Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 27 August 1869 — Page 1

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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. District Officers. Flpn. Rofi’t Lowry Circuit Judge. J. S. Daily, .... . Circuit Prosecutor. Hon. 1). Stndabakcr Com. Pleas Judge. 15. F.lbach .. . . Com. Pleas Prosecutor? County Officers. Seymour Worden Auditor. A. J. Hill Clerk. Jesse Niblijk Treasurer. M. V. B. Simcokc - Recorder. James Stoops, Jr. . . ' . Sheriff. 11. C. Peterson Surveyor. Sam. C. Bollman . School Examiner. Josiali Crawford, ] Jacob Sirff, I .Commissioner. George Luckey. J Town Officers. H irrisan.B. Knoff Clerk. Tabasco Burt Treasurer a Marshall. Herman Bosse, 1 Dari I King, • Trustees. Davi I Showers, J

Township OtHcers. Uxtox.—Tmstee, J. IT. Blnkoy; .Th* ti« <»f the Peace, !•'. B. Iztokcr, Constable*, JosnJ.li C. Walters and William Cellar*. Ro>t. -Trustee, John Christen: Justices of the Peace, Jeremiah’ Archbold, Lrinwi Hart ami Henry D. Filling; ConBt.ibler, John Schnrger, Martin Lord and IL-nry Lulttnnn. Prkbi.k.—Trustee. F. W. O.ilhncyer; .lustier, of tlie Peace. A. Mangold nml John Archbold; Coust.ibles,—vmvint. Kimkuasd.—Trn*‘oe, Jonathan Bowera; Justices of the Pence, S. 1). Bearers • and Janies H. Ward; Constable, John T. Baker; IV ashtxutov. -Trustee, C..nrndßrake; Justice* of the Pence. J. W. Grim and Samuel Merryman; Constables, Frederick Mcitz and Elias Crist. St’. Mary s.’, trustee, Ed. McLeod; Justices of the Peace, Samuel Smith. S. B. Morris and William Comer; Constables, George W. 'People, $. B. Fordyce and J. W. Andrews. - . * •_ Rucrcreek.—Trustee, John Emery; Justice of the Peace, Lemuel William’s; Constables, William I. Pannerand William thinner. Monroe.—Trustee, Thu*. Harris; Justice of the Peace, I«orenzo D. Hughes; Constable, John T. Martz. Fre.wii.—Trustee. Solomon Shull; Jttatices 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.; Constables, David Eckrote and John Sintison. War tan.—Trustee, Henry Miller; Justice* of the Pence, A. §tndabnker and James Nelson; Constables, Jacob Butcher and A. G. Thompson. Jeifersox.—Trustee, Charles Kelly; Justices of the Peace, Justus Kelly and John Fetters; Constables,—vacant.

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The Decatur Eagle.

Vol. 18.

ATTORNEYS. JA OS R. ROBO, Attorney at Law, DJECATIR, INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts.’ Redeems Land and pays Taxes. OFFICE--Opposite the Auditor's Office. vlOnfitf R. S. PE TERSOW, Attorney at xjaw, DECATUR, INDIANA. IjROMPT attention paid to all business entrusted to his care. Is a Notary Public, and draws Deeds, Mortgages, andotherinstimments in writing. OFFICE—In D. Studabaker’s Law Office. vl2n33tf OAAIEL B. HELLER, Attorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. YATILL practice his Profession anyV V where in Indiana or Ohio. OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder's Office. vlons2tf F. A. JKtT.'EFF. w. n. sen ROCK. JELLEFF & SCHROCK, Phy«letimsTufc<l Surgeons, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE-—On Second Street, opposite the Public Square. vßnlsff. CHARLES L. CURTISS, Physician and Surgeon, KeCATI'R, INDIANA. T T AVING permanently located in this 11 place, offers his professional services tothe people of Decatur and vicinity. OFFICE—At the Burt House. 11-36

ANDREW SORG, Physician and Surgeon, DECATI R, INDIANA. OFFICE-wOn Second Street, over IV. G.Spencer & Brother’s Hardware Store. vßn42tf. A. J. ERWIA, H. D., Surgeon. Dispensary. Avcline Block. vlln-Jd . * FORT WAYNE, IND. S.- C. AYERS, ill. !>., RESIDENT Kar Eyo Surgeon, FORT WAVNK, INDIANA. OFFICE—South west corner Main & Calhoun streets, orri Drug Store. £k3¥"Artifieial Eyes

DE N T IST RY. _ 11. 11. McC <> V .■% F LL. Surgeon Dentist, DLt'ATI It, INDIANA. -M’ work neatly executed warranted to give sntM 'CU. i_’_U isfu ct i on. Call and ’examine specimens. OFFICE—Oj posite the Public Square, over Jicller's Lnw office. v11n49 JREAL ESTATE ACENTS. .1 Afl l<; S H . BO SJ o, Real Estate Agent, WAITH, INDIANA. rpHBi'ETHOUSAND ACHES of good I farming land, several Town Lots, and a large quantity of wild land for sale. If you want to buy a good fajtu he will sell it to you. If you want your land sold he will sell it for yon. No sale, no charge. vlOnO AUCTIONEER. CHARLES JI. FRA ACK, DFCATI’K. INDIANA. VNNOUNCEB 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. HIESS.B II OU SB, I. J. MIESSE, Proprietor. Third St., Oppotite. the Court Haute, DECATVK, INDIANA. r pHE traveling public will find this 1 House a desirable stopping place. Good sample rooms. vlln9 MAIN STREET EXCHANGE. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, B7.it Main Street, near the I'ublic Square, FOKT ’ft'ANYE, INDIANA, vllnll , If MAYER HOUSE. J. W. BULL, Proprietor, Corner of Calhoun and WayneStrreta, FOKT WAm. INDIANA. vl2n7 ts

HEDEKIX HOI SB, A. J. 11. MILLS, Proprietor, On Harr, hettceen Columbia and Main Stt., > FORT WATXR, INDIANA. ENERAL Stage Office. Good staTbleingin connection with thishonsc. v12n25 ts HARDWARE &c.__ McCULLOCH & RICHEY Wholesale and Relail Dealers in Hardware, Tinners' Stock, .. AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, , STOVES. <tc., No. ST (Alnmhln street. F B.w'citLLocH. \ FORT WAYNE. INP izm riciu.t, i vl2nir.vl

DECATUR, IVD.. FRIDAY AUGUST 27,1860.

The Declining Year. We find flouting around loose the following vcfryß’eantifn! tribute to the declining ycaa'; The year begins to tremble with decay, Like an old man whqleans upon a staff, And in the graveyard rends the epitaph Os all his offsprings who have passed away. Tint yet sdft breezes with his thin locks play, Scattering his sadness with a jocund laugh, While the great sun yet warm in his behalf, And with his dart keeps winter still at bay. Yea, soothed and flattered in full many ways, Though all the fields be bare end woodlands sere. Half hidden from fits sight by thickening haze, Serenely smiles the slow (]ooling year; Like one who has in goodness spent his days, And waits his coming cira*wjfhotif > 4i fear.

Jhfcrt Wsc rU.n nib .

A Fearful Tragedy in Georgia. In oho of the mountain counties of Georgia there lives two families, each before the war noted for its wealth and refinement. Since the f:tmilies(Whom we shall respectively call It and L), though they had like nearly everybody else, lost everything by conflict, still retained tlf&higli position in society which they had for some long time filled. One. of thyin. the Il’s, lost several of its members, as well as its fortune. by the war, and at the commencement of <Mir story consisted 1 of Mr- L, a gentleman 55 years of age. his wife, nearly the same age, and an unmarried daughter of a bout 25. Within about a quarter of a mile of their house lived one of the I? s, a young man who had recently married a very beautiful young lady of the county, and having left the paternal mansion, was fanning by himself on a small tract ofground. The two families lived yome distance from the country town, in a sparsely inhabited section of country, and, being each the nearest neighbor of the other, were, of course, on terms of great intimacy. Between the young wile and the daughter of Mr. L a fast friendship was soon formed. A few days since Mr. R. informed his wife that he had received a letter, whidi woultf compel imme diate attendance in Atlanta, where ho would have to remain fur several days, and as it woukl l>e incoiiyenient for him.to take her with him to thltt city, advised that she should ask heryoung neighbor to stay with her during his absence. ’Die next morning he set out in his larggy for Atlanta, and his wife during the morning went over to L’s house for the purpose of inviting her young friend’to stay with her. The young lady, after cojisultation with her niother, raSdily osseiited to thcpropositiiMj. and promised to come over during Uic afternoon.

About Q o'clock Mrs. R. began to feci a little uneasy, Miss L. had not yet come, when a servant came upto the lioirte and brought- a note from her expected friend, sta I ting that she would bo unable to j spend the nightwith her, as she had promised, for her father, from some cause or other, had positively refused to give his consent to the arrangement. After delivering the note, the servant took his departure, and the brave woman prepared to spend the night by herself. Feeling that she had a protector in a large and tierce yard-dog beloging to her husband, she took him into her bed room, and after secureing the house, lay down and resigned herself to sleep. About 12 o’clock, she was awaken from hrr shimberl by a noise in the house, and the angry growling of tie dog, and discovered that the hall door had been forced, and that sonic one was standing at her room door seeking entrance. Speaking as loudly as her fright would let her, Mrs. R asked: “Who’s there?” A man's voice, which she did not recognize, replied by telling her to “open the Jqof.” Again she asked the same question, ami again re ceived the same reply, the stranger adding that if she refused he would “break the door down.” During this dialogue the dog, still growl ing. crouched upon the floor as if ready to spring. Thinking to intimidate the man who sought her ruin, Mrs. R cried to hi tn that if he forced the door she would ehoothim. Laughing scornfully, the ruffian ’ threw his weight against the lightdoor, barst it open and entered ' the room —when, quick as thought. I the savage d<*g sprang forward

and fastened on his neck. The man, astonished at this sudden at tack, attcinped to kill the dog with a knife which he held in his hand, but unsuccessfully* and the powerful animal dragged him to the ground, still retaining bis bold upon his throat. Stunned at first by this unlooked for deliverance, the woman, in a few seconds, regained her presence of mind somewhat, ran screaming from the house, never stopping until she arrived at the place of the L’s. where her cries soon aroused the family. Iler tale was rapidly told, and the servants were preparing to go to the scene of danger, when suddenly .Mr. L. was missed, and his wife, almost on the instant, as if struck by a sudden presentiment, screamed, “Merciful God, it must be my husband!'’ With a cry of horror the party set forth, and ran as fast to the house of Mrs. B. as the latter had run away from it a few minutes before- Arrived there they found the man still on the floor, and the dog still grasping his throat. Beating him away from his prey they found the suspicions of Mrs. L. but too correct: it was her husband—but the teeth of the dog had done their work, and he was dead.— Atic/usta. Ga., Chronicle. J"ly 25.

A Rutter Story. In ISG3, a family name of Van Sickler moved into the town of i Towanda, I’a, and took up as a residence a place formerly occupied ; as a hotel. On the premises was a deep well, originally dug by, or for, Mr. 2>lcans, the hotel keeper. At the time of building or stoning up the well, a stone shelf was inserted I by order of the landlord about ten feet down for the purpose of de- i positing in a cool place butter, beef, and such other articles as might be considered necessary to its preservation. Tire new-comers on the place-—the Van Sicklers—soon de-1 teeted, or thought they did. the ■ presence of decaying wood in the water, and it was decided to have I the well cleared out. Accordingly two old patriots were detailed fort that service. Their combined es forts, after a few hours' labor, re- i suited in fishing up a butter firkin tightly scaled but black with age. audits old staves nearly rotten through. Mr. Means, the old )and--1 lord; long since retired fron busi--1 ness, and then residing a short dis- ‘ tance from, the place, was sent for and came down, white-haired and ] venerable, bearing on his cane. After' looking at it a moment, the 1 old mun said he .could explain the whole matter. The tub iiad been

let down on the stone shelf long ; years ago when he kept the hotel. As near as ho could remember, it ! was over thirty years previously. ■ The tub had disappeared in the; night, and it was supposed that it : has been stolen. The well had never been cleared out before to his JinpwJedge. The tub was now opened in the presence of a littliw crowd that had gathered. The lid , was removed, the white linen cloth taken up, and there was the butter, , yellow as gold. and. as it proved , on tasting, sweet as if made but , yesterday, although .thirty-one 1 years had elapsed since it first went to the bottom of the well where it was now found, like Truth, unimpaired by its long res-; ideuce. The old man claimed the prize and carried it off’ rejoicing.! Witnesses arc still living who were i present at the.time, who will, with our infohridnt, make affidavit to the truth, in evtyy particular, of this true butter story. In those, days butter was only worth from I six to twelve cents per pound ; now see the difference—sixty-five to eighty cents, and not the best at that. — Exchange. !, •—v IM ♦ —I i — —— How to Kill a Town. The best method of killing a town is to put np no more build ings than you are obliged to-occu py yourself. If you should accidentally have an empty building, i and any one should want to rent it, ask about three times its actual value, and thereby keep it empty about half the year. Look nt every new comer with a scowl.— Turn a cold shoulder to every business man or merchant seeking a home among you. Go abroad for ware*. raUier than purchase of your own iifercliants and manufketnrers at the same price. Refuse to advertise, so that persons at a distance will not suppose any busi ness is being done in your city. In short, do ail in your power to drive trade from the town. A prompt and close observation of’ these rules will ruin any town. In Kansas City there is a man who is 117 years old He is an t old trapper, and his nmqc is Fcr nance.

A Strange History. Reappearance of a Man Stolen by Indlnim Thirty-Three Years Ako,

From t!ioSan<iurky (0.) Register. Thirty-threc years ago there lived in Lewiston, Logan county, a farmer by the name of Harris Hopkins, who had a child, a boy, between three and four years of ago. One day while the farmer was at work in a field some distance from the house, the boy started across the fields to see his father. The last seen of the little fellow was when lie left the house. Hundreds turned out to hunt the lost child. The river was dragged, the woods searched, rewards offered, but all to no purpose. After days of weary and anxious search the little fellow was gi*en up bj’ the parents and .sympathiz- ' ing friends. The few Indians liviiug in that neighborhood were i friendly and peaceable, and no sus- ' picion ever attached to them, and I the affair was forgotten or only I talked of as a mysterious disapj pcar.ince. The Hopkins family at i length left their old home ami set : tied in Illinois, and up to ton days lago none ot their old neighbors in Logan county had expected to see any member of the family [again. The astonishment of the old settlers in and about the neighborhood can be conceived when week before last a tail man. browned by exposure to sun an 1 storm, and speaking the broken English

of the half ci his appearmiee at Lewiston, and [ j claimed to be the child missed 33 I : yeoss ago. He stated that a Cher i okee Indian, Wandering through that section, had enticed him from I the field as ho was going in search iof his father, au'l carried him to i the far nvest. The old chief had ! treated him as his own son. and having been taken away at«so young an age, the memory of his parents and former life had faded I from his mind. For thirty odd I years he lived i supposed that he was the son of the old chief who claimed to be his : father. A few months since, the j chief, then high in rank in the [ Cherokee nation, and very advanq- [ cd in age. found himseif on his I I death-bed. Shortly before bodied ■ Ihe called his adopted son to liis I bedside, and informe 1 him who l : and what lie was. As soon as the i old chief was dead and buried Hop i k'ias cairte to Logan county in I search of his parents, whom he found had moved to Champaign ■ , City, 111. lie. Tiowevcr. remained I diinng last week at Lewiston.' to ■ gratify the curiosity of the old Sct--1 tiers, who had aided in the search

for him 33 years ago. His reap pearance lias caused quite as much excitement in Logan county as did his sudden and mysterious disappearance a third of a century ago. A Funny Incident ol the s.ate War. In the autumn of 1861, late in ‘November, Floyd, with his rebel army, occupied one portion of Sewall mountain, and Gen. Rose crans, with his ‘-boys in blue, loyal and true,” occupied, about three quarters of a mile away, another portion of it. While those two armies wore there encamped, a cold rain fed one day. and. night coming on, the cold was so intensified that forty horses were frozen to death. The night succeeding was also cold ami very clear; the ground was frozen hard, and a couple of teams near the camp stampeded, making a tremeudiious noise. Each army thought that the other was coming, and tents were struck and baggage loaded in the greatest haste. Rosccraivs burned eight wagons loaded with supplies, for he had uo teams to draw them, ami Floyd starjted post haste one way down the mountain and Roseerays the other. When the morning light revealed the true condition of things the two armies were fifteen miles apart.

Success in Life. Keep the law of duty ever before you—let it be your never failing pillar of light Be brave, and on the square with your conscience to the last. Your success in life may not be equal to your hopes or your deserts; it is not in man to insure success. The best and wisest of us | may fail in the struggle; but we I have our consolation even then, j To gain the world's applause. aiuL snatch its fleeting spoils, is not j man's sole and proper business here. Immortality smiles upon the scene and beckons him onward in the race of those eternal honors which the world can neither give nor take away—the prize which all may strive for. and no one strives in vain.— Jf-trtbam. The woman's questi on— is he 1 rich ?

How Senator murphy Earned Halt a Dollar. Senator ilurphv, who is a fine-' looking, jovial, whole soulvd, in- i j teUcctual fellow, went down to liathe, and while in the costume of the bathers, was addressed by a lady of distinction, wiio had come down alone to bathe: “You can come and bathe me!” The Sena- , tor jumped ai the opportunity, and : taking the fair lady by the hand . led her out into the water, protect ing lr-r from the under currents and sometimes dangerous waves, ■ at the same time listening to her ' joyous exclamations, such as, “Oh bow delightful!” “It is indeed delicious!” etc. After getting through with bathing and paying i the Senator the flfly cents, which j is the regular price charged by the ' bathing men, one of whom she i supposed the Senator was. she said ■to him : “Well, sir. I wish you to : bathe me every day at eleven o'clock ; what name shall I call when I want you ?” ‘■Torn, madame; I will wait on you with pleasure." Soon afterward tine lady met the Senator in the parlor. She saw ; her mistake and blushingly left the j room. Tom Murphy, however. t met her at the breakfast table and ' remove 1 her embarrassment by I saying in bis winning way: “I’m ; nobody but Tom. madame. and j hope yon will call for me at eleven o'clock !”

Tlic Morals of Chicago ; — i The Pont. -pictures the morals of ; . Chicago in rathd? a, bad light. It i sav<: . ' It cannot be s.rni that cithe* per- • ; son or property is safe in this city. , If we draw a few dollars from a i bank, a thief stands by to see into ". what pocket we put it, and to dog . our steps to our offices or dwell- , ing. Should we go to either after j dark.’tbe chances arc that we may j be waylaid and perhaps murdered. , It there is an all seeing eye in Chi cago, it is the thief's eye. * * * There are to-day in Chicago more than two thousand professional thieves. Some pf them live in fine mansions, and drive fine turnouts, we do not include in. this any of the thousands -of sharpers who I live by their wits, and who are thieves at hear;; not even gamblers, ; 'lint only the real, trained thief, j who knows no other trade, except ■ it b? auxiliary to that of theft. II e are told that there are here fully one hundred junk dealers, j who employ five hundred boys to j bring then stolen goods; that' there are from forty to fifty well known gambling hells, whore an I I aggregate -of three million dollars; I is won yearly, and whore the capital ! lof the merchant, the s-’uirv ot the j clerk, the wages of-irtrft toil, and the rewards of murder and theft are all placed nightlv and together übon the tempting ‘day out." From these facts considered I by themselves we are unable to de- 1 ; dnee a very satisfaetorv eonchision ‘ j ;’.s to the probabilitv of living a ' , natural d nr, if we do. that we I shall have much personal property • ;to dispose of on that interesting i I occasion. ” ’

Saying ‘Hateful Tilings. 4 ’ What a strange disposition is (that which leads people to sav! i hateful thing? more pleas* j i tire of saying them. Yon are nev--ler safe with such a person. When ' 1 yon have don? your very best to! I please, and are feeling very kindly ■ and pleasantly, out will pop some ! litt’u speech, s nne underhand stab.' which y »u akinete imprehend—a sneer which is masked, but which pis too well aimed to be mimnderi stood It may bo at your person, j your mental feeling, y.mr foolish , habit of thought, or some little 1 : secret of faith or opinion, con-1 ; fcs<ed i;? a moment of genuine* confidence. I* matters not how; sacred it may bo to you. lie will havy his iling at it. nay. since the ' is t > mak? you suffer, he is! the happier the nearer he touches' your heart. Just half a dozen words, only for the pleasure of seeing a check flush and an eye loos? its brightness, only spoken | because he is afraid you are tooi happy or too conceited. Yet they . are worse than so many blows. .How many sleepless nights have i such attacks caused. How, after I them one awakes with aching cyej I and head, to remember that speech" | before anything else—that bright, i sharp, well aimed needle of speech ; that prolicd the very center of your soul. There is only one com fort to be taken. The repetition of such attacks soon weans your > heart from the attacker; aud this . once done, nothing that he can say . will ever pain von more. We know a girl s«» industrious “I that when she has nothing to do she kni’.s her brow.

The Ilium. There is rt popular impression that the moon exerts a marked In fluence on . vegetation > and the. weather seers’ are lafghly giffdM by the. changes of that iunpiyifV. Mr. Coffin, in his recent took’ “Our new Way IJound the World,” thus.writes of its effects on men within the tropics. lie is in India : “The moon is <it the full, pouring its rays from the zenith straight down upon ir e , with a power which is almost as unbearable ns that of the sun at midday. There is no heat in its rays, but they have great effect upon the brain. The blood rushes to the hand, and’there is a sense of fullness and pressure which, although not attended by acute pain, is exceedingly unpleasant. We find it necessary to keep our umbrellas spread at midnight as well as midday. It is dangerous to sleep in the moonlight in the tropics. In tin’s country we can see new beauty in those words of the Psalmist, expressive of i God s eare for those who love illim : “The sun shall not Smite i thee by day nor the moon by ; night."

No. 21.

The Sen at the Tortli Pole. To a person standing at the North Pole, the sun appears to sweep horizontally around the skv. every twenty four hours, without any variation during its circuit in the distance from the horizon. On the twenty-first of June, it is a little more than one fourth of the distance to the zenith, the high est point it ever reaches. From 11 s altitude it slowly descends, i's track being represented by ft spiral or screw with a very line thread ; and in the. cfourse of three months it worms its way down to the horizon, which it reaches on, the twenty third of September. On this day it slowly sweeps around the sky with its face half hidden below the icy sea. It still continues to descend, carrying ft a bright twilight around the heavens in its daily circuit, which gradually grows fainter, as the sun sinks lower, till it entirely fades away. On the twentieth of December, the sun is at the farthest point below the horizon, ami this is the midnight of the dark winter of the Pole.

The Imperialists. A new York paper has a story that a secret society lias been form - led, having branches in the princii pal cities of the union, for carryI ing the country over to imperialism. Itsunembers arc sworn to ; promote and support what is term--Icd a “free empire” It is propos- : ed to establish a free aristocracy, ! with executive power in the hands I of a council, with one man at the ; head, who shall hold the position 1 for life, and be designated consul ot the Free Empire of the United j States, the title to be thrown away i for that of emperor as soon as the i public sentiment will hear the ; change. The man for this posi- | tion has already been selected by i the leaders of the movement.

Louis Walsaman. keeper of a f low concert saloon on Fourth street, in some time past, turns out to l>e a woman disguised in male attire. The 27»n , .f says her real Christian name is Louisa, and the simple dropping of the “ a " at the end of it readily converted it into a common masculine cognomen. She is heavily built, and maintained her assumed character well. The strangest part of the story is. thatWmiss is married—not to a man but a female like herself- —and lived with her partner up to the time she opened the concert saloon. This business was so low and Loujsa bad become so degraded that her ‘•wife" could not stand it aty longer* and broke up the association. A suit is now pending for divorce between the parties.

The Jacksonville. Oregon, Sentinfl publishes an account of a visit to a great sunken lake discovered in the Cascade Mountains, about seventy-five miles northeast of Jacksonville. This lake is thought to average 2.000 feet down to the water all around. o The walls are almost "perpendicular, running down into the water, and leaving no beach. The depth of the water is unknown ; its surface is smooth and unruffled, and it lies so far below the surface of the mountain that the air currents do nt>t affect it. Its length is estimated at twelve and its breadth at ten miles. The visiting party fired a rifle several times down into the water at an angle of 45 degrees, and were able to note several seconds before the ball struck the water.

The Seymour Time* tells acuri ous case wherein bedclothes infect ed seventeen years ago. recently communicated small-pox to a familv. The bed clothing had liecn plastered up in a wall, sftd the wall being recently opened. the familv ■* incautiously handled t':e infi- d<“l clothing