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ACROSS. TIL, Ot 'EAN.
A Severe Fight Between tho Fng
lish Forces and the Alghans.
ItllEA NINTAN.

Icnrnu Ien - The pdifr Neirs In u cue
ola, edition unhllahee tho following dlarnioh
from Cpln dntnl tn dHr 81 y n ~ On We'd
nop,lav ann NporhnI1rn ornnr'atl An'Fh R"'ai.
iuai ~ tirrnta prevent + junction ef N'h'stanaa
with 4 raran ft.m GhuvNao Tbe lt"hatan"at
who nnnnrtnd q rnaltlnn mont tho k9'nl, wore
attach on nni lialudgal, leaving atS "t their
stnndarda nm lnaa n few men allahtlf
wounded aau lnkor wpa IL m"ye l'y way IT
ohm naiph t. take thew ~ taa'. whila Ten
MARCY. With fenn" ~ horse n,tl't"'V twn
an, i,nua of tna Ninih l,Pnnnia Rni nna SQUAD
,an nf thn fnni inanth lnnunl 'Annh'a, WAa y
i,fn tiau Maonhatenu Nv waF " the 'hHthoh
vn,lav ~, 81 .iamhtW"tt mosamant, WITH ~" ~
iopi or drtytuR the enaunv e"ulh "n a"n. hnhets .
naminpuA
f,rna numbering 10 600 Afghan n"r"rn nutl
i1iho n,,n nnd hia n'1nrr mnan hNltant
charge lmt wtthnut nrraf snt "Hant nn tha
MAIN lnnlr M thn y. mr |he aann''F v 'n'a'
,lfil,uIt hnlna tH W. wv nnmnf"na Whfet
| nnura"a F"uf guns ~ i"tit'nn W.fe "nHa'
epik nd aud nhnn1oned hut w"fe subsequently
| ,nn,va,at rho !. non,y nlndn tni tRl'ul GnIpf,
hut ve,n ahnel od thnrp hr ~ det sellme O. NJ thu
aevnnih l1'ahland"fa iinm the ahnul Canton
| mont The ,'nnnv ihnn tutnoa inWhth Hnhnt z
| Tpmh nnl i,nw aanuuy ihn hriHhta annh ~
| nAa itaapt linv AVID n,in''ohlN lo1 ad swn
| II, thtpn II, #,laana .f tham nrn Rlmna with
| Rry ~, ,inaa rhpr lret hanvlls lr Tho "HynlIv
| nhnIpn nnI atffllhty ~ tu naver wpv"rao.
| uur naa Ia haItavnl tr h" niehtpen killed IN
| nlu,i,,u two HnnIaunuta anil twenty Nv"
| wauu,IoI Including one ,tptnnAt Ann Mao
| rho, ann ~ haW attacking the annmfs Hnfta7
/ hnya nlrtvni ftaf4 Iut'nlnni and 8Sn NALot
| N rnmirR fteni MRr'Un
ANA Itnita' aRaanA alitiNn rnlll ah"a p dfa a
/ ratnh tr,nft plul HrtnA Thursday. Whinh Fnra
| Tho rNuthinn'i movement at aan"'H'a mhtat
| mud Mnnrhetnt,n mi nnTrind The n1valrv NJ
| rived at tho point uf junction too "htlr, VI on
/ nauniol oI large mnrs"a 0f tito anntnt, Rnd 'hot'
runa I,r n time ten iutr tho ngnrura banda.
| Int they wotn aftotwnTia fontasnfn1 Thn ~
| anrannt4 whn a. n in in1nnpilaiRhia tntPn htioni
wv IVY no hninH n'iN'h"i fhta mm,hlnr lf
| Nan Nine, ,,hnlnpn wlW Yesterday inflicted 90
| vptn lNnoos on fla N
| An ni1lniul aonount of tho enEagotn"ni he
| tween lan. Marrr'a comment md tho iptan
| upa. Mahma ani lana shuwa fhAt ton. Mater.
! while gitampinR t. intntnnpt thn en"mv. wna
| attach oI ly prapi nnmhNla " hlIhnna Ita
| eayalry before abandoning thn t}nHl nvni utnGd
/ iw,, punu and nnln rop,Rtoi nhatEan. 1hn
aunl we're mot raanSatol til tile arI Ival " ''an-
| Marpha, ann i fnroa u he enemy after ward nj
| tackled tho Htitiah ~ the hlia pou'h ~ Italia
| llisapt hut were huaton "H with lnaa, ten, ltnh
attu ruuorta that tho o"mhluatiun OF trihaa
| asainat tho Hrttiah Ia considerable.
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NEw NnuR, nna n III thn agricultural rcn
yan,inu ta ,lnV Ffnt Riley of Washington, ~
liyata ~ nn n.iltnsa ~ "rErinultu,p Al advance
mpnt ~ tho Initnd Htatna ard W Apple
ton oflTrannaatinut. nne on the arpli"a'nn Of
anianne to agriculture.
Ar,mmittaa WA nprniutni H. prepare 81 rati
Hon io Gonareaa ronurRtimR that manent he
taken a. eradicate the disease called rlauta
rnanmnnia
III thn evening Tive mamheta attended the
Anne, loan nairv Fair ia u body
Tho Agricultural Convention held ttp thhd
aud lnei day a aaaainn az tho METROPOLITAN lletel
The liat of rermanent of'loera waa onmriated.
The luaatinn uf holding an exhibition waa 10
fertad - tho ns anut Two oonnttaa fFnf willard.
az Nav Natk read d papo, On tho Amnt inan
IN Nhiam ~ InntlhalAinH, which wna followed hi
nHdrpaapa ftnm truf Snlfet, rhnmia' w The
nanartmont If Aati'uiuta Washington. md
Prot Brewer ~ Vale Inliaga
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that via, hFj been 81 nef 600 The Re"'o'H'F
If Wa hRd ,pdnpel that natimatA " r n""
aud Tho committed hnA reduced V ~ fplF "Hl
Tho inrrnnfa Hi npp'nritnfian Wha tnl 'hH '.hf
,,aaa I'M changing an,nnth 4hnfa cannon ihfa
ttf,aj pt1ttn If ttnrprurn Continued NJ hNIiN
,rirta lGE nna q spaI irr ihnt rntrnans y wthlh
ho twenty vppra bpfora enough ttould lac . ~
yerird to arm The tota In ,hn hatl"t "t Ne"
York
an,,pr,tntinn ii sFn oon ~ Int stiaa fnt the in
faraa M anlrpafnn hn,hr ilnaanha " 'hFnt
rf hir ntuanamnnl rha eit ti Hnlrnn'A
a,nld 10 hnmhafiai anA burned w hnr 'naan'
~ anIa,iama power VI " wna t'e"haah'i 'e
rtuviia Gn, tha defence " oihat aaapnt'a men
Il vpa upneaantr to rr"vido for the 'n'ahae ~
that one.
Nj paker nItnnaeh tho amendment " was
tho rrlinv af thu Tamm'itno M Anprnrrin'i"na
ta ,'Nnettunt No new fNttiinnitnna. Nu' a'n'nls
rtraaf Va thaan already nnna ruateA
Anew Iiahaf itianpsinn, NJ Nnaphh
amendment wnu raiaAal tho nnmmt'lnn Y" e
and rrpo,tei The Iili ~ the Honaa. when Y waa
raaeoA a
Tho Iinuaa hen NJ y. m, wan tn'n '"Fh
mittao If tho wiu,la lNt Uanknt, of Mlasta
airri IN tho ehait IN The ranafob nrn'"ptih
tlen Hill
Mr Wnhhnll ef Mirhlpan, rt.rrafa' n" -
plntn ihn Eifl n Rnni nrttnfni fa1 go NNn he
~ ualDst spp Dnp snn laa vnpt. That in,hrnann NAL
l,anu noaaaaitatad Nv II lniHo inRteaaa " the
nun,La, az upnai,npte during laai vaar. Tho
pnni and on heiug rnrortod tathn H""a" wha
ppeead.
Tive Unuae fhan wont irin nnmW'''en NJ
Mtl,a ~ tfesnu iu ihn nhnitl .n the rtivnfn
| ,sniariar nna M 1 ~ NnlnnR ndi'nnnd nhtls
ManIpy
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River News.
Now Orleans. In. December IA. 1879

CIEoINNATT. Dec. 12.--The river is 10 feet
inches and stationary. j. is splitting snow.
PTTTsBuRa. Dec 12.-The river ts feet
inches and stationary. The weather is clear
and cold. The ehipments. Of coal to-day for
New Orleans we're f26 900 bushels.
LOUISVILLE, Dec i2-The river is feet 7
inches IN the canal and rising. The weather ig
cold. Arrived: Alex Chambers and tow, from
Tronton 10 New Orleans. Departed: Thomas
Sherlock for New Orleans.
OAIRo. Dec l2.The river Ia % feet 10 inches
and rising. Weather clear. Arrived: Golden
Crown from Cincinnati. Carrier from New Or
leans Departed: City Of Graenvilie for Yicks-
burg, Clty of Alton for New Orleans
In ches and rising The weather is clear ar
rived Yaeger from New Orleans.
EVANSVILLE Dec. l2 Toe river Is IS e.10 feeS
machinery and |. laid up at Uniontown.
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rps,u no, - Tho eunpli town nf nrnd on
Tho Iyar Wotos hna boon Inundated. alsn pntt
~ tho town ~ hiat leluip. "u III" Matea. Homo
livep hnvo l,nen l@at
ytranG pan - Nen,iv ali Tho rirnla nnl
h,taRp IL Trnney ylsHrla hnva oSaln1w"l thHii
ianLa " Wing uniai wni"t yaa' tfnrta ~ nahn
ttt nnI ,lartiotinp hridfna nnl hnnnna inter
,f,ttnU Intn,iot communication. aw""rinp
AWAY farming utepais "attle aud grRin. In
e,,,na plpoea ilta fnhn''ltnnts watofe' anr" on
II aaa nl4 the ioeta If huugpa awafttng in7nnn.
rEaru Doc - The ova,n nawtng ut iha
rIyatn Kptna upi Mu,ne have Hanaed !eaitht
daatlimtInu Tho niiy ~ A'nA on tho Noi"e,
and enyn,nl nl,nt towns hnvn 'ioan 'u'nnd anh
ihpJ, inhabitants tlrivan nwnv Fully iWm tie,
a.,na hny = I,nnn fentlorod hnmplpap
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


Nrw Ynpp, boo. IA apecial from bradford,
rn apya lhn town ot Rod Hook haa boon on
,ttrolv destroyed hy n'" A. m oaily hour THE
morning a tnph nf GOAL oil containing 20 lae
hai role nf nil caught fro and eHtl"dnd and !ha
namna aprged With fearful 'anidi'y u ~ ~
,,aairuyod tho nntlro village. containing 300
houaa4 and IN n few hourz rnndarad NOR" than
that number pf familiaa homnlsan nnd utterly
tanitutn immediately on r"aatnt of tho hb va
ltapalch anhaetlpu"nh we," a'att"n ~ inc
Fe'fnleum EsehanR" hy Manager strong,
nnd the nnmhein loarnnded iit"tnlly IN"
fnn,a ara rnmittei Ivy Telegraph Ha fast an 10
criyni
Another a,oonnt nara A nrn htoko oul laat
eyaninu nj Well hnl"uging 10 T. o Emeraun
In Rod hnoh, Tho vol had l,eon eon,od pro
palatorv to tofpndoiuG. aud VIVA lott opnn.
Rupo, tntoudeut EnaRun, "t tho Emnrnon lnnne
wnl pnraod hv with lantern aud tho Fn7
tgnltod md not nfoto II" rls. 1'h" w.'l maa"a
INV ANIL ran dnwn hil to tho two iIfty hnrtni
iaHha whlnh caught hrN.
Tho tlro thnn communicated with tho lt.mo
bat ~ iron tank which was noon In n hnr and
which burned niandiIv until o'clock this
morning While Tho tank wnR burning rivo,a
of oil nnwnr DOWN tho valley ht9d through tho
M ain ntroot Of Rod Rock burning tho hunineia
md ~ ivnIo hnuana "f tho "nfltn town Thtoa
hundred tamilton nre homeese. md ih"ra tH
Ercnt uToting among ~" pnnllo, Relief com
nittnrr hnvc hnen fnrmnd - rendnr ald. NJ aill
moro, portttls and bradford Mayor isI"i"r. "f
bradford hua tslnsruphcd te Hed Rock fol
Iowa Call on ua for NIL tho h"lp ,p""onanry.'
anarrerrNn HAttoRa.
NAiTlNoRG boo "a Abraham Ann"tin, n
Wnat Iudin negro. nnd Francis AiRma \ NJ "a
ullln nlnn HntipTn WArn 1T tNEtai THE afternoon
pn tho charge Of mnrtnr ON tho high HcHa and
attnmutuE Ia ttodrur tho aahoonot NJ. H. Hon
dCrnou 81 rhtndolp phiH. bound To Baltimore.
with cnIga oi uh"Hphnt"I ttem ilul ltynr-
Tho voHrni went auhpfn on tho morning If No
vrnhnr "a, nnnr Kttty Hawk N. u md won't 10
uinros. Annata. AdhmH and another snllar
mot rrt nrroAted wnia tho only "nns who
oHtRuNd from tho wrnoE, and M soon ihoy
rnnchod shore thny atartod on without waiting
for MD.
ThohudIca Of mono Of tho olIleerR hnvn haen
found which hm4 lni To tho theory that thay
had probably boon fuully donIl with bY Aunettn.
Adams and the other HuIvIyor. who then
hnnchad tho vonpcI In order 10 eoncnni their
stinn. The Unil"d htntcR nuthotitie ea lnom"d
tho raan ono TINT Rhould hs tnvoatlGatod, hnneo
fro arrcGt OF thu accused. shortly nftor their
arrival hero from Norfolk II hnarinE will tako
place on arrival OF parioa from fhilndephia.
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Ths Louisville and Nash,ino Railroad

I.orsvtttE. Dec. l2.-N u eue.tal mceing II
tho board OF directors ot thu Loutavll" ind
Nashville Railrond To-day Edward h. Green WIS
elected 81 ,ona viea president He will take
charge of the branch tlice In Now Y"rk. II Is
rnmorrd thnt the Louisylla aud Nashville rnai
hns \, ot outy nhtulnod control ~ thn Mobile and
Montgomery line but aleo OF tho PouHArolA
road thus securing mn uninterrupted limo from
the OhtO river to the tihewnter ON tho gulf.
It IA also said that line of steamers will be
established batween Pensacola and the Wnet
Indies to Euruue. to connect with tho Louisville
and Nashville combination. thuH divertinR. 10
some degree. the grain and produce exports
which have hitherto gone East for IN outlet.
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Thcu rton a.eaEue club.

NEw YoKK Dec n, AZ meeting ~ tho Union
League Club Last night. Cot Rush q. Hawkina
offered u resolution that no Southern mcmhors
should be elnetcd. and in supporting II said
that the South was again manufacturing mnnaoinE
aymutoms aud it was necessary ~ take some
action.
Jackson N Shultr Thought tho resolution
should he laii OH thr taha as II wac impossible
~ tell who were hnmo1Iata mud who not. A
veto waa taken and The resolution laid on tho
fahlp
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RUSSIA.

LaNpoS. Dec. 12-The correspondent Of The
Manchester Guardian says: Those best ac
oualntad with Russian affairs doubt the authen-
tirity Of the statement that the revolutionary
committees has Issued q violent proclamation
ayoTing that tha late attempt on the CZar's life
was made by their order eta.
BERLIN, Dee. l2-The National Gazette reports
that the man mentioned 10 a dispatch from ST..
Petersburg as having been arrested to- day IN
the vicinity OF the Winter Palace was taken into
custody last Saturday. He had In his possess
sion o number OF electric batteries dynamite
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GERM ANY.

nunlIu hoe - Tho Inntliap hna nh"rt"''
railway onmntiaal"ra roaulh'inna. rtes5t 'h'hh
fha II, iu,iulaa nn Whlch thn govern" ent must
,un ihn rpitwnpa rho lln'lit mud N"hH"''nlE
nnllway company hoe "vntwhelminglF H"sn'
In favor ~ ih" nnle "f that I"ad tpih" g"'"th
mant
An influential eamtuIt"e. under th" H'eet
tIenoy ~ tho Mayor If Retltn antl tho Utalntt -
paliro hpa henn formed to- "tgnniFa n Hye"'n ~
relief fot tho Famine eiriph on ueauia "' ht' eta.
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Federal Control ot tha Railroads.

WtpryNarnN Doe - The llottae COMMITTEES
an Cammptpa heard tho extended ntgumonta
thia mNrnina pInaeutri Nv Meanrp. FlRler "
rhilninlrhiR, and Fhmhot. ~ NV Noth NOM
hrta on thn cnnmiton nprn'ntca w 'h" National
ii Am ,t TIatln III pta4oni IL tha NNunn cNm
mittna Hnnle aukEantiuna nanGatniNE national
lasiplRitan for tntornata commerce Thoaa
enntiamnn both took aironS Itonuan IN favor OF
hnnnrope Int erfnrns aud attempting I" rnGu
late he ohafGz.s lot uanapattattan of freight hv
railroad eNmNanlea aud advocated the "iaa'ten
af a nHilonnl rnlrnal commission ~ tribunal
tN nruCI ytan all nRiOta Rotating thereto
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TIL, INDIANS.


WtautNt4rnN, Dec - Horrnlair y hut thia
nft,si noon ro4ntvod q talour trom don lntrhs
ftntoA LOS Iinna lnoamhnt 10 atnttnE ttai til"
Indiana la iheit Io1unpt tn i'o Iint In Washing
Ton moru' ~ hn itiah hv ~" EnneInl GnNnIn
n,nni They willing ~ hT tried nnrwllhta
nutuila oF ttotufnho II 10 atatad, Through
nnrav fhor n1av ~ woll he hitnE tetrnna nt tht,
agency na tnhan ta t'pnvot Duinr rnra ho viii
an,urn and tuln nvor nh p"rsouu ntontl"n"d hr
thu women aud domnnaatl bv tho o"mptE
al,
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The Public schauts closed Ia Petersburg.
Wa.

PETERSBURG nne ~ Ill accordance with the
rnIrs adopted hy the board of education III this
city All the puhli2 nchnuia herr are closed ~
day FIR one maath. Their claaing i due 70 the
fsft that the State failed 20 contribute It's fu}l
than ro'uoe the salartns cf the tnHchors. thu
educational board considered il best % give
w iDtar vacation
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The senate comm,,tee ON Railroads.

WARRINGTON. Dec. 1.-THE seaa Committee
on Railroads organized for hnstne SO to day and
referred several of tha pending measures on
the docket 10 snh committees. Senator Coka's
Mexican border railroad hills we're referred t.
suh-eommittea ConsistlEk If Messrs- Jon "a
Winiom and Grover. Thasa bills provide for
the construction Of railroads from San Anto Mo
u Laralo and fram Galveston 70 Camarko.
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judge NeCrary 1ids Washington Farc-
we'll

WASHINGTON. Dec l2-Judse McCrary took
lasy- ul Iha members y, the Cabinet ~ 4 dinner
givan bg the President and Mrs. Hayes LAST
evening. and left this morning Tor 81. Louis.
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Movement. or ocean vessels.

NEW YoEK Dec 12-Arrived: Marathon.
Adriatie. Rheine. Geo. w. Clyde. Arrived out:
Wyoming. somervlle. Perigny. ,Homeward.
ton, Ida Lily for Southwest Pass. Cleared for
Liver pool: steamship Amozonense. with s2so
bales OF cotton.
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AnnnintInent.

WASHINGTON. Dec I2-John Smith has been
appointed internal reyanua storekee2er and
ganSer for the Second District OF Georgia.
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narii ihgor and u enrnplnta plan ~ the Nthi"'
rainpn Trrvfsnrte HE NJ oct httn'"l i''"'iA
nation hni hnna isaueh announcing 'l'"i me
Wintnt rnin5 "a would 10 hlnwn VI on th" nasl
Il
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EIRTEB. N H.. Dec IA Hon. Amos Tuck ex-
member Of Congress. died last evening Of apo
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-05-01
Intelligence Items.

Mount Holyoke Seminary has 247
pupils this year.
The old Catholic Synod, which met
at Bonn last June, by vote of 10 to ~,
decided to abolish celibacy.
Paris has contributed 10000 francs
for the yellow fever sufferers. of which
sum Marshal MacMahon gave one
fourth.
About 800 English, Irish and Ameri-
can Protestants have joined the Catho-
lie Church in Paris during the past
twelve years.
Two colored missionaries named
Richardson and Johnson, who were
formerly slaves in the Southern States,
have Just left London for work in Cen
trail Africa.
With the exception of few towns on
the coast of China there are in all that
Empire scarcely dozen Hebrew fami-
lies. The Jews are hardly known in
China and only the learned are aware
OF their existence.
Seven Protestant denominations now
have an organization in Rome: The
Wallensian, the Methodist, the Episco-
pal, the Presbyterian, the Plymouth
Brethren, the American Baptists, and
the Apostolic Baptists. They number
i'll all about 700 Italian adherents.
At the Paris Exhibition, among the
pathological curiosities is the famed
Papal Bull of the Immaculate Concep-
ton, translated into ITO languages.
Originally it was intended for gift to
Plus TX. as a testimonial from France,
and when the Exhibition closes it will
be presented to the present Pope. and
deposited in the Library of the Vati-
can.
Teachers salaries ought to be the
very last expenses to be cut down. says
Superintendent Eliot, of Boston. I'VE
can get on" he adds, without vast
buildings or materials; we can wait for
better times to ill our libraries or our
collections; we can part forever with
drills. exhibitions, and festivals, or
with all that is expensive about them;
but we must have men and women
whom nature as well as training has
made teachers; we must have the heads
and the hearts that are not found where.
ever We seek them; we must have the
personal force which is beyond all other
forces, in earth as we'll as in heaven.
If everything else were sold that we
might have these treasures, they would
not cost too dear Economy beginning
with them is not economy, but waste
fulness."
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vince her of the impossibility of her
assertion. She persists to this moment
that she saw you and was with you on
the 18th of October-or rather on the
morning of the 18th. Where and how
she cannot tell, but we think it must
have been some dream. She is better
now, and 1 wish you could see how fast
she is improving"
This is my plain, unvarnished tale. I
do not pretend to explain or account
for its mysteries. simply relate facts.
Let psychologists unravel the labyrinth
ical skein. 1 am not supersttious,
neither do believe in ghosts, wraiths
or apparitions: but this thing L do
know-that, although my wife was in
England in body on the morning of the
18th of October, her spirit surely stood
before me in New York in the moment
of the deadly peril that menaced me.
1t may be that to the subtle instinct and
strength of wife's holy love all things
are possible; but Alice surely saved my
life
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WATCHING One s-sELF.-"When l
was boy" said an old man, eve had
q schoolmaster who had an odd way of
catching idle boys. One day he called
out to us:
"'Boys, I must have closer attention
to your books. The first one that sees
another idle, want him to inform me,
and 1 will attend to the case
"Ah." thought ! to myself, there is
Joe Simmons that l don't like. I'll
watch him, and if see him look off
his book, I'll tell" 1t was not long
before saw Joe look off his book, and
Immediately I informed the master.
"Indeed! said he; chow do you
know he was idle?"
II saw him." said.
"You did? and were your eyes on
your book when you saw him?"
was caught, and never watched for
idle boys again.
II we are sufficiently watchful over
our own conduct, we shall have no
time to find fault with the conduct Of
others.
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Wit and HulnOl.
Parts of speech-The lips.

Hafts OF speecn-Ine lips.
Best time on record--Lunch time.
He had brought her the very things
she wanted from the supper table to
her safe retreat on the stairs. and she
was moved to say, half laughingly,
You are man after my own heart. Mr..
B Just what l am after, )" he an
swered, quick as a flash, covering her
with confusion.
Sound, sail the schoolmaster, lis
what you hear. For instance, you can
not feel sound. "Oh, yes. YOU can"
said a smart boy. John Wilson," re-
make that out? What sound can YOU
feel 2" "A sound thrashing," quickly
replied the smart boy.--Nep York If'i-
bune.
The unhappiest visitor in the White
Mountains is New Jersey man. who
has come up to look at some land--35O
acres, for which he traded last spring
very fine colt. The trade was made on
the Jersey flats, and the Jerseyman had
never been to the mountains. He tells
the story pathetically, and ends with,
stranger, that $50 acres is little more
than perpendicular" - Boston 7raa-
script.
Just before the public schools in
New Haven closed for the vacation, a
lady teacher in one of the departments
gave out the word Sob" for her class
to spell. After it was spelled, as was
her custom, she asked the meaning of
it. No one knew. The teacher then
told the class she had one, and was the
only person in the room that did. AZ
ter little while hand went hest
tatingly up. Teacher--"Well what is
it, "Please, ma am, it's beau.--Dan-
bury Ners.
A HARD CAsE.--Enter young hus-
band, who throws himself into chair,
and exclaims: What! toUthache again,
Marial do call that hard upon fell
Ter! Why, you had toothache when I
left this morning! And here have l
been at EPSON all day, with the jolliest
lot O fellers ever get together in one
drag, and won pot O. money, and had
no end Of jolly time, and l did think
l should find something cheerful and
jolly to greet teller when l got home!
And there you are!--toothache againi
l do call it hard upon afeller-precious
hard!"-Puuch.
HYGIENE excuses. Smith: $50
you've given up wine and bacca,
Brown" Brown: "Yes, horses and
dogs do very we'll without stimulants;
and why shouldn't we?" Jones (fat
NAM: "Ah!-I go farther. I've given
up everything but rice. Look at thu
IL. -A..x L ~
spite of its size!' Robinson: Matter
of taste! Lions and tigers are more in
my line! I've given up everything but
raw meat once every twenty-four hours,
and kill it myself I'm going to give
up clothes next month-so's my wife. 7!
Smith: "Tell you what it is, Brownl
I've good mind to go in for that kind
OF thing myself. and give up every.
thing but skittlesr'-Punch.
The mn mhop ~ ao>1. l., ouo .1r~I
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-05-01

WATCHING DEATH APPROACHING -
None of us know how We would act in
supreme moment of revealed fate.
Edgar Poe or Victor Hugo could not
have imagined form of death more
completely calculated to test the vic
TINS fortitude than the terrible scene
which terminated the life of one John
Conlon, at Norwich, last Friday night.
Conlon, who was pistol maker in that
city, was walking on the railway track
at Norwich Falls, at point where
there is double switch, and accident
ly had one foot caught in a frog" in
such way that he was unable to ex-
tricate it. A northern bound train was
coming at full speed, ard Conlon, find
ing himself unable to escape his doc i,
half turned, in his chained position,
and faced the engine LITERALLY an en-
CINE of death) in defiant way, and
almost smiled as it struck him. His
body was frightfully mangled-almost
literally torn to pieces under the re-
morseless wheels and when picked up
it presented a horrible sight. A part
of his clothing, in which was his revol-
yer. was torn from him by the engine
and carried to Williamantic before it
was discovered. Hartford (Cl) Times.