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Year: 1876

ton of q drowning man who was rem
dered desperate in the situation i'm
which he found himself. A turn in
the river proved favorable to him.
The boat drifted out of deep water,
and very soon after this the half
drowned man succeeded in reaching
the oppositebank in safety.


Meanwhile Andrew Kemp had
been making strenuous efforts to save
the ill-fated and struggling Broad
hurst. The old fcrryman was, un-
happily, not successful in his attempt
to save the life of the gallant officer
Irwhose lifeless body was picked up by
fishermen on the following morn
ing.
The sequel may be briefly told
Major Broadhurst and Sir William
Taynton, in the earlier portion OF
their lives, had been on the closest
terms of intimacy; but as years went
on that friendship was exchanged for
a lasting animosity on the part of the
Baronet, who had learned to look up
on his quondam friend as q rival
Lady Taynton, before her marriage
with her present lord was greatly at
tached to the gallant officer. In al.
dition to this, Broadhurst knew a
number of ugly circumstances con-
nected with the master of Monks
wood, Sir William, although in pos
session of the title and estates Of the
Tayntons, was at best but an usurper
he was not the rightful heir. Doc
uments, affidavits and papers proving
his illegitamacy, together with certain
crimes which rendered him amenable
to the law, had come into the possess
sion OF Broadhurst, some of them, in
deed, obtained by purchase; and it
was for the purpose OF placing them
in the hands of lady Taynton that he
had sought an interview with the
mistress of MonkswOOd.


For her sake he had striven sue
cessfully enough to obtain these doc
uments, which were in themselves
sufficient to hurl her husband from
the position he occupied. The sacri-
flee the Major had made cost him his
life.


When the issue of the conflict be-
came known to Lady Taynton, and
the dead body of the Major was dis
covered, recrimination passed be-
tween husband and wife. On the
following day Sir William fell by
his own hand.


Lady Taynton, soon after her hus-
bands death, retired from the world
and devoted the remainder of her life
to acts of charity.
Year: 1876

The Press On Cttster's Calamity.


New York, July 7.-Nearly all the
journals have long editorials on the
Custer affair and the death of Santa
Anna. the two sensations this fore
noon.


The Tribune thinks of the former
that after 120 years the tragedy oi
Braddock's defeat is repeated on a
new stage and under conditions which
increase its horror and shame.


The Herald says: Never since the
time of the rebellion has there been
such warlike sentiment abroad
among the people as that which yes
terday found expression on all sides
regarding the bloody battle of the
Little Horn river. On one position all
seemed agreed, to wit That the policy
of the government should be made
one of deadly aggression, looking to
the total determination of the treach-
erous Indians of the plains.
Year: 1876

PRIVATE VIEW OF A NEW PAINTING By WILLIAM


MORGAN.


private view given yesterday at the gallery Of
S. J. Gibbons, Fifth avenue and Seventeenth
street. of the latest picture from the easel of William
Morgan The painting contains throe figures, life size,
and is entitled Brotherhood" young woman OF the
peasantry of Lower Germany, black eyed and with
heavy masses of wavy black hair partly hidden BY
the red cloth tied around her head, n
seated in low chair, with sleeping
infant in her arms. The utmost refinement OF thought
Is manifested IN the conception Of the subject and Is
felt you look at this woman, who is not OF tho
type who are delicate In form and feature that tho
sympathies OF strong nature are insnctIvely
aroused, but is one of the splendid women, with we'll.
developed figures, and hearts OF mingled tenderness
and hrmncss, such women the Greeks Of old
honored, and those who gave to their country the
greatest number of citizens, rewarded publicly
Mr. Morgan has gone back TO those times or
inspiration, and gives hero the samo sei-reliant
woman, full OF dignity and reserved strength and yet
with wonderful amount OF tenderness In her face
she looks down at the little helpless piece Of humanity
in her arms. wrapped in an old blanket but not less
precious than II II were clothed in tho most delicate
cambric and laccs. This group is almost complete in
itself, but the Introduction OF third figure gives
greater breath in sentiment, and at tho same timsi
gives more realistic interest TO the work.
little girl of four or five years looks
with childish curiosity over the mothers arm
at tho new car ddatc for her attention Her old rag
doll Is held behind her by both hands, emblematc OF
the first lesson the life Of woman, whose crowniDg
glory is that Of motherhood. The work Is OF gem
high art, full OF sentiment without drifting
into the sentimental. and IS technically successful.
The color is pure and harmonious throughout, tho
drawing goOj in the hands particularly and in the
poso OF the figures really fine. The textures
good and express the different materials without
being elaborately finished to take the attention
from the interest OF the figures themselves. In few
minor details the gradatioDs OF tone have been
neglected they be easily harmonzed when the
picture is in a condition to bc Vanished 1t is de-
cdcdy tho best that Mr. Morgan has yet given to the
public, aud would, without detrmcnt occupy posi-
ton beside any imported picture now on exhibition in
this city IL will for few days at tho gallery
whore IL a present
Year: 1876

Kelly 4 Leon deserve Their minstrel troupe
is of the bcst the city has had Their jokes
fresh, their music good and their burlcsques per-
iectly screaming But let us remind Messrs. Kelly d
Leon that when the public is invited to SEQ negro
minsres they expect black faces Burnt cork Is the
of negro minstresy and no amount Of clever
the part of Leon can compensate for the
absence of black face Leon Is not half attractive
in blonde make up as in African mask. Let us also
remind these managers that programmes are only Of
use in cascs--when they tell what Is to be per-
formed and when the light sufficient to read them.
Very little attention paid to either Of those require.
ments by Manager Kelly.
Year: 1876

In tho hands OF the Sheriff OF Aiken county. The
South Carolinians said 10 intend to


SURRENDER TO smERIFp
without delay. Governor Chamberlain will immedi-
atey issue acquisitions upon the Governor OF Georgia
for all persons charged by tho verdict in that State
Attorney General Stone is in Aiken by direction OF
the Governor TO take charge of the prosecution Tho
evidence is said TO be far moro damnng than hereto
fore believed
Year: 1876

An Illinois farmer says: MY cattle
will follow me until leave the lot, and
on the way up to the barnyard IN the
evening stop and call Tor lock OF hay '
Brown says there is nothing at all re-
markable about that.- He went into
barn yard in the country one day last
week, where no had not the slightest
acquaintance with the cattle, and an old
bull not only followed him until he left
the lot, but took the gate of The hinges
and raced with him to the house in the
most familiar way possible. Brown ssys
he has no doubt that the old fellow
would have called for something il he
had waited awhile, but he didn't want TO
keep the folks waiting Tor dinner. SO he
hung one tail Of bis coat and piece OF
pants on the bulls horns and went into
the house.
Year: 1876

1t is said that one Of the conductors
on the Reading Railroad owns stock IN
the company to the amoun, of 29,0oO.
He cot it all in five years on SlOO per
month. A man can accomplish q good
deal By being saving.
Year: 1876

The Mark Lane Express of the 14th
in its weekly review of the grain trade
says: The character of the weather
during the past week has undergone
no improvement in any part of the
country, while at the end of the week
it has been altogether rough, stormy
and unsettled Vegetation under SO
much rain and cold winds has made
very little progress and the wheat
plant which was everywhere reported
to look we'll, will shortly stand in
need OF dryer days and warmer lands.
Holders of wheat evinced little dispo-
sition to meet miller's views, and this
feeling som ewhat contracted opera
tions. 1t cannot be denied that the
present is period of great depres sion
as compared with the expectat lions
formed at the time of the harvest.
The prices realized for produce must
be very Disappointing, both to mer-
chants and farmers, and the want of
sure foundations whereon to base
operations initiates much against
the probability of any marked i'm
provement. The absence of frost as
the season advances tends to keep the
market quiet, and the large 81 ocks
still known TO be in the granary deter
spectators from operating in a suffi-
cient degree to influence the course of
trade in spite of the temptation to do
so, now that the range of prices is so
moderate, having regard 10 the infe-
rior European and American crops.
In short, the weather influences will
soon be supreme in determining the
future course of prices, and it would
appear that even if the present dull
ness continues, no great decline can
be looked for whilst with continued
adverse weather the probabilities lie
in the direction of material improve
ment
Year: 1876

RUNAWAY AND ITS REsULTs-THE ACT


ING MAYOR HAS A MARROW ESCAPE.


Yesterday afternoon, Esquire Frazer, who
has recently been acting as Mayor of the
city, during the sickness of Mayor Whiteley,
accompanied by Mr.. Benjamin Pierce, the
proprietor of the hotel at Hare's Corner,
drove over to New Castle and started again
for this city by way of the Hare's Corner
road. They had proceeded as far as the
railroad crossing about three miles from
Wilmington, when the horse becoming
frightened at hand-car which was passing
at the time, dashed down the road at break
neck speed. The carriage was hurled to the
side of the road and completely demolished,
the occupants being thrown violently out
Esquire Frazer was fortunate enough to es
cape with few bruises about the face and
shoulders, but Mr.. Pierce was severely in
jured, being terribly cut and bruised and
probably has broken rib. He was unable
to assist himself to his feet and was brought
to his home by passing team. His injuries
although quite serious are not dangerous.
The horse was stopped about mile from
this city, having escaped without scratch.
The animal usually is quiet and docile, but
always dreaded the cars, which is probably
the cause of his unusual conduct upon this
occasion.
Year: 1876

| BURGLARS DESPERATE AsSAULT-A PHI
ToL SNAPPED THREE TIMES IN THE FACl


OF MTLLEK-THE BURGLAR BEATS HIN
TO THE GROUND AND ATTEMPs TO HURl


HIM OVER A TWENTY FEET WALL.


On Thursday morning, at very early
hour, one of the most persistent attempt'
to take human life without any apparent
reason, other than robbers malice, wal
attempted near this city, that we have heard
of for some time, the particulars of which
are as follows:


Amos Brinton, who is the miller at Ri H.
artlson's -four mills, in this city, on the New
port pike, was disturbed early OH Thursday
morning by the noise caused by some per-
sons shoveling flour from chest in the mill
below his room. Creeping from his bed he
was just in time to see two men, each with a
large bag OF flour struggling up the hill.
He hallooed to the pair. who Immediately
drOpp0d the booty and scampered Oft. Brin-
ton, supposing that the roboers had made
good their flight, advanced to carry the
flour, which they had dropped, back to the
mill, and was in the act Of STOPPING to
right one of them up, when one of them
jumped from the bashes and stepped to his
side. Brinton ordered him to carry one Of
the bags back to the mill. which the man
began to do.


The two had perhaps advanced half way
to the building, when the burglar, who was
a few feet in the rear, dropped his burden,
pulled pistol from his pocket and snapped
| it in the very face of Brinton. The weapon
fortunately did not 60 Oft, but again It was
presented at the head of the now stricken
miller and again the pistol refused to do its
deadly work, and third attempt resulting
as had the other, the villain grasped his
pistol by the barrel and dealt his victim q
full blow upon the forehead, which felled
him to the ground.


This did not satisfy the brutality of the
would-be robber, and the unoffending mil
Ter was horribly beaten with the pistol, then
the villain dragged him to wall twenty
feet high which winds up by road to the
mill door, and was about to hurl him from
the top. Brinton by this time had gained
consciousness, and although an old man of
seventy years, vigorously resisted the ut
tempt upon his life, and before the assail-
ant could consummate the deed, had Jr 'ght
ened the villain off.


Brinton dragged himself to the residence
of Mr.. Richardson, near the mill and was
provided with kind attention. He is
now however doing we'll. Both of the rob-
bers were eolored men, Brinton having dis
tinctly recognized each. 1t is said that one
was Bill Lewis, well-known desperate
character, and the other Samuel Pediman.
Efforts have been made to capture both but
as yet there has been no clue obtained as to
their whereabouts.
Year: 1876

At a school exhibition OF town in
Maine the following essay won the
prize: On n turkle. This animal is
found most always in the water, and
then he comes on dry land. The tur-
kle cannot fly. II he was the right
kind of bird he could fly. but if he
was n goose bird or an ostrich he could
not fly. The turkle has four paws and
a mouth like an American eagle, which
makes the British lion and the unicorn
tremble. The turkle has a shell, and
sometimes folks puts fire on il and the
turkle crawls out. When the turkle
crawls out of his shell he is very wet
and sticky. There are two kinds of
turkles-muck turkle aud the other
kind. We don't have any other kind
in our pond. French and Irish people
eat turkle aud frogs, but / sho uld not
like to. caught a turkle once, but it
did not do me any good, for exchang'
ed it for jack. knife and cut my fing-
ers. Father said it was a Judgment,
but / thought it was knife"
Year: 1876

We attended the concert at Wolfen-
STEMS last night. Mr.. Shepherd is
one of the finest pianists in the world.
We have heard the best that ever
travelled on this continent, and he is
equal to any of them. AS vocalist
he is unsurpassed. From the heavi-
lest deep base to the finest treble his
voice is perfectly natural on every
key, and melodious withal. But as to
anything supernatural or spiritual
about it, it is all nonsense. We are
really sorry that Mr. Shepherd ever
permitted such an idea to be pub
lished to the world. 1t is all injury
to him in every way. His perform
ances are grand and meritorious, and
will always draw refined and appreci-
ative audiences if lie will sever it
from mysticism.
Year: 1876

The most encouraging accounts
come from every part of the county in
regard to the growing crops. Mr.. p.
Potts and Col. Tustin of Tustin City
were here to-day. They speak of their
town and surrounding country in the
most enthusiastic terms. Their bar.
ley is heading with the prospect of
making the largest crop ever harvest
ed in the court The fruits and veg
etables are as fine as could be wished,
in fact everything that soil will pro-
duce is growing on huge scale. The
population has increased one hundred
per cent. within twelve months and
still they come. All the old chronic
invalids who settled there are now
well and hearty. This is an age of
wonders, but we do not wonder at the
prosperity of Tustin and surrounding
country, neither will anybody else
when they look at it.
Year: 1876

Cameron set some men at work yes
terday to build wire coop on the lot
adjoining his fish market. Four small
posts were to be set up ard a network
OF wire stretched between them, with
a light wooden roof. This structure
was to contain his game and poultry,
and would have been both ornament
al and useful, according to the plan
which he gave us. He had proceeded
but a little way in the erection of the
coop when an officer arrived with an
order from member of the Common
Council to stop operations. 1t does
not seem to us that the coop would
have been sufficiently combustible to
be an infringement of the ordinance
regulating the erection of buildings
within the fire limits, and we hope he
will be allowed TO proceed, as his mar
ket is great accommodation to the
public, and it is necessary for him to
have some place where he can keep
poultry and game alive and healthy
Year: 1876

In our exchanges we gather items
from every part of the world, and to
say that there is general complaint
of hard times everywhere would not
convey the whole truth. There is ac-
tual suffering in many places. With
us there is no suffering and scarcely
any complaint of hard times. 1t is
true some few men who have over
traded themselves are growing lit
tie, but this is nothing uncommon, it
is always so in every country. The
truth is we do not discover that our
people are any more pressed now than
they have been for years passed. Eve
rything moves in an even, quiet way,
that is always witnessed in prosper.
GUS and happy community. The sus-
pension of our banks some time ago
gave the people a little scare and
shook the confidence of the people to
some extent, but upon the reopening
of the banks, confidence was fully re-
stored. Subsequently when one of our
banks went into liquidation, the peo-
pie were calm and took the most phil
osophical view of the case, all hoping
to receive dollar for dollar. We men,
ton these things to show the flnan-
cal backbone of this community.
We have never lived in country
before thst would not have gone
into financial stampede under SINH
lar circumstances. We give our peo-
pie credit for good sound philosophy
as we'll as financial strength. True
philosophy is only another name for
good common sense, and is not taught
in books, but comes from our mothers.
A deficiency OF this precious article is
causing, more than anything else, the
hard times in the East. There is n
great surplus of money there. 1t is
really begging on the streets to be
taken at four to seven per cent. inter
est, and finds no takers. Good COM
mon sense would teach the moneyed
men to use this money in some way
to give employment to the starving
thousands of idle people around them.
1t is said that ayarice and jealousy
dwarfs and destroys every other facul-
ty of the human soul, and we fear our
Eastern friends have about dried up
the fountain of common sense. There
is no scarcity of money, and there are
plenty of provisions for everybody,
and with their machinery, public
works and manufacturing interests
everybody could be kept at work, and
the country would be prosperous ana
happy. But unfortunately for that
country the great bulk Of the money
is in the hands of the few who
care for naught but self. These things
are common and have often occurred


in the worlds history; it is hard on
the poor but it will come right by and
by. A few turns of the old wheel of
time, has always loosened the purse
strings of these cormorants. Our mo-
| ney gods of the nineteenth century
are Just as frail as all those who have
preceded them. But We hardly think
we shall have to wait for the ordinary
course of time to abate the present
hard times in the east. Thousands of
operatives are only waiting to see
what Congress will do in the matter
of tariff. A few months, perhaps q
few weeks, will put a thousad ma
chimes in melton that are now idle and
thus give an impetus to all business.
Year: 1876

ANY one who reads the hunting re-
ports even in so respectable paper as
the Field will find very unpleasant evil
denee of the sort of blOOdthIrsty de-
light with which the more brutal incl
dents of the chase are relished by a
certain class of spOrtsmen. 1t is impOs-
sible to imagine any thing more sick
ening than descriptions of wretched
hares and exhausted foxes being torn
into bits and eaten by the hounds. In


one case we read of a fox being pur-
sued into the cellar of a country house.
and killed in the presence of an Sex
cited crowd" and in anOtherthe worry
ing of couple OF foxes is spoken of as


"the cream of the day."


The sight of an old hare plucked
from its seat by furious dogs, and, as
it is gracefully put, "allied to currant
jelly,n fills the mind of the chronicler


with "a feeling of gratitude for an op-
portunity of sharing the sport of such a
pack" Again-"They ran into and


killed this fox on a window sill in the


middle of the main street (Of village)


to the delight of the whole population,
who, to Judge by the crowd, turned out
to a man, In another case a fine old
dog fox was killed in the shrubbery of
a house and "eaten Onthe lawn" and


the writer thinks "the hounds well de-
served their fox" common phrase in
these reports.


II appears that foxes are also some
times dug out of hole for the mere
purpose of being gObbled up by the
hounds. There is really no necessity
for hunting being associated with such
stupid brutalIties; but it is to be feared
l. h1l
vet to admit of any effectual treatment
of such abuses until public opinion has
ripened little mOre.-LOndOn Satur-
dan Rerie,r
Year: 1876

The attention of medical men in this
great Republic, observes Hdwkeye Bur-
dett, is called to the iDjudieiOus and
absolutely hateful habit much in vogue
in the rural districts and among early
risers in the city, of getting up in the
night to eat. This nocturnal meal ia
family disguised under the name of
breakfast, and there is no doubt that it
has much TO do with creating, spread
ing, and sustaining the national disease
dyspepsia. The custom is sometimes
visited by severe Judgements, but
nothing seems able to deter its vOta-
ries from continuing its practice. We
once took Summer boarding with a
man who used to eat in the night and
reused up all his household to share
the unnatural meal. One night he
stirred us all up at 4 80 O'Clock to eat.
We rose and ate. That very day his
best COW inundated herself on a wire
fence, one of his horses bit himself
with Iattlesnake, a reaping machine
ate mp his best farm hand, distant
relative sent his youngest boy a drum,
his wife took to writing poetry, and
one of his most popular. talented. and
handsomest bOarders fitted, leaving
an unpaid Summers board bill to re-
member him by. The latter circum-
stance is indelibly impressed upon
our memory, and We often think of it
in connection with the somewhat strik
ing coincidence that we have never
been in that country since.
Year: 1876

pretty mad, can tell you.


Mr.. 0rmsby had good sermon that day,
but could hardly hear a word, my mind
was so full of the biscuits.


Miss 0rmsby warn't there, and as soon as
the last HYMN was sung, he got up and said
that he had had call from a church in the
far West, and that he had made up his mind
that it was his duty to accept it He went
on to say that he would like to go that
same week, and then, without so much as
tellin' us that he was sorry to leave US, OF
offerin' TO wait until we could get some
one else, he gave the benediction and dis
missed US.


can tell you there was talk enough
when we got out that mornin', and some
of the folks thought we ought to pint a
committee to ask Miss 0rlnsby about it.
but brother Ralph said, No; if they was
goin, let EN- go peaceable; so they all
agreed to say nothin' at all.


We heard afterwards from little Johnny
Hall, who was Playing near the parsonage
late on Saturday afternoon, that Mr.. 0rms-
by lie brought the biscuits out in big has
ket, and then Mrs. Ormsby she helped him
to stick them on the pickets, and she laugh
ed all the time as if it were good joke.


don't want to judge anybody, but I
never did think that woman was fit to be a
minister's wife, and l don't think so now
Well, they moved off, bag and baggage.
on Wednesday of that week, and we've new
er heard from Mr. 0rmsby since, and l do
not know as we want to, seein' he hurt our
feelin's so, though we've never found as
good preacher as he was, and never will. "
And this was Miss Melissa's story.


Harper'S Magazine.