Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 28, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 January 1872 — Page 1

Vol. 2.—No. 28.

THE MAIL.

Office, 142 Main Street.

TKRRB-HAUTR PRINTING HOUSE.

O.J.SMITH &

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Steam Job Printers,

Huiman Block,

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TERKE-HADTB, IND

Railroad & Commercial Printing a Specialty.

Railroad Time Table.

VANDALIA SHORT LINE.

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Indianapolis IHvition.

Leave. Arrive. tfcfiO 11. ra New York Express _...5:50 a. m. 7:05 :t. Ifciy Express 11:5" a.

TALIJOW—7Sc. S PHO VlHlONtf-Haras I0@12c. Sides 8@8c

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2:?5 p. rn Lightning Express 11:00 p. m. 44') p. in....Ind'l Local 4:10 p. m. Hi. iAwi* Division.

Jsave. Arrive. 5:55 11. Pacific Express 12:40 a. m. I2:'« Noon Day Express -3:30 p. m. 11:10,,. in Ht. L. & Cairo Ex 10:10 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS AST. LOUIS R. B. Arrive from Kant. Depart for Wett. 5*4i a. Fast Express 6:50 a. ni. 1^X0 a. in Day Express 10:35 a. m. H»:4 1 p. rn N* Ight Express 10: 0 p. m. 4.-07 p. ni Muttoon Acc'dn 4:10 p. m.

Prom the. West. For the Bast. 3: to p. 111 Day Express 3:45 p. m. 12:40 a. in Lightning Express...l2:43a. nrr #•4, a. in Night Express 0:50 a. m. IfclS a. Matloon Acc'dn 10:50 a.

KVANHVI LLE ACRAWFORDEVILLK B. B. Leave. Arrive. 1:60 a. rn............... Ex presH.:.*.....v: ....10j05 p. m. 4:10 p. 111 MaJl 3:25 p.

HOCKVILLE EXTENSION.

Leave. Arrive. 423 Mall 10:35a. m. r.., T. II. A CHICAGO RAILWAY. fcave. Arrive 4TIS v. Express Mail .... 9:45 A. M. 4:10 A. Local Freight 3:30 p. M.

Markets.

TERRE-HAUTE MARKET. TKKRB-HADTK, Jan. 5. The following figures are paid to farmer* sud others ly dealers in this city:

BEESWAX—Yellow, 25330c. BITTTER—Host. 15@20c. VOKN MKAL-o«*c. EGGS— Fresh, 22325c. FKATH EltH—Live Geese, 55§0Oc.

Old I0rtj40o.

FLOl*U—Fancy brands, 17 00 @7 50. fv FBU1X—Grex Apples, 80c.(*lH)0 .. Dried Apples, 4@5c.

Dried Peaches,9^ 10c.

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GRAIN—Corn. A5^fl7c. .. mu, 1 4

Kye,U0«Wc.

White Wheat. |1 40 Alabama, 1 85. Mediterranean, SI 30.

GINSENG—50c. tlREAHK—Brown, 5900. HI DKH—Green Trimmed, 8Jo.

1. 7 ike. 14@

Suited, 9

Flint, 16o.

Sheepskins 15#ll TS.

7C.

Rhoulders 0i_

t»ARD-Country,7®8o. POTATOEB—75fl90c. (POULTRY—Tni keys, alive per lb 8&IO0

Dressed 9*}}10o

Ducks per dosen, 12 00.

t5 tGeese 13 50. -,•« Chickens, old, perdoaen. 13 50. young, U50#2QQ. ftKEDH—Flax. II 45. RAGS—Cotton, 8ri}3){c. i" WOOL—Tut-washed, OfWWKc.

Fleece fi»H§55c. Unwashed, 40fl|43o.

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HOGH-Paoked 22,000. Price, f8.50 to 14.00 itrosH M.26 to lUO net.

NEW YORK.

7-.s, NEW YORK, JAU.4. COTTON—Middling uplunds, 20Me. Ft/U It—Hupprflue Weslern and State, fi 70DV«I 10 wiuiiion to good,90 85(99 65 good to oiioic, 65rt7 10 white wheat extra,

810a*7FLOUR—Fair

25 extra Ohio «6 80®7 16 8i. Iouis, O HYK irqunst at 94 M. WHI^KV—lx)wer 9US®98c. WHK.vr— No. 2 spring, in store, SI 639 I 55 Winter r.-d w»*t«rn, *1 6691 60 amber, fl 68i|l 65: white, Si 68il 74 No. 2 MilWHiiktv, #1 bi in store No. I Milwaukee, Si 00afloat 91 57 in store red winter IndU a£a, 91 &1: amlwr Michigan, SI 66 chotoe whlif Mlchlgnn. II "4.

CORN—N««w Western mixed, afloat 77® 7«c old, 79i#89c. OATH— W««tern and Ohio in store and

*lWo£)l^ir'na extri 0hio.6»«70c pulled, «96lu unwashed, «9«! Western Texas,

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QUW/VIt -mill ,VUW, MOLA*SlvH-New Orlwiti's PROVISIONS—Pork dull and drooping now in***, 1)4 ««I4 50 old mew, IIS® Ul I2K prime, 11225 new prime. III 50|t 14 60: in«*s January, Penruaty and March, |H Ja«ua.T,IU March. 114 AO April, 115 75. B^wf quiet, uinM, W911 extra, III®

H«M« dull at FCCSATT. Beef nomlnar

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ri me«n HtWlS: India m#*, |lstfl. ra»wta dull shouldens 5®6c hams, 0® 4U«! tutddlun, heavy.

HtK*J*-Drveeed aull at|5^95Ho.

CINCINNATI. CutctMAit, Jan. 4.

Fl/^UR—Family, N «M« «5WIIKAT—R»ni winter II 43®l «. OOHN^-Bar, 47««V\ RYK—Firm si SiMSte.

No. 1:

O vTH—su^dy aa«*c.

Ki4()A—Dull and a»-hat- lower at SOAlle. "Vwik

PRuVlHlON»—Pork qu et and Wnik at

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II 50. Bulk meats quirt and weak ahouler 59 ^c rib *lde«, 6®6^c clear aide*. tlteout«tde rate«Wfit fully *d«u. dull and dmoptog shoal*.

Itarrn. BaciHi. dull and dmoplog 4«i"h,«^: rib aid.*, 7X9*^0. LARD-Quittand weak »i«-am,

krtilp, IV HOGS—The heavy nwinta rtfpmn the market cloerd at 14 50 RecnpuiS^00 hMbl.

WI11HK Y—Dull, and decline* at ate.

The News.

DOMESTIC.

The Connecticut Rppablican State Convention will meet at Hartford, Wedues day, January 21th.

E. A. Shaw bas been nominaled for Governor of New Hampshire by the Re publicans.

A. R. Hill, of Hennipin county, has been elected Speaker of the Minnesota Houae of Representatives.

A Columbia, S. C., special siys that the conviction of Avery for Kukluxism wa«* the most important yet obtained. Eighteen prisoners of Hparta county pleaded nulliy. They presented a very harrowing spectacle.

The Secretary of the Treasury has authorized the AKsi«tant Treasurer at New York to sell 11,000,000 In gold the second and fourth Thur«days and to purchnse 51,()00,000 of bonds 011 the first and third Thure days during the month of January.

In the United States Court, Columbia, 8. C., Wednesday mornin ten mor. KuKlux prisoners from Spartansburg pleadfd guilty, and told thewtory of their crime* In open court. Among them was an old man, who was discharged upon his own recognizance.

At Paterson, Wednesday, Libbie Gar ra brant, a young girl, ostensibly house keeper, poisoned Ransom F. Burroughs. She admitted before the Coroner's Jury thai st ebought arsenic by Burrough'sorder, that after taking a dose he kept about two day.then died, and that she fixed him in the chair where he was found ten days after: that she knew he poisoned himself, but did not make it known. No verdict is rendered yet.

Brigham Young was arrested Tuesday morning at his residence in Salt Lake by the United States Marshal, charged with murder. He was brought lutocouit In the afternoon. A motion to admit hiin to bail was made by his council on the ground thai lie was an old man of seventy odd years 01 age, in feeble health, and had come over lour hundred miles to meet this and aH other charges, and his physicians certified that Imprisonment would imperil his lite. The urosecution suggested that ball be fixed at 1500.000. The court declined to admit the

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irlsoner to ball, *nd he was immediately lu one of his own houses. Gev. Geary's message to the Pennsylvania Legislature rcpre.-*eiit8 the tola) u^Oi at nearly twenty-nine millions. Deducting the sinking fund and cash In treasury the balance unprovided for is 118,100,000 The amount paid ofT during the last live years averages 117,448,78 yearly. He makes a statement 01 the present condition of the claims against the Oeneral Government and commissions deducted by Evans who collected the amounts paid, but says nothing rel tive to suit pending against Evans. He calls attention to the necessity of making vaccination compulsory. He recommends addltloual legislation to nr^ vent mining accidents. The removal of the Quarantine from Its present locution aim tlie establishment of a Joint quarantine for Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania. He alludes to the obnoxious doctrine of free trade, aud makes brief reference to natiqnal topics.

Tbe following Is a recapitulation ol the statement of the public debt to Jan. 2: Debt bearing Interest in coln..ll,858.856,700 00 interest 83,789,257 00 Debt bearing interest In lawful money 86,703,060 00 Interest 829,400 00 Debt on which Interest has ceased since maturity. Principal 1.7!f7,987 00 Interest 290,213 00 Dfbt bearing no Interest 434,410,378 00 Unclaimed Interest 18,784 Ott Total debt: Principal 2,326,710,010 00 interest. 44,227,715 00 Total 2,371,132,731 00 Ca«h lu Treasury: Coin 111,432,820 00 Curreucy 15,861,00 Total...... 127,291^20 Of Debt less cash in Treasury,

January 1,1872 2,241,838,411

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*-r BDPPALO LfVB 8T0CK. BrrrALO, Jan. 4. CATTLE—Common to medium. 10990c iOW-r: aalew of SOS Ohio steer*, averaging 0 to I W 0 on a 9 5 9

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anas, 1,109 to pfrond^s S5 «95- 75 Canada*. 1.1^0 |*und- 96 Sit Illinois, IJBO

^MHK^AN^ LA^It^-H*les of Ohk) p, 77 to 114 poa11.lt at S-iMl _J2S: 1? Hew York, 115 to 1X7 poundm at Jo T^H ISJ$ 4T Canada lamha. to St pound#, P*t ft

BOCM-tMeaat 14 A«IK ft* good.

FV7n» Momiw—uOom« here, my ton, Mid band me thai at rap. It hurta m« rt*j tnocb to whip yoa." Youiw Hopefol—"No, It doot hurt yoa hair much It doea mi: if it did you wouida^t do it often, too, now.**

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December 1871 2,218,251,867 00 Decrease during the past: month 4,412,950 00 Decrease since March 1.1871.... 70,870,485 00 Decrease since March 1, 1869, to Maroh 1, »871 204,754,413 00

An outrage was committed by a ne gro named Howard, on a little girl In Rochester, N. Y.. on Tuesday. A mob soon after collected and attempted to take the negro from the Jail and bang blra The police and military dispersed the mob several times but ubout 0 o'clock, while the crowd wt'ie yelilngand shouting at the corner 01 Court aud exchange htieeis, the miliary flred a volley, killing tw men, and wouudlug one man and oue boy. The names of the killed are John Rlter, a railroad man, and Henry Merlow. John Hllbert was shot through the cair of the leg. The name ol the boy lias not been learned. He was hit in the shoulder. The excitement wa» great and people hurried to the »cene of conflict. The crowd wild it was not necexsary to flnswhilethe military say they werecoinpelled to fire to }.rot«ct themselves, as the) were being pelted with stones. An account 01 the difficulty Is thus given by an eyewitness, Policeman Branch: The squad ol militia were In line across the west eud of the bridge, feeing Excuange stivet, when a man stepped up to policeman Biauch, and said that some boys a few leet off were picking up stones. The officers drove them awav. At the same Instant the word forward was given by the offljer In command of the squad, and he poshed the pollcemau aside. The shots were flred at this time. The men shot were standing in Exchange street, and had not participated with the mob. Eckerwas a hluhly respectable and Influential German cltlc*-n. He lived but a few momenta alter belug taken into a saloon near by. it Is reported tuat a woman wss shot, but the tvport is not co firmed. The feeling against the military Is Intense. It IN fearetl mure blood will be shed.

FOREIGN.

A great London demonstration will soon lake place in houor of Blr Charles Dllke.

Dispatches from Algiers report that the Fteneh tro»ps have wou a brilliant *ucover tlie retiels in Omn. Two ivtx oh lei tains aud one hundred aud flay horsemen were killed.

The King ot Italy sent a special ambassador to tbe Vatican on New Year's day. to tender his congratulation* 10 tbe Holy Fath. r. The ami«r wis mil by Cardlual Antonelll, aud informed that his Holinns was Indisposed, aud unable 10 receive visitors.

About one hundred prisoners are now hrtd lu custody by the G» rinans, who have been tskn as hostages lor outrages perpetrated on Ueriusn -ohilers. nummary proceedings will be taken In tlie ease*of murder, unless the actual ofMiders sre sur rende cd beiore the 2*1 of tbe present month. The hostage* will be court-mar-Ualed.

A banquet was given to the Telegraphic Conference at Rome. byC. W. Field,

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New Yew"* day, at whleh ret wnUtivesof twenty-one ooumries, six hundred million people, twenty-six languages, aud privateconiMuiie* who-« aggregate caplUI ia three hundred million fraiw*, were pn* eat. The host. In an eloquent speech. Invited the Conference to Ht- Fetenbarg In 1*75. T*e speaker* all urged th government* to KM the Coofereuce. The members went to Napta* on he id

CARL ROSA pays Wschtel 128000 for fifty nights. In the spring be Is to appear in Italian opera with Madam* Paropa Rtrsa

A WO MAN1H DK.SCRIPTIOM OF ALEXIS. Mrs. Mary Clemmer Ames, in a letter to tbe Independent, thus describes tbe Grund Duke:

The Archduke Alexis is over six feet high, with great depth and breadth of best, an erect carriage, and a head remarkable for its height and development of reverence, veneration and benevolence. Whatever he may forget to do he will never forget to say his prayers. The upper part of bis tace is of roma-'iable beauty. The hair, waving and golden, is cut short. His forehead is intellectual his eyes ot deep blue, Urge and full, with those swil scintillations of ever changing expression which betray the soul, and make 'he finest charm ol any human face. The best of bis face is its manliness. It is a thoughtful, earnest fact—the face of a man who would be no less noble in trial and adversity than amid all the splendors of fortune.

His hands are simply huge, and have the grip of a polar bear—at least, they ure capable of bearing more hand--haking than ordinary hands. I saw him go through with his American ordeal the other evening. He did it with patience and grace, ir not with enthusiasm. It gave a sturdy, unsentimental grasp to the daintiest kid-gloved hand outstretched to him. But the face of Alexis told many stories during the process—one instant it looked ploased, the next weary, the next indifferent, and the next would brighten giin. "He is very handsome and agreeable," said a young lady who danced with him "but be has the ugliest band I ever saw." And if she makes tbe thin, sensitive, nervous American hand her criterion, it is not strange that she calls this giant fist uglv. It bas an ugly, honest hand, and looks as if it had traveled down tbe Romanoff line from a day when the liomanoffs were not royal.

If the Grand Duke cannot dance well, he can walk with a will. Head and shoulders above all the company, ho went about with Miss on his arm. The lady was very graceful and pretty, in blue crape, with a little blue feather and pink aigrette in her hair. As the two went laughing and chatting through the crowd, they were fair to see. It was the story, old as tbe earth, of the youth and the' maiden. In their ulorlous young manhood and womanhood, both were royal.

We prose over the vanity of earthly honors, yet no less is it the splendor ot life to be born to its purple. It is of heaven to be young, boautiful, and beloved. I was young then, Madame De Stael would say, and burst into tears, whenever, hi exile or sorrow, she recalled the glory of her youth. If it is the scion of an illustrious race, the representative of a vast and friendly power, the of an emperor, no less is it youth, beauty, bravery, and manhood whom America welcomes in the young man Alexis.

A MEXICAN PL UQ.

Mark Twaiu, in a recent lecture, tells of a hor-«e he bought in Carson City: "Everybody rode horseback in that town. I never saw such magnificent horsemanship as that displayed in Carson streets every day, ana I did envy them, though I was not much of a horseman. But I had soon learned to tell a horse from cow [laughter], and was burning with impatience to learn more. I was determined to have a horse and ride myself. Whilst this thought was rankling in my mind, the auctioneer caine scouring the plasa on a black beast that was humped, and— like a dromedary, and feariully homely. He was going at "twenty, twenty-iwo-two dollars, far horse, saddle and bridle."

A man standing near me—whom I didn't know—but who turned out to be the auctioneer's brother, noticed tbe wistful look in my eye, and observed that that was a remarkable horse to be going at such a price, let alone the saddlo and bridle. I said I had half a notion to bid. 'Now,' he says, 'You area stranger, I take it. You might think he is «n American horse, but he is not anything of tbe kind. lie is a Mexican plug—that's what he is—a geuuine Mexican plug,' but there was something else about that man's way of saying it, that made me ju«t determine that 1 own a genuine Mexican

ring—itwould

it took every cent I had. And

said, 'Has he any other advantages?' He hooked his forefinger in the pocket of my army shirt, and led me to one side, and uttered 'Sh! don't say a word! He can out buck any horse in America lie can out buck any horse in the world.' [Laughter.] Just then the auctioneer iine along, 'Twenty-four, twenty-four dollars, for horse, saddle and bridle.' I said 'twenty-seven!' 'Sold!' [Laughter.]

I took the genuine Mexican plug paid for him, pnt him in a livery stable, let him get something to eat, and get rested, and then in the afternoon I brought him out in the plusa, and some of the citisens held him by the head, aud others held him down to the earth by the tail, and 1 got on him. And as soon as those people let go [laughter] he put his feet all iu a ounch together, let bis b.trk sag down, and then be arched It up [laughter] suddenly [laughter], and shot mo one hundred and eighty yards [groat laughter] and I came down again, st raigbt down, and lighy in tbe saddle, and went up again. And when I cune down the next lime I lit «»n his ntuk, and seized him, and slid hack into tbe saddle, and held on. Then he raised himself straight up in the air on hi# bind feet, and just stepped around like -1 member of Congress [conclusive Uugbter], and then he came down and went up tbe other wsv, and walked around on bis hands just as a adHailboy would. Then he came down on all fours again with the same old process of shooting me up in tb«» air, and the third time I went up I heard a man say "O, don't be bark [L«»ud Laughter.] So that waa "bucking I was very gUd to know it. Not that I was enjoying it, but then 1 had been taking a general sort of Interest In it [Utighter], and had naturally dcaired to know wt»st tike name of it WHM. And whilst I was up, someb dy hit the horse a whack wiih the strap, and when I got

again the genuine Roars ot laughter.]

gOM.

ONLY TO KNOW.

Only to see your face again, Only to touch your hand— 1' Only to hear your voice ugain,

Ere I go to tfteaMent ifrnd Only to know you will one day see, When the sun is sluklng low, A shady nook by a sunlit brook,

Where the soft winds come and go Only to know you will think one day, Though never the thought you tell,

All! tor a love that I threw away For this oue loved me well."

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Only to know that an old sad song, A sound of a breeze-borne chime, Your lieait lakes bjc* with a faint regret

To a far-off, happy time To a time that seems like a sweet life gone. Never to -omeagain, And the after years, and mr own sad tears.

Are all that now remain Though ever the nlzht 1 tell. Ah! for a love that I threw away 1 sit and think—all! many a day— For, oh 1 loved you well!"

ON A thing at least

Is left lis, to be true and brave 11 is a short step to the grave, And life is a vuin thing at best. And I had rather be a man And choke my love, and bear my pnrl" In God's unalterable plan, Though it be with a broken heart, Then walk an easy, thornless way And gather blossoms, as in play, While the world marks its years away —[Isaac Htrr.

BKTTER to weave iu ttie web of life A bright and delicate filling, And to do God's will witli a ready heart,

And hunds that are swift and willing, Than to snap the minute, delicate threads Of our curious lives asunder, And then blame heaven for the tangled ends,

Ana sit and grieve and wondei

YET courage, soul! nor hold thy «i rength In vain, In hope o'ercome the steps Gxl set for thee For past the Alpine summits of great pain

Lieth Italy. —[Hose Terry.

HOW MRS. JINKS PL A YED SANTA CLAUiS. The various arts of deception that are practiced about holiday time by the different members of the family to prevent each other from finding «ut the character of the present that he or she designs to surprise some one with are amusinu, though not always attended with the most pleasant results, as is shown by the following:

There is a gentleman residing upon Main street whom we shall call Jinks, though that is not anything like his name but he gave us a box of cigars to call him "Jinks." so in it goes. Mr. Jinks is one of that kind of men that believe in making presents on Christmas. He thinks the man who does not think enough of his family to gladden their hearts by a surprise of something to tickle their palate or fan'sy, ought not to have any family, so he always borrows a little money from his friends and carts home, a week or so before Christmas, several bundles of nicknacks then when Christmas morning arrives, he leans back in bis chair and enjoys tbe bliss of having done a good deed, and while his family are telling him how happy he has made them, he smiles to think bow inexpensive this kind of enjoyment is, and wonders who will lend him a few dollars next year.

A night or two since Jinks might have been seen (but be was not) cautioHsly wending bis way through alleys and back lots to his home, with his arms and pockets full of curious shaped bundles and packages. He did not enter his premises at the front gate but with the boldness of a tux assessor sneaked over the fence and approached the door of his woodshed and groped his way into its darkened precincts, where after a little delay be deposited bis packages in under a wash-tub, then walked softly around in Iront, slammed the gate, and whistling, "His heart was true to Poll," entered the front d^or, and was soon in the bosom of his family.

His wife had during the day called on a furniture dealer, and purchased an easy chair, which she ordered sent up to the bouse late at night, intending to hide it in the closet alter all but she were asleep and presert®lt to her "hubbv" Christmas morning.

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while Jinks was thinking about the fine lot of presents he had in the woodshed for his wife and children, Mrs. Jinks was also engaged in pleasant reveries, and wondering if she could manage to get the chair into the house and stowed away without detection.

At last preparations for retiring were made, the stoves were filled, tbe cat kicked out doors, the tnince pies placed where they would not freeie, and sbortlv after the lights went out aud slumber folded the Jinks family in its embrace. That is, all but Jinks, he was wide awake, though after he had been in bed a few minute* he snored like one of the Seven Sleepers, and bis wife thought from tbe way be breathed be bad been driuking. A hour passed and the sleepless Jinks carefullv raised •his bead, and looked to see if Mrs. J. was awake. She slept calmly, and he gradudly slipped out of bed, and started for the wooabouse after bis presents.

He felt his way through the dining room, barked bis shins on every chair in the vicinity, stepped in the bre that was "set to rise* by the stove, but finally found the door leading to the woodhouse. He opened it carelnlly, when—horrors! What did he see? A human form in the entrance with a jiuge packxge, and while he stood watching, the man stepped inaide lyid was invisible in tbe darknons.

Jinks is a man of pluck: he never falters in danger's hour, and thinking he lt!«l discovered a burglar in the act of nibbing tlie bouse, he stepped back into tbe kitchen, seised the poker, and then with a rush threw himself into the corner woere tbe robber was concealed. His lively effort iu*ed hiin to kn.H-k down a boiler that was hanging overheid, while about a cord of wood that wss piled upcauietuuibling down, burying Jinks and tbe robber in the ruins. Mrs. Jinks bearing tbe noise, HIHI thinking the ftirnitnre man had brought the chairs, left Iter bed, came down stairs, lit a candle and came to tbe door. Wh.it ft spectacle met ber. A iran new wash boiler smaabed, the floor covered with atove-wood, from which protruded the b:»re nether limbs of tbe courageous Jinks, while In an opposite corner with h-df a cord of wood on his stom wb, and an easy chair over hia bead, lay the furniture man. Both, however, soon ex Heated themselves, and an explanation followed.

The man who delivered the chair had a bump about the sixe of a bocoa nut on bis eye-brow, while Jinks looked like a porcupine from the slivers that were projecting from his body. He won't be able to nse tne easy chair for six months, and says when he plays "Santa Claus" again he will advertise it beforehand in tb,e Herald.—[Titusville (Pa.) Herald,

[From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.] TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS.

Some Amusina Blunders.

The amusement afforded by ludicrous tvpographical errors will be inexhaustible while printers are fallible and editors write with abominal indifference to legibility. One of the most astonishing blunders of this kind was committed some years ago in an editorial in the Bulletin. The writer, who had cautioned his readers against "casting their pearls before swine," was amazed and grieved to perceive that the compositor had warned the public against "carting th ir pills before sunrise." This was corrected in the prool but the reporter who declared of a certain new store that it had "sixty fancy windows" was even more indignant than the 8totekeeper when he saw in his paper the statement that the establishment contained "sixty faded windows." And then there was the poet, iu Muncy, who sought to soothe the wounded feelings ot a bereaved family by publishing in the locul paper a poe ical tribute to tho deceased daughter Etnily, in which he declared thiu "we will hallow her grave with our tears." He was pursued next morning by Emily's exasperated brother because the printer's insisted that "we will harrow her grave with our steers."

The poets suffer most deeply. Nothing could be worse, for instance, than the misery of the bard who asserted, in his copy, that he "kissed her under the silent stars," only to find that the compositor compelled him to "kick her under the cellar stairs." A certain Jenkins, also, was the victim of an aggravated assault, because when, in his report of a wedding, be declared that "the bride was accompanied to the altar by eight bridesmaids," the types made it that "the bride was accompanied to the altar by tight bridesmaids." These things are peculiarly unpleasant when they occur in remarks upon death as in the case of the editor, who, while writing a sympathetic paragraph, observed that "Mr. Smith could hardly bear the loss ot bis wife," only to find that the printer had made it "Mr. Smith could hardly bear such a boss for

Even more deplorable is the injury done to the journalist whocoinplitnented a certain candidate with tbe observation that he was "a noble old burgher, proudly loving his native state." Imagine the indignation ot the candidate aud tbe horror of the editor, when tbe paper next day contained the assertion that the said burgher was "a nobby old burglar, prowling around iu a naked state.

But tbe printers do not make all the mistakes. We remember the laughter and comment provoked by tho statement of a provincial reporter, wno called the attention of the constable to the fact that "on Sunday last some twenty or thirty men collected in the hollow back of Thomas McGinnis, and engaged in fighting during tbe whole morning." Mr. McGinnis' back must have been uncommonly large.

During the Franco-Prussian war a great deal of fun was poked at the New Jersey editor who read in the cabledis patches that "B tzaine had moved twenty kilometres out of Metx." He thereupon sat down and Wrote an editorial, in which he said he was delighted to bear that all the kilometres had been removed and that the innocent oeople of Metz were no longer endangered by tbe presence of those develish engines of war—sleeping upon a volcano, as it were. And then he went on to describe some experiments made with kilometres in the Crimea, in which one of them exploded and blew a frigate out ol the water.

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LIFE OF A REPORTER. Here is Mark Twain's experience as a reporter, given in a recent lecture:

I reported on that morning newspaper three years, and it was pretty hHrd work. But I enjoyed its attractions. Reporting is the best school in tbe world to get a knowledge ot human beings, human nature, and human Ways. A nice, gentlemanly reporter—I make no reference—is well treated by everybody. Juft think of the wide range of acquaintanceship, his experience of life ana society! No other occupation brings a man into such familiar sociable relations with all grades aud classes 1. m..- lUtnM ut of people. Tue last thing at night— midnight—he goes browsing around after items among poliee and jail-birds.

in the lock-up. questioning the prison era, and mating pleasant and Wing friendships with some of tbe worst people in the world. [Laughter.] And the very next evening he gets himself up regardless of expense, puts on all the good eloth his friends have £Ot—[laughter] goes and takes dinner with the Governor, or the Com inander in Chief of tbe District, tbe United States Senator, and some more of the upper crust of society. He is on good terms with all of them, and is present at every public itberiug, and has essv access to every variety of people. Why, I breakfasted almost every morning wiih the Governor,dined with the principal clergyman, and slept in the Station House. [Liughter.]

A reporter bas to lie a lilt le,of coarse, or tbev would discharge him. That is lie only drawback to the prof sslon. Tit at is whv I 1-it it. [Laughter.] I am different'from Washington I b*ve a higher and grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I wvn't. [Prolonged Uagbter.] Reporting is fascinating, but then It Is distressing to have to lie so. Lying is bad Iviiig is very bad. Every individoaf in this house knows that by experience. I think that for a man to tell alie when he can't make anything by It, is wrong. {Liughter.]

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TgnmrsoS has joined tbe New York Ledger's corps of contributor*, and ia doubtless overjoyed to reach tbe high position in literature occupied by Sylvan as Cobb and Ned Bnutiioe.

"SEEING" EACH OTHER. Near a late New Jersey camp meeting, two clergymen, a Baptist, snd Muthdoist were walking, when they stw a little g'rlsitting on stons, who was weeping bitterly. "What is tue matter, my litttogirl asked the Baptist, kindly. "My—my f-fatber was killed thi railroad a few days ago, and bus Just been buried, sir and my motfcer is siok abed, and can't work, sai wo haven't anything till est, and don't know what to do," sobbed the girl, crying as if her heart would break. "A truly lamentable case. I do indeed pity you," said the Baptist, frigidly, as if lie were pitying some ioe-oresm he could not eat. "How much do you pity her, brother C.? I pity ber five dollars," yelled the Methodist, as he threw a into the girl's lap.

He had read an incident like this in a Sunday-school paper.

•I dotiple your pile, Brother P.," the Baptist brother said as he slowly plaoed an over the V, "I go you one better," the Methodist bawled, as he pat a ten on the other money. "I cover yeur stake, Brother P., snd the Baptist clergyman's expression showed he was getting excited as a twenty from his purse was put on the rapidly increasing pile. "I'll top the spons with a fifty I howled Brother P., as he drew out his last note, and placed the sum with the others, glaring savagely at his companion. "Here is a hundred dollar note, little girl," said the Baptist, quite blandlir, now that he had got ahead of bis Methodist brotbei -in-the-Lord "you may rake in the spoils, for you've 'cleaned out' and 'euchred' both T»y friend and myself, and left us both 'dead broke.'"

Then they walked off humming a hymn. Now, what we would like to know is, what did those clergymen do before that were converted?

ONE HUNDRED YEA US AVfO. One hundred and ten years sgo, there was not a single white man in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Then, what is the most flourishing part of A merica was as little known as the country around the mysterious mountains of the moou. It was not until 1776 that Boone left his home in North Carolina, to become the first settler in Kentucky. The first pioneers of Ohio did not settle until twenty years after this time. A hundred yean ago Canada lielonged to France, and the population did not exoeed a million and a naif of people. A hundred years ago the great Frederick of Prussia wss performing those grand exploits which bave made him immortal in military annals, and with his little monarchy was sustaining a single handed contest with Russia, Austria, and France, the three great powers of Europe oomblned. Washington was a modest Virginian colonel, and the great events of history in the two worlds in whieh these two great but dissimilar men took leading parts, were 'hen scarcely foreshadowed. A hundred years sgo tbe United States were the most loyal part of the British Empire, and on the political horizon no speck Indicated the struggle which within a score of year* thereafter established thegieat repubno of the world. A hundred years ago there were but four newspapers In America. Steam engines had not beat imagined, and railroads and telegraphs bad not entered into the remotest conception of men. Wuen we come to look at it through tbe vista of history, we find that

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has been allotted more important events, in their bearing upon the happiness of the world, than almost any other which has elapsed sinoe:th^^f^

—1—»BS55HB A MUSICAL DOG.

Tbe Hartford Times is responsible for the following: Tht re is in tlrs city a dog that can sing. We state tbe fact unqualifiedly, on the testimony of all the members of the family ol the gentleman who owns him. Tho animal in question is a large, mouse-colored greyhound—pereaps about six or seven years old. His attempts at singing, though they are certainly not very musical, are unmistakable and they have been observed by the family lor the last two or three years. He does not siug alone, hot when he hears certain members of the family singing, he "John in." This Is more particularly the case with one lady of the house, who, if she begins to sing when the dog is anvwhere about the place is pretty certain to obtain a canine accompaniment. Ii sbe is heard singing upstairs, and the dog Is sunt out lielow, he will raise a rumpus tUI. he is admitted to tbe room where she is, when he will join, keeping very good time, and actually keeping—so we sre assured—on tbe same key, rising with the singer to the higher notes, in a kind of blended whine and and bowl, tha is yet, neither tike tbe voice of a dog nor anything else, but "bowing something of a musical ear. When he reaches a note too high far him, be will stop and wait for tne cadence of tbe song to reach the lower notes agsin. In his rising notes he lifts bis bea*! as well as bis voice. When his owner enters the room, he will suddenly stop, and not another note oan be got out of him while his master remains, hi fact he dislikes to b«tve anybody present exe*ptth« one with whom he sings. "His voice is improved, and h? slugs better than lie did." Ho in ly yet sing witbNilsson. There are a good in my puppies following in her wak" who bavs neither the music no one.

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THB Emperor of China is soon io be' fnarried, and has imported 1 pair of elephants to assist at thfi ceremony. His future consort is undergoing a caretul training in the etiti'ietto of court life. For three yearn he looms ol Nankin, Hongchou and Canton bsve been engaged on the silks and satins for her bridal trousseau, and just now they are announced as completed, at a oost of nearly half a million in oor money. When the bridegroom, wb® has tho sun for his emblem, goes ^orth in a oar drawn by elephants, bis rnoe, who represents the moon, is to be burns to tbe palaon In a palanquin eomposea entirely of strings of p^arla.