v--j^^-4*^at E In other words, it has been found necessary THE GIRL. PREACHER. says: A genflemon called my attentionto sure to the light. It is said that the to invest the money of the fund otherwise an item in your paper regarding a iad W color can be restored by keeping the gem Jftss ^fnna Oliver in BrooklynHer^ ,Education than by extending loans to well ordered Charley Keaton, the Resurrectionist^ Goes whose arm had been amputated, and what a long *ime in the dark. There are two and Plans. mechanics. Although Franklin himself was Bach on the. ProfessionHe Sells His /ff*s he suffered, and the removing of the same kinds of turquoise stone, known as the a runaway apprentice from Boston to Philadelphia, I New York Tribune.] Own Body to the Doctors, and is Carried Jind its results. Fifteen years ago I lost oriental and the occidental turquoise, he was careful to provide that no From the Death-Bed to the Pickling Anna Oliver, called sometimes the girl a leg, and it was closely packed in a The former is the beet and has tbe most loans should be made save to those who had Vat. preacher, spoke yesterday afternoon at Leffert's casket, causing me constant, terrible pain. permanent color. It is found in Turkey "faithfully fulfilled the duties required in [Cincinnati Enquirer.] park, Brooklyn, to an audience of several A good wite, unknown to me,sent a faith their indentures." and Persia, also in Siberia, and has a Last Friday night a coffin containing the hundred persons. The crowd overflowed ful servant to arrange the amputated limb The causes that have gone to defect the dead body of a colored man was driven to different chemical composition from the I! the seats that had been provided, and comfortably in a new and larger casket. object contemplated in Franklin's dream of the Ohio Medical College, taken from the atter. The occidental tui quoise is found benevolence are not far to seek. From a report wagon and carried up the stairs, with little, The moment the leg was handled I knew he edge of the circle was fringed with a Lower Languedoc, in the southeast if any, effort at concealment. Arriving in submitted to councils in 1837, from the it, and the comfort began then and has France, and is a fossil ivory, colored dense, restless throng. To protect the seats the "dead-room" the body was taken committee having the fund in charge, it appears never cease*d,and I could tell the posionti with the phosphate of iron. The other from the sun, a broad canvas canopy had from the coffin, the large artery in the side that the fund at that date bad, on an precisely in which the missing member is a tri-phosphate of alumina, and derives been spread over them, and near the centre of the neck cut, the blood removed and the approximate estimate, a capital of $16,000, was placed. I am glad to know that my its color from the oxides of iron and was a small platform, slightly raised, and on arteries filled with a preservative fluid, after which was about what the original amount experience is verified but just how to copper. which the body, diveBted of its clothing, was would have yielded at simple interest. It this a desk draped with the national flag. account for this let the wise tell. This i9 tumbled, with no further ceremony, into the was confessed in the report that loans on At the rear of the desk was a covered stand the first time any allusion was ever made "pickling-tub," along with a couple of dozen worthless security for some $8,000 were then in which was a choir which led the singing, to this matter by myself, and I only "AH SIN'S SUNDAY SCHOOL. others which had been quietly accumulating outstanding, thus revealing that the fund accompanied by a piano. allude to it now to"add" my testimony to during the past month. There was a peculiar was at times depleted either by well meaning [Chicago Tribune.] that of the linie lad, that missing members lack of the secrecy which accompanies most Miss Oliver took as the theme of her discourse but unsuccessful citizens, or rascals in of the operations of this sort by which dead Ah Ching Yuen, the aristocrat, wore a do, in some mysterious way, convey the subject of salvation. She began the garb of workingmen. Before the organization bodies are transferred to the dead-room of black satin jacket, a straw hat jauntily tipped to us the sense of feolicg. I am well with a desciiption of Union soldiers languishing of the Board of City Trusts, in the college, and a business-like air about the on one side of his head, and new felt shoes, known to maDy in your community, and in Rebel prisons, and of the message 1869, the operation of obtaining loans on whole transaction which indicated that which made no sound as he proudly trod of salvation that the tidings of peace doubtful security was easier than since that the peculiar ciicumstances attending my it was somewhat different from across the floor. Lo Bo, being only a hired brought to them and to their country. The date, but, as has been shown, there are not loss, if you desire, ycu can publish." the ordinary cases of grave-robbing man on moderate wages, could not be expected preacher then proceeded to describe various wanting designing men at this date who do and body-snatching. A little inquiry to "rag out" very well, but he was classes of piisoners to sin, and the greater not hesitate to obtain the money of the fund. into the case showed that it was a peculiar neat if not gaupy. Ah Sam Chong, Pong A Summer Sermon. salvation brought by the gospel of Christ. onethat, in fact, the body was that of one Sang, Low Lee, Gin, and the rest of the The need of personal effort was urged upon of the most notorious body-snatchers of the Just as tired as they can be! fourteen Celestials who were present at the her hearers. Illustration was drawn from MEXICAN MARAUDERS. Hobby and dolly and May make three. city, and that the lack of secrecy in the matter banquet (there are twenty-one who actaally a hen with a brood of chickens, which at the And overhead, was from the fact that it was merely the belong to the Sunday-school) were arrayed first note of alarm from the mother-hen run Just under the shed, carrying out of a plain business transaction, The people of the territory between the in much the same scale of splendor as Lo to the shelter of her protecting wings. So That little brown bird makes four, you see. that the dead man had in his life sold his Nueces river and the Rio Grande, in Texas, Bo. sinners must hasten to the salvation offered body to the college for dissection after death, represented by their county judges, county "Such a horrid old rainy day! It is now two months since the Chinese by the religion of Christ. Miss Oliver receiving the payment, and that in accordance clerks and other officials, selected to act a What can we ever find to play, Sunday-school was started in an upper room spoke for nearly 30 minutes, and with this agreement his body was thus committee by the citizens, have forwarded to Pent in the house of Farwell Hall, and already it has attained was listened to with earnest being removed to the dissecting room for Like a tiapped-up mouse! Secretary Evarts an appeal for protection a place among the prominent religions institutions that purpose. Charley Keaton, the dead It's just too bad!" whimpered little May. against the incursions of savages from the of the city. An eccentric man attention. She spoke rapidly and clearly, man, was in his life one of the most active State Coahuila, Mexico. In their petition with a queer historyDavid D. Joneswas and although a sheet of notes was pinned to 'The earth is the Lord's.' I've heard her say body-snatchers in this city, and from his they say: the founder of it. Born in Wales, he has a page of the open Bible which rested on the And, whether the sky be blue or gray, hands have hundreds of "stiffs"bodies ''The acme of our expectations often have lived a vagabond life as a kind of itinerant Whether it snow, desk before her, she apparently did net consult from many of the burying grounds in the Or whether it blow, almost been reached, and then the labors of missionary in Egypt, Spain, and the far them. Miss Oliver is a slight woman, city and vicinity, somebody's loved ones to Hasn't the Lord aright to his way? years have been swept from us as with the West of America. He lived for several years somewhat above the medium hight, with whose memory tears have fallen and marble fury of a hurricane, and many precious lives in the Chinese quarter in Evanston, "Think, you children who grumble GO, small but strongly marked features. Her shafts aspired heavenwaidbeen sent down ruthlessly sacrificed to sate the hate of the Wyoming Territory, and thus acquired a Who sends down the rain on the earth below, forehead is wide, and slightly higher than through the terrible "chute," and upward And don't forget, remorseless Mexican bandit, as well as to knowledge of the Chinese language. At required by classic laws of beauty her eyes through the death shaft to the dissecting Whenever you fret, gratify his hellish greed and tLat of his allies, present he is a guest of the aristocrat, Ching are nearly black, and, although deep, are fall room. Keaton was a colored man of about the Indian brutes whom he gives a shelter The Father sent it, and He fmust know." Yuen, whe is sole proprietor of a laundiw at and bright, surmounted by heavy black forty, and had been for more than ten years and a home in the mountain fastnesse3 near No. 37 West Madison street, and is reported "Foolish children," the red rose said, brows that nearly meet. Her nose is bold in tne business of body snatching, making Santa Rosa, in the State of Coahuila, republic to be worth as much as $6,000. Mr. Jones As she popped inthe window hershining head. and prominent, with a decided rise at the tip, good money at it, and coming to of Mexico, from whence, jointlythe Indian lives with Ching Yuen in the rear part of ''Look at me, but the nostrils are thin and sensitive. She rather enjoy it than otherwise. and Mexican murderersmake rapid the basement where the laundry is located. Don't you see, has a wide mouth, with thin red lips, and To him there was nothing more and, owing to intervals determined by malicious But for rain I were witheied and de*d?" It was a great day for the Chinese, was her chin is narrow and pointed. In general in the handling of stiffs than in so many and malignant judiciousness, often 'Oh! of course," said Robin Adair, yesterday. The pupils of the Sunday-school her complexion is dark, and nearly sallow. bolts of cloth or sacks of grain, and no moie 'School-days are always bright and fair unexpected raids upon widely separated had extended a formal invitation to their Miss Oliver wore yesterday a dress made in dissection than in the business of the homes. They scatter our sheep far and It's always so, teachers to participate in a binquet at the of some thin black material that fell around butcher or meat vender. He began his work wide, leaving them for weeks a prey to wild I'd have you know close of the regular exercises. It was a sort her in soft flowing lines. Around her neck with "Old Gunny," the noted resurrectionist, And Saturdays rain's too much to bear!" beasts because their shepherds have been of return compliment for the dinner given and followed it through all seasons and was a white lace ruffle, and at the throat a "Hush, my boy!" the sparrow said, driven off or killed. They destroy our sheep to the Chinamen by the teachers on the Sunday all weather, until only a few weeks before simple bow of white lace. Upon her head iTrpm his perch on the beam over Hobby's head. camps. They plunder our houses. They after the Fourth of July. It must be his death. In it he encountered all sorts of she had a dark straw hat, faced with dark "I'm only a bird, drive off our horses. Yet these all might be understood tbat Ah Sin is just as independent weather and exposures, and so contracted velvet and trimmed with ribbons. Her hair But I've often heard endured until eventually overcome, were it and proud as his American brother. colds and a cough which finally led to bleeding was brushed carelessly back off the temples, What your mother out of her Bible read. not for the more fearful horrors which attend Only the other day, when a party of Chinese of the lungs, and so his life among the and under her hat fell down the neck Foolish children, who eat the graiu, them. They kill and then horribly were invited out to visit the Rev. Mr. dead ended in death, whose presence was as And fret at the soft sweet Summer rain, short, loose curls. In speaking, Miss Oliver mutilate all whom they encounter, old and Humphreys at Oak Park, they hired liverycarriages familiar to him as the aays of his years of has an (arnest, nervous manner, somewhat Which tickles the roots oung, men and women, and prattling children and were drive I out in style at manhood. To him the medical college, Of the corn and fruits, restrained, but full of power her voice is and smiling babes. Our houses are about three times the expense of railroad alled with sorrow, and our hearts with the chute, the dead-room, the pickling-vault, And bids them blossom and bear aejain." clear, and at times deep, and her utterances fares. and even dissection had no horrors familiarity "Wicked and foolish!" sane bird and rose. rapid, but distinct. Miss Oliver is apparently Sloom our hopes, so fondly cherished, are blasted forever, and life's anticipations are "When even the meanest wecdiing knows with these had deprived him of that The regular Sunday-school exercises were about 27 years old. She It's only the rain feeling of repugnance so common to mankind, gone through as usual. A peculiarity of this is a native of New York, having been shrouded in the darkest night. The Heaven-sent rain and especially to his race, and as a Sunday-school is that there is a teacher lor born on Lexington avenue near Thirtieth That brings new lifeto each thineflthat grows." result he had expressed a willingness in life "Without adequate proof it would be every pupil. Most of the teachers are ladies. street. She was graduated at the Rutgers "Wicked andfoolish?" siffhed little May that his remains after death should be submitted deemed incredible that such incursions The teaching is necessarily simple in its Female college on Fifth avenue, in this city, "Robby, let's go away and play! to the dissecting knife "in the interest without provocationcould occur that such scope, as few of the almond-eyed scholars^ and then entered the theological school of Never again, of science,' as he said, for incarnate fiends could be nursed and fondled can speak Engbsh. There is an English-li the Boston university (Methodist), the first At the Summer rain. he considered his business, and and protected by a neighboring republic at Chinese primer, with pictures in it, and hang-ll female pupil ever admitted to the school. Will I fret and giumble the live-long day!" that he supplied, inseparably interwoven peace with us that such raids have been ing against the wall are large charts onl She pursued the three years' course, during with the science of anatomy and made and none of the human bloodhounds wnich are printed in Chinese characters thel which she supported herself by working during medicine, and as a result he had solddeliberately brought to justice, nor the country to which Lord's Prayer, "Praise God, from whom all An Appalling Chinese Cure. the vacations, and was graduated in June, sold during his life-time his body they fled for shelter made to give them up. blessings flow," and the Ten Command-' 1876. to the college professors, receiving the usual It is an undoubted fact that even down ments. Of course there is plenty of singing.' "Yet, sir, these are facts. Such incursions Soon after the conclusion of her theological price, $35 cash in hand, and giving a receipt The favrite piece with the pupils is "Come have, and do occur, and without provocation. to the time of Sydenham, "mummy" was studies, Miss Oliver took charge of the and statement that his body should become to Jesus," although they like "The old, old These fiends, to say, Kickapoo, Lipan, and held to be a drug of great curative pow First Methodist church at Passaic, N. J., the property of the college after dissection. story" and "I am so glad that Jesus loves Seminale Indians, joined with Mexican ers in China, and was administered in where she remained nearly a year. Her first Indeed, he seemed rather to prefer that his me." thieves and cut-throatsdoubtless at times cases of lever anri ague. But what should audience at this church consisted of fifteen skeleton should stand beside that of old instigated by the prospective petty chiefs who There was a short intermission between be said of the "exhibition" to a patien*. persons, but before the end of the year the "Cunny" in the museum of the college than require horses for another revolution that it the Sunday-school and dinner, which was church was crowded at all the services. Miss of apiece of human flesh freshly taken to mold to nothingness in the dark, is expected will elevate them to authority spent in social chat, teachers and pupils Oliver is a licensed, but not ordained preacher from the living subject i This exceptionally damp earth, and in life he frequently contemplated aided, too, by some white outlaws, are to-day mixing together without reserve. The of the Methodist church. The period appalling medicament seems to have Cunny's skeleton as it stands, to be found in the vicinity of Santa Rosa, Chinamen were studiously polite, and, of probation before she would be spade in hand, in the college, evidently reflecting been made use of under very singular republic of Mexico, protected, fondled and strange to say, not afflicted with any shyness entitled to ordination has not expired, but that he would some day stand beside circumstances in China. A recent number nursed by the Mexican government." or diffidence. Some unpleasantness arose at its termination she will apply to the general it, and keep the "ole man" company of the Pekin Gazette published an application from the fact tnat the hotel-keeper who supplied conference to be ordained. The conference through the many years that the college to the emperor irom the governor the dinner had sent over common of the Methodist church does not admit shall stand, instead of being consigned to general of the province of Kwang-Tung, An Irishman's Courageous Feat. knives and forks. This was resented by the female preachers, but Miss Oliver is confident the changes and final nothingness of the toi permission to erect a memorial structure leading Chinses, who insisted on having [Annals of the Army of Tennessee.] in the belief that the exclusion will Potter's field grave. nothing less than silver, and their ire was in honor of the filial devotion of a A Lynchburg man performed, late in the not be permanent. She received recently a only abated by having better knives and youug lady twenty-one years of age, the siege, a feat never heretofore recorded, and call to take charge of a church in Boston, forks substituted. When all were ready the of courage worthy of the honest Irish blood daughter of a magistrate"of Canton She but she felt that she needed a longer rest So when old Charley died on Friday last, company sat down at the table, each teacher that flowed his veins. Major Mike Connell, is described as having been "brought up the college authorities were notified, his than she had then had, and she therefore declined being escorted to her place by herown pupil, having resigned his commission in a by her father from childhood, well educated, wife, who had accompanied him on many of the invitation. She has now under who gravely took his seat beside her. Grace regiment as having passed the age of service, his nightly expeditions, and is herself an consideration invitations from other churches, and deservedly reputed for virtue was said by the Rev. Mr. Humphreys, and undertook to convey a purchase of sugar expert anatomist, prepared the body for but has not made decision upon them. aDd intelligence.'' In the spiing of last all fell to with a zest. The Chinese used from somewhere in Louisiana to its owner dissection, and after the brief funeral services She said yesterday that she preferred pastoral year her papa fell ill, and was most tenderly the knives and forks as skillfully as if they in Virginia. He had maneuvered it as far it was removed from the house on to evangelist work, as she felt herself to nursed by his devoted daughter had never heard of chop-sticks. as Yicksburg, and there the siege settled on Barr street, where he lived and whence he be well fitted for the care of a church. At the end of six months the old gentleman it. After waiting its issue from week to These Chinese are said to he extremely had sallied forth for many nightly excursions became much worse, whereupon the week, being satisfied that he could accomplish grateful for the attention shown them by the in the homes of the dead, and taken BEN FRANKLIN'S LEGACY. young lady cut a piece of flesh from her no good by remaining, and was only 'Melican ladies, and have manifested their directly to the college, where it was prepared How the Philosopher's Dream of Benevolence arm and mixed it with his medicine. one more mouth to feed out of next to gratitude by making them several choice and put in pickle. It is pronounced "ex- Failed of Realization. nothing, Major Connell decided to make This remedy proved fatal to the patient presents. One of the ladies was recently celent material," being well developed and his escape. He intimated his purpose to and his daughter, who had vowed to presented with an elegant and costly silk and obtained without serious delay after death. The recent developments relating to the the numerous Virginians in the city and to ivory fan, imported from China, and another sacrifice her life for his, poisoned herself existence of an organized effort looking to Whether this is strictly "professional," as other friends, and received from thesea great has been notified that there is a pair of shoes the obtaining of loans on insufficient or on the same day that her father died. viewed from a body-snatcher's stand-point, budget of letters, which was all his load. coming for her all the way from that far-off worthless security from the Franklin Fund seems extremely doubtful. A system which Waiting for a stormy night, he laid himself This melancholy story of heroic filial shore. Evidently the "Heathen Chinee" of for Married Artificers, which is under the takes the body with the consent of all parties flat in the bottom of a dug-out just large piety, mingled with the most barbarous this city is either exceptionally good, or else direction of the Board of Directors of city concerned direct from the death-bed to the enough to hold him, and was pushed out to he has been misrepresented on the Pacific trusts, has directed attention to the present ignorance and superstition, may be instructively dissecting-room, and upon an agreed upon take the chances of the Mississippi's arrowy slope. condition of the legacy of Franklin for the read in juxtaposition with a and already paid price, seems to be one which current. He drifted, by good luck, between benefit of Philadelphia's industrious mechanics. must undermine the business of the profession, letter received in Shanghai from the Roman the gun-boats around them, and next day Franklin died in 1790, and by and therefore should be frowned down Catholic bishop of Shanshi. Says was swept by a turn of the stream to the Mistaken Kindness. the provisions of hiswill 2,000 were divided by every patriotic body snatcher. Monsignor Monagatta, who is a resident east bank near Rodner, and struggled equally between the cities of Boston of Tai Yuen, the capital of a province in through swamps and across bayous to terra Those amiable people who are never and Philadelphia, to be regarded as a fund which famine has been raging with the Feeling In Amputated Limbs. jtrma. Borrowing somebody's mule (on in each city to be loaned for the benefit of so happy as when doing a service to man most fearful severity: "Until lately the what terms history is silent), he made his young married mechanics at 5 per cent interest. or beast, may sometimes err through way painfully across the country to the nearest starving people were content to feed on The Enterprise, published in Virginia It was Franklin's idea, as outlined want ot judgement. For instance, the station on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, the dead but now they are slaughtering in his will, that the fund would in the manner City, Nov., says: A few days since a old man in this story: whence he took cars for Mobile. His letters the living for food. The husband eats indicated be kept constantly in use, until young man had an arm torn off in some There is an old getleman that comes were mailed, and six weeks' brain fever was compounding at 5 per cent., at the end his wife parents, eat their children and machinery in the Marysville (Cal.) foundry. into town on foot every morning, who the penalty paid for his hardihood. Not of 100 years, or in 1890 it would amount to in their turn sons and daughters eat their The Appeal says since the arm was appears to be a great friend to dumb animals. many letters have seemed to come so nearly $655,000. As regards Philadelphia, the sanguine dead parents. This goes oil almost every buried the boy complained to his mother out of the grave as did these missives to tht ir "Whenever he sees a dog scratching philosopher advi' ed that $500,000 of day." Cannibalism has in a more or less of pain, in his lost arm, and said that its astonished recipients. at the sbop-door to be let in he the amount should be employed marked degree been an attendant hoiror cramped position in the "box in which it promptly opens it for the animal. The in bringing to the city the Other people went and came between the on the majority of great famines but the was burried added to his pains and water of the Wissahickon by pipes, other morning he made a mistake in the garrison and the world outside. Others systematic eating of human flesh a aches. The mother who had labored and that the remaining $155,000 be kept on dog business. He let one in, and soon started who never reached their destination time of scarcity is hardly to be wondered night and day for the relief of her son interest in the same manner during another the same canine came rushing betweei some were captured and some deserted. at in a country where* young ladies of since.the a^cjdent, informed Peter, an ei hundred years, when, by the arithmetic, it his legs, nearly throwing him down, an General Johnson had ten dispatches from Ed complained,- and ad- rank, education, and intelligence grow what1 was to reach the enormous amount of $20, der 80p, of covering the lower part of his trouser Pemberton during the siege, but the num. up jto be twenty-one in the belief that a 105,000. It was directed in the will that vised $im to go to the cemetery, dig up with paint. ber received from him was smaller. How $15,000,000 of this sum at the end of the piece of human'flesh can be benificial as the bex in which the arm was. buried, these messengers made their way in and out A man with overalls on was chasing second century should be given to the State an inward medicament. It may be mentioned straighten the limb and rebury it. Peter I have no means of knowing perhaps of Pennsylvania, while the remaining $5,- the dog, trying to get at him with that the imperial government performed this duty, and the next morning, through the woods and between the intricate 1305,000 was to be placed at the disposal of paint-brush he Tiad in his hand. The ola has sanctioned the erection of the memorial after" .the physician had dressed the system of hills and vales that surround the the city of Philadelphia. gentleman expostulated with the irate to the daughter of the Canton magistrate, shoulder and departed, the mutilated boy city, and perhaps in disguise as citizens of painterfor such he proved to besaykg: but that only very languid steps said to his mother: 1 So much for the plans of Franklin and the country. One of the deserters was a I"My have been taken to alleviate the ravages the paradoxical effect ascribed to the increase youth named Douglas, a native of Illinois, "This is the first morning the doctor good man, why do,you wish to of money at compound interest. To of the famine. who had lived several yeara in Texas, and has dressed me without great pain, and I hurt that dog?" -,.b sure, he inserted in the will a proviso that ny# was supposed to be "loyal'*our way. It -$$ feel quite easy." f^ he had, perhaps, too much flattered himself "Because he has tipped over my paint was he who refreshed the. correspondent The mother had net informed ttte afflicted with "a vain fancy" in regard to with the news that Mrs. Pemberton (in and made an awful mess of everything!: rJlSsLf i'he Turquoise. %T-i #$$ boy of what had transpired at the the ultimate results of the bequest. Alabama) had been killed by a mortar shell. Some idot let him into the shop when we cemetery, and the question is, how did Eighty-eight years have gone by, leaving he beautiful gem known as the tur'quoise* There were reports, from time to time, of were all trying to-keep him out while I i communication passv but twelve before the end of the first century from the dismem-^ is* so celebrated for S its-*peculiar the flitting of Larmar Fontaineone of the was doing some painting. He jumped will be reached. On January 1 the capital bered limb to the senses ot the injured numerous poets for whom the authorship tint of blue that it has given a descriptive through the door stuck his fore legs inu I i of the fund amounted to $55,400. Of this youth? The facts are as stated. Who of "All Quiet Along the Potomac To-night" name to that soft, rfch color known the paint-pot, and tipped it over. Brown i sum $17,100 represented loans to Franklin's will answer? is claimedbetween the garrison and the as turquoise blue. Yet, though so lonely, paint on a marble floor looks well, much loved artificers, while $38,300 was outside world. I do not know if they were The Enterprise also publishes a letter the color is not permanent, but doesn't it? I wish people would mind made up of investments in city securities. rue or not. fc i from a citizen named J. O. Eldndge, who ^mm^^rW'iW* changes and fades out by age and expo- their own business I" *fjJH s/Atf .*r^f i & AGS? SMMM% I