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CONCORDIA EAGLE. J. P. RALL, .In., Enrroa oND Porarwro. $2.00 PER YE V)OL,. VI. VII)AIIA, LO(UISIANA, T URSDAY, MARCH 27. 1879. NO. .'mtl . ' A Ibright little girl. (living a twirl r ()n her ckatr. A groat Ioarded man flight intol herran , Was it fatn 7 The ice bsing thin, it let thema hsth in. Iln was ctiit. Ile climld up on the ice Andl wasn't it nle7 I'ulled her out. InI twelve month" down the ail"e, 1 Hho came with a smile . )On his ai m. Now she ckata' little dear ' And feels, as he'. near, No alarm. , .enn Pfierre, an Philndelphtn ,llein. t "Only a Farmer." Quite an intrrenoted andi anxious group had gathered in Mrs. Wilson's dressing room one phlaeant morning in June. It ' connistled of NMWn. Wilson and her three I unmarried dlau ,htimr, and the subject under snch nnimetl I and anxious di.a mlsion Was hI, w Antd where to open their 1 nanlil ".iniuIer eannpiaign. It had always " been an interesting subject, and, to the t maternal element, attended with con siderable anxiety, but never nuch a mat ter of perplexity, almost amouniting to despair, as now. The contents of the various wardrobes I had been laid out and examined; silks 7 and muslins, cambries and lawns, suf flicent, it would seem, for a dozen, and t yet the two elder Misses Wilson de clared, with tears in their eye., " that 1 they had nothing, absolutely nothing to wear." It is noteworthy with what eurprising unanimity the two sisters agreed o: r this point, who so reldom agreed on an other. y Mrs. Wilson looked with dismay upoi k the finery spread out before her, afte listening to the above asmertion. r "I'm sure, my dears," she ventnreº i s .ay, "* some of them are bhardly worn and with a little alteration " "Now, mamma I" iiiterrlteuld hells r " why will you talk so ridiculonaly When you know that there is not a tbins I here but what is wretchedly onut ,,, style I And as to altering anything, i always gives me a pain to sew, and I'n not going to Baratoga all fagged out, iP I never go i" Of course, this settled that. It is o little curious what a small amount of work will "f(ag " a girl "all out," who I can dance until the bseak of day with slighltet ueonoverience. "There's one thing certain," said Lucy, the sect nd daughter, " we have jot to have at least one new dress." "I don't know where it's coming from, then," responded Mrs. Wilson, sinking J down wearily into a chair. " It was as much as I could do to get your pa to consent to your going at all. It was two o'clock last night before lie gave in, and then, I verily ,beliere, ;t wasv from pure weariness and inatbiity to keep awake L y longer." Mrs. Wilson said this with the air of a a woman determined to perform her duty at all hazards, anl anxious to ob credit for the same. But it seemed S avetl qite the contrary effect upon e, the youngest dlnnghter, who had I \before spoken, but who now burst " " I lc-rlre. if it isn't a sin and a e, mainuna, It'r you to worry pa cte Wilson cast a reproachful look Se speaker. .ill say, Jobie, that you are the .. angrateful child I ever saw. I'd Lknow how mucnoh money I'd gdt your pa if I didn't worry it ont. t's all the thanks I get for laying S ighlts, scheming and planning ve you a chsnee t) get settkd nk yen for not doing si. I'm . to Saratoga cor Long Brancd'. t place, I know that pa can't ind then I promised Mary I wounld visit her this sum ltS" 1ri. Wilson aflected to be . " \ this announcumcnt, she \ relieved. Belle and Lucy 1 suited wth this arrange Josie was very handy st and making over, and if S iued to bury herself in on emhouse, she would not dnl \, much of that for herself, _ Iu, therefore, devote more time to AIm. nd so busy did they keep her during the two weeks that followed, that Josie was glad enough to see the big traunks all packed and waiting in the To save expense, Mrs. Wilson had arraged to dismiss the servants, and the heuse with the exception of for her husband, who was to onat his sister's. she won't charge him nytithing, no that a ill he one itemr Save l," remarked Mrs. Wilson, as :1w' II regarderld eompllseently the effect of r Belle's new dress, which her manage°- h ment had seoureld. " As though pa would board there for I nothing," was Joie's indignant rejoin i,,r , " when Uncle William has such a 1 hard time to get along." t "Well, if your pa chooses to pay when he needn't and it isn't expected of a him, it's his own loss. For my part, I i don't see what's the good of having reo Ietions if you can't make use of them." Mrs. Wilson certainly believed in i making her relatives useful; carrying a out that belief to its fullest extent, whenever it was practicable, as some of them knew to their coat. Even her love t for her daughters partook of the selfish ness of her intensely selfsh nature, her I' chief anxiety being to get them "off her I hands," in a manner that would he aIs advantageous and reflect as mull credit t en herself as posmsible. But they wee. gone at last, sand Josie wee at liberty to make her own simple e lpre'l'urations, which did not take her s long to complete. The father and n laughter had a nice quiet day together. a .Jse was going on the morrow, and as, I lloting opposite him, pouring out his t tea, she saw the hard line. soften in his t careworn face, and how happy he was in iher society, her heart reproached her s for leaving him. " I've halt a mind not to go, pa; it seems too had to leave you here all by a yourself." But Mr. Wilson would not hear to I tlhis. "I insist on your going; you have been working hard, and need a change. My life would he much the same, any way." "'You may expect me in three weeks, s pa," smiled ,Jodle from the car window, the next morning. " You will want I your little housekeeper by that time, I know." And Mr. Wilson went back to the cor roding anxieties which had made him a, old man bwfore his time, thanking (!od for this hit of annshit.e, which iefl t its glow in the hearth long after it had I vanished. There were only a few passengers foi Iaybridge, a small country town in the interior of the State, though there, were lie unsal loungers upon he plltfirn_ of I he hltation as ,lonie i't-Tle"l out. But they soon scattered, leaving e.r to starl, dlankly around for the cionveyance that she supposed would be waiting for her. I She walked clear around the station, looking in ivory direction, but not i vehicle was in sight, except a rough box wagon with a hoard ecrons it, drawn by a pair of spirited black horses, who a stamped their feet and tossed their heads as if impatient to be off. A man 1 stood besi',' the restive creatures, who yet seemed to be under perfect control. I "There, Jenny I Be easy, Katel' he I said, patting the satin-smooth skin and speaking very much as a mother would to a child. The haggagemaster was standing near a pile of trunks and parcels. "Is this your trunk, miss ?" he said, as Josie aplro'ohed him. "Yes. I was expecting friends to meet me, but they are not here. There must be some mistake." " I know most of the people around here. What might their names he." " Crofton." "Why, bless me, you've got off at the wrong station. They live at North laybridge, live miles beyond." " When does the next train leave ? ' "To-m:rrow morning. ' Josie looked the dismay that she cer tainly felt at this announcement. "It's too hlad, I declare," said the good-natured official, pitying Jonie's evident distress. Then, as his eye fell upon the owner of the team, who was Ilooking toward them, he added: "' If this ain't a stream of luck I Here's John Manning, their neighbor. He can take you along just as well as not. John, here's a young woman that's got off at the wrong station. She wanti to go to Crofton's, I tell her that she can ride with you." The young man removed his straw hat, revealing a forehead broad and full, and whose whiteness contrasted strong. ly with the healthful brown of the cheeks below. " I shall be very happy, it the young lady has no objection to riding with a Sfarmer, and in a farcer's wagon." The admiration so clearly visible in the honest blue eyes that met her own, p made Josie's eheeks redden. "It it will not be too much trouble." , As the young man listened to those e low, soft-spoken words, he felt that nothing the speaker eoald ask would be d any trouble at all. Springing to work d he soon improvised quite a comfortable f seat for Josie, by passing a rope from o one stake to another, just baeek of the board in front, throwing a thick, soft n blanket over the whole. (land to Ie released, Jenny and 4 6 Iore them swiftly along tile wih .i4 road, dotted here and there by fI aºI houses, nestled dlown among the t'1 and shrubbery. As soon as Josie 1 a little icused to it,. she enjoyed her vatted and novel position, which ; I her a fine view of the beautiful o . try through which they were pase 'i o Her companion Nmiled at her enti b antic ezielmatiois and com,,ments, ti1 ing to tike pltv t',o in the pleaser frankly and innocently expressed. h " I)o you think you would like to 1 b in the country ' he said, stealing admiring glance at the glad young e. "Above all things," responded J le. " That is," she added, after a me t's pause, "if papa could be here, I ii wish he could be, just for a little w ile, I he would enjoy it so. Papa was brought t up on a farm, and it would seem like I old times to him. I heard him may onoe a that he wished he had never left it." t "I had a strong desire, when a boy, a to go to the city, where I could have a t chance to get rich, and not haveto work a so hard. lint I am an only son-an i only child " -here the speaker's eyes I sadhlened. " I promised father, just I before lihe died, that I wouldn't leave v the farm, and I don't know that I care c to do so now." t " I wouldn't, if I we ir in r or plac ," sail Josie, with a wise shake of her 1 pretty head. " It's dreadful hard times a in the city. Everybody is groaning t about them, which makes it disnal enough. And as to working hard, 4(1 like to know who works harder than I doies. It's ever so much nicer here." o The honest young fellow, whose he4rt was in his eyes, inwardly hoped thfi t she would always think so. c "There is where I live," he said, alond, pointing to a house with a pias a running around two sides, and whieb looked very pleasant amid the green verdure that snrronnd d it. . Young Manning drew the reins at the r gate, inside of which a pleasant-faced, a silver-haired woman was standing. " Here s the mail, mother," lie said, t tohsing 1-).ni to her rtae p1º'yr-a 4 pamnhlets. " Been lonely any? I'tila going to take this young lady to Mr. t (,ra,fton's. My mother, M1tas Wilson." a The young man took leave of Josie I with a feeling at the heart such as he c haul never expericune'l hIf,ire. I " How pretty she is I" he thought; a "and as good as pretty, I am sure." " What an honest and pleasant face ! I wonder if I shall ever see him again !" c This is what she thought. J.ºaie did see him again and quite I often. The Mannings and Croftonsf were not only neighbors, but very inti mate. Mary ('rofton had been strangely attached to Mrs. Manning's only daugh. I ter, who died the preoo+ding winter. .`She spent a good deal of time at her house, and Josic freqnently went with her. Mary was never weary of praising John; " hi was such a good son, and so intelligenlt. steady and iudustrions." John too got over his shyness with the city girl, who took so kindly to country ways that it seemed as if she had always lived there. lie used to walk home with her, Mary considerately lingering by the gate to talk with his mother, both well pleased at the turn affairs were taking. Then there were rides and walks, picnics and social gatherings, at all of which John and Josie had t fashion of getting off by themselves---j fashion that every one seemed to honor and nuderstand. And eo the happy days went on, each day binding those young, loving hearts more closely to gether. When Josie returned to the city, which was two weeks later than she it tended, she had a pleasant story to whis per in her father's ear. "If you love him and he is worthy of you," he said in reply to the query with which it ended. Josie's quick ear detected the sadness that underran these words. " You know you promised tolive with Ime when I was married, papa," she whispered, laying her cheek close to his. "And on a farm, too! Won't it be delightful !" Belle and Lucy returned home with that conscious air of triumph and im portance peculiar to "engaged young ladies." Having attained the end and aim of their existence, there was noth ing further for them to hope or expect. ;From henceforth they were to repose upon their laurels, floating down the stream of life with no thought or care ,for anything but the present enjoy ment. Belle's captive was a Wall street a broker, ownmng a fabulous amount-.a t paper. Lucy's wuas the son of a mil e lionaire, whose sole ambition seemed to k be to spend as quickly as possible the e money that his father had labored so Shard to acquire. They made no attempt e to disguise their surprise and disdaiu It when they heard of Josie's modest con quest. "Only a farner '" sniffed Mrs. Wil son. "Never did I dream that any of my daughters would stoop to that I But I suppose if you have your father's F approval yon don't care for mine." ti "Of course, you can't expect ns to visit yon," said Belle, lo'tily. " The connections of Charles Augustus are all of the highest oharacter, and it couldn't be thought of." to "Certainly not," echoed Lncy, "bA wife has to take the position of her i' husband, which is something that you had better think'of," Josie had thought of it, and very hap- n py thoughts they were, too. al The financial disasters of the three tl years that followed made quite a change tI in the surroundings of alil the above, ti with the exception of Josie and her hum-. r band. Out of the wreck of Mr. Wilson's I businees nothing was left but the honor and integrity, which shone all the more brightly from the temporary gloom that 1 shrouded him. His wife took their al- Ii tered fortunes very hard, fairly fretting " and worrying herself into the grave, where she was laid a few months after. s Penniless and unfitted for anything e higher, the husbands of Belle and Lucy a were glad to acespt positions, one as V conductor on a city ear, the other h third-rate clerkship. Josie does not see much of her sisters, but many a barrel of apples and crock I1 of butter find their way to them from r the Manning farm. Almost every pleas- a ant afternoon a gray-haired, placid- a looking old man can be seen on the n western pisss of the farmhouse, fre- r, quently with a grandchild on either Ii knee. It is Mr. Wilson, who often is thanks God that one of his daughters a married " only a farmer." a Terkthls F'res and FInrer,e. E The fires in Turkish itio. arn fre quently very destruotive, and this arises I not only from the combustible character o of the stractures, but from the absecue II of edloimt provision, both in relation to brigade sad anparatus to arrest the ti -- 14 Q'1neingn4ihme'*t of rfre. * is undertakes by a private corps, who, ' though generally pretty prompt in re- 5 sponding to as alarm, are by no means hasty in going into action, for their rnto of bnsiness irs t to arrange as to the rate of remuneration for their assistance; and unless the property-owners oompl; with their demands, they will permit a the fire to rage, and gaze upon th, a destruction with composure until the tortured proprietors yield to their ox actions. After the alarm is given - which generally proceeds from the police, who, with their iron-tipped staves strike the pavement, and then in a loul voice .1 proelaim the district where the fire is burning-the firemen proceed to the scene bearing their machine upon their shoulders, and when they reach their destination the negotiation for extin gaishment is commenced, and is very frequently not conmelded until house I after house is reduced in ashes. It seems incredulous that such a state of things should exist on, at least the borders of civilisation; that the safety or destruction of a city should be allowe i to depend upon the humor of a handful of scoundrels wholly insensible to the ordinary duties of humanity. But so it is, and even Constantinople is under the protection against fire of a corres ponding group of incendiaries, who, by their sordid conduct, deserve to perish in the acs they refuse to qnench. I nsureuos Journal. Iuggad g o ass md Trutk. A tocrtau 'of $12,000,000 may turn upon a bit "C yellow parchment found in a rabbish heap. A Nova Bootia jour Snal says that the agent employed by the Sheirs of the Hyde estate to go to Eng land has written enooaraging reports. aHe has met the direetors of the Bank of Englad, where the money is deposited. Hyde was formerly in Annapolis, having Sbeen sent out by the imperial govern t,>\ a He had one daughter born in SNes ti The money in question was to her after he die]. An inti. matts wa met to this country many Syeezs q ag for the heirs. The Sfaiaily 7~d5p in the United States So tbok ~l~ t and decided that the real hates in Nova Scotia. The mimssing li ~ ta reeent period was e proof that p#ilinl Hyde was the e one who hsll t perial commission e sand went to lia . There was no eommiodan hi to O fekaod Afew yemars ago m tnikt was sold at t suction sad be t by a woman for * twenty-Ave ea Oe subeequently 1. broke it up ti kdlinag wood, and in o the lining fonds pamremot document, ic which she demed 5 putty with the so seals attaehed that she put it away u ot worthy et preservation. ubsequently n she happened to metien the incident to - a friend. It proved to be the missing docaument. TINElY' TOFI t. Edward Matthew Ward, the eminent English painter, is dead in his sixty thir lear. Mrs. Isaac Walton, a widow, is credit. ed with having made an invention for lessening the noise of elevated railroad trains, which has been adopted by the Metropolitan Elevatfe Railway company in New York. Tihe work of fortifying the aul, tress. nry ii New York against any possible , assault by a mob is to be begun at once, the contract having been issned. Steel w turrt to are to be plae' I on the roof, and the doors indl window-shntters are to be in madle bhllkt proof an.l pierced for muskl ry. Nine-tenths of the thousand million dollars which France borrowed of Eng- i lish bankers in order to pay (lerwmany are now held in the shape of national bonds by Frenchmen at home. As fast as the foreigners would sell, the bonds were bought up off the Paris market, b and thus, trhoulgh France still owes that I vast sum, she owes it in hulk only to her ,wy people. i Jmes Mr(:ormiek, a millionaire tunk iresident in Harrisburg, Pa., teaohes. a remarkable Rible-claas. There are 800 Il members, of whoim he says : "There are men in this class who are by no p me ans Christisns, men who are not even rr reformed. One of the woat gamblers in this city is a regular attendant. He in a bad man and confesses it, but there's a spnk of goodness in his heart whicb, some lay, may be fanned into a flame." An eccentric man ,if fortune named Eastlake, who lived at Notting Hill, onmdon, has committed anieide in sn unusnal manner. Hei filled the pockets h of his coat with stones, tied a rope to I the center seat of a boat, fastened the ° other end round his body and then threw himself into the water. In a S"'note foin I np,,n the body the a 4nwucide explained that he had re- 4 solvd to, be "tormented no lonw 1'gr the riddle "-some question is u .st ,ry or ge ology whb he bhd.i Iy tried to roltv. "1 a By the pnblic l e *bttseluh anuall report of e ti6n ock yard and Transit compiy, of Chicago, a ;grent deal of valuable information is gained in the way of statistics about t what has been doc.e in live stock the a past year in the greatest distribnting point in the West. For the year ending January 1, 1879, the receipts by all the different roads leading into that city were as follows : Cattle, 1,083.068 head against 1,033,151 head the previous year; sheep, 310,420 head, against 310, 240 head the previonus year ; hogs, 6,389, 654 head against 4,025,970 head the year previous. The shipments were : 699,108 cattle, 156,727 sheep, and 1,266,906 hogs. No'withstanding the roeipts hava been larger thans daring any one year in the history of the trade, the total valuation of tlue stock is only $7,077,779 more than last year, while it is $11,432, (W3 less taun in 1875, when the total valuation was $117,533,942. This cer tainly shows a great reduction in the price of all kinds of meats, not only in the West, but all over the country. In New York, f. r instance, the average price of beeves for the year 1878 was 1 .. lower than in 1877, while hogs were lower than ever before known. 1 zPotal Clreeth in tI Unitesd arates. SSome interesting statistics are far I nished by the pstofce department, rel ative to the rapid growth of its business a within the last thirty years, giving, at the same time, a good idea of the re- I markable progress and development of Sthe country. Since June 30tb, 1847, the number of postage stamps issued haa g been 9,719,308.527, aggregating in value 8280,3.27,363.09. Since 1861 the isue n of stamps has increased, on the average, ab1 hout 100,000 a day, or upward of 30, 000,000 a year. In the fiscal year ended r June 30th last, the number of stamps samounted tb 744 071,518, representing a $20,562,4~63. During the fifteen years e in which stamped envelopes have been e issued, 1,839,625 of them have been dis a posed of. The number issued in 1853 e was 5,000,000, which increased last year I n to 183,560,350. Postal cards were frst o issued in May, 1873, and have been sold w to the number of 751,249,500, of which it 200,680,000 were used last year, showing r that the demand for them is rapidly in Screasing. Estimating from the ratio of a increase in the sale of stamps in past t, years, within ten years it will reah the ne enormous aggregate of $40,000,000 n. asnually. Ly to There is only one man to whom is mg nvchsafed more than one "last hour," and he is the shoemaker. 4 ln'ler , wrnrup. Thie snow-drifts pile the window-ledge, The froet is keen, the air is tlI ,l The lane that lion ielow te hill 14 drifted even with the hedge (fray skies, and dark trees shslkn h r*s. Blue smoke that rises stralgh* in air , And down the went a yellow glare In driven like a wedge. FrriA Tiokir, in 4r mri . ITFMN OF INTRXRFCT. The morphine habit is greatly inerern ing in New TYr k. Ohio has sixteen militia regiments with tf100 equipped men. The people of Tartary, instead of say ing adieu, merely say ""Tar-tar I" When a Miohigander gRts unduly ex cited, they say lie has "cat fitm." When you come to a Rgide-hoaril that is illegible-tlhat ic ' a had sign." Funny, isn't it, that coals, instead of going to the buyer, go to the cellar. The butcher always run~s two kinds of businrcs at once-a meat market and a lay factory. Bleide the foregoing, there have been minted trade dollars to the amonnt of ,$15,9159,3850. G(reenbacks are as good as gold, but some very particular people prefer the latter to fill teeth with. Dealers say gray hair is the most ex pensire. Probabh:v Iecause it takes so much longer to grow it. Charlotte Bronte's piano is offered for sale. Coming from no good an owner it ought to be an upright piano. From one hundred hens E. R. Hold ridge, of Richmond, Ill., made a not prollt of $130, be sldea supplying his table with eggs and poultry. Item from Bismarck, Neb.: It has been so cold this week that the railroad between Bismarck and Fargo is thr teln miles shorter than it was A gentleman late servant. " at t , LPOW' . of' New Al ?Ltd',.Ulakir by to assassin the a1~~ ball entered his abdo a~p. gt oirectly through his body, it9en the stomach and diaphragm, and lodged under the skin in the back. [he doctors say tl a' Hanlou's wonder Inl recovery is due to the faI t that he had not eaten either dinne r r supper t:uat day, no that the ba:llet was able to out through him without injury. Per sons who contemplate acoompanylng a target exurtsion or a party of Norris town gunners sh- lld remember thIs importat fact.--.,orridnou n IHer"l". Is it a Mrralte Under this head the Rome (N. YT. ,rtictl, of a late date, says: Gertie Barton, a fourteen yea:.old daughter of D. W. Barton, of Deaasville, has been out of health for a year past, and since July last has failed rapidly. The other day when the child was supposed to be dying, she was raised by Mrs. U. E. Pooler, of Deaneville, who cmma'aded her to rise and walk. Mrs. Pooler had dreamed a short time before that she had driven death away from (Jertre and bhad bathed her in the waters of life. The vision so impressed her that she exhorted the little girl to have faith that God would make ter whole and she would recover. She professed to have faith that (God conld cure he r, and arose from what her friends and physicians supposed would be her death-bed, and walked about the room. She soon after Sate heartily, it being the firs' time in Snine days that she l'al taken any nour ishment whatever. Previous efforts to swallow anything had thrown her into convlsions. Forty-eight hours after she rode out with .er friensci and has ebeen well and hearty since. Mrs. SPooler's account of the healing, pre Spared for the prees, concludes : "Thus has been manifested the power of Christ at this day, as it was when He was on earth in person; for He abides and walkUs in His little onee." The case has caused great excitement where the facts are known, as well it may. No one has contradicted Mrs. Pooler's statement. (8.iEaete of the Ckdted tatea NiuSt. The first silver coined in the United States was in 1793. IdUp to 1877 there had been coined, in Sdiferent denominations, as follows: LDol· re........ ...... .....9 9,045,93 00 Salf-dollar1 ........... .118.869 540 50 Qaarter-dollrar............ 34.771 121 50 Dimes.................... ..16 141,786 30 at lf-dimes................ 490,9046 90 SThr-aet pieaes............ . 1,281,850 20 208872 291 40 During 1878, coined: is Stamiard dollas..r... I 575,50000 Pracomal coin.... . ....... 8,39315 50 'Itta2. .....2...... s925,785,1060 s