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HEBE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNA WED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN i — ___ ..,.._. , . , _. , . , , .. . . ._ . . The Matlerhorn, o'er mist aud cloud Uplifts its bead and shoulders proud ; It wears a kingly diadem. And at its ermine mantle's horn, Jußt as the sun arose, one morn, i A little Alpine flower was born ; ! Tho light-winged wind that bent to kiss j Its leaflets called it Edelweiss. A little while it saw the high, Blue dome of air we call the sky ; ■ It heard the torrent madly sweep All white with fear from steep to steep , It felt the mountain winds that blow From heaven across eternal snow, And once upon its lonely bed An eagle's shadow fell and fled. But to the mountain came that day An English youth from far away, And climbing down its rugged side, The little blossom he espied, And gathered it because it waved Upon tho perilous heights ho braved, And bore it back with him, where stand The great oaks of his native land. Between his Browning's leaves of sang Its petals lay forgotten long, While all the fields with snow wero whito, Or all the lanes with roses bright, Till now across the summer Bea He sends the Edelweiss to me, And for his sake this morning-time, I weavo its story into rhyme. UNCLE NAHUM'S WEDDING. Uncle Nahum Nixon was reading the paper in his back parlor. Nobody would think, to look at the simple sur roundings of the uapretentious apart ment, that Mr. Nahum Nixon was one of the wealthiest men in the town. The carpet, it was true was Axminsier, but it had seen twenty good years of ser vice, and was worn down to tho very warp; the faded red curtains were of moreen instead of satin damask; the old clock on the mantel was no Paiisian affair of alabaster and gilt, but a sub stantial Connecticut time-piece, that struck with a .whirr, like a -partridge springing out of her nest; the chairs of old-fashioned mahogony and haircloth stood bolt upright against the wall; the portraits of Gen. Washington on horse back and the surrender of Cornwallis ornamented the gray papered walls in frames of sombre gilt, and-the one ele gance of the apartment ttai a casket of preposterous wax flowers under a cracked glass shade. But Uncle Nixon had rerrembcred that furniture ever since he was a child, and he wouldn't have exchanged it for the fittings of a Parisian boudoir, or the choicest specimens of the modern East lake pattern. He was a rich man- that was quite enough for him. "If you please, Mr. Nixon," said the trim little maid servant, "Mr. Marma dnk Bourne wants to see you, if you please sir, if you are quite at leisure." "Mr. Marmaduke Bourne, eh ?" The old gentleman took off his spectaoles and laid them upon the folded news paper. "Ask him in, Polly." And Mr. Marmaduke came in—a tall, fresh-colored young fellow, with spark ling gray eyes, brown hair, all in a mat of curls, and a straight Greek nose that seemed as if it might have been bor rowed from some ancient statue of Apollo. "Well, sir?" said Mr. Nixoc. "Well, sir?'' counter interrogated Mr. Bourne, "did you get my letter?" "I got your letter." said Uncle Na hum. "So you want to marry my niece "Yes, sir," valiantly acknowledged Mr. Marmaduke Bourne. "Ah," nodded Uncle Nahum. "But perhaps you don't understand all the faots of the case." "The faots, sir ?" "I want my nieco to marry Colonel Ashland's son," slowly enunciated Un " But, sir, she don't love him." "And if she don't marry him she'll be a beggar—l'll give her no money of mine. Now you understand matters. Marry her or not, as you please." He took up the newspaper onoe more —a taoit intimation that the interview was at an end. "Sir"—began Mr. Bourne. "I only wish to—" "That'll do," thundered Mr. Nixon; and so Marmaduke Bourne went away. Little Faith Nixon came down stairs presently—a blue-eyed blossom of a girl, with yellow hair growing low on her'forehead, and a very little mouth, exactly the shape to suggest the idea of kissing. Uncle Nahum looked keenly up at her as she fluttered about the room, straightening a table cover there or patting down a onrtain fold here. "Yes," said he, with a curious twitch ®(X MqtUcm Citti !nuscles around his eyes, "he has didn't ask any question, Unole bnt your eyes did," chuckled man. "Ho wants to marry yon, rovident young donkey." came to her uncle's chair and hand lightly on his shoulder. ; isn't the worst of it, Unole -I want to marry him." iph," snarled Mr. Nixon, in ttempt. "And what do you* ex live on, I should like to know." can both work," said Faith re more likely to starve," said xon, ''Mind—don't count on m me, If you will get married t at your own risk." 1 you consent, Unole Nahum." I" roared the old bachelor, g of tho sort." Unole Nahum, I should be wretched without Duke," softly pleaded Paitb. Blestrings," said the old man. I'm sure he couldn't live with h," grunted Mr. Nixon, if you please, Unole," added , 'perhaps I'd better go to my friend Violet Smith's to make up my wedding things, since you disapprove so decidedly of my plans. She lives in New York, you know, and it will be convenient for shopping, and—" "And for all the other tomfooleries in general" rudely interrupted the old gentlemen. "Yes, go to your Violet Smith's, bat don't expect to come back here." "No, Uncle," said Faith, meekly. "But, you'll let me thank you for all yonr kindness, and—" - "No, I won't," said Uncle Nahum, so shortly that poor Faith fled upstairs,, in dismay and had a quiet little cry, notwithstanding she was so very, very happy. j | For Uncle Nahum, biusque and crabbed though he was, was all the father she had ever known. But she paoked her trunk and went to Violet Smith's in New York, whioh was all the pleasanter, in that Marmaduke Bourne had also betaken himself to this modern Gotham and gone to work studying law as if he meant to take Cjke and Black stone by storm, nd Us Violete Smith, who was a sentimental young lady, sympathized intensely, and the young couple were aa unreasonably happy as many another couple has been before and will again. But one day Dake Bourne came in with a face full of tidings. "Faith," said he, < 'have you heard the news ?" "What news ?" asked Faith. "Your uncle will get the start of us, after all." Bit do you mean, Duke ?" ', he's going to be married." leNahum?" oried Faith incr cd ., "Yes, Uncle Nahum. That accounts for his being so willing to get rid of us, eh, little one?" "And who is the bride, questioned Faith. "Why, that's the mooted point yet. Nobody seems to know. Some say one, and some say another; but the general impression seems to be that it is the rich widow who owns the brown stone block on the corner." "I'm sure I hope he'll be happy," said Faith*, with tremulous lips and eyes suffused with tears. "But—but I think he might have said something to us "People are not generally in a hurry to proclaim the fact that they are about to make fools of themselves," said D uk Bourne bitterly. "Why, cried faith, laughing through her tears, "that is precisely what he said about us." But the next day a letter from Uncle Nahum himself settled the matter. He wrote: "There is to be a wedding at my house on the 17th, and I want you and Dnke to be there without fail." "A wedding! At his house 1" cried Faith. "I supposed weddings were celebrated at the bride's residence." "So they are, dear," said Miss Smith; "but your unole was always so eccen tric" "What shall we do?" asked Faith. "Why, go, of course,"-said Marma duke Bourne; to show that we bear no malice at being disinherited, if for no other reason." The 17th of March arrived, a cold blustering night, and the old red brick house was all in a glimmer of lights as i the young betrothed pair drew up to the 11 door. Unole Nahum met them on the threshold, in bis old-fashioned swallow tailed coat, with a huge white camelia in his button hole, and a pair of sur prisingly white glove's. "Have you brought your white frock ?'' was his fiist question to his niece. "No Uncle, I-" ••That won'fdo," said Uncle Nahum. "No one must cone to my wedding without a marriage garment. It's lucky I provided one for you. " Come upstairs, quiok, and put it on, for the parson is waiting and the oompany are "But, Uncle, the bride?" "You shall see 'her by-and-by," said Uncle Nahum, despotically. "Come up stairs now and change your dress." "But, Uncle, a white silk," cried Faith, looking in dismay at the glisten ing dress laid out for her use. "What then ? Isn't white silk the thing for a wedding ? Put it on quick, and I'll send some one up to bring you down in five minutes." And so, with a doubting heart, Faith Nixon robed herself in the white dress, with its trimmings of vapory blonde and long trail. "Where's your veil ?" said Uncle Na hum, when he came himself, a few min utei later, to tho door. "Uncle, I can't wear a veil," pleaded Faith. "Bnt yon must," said Uncle Nahum. "Nobody comes to my wedding with out a veil." And he placed the wreath lightly on her head. "But, Uncle Nahum, they will take mo for the bride." "Let 'em," said the old gentleman. "Take my arm. Now como down stairs and I'll show you the bride. Htre Lifting her bewildered eyes, Faith Nixon beheld her own figure reflected in a full length mirror at the stairway. "Here's the bride," chuckled Uncle Nahum. "and here's the groom," touch ing Bourne's shoulder. "Ana here's the parson, all ready and waiting. Now, reverend sir," to the clergyman, "marry 'em as fast as ever you can." And be fore either of the astonished young people could remonstrate, they wero made man and wife. "Duke," oried the bride, as sdon as the ceremony was over, "did you know of this ?" "No, I didn't," said Mr. Bourne, with his arm very tight around his little wife's waist, "but I must say I approve very highly of the whole proceeding." Unole Nahum stood by, rubbing his hands, with his whole face wreathed in one prodigious smile. ' 'So you supposed it was I who was to bo married, eh?" said he. "Not a bit of it—not a bit of it. I'm too old a bird to be caught with suoh chaft as that. No, no, littie Faith. Did you think I was going to turn my wee bir die out of her nest, after all the years she has been cherished there? No, no, I only wanted to assure myself that your fancy was a real fancy, and that this young rascal here," smiting Bourne on the shoulder once more, "loved you f>r yourself alone and not for the money he thought the old man was going to leave you. And you!re to live here, both of you, and we'll be happy ever aft er Strike up your harps and fiddles. Let's have jf dance - let's all be merry to- I Unole Nahum Nixon himself led off the bridal quadrille, dancing in the good old style of fifty years ago. "I don't have a wedding every day," said Unole Nahum, breathlessly, as he cut one last pigeon wing, "and I mean to make the most of it." RNew Cure for Consumptoln. minent citizen of Geneseo.N.Y., n prolonging his own life at the expense of the canine creation. Some two or three years ago the gentleman in question, who was pronounced by physicians to be in quite an advanced stage of consumption, began the habit of taking his pet dog to bed with him. The animal soon exhibited unmistake able signs of lung difflcnlty, coughed almost constantly, and finally died. The gentleman procured another dog and slept with him for a time,when this animal also fell a victim to the disease. Another dog was procured, with which the man now sleeps, and, though the third animal will probably die the same way the others did, the man is con stantly improving, and is better than before for years. He is a well-known business man of Geneseo, and we would Kname if necessary.—[Livonia Ie executed at the United State* adelphia, during the month of tted 1,313,000 pieces, va'ned at lis amount was made up of 800,. 3,000 five cent pieces and 470,000 i is wero received in Now York Carolina to sell oats from that tuarkot. This is another nnpro ure in tho grain trado. Every show that tho South will havo ops of all kind of grain ever our mill, extending from Cherry iel, Now York, was burned. Thore i in the old ten-story building and tish for their lives. So rapid was the llanies that it was for a time imo had been cut off, but all es r engines were at work, but c the building. Loss $1,230,000. me is at Wichita, Kansas, aud alitor Indian Territory at once irk board of police have resolved ) glove fight on tho Uth proximo Wilson and John L. Sullivan, in ire Garden. r fining firm of John Hi'gort's' uth Front street, Phila lelphia, 1 harles M. Hilgert, who has con usiness under that film name, nd. It is impossible to tell how liabilities comparo with his as id from Matamorao, Mex'co, that : four hundred cases or yellow city. The sanitary cotiditon is 100 cases of yellow fever at Ls u one day. Six deaths were re in of two Lake Shore Roal west of South Bend, Indiana, cars which took fire and burned Df tramps were on the train, aud tped say seven of their number azing wreck, me creek, near Maysville, Ky., negro family waswasliod away, iped, but his wife and mothor nlo the Ohio river and drowned, ireek, two miles we it of Mays ville, the Boga family, consisting of a man, I children anil his mother, had their v to atoms aud tho woman and ob.il i drowned. Near Manchester, Ohio, i of Richard Barnes was washed away mily drowned. ÜBfj v crnamg mortgages and judg ainst John Ililgert'a Sons, ;ugar re- Philadelphi i, whose failuro has been d, aggregate nearly half a million It is l ow al eged that Cha lea M. ibtained about $205,501 on lorged 1 promissory notes, ported that yellow fver ha?"broken stiii, Texas, aud that Dr. Bwearfngor, Ith officer, has gone there to invosti progress of the dtsease. The death fttamoras. is gecater than at Havana, wo cases were repor "d Aug 2nd, and ithe. One ease occurred in New Or he health board is faking active measures to prevent to spread o Ihe dis ease. Tho Indiana, Bloomington and Western lUilroid has been opened between Columbus, Ohio aud Indianapolis, giving the Baltimore and Oiiio Company an important connect! »v with Central Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. The number of immigrants for this year reaches the unpaialelled number of 780,01)3 : 84,786 arrived during July. A destructive thunder storm swept over Milwaukee, Wis. The damage to property is 'aiiously estimated at fre.m $50,000 to $100, --000. Ono man was killed by lightning, and an infant was drowned. W. A. T. Smith, a colored clergyman, made porßiatent applicationfor accommodation at the Adams House, Providence, R. 1., and was re fused and driven ont because of his color. Ho has employed council to prosecute the landlord under the civil rightß law. Dennis Dineon, a Canadian farmer, is about < to bring suit against the Montreal Society for Ho- Prevention ot Cruelty to Animals for hay- I ing imported English sparrows. He says these birds have eaten up thirty acres of his I barley, destroying his potatoes, aud made sad havoc with his early vegetables. The Central Railroad freight house on Water and Columbia streets, Albany, 200 by 400 ftet in dimensions, fell with a crash, and is a total wreck. There were 15,000 barrels of flour and a large amount of other goods in the building, whioh are damaged to a considerable extent Twelve freight ears were damaged. The Chicago Railway Age has figures show ing that the total construction of way lino of railroad for seven months in the Uuited Mates has been more than 6,000 miles. Should the proportion hold good during the remainder o. the year the total mileage built for 1882 would be nearly 18,000, but it ie not likely to run The Norfolk (Va.) Landmark, whoso editor has responded to severs! calls to the field of honor, advocates the passage of an act of the I Assembly commanding the sheriff to condnct each duel at short range, and to keep it np until there is a funeral. Such an enactment I wonld doubtless exercise a good influence on | the sanguinary sons of Virginia. New cotton grown on the nremises was picked, ginned and spun into yarn at Saluda faotory, Lexington county, 8. C., and forthwith dispatched to Philadelphia. A hail storm viaitod Chesterfield county, Va., j I damaging corn, oats aud vogetation along the lino of tho Petersburg and Woldon Railroad »« mnny years before. It says people are hunt iig real estate to lend money on at eight per cent, interest per annum,' while tlreo years rgo money could not be borrowed on planta lions in that part of the oountry at any prke. R. B. Andrews & Co., clothiers, Raleigh, N. ('., have made an assignment to Cheser L. Whitnie. Preferred debts $30,000; geneial liabilities and assets not stated. The South Carolina Democratlo Convention bas nominated for governor Colouel Hugh F. '. hompson, for lieTitenant-governor, John C Pheppard, of Edgefield; J. M. Lipscomb, of Newberry, for secretary of ttate; C. R. Mills, ".f Charleston, tor attorney-general, aud W. E. S.oney, of Berkeley, for comptroller-genera!. John W. Clyde, a colored postal agent re cently at rested at Charleston, S. C, on a charge of robbing the mails, committed sui lide by shooting himself through tho head. Colonel S. R. Troctor, aged 66, brother-in law of General Beauregard, committed Btncide at New Orleans by shooting loins 1! through the head. It is attributed to ill health. Biahop Emboi ton and Richard Sp akman charged with crime against Mrs. .J. B. Oa> tett, ol Tompkinsvillc, Ky., whili leing taken to Glasgow, Ky., for safe-keeping, were a'aot to It has boon discovered tint many court records, valuable historical relics and some books worth almost their weight in gold, have been stolen from a basement room of the cap iiol at Nashville, Term., aud sold as waste The Uab-igh (N. C.) Observer says : "The farmers look with complacency upoH this hot weather. It is just the thing for cotton, whioh Nown bo much in tho past four weeks as prise everybody." ne mill at Bandleman, N. 0., 4,608 spin re running, and 100 looms are at work aids and checks for Philadelphia and New York market*. W. R. Johnson, of Lee county, Ala., made this year $1,500 worth of oats on tho same I that produced $365 worth of cotton last tract of eighty thousand acres of land een purchased in Sumpter county, Fia., colony from Duluth, Minn, are is a great building boom at Vicks- Miss., and the demand tor mechanics is i above the supply. b of the finest cotton factorios ever ed in the South is now approaching cum in, at Rome, Ga. Foreign News, ixandria dispatches say that the number ,I'islians murdered at Damanbonor, In: I tali and Mihalta is now estimated at 550. I siale of Alexandria Is causing serious itude. The natives who remained are ar.'.es, and a majority of those wbo.bave id are looters looking after their con plunder. It is impossible to mietike tetly hostile attitude of this cli.» and ive polioe. lei official telegram says that Midship- Dchairwus taken befoto' Atabi I'a-ln. lered him to be sent to Cairo a- d to be eated. He is now comfortably lodged and bas been allowed to write to his es. Khedive last evening di pitched a na lissary to tho camp of Arabi Panha lo s tho release of Midshipman Dechair. lissary bas not yet returned, bgram from rebel sources at Cairo that the rebel government is fugees fiom Alexandria. The native Is comment favorably upon Mr. John 's resignation of his seat In the British t. Arabi Pasha has offered £300 ior the f Morico Bey. Governor of Assioot, with 2,000 men, Is g tho town for ihe Khedive. An-ioot is pital and tho largest city in Upper , It is the most inportsnt military uta mth of Cairo, aud con i ola commuui with Darf'our and Senear. ;onnoisßance was made from Bamleh on oukir road. It is reported that Arabi s videttes aro in close proximity to the The display of while flags on the forts ire farce, The rebels aro Btienghcn >ir lines near Lake MHreotis. Scouts seeing Arabi Pasha in camp with I Europoan prisoners, 's military council hays caused the if twenly-seven pashas and beys who re or less friendly to the Khedive. i Paßha has ordered a troop of cavalry >rt Stone Pasha's family to Ismailia. 'aaha is greatly relieved thereby, correspondent at Borne of the Daily :elegrapha that be learns in various a that Bicciolte Gaiibaldi is enrolling era for an expedition to aid Arabi but the movement is not likely to suo 'arnell has issued an urgent whip to h members of the House of Commons so the amendments made iv the House Is to the arreai'B-of-rent bill, sading article in the Daily News says a possibility of a dissolution of Tar , either by Mr. Gladstone, or, after his nee ot office, by tho Marquise of Salis honses and a wooden bridge have irnod on tho Krestovßky Island, in the no of Ihe Islands on which St. retcrs built. Mertens, the printer of the Froihoit, s charged with publishing a seditious incoming the murder of Lord Fred iavendish and Mr. Burke, haß been uilty. Sentence bas been nod. fire on the s ccmship Gillert, on her from New York to Hamburg, ia attrib the spontaneous eombuetion of to. It is believed that it must have been Bring all the way from New York. I In Summer. The fields wero green around me When last I met my lov6 j The birds they flew above me, And sang in every grove. The skies were blue as sapphire. The clouds were fleecy white. The summer Bun was Bhining With radiant, heavenly light. How happy was our meeting Upon that Bummer day 1 We bade farewell with sadness, Afar apart to Btrayl' And now the breezes murmur With voices of tho past, Whose aisles of light and shadow, In memory's vision cast. Inspire a dreamy longing, And a senso of weary pain, For that summer day so fleeting, Will nover como again. VARIETIES. A Tennessee man 79 years old has a breach of promise suit on hand. A Kentucky man has for olook weights two pint bottles filled with whisky. Athens, Ala,, has a population of 8,000 and a valuation of 88,000,000; that is, $1,000 to every inhabitant. Carlyle said that trifles were the hinges of destiny, but he nover used any of them on his front gate. Two thousand Kentuckians have been converted to Christianity in the last three months and still the boom Last year Texas imported oorn, but this year will have 50,000,000 bushels o sell, continues. A blacksmith at Nantucket buys the livers of all sharks caught there, and makes them into cod liver oil. One liver yields three gallons of oil, A girl who sets cut to look graceful in a hammock has as much work on band as the man who tries to be languid with a saw-log following him down hill. The oldest mule in the world is own ed in Covington, Ga. The owner has papers to prove that he is over 80. The kick is on the papers—not with the mule. • Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter, Miss Harriet Stanton, and also Mr. Theodore Stauton, are living in France, where they are all doing literary work. A gold watch which was stolen from a Fhiladelphian two years ago by four masked men in Kentuoky bas just been returned to him by express by the widow of Jesse James. Philadelphia churoh charity is esti mated to have permanently saddled 2,000 paupers on that city. Charity will make paupers faster than business failures or poor crops. A Coney Island horse-jockey who died the other day confessed to having participated in thirteen "put-up" races where it was arranged beforehand whioh horse was to win. The Oak Tree. A long time ago two lads, called Ed mund and Oswald, came before a court of justice. Edmund said to the judge: "Three years ago, before setting out on a journey, I entrus'ed to this Oswald, whom 1 then considered ray beat friend, a valuable ring composed of precious stones, but now he will not restore the ring to me." Oswald laid his hand upon his breast and said, — "I swear by my honor that I know nothing about this ring. My friend Emund cannot be in hiV right senses.' "Edmvnd, can you bring forward any witness to prove the fact that you en trusted the rihg to his keeping ?" said the judge. "Unfortunately, we had no witness except an old oak tree in the field under which we took leave of one another," replied Edmund. "I am ready to swear I know as little about the tree as about the ring,'' said Oswald. "Edmund, go and bring me a branch of that tree; I desire to see it. You, Oswald, will wait here till he returns,' said the jndge. Edmund wont. After waiting a little while the judge beoame impatient and said, — "What can be keeping Edmund so long 1" "Oh, sir," said Oswald, "he oould not possibly have returned so soon. The tree is quite an hour's walk from here." "Oh, you wicked liar,''said the judge, who wished to confirm your lie by an oath before God, the' righteous judge, who sees into all hearts. You know where the tree is." And so Oswald was obliged to give up the ring, and was condemned to a long imprisonment.