Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Volume 7, Number 40, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 April 1876 — Page 2

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WEEKLY

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Advertisements

lriHertetl twlco a week,

will be charged one-half of fullrates. Advertisements lnsferted once each

week

will he charges one-time rates lor eaoH insertion.

TIME LOCK.

Something that Will Make it Absolutely RHfe to "lay up Tr easurns" in Bank with no danger off

Tliifvps Breakins throueh and »t. ealicg.

THE WATIonL

MA Mi HAM SUCH A LOtil.

Through the courtesy of its officers a niAZETTEER waa permitted this morn "g to see the new time lock recently

^at

into the safe of tho National State fhiik. Tt is of tbe Yale pattern and is eautiful little machine mnde of-steel ,L° nzed, aiul higb'.y polished, and veornamental. This lock is designed be

used

in connection with .ther

cks, as an additional security, and can be applied to any vault or safe door whore there is a vacant space of eight and a half inches wide by mx inches high, without raakinn a hole through the door, or in any way changing or disturbing the other glocka or bolt work.

The recent robberies by

MASKED UDROIjARS,

where in each instance the houso of the oanhixr hn« qoon forcibly entered, the entire*family gagged, bound and se cured in a helpless manner, while the cashier himself was dragged from home, taken to tho Hank, and therfl, under threat ol instant death or torture forced to uuloeK the doors, prove that ordinary locks alone, no matter how secure otherwise, ar» of little value in thwarting the carefully arranged plots of

PROFESSIONAL BANK ROBBERS, Instances also are not of frequent occurrence where the combination hns been fraudulently obtained by inside or outt-ide parties, who were thus enabled to visit the vault under cover of night, and, having access to the valuables and books, have carried on their peculations undetected, perhaps for years. Again, should a Iock be picked, or punched off, the safe orvaule is at the mercy of the burglars. For the treasons above set forth, the need of an

ADDITIONAL SECURITY

has long been felt, and realizlnfi that whatever a man controls other men can control also, or force him to do so to their advantage, inventors have for many years turned their attention to devising some arrangemen of mechanism which, beiuff automatic in its working would accomplish the desired result.

To obviate these evils tbe inventive talent of the oountry has loDg been at work in an attempt to get up some thing the action of which will be automatic. The Gazetteer remembers having seen a chronometer or time lock at Washington, attached to the groat safe which contains hundreds of millions ol the nation's treasure. This lock is arranged on the principle of a clock. At the expiration of a given number ol hours, the works run down and the bolts are allowed to slide back. The Treasurer winds up this lock each eveuing, and when the door is shut the power or might of angels, themselves, cannot get Into tttoaafe until 9 o'clock next day at which time tbe combination hH8 run its course. At this time of day any attempt of masked robbers to force an entrance, would be the eestasy of folly.

The

Yale lock does uot operate at all during the day, but confines its vigils to the silent hours of the night. Its partiality

for

l'obowuig

the dial, one for each of the twentyfonr hoars in the day, are pulled out, and when the dial, carrying them,passes round, of course no operation ia effected on the little wheel-shaped steel and the doo» can be opened.

The machine works on the double entry principle. Everything in it is induplicate. There are two dials, two wheel-shaped pieces of steel, two bars -two, in fact, of everything. Although expensive, this machine, in the sense of security, it gives to the bank officers is really worth its avordupois in bullion. It is not set to open exactly at 7 o'clock each morning.

MUllDEKEIt SEN TENCED.

Harry Johnsflu to be Hanged cine 23d. Paais, His., March 31, 1870.

Previous to the adjourmant of the Circuit Court, the convicted murdsaer, Harry Johnson, was brought into court to receive the extreme sentence of the law. The court room, and cveo the doorways and windows were packed and thronged to the utmost fapacity. The uufortunate man dvidently suffered great mental distress, and looked like one abandoned alike by friends and hope. A motion lor a new trial was made and argued at considerable lengtn by Captain Hunt lor the defense, and Hon. K. N. Bishop for the proseulion but was overruled by Judge Davis as Was also au order for arrest of judgment.

Upon standing up -to receive sen tence, the judge asked the prisoner it be had any thing to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced upon him?

JohLSon replied that it was an accident, that he never thought of the pistol going off.

Judge Davis toid the unfortunate rftan that the jury had returned a verdict of deliberate murder, although the prisoi er had been ably and skillfully defended, and that their judgment was final. He then sentenced Johnson to be hanged ou Friday, June 23d, 1876.

Tne prisoner was then led to jail, and the crowd dispersed. Johnson,s counsel may make a motion

for

a writ of supersedes from the Su preme

court,

but it will prove nnavail

ing. The wretched man's doom

sealed.

Prior.

THK I)A31."

An Estimate of Damage Don

SUSTAINED.

JndgA H«x well Snstalnes a Bemnrer to tbe Evidence in the Cane ofCronln tlie C'lnclsnit

Kallway.

Jialne Carlton fflveci notice Ib»t nothing lerthor will toe done by lhe Plaintiff.

Yesterday tbe arguement in the case of Cronin one of the laborers on the Cincinnati railway was concluded,, the defense having put iu, and demurerr to the evidence. This morning Judge Maxwell before whom the case has been tried, made his decision. He sustained tbe demurrer because 1. There was no proof mad# of tbe Cincinnati (fc Terre Haute Railway Co., as a corporation.

eonipany

lock, which is now on the

safe at the National State Bank of this city, and which, though small, cost $400, is made from a different pattern, in order to answer the only objeotion made to the Sargent time lock, or the one used at Washington. This objection lays iu the fact that when a door controlled by a Sargent lock is closed at any time,"it is impossible to open the same again until the allotted number of tiours have wound their slow length away. Some times during the dsv, tho bank door is closed, it may by mistake, and it isagrtal nuisance to be compelled to wait'nntil morning before ogening it.

nocturnal labors of this

h»tiii teV uiay„ be attributed to the

causes

The clock work operates on two dials. mads of polished steel, alonr.d the rim of which me a nunrtbt'r of little bolts, susccpt-ible boiog-jtuU'ed onward or fYv.ctd back. When back,.** tbe dial moves round those fci'lts'OI'.-vaU- a little wheel-sha .erf piece of *tet?i, fastened it fho end of a pivoted bar, wiiieh, when e-evated in turn. »c.:s upon apiece of sreel and thi^ latter prevents tne sliding back of th 1 s, fastening the door. Duriusr suci -»v boars as it is d««ir«d to have tho door »"•eniiiely controlled by tho ordinary combination lock, the smr.ll bolts in

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and is in just the condition he left it. "Does Philadelphia come up to your Ideas kindly inquires Mr. Adeler as he opens another exchange.

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The defendants are only liable as stock holders, by virtue ot statute and it is incumbent upon Hie plnintiff before be can recover to prove that the defendants are stockholders in a railroad corrorfction organized under the general railroad law of 1852. 2. Because tbe evidence showd that at tbe time ot the commencement of this suit the company bad property of uent. great value in Glav county in this ao State.

noKZZ- .gains'

bly, do anything further In the matter '4''' ",va

splint-bottomed chair, tbe bottom of of people present, and there which has gone to look for the dust

Tbe stranger sets to work to bust chair or lifpbis back, tut be ca'n do neither. He thinks the joke has n.-vr change. been carried far enough, but is in- The man who had formed tha| it 19 not a joke—that no went to acorn doctor, man around that office was ever more sober in bis life.

The victim tries to laugh, and remarks that five minutes more will fiuish his spinal column. '•Oh, no it won't" replies Mr. Adeler."Why,I have known men wbo

were on the verge of the grave to live iu your position for one hour nud sixteen minutes

After a quarter of an hour or more Mr. Adeler calls in three more editorand introduces them to the ranger, and 11 ley want to know if he is pleas ed with Philadelphia, and if he bus auy hard feelings against the memor* of William Penn. Five minute? Is "then spent in deba'ing whether the victim can be extricated under suspension of theru'es. The vote is a tie, and the city editor is called in to cast a ballot. He makes a speech expling his reasons for voting "yes," efter tweenty-five minutes have past* ad away the stranger is released, and a photograph of William Ptun given him.

BOM ISM! ELL

A Witness Who SmowNJill About ii.

tt iO LI .ft 110 LK N A wNDE! $2 000 FOR

AN appoijitmknt 10 A LNiSt1 TiiAliJiii.SHU'.

I'. How the President Employed iiim »o investigate! tho evidence Against Jiabcock.

A\I) HOW THK 1'RKWDE^T iel88HS*l'.l Hln W1IHN Ut RliPORTl' Ttt&T

BA65 IVAw b»Uii.TY.

W O I I E S Ii O E O IT E E Washington, March 31. Mr. C. S. Bell, of Jackson, Mississippi, testified this morning before theCiymer committee that he made an application for a post-tradership at Fort Davis, Worcestor, Macrh 31.—The flood Texas, and that he came here in caused by the dam disaster did no Juue, 1S72, to see Belknap about it. material damage below South Wor- He had a number of recommenda ceater. Blackstohe river valley wan

The DumaKn lo Properly Will Amount to $5,000,000.

tions

wasnot harmed. The losses on part tary Belknap told him that if he had are estimated as follows: City of known he had come to make such an Worcester, dam and reeervoir, $125, 000, besides the summer supplp of wa ter, $6,000 George W. Olney's house and barn. $100,000 on mill owned by Wright Botiomly aud occupied by A. E. Smith, from $15,000 to $20,000 Ashworth and Jones ou mill, &c., $70 000 J. A. Hunt, satinet mill, $5,000: Boston & Albany railrofd two bridges washed out Curtis anu Marble on mill, $2,000 Wie"ks manufacturing company, $15,000 the cily of Worchester also loses largely, perhaps $15,000 by damages to highways, besides tbe damage by the falling of the mills. Neariy every dam is destroyed. One man aud two boys are missing, supposed to have been drowned. The city is already build* ing a dam on Parson's brook to secure a supply of water. No water famine is apprehended.

from army officers, but becre-

application, he (Belknap) would not have seen him. The witness replied that it would take him very little time to get out of his office, and he then went out. This bursque treatment made him angry, but as he got lo the west front of the building, a young man came running aft^r him and requested him to come ,back. When he returned, Belknap said apologetically that he was very great ly annoyed over the many applications for poat-traderships. Belknap then turned to him bursquely and asked, "How much is that position worth He replied that he did not kuow. "Is it worth $2,000?" he

He replied he supposed it

QotpiJ

willing to pay

be willing to pay anything, ue re sponded, aud then he left. Bell stated that he did not believe

the secretary attempted to

the secretary attempted to entrap

him into offering a biibe, might have eotue reason to appoint him.

him into offering a biibe, so that he

I have also been acting as special agent for the internal revenue department

ment as a

first-class

slon office. He explained that there

To make it as brief as possible, I was to look into the hands of the dis-

Tbe statutejonly gives a right of ac- trict attorney there collected and see tion to laborers against the stockhold- what evidence there was against tien a a a a have been exhausted. Hence, if tbe was simply to visit the district at-

had assets when this suit was f0rDey's office as I had the run of commenced this action must bedecided office. Go there and see what

against the plaintiff. Judge C-irleton "vj.ipI1-,HYhere was. wV with Mr. Egglestpn, has bean he plaintiff's in the case,

I told Ducky that the evidence was weak. I did not give him copies of any papers.

"When a stranger has climbed fou pairs of stairs ana made.a half dozen turns he finds himself at the door of the chief editorial room of the Philadelphia Bulletin. Max Adeler sits just inside, and as the stranger enters yig0 coUnty, met yesterday at he is seated at Adeler's right band, gobenck's school house, near Ifew He is seated iu an old -fashioned

aai Ks: oa Motion, J. V. Pinson was made "Sit right down fiue day when Qommitteeman for tn« next two years. •i \?mi nrrivn following are tho delegates

did you arrive?" The man sits down. If he isa small man he sits on the floor, hU feet slant toward the ceiline, his knees dig his throat, and his back is dreadfully bent, while his hat is jammed over his eyes. "Fell through, eh inquires Mr Adeler as he looks around. How do ou like Philadelphia?"

Bits down. If he isa small

The stranger struggles, finds him«elf fas*, and asks to be extricated. He is politely informed that'it is a?ain -st the rules of theoftice to extricate any one who falls through the chair in which Artemis Waul used to sit,

*_.

eiecte(j

on the floor, hU feet slant jc convention next Saturday: lita naaq #tS/«

linto

nfft

him onri

DEMOCRACY.

What has Been Done in Fayette. The Democracy ot Fayette township,

Goshen.

There were a grest number

rousing

of the Pilgrim fathers. There's a beseen from^hettgurea baiow. newspaper spread over the vacant spot, and Mr. Alder cheerfully re^ marks:

Selcctcd Miarp*.

Ly-ing in wail—False scales. What keeps Lent longest and An umbrella.

Soft hearts often harden,

The man who bad project on foot

T„

If men would set good examples

they might hatch better habits. Never break uffa match while there is a cfcance of getting tire.

wi9

Subtler— Boston Porfi

Tlure noths.ne r,' money inurket report. quot^i i'lne.

When a man to wl om rou lend money says be will indebted to you !orever, you may believe him, my boy.

A man can uwike himself as miwera1)1 bh he needs to l»« by st'empting t: correct all ot the evils in tha worM.

A Reading canary bird, trained to in« ''OtStrassburg du wunder-schoene «'»dt," was sold tor titteen dollars.

FurioiiH Governor—"Tush, so they have suspended my sou, oh? No dormi tory to liarvard College from me!"

A little girl at a school nXMtninaiion in rending nnr (l^ch changed KeatV ver^e inrt "A thing of beauty is a hoy torever

What is the difference between a trumpeter and :i hornet? Why, the trumpeter is a cornet of horse, and the other Is a hornet of course.

A Persian proverb ea\s, "There are only two days fur which to feel mix ious. One that is pant, and tne other is the day to come."

An exchange asks: "Do failures help anybody?" They do. They help some persons to get out of a tight place and others to swear. "Uemember," said a tradiog Qn*ker to his son, "in making thy way through the world, spoonful of oil will go further than a quart of vinegar." "Ishall bt!" and "I might have been," The former is the music of vc'ith, swpct as tbe music of silver V« the latter the plaint of age, the dirge ot hope, the inscription for a tomb.

Patriots should do all in their power to encourage a railroad war this season, that we may go to the Centannial and back'for two dollars and a hall'.—[St. Louis Republican. "What is conscience?" asked schoolmaster of bis class. "An inward monitor," answered a bright little fellow. '!And what's a monitor?" "One of the ironclads."

Do they ever bark?" asked old Mrs. Dorkins, gazing at a pair of stuffed sea domain.tho tiiuseum. "No, mum" said Elnathun, "not now. Their bark is on the sea."

Flour is JiO a barrel at the Black Hills, but whisky is a fancy article, wor'h its weight in gold. While the staff of death remains at this exorbitant elevator, no ambitious young man will a-gold-hunting.

Tho British Medical Journal that persons with li^ht-colored make the most successful shots both with the billiard cue and the rifle. But you couldn't expect a man to do well with a bluck eye.—[N. Y. Herald,

Wort,, t.f.t "Would you be ,»b'e' w-bT„,".id ironio^T willing to pay that woum wh»n n*

which hil8 8US'pended.

J)«H Otuicu Lliai. UIU tvll »V/ »vev» the

secretary meant to make him an trustee, Mr.P. Bledsoel. offer of the post for 2,000, but thought

was a

enthusiasm. The nil

"Thomas

dent

The number will

J. Ward'was made Presi

of the meeting and Harvey Hern secretary.

to attend the county Democrat

fni_

Wa»•? Kn 1 Trntoe

Thomas J. Ward, by 34 votes. George Vermillion, b\ 31 votes. Jacob H. Shank, by 48 votes. Philip Webster, by 42 voles, James Pinson, by 51 vol03. Alternates, Thomas Butler and John G. Funkhonser.

The meeting was addressed by Albert J. Kelley. Prosecuting Attorney of Vigo county, in a pertinent speech.

The'Secretary

was authorized to have

the proceedings of the meting reported in the Terre Hauro Journal and Gazette: The meetiug adjourned.

«v x*"™'*

Hartlbrd (school closed on with honors to the teacher's and the

Hartfor(1 haS) at th5s writin(ri

mud. *-J

ot mudi And tho

lain of hitrd timeg

mioht. hfivft finrvm rpasou to decline g»ith©rin thft wooden ppgs We have bad a few caudidates to see yome of the farmera uso thoui for fence us. No big show, only our friend J.

F. Drake, candidate for Assessor of

ii iiuciiti himself. Oo. yes, Mr» Jsewtoo Bled* te iLftm* 'r\ The witness produced his appoint-

8O0) Gf

for

being ClCrk8

v.™

dG"

On croi elamSation by Danford. Pounds, avoirdupois weight.

not go to the that Secretary Belknap had proposed to him to pay for a post traderehip, was that the secretary of war weighed somewhat more than he did, and be not think it would do to attack him.

I was employed by Mr. Luckey the private secreiary of the Presi-

the firm of Bledsoe Bro., in

was no such office as special agent big show. I had liked to forgotten N. ,t

under the interior department. The B. Kennett candidate for County

—i- i.5s— /.u.iro TWnunrer. These three will aggregate

Jomae8UThere near eight hundred

/aminauoa uy wuuiu™, Any well regulated busbaud coBtemwitness stated the reason that he did: "Roads are desperate muddy," says plating this singular freak of nature, President and tell hie ile Deputy Sheriff. can't but reflect how convenient the third hand would be to hold him

Our friend, Dougherty, is doing good

Personal Paragraphs.

Ik Marvel is an inflationist. The Duke of Devonshire has 132.906 acres, with gross rental of £140,403.

Tom Thumb has bought a stockfarm in Texas. Balknap has never been accused of writing poetry, as in the case of Joyce.

A. T. Stewart's dinner parties are given every Sunday evening. There are ten widowers in the United Seates Senate. Theodore Cuyler believes in early rising, coffee or n« coffee.

The sbifdess Kentuckians are lying baek now for a shower of knives aud forks.

Pat Gilraoro has been invited to baDg a gong at the Centennial. Whan Victor Hugo dies he will be cremated. He likes it.

The I-lack ». two sawmills, and vor Vice President Fe .j and Congressman piatlt to do a little log rolling.

Robert D»lo Owen has recovered entirely. and res He sails for Eu

Miss Kate Field recently appeared at a iancy dress ball near London, as the "American Yacht Club."

So AlbsrtEdward'shomeward boftnd at last. Mrs. Wales is presumibly sharpening up her linger nail3 and selecting tne best broomstick iu anticipation of his arrival.

The Gripbic Mers lo "Oath" as our s-crupulously-carorul and usually correct cjrtespontjent."

During her st?.y in Florence, "Outda" drov» f*«t hnrM* hi tbe Italian v1*\ with flowers, and be! p, and vinous best, other adornments.

In a French play 3 plot sb'iws that

bnt solt the late Americaa _eluon vss cau°nd bv Pr»Bid»-n' Li Impiiing

Lizzie Whittier, a ni*

., will marrv Samuel T. Plek»r^

Pnrt,„DJ

At the Eden tr^riitnf post the devil men, I havn't got any money, but I'll give yon my note for three months.

To manai£p men one outfht to h.»ve a sharp mind in a velvet sheath. "Stove-lid currency" is what they bitterly call fciiver dolhus in Nan Kiancisco. original in

It is full of

Little boys now say to Darnel Dr-w, 'Get upol baldhoiuil" and Uncle l) iniel can't bring on any bo*rs.

Hartfard »iarrowings. ,.v.oo..— ™„W,roT rH„? .11 ri?btl,e„, ",d When Dr. Mary Walker was confronted with'the bogus Dr. M. W„ she the 23rd, looked derisively at the rietoctive aLd sneered. "That aint pant? them's pullback, you fool."

plenty

tiartioru nas, at mis wruinit, uionty

peet,

of the

Tr»n«oHnt. on the 16i

Portland Transcript, on the 16th prox. It was Prince J^hn Van Bur*n, wbo, being stoppeil by a highwayman one night in Ci'y Hall Park. Baid: ''Genii**

St. Louis howls at the proposed deOHriure of Gun. Sherman tor Washing-

-ii tor a permanent reyidemv. Gen. Sherman an Mi-arcoly recoHOiln hi jir.sent r» asons for e'in« with his p.ist realm's tor enmlng. There r^'liy tloe.x seem to have been something in the fenc- somewhere.

The Hppointment of fr. R^'x'-d Taylor lo he Centennhd poet h»s been noiiced favorably bv the Eat'iorn pre^8, and th're Is reason for conKratnlation. Mr. Taylor certainly has the poetical faculty "in a largn degree, and. if ho is not th'* representative Ameri'Mti 'i( h« is av l.iast. a good representative of ih.ibest American manlioo 1.

Tln "(ireeley hollies''at Chappequa are offered tn rent with garden at 5400. which is very low. One is the ordinal mafmioM and th other is the new house which Greeley was builditm for the (arrii'y at the time ol his death. The old house was inconvenient, but the new house has all modern improvements. The furm is lei to a market man, but the property is lo bo hold «s soon as times improve.

Petticoat Plensanlrit s.

Many a lady in Washington has co'ii" to want—come to want diamond earrings.

Lucy Hooper does not believe that studying music alone in Europe is safe tor fin American girl. "Owida," tho queen of florid fluiion, has married a Russian. Tne probabil

ities

are that shu will hereafter bo less tropical. Wbon Brigham Young takes ali his wives on a journey in a Pullman oir, that car becomes a Pull woman car, don't it?

A fiarn of spring—a oman with hf.r dress pinued up, a brush in her hand, mischief in her eye, ahd splotches of whitewash on her lace.

There are girls who will visit a ballroom and waltz sweetly around for ten miles or more, who will make up an awlol lace if requested to step three feet and hang up a dishcloth.

Get a Brooklyn girl thoroughly mad and tbe fruits of a careful religious training are not conspicuous in the fury with which she uuships her bustle and wrecks it over the head of her adversary.

Bayard Tavlor says hlnck-eved worn en do not 'ove so fondly as blue-evod ones. This should prodjudico a mau against giving bis wiie a black eye.

The bridegroom In a wedding at Am sterdam, N. Y. was tashful and awkward and bis sister guided him through the performance. She stood beside inm prompted him in his responses poked his rihs when he put out the wrong ind, and finally iwcitod him to kiss tbe bride. •'No, Mrs. Henry ,no!" s«id John, iu tones of solemn warning. "Look at Mrs. Belknap. She wanted a new says dress to and see where she is now! evps

Stick

to your calico, Mrs. Heury, and avoid the insidious voice of tho tempter."

Rochester Damocrac: A tn^u in Green Bay is said to have lived with his wite twenty three years without a ross word,

it necessary to say that

r.~r...

Tbe poor people of LaFayette keep

storekeepers com- posted as to where tho big footed belle

jftts her shoes when worn out, and

talk philosophy"with a girl at. nigbi

clerk in the pen- the mill business here, isa candidate on the floor up stairs

County Commissioner. Ho is a ".0utogo. Wo don't mind it our-

,i8 moriflnir the old neonle

tat

help fe6iinK* for

A Mexican girl bus just been discov

ered with three well-developed arms

thlr.^ hanA

business in the boot and shoe business wfth since he droped "Durkan's" four gal Ion jug. Bryan fe Boston is about to disolve partnership. Mr, Boston going on a farm and Bryan run tbe drv good business here.

J. R. B.

.^"hair whll« th« other

|FUOIVIV/ "J

two warmed his jacket with a broomstick. She waltzed like a Juno at tho hop I vowed tbe question I would pop and

her partner tendered her a seat,, my throbbing heart with anxious pang dht heat. I tripped beside my lovejy charm. I bowed and gently touched her arm. "Engaged for next?" I said, "My darling Kate?" "Go 'way," she said, "Yon hit my vaccinate."

It was a very sad case—that of tho Boston spinster who last week received an offer of. marriage from a fellow boarder while he was in a state of somnambulism Frantic with joy, she she dove for his boson', mopped her curl papers'over bis manly breast and hugged him so convulsively that be awoke, oasf a horrified glance at hi-i skinny adorer, uttered the horrible imprecation, "Ob, scat!" and sliding out of her arms like a greased bolster incontinently fled.

Nnraery Nitnsense.

The Baron deLesseps' children go barefooted and are never ill. Children under pix years of age are not admitted to New York school, according to a recent order.

An ftlvhtef-n months' o'd neirro child was recenMy spurred to «le:t'b by a game rooster "in State C"tioiy N. C.

There la a man in New Hampshire jvho sends fourteen of hU children to the sam« .school. The rest oare to small to go.

A little girl who wanted to b« very good daring L«?nt proposed to give up going to scbool.

Willie was sayittsr bis u«ual prayer at hi:s motlier's knee au b- irne, and having got as far as "If I th-«u*td ilie b.eforel wake," ''Well what next?" asked b?- toother. "Why the next thing «yo.ulea! funeral."

CURIOSITIES FR031 TUB TOMBS OF KGYPT.

William Wackernagel, of the Reading

Pilger,

residing at No. 336 North

Sixth street, while travelling in Egypt and Palestine some six years ago, obtained a number of interesting relics,some of them of groat age. Amongst tho greatest curiosities are somo twelve or fifteen stones given to^him by a friend, who obtained them direct from some old tombs in Upper Egypt, where they had been buried about 3,500 years. They are of different sizes, the largest, rudely cut into a resemblance of the 8carabee, or sacred sun bug" of the ancient Egyptians, being about three-fourths of an inch long, half an inch wide, and of about the s.'inie thickness. It is of a grayish green color, and on the lowor side of the base upon which tho scarabee sits, are mystical ancient characters, also rudely engraved. Tho other stones are smaller, of different sizes, some round and Hat, not more than onefourth of un inch In diameter, and of half that thickness. Theso smaller ones are transparent, one somewhat resembling a greenish white bead. The others are of different colors, palo green, black, red, dark rirecn, white, dark brown, aud grayish brown. A white ono bears a deeply cut representation of a bird, pvolmbly the sacred "ibis" of the Egyptians a green one bears the flmire of a man, and others are inscribed with very distinct hieroglyphics. Most of them, however, are cut into imitations of tho stiered scarabee, on a Hat ise inscribed on tho under side with one or triovo hieroglyphics, uml all liuve a very ancient appearance. All tho r.carabees are pierced lengthwise, a hole large enough to admit a thin atring passing under tho beetlo and between it and its base. They wore evidently worn as a neeklnco by some priest or sorcerer, with whom tho scarabee, or beetle, was a popular symbol. Some wore apparently carved with great care, and even the rudest of the scarabee8 would at first sight bo mistaken for ugly beetles. Borno of tho stones are beautiful in color and transparency tho others are lighter in weight. More interesting relics than these, dating back thousands of years, are seldom seen. Mr. Waokernagcl presented two of the soarabees to Mrs. J. W. Conrad and Miss Florence Doininger, who prize them very highly, and will have them set in rings or brooches.

Mr. Wackcrnagel, who is quite a student and a linguist, as well as a traveller, has numerous other curiosities and relics, among them a whip of rhinoceros hide, such as is used by slave drivers in the East. This whip is about five feet long, tapering from the stiff, heavy handle, three-fourths of an inch in thickness, almost to a point, About two-thirds, tho slender portion, being quite flexible. It has a leather thong to pass around the wrist and tightly wrapped about the handle, forming a firm grip. This whip is a terrible weapon with which to inflict punishment, and no doubt the poor Israelites in tho days of Pharaoh often shrunk under the blows of their cruel taskmasters. There is a modern Egyptian tobacco pouch of tanned badger skin, ornamented with beads, much resembling similar articles worked by our North American Indians. Mr. Wackernagel has also a number of Hebrew and Arabic books, and some very ancient German religious books, some of which are beautiful specimens of typography, binding, and engraving.,

ruuruTrAi. Finn.

In the neighborhood of Baku, ,on tho Caspian Sea, there is a phenomenon of a very extraordinary nature, called tho everlasting lire, to which a^ sect of Indians and Persian*, colled Gaurs, pay religious worship. It is situated about ten miles from the city of Baku, in the province of Shirvan, on a dry, rocky piece of ground.

On it there are several ancient temples, built of stone, and supposed to be all dedicated to lire, there being one among them in which fire-wor-ship is now carried on. Near the altar thero is a large, hollow cane, from the end of which issues a blue flame. The worshippers atiirm that this flame has continued ever since the deluge, and they b-'iieve if it were suppressed in that place it would break out in another.

At a short distance from this temple there is a horizontal gap. two feet from the ground, about feet long and three broad, out of v, -h comes a constant flame of the coior of that in the temple. Vv lien there is a strong wind, it rises to the height of eight feet, but is much lower in calm weather.

The earth around, for more than two miles, has this extraordinary property, that by taking up two or three inches of the surface and applying alighted lamp, the part uncovered immediately takes fire, even before the flamo touches it. The flames make the soil hot, but do not consume it nor affect what is near with any degree of heat.

It is said that eight horses were once consumed by this fire, under a roof where the surface of tlie ground had been turned up, and by' some accident had ignited. If a dane or tube of paper be set about two inches into the ground, closed with earth below, and the top of it touched with a live coal, a flame will immediately issue forth without consuming the tube,, providing the edges be covered with, clay. Three or four lighted canes will boil water in a pot, and 'are sometimes used to cAok victuals. The flames have a sulphurous smell, but are inoffensive.

A Missouri murderer has been sentenced to nincJty-nine years in the pen/itentiary.

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