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- . THt EN DEATOB .
BT B. F. SASBOBXB.
It is ever ceaseless striving
That makes life a noble thing
Striving for the good of others,
,i That doth blessings on us bring.
If we feel for those that suffer.
And can sympathize with jin,
" Stronger gaows our better Nature,
To endure and toil again.
As the mist from off the ocean
Conies to earth again in rain.
Shall Nature's laws but show us
That her seeming loss is gain.
80 that if years are spent In toiling,
Making paths for other feet.
Weary not, for soon or later.
Thon thy rich reward shall meet.
Then while earth is full of sorrow.
And we know the stroke of woe,
. 1 Be thine earnest, calm endeavor,
Kindness, hone and love to show;
Help to raise the struggling spirit.
Bound by want and misery fast,
Fill thy life with holy action,
- God will crown you at the last.
ocTOHicit.
BT JNI JOT.
The old last sheaf to garner' d, the harvest is
The btrns'have grown sweet with new hay;
Brown arms have done tossing it up ia the sun,
And have stored it snugly away.
Fruits, luscious and golden, are blushing rose
As theyswing from the pcndulons bough,
And recieve, through the interstices over their
The day-god's warm kiss on their brow.
The hazel ia browning her meats in the tan,
for some epicure's palate, I ween:
Her fringed napkins are scorched, ere the pro
cess Is done,
AM ner rones lose m pan 01 tueir succu.
The tall, golden rod, guarding well the bright
' stream,
nis rich Jeweled sceptres display;
Beneath them the huntsman lies heedless and
dreams,
While the prey glides unnoticed away.
The forest trees, long in bright emerald dressed,
Call low for their maidens to haste;
The frost's dainty hands to their vesture Is
pressed,
And their corsage of green is unlaced.
A brllllant-hned carpet, unrolls for our feet,
Which rustles like silk as we tread;
Mo artist ere blended his colors so neat.
As these of green, golden, and red.
O glorious October, In crimson and gold,
Too dazzling, too radiant to lasts
Gleam on in thy sheen, till Time shall have told
Thy charms as a thing of the past.
''-'OUT OF STYLE,
BY ETHEL LTNS.
lAdy Lester sighed such a well-bred sigh!
As her daughter passed the piazza by;
Blender and pallid, and drooping over,
JLiike the burdened bloom of the dewy clover,
Holding a volume, in childish wise,
Close to her eager and solemn eyes.
Till stumbling teet had betraved their trust.
And shuffling, stirred the unpolished dust.
"No style at all." t,ady Lester spoke.
And another sigh on the silence broke, .
"Not a bit of style just her pa again:
Btraighter, Kbslel straight! hold your shoulders
low;
Keep your toes turned out, and your head up
sol"
tie's aciumsvsoui, inougn trie uusioi men,
There was lining up or tne great gray eyes.
With an earnest glance, full of strange surprise,
That the legend sweet of the dream-lit land
Was a vision only, within the hand.
Where the Princess lived only wrongs to right.
And the Brownies wrought through the summer
nlgnt.
"Ah, yes, mamma."
Rose raised her head
With her loving smile,
r or a nine wniie
Proudly trod the path like a grenadier.
Then the story grew so exceeding queer,
She forgot the charge and the time and place,
And relapsed at once into deep disgrace.
Lady Lester saw and decided then
To appeal once more to the best of men.
Whether masters, gold and the closest care
Could not give that Rosie "a better air."
80 a new departure was planned and made.
With her soul left out of the plan they laid.
Braces and arguments, daily walks,
Wise emulation and wordly talk.
With all the polishing tools now used.
Were thus in a wonderful system fused.
They trained her brain in the highest school;
They trained her feet till she stepped by rule;
They trained her tongue till her heart was mute,
Like idle walls of a soundless lute.
All through her soul, looking out afar,
Fought underneath golden bolt and bar,
Than new demands for the latest style,
It loved and longed for the better things
Here daily touched by the angels' wings,
M rum umsy uuus, as uvy urwiij nmi uuu,
To the round of stars and their hymn to God,
Id dim green woods, on the sounding shore,
'Mid songs of birds, 'mid the torrent's roar,
In church-yards dim, in the sunset glow.
Through autumn winds or the winter snow,
She listened still, for she heurd the while
Old-fashioned words, that are out of style;
Words rarely spoken at Lester Hall,
Forgotten soon when they feel at all;
- Of grand old themes of the world to bo;
. Of the Open Door, and the Crystal Sea.
Or tender words that were set afloat
On the faithful air from the Usher's boat;
Of the Milieu, safe in the better Care
Than the shining gems of a monarch are.
Ah, the hungry soul, from its harbor slipped,
Through the Open Door to the Crystal Sea,
On the sunless light to the "time to be;"
Out of discord, pain and misplaced endeavor,
Out of worldly care, out of style forever.
Then the wonnded hearts, as they saw her go,
Lighter held the earth and its shining show;
Learning all too late, as they weep to-day,
That an angel tarried, bnt could not stay.
CELIE.
BT GEORGE SAND.
FIRST PART.
CONTINUED. 1
THOUGHT that she was right,
and was not astonished to see the
peasants so obedient to an in
struction that responded to their
Instinctive attachment to the soil which
had witnessed their birth, and to tne
pride which the mariner has in his strife
with the elements. I had a glimpse in
the past of the wise and noble figure of
the admiral, and forgot all thitt Montro
ger had told me of the disorder of his
mind at the approach of death. . I under
stood the strength of reason and patience
that he had early instiiietnrito tne mind
fCclie, and far from seeming eccentric,
as she was called by the envious, or
' crotchety, as Stephen benevolently defin
ed her, she appeared to me as in all the
strength of her judgment and the firm
ness of her character. I asked what took
place at the audience, and what purpose
they served, since the community was
now so perfectly administered and the
population at peace with itselt.
"You are right," sai I Celio in answer
"They are no longer necessary, but they
are useful for conforming us in proper
habits and good manners. The lady says
that it is necessary to be polite, because
politeness is the first half of friendship.
o one can be more polite than she, and
one is as much at ease in talking with
her as with one's own relations and
friends."
"But you are her friends, I am quite
sure. Why should you not be?"
'We are more than her friends," ans
- jeered Celio gravely.
"Explain yourself."
'We are her defeuders. The friends
-whom she has In the rich world know,
better than we, how to talk and say
pretty things to her; but there is more
than one who says evil of her behind her
back, and when they come among us to
mock at what she does or doesn't do, you
should see how they are received! As
to those who love her because she is am
table, there are not three of them, proba
bly, who wonia lonow her where we
follow her."
"There is M. de Montroger, who is an
lrrenroachable friend, isn't he?"
"M. de Montroger is a very good and
amiable man, and one who knows how
, to converse also; but he makes a little
.too much of gn effort of it, and is very
fond of letting every one know the pains
,be takes to nlease the lady and everybody
.else. He loves to be honored, and he
.. finds us a little cold. But we, for our
mart, don't Droclaim our thought from
the house-tops, and we know that out of
the village the lady does not like to have
ns sreak of her and tell what good she
.(iocs. Olio says mat to ooasi. too liiuuu
about any one is to make others jealous
and unfriendly. Not long ago there
was a great battle at Mauconduit on her
Account. There were some scoundrels
jhera trior invented something o say
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against her. We said nothing, but we
waited till they came out of the town
and then we explained ourselves a little
warmly. The lady saw some of 113 next
dav with a black eye or a torn ear, and,
thinking we had been fighting in our
cups, scolded us a little; but we let her
have her 6ay, and she never knew that
we had been knocking a lesson into her
enemies.
I would have listened to Celio all
night; but his stories were not interest
ing to Stephen, who led me away with
out remorse to the reefs to see the sun
set. If it were possible to abhor the
beautiful, the painter would have made
me curse nature. By dint of seeing her
and seeking utter her, he had managed
to abstract himself completely from all
her ideas, sentiments, aud emotions of
human life. He had systematically di
vorced himself from such vain accesso
ries, and condescended to put human fig
ures in his pictures only as foils. All
that he sought to give them was move
ment; of expression he made no account
whatever. This explained to me why
his figures always resembled rocks, and
their clothing sea-weeds.
I did my best, however, to piease mm
hv listening to him. and when I left him
it was arranged that I should return his
dinner by a breakfast on the sea the next
morning. He promised to conduct me
to the rocks where the guillemots Hail
their nests. We would eat on Doara or
on the rocks, and I could shoot while he
was making a little ttuay.
This arranged, I directed my steps to
ward the chateau of La Canielle, where!
thought that my aunt must soon arrive,
and to reach it more quickly, I took the
pathway up the cliff.
It caused me some emotion to think as
I ascended that I was treading over the
marks of Celie's light footsteps on the
sand and furze. I assured myself that it
was only dangerous for persons subject
to giddi ness. The villagers kept it in or
der with the greatest care and the most
filial precautions. When I gained the
summit, I found myself face to face with
a large iron gate that was standing open.
There was no pain outsiue iu mc igm
in the direction or tne cnaieau. 1
thought that the one 011 the left would
take me there by some detour, and was
going to enter it when an old keeper,
whose comfortable louge aujomeu mc
gate, called to me and said, -mi you are
going to the chateau, sir, you must not
take the road ; tnat leads to iue wu.
But I see no other."
Excuse me, the way through the
park takes you to the new house, and
you see that the gate is open. Everybody
goes through it."
I thanked the keeper, and seeing that
the Run was still high above the horizon,
asked him the time. My watch had
stopped.
It is rather early," ne saiu, -to go
to our house. They must still be at din
ner. But while waiting you might take
a turn about the old park. It is very
curious."
"I thought that it was ..forbidden to
strangers."
2io, sir, it has never Deen lorDiuueu.
It is thus," I thought, "that history is
written! This mysterious fortress is
open to every comer." As 1 was going
to enter, the good man saia to rne, oy
wav of reflection. "You thought that, be
cause Mademoiselle seldom takes any of
the ladies here who come in the evening,
since an accident happened to a silly
young lady who was near being killed
among the rocks. That is why the gate
Is shut on the side or thecnateau on oun
day nights. Would you like, before de
scending, to see the old donjon, sir?"
"If it is allowed "
"Everything is allowed : enter." And
with a gesture of his hand he pointed out
the door, made me a military salute, and
returned to his lodge, as it to say, " ac
cept nothing." He was one of the old
sailors in the service of the admiral.
All whom he had been able to collect he
had employed at the chateau, where they
lived in clover. Their children and
grandchildren had formed the first nu
cleus of the little colony of the village.
I went through the donjon, which was
admirably well preserved in the interior.
I saw the great hall where M. Bellac, as
sisted by Celie, gave his course of natu
ral philosophy to the villagers. 1 ne ap
paratus was formidable, and accounted
for the thunder and lightning invoked
by the mistress of the chateau ana ner
sorcerer in this mysterious laboratory.
The work-room of the savant was open
like all the rest. The whole was under
the protection of the public good faith.
"Indeed! passionately? and wnyr
"Because I have spent four hours in
La Canielle."
"Oh ! yes, I see ; you have heard my
friends sav that I am 110 angel. I owe
that aureole to my grandfather."
"1 know all."
"All?" she said, laughing archly
Then vou have seen the child?"
"The child? Oh! yes Mme. de Mal-
bois child: Well, no, 1 nave not seen
him. I never thought of him, and, if
must confess it, I have not even asked
any one how you saved him."
I saved him by throwing mm a rope
it was no worse than that, rour
strong persons held the rope, the child,
and myself. I cannot make a line story
of it for you. When you are 111 the fu-
nous surge, you see only what you are
doing and hear only what you think;
you are only a part of many who think,
see, wish, and do the same thing spon
taneously. The poetic impressions, the
animated dialogues, the picturesque and
dramatic parts of the affair are absolute
ly lost; and atter that there is so much
fatigue that there is no retrospective
emotion ; vou go home and sleep."
"Say as much as yon please to try to
persuade me that vou do only ordinary
things in the most ordinary manner. If
you were not perfect, I should believe
tnere was a little affectation in it; but in
you it is impossible. By endeavoring to
forget yourself designedly, you forget
yourself naturally. Well! I love you
only the better for it, and if the whole
truth must lie told, 1 adore you. 1 ou
care very little for that, I know; you
are surfeited already with the affection
and admiration that vou inspire. You
live in a region so high and pure tha
our words can neither agitate nor aston
ish you. You are probably the only
young and beautiful woman to whom
one can sav without hesitation, and witl
no fearot disturbing her tranquility. 'I
love you passionately.' lo what you
will, you know that it is your due, and
that not to offer you the worship which
is your due were to be a miserable brute.
Suffer yourself to be adored by me, then,
as yon are adored by the mariners of La
Canielle. It will be one friend and one
servant more, that is all."
The truth had come to my lips without
premeditation, and even in spite of my
intended reserve. Xo more had 1
thought of seizing the opportunity to
risk everything once for all. I believe
tnat I would have said the same toueiie
before Montroger or my aunt, or all the
world. I had not forbidden myself that
Kind 01 sincerity which urged me for
ward at that moment, and with which
she could not be offended. Only, I had
not believed that she would let me pro
ceed to the end, uninterrupted by some
pleasantry which would make my declar
ation imposible or ridiculous. But see
ing that she listened tome with aston
ishment, and that her countenance be-
came serious, I felt all at once alarmed.
Had my agitation betrayed me? Back
01 tne disinterestedness in which my
boldness was concealed did she perceive
tho tumult of a secret and trembling
hope? The penetrating look that she
fixed upon me after a moment's thought
fulness reassured me. She had question
ed my sincerity, one nad weighed mv
words, she was struck with them; they
had probably displeased her, but they
had not passed unnoticed.
"You are trifling with me," she said at
last with some emotion, and a little end.
lv. "The peonle of La Canielle have
never said to me, 'I love you,' still less,
'I adore vou. Thev do not know how
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to say it, and on the day that they leirn
howl shall no longer believe in their
friendship."
"Permit me to say, In answer, that if
that is so, you do not love them at all.
You accept their instinctive attach
ment as you accept that of your swan3,
who come to you for bread. If your
swans could talk, would you have their
necks wrung?"
"Xo, for if they should speak, it would
be to say only ; 'Give us something to
eat,' but I do not compare our sailors to
animals. They are true men, remarka
ble men, and, what is more, heroes in
courage and devotion. I have so great a
regard for them that I might sy myself,
'I love them, I adore them ;' but 1 say
nothing of the kind. That is not their
way of speaking, and it would give oc
casion to strange suspicions. Simpie and
straightforward people have no passion
ate words at their service. They prove
their attachment, they practice their
friendship, and, like noble savages, dis
trust protestations."
"They ore right, for the word protes
tation signifies exaggeration. Conde
scend to look me once more in the face,
Mademoiselle Merquem. Do you believe
that I lie when I say to you that I ven
erate you?"
"You do not mean to use that word,"
she said, looking at me again, but this
time with visible uneasiness; "is it the
word veneration that you stop at?"
"Suppose that I do; do you reject it?"
"Yes, I do not deserve it."
"But if I persuade myself that you de
serve it?"
"It does me honor, but it troubles me.
I have a horror of vanity ; it is the quick
sand of reason ; it is on that that all mer
it makes shipwreck and disappears. Do
not try to inspire it in me. That would
be to do me an evil service and to show
me the opposite of friendship."
"Then you prefer the word friend
ship?" "It is more serious."
"It is very serious; but as I ask you
for no return, as I have not expressed the
least pretention to any such a sentiment
from you to me, I have the right to ask
in what way you authorize me to love
you. Are you going to answer, 'In no
way?" Take care! I am an honorable
man, serious and sincere. I am not per
haps a hero in courage and devotion ; I
have had no occasion to test myself, to
know and prove myself. I have saved
the life of no one, I have confronted no
tempest. Neither am I a noble savage.
In me the instincts are not so strong as
they become in people of simple manners
and customs. 1 have had the misfortune
to receive a good education, to have
learned to use my tongue more in ex
pressing ideas than my arms in holding
ropes, and mv brain more in becoming
acquainted with the state of my heart,
than my heart in unravelling the mys
teries of my brain. 1 am a man of my
time, and subject to its influences; but
such as I am, I know myself well enough
to know that in qualifying myself to ex
press my thought, 1 have not made my
self unworthy of it; and you, who take
so much pains to ra'se the intellectual
level of your village friends you can
not believe that civilization degrades
man. Limit the range of your distrust a
little, then, and reflect before saying to
me : I forbid you to understand me, to
appreciate me, and to render me the
homage that I accept gladly from the
most ignorant ot my peasants.'
Evidently Mile. Merquem had never
been pushed to the wall, and Montroger
had said only commonplaces easy to
elude, for she knew not how to escape
1 10111 my persistence.
1 was wrong," sne saiu wun a uwu-
est and touching embarrassment. 1
misunderstood you and answered you
badly. I was prudish. You must par
don me. It is impossible lor an oiu
maid, not much used to the ways 01 tne
world, to avoid falling sometimes into
such a ridiculous mistake. I should
have answered vou very simply : You
consider me very good, you have a great
esteem forme; you say gayly, but at
bottom seriously, tnat you set a very
high value upon me! Well, so much
the better; thanks; that is a proof that
you have in yourself all that you attri
bute to me, and your sympathy has a
right to my gratitude. Instead of that,
I plunged at random into the old park.
There was no means of being lost in it;
every path descended straight toward
the terraces which supported the new
chateau, but the sandstone of the sum
mit was full of fantastic crevices, ana 10
proceed without danger it was necessary
to see clearly and to know them well.
There was, then, no more mystery here
than elsewhere. 1 had lanciou a con
cealed life which had no existence. The
place however, readily lent itself to such
a supposition. The deepscarred rocks,
the natural precipices veiled in sombre,
dishevelled foliage offered retreats that
seemed impenetrable; Dut every wnere
charming walks, bordered with flowers,
skirted the great excavations whence the
stone used in the construction of the old
manor had formerly been taken, and
even at the bottom of the old quarries,
which had become superb grottos over
shadowed by festoons ot briony aud
creepers, were to be seen numerous foot
marks on the sand. It was the village
walk
One detail particularly struck me r the
beauty of the plants wnicn grew promse
ly everywhere, and which were as un
touched as that of flowers that spring
spontaneously in inaccessible or un
known places. Did not heavy shoes,
then, ever happen to crush a bulb, no
child's hand break off a branch of foliage,
or pull a handful of grass or a flower,
even, from the borders of the walk ?
"Xever," said a gardener who was pass
ing near me, as he saluted me, and to
whom 1 had addressed a part of my re
mark. "Everybody knows that Made
moiselle is above all fond of those plants
which come up of themselves. The par
terre, 111 which there are cultivated
plants, is free to whoever wishes to take
anything from it; but no one abuses the
pnyilege, and she is otten obliged to ot-
fer roses herself to the young girls, who
carry them away and preserve them as
relics. The voting people! hold, here
is Celio Barcot just before us, one of her
godsons; he is in love with Annette Im
brue, and he has sometimes asked Made
moiselle for carnations to give to his
sweetheart. Mademoiselle has said to
him, 'Take them, my child.' But he has
said, 'Oh ! no ; I had rather you would
give them to me.' Mademoiselle has
not understood his idea, but I know
what it is. He thinks that the flowers
which she has touched will tie better
liked by his sweetheart. That is the
way it is here, you see. When a person
has made a tamily 01 the whole country
young and old are attached to her and
think only ot pleasing her in turn that
they may always keep her with them
It the lady should leave her place or 1
she should bring us a master tilings
migiit not go on so wen.
The good gardener summed up in
word a situation which, minute by min
ute, was becoming apparent to my mind
Mile. Merquem, by giving awav her
money, her time, and her great heart
was no longer her mistress. It was not
only Montroger whom she feared to
wound and atllict by thinking to live for
herseif, it was the old ship's crew of her
gramiiatner, the admiral; it was eve
more, it was the three or four hundred
souls who formed the population of the
colony. It might be necessary for me,
then, to dispute her possession with
jealous little world, tenacious of her and
perhaps capable 01 doing anything to re
tain and monopolize her. I was quick
ly resolved, and even as the obstacles ap
peared more numerous, so much mon
my desire became a fixed determination
so much more strongly my soul became
In love with its purpose and considered
it worthy ot a great struggle.
I looked again at the sky. It was still
too early for me to show myself accord
lug to strict propriety. Well, all tl
more reason why I should, then ! I must
at any prirw? break through the petty
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bonds of habit and of prudence. I took
leave of the gardener,and,ceasing to play
the truant, rapidly descended toward the
well-smoothed terrace of the new park.
I saluted Celio Barcot, also, in passing,
whom I met in the path. He had hard
ly any resemblance to Celio Williamson.
He was of medium height, slender, of a
velvety brown complexion, and as beau
tiful as Endymion. We were not pleas
ing to each other : his brow was con
strained and his look distrustful ; my
black coat seemed to throw a shadow
over him ; his remarkable beauty caused
me an indescribable feeling of puerile
jealousy. When I had passed him I
turned my head to look at him again,
and saw that he had stopped near the
gardener, who was smiling. Both had
their eyes fixed ou me. The young man,
with a fierce look, seemed to say,' "What
strange animal is this that is allowed to
run over our grounds?" The gardeuer
seemed to answer, "One more who will
break his beak against the cage."
I quickened my pace, and when I ar
rived at the chateau Mile. Merquem was
still at table with M. Bellac. She was
dressed, but he was not, and appeared to
have no thought of it. Introduced into
the hall, I saw them through the glass
door. Celie rose ou learning that I was
there, and said to her old friend that he
would have no more than time to shave,
as the guests were already arriving for
the evening. He passed his hand over
his chin with an air of surprise, and fled
precipitately. Mile. Merquem came out
alone and very resolutely to find me on
the terrace, where I discreetly feigned
to take refuge. She almost ran to me ;
but I was not left long in doubt of the
cause of her agitation. "Are you alone ?
Is not your aunt coming?" she said to
me with uneasiness. "Is she ill?"
I hastened to reassure her ; and related
to her that I had just come from dining
in the village of La Canielle with a friend
of mine, a painter of sea-pieces.
"I see that I am the first comer," I
added. "Send me back to the sea, if you
wish."
"By uo means," she answered, smil
ing. "You are here, and I shall keep
you. Come down with me to the foun
tain. I have to carry some bread to the
swans."
I followed her. "So," she said, as we
ere walking, "you are a friend of that
opper colored. Ilibeira-like painter.
with the bushy hair ? He has a good
face, and our villagers already are Quite
fond of him. They say he is a fine fel
low. Tell him, that if he has need of
anything whatever, all that my house
affords is at his service. Why did you
not bring hire with you this evening?"
1 explained otepnen s unsocial dispo
sition to her, and his neglect of the hab
its 01 polite society.
"lie is, however," she said, "a re
markable artist, is he not?"
why ' "on think him remarkable?"
Ren...-, I :on't know. I have never
allowed myself to look at his canvas
while passing. He has, doubtless, con
siderable talent?"
"He has none at all."
"He is very lively and attractive.
then?"
As tiresome as a rainy day," I ans
wered thoughtlessly.
1 understood the blunder 1 had just
made, as I saw the surprise of Celie.
Neither talent, nor wit, nor liveli
ness!" she said, "and you are condemn
ed to seek his society in this poor coun
try of La Canielle?"
1 es," I answered coolly, "I love
him."
I doubt it; we are not tired of those
we love, even if they are stupid ; the
moment we have a reason for loving
them, we are interested in them, and do
not listen to them with indifference."
"What you say proves that you are bet
ter than I, that is all."
"Or that 1 know how to love better."
"Oh ! in that. I challenge you ; I am
passionately in love with some one this
very moment."
'With whom, pray?"
"With you."
took it for irony, for curiosity, or som'e
strange test of my modesty or my good
sense. 1 have wronged you ; pardon me
and let us say no more about it."
The last words were cold after the free
dom of so gracious a return upon herself,
but they were pronounced with a coy
timidity that pleased me more than all
the rest.
"On the contrary, let us speak about
it," I said ; "Heaven knows when I shall
have another good chance of talking with
you. I do not wish to remain in doubt;
I shall suffer cruelly, and I have the
iglit to wish to escape from a bitterness
which might be deep. If I have caused
ou to misunderstand me, it is not be
cause you are excessively prudish. You
are not and never nave been a prude.
but you are of a more serious character
than you appear. You sometimes show.
Mademoiselle the 'old maid,' an enjoy
ment so complete, so tresh, so youthful,
that I have spoken to you as to the child
whom 1 saw, eight days ago, playing
tneatricais ana laughing so neartuy.
That evening 1 was a sultan, vou were
my slave, and I was able tospeak famil
iarly to you in public. Then, you could
hardly laugh at it enough. JN ow, 1 have
been so moved by all that I have seen
and heard in the village, that 1 was
afraid of reallv startling your modesty,
11 I did not express my sell in an exag
gerated language tnat is to say, oy jest
ing about it myself, it is 1 who have
been absurd; you were not 111 a laugh
ing mood, and you are so generous that
you do not wish to think your friends
ridiculous. Ah well! consider it as if 1
had said nothing at all. I commence
'You are as good as you are great, and as
simple as you are amiable and hospitable.
x ou nave the courage of a man with the
grace of a woman. You are the most
sympathetic person whom I have ever
met, and the one who inspires me with
the most confidence and respect. Aatu
rally, I need your esteem to sweeten
and honor my life. I have no right to
obtain it, I inake no claim to it; I ask
only that, such being the case, vou ac
cord it to me, and 1 ardently desire to
find the means and the occasion to be
worthy of it.'
TO BE CONTINUED.
A3tEt:I'y a i.s Of PI BL1C MEN.
BY COL. J. W. FORNEY.
XtO. XLI.
ionn sergeant is one ot the many
1'imauuipnians wnose memory will al
ways be honored. His reputation, rinen-
ed Dy culture, integrity and winning
manners, became national before he was
forty, and when he died, in his seventy
third year, he had tilled out a life of rare
usefulness and success. He was born in
1779, less than a year before Horace Bin
ney, who is still living, and who was his
contemporary for fifty years at the bar
and in public life.
As marking the difference between the
lawyers 01 the past and the present.
heard an anecdote of Mr. Sergeant the
ouier uay, wmcn snows now the giant:
estimated their professional services and
by what sensitive and scrupulous rules
tney squared tneir actions. A distinguish
ed merchant, still living, called unou Mr
Sergeant for his opinion in an important
case, which was duly prepared and sent
oy one 01 tne students of the great law
yer. The merchant opened the letter
and after glancing over it asked the stu
dent lor the cnarge. ne said he did not
know the contents of the paper and could
not answer. The merchant then signed
a oianK cnecK, ana sent it back to Mr
Sergeant by the same baud, with a mess
age that he should fill it up with the
amount of his fee. This very student,
now one of the leading members of the
Philadelphia bar, graphically describes
the effect of the communication. He says
he never saw a little man (Mr. Sergeant
was of slight stature) so suddenly tower
into a giant. "Mr. entirely misun
derstands me, sir! Go back to him, sir.
and say lor me tnat I am the last person
living to nil up another man's check.
he will carefully examine the paper I
sent, he will find" my fee written on one
of the corners." With this somewhat
considerable flea la his ear the young
man retraced hi3 steps to the merchant,
when the opinion was caref ully inspected,
and written in very small letters in the
angle of one of the pages were the fig
ures "$30.00."
I fear the fee of our reigning legal
magnates for similar services would be at
least ten times thirty dollars.
In illustration of Sergeant's mode of
life, I quote from the venerable Binney's
eulogy : "His honor and integrity in all
that regarded his profession or manage
ment of his cause, were not only above
impeachment or imputation, but beyond
the though of it. So distinct and uni
versal was the impression that if any
man had directed a battery of that soft
against him the recoil would have pros
trated him to the earth. His heart, his
mind, his principles, his conscience, his
bond to man, his bond to Heaven, which
he had given early, and which to the last
he never intentionally violated, would
have made it, humanly speaking, impos
sible for him to swerve from his integri
ty." We must not forget,In perusing such a
character in the light of such an eulogy,
that Horace Binney was himself, during
his active career, a'fair illustration of his
own sentiments. Mr. Binney set in Con
gress while Andrew Jackson was Presi
dent, and was, perhaps the ablest advo
cate of the Bank of the United States,
and therefore one of the staunchest op
ponents of General Jackson's adminis
tration ; but he understood how to antag
onize measures without assailing men
now to arraign a public policy witnout
traducing private character a rare qual
ity, which might be profitably copied by
our modern teachers. One day he was
surprised by a note from the President
soliciting an interview, and the more so
because he had just finished an exhaus
tive protest against the President's course
in regard to the United States Bank.
General Jackson met him with all grace,
dignity and cordiality, and said : "I have
taken the liberty of sending for you, Mr.
Binney, to say that 1 have read your
speech, which is the most- powerful yet
made on your side of the House. 1 can
not, of course, thank you for the strength
of your argument, but I am happy to
know you as an adversary who does
not conceive it necessary to employ in
vective against a public officer who be
lieves he has discharged his duty faith
fully." I have this interesting fact from
good authority.
John Sergeant and Horace Uinney
moved together in politics and in their
profession. Let me employ Mr. Binney's
anguage m lo2 once more : "I honored
and respected him to the end of his life.
shall honor and respect his memory to
tho end of my own. Xo trivial incon
gruities of feeling or opinion ; no mis
representations, however arisen ; no pet
ty gust ; no cloud of a hand's breadth,
which may or will chill or overcast the
summer sky of the truest friend ; in a life
of fifty-five years not a single accident
disturbed the foundations of my regard
for him, or even reached the depths in
which thev were laid. These foundations
were laid upon his principles as I well
knew them fifty years ago. They were
laid deep upon that sure basis, and they
were beyond the reach of change or
chance, as his principles were."
Uinney was a member ot the State .Leg
islature sixty-one years ago, in 1806-7
(do not forget he is still living at his old
house in the city of Philadelphia), and
declined a re-election. He was a Repre
sentative in Congress from Philadelphia,
from 1833 to 1835, served as a member of
the Committee of Ways and Means, and
again declined a re-election. Sergeant
was in Congress from 1815 to 1823, from
1827 to 2829, and from 1837 to 1842. He
was especially famous for his part m the
great Missouri Compromise of 1820. He
was selected oy I'resident John yuincy
Adams to represent the United States on
the Panama Commission. He was the
Whig candidate for Vice-President in
1832, on the same ticket with Henry Clay.
He was tendered the mission to JMigiami
by General Harrison, which he declined.
or hail a century these two interest
ing men were associates at the bar, har
monizing In politics, and generally sup
porting the same measures and the same
candidates. Their joint experiences.
their blended patriotism, their light sense
of honor, their fidelity to convictions and
to the interests of their city, State and
country, cannot be too frequently repro
duced, we tread the path ot duty more
bravely in the lustre shed from examples
so unselfish and pure.
AFTER THE COT FLAGRATIOX,
Seme Notes and Incidents by a. lSem
oerof the Ladies Relief Commis
sion. Chicago, Oct. 28.
It was the afternoon of that dreadful
Monday, that Chicago people ca n never
thins: ot without a shudder. The ladies of
our block had sat out on their stone steps
since two o'ciock 01 the previous morn
ing, with black faces, uncombed hair,
and red, bleared eves, gazing with hearts
of lead at the roaring, rushing fire-fiend
tnat was devouring the homes ot our
friends on the Xorth Side. There was
no!water ; the Mayor had ordered us to
have no fires. One energetic Yankee
lady proposed sending six miles to an
artesian well to get water to go on with
her house cleaning, for, she said, "she
would nave to pay the women she had
hired any wav.
"Good God !" we cried, "if there is the
slightest change in the wind to-night, no
mis imt vny win nave a rooi
over their heads ! Even the prairies
aroiinu tne city are on hre, and we may
an oe uuriiea auve before another morn
ing. Let us do nothing but pray with
out ceasing that the wind may change."
xiien sue auu ner women sat down with
us in dumb despair, uutil an angel came
aiong auu said : "vo you know there
are starving and naked people at the
church on the corner of Washington and
Aim screet, oniy tnree blocks f rom here?
lhe JNlayor and City Council are there
but what can they do for women and
children .' Why don't vou help?"
Oh ! what a relief it was to go to work !
We gathered up all the clothes we could
carry and started. All along our route
the sidewalks were crowded with the
poor refugees, guarding the few pitiful
things they had saved, and anxiously
watching the flames, fearing thev would
nave 10 move again, jiany had already
moved several times. Arrived at the
church we found two policemen guard
ing tr.eaoor, anu hundreds ot noor. for
lorn people standing in line waiting pa-
nt:uw,y iui tueir utru locome to goinside,
- xei, me lacues in," snouted the police
men ; don't you see they are bringiin
clothes?" "Oh,yes," said the poor things,
wit h one voice, the men taking oft" their
hats, "God bless the ladies, let them in."
Once within we found nlentv to do
Beds had been hastily improvised from
me seats oi tne lecture room for the sick.
Here was a poor grandmother, with the
skin all burned from her hands. There
the doctor was attending to a mau whose
head had been crushed. Everywhere
were lost children crying pitifully, who
needed comforting. One boy had gone
out of town to spend the night with a
friend, and when he returned, his fath-
er s,uouse,oarn,and everything was gone,
not so much as a fence-panel left of his
splendid home. But.sadder than that.he
could not find father, mother, brothers or
sisters. Xo one could give him anv in
formation, nor any of the other poor lost
children. We could only see that they
had warm clothing, and urged them to
eat; anti, tnauKs to the ready lorgetful
ness of childhood, they all had good ap
petites. And didn't we give them strong
conee ana tea, and an sorts 01 indigesti
ble things, though? for already loads o
good things were arriving from all the
blessed country. There were boiled hams
and tongues, roasted sirllons of beef,
OURNAj
AGRICULTURE,
turkeys, chickens, cakes, and genuine
country dried Deel, cheese, ana butter,
and the poorest beggar in Chicago had
the privilege of dining with the Mayor
and his staff of assistants. "There are
no big-bugs here now," said an Irish wo
man, not, I think, without satisfaction.
On one seat lav a beautiful babe, about
eight months old, that had been found
on the sidewalk ; it lay sucking its thumb,
and gazing contentedly up at the bright
windows as if it had always lived in a
church.
In one corner was a German woman
with nine children, of all sizes. "Where
is your husband?" we inquired.
och, ijott in Himmel ! I took the
children and he took the feather-bed.and
he was so slow I think he got burned up
niit the feather-bed ; there was no water,
aud all the men on the Xorth Side drink
ed beer and whiskey,and then they could
not go fast. If I had taken the feather
bed mineself now I would have it."
"Yes, but you should be thankful that
you have all your children," I suggested.
"Aber! what can 1 ao mit the children
mitout a feather-bed?" she asked in as
tonishment. Not feeling equal to the reply, we turn
to another group. It is a woman, who
is clinging tight to her baby, and with
sobs of despair telling sympathizing lis
teners how yesterday she had a pleasant
home, a dear, kind husband, and five
children ; now this little child is all she
nas left. They nau slept so soundly they
did not waken until their own house was
burning. She had snatched her baby
and escaped, she knew not how.trhough
the flames and smoke, calling to her hus
band to loilow with the other children.
But he was too late. There was nothing
left of the husband, children and home
bnt a sickening little heap of ashes! ".Let
me have the baby," said a tearful listen
er; "I will give it some warm milk.while
you lie down here and rest. I hope it
will be a comfort to you." So saying she
undid the shawl that was wrapped around
it, but quickly closed it again with a look
of horror,but not soon enoughjto prevent
tne mother from seeing tnat ner darling
was dead in her arms. It had either in
haled the flame or the mother in falling
had killed it, and had been carrying it
for miles, not knowing it was dead.
The shock was too much for her. We
could see from her wandering eyes that
her reason had gone forever, and we
could not help feeling that it was a bless
ing. In another room is a woman who has
been having convulsions all day. She
brings a note to the pastor saying that
her husband was cut in txcain by a fire
engine.
The next day we spent 111 giving out
clothes. What wonderful boxes nave
come ! What a beautiful exhibition of
divine charity throughout the whole
land!
People were in such nervous haste they
did not stop to consider what was most
needed, but sent everything they could
lay their hands on ball dresses, theat
rical costumes, white vests and lavender
gloves, piled in with homespun jeans.
Only Boston, never in her intellectual
ptide impulsive, telegraphed to know
what was most needed ; and What elegant
clothing the noble citizens of the "Hub"
sent when tney received the answer
'Everything!"
Some dear old lady has sent some bro
cade silks made in the style of 1700, with
immense sleeves, puffed out with eider
down, and short waist with big ruffs.
They are really too precious to give away,
say the ladies. We will have tableaux
in the church this winter tor the benefit
of the sufferers, and use them in that
way.
And what wonderful contrasts there are
in the people who come for clothes. Side
by side with the miserable Irish beg
gars, who want something because the
Poor House is burned down, comes a
foreign Consul, Judges of the Supreme
Court, lawyers, editors, professors and
merchants. An English gentleman on
his bridal tour, stopping at one of the
hotels, lost his trunks and money. Al
though he offered a man five huudred
dollars to assist him, he could get no as
sistance. Even his wife's clothes she
had on caught in flames, and had to be
torn from her back. His order called
for the very best we had to give, but our
very best would make a strange outfit for
a wealthy young bride.
There comes a lady in a black silk vel
vet suit, with diamonds to match. She
put on her finest clothes to save them.
and has come to ask for a calico wrap
per, so tnat sue may not .be so splendid
n ner poverty.
W e were perfectly overwhelmed with
calls for baby clothes. It seemed as
though every family who was burned
out was blessed with a baby and a good
many orders called for clothes for twins.
They were'of all ages from two hours to
two years.
Many who had escaped from the flames
with good clothes on in wandering over
the ruins fell into vaults and sewers, and
lost them in that way.
On the third day the soldiers came, and
that made additional work for the kind
hands in the kitchen; bnt how glad we
were to see them ! Their military drill
was the first little bit of order in the
illimitable ocean of chaos. It seemed as
if the young ladies would drown them in
coffee in their first burst of gratitude.
And how glad were we Ohio people and
there are a great many m Chicagc when
the Cincinnati Relief Committee arrived !
And it really seemed as if thev were "in
spired," for they immediately built a
soup-house, such as was never heard of
before, that will feed fifteen thousand
people daily. We turned our poor peo
ple ngnt over to tnem, lor the good, hot.
rich, nourishing soup so dear to the hearts
and stomachesof all foreigners is the very
best 100a ior tnem. Ana it the prayers
and blessings of the poor will avail any-
111111, ,uv: jveiiei ounniLtce
will have a rich reward hereafter.
One poor Norwegian woman, who had
been sitting in stony despair with her
children by her cook stove, the only
thing she had been able to save, on be
ing told that she could get a bucket of
hot soup every day all winter, without
money and without price, burst into
tears and insisted on shaking hands with
everybody in tne church, and then, tak
ing heart, leu to polishing her stove w ith
such a will that it shone almost as bright
as tne messea cnarity tnat had so cheered
her.
But there must be an end to all things.
and to this letter, although the half of
the affecting incidents have not been toid
JOSH HILLINGS.
Josh Billings being duly sworn, testi-
iys az ioners : .ignt wont go into six
ana nav much ov ennvthing left over.
Menney a young feller haz found out
this sum in arithmetik bi trying to get a
numoer eignt nit into a number six boot
Virtue, In one respekt, iz liko munny.
That which we work the hardest for
sticks to us the longest. I have often
heard there was men who knew more
than they could tell, but I never met one
I have otten met thoze who could tell
grate dele more than they knu, and was
wining to swear to it. To be nroof agin
flattery, a man must have no vanity, and
such a man never existed. If he did he
iz one ov the lost arts. Sum people are
good simply bekause they are too lazy to
be wiked, and some bekause they aiut
got a chance. In munny, interest tollers
the principal. In morals, principle of
tener follers the interest, 'In time ov
piece prepare for war.' This iz the way
some famines live almost an the time
I he vices which a man kontraks In his
youth, however much he may shako them
oph, will often call on him thru life and
seak to renew hiz acquaintance. I kno
lots ov folks who are pious jist bekause
they waz born so. They kaiit tell when
they got religion, and if they should lose
it, they wouldn't know it. The man
who is wicked enulf tew be dreaded iz
saier man in community ihnii the man
who iz just virtewus enuff not to he ius-
pekteu.
AND GENERAL NEWS.
4, 1871.
FLIRTATION.
BT ALCYONE.
I lounged an hour along our streets
last Sunday, and amid all the charming
associations and the many bright and
earnest faces that passed and repassed me,
it was an hour of sadness. I feel I should
be culpable aud negligent, did I not dare
to tell the girls and young men assem-
oiea there that the very flowers must
have blushed for the actions of some.
I know I will be charged with a desire
to deprive them of a "little fun," but
mothers, look to your daughters ; fath
ers, look to your sons.
The ambition is misdirected that can
fill hours of recreation ouly with incen
tive and desires, that degrade our spirit
ual being into the mere gratification of
passion. Allowing for the spirit and
exuberance of youth, there is a demon of
familiarity and abandon possessing the
young that ought to be negatived at once,
and this fact the parent cannot too early
impress upon the mind of the child. If
an example is needed, go to any promis
cious gathering, and see wontonucss in
its incipiency, which no false delicacy
can conceal or charitable construction
dispel.
1 tell you, girls, the moment you begin
a flirtation, however harmless you may
deem the act in itself, you are marked
marked in this city at least. Do you j
suppose the man you flirt with keeps'his
own counsel? Oh, no! It flies with the
rapidity of lightning; and when he
again meets you, perhaps with a compan
ion, you are pointed out, "spotted," the
men call it, and the chase is but begun.
While you would shrink from anv i
undue familiarity, why tamper with this 1
fertile cause for prompting the senses?
The pleasure is unreal and deceptive;
and while you flatter yourself you have
trifled with some giady youth, you have
really laid the stepping-stone to solicita
tions as dishonoring as they are unfol
lowed. They follow you, learn where
you live; they seek and find out your
associations, meet you at the soiree, at
church, or on the street; and if you
blush on recognition, they are not re
pelled ; you have awakened a desire they
deem reciprocated ; you venture "it's
only a bit of fun." Your generosity and
unselfishness are soon discovered ; your
warm, fond heart finds its sympathies
enlisted ; you listen and are betrayed !
.Leave, I beg you, to those who are
wholly lost, such wiles and beguiling in
fluences. Strive to be a true woman, ele
vated, refined, and your happiness will
be increased in the ratio that you culti
vate the graces which cluster around a
pure heart. You will find one worthy
of your love, some kindred soul whose
heart itself is a sanctuary of affection ;
and come what may, wealth or penury,
you can learn the happiness of sharing
life with one whose
".Love through darkness' self, can make a path
way unut auu cieur.
LOST STARS.
BY THEODORE PARKER.
Like drooping, dying stars our loved
ones go away from our sight. The stars
01 our hopes, onr ambitions, our pray
ers, whose light ever shines before us,
leading on and up, they suddenly fade
from the firmament of our hearts, and
the place is left empty, cold, and dark.
A mother's soft, and earnest light,
that beamed through all our wants
and sorrows: a father's strong quick
light, that kept our feet from stum
bling inthe dark and treacherous ways :
sister's so mild, so pure, so constant,
and so true, shining upon us from
gentle, loving eyes and pursuading us
to grace and goodness ; a brother's light,
bright, and bold, and honest, a lover's
light, forever sleeping in our souls,
and illuminating our) goings and com
ings, a friends light, true and trusty,
going out forever? Xo! The light has
not gone out. It is shining beyond
the stars, where there is no Tight and
no darkness forever aud forever.
Xever call a man a lost man until
he is buried in a hopeless grave. No
man is lost upon whom any influence
may be exerted ,no man is lost to whom the
offer of the Gospel may be brought.
s are never to be discouraged. There
no man or woman so vile but God
may be brought, we are never to be
discouraged. There is no man or wo
man so vile but God may bring them
washed and saved to his kingdom.
He who rears up one child to christian
virtne, or recovers one fellow creature
to God, builds a temple more enduring
than earth or heaven. It is not the
painting, gilding, and carving, that
makes a gooa snip, out it sue be a
nimble sailor, tight and strong to en
dure the seas, that is her excellence.
It is the edge and temper of the blade
that makes a good sword, not the rich
ness of its scabbard, and so it is not money
or possessions that make a man con
siderable bnt his virtue.
PENSION STATISTICS.
Soldiers En listed in the Several
Wars of the United States.
The following facts in relation to the
pension system have been compiled from
data prepared for the report of the Com
missioner 01 tensions:
The aggregate annual amount of pen
sions of widows and dependent relatives
upon the roll June 30, 1871, was less than
on the 30th of June 1870. This was ow
ing to the lessening of individual pensions
by jiinors reaching the age of sixteen
years. There were 57,623 Revolutionary
soldiers pensioned for services, 11,308
soldiers of the Mexican war, and 103,791
soldiers of the war of the rebellion pen
sioned as invalids, it is thought that the
mnual expenditures for pensions for
other than the latter class have nearly
reached their maximum, and that during
the next ten years they will gradually
and materially decrease.
The following is a correct statement,
compiled with great care in the Pension
Office, of the total number of soldiers
serving in the wars, Ac. which the na
tion has engaged in since 1775. It will
appear in the forthcoming report of the
Commissioner of Pensions.
Soldiers of the war of tho Revolution 3",000
Soldier of the war of 1819 521,fi37
Soldiers of the Seminole warof 1H17 S.HII
Soldiers of the Black Hawk war of 1839 . r,rn
Soldiers ofthe Florida War of 1S18 to 1S42. iKi.d.W
Soldiers or the cek disturbance of 188i . .13,-ltS
Soldiers of the Southwestern disturbance of
1836 S.803
Soldiers or t he Cherokee county dis-tm banco
of 1836 3.986
Soldier of the Kcw York frontier disturb
ances ..1.K3K
Soldiers of the Canadian rebellion 1,138
tsumen oi the Mexican war ot lsifi i,asii
Soldiers of tho war of tho Kcbelliou of
1!H S.to-v'iSS
A CI RIOIS nGJIORIAL.
Mr. AV. D. Bancker, of New York, h as
brought from Chicago a curious memor
ial ot the great tiro. Among the ruins
of the Western News Company's es
tablishment, where an immense" stock
of periodicals and books were reduced
to ashes, there was found a single
leat oi a quarto mole, charred around
the edges. It contained the first chan
ter of Lamentations of Jeremiah, which
opens with the following words: "How
doth the city sit solitary that was full
of people! How is she become as
widow! she that was great among the
nations and a princess among't he prov
inces, now is sue uccomo trthutarv
She weop.ith sore in the night, aud
her tears are on her cheeks: among all
her lovers she hath nono fo comfort
her," And that was tho only frag
ment of literature Raved from the News
uompanys great depot.
The Hearth and Home savs: "The
oracles of the human soul speak in favor
oi tne purity and perpetuity ot marriage.
Men may forsake the oracles and live like
brutes. Men may forsake the unities
and bin id socialisms ol their own fancies.
It is all the worse for them. Hut the in
stitutions, the loves, the moral imutilsos
of the race, are on th xldeof marriage."
u
NUMBER 17.
CRIMES AND CASI ALTIES
In the same city, Mrs, Morred, while
attemptnig to light a coal-oil lamp, was
badly burned by its explosion.
Ou Sunday night, the High School
Buildiug in Holliston, Mass., was burn
ed. The loss is $10,000.
Oil Monday, Alfred Mackay, colored,
was hung at AVhitesville, X. C,
for the murder of John Stancill,
white.
On Saturday, at Greensboro, North
Carolina, Win. B. Parker, white, was
hung for the murder of Thomas Price,
colored.
Bertha Smith, a young girl of eleven
years, committed suicide iu New York
by swallowing Paris green, because her
parents prevented her attending a party.
At Boston, on Monday, a young man,
aged nineteen years, wasiustantly killed
near the City Hall, by a stick of timber
falling on him from a building undergo
ing repairs. Hts name is unknown.
At Portland, Maine, on Friday night,
a fire broke out in the block of stores
owned by J. B. Brown, and occupied by
. A. Smith ana Thomas A. Uowen, as
fancy-goods stores, aud destroyed the
stocks iu both.
On Monday morning, by the breaking
of a rail at Newport two Pullman cars of
the night express train were thrown
trom the track, one upon its side and the
other partially over. Two passengers
were slightly injured.
In Tiffin, a few days since, a little son
of Mr. F. Baker got hold of a bottle of
tooth-ache drops composed of creosote
and oil of cloves and drank it. Every
effort wras made to counteract the poison,
but the child died in an hour.
On Saturday, at Moonsocket, Rhode
Island, Michael Hearne, attempted to
shoot officer H. M. Pierce, with a double
barrelled gun. One cap snapped, when
the gun was seized by the officer and
broken in the struggle. Hearne is in
jail.
At Indianapolis, Indiana, on Saturday
last a dog fight terminated in a row, in
which Thomas Reeves struck Mr. Foster
with a stone. Foster is now dying, and
Reeves is under arrest for a murderous
assault, with a fair chance for the peni
tentiary. Mr. Stokes, a brewer of Columbus,
while engaged in superintending the
mending ol some steam apparatus at his
brewery, in some way got entangled in
the machinery, and only saved his arm
by forcibty pulling it from the wheel.
The arm is terribly lacerated.
The fishing schooner River Queen, of
Gloucester, Massachusetts, given up by
her owners as lost, had a crew of twelve
persons. Great anxiety is felt for the
schooner Fitz E. Riggs, jr which has
been absent at George's Banks about four
weeks, and not been seen since the gale
of the 2d instant.
Mrs. Cclia O'Neil, an insane woman,
threw her two children out of a second
story window at 13 Auburn Place, in
New York, and then jnmppd out after
them. They were taken to the City Hos
pital, where one of them died. Mrs.
O'Neil has recently been discharged
from the lunatic asylum.
The people at Lundley Station, thirty
miles from New Albany", on the Louis
ville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad,
were greatly excited Tuesday, at the dis
covery of an infanticide. The remains
of the infant were found near the road
side, rooted up by hogs. The guilty
mother is not yet arrested.
Nine murderers were recently execut
ed at Kiev, in Russia, by one lianguian,
who had no assistants with him. lie
strangled them one after another, on a
low gallows. The dreadful scene lasted
nearly two hours. The last man who
was executed, and who witnessed the
execution of the eight others, fainted
away before his turn came.
At Crestline, a few days ago, a negro
named Henry Allen, aged about fifty
years, was found dead in a shed in the
rear of the freight house. He was a well
known character about town, and had
been drinking heavily for some time.
He was last seen on the previous after
noon, considerably under the influence
of liqnor, and evidently died from its
effect.
The overland train which left San
Francisco on Sunday morning, ran ort"
an embankment fifteen feet high, near
the crossing of the San Joaquin River at
noon, une passenger was fatally and a
number seriously injured. The names
are not given. Senator Morton, of In
diana, and his party were ou a special car
at the rear of the train, and were un
harmed. Four cars were demolished.
At Lexington, Missouri, on the 28tli
inst., there were three attempts at sui
cide, two of which were successful.
Henry U. Moore, formerly of Mayshck,
Mason county, Ky., blew out his brains.
His age was sixty-four. Another Ken
tuckian, whose name was either Newton
or Connelly, took a fatal dose of lauda
num. William J est, a printer, took a
large quantity of opium, but was saved
by anclidotes.
Daniel Beardsley and family live in
Shavertown, Delaware County. Thev
havc three children. During the absence
of their parents one evening the children
played "tie up sheep." One of the little
ones put the noose around his neck, but
he did not play the part well, and the
oldest boy, Mack, attempted to show him
how it ought to be done. He placet! the
noose over nis head, ana in his pranks
drew it until life was extinct.
Major Agustus Spiller committed sui
cide at. Gosport, England, in a very
shocking manner. 'While sitting a't
breakfast with his wife and cousin, lie
seized a table-knife and nearly severed
his head from his body. Death was al
most instantaneous. The deceased offi
cer had been ailing for some lime since
the return of the regiment from India,
and had only recently resumed his du
ties after three months' sick leave.
At Delphos Ohio, on Monday evening,
a man, unknown and about "thirty-five
years of age, was killed by Andrew Sto
ver, a farmer of wealth. "The man came
into the house of Mr. Stever and asked
him for some matches, When Stever
handed them to hini, the man had a re
volver in his hand, and asked Stever if he
saw that. Whereupon Stever knocked It
from his hand and knocked the man
down upon the floor, Mr. Stever had a
small pocket-knife, which he used in
stabbing the mau several times. The
man got up and staggered to the door.
Mr. Stever went to one of his neighbors
for assistance, and upon his return the
man was dead. Tho deceased hail upon
his person two revolvers, six watches,
and about forty dollars in money. The
Coroner held nr inquest, and the jury
returned a verdict that the deceased,
name unknow n, came to his deatli bv the
hand of Andrew Stever, in self-defense.
Stever is not under arrest.
At Upper Sandusky, Ohio, a terrible
case of poisoning was exposed. Tenor
twelve ago, Barnabas Wagoner, an old
soldier of 1812, married a voung girl
not out of her teens, while he" had reach
ed his three-score-aud-ten, and thev liv
ed together from the tlate of marriage
apparently happy; but she had tired of
him, and formed a plot, with her brother,
Robert Gaster, to get rid of the old man.
They engaged a traveling doctor named
Foonpytodo the work, agreeing to pav
hlm f300 therefor. Fooncy procured
some strychnine, and Wagoner's wife
made some bread and milk sop for the old
man, ho being sick. The doctor put the
poison Into it. It was given to Warner
on the morning of Sept. 21st, and in the
evening he was tlc.id. The $2W not hiv
ing foil h-coiuing, the doctor threatened
to expose l ho deed. This did not bring
mw mum-., ne couiessed Itelore the
proper officials, and gave himself up.
Mrs. Ungoner ni her brother were arretted,
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MELANGE.
Hub-bnl) A Boston boy.
New oranges are coming soon.
The flour of loveliness Pearl Powder.
Walnuts abound this year in Indiana,
nonry county, Missouri, has an earless
boy.
The Germans are naturally afraid of
Lyons.
Deer run races with California railway
trains. "
Heavy charge of the light brigade
Gas bills.
A romance of the middle ages An old
maid's love-letters.
Dogs the color of the dress are the win
ter style for ladies.
When a man is lantern-jawed can lie
be called light-headed.
Pretty necktie for a voung man The
arms of his sweetheart.
How often do we find that a man's bet
ter half gives no quarter.
Who ever saw anybody near a lire who
didn't want to play poker?
The way to keep your silk umbrella
Only lend your cotton one.
Modern Knights of the Golden Fleece
The New York Tauiinanyites.
The best person indeed, the only per
son to fill a vacuum, is a dentist.
The coal merchant's favorite aphorism
One good ton deserves another.
Ladies and gentlemen dancing upon
the green-sward are grasshoppers;
The most suitable window tor a single
lady when on the look-out A bow.
Counter-irritants People who exam
ine the whole stock and buy nothing.
Why are lawyers like ivy? Because
the greater the ruin, the more they cling.
To become the lion of a party, it is not
necessary to make a beast of one's self.
Young people grow worse when in
love. It increases their sighs wonderful
ly-
Some malignant slanderer says "Wos
man needs no eulogist for she speak
for herself."
An exchange says the degree of LLD.
conferred upon Ben Butler, means "lick
ed like the d 1."
Au old 'settler' the old lady who sent
a farmer ten cents that had been duo
twenty-nine years.
Young ladies at needle-work, are not
always what they appear. They are
sometimes seaming.
. Annopolis Benedicts excuse the scratch
es on their faces by saying that they have
bten fooling with the cat.
The tforoner's jury at Cairo decided
that a deceased man "stultified himself
to deatli with green trash."
In revenge, a jilted Indiana girl igni
ted a dozen bunches of lire-crackers un
der a rival's nuptial conch.
We would advise our readers to go and
see Dan Rice. Napoleon can Sedan rise
before his eyes every night.
Why is a pig in a parlor like a house
on fire ? Because the sooner you put it
out the better. Office Demon.
A merchant of our acquaintance won
ders why he is obliged to go so often af
ter money that is coining to him.
Not finding any money in the hou?.
a disgusted Kentucky burglcr made the
family get up and cook him a supper.
The people of Winlleld, L. I., chris
tened a new locomotive by breaking a
bottle of champagne on the cow catcher.
Mr. Eagan, of Wisconsin, thought he
would feel of a circular saw to see if it
was going. He satisfied himself that it
was.
At Norwich, a horse ran over a cat,
who subsequently arose, dusted herself,
and ran off with her eight remaining
lives.
Sunday croquet-playing is Slid by a
Kentucky paper to be "contrary to "the
laws of God, man and the town of Mount.
Sterling."
"Oft" she goes," said Mr. Smith to h'n
spouse, as they started by the railway.
"You arc wrong," said Mrs. Smith "for
this is the last mail train."
When Vincennes citizens meet they do
not ask concerning each other's health.
They simply "shake,"' and go directly to
the nearest drug store for quinine.
A Jew was observed looking very in
tently at a prodigious fine ham. 'What
are you saying to that ham, Mr. Jacobs V
'I was saying to it ; Thon almost pcrsua
dest nie to be a Christian.'
A maiden lady alluding to her youth
ful accomplishments, said that "at six
months of age she went alone. A mali
cious iudiyidmil present remarked:
"Yes, and you have been going alone
ever since."
"Pray," inquired one minister of an
other, seeing so many ladies attend hU
church, "Why do you invariably address
your congregation as "dear brethren?"
"Oh, the answer is easily given," he re
plied; "the brethren embrace the sis
ters. Even Judge Barnard will sometimes
joke. Tlic other day a spectator in the
court room accidentally overturned a
chair, and was gravely recommended In
the judge to be more careful of the court
house furniture, as that chair alone had
already cost the cil y over $41X1.000.
The editor of a Texas paper is exhor
ted by a sympathetic subscriber to "con
tinue to pour red-hot thunderbolts rigid
into the teeth of the leeches and sharks
that are sucking the life-blood from the
people." If the editor does it there will
be work torn dentist down in lexas.
Somebody lias utilized pet and other
names thus: For a printer's wife, Em;
for a sign's wife, IJet-ty ; for a lawyer's
wue, Mie; tor a teamster's wife, Carrie;
for a fisherman's wife, Nct-tv; for a
shoemaker's wife, Peg-gy; for a carriet
man's wife, Mattie; for an auctioneer's
wife, Bid-dy; for a chemist's wile. Aim
Eliza :for an engineer's wife. Bridge-it.
A Pennsylva nia editor acknowledges
the receipt of 'an egg laid by a common
hen which measured eight and one hah"
inches iu circumference, sax and a half
inches in diameter, and weighed four
ounces. A hen with a diameter almost
equal to her circumference, and weigh
ing only tour ounces, i a rare bird, in
deed.
It is reported that a shoemaker on Long
Island oilers to work against any man at
his craft for a purse of $100. It ill ln
a lusting contest, with the sole end in
view, of settling which shoemaker is
entitled to the upper place, and be is wil
ling to stake his little awl ou the result.
In case of a tie. there will lie a second
trial.
The Amherst Stamhtnl Jis responsible
for the following: "One of our sopho
mores has devised a new way of telling
bad news. He writes home to his father
I came near loseing $.(7 hist week.' Anx
ious parent writes back that he is thank
ful that, the money was not lost, and
wants to know 'how near.' Hy return
mail. "Came within one of " it lost
Joti,"
An attorney named Else, rather di
minutive in bis stature, and not particu
larly respectable in his character, once
met Jekyll. "Sir," said he, -l hear that
you have called nie h ettifoggiug scoun
drel. Have you done so, sir?" ' .lekvl!,
with a look of contempt, replied : "Sir.
1 never said lhat you were a pettifogger
or a scoundrel, but I said vou were littti-
Deaoou Jennifer's, parson was fond of
hunting, which the deacon considered ;
most uuclcrical pa.-timc, and so be one
day said to the clergyman : "I've been
reading my bible to'see if the Apostles
ever went shooting, but I cau-'t lind thai
they ever did." "Xo, Deacon, vou an"
right," said the p.iMor. "the shooting
was very bad iu Palestine, and so they
wut fishing instead."