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New method of extracting teeth without pain, by the use of Ether Spray,which ag'ects the teeth only. The tooth and gum surrounding becomes insensihle with the. external agency, when the tooth can be ex- tracted with no pain and without endanger- ing the life, as in the use of Chloroform. Dr. Robinson will he at the following place- prepared to extract teeth with his new aps paratus. All Office operations in Dentistry performed in a. workmanlike manner : Aurora, lst, 3rd, 16th and 22d of each mont Newman-kahuu .. 2d ‘ Richmond Hill, 9th and 24th “ “ Mt. Albert ..................... 15th ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ Thomhill.. .. ..‘..23rd “ “ Maple......t.. .i......25th “ “ Burwick..... , . . . . . . . . . . 28th “ " Kleinhu rg ...... ..29th “ ‘ No'bleton.”m. ..l30th “ “ PETER S. GIBSON, ROVINCI'AL LA N D SURVEYOR. Civil Engineer and Draughtsman. 0rdér3 by letter should state the Concession, Lot and character of Survey, the subscriber having the old Field Notes of the late D. GmsoN and other surveyors, which should be consulted, in many cases as to original monumczzts, 810., previous to commencing work. D always on hand the best of Beef, 'Mutton, Lamb, Veal, Pork, Sausages, &c., and sell at the lowest prices for Cash. Office at \VILLOWDALE, Yonge Street, in the Township of York. Fancy Bills, Business Cards, Circulars,Law Forms, Bill Heads, Blank Checks, Drafts, Blank Orders, Receipts, Letter Heads,Fancy Cards, Pamphlets, Lm‘ge and Small Posters, and every other kind 'lornerof Young and Contra streets East have constantly on hand a. good assortmen of Drugs, Paints, Perfumery, Chemicals Oils, Toilet Soaps, Medicines, Varnishes FancyArticlea, Dye Stuffs, Patent Medicines md all other articles kept by druggists danerally. Our stock of medicines Warrant- etl genuine, and of the best qualities. Richmond Hill, J an 25, ’72 705 Also, Corned and Spiced Beef, Smoked and Dried Hams. Allhrders from 'a distance promptly nt- tended to, and medicine sent to any part of the Province. Horses examined as to soundness, and. also bought and sold on commission. Rlehmond Hill, Jan. 25, 1872. 507 ilsving made large additions to the print- ing material, we are better prepared than ever to do the neatest and most beautiful printing of every description. ' Galer in Drugs, Medicines, Groceries \Vines, and Liquors, Thornhill. By Royal Letters Patent has been appointed 1s- suer of Marriage LiceHSes. Richmond Hill, 9th and 24th “ “ Mt. Albert ..................... 15th ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ Thomhill.......v....,... ..‘..23rd “ “ Maple..4...‘....4. ....‘.‘......2Sth “ “ Burwick . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . 28th ‘ ‘ ' ‘ Kleinburg‘...“............ ..29th “ ‘ Nomlerton ...................... 30th ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ Nitrous Oxide Gas always on hand at Aurora. Aurora, April 28, 1870 615-tf The highest market price given for Cattlé, Sheep, Lambs, 8:0. Richmond Hill, Oct. 24, ’72. 745-1y OHN BARRON, manufacturer and dealer in all kinds of boots and shoes, 38 West Mgrket Sqqarp, Toron_to. ‘ Boots aid shoes made to measure, of the best material and workmanship, at the low 95t_remuner§_tingkprices. D‘Soucmox I}: CHANCERY, Coxvmyuwnn; : - &c., kc. v 01mm]; ;~No. 12 York Chambers, South- east Obrher' of Toronto and Court Streets, Tordnto, Ont. ‘ Toronto University College, corner of Yonge and Centre Sts.East, Richmond Hill, begs ,to, announce to the public that he is now‘ practising with H. Sanderson, of the same place, Where they may be ,eonsulted ergon- ally or by letter, on all diseases of arses, cattle, &c. Jan‘y 3, 1873 All transitory advertisements from ligh- lar or irregular customers, must he paid for when handed in for insertion. than one year, insertion” Each subsequent insertion........ ..A _ ‘22 inches to be considered one column tiICHMOND HILL DRUG STORE, One inch, one year... . . Two inches, one year”... . .. 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THE YORK HERALD Every Friday Morning, Janutfi'y' 1873 Toronto, Decf3‘, 1867 UTCHERS, RICHMOND EILLLHAVE hgap NBaok and Job PrintingEstablz’ahment .(Laie Qf Duggan 93' Meyers,) AR RISTE R, ATTORNEYâ€"AT-LA‘V, J. 11. SANDERSON, EIERINAgy. SURGEON, Graduate of Fncnâ€"â€"Y0NGE Sax, RICHMOND HILL ‘UBI ISHER AND PROPBIETOR OF ADAM H. MEYERS, Jn., ALEX; SCOTT, TERMS: $1 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE V]. H. & R. I’UGSLEY, will be promptly attended to A, ROBINSON’S, L. D. S. VOL. XVII. NO 36‘ (succnssoas T0 w. W. cox,) H. SANDERSON & SON, AD VERTISING RATES ESTABLISH MENT. THO MAS CARR, PBOPRIETORS OF THE " THE YORK HERALD.” DENTI S'l‘ltY . ])I{U G GISTS. PUBLISH ED 3f Letter-Press Print PER INCH $4 00 , 3 50 3 00 756.1y (From the Bufl‘alo Courier.) On Friday, a well-bred, dignified young lady of this city entered a florist's, when she was accosted by a shrill voice, resembling thnph9f {tn-3Lde la.dy_: > . Overcome with mortification and embarass- ment, she looked about for the speaker, saying, “Pardon me, madam, but the wind blowed so I could hardly close the door.” “ \Vell, mind your eye, Miss, and don’t do it again,” repeated the voice, when, to her great astonishment, the young lady discover- ed that she had been conversm with a. poll arrot. Annoyed at the bird or deceiving er, the young lady turned her back to the cage, and was intent upon examining some flowers. Suddenly the voice, or what seemed to be seid to her, "\Vhat can I do for you, “ If you hold your tongue I shall be grati- fied above all things,” replied the young miss, turning around as she spoke, and dis- covering the lady proprietor atanding in her presence. A man may, in some sort, tie his frail hopes and honors with a. weak, shifting ground-tackle to his worldly business ; but a. woman, Without that anchor which they call faith, is a drift and a wreck. A man may clumsily continue a. kind of responsibility or motive, but can find no basis in any other system of right action than that of spiritual faith. A man may craze his thoughts and his brain to thoughtfulness in such poor har- bora%e as fame and re wtation may, stretch and ay before him! at a wOmmiâ€"Where can she put her hope in storms, if not in hea- ven. And that sweet trustfulness, that abiding love, that endearing hope, inellowing every scene of life, lighting them with pleasant ra- diance, when the world’s cold storms break like an army with smoking cannon, what can bestow it all but a. holy soul tie to what is stronger than an army with cannon ? \Vho that has enjoyed the love of a. God-loving mother, but will echo the thought with en- ergy, and hallow it; with a tear. Tm: compositor who set up an “ Indignant Denial ” to read an “ Indignant Daniel ” will please step to the from: far his chromo before being thrown iiito the den of lions. “ Shut thgdoor {don’t you know any bet tor? It’s cold outside.” A man without some sort of religion is at best a. poor reprobate, the foot~ball of des- tiny, with no he linking him to infinity and to the wondrous etémity that is within him ; but a woman without it is even worse-va flame without heat, a rainbow without color, a flower without perfume. A REVIVAL 0f the Beefsteak Club is con- templated in, London, England. If the scheme is successfully carried out, the new clubhouse will be near the Convent Garden. “l’ve know’d that mule for free ysars, an’ I don’t tink data the animile would hurt a 1am, causee” Our blank space indicates where the lecture was ended and the speaker forwarded to the other side of the fence. I believe no two good soldiers will widely disagree as to their sensations during a bat- tle. I take it to be a piece of bravado in a man to assert that he had no fear during the progress of a long and severe engagement. A battle is a veritable hell upon earth; not 1 to be in a serious apprehension while it lasts ‘ is to be either drunk, crazy or insensible. The highest type of bravery is that of the man who realizes the full extent of the peril, but sticks resolutely to his duty. It was my experience and that of all those about me, re. peated a dozen times, that shell firing is not ordinarily nearly so denioralizing‘as that of musketry. It is not often‘ that shell are thrown so that their fra ments scatter death and wounds, and their end humming over- head does not cause the nervous tin ling which always follows the sharp zip 0 the rifle bullet. The peculiar cutting of the air made by half a dozen of these at once is apt to give the soldier the idea. that the whole air is filled with them, and that he is certain to be struck by one of them. All, I believe, will agree as to the sensation first caused by the impact of a bullet. It is a stunning, numbing feeling, which for a long time over- powers the local pain of the wound. In my own experience, a single buckshot near the hip knocked me flat, and for two days after 1 gave me such acute pains and such muscular isturbance from the knee to shoulder that I could not stand erect. Soldiers have fre- quently been prostrated by spent balls. A curious effect of shell wounds is that they do not bleed; the hot fragment sears the torn blood-vessels and stops the effusion. A minie ball extracted from the human body presents a remarkable sight. I have seen them where the resistance of the flesh had turned back the pointed end on all sides with such regu- larity that the ball resembled a saucer or a flower. Miss J. SEGSWORTH, EALER IN FINE GOLD AND SIL- ver W'atches, Jewelry, km, 113 Yong. Street, Toronto. CCOUNTANT, Book-Keeper, Convey ancer, and Commission Agent for the sale or purchase of lands, farm stock, &c., also for the collection of rents, notes and ac~ counts. Char es Moderate. ‘ OFFICE-~Ricimond grregt, Richmond Hill. ‘ ‘ i ' 700-17; BARRISTER, Attorney, Solicitor-in-Chan cery, Conveyancer, kc. OFFICEâ€"No. 6 Rayal Insurance Buildings, Toronto street, Toronto. Dec. 2, 1859. 594 Sold by Druggists generally. The Dominion \Vorm Candy is the medicine 0 expel worms. Try it. 700-y A Dignifled Young Lady's Talk with a Very Wicked Poll Parrot. Stands permanently above every other Rem dy now in use. It is invaluable. LSO, the Pain Victor is Infallible for I Diarrhoea, Dyfientery, Flox, Colie, (bolero. Morbus, Pain and Cramp in the Stomach and Bowels, &c. Directions with each bottle and box. Manufactured by H. ‘MUSTARDt - Billinusxlegs, Liver, Kidney Complaints, &c. AVE you Rheumatism,\Vounds, Bruises, Old Sores, Cuts, Burns, Frost Bites, Piles, Painful Swelllngs, \Vhite Swellings, and every conceivable wound upon man or beast '1 V USTARD’S Catarrh Specific Cures Acute l and Chronic cases of Catarrli, Neural- gia, Headache, Colds, Coughs, Group, Asthma, Bronchitis, &c., it; is ulsoa. good Soothing Syrup. 9n USTARD’S Pills are the best ills yo“ __ can get _fqr Dy§p_e_psia, $ick » gadacbe, THE TABLES TURNED: PATENT MEDIGIN 2225‘. PROCLAIVIA'1‘1()N- Experiences in Battle. Value of Religion. THE KING OF OILS D. C. O‘BRIEN, \VM. MALLOY, Proprietor, Ingeribll, I Knew, it’ was the house, for I could feel the sign above the low door. In the second place, I had passed cloée to it an hoilr 0r iiibre ago, 3.3 my stick proved, and therefore must be wandering in a circle. In the third laceâ€"â€" and this fact was the most terrib e~the awful scream I heard must, humbly speak- ing, have come from some one inside the lonely int}. Buvt whatever might have happened, I must have shelter, for I could not have strug- It was sufficiently appalling, and on first hearing it I started violently and dropped my stick, which, in the thick snow, I was un- able to find. W'hat terrible scene was being enacted on the wild moor on such 3. iii ht! ‘Vhat criminal was trusting to the w ite snow to hide his crime? I nerved myself for an effort and struggled on Wildly for what seemed a long time; and at last I came against a door half covered with the drifted snow, and almost at the same moment my foot struck aaainst‘ something in the snow, and stooping down, I picked up to my intense astonishment, the stick I had dropped an hour ago. Close to the door was a narrow window, through which I could see a faint light, and in an instant I recognized three terrible facts connected with my situation. > In the first place, I had walkbd for hours, and had only covered the two miles which separated Gabriel Sturm’s from Hobtrush. I started off at a brisk pace, and even as I did so I could feel the wind rising ; and I had not gone above a hundred yards or so when I felt a flake of snow fall on my face. That ought to have warned me, but I was some- what stubborn and selfâ€"willed, and I deter- mined at all hazards to persevere. Night fell, but neither moon nor friendly stars shone out, and presently I found myself in the midst of a heavy snow-storm. For some time I managed to keep to the trackâ€"at least so I imagined; but at length I became con- scious that I had lost it, though I flattered myself that I was blundering on in the right direction. For a little time the snow-storm seemed to slacken ; at all events I was able to make some progress. After a short time I felt myself getting drowsy, but I knew it would be death to stop ; and then again the flakes came down heavier than ever, and I could hardly make headway at all against the driving wind and drifting snow. 1 was plod- ding feebly on, when suddenly, above the noise of the storm, I heard a sound that, cold as I was, seemed to chill me through and through. It was a wild, 10nd screamâ€"a man’s I concluded, for it was strangely strong and hoarse ; and it continued until suddenly it was broken off sharply, and I heard no more. Something had stopped it, or, I argued, a turn of the wind might have suddenly swept the sound away fromme. ‘usually formida le snowdrift. I set off briskly for my twelve-mile walk about noon. On my road over the moor I passed that cottage inn ; the sign was legible then, and it told how Gabriel Sturm provided good entertainment for man and beastâ€"the house looking far more suited to travellers of the latter species than the former. It looked, indeed, nearly as woe-begone as it does now, and as if few wayfarers cared to accept ~Mr-. Gabriel Sturm’s offer. This‘was the case, I learned afterwards ; for the house had a bad name, though I had been too short a time in the neighborhood to hear of it. How far that reputation was deserved you shall presently judge. ’ In the meantime, picture me striding bravely up the hill, now and then having to make a detour u on the moor to avoid an un- I reached Hobtrush~for so the cluster of cottages ‘which was my destination was named, after a local spirit supposed to haunt woodsâ€"and on arrivin there I found more work to do than I ha expected. There was, moreover, a young woman, who, with a consideration for her medical man not often shown by her sex in such cases, took the opportunity of presenting her husband with another baby, and so saved me a special journey. All this made me very late, and had there been any accommodation in Hobtrush I might have been tempted to stay. As it was, I made up my mind for the walk, fervently trusting it would be moonlight. But before I went, I looked carefully over our small surgery, which was in an attic room in the cottage, and regarded with superstitious reverence by the inhabitants. These may seem trivial de- tails, but, as you will see they are essential to the story. At the surgery, among others, I did three thingsâ€"l. I found more of the nitrate of silver solution than I ex ected, so I merely filled up the small bott e and re- placed the little phial in its case. 2. I had entertained some suspicion of the goodness of a certain acid supplied us, and, finding an old bottle of it on an obscure shelf, I put it in my ocket to take home and test its strength. g. I found the ring of the large brass syringe we kept there was broken ; the syringe worked perfectly well, but the ring should be mended, and I pocketed it also for that purpose. I need mention nothing elseathe silver solu- tion, the acid, and the syrin e are all the de- tails with which I need trou le you. The journey to the town was a long one for poor people, so we kept a small stock of med- ical necessaries at the place of which I have spoken, under the guardianship of one of the cottagers, and I took several small articles I remembered we required there, and among them a little phial of a strong solution of nitrate of silver, to be diluted hereafter and used for certain diseases of the eye. Bear in mind that little phial 6f nitrate of silver, for, under Providence, it brought a mgrdel‘ermtg fable gallows. Some few weeks after I had come here to take up Doctor Greenfield's business as vil- lage surgeon, I had occasion to go and visit one or two patients in the little cluster of cottages about two miles beyond the top of the moor, and consequently between ton and eleven miles off the town. It was a fine win- ter day, and the snow lay crisp and bright in the sunshine. There was no need for haste, and we were by no means busy, so I deter- mined to walk. I was young and active then, and I seldom lost the opportunity of walking, far by so doing gained a better knowled o of‘the country, as well'afi 'an inc‘re‘m’ent of health from the exercise. A DOGTOR’S STORY. "Pia wood to speak in friendly guiso‘ An'a Boothe whcro'er we can Fair speech should bind the human mind, Andlove link man to man. But stop not at the gentle words; Let deeds with language dwel-l ; The one who pities starving birds Shanld scatter crumbs as well. The mercy that is warm and true Must lend a hel ing hand, qu thoqe {in}: la] , yet rail_t_q do, A guudly store of gold, And hold enough of shining stuff. For charity is cold. But place not all your ho es and (run In what the deep mine rings ; We cannot live: on yellow dust Unmixed with purer things. And he who piles up wealth alone Will often have to stand Beside the coIYcr-cheat, and own "l‘ls “ built upon the sand.“ "l‘is well to woo, ‘tiu well to wed, For so the world hath done Since myrtles grew, and roses blow, And morning brought the sun. But have a care ye young and fair, Be sure you picdge in truth; Be certain that your love will wvar Beyond the days of youth 2 For If ye give not. heart {or heart, As well as hand for hand, You’ll find you‘ve played the unwise part, And ” built upon the sand.“ Ti}! wolLto save, ’gis Vygll to have But “ build Vupun’fheraand‘ BUILDING ON THE SAND‘ RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO, CANADA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1876‘ I have seen performed most of the grextest “ N0,” s_aid the coroner, “ it is no trick. operations of the day, here and on thezon- That cross 18 the handw riting of Providence. ” t t, d I have more than once Mthésed * * * . r * * . alzgi'ltaiiintmmor and hesitation on the art-of Open thlet bofhon your ngtllllt, guttinot} wrlcl1 ch ‘ust before the o oration gun. see my re ics~ e syrmge, e o e 0 ac: Tlfesiimlogxieigiitjthe knife touchgl the flesh his and that little phlal labelled Ag 0, N O‘â€" I had no idea, you see, of the nature of the attack. “’ould Sturm fire on me? \Vould he spring upon the bed and smother no? W'ould he stab me, or beat out my brains? The catalogue, you will admit, has a cenain interest for you now; judge haw it afi'mtcd me then. I heard, or iancied I head, a heavier and more decided step than an wlich had been taken before, and I knew t at the moment had come. The storm had abated, and the moon was shining out, flooding the roomâ€"for the win- dow had no blindâ€"With a stream of silver. It behaved me, in the first place, than, to make up some semblance of myself, and place it in the bed, and, in the second, to conceal myself where, unseen, I could hear my assail- ant. I could not get behind the door, for it opened right on to the press ; and, moreover, before my attack. I was bound to be sure of My preparations had taken some time, and I was not kept long in suspense. Very shortly I heard a stealthy footfall 0n the stairs, which, step by ste , approached my door, and then stopped. fforced myself (I don’t know how, now.) to breathe heavy and regularly, as if in sleep, and, after a few mo- ments’ hesitation, I felt, rather than heard, the door open. A slight jar against the press told me it was wide open, and that the spring was to come. I do not know how the idea, which you will now have seized, flashed across my mind; but I saw that if I could only get an oppor- tunity of syringing Mr. Sturm’s eyes in a wholly nonprofessional way, I had a very good chance of escaping. The only difficulty was how to get the chance of applying my novel charge when the attack came; and though it seems simple enough now, it cost me many minutes of agonizing thought before I could determine it on that night. There was a little space between the press and the bed. In that I crouched down, hav- ing arranged the bolster and my coat under the clothes to resemble, as far as I could man- age it, a, sleeping man, Then I took my 8 rin e, and tried it very gently in the bot- te 0 acid, and, with a. beating heart, and pulses which seemed to sound all over the room, waited the event. my assailant's intention; for my host might come to visit me in a fu‘endl way only, and I must be cautious. You augh, as I now can, at such casuistry ; but it is a fact that I did go through that process of reasoning then, and acted upon it. Sturm would be sure to be armed ; more- over, he had evidently the strength of a giant, and I was by no means strong, and had noth- ing whatever with which to defend myself except (the absurdity struck me even then) a syringe. A syringe and a bottle of diluted acid! You smile at the idea. now, as, even in the horror of the moment, I could smile at it then; and yet, as the event proved, the two together made a weapon not to be des- pised. The syringe, as I have said before. worked erfectly Well, and only wanted the ringâ€"lien le fastening. It was a very power- ful instrument, and would carry a strong, continuous douche of any fluid within it a. considerable distance, spreading as it went farther, just as shot spreads out of a gnu. As for the acid, if once a man received any of that, or even the spray, in his eyes, he would certainly be blinded for some hours, if not for lifeâ€"the latter a, contingency which, in my desperate situation then, I did not for a. moment consider. But I kept awake, and gradually got accus- tomed to the situation, awful as it was. I seemed resigned to the struggle which I felt must come sooner or later, and my mind be- gan to wander vaguely round the subject. I can recall my thoughts now; but I hardly know in what order they succeeded each other then. I Seemed in imagination tn (Viiéfaritivtdhé nearly deprived me of my senses. After putting out the whisky, which, as I anticipated, smelt strongly of o ium, I tried to fasten the door, but foun no lock or means of doing sommerely a. latch. This was not reassuring, and I made another dis; covery shortly which alarmed me' still more. The table I found formed art of the bed. The chair, as it seemed at 'rst, was a seat imitating one let into the wall, into which also the press was fastened.‘ There was nothing to drag against the door, and 110311- ing to turn into an offensive weapon, for their was neither fender nor fire-irons, and fine wash-bowl was tin and very small. I As caught in a death-trap, and scarqely' ,’ ' ‘- breathe a prayer that I might get out of it safely, so impossible (lid it seem. For some time I was stunned, and if Sturm had come up then ‘I should‘have been an easy victim. I felt very sleepy from cold and exposure ; but I had made up my mind that I must not 0 to sleep, or my life would be in danger. felt that as I stepped over the threshold, and it increased upon me every moment; a conclusion justified too after these discov- enes. TWQ thir} s were very notil‘eable : his anxi- ety not to e seen himself;'arid ‘his’evid‘ent desire to watch me that; I should see nothing more of the house than he chose to show me â€"â€"should not take a step into any room or Passage other than those through which he ed me. He succeeded in both, for I never, even when he offered me the whisky, had a fair look at his face ; and, at the same time, I felt that he watched me narrowly. 1:1. 1 The man hesitated a good deal; certainl an innkeeper, this, who did not care muc for custom ; and at last he said grufllyâ€" “ Come in.” \Vith a shiver, that was not owing to the cold, I crossed the threshold, and found In - self in a low room, very roughly nndyscant' y furnished, with a doorway in a corner leading out of it to the upper storey. I could see also by the dim light a few rough shelves, with some bottles and pewter pots upon them, Still keeping his face as much as pos- sible in the shadow, but still, I could see, , intently watching me, he took down a. bottle and a wine glass, and then saying hrusquely, “ This road ; I sleep here," led the way up- stairs. As he strode up, he said, as if an afterthought, “And there’s no one else in the house ”â€"~pleasant news from such a man. I followed him, and was shown into a small room containing a bed, a chair, and a table, and a small press near the door. Sturm put the lantern 011 the table, filling out a wine glass of the liquor, and saying “\Vhisky,” anded it to me. Strange to say he retained ‘ the bottle, which at once aroused my sus- icions; so I drank, and then onlyLnodded. e grufily said “ Good night,” and strode out of the room. The moment his back was turned I discharged the whisky, which Iliad retained in my mouth, into the basin ; at ail events, I thought, I would not be drugged. “A night’s iodging. I can get no further in this snow.” I would have given a deal to have been able to turn away; but better the possible dangers inside the house than the merciless storm without, so I answered~â€" The man who let me in-~I can say how it was Gabriel Sturmâ€"Was most anxious, ap- parently, I should not see his face. He had a. large comforter round the lower part of it ; and a hat slouchcd over the forehead; while the horn lantern he carried gave out a dim, uncertain light. “ \Vhat (fyou want ‘3” he said in a. hoarse voice. gled a yard farther ; so I knocked loudly at the door, and aftfar'some‘delziy it was opéned. “ It is a 'cenjuror’s trick," cried the solici- tor angrily, while Sturm stood stunned and puzzled, and the peOple leaned eagerly for- ward to catch a glimpse of the mysterious mark. After much objection‘this was done, and then, amid a. scene of indescribable excite- ment, the sun gradually acted upon the salt of silver, and by degrees the place blackened, till slowly and surely the mark came out; and there was the accusing cross, a silent; witness to the tmth of my story, and a sure condemnation of him who would fuin have been a double murderer. Sudden] the mark 1 had made upon the murderer flashed across me, and I brought it forward. as proof. With considerable diffi- culty the coroner allowed Sturm’s neck to be bared; but amid. loud murmurs, and to my horror, no mark was to be found. Had it been removed ? I felt certain it had not. It had only been covered up, and exposure to the sunlight would bring it out. I demanded that Sturm’s neck should be turned to the winter sun, then shining through the win- dows, explaining as well as I could how it was the mark had not appeared. However, it was impossible to overlook the ofl’er of such evidence, and I was sworn. I then told carefully and circumstantially the story you have just heard, when to my aston- ishment and disgust, I could see that it was looked u on with a good deal of suspicion. You see was quite a stranger in the place, and if you look at the balance of probabili- ties, Sturm’s story was in some ways better than mine. His solicitor ridiculed my .whole narrative, but said he could believe the strange use of the syringe, &c., if I had any evidence that I was ever in the place. I had come back too, and one off again, and he asked was I not wandering on the moor all the time. In fact, I saw he was makin an impression, and it seemed also that the Jury were unwilling to condemn a neighbor on such extraordinarykvidence given by a stran- ger. If I could prove I was 1n the cottage~ and Sturm, who could hardly see, swore I had not been thcre~the story would have a very different complexion. That plausible story, which he had eviâ€" dently concocted in desperation, trusting to the chapter of accidents not to bring his real antagonist forward, would have probably brought about his discharge ; but I stepped forward, and requested to be examined, say- ing I could throw some light on the subject. There was a. general murmur of astonish- ment, and even the doctor turned to me (re- member I had seen no one) and asked what I could know about the afi‘air. The body of a man had been found in the inn with his skull broken in by a crowbar. That Gabriel Sturm admitted to have done, but said it was in self~deience, and that his assailants had thrown vitriol, or some such substance, into his eyes. In proof of which there he was, near] blind, with his eyes in a terrible state of in ammation. Immediately on reaching home, before I could see any one, Ifivas called 03' to another case, which kept me till the morning of the next day. Arriving home then, I was told that Dr. Greenfield had gone to an in uest of a man who had met his death at Ga riel Stum’s inn. At Gabriel Sturm’s ! As you may imagine, I hurried off, and was just in time to hear my late adversary tell the folâ€" lowing ingenious story which revealed to me, crimes. him, you will say, but I could not judge of the effect of the acid, nor how long it would last. At all events I determined to mark my friend, who was uite insensible, so that for ten days or so I a maid be able to identi- fy him.‘ I tack my‘little bottle of strong solution of nitrate of silver, and just under his handkerchief, at the back of his neck, I traced with a camel’s hair pencil accompany- ing the solution, the figure of a cross. You know the action of the sun u on salts of silver ; if his eyes recovered quiclily, I should still have something to identify my man by ; for I did not know then whether it was Sturm or some ledger who had made the at- tempt on my life. ’I was, however, to meet my assailant again sooner than I expected. I said, dbming inâ€"it was terribly distozjted when I saw it for that single momentâ€"and I could not be certain of recognising it ; While it was hidden on hierarms now. I had blinded I was passing lightly out, when it suddenly struck me that, except when I saw it in the moouiight, Ihad'never obtaineda good. View of xrny gt‘xtagonist’s' fact; He had__sbaded ’it, as Simultaneously with his fall 1 must have fainted; and had Sturm had any accompli- ces, I must have fallen an easy victim to them. At last I roused myself, and still hearing no sound, ventured down stairs, Ithe way through the front room being the only means of egress. I imagined my antagonist had one out, but at anymte I knew he must be h inded still ; but before I got downstairs I could see him lying flat on his face, his head buried in his arms. A bottle was thrown beside him, and he was breathing stento- rously ; he had evidently taken refuge from his agony in the stupor of drunkenness, It was in vain. The strong irritant had done its work, and he could not open his blighted eyes for a second. He was indeed blind. and site? a {rantig mail a ainfit tl‘rfv' press, in whiéh the Bill: his forehea s'eirerel'fr, he felt the door, and staggering out, fell headlong downstairs. I heard the crash, and then all was still. He gave a spasmodic leap into the air, the crowbar fell from his hands, and then he fell prone, Then, with a repetition of his awful yell, accompanied by a perfect hurricane of oaths and imprecations, he staggered to his feet with the evident intention ofjfinding his assailant. I have no words to describe the fearful yell of astonishment, of fright, and of pain, which he emitted. He would have faced either a blow, a stab, or a. shot boldly enough, I dare say, though in any case he must have been terribly startled; but I had used a weapon unknown in his armory, and the effect was like that of a thunderbolt. ' Theh was; my chance. The murderer crouched over the bed, with the moonlight full on his face, hardly a foot from me. In another minute he would have discovered his mistake and seen me ; but steadily I raised the syringe, and exactly at the time when his gaze turned to me, I gave him a full ounce of the acid straight in his eyes. Sturm was breathing heavily, by for a mo- ment I heard him catch his breath in, and ‘then, with a low growl, like a. wild beast rushing at its food, he sprang forward, and, with a short crowbar, dealt a. fearful blow at the place where, but for God’s mercy, my head would have been. Again and again he repeated his blows, not seeing, in the blind fury of murder, that they were falling harm~ less ; and then, seemingly exhausted, he drew back, and, with Wide-open, bloodshot eyee, gazed upon his handiwork. I do not talk boastingly when I say that, whereas when I listened to the footsteps and felt the door open, it was only by a superhu- man effort I preserved myself from a dead faint; yet, when I knew a. second or two would end the affair one way or the other, my hand was firm as a rock, and I held the syringe char ed as coolly as I now hold this cigar, or as should hold the knife at an op- eration. nerves were steel, and the Work was done as if P): machingyy: "13..., VA. Avvvuuuul. uu Inc, go me alone, thJe 'feurful extent of his ,_~ u- _. .vuuu uuuuw â€"a. little too Academic, perhaps, but that is scarcely a. fault at present, when most salons have a. smell of the stables. She was a beauty in her youth, and is still with her crown of white hair, which can not make her look old, and to talk of which is her only coquetry. She is the mother of one of our bravest naval officers.” J ULEs SANBEAV, the French novelist, is said by Arsene Houssaye. in arecent letter to the New York Tribune, to be “the finest smoker of his time, If one of his American admirers should wish to afford him a great pleasure, he should send him a box of cigars, which will be most welcome. If at the same time he would send him a draft on the Bank of France for 100,000 francs, it would also be very_desirable, for he would never do a. day’s work until the money was spent. He is the dreamiest idler living. This charming nov- elist, who has written such masterpieces of sentiment, of grace, and of humor, has sacri- ficed too much to his cigar. His enemies say that he has ended in smoke. Do not believe it : thts true heart and sterling wit have not finished their work. It is an especial pleas- ure to meet him when his wife is there. She is one of the clevercst of woman. At the In- stitute in Paris, where they live, she has one of the few surviving salans of French society _9 NHL. 4“ A “Am”; A... . . i. _ COLONEL FOURNEY writes from London that “an Englishman thinks nothing of a twenty-one mile walk in a day, and I have two valued and by no means juvenile friends a gentleman and his wife, who think lightly of going on foot to the Crystal palace, Syd- enham, which is more than twenty miles away. In a word, theEnglishlove theirwalk as they do their dinner. It is a part of their life, and they can not and will not do without it. I once heard of an Englishman who was condemned to be hungfland whose greatest regret during his imprisonment was that he could not take his “ constitutional.” This habit of walking makes most English men and woman indifferent to what we call comfortable fires, and as to stoves they con- sider them unhealthy, and they are rarely found in their homes. They laugh at us when we ask for extra blankets, and shrug their shoulders, evidently thinking us some- what effeminate, to complain of a chill, the existence of which their stronger constitu- tions and weather-worn skins can not recog- - H mm. I regret to learn that, re ugnant as is the Fresent fashion, there is still a. great demand or it. English ladies will therefore incur a serious res onsibility and an unenviable reputation or heartlessness unless they dis- card a practice which is attended with so much torture to its innocent victims as this is now shown to be.” Tm: Baroness Burdett-Coutts has written as follows to an English farmer’s club which was trying to put a stop to cruelty to trapped ame and small birds : “ That men should fie charged with plucking the wings and fea- thers of the most harmless of God’s creatures while still alive would seem incredible at the present day; but as it appears the destinav tion of these feathers is for the adornment of ladies’ attire, it is nearly time the sense of Englishwomen were quickened to the enor- mity of the crime. I have already commu- nicated with many of the leaders of fashion in this country on the subject, and by a. sym- anlaaLJAIALLnumj ' I 11 x a visit, and would arrive on a. certain day. The family possessed a very large and per- fectly gentle Newfoundland dog, which, in anticipation of the poet’s visit, was carefully chained up. The day appointed for his ar- rival came, but no Andersen made his a pear- ance. Days and weeks succeeded, an still he did not come. At last the family received a letter from him post-marked Nice. “Dear friends,” he wrote, “ I arrived at your house on the day I stated, but when I got to the gate I saw such a. big dog in the yard that I id not dare to go in, and so I took the first train to Italy.” ILLUS’I‘RATIVE of the fear which Hans Christian Andersen had of dogs, the story is told that he once wrote to an intimate friend residiiig in Geneva that he meant to pay ‘him 9 via“: nuA nun-1,1 n....:...‘ ,_ - H __.-,.-‘V n .u, “uuulvu the prisoner that he was very glad to see him there at last. The hi hwayman, looking up, replied : “ Ah, sir, % did not expect that from youâ€"indeed, I didfnot; for you know well that when all the country'reftiaed your notes, I took them.” SEVERAL years ago a noted highwayman was arrested in the south of Ireland, and en- riosity drew numbers to the jail to see the man loaded with irons who had long been a terroi‘ to the country. Among others was a. banker, whose notes at that time were not held in the highos‘t estimation, iwho assured VVIIEN a. widow presses your hand and tells you how she has made four dozen clothes-pins last her twelve years, and she droops her eyes and says a paper of pins lasts her three years, and she looks up and smiles a, rosy smile, how on earth is a feller to break away and leave that house, and convince himself that she loves him only for his money? -u.-_, v.- uAAu uouUuu, auu uy a. nyln- iétiix‘ta‘tjig' ifattgr which I had from Mme. Louise A PORTLAND, Mm, Irish boy has just come into a fortune of $90,000, being the value of some property in Dublin unri htfully occu- pied by an uncle. Last year, efore his de- parture for Ireland, the heir was arrested for an assault on his sister with a hatchet, and a Mrs. Ward went from an almshouse to tea- tify in the case. THE Sevolo, of Milan, notices the death which occurred the other day near Florence, of Ameri 0 Vespucci, with whom. it says, expires a gamin which gave to Italy many famous men, and among them the adventur- ous navéaator W119. bsfltmm! Isa-is name upon the new worm; and m 50’ Eldiiig ohtaihed un- deserved fame. THE Rev. Dr. Duryea has begun a course of normal lectures on Sundayâ€"school work to the Sunday-school teachers of Brooklyn. The opening lecture last Thursday evening crowded the Hanson Place Baptist Church. Its subject was “ Attention,” and the teach- ers were attentive all the way through. A. L. 0. E. (Miss CHARLOTTE MARIA TACIIER). well known in England and Amer- ica. as a writer of entertaining Sunday-achonl books, has gone to India as a missionar . She is a grand-niece of James Boswcl, the biographer of Dr. Johnson. DEAN STANLEY was sixty years old on the 13th of December. On that daya deputation from the South London VVorkingmen’s In- stitute presented the Dean with an address, expressive of the respect in which he is held by the members of the association. MADAM TREBELLI has arrived in England from Stockholm, where the King of Sweden had bestowed on her the Gold Medal of Let- ters and Arts, with which no artist has been honored since Jenny Lind. Mr. PETER HERDLE, of \Villiamsport, Pa.., presented to the Episccpal Church of that place a new church, which he had built at a. cost of nearly $500,000. TAGLIONI, the danseuse, is worgh $3,000, 000 ; Herbert Spencer, the philosopher, i! not wmth a cent ; yet both are evolutionists. A}: Iowan named Twogood has just been married, and now all his old married friends puzzle him with, “ Too bad, Twogood." the chemical expression for nitrate of silver, while I may finish my story by telling you that before the cross faded from Mr. Gabriel Stunn’s neck he was punctually hanged.â€" London Society. {@L PERSONAL. ON a small island opposite the town of VVadso, in the extreme north of Norway, is the only establishment in the world for slaughtering whales Wholesale. The propri- etor sends out some small screw steamers, armed with a. cannon on the forecastle to shoot whales. As a. rule the steamer returns with aprize about twelve hours after start- ing. The cannon has a chamber four feet long ; the projectile is along iron bolt, hav- ‘ing at its end four harpoons, bound round with a. line so as to be flat, and close to the harpoons is a six-pounder shell. If properly aimed, the bolt enetrates deeply into the animal’s flesh and lubber. W'hen he rushes off the bolt slips back, 5 reading the har- poons and exploding the s ell. If not killed thereby, the whale often drags the steamer along for a considerable distance, till ex- hausted. A NUMBER of years ago a young Iowa farmer dislocated his limb, which was not properly reduced, and left his leg two inches short, which was lengthened out with cork sole and heel. A few days ago a wagon ran against him, the wheel hub striking him on the defective hip, and knocking him over. \thn he arose his leg was two inches too long, and he was obliged to remove his cork extension, the wheel having reduced the dis- location. He walked home immediately.â€" St. Louis Globe. A GRAND leap year ball was iven by the ladies of Norfolk, Va., to the o cers of the United States naval vessels now at that port on the 13th. Mrs. Leigh, who has done more perhaps, than any other lady to harmonize the sectional elements there, was the leading spirit She was heartily seconded by Mrs. Loyall, a relative of Mrs. Admiral Farragut, and other Virginia ladies. The “ belles ” of the evening were Admiral Mullany and Capt. J onett, who received more invitations to dance than any other participant, either in civil, military, or naval life. The gentlemen were escorted to supper, waited upon to their heart’s desire, solicited to engage in the dance, furuished with chairs when weary, supplied with fans and cooling beverages, and a number, particularly the naval officers were protected on their way to their vessels. AT Pompeii, amidst the diggings going on around the “ Usurer’s House,’ a silver altar, with two silver goblets and spoons on it, has been discovered, the spoons and goblets bein very much like those of to-day ; also; a. chair inlaid with silver, two gold ear-rings and other minor articles. Doubtless all had been in pawn. A fresco painting of rare value on account of its excellent preservation and the beauty of its subject is to be transferred to the Naples Museum. ONE vesselâ€"tho Ligu1~ia~was bound from British Columbia to Callao, and actually tumbled to pieces at sea, in fair weather. The lumber which formed her cargo was soaked by water 0111'ng in at the bolt-holes of her sides and ottom. The swelling of this lumber burst open the ship, in spite of the pressure of five chains with which the hulk was girded about, and she broke up like a shell. F01: a straightforward plea. to the question of “ guilty, or not guilty ‘2” commend us to that Missouri chap on trial for murder : “ If your Honor please, I am guilty. I killed the man because he took my gal from me. She was about the only thing I had ; an’ I didn’t want to live after she went, zm’ I didn’t want him to live neither. An’ I should be much obliged to your Honor if you would hang me as soon as possible.” THE hero of a runaway match in Washing- ton scoured the city for a minister to perform the ceremony, and was finally wedded in a. shoemaker’s shop. The hackman’s bill was $2.50; and the bridegroom only had seven cents in cash. The latter was shown into a solitary cell by Officer Walkman, and at this stage the tantalizing reporter drops the romance. A TORONTO man couldn’t take a. job at sawing wood because he hadn’t a saw. When some one gave him a saw he couldn’t raise money to have it filed. When he got ’over that difficulty he found he had no sawbuck’, and sat down and wept and became entirely discouraged. V - , . ’ IN the Milan Cemetery 2i. pavilion has been put up for the cremation of bodies, which, being placed on an altar, are subjected tothe action of two hundred gas burners giving a” heat of 1,000 degrees. Thus a body is conâ€" sumed to ashes in one hour. On January 15 Chevalier Albert Keller was burnt, the preparations having been made by direction of his will. ' “THERE may be such a thing as love at first sight,” remarked an unsophisticated irl, “but I don’t believe in it. There’s Fredâ€"I saw him a hundred times before I loved him. In fact, I shouldn’t have fallen in love when L did, if his father hadn’t given him that nice‘little farm." ' A MAN in a small town down in Maine re- cently wrote to the Handel and Haydn So- ciety in Boston asking how much they would charge to come down there and give a con- cert. The reply was that: it woul( be cheaper to bring the town to Boston. LITTLE Alice was crying bitterly, and on being questioned, confessed to havin re. ceived a slap from one of her playfe lows “You should have returned it,” unwisely said the uestioner. “Oh, I returned it before,” said the little girl. THE editor of the Chinese paper in San Francisco has an easy time of it. If the forms are knocked into pi it makes no difl‘g; ence with tingpaperp; * The types arefhpnbLQ(I together, locked lip, and it’é just as 'goo'd Chinese as before. ’ WHY should the bee-hive be taken as :1 symbol of industry. Not a bee is to be seen all the winter long, while the cockroach is up at 5 o’clock in the morning and never goes to bed til] midnight. Let’s change this thing. MISS BELTINA DE ROTHSUOILD, the eldest daughter of Baron Alphonso de Rothschild, of Paris, is enga ed to be married to Baron A. de Rothschil , of Vienna, and the mar- riage will take place early in the spring. ' IF you don’t want your wife to bother you every day with the remark “ Don’t forget that worsted,” just mention to her the pretty girl who tends the worsted counter where you got the last. IMPRISONMENT for debt will soon’ be abol- ished in Florida. Landlords are purchasing boots with soles three inches thick, and if any debtor expects to make a gain he will be sadly disappointed. “ I WANT you either to hit me or stop mak- ing such a blamed racket,” said a. thief at whom a Hamilton policeman was shooting. Even a thief has a right to public peace. ' TIXE editor who was told that his last article was as clear as mud promÂ¥tly replies : “\Vell, that covers the groum. anyhow,” It might have been an article on real estate, you know. A FATHER in Bradford abunty, Pp“, ninety years of age, “ boxed ” his son’s ears severe- ly for abusing his wife. The boy is abmtt 60 years of age. ' A Omo tramps have got so particular fhat they want swee‘tcake and preserves, and they hate to rise early and eat with the family. ‘VHY is the Queen’s sojourn at Balmoral like twenty shillings ?-~Because it’s change. for a. soverelgn. THE average boy carries eighteen feet of string and three old spools in his pocket. CHEER wins in this world especially if the cheek is dimpled and rosy. Terranâ€"~07»: Dollar per Amman in Advance THE YORK HERALD .UBLISHED AT THE OFFICE Issued \Veekly on Friday Morning MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. M. Taefv En, YONG]: 81., RICHMOND HILL ALEX. SCOTT, Pnox’mn’ron. WHOLE NO 915.