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Y uiir ' e speaking of being chased by wolves in the Canada woods recalls a sim- ilar experience I once had in Ohio , \ said th e old pionee r , as he nhook with sup- pressed emotion , but whether of a sad or p leasant nature coi\ld not he ascertained in the dim li g ht of the fire-p lace. •' L et us hear this yarn , '* we suggested , wi th a rcportorial eye to an item Tor con- sid eration in a dull season. '* Oh , it ain 't any yarn , I assure yon , \ said the old man as he chuckled and grinned , un til a glacial n;ovcinci<t of tobac- jp juice started from each corner of his m out h and pushed its way slowl y down 1 the wrinkl es that led to his stubbl e cov- ered chi.i bed >w. \ Shut the <loor there— so thill mother can ' t hear what is going on , and I will tell yon how I came to get ' married. \ > \ e comp lied wi th hi? request , and after s toring away a fresh deposit of the wccdi \ tha t chccrs . but don ' t inebriate / ' ho drew his ch air closei to us and eommevaced : It wa s in the year ]8 r O thai I caiuo \ to Cleveland , and became, emp loyed in n hardware store on Superior street. I had spent all my previous life on a farm , and had b ecome tired ol tramp in g around over the pasture * , Ibdde 'i itig sheep and cattle in winter , and workin g still harder in the summer. I won ' t say anything about the dilllciiltie * I experienced in getting empl oyment upon my arrival u? the city, nor how I trie d every place in town , bef ore I could lind a board ing nl ice that Mu ted mo unt il f became acquaint ' d with a wiu ow l.id y wh o kept a lew ^juniors on wha t is now known as Undid avenue. .M y landlady was acc omplished nii-1 had evidently seen be tte r unys , b ut the death of her husban d left iicr ir reduced circum- stances , licneo her takin g boarders us a m oans ol Kiib *ii-tenee. She had two daugh- ters , both livel y, intelligent and possessing the graces tha t only cento Irom association wi th the bette r class ol mwuoty. They we re of extremely guy disposition, and ' I had not been at the lumio a m onth before I wns hopelessly in lovo wi th Fann y, the elde s t , mid thou gh at timed hor manners toward mo wmo tender and encoura g ing, she onrefully avoided giving me an oppor- tunity to bo alone with her long enough to d uelaro my passion . The wii. tor hud nearl y passed without finding mo nny farther advanced in my Milt , un til one night in February after a heavy lull of snow , I a sked Fann y to take a slei gh ride with i.ie , to which shy con- Rented , mid n iter ten I procure I ns high Mopping a imif of Iiomoh ,» could * oo found in th« ity, drove up to the Iioiiho of my nllliiity . mid in u few mlmi t«N wo wore wliirlin ,; away out on tl.o old Cleveland anil Medina turnpike . 1 had tokon this nmd partly because it led toward my old home , and also owing to its being low traveled at ni ght than the other thorough- tares lending from tlie city, and wo were n ut likely to bo luteru ptod in our ndn o conversa tion. The night whs just cold enough to make I t neoussirv to i>In. ,i my arm aroun d my companion, tliu howes were frisky and the m oon shone with that peculiar light which is preferred by lovors to all others , unless it. ho that of a parlor lamp turned down so low that as an il- luminator it Is nearl y us eless. throu gh Brookl yn township wo whirled mil into tho coun fy, wliero the lights from the farm house* became more scat, tyred ami the hayin g of a watch dog was the only sound heard . Fann y who had previously sang, lau ghed anil chatted mer- rily un our ride , now became quiet • and as ,vo camo to a rise in tho ru ' that tits- closed n level strip two or thu miles In length before us , 1 cal d to mysel f , « Before wo have tra veled tho ronrt -now In vlow , I will settle my fate , and go homo a happier or mnro miserab le man. \ Hardly had I oomu to the nonnlii aion before I hoard a piwnllnr riiHliin g sound uohlnil ns , and looking roiiml coul d sue n thick nl sheep coming at full speed toward tjS anil behin d them wore two or three \'m which aeofjiintiid for the fright of tho •'lii'i'p which would tloulitlon s run fur «ov- fTii) iii i]c« lifioro atoppli m, and g lvo tliolr # CHASED BY WOLVES. owner much trouble in hunting them up the next day. But a bri g hter thoug ht ca me to me. Fanny was a city girl and had uover seen a she* >p save in the shape of cutlets or roast at her mother ' s table. I would indul ge in n str ategy of the kind which is considered fair in love or war. Loweri ng my voice to the note of the stage Jibbenainosy where h<; speaks of the death ot bis parents wile and triends.I said \ Fanny, my g irl , are you bravo—can you bear terrible news ?\ \Why Henry, what is the matter—what make» you so pal e ?\ Assuming a more trag ic voice 1 rep lied : \ lie firm , dearest—rely on me. we are f ollowed l>y wolves! Look behind you and you can see the monsters who are alread y iuirs ling for our blood. \ •She gave a hurried glance baokward , h eard the running sound of many feet , *he tlo>.p brea thing which when heard in tbo forest of the north , causes the wildest dis- m ay ; then drawing nearer to me , said : •' I did no t know there were wol ves so nea r the city, He nry ?\ \Neither did I think there were any , \ I rep lied , \ but it seems we were mistaken , for these behind us arc of the gray species , and the most dan gerous of any to meet. Driven by hu n- ger , th e y ha ve approached the settle- ments , ami unless our noises can go to lue ' Stone Tavern * i n Parma before we are overtaken , w e are lost. \ A t this juncture the old curly homed leader , tired and out of wind Irom the long rut: gave vent n. a prolonged bleat which was fearful enoug h to scare a less timid girl than Fanny. I sawed on the horses ' bi ts , flour ished my whi p frantically aro und tbet:i until they were excited and apparentl y doing their best to escape the fate behind them , but I was secretl y hold- in g them back , to allow the wolves (?) to get closer. On came the blood y horde , panting for breath , nearer and nearer , un- til\ ! began to throw out the \ bultUlo robes and blankets. \ The se will keep them busy chewing a few minutes ' , \ I said , \ and we may e scape. \ Hu t the sheep had no appetite for the robes , an d were close be- h ind us. I ' arose in the slei gh , gave the reins to Fanny, say ing : \ D rive for your life—1 will sacrifice mysel f for you , \ and made a m ovement as if to jump out. of tho slei g h. « Ne ver ! never !\ she screamed , \ we will die t ogether , \ and she pulled me down be- side her to await our fate. 'While thus em ployed I succeeded in obtaining a has- ty av owal of Fanny, a t the same time X was holding back the horses so as to let our pursuers go by. They came , the mon- sters separated anil passed us on cither side , while I h eld my hat over fanny ' s face that she mig h t not sec the dreadful decep - tion I bad p layed up on her. She fainted the moment we were over- taken b y the wolves , and without tryiug to revive her , 1 turned the horses home- ward , and only s topped to pick up the robes which had been thrown out to chock the ferocious animal s. After driving a mile or two , my now affianced wife revi ved sufficiently to hear how we were saved by a par ty of sleigh-riders who met us just as we were surrounded. Though nervous and weak from the excitement she recovered her buoyancy of spi ri ts before we ariived home , and h ' nd promised to keep our ad- ven ture a secre t, as I informed her , \ the owner of the horses would charge me a tearful pi ice if be knew to what tes t his steeds had been put. \ And that is my ad- venture wi t h wolves and how I came to marr y. \ Bu t did j 'our wife never find out tho decep tion you practiced?' ' we asked of the old settler as ho laughed again while think- in g of bis boy ish pranks. \Not until about ei ght years ago ,\ ho re p lied , when I told her ol it one evening when she wn s i roning. \ \ Wha t did she suy?\ \ Nut much , —not very much , \ answer- ed our old romancer , but removing his ha t, ho showed u « a triangular space upon his head such as might have been made b y « ho t smoothing iron and with n ut a hair upon its sucfuce. We thought Fanny was revenged. _^_^_______ A BunaT.AH TaAP. —Brown , down in Darb y, koops a grocery store. lie had buou very much troubled by burglars , Tho had broken into his establishment several times. So ho ri gged up a kind of an arrangement with cliroo or four double- barreled shot giin' < , and fixed it at tho back door at night , so that when any body opened the door, \\w tri girors would bo all p ulled nt once , and tin* burglars would bo blown to atoms. Then Brown jioiiiiiil a double hand full of bird shot and old nails into each barrel an.l wont to bod. Brown ' s mother-in-law happ ened to want snmo fct<ro« ~ \ r, l during tho night j and as she didn ' wish to rou t Brown out , she got tho kny of that back door and wont do\-n to help herself. Tn about filtuoii ^ mlnutc s Mr. Brown was nioui wd from his sleep b y a torrilio disohars o of artillery . Ho lcapod from bod , and , a \mod with a liorso plitol , rushed down tc secure tho fragment ' s of tho burglar. Vol) , there lay his mother- in-law , with about twenty pounds of load in hor legs, and tonponny nails sticking out of hor all over like thorns upon a rose- bush . They t arried hor up stairs , and alio i\d not recover lur a year , whilo Brown not only liud to pay tho doctor ' s bills , but to stay away from hor bedside In order to save his tros . *os from dlsliovolmont and his oars from to t rifle lectures. It .wit Mm abou t fifteen hun dred dollars and months of unutterable misery. Hi» (low not sot traps for burg lars any inoro. Ahciut 00 otlitnra , with tliolr wivon, nssonibloil at Williara sport , Fonn., on th eir wny to Krio for ft Bunwn . or excur sion, A worth y ci tizen undertook to trim his beard a short time since , and by a slip of the scissor 9 spoiled the cut. He trimmed a little more , and still more , hut it would look lop sided ; so he wen t to the bar ber ' s, and got shaved for the first time in twelve yea rs. He w, ver y busy and business de tained him in his office until a late hour of t he ni g ht , and whim he wen t home he found that his family had re tired. This was no t an unusual occurrence ; so he si- le ntly enterad b y means of a pass-key, soug ht hi s own room and undresced with- out lig hting the gas. He got partl y into bed , when his wife asr.onished him b y u t- terin g a loud and prolonged scream. He wis very much alarmed for her and feared she . Lad lost her leason. He implored her to tell him what was the matter. At the sound of bis voice she screamed : \ Oh , lidward , come quick , and save me. \ \ [ am her. ; , dear , \ said he; but she only screamed the louder at the words. He s prang out of bed and had just stnick a light , w ' icn his brot her-in-law. a muscu- la r six-footer , rushed in to the room -nd fired a revo lver at his head. Luckily it missed , but his fist did not , for in a minute u pale faced man , with a long white robe , s taggered under a blow that doubled the size of his organ of com- parison. \My God ,\ exclaimed the husband , \ are you all cra«v '?\ \ Bless n»y heart ,\ exclaimed the mus- cular brot her-in-law. \If i t ain 't Ned himself! Why, what on earth tempted you to get yourself up in that style?\ \ What style?\ t» .sked the much abused husband as he rubbed the growing lumps on his forehead. \Why when did you s have?\ f t was all clear to him then. His wife had put up her hand in the dark , an d meeting th« shaved face of a man , took her husband for an intruder. She recognized his voice at first , but the second t ime be spoke , her terror was too great and she fainted. When the broth- er now rushed in , he saw a thin- faced man wi th a slightl y bald bead , in a lon g white night robe , an d in his rage at the supposed outrage , fired at him missed , and t hen knocked b i ra down w ith his fis t. Fortunately, his voice saved the husband from a second shot. His wife recovered from her faint only to faint agiun a t the sight of her husband' * face aiid the sound of the pistol shot. He finally got to bed again until morn- ing, when \ the baby , \ a child of abou t two years of age , approached the bed , as he (had been used to do and frightened at the sig ht of a stranger , ran screaming from the room . Tri p ping on tho carpet the pev ,. ' child received a seveie bump on its little head. Matters wcro finall y straightened up at homo , bu t on the street bis friends pas sed withoat speaking, and at tlio bank he was not only refused pay- ment of a draf t , but threatened with arrest for signing his own name in en- dorsing it. Of uotirso , a littlo explana- tion brought the various affairs all ri g ht , bu t it took to much time to explain , and for th ' ' contution on his forehead to get well , tha t tho aforesaid citizen vows lie will never shave again , as he coiieidcr a it a habi t dangerous to peace and even to lile. M : Excused for a. CAusa. --Capt . Tom Bugboo was out with bis company on de- tached d.ity. In fact , ho had two com- panies under his command. Ho had with him a small brass Napoleon and i'i ambu- lance, Uaptal n Tom was a strict dis- ciplinarian , but a convivial fellow withal , and fond of crea ture comforts , not many of which wore obtainable in the wild country th rough which he was marching. The column had just loft tho smal l hamlot of Jasper ' sCroBS'ltoad s , below Jacksonville , whan tl.o Cap tain observed that ene of the drums was not beaten , and he directed a lieutenant to inquire the cause. Tho lieutenant sought tho delinquent , and de- manded to know why ho was not boating time. Tho follow nodded mysteiioasly , and whispered into the officer ' s oir. \I' ve got a pai r of ' roas t* \1 chickens and two bottles ol whisky in my drum j and n chick and a bottle are lor tho Captain. \ Tho I leu tenan t returned , and , in n whispered tone , reported to tho Captain. \Zounds I\ crlod Oapt. Tom , with vehement sym- pathy! \ why didn 't tho poor drummer toll ui. that his logs had given out? I don 't wan ' , men to march if they ' re lame llko that. Put him in the ambulance , tilrl\ The drummer was consigned to tho ambulance , and not long afterward Uapt Tom and tho lioutnoant wont to erumine mora paitlcularly !;, to tlio| nature of his trouble In Now York , last woolc , 041 death * woro roaordnil , bolng oqnnl to an annual mortality of 85 , 5 por 1 , 000 , for tho prev- joiw weok. AdTsntorw AfUr a Shavs. X i» QoiUoUn*. When Dr. Jose ph Ignace Uuillotin , on the 1st of December , 1789 , proposed in the Fre nch Constituent Assembly to alleviate the horrors of capital punishment by ado pting a machine which would dis- pense wi th the axe or sword , h e was mere- ly reviving au old contrivance , which had be«n superseded in Germany, France , aiid I t al y by tbe veiy instrumen ts of decapita- tion which he was try ing to abolish. Dr. Guillotin ' s motio n iras not formally acted on until the 20th of March , 1792 , when a resol u tion was passed ordering r. deca pitatin g machine of the kind described by t ho dxitor to bo adopted. The plan was submi tted to the carpenter emp loyed by the government , who demanded 5000 francs for making the machine , but finall y, after much chafferin g, a better bargain was made with r, young German mechanic named Schmidt , who agreed to furnish cighty- thre 1 ! of the new instruments —one for each depa rtment—for the sum of Sno francs each . I t was first tried on the loth of April , 1792 , u pon a number of corses a t the Bicctre Hospital , and was found to work w ith rapidity and precision. A week later it was employed lor the decapitatio n of a convicted hig hway robbe r nameo. Pelletier . The dieadful ust> to which it rward put in the whole-ale massa- cre of innocent men , women , and even child ren made its very name a hon-r- , and probably contributed not a little to .s not being adopted in Eng land and th e (Jnit«d States , instead of tho gallows , as a means o f inflicting capital punishment. Il con- sis ts of a block resting between two up- ri ght, grooved posts , between which slides a heavy wei g hted knife with an oblique edge. The sufferer i.s strapped firmly to a plank , and thrust face downward between tbe pos t* , so that his nec_ is direc tly un- der the knife. A spring is touched , the heavy, keen-ed ged blade descend s , and the head is severed from the bod y as easily as a shar p razor severs a hair. Dr. GuiUo tin himself narrowly escaped being a victim of tbe instrument which bears his name * . He was thrown into prison during the reign of terror , but was release d on the death of Robespierre , re- sumed the practice of his profession in Paris , and died auietly in his bed on the 20t h of March , 1814. The story tha t be died broken-hearted because of the infamy attached to his invention is , of course un- true. The question whether death b y the quilfotine is comparatively painless wa s raised in France soon af ter the reinlroduc - tion of the ins trument. In 1795 Dr. •Soinmcring, in tho Montieur , denounced it as too rapid in its operation , and main- tained that sensation did not cea se im- mediately after decapitation. Many ex- periments were tried to test tbe truth of this theor y. Eminent physicians assidu- ousl y attended executions , and by strik- ing at tho severed hond , shouting in its car , and divers othot ways , endeavored to ascertain whether sensation survived the shock of decapitation. Tub Emx th ' s Crcst vr Cmc\ao, — The Chicago TWAwm gives the account of what the drill passed through in boring 1 , 220 feet in that city : Tho drill had an easy time of it through tbo first fifty feet , boring with groat readiness through clay . then camo 335 feet of slate and rotten \ k , which was pre tty easily disced of. Then five feet ol quicksand , which cavod and made things generally uncomfortable ; then a 12-foo t mixture of sand and Humm ; then tho drill worked i ts way slowly through 102 feet of hard rock , after piec- ing which tho water made ifs appcarnnie , and the woll was filled ; then camo 110 lert oi white limestone rook , which was pierce d •lowly, but having made its way through , tbo diligence of the drill was rewarded with a •< soft thing, \ l» tho war of 290 feet of clay. More limestone to the depth n ( twenty five feat followed , awl then » mlxtni oof ilate and ilialo , and alter that forty feat of soapntono , then slate again io a depth of 105 loot, and . again 400 foot of white lime rook. Hero a stratum of twonty -flvo fe.it of brown sand was struck for the first tlmo , and alter it sandstone rock ; another layer of ten foot of shale , twenty foot of lime rook and fifteen foot of slate and rotten rock. This cavod al- most as badly as quicksand , and an iron pipe of tho size of tho wel l waa let down to cover the treacherous spot. Bolow this r«« sovonty-flve foot of limo rook agai n , twelve f cot of sandftono rock , eighty-eight foot of lime rook , and then , at a depth of 1 , 105 foot , a crovt ;© , Until , as before do- •oribod , wli metallic flint , containing v (i ter , thirty . ' ot bolo vv which tho flow no^ny doubled . During n recent sovoro tuundrr storm tho Hoii , _, B, Hammond of Hnnnvor. Ill ,, iost 50 , 000 young trout , valued nt 83 , 000, It is boliovod that thoy died from tbt jffooto of tbe lightning . The native California horse , l ike the In- dian , will soon bo numbered among the tbin gd of the past. With all his dcfccts , ' 'C has qualities and points of rare value , that shoul d bo preserved. He can thrive and subsist where the American or English bloods would starv e j is flee t and sure- footed as the mule , while his powers of endurance in the ' .uin ess or under the saddle are unequalled. lie is small of sta- ture , but a s symmetrical ns the Arabian ; wild by na ture , and often vicious , bu t al ways spirited , and. with pr oper training and kind treatmen t , fre quentl y exhibi ts all the efl' ec tionati! sensibilities of the licit breeds. It is no uncommon feut for him to carry a good rider 100 miles in a day, and it is claimed that many ol them ran go much further ia tha t time. We have seen specimens that , a t the age of sixteen years we re as gay and fiery as the best blo oded five year- olds , and that would kill the most enduring of them on a shor t or long journey. An saddle h orses thoy arc pre- ferred by all who know them best , as they arc also for their li ght work . It bus id- ways seemed to us pa ssing strange that no attempt has ever yet been made in California to preserve tho ,ulmiml>! , qualiti es of this ancient style of horses in tlmir purity. To permit them to ignobly perish , as now scows likely, w ould ho as singular ns unfortunate. — Vmhi rfr Sh all. Beaut ifi'i. Am.euory. — Ctitte Ion of Kentucky, was a t one time engaged in defending a man who had been indicted for a capital ollbiiw. After an uluboratt nirl powerful defense , be cWsed his ull iirt with the following strikin g and bountifu l alle- gory ; \ When (Sod , in II\s eternal conn- cil , concuivod the thought of maii ' i* creat ion, Ho culled to litin Iho ill too niinisins who wait constantly upon tho throno—Justice , Truth , ar.il Moroy—and tluw addressed tlmm : ' S hall wo nmk» man I' Then snid J anice : • Oh , God , ma ^ie Wm not , lor ho will* tramp l* 1 upon Thy lows. ' Truth made answer also \ ; * Oh , God, make him noi , ioi ho will pollute Thy Hanc tuaiiim , ' But Morey, dropping npon hur knees , looking up through Ifor tours , exclaimed ; •Oh , God , make man—I will wat ch over him with my caro thr ough all the dink paths which ho may hnvo »o tread !' Thou God made man , and said to hi in: < Oh , man, thou art> tho child of mercy | go and dual with thy brother. \' Tho ju ry, when ho had finished , were drowned In tj ars , mid , against evidence and what must have boon against tliolr own convii tlons brought in a verdict of not guilty . A woman , ovor Hovonty yoar» old par- tially deranged , wont into tl\o wooiin iti Union , Conn., 11m othor rt ,»y , aud vtw found on tho third day iihIooj> beliiwl it lmrn. Bolng nwnltonod hIio w ii<1 \ »du hud had n nine nap but was a lo' . ' tlo linn gry. \ Bbo hnd lost hor bonn et and torn hor olothcn oowridpruh iy, but otherwi se appeared unimpaired by hor privation s ana exposure , The California Mustang. A lad y in Indiana has been prnm .cd u divorc e ontlic ph'ii that hor husband hud refused to iis- sist her on washing days . In P« U>r>diurg tho temp erature i.s indi- cated b y its eflect upon paper collars . It is now reported nt \ three pupor col- lars hea t. \ An old farmer said of his clergyman , who se sermon lucked point : \ All, y<>» , he ' s a good man , but ho iri/l rake with the teeth upward. \ Throe A rid) laborers are working on a railroad in Massachusetts . The y rimiiiit speak Kug hsb , but arc reported to be e-xcclleiit workmen. The ad vertisement of it Western stone- eiutter raids : \ Those who buy tomb- ston es of us look with pride mid satisfac- ti on on the (rnwos of their friends. \ Dr. Dio Lewi: ; of Boston has gone abroad to stud y, in » practical maimer , th e European methods of p h ysic al cul- ture , and especiall y the Turkish liuth system. A b ride in fiidiana , uf'fei tho conclu- sion of tho l mirriuge * eevmony, stopped gracefull y forward and requested the clergyman to g i ve out the h ym , '• This is the way I long have sought. \ I wo friends meeting, one remarked, \I have just met a man who told me t - Inttk ed exactly like you. \ \ Tell me who it whs , th at I may knock him down , \ re- p lied the, friend. \ D.m 't tro uble Your- self ,\ said he , \I did that mys elf. \ A young man nam ed Wurreti Sicker , while cleaning out his bench iu a bobbin and spool manufactory in Alton , N. TI., the other day, broug ht hi s head in eon- tact with the circular saw , the sa w cut- ting a gash from ear to car. He lived about thirt y minutes. XSostou is beginning t , import .Tapaneso paper clothing. The paper from which the articles are made ii wboily water proof , is thin and li g ht , an overcoat weighing onl y two pounds. The goods are capable of being washed several times , and mil l ust a number of months. Among tile \ rej ected addresses \ th at avo been made to the New York IL 'niht ma y be mentioned one that was proposed within t he lost two years b y that must enterprising of newspaper men , (J eor ge W . Chihts. H e offered Mr. Den licit, one million of dolL.rs cash for the 'luniltl establi shment , and wu i prepared to pay • , m ore if Mr. B. would name \ a figure . A peop le may be kn own oy its adver- tisement s. In Puebl o , '' Mi. »vido , the- ' prevailin g amusement on Sunday t'fter- noon is \ a chicken iir patu. \ l;i the. Colvtuto Chifflnm we lind. not in tbo ^'financial articl e , ' 1 ' jut, amon g lb 'bus- iness notice 1 ' , ' the 1 following nnu • .ni ce- ment : M oney loan ed in Moderate am ounts on short time. Pre -einptors thvttlit accommodated. Office e - •> r where liiiinkin ' s game, rooster got kit rft. K. Kwu i- .V Ho. A PimJ K cri ii) K.Mi.w.iv. —Th e project of a railwa y for the transportation of ships acro ss the isthmus of ll„udni' ii -< , b etween Puerto and Caballos on the Atlantic and Hay of Fonsecn on the I' ucilic side , is now urged in earnest , nnd a prospe ctus for \The Hondura s , Ten Per Cent. Govern- ment Ship ltailwny L o an \ has app eared in the London j,:i,. .. rs. The p lan , i t will bo remembered , wa s to rai se vessels from one ocean b > h y draulic lif ts and th en trans- por t them mi a tru ck acro sa the ist hmus , after which i t would Iic ii d easy mutt er to to launch them iu the w. tcrs of the other ocean. The prop osed rail way tia ek N to bfc twonty -lhe fevt wide , with twelve rail s, A snip wei ghing, with i ts ca rgo , 2 , 000 t ons , w ould bo supp orted , on ' .MO wheels , b y whioh tho weight would be so distribu ted that tho pres sure on each rail would not be exces sive. The pnyi'dins of the company have figured out cm ninu m profits for tho euturpii so , whi ch limy cs- tli.!4 to can be ' carried throu gh for tbe moderate sum ol . -r7i '5 , oi)ii , Ofill. Tor tho uiu of this money ih''y aro willing 1\ pro - mi se to pay ' en per cent , p er milium. Thoy will p robably , get enough siih<«ilp- tions t o ruinimcru to titein for their iroublis and i ngenuity In bringin g tliu mill • vr be- fore the j nblicj hut the nmd is not nary likel y to bo built jn xt »t |.. 'i>' \ nt. Tiik Stokr. * Tin u« —Tho Moke s trial Is now ii. inte'iw ting prngr ons , and a great erowd throng th<> emu t-rni. 'in and hall- ways. M \s Flsk lios been pi \sent A largo wonr.cn model of tho entra nce of th ' o Grand Coitrul Hotel , including Hairs , elevator , UndlngH , etc , win produced for tho ii wpeethn of tho Jury, al so two liirg ei maps giving ground plana of tho hot el , with the variJUH offices , stairs , o fc. Tl.o fir st wltntw on ' ,led by tho pru wnitbni was Charles 0, 11 111 , w ho lives In West. Troy , nnd won Nt r pplng uC tho Grand f .en irnl Horn ) nt the tlinn of the clioutln i? if Jiirnn * I'M >Tr , Tho other wit n. -sM'S oxiiinint 'd woro Franci s. Uwtl , o ( IU>,\bi|f , v, Ma s. , ' , I' ctor Coii ghlin , thn coal poHor , John V. Chamberlain , Patrick Hurt , ami Thoni tw Hart. The Hiilwtan on of tho testimony it* tiio snmo frr„„ n'l of thorn In . . regard to tho sho e! ing of FIM < by Rroko i , and is a onirf ij orotlon uf thi ' published a ccount In the papers whlnli In riim lll ir In all, — ..., —— -- — ..„ .—.- -i^» I' lTiiTCK Mwirow.Y, iif Ht tttulo , agfil 28 , whilo int oxlciitort , stubbed his m other with ft onrvlnp lui i fo killing h«r tna ti-ntly, Brevitie s. u PUBLI S HED EVERY THUR S DAY , at CUT CHOGUE , L. I. TERM S: $1.00 a Year. L. F. TERRY , Publi sher. r iii» year—next yi ar—H<)ni e * imo— never , (iaily did »lic tell : [ ' ll»w-Ical after roue-leaf rve'r Eddied nii.ncl arid fell. Tl»I»- - . vcar—and »he blu.sliod demurel y, That woalil be t-»o HOtin ; 1,1' eoiil.1 wait u little , ciire ly, 'J'is already June. Ni-xt y«ar—that ' n nlin..;^ too hurried , I.an^uin^ly, qaid nlie; I' oi wlien cure a ^ irl in mi rrir-d , Sli.- un inure in free. ji S iiniliine—Ihal is vague lung wailing |i Mirny a trouble l>i-hif?K ; [ Inixt ili-liiy ing ami debating, r I.ovi- niiylit use jiia whip*. t Never—wurd of ' vil unieii , t' Ami she sic.iod , hei g h-ho ! E \L\ ' i> the hardi'Di lul fur worsen , W Low thiouj h life to £« . t Sf \t year- carl j - in the May-time , Waj to In. th. - day ; I.ixikml Bin- Hwi-ntly towards that guy time , « (ik'aine' . 'j Ja r rway. Neve. * lair with bridal llnwerH Came, that merry Spring ; Ere those bright and radiant hours , She had taken wing. T hirt year—lie.irtH are bound b y Borrow , Next year—some forget ; Moiiii'tiine—niiited that golden morrow \ N ever- earth uaw yet. \ T_i Year Itezt Year. '- Sometiines lightning produces comp lete and instantaneous paralysis. The sun- prcssion of movements in the victim in the*c eases is so rap id that those w li-i have witnessed it mi g ht have thoug h t they . - uf- fer ed from some illusion. Who would not think be was dreaming if he saw art u nfortunate creature , full of life and activ- ity, petrified and motionless :us n rork in less time than it requires to witness the p hciio men jii? Jerome Cardan ' relates that ei g ht reapers , who were, eating tl>L-ir dinner under an oak-tree , were all struck b y the same flash of li g htnin g, the . -xp lii- sion of which was heard faraway. When some peop le passiug by ap proached to see what bad happened , tliey found the reap- ers to all appearance continuing their re- past; one still held his g lass in his h and , and anot' ier was i n the act of putting a p iece of b read into his mouth , n third had his hand in tbe dish. Death had come u pon them sudddenly while m these [Mo- tions , w hen the thunder-holt fell. Azrcie l bad seized ujmn them with so much vio- lence that he had impressed upon the entire surface of their bodi es the. mourn- ful tint of his black wings . One tui^ ht have taken them for statues scul ptured out ¦ if bl ack marble. The catastro phe was s o rap id , that the faces of the victims had n of time to take any expression of j.uin ; life wa s suppressed so instantaneousl y that the muscles remained unmoved. Tbc . eyes and the mouths were open as in life ; mid had n ot the color of the skin been so much chan ged the illusion would have been com- p lete. I t has been remarked also that the fea tures of persons stru ck by lig htning ins tead of being contracted , usually as- sume a calm , ha ppy expre ssion ; and the conclubi on has been diawn that they enter wi thout shock or pain into the presence of tbe Infinite Being. It has been assumed that death by li ghtning is the prelude to glory and happiness . Ughtnia fr. ®he -wvctnr, JOB PIUXTI N Cr Done at <- liort Notic? and at price* that defy couipotitiou, Correspondents and CaiiTantjrr* waut»d in ev- ery v illage.
