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Railfofid & Steamboat TiCKTIT AGENT, '01 rM TtCRFl* TO M.I, KUNTH WFsr, MorriiwKHT. OVER U,I, ROrTFH, INI» TO A Nil FROM ITT. IMRTS OP KlfROTF. Life, Flro and Accidental Insur- ance Aj/ent. • * TrootranrA l»»i^ior«« AM^IMIO.I to promptlv, PHOTOGRAPH ROOMS, Orir RlfM'k in romplf»to In crrnr D^patttnont. r«raofiA viAJtinjf town will And ii i o thalr ad* '19 b*ftn*! ptirohaaing. K. IV- Wah lira and Jowoin* rwpairod hy cx- fH»rian<*<«d woikinun, N it. Arthlopin Milvm and Hold Tiigravod Karr or (*IIAHOK A irmnf or rnr rrTFimATn* mm mmm <>N riATsri) Eejrnolds & Gates, No. 21 Main Street, i if Formerly 80. Boots and Shoes. S. B. STINSON S, Boot and Shoe EMPORroM, N\ ( > IO AFnin Sti COUVERNEUR, N. Y <'<>!, 0OMPFTITION DEFIED! Tliw piihllr i** AIIIIno th« arn nmparf fnlly in\i(f«d to rail and WIiiirA virtimn <.i>'„ih r«»m 1ikona«A in AHT of Card Sizo, Berlin Head, Medallion, Cameo, Vignette, i * ' Hanihranilt or Full Flgurr, Vioto- rln Ki?,o t (Vl)lntil. •kitrniif ly»tr Tf j ttiA Now Yotk ^**\ r . in «am* AITIAA aa AI^T* A)I from t*tonrh*d nAgAtlvftA. IV>ir^lain or « vfiry iifiatly got u p at tffaa than half prl«># for tha itrnfi. WinU voiir noon. And you will find Mr l'»'. Jtrla.iii patl«ii.t AIMI Akil^il In A^urlng f»r you » fmNl ploturo uid ptotnrAA miplml and an larg#<l trom mlniatiira to I if A alia, and *>lor»d in (HI Wal#»r, or India Ink ml ^ j oW f\ Hm9n ^ tli« ti.ul* will warrAiit. AIMI » UiHH \ MawirtmAiit of frAraaa of Ilia rariou* »iyl*m of th« ( | ft T Ttfioden So Jaokson. LAUOKST AND HEAT HKI\*K0TFJ> STOCK OF BOOTS, SHOES, ROBBERS, 4c., FVKU nFFKKKH IX THIS V iTiKi:T. «nr rnr iu« w.n *vr» Qr Trio IIA«rn. w i-n- <ir AlMNrrrr* TO 4 lv Tailoring. TAILORING ANI> CLOTHES CLEANING GEO. B. JACOBS, m FKr.ri«Krt TO no All Kind* of Tailoring i With N*afh«a* a*d rXafiatrh. H« alAo f glyaa «|^ial attention to I Cleaning^ Clothes. HHOI' OVKR KTI,LMF!t % MOKRIR* RTORE, Main Street. ftalliiir Awiy f One aaiia airay to noa, On« Htaudrt on th« Nhoro and rrfea r Th* ship that goon down ilif> w%rld f and iho light On Uia aullaii watar dinn. Th* whiaparing Mhell in mutf», And after i* avil rhoor: Hhe phall atand on tha HIIOTA ajid ory in rain. Many and many a yoar. Bill tha ntatoly wido wingpd »hlp IJINI wr«<*kod on ihn tuiknowti d^«p ; Far under, dead in Ida coral hod, Tim lovor hen aid^<^>« TIIK nOUSK THAT JACK BlUliT. Bt KATK TtTNAM OflOOOTI. Tho publio ban boon in error long enough on this wnhjoot, thanks to that ridi^ilouf nurtftry jingle. Ak/or t^s I know better. I mm myself tne bonse that Jsok built, and I should thmk 1 ought to know the oirouttistnnoes nnder which I was put together. I do know them, the bow and the why and all about it, and t am going to relate the whole hen* for the general benefit - And to begin with, an }>eople are so Vendy to be captions, I want to explain before I say another word that those I H)rtions of my story which could not ia*e come withirr niy personal knowl- edge, seeing they belong to a time be- fore I was made, were communicated to me by tho other house, whioh is a great deal older than I am, and so, natwrally, has seen and heard more. And if you are ignorant enough not to know that houses, like every thing else, have their own way of tflMfcing to- ? ;«ther, why, I can only say that is your ault, not mine. Jack Heatoti— yes, T daresay it might sound more respectful to say Mr. Jack Heaton, but notiody else ever did so within my experience, and I don't know why T need -Jack Heaton, I repeat, was thirty-eight years old, well off, good-natured, good-looking, and un- married. Whv lie was unmarried I can- not tell you ; 1 never heard of his hav- ing had a disappointment, and I know his mother would have liked nothing better than to see kim settled down G ith a wife of the riffht sort. However, nit has nothing to do with the present ntatttcr; my story is mainly Minnie's story, ami Jack's only so far as he had to do with her. • Who was Minnie? What, you don't know (hat! Woll, then f Minnio WUH the orphan child of one of Jack's col- lege clANgmatcs, Iifn best and oldest friend. Something like six years before the ttmo I am going to describe, Jaok came home to diuper ono day in a brown-study, and when reminded by his mother that salt was nicer than sugar in soup, answered, abruptly, \ Mother, poor Walter Gotham's little girl, it seems, is left with no par- ticular home or means.\ 44 And my generous, extravagant boy has made up his mind to provide both, tm+m •*•/* fm* hi Mm. Meatou, smiling at him. Jack was over thirty then,but, as F have often noticed, a man is always a l>oy to his mother, even if he were a very Methuselah in years. \The generosity, if there is any, would be Pretty much on your side, I am afraid, mother,\ rejoined Jack, 11 for the care would come on you; still, F can't bear to think of poor old Wal- ter's child wanting any thine: we could give her; so, if you weren t afraid of finding her too great a trouble—\ \Not a bit of trouble,\ said Mrs. Heaton, without a moment** pause for reflection. Ff .Tack's generosity was ex* travagant, it was easy to sec where he got it! \ Haven't I wanted a girl of my own all my life ?\ \ Yes, F know F was ft disappointment to you, mother,\ out in Jack, with whom this was an old joke. \ As if I wcfiild change my boy for all Die girls in the world ! Htill 1 au|rposo that doesn't prevent my liking to try my hand on one.\ Ho that is the Way It was settled, and Minnie Oorham, a nhy, pale little dam- sel of twelve, came to live in the Hea- Miis* house- the old house, mind you, for tlrat was before F was HO much as thought of, hard as F find that tounder- stand now. There she grew up t o a girl of seventeen, neither shy nor pale then, but with about the brightest eyes and dearest laugh to be found in the neighborhood, as more than one indi- vidual had diseovered already. Ft was somewhere about this time that Jack Heaton, coming home one spring dav, was impressed, as he closed the door hehind him, by the unwonted quiet of the house. No head peeped into the hall to welcome him ; there was nobody in the parlor, nobody in the sitting-room, nobodv in the dining- room. Jaok penetrated as far as the kitchen, and there finally he came upon Minnie, half extinguished in a blue cotton apron several sizes too large for tier, with her sleeves tucked up from her round white arms, and her curly hair all thrust away at the baek of her head in a great rough kind, from whioh ati-fiy teudrilM orept out in n dintraoted and distracting manner. Jack's sur- priNc found vent in a low whistle, at which Minnie turned round with a sud- dennoas that sent a pile <>f egg-shells at her elbow flying Irom the table to the floor. j \ Oh, dear !\ she exclaimed. \ ReaFly, 1 gentlemen didn't ought to come into the kitchen,'as cook tiHod to be so fond of rcnuirking.\ * \ Used to be?\ repeated Jaok, rue- fully surveying his own mischief. '\Cook hasu't departed this life, has she ?\ \ No, but she has departed this hoiiHc, and under peculiar circumstances - for further particulars inquire within,\ added Minnie, mysteriously tapping a black bottle in the chimney corner ; \and as Bridget knows about as much of civilized cooking HS a wild F'awnee, Aunt I**anny and l have sent her up stairs about her business ; and if all that isn't explanation enough—\ \ Add that Miss Minnie seizes the opportunity to practice on us for the benefit of Mr. Ned Wyndham's house- hold,\mischievously put in Mrs. Heaton, appearing from the next room with a handkerchief tied over her head. \ Fa that so, Minnie ?\ asked Jack, after a pause, in which he had attentive- ly considered Minnie, who had fallen to l>eating the eggs again with still greater energy, which was perhaps wha* made her cheeks so red. 11 The ideal\ answered Minnie, with a toss of the head that sent half a score of IHtle curls flying loose. \ Before he can have a household he must have a house; and though F daresay the will's good enough, if T wait till he can take me home—\ and Minnie completed her broken sentence with an expressive flourish of the egg-beater. \ Weld, but you em take him home, then/' aaid Mrs. Heaton, \ It comas to the same thing.\ e building preparations in the vftoftlif lot adjoining, an oj»en green* formi p*rt of their grounds. Had Jack' ao It to some building speculator? That was an important question under the circumstances, for, as there was only the garden fence between, a great deal would be depending on the sort of ten- ants the new house jnight have. Mrm. Heaton could hardly wait Jack's com* ing home to satisfy her impatience. \Jack\—she began the attack di- rectly—\there seems to have been some kind of building people in the va- cant lot this morning.\ \I know it,\ answered Jaok; and after a little pause, M In fact, I sent them.\ \ Oh, Jack I\ exclaimed his mother, reproachfully, \ I never thought yon would hasre sold that ground.\ \ I haven't sold it,\ answered Jack; and added, \I think of building my- self.\ 14 You !\ said Mrs! Heaton, in a tone of surprise—\you of all people in the world, turning speculator ! But now, my dear boy, havo you considered the risk you run ? It is HO near; disagree- able people there could make then*- selves so very disagreeable to us.\ 11 1*11 promise to take nebody into the new house who can disturb the peace of the old one,\ replied Jack, with a smile. \Besides mother, it isn't even begun yet; time enough to worry when you see the slates on the roof arid the chimney smoking.\ \ Ah, that won't be long first, I'm afraid !\ said Mrs. Heaton, ruefully. \ I hope not,\ rejoined her son. \ I'm bound to get the thing through as soon as possible.\ \Jbit what for?'' replied Mrs. Hea- ton ; \ what good is it all going to do ?\ \ Oh, building pays,\ answered Jack, vaguely, and changed the subject. It looked as if Jack meant to lose no time from the way things went ahead. Minnie declared that he had made some unholy compact, and that invisible hands at night took up the work where his Frish hod-carriers had left it. And certainly the house—that is, myself, you understand—grew with a rapidity that gave some color to her accusation. Finally the day oamo when I stood finished from head to foot, or, if you f prefer it, from roof tr> basement. Ari< r though 1 say it, that perhaps should not say it, I was a handsome structure. I had a piazza, a balcony, a bay-win- \ Same difficulty in the way,\ replied (after the cabinet-maker and the upliol- Minnie* \ seeing I'm not an Aladdin t#iltterer ha* finished with me, and I stood make a palace out of a toad-i tool/' J Complete from top to toe in my new \ And if you were, would you makeidothes. The work had been thorough- young Wyndham King Toad V 9 sakeduy well done, I had variety without Jack, laughingly, but watchjng hetTgaudiness ; bright clear tints, and dark closely the while. [rich shades, lit up with the gleam of \ Oh, you uncivilised John t did jOltl Atirrors and gilding, and softened with never hear that directqnestions wer^ the | meh a profusion of greenery wherever bane of existence ?\ exclaimed Mfn|nie> J it could be placed, that I appeared to vanishing into the pantry in search of *]&*ve grown rather than to have been nutmeg grater, as*he said.** fttMkie. Minnie, who approved of me \ Is i t really true?\ asked Jack of hi«£thoroughly—and indeed, I was mainly mother, in a low voice. Hhe result of her taste—had declared I \ Why, where have your eyea bden r* f ffbould be named the Nest, for I was answered Mrs, Heaton, in the same i|K>t like any other ordinary house, tone. t\ft W9m ftn A 11 * 1 \*\* d*T when I was It was scarcely ft week later that MraJ IWahed^ the evening, aa I recollect. Heaton was thrown into a regular flunryl j** 0 * 6 Minnie's birthday. She stood by observing what looked suspiciouslyW* *« e ftrden of tho old horise with dow ; no modern improvement or adorn- ment had be*»n spared on me, I was as {et empty, to be sure, but that was a aok easily supplied ; all tho more eas- ily that Jack tiie very evening I was done brought over his womankind, with the addition of young Ned Wyndham, who happened to be making a call at tho old house, to give their united voice about tho furnishing. I remember just how the party looked as they entered. Minnie came in first of all. She wore a thin white dress, covered i the folds of which she had gathered up out of the dust, so that I had a peep at the rosettes on her little high-heeled slippers. Her black wavy hair had a rod rose-bud on the loft side, to balance the pink dimple in her right cheek, F suppose, ami her black eyes were wide open and sparkling. Altogether I ap- proved of her, and if I had not been afraid, being so now, of doing some harm to myself, F should have given some sign of satisfaction, Ned Wynd- ham followed her, quito an elegant- looking young fellow, with white hands snd a tawny mustache, and who—that F saw ^it once- admired her quite an much as I did. Jack and his mother brought up the rear, Jack carrying a note book and pencil, and Mrs. Heaton with a look of surprise and remonstrance on her face, tered. \ But, my dear boy,\ she said, \Ii cannot conceive why you should want j to throw away your money on this j house.\ Now this of course was not ' pleasant for me to listen to, but I re- J solved to hear further, and not take any looking at me as my windows ~ in tip setting sun, tfU 1 ed «HTn * gldw, inside and out \ The last stick Went in to-day,\ said Minnie. u The nest is already for the birds/' 41 Then sripbose #c go ove* and lake a bird's-eye view,\ suggested Jaok,with a laugh, taking his arms from the fence and throwing away the end of his cigar. He opened the gate, and they strolled over together. Minnie was all in black that evening, with a black necklace around her throat, and her thick black hair waving all over her sheulders. She made me think of a little nun, only those long curls and the bright eyes didn't suit with my ideas of a nun exactly. They came in and stopped in the lit- tle bay-window room, furnished just as •he had suggested. Hhe looked round her, then out at the flowers and green things in the balcony, and then all round her again. \Oh sho said, \t hope whoever 46mes here will bo somebody F can Ike, for I do love this house so, I can't give it up entirely.\ Now I thought this a very pretty J jeech indeed, and I made the most of te lust sun-rays, in order to look as bright as I could, as a suitable ac- knowledgment 'Jack's face brightened too. \ I am no gladyoti like it,*' ho said, heartily, and taking both her hands in his. \ my dear Minnie,\ he coutinued, \ to-mor- row, I know, is yonr Fnrthday, but you won't mind my anticipating by a few hours, I suppose, on making m y present something useful as well as or- namental. You are 'monarch of all yon survey,'\ he went on, jestingly—\of tins house and all it contains ; and, ray dear little girl, I only hope you may be aa happy in your nest as I have been at building it for you.\ , \ You built it—for—me ?\ said Min- nie, in so low a voice that F should hardly hare thought Jack could have heard, and without onee looking up at him, which did not seem to be pretty maimers under the circumstances. \ For you and King Toad,\ answered Jaok, laughing. \King To^jl?\ repeated Minnie, fj^ir^rkiitg up now with a puzzled face. \ I ought to beg Mr. Edward Wynd- ham's pardon for that, J suppose,\ said Jack; \ but have you forgotten our con- versation last spring, when you gavo me to understand that you could not make that young gentleman your King Toad for want of a toad-stool to hold your court under? Now here is tho toad- stool, and I hope—\ \ I don't waut it ! I won't have it 1\ interrupted Minnie, pulling her hands away, and rushing to the window with cheeks as red as tho scarlet geraniums there. \ It's too, too bad ! Ned Wynd- ham, indeed I\ But, my dear child,\ remonstrated ** Oh, dear !*' said Minnie, pretend- ing fright in sri pretty a way that I ex- enrted the temporary imbecility of Jack's face. \ Do let us* get away before the ceiling tumbles about our ears I\ It is some years since that evening. Jack has had a kind of covered piazza buut between the two houses, the old and the new, and it would really be difficult to say whioh house the family live in. All that can be said with any certainty is that, take us all together, we are a very happy family indeed, and spite of rnr semi-separation, an uncom- monly united one. Una is the real, reliable history of the house that Jack built, I give you my word there is not a syllable of truth in that absurd old rigmarole about the oat and the rat and the malt, and all the rest of it; and if you con- tinue to pin your fcuUj to it ta tb* fc*4b of my assurance, it will only be eut of the obstinacy peculiar to the human racev L 8am Henston's Savagery* Tlio life of Oovemor Hamuel Honston was one full of romantic incidents and showed the inherent savagery there was in his nature. Home of the most prom- inent features were these: Hin escape from his mother when at the age of seventeen he fell madly in love with the Indian maiden Too too loo (Hunflash), and followed her to her home, adopted the habits of tho Cherokees, married her, fllnd for three years, under the name of Oolooek, hunted, fished, fought, as a young Indian brave and acknowledged chief ; his unexpected return to his family, grown during his absence, though still wanting six months of his legal majority, to the heroic stature which then, dressed in hunting shirt and moccasins and blankets and head gear, , and ever afterwards, however clothed, made him a man of mark; his abandonment sixteen years later in life, while Governor of Tennessee, when his early pranks had been forgotten in his success as a lawyer and triumphs as a politician, of his young and accomplish- ed bride the day after marriage; his resignation of office and winding up of business and settlement of affairs with tho most earnest entreaties of friends and jeers of foes; his securing by deed all his inconsiderable property to his mothef-; his return as an Inbian chief to the wilderness, reclaiming his native wife, and dwelling three years longer with hjs tribe, andhissudden departure at last for Texas for the purpose of be- coming a herdsman on the prairica-—all show clearly enough the element of sav- agism there was in his character. And yet, he was superbly endowed by na- ture; was a great soldier, lawyer and statesman; whether as Governor or Sen- ator, was the most popular of men, and in polished society Was its ornament ana delight. A rllieky Comlrtftof, If all railroad conductors penssessed the pluck of one named Wilsey, on a Western road, there would be fewer complaints made of robberies commit- ted. A trio of three card monte men got on Wilsey 'a train. At the depot they fell in with an old man named Fremont, wholivea in Pittsburgh, and was on hrs way homo. They pretended to live in 4 Itomi or Interest We are always looking int4 the fa*'? lure, but we »ee only the pA*tj ,, * f . iffff - The President has appointed Novein- * ber 27 to be Thanksgiving Da^. ' •' In consequence of the plnl* tk»K I Mississippi State Fair is postponed to f November. The importation of American oyst«W;'*' t f to England was not auooeanful j* A Pittsburg also, and soon after getting J gpeonlation. on board the train they brought out | M(>fli ^ , ik « ^ ^ thettne!** Hi> i their cards. Fremont is one of those I ^^ uaim like to nee themnelv#ain Mi silks and velvet . - , smart old chaps who think themselves posted, and he knew the game, and de- cided to make some money ont of them. He lost $6, then $ 10, and between De- troit and the Junction he lost 956. This was all the money he had, but hia blood was up, and he had h an led out a heavy 4Pldw*toh to.iUk* oti the next bet* wHen the conductor parsed along. See- ing what was poing on, Wilsey told the old man to put up his watch. At this, one of the gamblers snatched it, saying, \ I have Wiji this f\ and then looked up at the conductor with a face full of brass. The train had been at a stand- still, and as i t started the conductor pulled the t ign to stop, and turned to the gamblers and demanded that they give Fremont back his watch and money. They refused in chorus, and one of the gamblers, as the conductor's coat came off, shouted, \ This is bet- ter !\ and pulled out a revolver and lined it on Wilsey*s eye, \ Commence shooting !\ repl.ed the conductor, and out came his own pistol, and for twenty seconds two revolvers were holdup into two men's faces, hammers up and fin- gers on the triggers. The two other gamblers began to feel for their hip pockets, when Wilsey qnietlv said, \ If you don't hold up your hands I'll blow the top of your head off?\ At that mo- ment a Cleveland merchant and a Toledo lake Captain came up, each with a cook- ed revolver. At this the gamblers offer- ed to restore the watch, and when they had dime so, the conductor mode theni return tho full &5f>. \ Now, then,\ said he, when he was through with them, \ get off this train ! I shall remember you, and if I ever catch ono of you on my train again I'll have the engineer run her up t o sixty miles an hour and my brakesman will pitch you into the first swamp !\ The follow:; were ready to go. I ii •a oil .r rith flounces and puffings, and j Jick » who fttoo(1 ,iko a «tatue of aston- of which she had gathered up ! »«hment where sho had left him. \ we all fancied you liked him.\ \ I'm sure I don't know why you should fancy it,\ retorted Minnie, with an emphasis very much misplaced on s<: small a word. \I detest him, ami—and every body !\ \Me too? Oh, Minnie, Minnie!\ said Jack, walking toward her. \ Why, what is the matter, Minnie ?\ Jack Heaton built me, I know that; bit still I miwt say I think there could hjirdly ever have been another man so stupid in such a case. I was new; F had laul no experience in that kind of thing; lait, for all that, F knew what was the matter with Minnie. \Are yoir angry with me?\ Jack blundered on. \What have J doner Won't you look at me, Minnie?\ foi 8ho was speaking as she en- j si e sat still where she had flung her J self into the \ disgracefully easy chair,' aid kept her face obstinately turned ayay from him. But when ae said, \ Won't you look at me, Minnie ?\ she raised her eyes to his very slowly, al- most as if against her will. I don't know what he read in her eyes, for I plan IUUM young men would be »)>ared years or incessant toil and anxiety ; hasty prejudices. \ Ft isn't everybody, WOT watching him, but I know I saw the who cares \ you know,\ she continued, to take a furnished house.\ \ And it isn't everybody I would let it to,\ answered Jack. \ Have you for- gotten our agreement, mother? I moan to have nice people hero, so F must bait my trap accordingly. That's why I hiivo brought you nil «*ver this evening to give me the benefit of your taste. Come, won't somebody be^in ?\ \ Oh, what a dear little bay-window room !\ here cried Minnio, who had been flitting about without much at- tending to the others. '* If it were my house F should make this my snuggery; I'd put my piano in that recess there, and A disgracefully easy chair here in oddest sort of change come over his fare, and he put out hia hand quickly in a blind sort of way, and struck it against the window- sill. There was a hug pause. \8oyou won't tako my house?\ he said, suddenly, in an indescribable \ Never, on that condition,\ answer- ed Minnie, emphatically. \ And—ou what, then ?\ said he. \None that would oblige me to— U Itavo yon all,\ said Minnie. \ How pretty* those scarlet leaves look in the orner there!\ she added,lightly, rising and taking a step forward. \Htop a minute,\ said Jack. She stood still, without replying, just on tho the bay-window \ And fill the balcony with roses and ! clge of the balcony, waiting for him to things,\ completed young Wyndham, | soeak. I really thought he never was whose mind waa plainly distracted by I filing to, but still she waited without a that red rose-bud. 'word. \ Minnie,\ he said at last, \I Not bad suggestions either,\ said | am a great deal older than you.\ \ Apres ?\ said she, saucily. I could have shaken the little witch for her pre- tenses ; for, though Jack couldn't see her face, I could, and it waa all in a said Jack, whose pencil was alreidy jotting down pianos, easy-chairs, and plants. \ Now what do you say, mother ?\ \This room with the dark paneling I should furnish in deep crimson,\ said Mrs. Heaton, reflectively, from the threshold, \ It is just my idea of a comfortable winter parloi ; and with a handsome set of book-cases—that is, if it was my own house, F mean,\ she ad- ded, suddenly pulling herself up short in this field so deliglitful to a woman, and resuming the prudential tone with which she considered it necessary to hold Jack's lavishness in check—\ but A Father's Advice to a Bride. Raid a young husband, whose busi- ness speculations were unsuccessful : \ My wife's silver tea set, the bridal gift of a rich uncle, doomed me to financial ruin, Ft involved a hundred unexpected expenses, which, in trying to meet, have made me the bankrupt that I am.\ His is the experience of many others, who, less wise, do not know what is the goblin of the house, working its destruction. A sagacious father of great wealth, exceeding!v mortified his daughter by ordering it to be printed on her wedding cards, \ No presents, except such as are adapt- ed to an income of $1,000. Haid he, \ You must not expect to begin life in the style I am able by many years of labor to indulge, and I know of nothing whioh will tempt you to try, more than the well-intentioned but pernicious gifts of rich friends.\ Such advice is timely. Jf other parents would follow the same ri they would not find themselves on the downward road because their wives had worn all their salary or expended it on the appointments of the house. The fate of the poor man who found a linch- pin and felt obliged to make a carriage to fit it, is the fate of tho husband who finds his bride in possession of gold and silver valuables and no large in- come to support the owner's gold and silver style. — Exchange. A Racing Anecdote* The Syracuse Courier is responsible for the following anecdote, relating to a well-known citizen: We came across an item in the history of one of our ris- ing y°nng men, which we hasten to em- balm and put on record. The story we heard yesterday relates to a former crier of the courts in this county, who is celebrated for his forensic abilities. It so happened that during a term of county court there wore to be three days'races which tho presiding judge was wry anxious to attend. He ac- cordingly, on the forenoon of the day previous, when the hour of adjournment arrived, directed our friend to adjourn the court! The crier turned to tjie judge and asked to what time he wqold adjourn. The Judge whispered to ad- journ till after the races, supposing the j crier would take the hint and fix the I date beyond on which the races would j terminate, but, instead, he answered it ! in this way, '• Hear ye ! hc/irye ! This court will stand adjourned so that the judge can attend the races !\ The ef- fect on the Judge can be imagined when we state that he threw a book at the crier, hitting him a stinging blow on back of the neck. Thereafter he was very definite in fixing the time to which the crier should adjourn. Execution* in Brazil. A correspondent writes to the Liver- pool Albion as to how they formerly exe- cuted criminals in Brazil, The write says : Headed by its band crime a body o soldiery, followed bv some priests, and then the culprit, with his arms pinioned and a halter round his neck, f h* pro- cession moved past the churches, and the noisy, excited electors increased in number at every turn till it thronged into the open square of the Praea. The Briti*ht ateam friapite^ Ardent and Growler wero upon the const,Jand I,Jwith some of their officers, got into the upper room of a shipstore dealer's store which overlooked the square, upon the outside of which, facing the guardhouse at tiiv foot of the Rue tie Kstn 11a, was erected a simple triungle, which was to serve as a gallows, of about tho height and form of those which support a swing-boat at an English country fair. One of its three legs formed a ladder, up which the culprit Clambered, and the top steps lie ing broad enough to form a seat : <m this he sat with his back to the execu- tioner, who stood upon the steps below him, und after fnstening the end of the rope to the seat the culprit sat upon, ho then either pufhrd him off or had the power of turning the upper seat, for the criminal, falling forward head first, turned over, and beiag brought up sharp by the rope, swung with hits shoulders on a level with the. body of the executioner, who, getting hold of the rope above the head of tin? swinging form, lifted himself upon its shoulders, with his Jogs down upon the wretch's breast, and then lifting himself t once more by means of his bands to tlnr rope, allowed his weight to come thud upon the shoulders of the man ; leaving go of the rope, with the man a head be- tween his knees, he then placed the palm of one hand over the mouth and with the fingers of the other pinched tightly the nose so as effectually to pro- vent any respiration. E miles till ar- tftodc, ifate*, oflrfof quiver. \And—but—I have cared more for you than anything else since you came tons.\ \ And so have I, Jack,\ she said, all in a breath, but hanging down her head. I was not altogether pleased with this answer, it was so very illogical ; but it seemed to satisfy Jack, for he caught both her hands again and—but no, on ^ _. I can't see the good of getting together second thoughts I won't tell you What pretty things for strangers to spoil.\ 'he did, for I am eminently a proper \ Oh, I'll get the worth of my outlay. never fear,\ said Jack, laughing. \ Deep crimson, you say—'m—book- cases— 'm-—'m.\ And that is the way it waa from gar- ret to cellar. Not a word could any ln>dy drop but Jack's little stnmp of a pencil caught it up and pinned it fast in a twinkling. If these suggestions were carried out, there waa every pros- pect of aa elegant a little dwelling as any Inxly need desire. And it was so. Yerf, I don't know why I ahould be shy of the truth, and I openly declare that I never wish to see a nicer-looking house than I was house, and I should not like yoli to £et a wrong idea of me from any foolish behavior of my owners. I'll tell yeu instead what I did; I gave a tremendous crack that startled them both. Minnie gave a little scream. \It's nothing but <he walla,\ aaid Jack, reassuringly./ \It's often so with new houses.\ / t \ Are yon sure T 9 said Minnie, peer- ing round throygh the twilight. \ I thought perbap* somebody might have seen—Only think, Jack, if wall* had eyes aa well Aa ears t\ ///—I cracked again, louder than be* fore, this time with amusement, Cbd-IJver Oil* The process of the manufacture of the \cod-liver oil,\ so extensively used for consumption and constitutional feebleness, ia thus described: The livers must be taken from the fish, and the process of cooking performed while they are perfectly fresh. The first step is to wash them clean. They sre then put into a large tin boiler, which is plunged into a larger iron boiler fill- ed with hot water, the water not being allowed to touch the liver*, and thus they are gently steamed till a quantity of oil floats on the surface. This is dipped ont and filtered through flannel' and then twice, filtered through bags of mole-skin. After the last filtration it displays a crystalline transparency, and is free from any unpleasant smell or taste. Great care is necessary to secure the proper decree of heat and the requisite cleanliness in the entire pro- cess* The \ Grand Okvaleade w at the Ml* y in Branford, Conn., was oompootw Uv/ part of 75 yoke of oxen*. . According to the revised list of ike\ 7 M canvasaern there am 16^070 nude quaii *q fled«feminF^li<etjht»^ V/# P*r* t\ One of the neateet touts eter rivw— , \ Woman, the last word on our lipa, be^ ,K <* cause it cornea from the bottom of our .. . hearU.\ '[ The Commune, during their jxmkh iVui sion of Paris, destroyed, amone o^b«r»,r.j< f things all the ofltauri records of births ' . { and marriages. '• ** Every year a number ol noldinre^kw >> killed by falling from the celebrated castle in Edinburg while *tfcemptin(p<l0 r ' desert at night , , < Copious showers of manna nre r#*, , ported in Hill County, Texas, It Re- sembled Rnm, and had all the sweet* ness and flavor of honey. . • An ignorant Indiana farmer tied a. goose on the roof of his barn and left it to starve to death, and now he be* ; r lieves that so long as any part of the \ old bird remains the farm will be safe io from lightning, „ [ Mr. James Kea and his wife Barbarp died in Wisconsin within three honm • i of each other. He waa eighty-fouf V* years old, and his wife eighty-three, f and they were the first settlers in Mel*' ' ' - ton, Waukesha county. »: , . ! A Calcutta dispatch of Sept. 28 says ; / that two more men have been killed by. the idol car hi Madura. The Bengal ^ Government have at length Ordered tlje magistrates to prevent danger of life from these Juggernaut cars. A large cargo of slavea on their way * to Majunjra, Madagaacar, hare been . T captured in the Mozambique channel. Proof has been found that a larffe slave trade is carried on almost under the guns of the Mozambique fort i v '« ^ John T. Irving nays that he cannot be \ convicted of the burglaries for which he t\H been indicted, and the New Yotk : k x)lice agree with him in that opinion. here is something very strange about the way the detectives nave acted in the \* > Nathan case, / ,• His sometimes very annoying to hard people volunteer information upon sub- jects in regard to which their ignorance is remarkable ; but that man waa simply aggravating who said that Pennsylvania is so called bacauao the lead pencil waa invented there. At the recent county faiy in West- moreland, Penn., a gentleman of un- doubted patriotism but of limited geo- graphical information, entered for *' premium a picture of Patrick Henry t j f delivering his celebrated speech before the House of BurgCses of Went Vir» * ginia. - The wreck of the vessel Boyal Char- ter, lying on the Anglesea coast waa lxnight some time ago by a farmer named Williams. He went dowa to the wreck in a diving suit for the purpose of blasting. The powder exploded pre- maturely, and Williams was hauled up ' quite dead. > The premiums offered at the Home, Oa., fair for the most efficient cook amoiig girls of the district, gave rise to a more lively competition than any ofhor premium offered. There is a traditional !>elief among the girls that whoever wins a premium will get a hus- band before the year is out A wife asked her husband for a new dress. He replied : \Times are hard, my dear- so hard I can hardly krep my nose above water.\ Whereupon she retorted : \ You can keep your nose above water easy enough, if yon have a mind to ; but the trouble is, that you keep it too much above brandy.\ \ You ought to let me pass here free of charge, considering the benevolent nature of my profession,\ said a physi- cian to a toll gate keeper. \Not so,\ was the reply, \you send too many dead heads through here now.\ The doctor did not stop to argue the point, but paid his toll and paased on. Ancient Pilgrim—Ah, fair sir, all is chang d since my time. No peas in your hoes now—no toll, no robbery, no danger— everything made easv ; in fact, quite a pleasant excursion. Mod- ern Pilgrim —No robbery? No danger! Does it occur to you, ray venerable friend, that our pilgrimages are made by rail ? The party of the Polaris have several of the records of the lo*t ship. The t+Ly of the L\ b. Navy in rtonvAr- hfaakl he did not credit the reports, lehmave recently been renewed, that pt*4Hall's death was the result of ^ulm^sns, and it appears that all who | wero present at the former investiga- tion are convinced that the command- ing oncer's death was from natural .eapses alone. English naval officers are, when on foreign stations, in the habit of )>er- forming marriage ceremonies, there be- ing no Consul «*r Chaplain in the neigh- borhood, on board their vessel. The law officers of the Crown have just de- cided that such marriages are not valid, and in consequence the Commissioners, of the Admiralty have directed that no commanding officer shall in future sol- emnize a marriage. At the Winchester, (W. V.) fair, Mr. S. 1), Long's sorrel filly wou the run- ning ma* and took the premiums. Mr. John F. Sower's three year old colt Buckskin wpn the trotting race. At the start of the first race, Mr. Upton G. Long, of Cuml>orland, Md.,'was thrown from his horse and fatally injured. The horse shied the track, juni|>ed the fence, pitched him over head foremost 'A. V '*** - A Danger Island. F*r south, in, (he Indian Ocean, writes a traveler in the midst of almost eternal surf and spray, rises what is appropri- ately termed Danger Island. Of all the lonely spots on the globe whose exist- ence ha* been ascertained, this is prob- ably the most lonely. Once only has it been known to havo been visited by mart. The sea for many hundred miles rolls and flashes over a bottom, riving at a certain degree of lat the floor of rock a! ruptly term and the ocenn becomes in a mom uufathomable depth. Ou tU* v**i y **dg^ of this abyss stands Danger Islapd, which the least touch of an earthquake or nn unusual stroke of hurricane ,may some day topple over into the botfem- less gulf. The billows incessantly fret and moan against the cliffs of Danger Island, whioh on all sides descend aheer into tli/» deep, so as to appear from a distance perfectly inaccessible. A surveying ship, traversing the ocean in all directions for scientific purposes, once approached this \uhl rook. After rowing to a considerable distance along the foot ol the preci- pices, one gentleman discovered a small fissure, through which he felt confident they could climb to the summit; and the boat being pushed quite close to the roeki, two or three of the most daring landed, and after no slight toil and peril, reached the top. The prospect which then presented itself was truly extraordinary. Rendered green as an emerald by the agency of hidden springs, the whole surface of the island was thickly strewn with eggs of innu- merable ocean birds, which, raising from the task of incubation, formed a canopy of fluttering wings overhead. The eggs were of all colors—white, light j ttll< ] f^ii upon bin as he landed on the chocolnte and cerulean blue, dotted opjw>sito side, breaking all his left ribs, with brown or crimson, or turonoise, or | y\ Tt Long in the second rider this horse bla-dc. Here and there little bills pro- j (Harkaway) **as killed witlun a year.^ Chicago Is an extravagant place. Just think of it ! There are no less than 400 jnoi lull; truded from shells ; and the mothers, though scared away for a moment by the unusual apparition of men, soon alighted near their young. The U. 8. Post Office Department has forwarded to Germany tho draft of a postal-card treaty with this country, fix- ing the postage at two cents. There is much reason to believe that the draft will be accepted by the German govern- ment without important amendment. A stout Englishman who recently applied to a California court for ad- mission to citizenship, on the ground f)f service in the navy, was asked if he had an honorable discharge. \ No,\ said he; \ yon nee we left the ship in a big hurry, and I didn't have a chance to see Captain Semraes, or else I should have got an honorable discharge.\ He didn't get his papers, billiard tables in thnt city, which earn an average of $12 a day each, or $4,800 a dav or $28,800 a week. Each game of billiards will average, in addition to the cost of the game, an equal sum for liquor and as much for cigars, making a weeklv expenditure of wages,* earn- ings, and profits of $86,400, There are 2,500 saloons in the city, the avernge receipt! 1 of which are not less than $60 each, or a weekly expenditure of $125,- 000. Over $200,000 a week in these in dnlgenoea ) /
