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Brahma's Answer.

~ h, II. sIoppARp.
once when the days we're ages
And the old Earth was young,
The high gods and the sages
Ftum Natures golden pages
Her open secrets wrurg.
Each questioned each TO know
Whence came the. Heavens above and Earth below
Indra. thu endless giyor
OF every gracious thing
The gods TO him deliver,
Whose bounty il the river
OF which they are the spring
Indra, with anxious heart,
Ventures With Vyuchunu where Brahma l. apart
Bramah Suprcmcst Being
By whom the worlds are made
Where We are blind, all-seeing,
stable, where we are fleeing,
Of Life and Death afraid
Instruct us, for mankind,
What is the body, BrahIna7 Oh, Brahma ! what the
mind?"
Nearing as though he heard not,
So perfect was his rest,
So vast the soul that erred not,
so wise the lips that stirred not
His hand upon his breast
He laid, whereat his face
Was mirrored in the river that grit that holy plaoe
They questioned each the other
What Brahrna's answer meant
sand viyochunu, Brother.
Through Brahma the great Mother
Hath spoken her intent:
Man ends as he began
The shadow on the water is all there Is Of man
The earth with woe is numbered,
And no man understands
They see their days are numbered
BY one that never sumbered
Nor stayed his dreadful hands
see with Brahmas eyes
The body is the shadow that on the water hes
Thus Indra, looking deeper,
With Brahma's self-possessed.
SO dry thine eyes, thou weeper!
And rise again, thou sleeper
The hand on Brahma's breast
Is his divine ascent,
Covering the soul that dies not This is what Brah
ma meant.
-Harpers Magazine.
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Raulbach, the great historical painter, IL suf-
fering from an attack of cholera which It is
feared may prove fatal
ENoLAsD defrays the expenses OF Living
stons funeral, which takes place at Westminster
Abbey.
THE story Of Disraelis marriage to the Dow
ager Countess of Chesterfield, is denied.
GEN. CoYoHA, the new Captain-General Of
Cuba, exhorts the people not TO be alarmed.
Ho viii be deferred by no obstacles, but will
pursue policy Of severity against The enemies
Of spain, of protection towards its friends, aud
justice and legality towards all.
THE Tichborn claimant has made application
to tho Home Secretary for a new trial. The
Secretary wishes TO know on what grounds he
makes his request.
DISPATCHES from the City of Mexico state
that six of tho assassins Of the Rev MIR.
Stephens the American missionary, have been
condemned to death. The trial of Priest Ochoa
aud others who we're implicated in the outrage
ID still pending. Leonida Garcia, local Judge
in the town where the missionary was murder
ed, has fled from the country. The soldiers
who took part in, or connived at, the outrage
have been imprisoned.
RIO JANEIRo newspapers contain details OF
the trial Of the Right Rev Bishop of Pernam-
buco on a charge Of high crime against the
laws of the Empire of Brazil. The prisoner
was found guilty, and sentenced to four year,
imprisonment with hard labor. The Bishop Of
Penambuco was attended in court by the Bish
op Of Rio Janeiro, and the Bishop of Kansas
City, Kansas, who was in Brazil making collec'
tions for the poor churches in his diocese.
The provisional Government Of San Domin'
go has arrested number Of persons charged
with a scheme for the restoration Of Baez.
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Accidents and Crimes.

Two steam boilers used in driving machinery
at the Musconetcoving Tunnel, on the Eaeton
and Amboy Railroad exploded on the 18th inst.
killing the master mechanic, foreman and
helper and wounding the engineer The boil
ers we're comparatively new, and the cause Of
the explosion is unknown.
FRAsK EARBE, who was shot by Henry
Koepler, at Evansville, Ind, has since died.
Koepler is still at large.
BY the burning of a small wooden building in
Cambridge, Mass. Margaret Merritt widow,
sick Of rheumatic fever and Isabelle White,
aged 10, her attendant were suffocated.
In an ARRAY which occurred at Bondville, H.,
recently, Newton Lyle shot John Birch, lodg-
ing 80 to 100 small shot inside the calf Of the
leg. Modification set In Unexpectedly, and
Birch died
D. BEvoN an old citizen Of Ironton, o., was
brought before the United States Commission
err on the 7th inst. charged with fraud IN
1869, in a pension claim for which he wat
agent.
f. W. WIcKERMAS has been arrested at Min
neapolis for swindling the Merchants Nationa
Bank, of st. Paul, out of $500 by means Of
forged note.
THIEVES entered the store Of Louis Fisher
in st. Paul, early Thursday morning, and cal
ried Of $500 worth Of goods.
CAPT. LOUIS j. LULL, alias ALen, the deteC
tive, wounded in an encounter with th
Younger brothers, in Missouri is rapidly fai
ing, and it is thought cannot live for many day
longer.
THREE men were killed by landslide 0
Memphis. Team, recently.
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such as Calayera, Laguna, Portillo and
Juncalillo, which are exceedingly pic
turesque. Nothing can be more wildly
beautiful than the Incas lake with its
green placid bosom rejecting the por-
phyry peaks around. The muleteers
say it is haunted, and lights are often
seen by night fitting across its surface.
All this defile is covered with snow IN
winter.
AtOios de Aqua vegetation reappears.
Forests intervenet till we reach Resguardo
de los Colorados, the Chillian customs
station, the distance being six leagues.
The Outlay or soap tree is like the oak,
although smaller, and the bright How
ering cactus covers the rocky proml-
nences, while velvet foliage stretches
down ON either side to the river below,
III which are reflected the clear blue
skies Of the Andes, and the mountain
peaks wrapped in an ethereal mist. The
view is the more delightful after the
harsh scenery we have passed through.
Passing Colorados we begin TO see
titled farms, watered by tributaries "
the Aconcagua, until we sight the
charming town of Santa Rosa de Los
Andes, the centre of Andine trade, sur
rounded bypastures for troops of mules,
and distant twenty-five leagues from
Santiago and thirty from Valparaiso.
Travellers usually take six days from
Mendoza to Santa Rosa. The whole
pass is quite practicable from Novem-
Der to April and sometimes even in
May; it is quite easy throughout, but
you must look out for the wind when
you are crossing the Cumbre, and if you
cross before 10 A. NJ, there is no wind
at all. The couriers cross all the year
round, on foot, but in winter make only
one trip a month; ii surprised by bad
weather they take refuge in the
Casuchas, where they have already had
the precaution to put some provisions.
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Wit, HumOr and Wisdom.


lips.
GENERALLY speaking-Women.
BEST food for cavalry-Horse radish.
a WOODEN oath-Slamming the door.
HE most remunerative profession is
that of dentistry, where money is made
by achers.
BE temperate in diet. Our first ma
rents ate themselves out of house and
home.
THERE is no greater mistake than 10
teach moderate indulgence in any kind
of vice.
EVERY new want is the pressure I'M
der which somenew possession is forced
into existence.
To BE familiar with every one and
preserve you're respekt and their es-
TEEN, il an evidence of the most re-
markable talents.
THE first condition of human good
ness is something to love; the second,
something to reverence.
THE awful punishment of doing evil
is that you become evil, so you have no
disposition to do otherwise.
DEATH has a strange dignity, and
whatever child of Adam he lays his
hand on is, for the time, ennobled.
How to put horse on his metal
Shoe him
WHEN is man thinner than a shin
gle when he's a-shaving.
can always tell water when l see
it, remarked Teddy Blossom the other
day; lit looks so much like GIN"
Mrs. MAnAPRoP declares that, for
herself, her nerves would never bear
the shock OF having to do with the
electrical franchise.
A BACHELOR is politely described as
man who has neglected his opportunity
of making some poor woman miserable.
THE placidity Of exression worn by
man who is "N9xt," in a full barber
shop, cannot be counterfeited.
The golden moments in thestream of
life rush past and We see nothing but
sand; the angels come to visit us and
we only know them when they are gone.
III is rule of etiquette in Arkansas
that no true gentleman will eat with his
leg thrown over the back of his neigh
boris chair, if he can help it.
/ fought to kure the pride of emmy
man when he reflect that there amt no
one living but what owes more to the
world than the world owes to him.
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The East.

THE Episcopal Church in Worcester, Mass.
burned on the night Of the 7th inst. Loss
$50, 600; insurance. $50 000.
A MEETING OF prominent members Of Ply
mouth Church aud prominent citizens OF
Brooklyn has been held. at which il was decid
cd 10 build new church for Mr.. Beecher
-Four hundred thousand dollars arc necessary
100000 for the land, s2OO,OO0 for the house
The church il 10 hold 6 OO0 people, and to com.
hine all modern improvements
TUE Senate Of New York, with only three
negative votes, and the Assembly unanimous.
", passed resolutions endorsing the anti ipfa-
tion message Of Gov. Dix and requesting the
Senators and Representatives in Congress to
rcsist any initiation of the currency aud to pro-
mote by all proper means an early return to
specie payment
MEETING of grain receivers and railroad
freight agents WAS recently held IN Now York,
TO adopt plan 10 facilitate the handling Of
gram II IL proposed TO establish III New York
grades Of inspection for all car grain. aud COM
rel all vessel cargoes brought from Buffalo or
Erie, to be delivered TO consgnors in boat
loads, without inspection, aud unmixed with
other grain, If moving in sufficient quantities
10 make it practicable 80 TO deliver: otherwise
20 be graded the same as other grain received
by rail, subject TO inspection
Ex-JUpoE EpwARns, well known LAWYER
and splntualist. if dead
JrD0E BRADY, Of New York city. has sem
fenced one Steffani TO Imprisonment for life
for the murder of Michael Harold
MAss MEETING Of carpenters has boe held
in New York, at which it was resolved to COM
Uas every effort by employers to return TO the
ten hour system.
IHE Germans of New York have held a mass
meeting to protest against the action Of the
emigrant commission in disohargng German
speaking employee
AT Hunters Point, Long Island, recently.
three men we're killed, and one oyeuowered
by inhaling the gas from the tank Of q still
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:. j. IL. MCMILLAN. associate iustice has
been commissioned Chief Justice Of Minneso-
ia, vice Ripley, resigned
MAN named West, from Logansport. Ind
was found lying on tho sidewalk at Cincinnati
m commissions, and making desperate At smpts
10 stab himself with an ugly-looking knife
An emeuc saved him He would assign no
reason for the act
I'm crusaders Of Jenersouyiue Ind bava
adopted new feature on continuing work
and now propose to visit saloons and hold
their devotional exercises in the streets hy Gas
light
J. T. GouoH, Of Pittsburg, was enticed int,
the den Of woman named Burke, in Chicago
where he was robbed Of $50
GEoRaE WILLARD. ESQ who has been con
nected with the affairs Of the Western Railroa,
Association since its organization has resigne,
the Office Of Secretary, and Mr. J. Il Raymon,
has heon appointed in his stead The officer
81 the Association now are; Robert Harris
President George rayeon, Attorney j. II
Raymond. Secretary; George willard Treas
urer
IhE latest intelligence from the Red Clout
lndlah Agency are Of pacific character
IHE Pioneers Association celebrated the SGT.
tlement Of Ohio, recently, AZ Cincinnati
AT indianapolis In the supreme Court. Judge
Perkins has decided that colorcd children bayo
right to attend public schools, where no sen.
arate schools are provided FOR them.
OVER 1000 people at Prairie du Chen wit
messed the launching Of John Lawlor's pom.
toon boat 70 he used in the Iowa chapnel a. a
draw in connection with the pontoon bridgs
The boat il 400 feet long. and will aocommo
date about fifteen cars
A. bernstein, an old and respected resident
Of Corine, Utah, wac found murdered IN bis
dwelling on the 9th inst The assassin ia nm.
known.
REroRrs from different sections through the
West report quite heavy falls Of .suow on tho
BIB inst. At Kankakee, Ills, they had seven
ass u tg5.fs hours
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-04-14
An Affecting Story of a Dog that Died of
Broken Heart.
Harrodsbnrg. ~, people.

There was once a man by the name of
Huse, living in Garrard County, Ky,
who had dog that followed him and
his family to Missouri, and, being dis
satisfied, returned alone to his former
home in Garrard. Not finding his old
friends he howled and moaned for
weeks; then finally, after long starv-
ing, went back to his master in Mis-
sour. On his return, when in sight Of
the house, he lay down to rest, but
when he saw one of his playmates he
ran with a great whining and raised his
foot To fine boy as if To tell him
"how-do." He then ran into the house
and repeated the same motion to them
all, and then stood gazing into their
faces, as if to relate his starving. his
long tramp and sore feet how he had
been treated, his troubles, how his
heart throbbed on account of his dis
satisfaction, and mutely begging to re-
turn 10 the old home. OF course they
gave him no answer. He then proceed
ed to ramble around and look at every
thing in the house and on the farm.
Still not pleased, he lay down close to
the door 10 slumber and rest. In his
sleep he would howl and lick his feet
which were very sore. He was kindly
cared for but that could not assuage
his grief As soon as he got vol he
bado adicu ~ return 10 his old home in
Kentucky. He made a secondtrip back
and went to his old bed-place, but
found il destroyed. He lay down.
howled and licked his bleeding feet and
died, doubtless of broken heart.
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AHAvANA letter says the insurgeut chief
Carlos Garcia had narrow escape from cap
ture. lie came in town With some companions
10 meet friend, and wac tracked 70 rancho
IN Calzcda Delmontc, where all we're surround
ed by band Of civil guards Garcia and his
companions. however escaped
A rLLEeRAN from Munich states THAI William
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The Frogs March,"

The London police have method of
dealing with prisoners. which has not
vet been introduced here. though It
doubtless will be AS soon as IL is known.
The London method is called the frogs
march. in which the prisoner is carried
10 the station, with the face downwards
and the whole weight Of the body de.
pendent on the limbs This has called
forth severe remarks, and has done
much to embitter the relations between
the police and the public, but the
harbarous proceeding still continues.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-04-14

NORTH ADAMS, Mass, has tailor
long known for his keen, pungent wit
Not long since a well known clergyman
called at his shop with pair Of panta-
looms and asked him il they could be
repaired. The knight Of the shears un.
rolled them. held them up in a most ar.
tistie manner. carefully examined them,
and replied. "Ics, yes; the Knees are
the best OF them. The reverend gen.
tleman saw the Joke. smiled blaudly.
and gracefully bowed himself out.
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1 Substitute for Coal.

The proposition to supersede coal by
the use of carbonic gas extracted from
chalk has been subjected 10 a practical
test by its inventor, and with very sat
isfactory results. Extracted and APP
piled to anthracite, it produces a strong
flame and heat, and at so slow rate Of
combustion that good fire was main
tanned for twenty-nine hours IN fur
mace which heats q church, with only
tfty-six pounds of anthracite and an
equal quantity of chalk mixed with n
during that time. During the last
twenty-four hodrs, moreover, the fire
was untouched. Through the aid of
this remarkable property of chalk the
Ignite known as shale may be used for
the production Of an illuminating gas
to an extent which will appear incredi-
BILE. Even the coarsest clay of this
singular formation is full of gas. and
the experiments made in England,
though imperfect, show that one ton of
this substance, together witha due pro.
portion of chalk, will yield as large an
amount as eight tons of ordinary coal.
From these tests the inventor argues
that London will be warmed and light
ed 1T fifty per cent. cheaper rate; that
the smoke, dust and ashes nuisance
might be abolished; that every good.
sized country house and every village
might be lighted with gas; and the
kitchen fire, with some slight alteration
in the CRATE, might supply the house
with light Finally. Ignite and an.
thracite beds would become valuable
property, and chalk would be exported
as coal is now The English papers
say the prospect seems almost too good
10 he truc
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A VIRGINIA railroad was made to pay
SD for killing o rooster. The engineer
said he spoke to the gentleman with the
whistle as kindly as possible. but when
the fellow dropped one wing on the
ground, raised his good eye heavenward.
and commenced whetting his spur on
the rail. forbearancc ceased 10 be viz
tue. and he lit into him with thirteen
freight cars, and sent him 60 the happy
scratching ground by lightning OK.
press.
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House.

Under call Of states many bills Of no general in
terest were presented and referred. --on motion
Of Mr.. Sawyer, permission was given TO the COM
mittee on public lands 10 report back the Senate
hill extending 20 the 3lst Of December, 1879 the
time for completing the Central Railroad of wscon-
sin. After considerable debate the bill passed.
The committee on elections reported in the Ken
lucky election case that Young, the sitting member.
h entitled 10 o seat-A After some further business
" no special importance, the House adjourned.
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THE NEWS.

The following is a statement of the pupilc
II for the month of March
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TUESDAY, April 7. Mr. Morrill,, of
Vermont, from the finance committee. reported un.
faVorahly ON the senate bill providing for a re
sumrti m Of specie payment and for free banking
also unsayorably the bill 70 refund internal rev
ruue taxes enormously assessed and collected
bill was passed for the relief Of the heirs ~ Asbur
Dickens. Bills on the calendar we're then cpnsid
erred, after which the Senate adjourned.
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bill wac introduced TO establish assay Offices At
IT. LOUIS Chicago and Helena, Montana. The
consideration Of the currency act was then resumed
Without hnal action the House adjourned
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WEDNESDAY. April S. The commit
Zee on claims reported fa,orably on the hill to refer
the cotton claim q Il. w. and stephen A. Douglas
70 the Court Of Claims --M tho expiration of the
morning hour the senate resumed consideration 81
ohir ou the calendar. CARPENTER gave notice that
81 Monday neNt he will call up the hill for a new
'luNoh 90 Louisiana. some discussion took
naec on the bul to provide for the incorporatiun
aud regulation OF railroad companies in territories
httF which The Sguatp went into executive session
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-29

fcoNTNUED IN SUPPLEMENT
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02
TEae Palestine Murder.

The Raymond Gazette publishes the
details of the preliminary examination
before Justice Gray, of the parties ac-
cused of the horrible murder of Mrs.
Owens, near that place. After able ar
gurment on each side; the court delivered
the following written opinion:
The finding of the court is, that the
several defendants, one and all, are guilty
as accessories to the murder of Mary
Addie Owens, as charged in the warrant,
but differing in degree:
We find Henrietta Higgs, George
Washington and Elan Robinson guilty
as accessories before the fact.
We find Robert Samuel and Levi
Washington as accessories after the fact.
The order of the court is, that the three
first named be remanded to prison, and
there safely kept, so as to appear at the
next ensuing term of the Circuit Court Of
Kinds county for the Second District
thereof, to answer the State of Mississip-
pi on the complaint before stated. And
the further order of the court is, that the
two last named defendants enter into a
recognizance in the sum of two hundred
dollars jointly, with surety, conditioned
that they will appear at the term of the
court before stated and will not depart
thence without the order of said court to
do, to answer the State of Mississippi
on the complaint before stated as to
them.
The annals of crime in any age do not
furnish the record of a murder more as
trovious than the brutchery of that inno-
cent lady as she slept with her babe in
her arms unconscious of an enemy in the
world.
The theory of the murder as related by
the Gazette is as follows:
The woman Henrietta had for many
years lived on Mr. Owens place; and
from the time that Mr.. Owens married
(some two years ago. had a feeling of
great hostility to Mrs. Owens. Henriet-
ia. however, is a cripple, unable to walk
without crutches, having had paralytic
stroke few years ago Her desire was
to get clear of Mrs. Owens, and to accom-
plish this she employed one or more of the
colored men to murder her in cold blood.
The murder was committed just before
daylight on the morning stated, with two
blows from an axe, which split the sleep
ing woman's head wide open, while her
child, a year or year and helf old, was
sleeping at her side. And what adds still
more to the horror of the transaction,
Mrs Owens, in weeks time, would have
given birth to another child
The weekly clarion., 1874-07-02

The St Louis Republican suggests that
the most appropriate title to the so-called
currency act which passed Congress and
was approved on the eve of adjournment
would be s'An act to keep the currency
Just as it is.
The Republican comments on this sin
gular measure as follows:
THE bill is remarkable for what it does
not contain 1t contains no provision for
specie resum ption, however remote, and in
this respect it falls short of the great object
of the President to secure a resumption of
specie payment during his administration.
Neither does it contain any provision foEthe
free banking which Senators Logan and
Morton so vehemently demanded. Nor does
it contain any provision for retiring a por
ton of the grecnbacks outstanding and re-
placing them with national bank notes 1t
neither initiates nor contracts the volume of
currency, it leaves it as it is. 1t is mere
placeby given TO the country to quiet their
anxiety on the subject of the finances. The
bill is called compromise measure; this
means that as congress and the President
cannot agree on remedy for the existing
suspense, they will pass a law to do nothing
which. by the way, would have been as
effectually done without the law.