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GRAND HAVEN, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1852. WHOLE NUMBER 61. TUB GllAND 11IVKU TIMES 13 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY EVENING, BY IIAIINS Si ANGEL. OJJiec over H. Griffin'g Store, Washington Street. Hp". TEIUISr Payment In Advance. Taken at the office, or forwarded by Mail. . . . $1,00. Delivered by the Carrier in the Village 1,50. One shilling in addition to the above will be charged for every three months that payment Is delayed. No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except at the discretion of the publishers. TERMS OF ADVERTISING : One Square, (12 lines or less,) first insertion, fifty cents, and twenty-five cents for each subsequent insertion. Legal advertisements at the rates pre scribed by law. Yearly or monthly advertisements ns tollows 1 square 1 month, $1,00. 1 .. 3 ... 2,00. 1 .. 6 .. 3,00. 1 square 1 year, $r),00. 1 column 1 .. 20,00, 1 .. 1 month. 5,00. CP" Advertisements unaccompanied with writ -ten or verbal directions, will be published until or- dcrcd out, and charged for. When a postponement is added to an advertisement, the whole will be charged the same as for the first insertion. K7" Letters relating to business, to receive at tention, must be addressed to the publishers -post paid. BUSINJ WILLIAM IIENDRICK, Dealer in ready made Clothing ; can suit the most fastidious, both as to price and quality. Call at the first door below J. T. Davis' Tailor shop, Washington street, Grand Haven, Michigan. WHITE LAKE HOUSE, By Clements & Bow ers. The proprietors having recently newly fit ted and re-furnished this House, feel confident that visitors and travelers will find this House to compare favorably with the best in the State. The traveling community arc invited to call. HENR Y MARTIN, successor to Ball & Martin. Storage, Forwarding and Commission Merchant. Grand Rapids, Michigan. HENRY It. WILLIAMS, Storage, Forward ing and Commission Merchant, also Agent for the Steamer Algoma. Store House at Grand .Rapids, Kent Co., Mich. C. B. ALBEE, Storage, Forwarding and Com mission Merchant, and Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Crockery, Boots and Shoes, &cn &c. Flour and Salt constantly on hand. Store, corner Washington and Water streets. Grand Haven, Mich. GILBERT CO., Storage, Forwarding and Commission Merchants, and dealers in Produce, Lumber, Shingles, Staves &c, &c. Grand Ha ven, Michigan. FERRY $ SONS, Dealers in Dry Goods, Gro eeries, Provisions, Hardware, Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Crockery and Medicines also man ufacturers and dealers in all kinds of Lumber. Water Street, Grand Haven. Wm. M. Fekhy, Ja., ) w Tiios. W. Ferry. j Um.M.Ierry. HENRY GRIFFIN, Dealer in Staple and fan cv Dry Goods, Ready made Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Hardware, Crockery and Glass, Drugs, Chemicals, Medicines, Paints and Oils, and Provisions. Also, Lumber,ShingIes, &c. &c. Opposite the Washington House, Grand Haven, Michigan. F. B. GILBERT, Dealer In Dry Goods, Cloth ing, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Cops, Crockery and Stone Ware, Hard Ware, Groceries, Provis ions and Ship Stores. Grand Haven, Michigan, L. M. S. SMITH, Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils and Dye Stuffs, Dry Goods, Groce ries and Provisions, Crockery, Hardware, Books, Stationery, &c., &c. At the Post Ofllcc, corner of Park and Barber streets, Mill Point, Midi. H OP KINS frBRO THER S, Storage,Forwa rdin g & Commission merchants; general dealers in nil kinds of Dry Goods, Groceries, grain and provis ions; manufacturers and dealers wholesale and retail in all kinds of lumber, at Mill Point, Mich. C. DAVIS CO., Dealers in Dry Goods, Groce ries, Provisions, Hardware, Crockery, Boots and Shoes, &c., &c. Muskegon, Michigan. SIMON SIMENOE, Dealer in Groceries and Provisions. Washington Street, second door East of the Ottawa House. WASHINGTON HOUSE, By Henry Pennoy kb. The proprietor has the past Spring new ly fitted and partly re-furnished this House, and feels confident visitors will find the House to compare favorably with the best in the State. WILLIAM TELL, HOTEL, By Harry Ea TOJff. Pleasantly situated with excellent rooms well furnished, and the table abundantly sup plied with the luxuries and substantials of life. STEPHEN MONROE, Physician and Surgeon. Office over J. T. Davis' Tailor Shop. AVoshing ton Street, Grand Haven. M. B. HOPKINS, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Solicitor in Chancery and Circuit Court Commissioner for Ottawa County. Office first door west of H. Grimin's store. II. W. DUNCAN, Attorney at Law, will attend romptly to collecting and all other professional msiness intrusted to his care. Ofllcc over H. Griffin's Store, opposite the Washington House, Grand Haven, Mich. II. G. SMITH, Blacksmith. All kinds of work in my line done to order, and no trust for pay. Shop south of C. B. Albcc's Tannery, Grand 11a ven, Michigan. II. MERRILL, Boot and Shoemaker. Boots and Shoes neatly repaired, and all orders prompt ly attended to. Shop one door below the Wash ington House, Grand Haven, Mich. JAMES PATTERSON, Painter and Glazier. House, Sign, and Ornamental Painting done at Grand Haven. All orders will be promply ottcn- ded to, by leaving word at this office. Shop at Grand Rapids, Michigan. .JOHN T. DAVIS, Merchant Tailor. Shop on .Washington Street, first door west of II. Grif- 4 QROSVENOR REED, Prosecuting Attorney for Ottawa County. Residence at Charleston Landing, Allendale, Ottawa County, Mich. I IIOYT G. TOST, Clerk of Ottawa County. Of fice over II. Griffin's store, opposite the Wash ington House. . WILLI AT N. ANGEL, Register of Deeds, and Notary Public for Ottawa County. Office over H. Griffin's store, Washington street, opposite the Washington House, Grand Haven. J HENRY PENNOYER, Treasurer of Ottawa County. Office over II. Grifflin's Store, opposite .ASA A. SCOTT, Sheriff of Ottawa County. Office over II. Griffin's store,cpposite the Wash ington Honse. LIZZIE IN THE MILL A BEAUTIFUL STORY BY GRACE GREENWOOD. ' Many years ago, in a pleasant village o'f New England, lived the little girl whose true story t am about to relate, Lizzie Stone,the only daugh ter of the miller. Lizzie was a child whom every body loved ; not only because she was so pretty, lively and intelligent, but for her being so sweet, gentle and peaceable so truly good. Lizzie had two brothers a few years older than herself, who wero very fond of her, and of whom she was very fond. These three children always went to school and to church together, and played in perfect agreement. It happened that one sunny summer after noon they had a visit from two little girls, their cousins, who lived about a mile distant. They had a wild, joyous time. They played in the yard, in the barn, and all over the house. Mrs. Stone, who was a kind, pleasant woman, look ed on and laughed, if she did not mingle in their sport. She got them a nice early tea by them selves; and when the visitors, after one last merry game, were about leaving, she said to Liz zie " Your brothers will go home with Alice and Celia. You may go with them as far as the mill, but be sure you stop there, and come home with your father." As the cousins set out, laughing and frolick ing' along, Mrs. Stone stood in the little front portico of her cottage, looking after them as they went down the lane, and thinking what handsome, and above all, what good children they were. She smiled at Lizzie's ofTectionate way of taking leave of her, though she was to be gone for so short a time. Lizzie never part ed from her mother, even for a half-hour, with out kissing her lovingly, and bidding her good bye in a voice as sweet and tender as the cooing of a dove. Now, as Mrs. Stone went into the honse, she said softly to herself, "It is nearly ten years since God gave me that child, and she has never yet caused me one moment's sorrow." The cousins played so much along the road, and stopped so often to pick up flowers and bcr ries, that it was nearly dark when they reached the mill. Then, when the girls came to part, they had yet so many things to tell to each oth er, so many invitations to give, so many good byes to say, it was no wonder they lingered awhile. It seemed that Lizzie could not let her cous ins go. She parted from them, in her loving way, so many times, that her brothers grew a little impatient, and George, the eldest, said " Why, sister, I don't see but that Ned and I will have to help you in your kissing, or you'll never get through." Then Alice and Celia, blushing and laughing, broke away from their cousins, and ran fast down a little hill towards their home. The boys soon overtook them,and Lizzie,aftcr watch ing the group awhile, and thinking how good God was to give her such amiable cousins, such noble brothers, and such dear parents to love, turned and went into the mill. She found it going, and was almost frightened by the din it made, and by the darkness; for night was fast coming on. She called her father's name, and he answered, but the machinery made so much noise that sho did not hear. Thinking that he had alrendy gone, she turned to go home alone. She took a way she had often taken safely, over the flume, by the great water-wheel. But to night sho was bewildered lost her footing, and fell olTon tho wheel which whirled her down, crushing and tearing her in a shocking manner! It happened just at that moment,her father think ing that Lizzie had been sent to call him home, stopped tho mill, and began to search for her. I-ed by her cries, he came to the wheel, and there found what had occurred. " Are you badly hurt, my daughter" he asked in great grief and terror. 44 Yes, father. I seem to be all crushed to pieces, and I cannot stir; but 1 shall live till you get me out. Leave me here, and go for help." The neighborhood was soon roused, and ma ny men hurried, with saws and axes, to the mill. But they found that only one or two could work at a time in cutting away the strong, heavy tim bers, and that it would be some hours before Lizzie could be taken from the place where she was held so fast, and crushed so dreadfully; and they said that to move the wheel backward or forward might kill her at once! When Mrs. Stone came, one of the men let down a light into tho wheel, so that she could see her poor child. When she saw Lizzie's white face, and the bleeding arms held toward her, she shrieked and cried bitterly. But Lizzie called up to her as sweetly and cheerfully as she had ever done in her life, and said "Don't cry, mother! They will get me out before long; keep up good courage and pray to God for me." And so she continued to talk, hour after hour, while the men kept cutting and sawing at the great timbers ; so she cheered and comforted her parents, and her poor brothers, who then too had come to the mill. Once her voice grew very low and indistinct then it ceased altogether; the doctor looked down, and said she had fainted away, and they sprinkled water upon her. As soon as she re vived, she began again to say comforting things, and to beg her mother and brothers not to cry. She said she did not suffer as much pain as at first, and that she was sure sfie should live to be carried home. It was midnight when the last timber that held her was sawed away, and a workman lifted her gently up, and laid her in her father's arms. The pain of being moved caused the poor child to faint again, and she did not revive until she had been carried home. When sho opened her eyes, she found herself on her own little bed. with her dear father and mother and brothers at her side. The doctor carefully dressed Lizzie's wounds, and gave her somo opium to make her sleep; but he told her father and mother that she could not possibly get well. When he heard the dreadful words, Mr. Stone groaned and cov ered his face with his hands; and, for a few mo ments, Mrs. Stone leaned her head on her hus band's shoulder and cried. Then, lifting her eyes, and clasping her hands, sho said, 44 Thy will, oh ! Lord, be done !" and went and set down calmly by Lizzie's side, and watched her till she slept. The poor 'Utile girl remained sleeping most of the next day. She would often wake and ask for water; but she then seemed hardly to know where she was, or who was with her. Her cous ins, Alice and Celia, came to see her; but she did not recognize them, and they went away, sobbing bitterly. Early in the night, however, she awoko and seemed better. She knew all about them, and smiled on them, but said she must leave them, and go to a better world very soon. She told her father that she wanted to hear him pray once more; and Mr. Stone knelt down by her bedside, and asked God to take safely home the little daughter He had given them, and thanked Him for leaving her with them so long. Then Lizzie said to her mother, 44 Will you just sing me one verse of the hymn I love so much, Jesus sought me!' " Her mother tried but she could not for weeping, and Lizzie said, " Never mind where I am going, there is beautiful sing ing. Yet it seems to me, I shall hear no voice so sweet as yours, mamma. Why do you cry ? Only think, mamma, if I should live, now, how crooked and sickly I should be. I might be a poor hunchback, and give a great deal of trouble and sorrow to you all. Will if not be better to bury up this crushed body, and let the pleasant grass grow over it,and have a new glorious body such as the angels have!" "As she spoke these words, shoflkmiled and did not weep; but when, afterwards, she asked for a faithful house-dog, and her pretty Maltese kit ten, and they were brought her, she burst into tears. 44 Good-bye, old Bose ! good-bye, Kit ty !" she said. 44 1 cry, mamma, to part from these, because I never, never shall see them again; for they have no souls, poor things! But you and papa will come to Heaven before! ma ny years, and you, too, brothers, it you are good boys." A littlo while after this, sho said, "Georgie, give ray love to Alice and Celia, and tell them I am glad I kissed them so many times last night. Eddie take care of my flowers ; and boys don't miss me too much in your play." After lying very quiet for some moments, she spoke, and said : 44 Mamma, ore the shutters open, and has the morning come very brightly !" 44 No, my daughter," her mother answered, " it is still darlc nigh." "Oh, then," said Lizzie, " it must bo tho win dows of God's beautiful palace I see, witji the pleasant light shining through. I am almost there! Good-bye, mamma and papa; and broth ers, good-bye !" And, with a smile spread over her face, Lizzie stretched out her arms, looked upward, and so died! When Lizzie lay in her coffin, that smile was on her sweet face still brighter and purer than the white roses that lay upon her pillow and Mrs. Stone tried not to let her tears fall upon it ; for she said, " God has taken back n little angel, He lent to me for a few years, and why should I weep for my happy, happy child !" Female Society. No society is more prof itable, because none more refining and provo cative of virtue, than that of a refined and sen sible woman. God enshrined peculiar good ness in the form of a woman, that her beauty might win, her gentle voice invite, and the de sire of her favor persuade men's souls to leave the paths of sinful strife for the ways of pleas antness nnd peace. But when woman falls from her blest eminence, and sinks the guardian and the cherisher of pure and rational enjoy ment, into the vain coquette and flattered idol ater of fashion, she is unworthy of an honorable man's admiration. Beauty is then but at best, 44 a pretty plaything, Dear deceit." We honor the chivalrous deference which is paid in our land to women. It proves that our men-know how to respect virtue and pure affec tion, and that our women are worthy of such respect. Yet women should be something more than mere women to win us to their so ciety. To be our companions, they should bo fitted to be our friends ; to rule our hearts they should be deserving the approbation of our minds. There are many such and that there are not more, is rather the fault of our own sex than their own ; nnd despite all the unmanly scandals that have been thrown upon them, in prose and verse, they would rather 6hare in the rational conversation of men of sense,than listen to the silly compliments of fools; and a man dishonors them ns well as disgraces himself, when he seeks their circle for idle pastimes, and not for tho improvement of his mind and the elevation of his soul. " Diseases are various," said Mrs. Partington, as she returned from a street door conversation with Dr. Bolus. The doctor tells mo that poor old Mrs. Haze has got two buckles on her lungs! It is dreadful to think of, I declare. Tho dis ease is so various ! one way we hear of people's often dying of hermitage of the lungs, another way of the brown creatures; hero they tell us of the elementary canal being out of order, and there, about tonsors of the throat ; here we hear of neurology in the head, there, of an embargo ; one side of men being killed by getting a pound of tough beef in the sarcofagus, and there, anoth er kills himself by discovering his Jocular vein. Things chance so that I declare I don't know how to subscribe for any disease, now-a-days. Names and new nostrils takes tho place of the old, and I might as well throw my old herb bag away. Carpet lag. Jenny Lind, it appears, has concluded to quit the world of song and turn authoress. At last accounts a contemporary savs she was prepar- ! II J!. .i r-1J" 1. AnimnU u Biuuu cuuion oi " uruiuncuujiub a i""vu Nature." Ex. 1'aper. We believe the fair songstress has not yet de termined whether this new work will make its appearance in ono volume or two. Grand Kapids Enquirer. THE CONQUEST OF JERUSALEM, Tho Jews, who were in the Temple, uttered a piercing cry of horror, when they first beheld the fire issuing from the Banctuary, which they esteemed tho most august and holy place on earth, in which all their feelings of venera tion and piety were concentrated, and with tho preservation of which they had lately associated their strongest hopes of deliverance from the arms of their heathen invaders. The terrified spectators in the city returned in lamentation when they saw the holy mountain enveloped in flames; and many, whose strength and power of utterance had been almost destroyed by the famine, opened their lips once more in shrieks of uncontrollable anguish. Tho hills around Jerusalem echoed the dreadful tumult which was made by the noise of the irresistible flames, the crash of Hilling buildings, the shouts of the infuriated legions, and the groans of those who sank into the conflagration or were transfixed by the sword. An unsparing carnage was made of many thousands of the Jews; for the Temple, it should be remembered, was the place of worship not merely of a single city or province, but of a whole nation; and agrcatmultitudohad assem bled in it this very day, trusting to the declara tion of an impostor or enthusiast who had prom ised them they should receive some extraordin ary tokens of deliverance. The impious rulers had suborned many false prophets, for the sake of reviving the hopes and supporting the cour age of tho people ; and now the end of their de lusions had arrived. Josephus said that the blood which was shed was sufficient to extin guish the fire, while the number of the slain ap peared to be greater than the number of the slayers, so prodigious were the heaps of dead that every where covered the ground. Old and young, women and children, soldiers and priests, were massacred immediately. The seditious leaders with their troops fled, during the tumul tuous conflict, into the outer door of tho Tem ple, and afterwards escaped to the Upper City. Some of the priests defended the Holy Houso until the last moment, tearing up the spikes which wero on the top of it and hurling it at the Romans. As the conflagration spread, two of the most eminent threw themselves into the flames, and the rest retreated to a wall which was eight cu bits thick, where they were able for a time to defy the attacks of the Romans. Famine how ever, compelled them to surrender in a few days, and Titus refused to spare their lives, urging that priests ought not to survive the Temple in which they served. At the first assault, about six thousand of the mixed multitude who had been surprised in the Temple took refuge in one of the cloisters in the outer court; but tho ex asperated Romans set fire to it, and forced them to perish in its ruins. They began to burn all the cloisters, gates, and other parts of the spa cious edifice, which had hitherto resisted their destructive attaeks. Even the treasury cham ber, where the Jews had deposited great stores of money, vestments, and other valuable proper ty was consumed. But the love of plunder was not quite absorbed in the rage of destruc tion ; for the soldies enriched themselves to such sin extent that in Syria, the price of the pound weight of gold was diminished one half. History Roman Empire. The Future of Canada. Louis Joseph Papineau, in a recent address to the electors of tho Montreal District, has the following views upon the destiny of Canada in connection with the United States: " Our social condition is very analogous to that of the American,but very different to that of England. Our interests are much greater and more numerous in America than in England. Colonial inferiority cannot and should not last forever. The separation is a question of time. It has its indiscriminate time, but it is as inev itable and certain as death to all men. And when we ask ourselves what is better for our descendants the struggles and the rivalries of of different nationalities, or their aggregation in this beautiful confederation, there can be no hesitation in the presence of the spectacle which American power gives us, who is already the second among the civilized nations of the earth, and who if she continues to progress during the next 50 years to come as she has done during the last half century, will become the most numer ous and powerful nation of the civilized race. What pigmies would our children bo near such colossal statues ! Must we allow them to bo exposed to the danger of an unequal and unfa vorable contest j Is it not better to associate them to the future as glorious as that which will prevail in a state so vast, that many young men ol the present day will see it peopled with 50,000,000 of prosperous and enlightened in habitants." " My dear boy," said a kind-hearted school mistress to an unusually promising scholar, whose quarter was about up " My dear boy, does your father wish you should thread the ex tricate and thorny path of tho legal profession, tho straight and narrow way of the ministry, or revel amid the flowery fields of literature !" 44 No, marm," replied the juvenile prodigy, 44 dad says he's going to set mo to work in tho tater patch." An affectation of knowledge is disgusting. A person lately called on a friend and complain ed that he had received an insulting letter. 44 Was it anonymous !" asked tho other gen tlcman. Yes, sir," said tho insulted party, with tho utmost gravity," it was very anonymous, indeed 1 assure you." Muggins says he never tried bark but once, and then it was so mixed with bite, that it is questionable whether it did him much good. It was recommeded by a gardener as a cure lor a aepravca nppeiue xor omer peupio tucr1 ries. Not neat but expressive Mrs. Harris says the first time she read the story of the Murder ed Corwainder, she crawled all over liko an old cheese in August. BARNUM'S OPINION OF ADVERTISING. The following extract is taken from Freed- ley's Practical Treatise on Business ; it is from the pen of the celebrated P. T. Barnum : 4 Advertise your business. Do not hide your light under a bushel. Whatever your occupa tion or calling may be, if it needs support from the public, advertise it thoroughly and efficient ly, in some shape or another, that will arrest public attention. I freely confess that what success I have had in life may fairly be attribu ted more to the public press than to nearly all other causes combined. There may possibly be occupations that do not require advertising, but 1 cannot well conceive what they are. Men in business will sometimes tell you that they have tried advertising, and that it did not pay. This is only when advertising is done sparingly and grudgingly. Homo?pathic doses of adver tising will not pay perhaps it is like half a portion of physic making tho patient sick, but effecting nothing. Administer liberally, and the cure will be sure and permanent. Somo say " they can't afford to advertise," they mis take they cannot atlord not to advertise. Jn this country, whero eveybody reads the news papers, tho man must have a thick skull who does not see that these are the cheapest and best mediums throughout which he can speak to the public, where he is to find his customers. Put on the appearance of business, and general ly the reality will follow. 1 he farmer plants his seed, and while he is sleeping his corn and potatoes are growing. So with advertising. While you are sleeping or eating, or conversing with one set of customers, your advertisement is being read by hundreds and thousands of per sons who never saw you, nor heard of your business, and never would, had it not been for your advertisement appearing in the newspa pers. The Schoolmaster and his Puhls. 44 Jo seph whero is Africa !" 44 On the mnp, sir. " I mean, Joseph, in what continent ; the Eas tern or the Western continent?" " Well, the land of Africa, is in the Eastern continent; but tho people, sir, are all of 'em down South." 44 What are its products !" " Africa, sir, or down South ?" 44 Africa, you blockhead !" " Well, sir, it hasn't got any ; it never had any. 44 How do the African people live V 44 By drawing." 44 Drawing what water 1" " No sir; by drawing their breath !" 44 Sit down, Joseph !" " Thomas, what is the equator !" 44 Whv. sir. its a horizontal Dole runnin" ner- pendicularly through the imaginations of as tronomers and old geographers." 44 Go to you scat, 1 homas." " William Stiggs, what do you mean by an eclipse !" 44 An old race horse, sir." " Silence. Next. Jack, what is an eclipso !" " An eclipse is a thing as appears when tho moon gets on a bust, and runs again the sun ; consequently the sun blacks tho moon's face !" 44 Class is dismissed." Mrs. Eleanor Parke Lewis, a lady not moro distinguished for her uncommon endowments of intellect than for the historical reminiscences at tached to her family,died at Audley, Clarke Co., Va., on the 15th ult. Mrs. Lewis maiden name was Custis, a daughter of Mrs. Martha Washing ton, by her first marriage with Daniel P. Custis, of Virginia. Mrs. .Lewis husband was Lawrence Lewis, of Woodlawn, Fairfax Co., Va. Ho was' one of Gen. Washington's executors,and son of the General's sister. Mrs. Lewis was born on the 31st of March, 1779. She leaves an only daughter, Mrs. Francis Parke Butler, wife of Col. E. G. W. Butler, of the parish of Iberville, in Louisana; also a sister, Sirs. Thomas Pe ter, of Tudor Place, D. C; and an only brother, George Washington Parke Custis, of Arlington House, Va. Mrs. Martha Washington, it may' bo remembered, was of the old Calvert family, and a direct descendant of the celebrated Lord Baltimore A Sublime Incident. When the well known Dr. Barth preached for the first time in the city, of Lcipsic, he disdained the usual precaution of having his sermon placed in his Bible before him, to refer to in case of need. A violent thunderstorm suddenly arising, just as he was in the middle of his discourse, and a tremend ous peal of thunder causing him to loso tho thread of his argument, with great composuro and dignity he shut the Bible, saying with strong emphasis : 44 When God speaks, man must hold his peace." He then descended from tho pulpit, while tho congregation looked ti him with admiration and wonder. Be Industrious. Every body knows that industry is a fundamental virtue in the man of business. But it is not every sort of industry which tends to wealth. Many men work hard to do a great deal of business, and, after nil mako less money than they would if" they did less. Industry should be expended in seeing to all the details of business; and carefully fin ishing up each separate undertaking, and in the maintenance of such a system as will keep eve ry thing under control. We met a gentlemen in a book store the other evening searching for tho author of the multiplication. table. It was invented by Pyth agoras, the Grecian philosopher, 52S years be fore Christ, and is thus 2391 years old. It has done service in the world in the study of math ematics. Portland Eclectic. Tho lightning acts queer "down east." At Williamsburgh, Me., on Friday, it knocked down three women, tore a gown sleeve, and a shoe upon the foot all to pieces, a bonnet all to pie ces, broke and melted a watch in the pocket, smashed all the glass in the room and rushed out of a chimney. Proud men never have friends ; either in pros perity, because they know no body or in ad versity, because then nobody knows them.