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ham. will be off tonight as soon as the

Markham. will be off tonight as soon as the
house is quiet
He opened a small travelling -satchel, as he
spoke, and was rapidly filling it with necessa-
ries for journey, when he was interrupted by
a knoch at the door.
Tossing the satchel into the closet, he cried {:
"Come in y
But his face turned livid as his call was
obeyed. and q party of five entered his room.
Two policemen stationed themselves on his
right and left, while Mr.. Markham, AIr. Potter,
and Fred Tryon followed.
"Now, Mr.. Potter" said one of the police
men, with the face and voice of the detective
Vodgcs, "will you tell is where to find those
missing notes?'
"What notes?' cried Arnold. "What does
this outrage mean?"
at MEANS" said Mr.. Potter, that your
plan to throw the robbery Of Mr.. Markham s
private desk upon his nephew has failed: 1t
means that the five thousand dollars stolen from
that gentleman are now in your possession, eX-
cepting only one note given to Mr.. Tryon in
payment of debt"
:'It is lie" cried the prisoner; hut his
white face, faltering voice, and shaking limbs,
wereno proof of innocence. "Search my trunks,
everything have"
"No, gentlemen, said Mr.. Potter. "Draw
ont the stove. if you please, and look Ill the
elbow Of the pipe
With a cry, Graham Arnold fell senseless
to the floor as Vodges put his hand upon the
stove.
Mr.. Markham turned to Fred. There was
no word spoken. Hand clasped hand, and
each read forgiveness and love in the others
eyes.
Mr.. Graham Arnold spent some weeks in jail
ere his trial and conviction; but before his
sentence was pronounced Mr.. and Mrs Fred
erick Tryon we're crossing the ocean on we'd
ding tour to Europe, and only Mr.. Potter and
Fred ever knew Of Mauds first and only ap-
pearance as Girl Detective.
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Fashion Notes.

Black and silver fans with Japanese
designs are the most stylish.
A novelty in feathers for I anama hats
is plume tipped with straw
Lislc thread gloves with long clocked
cuffs are the most fashionable.
Silk stockings, to be worn with low
slippers, have designs initiating colored
ribbons crossing the instep and continu-
ing above the ankle, where they end in a
knot. These should be called
Malvolios.vs
Earrings composed of little gold hoops
in which are swung owls made Of bog
wood, with yellow eyes, or rings of gold
n. Il ling tiny birds nests of dull gold,
with birds eggs in enamel, the little
birds sitting on The edge, are among the
newest fancies French iewelry shows
many new de- igns in imitation OF bee
ties, flies, bir's, arrows, keys and other
devices, in which turquoises and fine ru-
bies are encrusted. Silver combs are
fashionable, and demand silver jewelry
to match.
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The Monitor SuDerseded.

If the story told by the dispatches con-
cerning the blowing up of the Turkish
monitor is true then that peculiarly of
naval warfare which superseded almost
every form of man-of-war has been
not only superseded but rendered use
less. It matters not how impregnable a
craft may be from fort or ocean broad
side if torpedo can be placed under her
in broad daylight and her fragments
scattered all over the surrounding space.
Substantially, this is what was done in
the case referred to. The monitor was
able to fire upon the approaching craft
which carried the engine of destruction !;
but was not able to check it's onward
movement. And when this fact became
apparent, the supremacy Of the monitor
ceased. It's elevation skyward was
merely excess of proof. The torpedo
showed itself king the minute it demon
strated its capacity to advance under fire:
The whole question, therefore, OF naval
warfare is opened again, Just us 1t has
been scores of times when the discovery
of new gun or projectile has necessi-
tated more powerful ship, or rice rers0.
The powers with fleets of iron-clads can
no longer proclaim themselves masters
of the seas, for. the most insignificant
power with a practicable torpedo or two
can demolish their whole reliance. The
torpedo must be met with an engine
more destructive and when this is ac-
complished the LATHE ground will only
be shifted, for tie new must in its turn
be destroyed. There is hope, however,
that as invention progresses, the imple-
ments of war, both by laud and sea, will
become SO frightfully destructive as to
put M end to war altogether. IF the
day ever should come, MS it probably
will, when war means annihilation of the
unsuccessful party to the conflict,
nations will be less eager to engage in it
than they now are,
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Items OF Interest.

The "big Krupp" gun is worth 100000.
Some CT our big guns are worth SlO,0OO,O0O
The king Of Siam signs himself " Chu Long
Korn." 1t is better, however, in the shape OF
succotash.
young man from Auburn, N. Y, who went
to Texas this spring, has telegraphed to bis
father: Stated calf for one."
A superannuated Turkish officer has just
been given position where he will have moth
ing to do. He is paymaster.
We have reached that season when q girl
unintentionally leads her fellow up the street
that is most thickly populated with ice cream
saloons.
A Chicago man has invented an instrument
he calls "poison sucker" by means OF which
he extracts the virus from wounds made by mad
dogs and other venomous beasts.
In London they talk of establishing q corps
to keep the sidewalks and payements clear OF
orange and banana peels. The death OF q
well known citizen was caused there by his
slipping upon an orange peel.
"Mamma, if VIC cross the bridge at night,
mus: , pay ton?" "Of course" my dear
why do you ask?" "Why, because the river.
will have gone home to sleep" "Oh, the river
never sleeps" "Then why has it bed,
mamma ?"
A little girl visiting neighbor was asked II
she would have some bread and butter. "No,"
she replied, rather sorrowfully, "my ma said
mustn't ask you for bread and butter )" then
suddenly frightening up she said: "Haye
you got any cookies?"
The tigress in the Berlin gardens lately gave
birth to q litter OF two, but as nothing would
induce her to behave materially to them they
were added to the domestic circle Of q ladyNew-
foundland, who most affectionatey took them
in and does for them.
A Paris Snowman recently presented to his
son-in-law, as his daughters fortune, an ele-
plant that danced fandango; a camel that
went down on it's knees, head to the east, at
sunset; a dog that cast up accounts, and two
canaries that played cards.
| A San Francisco firm has contracted to pay
forty cents apiece for the unlicensed dogs
slaughtered in that city. The skins are to be
tanned fol. glove making, the hair will be used
| in plaster, the bones ground for clarifying
sugar, and the fat manufactured into oil.
$50 away; you're too heavy to hold on my
knee" said cross young man to his sweet
hearts little brother. ''AIe too heavy" ex-
claimed the child "why, I amt so heavy as
Eliza, and you hold her ON your knee easy
enough p Eliza also then told him to 60
away.
Lessing, the German author, was, in his old
age, subject to extraordinary fits Of abstrac-
ton. On his return home, one evening, after
he had knocked at his door, the servant looked
out Of the window to see who was there. Not
recognizing his master in the dark, and mis-
taking him for stranger, he called out 1.-The
professor is not at home" sob, very well"
replied Leasing mo matter-Ill call another
time y,
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Ont On q Fly.

A trio of ladies got on the special
Chicago express going West, and dis
covered when the train was in motion
that they were going in the wrong direc-
ton. Two of them rushed for the plat
form and jumped. The momentum of
the train threw them off their feet, and
they rolled over in the depot yard. The
third ran through the train to the plat
form of the rear car and then jumped.
But tickle fortune favored. Avery feshy
reporter happened to be standing there,
and seeing the predicament Of the lady
opened his arms. She jumped. He
staggered under the force OF the concus-
sion, but held on. 1t was good catch
and a happy escape from injury, as the
train by this time had increased its speed
to pretty good jog. No sequel Utica
Observer.
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Lynching in Iowa.

There was intense excitement ut the
scene of the hanging of Eckler, IN
Grundy county, Iowa, says a corre-
spondent. The trouble out of which
it grew is of long standing-a neighbor-
hood quarrel between Eckler and few
vicious and desperate men. To get rid
of Eckler and drive him out of the
county some five years ago, they trump
ed up charge that he had committed a
serious crime. He was warned to quit
the county, but, failing to do this, he
was tarred and feathered. Eckler quit
the county, but returned about month
ago. He made several threats of having
those engaged in the tar-and-feather
matter brought to justice. In meeting
one of his enemies one day in the field
he told him he had settlement to make
with him, and accused him of being one
of the men who had tarred and feathered
him. Several days after this the man
above mentioned had Eckler arrested,
charging that he had drawn o gun upon
him and threatened to kill him.
Eckler was arrested late in the eve
ming by Constable Nelson and taken be-
fore Justice Crary, seven miles from
Union. The case was adjourned over
till Monday, and the constable took him
home to await Mondays examination.
At twelve o'clock at night, after all were
in bed, Nelson heard an alarm at the
door and, suspecting nothing, opened
it, and was met by five men, NIL dis
g1lised, who demanded Eckler. Upon
his refusal to give him up, two Of them
seized him and held him, while the other
three rushed past into Eckler's room,
seized him, and, without allowing him to
dress, hurried him off on foot for over
three-quarters of a mile, to q row of
cottonwood trees by the side of the road,
where they had previously prepared q
rail across two limbs, with large rope
attached. They pinioned his hands and
gagged him, and then lifted him up,
placed the moose about his neck, and let
him drop. The rope was so long his
feet touched the ground. They read
justed the rope and let him down again,
and, thinking they heard some one com.
ing, they started to leave. One OF them,
on looking back and seeing Eckler's toes
just touching the ground, ran back and
dug the earth from under his feet with
his hands, and with all oath exclaimed
"There, curse you, die!"
How long he remained there Eckler is
not able to say, as he thinks he became
unconscious, but on reviving he found
his toes just touching the ground. The
rope, bcin9 large, did not slip tight
enough to choke him, and by desperate
effort he wrenched his hands free, and
by drawing himself up with his hands
soon freed himself. Then he made bis
way to neighbor's house and procured
clothing.
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Perturbed SpiritS.

A neighborhood on North Hill was
disturbed MI one night recently by
dreadful, awful noises coming from a
haunted house, and the appalled, family
in the house itself never slept wink,
but sat up with paid faces and beating
hearts, alternately reading the Bible and
calling loudly for the police, while the
perturbed spirit of the place walled and
shrieked and moaned and howled like
the echoes of despair. But when morn
ing broke the mystery was partially
cleared away by the discovery that the
cat had gone into the cistern to wash it's
feet, and had neglected to take fire
escape along by which to get out.-Bur-
lington HaWkeye.
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Grandmother Gray.

Faded and fair, in her old arm chair,
Sunset gliding her thin white hair,
Silently knitting, sits Grandmother Gray;
While on my elbows beside her lean,
And tell what wonderful things mean
To have, and to do, if can, some day.
You can talk so to Grandmother Gray;
She doesn't laugh, nor send you away.
see, as look from the window seat,
A house there yonder, across the street,
With fine French roof and a frescoed hall :;
The deep bay windows are full of flowers
They've a clock Of bronze that chimes the
hours,
And fountain-I hear it tinkle and fall
When the doors are open : I" l mean, say,
"To live in house like that, some day."
money will buy it, says Grandmother Gray.
"There's low barouche, oil green and go!d,
And pair Of horses as black as jet,
I've seen drive by-and before I'm old
4 turnout like that hope to get.
How they prance and shine in their harness
gay
What fun 'twould be if they ran away"
"Money will buy them," says Grandmother
Gray.
"To-morrow. know, great ship sells
Out of the port, and across the sea;
Oh to feel in my face the ocean gales.
And the salt waves dancing under me.
In the old far lands Of legend and lay
I long to roan-and shall, some day
Money will do it. says Grandmother Gray.
"And when, like me. You are old, SAYS she,
And getting and going are done with, dear,
What then, do You think. will the one thing be
You will wish and need, to content you here?
"Oh. when in my chair have to stay.
Love. you see. will content me- say.
"That money won't buy" says Grandmother
Gray.
"And, sure enough, if there's nothing worth
All your care, when the years are past,
But love in heaven. and love on earth,
Why not begin where you'll end at last?
Begin to lay up treasure to-day,
Treasure that nothing can take away.
Bless the Lord '" says Grandmother Gray.
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The New BOy,

The other day small boy arrived in
Detroit, from Eaton county, with n
view of becoming q boot-black and q
gamin. They called him hard nut, !"
out there, but yet he was a very innocent
Ind compared with the post-otfice gang.
saysthe Free Press. The boys Of Detroit
received him kindly, posted him as well
as they could, and the other morning
he was found in Moffat's alley, as white
as sheet, and looking like death on q
pale horse.
"You've been trying to learn to
chew tobacco, have you?" asked the
officer who discovered him.
CT only c-chewed up one plug, !"
replied the lad, as his teeth knocked to-
gether. "I think what ails ME is the
smell of these brick buildings, and the
sight of SO much sidewalk. =. I wish I
was b-back ON f-farm 7"
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An Awful Struggle.

A stranger with weak back walked
into an Oil City drug store the other day
and said he wanted the strongest kind Of
a mustard plaster. With fiendish grin
the clerk built up terrible mixture and
passed it out. That night the inmates
of the hotel were startled from their
slumbers by loud cries in room fifty
seven. When the door was burst open
they found the stranger wrestling with
tlat mustard plaster in Greco-Roman
style. But the plaster had thrown h:m
twice, and was now humping him
against the wall preparatory to drawing
him through the transom. 1t took two
policemen to separate the two.
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Thoughts for Saturday Night.

Goodness is beauty in it's best estate.
Your goodness must have some edge
to it, else it is none.
It is much better to have your gold in
the hand than in the heart.
How did the atheist get his idea of that
God whom he denies?
The love of glory can only create a
great hero ; the contempt of it creates
great man.
One might as we'll try to calculate
mathematically the contingent forms OF
the tinkling of bits OF glass in a kaleido-
scope as to look through the tube of the
future and foretell its pattern.
Fortune, like other females, prefers a
lover to master, and submits with i'm
patience to control; but he that wooes
her with opportunity and importantly
will seldom court her in vain.
To be thrown upon ones own re-
fources is to be cast into the very lap of
fortune, for our faculties then undergo
development and display m energy OF
which they were previously unsuscepti-
BILE.
Though fraud in all other instances
be olious, yet in matters of war it is
laudable and glorious, and he who over
comes his enemies by stratagem is as
much to be praised as he who overcomes
hem by force.
A man is thirty years old before he has
settled thoughts Of his fortune it is not
compl ted before fifty. He falls to
building in his old age and dies before
his house is in condition to be painted
and glazed.
The sea as we'll as the mir is free and
common thing to all and particular
nation cannot pretend to have the right
to the exclusion of others without vio-
lating the rights of nature and public
usage.
Nothing can he more absurd than the
idea that "looking guilty" proves guilt.
An honest man charged with crime is
much more likely to blush at the accusa-
ton than the real offender, who is gene
rally prepared for the event, and has his
face "ready made" The very thought
of being suspected of anything criminal
will bring the blood to IN innocent mans
cheek nine times out of ten.
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4 Little Boys Narrow Escape.

A six-year-old son Of George Simmons,
of Lancaster, tried to board moving
train, but fell from the platform and
was seen to 60 down under the car.
Spectators shuddered and turned away,
but the boys pantaloons canght pn 4
projecting bolt under the car platform,
and he hung there, between life and
death, unable to release himself. Tho
conductor ran to the platform, pulled
the bell rope with one hand, and with
the other reached down, seized the boy,
who was dragging along the ground. and
drew him up alive, but considerably
bruised anu with his clothes ripped to
pieces.
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Mizpall.

GENESIS XXI. ~.
The Lord watch between me and thee,
When we are absent one from another;
Though long miles away thou mayst be,
And hard fate each from the other
Forever divide, yet still must my prayer
Fer be the same-in hope or despair,
In days Of soft peace, in sufferings BREATH.
In storm or in calm, in life or in death,
In right or in wrong, in good or in ill,
Ever the same, the same prayer still
The Lord watch between me and thee,
Thee, love, no other, -.....s II
Through might Of the land, through power
Of the sea,
Where'er thou mayst be,
While we are absent one from another.
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I was somewhat shocked when q young man
got up in our young converts meeting and said
he had carried pocket pistol ever since he be,
came converted. But when hc drew 1t out II
was Testament. l hope every one OF tne
Young YOU converts will carry a pocketpistol Of that
kind.-A[oody at Boston.
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The next time Joseph Richelot was
broken upon the wheel be sure the exc
cutioner did not surrender the body
until he was we'll assured that no sur
geon of earthly mold could bring it
back TO life.
, 1877-02-16
THE CHICAGO TR1BuNE FRIDAY. FEBRUARY lG. 1877

Well ho said, Il l,avc reason 10 fear as much,
but ] have tna,fc up my mind 10 DO my duty,
face The tnusLc, and take whatever may GOMEZ"
JOHN V. HARNEtf.
VI think this settles ta,e question. The Ar
filtration Committee NEEDN'T 70 any further.
Tic list witness Ia enough"
CHAMPAIGN. Ill"
S9eefot nst1'tA 10 77s 7FftHHt
CnAMrAtuS, ILL.,, Fcb. l5.-At about o'clock
today new. arriyetl III this city nf the killing
of Uny. Packard. The feeling On the subject &
Intense. Tile Republicans here nre Of the upifI-
u that It Il time assassination, hulltioxing, md
intimidation was nllt end to, md, II thcrI he
my law, that IL be enF1rce,i. The olL lighting.
spirit Is nr0usct ANU were 1t ncccssary.a full rct.
tnent could be ratxe.l in tFis county t,cfore nuun
to-tnurrow. The Democratic party Is responsible
for this state nj feeling. They alone ran stop
Il. II there must he another war tt, stop this
thing, Republicans arc really, and say let It
come quickly. The sooner the better. Sumo
Dcmo>rnts try to Justify the killing Ut Packard
oil political grounds, aud say It served him
right, willie others claim tlleIr PARTY Is not re-
sponsible, md that It Ia n personal nifatr.
srHtNuFtELD, III"
Special htSpdfcA to 71s Tribune.
SrHfyDpistp, ILL.,. Feb. 1j.--rltcrr was consil.
cral1r excitement In legislative circles a. noon
to-day over the receipt of il dispatch announcing
the attempted assassination Of tIov. Packard Of
l.uul4faua. Tie Inter dispatches were dec.tivi
relief to lH}tll tattteS, .-."--
, 1877-02-16

pnltAnElrilA. fet. l5-pentsylyania has
falcn agaI'l from 4ak yesterday to 4.1 to-day.
One OF the eatscs alleged IL that a considerable
amount Ut four-lnont!ls paper of thu Pcn,lsyl.
vanta Company, ono Ut lts branches tlilorrel
by tho PENNSYLVANIA Haflruah curIpa,ly, ilas
brch thrown upon tllu market within tflc lust
fuw weeks. II IL alleged by friends of thu
Cutnany ttlat Tiers IL no iutr In tllis corilrc-
s'nn, III our largcst a.,d best banks, a,nl tho
counting this paper, 10 inuorsctl. u
4M51 ter cent. alIl ara eat.l to esteem
It among the must desirable vi tIle!r
offerings. Tho Pennsylvania Company owes to
TIC Pennsylvania tsailroaI Company. 0n settle
1nrnt, the amount Tor Which It has given its nc-
ceplantcs, NIL claims entiru ability to take up
the tlotet a. they mature. Sotnu Ut II becomes
due tn a few uay1.
, 1877-02-16


New YoNK. Feb 15.-To4lny Special Treasury
Agents seized several cascs Of prunclias. worth
k5,00J, which were smugcled from Montreal.
They also arrested Samuel Struttord, Of Gts
West Forty-ilrst street, an,l Charlcs D. Spencer,
lsins at EaTlc's Hotel, charged With bclnc in
conspiracy, anil they were held to ball BY United
Stascs Commissioner Shields. For years past
agents harc been trying to discover ssllugglcrs,
n,''l at last they have discovered tho Whole pot.
Dr. MeCiauagEau, proprietor OF the Tx.
press l1utel, Montreal, Is the head ANIL
front ot the conspiracy, and several United
States Inspectors an1 h4GEagc-H,astcr1 at Mon.
treal and telegraph operator. were In the con-
splrncy With him, lie produced duplicate
cheeks, one of which tic would attach to bnx
containing goods, and the uthcr he sent to tho
purchaser. Inspectors iFerc tclcgraphed by
cipher tflc number Ut tho check on tho lageage,
nni passed. It through without examination.
Letters IN McCianaChan's handwriting were
found In tue possession OF both prisoners. Tic
0ilicerH got nlHH to tiluke purchases
Uf prunclfas, goods used In making
)ndlcs' gaitcrs, mud IN which there IL duty of IS
cents tNr Iulifti, from NcCluuagliun, anu Spccjul
Agent Maj. Williams followed the goods from
Montreul Into the United statcs ny way us
Nou*c's l'otnt, island Pond, Newport, Ogdcns-
burg, and st.. A1bana, and sAw how The plot
worked. Many arFctts Ut merchants. middle.
1iscn, United states Inspectors, md others arc
expected. The Goycrnuicnt has brcn dcfrauGet
nsit OF vast sums hv smugylers, nt,l the Mot
wns u,le Of tho deepest ural heat planned ever
discovered BY tho officials. MeClanac!au Ii
worth half million loltarA.