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claim against the city of Baltimore,
which offered $4,000 for the arrest of

claim against the city OF Baltimore,
which offered $4,000 for the arrest of
the assassin, Capt. Doherty did not sue
to recover, the mayor and aldermen
telling him point blank that they would
not pay it, as the reward was offered un-
der q previous administration. This
claim has now lapsed by limitation.
" of the SI0o, 600 offered by the govern
ment. S75. 1000 was paid on the basis OF
prize-money in the navy. The command
consisted of twenty-six enlisted men,
two citizens. (detectives) and one COM
missioned officer. The commission ap..
pointed to distribute the money consisted
of Judge Advocate General Holt and
Gen. E. D. Townsend, Adjutant- General
of the army, who awarded to Captain
Doherty $75, 600; to each of the citizen
detectives, $4,000; to Sergt. Boston Cor
bett and Sergt. Wandell. 81, 200 each, the
commission deciding that the fact of Cor
bett having shot Booth did not entitle
him to more than the non-commissioned
officer of the same rank who was also
presentat the capture.
"Gen. Lafayette G. Baker, chief detec-
tive of the War Department, was held to
be the same as an admiral, who detaches
ship and orders it to anothersquadron.
I n transitu, that ship captures a prize,
and Capt. Doherty being in the position
as captain of the ship. received two-twen-
tieths of the whole amount, while the
admiral, who in this case was Gen.
Baker, received one-twentieth. or 3d.
$50. The remainder of S75, 900 was dis
tributed prorata among the men.
capt. Doherty was informed from
high authority that q wheelbarrow full
of claims were put in for this reward,
almost every detective in the United
States representing. that he was entitled
to share. The adjustment of this mass
of claims occupied the members of the
commission a little over year before
they could determine who were entitled
to the reward" '.''-.
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The Rattlesnake.

1t has been observed by some natural
lists that if we withhold water from
snakes when about to shed their epi-
dcrmis, they are thereby prevented from
divesting themselves entirely of the old
skin. Ialways kept small birds bath
ing-cup, filled with clean water once a
day, in the case containing my crotalus.
The first skin he cast off, in July, was
entire and without blemish. At the
second change, however, about the last
of September, removed the cup one
night, intending to replace it shortly
afterward, but forgot to do So, The
next morning I found portions OF loose
skin all over the floor of the case, and
much more hanging in shreds from
various parts of the body of the snake
Other parts seemed not to be detached
yet. had not supposed that the ophid-
ian was quite ready for change. He
was over two months in dlvesting him.
self of his torn trousers. Was it due to
the fact that water had been withheld at
the last time? Both changes occurred
in the night, and failed to observe the
interesting process of divestment. 10
test the question of so-called blindness
occurring during the time when the pupil
is covered by Il whitish film or thin mem
brane becoming detached. and occlud-
ing the sight Of the eye, placed some
very active mice repeatedly in the case,
during the period OF change of epider-
mis-. The ophidian attacked the mice
in quick turn, without ever missing his
first victim. On other occasions. how
ever, when his sight was unobstructed,
have seen him strike at it and miss the
mark repeatedly. After making a few
misses he would then strike about with
intensified fury. The snake never ate
without first striking his victim. He
did not eat more than two mice Mt a
meal, and sometimes an hour lapsed be-
fore eating the second one. He never
killed his prey wantonly; on the con-
trary, he permitted mice to keep his conf
pany so long as his appetite was ap-
peased.-1He Science NeaOS.
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A Water Velocipede.
of F, p. Harrington, of this ci

Prof. r.. L. harrington, OF tlllS clty,
says the Detroit p st, has invented
completed and tried satisfactorily ma
chine which is certainly n novelty in the
way of locomotion. In appearance on a
side view it presents considerable re-
scmblance to bicycle, but it is intended
to run on the water instead of on land.
The wheel is four feet in diameter and
seven inches through. Near the outer
rim are sixteen paddles similar to those
used on the paddle-wheel of a steamer.
The interior of the wheel is supplied
with air chambers for buoyancy and
with water chambers for balance. The
saddle is placed further back and lower
than in the improved land bicycle.
Treadles for the feet are provided, and
these are connected with gearing at
tached to a crank turned by hand, so
that in propelling the machine either
the hands or feet, or both together may
lie used. The buoyancy of the wheel is
about 400 pounds. Running back of the
wheel are shafts, connecting. not as in
the bicycle with smaller wheel, but
with two artificial fish of cedar resting
ON the water side by side. These fish
serve the same purpose in balancing the
machine as the small wheel does in the
bicycle and also serve as Il rudder
to guide the direction of the machine.
The whole weight of this novel ap-
paratus is about seventy pounds. Mr..
Harrington has tried it successfully and
finds no difficult, in propelling it or in
keeping it balanced in the water, though
its possibilities as regards speed have not
' CT been fairly tested.
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Exciting Times in Warsaw.

Edward King writes rs follows from
Warsaw, Russia. to the Boston Journal:
1t can hardly be said that "order reigns
in Warsaw" at present. 1fthe accounts
which have reached this city from
Poland are true, there must be immi-
rent danger of revolution there. Great
numbers OF political prisoners have been
made by the Russian government during
the recent stirring times, and most of
them are confined in the citadel at War
saw. The other day, one ofthem, Il boy
uf eighteen, who had been imprisoned
rs a socialist, finding that he was almost
suffocating from lack of good air in his
cell, approached the grated window and
climbed up to put his face against the
rentilator in the ceiling. A sentinel
seeing him in this position ut the win
dow, fired at him and killed him in
stantly. As soon as the other political
prisoners heard Of the fate of their un-
fortunate comrade they raised a fright
full tumult, and demanded that the
body be given up to them that they
might hold funeral rites over it in the
courtyard of the citadel. This demand
was summarily refused, and the leaders
of the movement were. informed that
they would be placed in dungeons if any
thing further was heard from them.
This so exaspcrated the multitude of
prisoners in the citadel that they flew
into open revolt, broke up the iron beds
wrenched bars from out the windows,
tore bricks from out the chimnies, and
Il certain number of them took refuge
in their cells, detied the authorities to
approach them, while Others engaged in
open conflict. The commander Of the
military forces at the fortress had his
lead broken, and q large number of
gendarmes were badly wounded. 1t is
reported that two hundred prisoners
were put in irons after this affair, The
Russians will undoubtedly infict severe
measures upon all the Poles now, and
we may hear of new demonstrations by
the latter. The recent silence in the
Northern lands is very ominous. 1t is
like that dread calm which precedes a
storm.
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How a Brave Lad Killed O Panther.

While Mr.. w. H. Higgins, living
about two and half miles from Re-
novo, on the dividing lidge between
Paddy's and Drury's runs, was working
in his field making hay, he saw an ami
NAL in distant part of the field making
off with hen. He thought it a fox,
and called the attention of his son
George, lad of fourteen, to it. George
is fond of hunting, and getting his gun
he started of for the fox, accompanied
Ivy his five-year-old brother and a
hound. They had not been gone long
when Mr.. Higgins heard several con-
tinuous yells of the most terrible kind.
The animal had been treed by the dog,
and it's half-human shrieks rent the air
with terrible distinctness, like the shrill
agonized voice of q woman in dire dis
tress. The excited father and his field
hands atonce made for the point whence
came these foreboding sounds. and ere
they had reached the spot they met
George dragging huge female panther
measuring five feet one inch In length
and standing two feet high. The boys
had followed the dog to a big tree, up
which the panther had gone about
lceI. w uCIl Attu
saw the animal, crouched and glaring
above, he felt that it was either to be
Il dead panther or death struggle be-
tween it and himself and little brother.
lie was good shot generally. but here
was to be the severest test his young eye
and nerves had ever been put to, and one
that might we'll have tried an older
and stouter hunter. He drew the bead
md fred, fee.ing'as he did so, he says, rs
if he had been lifted clear off his feet.
But there was the hungry brute yet,
crouching on the limb, its eyes fairly fit
to burst in their malignant glare. Bang
went the gun Of our brave young hunter,
Just rs the panther sprang. 1t seemed,
said the lad, as though the animal
sprang out from the tree about twenty
five feet. then came straight down, light
ing on the dog about sixteen feet from
the boys. The young hunter again
thought he had Missed. Clubbing his
gun he advanced upon the brute to strike
it, but it rolled over dead before he
could do so. Examination proved that
his first shot had struck about four
inches back of the heart, the last one in
the heart. It was bravely and well
done, and but for the steady nerve and
true aim of the lad he and his little
brother would doubtless have fallen
victims to the animals ravenous hun
ger.-LockhaUem (Pa.) Democrat.
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An AupeaI for the Watermelon.

Some people entertain an idea that
watermelons are unwholesome. Yet
hcse same persons, perhaps. will stuff
themselves in hot weather with hot bis
cult, ham, beef, rancid butter and fried
bacon, diet suited to the latitude of
Lapland. If the fruits of theearth and
of the tree, in this Southern climate,
were consumed more literally there
would be less sickness. If the Southern
citizen would jump from the frying-pan
into a watermelon patch, he would be
less liable to catch the yellow fever. Of
all the fruits OF the earth there is none
more wholesome than good water
melon. 1t is composed of nothing more
than water. This water acts as r gentle
diuretic, without leaving any acid upon
the stomach, as is the case in other
diuretics. A good thing in yellow fever
lines. The creole of Louisiana lives to a
marvellous age. He lives so long that lie
forgets his age. But he lives princi-
pally on the fruits and vegetables that
grow around him, and he is especially
fond of a good wa ermelon.-Memphss
AUalnnche.
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A Crane with q Wooden Leg.

In London-in St. James park-there
once lived crane. BY some accident
he broke one of his long legs, and a
kind doctor who saw him in pain cut it
off above the knee. The bird got well,
but how was he to get about in the
world? He couldn't use q crutch, as a
man with one leg can, nor had he any
friends to wheel him about in an invalid
chair, as some sick people have when
they can't walk. :,
l don't what thep bird would
have done; but a soldier, who knew how
to do g good many things, saw the
cranes trouble, took pity on him, and
went to work to help him. He made q
wooden leg, with a joint for a knee, and
he managed to fasten it to the.poor Grip,
ple, so That he could walk about and
take care of himself. 1t was not a
pretty leg, like his other, but it was use
full, and he was satisfied with it. For a
long time this wooden-legged bird was
one of the sights of the park, and very
proudly he bore himself before the
crowds of curious boys and girls WHO
came to see him.-&. Nicholas.
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A Remarkable Counterfeit.

t'he Sub-Treasury department at New
Orleans have come across a counterfeit
silver quarter, remarkable feature
about which is, that it is intrinsically
more valuable than the genuine quarter
dollar. According to Mr.. Davis, the
coiner at the mint, to whom it was sent
to be assayed. it weighs s7s grains. or
1876 above legal weight, and contains fifty
millimes of silver above standard, and
also three millimes of gold, which silver
coins do not contain, except in rare in
stances. Mr.. James Albrecht, the as
sayer, reports that its tineness is $50
thousandths silver, an 4 three thousandths
gold. The only defect about the piece is
in the engraving of the words, In God
we trust" The word America is ab
hrrviated to Amea," in the word
United States of America"
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The Old Gristmill.

By Willow brook, beneath the hill,
Stands quaint and gray the old gristmill.
Spring moses on its steep root grow,
Where broad their shade the willows throw.
The pond near by is clear and deep,
And around its brink the alders sweep;
The lily pads spread gay and green,
The lilies white and gold between;
While grinds the mill with rumbling sound,
The water-wheel turns round and round.
Among the reeds the muskrat dives,
And swift "the swallow homeward fies;"
The robin sits in cedars pear,
Where Willow brook runs swift and clear;
The children by the school-house play,
Where slumberous shadows softly stay,
And warm and low the summer breeze
Is whispering through the willow leaves;
While grinds the mill with rumbling sound,
The water-wheel turns round and round.
The crows now wing their southern way;
The squirrels in the nut trees play;
With merry shouts the schoolboys run;
The mountains blush meath autumn's sun,
Their grain they bring adown the hill,
The farmers, to the old gristmill;
And faint from tar DER hill and dale
Falls on the ear the threshers fail;
While grinds the mill with rumbling sound,
The water-wheel turns round and round.
Long years have come and passed away;
The mill with age is gaunt and gray;
The roof gaps wide to rain and sun;
With cobwebs thick the walls are hung.
The pond is overgrown with weeds;
The marsh-wren builds among the reeds;
The night winds through the willows moan;
The school-house gone, the children grown;
The farmers sleep where wild flowers grow,
Who brought their grain so long ago,
When ground the mill with rumbling sound,
And the water-wheel turned round and rount
-Chrtstian Union
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marry you or work. When you asked
me to take you for better or worse, I
was afraid it was pity instead of love
because people were cool to me alter our
journey to Bagdad, and I hadn't time to
confess my secret. I went down next
morning to surprise you with it, but you
had left without n word. l supposed
you had been amusing yourself, as your
cousins said; that you could never have
loved me under any circumstances; and
then l decided you should never know
that Miss Lowell was Miss Cavendisn,
disguised by seven years of Europe and
an aquiline nose. So wrote that letter
ofdismissal, if you please"
"And, after all, we lose our hearts
and keep our commandments, my dear
Julictte! What will Cousin Essie say
when she hears that Miss Lowell and I
have been destined for each other from
the beginning g.-Harper's Bazar.
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The Wheat and Corn Product.

The following is statement showing
tlle. annual wheat and corn production
of the United States for the past sixteen
years, together with the annual exports
and home consumption for the same
period. These figures are correct, being
officially reported from the Department
of Agriculture. The estimate for this
year IS calculated from the reports Of ex-
tended correspondence throughout the
United States, and is probably as correct
as estimates of this nature can be made:
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Mrs. Utt's Fight with an Eagle.

A recent letter from Honesdale, Pa. 8
to the New York Sun, says: Parts O.
Preston township, thirty miles from this
place, are yet as wild, as they were when
the Indians inhabited the region. Some
of the highest elevations in Pennsyl-
vania are in Preston. These are rocky
peaks, abounding in deep ravines and
caverns. In this wild territory there
are seventeen large lakes. some of them
on the very crests Of the mountains,
more than 1900 feet above the sea.
These lakes are full of fish, and are
favorite resorts of enormous fish hawks,
which find abundant food in the bass,
pickerel and perch that they catch. There
are also many eagles. and they subslst
by robbing the hawks when they rise
laden with fish from the lakes. The in
accessible crags and ravines afford them
secure resting and Matching places, and
here eagles still rear their young. Speci-
mems measuring over seven feet from
tin to tin have been shot near the lakes.
Fishermen often see fierce battles be-
tween the hawk and tile eagle. and often
both eagle and hawk are brought down
by the sportsman's rifle. At times the
eagles extend their foraging expeditions
to the farming country south and north
of the wilderness. In the spring they
annoy the farmers, for they sweep down
boldly upon the sheep pastures and carry
off lambs and poultry.
A farmer named Utt, who lives near
one ofthe lakes in Preston township. has
two-year-old gamecock, that was pre-
...ntad RI his wife. and she has taken q
liking to the fowl. One day, while her
husband was absent in Deposit, Mrs.
Utt heard a commotion among the
chickens in the barnyard. and, on run
ming out, found her game rooster gallant
ly lighting with what she supposed was
very large hawk, which was trying to
fasten its. talons in the chicken. The
two birds were so deeply engaged in the
combat that Mrs. Utt's shouts did not
frighten the enemy away: She picked
up stick and ran into the barnyard, and
struck the intruder. This did not ap-
parently alarm it. Then she seized it by
the neck with botll hands, and for the
first time saw it was an eagle. The
powerful bird buried its claws deep in
| Mrs. Utt's arm. She did not dare let 80
her hold, although the eagle was tear.
ing her flesh dreadfully. She frightened
her grasp on its throat, and then threw
herself heavily to the ground upon it:
In this way she keptit down, and choked
it to death. The flesh of Mrs. Ult's arm
was torn to the bone in places. The
eagle measured nearly five feet from tip
to tip.
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A Little While.
What is this that He saith?

What is this that He saith?
at is but little WHILE"
And trouble and pain and death
Shall vanish before His smile.
"a little while" and the load
Shall drop at the pilgrims teet,
Where the steep and the thorny roaf
Doth merge in the golden street
But what Is this that He pithl
"a little while" and the day
OF the servant that laboreth
Shall be done forever and aye.
Oh, the truth that is yet untold!
Oh, the songs that are yet unsung!
Oh, the suffering manifold,
And the sorrows that have no tongue
Oh, the helpless hands held out,
And the wayward feet that stray 4
In the desolate paths ol doubt @
And the sinners downward way! 3.
For silence soon will fall
On the lips that burn for speech,
And the needy and poor that call
VIII forever be out Of reach.
"For the work that ia must do
Before the coming OF death
There remaineth, oh, faithful few,
But q little while," He saith. ),
~. GLADDEN., In Sunday .dferaooE
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The fact has been demonstrated by
careful observation that it takes at least
five adults properly to escort one child
under twelve years to the circus.
Daily Republican., 1879-09-22
uY LOVE LovEs ME.

IT'S the last bright hour Of magic time,
The waking clOse Of summer dream
I shall soon be far ON the ocean chime,
From tho sleeping hills and the voicefnl
stream,
And ha . fingered. 10th to part,
u sweetest of western wales from thee;
But leave thee now with bounding heart,
For know to day that my love loves me
From the cornhelds, glowing with August
From the sea'ssoIt blue, from the wind-swept
down,
70 to my lonely city room,
10 the dusk and din Of the work worn town,
Hut q gay farewell to the golden fields,
And q light adieu to the laughing sea
All longing to linger passes and yields
TO the thrill Of the thought that my love
loves me.
So ! cheerily turn me to work again,
life runs In its daily round once more;
But the stress of thought and the sweat Of
brain
Have lost the hardness that erst they wore !;
For with strange new glory the world is bright,
That never before was on land or sea
And all things move ip u mist OF light
For Joy that know that my love loves me.
l know by the touch OF her tell-tale hand,
/ read In the rose blush bloom OF her cheek
The love that a lover can understand,
Tho worldless language that hearts can
speak.
Yet hunger to hear 1t In accents low,
And look and long for the day to be,
The golden day when ! sure shall know
From her own true lips that my love loves
me. -.''L0nd0n Society,"
Daily Republican., 1879-09-22
A snelIauw Reform.

The Chicago "Tribune" has inaugr-
rated spelling refoym and Will hereal'
ter spell according to rules Of its own.
These rules are now in the hands OF
the editorial and reportorial force, prln-
ters and proof readers, and no deviation
from them will be tolerated. Here are
Omit ue in dsmagog, catalog, peds-
poe. synseog, dialog, decalog and 9TH
er words ending in logue and gogue.
Omit the superfuous me in program,
gram, ,., /d,
lema). .
Omit the supsrhuous to in cigaret,
etiquet, parquet, coquet and al similar
words, except Gazette when it is USED
a, tn name of newspaper.
Spell definite in all its forms without
the final 9, thus, defnit-ly-ness, In
definit-ly-ness. 49,
SPELL infinit without final 9; also'
infinit-ly-ness.
Omit final in hypocrit, favorit; also
opposit-ly-nsss, apposit-ly-.ness.
In words ending in "lessness" drop
one from less, viz: Carelesness, thank
lesness, etc. /.u,.,
Omit the fourth in assassin (assas-
inl and other forms Of the word.
Spell somerset, not somersault.
Spell Gallon with a Spanish H. OF
spoil IL canyon. ..a
Change ph to f in fantom, fantasm
and ali forms of the word; also, in ION
ic fonetic-s--al, fonografy, orthografy'
alfabst, digrsf, difthong.
Daily Republican., 1879-09-22
burned to Death.

From the Milford Chronicle.
On Thursday last the wife OF Mr..
George Collins, who resides near Farm
ington, met with a terrible accident
which has since terminated fatally. At
the time of the occurrence, the family
with the exception of servant gl'
were absent gathering fodder in field
some distance from :he house. Mrs.
Collins was engaged in washing, and
while attempting to put some clothes in
a wash boiler which was on a fire built
in the yard, her dress ignited and she
was almost instantly enveloped in
flames, The servant girl was too
frightened to render any assistance,
and Mrs. Collins rushed screaming to-
ward the field where her husband was
at work. He heard her cries and went
to her aid, but she was already burned
so badly about the limbs and body that
nothing could be done to save her life.
She fingered, however, in intense agony
until Sunday afternoon, when she
passed peacefully away. Her funeral
took place on Sunday at Todd's Chapel
The bereaved family have the sympa.
thies of all in their great affliction.