. S. S. EASTMAN «S& O O - iMiii « Cmalm !!©«*• Btak !•»*. TKBXS OF SCB8Ca»T10«. tte. $1.00: not paid In adTaoce, 31n- P.00 ^«r I tltPM B W i • : L i e -*;•? J gla esptea, . >..,= .inued at taa end W 4 ~ R I > E . T W D A L E , Silver Flatter, MarbU Shop Building, near tfu Depot. C U T L E R Y . Table Ware, etc.. p l a W in the most satisfactory manner. Orders from Botels and Restaurants wjlicited. Steel and Plated Cutlery. Spoons and Forks or all descriptions kept on hand and for sale at lese than usual rates, Greenfield, July 15, 187S. J l i F O R B E S Ho. tf M a n s i o n H J O I B U a x i N r u L D , M A S S . F O S T E R , B l o c k - 8 Dr. W. 8. SEVERANCE H AS returned from Rochester and Is locatedJU his former residence. Corner ef Mala ssd Wells Sts., fireenflel d, where be will keep strict offlce hours for consultation and treatment of chronic diseases, and will attend professional calls as usual. Pure fresh klae pox virus for vaccination constantly on hand. •Jff* Offlce hours from 8 to 10 A. M. and from 1 to 3 and 6 to 8 P M Greenfle'd, Nov 18. 1878. tf 39 CEORCE W . HORR, Attorney and Counsellor at Law lar Attention given AND N O T A R Y PUBLIC. Partlco» to the collection of not es and R.t , Hats, Caps and Furs, Clothing, G E N T ' * P L B N i a H I N C G O O D S , Trunks, Valises and Traveling Bags, Ho. 4 Pond's Mock, 7 V # « doort iO*t o/ American Routt, OrttnJUtd, Matt March 15, 1*89 t f l STL SHATTIJCiL & CO., C o m n t i a i a i i o i i i M e r c h a n t s for th* sale of iOUR. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Grain, Meal, Feed and General Produce. A LSO, dealer* In Follett A Son's celebrated Lime, W>e R o s e n j a l e Cement. Hair. Salt, Plaster. Phos- phate. Ac. W c M v e for sale, also, the be*t of Baled Hay, dent to u> direct from ODe of the best grasa growing section* L'f Vermont. We keep constantly on band i s e a era! assortment of f » r o e e r H e s nnrt I P r o v l w i o n a j . S. L . § M A T T I ' C M & C O . , D e p o t S t o r e . 8. L SHATt/rUCK II H. SA.NDKRSON G r e e t e d . S8a**., F e b IS. 1871 tf 31 Buy Dry Goods NOW, Buy Dry Goods NOW, Buy Dry Goods NOW, T h e C o n n e c t i c u t R i v e r I t o a d . The report of the Connecticut River rail- road for the past year ahows a n improvement on the business, notwithstanding a consider- able reduction in freight and passenger tariff. The tabular statement is as follows :— From passengers. From freights. From mails. From express. From rents, etc.. $333 247 06 375.536 08 6.059 56 13,063 9« 15,459 78 A T BROWNING & CO' THE GREAT FIRE IN BOSTON, C O N S U M I N G large quantities of all kinds of Dry Goods, makes it for thr interest of consumers to make J their purchases NOW, as a Large Advance in prices is anticipated. W e bad just previous to the fire added to our stock an unuaually lar^e assortment •>( Shawls, Waterproofs, fcc., And can to-day aad for ;h« present offer goods, as a whole. At Lower Prices titan at any time this Season, or for the last Ten Years. Total, EXPESDITfRBS. Operating and expenses, Interest paid. Twelfth payment to sinking fund. Taxes and U. S. revenue stamps. Insurance. Two 5 per cent, dividends, $733,363 47 $478,153 8« *7.5C2. W I L L A R D . 2A 10 For Sale, W H E N Y O U O O rr<> S A M M I S ' PUB T1IK O n e D o l l a r T w o - B u t t o n KII> GLOVK, Inquire the price of Paisley and Wool Shawls and don't forget to look at his W E A R . PENSIONS.—According to the rejxirt of the Commissioner of Pensions, the increase of tensions during the year ending June 30, 187*. was larger than any year since 18G7. There were added to the rolls.(i.317 army in valids, 7.120 army widows and dependent rel atives, 151 navy invalids, 124 navy widows and dependent relatives, 17,021 survivors of the war of 1812, and 3,105 widows of soldiers of that war, making a gross addition to'the rolls of 33,838 new pensions in one year. The entire number of pensioners stricken from the rolls on account of death, recovery and other reasons is 9,124 ; making the net gain 27,704. Th^s added to the rolls of 1871 makes the whole number of pensioners 232,299.— The amount drawn by tbeso pensioners dur- ing the year was $25,485,578. The Commis- sioner estimates the requirements for the next fiscal year at $30,480,000. The claims on account of the war of 1812 will, itr his opin- ion, be disposed of by May 1, 1873. A VILLAGE residence in Bernard»t>n. within :';.•• minutes walk of th* railroad station and in < :..-c proximity to churches. Powers Institute and (u»ti man Kree Library. The premises cousist of the home- stead and six acres of i_*ood land, with a jrreat variety of choice fruit, consisting of applet, pears, peaches, grapes, strawberries, raspberries, irouseberrlea and cursants, all in bearing order. The house is two "lo- ries with L. of modern con«trur:ir.n, h u h stnddtd, with plaz/.a in front and hay window, »nd is lni.il somely papered, painted and blind.-d. Carriage ten-.' and barn Jux JO. with corn harn and -bed atta. \ed Also. iO acres of e x c l l e n t tillaire; land, located n i: 150 rods ea.t of the above uaraefl premise*. ,,••. the road to Northfleld and GUI. will be sold with the above, or separately, to snlt pureh»«er. For rn-:v-r particulars apply to \VM DWlUIl I" Bernardston. Oct 23. lsjT4. tf C MERINO Greenfield, Nov UNDER 11, 1872. 4w:« CONN. KIVEB R. R. COMPANY. A DIVIDEND five dollars per share will be payable on the fir»t day of January next, to stockholders 0f record al the ! se of business, on the tenth day of Mecember, 1872.— tockholdera residing in Kranklln County will be paid at ie first National bank of Greenfield. SKTH H I N T , Treasurer. >•irthampton, Mass., Nov. 23, 1872. 40 t y By a collision of trains near Wilming ton, Del.. Thursday night, one white and one colored man were killed. Fifteen others were wounded, two seriously. All residents of Wil- mington. B o o k * , 7Ia,'ood paper and the Jubilee Year Book. Sidney E. Morse Jt Co., 3t Park Kow, New York. The Votary for December has the following con- tnnts: The Wetherell Affair, by J. W. DeForest; French Scenes. Customs and Characters, by J. l)u- rand • Aotomne, from the French of Damon, by Lou- ise Chandler Moulton; Life on the Plains, by (Jen. O. A. Custer; The Orewth of " Otent Pope," by J. W. DeForest; Historic Lovers, by Junius Henri Browne: Bijauty by Thomas Howard;" Some Great English Lawyer's, by Justin McCarthy : A Study, by Alice Mar- Itaid Wellington; The Eustace Diamonds, by Antho- ny Trollope ; Paraphrase of Horacp. by Lilly Nelson , Saved Irom the Mormons; The History of Emanci- pation, by Gideon Welles; D r i f t w o o d : Phases of Politics. Heads I Win, Tails You Lose, by Philip Qpjhbet; Scientific Miscellany. The December number of Demurestt Monthly comes to us greatly enlarged and Is really a superb maga- zine, full of entertaining literature and profusely illus- trated The December number bus a full page por- trait of Pauline Lucca, a large display of fashions and numerous other valuable features- altogether a model magazine. The publishers are offering a pair of com- panion chromos. Falls of Niagara and Yosetnite Falls, wurth of themselves $1(1. to each yearly $ 3 subscrib- es. This is one of the marvel* of liberality in the publishing line. W. Jennings Demurest, sCjS Broad- wuy, N. V. The best Boys' and Girls' Magazine—Demorent't \'o"»g America. Always «-|>arkling with entertaining Mforiea. Poems. Puzzles. Music. Travels. Dialogues, (James and other entertaining features, all profusely Illustrated. If you wish to present ft beautiful, an ev- erjwplcome present to a boy or girl, sand $ t for one yifirs subscription for Young America. Specimen with circulars, mailed free on receipt of 10 cts. W. Junnings Demorest, 8'SS Broadwsy, N. Y. trodey s Lady's Hook for December has been re- ceived. Thp illustrations are of the usual style in wkieh Godey presents them to his sibscribers. T w o steel engravings, one a handsome tableaux title-page; u faghioQ-plats: a colored plate of silk stockings; Christmas Eve and Christmas Mornisg, companion pittures; and an extra number of fashions expressly selected for dre^s occasions of all kinds. The litera- ry matter is made up of an excellent class of stories suitable for Christmas reading. Marion Uarland's story. Etty's Hero, is particularly good. In the Jan uarv issue, Marion Harland will commence a new nov- elette, under the title of Carrying Weight, which will be continued through tho year. •'• Our Darling." a first class Chrorao, Is given to every subscriber to Go- (ley's Lady's Book for 1873, whether a single subscrib- er for f.'i, or in a clubof 6 for $14. Address L. A Go- dey. N. E. Cor Sixth and Chestnut Streets. Phlladel- ph !a. l'lc*» Flo>-al Guide for 1873. The Guide is now published quarterly ; 25 cts. pajJB for the year, four numbers, which Is not half the cost. Those who af- terwards send money to the umount of $1 or more for seeds, may a'so order 25 cts. worth extra—the price paid for the Guide. The January number is beauti- ful, giving plans for making rural homes, designs for dining table decorations, window gardens, Jtc, con- taining a mass of information invaluable to the lover of flowers. One hundred and fifty pages, on fine tint- ed paper, some 500 engravings, and a supers colored plate and chromo cover. V Female Poisoner. A n E x t r a o r d i n a r y S t o r y o f C r i m e . An almost incredible story is told in the Manchester Guardian of Oct. 4. It is in the form of an official report as to the antecedents of the woman Cotton, who is in custody in Durham gaol, charged with poisoning. The report had been forwarded by Police Superin- tendent Henderson to the Home Secretary, to support the application for an order for fur- ther examination. It says: " Mary Ann Cot'on was born in the year 1832 at Mourton Colliery, near Seaham Har- bor. She became acquainted with a man named William Mowbray, a laborer residing at Murton Colliery, but a native of Peter- borough. They were shortly afterward mar ried at St. Andrew's Church, Newcastle-on Tyne, and left the neighborhood and went to reside at Plymouth, and afterwards at various places in the south of England, a,nd thcu re- turned to" South Iletton, after an absence of five years from that part of the country On tfaeir return the prisoner stated that she had four children while away, but they had all died. On the 24tk of June, 1800, they had a child die, named Mary Ann, four years of age. Mr. Broadbent, surgeon at South Hetton, says she died of gastric fever. Shortly after this Mowbray and the prisoner, with their child- ren, went to live at Hendon. On the 2-M of September, 1864, a son, named John Robert William, about one year old, died, and on the 2d of May, 1865, a daughter named Mary Jane, died. The two last named were attend- ed in their illness by Mr. Gatnmage, surgeon. Sunderland, and he asserts that they both died of gastric fever. The deceased William Mowbray and his family were all insured in the British and Prudential Insurance Otfice, and on the death of her huBband the prisoner got £35 and some smaller amounts on the. death of the children. She then obtained a situation in the old infirmary of Sunderland, and there remained about six mouths, when she became acquainted with an inmate named (ieorge Ward. He married her, and they went to reside in Gray street, Sunderland, where he died on the 21st of October, 1^60, aged 33. Mr. Gamtnage attended him, and, although he was an ailing man, he consider- ed that he dropped off very suddenly. The prisoner then obtained a situation as house- keeper to James Robinson, a foreman in a ship-building yard at Pallion, in June 1867, he married her, and they continued to reside to- gether at Pallion. When Robinson married the prisoner ho was a widower with five chil- dren, and the prisoner had one little girl about nine years of age. She lived with Robinson until the latter part of December, 1867, and during that time three died in the house. John Robinson, ten months old, the 4th of January, 18G7; James Robinson, six years old, the 7th of April, 1867; Elizabeth Robinson, eight years old, the 13th of April, 1867 ; Elizabeth Mowbray, nine years old. the 2d of May, 1867. and Margaret Robinson, three years old, December 1867. Mr. Gam- mage attended E. Mowbray, and he states she died of gastric fever. Mr. Shaw, surgeon, Deptford, attended the Robinsons, and he states they died of gastric fever. It is staled above that the prisoner lived with Robinson until the latter part of December, 1867 — About this time he had found out that she had involved him in'about £50 debt, besides pledging his clothes and disposing of his household linen and goods. She had also charge of his bank book and building sociity book, and he also found that she had wasted upward of $50, and entered sums in the buil- ding society book which she never paid in — Robinson's sisters also*began to talk about the death of the children, and told him they had been poisoned. Robinson taxed her about her dishonesty, aud said what he had heard about the children'8 deaths was going to be true — After Robinson left the house that day, she dressed herself, and took one of her children, about eight months old, and went out, and he has never seen her since. She left the child in the street with a person till she went to poste a letter, but she never returned, and Robinson did not recover his child for some time, when he found it in a wretched state — He states that he now feels convinced that t he children were-poisoned. He suspected so at the time, but he did not like his mind to dwell on thesubject. They were healthy and strong, and only ill a few days before they died. He noticed whenever she gave them anything they vomited, and were sick and purged. 11 is sisters have talked to him both then and since about the deaths of the children. On reading the West Auckland poisoning case in the papers, they have stated to him that that was the way his children went. One of them handed a paper to him, and said, ' This is thy Mary Ann that has been doing that,' lit- tle thinking at the time that the person ac- cused of the West Auckland poisoning was the very woman whom they were talking about. Robinson said she often wanted him to get his life and the lives of tho remaining children insured, and one day he found her at an office trying to effect an insurance. He forbade her doing so, and said he would not pay a .penny. This aroused his suspicion about the children who had died, and he de termined not to have his life insured. After the prisoner's father's death, her mother was married to a man named Robert Stott, who is flow living at Se.aton Colliery. Mrs. Stott, the prisoner's mother, died the 9th of June, 1866, aged 54 years, and was buried at Old Seaham. She died very suddenly after the prisoner came. The prisoner, after ab- sconding from the houso of her husband, is found wandering about Sunderland, Seaham Harbor, Tynemouth, and Newcastle until July 7, 1870, when she obtained a situation as housekeeper to Frederick Cotton, a pitman residing at Walbottle, Northumberland, la October of the samo year he married her at St. Andrews Church, Newcastle, in the name of Mary Ann Mowbray. When she was re- siding at Walbottle a number of fat pigs died, and for some reason or other she was suspected, and the place became so hot they were obliged to leave it, aud they came to re side at West Auckland. At that time the family consisted of herself, Frederick Cotton, her husband: Fredrick Cotton, step-son, nine years , Charles Edward Cotton, step-son, six years,- Robert Hobson Cotton, son fourteen months, who have all died, as well as a lodger named Joseph Nattrass. Tbe prisoner her self states that while she was in the south of England she had four children by Mowbrav all of whom died." A W e e k With tbe Aged. BY PROF. E. A. LAWRENCE. Monday afternoon I attended the funeral of a member of my church who had reached his seventy-seventh year. From the funeral ser- vices I went to the couch of a sick woman who had come to her ninety-first year, and leaving her, called upon five others, all over fourscore and four years, and all on the same street, the same side of the street, and within a stone's throw of each other. My appetite for the society of old people was quickened by what I had tasted, and I said, " Why should I stop here? Are there no other old people in town, and should I not seek out some of them?" The result of my week with the aged was, that I visited twenty who were over seventy- six. Eighteen of these were over eighty, seven over eighty five,, and five had passed ninety. The sum of their ages wa,s 1,723 years, and the average a fraction over 86. Of the eighteen who had numbered eighty years or more, twelve were connected with some branch of the Christian church. Of the re- maining six, three gave evidence of that hope in Jesus which holds like an anchor, and of that peace which is like a river. The week which was commenced with a funeral, closed with a death, or rather a translation. Some of the peculiarities of these old peo- ple interested me, and their infirmities instruct- ed me. I shall be as old as they, and perhaps more infirm, if I live as long. One old man who had a strong love of companionship, though he was quite deaf, and entirely blind, said to me, " The world isn't as good as it was when I was young. Ministers a'n't as good. I don't know but they preach as well, but they don't visit as much." And yet his pastor had made him twenty-six calls duriug the preced- ing twelve months. The trouble was with his memory. That.was not as good as it was when he was young. And his excellent wife, ninety-two, thought the people were not as good as they used to be. " I can remember when a nfeu's word was as good as his bond, but it isn't so now." She did not remember that every man's word then was not as good as his bond, nor think that there are some men whose word is just as good as any man's was then. Tbe two brothers were both very bard of hearing. One of them I was not sure caught anything of what I said, except tho word Jesus. Both were self-distrustful, yet resting on the rock. The younger, eighty-three, said " If I could only know my sins are forgiven, I should be ready to die. But there," point- ing to his elder brother, on the other side of the room, " there is a man perfectly prepared. I uever knew him to do a dishonest thing. He has a great many times injured himself lest he might wrong somebody else." Pass- ing across to the elder, eighty-eight, and try- ing to communicate with him by signs, " Ob, how I love that man," pointing to the yonag- cr. " Nobody can tell what he has been to me. He is a good man, if there is one in this world." Then I felt " how good and how pleasant it it for brothers to dwell together in unity." A woman in her ninetieth year, who was entirely hlind,.but who could hear very well when my name was mentioned, said she was very glad to Bee me. Her memory was clear and retentive of occurrences in her childhood and earlier womanhood. These scenes gave me a deeper sense of t h e preciousness of the Christian hope for the aged, and of the privilege of bearing to them a flower, a smile, a word of sympathy in the Master's name. They also impressed me anew with the discomforts of old age without religion. Such people are seldom at ease. Something seems wrong in everything. A screw is loose, or a joint weak, or a spring broken almo3t everywhere. A patriarchal gentleman in his eightieth year, and a bachelor, thought we had too many schools in town. " Didn't have but one when I was a boy, and only one schoolhouse except the townhouse." The difficulty was with the children, for whom he had no liking. There were too many of them. " They say every generation grows wiser. Taint so. They aint nearly aa wise as they used to be." " Do you go to church anywhere ?" " No. I stay at home Sundays, and read." " Were your parents church going people ?" "No." Some of this class dislike ministers. One of them frankly said to me", " I don't believe ministers are any better than other men." " I don't either, than some men." I replied. " I don't think they are as good." " Nor I, some of them." Another said, " I do not believe in a per- sonal God, as you do." " I am sorry, for you miss the love of a good friend and a great Father which you need here and hereafter." " I don't know about the future whether anybody exists then or not." " I do, but if there is only a chance that it may be as the bible teaches, it is wise to be on the safe eide." " I don't kuow about that." " Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? Then may ye also do good who are accustomed to do evil." Advertisements, per square (one in<* one week. $1.00. and l«r each additional lB6«rtl<«fo]£ cents. Double columns 8pec"u Notice* «nd l d M « insertion of advertisements. M per cent, advance 1MB regular rates. N o advertisements reckoned l e w tkaa one square. All tranaleat advertiMmenU to bs paM when Inserted. . „ A liberal discount m s d t from the »S><>7« "»«®J* merchants and traders who advertise Ulirely tnro««w* out theyear. , . . , _„ MarrliWes. Births »nd Deaths. Insrrted free, o«it M» obituary notices, poetry. *c.«ccoHip«By1aff **%*£'?* six cents a line. Cards"of seknowlrdpB*ent, reHglosi notices and the like, one insertion. SO cents a »qu«ra Notices In reading columns, W c s n t s a line. N o < * « f « lees than $1 00 W " The circulation of the Gazette A Courier is a third larjrer 0»an that of any other country newspaper in Massachusetts, and it la from three t o s i x times aa larre as the average circulation of country journals. The circulation of the Oeaatte * Courier la Frank- lin County and vicinity to Ave times m large as that of any other paper. Caught by a B o a Constrictor. After breakfast we started for the lagoon. W e had set our hearts on seeing Manatis "sea-cows"—which are still not uncommon on the coast of Trinidad, though they have been exterminated through the rest of the West Indies since the days of Pere Labai. The good missionary speaks of them in his W h a t I t fjour delightful journal as already rare in the year him 1695; and now, as far as I a m aware, none | his are to be found north Spanish Main, save a Japan. W e were anxious, too, to see if not to get a boa constrictor of one kind or other, for there are two kinds in the island, which may be seen alive in the Zoological Gardens in the same cage. The true boa, which is here called Mahajuel, is striped, as well as spitted, with two patterns, one over the other. The huil- lia, auiconda or water boa, bears only a few round spots. Both are foud of the water, the huillia living almost entirely in it; liotb grow to a very large size, and both are dangerous— especially to children and small animals. That there were huillius about the place, pas sibly within fifty yards of the house, there was no doubt. One of our party had seen with his own eyes one twenty seven feet long killed, with a whole kid inside of it, only a few miles off. The brown policeman, crossing an arm of Guapapo only a month or two before, had been frightened by meeting one in the ford, which his excited imagination magnified so much that its head was on one bank while its tail was on the other—a measurement which must I think, be divided at least by three. But in the very spot where we stood, some four years since, happened what might have been a pain- ful tragedy. Four young ladies, whose names were mentioned to me, preferred, not wisely, a bath in the still lagoon to one in the surf outside ; and as they disported themselves one of them felt herself seized from behind. Fan- cying that one of her sisters was playing tricks, she called out to her to let her alone ; and, looking up, saw, to her astonishment, her three sisters sitting on the bank and her- self alone. She looked back and shrieked for help, and only just in time, for the huillia had her, Tbe other three girls, to their honor dashed in to her assistance. The brute had got hold not of her little body, but of her bathing dress, and held on stupidly. The girls pulled ; the bathing dress, which was luckily of thin cotton was torn off; the huil- lia slid back again with it in his mouth into the dark labyrinth of the mangrove roots and tho girl was saved. Two minutes' delay and bis coils would have been round her, and all would have been over.—Kingsley's West Indies. Ufa)' Mean w h e n Skin Itches. A short time ago a sailor went to the city hospital from the British bark Georgiana, who was supposed to be suffering from a sr>re leg The man had been ailing for nearly three months, but none of his shipmates supposed there was anything serious the matter with t y W m . F. Sherwin, a Franklin County, Mass., boy has just held a convention at Springfield, Mass., where, according to the papers, he won golden opinions from all as a conductor. Two concerts were given, the first with a miscellaneous programme made up largely from " The Coronation," the sec- ond being a performance of Mendelssohn's beantiful " Athalie," with the assistance of Mrs. Julia Houston West, of Boston, as prin- cipal soloist, and a 6tnall but effective orches tra from Bostou, and Prof. C. Roberts, Jr. of this city, elocutionist. W e are glad to learn that "* The Coronation" was received with great favor, aud adopted by leading teachers, A more thorough organization was effected, and it is thought that next August will show a most enthusiastic gathering. A convention is in contemplation also at Chester, Mass.— Mr. Sherwin gave his valuable lecture on " Acceptable praiBe in the Sanctuary," at the North Church in Springfield, on Saturday evening, Oct. 13th, where the house was full in spite of a pouring rain. He looked at the subject more from a religious than professional stand point, and preached concerning Church Music, such truth as ought to be heard in every pulpit throughout the land. We see by Montreal papers that he has also been doing effective work at the Canada Sunday School Convention, recently held in that city, where his services both in music and other depart- ments of Sunday School work, seem to have been warmly appreciated. He is called to the Toronto Sunday Sahool Institute in Decem- ber.— N. T. Musical Gazette. An Arkansas Letter. DOVER, OCT. 3, 1872. My Dear Boy :—The double barrel that you sent came safely to hand, and I was only shot at once while I was carrying it home. Bill Silvers popped at mo from behind the fence as I was passing his house, but I had loaded the two-shooter as soon as I got it, and he didn't jump up from behind that fence but once. I am glad that one of the barrels is a rifle, as I needed it for a long range practice. The other I can fill with buckshot, and can riddle a man nicely at close quarters. I mean to try both barrels on those Jetts when I meet them. You see, old man Jett stole a mule from us in the war, and when it waB over pap laid for him and killed him. Then Nigger Tom Jett, as we called him—the black-faced one—he laid for pap and plugged him. Then I picked a fuss with Tom and cut him into giblets, and since that time his brother Sam has been lay- ing for me. I know it is his turn, but I think my doublebarrel will prove too much for him. If you want to see fun, come down for a while and bring a rifle. It don't make any difference which side you belong to, 'and it isn't even necessary to join the militia. It is easy to get up a grudge against somebody, and all you have to do is to lay for your man and knock him over. Behind my pig pen is one of the sweetest hiding-places I know of, and it is so handy! A good many people come within range in the course of a week, and a man can pass his time right pleasantly. I wish you would send me a catalogue of Sunday school books, with the prices, If there are any in St. Louis. If we can get them on time we will take a big lot of books. I am Superintendent of the Baptist Sunday school now, and am running it under a full head of steam. Old man Rivers, who was turned out is .right mad about it, and swears that he will chaw me u p ; but he will chaw lead if he don't keep clear of me. My wife wants to know if you can't send her a set of teeth without her getting meas- ured for them. Her twenty-five dollar set was busted all to flinders by a pistol shot that went through her mouth ; but it didn't hurt her tongue. Write soon to your friend and pard. P. S.—That sneaking, ornery cuss, Sam Jett, crept up last night and fired at me through the window, but he didn't happen to kill anybody except a nigger girl. I mean to go for him though, to-day—will be glad of a chance to try the doublebarrel.—St. Louis Democrat. Accordingly when-, a few days before removal trom the hospital, he declared of Trinidad and the j himself unable to walk about, the captain of few round Cuba and the ship supposed he was endeavoring to make an excuse for getting away from the vessel that he might be left in port, the ship being prepared to sail in a few days. When re moved to the hospital, the man's right leg was very much swollen and manifested all the symptoms of erysipelas, for which malady his affliction was at first mistaken. At the end of a few days, however, an abscess formed on the inner side of the ankle, from which, after it bad burst, protruded about three inches of a white, membraneous looking substance, about an eighth of an inch in diameter. This singu- lar manifestation induced a careful examina tion of tho leg, which developed the fact that tbe man was afflicted with the dracuncu las, or Guinea worm. This is a horrible par- asite, found only along the shores of the Iadi an Ocean, Red Sea, and certain portions of tbe Mediterranean. It infests damp and mud dy soils and impure water, and generally at- tacks the feet and legs, but sometimes other portions of the body. At the time it forsakes its native element tor the more luxurious hab itation of flesh and blood, it is scarcely larger than a common flea; but having once buried itself beneath the skin, it grows with alarming rapidity, and will reach a size vary- ing from six inches to six feet in length, by one twelfth to one-eighth of an inch in diam- eter. It lies dormant until it reaches the age of maturity, after which it commences a series of wanderings and meanderings about the muscles and bones, which cause intense pain to the unsupecting victim. It always travels downwards, and with such rapidity that it will sometimes travel the whole length of the human frame in twenty-four hours. It will sometimes come to the surface and lie tinder the skin like a long white cord ; but should the surgeon attempt to extract it with the knife without first securing it with a nipper, it will elude his grasp and scamper away with the agility of an eel. If a portion of the worm is removed the remaining portion will not die, but continues as gay and lively as ever. The first symptoms of the Guinea worm are a disagreeable itching and irritation of the infected parts. After it begins to move about its paths are followed by external ab- scesses, and when the paths lie along the stomach, internal abscesses also. It always ultimately endeavors to leave the system, working its way through the skin generally near the ankle, but this is only after it has left from ten to fifteen young behind. The usual number of worms that are found in one ]>er8on varies from one to fifty. There is one case on record, however, of a man dying from the effects of the Guinea worm, whose* body and skin were nothing but a network of these horrible creatures. Death rarely results from the ravages of this worm, and when it does it is generally tbe result of some disease pro duced by the inflammation and other effects of the worm's wandering. TheGuineaart of the kingdom, and in thetr •• a n e l and striking costumes make fine subjects for the artist's l>eucil. Many of them l.xik as if they might have stepped out ol the fourteenth or fifteenth century ; for they have anything but it modern appearance, attired iu their strange garb, fre- quently wearing leather jerkins and undress- ed skins. They are very light hearted and merry, aa a rule, and dauce aud sing, laugh and love, tipple aud quarrel aftrr th* manner of contemporaneous Irishmen They give a foreigner a far better iusighcftto the national character than do those in the upper ranks of life. They are ignorant and, tor the most part, superstitious; but they are sturdy and independent and exceedingly patriotic, hold- ing that Uod created Hungary, and that it matters very little who is responsible tor tbe remaiuder (if the world. They delight to ride on horseback, being very skillful equestrians, and scamper over the broad plain like Bed- ouins of the desert Both sexes take part in this recreation, aud 1 have often seen a man and woman dashing ftantically along on tbe back of one steed, who. when weary of carry- ing them, would kick them oft* and they would roll in the dust with superabundant aatisfac tion. They teach their horses all manner of tricks, especially that of upsetting their rider, and this part of the equine education is gro- tesquely displayed at the fairs. The peasants lay wagers with each other as to their ability to stick to the back of a brilliantly perform- ing animal in spite of his efforts in the line of burlesque and low comedy. The contest of the man to stay on, and of the beast to put him off, is side-cracking *[K>rt for the yokels, who awake the echoes with their shouts and boisterous laughter. The horseman is so adroit and supple of limb that even when thrown he is seldom seriously hurt. He 1* a natural acrobat, apparently, and thumps and falls which would break the limbs or neck of any German merely increase his jollity, and afford a new opportunity for the manifesta- tion of his agility. At the fairs one can see how primitive the habits of the common people are, how limited their wants. They prepare their food like gypsies, wrap themselves in their blankets or sheep skin coats, and sleep on the ground or under their stalls or wagons more serenely and soundly than their lords and masters • do under silken canopies on beds of dantiest down. The earth literally serves t h e n for a couch, and the sky for a roof; the native ele- ments are their best friends, their rugged constitutions and hard hands, their stoateat al- lies and firmest supporters. Modern refine- ments and luxuries have in nowise effeminat- ed them as a race; they are a s intrepid and hardy as when they fought against Spllman the Magnificent and fell with TokolyfS \ The convocation at the fairs is divfrsiSod enough. In addition to the Hungarian* there" are Greeks, Servians, Jews, Wallachiaos, Bo- hemians, Croats, Sclavonians, Moldavians, and Turks. But even these may be consider- ed part ot the native population, as tbe origin and composition of the Magyars has always been an open and unsolved question with eth- nologists. They have been pronounced Avars, Mongolians, Tartaw, Finns, Osmanlis, Cal- mucks, and Olympus knows not what '—liar per's Magazine. Roy Hammond's Tuning. OYSTER OMELET.—Beat four eggs very light ; cut out the hard part or eye, from a dozen oysters ; wipe them dry, and cut into small pieces ; stir them into the beaten egg, and fry in butter. When the under side is a light brown, sprinkle a very little salt and pepper over the top, and fold one-half of the omelet over the other. Never turn an omelet. It makes it heavy, and ruins it. t 3 T Snow fell to the depth of 14 inches at Cleveland, 0., Wednesday. The Geneva Watch-Makers. Geneva has so long been the watch factory of the world that little need be said on the sub- ject. From four to five thousand men are con- stantly engaged in making watches. Two or three thousand more are employed in making musical-boxes. In the absence of statistics it is supposed that one hundred and fifty thousand watches are now made in Geneva every year. The work is separated into many departments. The watch makers, so-called— those who make the works of the watches— are the steadiest class. They have no trades union. The case makers are freer spirits, and have a trades union, as do the jewelers, en- gravers, and enamelers. All these latter com- mand higher wages than the watch-makers, and, having more temptations, are more given to beginning the week on Wednesday, after a leasurely spree. A watch-maker averages about six francs, or nearly a dollar and a quarter a day. Jewelers, engravers, and en- amelers can make a little more than that. Case-makers can earn three dollars a day. But such are the habits of all these four lat- ter classes that they do not average more than the six francs a day of the watch-work maker There are no very large factories in Geneva ; that is the workmen are rarely col- lected in one building. The independence of the whole class is indicated by the fact' that they generally work at home. Where a quaint old house reaches out for light through many windows high above tbe dingineas of its narrow court, you may be sure that the proud ruler of the little republic is there with his watch making or engraving tools. He and his brethren who make music-boxes and singing-birds, and the other industrious deni- zens of the St. Gervais quarter are the rulers of this little republic, because they are the backbone of the radical party, and the radical party is the backbone of the liberal or inde- pendent, which rules the city and the canton. It is these people who, under the lead of James Fazy, in 184o, bronght the aristocrats of the old upper city to terms, and made them pay for the powder and ball with which they did it. They work and think, and rule one of the best, and apparently one of the least, gov- erned cities in the world.—Harper's Magazine. a i * A young man in Buffalo, who, while taking care of a horse sick with the prevailing epi- demic, received a small portion of the virus in the eye when the horse snorted, has lost the use of that eye in consequence, and will also lose the use of the other. I want to tell you how I hart my foot. Yon see my Grandpa is what they call a big farm- er and keeps ever so many cows, and moat all of 'em has got a calf, and some have got two. Grandpa keeps them in a big pen behind the west barn, and Joe and I thought it was the very tallest kind of fun to get on their backs and ride them. W e used to do it a good many times each day, and after a little they began to grow poor, and Grandpa couldn't think what ailed them, until one day he caught us at it, and told us in a louder voice than 1 ever thought he had, if ever we did it again he would tune us. Now we didn't really know what iie meant by that, bat 'sposed it was something like tuning a fiddle. But anyway we didn't think it was anything very bad, and we did want to ride those calves dreadfully. Did you ever ride a calf when, you was a little chap? I'll bet, if yoa did, you'd have done it once more, even If yoa knew you'd get two tuniagi. Well, the next morning Grandpa set off to the mill with a big grist. He asked us to go with him, bat we didn't want to, (Oh, how 1 wish we had!) for we knew he'd be gone a great while ; and just as soon as be was out of the yard, we went straight to the calf pen, pulled off oar jackets, for it was pretty warm work riding calves, and each of us got on one and the fan began. W e hadn't been round the pen more than half a-dozen times when who should we see standing by the gate but Qrandpa! And lis didn't look one bit pleasant, either. I was so scared I let go my calf's tail (for I sat with my back to its head so I could get a good grip on its tail to keep me on,) and off I tumbled, and somehow the calf came top of me, and hurt my ankle dreadfully. By the time I got straightened out and could look about me, I saw Joe was getting his tuning. Grandpa had just had the barn newly shin- gled and they were lying all about. Grandpa was holding poor Joe over his knee and using one of those shingles which lay there so handy. Oh, m y ! how Joe did holler! By the time Joe was finished off, my ankle was aching terribly, and it did seem as if I couldn't bear anything more just then. I'm ashamed to tell of it, bat I was howling moat as load aa Joe and began to beg Grandpa not to tone me till the next day—and he didn't. He took me up just as carefully as he could and carried me to the house, hat I could see his month twitching and he kept biting bis lips all the way. I suppose he felt bad to think what naughty boys we were, and I'm sure we're both been sprry and promised never to do it again. I had to lie on the lounge a good many days, land I'm so lame now I can't go without a clutch, I haven't got my tuning yet, but I know I shall, for Grandpa never breaks his [word. He's just like me a boot that. I do 'wish it was over with, though, for it keeps' me awake nights, thinking of it. I know it'sjpretty hard to bear, for Joe was so sore for a w-aek he didn't want to ride a calf he said.—Christian Union. A funeral procession at Baldwin, N. Y., last week, baited long enough to allow one of the pall bearers to be severely pounded by a fel- low who rushed upon him from a barn, and then tranquilly resumed its solemn march. little school mrl a TOack in North Carolina lately encountered a 'Hack bear, aad aaved her life by throwing him her dinner basket, which kept him employed till sbecouM get to a safe distance SOME MORE CHARGES AGAINST THAT F I E N D I8H EVAHS.—The C4 year old wretch, Evans, in New Hampshire, whose latest crime was too horrible for anything in tbe human form to have perpetrated, is now pretty certain to be fixed upon as the author of other crimes of almost equal enormity. Among these is the murder ot bis own mother, and tbe probable murder of his own wife and child. A chain of circumstances fastens upon him the awful murder of the Joyce children, in Boasey'i woods, adjoining Bosten, where they had gone, brother and sister, to gather spring flowers, one April morning five years ago. An outrage something like this of which w young niece, Georjrianna Lovering, has BOW been made the victim, was committed upon the young Joyce girl—her screams and those of the brother being stopped, one by sudden murder and the other by stuffing her month with grass. The wretch seems to be the most inhuman and monstrous criminal of modern times—or, indeed, of any time. It now appears that some years since, Evans gave his mother a dose of medicine (pretend- ing to doctor her) on the Strafford poor farm, from which she immediately died. Sevens- years ago a girl was missing in Derry and h*3 never been found. As h# lived there then ne no donbt murdered her^and it is susp now that he murdered his own wife and cb It is stated that not long since he i»su this same Georgianna Lovering, and apologizing gave her a dress pattern, has admitted that after outraging the girl he choked her to death. The author of all these unnamable and in- credible crimes, once a minister of the gospel in good standing, affords a terrible illustra- tion oi the total depravity to which a long in- dulgence of base passions and practices can reduce a human being. He will be swung like a dog from the gallows. Bat what pan ishment is that for such an inconceivable ca- reer of crime as his ? To show the utter dev- ilishness of the creature, he not only did all this, bat he went into ft deliberately—calcu- latingly. He plotted for months how he ootid induce bis little niece to go oat into the woods where he was hidden, watching for her. Not much cheek about this: John Al- len's wife of Troy, eloped with Richard JJa^ig, recently, and four days after reappeared at, home, coolly informing her husba»d that sits h a i come for her clothes. Her hosbaad tee- treated her to remain, but vainly, SXB& wfcgi she was ready she left, saying: " Weil, Jonn Dick and me are living on Green tefaad; w>e*3re going to be married in a few days, aad wonld be glad to see you at tho waddiag." Bvtv. SSias Tucker of Aurora, 111 wfaik eocducurjg a ),r»yer meeting fell dead Thomas M. Tryniski 309 South 4th Street Fulton New York 13069 www.fultonhistory.com