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t'oun ty. - . . ; . - ; ECLIPSES. BT T. H. SAFFORO, ( Pirct9T of tke PwrWr. 06Tvnforr, Chic JO.) from time to time it Is noticed that the (un and moon are partially or totally eclipsed; that is to say, in the sun's case, a portion of the whole of that luminary. as we usually see it, is hidden hy a round, dark body, now well known to be the moon; nd in case the moon is eclipsed, a dark ehadow appears to cross its disc. We know by observation that when the moon is eclipsed it is always full moon; tbit the earth is interposed betweerj the sun and the moon, and that it is the earth's shadow which produces the eclipse. Again hen the un is eclipsed it is always new moon; and we always see the slight lunar crescent called the new moon a day or two afterwards. But not at every full or new moon docs an eclipse tke place only at certain seasons of this kind, when the sun, earth and moon are usually neat the same right line; for if the sun and moon be apparently in conjunction, that Is, in the lame region of the heavens, but at the same time one appears so far above the other that they escape appearing to touch," there will be no eclipse. And in the same way; if the moon at its full does not pass - exactly through the earth's shadow, it niay pass over or under it, and so escape an eclipse entirely. Before going any farther, it may be well to state that a so-called total eclipse of the moon does not cause the moon to disappear entirely; but that even then she still twines with a dusky light. More of this further on. There are three kinds of eclipses of the sun partial, the commonest kind; total, the rarest; and a third kind, annular, neiiher partial nor total, strictly speaking. The reason of this third kind we must think about for a moment. We ail know very well that the sun and moon appear to us very much of the same .-ize; but ihey are very different in magnitude. The sun is very much larger, and about as much further off, so that, as the pane of glass in my room appears nearly as large as a great building at a half-mile distance, to the sun and moon appear relatively of the same ize. But if I go nearer the window, I shall see the pane larrr poj nrtionably than the building; and vice ivrsi if I go away from the window. If, then, we place the moon at such a distance from us, and in such a place, that it will appear just to cover the whole sun, and then approach nearer, the moon will appear to grow larger faster than the sun does, and a total eclipse will take place. On the other hand, if we go further from tlic moon, it will grow (to us) smaller, and trill not cover the whole sun, but leave a j rug f light outside. And just the same ! thing happens in nature, when the centres .f the sun and moon appear just in the ate place to us; that is, when the eclipse1 is central,'' as astronomers call it. The : uit'on is in this case sometimes so near as; entirely to cover the sun, sometimes so j ir as to leave a ring of light around itteif, the eclipse in the first case is called j total, m the second case annular or, as the Ueiir.ans say, ring formed. N hen do the eclipses of the sun take rlact? that is, how can we predict them?j To do this thoroughly and with extreme eeuraey, requite the tables of the sun's in! moon's motions, and a great deal of lanu.auon. Large volumes are devoted to the purpose of telling exactly at what point iii the heaveus the sun and moon he at any future instant, and do so ith such accuracy that we cannot for Biiny vears f.iil by one minute of time in predicting when any eclipse will take place nd when een this degree of accuracy is reached, corrections will be made from the "suits of the daily and nightly observations now making in all civili2ed countries, hat it is comparatively easy to predict "hen an eclipse will take place with some rtroxiniation to the truth, and by two considerations: rtrsf. there are two days in every year Dr whi.-U a new or full moon is Jikelj to briny an eclipse. For this year, these fetes are February 5th and July 30th; "d so we find by the more refined caleu"'ioo, that there are eclipses of the moon January 27th and July 23d, both these fetes being full moons; and of the sun, icbruary Hth and August 7th, both these fe'cs being new moons. Again, every eclipse is followed by a j"tewhat similar eclipse visible, however very different part of the earth at a interval or eighteen years, ten days "d a fraction; so that the eclipse which place in the forenoon of July 28th, ill be followed by one in the af"nooo of August 7th, 1SG9. But this i-'J : 151 was only partial in the ::ej States, and total in a small part of northerly part of North America, and ,t ' r smal! lelt of country in Europe; ,ly V oeu in Northern Asia and North rough erica a belt which passes through as which will be mentioned by na by. 15, , f eteeB these two eclipses, July, 1851, w r---, mere nave ueen ouca. ' bout seventy others; and it is calpu .d ,llat of these seventy, forty-one the LCe" f ,lie sun an(i fentj-nine of ' tooon; and each one of them; except !( s some of the smaller ones, will ichUS correfTnling eclipse in about date JCat ad tea daJ3 afler iu own He u ne iU here say that ecliPscs f sun-K 01 rarer than lhose of th sr i) ,n contrary, much common i,lf waking one moment at tha subcf t'h SCe ,he UUcy of tllis- Eclipses 'hub oncan 06 seen every where in . f lhe e",h for which the moon tfi;. , . U,W of the occurence, but tali lhe Sun are 01,1 y through tcij ' lcr rce of country. The great I, V1 tbls jm has its centre in Alas'vntn 001 ex,end much 80Uth of the c dfSree Tiaihle over tha whole of

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North America, and a little way into the Atlantic Ocean; and covers about one- fills or ine eartn s surface with the various boundary lines of its visibibility. And when we come to look at the extent of total eclipse, we see that it extends over a belt of country about one hundred and sixty miles wide, beginning in Siberia, thence passing through Alaska, some of the late Hudson's Bay territories, a part of Dacotah, most of Iowa, a large part of Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky, part of Tennessee, most of North Carolina, and a little of Northern Nebraska, Minnesota, South Carolina and Virginia. This belt of totality just escapes the following important places: Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Omaha; and any one will find that a belt one hundred and sixty miles wide, passing between Chicago and St. Louis, and avoiding Omaha enUhe south and Cincinnati on the north; most pass about in the direction above indicated by the States mentioned above. And you can represent, in a rough way, the course or the shadow that is, of the total portion of the eclipse by cutting out a slin of paper of the width of the representative of one hundred and sixty miles" on" any map of the United States, and long enough to reach from the map position of Beaufort, N. C, to that of Fort Union, Dacotah. Place this stripsothat the cen tre of one end shall be near Cape Lookout, and the edge shall just lap over Kock Island and avoid Omaha. T h. path of the eclipse, however, is somewhat curved, and the maps themselves distort the shape of the earth, so that you will notfind such a strip, made straight, to give more than a very rough idea ot the shadow s course. On the map which I use, forins'tance, Cincinnati and Indianapolis - would be thus included, aud St. Louis left too far to the south. " ' The phenomena attending lunar eclipses are quite familiar to those 'who notice such phenomena, and in general are these: The earth's shadow is seen at the predicted time to enter upon the tnoon, at first as a small circular arc, growing wider and wider, and often of a pea-green tint, until, when the cclipe is a large one, it is succeeded by a deep corner hue, finally overspreading a great part or the whole tf the moon. After this we can see, with a good telescope, not only the general outlines of the lunar disc, but also special features, such as the ranges of mountains, the circular valleys so familiar to telescopic observation, and the great plains called by the old astronomers "seas.'' After a while perhaps an hour or two the totality ceases, and the par tial eclipse recurs and goes off in the inverse order of phenomena. The most striking thing about such an eclipse is the deep coppery hue of the moon's surface. Partial eclipses of the sun are more exact phenomena for observation; the indentation which is seen is produced by the body of the moon itself, and we sometimes see the jagged prominences of the lunar mountains. This, too, is to be noted: that every solar eclipse appears at different magnitude for different places, because an observer at one point can see further around the intervening obstacles of the moon's disc than at other; and, as will be inferred Trom what was before said, the same eclipse may be partial at one place and total at another. Partial eclipses of the sun ield in importance to annular. In the latter, four phenomena are to be noticed: first, the be ginning of the partial eclipse or indentation of the sun's disc; next, the beginning of the annular eclipse namely, the formation of the ring, where the moon is first seen completely within the sun, and its breaking up as the moon rccrofses the boundary or orituant uiinr; ana nniny i the end of even partial eclipse. The annular phenomena are much more accurately observable than those of a partial ec.tpse; ana me lurmauun ana -'"K , un of the ring arc sometimes accompanied i and the formation and breaking with what are called "lilys The rim of light between the moon's edge and that of the sun is, when very narrow, broken upon into points parti illy disconnected, like a string of beads. Lt is sopposed that the jagged points of the lunar mountains cause this appearance. I?ut a total eclipse of the sun surpasses in sublimity, as well as interest, all other astronomical phenomena whatever. During a space of time never exceeding eight minutes, we observe the passage from a sunlight to a darkness almost like that of night, and back again. The sky, as the partial eclipse grows larger and larger, changes its tints to various hues, described sometimes as livid, but mingled with orange yellow, or purple, sometimes much before the beginning of the total eclipse proper. The moon advances slowly over the solar disc, covering more and more of it with its blackness, and making more and more obscure surrounding object8, till, when the last gleam of sunlight is about to pass away, the observer sees the moon and what remains of the sun surrounded by a bright corona or glory, such as surrounds the heads of the Lord and the saints in religious pictures. When the sunlight totally disappears, nothing is left to enlighten objects around, save the scattered rays of twilight and the corona itself. This glory is intersected here and there with flashing rys, extending often to considerable distances from the sun, and has been itself seen nearly as broad as the pun'a diameter- When the corona gives the light by which objects are seeu they naturally appear very differently from what we see in daylight, or even at ni"ht. The sharpness and blackness of distant hills have often been noticed.

Besides this corona, the 'protuberances' I termined to testify their pleasure at the of a rosy color and irregular shape are a : event. They therefore adorned the door very marked feature. These are eloud - j of his physician's house with garland, like masses seen projecting beyond the i adding this iuscription;--"'! the deliydark edge of the moon, are not generally erer cf his country." visible without telescopes, and hayo long! - been, as well as the corcna, mysterious in j Santa Ve, the aapi'al of New. Mexico, their origin. But it is nor made certain is said to he the oldest town within the by the spectroscope that they are gaseous j limits Gf the United States, having b.9en in nature; it was found out by photograph-j built under the auspices of the Jesuits ing them that they were connected with, caore thju thjec hundred years ago.

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! the sun, and that as the moon passed over j them it hid them .by degrees. - If they were phenomena of the lunar atmosphere they would move, with the moon itself, which they do not do. All these phenomena can only be observed by great concentration of effort, and by division of labor. When the time of observation of the most important extends only from two to eight minutes, it is plain that much expedition is necessary. In case of the eciipse of the present year, the duration is about three minutes near the central line. ? !; - In past ages the fate of & battle or an assault has turned, upon a. -total eclipc of the sun. Xenophoo tells us that the town of Larrisa was taken on account of the fright of the inhabitants when the sun was covered by a cloud. This circumstance, casually mentioned in. the. Anaba siV(Book III., section iv.), has. enabled astronomers to make. certain that a total eclipse took place theu and there, and has even been of use in correcting;, the . lunar tables.. Other eclipses of note ju history were those predicted by. Thales, 5S5 B. C; that connected with the expedition of Agathocles against Carthage, B. C. .310; and an eclipse which helped decide the battle of, Stiklastad, in the the Scandinavian annals. Columbus is said to have acquired great renown among the Indians by predicting a lunar eclipse,, which was probably his only means of determining his longitude, and so the distance .of America from Europe. In modern times we have often heard of the panic terror of ignoraut populations: , and there are even stories that in the eclipse , of IS06, persons here and there thought the Judgment Day was cousins. . . These phenomena have, however, become so well known, and astronomy has penetrated to so distant parts of the earth that no civilized people need fear them anylooger; and they are simply to be regarded as examples of the. un vary ing laws of nature, and as occasions to learn more of those laws. .Even the sun is gradually yielding up the secrets of its fiery globe to the unwearied scrutiny of science; and no small advantage is gained by the absence of the direct light of the body itself in studying those glowing atmospheres unicti surrounu it. ana wiwcu nave so much to do with the life of the sun itself if we may use Sir John Ilerschel's figure of speech relative to the solar activity. - A most important use of eclipses, , to the mind of the world, is the proof which they afford of the unerring certainty withiu their own sphere of the laws of nature. The evidence afforded by ordinary astron oniiacal phenomena is more convincing to scientific mind, as it is cumulative iu its character- There are inoresuch examples of the fixity of natural laws constantly before the astronomer's mind than can readily be numbered; the alternations of light and darkness, of summer and winter, the ebb and flow of the tides, the courses of the moon and planets, and so on. But an eclipse, and especially a total ec'ipse, of the sun, is so rare and sur-prit-ing a phenomena, and its occurrence can be so certaiuly predicted many years in advance, to the very day, hour, and minute, and almost second, that all who come within its range will be compelled to ack nowlcdge the unvarying nature of the laws of astronomy. The infidel may, indeed, point to those laws as evidences that when one shuts his eyes to spiritual truth he can see no tJod in nature; but one of the greatest intellectual triumph of true Christianity is to show that the laws of nature are intelligible to man only because the Lord has made us after His image and likeness, and that He has made them in their own limits unvarying for an analoi gous lea.-on mat lie nas mane ttie swittty moviug earth firm under our feet; to give us something on which we can establish ourselves as on a firm, unyielding basis of thought and action, and on which our mcnul edifice9 n be raised. . trustinsr in . r w m " A Lone Nigger. During the wAr a "contraband" came into the federal lines in North Carolina and was marched up to the officer of the day to give an account of himself, whereupon the following colloquy ensued: "What's your name." "My name's Sam." "Sam What?" No, sah; not Sam Watt; I'se jist Sam. "What's your other name?" 'I hasn't got no other name, sah. I'se Sam. dat's all." "What's your master's name?' ; "I'se got no massa; massa lunned away; yah! yah! I'se free nigger now." ' Now what's your father's and mother's name?" "I'se got none, sah; neber had none. I'se jist Sam ain't nobody else." "Haven't you any brother's and sister's? "No, sih! Nebcr had none. No brud der no sister, no fodder, no muddcr, no massa, nothin' but Sam. When you see Sam you see all derc is of us." A merchant known as"the head of the Agnado faniily''lately died worth four millions. When the"head of the Rothschild family" heard how much the Agnado man had left, he exclaimed, in a tone of deep commiseration, ' Only four millions! Why, I had always supposed the poor fellow was in easy circumstances! ' There was a thoroughness about practical joking tu the middle ages. When Pope Adrian died in l.VJIl, the Roman people, 'who hated and daspised him, de-

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- Din. Merrill's "Brotherly Lowt.'V ; ...... To We Editors of the Stdf ' the Wettt ift Allow me to makr a few remarks through? the medium of the Star; in f reference to what 'Rev1. Dr. Merrill of -the Wegmrf Christian Advocate waa pleased to say in regard to myself in his paper of the T9th ultimo. - But before I proceed ftirther, I will state however, that I have addressed the;Doctor a note for publication in the ' Adfocato, starting that my physical health has been quite good for some five years, and asking the privilege of assigning through the to umns of said paper, my own gfoundsof separation from the Methodist Episcopal Church, and union with the Universalists, leaving his readers tojudge fdr themselves, whether rty'eOurse in so tloing,1 is to counted for on' the " hypothesis of an impaired physical and mentalH-cOiidition, ot on sounder and more rational grounds. In Dr. Merrill's' remarks referred to, after Etating that during the war'I was Chaplain in the army,, and contracted a disease which has" caused' me much suffering he proceeds to say that "Being ex tremely sensitive,' my 'afflictions and bereavements have so affected me that to Censure me for my singular course in uniting with the Universalists would be cruelty indeed.v He uso says' in the same con' nection that,"Both my physical and n;en'tal condition call for more sympathy than blame.' " ' ' . , - : Now the animirs of the Doctor's remarks is not all concealed by his worJs yr pathy,. It does not, require very great mental acumen o see that the impression sought to be made on1 the Eiinds of his readers, is that T am br6ken down, physically and mentally, and am of but little less to the Church I leave.'and of but lit tle gain to the UniveYsa lists". In trying to make this impiessioa, he affects much sym pathy. Genuine sympathy is a Tand feeling in the human heart. - It is a Ocd like principle. In the beautiful language of Darwin: 1 "No radiart pearl, which crested forttihfc wears, No gem, that twinkling hang; from beauty's en r.; Not the bright flare, nhicti night's blue rch aduru; Nor tiding sun, that glides the vtrral morn; Shine wiih surh lutre ns the ter that flows Down virture's manly cheek for others' woes." Rut he who puts on sympathy as a garb, under which he essays to inflict a wound upon a brother, must have an internal sense of unworthiness before God. most withering to the soul. To some, it may be invol ' ved in mystery how it was, that Dr. Merril should represent my physical condition being such as to call for sympathy, why he made such an erroneous statement. Did be make the statement not knowing any better at the time he made it? Then he should have been better in formed. Did he make it knowing that it was incorrect? Then I leave the reader tojudge of his motives. I'crhaps he ventured his statement on the hypothesis that lo leave the Methodist Episcopal Church, and unite with the Universalists, is prima facie evidence that he who docs so, s not physiologically sound! Again, the Doctor represe n ts my mental condition also being such, as to call for quite an amount cf sympathy. Well of course I did not ask the privilege cf making any correction of bis statement in this regard, through his paper, as it is ijnite'difii cult for persons to judge" correctly of their own sanity. It is said to be hard to ton-1 vince an insane man f that he is insane. Of course, I would not be competent to determine in regard to my own mental soundness or uftsonndues!, and roust leave this matter in the hands of others. Hut even then, it may not be determined with entire certainty, lor what is evidence to one man of insanity, to another, is proof of sound-1 n ess-of mind. For instance, to Dr. Mtf rill, my course in leaving the Methodist Episcopal Church, and uniting with the Universalists, may be indubitable evidence of my mental imbecility, while to some others of perhaps not inferior mental ability to that of the of the Doctor, it may afford to such proof. Again, Dr. Merriil' article published some time ago in the Methodist Quarterly Review, advocating the doctrine of the annihilation of the wicked, may be evidence to some persons that its author is a man of great "brilliancy and mental force, "while to others it might be regarded as proof of mental aberration. Indeed to suppose that an infinitely wise Reing, asGod is acknowledge tobe, would, at his own option bring man into existence; create him in his own glorious image; endow him with such gigantic powers and vast capabilities as he has; knowing that in short time be would blot him out of being forever, is so inharmonious with the general desire and expectation of roankind, so supremely absurd and irrational, that it would seem that no perfectly sane mind would advocate it. "Who reads his hosom, reads immortal life; Or nature there, imposing on her soos, lias written fables; man was made a lie." 'Rut the Doctor being a man of considerable ability sees that even the doctrine of annihilation of the wicked, is mere consonant with reason, and , harmonious with tha benevolence of God, than that ofi endless punishment.. Imlpil nnr iiidirment of thines. PTeatlv depends upon the standpoint from which j - r- j are right, gome men, however, seem to think themselves infallibly rigkt, and all others absolutely wrong who do not agree with them. Dr. Merrill's judgment passed upon myself in regard to my mental condition, reminds me of an old i'rencb saying, the English of which is: "We seldom find persons oT good sense, but such as are of our opinion." I shall anxiously await the Doctor's reply, whether I can have the privilege of giving his readers, through the Advocate, my own reasons for severing my connection with the Methodist Church, and uniting with the Universaiists. J. W. Chaffis. Mocst Pleasant, Iowa, J une 2, 1869. il.o -ro c oicoil V aoiipri v think itfi I An adrertiseraent in an Australian paper invites proposals from clergymen 'for marrying two or wore couples.

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1 , " .Solving the Ghost Question. . .Tun j;, t- ; . , D'UUI. -s ? Aboot;t1ie caTfed me ti year' business' liad a ' remote' trart ! ?6f '"BHilll county, lennessee, atd t ' was staying at the Bouse of V"HrVRfibVrY.' The family consite3 of 'Mr. HnbH and wTfe, one son fbd r'wo. daughters.''iThe son's name was Ausfpn; he was about twenty years of age", and seemed to3be very intelligent; The girls were 'no less intelligent than Austin. Adela ;the eldest,' was. about ; seventeen, a'tid Julia, the youngest, i aDbtff fifteen.' ! Prettier girls I never saw". i? T ' loved them 'both as soon asT bad seen thenio ' '' We' were sitting by a bin at ng fire, talk ing and laughing as lively s: if fce' had been 'acquainted for yeare. 'whert a euddeu noise,' as if some large' building was falling interrupted U9. ' '- ' dJuo-' '' 'Ugh! Ogh I ! ugh I IP said eome one, as if frightened out of h?S senses: "1' ' All of the family r'ushed to the' door, except Julia; who sat still and remarked. : It is Bill Jenkins ' funning from' the ghosts again1.' ' " Scarcely had the w6fds escaped" from her lips, when in rushed a tall -T 'gawky, awkward, almost beardless fellow, puffing and blowing like a locomotive,, ( r What's' the matter? said MV.r RuVcrt. Alatter enoug fi!' -said ' Bill 1ms eyes looking almost as Jarge as the, bottoms of two com moil "feiied tea cups. 'Out'yOnder,' he continued, throwing himself down upon a chair, 'otrt ytfnder, I heard a baby a crying, ana tuen Eomeooay a groanin and snuffirt; and'l tell ye I jost got away from thar.' .- : j - ; j At this I could not suppress a laugh. You needn't laugh, old hoES,' continued he, turning to me, you needn't laugh, lor I'll swear it's no fun, 'its jest so, I'll swear it.' tr I turned to Austin, and said. . .-'Let us accompany him bac,k to , the place where "he beard the uoise, and 'solve' the ghost for him.' ' ' '' " . Austin was silent. ' Will you go?' I asked. , . Anstin began to' stammer out something. ' ' 'Darn me!' interrupted Bill, 'darn n.c gentleman, if you get me back thar" any more; Vce if you do!' ' s'Tben tell us where it was,' said 1, 'and if we can hear it, we'll solve it, sure.' 'Austin don't care much about going, I believe,' said Adela.- ' -:'You are not superstitious, arc you?' I asked him. , , No,' said he, 'I'm not superstitions, but 'I'm afraid of catching cold, that's all.' - 'I propose,' aaid Julia, who. f had been silent till now, 'that we all go, Mr. Marion, Austin Adeja, and myself. The moon is now up,' and it! would be a pleasant walk for us, besides we un'glit have some real fun." After some hesitation 'ort A Ostiums part, this proposition was accepted, Bill told us where he had heard the ghost, but would not go with us. "Off we"rtarted. -When we came to the spot, we found' that Bill bad knocked down about twenty patmet of the fence. We had gone two ' or three hundred yards, talking very lively; when we entered a low dark place in the road, the waB very tail and tbick, which eause to be darker than anywhere else. When advanced, a lew paces iuto. this place, our conversation stopped. Scarcely had we ceacd talking, 'When 'Boo-woo woo-ughl went something near ns. - . What's that? said A nsfin, halting. I advanced, ami Julia stepped to -ray side a nd e aid .. :.;( ., . , , , '.It's Bill's ghost sure.', . , ' 'Od-boo-bo-woo-ugh!' catiic forth again. 1 could' sttppressed tny laughter no longer. It proved to be nothing . more than a hog, which was not sleeping comfortably, and was thus ci in plaining.- .: T W hat is it,?' insisted Austin, who had not yet found out what it was. Just then we came to lhe hog bed and tne nogs uii ran on Inghtened as liill was. II ii Hi phi said Austin; it'shogs, 1M swear, that caused Bill so much running.' We turned and went back to the house, aad had a fine laugh' at Bill, about' his ghosts, but Bill Would not give up ' but that his were real ghosts. I learned that there were but few persons in this neighborhood who ' were not superstitious. - . .'. .-, r I was informed that the placew.where Bill had heard theghost was really hauuted. - - : Among other stories that were told that night concerning the place was oue as follows: . . , 4 Some time .. ago' , a man was "coming through this place; it Was very dark. He heard something by the road side, turn ing in the direction of the noise, he perceived something white. -.It. looked, he said, like a woman dressed in white. He spoke to her; she raised her arms above her head, and said. - . 'John Kinsler, if you will be happy, you must marry Jane Morton, kfiA have the Robert family at the wedding!. Remember J oh a Kinsler?', , So saying, she dropped her arras and ascended slowly upwards until the was "Ui il piviii. John "afterwards married Jane, and the Rnbert family were at the wedding. . I expressed a desire to see or hear some such ghosts, but Austin thought I - would repent of my wish when I saw them. Bed time came, and,weretired -as the clock struck twelve. , I lay awake in bed a long time,' thinkof the incidents of the day. r : ' " I tbonght of Adela and Julia; which I loved best I could not tell. - , ;. Nothing else took place worth relating here during my stay at Mr. Hubert's 1 Infr mTl: inorninrr. Iivirfir and loving.' left next morning, 'living and loving Two years after the above-mentioned incident took place, I was passing through that part of the country again, and of course I called on Mr. Rubert. I found that the, neighborhood was as superstitious as ever. The place where Rill Jenkins had beard the gbost was still

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',7 . : 6 "WHOLE 1SW397. haunted- . JMjany things had been seen from AogeJ to Bebzebub himself. ' was very anxious to come 'across Oiie of the . ghosts, jand daring my stay at Mr Huberts ! passed throosh - the haunted place at all tirres -of "the .night, t and heard nothing. T finally cam but ' saw tng. .1 Dnaii? came to lhe conclusion that it was all imagination. ai .One dark night jn July I was .passing through this place, and heard something make a noise in rhe dry leaves near me; turning toward. the noise 1 beheld something that looked, t thought,' very much like a ghost. It seemed' to be the 'figure of a woman. .Tljere' was.no waist in her dress, and it'iakVery long'.' All this 1 could make oat notwithstanding the dark Bess. i" ::,4j ,.'.;... " I stood still to see what she would do, I must acknowledge that I did not feel exactly cool just then, but I managed to appear so. " ' "v '' w'-'-'' ' ' " " -- 'Marion said the ghost, 'if you will be happy you must marry Julia Ruhert. Remember llaiiou!' ...... 4 , , -juageei my surprise ana horror, w.en the ghost spread oit her arms,1 and ascended upward,' until she was1' kst'in? the timber! W hat eculd"I do? Scared as I was, 1-did not Tun knock ing 1 down the fence , as Bill Jenkins did. -.-;' ' I started on slowly toward Mr. Hubert's; after l.bad gone a. few paces, I. beard a distant roaring behind me that continued more tliaii two minutes. I did "not ' look back for I did not care about coming in contact wiiit another ghosts that night. -At 1 earlv hour. I , retired. . Next when. I tame ioto,--the parlor Julia was there alone. When L entered she greeted me blushing and trembling ' After I had looked around and convinced myself that no one was near, I said: "Julia"", at last I have seen a ghost i I When I said that:Julia again blushed and turned hT head from" me.; .1 i 'What kind of ghost was it?' said she. 1 told her all I had seen, but omitted i what the shost had said Julia Hold me 'that she had seen one ; just like it', two or three nights before.: j I suppose,' said she, 'that you have be-"' come superstitious?' ; I couid not deny, yet I would not se-J knowledge that I was superstitious I implored Julia not to mention it until 1 could find out something mere about the ghost, and she promised, . .,, , - 1 determined to pass through this placo J every night curing my stay at jJr. Hubert's which was to- continue about two u-i.nL fVnm t ti 4 r. r or several nights L heard notntng, nor did I see anything like a ghost nntil the night before my departore, when walking along, I beheld the same ghost, at the same place, standing about twenty feet from me when I first beheld it. Tstopped, and1 the 'ghost said. 'Marion, to-morrow yon leave this place, and you have not asked Julia to be your wife. Go and ask her at once. Remember, Marion!' Instantly 1 rushed forward and threw my arms aronnd the ghost. Sheshrieked, and started up; I held fast, aud up we went. ; -f ; No pen can describe, no tongue can

timber tell, in fact no one can imagine feelnsed it lings at this moment, ,

Up we went., infill I held on to gboft. Rut I was becoming sick of situation. I bad my whole weight the my to! hold aip by holding to the pbontom. J.ct'ine dow n!' shouted . .I'roniite me one thing,' said the ghott. 'Promise that you will leave the spot as soon as you touch the ground.' 'I promise anything to gei from here, said I. " ' - '-.."; 'Let us dowut'-shc shouted as loud as I had. .... r . . : . , Down we went. But as we went down I was very' busy trying to End out something more abottt her.- I found that she had a large rote around her, and' was drawn up by it. A loop was aaadeXor her feet, then one for each, hand; and. she i could stand upright wjth the greatest ease, "j Just as wc. to.utlied .Jhe ground, I tok out uiv knife and cot the tope, just above the head of the' ghost. ' " : ' She sVrirked and ltll to the ground; 1 raised her up. j '; . i .' - Oil?' said she, 'Reelxebub will be here in a inoncrit., ee! there he comes now!' Here she tried to leave me, but I held on to her.' I heard a terrible noise in the dry leaves just' behind 1 me.' 1 looked around, au'f. something was approaching. As ne;.r as could discern in the dark it resembled a very large man. It fcartienr very close to me and etcod

still for a moment; then tapped me on the i owe tne any tbtog.; v , . shoulder, and said in a rough, hoarse! . by, my deal?' . ( .. Vl)jcc. . - .nT : ' 7 I 'Because it would "never settle' " ICputeIiy hand down lo the ground, and .'A Now f'" (tittt& as luck would have it, I put it on a stick ,B courtw.th swcMka audiutUmed t coonteabout as large as a man's armi I snatched nance of his xv '.lc, asked by lhe judge

it np, and gave and n-ave 'Beelxehub a blow with it I whi-h brought Lim to the ground. Mv crhostlv rrninanion ntniin Kbrirkp-I i and Ipm.J fiMunt hpr nn in mv &rni e n . I

retreated as luct as m v legs,, could catry j The' irTost consutu'ihate' cool'uess "that'we me. Presently Iran against' the fence .have heard was that if steerage passenger and knocked as much of it down as Bill asleep in a rVgiag storm. ' - Jenkins did. But I did not stop, but 4Wake up,' -cried oe.,uf his cojnrades, went on and into the house. . ;. . . f the ship is sinking' "' . .' . I sat the ghost upon. a chair, an J called, 'Well, what is the" use or.waling.'lhen?' ' for a light. She here made. a great effort he answered, ai he tlrtied over for anoth-'' to escape, but all was in vain. 1 " cr nap. ' tZl A light was brought; a -veil covered her J . "1; jrf . it-'ui: ic- ' '' ... . -face, and it was with great difficulty that 1 1 .-Sir. Johu CbauibjrJaTD, of KllUburgh, ! removed it. After a considerable strnggle N. Y., has a new machine "for shooting ' the veil was removed, and lo! it was Julia cfOws.- It consists of thee gun barrel, RubertT - - , so arranged that fne eap Srws all. ll . , She shrieked and fell to the floor, i places some carrion in the field, a short ' and was tbeo carried to the room. j distance from his barn, .biings the maJust here," in came a negro girl, a e7ave ( chine to bear on the point, and when a of Mr. Rubort's, looking as though fcbe ' crowd of crows have collected, fire, was frightened out of her sensea. . j With three shots recently he killed furty,'Massa! massa! run in de kitchen right j forty-five and fifty-en erew. . quick, cause Sambo come in dar all! .. . , r :: bloody, an a bleedin, and he says he cot A bachelor sea captain, who was- re-

his head broke.' Austin and myself went into the kitchen to examine Sambo's bead. There was a very large gash, cut to above his left temple. the bone, jast

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gno-eibth of eolwBi-i .. .... .. 12 oa TraatUat afortiseraMlai U all easaa paid fr ta uijKM. - Unless a particular tfme Is ayWlie J when hand-a4vertis-.HieataVll ft publnhed batil aered oat and rharseU aeeordiuIy. . To be brief. 'J'uTi'a'fiadTtm ployed aJ liegfd manSambo, to aasfs'tf "her. : ile1 had procured a long; rope,.-and fastened it around Julia, as I have already described, and then climbing a very large tree,' put the rope through "a foil-; rind 1 hen descend aed. Hy tht.he ctuld rai J ulia as high! as the fork ut'-ihe tree whvreshe would. bo entirely out vt' WfcltHI'.ptra below, ?W'D?.? tDe thick aess of the timber. . Julia was the eh osi that told Johq Kinslef to mnhf !Jane'Morton;"aofl Sambo had" always acted, Beelzebub when necesssry. ,Bt after be bad acted 'Beelxebub,' with me be awpre, ie-'neber would! be debH agfo.',, . , . ' l,bbre no grudge "on accbuuV of Juila'a fnahner of cOurtrng me 6nTthe contrary,' I felt rather pleased and toiaplimented. In about six- uioatfcs' frora -tbat tiaie, wf were married .j n. : e Years have, since rolled. bjv" A robust boy a nd'V' pretty lfttle"" girl have blessed our uuion, and never hate 'I TepeWted for one moment that J cilia was the ghostg-or that. shc; became my wife. .. . ' V '.'Hard on Ihe Minisfer.'" -t A mfnisfer Was'traTellng ri tlie' Wclc wdbdsvana espyFrlg aabin", entered il'lJtt a missioo- tf.inercy.: The lady of the Jiousv (she being ..present alone, and, rightly judging, his errand) when she saw him approachin'gaeized the Bible, and as be entered was to all intents busily engaged in perusing the' volume. Ue! noticed, bowever, that she. held i the letters reversed, Or in otherrwords, tijiside , duwn,. Aftetf tba usual courtesies the .minister, iuijuired what she was rcatling. " " - - 'Oh, 'bout the old prophets, was a the evidently self satisfuZftory reply. 'It is very edifyisg to read 'of the sufferings of Christ said the minister ' ,7 j 'And so tha good;niau is dead,; is .he? asked the matron,, evidently, et,ting in teresfed.'1' ' "' Certainly heTis. ' " " ' " ' -''-' 't Well, that is just the -way. 'I've been John a long time to get him to tako, the newspapers, but he won't. Every bodj n tue world might die," aud we not hear a word 'bout it, said the woman, in a rapid tone Ah. woman, von are in the dart I" ail the preacher, itb an elongated face. 'Yes, I know we are, , I've beer, at" .folin a long tiu.e fo put a window in at the fur end of the house) ' but he won't do that cither." ' : -. K-ii. ;' i is-i. 5 'I perceive tLat .you are weak in know!Cdge.', , i ;. ,. ' I know that I am weaL; and I guess if you had hau'the bilious fever, and been" taking saxalrai and cataract pills as long as I have, you'd be weak too,' replied the woman, iu rather an angry tone' of voice, and half an octave higher than usual. - A Marriage Maker. When Professor Ay toun was makingsproposals for marriage to his first wife a daughter of the celebrated l'rofessor Wilson the lady reminded him that it would be necessary to ask' the approval of her. sire. 'Certainly,' said Aytonn; 'hnt as I 'am little diffident in ppeakiwg to him on thia subject, you must jost gft-jftid , tell him my proposals yourself.", . . . .. ' 'J be lady proceeded to the library, and taking her father affectionately by the hand, mentioned thaf 'Professor Aytoun bad asked her to become i his wife. .- She? added. ,C;ball I accept his odor, papa? He says heiis too diffident to name the subject to you himself.' ' . . 'Then,' iaid old Chifslopher, 'I had better write my reply and pin it to " yourback.' -...- ? ,! ft - , lie did 60, and the lady returned to the drawing room. There the anxious suitor read the answer to ".his message, which was in" these "words, 'With the author's complents. :;? ' - : ' . , No Charge, , ....... .Nevada undoubtedly sets a praiseworthy example in legal proceedings. "'A' promt nent lawyer of that State had a suit of tinportance before Bob'Wagstaff, Justice of the I'eade itrSortrb: Citjf,oa. imuH mining dietrit in tha uper part.yt the couotryv After the evidence had been taken,, and the lawyers Lad finished their talkee-talk-" ee, fhe eonnscl for f I e f laiutiff arose and asked the Justice 'if he would not chargeJ the jury.: ' Oh m, I guess nptv", replied his Honor, -l never cbare 'cm anything they don't get much any howrand 1 let.'cna have all tbey make.'";. .7 . .: ' " ' 'I say, wife', I'm glad this . coffee dvn't - w,ial "e ,lau lo tui aooul ,ual tary compijiut it w ntuniy, was ibo re-. a.marking one day that he vyanted a good chief olBoer, was promptly informed by a " young lady that she had no objections tu be bis first mate, lie took the hint and the lady. ,

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