Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 6 August 1869 — Page 1

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Root.—Trustee, John Christen; Justices of the Peace, Jeremiah Archbold, Lyman Hart and Henry D. Filling; Constables, John -Schurger, Martin Lord and Henry Luttman. Preble.—Trustee, F. W. Gallmeyer, Justices of the Peace, A. Mangold and John Archbold; Constables, —vacant.'. Kirkland.—Trustee, Jonathan Bowers; Justices of the Peace, S. I). Beavers and James H. Ward; Constable, John T. Baker. Washington.—Trustee, C.inrnd Brake; Justices of the Peace, J. W. Grim and Samuel Merryman; Constables, Frederick Mein and Elias Crist. St. Makv's.--Trustec, Ed. McLeod; Justices of jrfie Peace, Samuel Smith, S. B. Morris and William Comer; Constables, George W. Teeplc, S. B. Fordyce and J. W. Andrews, Bluecreek.—Trustee, John Emory; Justice of the Peace, Lemuel Williams; Constables, William I. Danner and William Danner. Monroe.—Trustee, Thos. Harris; Justice of the Peace, Lorenzo D. Hughes; John T. Martz. . French.—Trustee, Solomon Shull; Justices of the Peace, Lot French and V. D. Bell; Constable, Joshua Sarff, Hartford.—Trustee, Peter Huffman; Justices of the Peace, Benj. Runyan and Martin Kizer, sen.; Constable*, David Eckrote and John Simison. _ W ibash.—Trustee, Henry Miller; Justices of the Peace, A. Studebaker and James Nelson; Constables, Jacob Butcher and A. G. Thompson. Jefferson— Trustee, Charles Kelly; Justices of the Peace, Justus Kelly and John Fetters; Constables, —vacant. Time oi Holding Courts. JJiacuiy'Oot'tT.—On the third Monday jn April, and the first Monday in No-, vember, of each year. Common Pleas Court.—On the second Monday In January, the second Monday tn May, and the second Monday in September, of each year. Commissioner's Court.—On the first Monday in March, the first Monday in June, the first Monday in September, and the first Monday in December, of each year. CHURCH DIRECTORY. St. Mart's (Catholic). —Services ev•ry Sabbath at 8 and 10 o’clock, A. M., Sabbath School or instruction in Catechism, at n o'clock, P. M.; Vespers nt 21 a clock, P. sf. Rev. J. Wemhoff, Pastor. | Methodist.— Services every Sabbath at 10J o'clock, A. M., and 7 o'clock, P. M. Sabbath School at 9 o'clock P M 1 Rev. D. N. Shackleford, Pastor. I resdtteriax.—No Pastor. Prayer Meeting every Sabbath at 1 o'clock, and Sabbath School at 2 o'clock, P. M.

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Vol. 13.

ATTORNEYS. JAMES It. 8080, Attorney «,t Xj«.X2V, DECATUR, INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Laud and pays Taxes. OFFICE--Opposite the Auditor's Office. • vlOuGtf R. S. PE T ER'SO A, Attorney a,t Uaw, DECATUR, INDIANA. attention paid to all business entrusted to his care. Is a Notary Public,anddraws Deeds, Mortgages, and other instruments in writing. OFFICE —In D. Studabaker's Law Office. v!2n33tf DAAIEL I). HEELER, Attorney at Xxzwv, DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice his Profession anywheie in Indiana or Ohio. OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder's Office. v!ons2tf

_ physicians. _ F.A.JELLEFF. W. 11. SCHROCK. JELLEFF A SCHROCK, Physicians and Surgeons, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street,, opposite the Public Square. vßnlstf. CHARLES L. CIRTISS, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. n AYING permanently located in this place, offers his professional services to the people of Decatur and vicinity. OFFICE—At the Burt House. 11-30 AAD RE W SOK G , Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE —On Second Street, over W. G.Spencer & Brother's llardware|Store. vßn42-.f. A. J. ERWIN, M. D., Surgeon. Dispensary, Aveline Block, v11n25 " FORT WAYNE, IND. S. C. AVERS, M. D., RESIDENT Ear and. Eye Surgeon, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. OFFICE—South west corner Main \ Calhoun streets, over Drug Store. JJayArtificial Eyes inserted. 12-44

DENTISTRY. M. M. McCOAAELL, Surgeon Dentist, DECATUR, INDIANA. All work neatly executed RKygSsjk iud warranted to give sat’"‘■UljLLjLJisfaction. Call and‘examine specimens. OFFlCE—Opposite the Public Square, aover Heller's Law office. vlln-PJ REAL ESTATE ACENTS. JAMES R. HOBO, LICENSED REAL ESTATE 'AGENT, DECATUR, INDIANA. rpHREE THOUSAND ACRES of good 1 farming land, several Town Lots, and a large quantity of wild land for sale. If you want to buy a good farm he will sell it to you. If you want your land fold he will sell it for you. No sale, no charge. vlOnti

„ auctioneer. CHARLES M. FRANCE, Auctioiicor, DECATUR, INDIANA. I NNOUNCES to the public that he is \ n regularly Licensed Auctioneer, and will attend all Public Sales when requested. OFFICE —In J. R. Bobo's Law office. HOTELS. MIESSE HOUSE. 1. J. MIESSE, Prppriitor. Third St., Opposite the Court House, DECATUR, INDIANA. rriHE traveling public will find this 1 House a desirable stopping place. Good sample rooms. vllnff MAIN STREET EXCHANGE. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, ll’ml Main Street, near the Public Square, FORT WANYE, INDIANA, vllnll If MAYER HOUSE. J.W. BULL, Proprietor, Corner of Calhoun and Wayne Streets, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. vl2n7 ts HEDEKIX HOUSE, A. J. H. MILLS, Proprietor, On Barr, between Columbia and Main Sts., FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. ("A ENERAL Stage Office. Good Stall bleingin connection with this house v12n25 ts

HARDWARE Ac. McCULLOCH & RIOHEY Wholesale and Retail Dealer* in Hardware, Tinners' Slock. AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, Mechanics’ ToolSa STOVES, Me. ST Columbia Street, r H.M'cvLiorn, t FORT WAVNE. INDamos richev, j vUnlltyl

DECATUB, IISTD., FRIDAIY A.TTGITST 6,1863.

A Song. I sing this song to one who makes A pleasantness of duty; Whose worth is shrined within her heart, As well as in herbeguty. So fill the glass, let’s toast the lass, With hearts and bumpers brirnmin’, Nor enn it be a sin for me To name her best of women ! The sparkle of the crystal wine Shall be her bright eyes shining, The garlands round brim Shall be her ringlets twining; And so we'll claim a golden name From every charm about her; For angels know that here below We could not live without her. I sing this song to one near whom The angels seem to hover, Thepaiagon of loveliness, > With naught in life above her; And now she’s found, all gather'd round The bowl with good cheer brirnmin,' Let’s fill the glass and toist the lass— The dearest one of women! ■" • . 1 - 7 - -- — - Tiling ‘‘Ladies” Get Tight on. From the New York World. The extent to which the habit of the secret use of chloroform prevails to day amon& all classes of of women, from the inmates of the shameful haunts of Greene street to the belles of the Fifth avenue and the pupils of fashionable boarding-schools, is known to few except the apothecaries wh ) supply the deadly drug. For deadly it is ; and though its poison is sometimes as swift as the cobra’s it is at others slow in its vengeance, reaching through years of misery, but always sure and inevitable. We hear with terrible frequency of sudden deaths from chloroform, "taken only to allay a headache but we do not hear of the wreck of the brain and the ruin of the nervous system which its habitual use surely brings about. The swiftness with which it produces its dreamy intoxication, and the few apparent traces which it loaves be hind, make it a favorite with worn- i en who know nothing of its un- ' governable force, of its cumulative effects, and of its terribly dangerous nature. Its use is far more to be deprecated than that of alco hoi or opium, the etlects of which can easily be foretold. Chloroform, on the contrary, is as subtle and sudden in its nayward vengeance as the most treacherous and dangerous of the women who. use it. The dose that was seemingly innocuous yesterday, may, if re peated, bring swift and resistless death to day, and though the pen alty should be delayed, it is certain to be inflicted sooner or later. When, a year or two ago, a writer charged American women with drunkenness, the charge was easily repelled, for the delicate organization of the refined lady instinctively and notoriously shuns the rude grasp of alcohol. The charge that chloroform is largely used by women is, however, true. It is generally used in ignorance of its nature and ultimate effects, but the sad and disgraceful fact that it is ' habitually employed to an alarming I extent, as an aid to female drunk- 1 enness can not be gainsaid. A Horrible Farce and Sad Reality. The Alameda (California) Gazette, of July 3, chronicles tha follow ing extraordinary incident: On Saturday night a party of Germans gathered in the bar room of the New York Brewery, at Haywood, tor a spree; lager flowed . free and fast, songs were sung, | and many a bumper was drank to j the honor of the dear Faderland. | Finally, on time being called for another round, one of the yarty. I named Hess, failed to respond, and ’ his friends, who supposed he was’ playing off', suggested a little a museinent at his expense. It was' proposed to have a mock fusend. j A hulder was procured ami the in I ebriated Teuton stretched upon it. | The pall bearers were selected, a' procession was formed, and the ‘ party marched about the room.

earn ing their insensible companion. Ibey hummed the dead march, sang dirges and hymns’ and finally repared to a barn hi the rear of the brewery to perform the buna) rites. The modk ceremonies lieing oyer, they repared to the bar room. Ordered up more lager, and patiently waited, expecting every moment to see the ••corpse entpr. But he came not. and upon repairing to the place of his '•interment,'' it was found that the man was indeed dead. Deceased, it is stak'd, was an indusirious and well-to-do fanner, and owned a ranch about two miles south of liny wood.

Tunneling the English Channel. The tunneling of the English channel between Dover on the English side and Cape Blanc on the French side, is likely to be commonced at an early day. Within the fortnight past Mr. Bright gave an interview to a deputation of the promoters of the project. Lord Richard Grosvenor, M. P., chairman of the company, said the project had been brought under the consideration of the Emperor Na poleon and his govereinunt, by whom a commission of scientific men had been appointed to exam ine and report- The commission had reported in favor of the scheme and its practicability. The promoters ventured to think that in an international work of such an important character, involving such large outlay, it would not be unreasonable in them to look to the government for a certain de gree of material encouragement and support. They accoidingly asked that the government of England and France would each guarantee two and a ha’f per cent, upon two millions sterling,. to be applied to the driving of two parallel mining headings of driftways from shore to shore. The French government waited to see what action the English government would take in the matter, and the object of the deputation in waiting upon Mr. Bright, was to ask the government, through him, to take the subject into consideration. Mr. Bright put a number of questions, chiefly upon engineering points, and touching the practicability of the scheme, and promised to take an early opportunity of laying the matter before the cabinet. There is no reason to doubt a favorable response, nor that, therefore, one of the most stupendous peices of scientific engineering ever undertaken by man will soon be commenced —with what result, commercial, social and political, upon the countries it proposes to connect, remains to be seen.

A Lawyer's Romance. Roswell M. Field, the "Nestor l of the Mi jj lur." a lawyer' whose entire lack of ambition lost | the fame his rare and great ability I might have won, died in St. Louis I on Monday. He had a peculiarly romantic episode in his early man hood. He was the son of General Field, of Newfane’ Vt., and prac- I tieed law awhile in the courts of I his native county. His abandon-, ment of his lucrative practice and ' removal from the State to which j he never returned, was occasioned i by an unfortunate*bestowal of his i atfections, under circumsUmees. farcL’» if ever paralleled. lie fell m love with an aceoniplislicd young lady of Windsor, and though she was engagi it to anath< r gentleinaft, succeeded in winning her atlactions and inducing her to join him in a secret marriage, 1 which was to be tollowcd by cohabitation in case the consent of. her parents could be obtainel, But otherwise to be void. She failed ' to gain that consent; and as soon , as she could be summoned from Boston was publicly married to her first love, who joined ter in a suit in chancery against Mr. Field | for the dissolution of the secret marriageBoth she and her suit survived her husband, but at last she won it I in the Supreme Court, and the ease is reported at length in the thir- • teonth volume of Vermont reports. Mr. Field felt sorely aggrieved at the result, and issued a pamphlet; in w hich he sought to vindicate ' himself before the world. Afterward, how ever, he married another lady with whom he lived happily. She has been dead several years and four children, -we vivc them both. Years after the strange suit, the lady whom he first Jovcd and then fought so presistently, then tw ice a widow, marrietl h merchant of Windsor county who shortly thereafter removed to St. ; Louis. There they lived for oral years, moving in the first cir-' cles, (though never meeting Mr. Field), and where she suddently, beloved by all who knew her. —• eld 11 ep uld ica n. That’s the Way the Money Goes— Pop Goes the Weasle.” — It only cost nineteen thousand four hundred and seventy-one dollars, per bills rendered, to fit the Tallapoosa out tor the little Presidential pleasure trip to long Branch. There new carpets for the rooms, new dishes, new mirrors, wine, servants and their living— repairs, coal, and other incidentals with the cost of running— A’er Fori- Democrat. Motto for a rejected suitor—He wooed and she wouhln’t

How it Looks to a Chinaman. The Mandarin in Burlingame’s troupe who writes up the manners and customs of the various. countries for the Chinese archives, has given the Paris correspondent of the London Post a translation of his last letter. In it he speaks of the table habits of the Paris barbararians. "We have denied,” he says, "at their tables, where the stomach is expected to receive with pleasure some thirty different objects**of food, and perhaps ten different liquids. The French and other foreigners eat until they feel very uncomfortable, and require much medicine drugs, as may be seen by the many chemists, of this city. They have the same capacity as our pigs. Had you been here the other night, and observed how these people rudely scrambled for the food at the supper table when wo give our fete ! They put their hands violently on dishes, and disputed with each other most roughly.” In telling about Burlingame's ball he writes: "Oh, if you had seen the women at our ball! They came half undressed, that is to say, the upper part of the body was wholly exposed, but they are jealous of showing their feet, and seem to desire to hide the floor also, as each woman drags about with her a long robe, on which it is not etiquette to place your shoe. Their eyes are painted round (not all of them,) and they use coloring for the lips, and pearl powder for various exposed sections of the frame. They, purchase the hair of the dead, and artists work it into various designs ; then the women put it on their heads flowers; and yet they are not a dirty people. The high-caste women are allowed every license. At our fete they were clasped round the waist by men they knew not, and danced with painful vigor, for it was very hot.”

Rings. Don Piatt delivered a Fourth of i July oration at Xenia, in which he i spoke very plainly of the manner jin which affairs of the Nation are i managed at Washington.-—under j the present gift cnterprise«Adminj istration. He said : I say it now, with a sickened heart, that we have the most corrupt Government in the world. It is run by rings. There is no mon I eyed interest in the land that is ! without its ring in Washington. ■ They fill the hotels, throng the ; avenues, and crowd lobbies. The old Greek, with his fabled I lantern, would die exhausted in his 'search for one honest man.. I would exhaust my hour and your patience were I to attempt even to enumerate these interests. We have the railroad rings, the land jobbing rings, the Indian Bureau rings, whisky rings, the protection rings, that branch off' in every conceivable direction. And they were intriguing, caucussing, bor I ing. and through wine and women baiting without cessation. 1 » « * * » * * » * * Not the least disheartening part of all this is to bo found in the ut- : ter indifference with which the public at large regard all this. It lis no longer a shame to steal. It lias ceased to be a dishonor to defraud. I saw Senators who came to Washington with scarcely money enough to pay boarding house bills, rolling over the street in ; spendid equipages, and entertaining society in palatial residences. They arc now millionaires, and not I only tolerated, but followed, flati terred, sought and sued by men and women who would be honest were it the fashion to affect that virtue: and if you turn from men who have made their fortunes out of their places, it is to stare at men who bought their way in. These Senatorial chairs an? put np at auction, and knocked down to the highest bidders. The longest purse brains the opponent, and the : lion. Ingot hr the Hon. Greenback stalks in with just brains enough to make up, through a sale of votes, the money he has expended in securing his seat. A German astronomor has pub- ; lished a pamphlet, in which he maintains that the earth has a ring like those of Saturn, and that this ring is cooling off’ and getting . ready to reconstruct itself into a moon, and much nearer to the earth than its old satelite. The ring is what old astronomers have called zodiacal light- The writer l of the pamphlet thinks the catastrophe of tho bursting of the ring may occur in our time or that of our children. It costs 810 in Natebes, Miss., to get drunk and indulge in the pleasing sport of shooting down citizens indiscriminately.

The Chinese. / In the last Atlantic Mr. Bowles alludes as follows to the new element that the Chinese—who will soon be swarming along the Pacfic Railroad and making themselves at home among us of the East—are introducing into American life in California: A few men are of stature and

presence, with faces of refinement and gentle strength ; the many go sneaking about their work—a low type of mankind, physically and mentally, imported here like merchandise, and let out to labor tin der a system only half removed from slavery itself. Yet they are an important element in the industry and progress of all this side of the continent. But for their labor the Pacific Railroad wonld have been at least two years longer in building. Twelve thousand, of them have done nearly all the picking and drilling and shoveling and wheeling of the road, from Sacramento to Salt Lake.

They furnish the principal labor in the factories; they make cigars ; they dig and work over neglected gold gulches; they are cooks; they almost monopolize ihe clothes washing and ironing; in all the lighter and simpler departments of labor, where fidelity to a pattern, and not flexibility and originality of action are required, they make the best and most reliable of workers. At least seventy five thousand of them are scattered over these Pacific States, west of Utah ; and though our American and European laborers quarrel with and abuse them; though the law gives them no rights, but that of suffering punishment; though they bring no families, and seek no citizenship ; though all their women here are not only commercial, but expressly imported as such ; though they are mean and contemptible in their vices as in their manners ; though they are despised and kicked about on every hand; still they come and thrive, slowly better their physical and moral and mental conditions, and supply this country with what it most needs for its growth and prosperity—cheap labor. What we shall do. with them is not quite clear yet; how they are to rank, socially and politically, among us is oile of the nuts for our social science students to crack, if they can; but now -that we have depopulated Ireland, and Germany is holding on to its own. and the old sources of our labor supply are drying up, all America needs them ; and obeying the great natural law of demand and supply. Asia «coins almost certain to pour upon and over us countless thons ands of her superflous, cheap-liv-i ifi, slow-changing, unassimilating but very useful laborers. And we shall welcome and quarrel over aid with them as we have done with their Irish predecessors — Our, vast grain, cotton, and fruit fields, our extending system of public works, our multiplying manufactures, all need and can employ them. But must they vote, and if sp, to what effect ?

Ileauty in the Surf. A seaside correspondent writes : ‘•The scene upon the bench strikes me with as.keeiy a sense of jolly ludierotisncss and happy ridiculousness as when I first beheld it. What awkward animals we humans are when we venture out of our natural clement into the element of the fish. The change of manner which the loveliest of her sex undergoes as she tumbles into the surf is a study for a philosopher. She has the air of dignity in spite of her bifurcated garments, as she walks down to the water's edge; there is something of genteel exclusiveness in her mein, in spite of her naked white feet, which niince-

ingly go uncovered across the sands; an air of ‘keep a respectful distance, please. I am a society lady,’ hangs about her, in spite of her coarse straw hat tied over her ears with a red rag. Ami presently she is in the surf; a big wave sends her quadrupedly; she scrambles to her feeX half choked with the salt water which has rushed into eyes, ears, and nose ; clutches frantically at anybody who may be within reach, and grins familiarly to the whole assembly.”

The Norfork Journal says Virginia has entered upon a new career—that the old political cliques and leaders arc things of the .past, and the State will hereafter look to her material interests more than she did of yore, and the majority of her |>eople will go for that party which is most favorable to her interests. The ladies of Tishomingo county Miss., have gouc into the willow ware manufacture It makes good cradles

Miscellaneous ftenls. This is the season for camping out. Kingston, Miss., has a century plant in full bloom. I Minnesota is raisin* wool two feet long on Cotswold sheep. New York has a society for tho encouragemeht of poor authors. 1 Two years more drilling will complete the tunnel through tl»c Alps. A butting match is one of the i features of a negro tournament in Tennessee. The grain-shovelers of Buffalo are now fighting a labor-saving machine. The Quaker agents are disappointed in the beauty of the Indian women.

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Chloroform is taking tne place of cognac as the fashionable female tipple. Land slides arc among the attractions advertised by a hotel among the Jersey hills. A couple of English velocipedjsts have made 100 miles in 22 hours, ovei common roads. Brigham Young gives orders to excommunicate any saint who does not contribute to the church. The Boston Aidermen are considering the propriety of purchasing the coliseum for the city. A band of wandering gipsies in the state of Delaware have been detected in attempts to kidnap handsome young girls.

The Arch Street Methodist church, of Philadelphia, is build ing a white marble church, at an expense of 8200,000. A rosewood secretary, valued at §SOO, was given to ex. Assistant Treasurer Van Dyck, by the clerks of the sub-treasury in New York. The so-called “ Independent Protestant Episcopal” church at Put-In-Bay, O , is said to be managed at the expense of Jay Cooke. The railways of France, which run at low rates, under restricted tariffs, have for the last six years averaged dividends of 11 per cent. A Paris establishment now man ufactures genuine Egyptian mummies out of a skull, two fillets of vfcal and a dog skin for each sub ject. President Woolsey stuck the fust shovel into the site of the new Divinity school building, to be connected* with Yale college, on Tuesday. The proprietor of the Tip Top house at Mount Washington is obliged to keep constant fires, in order to make his rooms comfortable for visitors.

A certain Virginia town does not allow old maids. When the girls reach 30, the young men draw lots, and the lucky ones make up a purse for the victim. Parents should watch how the ; children spend the pennies. A ! single immature apple may cost a I dozen visits of the doctor ami a dozen oi‘ sleepless nights. Pollard, in his volume on the war, says Gen. Lee carried on the war coldly, as a puinful matter of business, regarding secession as a mistake from the beginning. A dying soldier a few days since bequeathed. Lis all, 8210, to the state of New Jersey, in gratitude i for the kind treatment it hid be- , stowed upon him during his illness. “Pork and beans —Boston style” —under the new prohibitory law —is one bean on half an oyster cracker, zwei lager, two Bourbon punches, or a couple of brandy cocktails.

In Philadelphia the. use of sponges, saturated with water, as fixtures upon the heads of draught horses, is nearly universal. The passenger railroad companies generally have adopted the idea. A citizen of Belfast, Me., who had not seen his son for eight years, and supposed him dead, recognized him as one of the aerobats in a circus that exhibited iu that city last week. The editor of the Waterbery (Con.) American telegraphed the other day to Col. A. H. Fenn, at Plymouth : “Semi us full particulars of the flood.” Fenn replied : “You’ll find them iu Genesis.”

The president ami Gen. Sherman approve of the proposed plan for the erection of a monument to tha memory of the soldiers who died in relief prisons, and promise tbeir co-operation in the matter. Olive Logan describes the female bathers at Long Branch as “liangiug themselves on the safety rope, looking exceedingly like newly washed clothes on a windy Monday.” A Kentucky distiller, having noticed that whisky is improved by a sea voyage, has put up a tread mill in his warehouse and uses a horse power to keep the whisky in perpetual motion