The National Banner, Volume 9, Number 26, Ligonier, Noble County, 22 October 1874 — Page 1

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CITIZIENS I3ANIK, IGONILR, + : INDIANA. DEPOSITS received subject to check without noLice. ‘ 2 5 VOV ANGES made on approved collaterats. . MNEY Joaned on luay or short time. s EEs disconnted at reasonable rates. C RDERS for first-class securities executed on com.mis<ion. A ENTPs for the parchase and sale of Real Estate. INSU@ANCE POLICLES written intivst-class comyinies, : | %:.\'('ll.t.\'(l E bouizht and sold, and drafts drawn ou all tne principal cities of Burope, AGENTS for the Inman line, 1 Hamburg Line. PASSAGE TICKETS sold on ail the principal -eaports of KBurope. . ! A5B HANDS. Farmerd’ and Mechanics’ acconuts solicited, and all business transacted on liberal ! terms, STRAUS BROTHERS. i Ligonier, Ind , Oct. 23d, 1872.-26 24| . % Lake Shore & Wich.South’n R. R. Uu and after May 24th, 1874, trains will ieave > . i Sta.dous ae tollows: . : . GUING EAST : . L Sp.N.Y.Ex Allle bz, Accom. HIoNYO w 920 SBO DI Blikhurt ... o 0 L@ pmd, .. 950 v 800 A Foshen. ..o T 8 L dload . . 5% tiitersburg. ... 1158 ... 110 %8 Ri ) Ligonier,;...... 205 i 1043 Ceo 0 Wawvaka, . ... 121 L.:110 D 4 .b 4 jrimfield .., ... 1248 it o 8 ebl Kendallville.... 286 . 1118 i 6@ Arrive at Toledd 5 50 ... 24vam.. .. 10480 ‘ HOING WEST :. : T01ed0..........111gm 118 Dy ..,. 400 pm Kendallville ... 236 pm... 244 am.... 850 Brimtield ... .. 1250 L 1300 e, 906 . Wawaka,.... . 12069 . . .51310 s 820 .. Ligonier........ 818 el .. 938 Millersburg,. F3Bd . §386 ... 950 Goshen ........008 e 3 oh g 'Hii{lmrt.........'flUO 20490 ¢ 01080 ArriveatChicagos 20 S BRO L -6boam tTraing do not stop. -~ : . Expressleavesdaily both ways. _ CHAS. PAINE, Gen’lSupt.,Cleveland: J. M. KNEPPER, 4gent, Ligonier. . . s Pittsburg, Ft. . & Chicago R. R. From and after July 26, 1874. : P , GOING WEST. | . Nl = NobL NoT, No. 3. ; PastKz. Mail. Pac Ex. NightEz. Pittsburg...... 200 am , 6 Voam 9:4oam 2 00pm Rochester..... . .-.au @ @bam 10:50am 8 [opm A11iance....... 5:25am 11 Obam I:3opm 5 50pm . 0rryvi11e....... 7:olam 12 52pm - 3:lspm 7 26pm Mansfield..... 9:o6am 3 15pm 5:26pm = 9 25pm Crestlime. . Ar. 9:Bsam 3 50pm 6:oopm 9:55pm Crestline...Lv. 9 55am 5§ 00am 6:3opm 10:05pm F0reet.........11°138m -6 32am 8 25pm 11:29pm Lima..........12:15pm 8:00am 9.43 pm 12:30am 't Wayne..... 2:lBpm 19:30am 12:25am 2:55am Plymouth..... 4:24pm I:3Bpm 3:o3am s:l6am Chfeago ..oooe. 7.50 pm 5:25pm 6:soam B:soam - . GOING EAST. : Nod, No 2, No 6, NoB. - NightEz. Fast Fx. Pac Ex. Mail, Chicdg0.......10:20am 9 20am 5 35pm 5 15pm Plymouth..... 2:loam 12 10pm 9 05pm 9 26am . Kt Wayne.... 5 20pm 2 38pm 11 30pm 12 30am Lima. } 7:2opm 4 20pm 1 33am 2 45am Forest ........ 8:356pm 5 19pm 2 4%2am 4 (2am | Urestline . .kr.lfl_:‘."(‘pm 6 45pm 4 20am 5 50am Orestline .. Lv.lo 30am 7 05pm 4 30am 6 O3am Mansfield .....11 oDam 7 35pm_ 4 57am 6 40am 0rrvi11e.......12 52am O 28pm 6 45am 9 13pm A11iance....... 2 35am 11 05pm 8 85am 11 20pm Rochester,.... 448 pm ........ 1042 am 2 10pm . Pittsharg ..... 5 55pm 2:o6am 11 45am 3 30pm _No.-, daily, except Monday; Nos 2,4, 5,7 and &, duily except Sunday: Nos. 3 and 6 daily. . (‘\xr. Rapids & Ind. and Cine., Rich. ! R . & Ft. Wayne R. R. “silonsed Time Card. Daily, except Sundays. To take eglect August Oth, 1874, GOING NORTH. Express. Express. Accom. ichmond -...00v.000 0010 20pm 1025 am ™ 4 00rpm Nawpotrb.....ooiii i 1001 £ I§so ¢ 498 ¢ Winchester Lucis il LBl ¢ 1180 4 510 T Ridweville, oooviiis 049 01am 1151 536« Portland. ..ococi sl iIB PR 40 19m 605 ¢ Becatur ol il g 0 E4L Y By : Fort Wayne, D......... 300 am 2 40pm Kendallville .ogic . a 400 401 ¢ : Stufgis. oo (G 52’ Y bt : Vieksburg......... -0l 844 ¢ gog i - Kalamazoo.. .o con o 0 {25 ¢ 215 ¢ e Monteith (...civ.cdio BOd S T 67 18 deand Rapid5........a. 980 * . g 90 ¢t Greand Rapids. .2 .. .id o 980 % 0402 2380 ¢ Howard City. ... Lo mIL 840 qiug s d4O ‘Up. Big Rapid 5.......; 100 pm 1 00am 600 * Reed C1ty....c.0i00 wlBlB 137 t 634" Clam Lake. ... .ail 7 820 *h 20 820 o Wshten Li s s 408 423 ° 998+ Teaverse City... ...... 605 * 1205 pm 1045 ** Petorkey ..ol iisis 990 8 osam GOING SOUTH. Eypress Accom. Express' Petoskey . ... 00. o.@ 414 l im 820 pm Traverse City..iiicatiao H3O * [ 500 am Walton ...... . 0 1010 % 634" 12204 m Clam Lake. .. .. 00 1180 - TBO4 148 ¢ Reed City....... . 1989 pm 856 393 Up. Bigßapideio. & o W 92 8 9 oRt 400 £ Hgward City. 0000 0 2928 1030 Db bt Grahd Raplds ... ..8.. las e 1240 pm 710 * Grand Rapid5.......6. 485 TBO © Momteith . ..o o 0 @O4 & 853 Kalamazoo; ..0 L.l /000 - 945 8 Vacksbure 0. 100 989 (0 1016 LoeSUPEIS o oLI R Y : 1519 % Kendallville .ji...0:0. .. 858 © 12 3rpm | F0rtWayne............ 120 lam q99n Degatnr .. .00 20 1080 a 2 - Pottland ... 0 228 '+ 6 40am 42} °* Ridpeville .. 0.0 o 0 300 55 709 447 *! Winchester ..., . i 2830 s 0782 ' 510 Newport ... 000 g By 820 554 Richmond .......... .. 00 BSY ' g2O W Express from Walton to Petoskey will run on Mondays, Wednesdays and ‘Fridn%n only; from Petoskey to Walton on Tuesdays, Tharedays and Saturdays only. All other trains run daily, Sundays excepted. F. R. MYERS, i Gen. 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Michigan Lake Shore Rail Road. Trains run daily except Sunday. : Condensed time card, taking effect Nov, 3d, '73. . GOING NORTH, " GOING BOUTIIL Expr. Mail. STATIONS. Expr, Mail. 35) pm. 8 10am..Kalamazoo. i 1 20am 645 pm 1320 855 . Monteith, {10927 ' 50b ! 518 * 937 Y 1 Allesan ~ 900 O 5R%] ! 605 3038 t paslßmiiton. .. 910 1 438 637 1104 ¢ HiUlland ..., 840 ' 408 748 % L IwpmGrand Haven, 741 ** 306 °* 834 * 1955 Y Muekeoou . 100 Y 2% F.R. MYERS, . . General Passenger and Ticket Agent ~ Uinecinnati, Wabash & Mich. R. R .Pime Table No. 10, taking eftect Monday, May ¥ Roth, 1874; GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. GOING NORTIH. Nu. 2 N 0.4 No.l No. 8 310pml200m a..... Wabash... 1730 am 200 pm 415 “ 1105 am .Nor.Mauchester, 815 4. 300 ** 330 * 1080 * .. Silver Lake. . /845 ‘¢ 350" 309 % 930 fv L COWANERWL .. 930 8t 455 st 240 F 8 40%% & NeCEbRE L 950 595 a 0 0 810 Y L iMlond s 1010 % 558 ¢ L Lab s vao bt INeW BRnia. ] 108980 628 ¢ 140 - 799 * .dp Gokben ar. 10560 ** 650 ** 130 ** . ..ar Goshen,dp..lloo ** Lo - o BlRhet 1190 ¢ e Trainsrun by Columbus time. . . o : A. G, WELLS, Sup’t.

Al T . o . . Ft. W.,Muncie & Cincinnati R. R, Taking effect June 21st, 1874, GOING SOUTH. : ' Hail & Aec. Night Ex. I'nd’s Ez. Detroit c..ioovis 34)pm 10 00pm Grand Rapids... 2 . 10 30 5aginaw......... 4 20 : o Jackson.c.iciod el L 0 A { 7 20am Fort Wayne,......10 Obam 2 00am - 1 401)m~' Oesian. ........000 01 Q 0 2807 Bluffton ... ..... A 1 49 315 2g 00 Keystone .........12 22pm gL Lo Montpleller....... 12 34 . seo 340 . Hartford ......... 1 10 405 404 Kat0n:....... .0 140 J 4 2 Munete (... ic il 24 7 4B 158 McCowans........ R 47 5 05 Newcastle ........ 400 5 50 ; Cambridge City... 5 00 G 50 Beesons ...... ..., 0% = 710 | Connergville...... 5 50 725 : - Indianapolic...... 650 6 45 6 50 . Loaisville ... .5,11 & 1 00pm 11 95 Cinclnnati......... 9 W 0 9 45am . GOING NORTH. | i © O& I Mail Night Ex. Munc, 400, “Cincinnati....c.. 6 45am 4 30pm Loulsville. ... 3 00 11 25pm Indianapolis .. , 7 50 5 402 m Connersville.....lo 25 8 00 , 8ee50n5......... 10 40 8 15 Cambridge City. 11 00 8 40 ! Ncwca.«t‘fc. ceivxlB DO 925 - McC0wan5......12 57pm 10 12 “Muncie. . oo 120 10 27 5 45 8at0n.........., 200 625 Hartford ......x. R % - 11 10 6 b 0 Montpielier..... 2 55 7 24 Keystone......,. 3 06 7 368 Blaffton ........ 3 ¥4 12 ofam 815 Oselan .......... 4 % "8 50 Fort Wayne..... 5 15 116 L 9 AS Jackeon .... .11 00 . 80% 3 40pm 5aginaw......... b B 8 30 Grand Rapids.., 5 45nm 4 45pm 915 Petroft. ..i...0. 3 W 8 00am 630 .. The night express will not run south of Muncie on Sanday mornings, and will run only from Muncie to Connersville on Mondays. - All other trains daily except Sundays. . : . Through sleephigg cars on night traing between Indianapolis and Detroit, ranning via Muncle, F't, ‘" Wayne and Jackson, : : i W.W. WORTHINGTON, Gen. Sup’t, Roprer RiLuir, Gen’l Ticket Agent. . 1868. EYE AN» EA'{ « 1874, ! ; (180 DR.C. A.LAMBERT, ; (LATE OF OHIOAGO,) OCULIST and AURIST, 41 GOSHEN, INDIANA. e et et et e P. W. CRUM, Physician and Surgeon, . LIGONIER, : INDIANA. R . ‘Office, first door north of Jacobs & Goldsmith’s | Store, on Cavin street, where I may be found at | all hours, except when absent on professional bus. iness, ! = u"!’fih, 1874,

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f G, W. CARR, - Physician and Surgeon, | { : . IMGONiER, - - - - - < IND, . - Willpromptlyattend all calle intrustedto him, . “Oflice aud residence on 4th Street. . i C. PALMITER, - Surgeon and Physician, | Office at Residence. B | Ligomnier, = = = « Endiazna. L e : g Efi. A. MOYER, ! L (Successor to W. L. Andrews,) o Q ey N ‘ SURGEON DENTIST, l KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. | [, FQUID Nitrous Oxide Gasadministered for the 44 painless extraction of teeth. All work warranted, Examinations free. g@ Office, Second Story, Mitchell Block. 8-14-1 y J. M. TEAL, . D B N IS T } . preemmy . Carner of Mitchel! und State Sia, - »«.mf one!block easi ot Post Office, room LIYYY Y Poverthe Kepndallvilie iruit House, Lendallvitle, Indiana. 2897 A work warranted, Kendaitville, May 1 1874 B, 8. KNISELY, ' MY ’ g | ATTORNEY AT LAW, LIGONIER, - - - INDIANA 28 Oflice in Micr's Block. -l 7-2 . L. COVELL, Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public, Bendallvilled, Iniana. Oftice in the Seeley Block, west side Main Street. i C.V LN s i : DEALERIN MONUMENTS, .. Vaults, Tombstones, AND BUILDING STONEKES LIGONIER, IND * : April Iz, 187150 = : . - <BANIES ¥V, DEXNIXY, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. . Oftice in the Court House, ALLION, = =« 5 <IN 815 T ALBERT BANTA, © Justice of the Peace & Upnveyances. ' LIGONIER, INDIANA. | . Special attention given to conveyancing and collections. Deeds, Bonds and Mortgages drawn up, and 'all legal business attendéd to promptly and accurately. Office over Straus & Meagher’s store, May Jbfllfl??i 15-8-3 . DLW GREREN, | eact & Colicetion Agt, Justiceol the Peact & CoLlection Ag, Oflice—Second Story, Landon’s Brick ]ilm-k, LIGONIEL, INDIANA 9 { AN AAm A Y CONCORD & OATAWBA WINE, We sell I\lh'.’l: SHEETS’ Wines. Pure = Nothing but the Juice of . the Grape. 0 ; i SACK BROTHERS: ! Ligoniér, July 8, 171, -tf. : o ABl iet _,A_Lw_...‘.,..,_..Er,,., i -.,q_____.._.‘b__ TEEGARDEN HOUSE, Laporte, Indiana. ¥V W AXTELL, - @ @ Proprietor. Laporte, April 5, 1871, : ‘ ‘ < STOPR AT THE » . it | BRICK KELLY HOUSE { } KENDALLVILLE, INDIARA. NEW COMMODIOUS THREE £TORY BRICK l ~Y Hotel, only ten rods trom the 1.. 8. &M.S. R. R. Depot, and four squares from the G, Re R R — Only five minutes walk to any of the principal bu- ] siness housesofthe city. Traveling men andstrangérs will find this a first-class house. Fare §2 per ’ day. '+ J. B. KELLY, Propiietor, Kendallville, Aug. 3, 1870.-14 | _ e : : . - A, GANT'S, ‘ Surgical and Mechanieal Dentist, A LIGONIER, - - INDIANA. : . P . I 8 ‘prepared - /\;M\ . | todo aul.vthing P o intheirline. A /5 l?fi‘“#’; succesful pracLR e v tice of over 10 -,?-j‘_:? \é::“ % ‘{lears justinhes Sele s e aseiss hin i saying i % that he can VO S ¥ giveentiresat. L N v } isfaction to a 0 who may » dtow ‘their patronage. #¥ Ofliceone doornorth of Kime’s, Mavin St. : 1 —;‘ Sy e . | SACK BROITHERS Bakers, & Grocers. U»uv'iuStre'et,. Ligonier, Indiana - Presh iread, Pies, Cakes, &c., Chuig.(Gmcerie»,E’r(wisiq'ns,YunkceNotions,&c Theliichest cash price paid fer Gountry Produce Mayls,’6B-tl. SACK BRO’S.

Tin Emporium JOHIN ABDILL, At the old stand of Geo. McLean, has constantly ‘on hand a large and eomplete assortment of : et “1,1 . . ‘ . . . Tin, Copper aud Sheet Iron Ware Forks, Hoes, Buttis-,Screw's,Locks. Latches,Straps Hinges, Pocket and Table Cutlery, &ec. ~ Also, a fult line of the celebrated MISHAWAKA PLOWS, All of which will be rold at bottom figures for cash. _ ) Do - ‘ ; Especial attention given to the laying of TIN ROOFS, PUTTING UP OF EAYE :I‘R(H'(JHS, - and all kinds of JOB W OR I . 8 Call and examine goods‘before buying elsewhere. REMEMBER THE I’LAOH.: - ? SIGN OF Y"HE LABRGE COFFEE POT. May 21, '73-25tf JOHN ABDILL. : 28 S 4 - . ‘ - ' Another Chance! n . 1 s : #‘ FIFTH & LAST GIFT CONCERT {IN ATD OF THE b PUBLIC LIBRARY 0F KY. ’ POSTPONED T 0 ‘ : NOVEMBER 20, 1874, Drawing Certain at That Date! : L L ¢ LIST OF GIFTS : ONE GRAND CASH G1FT...........8250,000 OgE GRAND CASH GIFL ..........0 100,000 ONE GRAND CASHGIHD. ~........ 75,000 ONE GRAND CASH G1HT............ ' 50.000 ONE GRAND CASH G1FT..... ..... 23,000 5 CASH GIFTS, $20,C00 each.... 100,000 ' 10 cASIH GIFTS, 14,000 each.... 140,000 15 CABH GIFTS, 10,000 each.... 150,000 20 CASH GIFTS, 5,000 each.... 100,000 25 CASH GIFTS, 4,000 aach.... 100.000 30 CASH GIFTS, 3,000 each.... 9P0,000 50 CASH GIFTS, 2,000¢ach.... 100,000 100 CASH GIFTS, I,oooeach. ... 100,000 240 CASH GIFTS, 800 each.... 120,000 500 CASH GIFTS, 100 each.... 80,000 11,000 CASH GIETS, 50each.... 950,000 “Grand Total, 20,000 Gifts, all cash, $2,300,000 PRICE OF TICKETS : i ‘ i : Wh01eTicket5....................8 bßo.oo WAty EN. . .. o BRGO Tenthis, or each C0up0n...... . ! 8.00 11 Whole Tickets f0r............ Heo.oo 22 1-2 Tickets f0r................ L. 000.00 For Tickets and ibfdrmbtion, address THOS. E. BIQAMLET'I“E,“ 2-w4 AGENT AND MANAGRR, Publ. Library Build’g, Lonlsville, Ky,

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WHO ROBB_]_&)E MADAME? I had waited but a few moments when she entered. o , The tasteful eap surmounted the Lrown locks clustering in a pretty confusion of short curls about her foreLead, proclaimed herino longer young, though the fair blooming face and shapely form were far more suggestive of youth than of old age. Altocgether Madame Leroux was a lady of most attractive appearance. - ~ She approached me with nervous Laste, her eyes fixed on mine. “I sent for you—you are—" she. faltered, almost inaudiby, and then paused in a pitiable state of agitation, her slender fingers slowly intertwining themselves and her whole frame trembling. = “Detective Ashton,” I responded, hastily drawing forward a chair. she sunk into it, and by asilent gesture invited me to be seated. = Presently she murmured in a low, quivering voice, “Monsieur, I am in great distress: My—" and shé again paused, overconie by her emotions. I waited a minute in expectant silencey; and then said: - ] “A case of robbery, I understood.— Madame, permit me to ask whether your servants are entively honest?” “Entirely lhonest,” sheé -answered, brokenly. ' ! i . “They have served me for tweéuty years.” : “And youx pupils?* ~ “Not a shadow of suspi¢ion may touch them.” : , “And the resident teachers?” She gasped once or twice, and then controlling ‘herself with a mighty effort, answered tremulously: e “Pardon my agitation, 1 amm worn with trouble and anxiety,” adiing presently, in more even tones, “I will tell you about it Monsicur. Ay scheoll is, as you doubtless know from report, the Dbest, and eonscquently, the most flourishing in’'the eity. . I take much money, and often keep large sums by me. This is my private husiness room, and in yonder cabinet I store my surplus funds.” | ; : “It’s rather an unsafe place,” I commented. .

f, “Not at all, Mensieur,” she answerk'ed decidedly. “It is furnished with a | secret receptable. Discover it if you ' can.” . And rising she led the way to J the large cabinet and threw open the i deslk. i | But I exausted my wits to no pur- | pose.© Madame looked on in silence ! till I drew back and folded my arms. | She then quietly asked: ; I “You would not suspeet the fact 1 | have stated.” o . “If the secret compartment is:there | most cetainly not,” | : | ‘lt is-here,” she replied, briefly and ! emphatically, as she closed the desk. i “lHow many times have you been ' robbed 27 . | “Nightly, for the past week,” she an- | swered excitedly. “A large amount - was taken''the first night, but since l then jonly a few conterfeits which I depogited .in hope of detegting the l thief without assistanee.” ; | “Has any one under your roof a i’l{nowledge of the seeret of the cabinet?” I inquired, after a I#ttle interval ]of silence. | o l “But one,” she cried. bursting into | tears, and wringing her hands in an \; agony of distress. | . i 1 again deliberated a moment, and | then said firmly, “Madame, I have not ! a doubt that I can, in time, clear up ! this mater without assistance, but it is no less certain that perfect candor or your part will greatly aid me.” It was some minutes before she could compose herself sufficiently to answer. When she did, it was in her heart broken tones: “You are right Monsieur. I must tell you. My sus‘picion point to one who has for years been my -all; namely Madamoiselle De Antoinette DeGray, has been my protege since the death of her parents, which occurred when she was an in- { fant. lln her I have hitherto reposed the utmost confidence. nowi I am distracted with doubts it is impossible to silence.” o i .

“But, Monsieur, I have not sent for .you to unravel this web'of mystery with any intention of giving publicity .to her guilt. Heaven knows I only desire to learn the truth for her own sake. I would not wrong the innocent even in thought, the guilty I would unceasingly labor to restorve.” Then with a sudden burst of grief she exclaimed : : - “My poor Antoinette! Sheisso winning, so young, and so beautiful.” “Does Madamoiselle DeGray know of your suspicions?’ I inquired as a deep sob choked her utterance. “She does. A few hours before I sent for you I told her of my loss, and entreated her to confess and receive my fogiveness. *With what result?” 0 “She gazed at me with startled eyes for a moment, and then in proud, almost scornful aceents replied that I, above all others, should know whether she was cqapable of such a deed.” “And is she acquainted with the fact of your having secured my services Y ‘ “Oh, yes, Monsieur. I hoped it would frighten her into a.full confession.” : . b “Your servants!” i “They know nothing whatever. For Madamoiselle DeGray’s sake 1 have kept these startling robberies, a profound secret.” After afew minutes serious consid-erationfl-said: : “Madame, I will wateh here nightly until the mystery is solved.” ‘ Madame shook her head dispondingly. ; . “1t is quite useless, Monsieur. lam no coward, and have already tried that plan, and, strange to say, my cabinet remained intact’ both times.” - “Perhaps Madamoiselle DeGray suspected your intentions,” 1 replied.— “This time we must guard against the possibility. And now, if you please, T will trouble you for a few more “tetails.” About what time do these robberies take place?” ~ ; “Always between midnightand daybreak, I seldom retire till 12 o’clock, and on the night of the first theft it was considerably later. 1 remember] distinetly, for by a singular coincidence Madamoiselle DeGray and I sat here discussing the possibility of the'very event which occurred. The recent Madworth robbery had impressed us both deeply, and as I left the room I bade Madamoiselle lock the door.” : o “Did you lock the other?”’ I asked, s . < : ! e indicating one 1 had noticed awhile before. L . “It might secrete a burglar, however, that is only a store closet.” *“Yen, Monsieur, but it did not. I ‘was in there a few minutes before we retired.” o ' “And the key of the door here—did ‘Ma,c’l_amoisel‘le know where you put it? g : ’ s “Certainly, Monsieur,” - :

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“And since that night?” . . “Alas! Monsieur, I have hidden my keys in vain.” : - After some further conversation I took my leave, promising to return about midnight. I did so.© Madamoiselle and the servants had retired and, as previously arranged, Madame answered my light tap herself. She ushered me into the private room, and soon bade me good night. : 'A!fter a short absence, slie returned with a steaming cup of coffee and a plate of Dutch cake. T always take a cup before retiring,” she explained; “and thought you might find one acceptable.” Andwith -a final good nighd she left me. Feeling: both chilled and thirsty, I emptied the cup at a draught. - Then wheeling a chair. beliind the curtains draping a bay window, I extinguished the light and sat down to await the appearance of the unknown thief. ' But .1 saw nothing. Just at daybreak Madame softly entered the room and spoke to me. I rose unsteadily to my feet and stepped from behind the curtains: She gazed at me in surprise for a moment, and then similed a little ironically. “Monsieur slept well, I perceive.” “Yes, Madame, if well means soundly,” 1 replied.: ‘“The coffee was drugged.” e ““Drugged!” she echoed, staggering baek a pace or two. - il " “Yes, Madame, permit me to ask who made it ?” b She covered her face with her hands for an instant, and then dropping them, reeled over to the cabinet. In a moment she was by my side again. “Who made it?” she repeated, in a de,a;-p hollow tone. “Madamoiselle DeGray! And—and, Monsieur, the money is gone!” - : “But,” I answered, in some vexation, “Madamoiselle, of all others, should not have known of my presence here.” el

“Abh, Monsieur, I was most careful,” returned-Madame sorrowfully. ' "Tisa mystery how she gained her knowlcdge.” : , L “Well Madame,” I answered, after a few minutes deliberation, “we will mect Madamoiselle on her own ground. Peruiit her, it you please, to prepare another cup. of coffee to night. She will no doubt, count upgn its effects.” And that night I received another Bteaming cup. But it was received only. + Consequenitly I was not found napping. T had wateched patiently for two hours or more, when the door slowly opened, A pale, slenden, little old ' woman! wrapped in a crimson dressing eown, and about whose bare head floated a few scanty gray locks, stole noiselessly into the room. She ecarried a bunch of keys and a lighted taperin a bronze candlestick. Closing the door carefully behind her, she proceeded at once to the cabinet. “Can this weird looking woman be Madamoiselle DeGray?” [ thought, gazing after the singular apparition.- *No it cannot be. Certainly, Madamoiselle is young. This must be some old relative or friend of Madame.” Quickly and mnoselessly she approached the cabinet, and in a moment it was unlocked and the secret compartment opened. ‘ After earefully. withdrawing the notes deposited. there by Madame a few hours previous, she snapped the spring and reclosed the desk. Then. turning quickly away, she went over to the store closet. . I now lf(f't my hiding place and ‘cautiously followed. When I reached the door she was in the act of removing the false Dottom from a large japanned box in one corner. Dropping it on the floor beside her, she togk from the drawer a roll of notes, and after adding the one just stolen, returned the bundle to its place again. Then hastily restoring the box to its former order, she arose and turned away. I stepped back a pace or two with’ the determination of seizing her outside the closet. L

} In a moment she appeared and confronted me, and for the first time I ‘obtained a fair view of her features. But instead of the horror and dismay which I had been anticipating, I was the one to fall back aghast. My outstretehed arms dropped powerless, as with swift tread and strong- gaze, she swept by me and out of the room. “And this.is the solution,” Imuttered, drawing a deep breath of relief as the floor closed upon her. “What will Madame say ? Will she readily credit ‘the report I must give 2" Without deciding on the question, I dropped on the sofa and made myself comfortable for the remainder of the night. As on the previous d‘g.y, Madame sought me early. She looked .at me scrutinizingly. - “Ah! Monsieur has had another good night without the aid of drugs,” she remarked somewhat tartly. *“Yes, Madame; a very good one,” I replied, “but I first eained the right.” “ANL!” ejaculated Madame again, but this time very tremulously, “then you—vou have--you—" ' . “*Yes, Madame,” I answered, {inding she could not finish the sentence. “And now will you kindly allow me to see Madamoiselle DeGray?” I “No, Monsieur,no,” she replied with hasty emphasis. “My poor Antoinette has sinned, no doubt, but she shall be protected. You shall not see my poor child, Monsieur,” she concluded, passioniately.. “Heaven and I will make’ a good woman of her yet.” | . “My dear, you quite mistake me,” 1 answered, feelingly. “Madamoiselle is innocent.” I was hardly prepared for the little Frenchwoman’s outburst of joy. ; . “My Antoinette! My pure darling! My white dove! My wronged angel! sSweet Heaven, I thank the!” she eried, tearfully. , And before T could say any more she had darted from the toom. In a few minutes she returned, leading a tall, elegant, golden-haired girl, whose proud-eyes glittered with tears. This fair vision of youthful bheauty left Madame’s side and came to me, P “I'thank yvou, Monsieur,” she said, with simple, earnest dignity. “I thank you most truly.” : “l have done little or nothing to entitle me to your thanks, Madamoiselle,” 1 smiled in response, “bnt have you no desire to learn the name of the guilty party ?” “Ah true,” exelaimed Madame, “I forgot all but my infinite joy. Tell us, Monsieur.”. - ' « “First, Madame, permit me to restore your stolen money. You have your keys, I see, will you be kind enough to open the treasure box #” And hastening to the closet, I bro’t out the japanned box. : _ Madame knelt down and wonderingly turned the key. I then lifted the lid and removed the false hottom. An astonished exclamation parted Madamoiselle DeGray’s lips, but Madame leaned over the box like one in a dream, and could not be convinced “until the notes were in her hand and

counted, that it was no dream at all, but aimost pleasant reality. “Yes, Antoinette,” she at last said, rising and casting the notes on the table, “every sou of it is here. And to think of its being in the old box, Antionette.” - ' : “Yes,” smiled Antoinette, with a puzzled exuession, “but ——" : “PBut,” interrupted Madame, even: more vivaciously, “but who put the money in the box?” And she fixed her eyes in eager expectancy on mine. . “The—the apparition,” 1 faltered, “entered the room between two and three o’clock and went straight to the cabinet. In a few moments the notes were purloined and deposited where vou just now found them.” . P “But the secret compartment, Monsieur,” interrupted Madame, excitedly, “was it opened without difficulty ?” “Yes, Madame.” : , “Strange, most strange,” she ejaculated, in perplexing tomnes, adding the next instant, “Go on, Monsieur.” “This is all, Madame.” : “All. But what did you do, Monsieur ?” she asked sharply. “Nothing, Madame, but stagger aside and gaze like an imbecile after the retreating form I had extended my hand to seize.” ; .

“Oh,” exclaimed Madame, in a low, awed voice. “Was it—you called it an apparition, I recollect, Monsieur. What —what did it resemble?” . “It was a woman. A small, pallid woman, clad in a trailing [erimson robe—" ‘ “A crimson robe,” echoed Madame and Madamoiselle, Dboth evidently aghast. - ~ “Yes, and with silvery white hair.” “White hair,” again echoed Dboth, looking at €ach other with faces of consternation. . ‘ - Madamoiselle DeGray recovered herself first. “What else, Monsieur?” she queried, impatiently. ; - "“Nothing else, Madamoiselle, except that this singular apparition carried a bronze candlestick and a ponderous bunch of keys.” - - Madamoiselle gazed at me a moment in silence, and tlien, turning suddenly flung ‘her armes around the Madame’s neck, and kissed her on both cheeksy exclaiming between tears and laughter:. ; - 4 “Oh, you naughty, naughty thief.” Madame stared from Madamoiselle to the picture of bewildered dismay, then dropping her eyes to the floor she revolved, apparently, some perplexing gquestion. Presently she looked up. “Pell me,” Antoinette, shefl%nrmured, doubttully, “why- did yvou drug Monsieur’s coffee ?” 3 “1?” exclaimed Madamioiselle, flushing with astonishment. “I did it-no more than 1 stole the money. I knew not that Monsieur was here, much less that he took coffee. But perhaps,” she roguishly added the next inoment, as she again showered Kisses on Madame’s roseate cheeks, “but perhaps you can ple;l(l_guilty.v” . . . Again bewildered dismay widened Madame’s eyes, and, after a little, she faltered: ' “Oh, Anteinette, I—l—yes, 1 certainly did! Monsieur slept well and I slept poorly. Yes, Monsieur got my powders. I never thought of it till this minute.” : : “What powders?” laughed Madamoiselle Degray. ' i ~ “Themorphine,” exclaimed Madame more composedly. “I felt'sleepless and excited, and put into a cup,intending to pour my coffee over it, but I must have given Mgnsiur the wrong ¢ip. . : Then ‘suddenly snatching the keys from the table, she trusted them into Modamoiselle DeGray's hand exclaiming tearfully: “There keep them, my poor wronged darling. I have played ‘La Somnambula long enough.,” S And I looked at Madame’s brown curls, roseate skin, and faultless, figure, thought amusedly, “What a miracle of BFieneh ara’? '

e e Gen. Sherman’s Son-in-Law. The marriage of Miss Marie Ewing Sherman to Mr. Thomas W. Fiteh, an ‘engineer iy the navy, has created considerable stir in the higher circles of society and in the minds of the public generally. . Mr. Fiteh, it seems, is a self-made man, who has by his own energy and perseverance won distinetion; and his I)l'esent'stmiding in society proves him worthy of the henors he now shares in his allegiance to the Sherman family. My, Thomas Wm. Fitch was born in Madison street, New York, on the first day of October, 1837. His high allegiance was the/cause of great jubi]ati(‘)n among his old friends of the Seventh Ward. lis father was a hard working man, and, at an early age, the son was given a chance to earn his own living. Young Fitch, who had four sisters and a brother, who s since died, was sent to Grammar School No. 22. })The teachers, especially Mr. Durand and Mr. Miegs, became warmly attached to him. On graduating - from the school, he obtained a situation in the Home Jowsrnal oflice, but did not remain long. He was then about fourteen. Wishing to learn a trade, he chose that of a inoulder, and became an apprentice in the Novelty Iron'Works. He aspired to be the foreman of the place, and: worked hard toz’a.tt;ii_n‘ a good position. By his fellow employes he was generally liked. All knew him to be a quiet, industrious young man. In 1863, having t‘misléwd his trade, he entered the navy as third assistant engineer. Ile went to South America and Europe, -and las since visited most of the seaports of the world, excepting those of China. He first met Miss Slierman in London, on the 13th of last October. lln the navy young Fitel wae promoted to be an engineer, and- when it became known in the Seveénth Ward that he wuas to be married to Miss Sherman, the joy of his old companions was unbounded. Father Mooney, his old instructor, had predicted a bright future for his pupil and was indeed proud. Lieut. Fitch’s parents and three gisters live in a pretty frame -building at 147 Newell St., Greenpoint, whither they moved about four months ago. Last Saturday the engineer and his bride visited them and were joyfully received. The bride was deseribed by one of Lient. Fitche's sisters as a “sweet, quiet little body, who is not a bit proud.” On Monday the bride and bridegroom started for St. Lous. Mr. Fitch has leave of absence for one year, at the expiration of which time he wiil retire from the navy and erigage in the wire business in St. Louis.

‘RE-RECONSTRUCTION. The Key-Note of the New Crusade Against the South. Startling Proposition Foreshadowed by the Administration Organ in Washington—The. Whole Work of Reconstruction . to be Done Over —The Whites Declared Unfit for Self-Government.

WASHINGTON, October 10.—There are unmistakable indication that a plot is on foot, furthered by the most - influential Republicans,to adopt bolder, more radical, and sweeping measures of vindictive reconstruction at the South than those embodied in the acts of 1867 and the so-called Ku-Klux or Enforcement statutes of 1870 and 1871. The word has apparently been given to the Republican papers published at this city to strike the key-note of the new reconstruction policy. The Chronicle has had several leaders arguing at length that “reconstruction is a failure,” that the character of the poor -white population in the South renders them unfit for a share in the governmend of the United States, that Congress must guarantee them a republican form of government, and that the “work of reconstruction” must be begun anew at the next session of Congress. The National Republican of this morning goes even further. It strongly censures the usurper Kellogg for negotiating with the Penn gov--ernment in Louisiana, and, speaking ' of Kellogg’s regime as a “State : government of marked weakuess and inability to maintain itself without Federal bayonents,” calls for “a prompt and efficient provision” on the part of the Federal power to secure a repub- | lican form of government for the State of Louisiana pending this e]e‘ction.—f These articles, and the tone of Mr. Dawes’ - late speech insisting on a more centralized and powerful government than now exists, are believed here to be much more than feelers of the. publie pulse, and to foreshadow propositions of a mere startling and despotic character than have yet been made in Congress or disclosed to the public. The Southern people, sick of carpet-bag government, have many of them avowed their readiness to accept an empire or its equivalent of military government instead; and the entire situation at the South is thus j working in aid of the third-term plan, for which the President is notcoriousty scheming. A military occupation of the South on a seale sufificiently extensive to secure the most unqualified submission will probably be one of tllé new measures of the Government, and as this cannot be had, in the present temper of the Indians on the t'l'Qntiei*;with the existing forces, it will be urged that a large increase of the army, especially “of the cavalry arm, is absolutely indispensable to preserve the public peace and prevent a recurrence of such uprisings as those of the people of ‘llouisiana. It is not deemed expedient to proclaim those measures or the third-term proposition too plainly in advance of the falljelec:ti()l'xs; but if the Administration party shall be successful it will at once be insisted upon that these steps are sanctioned and demanded by the people. Many army officers are disgusted wi‘h their new duties at the South, but are expected to become reconciled to them by the promotions which the increase of the army will facilitate. .

BY THEIR FRUITS THEY SHALL BE KNOWN. . -~ When Congress was in session last ~winter, the Chicago Z77ribune says, much was said of economy, retrenchment, and debt reduction. People were led to believe that tliere would be, during the year, extr:iordiimr_&; economy and a reduction of the public debt unparalleled in an equal length of time. Facts do not confirm these hopes. The last public debt statement shows a reduction of only $435,417.92 for September, 1874. For the corresponding month of the preceding year, the reduction was $1,901,467.16. ‘ln May, June, July, August and September, 1874, the aggregate reduction of the public debt was $9,982,080.60. In May, June, July, August and September of 1873, the aggregate reduction was £16,595,257.79. In view of these facts, we are tempted to inquire what has become of the promises of economy and retrenchment made by the party in power when it was bidding for public favor. That Congress did Intend to introduce economical reforms seems clear from the appropriations. which it made for the current fiscal vear. The appropriation. for the last fiscal year was #5172,290,700.82; for this it is only $166,030,491.27. But intentions and promises do net speak half as eloquently as facts. Governments and parties, like individuals, are known by their fruits; by what they do, not by what they say. i : GOOD FOR JEWELL. ~Some plain talk is reported from Washington as having passed between Postmaster-General Jewell and Senator Spencer and Representative Hays of Alabama: These two called upon him for the appointment of an additional special agent to go to Alabama to investigate the Kkilling of mail agent Ivey. The Postmaster-General regarded this as unnecessary. Messrs. Spencer and Hayes were not satisfied and continued go press the matter npon him, when he remarked that if Ivey had been attending to his official duties, instead of distributing incendiary and inflammatory speeches among the negroes, he would probably never have Dbeen .molested. To this Mr. Spencer rejoined that if some gentlemen had not gone around the country makiag speeches they would not be in the cabinet. The end of it was that the two had to withdraw without being able to persuade the PostmasterGeneral to make the appointment.

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A FIENDISH REVENGE. Two Children Burned to Peath by a . Discharged Domestic. (From the Paducah Kentuckian, Oct. 4th.) - Some weeks ago a woman calling herself Bridget Malhony appled to Dr. Jackson, of Columbus, Ky., for %?Le place of cook. Employment was given her, and for a short while she gave satisfaction. A few days ago the doector noticed some irregularities in her life, and notified her that she must look out for another home. = This appeared to infuriate her beyond control; the pent-up de¢vil in her? nature burst forth in a fury of passion that sent ‘the doctor scampering for the police and the family for an asylum of safety. "When he returned Bridget had departed, leaving his mirrors and furniture a wreck. It appears that, from ‘a mistaken kindness, she was not prosecuted, but allowed to depart unmolested. From his residence slie went to the hotel or boarding-house kept. by an estimable German Catholic named Switzer, near the M. & O. R. R. She easily imposed herself upon the good nature of this lady, and was permitted to stop with her, paying her in work. -She behaved badly again, and Mrs. S. discharged her. . Instead of going off, however, she went up into Mrs. S.’s room (it was immediately after breakfast) and sent for this lady from the dining-room. When she got into ler presence she commenced to abuse her in a most shame- - ful manner. Mrs. Switzer tried to quiet her, and expressed sympathy for her. Bridget told her that she had. better sympathize *with herself and madé at her. Mrs. S. rushed down stairs, leaving her three children, eonsisting of alittle boy four years old, two daughters, .aged respectively six and ten, in the room. The oldest says that the two children were in the bed, with the musquito bar fastened down " around it, and -that Bridget deliberately took the lamp and saturated the bed and children with coal oil and fired it. Before assistance could reach them the passage was a solid sheet of flames, and the two children were: burned with the house and most of the furniture. - The fiend is in prison, and the poor mother nearly distracted with grief at her terrible loss. =~ = -

Seeing Without the Use of Eyes. It is narrated that in Kinsman, Trumbull county, 0., there is. a little girl of 10 years who has developed a faculty, of seeing without the use of eyes. |[Some months ago-an.elder sister was’ attacked with inflammation, of the eyes, and the younger one attended her until she -regained her. sight. The little nurse was afterwards attacked with the same disease, and completely lost her sight. . Her eyes were securely - bandaged to exclude the light, and she was ¢onfined in a darkened room.. By degrees, it is said, she developed the fuculty, of distinguishing objects without the use of her eyes. She could point out persons, deseribe their attitudes-and actions, and moreover distinguish daylight and darkness. To test the powers .still further & new book was given to her. She opened it, described the pictures, and finally was enabled to read it fluently, her eyes all the time being bandaged. She has since recovered her ocular sight, and her eyes are pronouinced by physicians to be pertectly sound. But strange to say the faculty of seeing without them remains,and when Dblindfolded and placed in a dark room she can see with ease: The case has puzzled the doctors. They are uncertain whether thereyes have actually recovered their power, or whether the faculty of seeing without them has not survived entirely. Not many years ago this professed power would have subjected .the child to torture. There are historjcal cases of alleged second sight which have hitherto been treated as miyths. A severe test -of the present case would throw some light upon that utterly unintelligible science which, for thé want of a better name, has been termed psycology,—a term nobody can define. -

The Third-Term Convention. For a long time: it was hard to persuade the public that. the idea of a third term was sériously entertained in any quarter; and not till the people had -realized that -a . third-term convention was to meet at Chattanooga, on the 13th of October, did they give credence to. the report that an enterprise was on foot to re-elect Gen. Grant in 1876. . Coußequently the third-termers have met very little resistance. There has .teallys been nothing to strike at. = Nobody could say that Gen. Grant was a candiddte for a third-term, nor could anybody say that he was not. - Nevertheless, the idea that he is such a candidate has somehow got sufficiently-worked into. the minds of politieians to cause uneasiness, and .this has led to- the passage of resolutions by two or three Republican State Convetions antagonizing the supposed movoment. - "The third-term movement was, from the very beginning, chimercial, nonsensical, absurd. It never had any chances of success. It has no chance now, and will have none two years hence. The tact that no considerable resistance has been offered to it proceeds from the fact that no considerable support for. it has been found. Let- any convention, respectable in point of numbers, indorse the idea of a third-term, and fairly put: it before the country, and it would be speedily crushed. This indorsement is looked for at the hands of the Chattanooga Convention, and when it comes the crushing proeess will begin.—Chicago Tribune. L e

s e gee e It seems to be still a matter of dis- | cussion -whether Gen. Grant is a candidate for a third terin or not. Secretary Robinson, in aspeech on Friday | night, said that he is not; but Seeretary Delano, at Mount Vernon, 0., Sat--urday night, was careful to speak of | him as in full accéord with the Regpubli- | can party and just-as if he were a! candidate, IMas it ever occurred to the gentlcinen who are so*unxious to | demonstrate that Gen. Grant isor is ! not a candidate, that, if he were not, it would be at once easy and becoming for him to say so? . ' ' Tue Rev. James Freeman Clarke believes that animals have souls.— What has usually been classed by mental philosophers as instinet, Mr. Clarke is disposed to look upon as evidence of mind or soul. It is easy perhaps to go a step further, and argue that plants and inanimate things have souls, Indeed, if this be not true, how do the Katie King school of Spiritualists matenalize men; women and children, birds, dogs, cats and even clothing and all manner of inanimtte tinps? © . . 0 0 ) R bl The State Board of Agriculture ad- ' journed. to mieet at Indianapolis on | the fourth of November, prox., to settle p LUSINGdS: v il e G

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~ CONSOLATION FOR THE DE- : FEATED. Quaint Sayings by One of the Vie- = o tims. - - ~ [From Friday's Indianapolis Journal.] Sedan is spoken of. : . ‘Remarks have been made concerning Waterloo. £ -Classical scholars occasionally refer to Marathon. o . | There are floating remarks concern‘ing Bull Run. i - The battle of the Boyne is now remembered by several Irishmen. Several Indiaha Congressmen seem to have gotten away, likewise. ' “Sweet are the uses of adversity,” but a little of it will go a good 'ways. The next best thing to being in a majority, is to be in a respectable minority. ' > - ~ Republicans must remember that “he that has no'ecross deserves no erown.” e The saloons will no longer be required, in the language of Gov. Hendricks, to close at an “inconveniently early hour”? . _ ’ E"The election returns indicate that in a good r;]mny localities the people availed themselves of the principle of local-option to vote the democratic ticket. ' ~ “Let me embrace these sour adversities, for wise men say it is the wisest_ conrse.” Shakspeare probably. wrote that on the day after an election in which his party did not win. - :

~ Some of our republican exchanges are consoling themselves with the reflection that “whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.” ILet us also hope that, in the langdage of Sterne, “He will temper the wind to the shorn lamb.” e e ; ;

. A horse fancier, who sometimes fa- | vors the Journal with equine information, suggests that the fairest way of deciding elections would be for each party to select a good horse and let them trot forit. ‘That would certainly be a gréat saving of time and money, not to speak of moral wear and tear. i ———————— < — Who Next? L - . The Christian Union, Beecher’s paper, actually has recently said something sensible: /The editor, like Parson Brownlow, of Tennessee, has got an overdose of “freedom,” and now comes. out against the Civil Rights Bill. Read his wail: = ; -

Of the affairs of Louisiana we have this week spoken at length. As to the South in general this is to be said: “Back of special cause of disturbance lies the broad fact that the section, as a whole, is cursed with old and deeprooted habits of lawlessness, which no remedy can remove in a year or a decade. In addition to this there is a suspicious jealousy between the races whose extent cannot be definitely measured, buf which in various ways breeds great mischief. The eonclusion seems to us inevitable, that there is no ‘immediate and radicdl euyre for Southern,troubles. " The eml)l yient of the Federal troops, while it finay be necessary in special cases, is liable to abuse for political purposes, and at best secures the temporary peace at the expense of mischiévous irritation. In especial the National Government ought to aveid fall measures which needlessly stimulatefiostilities of races. We are more and more convinced that the Supplementary civil rights bill will do infinitely more harm than good. It is abundantly established that its proposal has embittered the Southern whites and postponed the harmaony between them and the blacks, through which alone a happy issue of the present trouble is pessible. Itis clear that the mmajority of the Southern States will ‘instantly abandon their public school system if distinction of race in them is forbidden. Popular eduecation is the supreme need of the South, and that the. civil rights bill would go far to overthrow itiseems to us the mightiest possible reason against its passage.

% A Venerable Skuii. . * A strange discovery is thus deseribed by the Osage Mission (Kan.) Jowusnal: “A hwaan skull was recently. found near this placeé, imbedded ina solid rock whi¢h was broken open by blasting. Dr. Weirly, of Osage Mission,-compared it with a modern skull resembling the latter in general shape; it was an inch and a quarter larger in greatest diameter, an({%wxch better developed in -some other particulars. He says of the relie: ‘lt is | that of the eranium of the huma spe- - cies, of large size, imbedded in conglomerate rock of the tertiary, class, and found several feet . beneath thesurface. Parts of the frontal, parietal and occipital bones were blown away by the explosion. The piece of rock holding the remains weighs some forty or fifty pounds, with many impressions of marine shells, and through it runs a vein of quartz, or within the cranium crystalized matter, and thro’ it by the aid of the microscope presents 1 beautitul appearance.” Neither Lyell .nor Hugh Miller, it is stated, nor any of the rest of the subterranean explorers, report anything so remarkable as this discovery at Osagemission. The Neander man comes nearest to it, but the Neanderthal bones were found in loam only twoor three feet below the surface, wherea this Kansas skull was discovered iri solid rock.” S . .

Civil Rights. Two negroes recentlty went into the saloon of Harvey & IHolden, in Wash--ington, D. C., and called for somethirng to.eat.. The proprietors did not refuse to serve these negroes, but declined to allow them the seats appropriated for their regular eustomers. For this act they are fined by Judge Snell, and the effeet of the deeision is, lot that negroes are allowed the same rights as white people, but rights which even whites do not possess.— This- same Police Judge Snell is the fellow who issued the warrant to take the editor of'the New York Sun to Washington to bé tried for a pretendéd libel. T.ately he had before him a negro who was proven to have attempted rape on two respectable Ger-: man women in humble life, and he . ‘was accordingly ejnvicted. - Snell - showed his republican ‘and miscegenation sympathies by senten€ing this -culprit to merely nominal panishment of three months’ imprisonment. The term Wwill expire in season for the ne--gro- to vote the republican ticket in Maryland or Virginia, as he may please to fancy, . SRI ~ These are'the civil rights demanded for the niegro by the Republican party. ; Ssl i o :!sgwi‘ii#f‘( G A splendid.article of Young Hysofi Tea; two pounds for $l.OO, at Bill Grob’s, @ 0 0 i R r ¥ 3 ¢