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Tho Lincoln County Herald PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY lTHEO. D. FISHER. LINCOLN COUNTY HERALD. TEIIMH Ol' ADVUItriHlNU. Ono Squaro (10 llnes)or less, one loiertlon,..$l (0 Eaeh Additional Insertion 75 Administrators' Notices 4 00 Final Settlement Notlc 4 ttf Stray Notices (single stray) 4 00 !?l..TO A YliAR IN ADVANCE. S1NULE COPIES FIVE CENTS. Each additional stray In same notice 1 00 .it- A Liberal Deduction will be Inade tri VOL. 5. TROY, MO., THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1870- NO. 30. yearly advcrtlsors. R. II. NORTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, TItOV, 1TI1MSOIJIII, WlLL practice In tho Courts of tho Third Judicial District. n24qi N. P. MINOR, ATTORNEY AT LAW, l,OUISI A A, 1IO,, ILL practlco In tho counties of Callaway, Montgomery, Lincoln, I'lke and Ralls. w V. McKEE. WM. FllAZIER. McKKE & PRAZIER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, TItOV, MISSOURI . Will practice In all tho counties of tho Third judicial Circuit, and in tho Suprome Court of tho State. mch4 ly F. T. WILLIAMS, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND N O T A It V V V II ! I C , TRVXTON, ITIISSOIJK!. January 1, 18C9 Inly SJr. J. C. GOODRICH) wejvtzville, iuo. TXTILL bo In Troy to practice his profession f irom liuio lu time, uuu uuttiv ui muu V bits will bo given In tho local columns of the t I.LnL.U jicraiu. icuijiw DR. J. L. DOGGETT, Surgeon Dentist, TROY, .no., IS PREPARED to do all kinds of Dental work in a substantial manner. Occidental Hotel, Caii-au-diris, i!Bo. II. C. MACRUDBIt - - Proprietor. rpTIS HOTEL Is now ofen fur tho accumotla 1 tlon of tho travelling public. Well-lur-Vilflii'J table) and neat, coinl'oratablo apartments. npl470nlJyl G. L. COLLIER? PHOTOGRAPHER, TROY, MISMHIRI. Persons wishing work done will be given pcr- foet satisfaction. ;Ef) Old pictures copied. May l, 1670 n20 A. II. BUCKNER, ATTOHNUY AT LAW, ST. CUARI-RS.iUO.. intt "nttciiil tunny professional business In tho uourts oi liincoin, w urren, Montgomery and it, Churlea, anil in tho District and 4 Supreme Cuurts. vSnlyl C. E. PEERS, ATTOHNEY AT LAW, WA.RREI'TOi, IWO., Will practlco in tho Courts of Lincoln, Warren and Montgomery. vSnlraft GEO, J. BETTS & CO., House and Sign Painters, Paper Hangers, d-c, 213 Market street, St. Louis. JNO. E. KNOX. TROY, MISSOURI. Dealer in Bills of Exchange, Pro missory Notes and other Securi ritics. Dep:siis received, payable on call. U. S. MAIL AMD Daily Slack Line BETWEEN TROY 8l WENTZVILLE, BY Jacob Harttnan. HAVINO taken the contract for carrying the mail between Troy and Wenltville, I will run a dally UaTk Line between the places for tho accommodation of the traveling nubile and hit friends. I havo an excellent new hack, and will make prompt eonneotlon with the np and down trains on ine norm Missouri railroad, My standing fare for passengers will bo ONE DOLLAR, Hack will commence running July 1st, 1870. JACOB UARTilAN. MILLINERY! SPRING FASHIONS, Mrs. Mary Sedlacek. The attention of Ladies especially is called to my complete stock of Milliuerq Goods, consisting of the very LATEST STYLES of Bon nets, Hats, Trimmings, d-c, d-c. Prices within the means, of all. Call and examine my Stock; if beauty, delicacy of taste and newd ness of style will please, you nee not go away disappointed, April 21, 1870. nlO. MCAHUIUNC; THE II All Y. AY BUM! ALICE BROWNS. , We measured tho riotous baby Against the cottago wall A Illy grew at tho threshold, And tho boy was just as tall I A royal tiger Illy, With spots of purple and gold, And a heart Ilk. a Jeweled chalice, Tho fragrant den to hold. Without, the bluebirds whistled High up In tho old roof-trees, And to and fro at the window The red rose rocked her bees And tho woo pink fists of tho baby Were never a moment still, Snatching at thtno and shadow That danced on tho lattice sill I Ills oyes were wide as bluebolls Ills mouth like a flower unblown Two little barofcet, like funny whltoinlce, Peeps out from his snowy gown : And we thought, with a thrill of ropturo That yet had u touch of pain, Whon June rolls round with her roses, Wo'll measure tho boy again. Ah mel In a darkened chamber, With the sunshlno shut away, Through tears that loll like a bitter rain, Wo measured tho boy to-day s And the little bare lect that were dimpled, 4And sweet as a budding roso, Lay sldo by sldo together, In the hush of a long repose I Up from tho dainty pillow, Whltoas the risen dawn, The fair little faco lay smiling, With tho light of heaven thoroon And tho dear litllo hands, llko roio leaves Dropped from a roso, lay still, Never to snatch at the sunshlno That crept to tho shrowdud sill I We measurod tho sleeping baby With ribbons whitu as suow. For the shining roscwoud casket That wallo t.niia bolow ; And out of tho darkened chamber We wcut with a childless moan To the high t of tho sinless angels Our litllo one has grown. Hearth and Homo. Mow Mark Twain Edited ail Agricul tural I'apcr 1 did not tako tho temporary editor ship of un agricultural paper without tuisgiviugs. Noitbor would u landsman lake command of a ship without misgiv ings. But I was in circumstances that tuado ths salary an object, Tho regular editor of the paper was going off lor a holiday, und 1 accepted tne terms bo of fered, und took his place. Tho sensation of being at work again was luxurious, and I wrought nil the week with unflagging pleasure. Wo wont to press, and 1 wailed a day with ectue solicitude to sco w bother ruy effort was going touttract any notice As 1 left tho office, toward sundown, a group of men and boys at the toot ot tho stairs dis pcrscd with ouo impure, and gave m pa'suiro way, and I heard one or two ol them say : "That's him I" I was nat urally pleased by this incident. The next morning I fouud a similar group at tho toot ot tho stairs, and scattering couples aud individuals stnndjug hero and there in tbo streets, and over tho way, watcmug me with interest, i ho group separated aud loll hack as 1 approached, and I heard a man ray : "Look at his eyes I" 1 protondod not to observe the notico I was attracting, but secretly I was pleased with it, and was purposing to write an account of it to my aunt. I went up tho short Sight of Btairs, and heard cheery toiccs and a ringing laugh as I drew near the door, which I opened, and caught a glimpse ot two young, rural looking men, whoso faces blanohed and lengthened when they Saw mo, and then tbey.both plunged through the window, with a great crash. I was surprised. In about half an hour an old gentle man, with uowing beard and a fino but rather austoro faco, entered and sat down at my invitation. Ho seemed to havo something on his mind. Ho took oil bis hat aud sot it on the floor, and got out of it a red silk handkerchief and a copy of our paper, lie put the paper on his lap, and while ho polished his' spectacles with hit handkerchief, bo said : "Are you ths new editor ?" I said 1 was. "Have you ever edited an agricultural paper before?" "No," I laid ; "this is my first at tempt." "Very likely. Havo you had any ex perience in agriculture, practically ?" "No, I believe I have not." "Some instinct told me so," said the old gentloman, putting on his spectacles and looking over them at me with asper ity, while ho folded his paper into a con venient shapo. "I wish to read to you what must have made me have that instinot. It was this editorial. -Listen and ceo if it was you that wrote it." "'iurnipssnould never be pulled it in jures them. It ia muoh bolter to send a boy up and let htm shako tbo tree.' " "Now, what do you think of that? for I really think you wrote it?" "Think of it? Why I think it is cood. I think it is sense. I havo no doubt that every year, millioni and millions of bushels of turnips are spoilod in this townsip alone by being pulled in a half ripe condition, when, if tbey had rent a boy up to shake the tree " "Shake your grandmother-1 Turnips don't grow on trees I" "Ob, tbey don't, don't they! Woll who said tboy did ? The language was in tended to bo figurativo, wholly figurative. Anybody that knows anything, will know that I moant that Iho boy could shako tbo vine," Then this old perron got up and tore his paper all into small shreds, and Btampcd on them, and broke several things with his cane, and said I did not know as much ns a cow ; and then went out and bangod tho door after him, and in short, acted in such a way that I fan cied ho was displeased ubout something. But not knowing what the trouble was, I could not bo any help to him. Pretty soon after this a long, cadaver ous creature, with lanky locks hanging down to his shoulders and a week's stub bio bristling from tho bills and valleys of his face, darted within tho dour, and halted, motionless, with Gnger on lip, and head and body bout in listening attitude. No sound was heard. Still ho listened No sound. Ihon he turned the koy in tho door, and came elaborately tiptoeing toward mo, when ho stopped, and, after soanuinp; uiy faco with itituuse mlcrost- for a while, drew a folded copy of our paper from his bosom, aud said : "Thcro you wrote that. Read it to mo, quick I Huliovo mo I suffer. I read as follows and as tho sentences fell from my lips 1 could sco tho relief como I could sco tho drawn muscles relax, and the anxiety go ont of tho face, and rest and peace stole over the features liko the merciful moonlight over a deso Into landscape : "Tho guano is a fino bird, but great care is necessary in rearing it. It should not be imported earlier than Juno nor later than September. In tho winter it should bo kept in a warm place, where it can hatch out its young. "It is evident that wc aro to havo backward season for grain. Therefore, it will bo well tor tho farmer to begin set ting out his corn-stalks and planting his buckwheat cakes in July instead of August. Concerning the pumpkin. This borry is a iavoritc with the natives ot the into rior of New England, who prefer it to the goofobcrry for tho making of fruit cake, and who likewise givo it preference over tho raspberry for feeding cows, as being more filling and fully as satisfymg. 1 lie pumpkin is tbo only esculent of tho or angc family that will thrive in tho north, except tho gourd and ouo or two varieties of tha squash. Hut the custom ot plant ing it in the fiont yard with tho shubbcry is fast going out of vogue, for it is now generally conceded that the pumpkin as a shado tree, is a failure. "Now as the warm weather approaches, and tho gardens bcnin to pnnwn " The exotica listener sprang toward me to shako bunds,-aud said: "There, thero that will do! I know am all right now, becauso you have road it just as 1 did, word for word. But, stranger, when 1 first read it this morn ing I said to myself, 1 never, nover bo liovcd it boloro, notwithstanding my friends kept mo under watch so strict, but now 1 believe I am crazy ; and with that I fetched a howl that you might have heard two miles, and started out to kill somebody because you know, I kuew it would como to that sooner or later, and so I in ght as well begin. I read ouo of them paragraphs over again, so as to bo curtain, and then I burned wiy bouse dowu and started. L havo crippled sev eral people, aud have got ouo fellow up a tree whero 1 can cct hi in if I want htm But I thought I would call in here as 1 passed and make the thing perfectly cor tain ; aud now it is certain, und 1 tell you it is lucky for Ibo chap that is in the tree. I bhould have killed him, sure, as I went back. Good-by, sir, good-by you have taken a great load oil my mind. My reason has stood the strain of one of your agricultural olticlcs, and I know that nothing can over uuseat it now. Uood-by, sir. I felt a little uncomfortable about the cripplings and arsons this person had been entertaining himself with for I could not help fcoling remotely accessory to them ; but these thoughts woro quickly banished, for the regular editor walked in I (I thought to myself, now if you had gone to Egypt i as I recommended you to, I might havo had a ohanco to get my hand in ; but you wouldn't do it, and hero you aro. 1 sort of expected you.) Tho oditor was looking sad and per- ploxed and dejected. lie surveyed the wreck that old rioter and those two young farmers had made, and then said : "This is a sad business a very sad business. There is tho muoilago bottle broken, and six panes ot class, and a spittoon and two candlesticks. But that is not tho worst. Tho reputation of the papor is injured, and permanently I fear, True, there never was such a call for the paper before, and it never sold such a cumuli ur nuuiuu iu bucii ccieuruy , out docs one want to be famous for lunacy, i r . t i . i. i i . . i and prosper upon tbo infirmities of his mind? My friend, as Lara an honest man, tho street out hero ia full, and others are roosting on tho fences, waiting to go: a glimpso of you, becaueothey think you are crazy. And well tbey niicht after reading your editorials. They are a dis grace to journalism. Why what put it into your head that you oould edit a papor of this uaturo ? You do not seem to know the first rudimonsof agriculture. You speak of a furrow and a harrow as being the samo thinu: you talk of the moulting season for cows; and you re oommend tho domostioation of tho pole cat ou account of its playfulness and its oxcellenco as a ratter. Your remark that clams will lio quiet if music bo' played to them, was superfluous, entirely superfluous. Nothing disturbs clams. (Jloms always lie quiet. Clams oare nothing whatever about music. ,Ab, my friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance tho study of your life, you could not havo graduated with higher honor than you'eould to day. I novor saw anything liko it. Your observation that the horse ehoMnut, as an article of commerce, is steadily gaining in fuvor, is simply calculated to destroy this journal. I want you to throw up your situation and go. I want no rooro holiday I could not enjoy it if I bad it. Certainly not with you in my chair. I would al ways stand in dread of what you might bo going to recommend next. It makes mo loso all patience every time I think of your discussing oyster-beds under tho head of 'Landscape Uardeniug.' I want you to go. Nothing on earth could per suado mo to take another holiday. Oh, why didn't you tell mo you didn't 'know anything about agriculture?" "Tell you, you cornstalk, you cab bngo, you son of a cauliflower 1 It's tho Urst time I ever heard such an unfeeling remark. I tell you I have been in tho oJitorial business going on fourteen ) oar.., uud it is the first time 1 over heard of- a inau having to know anything iu order to edit a nowspuper, you turnip. "Who write tho dramalio critiques for tho second rate papers ? Why, a parcel of promoted shoemakers and apprentice apothecaries, who know jUBt as much about good acting as I do about good farming and-no more. Who rovicw the books? People who never wrote one. Who do up the heavy leaders on Cnanco ? Parties who had tho largest opportunities for knowing nothing about it. Who crtt ieiso the Indian campaigns? Gentlemen who do not know a war-woop from a wig wam, and who nover had to run a foot rnco with a tomahawk or pluck arrows out of tho several members of their families tn build tho evening camp-firo with Who writo tho temperance appeals and clamor about tho flowing bowl ? Folks who will never draw another sober breath till they do it in tho gravo. Who edit the agricultural papers, you- yam ? Men, us a general thing, who fail in tho poetry line, yellow-covered novel line, hcnsit-tion-drama line, city oditor line, and finally fall back on agriculture as a tern porury reprieve from tho poor houi-c. l'ou try to tell mo anything about the newspaper business? Sir, I havo been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and tell you that tho less a man knows tho bigger noiso ho makes aud tho higher the salary ho commands. Heaven knows if I had have been ignorant instead of culti vated, and impudent instead of diffident, I could have made a namo for myself in this cold, selfish world. I take my leavo, sir. Since I have been treated as you nuvu u i-j,.. j x r..r.iir t;n;,. to go. uut 1 have dono my duty, I have fulfilled my contract, bb far a? I was permuted to do it. 1 said 1 could make your paper suit ull classes, and I havo I said I could run your circulation up to twonty'thousand copies, and if I had two more weeks I d havo done it. And I d havo given you the best class of readers that over an agricultural paper had not a farmor in it, nor a solitury individual could tell n watermelon from a peach vino to save his life. You arc a loser by this rupture, not mo, rto-plant. Aois. I then loft. From the July Galaxy Joualhan Bradford. Moro than a ccutury and a quarter has now olapscd since tha story of Jonathan Bradford was converted into a drama, the interest of which shares in that excited by "George L'ornwoll. The drama is very seldom played now-n days, but iho main circumstances will be remembered by ovory theater goer for tho subjoined synopsis of tho actuul facts upon which tho dram's was founded to be read with interest : Jonathan Bradford was executed at Oxford in the year 1733, for the murder ol Christopher lluycs, htq. 1 his Brad ford kept uu inn on tho road from London to Oxford, He bore an unexceptionablo ehnraoter. Mr. Hayes, a gentleman of j. . . i . . .. i lonuoo, ucing on ins way 10 visit a reia lion, put up at Bradford's house of en tertuinmont. Ho there-joined company with two other gentleman, also incidental travelers like himself, with whom ho supped, and, in tho coarse of convci. a tiou, mentioned unguardedly that he had about him a largo sum of money. In duo timo tbey repaired to their respective chambers, the two geutlemcojp a double bedded rootn, leaving, as is, customary with many, a candle burning in tho ctnm ney corner. Some hours after tboy wcro in bed, one being awuko, thought he heard a deep groan iu tho adjoining chamber; this bo ing repeated, no soltly awakened his fiicnd. Tboy listened together, and the groans increasing as of ono dying they both arose and proceeded silently to the next chamber, whenco tho sounds pro ceeded, and the door being ajar, saw a light in tho room. Tbey entered, but it would havo been difficult to paint their consternation, on perceiving a person weltering in his blood in tbo bod, and a man standing over him, with a dark lan tern in ono band and a.knife in the other. The man seemed as petrified as them selves, but his expression carried with it all tho terror of guilt. Tho ccutlemcn soon discovered that the victim was the stranger with whom thoy had that niuht suppod, and tho man standing over him was their bost, Tbey siezed Bradford diroctly, disarmed him of the knife, and charged him with boing tho murderer. uy this timo bo bad recovered his com posure, assumed innocenco, positively de nied tho crime, and asserted that bo came there with tho same humane intentions as themselves. Hearing noise, he said, wbiob was succeeded by dcep.groSniug, ho got out of bed, struck a light, and bad only entered the room a minute or two before thorn, J hose assertions wero of little avail : ho was kept iu close custody till the morning, and then taken boforo a neigh boring justico of the pence. Ho still resolutely denied tho crimo, but never theless with suoh an apparent indication of guilt that tho justico tuado use of an extraordinary expression ou writing out bis mtttmus "Mr. Uradtord, either you or myself committed this ruurdor. This extraordinary affair naturally becamo the conversation of the whole country. Bradford was tried aud con dctnnod over and over again in every company. In tho midst of ull this pro determination camo tho assizes at Ox ford. Bradford was brought to trial He pleaded "uot guilty." Nothing could be more conclusive than tho dopositiou of tho two gentlemen. Thoy testified to tho finding of Mr. Hayes murdered in' his bed ; Bradford at the sido of the body with a light and aknifo: tho, knife and tho baud that held it bloody ; on enter ing tho room bo betrayed all tho signs of n guilty man ; and a few" moments before they had heard the groans of the deceased. Bradford's defeuso on his trial was the t-amc as beforo tho gentlemen. Ho had heard a noiso ; ho suspected that some villainy was transacting ; he struck a light ; he snatched a knife, tho only weapon near him, to defend himself :' and tlio terrors when discovered wcro merely tboho ol humanity, tho natural ellects of innocence as well as guilt, on beholding suoh a horrid scene. But this defenso was considered weak, contrasted with tho powerful circum stances against him. Never was circuin st.intial evidenco moro couclusivo, Thero was little need of comment from the judge in summing up the caso. No room or pica appeared for extenuation. The jury brought in the prisoner guilty with out ever going out of tho box' J onalhan Bradford was executed iu due courao of law, still declaring ho was not the mur derer of Mr. Hayes ; but he died unpitied and disbclioved by all. Yet wcro these assertions not utitruo ? The murder was actually committed by Mr. Hayes' footman, who immediately on stabbing his master titled his breeches pockets of his uionoy, gold watch, and snuffbox, and escaped unobserved to his own room. This could scarcely have been five minutes before tho entrance of Bradford into tho unfortunate man's chamber. Tho world owes this knowl to a rem or so of conscience in tho roal delinquent eighteen years after tho execu tion of Bradford, on a bod of sickness It was a death bed repentance, und by dcatli tho law lost its duo victim. It ;iMnasirani:c that. as the two unntlnitwn distinctly heard Mr. Hayes say he had a largo sum of money with him, they did not search his clothes to sco if it had bcon abstracted, and at tho samo timo cx umitio tho plunder in his possession, if it was on him. Its absence would havo been a point iu his favor, which ought not to have been over looked. It would bo rooro satisfactory if this account could close here, but it cannot. Bradford, though innocent, and not a party to the murdcrfor which ho suffered tlio extrcmo penalty of tho law, was nev ertheless, the murderer in design. He had heard, as well ns tho footman, what Mr. Hayes said as to having a largo sum of money about him, and bo went to the chamber with tho same diabolical inlen tion as tho servant. Ho was struck with amazement I Ho could not bolicvo bis senses; but in turning back, tho bed clothes to assure himself of the fact, ho, in his agitation, dropped tho knifo'on tho bleeding body, by which both his hands and tho weapon becamo bloody. These circumstances he acknowledged to tho clergyman who attended him after the sontence. A Nan Loses His Wire at Cards. About eight or niuo mouths since a man living in tho northorn part of this eity wont out into tbo oastern part of tho State to seek his fortune in tho new mines of that section, loaving bis wife and one child hero in town. Somo seven months ago a gallant disciple of St. Cris pin persuaded tbo Wbite Pino widow to take -up her abode with him in a house which ho .furnished for her. Tho new pair lived together for about .seven months, when a fow days ago tho genuine husband returned. Of course there was troublo in camp, but "u ing the two moo agreed seveu-up for the worm camo off last Satuiday night, and tbe husband won his wife back by just "two points." The man claimed his wifo. and the man of leather could hot say but' mat no nad lairiy won her. J he woman preferred the shoemaker, but the hus band and winner wis determined to have his own. He packed up what furniture they pusso.scd, and last Saturday oveuiug, with all his housbold goods, loft by a fast froight wagon for California. When the wagon started from North C street thero was quito a rccne, A crowd of nearly ono hundred persons had collected to see the husband carry away bis "stake, and tbore was muoh merriment over tho ro mantic affair, ihe woman cried, and wanted to Utay with tho shoemaker, and the, shoemaker cried at partiug with the treasure he had lost by not holding enough "trumps." He asked souio of the crowd if thoy thought, bo would bo arrested if bo atlotnpted to tako tho woman out of tho wagon. They told him bo had lost her "on tho square." and he must bear it like a man; so the wagon moved ou, and soon the fair one was "gone from his gazo." Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise. ( ., The only prisoner in tho Nantucket jail notifies the authorities that if they uuu u& up iuo jan ru mm iuo snoop can't get in to bother him, ho will bo blowed if he will stay in thcro. t IUO camo dnr. wJin hml in l.ia . Half tho innd of England is owned by one hundred and fifty persons,' a'nd half that of Scotland by twelve. A living oyster in u Porirtnouth; N. II., restaurant caught the tail of a wondering rat between its elblly jaws ibe other night, and held t lib arrival cal'o till morn ing. The Xenia Torchlight laments lint dogs with oysters cans attached aro be coming scarce in that village, anil plaint ively inquires, "Is tho spiHt of youth ful enterprise dying out." A dolcgato from Wyoming says ho wants to recommend a girl us cadet tri West Point, when his turn comes. Things aro going to get mixed thcro at West Point, among tlio white boys and gins, and ucgrocf and Indians, nnd we don't much cart) which combs out ahead. A young man, who, on being asked by a Judge whether he had a father, said ho wasn't quito certain whethor he had or not ; first bis father died, ,and then his mother married again, and then his mother died, and his father marrid again ; and now ho didn't exactly know whether thoy were his father aud mother Or not. An elderly gentleman of Madrid last week had his eyes) suddenly covered in tbo street by somo one beside htm, who playfully said, "Who is it? Guess?" He went on guessing through the round of his fricuda, when tho playful being behind darted off, and left tbe old gentle man of Spain still bewildered und think ing who it could be. Ho found out when he got bomo, and missed a pocket book with fifteen hundred francs in it, also a gold repeater and handsome chaiu and seals. In Florida there are many lakes which havoholcsin tho bottom and underground communication, so that they will i-nnic-times shrink away to a mere cupful, leav ing many square miles of surface uncov ered, nnd then again fill up from be low and spread out over their former area. Some of them havo outlets in the ocean from shore, bursting up'a perpetual spring of fresh water in tho very midst of tlio soilness of tho sou. In times of low wa ter, during a long, exhausting dry season, men havo gono underground iu ono of theso subterranean rivers from lake to lake, a distance of eight miles or more: Birtn Instinct and Mhmce. A cor rciDondqut ecuuYlbo (qIIokIue .anineini: illustration of tho instinct or reason of birds, and of their post-cssion of human passions, for tho truth of which ho is uble to produce thru rcliablo witnesses : A gentleman in this vicinity put up two bird houses in the spring, ono .of which wi.s isolated, tho -other accessible from a neighboring bank. A pair of blue jays appeared and examined carefully tho two vacant houses, aud decided on tl.o iso lated ono. While thut engaged, a pair of martins, who wcro out house hunting, came along, a.d thought tliby should liko tho same hotiso, whereupon a ficrco quar rel ensued ; a pitehod buttlo followed, whi'-h terminated in tho utter defeat and route of tho martins. The jays then went to work and completed their ar rangements for housekeeping, putting in all the Doccssary fixtures and furnituro ; and then gavo thomselves a little holiday absence Tho murtins watched their op portunity, immediately camo gleefully, but w:th malico aforethought, to tbo jay bouso and tore their nest in pieces and pitched it out of the house; They theu sat themselves down to rest, keeping their heads out of the windows that thoy might see the first atpoach of tha jays, and be able to escape, while at tho samo tune they indulged thumselves by letting their enemies kuow'who had done tho mtschiot and why it had been dono. On the approach of tho jays tho martins . disappeared aud have not been seen since. Too Much "rETitK." A practlca'l joko of a serious nature, which, however; ended in aprovidoutinl inunnor,was purpo tratcd in a small town in the western portion of this State, a few weeks sirco. it appears that a man named James Link- Dlov a bov nnmcii John Peterson, Ltukinwatcr had been a frequent visitor at Alexander's ttoro, and had taken pleasure in nicknaming tho boy John, by calling him "Poter," much to the annoyance aud confusion ot the. lad, when tho storo wus Ollt-J with cutt imcrf. The bo.r could not rrovail upon Linkinwatcr to discoutin'ub' calling him "Poter," nnd. warned him that if ho did not stop ho would play somo joko upon him which ho would not like. This had no effect on Linkinwater, for when he entered tho storo to purchase his salt, ho called out to the boy : "I want to nun-has a pound of salt, Peter." Tbo boy got gciiuino saltpetre and gavo it to his customer, who took it homo. Tho mind of Peterson was not altor-ntlu.r easy attor the departure of his customer, .... . i - i auu ma eyuu mo ins employer came into the storo (for ho was absent at tho time Linkinwater was there), the boy went to Linkinwater's bouso onlv to find saltpetre had been used, and that Mr. and Mrs. Linkinwater wns complaining of boing ill. But he arrived in timo to pre vent a fatal termination to his nrnetipnl joko, for a physician was called, who sue- ceded in averting .death, which would undoubtedly have ooourrcd bad It not bsou for his timely arrival. Aa fi.r a. Pelorsou is concerned, he was determined novor to porpotrato another nrniiv.l joko; nnd Linkinwator has learned a Iv.'ron ho will not forget. Boston Tines. inwSter wished In niirnhn.n n . mull rifr tnniB nitnrmrrt.!." ' ' i. .. . ' 1""" - "i i liivi fii hie. nnii mr run. nnMM.-iii.mj' to piay a garao ol a grocery store kept bv Thomas Aloi.n I - I J - .v- - TII-IIVU I -' ' " - ..... WU