincinnati Times the railroad to Louisville bind the two cities together like a pair of cats tied by the An irishman dropped a letter into the post-office the other day with the following memorandum on the corner for the benefit of all indolent postmasters into whose hands it might fall: hasten the delay ot this exclaimed Stiggins new surgeon gave Squan boy a new lip from the own cheek! What a painful operation it must have been had a pair of lips taken from my cheek more than replied Mrs Stiggins it a painful operation at A girl keeper of a telLgate" in England was asked by a swell veiocipedist who thonght to chaff her how much he had to pay replied she upon whether you ride through the gate or whether you get off your dandy horse and drag it through because in that case every two-wheeled vehicle drawn by a horse or an ass pays Judy gives this conversation have you got to say about stealing the yT honnor-r ye see it was jist this: The pig tfik upon him to shleep in my pit of a garden for three nights honnor-r and I jist'Sayzed him for the rint An aged lady in Philadelphia whose failing sight rendered necessary a prayer book of great size recently called on her friends on her way to church and upon starting again unwittingly picked up a music box instead of the prayer book During the sacred ceremony the old lady attempted to open her prayer book when to her surprise and the astonishment of the congregation the machine struck up with great clearness and force is Earnings of the Ocean Telegraph The Anglo-American Telegraph Company announce their gross receipts from the Atlantic cable since the landing of the first one July 27 1866 at upwards of £645000 The number of messages has steadily increased from a daily average of 29 under the £20 tariff to 230 during the last month of the £2 tariff while the daily average of dispatches in Jane 1869 is more than donhle that of June 1868 under a £5 5s tariff and the daily average of receipts shows by the same comparison an increase from £447 in June 1868 to £751 in June 1869 NA8BY The nomination of Rosee rasas in Ohio A lire Tavern Hoi Count Ohio 'y 12 1H69 after I apeshl ktampin I left the Comers the osition and withe at aUdered nprfnto my In Ohio I wuz-receded with a co wich affected me bed bin turned out uv offises cood sympathize with me and them wich hed never got em felt it still more deeply ez they eggsag-gerate the benefits to be derived from offishl position and aciilly wonder how a man nv Triw on wich ever held an offiis kin survive deeapi-tashen 1 I hed no difficulty in borrowin snuff dollars uv the sturdy yeomanry uv this section to not only keep me afloat here for a time ut to pervide agin a passage through an blishn country ef sich need be My expense here will be light ez I am boardin and drinkin on tick exclusively I told the landlord the first day to mark it down ez it was inconvenient to make change fifty times per day He possibly may wish he he! taken the trouble to make change The day after the Democratic State Con-venshen at Columbus we held informal meetin uv the Democracy at the tavern to wich I wuz stayin the most uv the veterans bein there The sceen reminded me uv so mnch that I actily shed teers Dimocrisy is alike everywhere Ther wuz the bar with the big-bellied Bottle with tansy in it: ther wuz the box uv pipes the two lemons wich are doomed never to be yoosed ez lemon joose weakens likker ther wnz Pepper the landlord with his sleeves rolled up a leanin onto his elbows opto the bar behind him a portrate nv Jackson on his fomin steed wavin his sword toward the British beside it a handbill for a mass Convenshun the Dees-trick last year commensin with the trooly orthodox line you want to marry a in large black type with a picture uv Wendell Phillips kissin a wench at wich the Democracy have indignated reglerly for ten years Seetid on bastid cheers empty nail kegs and leaning on tbe bar wnz a groop wich wuz simply a dooplikit nv the Hoads and so akkerit that I caught myself sa yin lots uv times I said to a man who was so near like McPel-ter ez to justify the suspicion that the father uv the present Hugh Led many years before bin a citizin uv that vicinity but I wuz keerful not to do so agin Ketchin me by the throte he sternly remarked: pat enny nv them titles onto me sir I wuz no Captin thank He was satisfied when I told him that his remarkable resemblance to a Confedrit Captin occasioned a mistake which pleased him so that he to wnnst askt me to take snthin This opened a new field to me when I worked I diskivered to wnnst an amnzin resemblance between all uv em and distinguished southern commanders While the return uv Squire Petti-bone wich wuz a delegate to the State Convenshun we fell to Uv the old times wich tried soles in the earlier years nv the war Pepper the landlord gave a most affectin remeniscene uv the shbotin uv 2 returned veterans in the very room i which we sot The spot on wich they fell he hed put the stove over that it mite be kept sakred Mr Bortle an old saint whose nose wuz lightin his pathway to the toom hed a more tragicle tale to tell He wuz one uv them who sholdered his fowlin piece to resist the draft up in this county and Wuz taken by bloo-coated hirelings and carted off to Camp Chase where he was1 kept in doorance vile for weeks with nothin whatever to live onto but the yoosual rashens uv asolfer One old relic nv the war wich his name it wuz Babbitt accompanied Val-lan dy gum through the lines wich lines wuz commanded by Rosecrans He wuz present when that accursed villain that tool uv the despotic ape Linkin the impudense to ahoose our mar tyred Saint and his blood biled ez he heer-ed it At this pint the entire assemblage profaned The letter uv Rosecrans to the Legislature uv Ohio wnz dooly read and the audashus sentiments therein contained wuz dooly and emphatically damned Ez the likker circulated we got more and more entkoosiastic on this pint and our blood warmed and throbbed more vilently through our veins ez we toasted Vallandygum and forever and ever cursed the wretched hirelins who oppressed him and through him ns Finally' we heard the rnmblin nv wheels over the hill and we knowd that it wuz Square Pettibone a comm from the stashuu with the news uv the convenshun He drove up and we rushed out to greet him or who shel we exclaimed Pepper Ranney uv shonted one Vallandigu Bed another Carey sed another friends shonted Pettibone friends for Rosecrans and victory remarkta dozen uv us remarkt the others remarkt the balance trifiin with remarkt Pepper uv yoor ejakilftted Bortle And the astonished Pettibone wuz in danger nv bein roughly handled But be finally convinced them that Rosecrans wuz reely and trooly the Dimocratic nonainee and that it wuz no joke watever I hed a great deal uv trouble with em They wuz bound not to touch Rosecrans and swore they hed bin betrayed and sold out The platform however saved When I read it to em and explained how clearly it condemned the war by refusin to pay the indebtedness inkerred in prose-kootin it and how indignautly it spumed the administration and so on they became cooL Roscerans has reely come to I ted us open our arms and take him They retired not pleased but in sich a state tljat I hev no doubt the heft uv em will vote ez yoosual an nnscratehed ticket They took down Micklelan why not Rosecrans That nite after I retired to my virchus couch I fell a troubled sleep and dreemed Tbe dreem which afflicted me wuz more instructive than entertainin i Methawt the Dimocrisy uv Ohio wuz in council seekin for a feeder in the comin conflick They trotted out in review all uv em but they find a man in the party who wuz not so fearfully defective ez to be totally and entirely worthlis for the posishen Yallandygum wuz ez spotted er a leper: Ranney wmz tinged with the rathez advanced Dimocrisy nv 1863 and the Mother men spoken uv wuz full uv politiMe ulcers biles and running sores The men-ahun uv their names made the people hold their noses One more wise than the rest in a fit uv inspirashun sung out and the ijee hit Rosecrans wuz trotted out and they all fell to admirin him He wnz well bilt and comely and hiz figgjer showed strenth and endoorance He whz encased into a glitterin coat of bloo onto wich shone the most gorgus deccrashen wich cood be conceeved In letters nv lite uv exceedin brilliancy wuz the words and with the names nv other acheevementa more or less notorious and these decorashens with his apaulitts military sash and sword spurs and sich enveloped him from head to foot in a brilliancy the gorgeousnis uv wich wuz beyond compare The managers uv the show wich trotted him out squinted at these things a minit but they squinted more pertikelerly at the multitood wich surrounded them to see the effeck wich it perdoost upon they slidin out nv site ez he advanst so that -they woodent obstruct the view The site' took the people ther rose up from the throng a most enthoosiastic eheer and hats went up into the air by thousands do do 1 Thank Lord do shouted the managers n-d they im-smejetly fell to embracin him in their ex-taev Vallandigum fall onto his neck but the spot where his hands struck the General obliterated another delegate now blotted out and the next empmee bustid and the rest of it An anehent delegate from Holmes county which bad taken an active part in the resistance to drafts slighly drawed his sword and threw it away another delegate hacked orf hia spurs a third snaked orf his epileta and before the poor fellow knew what was bein done to him they hed gobbled pretty ranch all nv the ornaments wich hed glittered so bravelyonto him for sake one who wuz a candidate for a county offis in a elose county are yon do in 7 things must come orf ut him to THE UNBROKEN SLUMBER Tea I ib all rest I Some coming day When blossom in the winds are dancing And children at their mirthful play Heed not the monnrful crowd advancing Up through the long and busy street bear me to my last retreat Or else it matter not may rave The storms and blast of winter weather Above the narrow new-made grave Where care and I lie down together Enough that I should know it not Beneath in the dark narrow spot Tor I shall sleep 1 As sweet a sleep As ever graced a child reposing Awaits me in the cell so deep Where I my weary eyelids closing At length shall lay roe down to rest Heedless of clods above my breast Asleep How deep will be that rest Free from life's fever moving wildly That when is past the earth's ur Its bosom shall receic me i For uot one dream of earthy To invade the slumber 0 deep repose slumber bleat 1 night of peace 1 No storm no sorrow No avy stirring of the breast To meet another we cry morrow I shall heed neither night nor dawn But still with folded hands sleep on I Sleep on though just above my head Prowl sin and misery's haggard faces For the deep slumber of the aead AU sense of human woe erases Patsies the heart and cures the brain Of every thought of outward pain Armies above my head may tramp 1 not disturb one rigid 1 shall not heed their iron stamp More than a leafs complaining rnstle Nay were the world convened to break My leadsn sleep I should not wake And yet methinks if step8 of those known and loved an earth were round me Twoald tame the might of my repose Shiver the iron cords that bound me give that I know this cannot be For death disowns all sympathy I Well be it so I since I should yearn Anxiously watch tor their appearing Chiding each lingering 1st return And ever sad and ever fearing Living drama again Its tragedy of hope and pain Then mourn not friends when ye may lay The parent earth above my ashes Think what a rest awaits my clay And smooth the mound with tearless lashes Glad that the resting form within Has done at length with care and sin Think that with me the strife is stormy struggling battle ended Rejoice that I have gained the shore To which though weak my footsteps tended Breaths the blest hope above the sod And leave me to my rest with God fHiscellntteoiis Selections A STORY was the queerest thing as ever happened to me since I been on the rank? Well there has been a many queer things and one a most terrible one We Four wheelers sees a deal of life much more than them chaps does notwithstanding the little hole in the roof through which they looks down upon parties when parties aware They drives fast and fast folks and some has an idea that it is only fast life a is life but you knows better sir I daresay" I was taking a long street drive upon the box-seat of a with my family in the interior bound for a distant railway station and I had put a certain question to my cabman in hopes that his answer might make the journey less tedious He was a young fellow smartly dressed and drove a horse so unusually quick-paced that I felt quite a scruple of conscience in not inquiring into his merits But then I had asked a cabman about his horse before and the consequence had been most disastrous as bad as asking a High Church clergyman about his Chancel or a valetudinarian about his complaints there had been no end to the subject at all and now I congratulated myself upon my reticence for a long-windedness is inverse proportion to that of his steed and since when my inquiry had only been directed to human affairs my Jehu showed signs of verbosity wbat would he not have been (thought I) npon the subject of horseflesh? was the queered thing as ever happened to me as a hackmau? Well perhaps this un was or at all events I remember it best because it happened tome only last week my! yes it was a rum-mv And with fbat my friend was so tickled with the recollection that he rolled on his seat till I thought he would have rolled off it whale the reins so shook in his hand that the speedy horse who took it for a sign that he was started off at score uid missed only by an inch or two of making bimaelf a passenger in a Citizen that chanced to be before us with the door open This formed cf course the introduction to an exchange of repartees between the cab and my impulsive companion in which the latter had decidedly the better of it and then to my great relief (for I had come in for my Bhare of epithets) we shot into a bystreet more suitable to the composition and appreciation of narrative was down by Cavendish Square that I took her up a well-looking woman of nine and twenty or thereabouts and a lady Not only well-dressed but well-mannered and affable which is what I goes by more than all the fine feathers as a bird can wear says she me to the nearest and I druv her accordingly she did not get what she wanted at that shop for she says: me to an other And I druv her I should think we went a matter of fifteen chemists and yet she get what she was in search of That I began to think was a little queer because Chemists mostly has things one wants spirits or what does as well for instance on a wet Sunday when the publics is closed besides verything as one can possibly not want in them green and blue bottles So says I seeing her look a most as blue as they: is it you do want said she in a slow absent sort of way which made me somehow get it into my head (and there still) that what she did want poor soul was I want logo into the says I quite cheerful have got into the keb with the right horse for that mem He can go a stretcher he Where do yon wish to go to?" says she speaking just like one in a dream want to go to Bath was rather a long order even for my nag here and I told her so says she me to another as it didn't seem of any consequence to herself where she was druv I took her up Maida (where my stable is) and tried a chemist or two iu those parts but none of them had got the thing she wanted any more than the others and she looked more concerned and vexed than ever She was such a lady to look at and so affable that I felt pity for her and though it was not to my advantage I said says I you really do want to go Bath I had better drive you to the Great Western Railway where you can take the says she with a sort of a shrink as though somebody had struck her that Paddington Station? said 1 Til not deceive you it certainly are a good says she 'I dflah everybody was like (which was very kind of her sure) I go to Paddington Station because mv husband is there waiting for for all I know this might be a very good reason I know many a good ansom wives as Paddington Station on that account and small blame to them So since the chemists suit her I offers her an alternative of my own said I involuntarily likely sir only I always calls it replied my Jehu coldly I had offended him by my foolish particularity ahd it cost me a fourpenny cigar out of my case to re-establish his good humor continued he puffingslowly and speaking with greater deliberation than ever I take you to says I I can take you to somewkeres on the way say much would that says she takin goat her purse do it speaking for horse and man under two pund mem and there's not another horse on onr rank as oould do it at all pund is a large says she says I Ealing I will take you to Ealing Station mem for twelve-d-lx including all these chemists' and indeed I bad got off and on my box for a matter of forty times by this so I think it was unreasonable I would not km been hard upon that fore if it was re so partly because of the as 1 JP country chemist might have given the pqpr thing what I am sadly afraid she want and I going to have anything hi pen in my keb if I knowed it out at ing Jg says I askinjjrour pardon but no more physic shops for me If you would take my advice you would let me drive you to a public house for a drop of somethink better than phyyicand of which I am sure yomstand in noted As you Jt je sfa she such a soft JAgMKe voice as went to my heart she did not care whte'rap wasoretTo if it be out of iMworld So I pulled up At a public and gave her some bread and good Wiltshire it was and yet she' took no more 1 han a mouse might nibble and a little sup of porter which she drank as though it was black dose sitting all the while in the keb while I made a goodish meal I promise ypu Then we went back to the station and she gave me her purse to get her ticket first to Bath for her says she can trust you with unsold gold' (which was also very kind of her and I hope the truth Then I gives her tie ticket and her purse will you stay here in the keb says I wait upon the platform will stay in the keb says she and upon my life sir I do believe it because I had been tolerably kind to her and she did uot like to part company with me before she was obliged She had in the world and been very badly treated by some one or other you may take your davey poor soul did not like to trouble I with such a matter but as the time was getting very short I says mem you have forgot to give me the for as for the bread and cheese and porter that she had paid for on the spot dear I am so says she fancied yon would have paid yourself when I gave you my mem says I should never have thought of taking any such she paid me saying with a sad smile am afraid I have been very and wished me Apd then the station bell rang had the curiosity to keep through the door when the train came and watch hkr She ran down the platform looking earnestly into every individual carriage and would have been left behind altogether hut for the guard who opened the door atid popped her in at the very last moment was sorry to leave her for I never took a fare who was a more perfect lady but was somehow glad too to get her out of my keb There was somethink very queer about her that you may depend andjf fihe were mad (which however I think as she was) she must been druv and drav by some wus-hearted chap than me until she was druv out of her wits he is sorry for what he has done by this time says I to myself and this here party will will advertised and I took great rertmt of her dress and appearance in ease she would But curiously enough nothing came of it at all and yet even as it stands it seems to me one of the queerest starts as ever I came across since ha I been on the was undoubtedly very said I you hinted something my friend of a certain terrible adventure that had once happened to you I should like to hear that too this is what I call regular sucking responded my cabman looking up at me with a cunning fear I see as you was a family man with luggage and that should be almost inclined to believe as you was some literary ear-atktar a many on rides about Maida way only when they rides at all they takes a Remembering what Mr Pickwick had suffered at a hands from using note-book I hastened to clear my character from the impntatioin and to assure my companion that I had no other idea in questioning him beyond that of increasing my knowledge of human nature for observing which he must have had so many and Exceptional opportunities trne said he greatly mortified the various parties as uses four-wheels I knows of nobody perhaps some as keep a public) who is so likely to know a thing or two as one oil Deary me the games as has been going on in this here very said I games can le play in a iy bless yer lots of games I mean cards and that--though I have known play cards with my 'ind cushion on their laps for a "but all sorts of schemes and devices played by all classes of-folks I have druv marquishes ana I have druv parties as you would not have thought could ever stand a fare have druv the perlice and I have druv thieves I care who it is so long as they want to be druv to the Fever tal the horrible case you spoke of a case of inquired I it was a deuced sight worse than that sir It was summit as sends a cold chill to my marker whenever I thinks about it And yet it began so cheerful Just alter I first began to be a kebman I was in the Kiiburn Road by a couple of fares two middle-aged comfortable ladies small widows as I should set down as and they asked me how much it was to Blackfriars a crown says I good yonng says the fattest of drive away and just stop at the first public house will I pulled up willing enough at the first public and they gave me a shilling and had some gin and beer and mind the change young man says the fattest drive along sharp and stop at the next public house between Kiiburn and Blackfriars I should think that they stopped at a matter of four-and-twenty public houses The lady with the chemists was nothing to them moreover unlike her they never failed to get what they wanted at each until they had took a good deal more than was good for them and I must say as they had made me a little myself And every time it was -You may keep the change young man so that I had at last more that five-and-twenty shillings of it (mostly in coppers) This is all werry nice thought I as long as it lasts but soener or later these here parties will be a dozing off and me to see home which maybe will be fhe perlice station for they had not told me their address yet but only Blackfriars They must been very much accustomed to strong liquors lor unless it was and a bit which the one as was not the fattest did continual they showed signs of overcome What a middle-aged female of the re speotable class only known can take and yet sit in a keb is to us drivers but these two they beat all as ever I see Well at Blackfriars they gave their addresses at last It was a queer little street but very respectable-looking and I druv to their house which I noticed had all the bhnds down They got out without much help and the one as was not the fattest she speaks to me for the first time and says: says she have druv us well and safe and over and above your fare you shall see my dear angb te thounghtl is a queer start This stout party has taken such a fancy to Dick 'Braddle (which was me) that she wants him to become her son-in and I larfed aloud said she quite solemn like and pointing to the drawn down bUnds in I went in Not into the parlor as I expected but up stairs the two ladies leading the way At the first floor I stopped I did not like it the house was so dark and still but then thinks Lor Tm only a poor kebman and their own money got in my pocket after all Wby should they want to rob me? So I went on mto the second floor front which was room Here the old lady as was not the fattest began to moan and cry and pointing to tbe sofy on which lay covered with a sheet she says: my poor the other one she turned the sheet bach a little and there was the face of a dead young lady very white and quiet but looking to jme as had never seen one dead before most awful Qomin as it did so sudden and unexpected and just after I had been larfing down below it gave me I do assure you an uncommon I can quite believe it Mr Braddle said I the tbing hapoened as ypu state: but did it really in I retamed themieh the mktter in hand ali rfte no' stand aside all uv you and see how the people take him i They stood aside but to their Surprise he people turned up their noses ez though hey smelt suthiu and hissed ominously instead nv cheerin ns our they cried is Rosecrans replied VWlandig-um putting his arm around his neck affeo-shnitiy don't know him in them clothes and in sich company returned the multi-tood laavin in disgust In my dream the managers when they saw the multitood treat their man so scornfully fell to revilin hv him and kickin and Tiffin uv him I awoke jiat ez ha wuz a tryin to get away battered bruised be smeared and besmitched 1 thought ez I lay ponderin op the vision that possibly when a soldier trades his military repetashen for a nominashen at our hands that it does strike the people just ez tho traded uniforms dooring the struggle and that possibly the spece-lashen wont pay either him or us But what can we do Petroleum Nasbx (Wich wuz Post Master) FOILED BY A WOMAN tli Diary teetive From the New Orleans Picayune it is my duty to arrest you dare The lips were white with passion rather than fear and the lady stood before'me like a lioness at bay Even then I could not help but note the splendid beauty of this grand lady Tall and slender eyes black and flashing almost lurid now the spectacle the presented standing there in the middle of the apartment was more the appearance of a queen than a hunted criminal replied do not doubt your innocence looking in your face it is sfc uge that any ne could couple it with gu But I am constrained to do my duty madame however inimical it may be to my you allow me to change my she said in a tone almost pleasant The hard lines around the mouth had relaxed and the passionate glow on the face gave way to a pleasant smile I will wait for yon wish also to send a messenger for a friend will you permit him to This was my first interview with Euginia Cormille I had seen her here for months the leader of our gayest and most fashionable society In her splendid mansion she dispensed the most profuse and elegant hospitality A Spanish a widovpshe had represented herself and had been president here almost a year No one ever suspected her of being anght than what she-seemed until one day I was ordered to arrest her as a murderess It was now alleged said Mr that this young beauty was no other than the woman who had poisoned her husband in Havana and fled with all his wealth An immense reward was offered for her apprehension and the circumstances that had come to onr knowledge pointed her out beyond all doubt as the person we were in search of Yet had the person who recognized her the evening before at the theatre advised us to be careful lest she should escape us I laughed at I he idea Mr I and myself Were surely sufficient to arrest a lady We were old enough in the ways of cunning to defeat any such attempt When the lady left me I stepped to the window and said to Mr who was waiting at the door: lady desires to send a messenger for a friend suffer him to Almost at the same instant the door of the apartment the lady hed entered opened and a apparently a mulatto boy came out and passed hurriedly through the room into the hall and from thence into the street It was no doubt the messenger I thought and I picked up a book and commenced reading Nearly an hour passed and still the lady did not make her appearance nor did the boy return The friend she had sent for must live at some distance I thonght or the lady is unusually careful about her toilet and so another hour went by At last I grew impatient and knocked at the door I can wait no There was no reply I knocked repeatedly and at last determined to force an entrance Strange fears barrassed me I began to suspect I knew not what It took but a moment to drive in the door and once in the apartment the mystery was revealed The robes of the lady lay upon the floor and scattered over the room were suits of wearing apparel similar to that worn by the mulatto On a table was a cosmetic that would stain the skin to a light delicate brown I was foiled for a surety tbe lady had escaped in the disguise of a messenger I should have detected the ruse I felt humiliated and determined to redress my error I knew she would not remain in the city an instant longer than she could get away I hurried to her bankers but found she had drawn the amount due her an hour before presented the I asked the clerk mulatto boy It was made payable to There was yet a chance The French steamer left within an hour it was possible she would seek that means of escape I jumped in a cab and arrived there ten minutes before she left the wharf just in time to assist an aged decrepit gentleman into the cabin There were few passengers none of them answered the description of the person I sought I stood on the wharf watching the receding vessel until it disappeared I was in the act of turning away when a haekman approached me with the remark did you see that old1 man on board he had a long white beard and hair that fell on his sir something curious about sir when begot into my carriage he was a mulatto boy and when he got out he was an old man I will not repeat the expression I used then it was neither refined nor polite for I knew the vessel would be far out to before she could be overtaken I was foiled by a woman Nor could I help rejoicing now that the chase was over that she had escaped Innocent or guilty there was a charm about her none could resist The spell of her wondrous beauty affected all who approached her It lingers in my memory yet and I could not have the sin of her blood upon my conscience Premature Burial A paper in All the Year Round speaks of the many cajjies of premature burial which occur during the prevalence of cholera It says among other things that Londe states as an acknowledged fact that patients pronounced dead of cholera have been repeatedly seen to move one or more of their limbs after Mr Searle an English surgeon has often remarked this fact and Dr Vey-rat of the Bath establishment Aix Savoy snccededin a young woman after she had apparently been dead for nearly three days Apropos of the subject of premature burial of which many people have a horror not altogether unreasonable it may be well to state that a French doctor has recently invented a process by which it may be determined with absolute certainty whether a person supposed to be dead is so or not Belladonna dropped on the living eye always causes dilation tf the pupil while on the dead eye it has 30 ef-feet A camera with the ordinary photo-graphic paper which ia ruled with delicate lines is placed over the eye undergoing examination The paper is unrolled from a spindle for ten or fifteen minutes at the expiration of which time if no variation in the size of the photograph of the pnpil can be detected the subject is known to be dead of an Old De- The following is the valuation of eight Iowa cities as shown in the office in Des Moines: Council Bluffs $4 21 1 486 Des Moines $3608458 Dubuque $3563-840 Davenport $2860590 Keokuk $2-531124 Burlington $2092905 Muscatine $1372916 Iowa City $860490 SUSIE the matter The little girl sat in her rocking-chair looking very sober Tm tired she answered know what to do done everything I could think played with my dolls and tea-set and village block read my story hooka too but tired of them you try a little work Susie you mean my dolls bed-quilt auntie? don't feel like sewing dear but if you could quite leave off thinking about yourself and your own feelings and do someth ing really useful to some one else would it not be a good idea can I do you quite willing to do something useful 1 Yes little Katy Wood has been sick for weeks She is better now but she still has to He in bed though she could sit up part of the three if she had a warm wrapper to wear She gets very tired of oourse staying in bed Her mother is poor and cannot buy her all the things she needs Now if yon will make a sacque for Katy I will ent it out of bright scarlet flannel and give you some pretty braid to sew around the edge It will make her so Susie thought a minute She knew she must not give up if she once began it and she did not much like sewing But a feeling of pity and kindness for the poor sick child welled up in her heart and presently she said with a bright earnest face auntie I Auntie soon cut out the sacque and Susie brought her basket and went to work with a will Auntie told her two or three beautiful stories while she sewed and when the supper bell rang the little girl started up iu surprise She could hardly believe it tea-time the afternoon had been so short The next day the sacque was neatly finished and Susie had the pleasure of going with her aunt to see Katy and giving it to her Oh how pleased the poor child was! And Susie was happy that she had overcome her idle selfish feelings and done something to help and bless another TU try to shorten all the rainy day anntie now I know the she said a they walked home Anntie smiled cannot always do the same thing she replied we can rainy days and pleasant days do some good and help to make other people hap-py That's the way yon do and I mean said the little girl- Hour A Real Hero Two weeks ago on board an English steamer a ragged boy aged 9 years was discovered on the fourth day of tbe outward passage from Liverpool to New York and carried before the first mate whose duty it was to deal with such cases When questioned as to the object of his being stowed away and who brought him on board the boy who bad a beautiful sunny face and eyes that looked like the very mirrors of truth replied that his step-father did it because he could not afford to keep him nor pay hispassage to Halifax where he had an aunt well off and to whom he was going The mate did not believe the story in spite of the winning face and truthful accounts of the boy He had seen too mnch of stow awavs to be easily deceived by them he said and it was his firm conviction that 'the boy had been brought on board and provided with food by the sailors The little fellow was roughly handled in consequence Day by day he was questioned and requestioned but always with the same result He did not know a sailor on board and his step-father alone had secreted him aud given him food which he ate At last the mate wearied by the boy persistence iu the same story" and perhaps a little anxious to inculpate" the sailors seized him one day by the collar and dragged him to the fore mast told him unless he confessed the truth in ten minutes from that time he would hang him to the yard-arm He then made him sit on the deck All around him were the passengers and sailors of the mid-day watch and in front of him stood the inexorable mate with his chronometer in his hand and the other officers of the ship by his stde It was the finest sight (said the informant) we ever beheld to see the pale proud sorrowful face of that noble boy his head erect his beautiful eyes bright through the tears that suffused them When eight minutes had fled the mate told him that he had but two minutes more to Uve and advised him to speak the truth and save bis lifi but he replied with the utmost sincerity by asking the mate if he might pray The mate said nothing but nodded his head he turned as pale as a ghost and shook with trembling like a reed in the wind And there all eyes turned on him this brave and noble little fellow this poor waif whom society owned not and whose own step-father could not care for there he knelt with clasped hands and eyes upraised to heaven while he repeated audibly the Prayer and prayed the Dear Lord Jesus to take him to heaven Our informant adds that there then occurred a scene of Pentacost Sobs broke from strong hard hearts as the make sprang forward to the boy and clasped him to his bosom and kissed him and blessed him and told how sincerely he now believed his story and how glad he was that he had been brave enough to face death and be willing to sacrifice his life for the truth of his own word Sun Ah Extraordinary Operation From the Chicago Tribune July 23 Probably the most astounding surgical operation ever performed on th American continent has recently been made in this city by Dr Beebe The circum-stanqge as we gather them from the husband of the patient are briefly these Mr Childs residing at Lee Center HL came to this city on a visit and was stopping on Sangamon street While there she became aware that an old rupture from which Bhe had suffered from time to time for several years was likely to give her trouble and summoned medieal aid The first called regarded it fease 5f Aw1n(a -olio but his treatment i wind colic but his treatment not relieving the suffering of the unfortunate woman be was dismissed and Dr Dodge was summoned who recognizing tbe true state of the case requested that a surgeon be Called and Dr Beebe was accordingly sent for A careful examination of the case revealed the fact that the intestine involved in the rupture had already mortified and to allow this to remain would inevitably destroy the life He therefore resolved to remove so much of the intestine as had undergone decomposition and by securing the extemities of the sound intestine to restore at length natural passages and thus preserve the unfortunate life Assisted by Drs Dodge Mitchell and A Beebe this dangerous and difficult operation was performed and four feet six inches of the intestine were removed from the patient's body and may now be seen preserved in alcohol in Dr office The operation completed the abdomen was carefully stiefied up the patient enjoined to preserve perfect quiet and to abstain from solid food Thirteen days have now elapsed aud astounding as it may seem the good lady has well nigh recovered being now allowed the freedom of her room and a generous diet which is heartily relished What will not the surgeons be doing next? Funeral of a Horse A carious affair took place in Pontiac Mich on the evening of the 7th inst It was that of holding ceremonies over the charred remains of the favorite Morgan a horse owned by Mrs Hodges which was considered a very valuable animal A large concourse of people assembled on the spot and the grave being dug and a solemn chant by the Pontiac cornet band the remains of the favorite Morgan were consigned to earth Spanish Villain ns Cuba All visitors to Havana have seen the immense mansion or palace of Aldamas and they hav all heard something of the history of the great Cuban nabob We learned some time ago that this as well as all the other property of Aldamas had been confiscated by the Spanish authorities and now it has been turned into a casino or restaurant From the beginning of the troubles in Cuba Aldamas has been looked upon with suspicion on account of his former sympathy with liberal movements but Captain General IJulce induced him to give a million dollars to the Spanish cause and it was supposed this would 80ve him from trouble The Spanish authorities however were anxious to find proof against him and the means of getting hold of his vast property and after he came to this ooun-trv they bad no difficulty in doing so His property was confiscated and now the Havana volunteers carry on their nightly revels in the halls of Aldamas Times Business of Pittsburg Pittsburg makes seven-eighths of all the chilled iron in tha United States A single establishment in that city in ten running time torus out the following products: 4760000 common nails 3360000 tacks 3480000 ahoe nails 560000 points Tha Pittsburg glass works make glass 70 by 40 inoheB One Pittsburg firm have a total iron oil tankage of 180000 barrels their biggest tank holding 45000 barrels One plow factory turns out 50000 to 55000 plows per year No 28 Nervous Debility with its gloomy attendants low spirits depression involuntary emissions loss of semen spermatorrhaso loss of power dizzy head loss of memory and threatened impotence and imbecility find a sovereign cure in Homeopathic Specific No twenty-eight Composed of the moat valuable mild aDd potent Curatives they strike at once at tbe root of tha matter tone up the system arrest tho discharges and impart vigor and energy lifa and vitality to the entire man Thev have cured thousands" of cases Price $500 per package of six boxes and vial which is very important in obstinate and oid cases or $1 per single box Sold by all druggists and -ent by mail on receipt of price Address Specific Homeopathic Medicine Co 562 Broadway New York The Latest One of tbe latest things out for an improvement ia that of Patent Combined Hem an tvTuck Measure and Marker This attachment is simple and durable aud can be attached to any sewing machine By use of this attachment each succeeding tuck is measured and marked out true and parallel with the last line of stitching while the same being sewed When we take into consideration tbe beauty of the work done and the ehse and facility with which it Is accomplished we do not hesitate to say tnat no attachment heretofore used on a machine is so simple and easily managed and does all its work with such precision as the New Tuck Measure and Marker as do applied to all sewing machines Ail ladies who use a machine well know the length of time required 10 measure mark and fold the tuck above that taken to d5 the sewing of the same TO say that five seams aronnd an ordinary ekirt of four or five yards each canbe sewed in the time to measure mark and fold one took is only repeating a fact well known to all But now if a tnck can be measured and marked out true and parallel with the line of stitching while the same is being sewed then at least four time's as mnch work can be done in a given time and in a superior manner in comparison to that done in the ordinary way These attachments may be found at all sewing machine offices throughout the United States where circulars and all information may be had or circulars sent on application by addressing the patentee Goodrich 95 Michigan avenue icago Chicago Juno 25th 1869 Messrs IE Ufnwood Stafford Co 171 Laics St Chicago: I give my mors than willing testimony in favor of the American Hay Tedder Fqr ease thoroughness and beauty of operation nothing can exceed it It was the repeated remark of oDservers who witnessed its movements that it not only did the work of several men but that it did it better than they could do it It my opinion its operation leaves nothing to be desired I am yours truly Beers A Good Move Tbe people everywhere are finding out that the best articles are the cheapest in the end especially where life and health are Concerned Thev aye therefore using Compound 'Ibdinised Cod Livor Oil in preference to all others as thereby they are sure to derive more benefit All who are afflicted with lung diseases should take it It is sold everywhere Beautiful If you would be beautiful use Magnolia Balm It gives a pure Blooming Complexfonr and restores Youthful Beauty Its effects are gradual natural and perfeot It Removes Redness Blotches and Pimples cures Td Sunburn and Frecklea and likes a Lady of thirty appear but twenty Tbe Magnolia Balm makes tbe 8km Smooth and Pearly the Eye bright and clear: the Cheek glow with the Bloom of Youtband imparts a fresh plump appearance to tne countenance No Lady need complain of her Complexion when 75 cents will this delightful aticle The best tiling to dress the Hair with is Kathairon There is no mistake about it Plantation Bitteus will ward off Fever and Ague and ail kindred diseases if used in time No family need suffer from this distressing complaint if they will keep Plantation Bitters in the house and nse it according to directions The most important ingredient of this medicine is Calisaya or Peruvian Bark which is known to be the finest and purest tonic in the vegetable kingdom The extract of this Bark is the active principle of all the good Fever and Ague Medicines prescribed by intelligent doctors Calisaya Bark is used extensively iu tho manufacture of Plantation Bitters as well as quinine and we dare say they owe their popularity mostly to that fact We can recommend tht Superior to Ihe best imported German Cologne and sold at half tbe price -J Barnes The above hotel is located on the corher of Randolph and Canal streets within One block of the Washington street tunnel and near the business eeqter Mr A Hawks is the proprietor forfoerlv of Milwaukee and is always on hand to attend to the wants of his guests The hotel has first-class accommodations for 200 guests The table is supplied with all the market affords and all tor the moderate charge of $250 per day Lest and Original Tonic of Iron Phosphorus' and Calisaya known as Ferro Phosphorated Elixir of Call rav a Bark The Iron restores color to the olood the Phosphorus renews waste of the nerve tin sue and the Calisaya gives a natural health fulness to the digestive or-gans thereby curing dyspepsia in its various ftA-ins Wakefulness General Debility and Depression of Spirits Manufactured only by CAN WELL HAZARD A CO successors to Cviweli Mack A Co New York Bold by all Druggists Briggs Chicago This house is one of the oldest and beet established Hotels in the west having lately been remoddled and refitted IU proprietor Skinner Esq so well known as the late proprietor of the Metropolitan is a gentleman who thoroughly understands the wants ot the traveling pctblic This house contains over 250 rooms George French as superintendent with Frank Wentworth as cashier and Messrs Hilton A Wells in the office is a sufficient guarantee that the Briggs will be conducted in first-class style Private meuioai Rid Read Dr Whit tier's advertisement 1.