Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 21, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 November 1871 — Page 4

For Sale.

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HALE-HORSE ANL CAKRIAOBMrs. Jonepli Urover, south Fifth street, han for cheap a ntie (amMy ca triage, also a good rellabe carriage borne.

nm HALK TO I'NUKKTAKERH A K'xxl h.rtirse for Kale or tnide. Al!r-xt 21-U. WILDYA POTHS.

Y?OK SALE-HOUSE

J^OR

JjiOR

AND LOT ON

north 4th htreet, between Kaiile and Mult»*iry, al-o twenty aenw of land west I ER RE- HAUTE, of river, if)Uth of N»tioual road, will U«n !d very ch«ip if appiicHiion be made within the n-*xt ten tiny*. For partlcuiaiH call on h. M. 8 ippenfleld, office on Ohio St, with Richard itaiinigan. l«-tf.

HALE-20 ACRKS OF TIMBERED land on the Lock port road, four or five rnilcs from the city. Will wrll the whole tract on reasonaole ternm, or will sell the timber, alone, of ten acrm.

L. KI88NER,

""If Palace of Music.

I?OR

HALK-AT A BAKOAIN 26 ACRE8 of Land, 4 in lew Houtli-fjoit of Terrellaute. The moMt commanding building •lie In

VIKO

county. The land la jH-euMar

ly adapted to the cultivation of variables or fruits, being dry, Mtndy and productive. Terrm one-»ixth canh, balance In Ave annual payment*.

For further particulars apply to Editor of

MAI

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HALE OR EXCHANGE-CLARK Hotute. The proprietor, d-xliinK to retire from the bUMln&M.oireni hi* Hotel for sale or exchange for Kmall Dwellings In. or Mmall Farm near the city. House ft doing a good btislneiM or I* well located for manufacturing piirpo««N. Kasv terms. For particulars enquire of i'-tf. W. B. GRIFFITH Proorlelor.

Wanted.

to trade—One new, magnificent double grand action, pear! key, carved leg. R«i*ewiio pianoforte, of cH l»rntt maker*— factory price, 11,000— for a well Hituated vacant Jot in Terre-Hatite worth $1,000. Add rem •Jfi-il" L. H. HANDFORJ), this Ofllce.

WHATIIKDA

ANTEI—A

TO KNOW THAT THE

VEVKNINOMAII. ha* a larger

circulation than any newnpaper published outMlde of Indianapollft, In tills Htate.

AIHO

that it in carefully and thoroughly read In the horiiuHof itn patrons, and tli ^"erv te*t IUIvertlitlng medium In Western Ihdl ma

N E D—TEETH TO PLUG A NI) make useful, eucti a* vou may think an- beyond redemption. Ail severe cases of facial Neuralgia to cure. Also all kinds of dentistry to scluntlffleally perform at tln ofTlrv and residence of H. C. Richardson north 4th street, between Cherry and Mill herr.v. 12-tf.

Legal.

rpHEHTATE OF INDIANA, VIGO COUNI. tv. In the Vigo Circuit Court, Hablna Wolfe vs. oh ii Burton, Drake Burton, iiry F. Langford, Lilly E. flerrlngton, iry A. Herrington, Charity E. Herringtoii and Joiin B. Herrington, et. ai., To quiet Title. No. :iW.

Be It known that on the 17th day of November, IK71, said Plaintiff filed an Affidavit In due form, showing that said Lilly E Herrington, Mary J. Herrington, Charity E. Herrington and John Herrington note reKldentx of the Hiate of Indiana. iid non-resld ntdefendantsare hereby notified of the pendency of Maid action against them, 'Mid that the same will stand for trial at the March Term of sild Court In the year IH72.

Attest: MARTIN HOLLINOER, Clerk. llRNnRicu

A WILI.IAMS.

Att'y for Pi'fT.

OMETHINO NEW.

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New llath Rooms and Barber Mhop. EVEBY THING NEW AND FIRST CLASS

HTYLE

Perfect satisfaction given to all customers. Ohio fit reel Hrtwern ith andbth. Hot and Cold Baths ready at nil time*. l«-ly.

-rjprrK OUKHNAL

KLIAS HOWE ,5.

Sewing Machine.

THE 11 EST, MOST SIMPLE, AND It A BLR

Family Sewing Machine

IN Till''. WOULD.

The undersigned take pleasure In an nouncing to the citizens of Tcrre-Hnutc and vicinity that

IIV I far* Jimt Opin«d an Office, On the Corner or FlfHh and Ohio Nti,

Where we will be plenned to nee the old patron* of the

Howe Sewing Machine, AN well aa thoae who contemplate making purchase*.

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To nmt-elam and reliable boalncm men, Hither

CnmmUmimn or Salary.

Remember the place, corner 5th and Ohio •Irecta, next door to ArnaudVi Drug Htore. O/./.V VOLTS,

IS-.1m* General Agentn for Indiana.

JAN. TVKNRK. W. B. KmiAITO.

NIt.

KW FIKM.

TURNEP&SHHLIT0

SUrCF.SSOIWTO

Turner A Bant In. 'V»

ten*! of T.

ltuntlu In the firm of Turner

•ft Ihintln, we have formed a copartnership under the name and style of Turner A Shilllto, tnii will continue the

FAMILY GROCERY

AND 1

(•en^ral Produce Buslne^

AT THE OLD STAND.

0«r stock t* foil and our price* ahail be low the towent. We would be plMwd to have our old frleml» eall and aee ua aa well new one*. JAMK8 H. TURNKR, ... WM. 8HILIJTO. li-U. Ow. Main 41 Herenth streets.

VST QUAUTY

Sugar Creek Coal,

l^ehvered in any Quantity by

-4* iBR THIRD A

WM. BARRICK & SON,

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OHfO«TRKBTK

THE MAIL.

O. J. SMITH,

EDITOR AND PIIOPIU ETOU.

Office, 142 Main Street.

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

In which all Advertisements appear for ONE CHARGE.

LOS ANGELES.

The mail brings to us full details of the massacre of Chinamen at Los Angeles, California. The telegraphic report was not only meagre, but tailed to give one-half of the horrid facts. It seems that there had been a difficulty in the Chinese quarter and that one of the offenders wasarrested. In taking bond for his appearance the fact was developed that the Chinamen were possessed of large sums of gold. This was soon well known over the town, and really furnished the incentive for murder. In the evening the Chinese quarrel was renewed in their own quarter, and, profiting by that which thejT have learned within the boundaries of American civilization, the Celestials indulged in an indiscriminate discharge of pistols. The police appeared upon the ground, and in a general melee two officers were injured slightly, and Mr. Robert Johnson, a well known and esteemed citizen was killed. Up to this lime the Chinamen were clearly in the wrong, but not more so than Americans have proven themselves to be at times in every town, hamlet and mining camp west of the great plains. Brutality, ruffianism and murder have been the rule, and order the exception, out on the Pacific coast and among the western mountains.

Goaded by the hope of plunder and by hatred of the Celestials, with the murder of Mr. Johnson as a pretext, great crowds of despcrato and vilelooking men gathered in the Chinese quarter. The knights of the dead falls, short card players, drunken teamsters, thieves, robbers of drunkards, and a very large army of indolent Mexicans and others, constituting on the whole the very scum of the city, appeared in great numbers, ar.d in a few moments forced back the citizen guard, the greater portion of whom, as well as most of the officers, quit the ground. Then commenced the work of pillage, plunder, and murder. The mob gained access to tho premises in which wore the "stacks of gold." Hats, caps, boots, shoes, clothing, jewelry, eatables, choice liquors, and $17,000 in coin were taken, and to cover tip the sacking and pillage, four Celestials were shot dead, seven or eight were wounded, and seventeen were taken— most of them to the public stroets— and hung. "Wong Chin, a merchant, wasthe first victim of hanging. Several times the unfortunate faltered or attempted to extricate himself from two brutes who were leading him, at which a halfdrunken Mexican in his immediate rear would plunge tin- point of a large dirk-knife into his back. This would, of course, accelerate his speed, yet never a syllable fell from his mouth. Arriving at the eastern gate of Tomlinson's old lumber-yard, just onto! Templo street, hasty preparations for launching tho inoffensive man into efernlty were followed by his being pulled up to the beam with a rope around his neck. He didn't seem to "hang right," and one of the men, who had assisted in the adjustment of tho rope around his neck, got upon bis shoulders and jumped upon them, breaking his collar bone. What with shots and stabs, and strangulation,and other, modes of civilixed torture, the victim was "hitched up" for dead, the crowd giving vent to their savage delight in demoniac yells.

The next four Chinamen hung were lr. linee Tong, a Chines® physician of some celebrity and good standing Chang Wang, a resident with the doctor Leong Qaai, a laundry man, and Ah Long a cigar maker. Chang Wang was hauled op to the beam with great violence when the rope parted, and he foil heavily to the ground. A stronger rope was at once procured, and at the words "all right, ptill away!" ho was Jerked up with great force against the beam, and the operation was repeated until his head was mashed into a jelly. Then the demons stretched up the unfortunate physician, and with a oon certed yell and a "hurra" the four pagans were left dangling between heaven and earth, and the Christians bound ed down Temple street, frantic as a bull at the spilling ot innocent blood.

On Loe Angeles street seven China men were hung to the tin gutter of a verandah. Near by were five others hanging from a large transportation wagon {called "prairie schooner" in California), all dead and mangled, after a most barbarous process of alow and measured strangulation. Fong Won, a cook. Won Poo, also a cook, and Ah Too,« young follow who had just come flroto China, were all hauled up to the verandah together amid the almost unearthly yells of an infuriated mobs. These three victims were all innocent of even the knowledge of a disturbance,

4 TKRRK-HAUTE SATUKDAY EVENING MAIL, NOVEMBER 18. 1871

NOV. 18, 1871.

SECOND EDITION.

O E IT I O

Of thin Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Thursday Evening, ha* a large circulation among farmers and others living outside of the city. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes into the hands of nearly every reading person in the city. Every Week's Issue Is, In fact/* fa'V

having been picked tip in tlio street while quitting thoir daily toil, and taken in a body to the plaoe of their dastardly execution. Ilar.lly a word escaped tliem, except that the younger, who was only about 15 years old, said, as the murderers were placing a piece of baling rope about his neck: "Me "no 'fraid to die nie veJlv good China "boy me no hurt no man." A few feet apart, and near this group, four others were hung—Day Kee, a cook, late of Sydney Yo Iling, cook, two weeks from San Francisco Ah VVoa, a cook, late of Yokohama, but a native

Ah Won and Weng Chu, both cooks in private families, were seized in the street by some wild Mexicans and hung on the front of the transportation wagon, oneeach side ol the tongue. A shot was fired at one of them while in the throes of death, the bullet entering his mouth. Wong Chin, Tong Wang, and Ah Loo—the first one a cook in a Chinese boarding-houae, the other a cigar maker, and thethird a domestic—were all hung on the side ot the wagon. All three of these boys struggled somewhat for their lives, the latter managing to get both of bis hands above his head and hold of the rope, by which he temporarily kept off strangulation.

Out in Corea, Admiral Rodgers recently attempted to teach the Celestials a severe lesson in civilization. For an outrage real or pretended, which happened four years before, he made cruel war upon a people. If he is still engaged in that style of redressing grievances it would be well for him to bring home his fleet and bombard Los Angeles, inasmuch as it is positively asserted that no man engaged in this wholesale slaughter will ever be pun ished.

It is said that this massacre is exceptional. It is not exceptional. It is the

land, and are also, like the English

lines, rivals at numerous points. The

number of miles operated by the Cale-

donian is 703, and of the North British,

798. More than 1,500 miles, with

legitimate outgrowth of the brutal poli-1 city daily papers, which were so horricy of all political parties in California fied but recently because two or three in reference to the Chinamen. Each "improper persons" were allowed to party platform expresses emnity to Ce- enter a public audience here, have not lestials and opiposition to their immi- denounced the Black Crook performgration. In a land professedly free ance, which, according to the reports they are to be ostracised because of in their own columns, consists princitheir origin. The people of a land pro- pally of a liberal display of "leminine fessedly Christian spurn and maltreat anatomy." These papers have been and murder the followers of Confucius. The vile mob of Los Angeles was but the hand working in obedience to the brain, which, from the stump and

consolidation of railway inter-

gregate receipts of four and a quarter h?*11

millions ot ponnds sterling a year, P1et*

come under one management, and what'

is of more importance still, the railway business of the whole eastern side of) Scotland conies to one company which can have no posssible rival. It may be

that the power of consolidated corpo- ed

rations will yet become greater in Eng-1

land than thato* the throne and nobles,

Tnr^K Commireioner of Education has completed some valuable statistics illustisting the relation of education to crime in the New England States. His statement shows—First, that eighty per «ent. of the criminals in these States have no education or not sufficient to serve their available purposes in life. Second, eighty to ninety per cent, of the criminals have never learned any trade, nor are they master of any skilled labor. Third, not far from seventy-five per cent, of the crimes committed are by persons of foreign extraction. Fourth, eighty to ninety per cent, of the criminals are intemper^ ate. Fifth, ninety-five per cent, of the jnvenile offenders came from idle, ignorant, vicious and drunken homes. Here are texts for a hundred sermon*, all illustrating the necesaity of ednosting the children and teaching them to labor.

A XVMBKR of Yankee newspaper correspondents have arrived in Hong Kong and propose to interview the Chi*

Km pit re. It is not certain that they will be allowed to go into the Interior, but they hope to get to Peek-in.

FRED. W. LORINO, of Boston, whose story of "Two Song and Dance Men and other productions, have been read with absorbing interest in these col umns, was killed by a band of Apache Indians, near Wickenburg, Arizona last week. This announcement will send pain to the hearts of many who have been entranced but recently by the witchery of his pen. He was but twenty-two, a List year's graduate of Boward, yet his promise was good and noble. A better story than the one to which we have alluded above has never been written even by the great master

of Hoog Kong, and So Hi, also a cook, of English fiction whose life went out

and late of San Francisco. These were all bung with pieces of rope and halters. During their hanging sevpral of them were fired at, cut, and otherwise mutilated.

with the coming of the June roses at Gsdshill last year. It is a sad thing to see the Spoiler come to a young life lull of genius sad to know that a ca reer rich with promises of fame and usefulness is ended, yet sadder still to contemplate the manner ot poor Lor ing's death from the hands of a savage afar out on the arid plains. ,-*$

Mr. Loring had spent the summer on the Pacific coast fulfilling an engage' inent as correspondent of Appleton' Journal. At the time of his death he was attached to Lieut. Wheeler's ex ploring expedition, and was on his way East, intending to lecture on Arizona and expose Collyer's Indian peace ne gotiations.

THE advocates of a postal telegraph system are taking encouragement from the official report of the practical work ing of that system in Great Britain. In the first instance, when the govern inent of Great Britain took charge of the telegraph lines for public uses, the showing was greatly against the postal telegraph, especially in financial results. Now, after more than a year's experience, official data show over million and a quarter dollars expenses, while the receipts have amounted to nearly five million dollars. Statistics of this sort will prove more effective in popularizing the system here than any amount of argument in or out of Congress.

CONTRARY to our expectations the

cumbered with extravagant eulogies instead of denunciations, of this entertainment. Consistency is a jewel which does not always gleam on

tli rough the partisan press, has poison- the breast-plates of our daily contented sentiment in California through porarles. these many years. Shame upon the brutal crowd, but more shamo upon the leaders of the poople who have cringed before a cowardly public sentinient and taught the lesson which led to the massacre

SOM"K time ago a brick from ]mlopendence Hall was forwarded to Paris bv certain i'hiladelphians, with a letter expressing the hope that the contem plation of it would have the effect of inspiring the statesmen of France to

mako r0new0(, cfforts to promote the

ests, which has latterly been in vogue pr08perity of their country. No paU4,in I otic American will doubt that this brick will settle the business for France,

in the United Kingdom, where within a short time the London and Northwestern and the Lancashire and Yorkshire—two companies which hold about one-sevonth of the railway capital of Great Britain—have agreed to consoli date with nearly $500,000,000 capital, it the consent of Parliament can be ob- I "|HOWARI GLYXDON" has discovered tained. The two ronds have been rivals »t Northampton, Massachusetts, veri in almost every large town through flcation of the old prophesy, "The deaf which either of them passes, at least in shall be made to understand and the the region of Manchester, Leeds, Brad- dumb to hear." The Governor of ford, and Halifax, and their stations that State recently inspected the Clarke stand side by side in half of these Deaf and Dumb Institution of North towns. The London and Northwestern anipton, where between forty and fifty operates 1,059 miles, and the Lancashire deaf mutes have been brought to under and Yorkshire 428 miles. ThegroRS re- sland conversation by watching the ceipts of the two together on these movements of the ]}ps of the person nearly 2,000 miles of railway are in the speaking and to talk with their own neighborhood of ten million pounds tongues. sterling, or fifty million dollars. It is said that the Caledonian and the North British railways also propose to consoli date. These roads monopolize two thirds or more of the traffic of Scot-

TI?E Journal is somewhat facetious over tho MAIL'S advocacy of Woman Suffrage. It was formerly worse than facetious, it was positively bitter,

when the

ed the

Publisher of this paper edit-

only iouma\ in Terre-Haut* that

dared 10

have seen the

Bg.

Suffrage. We

complete triumph of tho

P01^ of justice for the blacks, and wo

not have live

long to see corn-

tr5»mPh

of the policy of Justice

woman*

THK Governor of Wyoming Territory puts in a plea for female suffrage, aa vising the Legislature against the repeal of the Act under which it is allow-

He women

jaron aad

have made good

honest and competent office

holders. His testimony Is that of an

impartial observer, and will no doubt influence to some extent the future policy of the Territory in this impor tant matter.

THEJapanese who seem inclined to study the civilisation of the East, and the number is large, are learning the English and Russian languages in preference to other European tongues at least, test books of these languages alone have been ordered from the Flowery Kingdom.

THK Khedive of Egypt proposes to build a railroad from Cairo to the source of the Nile. It may be that children now in school will be able to take wedding tour* before they are old by rail from Liverpool to Central Africa, or to Bombay.

THKSociety of the Army of the Cumberland has determined to ereet an equestrian statue of oolomaK size of Gen. Tbomaa.

PKTZB B. 8WKK9KT, having Petered oat, has resigned.

ALKXT*

sick.

deferred makes the heart

MURDER BY MOB.

Squire Taylor, Charles Davis and George Johnson, negroes charged with the murder of the Park family, were taken out of jail at Charlestown, Clark county, about two o'clock Friday morning, by a mob of forty persons, who were masked and disguised, thir-ty-three of whom entered the jail, while the rest stood guard in the streets. The* negroes were bung in the woods about two miles from town. When lound, Taylor had been stripped naked and burned in a number of places with brands from a fire the mob had kiudled, probably with the intention, as expressed by them, of roasting them alive, as is strongly intimated. The negroes made a confession before death. Taylor and Johnson were hung on the same tree, and Davis on another tree some hundred feet distant. Tho mob was made up of citizens from the vicintiy of Henryville, Clark county, and Charlestown. -I

The negroes had confessed their guilt. Their crime was terrible, and there could be no reasonable doubt that they would be speedily convicted. They had little money and no friends. The courts of Southern Indiana have never shown partiality to black men There was no ground whatever for be lieving'that these men would be favored. Under the circumstances the per sons constituting the mob must be called murderers. They wore murderers without private wrongs to redress without any motive of gain—murderers from mere brutality. They cannot plead that justice was imperilled They have trampled upon law and Yight themselves. The burning of the naked body of Taylor with brands would indicate that in communities of this State, usually peaceful and orderly, (for the people of Clark county are not worse, perhaps, than the general average of Indiana humanity) there are elements of brutality and barbarism that would disgrace the Comanche savage.

THK Louisville Courier-Journal pub lishes a startling letter from the South which sets forth that a society, strohg in numbers and in wealth, has been or ganized, having for its object, the im portation of negro ruffians into the Northern States. The letter in ques tion is very positive and specific. It says that the plan is to furnish such negroes as are dangerous in every community, with means of getting away requiring of them to go North of the Ohio River. This Society is opposed to the Kuklux, and it clainiN that it has the right, in the absence of local justice, denied by the general government, to get rid of its murderers and marauders. There is not much "chivalry" in this last card of the advocates of the Lost

Cause."

course a people having an Independ ence Hall brick to contemplate will never, never, NKVRR, consent to be ground down beneath the iron heel of despotism again

AMONG the very serious charges mado against Mr. Voorhees by thp Indianap olis Journal'^ his morning is this that he has been poor. He may bo poor to-day without being dishonored particularly because his purse is not filled with shekels.

YESTERDAY was the 564th anniversary of Swiss independence. There is no royal line in Europe so old as the republic of Switzerland.

LADY JUDITH, By -Justin M.-Carty. New York. Hheldon & Co. Terre-IIaute, for wile by 8. R. Baker & Co. "Lady Judith" is an Anglo-Ameri-can novel by an Englishjwriter.

The author has a fine perception ol the human honrt, and preserves faithfully throughout the dominant characteristics of persons represented in this particular reminding one of Dickens.

Lady Judith is an egotist, believing firmly in her own infallibility. She performed many charities and had many schemes for the advancement of her race, and was in one sense unselfish for all the good she did was from a stern conviction of duty, and brought to her none of the gratification, which is the result when the promptings of a humane nature are obeyed. Love was a passion unknown to her, the absence of which blighted the life of her husband and child.

The design of the book is to illustrate this truth that love is the basis, the sustaining principle of all true life.

It is well written, and although not of thrilling interest, sufficiently so to make one desire to pursue it to the end.

DIFFER ENCE# OF OPINION. A New York paper says that the man who wrote "HomeSweet Home," never had a home. No, of oourse not. All his folks at home say be didn't. If a man is out of anything he immediately goes and writes about it. No man writes so msny "headings" ss the man who is out of his head. Certainly be didn't ever have any home. The man who wrote "Old Arm Chair" never had an arm chair In all his life. The best he had was an old split-bottom chair without any back to it. The author of Take Me Back to Switzerland" never was in Switzerland. The nearest be ever came to it was sitting in the William Tell saloon, eating Switzer lease-— case, why, that was the best he could do. "Mother I've Come Home To Die" hadn't spoken to the old lady for years, and wouldn't go near the house. His health never wss better. His mother nothing but a mother-in-law, and she is dead, anyhow. "Hark, I Hear

Stilly Night" used

to get on a spree and make the stilly night bowl till day break. The author of "We Met by Chance" knew venr well it was arranged before band. He had been weeks in contriving it, and she admired his contrivance. The author of "I Know a Bank," etc., didn't know one where he could get his note discounted. The only check be ever held was a white check on a frro bank. He never had red check in ail his life. "I'm Saddest When I Sing" wss tickled aim out to death when invited to. "No One to Love,** jost having killed off bis fith wife, naturally felt badly about it*

A WIFE'S CUNNING.

"What is a man to do when his wife., intent on subduing him, takes him on his weak side?" Our friend Tim Sharpless met us yesterday and propounded the foregoing problem for solution. It is perhaps unnecessary to state that our editorial "caput" was duly scratched, and the other received modes ot chasing •up stray ideas resorted to, quite in vain. Tim continued "I've been quite heavv in •nature' lately—been reading 'Ruskiu' a good deal, went North this Summer and got into quite a natural set or as they call themselves, 'naturalists'came home and talked to my wife (a most admirable woman) about one school and another, till she on» day laughed at me and called me'a dear olil Muggins,' then I got sort of half mad and never said another word about 'nature' afterward. "Now imagine," he continued, "how grateful I was when the other day wife slipped her arm in mine, and after a turn up and down the gallery, remarked that the trees were beginning to show the approach of Autumn, ana that in fact at this season of the year all nature seemed to recognize the need of pneparation for the co d. 'My love,' I answered, 'no study repays the student as that of nature.' 'See,for instanoe—there is Fido,' resumed my wife briskly, '1 noticed a week ago his shining coat was looking c^uite rusty, and now he is shedding it off. I suppose it will come on thicker.' 'Yes,' I replied, 'nature provides 'And there is Dick, our canary,' went on the little woman, 'on cleaning his cage this morning, I saw him sitting on his perch, with every feather gone out of his tail.'# 'He is 'moulting,' I answered learnedly. 'Have you not remarked, too," said my wife, 'the feathers from our chickens thev lie over the grass, and are blown about by the wind, and the chickens go about as though they knew they were shabby looking and didn't altogether like it*?' "My wife's mind," said Tim, "was so evidently in a 'receptive' state that 1 felt the occasion a most suitable one, and indulged myself in tho utteranoe 3^ of various sentimental fancies and odd 1 notions touching my fhvorite theme. She listened most attentively, answered most intelligently, and when I wound up with an appropriate quotation from 'Ruskin,' to the effect that we should study nature and copy her as closely as possible, replied, 'Yes, husband, just so. And it seems to me that tho very best way to copy her iust now is to get some clothes for this Winter and mako ourselves and the children look somewhat fresh!" 'And,' she pursued, 'if you will draw me a check before you go to the office to-morrow, I think I'll go and do some shopping.'

MMy

dear fellow," said Tim, "I went

in and sat down, for I positively felt that in an encounter with woman I bad not a ghost of a chance and iglit as well retire Irom tho field, and next morning 1 drew the check."

A MAfr ON THE RACE TRACK. A few days since, an occurrence took place at the Capital City course, not altogether dissimilar toonothat happened someyoars since on a race track near one or the eastern citios, in which tho name of Simpson bore a conspicuous part.

Just at duslt, a foot travoller, apparently somewhat fatiguod, and ovidont"y the worso for liquor, approached some men who were standing at the entrance gate to tho track,(which is but a few yards from tho Four Mile House,) and inquired tho distance to the near-^, est tavern. "Just throe miles, if you tako this road,M answered one, pointing to thft traok.

He was then conducted on tho track,^ and told that tho rood was somewhat winding, but he need apprehend no difficulty in keeping it, as it was perfect-' ly plain. After returning his grateful1" anks for the kindness shown him he proceeded in the direction pointed out. fifteen or twenty minutes, ho hadt' mado the circuit of tho ring, and re-"! gained his starting point where meetng with some strangers, as ne supposed, (but who, in fact, wore the samo that befriended him before,) ho again inquired tho distanco to the nearest tavern. "Just two tniies, sir, by keeping this, road," was the roply by one of the interrogated. Tho traveller again ox-£f pressed his thanks, and cotitmuod his* ourney. About tho same interval

elapsed that occupied the first tnilo. the pedestrian was again at the starting point.

Gentlemen how far is it to the nearest tayern he inquired of some men who were standing at the roadside.

ft,

Just one mile, sir," was tho kindly

third and last mile was mado

jcb

the weary traveller, who came up inuct sobered by the exercise of his locomotive powers. Believing that ho must be in the vicinity of the place so anxiously hoped for, he asked of some men if there was not a tavern near by.

One just across the road," responded one of the party, pointing to the Four Mile House.

Rejoiced at being at the ond of bis day's Journey, the traveller generou slv invited the strangers to cross over and partake with him at the bar, which invitation was accepted, and as the party were regaling tnemselves with the best the house could afford, the traveller took occasion to compliment the last three miles he had passed over, on the appearance of the country, ana especially on the smoothness of the road. 5—hhhh—n*

WK head this one "An Ohio Epitaph" on a highly respectable authority Under thin Yiod

And under thcue tree* 7.1 eth the bodof Holomon Peane. ».' He'* not In this hole,

But only bin pod 'T Jleshelled out hibMoul And went up to hl» God. —(Mlary 7lu3) Room.

cot'JfTBYKAW who visited Green-' ville, Tenn., btdhis attention attracted by the glittering sign of the Andes Insurance Company. He looked at it long and intently, and then broke oat in a joyful exclamation,"We 11,1 knowed old Andy would be at somethin' afore long ftell yer, they can't keep him down, no,they can't "and walked

Tin national food of Japan Is fisti. There not an ocean or river creature that the Japanese do not eat. And roost of the fish sold are not dead fish. So much is thomg'ht of fishes that, on a certain festive qt-.y, every femily that has had a boy bom during the year bangs out a great painted fish to boast of it,

PHOOK Positive: Good young lady— "Little boy. have yon everjbeen baptized Small heathen—"Oh, yes mum: I've the mark here on my arm."

fx a Chinese illustrated edition of tfie "Pilgrims Progress," Christian is endowed with an extensive pig-taiL