Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 24, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1874 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUESDAY. WUVUMliHilC a. ia4.

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THE BALLA OF BREAKHECK. If IM M. . WIK. Harper'a Magaela for December. The an iMbm oat entae mountain crest; Far down tha valley tha ahadowi fall ; AM erimnoa T,d gold to lha lowlnf west: I And wbeeila and wanna the eaelea call. The good thlp Tide wa a filling Bail , The sailor, are ealllej. - Away ! away t . We mu item ae t:d ere the Dörth wind fall ; The nlgnt iad toe beee broo no delay." The yennf mate Um npon the strand ; Nearadaky maiden with flashing cheek; lB h"rod brow, pakn he holds her hand. And eMr and low a. the words they apeak. "Weep mot Nekama; J shall retura; Wait for me here on ie mountaln-elde. When the woods In their autumn glory burn, J shall come again to leim my briae. Slowly the Indian lifts er head : Dry is her cheek and dear her eye. "Nekoma will wait as Hon hast said; The son of the pale-fae can not lie. Reeking thy ßallä on thestrcam below, Under the shade of tbetall pinetree. When the beechea are gold and the sumachs FromTne mountain iop 1 shall watch f jr thee." The sailors are calling; tie broad sails flap; From his neck Dire Uoeens hi great gold chain, ' . , , , FI Id es the gleaming links n Nekama s lap, Xhen spruiK to the sbalbp's stern agaiu. The stout ash bände to tberower'a will Till the small boat reaches the vessel s side. When he tarns to Kekama,waKtng still, ad, but oalm in her sYje pride. Sails the ship ander high Cr' Nest, li;AinM tolrlna in Nhrtvrs' Ileac h.

While IHrck looks back wlU a man's unrest, And Nekama lineers upon the beach. Fade the palls to a va?ne whle speck ; Loom the mountains hazy ind tall; Dirck watches still from the ies.e!'s deck, And the girl moves not, thoigh t he night-dews fall. A year has passed, and upon tae li tils bcarlet and ruiwet have fadec to brown ; No sound Is heard but the flowing rills; The summer's voices are husted and gone. A late sad crow on a bare beech top Caws and swings in an autumn wind; The dead leaves fall, and the actrn's drop Breaks the stillness and scares the hind. Wrapped In her danket Nekamt stands, beans the horizon with eager ee. Late he lingers. Hhe clasrJs her kands, Ard a sadness dims her wide dirk eye. h it a mist o'er the distant shore! Look how the maiden's dusky lace Clows and brightens ! A moment more. And the white speck changes.and grows apace. "le comes! he comes!" From the wigwams near tather the braves and squaws a tain ; Tre men are decked with arrow aid spear, nd the women of wampum and leathers vain. Flcked Is the river with light canoes, Uden with gifts for the welcome tuest; Thtspolls of the chase let him freelr choose; Cose to the ship are the frail bark, pressed. Bron and still as a bronze relief, BIrly Nekama keeps her place Bebkd her father, the Mohawk chief, Wb, plumed and tall, with a pain tad face, Gracing a spear in his nervous hand, LoQiug in vain one face to see, Turnnnd utters his proud demand: "Dim Brandsen comes not :vhcrc lingers he?" "lMrclptays in Holland," the sailors say; "lie as wedded a dame of wealth and state; lie s 1 no more for many a day Ood nd us all like happy fate!" Park giws the brow of the angered sire: Can tg white man lie like a Huron knave? The eycof the maiden burn like Are. Bnt ht mein 1 steady, ber words are brave. From hebo3om ehe drags the great gold chain ; Dashfcut the capta'n's feet it lies: "Take bj to the traitor his gift again : NeSaainas learned how a pale-face lies!" Proudly steps to her light canoe; Bends h paddle at every stroke ; The graced bark o'er th waters new. Nor wistjey a woman's heart bad broie. Cp the motfaia Nekama hies; Stands in-ie pine tree's (.hade again ; Soans the sie with her wide wild eyes; Moans likv creature In mortal pain. The dark Cods crowd round the mountain peak; Caws the cv on the bough o'erhead ; The great Jinj bend, and the branches creak "Ah, why iiive? He Is false!" she said. A shriek Is hen through the gathering storm; A rushing ne darkens the air; Out from the cr springs a slender form. And the maiva gri-f lies burled there. Towers the grayM grlm s&d high; Drips the bloorom lu rQg)?ed hide; Loud and shrill tne eag'.e call O'er themutte,g WMUOf tne&nKryU(jej . Bat Htorm King ij, to jd Cro'Nest, Where the pin. waYe and the crows call. hoarse ThUcrest Mohf leeps 'neath that rocky VVhlie the lea ves nis rniDed castle fall . e-öay on the Hud ,amng by. Under ih ;hadoBreak ek lmu We tell the legend, i, heave a 8lKhi Where yekama's lpy iinsers still. ABOUwOMEX. There are thirty-s,n young ladies in the University of Califiia. Mrs. P.T.Barnam eep9 ter left hand 'warm with six large 4ter diamond rings. Paris now has two ghopg managed by women, wherein alh9 operators are of the fair Bex. The Ladies' Dress R6ral Association, ol Boston, is preparing Ibook which is expected to revolutionize luinine costume. There are three ladies ithe class ot 75 at Syracuse University, aix lthe clasa of 7Ö five in that of T7, and fi, ia the cIaS3 of '78. lattle Roak has the rad of female edn. wnA't,Ark'tf' fi' woman's colth??e having Ju teen opened A. Tou.g ladjrin SJgwicounty, Kanaas, advertisea ha eha willive $200 for a yoncg man who will love her i a kind and gentle manner. The Boston women's dresi committee have engaged a room in Boston Place for a store and a barean ol inflation on mattere eonnected with dree retcm. Marte it.. Simpson, of Boston recently bequeathed fl.SOO to a domestio drins her lifts, and. after her deatn the princl to eo to the Association of the Uome of k.Good Samaritan. " The University of Leipsichas conVredon a young Jewish lady, Fräulein Kosalubinteio, the degree of doctor of philooDhv Some two years back she gave a course öl popular lectures on science. The women do vot: qaito geterally bero they have the right. The London Examiner Bays: "In aixty-six municipa. elections out of every l.OOu women who eiby eouai rights with men on the register, 616 Went to the polls, which la but fjrty -tight less than the proportionate number of uqq." And ao the ladies of Kansas aspir to the ballot. The Leavenworth Times ol Wnoo. dayait(the day after election) reaarks: Xbe votes of Mra. Calkins and Mrs. Williams were challen?A.! at thTti.rf polh yeslorday, but wa believe the vttcs i. icuiitcu uuuer proiesc or tbe Judges. Egypt baa 90,000 children in her schooli ana the Khedive, in an attempt to combav the prejudice reardin-female education.haa eetablisboa a lirs school for girls at Cairo where, besides an elementary, education sewing, washing and dressmaking are taught. The secret of fcer career, said Miss Cu3hman in her graceful speech on Saturday night, ha bon thai ehe 'was always in earnest. It ia a nobl lesson which the great actrens leave, to the members of her profession, and to the members of all prolwsiom. And out of all the brilliant display lat Saturday night the graceful

poetry, the eloquent compliments, and the generous and affectionate enthusiasm of the great multitude It is the thing best worth preserving. At the time of Dr. Francis E. Anstle's death the British Medical Journal notes that he was actively engaged as the dean and colecturer on medicine in the new school of medicine lor women in London, In furthering woman's thorough medical education at an establishment fitted on tbe eame plan as the great metropolitan schools. The report oljthe commissioner of education for 1873 shows that in that year the institutions for the education of women In the United States numbered 210, Including 107 "colleges," actual or nominal, which had 21,613 students, including 1,025 in post graduate and special courses; while 97 eo-euuea-tional institutions reported 7,307 female students.

A telegraphers newspaper, speaking of the employment ol women as operators.says that their power I alroady felt in the style of conversation between male operators over the wires. Low jt?sts and vulgarity have grown less frequent, and an intimation that there is a female operator on a circuit puts a quietus on tbe most virulent of blasphemers. MURDER AND CREMATION. PARTICULARS OP THE MURDER IX M05ROE CO DSTY, ILLINOIS DISCOVERY OF THE CRIME AND ARREST OF THE MURDERER THEHOKR1BLS DETAILS. The St. Louis Globe of the 14th inst. contains the following account ol the murder of unparalleled atrocity in Illinois, mention of which has already been made by telegraph: One of the most atrocious murders heard ol in the annals of crime has just been brought to light in Monroe county, 111., 25 miles from St. Louis. A well known lady of that county had been missing since the evening of the 8th of last August, and the neighbors, after a lew weeks had elapsed, began to suspect that she had boen a victim of foul play, and connected her husband with their suspicions. Subsequent developments, it would seem, have tended to prove all their suspicions to be correct. On the evening of the 8th of August Barney McMahan, a farmer residing in Monroe county, 111., a short distance from the town of Burkes ville.on the Maysville road, had quite a serious quarrel with his wife, and in tbe presence ot his children struck her several times. The same evening bo told bis children a girl 18 years old and two boys, aged respectively 14 and 16 years to go to an acquaintance's house and stay all night, so that they could go to church the next morning. This was something unusual, as be never allowed his children to remain over night away from home. The next morning the children came back, and found that their stepmother was not there, and when they asked the lather for information concerning her, they were told that she had taken tbe morning train for St. Louis. This is considered a very circumstantial point against him, as there was no morning train to St. Louis on Sunday. Nothing wa heard of tbe missing woman until Mr. Protine, a private detective of this city, and Mr. Itftss, the prosecuting attorney of Monroe county, had placed Barney McMahan under arrest as the murderer ol his wife. These gentlemen had quietly gone to work on the case, and investigated the farm of McMahan, and watched for any suspicious circumstances which could prove their surmises to be correct. They were told by tbe neighbors that he had KEPT A FIRE BÜRNINO on a field about four hundred yards from the house, for two weeks, and as there was not a tree on McMahan's farm, and the nearest place that wood could be obtained at was about a half mile from bis farm, his keeping the fire burning was looked upon at once as a very suspicious circumstance. In a field that baa been plowed over but a short i time ago th,e gentlemen found a lot of charred bones, one of them a jaw-bone, containing several teeth, one of which was broken, several steel buttons usually worn on a dress, and a lot of hair-pins. These were found in the field among the embers of the fire. When questioned concerning the fire, McMahan said that he was burning his cbiefcens which had died from cholera, and that that was what caused such a terrible stenca, but the chickens had died sometime before harvest, and this statement was regarded as too incredible bv all. The facts of the case, as have been developed, are these: Barney McMahan was arrested upon suspicion which strongly pointed toward him as the murderer ol his wife.and as he was known to be continually quarreling with her and abusing her, bo "was arrested and held to await the preliminary examination, which cams off last Wednesday morning, and occupied all day. Twenty-three witnesses were examined, and the strongest kind of circumstantial evidence adduced againbt him. He was consequently placed under $1,000 bonds, and released Learning that a sister of the murdered lady was residing in this citv. on Seventh and Market streets, a Globe reporter bunted her up, and had a conversation with her in regard to her sister's death. Her sister, Margaret Marshall, was born on April 8, 1844, within five miles ot the place where she was murdered. She married McMahan about six years ago, Bince which she had lived a very hard life. He was continually abusing her, and very frequently beat her. He ao BADLY MISTRBATBD HER, that twice she was compelled to hxve him arrested. She had left him several times, but be would invariably oome to her and beg and entreat her to return home, which she would finally do, and they would eet aiung uiceiy ior a weeK or so. Du he would soon commence quarreling with her again. Once he grew so brutal in his .treatment toward her that she had to leave him and come to St. Louis. She came here in company with a Mrs. Clifford, of Waterloo, and got a Situation as a domestic in the family of some steamboat captain, on Clark avenue, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets. While she was in the city McMahan would come up lrom Monroe county at different times and try to find her, but failed for a long time. At last he did find her by accident, and begged her to return borne with him. He seemed to .be so earnest in his promises and entreaties that she finally consented. Mrs. Brown Bays that she bad not seen her sister for two years, but received word, about a rnorth after her disappearance, from Mrs. Garber, another sister, who lives in Burkesville, telling her of Mrs. McMahan's strange disappearance, and asking her if she had seen anything of her; if not, to look around and see if she could ascertain her whereabouts. This is the first intimation, Mrs. Brown said, she had received that her sister was missing. She said that she had often wondered why her .sister would not leave McMahan. for she was very in1.11! a ia 1 . -a vBiNgHiu ana -weii eaucaieu, ana a gooa eamstres?, and could easily support herself. Mis. Brown seemed to have no doubt that McMahan bad murdered her sister, as all the circumstances pointed to him as the murderer. When McMahan was told by Mr. Ueiss, at the time of his arrest, that he was wanted on a charge of murdering his wife, he smiled in a sickly manner and turned around on his heal to walk off. At the preliminary examination he was very much confused, and contradicted himself several times. At timoa he somed to be eo embarrassed that he could hardly articulate diätinctly.

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COUNTY SUPERIN TENDENCY. AK ACTUAL SAVING) H MONET OF f 148,507 B.EFOBT OF THB STATU 8CFSHITT ENDEST OF FCBLIO IHSTRUCTIOW. Below will ba found tbe chapter on tbe economy of the county saperintendencjf which will appear in the forthcoming report now in press: It is well known that the office of county superintendent costs the state more than did that of county examiner. This no doubt was expected by the legislature when the change was made, as they allowed the superintendent one-third more per diem, and gave him work to do that would require more of his time. Tbe mere fact, therefore, that the office of county superintendent costs more than that of county examiner is no reason for condemning the change. It must be shown that there is too great a difference in the cost, and that the labors performed by tbe superintendents and the results of those labors do not justify the expenditure of that difference. It is the object of this article. In the first place, to compare the cost of the two olhces, and thus determine the exact difference; in tbe second place, to compare the labors of the two officers, and tbe results of those labors, to see whether they justify the additional expense of county superinteudency. Reports have been received at this onice from 77 counties, statine tne annual cost of the office ot county examiner, and the first year's cost of tbe office of county superintendent. The total cost of the county superintendents for the 77 counties is ?G3,002 73. At the same rate for 92 counties, or the whole state, the cost wonld be 875.275 32. The average cost of county examiners was 38,707 16, which is $36,568 16 le-w than the annual cost of county superintendents. Is it wise to expend this difference? Certainly not, unless the results show ample returns for it. What more. then, does the county superintendent do than the examiner didr What greater results follow bis labors? The new law provides that the duties ot the school examiner shall be performed by the county superintendent.. Tbe principal additional duties required of .him are set forth in the following quotations from tbe law: "The county superintendent shall have the general superintendence of tbe schools of his county. He shall attend each township institute at least once in each year, when he shall preside at the same and conduct its exercises. He shall visit each school of the county at least once each year, for the purpose of increasing their usefulness, and elevate, as far as practicable, tbe poorer schools to the standard of the best. He shall encourage Teachers' Institutes and associations, and shall labor in every practicable way to elevate the standard of teaching, and to improve the condition of the schools of the county." Sec 39. "The county superintendent shall, at least once in each year and as much oltener as he may deem proper, fully examine the dockets, records and accounts of tbe clerk of the courts, county auditor, county commissioners, justices of tbe pesce, prosecuting attorney, and mayors of cities, and see that all fines, forfeitures, unclaimed foes, liquor licenses, and surplus dog tax, etc., are promptly collected, roported and paid over to the proper fund or revenue, lie shall see that the full amount of interest on school lunds is paid and apportioned, and when there is a deficit of interest on any school fund or a loss of any school fund or revenue by the county, that proper warrants are issued for the reimbursement ol the same." Sup. Sec. A. It is also made his duty by the law, whenever any officer, for any reason, fails to pay over any claims due the school funds or revenues, to institute suit in the name ot the state for the recovery of the same, From this it appears that his principal extra duties in addition to those required ot the examiner are: 1. To visit every school in his county at least once in each year. 2. To organize and conduct, as far as he is able, the township Institut s. 3. To examine all officers' dockets, records and accounts, where he is liable to find any delinquent claims due tbe school funds or revenues. 4. To have the general superintendence of the schools ot his county. Let us survey the labor required In the performance of these extra duties: VISITING. It is no small matter to canvass an entire county and visit all its schools, especially at that season of the year when the schools are in session. The average number of schools in a county is 100. Now it is impossible for the superintendent to visit more than two schools a day and make his visits effectual. Indeed, it seems to have been the intention ol the legislature for him to devuto a day to every school, from the fact that they provided that the commissioners should not limit the number of days devoted to visiting schools to any number less than tbe whole number of schools. The least possible time, therefore, in which be could visit all his schools once is 50 days. The legislature allowed him at least 100 days. Suppose we adopt the mean between these as the time actually employed in visiting schools. This is a low estimate; for most of tbe superintendents report more time than this spent in this way. That will be75daysof arduous labor required ol the county superintendent from which the county examiner was exempt. Or, if he carries out the evident, intent of the legislature, it will make five months' labor ia tbe single item of visiting the amount that really onght to be done, although it would better be divided Into two halt day visits to each school. It may ba objected that the examiners were also required to visit Schools. So they were. But unfortunately tbe law placed two limitations on this requisition that rendered it almost a nullity. First, they were only required to visit their schools as often as they deemed it necessary; and secondly, the county commissioners were authorized to limit the examiner in the discharge of all his duties to any number of days they pleased. Under this law a large portion of the examiners d:d not deem it necessary to visit their schools at all, but were lawyers, doctors, teachers, etc., and left the schools to take care of themselves. Of those who, did deem it necessary, many of them were limited by the commissioners to so small a number ot days, that, alter they had performed the duties unconditionally required of them, they had no time leit for visiting schools. Thus it appears, that when we eliminate all those who were engaged in some other employment and did not deem it necessary to visit schools, also those whose time was no limited by the county commissioners that they coold not visit any, very little visiting was done so little indeed that we need not take it into account, especially in view of the low estimate mado of the tixne spent by superintendents in visiting. LABOR IN TOWNSHIP IKSTITUTES. Tbo law requires the county superin tendent to attend oach township institute at least onco in each year, to preside at the Banieand conduct its exercises. Keporta to this office show that the superintendents have on an average about fulfilled this law, some tailing a little short, others doing more than the law required. Now.tbere are on an average about fifteen townships to tbo county. Here then is fliteen days' work which was not required of the examinerwork for every Saturday for five months, the fourth Saturday of every month being

devoted to the examination of teachers, examination of records, etc. The law already quo tad Imposes graat labor on the county superintendents in tha way of examining dockets, reoorda, etc., all channels thronen which flow additions to the school funds and revenues. One bee oaly to read tbe law to conviace bim, that it faithfully obeyed, it will require considerable time to visit the various parts ol the county and examine so many records. We have no statistics In this office showing the amount of time that has been devoted to that work, but many of the superintendents in their written reports state the . time. From observing these I think I am certainly within bounds when I say they have given on an average ten days to this work, and if tbey had all been able to fully meet the requirements of the law, they would have devoted much more time to that work. None of this labor, cot a moment of this time, waa required of the examiner. GENERAL SUPERINTENDENCE. Besides these specific duties the law provides that the County Sapeiintendent shall have the general superintendence of the schools o! his county. No such labor and responsibility were imposed on tbe Examiner. I have no means of estimating the amount of time and labor required by this clause of the law. Some idea of it may bs formed from another clause in the same section: "lie shall labor in every practicable way to elevate the standard of teaching and. to improve tbe condition of the schools of the county." Under these provisions a great variety of useful labor has been peformed by the county superintendents, such as preparing a course of study for schools and a daily programme to direct the teacher, requiring monthly reports of the teachers, assisting in grading the schools, settling difficulties between pupils and teacher, and teacher and parents, etc. Some of this wonld be dono while be was visiting the schools; hence I make no estimate of it, although much of tbe labor would require extra time. Let us summarize: Days. Time emplojed in vls!tlng...............M 75 lntownnbip institutes.... 15 In examing dockets, records, etc 10

Total... .100 At $4 00 per day this would be 9400 00 to each county superintendent for labor that was not required of tbe examiner. In 92 counties this would amount to $36,S00 00, a few dollars more than the excess of the cost of county superintendents over that of county examiners. It thus appears that all the extra pay received by the superintendents, and a little besides, is for extra work, and that the work formerly done by the exam iners is now done by the superintendents at a less cost to the state than under the old law. Having ascertained the extra labors of the county superintendent, and that his extra pay arises wholly from extra labors imposed by the legislature, it remains for us to ex amine the results of those labors to see whether they justify the expenditure of the superintendents additional pay. These results are of two kind : 1. Tnose that can be estimated in money. 2. Those which can not be so estimated. Let us consider them in this order. What then are the moneyed results of the county superintendent's extra labors? Compare the following S'atigtics for 1S72, the last year under the county examiner, and for 1874, tho first year of county supennienaency. 1873. 640,182 2M.851 i2,m 1874. Cl,:iU4 489,011 311,272 12.ÖÖJ Enumeration of children...... Enrollment of schools. Average attendence .Number of teachers . From this table we glean the following facts: J. Increase In enumeration . . 14,182 2. Increase In enrollment 2o,8W s. increase in average attendance . 17,421 4. Increase in number of teachers............ 235 In 1873 the per cent, of enrollment on tbe enumeration was 72. As the enumeration in 1874 was increased 14,182, we would nat. urally expect that tbe enrollment would be increased 72 per cent, of this sum, or 10,211, whereas we find that this increase has been 25,840! Thus it appears that 15,629 children, almost 16 regiments, were induced to enter the schools under the labors of county superintendents that would not have been there under county examiners. In 1873 the per cent, of the average attendance on enumeration was 46. We would therefore expect the average attendance in 1874 to be incroased by 46 per cent, of the increase in the enumeration, which would be But the actual increase was 17,421, an excess of 10,898. Thus it appears that nearly 11 regiments of children itlS74 were in regular attendance at school that would never have been inside the doors but lor tbe sys tern of county superintendency. The increase in the number ofteachers and their wages has about kept pace with the increase in enumeration, and, therefore may be passed by unnoticed, and the increase on enrollment and average attendance over and above that which wculd naturally arise from the increase in the enumeration may be considered a clear gain, due to the new order of things principally to the influence of the county superintendents in their visits and lectures throughout the county, and in working up the township institutes. Of what value, then, is this incre aee? This may ba determined by deciding what it would have cost the state to educate these 11 regiments in separate schools. The total amount of tuition revenne expended during the year was $2,675,323 30, This divided by the average attendance, 311,272, gives the cost per pupil $8 60. Now, 3 60 taken 10,893 times gives 9S,802 80, the actual money valne to the state of county cuperin tendency from this item alone, and that too, notwithstanding the fact that last winter was the worst winter for attending school for several years, on account ef bad roada and high waters. . FINAL SUMMART. Labor performed not required of county examiners ...............5 35,800 00 II? lncreailng the average attendance. :!, 2 o 13v examining dockets, records, etc...... 62,472 74 Deduct excess cost of county superintendents....... ....... 36r5GS 16 Balance favoring county superintendency . - ....$11(5,507 38 Thus it appears that the state of Indiana ha been benefited 5146,507 33 by adopting her system of county superintendency.when those items that can bo considered in a financial point of view are carefully examined and the results obtained. There are other and higher benefits resulting from this system, the results of which can only ba seen in the general effect upon the illiteracy ot the state, which time alone will reveal, and upon the rapid increase of the school funds and revenues, which is already indicated in the reports to this office. The Belgian journals mention the deatb,"at tho age of 10 years' and 11 months, of Frederic Van de Kerkhove, n young painter of almost miraculous precocity. He was a native of Bruges, and had executed not less than 350 pictures, it has been proposed that there should" bo a public exhibition of bis works. j Tho various building and loan associations of Cleveland held a meeting Tuesday niiiht to diacussthe situation. An amicable settlement was adviäd in winding up the affairs of eandations, as it is believed such orgemiafeoes will be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

THB HAUNTED MILL. There, tn the midst of yon low-lylag laad, Bbe lived aad loved ; that mill and moalderina beach "Wltneea'a the flrtt ftolta of her ear-height bliss, Bach trlflee m a look, atoueh, a ktu; There eiomb, nor cUmaing knew, love'a hill of aand, But thoui at all heaven within her little reach. Vow should she hear of Virgil' kapleea bandt What in the myrtle wold Ixve' martyrs preach. Made Love'a by ehrism of Love's cruel hand? For never will love with woe be matlsfled ; Had love.wbo len for sighs and tears.ae grass, Burned grass, for fehower, and bees for bitter thyme. Read but my story, bellt In rustic rhyme, About this raillar'e dMKhter, the village pride: How on a Aew-Year'a ie It came to paae Once long ago. a knave her faith belled ; Ilow for love'a links to aer Death bonds of brass Brought, where that old bridge breaks the brawling tide. Tbe water flows, as It was wont to flow, Idly along tbe meadows, past the mill; Oaly the ground is white no more with meal, No more ihe children hear the atering wheel, Wondering : but round It wanton rushes blow : The pool beneath the dam slteps always still; On the latch her white hands lilted, to and fro i he spider weaves his dusty web at will. While on the door-slep greeu lash grasses fcrow. Here,;when at eve the day to rest has lain, The dim sick last day of the dying year, The laled rustic hears in tbe huru of night. Or dreams be hears, some sound as soft and light As the faint murmur of subsiding rain. And with wide, round, reverted eyes of fear Sees by the mouldering beach a woman In pain, While horror battles in his hair to hear Her timid voice beseecMug him. In vain. And what Is that which thus the wight affrays? Naught but the airy thape of her, long made Free of that city where never light nor dew The rosy- anded hours ol morning threw On long and clear or short and cloudy days. "Ah, listen!" she cries; but might as well have bade The 6ca be still, wheat grow in the city's ways; Her soft sad voice noue yet has ever stay'd None, though so strongly with stretch'd hands ' she prays ; Prays till the cock's crow chides the tardy morn, Waiting, and hope at last to tell her tale So oid a tale ! she hopes to tell it still ; But only water washing past the mill. Only rank wild grass, and the weeping thorn Hear her, and pity, till white stars grow pale In heaven, and lo! another year Is born. Then with such sighs her form is forced to fail. As winds wake whispering througn a field of corn. Ah, loved and lost! ah, street and seventeen! Like summer fair, and dearer than full sails Home-set and long-expected, thy neat bands Of hair, one hue with the haze ot sunset sands, Lie tangled with salt wted, and Slippery green, On some far rock, where lou9 tbe hoar&e fe earn ew wails, Wet weed for daisies where his hand had been ; For with these gods nor pity nor prayer prevails, Nor Is there any to tell ns what they mean. That New-Year's Eve they quarrtl'd. Love.men say. These little lovers' angers but renew. Not alway. Late that night to meet his dame, And wet with gatheilng winter acorns, came Her halting lover; she, but all lor play, Felgn'd wrath ; she wished him like a woman to sue For grace; he would not; then she turn'd away. To-morrow he at her leet his lault would rue; To-morrow but those mocking gods said N ay. For she, her lover's last sad Rift to save A toy whose worth love only could esteem, A brooch oi color'd glaos, aud such fine gold As peddlers sell, for her of wealth untoldLost by the water's side, had found a grave Seeking it, fallen In tbe deep swift stream. But lu tlte morn pass'd by a sorry knave, Her suitor scorn 'U, and saw in the new sun's E learn

Saw, seized, and show'd the gage he swore she gave. So lying, doom'd her dull swain to despair. Who, since he never saw his darling more. Deem'd himself ft I'd, her false Alas, but she on the 8 wilt deep stream drifted out to sea! And now, each New-Year's ive, though late,yet mere By the broken bridge, say-klrted as df yore, She yearns to tell a tale for which none care: While long in his head dust-closed are window and door Fur w&om her waste words soothe the wintry air. AN ILLINOIS MYSTERY. THE MURDER OF TOUNO WILLIE HARRISON THE MURDERERS IS JAIL. A letter to the St. Louis Globe from Cham paign, 111., the 13th,- contains the following account of a strange murder near that place: On Friday, October 29, 1S73, Willie Harrison, aged IS, and the son of Thomas Harrison, then a carriage-maker of Champaign, but since removed to Kinmundy, III., went out hunting in a belt ol timber, north of Urbana, taking with him a bouble-barreled shot-gun . . .( i' . i ana a supply oi umiuuniiiuu. rruoi tuii expedition he never returned alive. Night came, but not tbe son. His loving parents sat up until midnight, worrying about their absent boy, and then retired. On Saturday morning the father started to find hi3 son, directing his steps over the same ground traversed by him "and Willie in a hunting excursion on the Monday previous. When ha bad nearly reached the creek that runs through the timber north of Urbana, he came across two boys nutting, and inquired if they had seen his son, to which they replied in the negative. He then requested that should they afterward see him to inform him, which they promised to do. Mr. Harrison then pushed forward a half mile or so further, and was about to return, when the boys came ranning after him, saying they had found his son only a few yards from where they had first met bim. Me returned in breathless haste with the boys to the Bpot, and there, sure enough, he found his darliag son a stiffened corpse, lying on bis left sice in a pool of blaod, with a hole in tbe back ol bis neck, and a dead squirrel tied into one at the button holes ia his coat. Willie's gun was missing, and the terrible suspicion at once flashed across his mind that somebody had killed him for his gun, which was a choice stub and-twist, manufactured in Prussia and valued at 150. The father was shocked beyond description and overwhelmed with grief, but a wagon waa soon procured, the body taken home, and a coroner's inqnest held, but no fact developed tending to show who bad perpetrated the crime. All was shadowed in mystery. Mr. Harrison, indeed, suspected a certain colored man who bad once manifested considerable admiration of the gun, but that was all. No clue having been obtained to the perpetrators of the crime, the county of Champaign at length offered a reward of $300 for their apprehension and conviction. With this incentive belore bim, John F. Rittenhouse, a notorious criminal detective in these parts, commence 1 to work up the case. Keeping his eye on the people of the timber region, where the murder was committed, he learned, after a while, that a hard case, by the name of John White, aged about twen-tv-eight years, bad been seen with a doublebarreled gun, which he would put under hh coat whenever he was approached by any stranger. THE DISCOVERT. From that hour White waa 6badowed by Rittenhouse, who now only waited his opportunity. This was afforded by the culprit himself, whose criminal instincts seemed to be always cropping out. Oa Friday, Nov. 6, White delivered GOO sounds of charcoal in Urban3, and got a ticket for the same, but before present ing it for payment changed the GOO to 1,600. Being detected in this ho was immediately lodged in jail, and raadeto believe by Rittenhouse that ho was arrested for the murder of Willie Harrison. When charged with the crimo he betrayed great emotion, trembled, and declared he didn't do it.but knew who did. On being pushed for an answer, he laid it on to a young companion

fhie by the name of William Cozens. agM fto Rltteahonse, aewmpaai n Knur AfteM ""V : ' . .

ba arrested and lnTfV4.ii v . C . boya lira now lately lacked op, tack chart-. Whita'a trunk was arched by RitUnheiaJ, tad found to OlUin. arannor atka thing), a stout, short dab, resamblinz a ponwiuau - uuiT." mma a aarK imntara. Havina ecurad tha mardarer tt, .ot thing waa to tnd the gua, and complete the cuaiu ui Fmiimtnj. ion mi ruttenneoM made a ooafVderaLa nf innthsr nriann.. the samt jail, who sot White and Cozens ta enava mat nn time wanld soon b out, ant that it tbey would tell him where the gum was ha would carry it off as soon as ha waa ralaawd, and tbn it could not be use against them. Being caught by this bait, tbey gave a full description where the eurn " wuwnu, yiat vi iuu locaiuj wa made, and the enn was fVmnri t the place described. Since then the gun has baen fully identified bv Mr. Harrison as the one carried by bis son Willie. Indeed. thA o-nn mnM röariitv picked out from aoong a million, as it ia snoa wim a norn nana at tbe butt, and has a curled walnut Ruard covering the trigger, being unlike, in these two respects, any gun in general use. That Willie Harrison was killed for nis run no one doubts Tt ia mn. rtOHAd hia mil rrtarora mot him n V. I - - - . v. w .M VI 1(1 tS- I , and that one ot them asked to look at his gun, ana, caving got it, stepped behind bim and shot him in the back of the nwir a w. fore stated. The shot found in tbe wound corresponded exactly with the shot carried in the DOUch found in Willie's r nrk-Pf vhn the body waa discovered. THE B. fe O. MAGNATE. A SKETCH OF A REMARKABLE MAN THB MANNER IN WHICH A ROAD IS MADE SELFSUSTAINING. "Gath" writes thus to the Chicago Tri bune concerning the president of the Balti more & Ohio railroal: Writing in the library of Congress last week, I saw a portly figure at tbe head of a body of strangers walking up and down and explaining things. I recognized that rubicund face, bluish gray eye, and solid, unanxlous tread and pace the Baltimore & Ohio railway magnate, John W. Garrett. He haa been in Europe for more than two years. In the interim bis fellow-capitalist and friend, John Hopkins, has passed to the grave. During his absence, although forbidden to attend to business, Garrett wrote bv every mail, and had tbe epitomized work sent out to bim. His kinsfolks John King aud Mr. Keyser have been at tbe quarters ot tbe presidency in his absence, King exercising a viceroyalty and Keyser moving up and down the line and through the commercial centers. Whatever the reasons or philosophy, this management of thi railroad Is vindicated above everything of the kind in the western world. The great panic swept over the country a year "ago, and drove Vanderbilt to Wall street and Scott to protest, while these Sootch-lrlsh-Dutchmen of Baltimore were as oblivious of the panic as that Frederick county man who, having ploughed all day, said, as he came home: ' I dinks I feels some little peeblos in my boots," and forthwith hauls out a pair ot snuffers and a cartwrench. There was no scrip nor Water in Garrett's boots. All the stock there was old dry. "That is the only railroad in America," said Sbadly, the Canadian who built tbe Hoosac tunnel, "able in any contingency to take care of itself." The power of the railroad is no secret. It consists in learning whatever is good from 'the present age, aud forgetting nothing that was good in former ones. Once or twice there ha been a stockholders' movement to divide more earnings or split tbo stock a little thinner; but tha absolutism and the old-fashioned asgacity of Garrett have prevented this going through. His metto has been : "Economy in every detail, from a pound of nalla up." "Time," aaya Gaxra t, is "longer than speculation. Sell nothing; restrict dividends for tbe aaka of tha loag oredit of tha stock; all wait together, stockholders and officers! Invest the surplus in the system. Let politics alone. If eithor conciliate it nor antagonize it. Particularly do not corrupt it, or you will get its appetite on edge, and it will enaw you all your days. Responsibility in tha working force ; CONSERVATISM IN THB MANAGEMENT; patience in the stock list. Do not fool with localisms. Side branches must construct themselves. Push lor large terminal points, and the side places must build toward the stem we extend In their general direction." Mr. Garrett took this road a short time before the war. He was a provision dealer, the son of a banker Scotch-Irish Presbyterian on one side, Pennsylvania-German on the other. He had a bard, round head, slow and gracious manner, a large, rolling, acute plausibility, which remiude people of a Holland burgomaster. He waa never in a hurry, but always very prompt; five minutes of reflection he gave to 'every second of speech, except when he had a great occasion, and then be had done the thinking for weeks before. He was never deficient in confidence, but it was diplomatic and graduated, and it embraced people unctuously, instead of carrying tbtm by storm. His pertinacity was iadeacrible. Ha returned and returned again to the same point, and by waiht and the leaning power, aot attrition nor latrigue, carried the position, or persisted uatil it was lost. He had larga Baitimor appetite for iood, and his steady animal heat counteracted any intellectual relapse or melancholy, if he could be capable of it. Beiwaea work and eating, they say, his organism for a time grew uaatruag. Ha worked on a full stomaeh for fifteen years around this railroad, and then a tendency to vertigo became so manifest that he had ta give over and go to Europa. He told me that be had perfectly capable aesistaats, and abould not resume hia labor with eo much wilfulness. Garrett ia essentially a merchant. He has led this railroad from 35 cents on the stock up to f i 35 and more, where it stands, like llohammed'a coffin, against the ceiliüg. From a road, badly off, between Baltimore and Wheeling, it is now a road to Staunton, to Danville, to Cincinnati, to Pittsburg, to Sandusky, to Chicago. It mav vet be a road to Omaha and New Orleans." Its ambition stops at Baltimore. In that city there is isn undertone of feeling that John W. Garrett mav become a candidate for the presidency of the United States. - "Bachelor" says, in a communication to the New York Times, on tha subject of matrimony practially considered: "I have a good room for which I pay $20 a month, with gas and fire. I cook my own breakfast, which consists usually of freah rolls and butter, with coffee or chocolate, and a couple ol eggs or a few oysters, with fruit in season, and, if I choose a little pickled salmon, cheese or caviar, as a relish. My breakfast costs me, on an average, fifteen cents a day, an estimate which looks ridiculouslv small, but which any person can verifv by trying the same plan himswif." Thi3 bachelor, however, ears square dinners and dresses well, so that his annual expenditures average s2i. Boucicault's new play is called "The Shauhran." A ehaughran is a vagabond sort of a person of the gispy order, half nuisance aud half favorite, v. nb wanders whereever be pleases, and does nothing with great , assiduity.