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St i VOL. IV. NO. 14 People will Talk. Yon may go through the world, bat 'twill be very slow, If yon listen to all that is said as yon go; Ytu'll he woriied and fretted and kept in a stew, For meddlesome tongnes must have something to do, And people will talk. If quiet aDd modest, you'll have it presumed That your humbl9 position is only assumed. Yon're a wolf in sheep's clothing or else you'r a fool; But don't get excited.keep perfetly cool. For people wiU talk. And then, if you show the least boldness of heart Or a slight inclination to take your own part, They will call you an upstart, conceited and f vain, But keep straight ahead.don't stop to explain. For people will talk. If threadbare your dress and old-fashioned your hat, Some one will surely take notice of that, And hint rather strong that you can't pay your way; But don't get excited, whatever they say. For people will talk. If your dress is in fashion, don't think to escape, For they criticise them in a different shape ; You're ahead of your means, or your tailor's unpaid, But mind your own business.there's naught ^ to be made. For people will talk. N<w, tbo best way to do it is to do as you please; Fir your mind. if you have one, Mill then be at ease. Qf couree you will meet with all eorts of abute; But don't think to stop them.it aiu't any use. For people will talk. BRAZIL COXYICT LIFE, How the Convicts are Tnken Care of. 'I heir Island Home.A Sad Life to Lead. In Scribner for February is an inter rating article on tho penal settlement of Fernando Noronha, belonging to Brazil: There are one thousand five hundred convicts on the island, chiefly Brazilians, negroes, and half castes, with a few Italians, etc. Sixty of the m are women. The children number about two hun dred. The total island population, including convicts, roldiers and their wives and children, is about two thousand, thus : Conviots(including sixty women).. 1,500 Soldie: s and c ffioert* 150 Wives of soldiers aud convicts 141 VUilUiVU, « Total 2.000 The chief crimes for which they have been banished are murder, embezzlement, coining, forgery.all of frequerif occurrence in the Brazils ; and in the case of maoy of the women, husband murder or poisoniDg, another common felony. Of the one thousand fiye hundred, only one-third, or five hundred, including the women, live and work in the village. The women are mainly employed in sewing, tailoring, etc., and the men at their special trades. Those v who have none have different tasks allotted, e. g., fishing, cooking for the governor, landing cargo, workiEg in the stores, etc. Fi^hiEg is carried on single handed in Rmall rafts, or catamarans, like those used along the coast of f Hindostan. With these the convict has little chance of escape to the distant coast. This is seldom attempted, and even if L successfully accomplished, the prisoner * is almost sure to be recognized and recaptured in Brazil. All the able-bodied artificers work iu the general workshops under surveillance, and only the aged, infirm, and crippled are allowed the privilege of working at home. Of the village convicts, four hundred occupy the prison, the remaining one hundred being women and married men, who liavo huts of their own. The women are seldom compelled to live in the prison 8o-cailed, which is merely a stone built structure, consisting of an open yard, and on either side a long, rough, and bare looking, comfortless stone floored room, along each side of which the closely packed convicts sleep, feed, and keep" their scanty and generally worthless stock of clothing, on long wooden tables. At the further end is a primitive, dirty kitchen, where they grind and cook their principal article of food, maize. The only fettered man on the island was here.a large boned, flabby, ungainly, scowling individual, evidently despised by his fellow prisoners for having murdered a man iu bis shep, and being thus " good for nothing ".according to my informant, the half ca^to who first boarded us on arrival, and who, with the Englishman who accompanied him, had murdered eight Brazilians m a drunken brawl on shipboard at Rio. This, however, was a fair stand up fight, and he evidently considered himself a hero of a very different stamp from the coward he was now pointing out. As a rule, the convicts spend half of their exile in the prison. If well behaved, they may afterward live outside, build their own hut and cultivate their own garden, government giving all, whether in prison or out of it, a oertdn allowance of food. It specially well behaved, particularly if married, they may sooner live outside, a boon grantee! by the governor on application. A married convict can insist on having his wife and children beside him; and, thongh free, they often come from the Brazils to share a husband's or father's exile. Marriages occur between convicts' children. As might be expected, the standard of morality is low. If lazy or refractory, various punishments are inflicted, e. g.> solitary confinement in the prison "cell." The lash is quite often and freely used in the square, and every convict must be present to see it administered. For laziness they get from fifty to one hundred strokes, but sometimes from one hundred and fifty to three hundred. Very recently one thousand five hundred were administered at one whipping to a B azilian convict for stabbing his wife. The man was in hospital recovering from this at the time of our visit. There ^NDA are no capital punishments in the Brazils. What is most dreaded is banishment for six months or a year to Bat's island, where they live a Robinson Crusoe life, and nay starve unless they fish and cultiva'^3 the soil, no provisions being sent from headquarters. The convicts generally are not fed by government, but are allowed about $5 fV» nn»nliooo onfl \r}"lpn I'Cl lUVli IU UV ^/Ull/UOOV iWVlj v.uv«j they can, toba co and other luxuries. The entire farm produce and manufactures are claimed by government, the farm laborer getting nothing beyond a few heads of maize after a day's work. Their clothing is coarse but strong, and they appeared to have no distinctive dress. Their usual food, purchased either at the government or private stores, consists of maize, manioc, white and black beans, all island produce, and jerked beef from the Brazils. Food and other necessaries are, on the whole, dear; and the scanty pay makes luxuries like tea, coffee, etc., for which they are charged enormously, for the most .part beyond their reach. The private stores are small dirty dens, ^he stock of which might be purchased in any American city for 825 or $50. They usually belong to privileged convicts, some of whom are wealthy, and do not scruple to enrich themselves by preying on their poorer fellow prisoners. One said to be worth 8300,tXK) was formerly a bank cashier and had been sentenoed to twenty years' banishment for embezzlement. Some of the women, transported for hr.6band poisoning, are also well to do. Neither wealth nor possessions are forfeited to the crown, nor is Brazilian society less lenient, inasmuch as, his time having expired, the convict may soon, especially if rich, regain his old social pos tion. Here, as elsewhere, however, banishment does not always prove an effectual * " * * i* At euro for crime, a detective was men oil the islaDd to ascertain whence certain counterfeit coins occasionally circulated wore emanating. He must be an adept who contrives to carry on secret coining under such adverse circumstances, and to pass base money in a community of this kind. Some of the life prisoners who have been long on the island, and have grown old in the place, like it, and are contented, if not happy. On the whole, there does not appear to be much discontent. Many of the prisoners would not be taken for other than well-conducted laborers, farm servants, or artisans. But the majority have a demoralized, selfconscious, hang-dog look. How they Cured the Tutor, He was the pink of perfection. If the cream of human excellence was to be churned the butter would lump up in the shape of Professor Porteous Prye, tutor, of Detroit. He had contracted the bad habit of stealing up stairs, in his stocking feet, to see if the lights were out at teu. It is hard teaching old dogs new tricks, but boys sometimes succeed better with old professors. Tommy Tayre is a cadaverous youth, with a sulphur-colored mustache, but the iron had entered his soul, and ho 6aid he must do what he could. So he Ixrught three-papers of carpet tacks one night, and stood the innocent little nails j on their heads all the way up and down the stairs, and retired with his faithful foLlowere to the wood closet above to await results. Promptly the chapel bell struck ten, then a season of waiting and whispering followed. Presently came a furry, creeping sound like woolen stock- ings feeling tueir way over rougu uuiu ue. Tommy tucked his hat in his mouth. his month runs clear around, except a small isthmus which connects the top of his head with the nape of his neck.and held his nose till the first burst of glee had subsided. Now came a suppressed scream, one foot on the stairs; then anoiher foot down; then a scream that wasn't suppressed; then a howl; he bad struck the second stair; then he sat down on the next step, but he got up again, and a groan, with exclamation points after it, came tearing up to the wood closet. The boys stood back to give Tommy room to kick, then came a scrabbling and shouting of heavy words, and Tom promptly appeared and asked, in a voice fresh from the valley of Nod : 44 What Beems to be the matter?" 44 Matter!" 44 The boys;" 44 the demons;" 44 confound it;" 44 see here;" 44 lielp !" and he shifted about and hung to the railing, and tried to stand on his knees. Tom brought a light, and the boys carried the wounded man to his room; offered sympathy; got a clawhammer aud drew out the tacks. The professor wears slippers and sits on a cushion. Tom sits on nettles, for seventeen boys know the secret, and it is spreading like smallpox iu an Indian camp.. Free J*res8. The Newspaper Exhibition. One of the most unique and interest ! ing features of the CenteEnial exhibition will be the collection of American newsj papers. Nothing will give to intelligent visitors from abroad so clear an insight into the peculiarities of our civilization. The 7,870 periodicals that are now pub! lished in the United States show all the phases of onr varied activities, tastes, * . laiosyucraczt^, jjvuuw, iiu«u, social and business and professional life. We are more given to newspaper reading than any o lier people. In our newest frontier settlements the newspaper is the first "institution " to b3 founded. From the local "organ" of the shanty village in Montana to the great dailies of New York, there are all sorts of sizes and variations of development of " American ideas of journalism. The following suggestion, given in Scribner's Magazine, is worthy the con! sideration of parents : Nervousness with a child is almost > | tilways a ma ter of the stomach. A c ust of bread will usually put an end to the most obstinate preverseness. Chil' dren, for this reason, should never be allowed to go to bed, after a fit of cryI icg, with an empty stomach. A bit ol II bread and jelly or a cup of custard will ; bring back smiles and happiness wher ;. all the moral law fails, and for the soundJ! est of reasons. POR' RD A PT?ATTrrVRT ft uun. u x v/Ai A ^ A Struggle for Education, On the ninth day of October, a. d. 1800, a poor insane woman of Rutland, Vermont, the wife of a helpless cripple, gave birth to a puny baby, whom the good neighbors were moved to hope that God would mercifully recall from so inhospitable a world as this promised to prove to the new-born child. On the twenty-fourth day of August, a. d. 1873, there died in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, a venerable clergyman, loved and honored throughout the country, and known in his books the world over. The unpromising infant who came unwelcome into the world at the beginning of the century had become the Dr. John Todd whose influence for good has been felt to the very ends of the earth, and whose published writings are read in more languages than one can well count on the fingers. The childhood of the young John was passed, after the fashion of rural childhood in New England at that early day, chiefly in hard work. His crippled father died about six years after the boy's birth, leaving a large family, which, by reason of extreme poverty and the helplessness of the maniac mother, was necessarily scattered. John found a home with an aunt in North Killingworth, Connecticut, where he remainejl several years, working hard " for his food and part of bis clothing," ana trapping wild animals for the rest. When ten years of age he passed a brief time in New Haven, attending school, and earning his bread in the capacity of " chore boy" in the house of a kinsman. It was during this residence near Yale College that he first came into contact with people of a higher culture than was common among the rural folk of North Killingworth, and the accident appears to have determined the whole course of his life. His ambition was awakened, rnd from that time forward his purpose .cas fixed.to secure the benefits of a thorough training in the schools. The task he thus set himself seemed a hopeless one.so much so, indeed, that from first to last his friends labored diligently to dissuadfe him from the undertaking. He was without money, without prospects, and without friends able to help him; but young as he was, the iron will which served him so well in after life was already his, and he appears never to have faltered in his purpose, after it was once formed. He lived poorly, by such work as he could get to do, saved every moment of time, studied under any masters he could find, and finally, in the autumn of 1818, entered Yale College, having traveled thither on foot from Charlestown, Massachusetts, ' * with his entire wardrobe under one aim and his entire library under the other." At'the time of his matriculation, ho tells us, he had but three cents ia the world, two of which he paid out for toll in crossing a bridge on the same day. Particulars of a Horrible Affair, Silas Wilder, who killed his father and mother with an ax at East Lyndon, Vt., cut his wifo's throat, then his own, and afterwards hanged himself, was thirty years old and a well-to-do farmer. His parents opposed his marriage, and made his marital relations very unpleasant. A difficulty arose between them and the result was the terrible deed. He had been married but a year. There was terrible excitement at East Lyndon over the tragedy. It is supposed that Wilder was laboriDg under temporary insanity superinduced by ex ' A -- J : rru« cessive excitement nnu pu»siwu. xuc details of the tragedy arc most horrible. His father and mother were aged respectively seventy-three and seventy years. The immediate cause of the affair was an altercation with his wife, who iu altering a pair of overalls had made them too short. After angry words Wilder started for the shed saying he would get an ax and end the trouble. His wife followed him and seized the ax, when he drew a dirk and stabbed her. He left her for dead, and taking the ax started for his father, who had followed him, and struck him a fearful blow, the ax crushing through the old man's head. At this point he appeared still further infuriated, and next attacked his mother, killing her with three fearful blows over the head aud breast, and leaving her lying at the front door ho returned to the shed and found his father had crawled into the kitchen. He struck him as he lay upon the floor, and the ax crushed through his head and remained fixed on the floor. He then cut his own throat, and, death not ensuing at once, he ran to the barn, fastened a rope around his neck and jumped from a beam. The fall broke his neck and he died instantly. Obtained His Fee. Recently a minister, residing near I Crescent, N. Y., went three miles from home to perform a weddi; g ceremony, and his experience is thus detailed: After the couple had been pronounced man and wife, the happv groom drew up a chair, and, seating himself, said, in a voice loud enougn to ue neara an over the room: "Well, how much is it?" The clergyman's surprise may be easily imagined. As soon as he recovered from it sufficiently to do so, he replied: 44 Oh, I never set any price on such little j matters." 44 Well," replied the groom, 44 but I want to know. How much is it ?" 44 Anything you like," replied the clergyman. 44 That won't do," said the groom; 44 I'm bound to know, so ycu may as well tell me." Seeing that things were getting desperate, a friend of the newly married man called him aside and whispered to him. This seemed to do no good, for, returning to the vacant chair, the groom again commenced conversation, with the remark: 44 Pretty hard times, ain't it?" 44 Yes," replied the clergyman. 44Oh! come now," said Benedict, 4'tell me how much it is, and have done with it." But the minister didn't tell, and the father of «j the bride relieved him just then by re; marking that he would attend to the matter. And thus it stood for awhile, 11 when, to the dominie's great surprise, the bride appeared upon the scene. She > walked up and laid three one dollar bills upon his knee, one Rt a time, counting I in a loud voice as she did so: 44 One, [ two, three," and ending with 44 there !" t She had been a factory girl, and it was »! very evident that she was the 44 moneyed ! man " of the new firm. X! RO' lND * C., THURSDAY, M MURDER THAT WOULD OUT. Proofe Agnln*t Murderers FnrnUhed by the Very Means that they Employed lor Concealment.Parallels of the Williamsborgh Tragedy. The discovery of the mutilated remains at Williamsburgb, N. Y., calls to mind some notable cases that seem to confirm the popular belief that whatever disposition may be made by a murderer of the corpse of his victim, sooner or later it will " cry out from the ground " against him. In England what was known as " The Waterloo Bridge Mystery," about fifteen years ago, created great excitement there, remains of a human body being found crammed into a carpetbag, as did recently the discovery of the murder of Harriet Lane by her paramour, Wainwright, by the finding in a cab a package containing part of her remains. In America, the killing of poor Alice Bowlsby of Paterson, N. J., by Rosenweig, discovered by the finding of the body crushed into a trunk for transmission to Chicago, is still fresh in the recollection of the public. From a number of cases showing the difficulty of keeping murder out of sight, the following three cases, which have become historical, are interesting examples: The case of Prof. Webster, who was hanged for the murder of Dr. Parkman, was one in which guilt was brought home to the perpetrator througo the identification of a body after it had been separated limb from limb, submitted to chemical processes, and to the inordinate heat of a furnace, and mingled with tin unnumbered bones of anatomical subjects. It was shown that Prof. Webster had urgent pecuniary motives for getting Dr. Parkman out of the way. The prisoner lived at the Medical College, Boston. He made an appointment to meet Dr. Parkman at two o'clock on Friday, Nov. 23, 1849, to discuss money matters. Dr. Parkman was seen entering the college at a quarter to two o'clock, and was never again seen alive. The prisoner said that the doctor did not keep his appointment, and was not in the college at all that day. For a whole week no traces of the missing man were found. On the Friday week and the day following were found in a furnace connected with Webster's laboratory in the college, fused together indiscriminately with the slag, the cinders and the refuse of the fuel, a large numberof bones and certain blocks of mineral teeth. Some gold that had been melted was also found. Other bones were discovered in a vault under the college, and in a tea chest, embedded in a quantity of tea, the entire trunk of a human body and more bones were found. The parts thus collected from different places made the entire body of a person of Dr. Parkman's age, about sixty years, and the form of the body, when reconstructed, had just the peculiarities of Dr. Parkman. It was further shown that the remains had been separated by a person possessed of anatomical skill, though not for anatomical purposes. Finally three witnesses, dentists, testified- Miat the mineral teeth were those made for Dr. Parkman three years before. A mold iaw Tens made at the VI kUU UWW& w .. W. time, and it was prodnced, and shown to be so peculiar that no accidental conformity of the teeth to the jaw could possibly account for the adaptation. This clinched the evidence against the prisoner. The murder of Samuel Adams, a printer in New York, by John C. Colt, a teacher of bookkeeping, and brother of the late CoL Samuel Colt, of revolver fame, is another example. As in the case of Prof. Webster, the motive was to get rid of an importunate creditor. The scene of the murder was the building on Broadway and Chambers street, now occupied by Delmonico, the restaurateur. John C. Colt occupied a room in this building for his business. One September morning in 1841, Adams, who was printing for him a work on bookkeeping, called for 850 or 860 due him, and was not seen again alive. Inquiries were made by his family, and it was ascertained that he was last seen going into Colt's appartmcnts, in Chambers street. On the day of Adams' disappearance, suspicions noises were heard in Colt's room. The body finally came boxed, directed to a gentleman in St. Louis, by way of New Orleans, and was traced back to New York to Colt, and ho was arrested. Colt's story was that Adams and he bad a dispute as to the correctness of the bill presented, and that the latter called him a liar, which he resented by slapping him in the face. A scuffle en sued ; Adams seized him by the throat and Celt, in self defense, caught up a « i i hatchet lying near by ana strncK nun 011 the forehead, killing him. He went out of his room and locked the door, hurrying to the City Hotel, where his brother, Samuel Colt, was staying, intending to tell him his secret and take his advice. Samuel Colt, who was in the barroom with some friends, told his brother to go up to his room and that ho would join him in a few minutes. The prisoner waited, and his brother not coming, he went back to the room in Chambers street. The body lay there covered with blood. He took a large box, crammed the body into it, wrapped in a piece of canvas, tying the legs up close to the trunk, and then scattered salt and sawdust over all. He washed off the marks of blood on the wall and floor, and smeared them with ink to hide their traces. He stayed in the room until Lite at night, and tben returned to his lodgings. Next morning he nailed up the box, sent for a carman, and had it put on board the steamer Kalamazoo, lyiugat the foot of Maiden lane. Colt was convicted of willful murder, and was sentenced to be banged. On the day fixed for the hanging he stabbed himself in the heart. A remarkable murder trial in Boston,* in many respects like that of Professor Webster, but resulting in the acquittal of the prisoner, was that of Leavitt Alley, who was accused of killing Abijah Ellis. Some workmen near the Cambridge gas works discovered two barrels containing the mutilated body floating in the Charles river. They were packed with horse manure and shavings, and in one of the barrels a piece of brown paper was found with the name of M. Schonler, a billiard table maker. It was known that Leavitt Alley, a teamster, was in the 1TAJIL, Coma [ARCH 9, 1876. ha' t of removing these shavings to his sta \ Following the clew to the stable it v as found that a dry manure heap had been disturbed and blood was found on some boards near by. It was proved that oil the previous morning Alley started from his stable with four barrels, and a teamster, in jumping from a v agon, had ascertained that two of them were heavy. Two of the barrels were not satisfactorily accounted for, and a man testified that he saw the team and barrels with a man strongly resembling Alley on the mill dam, whence they wore supposed to have been thrown into the river. Alley owed Ellis about 8200, needed money, and Ellis was known to have been looking for the suspected man on the night of the murder. A new ax that Alley had bought was missing. Stains were found on his clothing, which experts declared to be the blood of the murdered man. A woman had heard strange noises on the night of the murder, like the rolling of barrels. Alley, it was shown, had plenty of money after Ellis' death. An examination of the stomach of the murdered man showed that he must have died between six and nine o'clock on the fatal evening. Seemingly, here was a perfect chain of circumstantial evidence. But the defense met the theory that Alley had committed the murder in a quarrel by showing his peaceable disposition and his high reputation for honesty, and controverted the assertion of the prosecution that Alley was in debt to Ellis, and without money to meet an engagement that fell due at the time of the murder, by showing that the prisoner owned real estat® in New Hampshire, and had memoir in <1 bank Allfiv's abnndance of U4VUV J 1U M J _ ready money after the murder was explained by his son haying repaid him 8125 the evening before. He gave a satisfactory accobnt of how he had spent his time on the day of the murder. Experts called by the defense swore that the blood on the prisoner's clothes, being dry, could not be distinguished from the blood of a beast. This conflicting scientific testimony confused the jury to the advantage of the prisoner, and he was acquitted. If he was not the murderer, the murderer was never found. A Terrible Isolation. Porters' island, Lake Superior, is a bit of rock, upon which was built the " government house," the residence of that high and potent individual, the United States agent, who reigned over the copper land, countersigning permits and dispensing favors of a consular nature to visitors to Cooper Harbor. In the summer of 1846, says an exchange, we saw a half-breed woman who had been Crusoeing on the island; she and ber husband had been placed on the island in charge of property. Owing to the wreck of the brig Astor, in the fall of 1815, supplies failed to reach them. Long they w«ited for succor, but in vain. Winter came on, snow covered the ground, and ice gathered on the waters; then this lone pair were left to their fate on this .savage, desolate island, " out of humanity's reach." The shrieking winds as they swept through the fir trees, and the black billows of the 6tormy lake, spending their sullen fury upon the rocky coasts, were the only sounds that could greet the ear during the long, dark winter of that high northern latitude. For companionship they must depend upon each other. But, before the winter was half spent, the husband sickened and died, and the poor woman was absolutely alone. Wrapping the remains ^a iinoUnH in n blanket, she UA iiCl U^au UUV>vmmv% 9 removed them from the hut and deposited them in the snow, where, frozen solid like a pillar of ice, they were preserved until the return of spring permitted of their burial. The widow passed the long winter as best she could, subsisting upon the flesh of rabbits which she managed to mare; her bereavement, hardships and the terrors of isolation, wonderful as it may seem, did not affect her health or mind. She was taken off from the island in the spring, and was happy enough when she reached the mainland. Domestic Bankruptcy. He had been telling her for weeks past, says the Detroit Free Press, that times were tight, money scarce, bank-1 ruptcy stalking abroad through the land, and so forth, and she had consented to the discharge of the nurse girl, and up stairs girl, and had wheedled the cook into doing general housework. That wasn't enough. He came home one night and said he wasgoing to discharge the hostler; that money had gone np to thirty per cent.; that he could 't afford to carry his life insurance any longer; that she mustn't ask for any more new clothes for a year. She went over the house and pinched expenses down again, and things ran along until the nrl-ian romorlf : "We've Ul/UUJk Vlltj ) nuvM ux/ - got to reduce still further or bust I" She was pondering over his remarks late that evening when he came home. He was so long getting his overcoat off that she went into the hall. He gave the coat one awful jerk just then and fell over. "What on earth ails you!" she ex- claimed, as she tried to help him up. " Nozzing," ho replied. As lie got up she peered into his face. The fact was as plain as if it had been written on a whitewashed fence with tar*. "Ycu are drunk!" she said, as she drew back. He gazed at her without replying. "Here you've been yelling 'reduce! reduce!' all winter, and while I am try-1 ing to reduce you go and get drunk! You'd better reduce your whisky!" " Yi said anyzing 'bout rcjuce !" he asked. "Yes, you have!" " Whaz want rejuce for?" »Only to-day you said we'd either got to reduce or bust." "Di say zat?" "Yes, you did." "Well'ju rejuce?" " No; how could I ?" "Zen didn't I bust!" Cnoup..Cronp may be cured in one minute, and the remedy is simply alnm and sugar. The way to accomplish the act is to take a knife or grater and shave off in small particles about a teaspoonfnl cf tdum, then mix it with about twice its quantity of sugar, to make palatable. Almost instantaneous relief will follow. IERCI $2.00 per 1 AX OBSCURE LIFE. Whnt a Poor Woman Did for Humanity Witbont Oatrntation and with no Hope of Earthly Reward. Here is the record of an obscure life which may be worth the attention of that intelligent^ well-to-do majority, which is made np, after all, of obscure people. It is a story which suits all classes or any time, yet perhaps this especial time best, when men and women in the cities who have anxiously tried to be of service to God and their fellow men are apt to be daunted and depressed by the contrast between the great work accomplished by others and their own domestic quiet labor. The story is of a poor seamstress in a mill town in Indiana, who was left a widow some fifteen years ago, dependent on her needle for her daily bread. She lived near one of the factories where hundreds of both sexep were employed, and night and morning large gargs of girls and men passed her door miserably hungry and gloomy, or more miserably boisterous. It was a mill where the hands are driven like cattle and regarded as cattle in every other sense. The woman who saw the young girls pass so often that she learned to know their faces pitied them as a mother might have done. Indeed, we question if sue had any exceptional quality or means of influence in the world other than her motherly nature. au" "">» «" **naAnnafxs/1 Knmfllr liktlfi JUO WOO (Hi uuvuuvwwv*) . . body, bat with patienoe and tenderness enough in her heart to serve all the children^n the world. "I wanted," she said, " to give these girls a chanoe like other women ; they had no chanoe as it was to be anything better than the mn'es which drew away the stuff they spun." Oar poor reformer took one.just one girl into her kitchen. She half starved herself to do that. She made the girl clean, and taught her to remain clean; taught her to scrub, wash, cook, and tell the truth. It took years to accompli' h so much; years of patience and self-sacrifice. When she had finished, instead of a coarse dirty animal, she had molded for use and service in the world a cleanminded honest woman, with skillful hands and intelligent brain. She took one after another of these wretched girls and trained them as seamstresses, cooks, chambermaids, at her own cost of time and money. Situations were readily found for them; the housekeepers of the town soon discovered how different the women were whom she had trained from any others; but she never parted with them unless she was confident that the work she had begun would be carried on in the same hearty spirit. In two cases the girls whom she thus adopted were deformed and sickly. These both remained with her until her death, supporting themselves by some light handiwork. In other cases they were rescued from worse places than the mill. A few of the girls became sincere Christians, but all (except one) led virtuous, honest, useful lives. One peculiar effect of her training was that her pupils caught from her her own genial, helpful spirit; they were missionaries of kindness in their humble world; and a cheerful face in a cook, or gentle, tender manner in a nursemaid, are not merits so common as to be despised. The widow and her work were never known to fame, even in the town where she lived. People supposed when she took a larger house so as to accommodate more inmates that she kept a kind of intelligence office, or cheap boarding house, and there were not wanting many in her own rank of life to hint that she paid herself somehow from the labor of 11 i( fnofVizxvo/l Vuay 10680 pOUr y tliUU DUO luavuvi vva mv* nest well." None of the women whom she had helped ever wronged her by a suspicion. Next to God, whom she faithfully tried to teach them to serve, they believed in her. If she had proved a humbug, the faith of many a poor soul in His goodness would have been shaken, for all they knew of the goodness or beauty or pleasure He has sent into the world they knew through this poor woman. There were other women who could preach of Christ by words more effectually than she ; some of them, quite as uncultured, had a "gift of prayer," or a real native eloquence which moved their hearers in class meeting or the chnrch. Aunt Hannah, as she was called, never spoke in class or meeting; she was slow and dull of speet h any where. She often no doubt felt her deficiencies bitterly, and wished that she could serve her Master in some great and striking way. It seemed a poor commonplace thing to her, as it may to our readers, to teach girls how to make or wear clothes neatly, or to cook a savory dinner; to watch and labor incessantly day after day, year after year to wipe out this or that little faolt, to strengthen a weak virtue. She would have been glad, no doubt, as we all would, to convert the great masses of vice and uncleanlinees in the world into purity and goodness, in an hour.to play Divine Providence, in a word. In . - .11 .-i. stead, sue naci smaii, cuiuoo WUl MX CCD before her, and did it. Of another woman it was said, " She hath done what she could," when she anointed her Savior's head with precious ointment. How it Went. In "Williamsburgh, N. Y., is a mansion that was tenanted for several years by an estimable family, who wished to remain Rtill longer ; but the landlord desired to increase the rent, and told them to move. He let the place to a person at the increased price, received one month's rent, and at the end of the third, dispossessed his tenants for non-payment of two months' rent. Since that time the place remained vacant, until it has entirely disappeared. Several persons apl plied, promising to tike care of it, if allowed to occupy it, bnt the owner said he would rather see it go to ruin than not to get his price, and so, as though in response to his desire, one after another of the neighbors took a piece, Doors, windows, and frames were taken away for firewood, until to day naught remains but the bricks, constituting the foundation and the cellar. A burly Briton, maddened by some stage reflections on John Bull in a Milwaukee theater, a few nights ago, charged upon the actors, revolver in hand, and cleared the stage in a jiffy. And yet they call this the glorious centennial year. I AT j. in. Single Copy 5 Cents. Resignation, Let nothing make thee ead or fretful,' Or too regretful; . ?n_ i^V >9MU What God bath ordered most be right; Theu find in.it thine own delight, My will. Why ahould'et thou fill to-day with sorrow About to-morrow, My heart! One watche^all with care meet true, Doubt not that He will give thee, too. Thy part. Items of Interest. " 'Tis false," as the girl said when lier lover told her she had beautiful hair. " The rich," said a wit, " eat venison becaase.it is deer. I eat mutton because it is sheep." The Prussian government compels bakers to keep their bread at least one day before selling. Buckingham, Ferry and Starkweather, all from Connecticut, and all taken away within a few montlis. A Roman once said : " Build me a house where I shall be seen by every one every hour of the day." London is estimated by the registergeneral to contain now nearly three millions and a half of people. The Legislature of Minnesota passed a 9 bill to borrow $6*3,000 from ths school fond to pay its cm-rent expenses. " Perley " insists that" cold tea " in the Capitol restaurant at Washington is a liberal translation of " whisky. Thirty-two sales of short horns took place in Kentucky last year, in which 1,553 animals were sold for $665,946. There are 21,255 Baptist churches in the United States with 13,117ministers, and a total membership of 1,815,000. " John, if you're going to be out till two o'clock to-night you'll have to stay at home and let yourself in, for I won't. A Lycoming county (Pa.) farmer took home a freshly painted wagon; three cows licked the paint off and died the next day. Eleven shillings and the same number of pence constituted the entire capital of a London banker when he failed for about $200,000. Under the Iowa civil damage law the wives of drunkards in Sioux City have sued liquor dealers for sums amounting in all to $60,000. Laziness is said to be one of the oauses of insanity. In the Virginia bedlam there are two women and one man who became insane from indolence. A chandler having had some candles stolen, a person bid him be of gcod cheer, "for in a short time," said he, " I am confident they will all come to light." One of our merchants sat his umbrella against a tree w hile he stepped into a store to ask a question. When he came out the tree stood there. No one had taken it. A counsel was asked by the judge for whom he was concerned. He answered: "I am concerned, my lord, for the plaintiff, but I am employed by the defendant" Minnesota Falls, Minn., was organised as a town over three years ago, and al" '-1-'. Vtnn. tnougn me popuLttviuii ao vrn ... dred, not a death has oooored there dorthe three years. There has been a good deal of fun made over the Chinese birds' nest soop, bnt it is said by Americans who have tasted of the dish that it will yet be served at oar restaurants. A school insj>eetor visiting a school said : " Now, children, who loves all men ?" The question was hardly pat before a little girl, not four years old, answered : " All women." Speaking of the depression of trade the world over, the Pall Mall Gazette says : In Austria and Germany the recovery will be slower than in England or the United States, for -the simple reason that their resouroes of all kinds are less. David. T. Simper, of Sandown, N. H., who is totally blind, is able to reap, mow, thresh, chop down trees, cut up cord wood, make ax handles, ox goads, and can go roun d the neighborhood with assistance or direction from any one, and never finds time to spend in regreting the loss of liis eyesight The arithmetic man of a Western paper has discovered if every one of the 8,000,000 families in the American Union would only skim the soap grease off their dishwater, and invest its proceeds in a sinking fund at four per cent compound interest, the proceeds in 169 years two months and eleven days would pay off the national debt . A minister offered a prayer at the laying of a corner stone. A brisk young reporter bnstled up and said: " I wish you would give me the manuscript of that prayer." " I never write out my prayers," said the preacher. " Well," said the reporter, " I couldn't hear a word yo a said." "I wasn't pray- - « i at ing to you," quickly repnea wie pmevu. A Wisconsin trader discovered two men, disguised with veils, robbing his store one night recently, and went for them with a revolver. The rognes fled and he followed, firing as he went, bnt the thieves apparently escaped. The next morning a man was found dead in the road with a veil over his face, and he proved to be the trader's brother-in| law. | Mineral Wool. The method of manufacture at the Krnpp works, Essen, Prussia, is as fol: lows: The pig iron furnace is provided with a tap an inch in diameter, out of which a continual stream of slag is allowed to flow and to fall a distance of two feet six inches, at which point the falling stream of slag is met by a strong 1 1 * 'J r\t wKiaK in fn OlHfil OI CUJU ttu J vuc CUW « VTA nw*vM *W separate the f lag into myriads of hairlike threads, as white as snow, resembling the finest wool. These fibers, like spnn glass, if'handled, will,penetrate the skin. The mineral wood is used for packing steam pipes, boilers, eta, and is a valuable product. ' m

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Page 1: POR'X! RO' Coma St ^NDARD A IERCI - Chronicling America...v who havenone havedifferent tasks allotted, e. g., fishing, cooking for the governor, landingcargo, workiEgin the stores,

StiVOL. IV. NO. 14

People will Talk.Yon may go through the world, bat 'twill be

very slow,If yon listen to all that is said as yon go;Ytu'll he woriied and fretted and kept in a

stew,For meddlesome tongnes must have something

to do,And people will talk.

If quiet aDd modest, you'll have it presumedThat your humbl9 position is only assumed.Yon're a wolf in sheep's clothing or else you'r

a fool;But don't get excited.keep perfetly cool.

For people wiU talk.

And then, if you show the least boldness ofheart

Or a slight inclination to take your own part,They will call you an upstart, conceited andf vain,

But keep straight ahead.don't stop to explain.For people will talk.

If threadbare your dress and old-fashionedyour hat,

Some one will surely take notice of that,And hint rather strong that you can't pay your

way;But don't get excited, whatever they say.

For people will talk.

If your dress is in fashion, don't think to

escape,For they criticise them in a different shape ;You're ahead of your means, or your tailor's

unpaid,But mind your own business.there's naught

^ to be made.For people will talk.

N<w, tbo best way to do it is to do as youplease;

Fir your mind. if you have one, Mill then beat ease.

Qf couree you will meet with all eorts of abute;But don't think to stop them.it aiu't any use.

For people will talk.

BRAZIL COXYICT LIFE,

How the Convicts are Tnken Care of.'I heir Island Home.A Sad Life to Lead.

In Scribner for February is an interrating article on tho penal settlement ofFernando Noronha, belonging to Brazil:There are one thousand five hundred

convicts on the island, chiefly Brazilians,negroes, and half castes, with a fewItalians, etc. Sixty of them are women.The children number about two hundred. The total island population, includingconvicts, roldiers and theirwives and children, is about two thousand,thus :

Conviots(including sixty women).. 1,500Soldie: s and c ffioert* 150Wives of soldiers aud convicts 141VUilUiVU, «

Total 2.000The chief crimes for which they have

been banished are murder, embezzlement,coining, forgery.all of frequerifoccurrence in the Brazils ; and in thecase of maoy of the women, husbandmurder or poisoniDg, another common

felony. Of the one thousand fiye hundred,only one-third, or five hundred,including the women, live and work inthe village. The women are mainly employedin sewing, tailoring, etc., andthe men at their special trades. Those

v who have none have different tasks allotted,e. g., fishing, cooking for thegovernor, landing cargo, workiEg in thestores, etc. Fi^hiEg is carried on singlehanded in Rmall rafts, or catamarans,like those used along the coast of

f Hindostan. With these the convict haslittle chance of escape to the distant coast.This is seldom attempted, and even if

L successfully accomplished, the prisoner* is almost sure to be recognized and recapturedin Brazil. All the able-bodiedartificers work iu the general workshopsunder surveillance, and only the aged,infirm, and crippled are allowed theprivilege of working at home. Of thevillage convicts, four hundred occupythe prison, the remaining one hundredbeing women and married men, wholiavo huts of their own. The womenare seldom compelled to live in theprison 8o-cailed, which is merely a stonebuilt structure, consisting of an openyard, and on either side a long, rough,and bare looking, comfortless stonefloored room, along each side of whichthe closely packed convicts sleep, feed,and keep" their scanty and generallyworthless stock of clothing, on longwooden tables. At the further end is a

primitive, dirty kitchen, where theygrind and cook their principal article offood, maize. The only fettered man onthe island was here.a large boned,flabby, ungainly, scowling individual,evidently despised by his fellow prisonersfor having murdered a man iu bisshep, and being thus " good for nothing".according to my informant, thehalf ca^to who first boarded us on

arrival, and who, with the Englishmanwho accompanied him, had murderedeight Brazilians m a drunken brawl on

shipboard at Rio. This, however, was afair stand up fight, and he evidentlyconsidered himself a hero of a very differentstamp from the coward he wasnow pointing out.As a rule, the convicts spend half of

their exile in the prison. If well behaved,they may afterward live outside,build their own hut and cultivate theirown garden, government giving all,whether in prison or out of it, a oertdnallowance of food. It specially well behaved,particularly if married, they maysooner live outside, a boon grantee! bythe governor on application. A marriedconvict can insist on having his wife andchildren beside him; and, thongh free,they often come from the Brazils toshare a husband's or father's exile. Marriagesoccur between convicts' children.As might be expected, the standard ofmorality is low. If lazy or refractory,various punishments are inflicted, e. g.>solitary confinement in the prison "cell."The lash is quite often and freely used inthe square, and every convict must bepresent to see it administered. Forlaziness they get from fifty to one hundredstrokes, but sometimes from onehundred and fifty to three hundred.Very recently onethousand five hundredwere administered at one whipping to a

B azilian convict for stabbing his wife.The man was in hospital recoveringfrom this at the time of our visit. There

^NDAare no capital punishments in the Brazils.What is most dreaded is banishment forsix months or a year to Bat's island,where they live a Robinson Crusoe life,and nay starve unless they fish and cultiva'^3the soil, no provisions being sentfrom headquarters.The convicts generally are not fed by

government, but are allowed about $5fV» nn»nliooo onfl \r}"lpn

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they can, toba co and other luxuries.The entire farm produce and manufacturesare claimed by government, thefarm laborer getting nothing beyond a

few heads of maize after a day's work.Their clothing is coarse but strong, andthey appeared to have no distinctivedress. Their usual food, purchasedeither at the government or privatestores, consists of maize, manioc, whiteand black beans, all island produce, andjerked beef from the Brazils. Food andother necessaries are, on the whole, dear;and the scanty pay makes luxuries liketea, coffee, etc., for which they are

charged enormously, for the most .partbeyond their reach.The private stores are small dirty

dens, ^he stock of which might be purchasedin any American city for 825 or

$50. They usually belong to privilegedconvicts, some of whom are wealthy,and do not scruple to enrich themselvesby preying on their poorer fellow prisoners.One said to be worth 8300,tXK)was formerly a bank cashier and hadbeen sentenoed to twenty years' banishmentfor embezzlement. Some of thewomen, transported for hr.6band poisoning,are also well to do. Neither wealthnor possessions are forfeited to thecrown, nor is Brazilian society less lenient,inasmuch as, his time having expired,the convict may soon, especiallyif rich, regain his old social pos tion.

Here, as elsewhere, however, banishmentdoes not always prove an effectual*"

* * i* At

euro for crime, a detective was men

oil the islaDd to ascertain whence certaincounterfeit coins occasionally circulatedwore emanating. He must be an adeptwho contrives to carry on secret coiningunder such adverse circumstances, andto pass base money in a community ofthis kind.Some of the life prisoners who have

been long on the island, and have grownold in the place, like it, and are contented,if not happy. On the whole, theredoes not appear to be much discontent.Many of the prisoners would not betaken for other than well-conducted laborers,farm servants, or artisans. Butthe majority have a demoralized, selfconscious,hang-dog look.

How they Cured the Tutor,

He was the pink of perfection. If thecream of human excellence was to bechurned the butter wouldlump up in theshape of Professor Porteous Prye, tutor,of Detroit. He had contracted thebad habit of stealing up stairs,in his stocking feet, to see ifthe lights were out at teu. Itis hard teaching old dogs new tricks, butboys sometimes succeed better with oldprofessors.Tommy Tayre is a cadaverous youth,

with a sulphur-colored mustache, but theiron had entered his soul, and ho 6aidhe must do what he could. So heIxrught three-papers of carpet tacks one

night, and stood the innocent little nailsj on their heads all the way up and downthe stairs, and retired with his faithfulfoLlowere to the wood closet above toawait results. Promptly the chapel bellstruck ten, then a season of waiting andwhispering followed. Presently came a

furry, creeping sound like woolen stock-ings feeling tueir wayover rougu uuiu ue.

Tommy tucked his hat in his mouth.his month runs clear around, except a

small isthmus which connects the top ofhis head with the nape of his neck.andheld his nose till the first burst of gleehad subsided. Now came a suppressedscream, one foot on the stairs; then anoiherfoot down; then a scream thatwasn't suppressed; then a howl; he badstruck the second stair; then he satdown on the next step, but he got upagain, and a groan, with exclamationpoints after it, came tearing up to thewood closet. The boys stood back togive Tommy room to kick, then came a

scrabbling and shouting of heavy words,and Tom promptly appeared and asked,in a voice fresh from the valley of Nod :44 What Beems to be the matter?"44 Matter!" 44 The boys;" 44 the demons;"44 confound it;" 44 see here;"44 lielp !" and he shifted about and hungto the railing, and tried to stand on hisknees.Tom brought a light, and the boys

carried the wounded man to his room;offered sympathy; got a clawhammeraud drew out the tacks. The professorwears slippers and sits on a cushion.Tom sits on nettles, for seventeen boysknow the secret, and it is spreading likesmallpox iu an Indian camp..FreeJ*res8.

The Newspaper Exhibition.

One of the most unique and interest!ing features of the CenteEnial exhibition

will be the collection of American newsjpapers. Nothing will give to intelligentvisitors from abroad so clear an insightinto the peculiarities of our civilization.The 7,870 periodicals that are now pub!lished in the United States show all thephases of onr varied activities, tastes,

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laiosyucraczt^, jjvuuw, iiu«u,

social and business and professionallife. We are more given to newspaperreading than any o lier people. In our

newest frontier settlements the newspaperis the first "institution " to b3founded. From the local "organ" ofthe shanty village in Montana to thegreat dailies of New York, there are allsorts of sizes and variations of developmentof " American ideas of journalism.The following suggestion, given in

Scribner's Magazine, is worthy the con!sideration of parents :Nervousness with a child is almost

> | tilways a ma ter of the stomach. Ac ust of bread will usually put an end tothe most obstinate preverseness. Chil'dren, for this reason, should never beallowed to go to bed, after a fit of cryIicg, with an empty stomach. A bit ol

II bread and jelly or a cup of custard will; bring back smiles and happiness wher

;. all the moral law fails, and for the soundJ!est of reasons.

POR'

RD APT?ATTrrVRT ftuun. u x v/Ai A ^

A Struggle for Education,On the ninth day of October, a. d.

1800, a poor insane woman of Rutland,Vermont, the wife of a helpless cripple,gave birth to a puny baby, whom thegood neighbors were moved to hope thatGod would mercifully recall from so inhospitablea world as this promised toprove to the new-born child.On the twenty-fourth day of August,

a. d. 1873, there died in Pittsfield,Massachusetts, a venerable clergyman,loved and honored throughout the country,and known in his books the worldover. The unpromising infant whocame unwelcome into the world at thebeginning of the century had becomethe Dr. John Todd whose influence forgood has been felt to the very ends ofthe earth, and whose published writingsare read in more languages than one can

well count on the fingers.The childhood of the young John was

passed, after the fashion of rural childhoodin New England at that early day,chiefly in hard work. His crippledfather died about six years after theboy's birth, leaving a large family,which, by reason of extreme poverty andthe helplessness of the maniac mother,was necessarily scattered. John found a

home with an aunt in North Killingworth,Connecticut, where he remainejlseveral years, working hard " for hisfood and part of bis clothing," ana

trapping wild animals for the rest.When ten years of age he passed a brieftime in New Haven, attending school,and earning his bread in the capacity of" chore boy" in the house of a kinsman.It was during this residence near YaleCollege that he first came into contactwith people of a higher culture than was

common among the rural folk of NorthKillingworth, and the accident appearsto have determined the whole course ofhis life. His ambition was awakened,rnd from that time forward his purpose.cas fixed.to secure the benefits of a

thorough training in the schools. Thetask he thus set himself seemed a hopelessone.so much so, indeed, that fromfirst to last his friends labored diligentlyto dissuadfe him from the undertaking.He was without money, without prospects,and without friends able to helphim; but young as he was, the iron willwhich served him so well in after lifewas already his, and he appears never tohave faltered in his purpose, after it wasonce formed. He lived poorly, by suchwork as he could get to do, saved everymoment of time, studied under any mastershe could find, and finally, in the autumnof 1818, entered Yale College, havingtraveled thither on footfrom Charlestown,Massachusetts, ' * with his entirewardrobe under one aim and his entirelibrary under the other." At'the timeof his matriculation, ho tells us, he hadbut three cents ia the world, two ofwhich he paid out for toll in crossing a

bridge on the same day.

Particulars of a Horrible Affair,Silas Wilder, who killed his father

and mother with an ax at East Lyndon,Vt., cut his wifo's throat, then his own,and afterwards hanged himself, was

thirty years old and a well-to-do farmer.His parents opposed his marriage, andmade his marital relations very unpleasant.A difficulty arose between them andthe result was the terrible deed. Hehad been married but a year.There was terrible excitement at East

Lyndon over the tragedy. It is supposedthat Wilder was laboriDg undertemporary insanity superinduced by ex

' A -- J : rru«cessive excitement nnu pu»siwu. xuc

details of the tragedy arc most horrible.His father and mother were aged respectivelyseventy-three and seventyyears. The immediate cause of theaffair was an altercation with his wife,who iu altering a pair of overalls hadmade them too short. After angry wordsWilder started for the shed saying hewould get an ax and end the trouble.His wife followed him and seized the ax,when he drew a dirk and stabbed her.He left her for dead, and taking the axstarted for his father, who had followedhim, and struck him a fearful blow,the ax crushing through the old man'shead. At this point he appeared stillfurther infuriated, and next attacked hismother, killing her with three fearfulblows over the head aud breast, andleaving her lying at the front door ho returnedto the shed and found his fatherhad crawled into the kitchen. He struckhim as he lay upon the floor, and the ax

crushed through his head and remainedfixed on the floor. He then cut his ownthroat, and, death not ensuing at once,he ran to the barn, fastened a ropearound his neck and jumped from a

beam. The fall broke his neck and hedied instantly.

Obtained His Fee.Recently a minister, residing near I

Crescent, N. Y., went three miles fromhome to perform a weddi; g ceremony,and his experience is thus detailed: Afterthe couple had been pronounced manand wife, the happv groom drew up a

chair, and, seating himself, said, in avoice loud enougn to ue neara an over

the room: "Well, how much is it?"The clergyman's surprise may be easilyimagined. As soon as he recovered fromit sufficiently to do so, he replied:44 Oh, I never set any price on such little

j matters."44 Well," replied the groom,

44 but I want to know. How much isit ?" 44 Anything you like," replied theclergyman. 44 That won't do," said thegroom; 44 I'm bound to know, so ycumay as well tell me." Seeing thatthings were getting desperate, a friendof the newly married man called himaside and whispered to him. Thisseemed to do no good, for, returning tothe vacant chair, the groom again commencedconversation, with the remark:44 Pretty hard times, ain't it?" 44 Yes,"replied the clergyman. 44Oh! come

now," said Benedict, 4'tell me how muchit is, and have done with it." But theminister didn't tell, and the father of

«j the bride relieved him just then by re;marking that he would attend to thematter. And thus it stood for awhile,

11 when, to the dominie's great surprise,the bride appeared upon the scene. She

> walked up and laid three one dollar billsupon his knee, one Rt a time, counting

I in a loud voice as she did so: 44 One,[ two, three," and ending with 44 there !"t She had been a factory girl, and it was

»! very evident that she was the 44 moneyed! man " of the new firm.

X! RO'

lND *C., THURSDAY, M

MURDER THAT WOULD OUT.

Proofe Agnln*t Murderers FnrnUhed by theVery Means that they Employed lorConcealment.Parallelsof the WilliamsborghTragedy.

The discovery of the mutilated remainsat Williamsburgb, N. Y., calls tomind some notable cases that seem toconfirm the popular belief that whateverdisposition may be made by a murdererof the corpse of his victim, sooner or

later it will " cry out from the ground "

against him. In England what wasknown as " The Waterloo Bridge Mystery,"about fifteen years ago, createdgreat excitement there, remains of a

human body being found crammed intoa carpetbag, as did recently the discoveryof the murder of Harriet Lane byher paramour, Wainwright, by the findingin a cab a package containing part ofher remains. In America, the killing ofpoor Alice Bowlsby of Paterson, N. J.,by Rosenweig, discovered by the findingof the body crushed into a trunk fortransmission to Chicago, is still fresh inthe recollection of the public. From a

number of cases showing the difficultyof keeping murder out of sight, the followingthree cases, which have becomehistorical, are interesting examples:The case of Prof. Webster, who was

hanged for the murder of Dr. Parkman,was one in which guilt was broughthome to the perpetrator througo theidentification of a body after it had beenseparated limb from limb, submitted tochemical processes, and to the inordinateheat of a furnace, and mingledwithtin unnumbered bones of anatomicalsubjects. It was shown that Prof. Websterhad urgent pecuniary motives forgetting Dr. Parkman out of the way.The prisoner lived at the Medical College,Boston. He made an appointmentto meet Dr. Parkman at two o'clock on

Friday, Nov. 23, 1849, to discuss moneymatters. Dr. Parkman was seen enteringthe college at a quarter to twoo'clock, and was never again seen alive.The prisoner said that the doctor didnot keep his appointment, and was notin the college at all that day.For a whole week no traces of the

missing man were found. On the Fridayweek and the day following were

found in a furnace connected with Webster'slaboratory in the college, fusedtogether indiscriminately with the slag,the cinders and the refuse of the fuel, a

large numberof bones and certain blocksof mineral teeth. Some gold that hadbeen melted was also found. Otherbones were discovered in a vault underthe college, and in a tea chest, embeddedin a quantity of tea, the entire trunk ofa human body and more bones were

found. The parts thus collected fromdifferent places made the entire body ofa person of Dr. Parkman's age, aboutsixty years, and the form of the body,when reconstructed, had just the peculiaritiesof Dr. Parkman.

It was further shown that the remainshad been separated by a person possessedof anatomical skill, though notfor anatomical purposes. Finally threewitnesses, dentists, testified- Miat themineral teeth were those made for Dr.Parkman three years before. A mold

iaw Tens made at theVI kUU UWW& w .. W.

time, and it was prodnced, and shown tobe so peculiar that no accidental conformityof the teeth to the jaw couldpossibly account for the adaptation.This clinched the evidence against theprisoner.The murder of Samuel Adams, a

printer in New York, by John C. Colt, ateacher of bookkeeping, and brother ofthe late CoL Samuel Colt, of revolverfame, is another example. As in thecase of Prof. Webster, the motive was

to get rid of an importunate creditor.The scene of the murder was the buildingon Broadway and Chambers street,now occupied by Delmonico, the restaurateur.John C. Colt occupied a room in this

building for his business. One Septembermorning in 1841, Adams, whowas printing for him a work on bookkeeping,called for 850 or 860 due him,and was not seen again alive. Inquirieswere made by his family, and it was ascertainedthat he was last seen goinginto Colt's appartmcnts, in Chambersstreet. On the day of Adams' disappearance,suspicions noises were heardin Colt's room. The body finally came

boxed, directed to a gentleman in St.Louis, by way of New Orleans, and was

traced back to New York to Colt, andho was arrested.

Colt's story was that Adams and hebad a dispute as to the correctness ofthe bill presented, and that the lattercalled him a liar, which he resented byslapping him in the face. A scuffle ensued ; Adams seized him by the throatand Celt, in self defense, caught up a

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the forehead, killing him. He went outof his room and locked the door, hurryingto the City Hotel, where his brother,Samuel Colt, was staying, intending totell him his secret and take his advice.Samuel Colt, who was in the barroomwith some friends, told his brother togo up to his room and that ho wouldjoin him in a few minutes. The prisonerwaited, and his brother not coming,he went back to the room in Chambersstreet. The body lay there covered withblood. He took a large box, crammedthebody into it, wrapped in a piece of canvas,tying the legs up close to the trunk,and then scattered salt and sawdust over

all. He washed off the marks of bloodon the wall and floor, and smeared themwith ink to hide their traces. He stayedin the room until Lite at night, and tbenreturned to his lodgings. Next morninghe nailed up the box, sent for a carman,and had it put on board the steamerKalamazoo, lyiugat the foot of Maidenlane. Colt was convicted of willfulmurder, and was sentenced tobe banged.On the day fixed for the hanging hestabbed himself in the heart.A remarkable murder trial in Boston,*

in many respects like that of ProfessorWebster, but resulting in the acquittal ofthe prisoner, was that of Leavitt Alley,who was accused of killing Abijah Ellis.Some workmen near the Cambridge gasworks discovered two barrels containingthe mutilated body floating in the Charlesriver. They were packed with horse manureand shavings, and in one of thebarrels a piece of brown paper was

found with the name of M. Schonler, a

billiard table maker. It was known thatLeavitt Alley, a teamster, was in the

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ha' t of removing these shavings to hissta \ Following the clew to the stableit v as found that a dry manure heap hadbeen disturbed and blood was found onsome boards near by.

It was proved that oil the previousmorning Alley started from his stablewith four barrels, and a teamster, injumping from a v agon, had ascertainedthat two of them were heavy. Two ofthe barrels were not satisfactorily accountedfor, and a man testified that hesaw the team and barrels with a man

strongly resembling Alley on the milldam, whence they wore supposed to havebeen thrown into the river. Alley owedEllis about 8200, needed money, andEllis was known to have been lookingfor the suspected man on the night ofthe murder. A new ax that Alley hadbought was missing. Stains were foundon his clothing, which experts declaredto be the blood of the murdered man. Awoman had heard strange noises on thenight of the murder, like the rolling ofbarrels. Alley, it was shown, had plentyof money after Ellis' death. An examinationof the stomach of the murderedman showed that he must havedied between six and nine o'clock on thefatal evening. Seemingly, here was a

perfect chain of circumstantial evidence.But the defense met the theory that Alleyhad committed the murder in a quarrelby showing his peaceable dispositionand his high reputation for honesty, andcontroverted the assertion of the prosecutionthat Alley was in debt to Ellis,and without money to meet an engagementthat fell due at the time of the murder,by showing that the prisoner ownedreal estat® in New Hampshire, and hadmemoir in <1 bank Allfiv's abnndance ofU4VUVJ 1U M J _

ready money after the murder was explainedby his son haying repaid him8125 the evening before. He gave a satisfactoryaccobnt of how he had spenthis time on the day of the murder. Expertscalled by the defense swore thatthe blood on the prisoner's clothes, beingdry, could not be distinguished fromthe blood of a beast. This conflictingscientific testimony confused the jury tothe advantage of the prisoner, and hewas acquitted. If he was not the murderer,the murderer was never found.

A Terrible Isolation.Porters' island, Lake Superior, is a

bit of rock, upon which was built the" government house," the residence ofthat high and potent individual, theUnited States agent, who reigned over

the copper land, countersigning permitsand dispensing favors of a consularnature to visitors to Cooper Harbor.In the summer of 1846, says an exchange,we saw a half-breed woman who

had been Crusoeing on the island; sheand ber husband had been placed on theisland in charge of property. Owing tothe wreck of the brig Astor, in the fallof 1815, supplies failed to reach them.Long they w«ited for succor, but in vain.Winter came on, snow covered theground, and ice gathered on the waters;then this lone pair were left to their fateon this .savage, desolate island, " out ofhumanity's reach." The shrieking windsas they swept through the fir trees, andthe black billows of the 6tormy lake,spending their sullen fury upon therocky coasts, were the only sounds thatcould greet the ear during the long,dark winter of that high northern latitude.For companionship they must dependupon each other. But, before thewinter was half spent, the husband sickenedand died, and the poor woman was

absolutely alone. Wrapping the remains^a iinoUnH in n blanket, she

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removed them from the hut and depositedthem in the snow, where, frozen solidlike a pillar of ice, they were preserveduntil the return of spring permitted oftheir burial. The widow passed thelong winter as best she could, subsistingupon the flesh of rabbits which she managedto mare; her bereavement, hardshipsand the terrors of isolation, wonderfulas it may seem, did not affect herhealth or mind. She was taken off fromthe island in the spring, and was happyenough when she reached the mainland.

Domestic Bankruptcy.He had been telling her for weeks

past, says the Detroit Free Press, thattimes were tight, money scarce, bank-1ruptcy stalking abroadthrough the land,and so forth, and she had consented tothe discharge of the nurse girl, and upstairs girl, and had wheedled the cookinto doing general housework. Thatwasn't enough. He came home one

night and said he wasgoing to dischargethe hostler; that money had gone np tothirty per cent.; that he could 't affordto carry his life insurance any longer;that she mustn't ask for any more new

clothes for a year. She went over thehouse and pinched expenses downagain, and things ran along until the

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got to reduce still further or bust I" Shewas pondering over his remarks latethat evening when he came home. Hewas so long getting his overcoat offthat she went into the hall. He gave thecoat one awful jerk just then and fellover."What on earth ails you!" she ex-

claimed, as she tried to help him up." Nozzing," ho replied.As lie got up she peered into his face.

The fact was as plain as if it had beenwritten on a whitewashed fence withtar*."Ycu are drunk!" she said, as she

drew back.He gazed at her without replying."Here you've been yelling 'reduce!

reduce!' all winter, and while I am try-1ing to reduce you go and get drunk!You'd better reduce your whisky!"" Yi said anyzing 'bout rcjuce !" he

asked."Yes, you have!"" Whaz want rejuce for?"»Only to-day you said we'd either got

to reduce or bust.""Di say zat?""Yes, you did.""Well'ju rejuce?"" No; how could I ?""Zen didn't I bust!"

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AX OBSCURE LIFE.

Whnt a Poor Woman Did for HumanityWitbont Oatrntation and with no Hopeof Earthly Reward.

Here is the record of an obscure lifewhich may be worth the attention ofthat intelligent^ well-to-do majority,which is made np, after all, of obscurepeople. It is a story which suits allclasses or any time, yet perhaps thisespecial time best, whenmen and womenin the cities who have anxiously tried tobe of service to God and their fellowmen are apt to be daunted and depressedby the contrast between the great workaccomplished by others and their own

domestic quiet labor. The story is ofa poor seamstress in a mill town in Indiana,who was left a widow some fifteenyears ago, dependent on her needle forher daily bread. She lived near one ofthe factories where hundreds of bothsexep were employed, and night andmorning large gargs of girls and men

passed her door miserably hungry andgloomy, or more miserably boisterous.It was a mill where the hands are drivenlike cattle and regarded as cattle inevery other sense. The womanwho sawthe young girls pass so often that shelearned to know their faces pitied themas a mother might have done. Indeed,we question if sue had any exceptionalquality or means of influence in theworld other than her motherly nature.au" "">» «" **naAnnafxs/1 Knmfllr liktlfiJUO WOO (Hi uuvuuvwwv*) . .

body, bat with patienoe and tendernessenough in her heart to serve all thechildren^n the world. "I wanted,"she said, " to give these girls a chanoelike other women ; they had no chanoeas it was to be anything better than themn'es which drew away the stuff theyspun."Oar poor reformer took one.just one

girl into her kitchen. She half starvedherself to do that. She made the girlclean, and taught her to remain clean;taught her to scrub, wash, cook, and tellthe truth. It took years to accompli' hso much; years of patience and self-sacrifice.When she had finished, insteadof a coarse dirty animal, she had moldedfor use and service in the world a cleanmindedhonest woman, with skillfulhands and intelligent brain. She tookone after another of these wretched girlsand trained them as seamstresses, cooks,chambermaids, at her own cost of timeand money. Situations were readilyfound for them; the housekeepers of thetown soon discovered how different thewomen were whom she had trainedfromany others; but she never parted withthem unless she was confident that thework she had begun would be carriedon in the same hearty spirit. In twocases the girls whom she thus adoptedwere deformed and sickly. These bothremained with her until her death, supportingthemselves by some light handiwork.In other cases they were rescuedfrom worse places than the mill. A fewof the girls became sincere Christians,but all (except one) led virtuous, honest,useful lives. One peculiar effect ofher training was that her pupils caughtfrom her her own genial, helpful spirit;they were missionaries of kindness intheir humble world; and a cheerful facein a cook, or gentle, tender manner in a

nursemaid, are not merits so common as

to be despised.The widow and her work were never

known to fame, even in the town whereshe lived. People supposed when shetook a larger house so as to accommodatemore inmates that shekept a kind ofintelligence office, or cheap boardinghouse, and there were not wanting manyin her own rank of life to hint that shepaid herself somehow from the labor of

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nest well." None of the women whomshe had helped ever wronged her by a

suspicion. Next to God, whom shefaithfully tried to teach them to serve,they believed in her. If she had proveda humbug, the faith of many a poor soulin His goodness would have been shaken,for all they knew of the goodness or

beauty or pleasure He has sent into theworld they knew through this poorwoman. There were other women whocould preach of Christ by words more

effectually than she ; some of them,quite as uncultured, had a "gift ofprayer," or a real native eloquence whichmoved their hearers in class meeting or

the chnrch. Aunt Hannah, as she was

called, never spoke in class or meeting;she was slow and dull of speet h anywhere. She often no doubt felt her deficienciesbitterly, and wished that shecould serve her Master in some greatand striking way. It seemed a poorcommonplace thing to her, as it may toour readers, to teach girls how to makeor wear clothes neatly, or to cook a

savory dinner; to watch and labor incessantlyday after day, year after yearto wipe out this or that little faolt, to

strengthen a weak virtue. She wouldhave been glad, no doubt, as we allwould, to convert the great masses ofvice and uncleanlinees in the world into

purity and goodness, in an hour.toplay Divine Providence, in a word. In

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before her, and did it. Of anotherwoman it was said, " She hath done whatshe could," when she anointed herSavior's head with precious ointment.

How it Went.In "Williamsburgh, N. Y., is a mansion

that was tenanted for several years by an

estimable family, who wished to remainRtill longer ; but the landlord desired toincrease the rent, and told them to move.He let the place to a person at theincreased price, received one month'srent, and at the end of the third, dispossessedhis tenants for non-payment oftwo months' rent. Since that time theplace remained vacant, until it has entirelydisappeared. Several persons aplplied, promising to tike care of it, ifallowed to occupy it, bnt the owner saidhe would rather see it go to ruin thannot to get his price, and so, as thoughin response to his desire, one afteranother of the neighbors took a piece,Doors, windows, and frames were takenaway for firewood, until to day naughtremains but the bricks, constituting thefoundation and the cellar.

A burly Briton, maddened by some

stage reflections on John Bull in a Milwaukeetheater, a few nights ago,charged upon the actors, revolver inhand, and cleared the stage in a jiffy.And yet they call this the glorious centennialyear.

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Resignation,Let nothing make thee ead or fretful,'

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What God bath ordered most be right;Theu find in.it thine own delight,

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About to-morrow,My heart!

One watche^all with care meet true,Doubt not that He will give thee, too.

Thy part.

Items of Interest." 'Tis false," as the girl said when

lier lover told her she had beautifulhair." The rich," said a wit, " eat venison

becaase.it is deer. I eat mutton becauseit is sheep."The Prussian government compels

bakers to keep their bread at least one

day before selling.Buckingham, Ferry and Starkweather,

all from Connecticut, and all taken awaywithin a few montlis.A Roman once said : " Build me a

house where I shall be seen by every oneevery hour of the day."London is estimated by the registergeneralto contain now nearly three millionsand a half of people.The Legislature of Minnesota passeda 9

bill to borrow $6*3,000 from ths schoolfond to pay its cm-rent expenses." Perley " insists that" cold tea " in

the Capitol restaurant at Washington isa liberal translation of " whisky.

Thirty-two sales of short horns tookplace in Kentucky last year, in which1,553 animals were sold for $665,946.There are 21,255 Baptist churches in

the United States with 13,117ministers,and a total membership of 1,815,000." John, if you're going to be out till

two o'clock to-night you'll have to stayat home and let yourself in, for I won't.A Lycoming county (Pa.) farmer took

home a freshly painted wagon; threecows licked the paint off and died thenext day.Eleven shillings and the same number

of pence constituted the entire capitalof a London banker when he failed forabout $200,000.Under the Iowa civil damage law the

wives of drunkards in Sioux City havesued liquor dealers for sums amountingin all to $60,000.Laziness is said to be one of the oauses

of insanity. In the Virginia bedlamthere are two women and one man whobecame insane from indolence.A chandler having had some candles

stolen, a person bid him be of gcodcheer, "for in a short time," said he," I am confident they will all come to

light."One of our merchants sat his umbrella

against a tree w hile he stepped into a

store to ask a question. When he came

out the tree stood there. No one hadtaken it.A counsel was asked by the judge for

whom he was concerned. He answered:"I am concerned, my lord, for theplaintiff, but I am employed by thedefendant"Minnesota Falls, Minn., was organised

as a town over three years ago, and al"'-1-'. Vtnn.tnougn me popuLttviuii ao vrn ...

dred, not a death has oooored there dorthethree years.There has been a good deal of fun

made over the Chinese birds' nest soop,bnt it is said by Americans who havetasted of the dish that it will yet beserved at oar restaurants.A school insj>eetor visiting a school

said : " Now, children, who loves allmen ?" The question was hardly patbefore a little girl, not four years old,answered : " All women."

Speaking of the depression of tradethe world over, the Pall Mall Gazettesays : In Austria and Germany the recoverywill be slower than in Englandor the United States, for -the simplereason that their resouroes of all kindsare less.

David. T. Simper, of Sandown, N.H., who is totally blind, is able to reap,mow, thresh, chop down trees, cut upcord wood, make ax handles, ox goads,and can go roun d the neighborhood withassistance or direction from any one,and never finds time to spend in regretingthe loss of liis eyesightThe arithmetic man of a Western

paper has discovered if every one of the8,000,000 families in the AmericanUnion would only skim the soap greaseoff their dishwater, and invest its proceedsin a sinking fund at four per centcompound interest, the proceeds in 169years two months and eleven days wouldpay off the national debt. A minister offered a prayer atthe laying of a corner stone. A briskyoung reporter bnstled up and said:" I wish you would give me the manuscriptof that prayer." " I never writeout my prayers," said the preacher." Well," said the reporter, " I couldn'thear a word yoa said." "I wasn't pray-- « i at

ing to you," quickly repnea wie pmevu.A Wisconsin trader discovered two

men, disguised with veils, robbing hisstore one night recently, and went forthem with a revolver. The rognes fledand he followed, firing as he went, bntthe thieves apparently escaped. Thenext morning a man was found dead inthe road with a veil over his face, and heproved to be the trader's brother-in|law.

| Mineral Wool.The method of manufacture at the

Krnpp works, Essen, Prussia, is as fol:lows: The pig iron furnace is providedwith a tap an inch in diameter, out ofwhich a continual stream of slag is allowedto flow and to fall a distance oftwo feet six inches, at which point thefalling stream of slag is met by a strong

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separate the f lag into myriads of hairlikethreads, as white as snow, resemblingthe finest wool. These fibers,like spnn glass, if'handled, will,penetratethe skin. The mineral wood isused for packing steam pipes, boilers,eta, and is a valuable product. '

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