Show WEED ON MA thurlow weed the veteran printer editor and politician whose silvered hair there glows a youthful wain was lately interviewed aa as to liia his relation to freemasonry to which lie waa was a strong opponent in the antim anti M maon tion war 1826 mr thurlow as we read in then Y sun up to the tile time when it wad wn alleged chrit the masons abducted morgan lorgan which was in 1826 I had always alu a s been a great admirer of masonry I believed it aa ai I believe it now an ili institution which has hw done a great creat deal of good C I had accept accepted d the common opinion pinion that it u was as very ancient and sought ou I t to do benevolent work and that tha agn in all respects it was entitled to the regard k of the community who were not members of the flie order I think however that I always felt that it would you id be better without ito secrecy merecy cv I remembered that the washingtonian ing ig tonian Socie society tv organized during our war of 1814 1812 was a secret society and was not verv very friendly to the government govern men t I remembered dial and ail I never quite liked tile secret rt clement elente ift in free masonry but notwithstanding that I believed tile ill institution tio 11 a benevolent one I never however desired to ben bo a member of it and in my car early ay eife I never had money enough over to incur tho the expense even if I desired it but I had not any particular desire forit for it esteemed it but had no du wish to be a member and never wag proposed or oe for membership in any shape in my life or sought to be but I always thought favorably of the e institution until we were driven into that fight and even now I consider that the carry ing away and disposing of morgan was by indiscreet and overzealous over zealous members of lie tile order it was never co contemplated gitein plaited by the leading ail and intelligent men of the order to do what was done lone with margari Mor gari but the mistake was in not disavowing the act in ili denying that any anything ti ling wrong was done lone they ansti assumed ed a certain responsibility for the act SAMUEL MILLER is said to have been the richest man the old dominion minion ever produced produce A his wealth was popularly stated at about when virginia was ini evaded by the federal troops troop during the tile civil war mr miller himself though a union man was afflicted with a ma visit from a roving in 11 band of camp followers A correspondent ondene of the philadelphia press describes tho the incident which lias has a touch of tho humorous orous in it as fis fol follow lowA his stocks bonds letters and account books were all thrown around with a lavish fiand and hundreds of thousands of securities taken away away for him I the ravagers ers did di d not know tho the full value of these papers but one of them did recognize the glimmer of old gold in the tile artificial teet rl of the virginian get out of ibe them m teeth r casually remarked the warrior warrior with a bayonet bandy to back the appeal and mr miller like a prudent man got out ofhie of his teeth and fared on soft diet for some time to come STEALING INSANITY or as the technical term is kleptomania is a fashionable excuse for fabb fashionable i thieves and it has come much into disrepute among the lasseson mas inas account of the frequent acquittals acquittal of influential fluent ial persons when charged with larceny still r ill the theory that some people arc are afflicted with an ail almost incurable propensity pen sity to appropriate the property y of others without any intention of eltiy enriching their selve thus th the e superintendent of the bill binghamton harriton N Y juvenile asylum is a firm believer that a propensity for this crime crime is hereditary he cites the tile case of a it boy whose parents and raid grandparents were thieve thieves bu but t who had bad never known them nor their ways and had been reared most carefully kleptomania developed ill in I hm im however and he I will steal things za which cannot be of any value to him pimply simply from impulse I PITCAIRN asla ISLAND D an isola isolated teAl spot in the pacific ocean is one of the happiest little places rusell rua ell A mccoy the chief magistrate of that diminutive community while in san francisco asserted that his dot of a country id is inhabited by ninety six of the happiest persons in the world the climate is delightful the growth of f fruits abundant and the conditions of life lite be generally comfortable hi his own V office is a sinecure for there are no disputes of consequence and find lawlessness is unknown the people are communistic to a degree sharing their goods freely with the needy and dividing the land equitably it he ile declares that none of them would leave the island THAT om of which clay cal houn ucb webster ter sumner and othe others have been conspicuous ornaments and shining lights to to niru wore than ting this nation mu t have lowered lowe considerably to judge by thu tile inen tary dt description given of the tile U S senate by old cerro gordo senator williams WilH iuna of kentucky whom the washington post reports aa as baving V expressed himself thus I fancied that when I ca camo in to the senate I should be able to say lay something on oil any ally topic that came up sith with which I wa was s familiar but the dignity courtesy frigidity and arid stupidity of that body has frozen all the eloquence there ever was in me I and I get up tip now and say a word I crammed for it to save my iny life TEXAS RELIGION t if anything is of a preeminently aly practical character tire latest incident exemplifying in the adaptability of their denominationalism is told w us follow follows the pulpit was set outside the church at winslow texas in order to give room for a stage on oil wb which i eh to perform pinafore and when aga again in needed for use it was missing several weeks of search elapsed before it was lound found in a gambling house where it had been altered into a faro table |