Der Teufel And All!

During a prolonged period, Mr. Teufel, a Hill street resident, has been a steady victim of sneak thievery, and very much of bis loose property has gone to swell the worldly possessions of some person or persons, too proud to beg, birt not too honest to steal. They have taken his hoes, rakes, spades, oil cans and shovels, and would have stolen his well if they could have shouldered it. They have also assisted him to harvest his early potatoes and cabbages - in short, raised the teufel with him on all possible occasions. Mr. Teufel is a quiet citizen, slow to wrath, and when in rage, ready to abate as soon as circumstances will permit; but when he saw all of his tools and vegetables disappearing like buckles and oyster cans down the neck of a goat, he began to sing "Watch on the Rhine," and to arm himself for the foe, and Saturday night, assisted by his brother Chris, and Geo. Bross,he - and they - sat up and watched. and at the hour when graveyards are said to yawn, and the spice laden zephyrs to witness to the nostrils their community with the city hog pens, Bross who sat nodding by the window awoke with a snort and beheld game. He tried to shoot, but somehow - he does not know how - the whandangus of the trigger faiied to rotate in conjunction with the snap bang, and he could not get the gun off. But he awoke the two Teufels and a race with four entries ensued. The thiéf had leisurely dug a basket of potatoes which he was carrying away, but he lost all interest in Pingree pellets and threw the basket in the ditch. His presence of mind insured him absence of tiody, in a moment of critical danger and he ran like Chandler from Buil Run, closely chased by Chris Teufel in his natural feet. In Lawrence's grove a man was caught and proved.to be Caleb Krause. Christian Teufel leaving the prisoner in the care of the others went for patrolman Ambruster. The captors meant business, of course, but their hearts were not dead to mercy, and when the prisoner asked to be allowed to go up to his room to make some necessary changes in his toilet, he was allowed to do so. Caleb was not the man to viólate his parole, no, sir; and he kept it "like a major;" but when he again appeared he requested his kind corapanions to look into the cold unsympathetic muzzle of a revolver, and they immediately feit so unwell in their stomachs - one will you know, under such circumstances - that they let Caleb, "in the starlight wander, gay and free," and when the officer arrived they had no certain knowledge of where Mr, Kraus had gone. Saturday morning a warrant was issued for his arrest, and later he was arraigned before Justice Bennett. He pleaded not guilty, and his trial is set for August isth.