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It. was in the Spring of 18— . I had boon at Rome during the Hol y Week , mid had t»l;o:i ; ¦ ..„ ¦ > . ¦ u. the diligence for Nap les . There were < ivo routes: one by the way of Terr acina and the other by the Via Latina , nore inland. The dili- gence , which made thu journey only twice a week , f ollowed these routes alternate ly, s o that eacli road was traversed only once in seven days. I chose the inland route , and after a lon>j day ' s journe y arriv ed at Ceprano , where we hal ted for the nigl.t. The next morning we starte d agai n very ear ly, and it was scarcel y yot daylight when wo reached the Nenpolitai n fron- tio r , a sh ort distance trom the town. The re our passports were examined , and t o my groat dismay I was informed that mine wa s not r.n regie. It was covered , indeed , with xtam ps- and signatures , not ono of which hud been procured wi thout some cost and troub le ; but one \ vha \ wn. - ye t wan ting, and that the all-import- ant one , without which none could enter the Kin gdom of Naples. I was obli ged theref ore to alight , and to send my wretch- ed passport bm;k to Rome , my wretched self bein g doomed to remain under Police surv eillance at Ceprano , until the diligence should brin g it back to me on that day week , at soonest. I took up my abode at the hotel wher e I hud pau sed the previo us nigh t , and there I pit sently received a visit from the Capo di P ollisin , wh o tol d me that I must p;-e- seut myself every morn in g and evening at hi s bureau , bu t that I might have lib- er ' v k> \ circulate \ in the ne ' rhbnrhood durin g tuo day. I grew so weary of this dull place , that after I had explored the immedi ate vicinity of the town I began to oxteud my walks to a greater distance , and as I always reported myself to the poli ce lu'Uiro night I mot with no objec- tion on their part , On* day , however , when I had been as tar us Alntrl and was retu rnin g on foot , ni ght overtoo k me, I hnd lost my way, and could not toll how far I might be from m y destination . T was very tired nnd had a heavy knapsack on my ' shoul- ders , packed with stones and rellea from the ruins of the old Polasgio fortress whi ch I hnd been exploring, besides a number of old coins and a lamp or two which I had purchased there. I could dim'orn no signs of any human habitation , and. the hills , covered vith wood , seemed to shut me in on ever y side. I was bo- , Rtnnlp rf to think seriously of looking out for some sheltered snot under a thicket in wliiwi to pitM the night , when the wel . oiiino sound of a footston behind mo foil upon my oars. Presently a man dressed n the usual long shaggy ooat of n shop- horrl overtook mo , and ' hearing my diffi- cul ty offered to conduct mo to a house at a hlior l distance from the rond , whore I niightob taln n lodging ; before wo reached tht- spot ho tol d mo that the house in fliie. -tlon was an Inn and that ho was the landlord of it. Ho hnd not mnoh custom , ho H'tid , so ho employed himself in shop- herding duri ng the dny j but ho could mnko mo comfortable nnd give mo a good supper also , bettor tlmn 'I oliould expect , to look nt him ( tint ho had been In good oiroum stnneos onoo , and had lived in ser- vice in groat families , nnd know how things ough t to bo , and what a */fl7ior«liko myself was used to, The houflo to which ho took mo seemed like Its owner , to have soon bettor days, . It was a largo , rambling place and mnch dilapidated , but it wns tolerabl y comfort- abl e within ; nnd my landlord , after ho hnd thrown off his sheepskin coat, pro- pared mo a savory moal , nnd sat down to look nt and converse with mo while I nfo it. I did not much like the looks of Iho follow i but ho floomod anxious to lin so- nlnblo , and told mo a great deal about his former life when ho wns In service , ex- po rtin g to rooolvo similar confidences ir um mo. I did not gratify him much , CAUGHT AT LAST. bu t one must tal k of something, and he seemed to think it only proper to express an intere st in his guests , and to learu as much of their concerns as they would t*il h i m. I went to bed earl y, intending to resume my journey i >s soon ns it should be light. M y landlord took np my knapsack and ca rried it to in/ room , observing as he did so tlftt it - .vas •> gr' >a t weight for me to travel with. I answered jokingly that it contained great treasure , referring to t ny coins and relics ; of course he did not understand mo , and , before I could ex- plain , he wished me a most happy little night , and lef t me. The room in which I found myself was .situated at the end of a long passage ; there were two rooms on the ri g ht side o this passage , and e. windo w on the left, which looked ou t upon a yard or garden. Having taken a survey of the outside of the h ouse while I was smoking my cigar after dinner , when the moon was up, T un- derstood exact l y the position of my cham- be r—the end i oom of a long narrow wiug, projectin g at ri ght nag leij from the main building, with which it was connected only b y the ;>i88age and the two oido rooms already mentioned. Pleas e to bear this desc ription car efully in mind while I proceed. Before gettin g into bed I drove into the floo r close to the door a small gimlet which for med part of a complicated pock- e t-knife which I always carried with me , so th at it would be impossible for any one to enter the room without my knowledge ; the re was a lock to the door , but the key would not turn in it; there was also a bolt , but it would not enter the hole in- tended for it , the door having sunk a p- pa rently from its proper level. I satisfied myself , however , that the door was se- cured by my gimlet , and soon fell asleep . Flow can I describe the strange and horrible sensation which oppressed me as I awoke out of my first slumber? I had been sle eping soundly, and before I quite rec overed consciousness I had instinctive- ly risen from my pillow , and was crouch- ing forward , niv knees drawn u p. my hands clasped before my face , and ray whole frame quivering with horror. I saw nothi ng; felt nothing ; bat a sound was ring ing in my ears that seemed to make my bl ood run cold. I could not have supposed it possible that any mere sound , wha tever might be its nature , could have produced snch a revulsion of feelin g or ins pired such intense horror as I then ex- perienced. It was not a cry of terror that I fceard—that would have roused me t o action—nor the moaning ot one in pain—that would have distressed mo , and culled for th sympathy rather than aver- sion. True , i t was like the groai .tng of one in an guish and despair , bat not like any m ortal voice ; it seemed too dreadful , tt>c intense for human u tterance. The sound had be gun while I wns fast asleep—clo<-<» to the head of my bed—close to ray ver ; pillow ; it continued after I was wide awnke—a lon g, loud , h ollow, protracted groan—making the midnight air reverbe- rate , nnd then dyin g gradually away until it censed entirely. It was some minutes liefnre I could at all recover from the ter- rible impression which seemed to stop my breath and paralyze my limbs. At length ( began to look about me , for the night wan not ent irely d ark , nnd could discern the outlines of the room nnd the Severn) pieces of fnvniture in it. I then got out of bed nnd called aloud , \ Who is there ? What is the mn tter ? Is nny one ill ?\ I r epeated 'Miese inqniriea in Italian and in French , but there wns no answer. Fortu- natel y I had some matches in my pocket and wn s able to light my caudle. I then BXiitnined every pnvt of the room caref ully, nnd especially the wall at the head of my bod , ssmnd ' niR it wi th my knuckles ; it wns firm nnd solid there , ns in nil o ther places, I unfast ened my door and explored the pas sage nnd the two adjoining rooms , which w ore nnnooupied nnd almost desti - tute of furniture ; tliny hnd evidently not boon used for som e time. Sen rob ns I would I could gnin no clue to the mystery . Returning to my room I sat down upmi the bed In great perplexity, nnd begnn to turn over In my mind whether it wns pos- «ib' e I could hnve been deceived—whether the R ounds/which canned mo such distress might not bo the olftprlng of some &r< am or ni ghtmare ; bnt to th at conclusion I could not bring myself nt nil , much as f wished it , for the groaning hnd continued ri n ging In my oars long nfter I was wide awnke nnd conscious, ' While I wns thus reflect- in g, having neglected to close tho door which wns opposite the side of my bnd where I wns sitting, I honrd n sof t font- stop nt n distance , nnd presently a ligh t appeared nt the further end of the fins- sago Then I saw the stindow of a man cunt upon the opposite wall ; It moved very slowly, nnd presently stopped, I saw the hnnd raised , us if making a si gn to some ono , nnd I know from the fact of the shadow being thrown in advance tbnt there must hnvo boon n second person In the ronr by whom the light was carried, After a short pnnso they scorned to hare retraced their stops, without my having had a glimpse ot either of them , bnt only ot the shadow which had oomo before and which followed them as thoy with- drew. It wns then n little after ono o ' olork , nnd 1 concluded th oy wore re- tiring Into to rent , and anxious to avoid disturbing mo , though I have since though t tlint it wan the light from my room which caused thorn to retreat. I felt half In- clined to call to them , but I shrank, with- out knowin g why, from making known what had disturbed mo , and while I hesi- tated tho y wcro gone ; so I fastened my door ngnlu , and resolved to , nit np and watch a littl e by myself. ' But; ntw my numllc wns beginning to bnrn low , nnd I found mysel f In this dilemma : ei ther I must o.vflnp ' ilsh It nt once , or I should bo left without the m oan s of procuring a light in uabo I should again bo disturb ed, I regretted that I hnd not called for an- other onndlo while there woro people yet moving in the house , but I could not do so now with out making exp lanations ; so I gra cped my box of matches , put out my \ ii jht j and lay down , no t without a shud- der , in the bed . For an hou r or more I lay awake think- in g over wiiat had occurred , and by that timr ; I had almost persuaded myself that I had a morbid imag i nation to thank for the alarm which I had suffered . \ It is an o uter wall , \ I said to m yself ; \ they are all outer walls , a nd the house is built of stone ; it is impossible that any sound could be beard throug h such a thickness. Besides , it seemed to be in my room , close to my ear. What an idiot I must be to get alarmed and excited about nothing? I'll think no more about it. \ Sol turned on my side , with a smile (rather a forced one) at my own foolishness , and composed myself to sleep. At that instant I heard , wi th more dis- tinctness than I ever heard any other sound in my life , a gasp, a voiceless gasp, as if some one were in agony for breath , biting at the air , or try ing with desperate effor ts to cry out or speak. It was re- peated a second and third time; then there was a pause ; then agai n that horrible gasping: and then a long-drawn breath , an audible drawing up of the air into the throat , such us one would make in heav- ing a deep si g h. Such sounds as these could not pessibly have been heard unless they had been close to my ear ; they seemed- to come out of the wall at my head , or to rise out of my p illow. Tha t fearful gasping, and that drawing in of the breath , : n i,h e darkness and silence of the ni g ht , seemed to make every nerve in my bod y thrill with dreadful expectation. Unconsciousl y 1 sh rank away from it , crouching down as before with ray face u pon my knees. It ceased , and immedi- ately a moaning sound began , which lengthened out into an awful protracted groan , waxing louder and louder as if un- de r an increasing agony, and then ilying awa y slowly and gradually into sile. -ice ; yet painfully and distinctl y audible , even to the last. As soon as I could rouse mysel f from the freezing horror which seemed to pen etrate even to my joists and marrow , I crept away from the bed , and in the fur- thest corner of the room li ghted with shakin g hand my candle , looki ng anxiously about me as I did so , expecting some dreadful revel a tion as the ligh t flashed u p. Yet , if you will believe me , I did not feel alarmed or f ri gh tened ; but rath- er oppressed , and penetrated with an un- natural , overpowerin g sentiment of awe. I seemed to bo in the presence of some great and horrible mystery , some bo ttom- less dep th of woe, or misery or crime. I shrank from i t with a sensation of into] . e rable loathing and suspense. It wns a feelin g akin to this which prevent nd me from callin g to my land lord. I could not brin g myself to spuak to him of what had passed ; not knowin g how nearly he him- self mi ght be involved in the mystery. I was only anxiou s to escape as quietly as possible from the room and from the house. The candle was now be ginning to flicker in i ts socket , but the stars were shinin g outside , and there was space and ilr to brea the there , which seemed to b e wanting in ray room ; so I h astily opened the window , tied the bedclothes together for a rope , and lowered mysel f snfely and silen tly to the ground. There was a ligh t still burnin g in the lower part of the house ; but I crep t noiselessly along, feeling my wny care- fully among the trees , and in due t ime came up on a beaten track which led me to a road , the same which I had been traveling on the previous night. I walked on , scarcely kuowing whither , anxiou s only to increase my distnnoe from the accursed house , un til the day began to hronk , when almost the firs t thing I could see dis tinctl y wns a small bod y of men approaching mo, I t wns with no smal l pleasure that I recognized nt their bond my iriend the Capo dl Polizin. \Ah! \ he cried , \ unfortu n ate Ingleoi> , what trouble yon have given mel Whore hnve you been I God bo pridnod th at I sei> you safe and sound I But how ? What is ' the m atter with yon ? You look like one pos- sessed. \ I tol d ' mm how 1 had lost my way, and where I had lodged. \ And what happened to yon there ?\ ' he cried , wi th a look of anxiety , \ I was disturbed in the ni ght. I oonl d not sleep, I mntlo my escape , nnd hero I arn. I ennnot toll you more. \ \ Bnt you must tell mo m ure , donr Sir ' ; forgive mo; yon mnst toll mo every thing , I must know nil thatpn ssod in that house. We have hnd it under our survol lnnco for a long time , and when I heard in what di- rection yon hnd gone yesterda y, and .hnd not returned , I feared you had got into scir. o mischief there , and wo woro even now npon our wi^' to look for you. \ 1 could not enter Into pnrtlonlnra , bnt I told him T had hoard strange sounds , nnd nt his roqno st I went bnck with him to the spot. IIo told mo by the way that the house was known to bo tin resort , of banditti ; that the landlord Imrbor od them, received th ei r ill-gotton goods , nnd helped thorn to dispose of their booty. Arrived at the spot , he placed his men about the premises and Instituted a strict search , tho landlord nnd the man who wns found In tho house being compelled to ac- company him, The room in which I hnd slept was carefully examined; tho floor was of plaster or cement , so tlint no sound could hnvo passed through It; tho walls woro sound and solid , and there wns nothing to bo soon that could In nny way aooonnt for tho strange disturbance I hnd experienced, Tho room on tho ground flooc underneath my bodroom wns next inspoaod ; It contained nqunntlty of straw, hay, f irewood nnd lumber. It wns pnvoa with brick , nnd on turning ovor tho straw which wns heaped together in n corner , It was discovered that tho bric ' ts were un- even , as If thoy bad boon recently dis- turbed , \Pi g here , \ said the officer. \ We sh all find something h idden he*e. I imagine. The landlord ww . e vidently much die - turbe< *. \ Stop, \ ho cried. \I will tell you what lie s buried there ; come away out of doors , and you shall kmow all about it. \ \ Di g, I say. We shall find ou t for our- sel ves. \ \ Let the dead rest , ' l cried the landlord , wi th a trembling voice. \ For the love of hea ven come away, and hear what 1 shall tell you. \ '' Go on wi th your work , \ said the Ser- geant to his ' men , wh o w« re now p ly ing pickaxe and spade. \I can 't stay here and see it , \ exclai m- ed the landlord once more. '' . Hear then ! I t is the body of my son , m y only son— let him rest , if rest b» can. He was wom;ded in a quarrel , and brought home to die. I thoug ht he w ould recover , but there was neither doctor nor priest at hand , and in sp ite of all that we could do f or him he died. Let him alone now , or let a priest be firs t sent for ; he died un- confessed , but it was not my fault ; it may not yet be too late to make peace for him. \ \ Bu t why is he buried in this place ? \ \ We did not wish to make a stir about i t. Nobody knew oi his death , and we laid him down quietly ; one place was as good as another when once the life was out of him , I thoug ht. We are poor folk , and could no t pay for ceremonies. \ The truth at length came out. Father and son were bo th members of a band of thie ves; under this floor they concealed their plunder , and there , too , lay more than one mould ering corpse , victims who had occupied the room in Thick I slept , and. had there met their death. The son was , indeed , buried in that spot ; he bad been mortally wounded in a skirmish with travelers , and had lived long enoug h to repent of his deeds , and to beg for that priestly absolution which , according to his creed , was necessary to secure his pardon. In vain he had u rged his father to bring the confessor to his bedside ; in vain he had en treated him to break off from the m urderous band with which he was allied and to live honestly i n future ; his prayers were disregarde J , a nd bis dy- ing admoni tions were of m» avail. But for the strange , mysterious warnin g which had roused me fro m my sleep and driven me out of the house that night , another crime would have hu en « .dded to the old man ' s tale of guilt. That gasniug attempt to speak , and that awful groaning -whence did th ey proceed ? It was no living voice. Beyond that I will ex press no opinion on the subject. I will only say that it was the means of saving my lite , and at the same time patting an end to the series of bloody deeds which had been commi tted in that house. I recei ved my passport that evening bj t he diligence from Koine , nnd started the nex t morniug on my way to Nap l es. As we were crossing the frontier , a. tal l figure approached , weari a g tne long, rou gh ca- polta of the mendicant frinrs , wi th a hood over the face and holes for the eyes to look throu gh. He enrried a tin money- box in his hand , which he held ou t to the passengers , jingling a few coins in i t , and cryin g out in a monotonous voice , \An ime iu pur galario ! Anime in purgatarw ! \ I do not believe in purgatory, nor in sup- p lica t i o ns tor t ho dead ; bu t I» dropped a piece of silver into the box nevertheless , as I thought of that unhallowed grave in the fores t , and my prayer wen t up to heaven in all sinceri ty, — \ Regviucat in pact I \ — Trnnple Bar. Tho cattle in Newtown County, Cta., are d y in g very r ipidl y fr om some i'U- kuowu disease. Chica go is agitatod just at piesout o rer the qu estion : \ Shall police captains wear plug hats ?' Atldie Ballon married a cou ple , and in the nu p tial lecture told them \ cra- dles were cheaper than divorces. \ At a wedd ing iu Poughkeepsie , not long ago , the parents of the bridegroom charged the invited guests ninety cents a head for enppt r. Thero is neai: Knoxville , Tenm., a spot w hich nestles between the mountains and rejoices : ' . the- a ppellation of the \ Happy Valle> \' where we are told onl y one death has o ccurred in twelve years. The water in the town well at a v illage in Mississippi havin g grown to be too much on the l rinerol spring order , an inv estigation T.as made , nnd eighteen dead dogs were foun d resting in peace at the bottom. A youth of tiventy-fiv e married an old lady of sixty in May fiekl , K entuck y, a short time siuce , and turned all her propert y into greenbacks , after which bo tL himself nad proceed * turned up miasing. At tlie Providence O pera House , Miss Isadora Cwaeror. was made the recipient of a number of floral offerings , and one of the bj quets contained a small silver vase , iu which were four oua hundred dollar bills. A mechanic in a Vermont villa ge put out on a placard , \ I Will Not Tr uit No More ,\ whereupon his rival across the stre et put over his shop door the wordd. '' T rust Her o Forever. \ Could competi- tion do more ? A Wisconsin school mi stress was re- moved latel y for \ catching a young man up b y the legs and jerking him aionnd with great force , s triking the left temp le against a bench or some other obstacl e and bruising it severel y. \ As tw » men were out hunting neiir Geor getown , Texas , the other day, ono of them , \ while imitating tho call of a turkey, was discovered by his companion , who , seeing onl y his head , and su ppos- ing it to be a turkey, fired and killed hiiB. In Gas ton County, North Carolina , during the temporary absence of Mr . Harrison Gant and his wife , their two little boys , a ged respectively fiv e and seven years , found a jug of whiskey and drank ' a large quantity, from the effect of which they were thrown into con vnl- tions and died within a few hours. A Mrs. Dr. Saur , at Na poleon , Ohio , at a recent local election , succeeded in get- tinpr iu an entering ' wedge for woman onffiiige. She w»s escorted to tho polls b y a jud ge who said that it wn? nil right , and her ball ot was taken. Then came another , but of the tribeof Be lial or Wood- bull ; but tlint wns too much fo r the judges , nnd they refused to accept any more ballots from women , leaving Mrs. Sauv the only f emale voter in Ohio. SELF-MUTtDEIt lNQ CHILDREN. Self-mnr - der by children , is now frequently report- ed ; the Inst is thn t of a boy fifteen ytinrs old , in Boston—is due , in part at k-atst , to tho detailed reports of this nnd other crimes to which their Attention is so con- stantly called by part of the newspaper press. If a lad comes to look to hi) fath - er ' s morning journal or to the penny sheet which ho can buy npon the stree t for thrilling accounts ot bloody scones and crimes of vi olence , his mind readily g rows morbid , nnd whnt is possible with others begins to seem possible wi lli him- self. When in this condition trlv sl oir< cumstances mny overturn his reason. The Bos ton boy who killed himsel f on Th u rs- day left n no t e \ expressing the opinion that ho was insane. \ The poor lad was right ; but whntovor the canse of this to npornry insanity, we doubt that it would have hnd this terrible » \—ilt if h« hntf not bson ni nde so fumilinr r ith the not of sui- cide tlint it seemed to him n very ordinary matter , Tho occasional youthful suicides reported are not , unfortunately, tho only evil effect of tho practice of publishing snch m atter in detail. The effect on many boy s In such ili.i t their suicides would bo loss banof ul to society than thoir gro w th into bnd and dnn gurou a mon. A Fbmai ,» Dubi,. —-Two MoxU i • ladlos of rank nt a rocont bal l nt Hanta Cruz get- ting liiUi ;. dl rtputo in regard to the num- ber of dances duo ono^ by n noutrnl lovor , one of thorn throw hor No . 6J kid glovo Into tho other ' s fnoo , and challenged her to mortal combnt , Thoy mot the next morning , Tho challenged , having tho choice ot weapons , clioso the short iword , and nfter a fow passes hti r weapon pnssod completel y through tho whit e sword-arm ot hor nn tagoniHt , entirely disnbllng It, Krnntlo with rngo nnd pain tho wounded fury soImkI a pistol ami dnrwl tho other to \ oomo on. Mnod nff. \ Nothing loath tho other tank hor position , tho word wan given , nnd ngnln the challen ger was wounded , her loft arm being bro ken by the bn.li of her antagonist. Bho wan onr- rlfld off tho field In a swoon , nnd tho other more fortunuto fair marr ied tho costM h t Ul two bourn nftorwnrd s, Vrcn uoNT fnrmor s complain of a scarci- ty of good farm hands. Brevities. PUBLISHED EVEEY THURSDAY , at • C UTCHOGUE , L. I. TERM S: 75 Cents a Tear. L. F. TERRY , Publisher. I think till I weary with thinking , Suid the sad-eyed Hindoo king ; An.-! I 8cc but shadows around me , II hit ion in everything. How Jcnowest thou aught of God , O* His favor or His wrath ? Can tho little ti«h tell what the lion thinks Or map out the eagle ' s path T Can the finite the infinite search , I>id tho blind discover the stars ? la the thought that I think , a thought , Or a throb of the brain in its bars ? For a ught that my eye can discern , Your God 1h what you think good , Your xe lf floMhed bnek from the glass , Whcr he light pours on it in Hood. You preach to me to he just , And U mhih Hi« real m yon say, A nil tho good arc dying of hunger An.l the bad go rge every day. Yn n say that Hn loveth mercy, And the fa mine is not gone : Th- .t )in hateth the ehcade r of blood . And He slaycth us every one. Yon nay that my noiil shall live , That the spirit ena never die ; If Ho woro content when I was not , Why not when I have pasntd by ? l' oii b»t I must have a meanin g- , Fo mnat dung, and lta meaning is flowers. Wlnt if nur annls aro but nurture Fur lives that arc greater than ourn ? vwicn the flHh Hwims cut of the water , When the bird soars out of the blue , Man> tu ^ukut u »y transcend man ' s knowledge , And your God bo no reflex of yon. The Hindoo Sceptic. Nothing could have been more divertin g than the manner in which the bride of Sir Cbnrlcs Dilke arrayed herself for the great event of her lire ; and as it ushers in a now style of mnrringe ceremony it ia fit- ting that our lnd y readers should know the details. It Is told b y a lndy, thus : \ Miss Shell , the bride , cntlcd enrly one morning on an intimate famil y friend of mine and asked hor to go shopp ing with her , tc which my friend consented. When thei r shopping business was concluded , Miss Shell asked her if she could spare a little further time to accompany her to eiiurcb , ns she was going to bo married that morn- ing. She said she would not keep her long, ns tho servlco would bo short , and sbo would not bare to answer any ques tions. The bride , I may toll you , wis drossod in a water proof clonk , and wore a hrnwn straw bat , and those articles , of nttire she kept on during tho whole , of iho ceremony. Immndintoly tho servlco was concluded she rushed Into the vestry to sign her name In the register , without even waiting for her husband. As soon as this was done she seated herself in tho bro 'ighnm , bid my friend adieu , and told bar tha t she should bo happy to see her that dny fortnight when thoy roturned from thoir mnrringo trip, ns on thnt occa- sion thoy in tended to glvo some of their friends a Obampngno luncheon. Tho ci ti- lion and oltizuno ss then . drove from tho church to several of tho shops , and then to his houso In Slonne stree t , where tho lndy wrote various letters and invita tions for the Oli tmpngn o luncheon , ato • boofctonk for hor dinner , and then .. :t i hor aristocratic republican husband fur tho country to spend tho honey-moon. \ An Alabama negro nnd hi:- , wife nro in jnil nt Greenville for tho murdor of thoir dau g hter , a girl of twolvo yearn. Tho child wna tnktn to a swamp, bonton to n Jolly, nnd t' nn bathed in a tub of scald- ing hot an! t wntor . It died in a fow houra ofter i.nl, A Se pnblloan Waddto ff. This bridge is to be one of the lnrgcst suspensi on brid ges in the world. Its c.\- iict location will bo four miles Nor th of Peekskill—a t Anlh ony ' i Nose. I t will he 1 , 065 feet long between the towers , nnd 155 feet ab ove the Hudson River water. It is to be suspended by 20 cables , mndo of 70,302 miles of steel wire—weig hing, with the iron snd steel in tho bridge , 17 , - 0013 tons. It will br> ninde strong enough to hol d up safely 2 , 400 tons , and'to brenk through vith 25 , 171 tons. B. \V. Scrroll the engineer , ssys 8 , 000 , 000 tons of coal from Penn sy I vsnln , 54 ,08(1 tons at iron from Eliznhethpor t , nnd 500 , 000 tons of through freigh t from the Midland and Erie , will pass ovor this bridge and ovor the Now Engl and Railway, which will run trom Tumor ' s , on the Erie Road , ovor tho brid ge , to Now York , Boston , snd Montre- al Railroad. Part of thin will go io Now York , ana tho rest will go Into Now Eng- land , by way of Mrows tcrs ' s , Milton , nnd North Adams , and tho linen conm- .oting these with Now Knglnnd. Thin bridge , in a word , will mnko a continuous lino I rum iron folds ot Penn sylvania to tho New Eng- lan d S t ates , nnd there will bo no inoro rv- shipplng at New York nad Jersey City, Tho enpitnl stock Is $2 , 500 , 000 , to be di- vided into $100 shares , according to its ' charter , j assort April 27 , 1808 , and amen- ded Mny 0 , 1870, A lndy sent hor Irish servan t for a now velvet man tilla which wns at hor dro ss- maker ' s, '• John , \ alio said , \ if it rains , take n oab, 1 would rather pay the cub biro than have ray mantilla wot. \ When tho man handed nor tho mantilla it was : uinod , tho papor which covered it being saturated with water. \ Why, John , \ sho said , \ I told you to take a oab if it rained , \ \So I did , rnnm i but miro yon wouldn 't Imvo your footm an ridin ' inside ? I got on tho box with tho dri- ver. \ The Proposed Huds on Elver Br idge, Mr. Rob t. J. Bell , an Assistant Observer at the United States Sijnal station on the summit of Mount Washington , writes to the Phi' adel p hi a Bulletin an accouat of his everyday experiences above tbc clouds. He was detailed to take the p lsc e of Wil- liam Stevens , who died i n mid-winter with no friend near him save his solitary companion , Sergeant Hearne. A par ty of stalwart mountaineers climbed to the sum- mit and took the body down for burial. They p laced i t in a box fitted to runn ers , which was permitted to slide down the mountain side , the men holding on to ropes attached to the rear to regulate the m otion and direct the course. Mr. Bell savs : \ W e occupy the depot of the Mountain Rail road; in which we have two rooms partitioned off (ten by twel ve), securely chained to the rocks , so that the wind may not blow us away. One we use as a ki tchen and dining-room , and the other as a parlor , bed and dress ing room. We also occupy the latter as our office , in which we keep our barometar s and tel egrap hic i nstruments , the wire connecting with Littleton , N. H., b y which means wc are not whol l y excluded from civilization , al- tho ugh I must admit that visitors are very few—no t a sing le one since my glorious ascent. \ We general l y supp ly oursel ves in Sep- temb er with canned provisions sufficient t o last throughout the winter , reckoning a t the same time to give our visitors a square meal when ttmy come. Our time we must occupy chiefl y b y reading and stud ying, f or our out-door amusements nre vtry scarce. In case we do have the pleasure of going outside to ramble amid the snow and ice on the rocks , we are ob l iged to take advantage of the same , and exercise ourc elvcs by hauling ice , frostwoi k and snow , so that r e may procure the water necessary fo r cooking and drinking purposes , as the weather is very severe on the summit , the thermometer since my ar- rival havin g been most of the time below zero, and the wind at a hurricane. \ I will give you a small idea how we felt , the thermometer standin g at forty- nine degrees be low zero, and tbc vind ragin g at a hundred and twenty miles per hour. The cold weather which I ha ve reference to occurred on the 5th of March , and the mode we adopted to keep ourselves warm was to biing all the coats and over- coats into requisi iion d uring the day, with two large coal fires continual ly burn- in g. At ni g ht wc took advan tage of our ' li ttle bed ' (which is not a bad one), with covering enough to suffocate any man in or- dinary winter wea ther , and then I must confess wc suffered with the cold. It wa r the coldest time tha t my comrad e and I ever experienc ed. We do not mind dur- ing, the day the thermometer standin g at ten be?nw zero , if the wind does not blow too hard , for then wc can h ave a little hoi. iday b y |.;oing outside. Bu t at nigh t , un- less the wind is blowing a t least sixty miles an hour , we cannot sleep wel l , for wo arc too accustomed to hurricanes. \ Above thy Clouds. JOB PRINTING Do- .ie at Short No tic? ant 1 , at prioes that defy cmpetit ' .uu. Correspondents nnd Cr.Lvasnera wanted in at- . ery vulige
