Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1878 — Page 4

MUSIC. BT MBS. MOI4LIB MITCHELL,. When Goff once bade each radiant constellation Above our darkened earth to brightly shine, Kind Heaven gave to still life’s vast commotion The gift of Music, with Its charm divine. Thrice hallowed art, thy glorious reign began Amid the splendor of the world’s young day, And long as joy shall glad the heart ol man Wilt thou retain thy all-inspiring sway. Primeval man first learned thy harmony (Conjecture saltb) amid the desert lone; Where Nature, to thy measured symphony, Attuned with sweetness each repeated tone. About him swept the music-freighted gales, And warbled in their joy the feathery throng, While high above the yet untrodden vales, Floated like waves the melody of song. Each sylvan voice in unison combined To thrill his heart with rapturous emotion, E’en sombrous pines the minßtrel chorus- joined, And beautified the hymn of inspiration. When Israel’s Shepherd King his flock attended, Upon the sacred plains of Bethlehem, Thou, Music, too, wert there, thy pathos blended With thoughts divine to form the grateful psalm. They tell ns in the classic lore of Greece A fabled story which befits thee well, How Orpheus’ golden harp subdued to peace The desert lion by its magic spell. His strains the fiery demon conld inspire, While hostile tribes surrendered to their charm; The tiger’s rage grew mute before the lyre, And deadly reptiles lost the power to harm. Time hath not robbed thee of thy witching power, Enchanting still to dwellers in the wild, As when rural Pan ’mid some Arcadian bower With flute and song the shepherd car beguiled. As spirits pure are often led astray, Perverted from the work their God a ligns, So art thou turned from thy appointed way, To furnish pleasure for the baser minds. Thy tender straiijß have mingled with the cry That rose discordant from a scene of woe, As when Nero waked the sounds of me'ody And gazed on struggling Home in flames below. To many a yearning heart thy minstrelsy Brings sweetest memories of the long ago; Milton found in thy notes a sympathy And respite from the pangs of eiglitlesij woe. How oft the wanderer in a foreign clime Greets with delight some well-remembered strain ; What recollections of a happier time Wake at the cadence of an old refrain—itecalling days when Fancy could beguile His willing ear to heed its every tone. And teach him with a bright delusive smile That other lauds were fairer than his own. Oh tuneful art of origin divine, The soothing balm of earth's dark pilgrimage, What gifted ones have knelt before thy shrine And deemed tliy worth a princely heritage! Wliat nerves tho soldier on the field of strife, As o'er his head tho murky war clouds lower ? Reverberations of the drum and life, That riso above the battle’s deafening roar. The dying saint oft half forgets his pain, And swells the hymn of praise in feeblest touo— The faint notes pause, to lie renewed again, With angel voices round the eternal throne. Entrancing Music, thiue’s a holy mission, When offering solace in the hour of trial, Or rendering more sublime the heart’s devotion By anthems pealing through some minster aisle. Thy notes resounded when our Lord was born, And woke the shepherd from his meditation, Who, gazing cast upon that glorious morn, lu wonder saw the herald of salvation. While Time, with fleeting wing, shall circle round Will hearts expand to notes of joyous mirth ? God's trumpet shall at last with lofty sound Proclaim majestically the doom of earth.

FOR $50,000?

There is not n quainter, prettier village in the southeast of England than Harbury Market. At all times of the year this is true of it. In winter, when the great fens are covered with skaters, and the streets gay with hunting parties, and the houses full of company, it is beautiful. In autumn, when grapes ripen on every cottage wall, and the hopfolds are full of pickers, it is beautiful; and in spiing and summer, when the tall poplars rustle over sweet old flowergardens, and quiet, sunny streets, it is still more beautiful. I am thinking now of one summer morning, many, many years ago, when there was a great wedding in Harbury church. The bride was the rector’s daughter, and every house had au interest in it, I made the carriage drive slowly through the village, that I might not lose the rustling music of tho leaves, the scent of the wall-flowers, and the pleasant smiles and good words that came from every open door. It was only 8 o’clock, and the first beauty of the day was still untouched. I thought when I saw the bride how fitting it seemed that she should choose such n sweet, untroubled hour, for she herself was yet in the first blush of girlhood, and fresh and lovely as tho lily-bells and rosebuds she held in her hand. There were four bridesmaids, three youug girls and a white-haired woman who was quite old enough to have been the bride’s mother. Somehow it is generally easy to tell an old maid, but this time I was quite at fault. Dressed in rich, soft, gray silk covered with a mantilla of white lace, and cleverly busy in arranging with exquisite taste the dress of the bride and her younger maids, I took her, at first, for some sweet matron of about 40 years of age. I was amazed when I ic mil that she was chief bridesmaid and Miss Abagnil Fisher. She had been very beautiful and she was still lovely. There was not a youug girl at the wedding that had the subtle charm of this calm-browed woman, over whose pleasant face the dove visibly brooded. Her hands put the last graceful touch to everything; she thought for every one’s pleasure; she was the gentle, helpful spirit that everywhere presided. 1 could not avoid noticing her continunlly, because she so continually forgot herself. 1 was glad to see that she was on terms of the closest intimacy with the bride’s mother, for the latter was a talkative little woman, who never could resist telling a story or giving a frit ml pleasure. Bo when the bride was gone, and the excitement over, and she had im I a couple of days to feel lonely in, I took my crochet one afternoon to the rectory resolving that I would stay to tea sad hear something about Miss A ban-ail Fisher. b

Before I had aa opportunity to speak of her she came into the rectory parlor. She had with her two beautiful you tig women, ivho sang and played with a grace and skill I had never heard equaled. All three staid to tea, and, after an hour’s music, the rector walked back to the village with them. Then I said, “I like Mies Fisher; she interests me very mu'h.” 1 “Abasrail interests every one. Poor Abagail!” “ Why do you say ‘ Poor ?’ ” ' 1 Because she had a great sorrow when she was young; for that matter, we both had; only I had Ralph to help me bear mine; she had only me, and I could do nothing but weep with her.” “She appears to love you as a sister.” We ought to have been sisters. Come under the beeches, and, while the sun sets, I will tell you all about it. It is no secret; tiie whole village know her wrong, ami the whole village saw the retribution that avenged her. It hus seen, also, how “ God has tempered all things well, Worked patience out of hitter pain, And out of ruin golden gain. s ’ As we sat down under the beeches, my friend pointed out a pretty house surrounded by great apple orchards’ and a large, old-fashioned garden! “ That where Abagail lives now,” she said, “but, when I first knew her she was poor. Her father had been’ the doc'or of the village, but he never saved anything, and, when he died, Abagail had nothing but the littlo furnished house in which he had lived. But she had been well educated, she took some scholars, and gave several young ladies lessons upon the harp. I was amoDg them. We were about the same age. 1 had no sister, and she had no friends. Wo soon loved each other truly and tenderly. “ Soon there arose another tie between iia. My only brother, Gerald, was induced to settle at Harbury Market. Ho had been studying medicine in London, and wished to practice there, but my father could not bear to have him so far away, He gave him >I,OOO to Btay here,

and Gerald, who was not insensible to the advantages of a fine hunting country and a practice ready waiting for him, made a kind of merit of his concession, and stepped into Abagail’s father’s place. “ One day, Abagail and I were together in my father’s drawing-room. She was leaning over the harp, but not playing. We had finished the lesson, and were talking softly of my engagement to Ralph. Suddenly a bright blush overspread Her face, and turning, I saw (Jerald standing in the open door watching us. “ From that hour he did nothing but watch Abagail. He got tender-con-scienced, as well as tender-hearted, and my father and he had warm disputes about Abagail’s right to a sum of money for the ‘good-will ’ of her father’s business. Father got first to dislike her through this, for when he absolutely refused to offer her the £SOO which Gerald tnought she ought to have, then Gerald offered her the sum himself. Abagail was in love, and thought this act splendid ; of course she positively refused it; but then father never liked her afterward. “All the more Gerald followed her wherever she went. He sent her flowers and books, and was continually bribing me to say good words in his behalf. There was not any need for me to do that, for, though Abagail was shy and proud enough with him, one woman reads another, and I knew very well she loved my handsome brother with all her pure, good heart. “Very soon every one began to connect their names, and one day after dinner, when father had drunk more than usual, he got very angry about it, and said, ‘ Gerald must go back to London. ’ “ Gerald said ‘it was too late now; that he preferred Harbury.’ “ ‘But,’ said ray father, ‘you can not trifle with Miss Fisher, sir! Her father was the doctor of this place for forty years ; there is not a man within twenty ndles.who would not defend her— and ■you ran't marry her, air!' “ ‘That is my intention, sir,’replied Gerald. “ Father looked for a moment as if lie would throw his wine-glass at him; but the next he was quite calm, and said: ‘ We won’t quarrel, my boy, about a gill that is no kith nor kin of ours; if you will come with me to the library, I have something to say, which will perhaps make you reasonable.’ “ I do not know what passed between them, but the next day Gerald began to make arrangements for a return to London. Of course this could not be done at once. He had a young friend whom he wished to put in his place, and he was determined not to leave Harbury without Borne oertainty of Abagail s love. Poor girl ! She could not bear to keep him at a distance, with the piospect of a long parting between them. She frankly acknowledged that he was very dear to her, and he promised, over and over again in my presence, that no woman but Abagail should ever be his wife. ‘ ‘ I am quite sure he meant all he said. No one could help loving Abagail, and Gerald was not by any means the only lover she had. It was this fact that made him so anxious; he knew that Mark Gaudy of Harrow Hall followed her like a shadow, and that the rich banker, Joseph Butterfield, had been her suitor for a year. But Gerald also knew if Abagail promised, she would never deceive him.

“He was a proud, happy man tiie day she promised to be his wife; and I agreed to watch carefully over his love while lie was away. All at once a great fear about his going took hold of me; I begged him to remain at Harbury. I could see nothing to gain, but everything to lose by the movement. “ Then it came out that there was another lady in the case. My father’s corn-factor in London had left his daughter £50,000, and it seemed there liad been for years a scheme between the parents for uniting their children. The heiress —whose name was Caroline Waite —had been at school when Gerald was studying, and they had therefore never yet met. It was now evident to me that Gerald had been heavily bribed to go to London for one year on this business.

‘ ‘ Gerald was always ready for change and pleasure; he had secured Abagail’B love, and he had no fears or scruples about trifling away time in meaningless attentions to a girl whom he had never seen, and whose influence over him he could not estimate. Now to play with Caroline Waite was to play with fire. She had dazzling beauty, a passionate temper, and an indomitable will. AVhen I had been in her company half an hour I knew that, while he was with her, Gerald would be wax in her hands. If she should wish to marry him, his only chance of escape would have been flight. “But Abagail and I had no suspicion of what was going on in London. We were very happy; I had been quietly married to Ralph, and Abagail never missed her weekly letter, and a letter once a week in those days was a very great attention indeed. These letters never named Caroline, nor indeed anything which oould lead us to suspect that Gerald was really leading the very wildest and most extravagant life. There had been no necessity of labor or study imposed upon him; he became acquainted with a class of young men far above him in fortune and social position, and he only too readily joined them in dissipations far beyond his means. ‘‘ My father paid his debts several times, but, finally, pressed and driven by a hundred liabilities, Gerald obtained money by using a certain name as he never ought to have done. The matter \v;.s settled hastily by Gerald’s marriage wit!) MisS Caroline Waite. But the <’Vi u(s leading directly to this consummation Abagail and I knew nothing of tor years; tlio first news we had of the ill-starred union was its announcement in tlie ifurburv Herald.

“It shocked the whole village; it nearly killed Abag.iil; she never left her room for a year; arid, when she was able to come down to the rectory again, Gerald and his wife had bought a fine place about three miles from here, and were living as if they owned the county. People who live grandly, keep a houseful of company, and plenty of horses, are always popular, and for a couple of years my father was very proud of the marriage he had made. “ I went often to see Caroline, for, in spite of her high temper and her reckless extravagance, there was something very attractive about her. Abagail liked me to go; nothing pleased her more than little details about their house and company; her love had no root of bitterness in it; she longed for nothing more than for Gerald’s happiness. “At the end of two years we had a frightful blow ; Caroline became ravingly insane, and did not recover her reason until after the birth of a son. But a fear was over"all that we did not dare to whisper, and it sood began to have terrible confirmation. Her conduct, always extravagant, became utterly reckless; her paroxysms grew longer and fiercer; neither her property, her husband, nor her children, were safe from the cunning, cruel spirit that possessed her; and Gerald was compelled to place her in an asylum. “Then he went away from Harbury, and for three years nobody heard a word from him. One Sunday afternoon, as I came from church, up yonder hazel walk a tall, thin, miserable-looking object called my name in a whisper; it wus my brother Gerald. A broken man in every respect, he had come home to die ; his father would not know him, he had come to me. “Ralph and I gave him all that love and care could give, but there was nothing left to save. After a day or two’s rest, he was able to talk a little, I Pkked hip* \yher@ be bad beep.

“ * Over all the world,’ he said, ‘ seeking rest, and finding none.’ “ ‘ And your children, are they still with their grandmother ?’ I asked. “ ‘Yes,’ he answered, ‘but one is dead, and the others are miserably cared for; sometimes petted, sometimes beaten. Oh, Mary ! If anything could be done for them.’ “‘Caroline?’ “ ‘ls hopelessly insane; it runs in her mother’s family, breaking out generally every second generation. If my little girls could only have some one to care for them wisely and kindly they might escape.’ “ ‘ Will you trust them to me ?’ I asked. “He was very grateful, and I promised that afternoon to have the proper legal documents made out, giving me the guardianship of the children. But in the interval Abagail came. She had heard of Gerald’s return, and had oome to help me in the last kindness we oould pay him. Her life for the next few months was lost in that of the dying man. I heard her voice at all hours reading blessed, comforting words to him. She seemed never to know fatigue. Her face was always calm and cheerful. Both Ralph and I got to love the quiet, sunny room where poor Gerald waited for death. And when death came at last he came as a friend; Gerald died m Abagail’s arms, with the sound of holy, loving words in his ears. He was only 33 years old; that one false, cruel step, taken ten years before, had forced him with frightful rapidity into the grave. Alas ! alas! for those who must die in order to learn how they ought to have lived. ‘ ‘ Even while he was dying a distant relative of Abagail’s left her a handsome fortune, and this immediately suggested to her a plan she has carried out with beautiful results. She begged Gerald to give Jier his two children, promising to devote her whole life to controlling and subduing the fatal taint they had inherited. After that Gerald was quite happy; he knew that, as far aB it was possible to do so, the wrong he had done would be righted. “ The task has been no light one. The children wero both passionate and melancholy; but patient love and wisdom watched them constantly, up to a beautiful and accomplished womanhood. Abagail has made them understand clearly that there is a frightful wrong in perpetuating disease, and that a life spent in doing good to others is a compensation for all our own life misses.” “The difference between Gerald and Abagail was this,” said the rector, who had entered as his wife was finishing her story, “ Garald sold his life for £50,000, and Abagail gave hers. Now, one can never sell life, one must give it; for what price for a man’s life will at the last content him ?”

Confederate Coffee, Etc.

Rye coffee, with the coffee left out, was the Confederate breakfast-drink, and when sweetened with sorghum was a dose to be remembered. Gane sugar, though it brought high prices and was regarded as a luxury in the last days of the Confederacy, was always to be had in plenty for those who could buy it. Sorghum, however, was the “sweetening” best known and cheapest in Confederate times. Every planter cultivated it; every owner of even a few acres had at least one of those acres set in sorghum cane. Housekeepers rang the changes on it in every possible form. Sorghum cake, sorghum pudding with sorghum sauce, sorghum pies—all these and more were on their bills of fare. Preserves were put up with it, and the sirup itself was a standard article of food on most Southern tables. Indeed it is scarcely too much to say that the hardy Chinese sugar-cane was one of tho pillars of the Confederacy, inasmuch as it became a staple article of food at a time when food was scarce and famine seemed to draw near. The list of recipes in a Confederate cookery book reads oddly enough : “Yeast from dried apples,” “ditto from life everlasting,” “ calves’ foot jelly without wine or lemons,” brandy and vinegar being the substitutes; “hard candles without wax,” and “Confederate gum-arabic,” which last was cherry glue dissolved in vinegar, are among those which I remember. Juvenile Confederates had few sweetmeats or candies, and one of our household trials was that we could never coax sorghum into anything like taffy—a thick jelly-like sirtTp was the nearest approach thereto of which it was susceptible. Red pepper and mustard were made at home in plenty from homegrown mustard seed and cayenne peppers. The mustard was beaten in a mortar, or ground in a spice-mill with comparative ease; but the preparation of the pepper was a trying time for the household. First strung and dried in the sun; then, to make sure, dried again in the oven, the pods were rubbed into powder with heavy wooden pestles in a wooden trough, and ruu through a sieve. This sufficed for ordinary purposes, but for the castors the product was again dried, pou&ded and sifted. The work was done in an outhouse by veiled women, but a general atmosphere of sneezing and weeping always accompanied the pepper-making. Black pepper—to be had only in small quantities —rose steadily in price throughout the war, until in April, 1865, it was sold for S3OO a pound, an amount equal, at the scale afterward fixed for Confederate money values, to more than $7 in gold. -r-Mrs. M. P. Handy, in Philadelphia Weekly Times.

About the Size of It.

The entire mass of tobacco which is annually consumed in smoking, snuffing and in chewing on the earth is 4,000,000,000 pounds—manifestly too high an estimate for from 1,200,000,000 to 1,500,000,000 of inhabitants. Let us take the half as the more probable, and let us suppose the tobacco leaves transformed into roll tobacco, a tobacco serpent is created which, with a diameter of two inches, and following the direction of the equator, could wind itself around the earth thirty times. Let us suppose that the tobacco is formed into tablets similar to the chocolate tablets, and which, iudeed, is the shape which the chewiDg tobacco of sailors and Yankees takes, and we have a colossal pile worthy of being placed beside the third largest of the pyramids of Gizeli, that of the Mykerinos, and as massive and as high as that old regal edifice. Let us grind all the tobacco into snuff, and let us picture to ourselves the sad case that an evil equinoctial wind one fine morning blows the snuff over the o;ean, and showers it on one of our German states, we are certain more than one of the Liliputian states would have much difficulty in recovering its existence by shoveling away the snuff.— Cope’s Tobacco Plant.

Extraordinary Coincidence.

Perhaps the most remarkable coincidence ever known has taken place in Allentown, Pa.,- where live Mr. and Mrs. Barney Ward, who have been man and wife since 1867. On the 4th of July, 1870, their first child was bom; a second was born July 4, 1871, and a third was born July 4, 1872. Every succeeding 4th of July has been celebrated by Mrs. Ward’s presenting to her husband a fine, healthy child, and now the Ward family contains eight childr?n, born within as many years, and all on the 4th of July.

Thirty Millions Stolen.

The money stolen in the United States during the past four years—beginning at a period just prior to the panic of 1873—by reason of defalcations, embezzlements, and breaohe* of trust on the part of city and coqpty officials, bank officers, executors of estates, etc-, foots up at ov«r $30,000,00(1

AGRICUL TURAL AND DOMESTIC.

Around the Fmrm. Pruning of currants, gooseberries, grape vines, omitted in the fall, may be done now on mild days. Cake of the orchard, whether young or old, will require good fences and gates to keep out intruders of all kinds. A stray ox or horse may cause serious damage in a young orchard. Roots are better pulped than cut for sheep. There are very cheap machines that can cut roots into fine shreds or pulp, whioh will soon save their cost in the improved condition of the animals thus fed. M avttbb may be carted to the orchard an 3 spread over the whole surface. The time of manuring is not of so much importance as to get it on at any rate. It is a mistake to pnt a little manure close around the trunks of trees. Covering of strawberries and tender raspberries should be done, if not already completed. In covering strawberries do not get the materials too thick over the plants. An inch or so is better than more. —American Agriculturist. Calves and yearlings may be mode to increase in size and weight considerably, and make a large quantity of fine manure, by keeping them in a roomy shed, bedding them deeply with cut straw or leaves, and feeding them well. With plenty of bedding the shed need not be cleaned out until next spring. No question is more frequently asked than: “When shall I prune?” If the cutting is such as may be done with a knife, it makes but little difference when it is done, but if on old and neglected trees, where large wounds are to be made, it is better to do it when the severe cold weather is over, but before vegetation starts. In the climate of New York, late in February and early in March. Cows in milk may be made greatly more profitable by feeding wheat middlings freely; it will pay to feed as high as four quarts of com meal, and three of wheat middlings, to some cows producing butter; the butter is increased in quantity and improved in quality and color. The kind of cow, however, is important, as some will fatten upon this feed, while others will only increase in milk and cream. Sheep and lambs should be kept and fed separately, else the stronger will crowd and rob the weaker; when in separate pens each thrives better, as the food can be properly apportioned. It is convenient to make as many ieeding stalls around the feed racks as there are sheep, each large enough for one sheep only, then a weak one will have a secure place from whioh it cannot be dislodged. Of course the feed should be evenly placed in the rack. If no accounts have been kept, a beginning of a better system should be made now. At the close of the year make an inventory of every article, and value them, and alsQ put down the debts owing and due. This will show how one stands at the close of the vear. By keeping strict account of one’s business, it is not only known what goes out and what comes in, but by noting every expenditure and income, we can readily find where we gain or lose; foolish or unwise spendings are thought over a second time, and this naturally leads to avoiding them in the future. Fruit in cellars is likely to suffer from heat rather than cold. In the slow operation of ripening, heat and carbonic acid are thrown off. Whenever the temperature approaches 40 degrees, the outer air, if cooler, should be let in to reduce it. In the house-cellar, the accumulation of carbonic acid would be injurions to the health of the family, and it is highly important that this oe removed by Ventilation. In fruit-cellars apart from the houße, this is not necessary, as the presence of this gas, so injurious to animal life, tends to preserve the fruit, as it excludes the atmospheric air. About the House. To Clean Wall Paper. —Wall paper may be somewhat cleaned by using fine, dry Indian meal—rubbing it on with a soft, dry cloth. - Black Ink. —Bruised galls, two pounds; logwood chips, green copperas, and gum, one pound of each; water, seven gallons. Boil two hours and strain. Product, five gallons. Mica Windows. —Mica windows of stoves should be removed from the stove and washed in warm water and soap, using fine sand paper. But they are inexpensive and can be bought new to fit old stoves. Boiled Cauliflower. —Strip off the leaves and cut off the stalk; lay it head downward, in cold water and salt, to draw out the insects. Boil it in boiling water with some salt and sugar for one hour, or until the stalks are tender.

Hair Invigorator.— Bay rum, one pint; alcohol, one-half pint; castor oil, one-half ounce; carbonate of ammonia, one-quarter ounce; tinctnre of catharides, one-half ounce; mix them well. This mixture will promote the growth of the hair and prevent it from falling out. Cocoanut Cake.— Break two eggs in a coffee-cup ; fill it with good sour cream, one cupful sugar, two cupfuls flour, one teaspoonful soda, two of cream tartar ; stir well; this will make four cakes baked on jelly-tins or any tin; then fix the icing; one-half cupful prepared cocoanut, one-lialf cupful sour cream, onehalf cupful white sugar; spread each cake with this. Advice to Stout People.— Any medicine or ingredient of any kina taken by a stout person to reduce him in flesh, to be successful, would injure his stomach and produce endless troubles, but any person with sufficient will may do this and be benefited: Eat no slops;* live on parched corn, broiled meats, little vegetables, no fruits, but drink water, green tea—no sugar or milk; exercise, plenty of water, and no food, is the safe, healthy cure. Suggestions to Lean People.— One who has but little exercise daily will not keep lean for want of exercise. Leanness is constitutional with many. Excess of eating by those with small abdomens only induces leanness, but by the proper mode of eating the proper food, they may be kept in good condition. Broiled and baked food, with pure water, stands first; soups, stews, condiments, pastries, cheese and spices last. Plenty of sleep, with proper attention to the relaxation of the system, are helps.

A Wonderful Artesian Well,

The deepest artesian well in the world is now in progress at Pesth, and has already reached a depth of 951 metres (3,118 feet). The well at Paris, which is 547 metres in depth, has hitherto held the fir3t place in such achievements. Tfie work is carried on at the expense of the city, which has granted a sum equal to £40,000 for the purpose, with the intention of obtaining an unlimited supply of warm water for the municipal establishments and public baths. The water at present issuing has a temperature of 161 deg. Fahr., and the operations will be continued nntil that of 178 deg. Fahr. is obtained. About 175,000 gallons of the liquid stream out daily, and rise to a height of thirty-five feet. This amount will not only supply all the wants of the city, but is expected to convert the surrounding district into a sort of tropical garden, by the constant evolution of heat. Since June last, the boring has penetrated through 200 feet of dalomite, and the preceding strata passed through have supplied a number of interesting facts to the geologist, which have been noticed from time to time in the Hungarian Academy of Science*, The difficulties to be overcome have given rise to naany highly in*

genions engineering devioee, such as a method for driving nails, at the enormous depth above mentioned, and, more, the means of drawing them (bj magnets), of cutting off and pulling tip broken tabes, and, above all, a valuable mechanical apparatus by means of which the water rising from the well is used as a motive power, driving the drills at a rate of speed double that previously imparted from the mouth of the well.

A TRAGEDY IN CALIFORNIA.

a Robbery and Its Terrible Punishment— Five Mexican Bandits Taken from the Bakersfield Jail and Hanged. A correspondent of the San Francisoo Chronicle , at Bakersfield, OaL, gives the following particulars of the summary death of five Mexican horse-thieves: “Between sundown and dark, the five Mexicans were brought into town by James Young, W. L. Kennedy, and others, and lodged in jail. The news of their capture spread over the town at once, and created much excitement during the evening. It began to be whispered about that, violence was anticipated, and, this coming to Under Sheriff Lightner’s ears, he went up to the jail, and, having first locked all the cells and outer doors, deposited the key in the safe, locked it with a combination that no one understands but himself, and carried the safe-key with him. Between 1 and 2 o’clock this (Saturday) morning, eight men went up to the Court House and demanded the keys of Deputy Sheriff Fountain. He told them they were locked up in the vault of the safe, and that he did not have the key. They then caught him and took from his pockets his private keys, but, not finding the jail keys or the key to the vault of the safe, they sent a committee of three after Under Sheriff Lightner. He was called out of his house just as he was getting ready fcr bed and told that he must go and open the safe, but he declined, saying that he would not think of it, and nothing could induce him to do it. Finding they could do nothing with him, they left. This was about 1:30. The party went back to the Court House, and, having secured a sledgehammer, an ax, and a crowbar, passed into the small room by the side of the main jail, and which communicates with it by means of a heavy wooden door. Upon this door they commenced work, and, after battering and chopping two or three hours, they finally succeeded in breaking the door to pieces and effecting an entrance. . By this time not less than 100 persons had gathered. Once inside the jail, it took but little time to break the catches to the locks and get to the prisoners. Seeing that the crowd could not be prevented from entering, and to prevent the useless destruction of locks, Deputy Sheriff Fountain pointed out the cells in which the prisoners were confined. Two were in one cell and two in another, and the fifth was confined in a cell with another Mexican who was not of their party. Having secured the five the crowd took them up stairs into the District Court-room, went through the form of a trial, convicted them, and sentenced them to be hanged immediately. Some of them were in favor of swinging them up on the front porch of the Court House, but it was finally agreed that they should be hanged to the trees in the back part of the lot and in the rear of the jail-yard. A beam was secured and placed across between two trees, one end resting in a fork of each. Three of the doomed men were swung up to this beam and two to the limbs of one of the trees, where they remained, a ghastly sight, until 9 o’clock this morning, when they were taken down and laid in the hall of the lower floor of the Court House. Their names, as ascertained from papers on their persons, were Francisco Encinas, Firman Eldia, Antonio Meron, Miguel Elias, and Vincente Buiz. Upon their persons were found various articles, such as watches, pocket-knives, purses, etc., doubtless a part of the property taken from Swett’s store, at Caliente. A Coroner’s inquest was held, and a verdict was found in accordance with the circumstances, witiiout, however, attaching any blame to the participants, who must be known.”

The Dead-Letter Office.

The Dead-Letter Office is an interesting place to visit; not at all like a livingletter office, but a large room containing many tables at which sit clerks examining, sorting and arranging the piles of correspondence that have come to naught. Some open letters, which are then passed to others for examination, when those containing money are passed on to clerks whose duty it is to make a memorandum ot the contents. Then the whole is freshly reinclosed to return to the sender; ana, in case it doesn’t find him, it comes back to Washington. It is interesting to see the contents of the moneyed letters. Small pieces of silver and currency are plentiful, and sometimes a bit of silver will have a piece of currency wrapped around it, so carefully ! The bank-notes range from $1 to S2O, and perhaps higher, but that was the largest one we saw. Who would be so careless as to let a S2O note go astray ? It must have been lovely woman; for the direction on all the letters we glanced at was in feminine chirography. The many articles which have failed to find an owner and have returned to the Dead-Letter Office, such as jewelry, embroideries, and all the little things that are sent by mail, were until recently kept on exhibition, and formed quite a curious museum; but they ore now packed away preparatory to being sold at auction.— Washington Cor. of the Hartford Times.

Didn’t Marry for Love or Money.

A farmer’s son from near Reilly was in town last week selling bogs, and ran into an old acquaintance on the street. “WLat d’ye think, Bill? I’m married,” said the Butler county youth. “ The deuce you are ! Well, I never thought that of you, Sam. Who is she?” “Old Uncle Dan Farrel’s daughter Mary; and I’ll open your eyes a bit, Bill. You won’t believe it, maybe, but it’s honest gospel truth. I didn’t marry that girl for neither love nor money—honest Injun,” said Sam, with a smile that made his face look as though his eyes were about to be fenced in. Bill leaned up against a lamp-post and gave him a look of speechless amazement for a second or two, then whistled, and slowly said: * ‘ Well, then, by the old Harry, I’d like to know what you did marry her for, anyway.” “Well, Bill, I’ll tell you how it was. You see she’s one of the best little workers in that part of the country,” returned Sam, with a double dose of the old smile. “Oh, that’s bow it comes, is it?” said Bill. “ Well, old John Robinson bought a couple o’ mules last week on that very same recommendation.” Sam said he had to meet a man at 3 o’clock, and hurried away. —Cincinnati Breakfast Table.

Another Suit Against Beecher. The parties who bought Beecher’s “Life of Christ” have sued the author for failure of contract. The case is in Judge Fullerton’s hands, who says: “ The whole matter is in a nutshell, and is very simple. Mr. Beecher made a contract ten years ago, and failed to keep it. In spite of that he obtained SIO,OOO from us, and subsequent royalties, all of which, with interest, he must pay Back, besides compensating us for the damages we sustained. We shall proceed at once.” The question of interest is who is the “ we” in the case, who, under the name of “Cash,” bought the “ Life of Christ” at the time of the Ford sale? The Fords gay the book would have gold had Beecher finished it, The second ToUuMe is only h*lf written.

Death in His Favorite Robe.

The mntatty ■tattatioe of the whole oivfiimed world show that about one-fifth of all mankind die of oonaumption alone, and the numbered deaths doe to consumption bears a greater ratio to the whole number than that of any other three diseases together. Moreover, investigation proves that this ratio is steadily increasing. Its increasing prevalence has led to the popular belief that consumption is incurable. Every year hundreds of these sufferers seek, in the sunny retreats of Florida or the dry atmosphere of Colorado, for health, and find only a grave. The influence of the atmosphere—the only remedial agent that either Florida or Colorado can afford the consumptive—is at best only palliative. The cure of consumption depends upon two essential conditions: Ist, the arrest of the abnormal breaking down of the tissues, whioh prevents emaciation, and, 2d, the restoration of healthy nutrition, in order to stop the formation of tuberculous matter. Fulfill these conditions, and consumption is as curable as fever. To fulfill these conditions the required remedy must increase the appetite, favor the assimilation of food, and enrich the blood, thus retarding the development of tubercles. To accomplish this, a mare powerful alterative than Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery has never been discovered. At the same time, it soothes the irritation of the nervous system produced by violent coughing, which, in its turn, so often leads to more serious results. The use of “expectorants” in consumption is absolutely suicidal. For, while removing the tubercles already formed, they produce yet more serious results by inflaming and destroying the sound and healthy tissues. Consumption requires a remedy that will soothe while it relieves; harsh medicines but add fnel to the flame that already threatens to consume the system. The Golden Medical Disoovery fulfills these conditions, and has been pronounced the best remedy yet discovered to allay and arrest consumption.

Remarkable Success.

The success of the leading literary papier of the West, The Chicago Ledger, is truly remarkable. Since its introduction to the reading public, six years ago, The Ledger has steadily advanced in favor, and is now acknowledged second to no papier of the kind in the oountrv. Its circulation is national, and has been obtained through the efforts of its publishers to produce a paper of high moral character, and at the same time sell it at a price consistent with the present hard times. That they have succeeded, and well, too, the Uiousands of readers of The Ledger scattered from Maine to Texas and from Oregon to Florida will bear testimony. The Chicago Ledger is a large forty-eight column weekly paper, which contains stories both complete and continued, in each number, written by the best authors of the day, and a great variety of information interesting to every one. The subscription price of The Ledger is only $1.50 per year, postage paid, and it is equal in every particular to other papers of the same character which sell for $3 a year. Three copies of this valuable paper will be sent to any one who sends 10 cents and their address to The Ledger, Chicago, 111.

Disease Grows Apace,

Like an ill wind, and cannot be mastered too early. What is a trifling attack of sickness today may, if unattended to, become a serious case in a week. Small ailments should be nipped in the bud before they blossom into full-blown maladies. If this advice were attended to, many a heavy bill for medical attendance might be avoided. When the liver is disordered, the stomach foul, the bowels obstructed, or the nerves disturbed, resort should at once be had to that supreme remedy, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, a few doses of which will restore healthy action and put the system in perfect order. It is a wise precaution to keep this incomparable preventive in the house, since it checks, with unrivaled promptitude, disorders which breed others far more dangerous, and in their, latest developments are themselves often fatal.

Wives Know That the Brow of Care Is often soothed by a delicious, supper, to which perfect bread, rolls, biscuit, etc., are so important. Tc have these delicate products of baking always reliable, the use of Dooley's Yeast Powder is very important. This article is among the most valuable of the day in its bearing on health. It is put up m cans always full in weight.

Heart Disease, by its insidious workings, has brought many persons to an untimely grave. The valves and various parts of the Heart are very tender and easily disarranged, which in time will become settled Heart Disease. for the relief and cure of which we offer you Dr. Graves’HEAßT REGULATOR, a preparation long and favorably known in New Hampshire, where the Doctor practiced as a regular physician. It is not a cureail, but is a medicine which goes straight to its work. The HEART REGULATOR will assist the action of the Heart, and its continued use will afford a permanent oure. Send for a pamphlet, containing a full description of its merits, to Frank E. Ingalls, Concord, N. H. For sale at 50 cents and $1 per bottle. I have sold Hatch’s Universal Cough Syrup for four years. I keep in stock all the cough remedies considered standard in this section. None sell so rapidly or give such general satisfaction as “The Universal.” Hadn't you better try a remedy that is commended so Li 3 r hlv by your neighbors ? Edwin P. Failing, Oswego, N. Y. Sold by J. Blocki & Co., Chicago, 111. lar’s worth of Sheridan’s Cavalry Condition Powders, fed to a coop of thirty hens, will yield a profit of $3, besides preventing all manner of disease. CHEW The Celobrated “Matchless” Wood Tag Plug Tobacco. The Pioneer Tobacco Coup any, New York, Boston and Chicago. A Life Saved for Thirty-Five Cents. —A lady in Boston had diphtheria and was almost dead from strangulation. She was instantly relieved and finally cured by Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment. Every family should have a bottle ready for instant use. It will pay to read advt. “Florida Homes !” Conghs and Colds yield readily to Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup, which Is a most agreeable remedy. It heals the soreness, loosens the phlegm, and expels it from the system with scarcely an effort on the part of the patient. For sale by all Druggists. TO CONSUMPTIVES. The advertiser, having been permanently cured of that dread disease, Consumption, by a simple remedy, is anxious to make known to bis fellow-sufferers the means of oure. To all who desire it, he will send a copy of the prescription used (free of charge), with the directions for preparing and nsing the same, which they will find a sure Cure for Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis, Ac. Parties wishing the prescription will please address Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON. 191 Penn Street, Wllliamsburgh, N. Y.

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