Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 28, Bloomington, Monroe County, 12 May 1883 — Page 3

, A Fakbc t w as brerght into a Brookly Police Court the other day to act as a witness in a ease of disputed ownership of hi uself. With no fear of the law before his eyes, the bird proceeded to swear at the justice, using a vocabulary so extensive that the insulted justice grew red in the face and was about to line the witness for contempt of court Just then a third man who claimed to be an own r looked in, with: "Polly come and take a drink." Polly flew out, and the case is not decided vet

The number of pounds iu a bushel of the various articles of produce varies eomewhat in the different States. The majority, however, have adopted the following. . Apples (dried) TS Indian corn '6 Barley 43 Indian corn (in ear) .OS Buckwheat ,...42 Indian.com (mcal).0 Beane 60 Oat. 32 Beans (castor) .46 Onions -'7 Coal (mineral) SO Teaches (dried) 23 Ohareoalhard-to od) . . .SOPeas 60 Flax seed 56 Potatoes 60 Grass seed (blue) ye - '6 Grass seed (closer) 0 Rye (meal) 5G Grass seed (timothy..-- Salt Hemp seed............ Wheat 60

The San FraeiscoSehool Trustees have employed a stalwart lady as "School Inspector." Her business is to waltz around among: the schools and give the teachers liints as to how they can man tain perfect disciplina without resorting to the paddle or the switch. This lady asserts that the use of the red is nonsense. The propriety of paying a woman a salary to exploit her disciplinary theories is rather doubtful. The corporal punishment question is an open one yet, and the bulk of the evidence goes to show that there ace many children who can not possibly be diciplined by anything .except an occasional application of the switch ripon a tender part

A girl in a town not a thousand miles from hers, before leaving that wicked place for the beautiful city made the folowing touching appeal to her friends: "Do not lay me down by the rippling brook's side, lest babbling lovers wake me from my dreams, nor in the beautiful cemeteries in the valleys, lest sight-seers, reading over epitaphs, distract me; but let my last sleep bev under the counter of the merchant and the business man generally who does never advertise. There is the peace which passeth all understanding, and a deep sleep on which the buoyant footfall of youth nor the weary shuffle and drag of old age will never intrude'

Theke appears to be a little hitch in the recent arrangement by which United States troops are permitted to pursue raiding Indians from Mexico across the boundary and punish them in Mexican territory, and Mexican troops are allowed to do the same with respect to American Indians raiding o a Mexican territory. It appears that the Mexican government regards a formal change in existing treaties as necessary, but Gen. Crook has already gone after some raiding bands in Mexico, doubtless with ihe consent of the local Mexican military authorities. A few years ago this question of the pursuit of raiders was a very serious one. Mexicans, freebooters and Indians were in the habit of crossing the Bio Grande and stealing stock from Texas ranches. CCheir movements were very swift, and our Government could rarely intercept t aem, owing to scant garrisons, and the raiders could not be followed, on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. Sharp remonstrances' were mad to the Mexican authorities,but the substance of the responses was tlaat the Mexican government was not rstrong enough to control its own vicirous population, and that the Unitecp&lates troops could not lb jgssgffted to operate against the racers on Mexican soil, becausetiii people would reseat such action regard it as an American war movement. Since the Mexican government has become more staple these Bio Grande raids have greatly diminished, but they furnished a good casus belli, which most governments would have accepted and acted upon. After Diaz was declared President by the Mexican Congress, on May 2, 1877, he saw che necessity of com posing this borderoutrage business, and increased the Mexican garrisons along the Rio Grande, and permitted several American r. ursuing parties to operate against the raiders on American soil. The arrangement recently effected for the northern border of Mexico is a good one, and it is to be hoped that it may continue.

schools must the death blow of crime bo struck; the anticipating faculties of the rising generation be guided and stieiigthenedt" and he favored the concentration of enlightened educational effort upon the common schools. Since 1833, the necessity for rudimental education has vastly increased in urgency. The country has leaped forward in every avenue of material progress, but illiteracy has startlingly increased with the increasing civilization and increasing population. It is an enemy which menaces us in Kentucky in an extraordinary manner. It is a public danger which overshadows

L the State. It will not down before reso

lutions. It can only be shorn of its power to injure by a direct invasion of its strongholds by the school-teacher and school-house. These factors of victory are made by the expenditure of money, and the expenditure of the necessary ihoj ey involves some personal sacrifice. The school-tax clause of a man's tax bill is the most beneficent item there. JSveiy dollar paid out fat this purpose is a direct contribution to the advancement tf our material interests. The people must contribute more. Why not collect the 2 poll tax from the whole male population over twenty-one years of age? Who pays it to-day except the owner of real estate? Why should not the tax be collected from people who do not own real estate, and the proceeds be placed in the school

fund? W7hy not make it compulsory on districts to erect school-houses snd secure teachers? Why not make it a stern public duty for every school district to have

a school-house and a teacher. Let the spirit of the Frankfort Convention be diffused through the State. Tt is shameful that anywhere a tax-payer should be hostile to taxes for primary education. Pub he education does not make angelB ot men, but it does kill off illiteracy; it does engender nioTe enlightened ambition; a desire for bettering the condition; a pride in business and social order; a hatred of social chaos. It does minimize crime in proportion as it lifts men ont of debasing conditions. The work of warring on illiteracy is formidable in this State; but it is a work which must not be shirked. We shirk it at our peril. Louisville Courier Journal.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

According to the accounts published by the Washington papers President Arthur had a very serious time in getting ready for his southern trip, and no doubt i was one of the things which made ueivous that when he found the

nua uiu iiol one -very generous-

mucn so as aid the flies and

os, it made him sick of the trip, aused the report to be currented - the trip was a failure. When the president got el! ready for the trip and started for the train it was found that the parties who had charge of the luncheon hadfent it to she White House instead of to the train, and the president's party were obliged to live along the route on railroad sandwiches, stale cheese, and nothing to drink but the shale water that' is always to be found in the average railroad car water-cooler. And then it makes things worse, when the conductor came through the ear, and saw the president and suite manehihg sandwiches, he supposed they were a gang of emigrants, and it required considerable diplomacy, and statesmanship to convince liim that the party were guests of the railroad company. All this time the president kept getting madder, and when the coupling pin omuectii g the president's car broke, and the forward paH of the train went on a few miles and left the president's party standing still on the track,

and swearing at their luck, it will be seen that the president wis in no condition, when he arrived in Florida, to sit camly down in the sun. with a can of angle worms between his snees to watch a cork bob up and down upon the surface of a pond of Florida water. And it is said that tne Fiord-da fleas, and sand flies, and mosquitos went for his tender presidential skin, and bothered him worse than a gang of office seekers would in Washington. Taking it all ij all, the president seems to have bad a very seri one time of is on this trip, and it will brobably tell on his nervous system almost as much as late hours and big supper and a torpid liver would in Washington. .Peek's Sun.

Fifty years ago that earnest educator iipo. Brewster, declared; 'In the primary

The Star route trial we have with us always. The debt statement issued Tuesday shows a decrease of the public debt during April of 2,851, 402. Cash in the treasury SSHU MO Gold certificates. Si,&iS,ux Silver certificate outetandin g S9,771 ,381 Refunding certificates 38,8 0 Certificates of deposit outstanding.... , 1.01 , ( 0 Legal tenders outstanding 84tV St' 18 Fractional curren ey outetanding 7,OC8,tf73 Xhe total debt rednction in the ten months of the fiscal year is $114,984 "vT5 Of the 260,000 Indians in the United States, about 160,000 in the West, Northwest and Southwest require more or less military surveillance. One-fourth oE them or 50,000 in round numbers are adults capable of bearing arias, but there are seldom more than from 100 to 1,000 Indians on the war-path. Yet we have on the border a force of 17,500 men for purines oi repression and suppression. Mr. Clark, the architect of the Capitol, has given permission to a Boston firm to erect and pit in working order in one of the rooms of the Capitol their electrical fciTrangen ent which has been designed to Tegister and record votes of parliamentary bodies. T$y this system an aye and no call of the House of Representatives can be taken, it is claimed m leps than a minute. The machine prints the name of each member and indicates on which side he votes. It also indicates the absentees and those who are paired. Secretary Folger denied that his attention had been called to the reported anti-British utterances of the well-known L G. Meagher Condon, now an employe in the Treasury Department. Mr. Folger characterized the report that the British minister had made a complaint on this subject as absurd. "Mr. Condon," said he, "has a perfect right to f ree am of speech, the same as any other citizen, and the fact that he is a government employe does not make it necessary that he should be interfered with in this respect" Ex-Cadet J. 0. Whitaker, whose courtmartial furnished reading matter for an extended period two years ago, has just

applied to the War Department for a copy of the record of the court proceedings, and the clerks in the ollice of the Judge Advocate-general are now engaged in copying the papers, so as to comply with his request. TThe testimony is very voluminous, and will require the service of a large force of clerks for some days

in copying. AY hitaker is now a professor in the Avery Institute at Charleston, S. C. An itemized report of internal revenne receipts for the nine months ending March 31, shows that compare-with the corresponding period of the preseding fiscal year, there was an aggregate increase of .$2,262,000. The receipts from distilled spirits show an increase of $3,246,000, while those from tobacco show a decrease of 1,607,600. The aggregate receipts for April show a falling off ot about $800,990, which still leaves receipts for the ten months ending Tuesday about 1,700,000 in excess of the receipts for the same ten months of 1882. Those figures indicate that the internal revenue receipts for the current fiscal year will be equal to those of last year, which were over $146,006,000. A valuable discovery of old records has been made in the Treasury Department. For years past it was supposed that the oldest records of the pay department in existence were dated 1792. Recently the pay records of the continental establishment from 1784 to 1792 were found in the dust-covered piles under the roof of the treasury building. These- bonks contain the accounts of General George Washing

ton, Benedict Arnold, Aaron Burr, Jona

than Trumbull, Marquis de Lafajette and many other distinguished champions Through a miscalculation in survey iug the lands for thoZuni Indian reservation, in New Mexico, an error was made, and tne intention of the government that the reservation should include the springs which lie directly northeast of the boundary line of the reservation was not carried put Recently it has been stated that Paymaster William T. Tucker, son-in-law of Senator Logan, and his associates have taken up six claims, three desert and three homestead, containing in all 2,400 acres, which embrace the springs mentioned. It is further stated that should the claims of Tucker and associates be granted the water supply of the Junius y ill be practically cut off. In the absence o? a survey of the Tucker claims, howfnrer they were rendered void by the is.

snance, Mi.y 1, of an executive order amending the original order so as to include within the limits of the Zuui reservation an additional tract of land on which ti e above named springs are si':.uated. of the Revolutionary struggle. The books show a balance due the government and unaccounted for from George Washington of $161,389. There is nothing in existence to show how this deficit, occurred, but it is surmised the money was lost in military operations. A large shortage is also found in W-ashingtons specie account, but t his is probably due to the depreciation of continental money. Benedict Arnold was apparently short in his accounts $1,831.67, ami the receipts of Lafayette did not tally with his disbursements in the sum of $2,202. The Secretary of War said that the orders sent to General Oook on Saturday directing him to be careful to observe the convention with Mexico in relation to crossing the border by United Btates troops, were issued because of rcpoits of General Cook's intention to make a raid across the Mexican line for the purpose of dislodging the bad hostile Apaches from Arizona. The agreement with the Mexican government, made in August last, while it permitted the troops of either country to cross the border in pursuit of a flyiujr baud of marauding Indians, did not, ho said, admit of their remaiuing for the purpose of beginning a raid on resident Indians, or of their cross ing for that purpose, as the newspaper reports said General Crook conten plated doing. Consent for Thrived States troops

to cross under such eiren instances ceuld only be granted by the Mexican Senate, and pending negotiations to obtain such consent, he deemed it prudent to suggest to General Crook the exercise of caution iu keeping within the limits of the present agreement He said the War Department has been notified that the

telegram sent Saturday had been forwarded to General Grook in the field. The collector of internal revenue for bis district made a decision yestsrdaywhioh, if there were anv likelihood of its being upheld at the Treasury pepartment, would create a sensationi among dealers in tobacco. One of the latter appeared before this collector to take the necessary stops to perfect his papers claiming a rebate. The collector asked him if he had paid his tax as a denier, which was due on the first of the month. On the dealer's saying that he had not, and that it had always been the custom to allow a few days margin for the payment of this tnr, f!i3 collect ;r in formed him that the govern mont could only recognize as dealers those who had actually paid their taxes as such on the 1st. day of May, and only those who had thus paid on that date could file claims for re bate. The law officers at the treasury upon hearing informally of this preposterous decision, decided that of course it would not stand, and that ordinary accommodation would be granted dealers in the matter of payiug their taxes, and every facility would he given them in filliur their claims for rehste. The approval of the decision of the Washington collector would throw out the claims of a very large proportion of the dealers of the country. mmmmmmmmxwmml Animal Actors. Auinvd perforns. ba their parts eve so simple, are not always to he depended upon. An effect never contemplated, by the composer of "Tanohauser" was produced one night at Coven t Garden, thank? to a couple of animal supers. With the first note of the goatherd s song, the two goats tethered to the rock began to Meat most piteously, and in her own interest Wile Cottino hastened to set them free. One mad a hasty and undignified exit, but the o'her less bashful, made its way to the footlights, and insisted upon delivering itself of a ludicrous solo as untaelodious as the most ardent admirer of the music of the future could hope to hear. Determined to put the "Forty Thieves", upon the stage is as realistic a manner as possible, an enterprising Nevada manager provided "All Baba" with a real live mule to carry off the proceeds of his raid on the robber's cave. Either from the lack of proper instructions or iom the perversity of his nature, the animal behaved as though the sole purpose ot his presence was to prove that he was no "property" mule, for no sooner was he on the stage tin n he put hte fore feet down firmly and kicked as only a mule knows how to do, sending the prompter into the orchestra, the call-boy into the flies, and causing a general exeunt, without aiiy regard to the stage directions. Having the

stage to himself, he exercised uis heels until lift had kicked the cavern, the jars of odd an expanse of forest far into f pace, and utterly wrecked the mise on scene. That mule's first appearance was his last, although the spectators were so delighfcwith his spirited performance that they wanted him to take a benefit; but the manager declined to give him a night.

OLD GRIMES.

, fi. t! rooms hurv in Provi-'iMp, P. 1. Kehiumy in, wr. ard i fucnori nt Brown Vmvvity, in th city, died l was t)i author of tw faiumiR Ronp '0'd f?rt?nis is Doad. wlilon-' corwvUy imlriiftttcd. Imt n popular any in'tlto Bullish htngiingo. TIm fnUtnving&is i eoneet version :'1 Old Orimc is dond, ihnt pnuid old man, Wo nVr shall penhiai mora: 11 o npod to wonr h lontrMack font All but ioiw' down bpforo. IT?; luMirl w.is opmt yi1it d'iy, Mis foolitu' :t W!'!T rnn. llis ibvr was om inf'H'tod to tfray, ITo wore it iu u inouo. Whm.o'or ho hwird the voi(i of pain. Tits broat with p'jy bnnu-d, Th larijo, round howl upon his cauo From ivory was tannni. Kind vords ho ovr !ial fur all, ITo hnd no bnpo dwifrn, His f-yoR woro dark and rathiT .small, ITim lioso was aquiline, Ifo livod at ponon with all masikiiuh

In friondsldp ho was trno. His coat had poolrot-hoios hohind, His pantalidoous wore bluo. Unharm'd tho sin which oarth poHntos, c passed tiootiroly o'Or, And povor woro a pair of boo Us For 30 yar9 or aioro. Bui pood old (irimop is now at ront, Nor fears misfortune". frown. He wore a douhh'-ltrcasWl vnst, Tho stripos ran up and flown.

He modest merit sought to fmd. And pay it is dnsert. He had noinalire in his mind, No ruffles on his shirt. His neishhorfi he did not abuso, Was soniabl and ;ray. He woro larpe bnolclos on his shops, Ar.d cljaujred them every day. His knowledge 1-id from publio ijJize, He did uot briuxr to view. Nor make a uotse town inpetiuK days. As many people do. His worldly jrcods he never threw In tmst to fortune's Hunrs, He iivol (as all his brotbersdo), Iu easy circumstfinees. !'!ms xsndistnrbVI hy anxlons eares. His pen oof nl momontn rnn. And everybody said ho was. A fine old peiitleman.

Jeff Davis. Nov? Orleans Correspondent Nnshville American; Quo afternoon, while over tho lake I was out driving, down oiv- of the beautiful aislo-1 ike country roads, where the pines and reat oaks bend overhead like the arches of some groat cathedral transept, when we had to give half the road to a modest-looking, one horse btiggy, driven by a Eat, pleasant looking lady, who was talking to a beat, and querulous-looking old man. His hair and beard were very white; his eyes were red, and the slight litfure seemed greatly aged since I had last Rceuhmi, for thia was Mr. Jeft'erson, and the motherly -looking lady wat Mrs. Davis. Mrs. Davis, they say, can ride a hitfh horse. To me ho appears a oweet and lovely woman. She it; highly cultur

ed, as perhaps yon know. Mr. Davis looks very feeble and has aged greatly in fhe Jasfc few months. A feeble, wan, bent

old tmaD, with tho gentlest manno- and ihe kindest smile for all. He came over to the city on decoration day. T do not think he is a particularly brilliant or eloquent speaker, but he attracts more attention than any other man in the South could win from our rather jndnferent public. Woman's Treatment of Women, Philadelphia Keeord. A healthy beyEfiunin will be made if women whose bread is earned for them will treat their toiling sisters with womanly consideration and regard, and not with a "oold-potatoes-and-store bread" kind of snrTranee. Hnch help will not ensj anything, and may produce a moral effect, the extent of which cannot bt estimated. New ribbomi are so broad thai one will coyer a wijjote hunut.

A VILLAIN FOILED. Senor Oortez lived in an elegant villa on the outskirts of Ferdinand. Mexico, with his only child, Mann, a beautiful p;irl o twenty. Senor Oortez had promised hi 3 old friend and playmate, Senor Lebas, when the latter was on his deathbed that he womld pee that his daughter Marin and his friend's son Giraud should marry. fttrand, Ihonprh left a lare fortune had pqnanderel nearlv all of it in reckless disipnlL.n. and :t wasdiscavered that he had resorted to robbery en more than one occasion to acquire funds to satiate hw dissolute habits. These factp, however, were kept a secret from Senor Oortez and his daughter. While Marir was returning to her home one evening about dusk, she had occasion to eros a small bridge' leading to her father's houro. When half wy aeross, a freshet, which hid set in la the early part of the afternoon, had torn up a large tree and dashed it against the bridge. The structure was old and rotten, and gave way. MaWa was precipitated beadlone into he torrent, and would have mot a watery grave, had not. a young man who happened in that locality heard her cries for help, Plnnr'n into the torrent among the whirling timbers, he caught her around the waist, and, after a terrible struggle, reached the bank. The eirl was soon brought to eoneionsness and eseourted home by her rescuer. Sep or Oortez was profuse in his thanks to the young man, and graciously offered him the hospitality of his house then and whenever he chose to call. The neyf evening Juan Oalloehez returned and asked regarding the health of Maria, and was immediately shown into the parlor, where the object" of his inquiry was seated. She received him kindly, and "in a short time the two were very good friends. Juan did not in the least dis gnise his real condition from her. He was a young elerk,and very poor, depending for a living on his weekly salary. As time sped on the acquaint ance of Jurm and Maria ripened into deep love, and Giraud was not slow in discovering the real condition of affairs. Senor Cor tez learned of his daughter's new infatuation and asked her one day if such was really the case. Maria answered that it was. "Well, T swear," exclaimed Senor Oortez, "you shall marry no man but Giraud Lebas, You deserve to be cursed, and if you do not leave my sight I will pronounce my curse upon you. "Giraud Lebas,'' replied Maria, "is a bad man. T hate and loathe him, and will never marry him. ' On the following day Oortez sent for Giraud and told him of the interview with his daughter.

"I shall destroy the old will and make a new one to-day," said he. "If Marin marries within two years after my death she is not to have a penny of my property, whish shall go entirely to charities. At the end of two years she may mrary

whom she chooses, and that property shall bo hers. By that time she will have forgotten her new love, and no doubt choose you. If she marries yon within two years, the property shall be yours and hers jointly. " Giraud left the room almost bursting with rage. He saw a fortune slipping from his hands, and he de a mined to prevent it if possible, Giraud sought Madeline, Maria's maid, and the two went into the garden and sat down on a rustic bench, where Giraud narrated t he woman his recent interview with Maria's father. The two talked in low and earnest tones for almost an hour, when they arose and went info the house by separate entrances. That same night

Juan called upon Maria, and was told the conversation that had passed that day between wr fnihv and herself.. "I will see him person Hy," said Juan, and before Maria could stop him lie was gone. A servant who happened to pass the library door heard Sen,r Cork :', say in u tone of bitter anpw: "Yon are a thief, curse you. Yon moak in my house to steal " fSSFive miuutes later the same servant saw a man rush out of the house as though pursued by a demon. Giriud Lobas stepped from a side door, "Who was that?" ho asked. "Bnor Gatloc'tez, sir," said the servant. Twenty minutes after a wild cry ron? through the hou-e, An instant later the library door lew open and Maria rushed out. "They have killed him! They have murdered my fas her! Help! help! help!" A warrant for the arrest of Juan Gal-

lochel was immediately issued on the

charge of murdering Senor Oortez, and pnbhe sentiment was fierce and denunciatory. Juan was the victim of a fearful plot arranged by his unscrupulous rival, Giraud, The lat ter was vile enough for any infamous scheme, and ho knew that if Juan was convicted, and circumstance'2, tendered that way, he would be executed, and i? would be an easy matter to regain Maria and get possession of Oortez' fortune A short time after the murder of Sonor Oortez, the body of a female was found one morning by n boatman lying on the bank of the river with r-n ugly stab wound in the left side. Tt was discovered that life was not entirely extinct, and after some tiflicnliy the woman was sufficiently resuscitated to be able to ask for water. She was conveyed to the nearest house, and medical assistance summoned. After an illness, during which her life was despaired of on more than one occasion, she finally became convaleecent,and then rapidly recovered. After Eome short delays Jrun's trial was begun, and a fearful amount of what purposed to be evidence against the prisoner was brought to bear upon the case. As the trial progressed immense crowds flocked daily to hear it and gaze upon the prisoner. One mesh after another of the

fearful net was close; 1 around him, and Juan saw his doom, but still uttered no word ot protest or complaint. Tie had nothing to live for. Existence held not the slightest charm for him; it would be well to lay it aside. He hoped that his sentence would be death rather than imprisonment, which was worse, and the last day of the trial dawned. The trap had been successfully set, and all clews carefully concealed, that no one expected the awful plot. Tu vain the prisoner denied all complicity in the crime. He found Senor Oortez lying upon the library floor

when he entered the avartment on that i

terrible night, and realizing that a foul murder had been committed and that he was to be accused of it, crazed with excitement ho fled the house, and remembered uothing until arrested the same night. At last the trial ended. An awful silence fell upon the court-room, broken at length as the jury prose and retired. When the twelve men filed back to their places one could here, as from a distance, a voice asking the decision. And, like a dream, a stem voice replied: "Guilty of murder in the first degree," When the announcement was made Juan staggered to his feet. "1 a n innocent of the crime for which C have b en fop.nl guihy, ami may God f rgivc you for this day's work." The nJ'V impassible Judge arose and began In w d the sentence. Just then a voice wfip hoard from amid the crowd thai cbibued uhniii tho outer door a voice which orie l m authorative tones: "Sropr and Madeleine, tho maid, entered the coUi t-room. Giraud f prang forward. 'Aiy G.iJi ' Wiioi ha? luvniht you from yenr grave?" he wildly exclaimed. .."1 cjune for ret'ibution," Madeleine quietly an wered. Then facing the Judge she slowly and distinctly said: "That man, Giraud Lelxe, murdc-rad Senor Gotrez. On the day when the Senor informed him of his determination to mak a new m)1 and destroy the old one,iu which he was named for a largo fortune, he sought me, who had been his mistress for years pnsr, and planned a method by which th old will should be obtained and the new oue destroyed that night, though murder was to be resorted to. On the night in question we entered the library while the Senor was dosing on the sofa, and at temp ted to chloroform him. While in the act, Senor O.n tez awoke and denounced us as thieves, but before he could make any further outcry Giraud had driven a poniard into his heart, and the man died without a groan. Shortly after Juan Oaliochez entered the library, and, discovering the crime, rushed madly from the house. His arrest, subsequent trial, and testimony of the servant, are still fresh in your memory. Giraud discovered that my existence would be detrimental to bis future plane, and decided to be rid of me. Und-r the guise of having something of importance toeoromuuicate to me he enticed me to the sea -shore, stabbed me fatally, as he believed, and then dragged my body to the water's edge supposing that the ocean would carry me out when the tide arose I was saved, however, by providential interposition, and when I recovered sufficiently I swore to be avenged for my wrongs." This confession fell like a tbnnderbolt upon the court-room. The Judge Eeemed more astonished at Madeleine's appearance and revelations than any one else. "Well, madam," said Giraud, turning his angry dark eyes upon the woman, ehave you finished your damnable lies? What do you intend to prove by all this stun?"' "Prove:" she cried wildly, "God help you, Giraud Lebas, when my proof shall

b forthcoming!"

Her proof subsequently did come, and with it corroborative testimony which ex

ecuted Giraud for the murder he endeav

ored to fasten upon an innocent man. Maria waited two years, as the will provided, and married whom she chose. The reader will have no difficulty iu guessing the in.u-band.

Til IS BAD BOY.

Iteligious Notes. Oberliu College celebrates its fiftieth an s versa ry oext .Inly. A i ew church has boon oneued in the United Stales every day for the last fifteen years. The Methodist Kpiseopal church is gaining ground in New Orleans among the colored people Of all the lights you can carry in your face, joy will reach the farthest out to sea.- H. W. Bovotar. The Christian religion, rightly understood, is the dee j nr and choicest piece of philosophy there is. Sir T. Monro. True religion gives a happy, cheerful hiri to tin nun i, ad arts of all true pleas uvea, and even procures thorn for us -Addison. MiB.lt. A. Benedict, of Puwiuoke. II. I., has recently given $10,000 to the Benedict TiiiiUtnfe, New York, for toe education of colored men for tho ministry and colored women as teachers. Woo unto them," says the prophet Isaiah, "that rise up early in the morning that they may follow stroii? drink," That i won to them that take their morning 'fodd." - -Christum lleoorder. Iu timoK of anxiety and d inbt as to the direction in which the next step should be taken, one thing is always safe. Men seldom stray far out of i ne right way on their kneoj. Vestera Christian Advocate.

"See here, you coon, you get out of here," eaid the grocery man to the bad boy, as he come in tfu store with his face black a tul shining, "1 don't want any colored boys around here. White boys break mo up bad enough." "O, phi pine," said, the bad boy, as he put his hands on his knees and laughed so that, the ear. dy jars rattled on the shelves. "Yon didn't know me. t am the same boy that eomee in hero and lalks your arm ofl'," and the boy opened the cheese bos aud cut ofl a piece of cheese so natural that the grocery man had no difficulty in recognizing him. "What in tiie name of seven sleeping sisters have you got on your hands and face," said the grocery roan, as he took the boy by the ear and turned him around. "You would pass in a colored prayer meeting, and no one would think you were galvanized. What you got up in such an outlandish rig for?" "Well. IU tell you, if you will keep watch at the door. Tf you see a baldheadi d colored man coming along the street with a club, you whistle, and T will fall down the cellar. Tlio bald-headed colored man will t c pa. You see, we moved yesterday. Pa told we to get a vacation from the livery stable, and we would have fun moving. But I don't want any more fun. I know when I have got enough fun. Pa carried all the light things, and when if come to lifting, he had a crick in

the back. Gosh, T never was so tired as T was last night, find I hope we have got settled, only some of the goods haven't turned up yet. A drayman took one load over on the west side, and delivered tbera to a house that seemed to be expecting a load of household furniture. He thought it was all right.if everybody that was moving got a load of good. Well, after we got moved na said we must make garden, and he said we would go out and spade up the ground ami sow peas, and radishes and beets. There was some neighbors lived in the next house to our new one, that was all wimmen, and pa didn't like to have them think he had to ,vork, so he said it would be a good joke to disguise ourselves as tramps, and the neighbors would think we had hired some tramps to dig in the garden. I told pa .f a boss scheme to fool them. I suggested that we take some of this shoe blacking that is put on with a sponge, and black our faces and tho neighbors would think that we had hired an old colored man and his boy to work in the garden. Pa said it was immenre, and told me to go and black up, and if it worked he would black hisself. So I went and put this burnt cork on my face, because it would wash off, and pa looked at me and said it was a whack,and for me to fix him up too. So I got the bottle of shoe blacking and painted pa so he looked like a colored coal heaver. Actual!, when ma saw him she ordered him ofl' the premises, aud when he luffed at her and acted sassy, site was gouu t j fhrow biiing water on pa, but I told her the scheme, ami she let up on pa. O, you'd a dide to see u out in the garden. Pa looked like Uneio Toiu,and I looked like Topsy, oulv T ain't thnt kind of a colored person. We worked till a boy throwed tomato cans over the alley fence and hit me and. 1 piled over the fence after him, and lext na ft was my chum, and when T had caught him we put ip a job to get pa to chase us. We throwe 1 some more cans, and pa come out and my chum started audi after him, and pa after both of us. He chased us two blocks and then we got behind a poMeeman, and my chum told the "olieema'" k wns a crazy old niger that wanted to kidnap us, and the policeman took pa by the neck and was going to club him but pa said he would go home and behave. He was oil nl mad, and he went home and we looked through the alley fence and saw pa trying to wash ofl the blacking. You see that blacking won't wash off. You have to Tear it. off. Pa would wash his face with soap suds, and then look in the glass, and he was blacker every time he washed, and when ma laffi d at hiic be said the offulest words, something like weet spirit hear my prayer,' then he washed himself again I am going to leave my burnt cork on, cause if 1 washed it off pa would know there had been some smougmg somewhere. I ufrked the shoe store man how long it would take the blacking t.) wear off, and he said it ought to wear of iu a week, I guess pa won't go out doors much, unless it is iu the night. I am going to get him to let me go off in the country fishing, till mine wears off, and when I ,et out of town I will wash up. Say, you dou't think a little blacking hurts a man's complexion do you, aud yon don't think a man ought to get mad because it won't wash off, do you?1' '(), probably it dou't hurt che complexion," said the gneery man, as ho sprinkled some fres water o?i the wilted lettuce, so it would look fresh while the hired girl was buying some, "and yet it is mighty unpleasant, where a man lias got an engagement to go to a card party, as I know your pa has to-night. As to getting mad about it, if 1 was your pa I would nke a barrel stavo and shatter your castle scandalous. What kind ot a fate do yon think awaits you wlrn you die, anyway?" 'Well, t mixed on the f-ite that awaits me when I die. If X should go off sudden, with all my sins on ray head, and this burnt cork on my face, I should probably be a neighbor to you, way down belo v, aud they would give me a job as fireman, and I should feel oad for you every time I chucked in a nut her chunk of brimstone and Miought of you trying to swim d g fashion in the lake of fire, and sferniniug your eyes to flud an iceberg that you could crawl up on to cool your parched

hind logs. Yes, sir, hereafter, you will rind me as good as 1 know how to be. Sow I fun going zo wash up and go and help the minister move."

As the boy went oat the grocery man sat for several minutes thinking of the change that h id com i over tho bad boy, and wondered what had brought it about, and then lw went to fcha floor to watch him as he wen do I his way across the street with his head down, as though iu deep thought, and fcbe grocery man said to himself, "that boy H not mo bad as some people think he ie." m l tln n he looked around aud saw e. sign hanging up in the front of the store, writ1 ah on a piece of box sever, with blue pencil, "Spoiled canned barn aud tongue, good enough for church pie-mas," and he looked after the boy who was slipping down an alley ami said, " The contemn little whelp. Wait till .1 catch him. As Te Rats. N'vr York .!ur ;!. M'vo got us high as SlbO for takiug two rats front n ship" said the rat catch

er. "1 )ock rats live at the xiers in colonies of from 500 to 2,000. Like bat tenants, they leave their old habitations for new about once a month. On the 1st of May they will move by thousands. Constantly uneasy, they go around from dock to dock seeking where the lowest tide is. They have a navy. It is made up of floating pieces of wood and floating chips. They are all pirates or wreckers. When scraps or slops are thrown overboard from a ship's deck they put ont their craft and seize it. kTourists going to Europe board a ship in two days. The passengers go ;ip the gang plank. The rata climb up the anchor-chain and enter the ship by the

anchor port-hole. Pan Htingsby, the great rat catcher, says he has seen an old rat, carpet-bag in hand, bid bis family good-bye and then walk up one of the ship's cables. Pock rats go to Europe whenever they feel like it, and usually make four or five trips a year. They are the third-class passengers. The firstclass go in the cabin, the second in the steerage, and the rats in tho hold. Going oAer, they live on exported American Manuols and rosin. Coming back their food is imported fruits and delicacies. They do not get off the vessel when it touches Liverpool for fear of being left behind. They are able to climb the rigging like old sailors. Tn wooden ships they sometimes eat through the planks and set the vessel leaking. "There are English rats in America and American rats in England. The cockney rat is coarser than the American, and is not cnerally able to staud up four rounds against an American rat. The bon ton' of New York rats Lnitate the customs of the British rate. ".Bats mate. In a year a newly wedded pair of rats will raise an interesting family of 120 offspring, not counting descendants'of the third and fourth generation. This k why at the moment a pair of rats et up their household goods on board a ship its owner will give a rat-catcher SI 00 to serve a writ of ejectment on the prolific rodents. 'Some vessels keep twenty cats to hunt vermin. "The hotels in New York are greatly annoyed with rats, and thejr infest private bouse. The Windsor pays $200 a year, the St Nicholas and a large number of others 100 each to a professional ratcatcher, who hunts rata in them twice a week the year round. Borne private houses pay $20 a month to be protected from the venniu. Harry Jennings, the Wug of the New York rat catchers, is said to have an income of !,000 a year. The enptured rats are sold at 13 a hundred." "How do rats reach private houses?' "They go from the docks six or seven miles through the sewers, stop opposite some house and mine their way into the cellar. A banquet at a residence wi'l bring a whole colony of them. We can always toll when fche-e is a great supper

at ihe Union League Club by the move ments of the rats toward tho upper part of the city. "There are about a dozen kinds of rate.. The common rat is a briudle gray. There are white an i black rate, vbifco and gray and pure white ones with pink eyes. I have heard rat catchers tell of pink ones with white eyes, I never saw oue. I once caught a rat- with two feet. The other rats had held him in a museum. An ordinary rat weighs one pound. The largest one I ever saw weighed two pounds and six ounces and wa3 as big as a half grown cat." Worldly Women. Gath. Worldly women are worse than vicious men in the influence they can work on fchfeir times. Vice in man deforms his appearance and renders him incapable.of doing any very gross deceit, because nobody loves him. But women often preserve the appearance of youth and virtue when they are without feeling or character, The number of worldly women is in creasing who do not believe in matrimony at all. A woman who had been married to a mau much older than herself, who was finally ruined by speculation, and had, therefore, to let his wife seek her living as best she could, told me, in a burst of confidence, that she could never marry any man, and much preferred to be the mistress of some man of means. Housekeeping, obedience, fixed habits are the scorn of many a woman whom modern times have corrupted. French literature aud some English literature has a pernicious influence on many females. I observe that the principal news venders in this country deal chiefly in books of that kind which awaken morbid tastes. In short, we are every day seeing the truth of Commodore Vanderbilt's saying, that "not more than one man iu a hundred is fit to be rich.' There Wasn't Any Chaw in the Meat. Nw York Sim. We can't stand this sort of meat, sir,7' said the spokesman of a delegation of the crew of the steamship Louisiana to Capt. Gagsr on a recent trip. "What's tiie matter with the meat?" inquired the Captain of the steward. "Nothing at all, sir. It's a piece of the cabin roast that I was obliged to send do svn because the stock ot meat for the crew .:ui short It is fresli, tender meat. Taste it yourself. Captain Gager tasted and s lid ro ihi sp )!oni ia of th-3 delegation: "I can see nothing the matter with that moat. It is as good as I get, and is very tender.'7 "Weil, sir," said the spokesmen, we don't like it. There's no ohaw in it."

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Translation of an American -French Joke. NVw York WurJd. t n r m se ex a m le of thi 3 w hieh'can the uerver and the muscles of the man, uniteds a'- a will inflexible. The journals of the Wet Americans the most worthies of faith of alls we know it teach us this here: A miulerer, most researched of the police; of whom we had the signalment exact, has succeeded during strong longtime to escape at the researches by the mean following: He knew that wo had made, of after his p Holographs, a tig ore of wax for a museum of San t'Vaueisoo. Grace to t he

connivance of a guardian he occupied in person ail the day without budging the place of his image, where we would not have gone to seek him ! A f i e r bavin g fch us el uded t he pt dice during thr-e weeks ho is succeeded to ily. The po'ice tea) s out himself the hairs. A document, which urges a speedy rising against th? omie.?sioii of Russia, is

I being circulated throughout Bulgaria

Richmond, Va., now claims to have a population of 71,000. Two thousand Italians gather and sell $750,000 worth of rage a year. Of the 10,000 000 voters of this country one in five cannot write his name. Three chinamen recently bought property in Wail street, New York, paying $31,000 therefor. The Kentucky gentleman is quite too previous with his gun. A few of them ought to bo hanged. A Connecticut woman 72 years old has just begun to learn the piano. She is old enough to know better. Prof. Greener delivered an argument before the New York school board in favor of the letention of the colored teachers in publ.c schools. Two convict guards, John Leonas and S. Bo'idreaux, white, went to a colored people's festival, at Brozonia, Texas, got into a row, fired nine shorts at JimWright who turned and fired two shots, killing both. Henry M. Williams, Esq., of Ft Wayne, has equally divided a pension of $4,000 just received from the Federal Govern-mentH-betweee the City Hospital and St. Joseph Hospital. This man did the square thing. A colored woman has set herself up as a prophetess of evil in Mississippi. She excites a commotion by foretelling great disasters by cyclones, earthquakes, celes

tial and terrestrial disturbances, the recent storm being a forerunner. Her name is Martha Hughes, and she is making her wav through the country preaching and taking up a collection as she goes. She preaches. on the squares and along the road and is attended by large crowds of

excited eolered peoole. " The periodical revolution in Hayti is announced. Hayti is a Negro Republic and was established by Toussaint L. Ouvertu re,t hemost remarkable Negro that ever lived. Those Hayti fel'ows have a queer way though. When a fellow has an inordinate desire to fill an office that somebody else has, and "outs' have not votes enough to put him in, he straight way starts & revolution. Genenil Baselais is at the head of the revolutionsfcs, consisting of 106 men armed with Winchester repeating rifles and5 at the present time, "hold the fort" At the first meeting, the government troops turned and showed their heels.' The revolutionists are well disciplined and reported to be men of great energy, and education. They have jolly times there very often. ' Catholic authorities state that the remains of th apostles of Christ are now in the following places; Seven are in Rome namely, Peter, Philid, James the Lesser, Jude, Bartholomew, Matthias and Simon. Three are in the kingdom at Naples, Matthew at Salerno, Andrew at Amalri, and Thomas at Ortano. One in Spain, Jam -a the Greater, whose remains are at St Jago de Compostela, Of the body of St John, the evangelist, the re maining one of the twelve, there is no knowledge. The evangelists Mark and Luke are also iu Italythe former at Venice snd the latter at Padua. St Paul's remains are also believed to be in Italy.

Peter's ar, of course, in the church at Rome, which is called after him, as are also those ef Simon and Jude. Those of James the Ijesser and of Philip are in the Church of t he Holy Apostles; Bartholomew's in the church on the island in the Tihfifv lli.3 after him: Matthias's are in

- . " w ... r . - ---- Santa Maria Maggiore, under the gret altar of the renowned Basilliea.

Opium Eating. Few persons here -are aware of the extent to wbjch opium eating is practice I iu this city, says the Manchester (N. H ) Mirror. Inquiries at the drug stores r veal the fact, that large quantities are sol I

for eating purposes to regular customer.. The crude form of opium is in the mosb demand, although some prefer the tin s tare, commonly called laudanum. Among those who practice the habit here is a man who has indulged in the drug f thirty-three years, and probably stands i o day at the 1 e? d of the list of opium eatei n this country. He says he has talke 1 with hundreds of persons addicted to the use of the drug, and never yet saw ot heard of any one who took such large doses as hitoself. He served iu the Mexi can war, in which he contracted chronic diarrhea physician told him he must either commence the use of opium or else die in thre months. At that time he was very light in de3h, but immediately upon the taking ot the drug he began to grow heavier and regain his health, hi weight ineteasing seventy-five pounds in three months. The amount of opium with which he began the practice was iu size-about as large as a small shot this quantity be ing eaten daily. Gradually the demano of the system for the dmg increased, and he had to satisfy the cravings, until now the amount which he is obliged to use averages a pound a month Sevi ral times a day he takes a dose .which would kill a doz-n men. He carries it abimt in bis pockets in huge huuks, and would be hi misery if perchance he should be accideiitly placed where he could noh obtain it A stout opium eater is rarely met with, but this man tips the scales at over 200 pcunds,aud has weighed rising 300 pound. The high cost of opium makes its use a very expensive habit, particularly it the case alluded to, who bu s it in lots of eight or ten pounds. The vast amoui t of opium which he has used during the last thirty-thiee years may be

judged from the fact that for the last ten years he had averaged over a pound a month, and that for the twenty-tb-ee years previous the increase was steady from several grains a day, with-winch he commenced. That he has taken over pounds during that time there is no doubt. It is impossible for him to abstain from the habit, as the old disease, chronic diarrhea, which lie has never become cured of, asserts itself most strongly, and for relief opium is the only remedy. - To Be Stereotyped. Usual interview of reporter with re Ciutly arrive! prima donna: Prima loima Oh, I am delighted with

your country. Int X5. IX Vreis, everybody has been very kind to me. Yery kind, indeed. I am surprised to find Americans so kind. X expected to findthem very ugl& forodous and hairy possibly black. Int - ? P. D.O, yes, I like the best of all your Cities. Int-.? ... : .. P. D.- lcinuk 1 shall return and take up uiy residence i Auierjsay .