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PAIXESYILXE, LAKE COUNTY, OHIO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1871.
NUMBER 25.
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ment in the il:u-e.
old niis;os.
TheuM. oW friends
home chaiig-eu
fcume buried; nicpe out or 1
Some enemies 'n tlm world's swift fii
No time to make anii'inis.
jlt I
Theoldfold friend
W here are th'V"f Thre are lyinjr in one jrrare
And from the fur-off world tlmdady wave
The old, dear friends !
One prie daily; and one wears a mask; -Another,
lonetranel, eaie.s noi to ak.
Where eaueles ancr cm Is.
The dear, old friends!
ho liiauv ami so foml in tar of youth!
Alas! tfiat Faith can lie divorMil from Truth
When love in iwvoreiM ends.
The old, old friends !
They hovor round me still in evening shades ;
Surely they shall return v hu sunlight fables,
Aod'lile on Ooi dejiends.
THE fVF.W VIIUC.
BV P. HARDY, JR.
Another vear, of hope and fear,
(lath sou Kiit that myotic land
Where da s ifoue hy and atfes lie,
A might', tfhostiv band!
The dayt that sleej. without the deep
ljoneVepuhhre of years.
To us now seem more like a dream
Of sumdiine and of tears.
On MenTrvN traek we wander hark
To viow the haunted Punt,
And cannot fail to lilt the veil
That over it is cast.
As if hy chanr.e a single f?fince
Ioth to our niintU unlohl.
Ami to us ItrinA n thousand things
Too iiiouriifui to he told.
Hones cherished Ion;? a pnodlr throng,
There crushed and huiie I lie.
Ami joy that aped nil"! d minis that lied,
l-.iko fatnlmws from the sky.
We uiXJMtm those who now repose
Within the anus of death.
And mtdly wwpuVr sorrow 4 deep.
That punt not like a breath.
Thus on Time's wlnp a thousand tiling
We love and cherish here,
Away are horno to that forlorn
Sad sepulchre of years;
And soon must wo from earth set free.
Within the cold tomb slumber,
Mii;-t tfo to rest with iulreless Invust,
Must join death's silent number.
CHRISTiTIAM AM) NKW 1KAU
Green were the meadows with lat summer's
ftore;
Thcmaplu rustled with a wealth of leaver ;
Tw. htiu.L n-irnt I 1 il il i n ir Mli ItnMtlV ftholP.
Down by the old mill, with its robwebbed door
Ana Hwauow-nauiiLeu eaves;
And all the air was warm and calm and clear,
As if cold winter ucver could come near.
Now, the wide meadow-land where then we
strolled
Are misty with a w ist of whirling snow:
The ruined maiden, stripped ot autumn's gold,
Migh mournfully and shiver in the cold.
As the hoarse north-winds blow.
Yet something makes thisi'roLy eason doar,
The Happy Happy New Year's time is here.
The Mrrv Christmas, with its irenerous loanls,
Its lire-lit healths, and gifts, and blazing trees,
Its pleasant voices uttering gx'iiUo wor.is,
Its geuial mirth, attuned to sweet accords,
Its holy memories!
The fairest season of the passing year,
The Merry Merry Christmas time is here.
The sumacs bv the brook have lost their red:
The mill-wheel in the ice stands dumb and
still:
The leaves have fallen and the birds have fled;
t he llowers we loveu in summer an are ueai,
Anil wintrv winds blow chill.
Yet something makes this dreariness less drear,
The Happy Happy Aew lear s time is here.
Since last the panes were hoar with Xew Years
frost
Unto our lives some changes have been given;
Some ot'our barks have labored, temnnst-tossed-
tome of us, too, have love 1, and some have lost,
same lotma tueir rest in neaven.
So, humanly, we mingle smile and tjar,
When Happy New Year's time is drawing near.
Then pile the fagots higher on the hearth.
And till the cup of joy, though eyes be dim.
We hail the day that gave our Saviour birth,
Ami pray His spirit mav descend on earth,
That we mav follow Him.
Tis this that makes the Christinas time so dear;
jurist, in tns inve ior us, seems tirawt ug near.
A IIEL1C.
Only a woman's right-hand glove.
Five and three-quarters Curvoisier's make,
ror an common purposes useless enougn.
Vet dearer for her sweet sake.
Iearer to me for her who tilled
Its cm i it v ulace with a warm wliitf liaml--
The ha in 1 1 have held ere the voice was stilled
Jn the sleep ot the sileut laud
Onlv a irlove! vet sneakintrto me
Of thelear dead days now vanished and flel
Ann the lace that I never again shall see
Till the grave give back its dead.
An empty clove! yet to me how full
Of the fragrance of davs that come no more.
Of memories that make us,and tho'ts that rule
Man's lite 111 its inmost eore.
The trioe of her voire, the pose of her head
ah, an come oacK ;u tno will's uenest;
The music she loved, the lxok3 shv read
Nay, the colors that suited her best.
And oh! that night by the wild seashore.
With its tears. its kisses.and its vows of love.
When, as pledge of the parting promise we
swore,
Each gave a glove for a glove.
Yon laugh! hut remember though only a glove.
And to you may no dee per a meaning express
To me it is changed by the light of that love
to cue one sweet tiling i possess!
Our souls draw their nurture from many
a" round
And faiths that are different in their roots,
IV here the will is righland the heart is sound,
jlic uiuuu me Biuiic hi uieir iruiLS.
Men get at the truth bv different roads.
And must live at the part of it each one sees;
You gather your guides out of orthodox codes,
mine out 01 triucs iiKe tnese.
A trifle, no doubt, but in such a case.
So Imthed iu the light ota life gone bv.
It has entered the region and takes its place
rw uu i, iic tilings mat cauuot (liei
This trifle to me is of heavenly birth:
No chance, as I take it, hut purposely given
io uei p me 10 sit soiuewnai. looser io eat ul
Ana closer a little to heaven.
For it seems to bring me so nenr, oh ! so near,
iu iuv uu:v ui un uiigt-i aiciiiug noove
Witli its yearning eyes of love!
How I
Spent my
Year's.
JJg-rf
BV ROSE GUAHAM.
Y mother ilieJ whnn I was very
young, leaving ine to the care
of an iiidnlguiit fattier, who
netteil anil spoiled me until lin
met with a handsome, cold hearted wid
ow lady, with one clulU about my own
sige.
whom he married. J pass over the
martyrdom of my childhood, and on to
the eventful New Year's day which
forms the subject of my story
It was a few days before Christmas,
when my stepmother remarked, "I sup
pose. Mary, that i red sterling will be
home in a day or two."
'O. yes." replied her danghter, "Fan
ny told me that slie expected him to-
morrow.
"Then lie will likely call upon you on
few Year's; he will be glad to meet you
asrain. for he always thought so much of
vou when vou were a child
I felt rather astonished to hear this
conversation addressed to my stepsister,
for I had always looked upon Fred al
most as mv own private property. We
had played together when we were chil-
ilren: and although Mary would some
times join our play, she was always- sure
to quarrel and vow never to speak to us
airain. When I was at the use of four-
teen, Fred went to Kurope to complete
his education, and now when four years
had passed away, although l thought out
Jittlo of the childish engagement that
existed between us, yet thero was one
figure mixed with all my dreams, and it
bore a striking resemblance to Fred
Sterling.
"Why. I thought Fred Sterling be
longed toRosie!" said my father, strok
ing down my curis.
"O, no!" replied my mother, very
coolly, "he liked Rose well enough to
ulav with, but Mary was the favorite."
Notwithstanding that step-mother had
given Ker opinion so decidedly in favor
4)1 Fred's attachment to Mary, she look-
.ct rather worried, and at length reuiark
ed, "Rose, why don't you put up your
liair? I think you are too old wear
curls, for you know that you and Mary
are to be considered young ladies now,
iiiul on Xew Year's day you will receive
calls."
This was quite a new idea to me, I
liad always worn my hair in curls, and
it had never occurred to me that it could I
bt worn hi any other way. Freu, too,
hal liked mv curl-, and when he left had
cut oft a little rinslet. Dressed it to his
i:f!? and said he nhoidd always keep it.
lo tell Uie triitu, aio, I nau an uit-a
eiirls were the inct beeoiiiiii: to me. i
was, however, eavod the trouble of re-
I plying, for my father looked up, and
twisting a lock of my hair over his linger,
exclaimed :
No. indeed! Ttosie's curls must not
be put up until they are gray," and lite
tnmml war and nassetl his hand over
his eves.
I had a iortrait of my own mother,
taken when she was about my age ; her
hair hung in glossy ringlets, ami 1 some
times thought I liore a great resemblance
to her, only that sue was beautiful. 1 bus
I knew will' my father passed his hand
over his eyes.
My stepmother bit her lips, and seemed
lost in thought. Presently she looked up,
and with a bland sioiie, remarked,"Kosa,
lear, why don t you go and make your
airit Pattie a visit? She is always wait
ing for you, is a kind old soul, and loves
you dearly."
Aunt Pattie was my father's eldest ana
only remaining sister; but this was the
tirst tune l had ever heard uer merits ac
knowledged by mv'nresent mother. Of
ten, on the contrary, had my blood boiled
to hear her called vulgar and "country-
tied."
I replied that I intended making her a
visit very soon.
"Well, Rosa," she continued, "you aro
so fond of making others happy, why
don't vou go after Christmas, and spend
.New Year's with her? She will leei
more lonely at such a time than at any
other, and 1 know she"would enjoy hav
ing you with her so much."
1 looked up, astonished at tnis moon,
but I saw the scheme at once and re
solved to bailie her, so 1 replied that I
prelerred making my visit alter JNew
Year's.
My father, however, with a mischiev
ous twinkle at me, remarked, "You had
iMitter go a few days after Christmas,
Knsie; your aunt Pattie would bo much
like to have you with her then."
I consented alter this, ot course, lint
when alone in my room, I puzzled my
self to discover what my father meant.
The day ot my departure came, and my
father and I set forth on our journey.
The abode of my aunt Pattie was in a
bcautitul,but rather lonely country place,
with but little society, and a tew poor
families scattered here and there, with
their dwellings now almost buried in
snow-banks, which looked as though they
would never melt away. 1 loveu my
aunt Pattie very much, but I sighed as 1
thought of spending this usually gay sea
son in such a dreary looking region.
Just then, however, we came in sight
of my aunt's house, and there stood the
dear old lady at her gate, watching for
us. iter smile was so bright and her
look was so happy as she welcomed us,
that my gloomy feelings were iustantly
dispelled, and hy the time that my father,
after having chatted a little while, took
his leave. I began to feel quite lively
Before he went, however, he drew me to
him, and as he kissed me, whispered,
with a mischievous smile, ' JSow, Itosie,
don't lose your heart out here," and he
was gone.
As l looked around x tuougnt tnere
was hut little need of such a caution
my heart was certainly sate unless
buried it in one ot the suow-oanKs.
"Oh, my dear child !" exclaimed Aunt
Pattie, drawing me closer to her, "1 am
so glad you made up your mind to spend
the holidays with your poor old aunt, for
I always leel more lonely at such tinie3
than at any other,"
I was glad too, and 1 telt that 1 was
more than repaid for the sacrifice I had
made.
"There are others who will be de
lighted to see you, too, my child," she
continued, "there are the Lianctons, who
are continually inquiring for 'Miss
Rose.' "
The Lanetons were a poor family rc
siding near my aunt, who were striving
to earn an honest living. During the
year 1 had spent with my aunt, previous
to my father's second marriage, I had
frequently visited them, and 1 had never
been at my aunt's since without calling.
"Are they all well r" 1 inquired.
"Yes," replied my aunt, "all but the
youngest child, who is confined to her
bed by the spine complaint, and the old
grandmother, who is blind. "
Well, Rose, we shall not be quite
alone on New Year's day," said myannt
m the evening, "tor 1 have invited a
whole iamily to dine with ns."
"Who are they t" 1 inquired
"Oh, I shall not tell you," she replied
I am going to surprise you; one is an old
friend of yours."
The Willis tamily, 1 suppose, and
Sarah, the old friend," said I.
Aunt Pattie laughed, but said nothing,
Sarah Willis and I had always played to
gether, when I lived with my aunt: and
trout this tact she imagined that we were
very dear mends, xec why we had
sought each other's society I cannot tell
Certain it is we never met without quar
reling. The childish antipathy 1 had at
wavs maintained toward her since, and
therefore received this intelligence . with
no great degree ot pleasure,
I he next day my auut was busy in the
kitchen, making pies and preparing lor
the morrow, which was Xew Years; and
I helped her, leeling that 1 was much
happier there than i would have been at
home. Jttut there was one hgure that
notwithstanding my heroic resolves, still
llitted through my mind, in lmagina-
tion I saw Fred and Mary together, and
i irave ine a Hecret rmn. imil i Knew
that this was foolish. Why should
care for one from whom 1 had been
parted for years? lie might be changed
Probably he was conceited aud egotist
ical ; of course he had forgotten all about
me, and very likely he might be engaged
to some one else. Jtiiiueavoring to Dan
ish his image from my mind, I set out
about dark, with a basket well filled with
good things on my arm, to visit the Ijane-
tons.
"O, mother, here comes Miss Rose,
exclaimed Maggie JUmeton, a little cuny-
head pet ot my own.
'U, Miss Rose! Miss Rose:" was
echoed; and I was immediately sur
rounded bv a bevy ot children.
"Uo give Miss Rose room to come in.
said Mrs. Laneton, as she extended her
hand, saying "jou're welcome, miss,
You look the same as ever," and she
nauueu me a cnair, -oniy a great deal
prettier
'1 cannotsee now yon took, Miss Kose,
chimed in trie old grandmother m
mournful tone, "but there is your same
sweet; yoice. Thank Heaven, 1 can hear
that
Miss Rose, won't you come here
please," said a weak, childish voice
turned to the bed, where lay a pale, thin
little girl. A small white hand was
slipped in mine, and fixing her large
blue eyes upon me, she said, "I'm so glad
you have come. Miss Rose."
I leaned over and Kissed the little snf-
ferer and tried to talk to her;but her sad
lace Drougnt tears to my eyes.
"I will leave you now and call another
time," was uttered in a deep, manly
voice.
I turned quickly in thetlirection from
whence the sound came, for the dusky
twilight had prevented my noticing th
there was a gentleman m the room: an
I caught but a slight glimpse of him as
he lett tne house
"He is very kind, said Mrs. Laneton
in answer to my look; "he is a strange
who came here with Mrs. Newton yes
terday, and dropped In a tew minutes
since to give my poor girl, as he said,
New Year's present."
As 1 walked home, with the empty
basket pn my arm, I felt fully repaid f
spending my holidays In the country.
The next day aunt Pattie examined
my wardrolie, and was Koine time in
choosingon twoor three to see which was
most becoming, and at length decided on
H mazarine blue silk, which she sal
looked well with a fair complexion.
I laughingly submitted to he turned
aud twisted in all directions; to have my
hair first brushed overniv forehead, then
olf ; to see my curls arranged in all os-
ble wavs; in snort, to oe treated like a
large doll about to be dressed for some
onderful occasion.
"Aunt Pattie," said I, as we were sit
ting together, waiting tor our company,
old maids are very happy, are they
not?"
I am." she replied, "if you consider
me any rule: why, my child, do you think
ot oemg one ."
"Yes." said I, "I would like to-be an
old maid, and have you to live with me."
Ann : Pattie smiled, but betore she
could reply, the door opened and a group
itered. foremost, to my surprise, was
the figure I had caught a glimpse of the
eveuing before, and whose image had
been Hitting through my mind tor tne
pat four years. I was almost lost to con
sciousness when Fanny Sterling threw
her arms around my neck and kissed me,
exclaiming:
Why don't vou gay how glad you are
to see us all ? Here I have been looking
forward to meeting you to-day ever since
came to the country. -Let me introduce
you to my brother Fred," she continued.
1 hope," remarked mat gentleman,
extending his hand, "that an introduc
tion is not necessary, l on have not tor-
gotten me, have you, Rose?
There was the same irankness as oi oio.
How I envied his easy manners, for I
could feel the color come and go in my
check. To my relief, Mr. and Mrs. Ster
ling now came forward to shake hands
with me, while the latter remarked:
"I don t wonder at your astonishment.
Rose. But we are making a visit to some
friends out here, and your aunt invited
ns to come and surprise you."
I was soon quite at my ease ; and now i
ad time to note the changes which four
years had made In rred. Tlie Doyisn
figure had become more manly, and his
manner had acquired a greater finish.
That was a pleasant dinner party.
Every one looked smiling and happy.
"Miss icosalie," said reo, "tins even
ing, when vou get rid of your company,
will vou favor me with a sleigh ride i"
"Well, I declare," broke in Fanny,
what impudence ! I suppose, Mr. Fred,
the next thing, you will ask us to please
to go." .
"Probably Fred wishes to talk oyer
old times with Rose," said Mrs. Sterling,
and feels too bashtiu to do it in our pres
ence."
"Will you go Rose?" he asked.
I promised, and at dusk Fred's sleigh
stopped at the door. I was soon in, and
we were flying over the snow DaiiKS,
while the merry bells kept time to our
voices.
Did you see my father before you left
home?" I inquired.
Yes." he replied ; "I called there to
see von the evening von left, supposing
you were at home; for although my fa
ther told him some tune since that we d
spend our New Year's out here, he didn't
mention that you were coming.
Old you see Mary r" 1 asked.
Yes," said he; ""do you recollect,
Rosa, how she and I used to quarrel to
gether?" We went on bilking about oiu times,
and about the childish engagement we
had made with each other, and somehow
the past at this point becoming connected
with the present, our conversation in
terested us, and we scarcely knew how
time passed.
When 1 returned to aunt 1'attie a new
diamond ring was glistening on my
finger. She smiled as she noticed it, and
inquired if I still clung to my resolution
of being an old maid.
The remainder of my visit passed pleas
antly away. My father came to take me
home, and the Sterling family accom
panied us to the city.- My stepmother re
ceived me in her usual style, omitting to
call me "dear, as it was no longer nec
essary. She also forgot to inquire after
the "kind old soul" whom I had been
visiting. The conversation soon turned
upon New i ear's day, and 1 received a
history ot Mary's conquests.
"Frederick Sterling called upon Mary
the evening you left," said the mother,
'but strange to say, he has not been here
since: he didn't even make a jNew l ear's
call." " ' ' " '
"Perhaps-," observed my father, mis
chievously, "he was outot town."
"Yes," replied his wife, "very likely.'
In the course of the evening Mr. Fred
erick Sterling made his appearance, and
Mary immediately applied herself to the
task of entertaining him, so that I had
but a small chance of saying anything.
After he had gone, and my step-mother
anu l wereaione, biic saiu . . '
"My dear, you know, I Rivppose, that
Mr. Sterling is a beau ot Mary's; they
thought a great deal of each other as
children, and tne otner evening lie was
delighted to meet her again alter so long
an absence ; now what I have to say to
vou is, that I think it would be a good
plan for us both to stay ont of the draw
ing-room when he calls, tor lovers always
like to be alone together."
I was prevented from replying to this
observation by the entrance of my father
and Mary.
t red Sterling," said the iormer, ad
dressing his wife, "has requested my per
mission to Ins marriage with a certain
young lady of our acquaintance."
Ah : replied his wite, with a pleased
look, "I was expecting this; it will be a
splendid match for. her, he is so well ed
ucated and gentlemanly, and las family
are in the very .best society, iteauy,
Mary," she continued, "I congratulate
you." i
"Hut the name or the young lady to
whom I referred was not Mary; it was
Rosalie." dryly said my lather.
My step-mother opened her eyes in as
tonishment.
"Why," she replied, "I thought all his
attentions were directed to Mary ; how
ever, I am rather glad she didn't fancy
mm, as ne is not altogether the match
should desire for her."
"Well," replied my father, "he suits
me perfectly. I should not desire a better
husband for my daughter."
And so we were married, and happily
settled. ' Aunt Pattie gayo np her lonely
residence in the country and came to live
with me. My lather is a constant visi
tor, and seems to enjoy neing with us
Fanny has proved a sister indeed; she
sometimes accuses me of having stolen
her brother Ironi hcr.but then she throws
her arms around me and says she has
found a new sister.
The beginning of my happiness I date
from that eventtul New Year's day when
1 sought to add to the enjoyment of oth
ers. Fred often speaks of my visit to the
Lanetons, and says It was the sight of
their love tor me, more than anything
else, which assured him that, in obtain
ing a renewal of my promise, his happi
pea would be complete.
CELIE.
BY GEORGE SAND.
SECOND PART.
CGSTPi'PKP,
thought that the influence of
good life, retired, seriously oc
copied and quietly happy, would
be at least a spectacle to make
some ot them rcllcct. 1 have endeavor
ed to make them love the true in me; but
I have not made many conversions. At
best, I have retarded or postponed some
ot those latal wrecks which must be re
garded rather with sorrow than with in
dignatiou. The current of the age is so
strong!
"With all these duties resolutely at
cepted, there was left me little enough
tune lor sruilv, and that very olten in
terrupted. Thence has resulted an ever
unsatisfied thirst which, 1 assure you
has been very benelicial to me. Those
hours of physical fatigue and of forced
eolation, occasioned by my position as a
expectable vong woman, might have
been troubled by the dangerous reveries
of ennui ; but an impatience to renew an
nvestigation lett hall finished, the
healthful joy at being again engrossed
in it, and perhaps also that trait of curi-
lty which torments a woman, onlv to
mislead her when wrongly applied
that is what has kept me tranquil and
healthy in mind and body in my soli
tude.
"One single drama has taken place in
my inner life, and has encrusted it, as it
were, witli obstinacy that is the love of
Montroger. That excellent friend has
really ieen, by his want of judgment,
the enemy of my rejiose. ne has told
on all; you know, then, that Ins spite
threw hiin for some time into vice, antl
that his mother came to me to ask me to
recall him from it at any cost. I girded
myself for this duty, but it was not with
out losing my liberty by it. Her self-
love was so engaged in the ail air, and
that motive is so powerful in him, that I
had to save that in order to save hiin
from the abyss. A completely disinter-
ted love is not an idea that he appre-
lates. He is one of those positive and
bsolute spirits lor whom goodness is a
hum to recompense. His obstinacy
could see this recompense only in my
preterence tor him ; but the more plain
ly that I saw he was only a good kind of
a boy aud a man of instinct, the more
mpossible was it lor me to think ot him
in earnest. In spite of his being ten
years older than I, he was like a great
hild whom I had to lead. In a moment
of gratitude, by the death-bed of the ad
miral, I swore never to wound this self
life, which I already knew to be the
motive power of his character. I resolv
ed at that time to never marry so long as
he should be himselt unmarried, aud 1
have kept my word without any great
effort and without much merit.
"At the time when, to prevent him
from losing himself in debauchery, I
was obliged to appeal to his mind by a
sort of mysterious oracle, I renewed in
ternally my oath to wait until he should
have torgotten me. This was an mi-
prudeuce which his vanity seized upon
as an established hoe aud an acquired
right. Without clearly understanding
to what I had pledged myself, for I
neither could nor would tell him, he had
a presentiment of a devotion on my part
from which he had not the delicacy to
wish to set me tree.
At first I was not alarmed by it. His
mother died, and he was occupied with
his griet and the care ot his tortune. lie
had very little to do to put his affairs in
order, for if he is easily influenced, and
capable of signing his ruin after supper,
when he is bimsett and cool again, he is
very much afraid of poverty, and Inca
pable of living by his labor or of finding
other expedients. I thought, on seeing
him established, that he would soon place
himselt in the conventional current by
the great sanction of a marriage for
money. I expected every day that he
would confide to me some project of the
kind, coming comically, at the same
time, to ask pardon for his infidelity.
He came to me, but with a little cun
ning, to see it I would feel any spite in
reference to it, and he himself was a lit
tle spiteful when he found me charmed
with his case, lie played this puerile
game often enough to make me impa
tient, and he plays it still, for ten years
have rolled away in these alternations of
velleity and deception. I have had pa
tience, but the hour ot my treedom has
not come, and God knows if ii will ever
come ! To accept an affection worthy of
me, 1 must prepare myself lor some in
expressible convulsion. That is the sit
uation in which you find your godmoth
er, Celio! Had 3'ou foreseen that? No;
you have made many strange supposi
tions in regard to her past; you would
consent to be the father of her son, the
avenger of her injuries, the aviour of
her lost reputation, the shield of her
neglected old age everything dramatic,
heroic, and worthy of a great and truly
exalted soul ; but you had not thought to
yield to the reality, whose history has
just been told you; yon could not have
admitted such vulgar obstacles so sim
ple a romance such slight impediments.
And yet these impediments are serious
to the last degree. It is not a fortress to
be battered down by cannon shots; it is
tide which has been noiselessly rising
for fifteen years; it is a silent tyranny,
gentle in appearance, but as irresistable
a brutal fact the obstinacy of human
vanity. If Montroger does not marry, I
cannot, must not, belong to another:
Celie gazed at me attentively. I must
have been completely overcome, for an
indescribable feeling of rage was gnaw
ing at my heart. I hated Montroger,
aud was irritated at the patience and
goodness of Celie. I could not see that
she was in any way engaged to hini by a
promise the sense of which had been
clear only to herself, and I was unwil
ling to admit that he did not possess the
right to break it. Had she known, be
side, in contracting this obligation, that
she was engaging herself for ever? A
thousand ideas crowded into mv brain as
I walked distractedly up and down the
room, bruising the llowers that we had
just gathered, and tempted to break the
vases as l would nave liked to brcakMon-
troger. My whole situation had become
entirely changed while I was listening
to the story ot this wise virgin. There
was no longer any question of tasting
the pleasure of a secret love: had she
preserved her chasity so carefully only
to sacrifice it to my passion in a day of
delirium What would the next day be?
Would she give herself up to the impuni
ty which hypocrisy secures? Would
she accept the role of Madonna
only to violate her own as soon as the
candles were extinguished in the sanc
tuary ? That it was impo?sible to sup
pose, and 1 know not in what language I
should have dared to oiler to be her lover,
Moreover the game was begun. From
the moment that Montroger took upon
himself to be the arbiter of her destiny, I
would have blushed to descend to the
character of a secret lover. To recoil be
tore the rights and duties which mar
riage consecrates would have been the
deed of a coward, and this time the world
would have condemned me justly.
ought, then, and I wishe-1, to bethe hus-
band of MUe, Merqucm and all the re
pugnance that I had conceived up to that
time lor this ill-sorted union disappeared
before the fact of her spotless purity,
which made her younger than myself,
and more desirable than any young girl
of unproved virtue. Secure of this, I
eould no longer be afraid of her wealth ;
her virtue would make me strong enough
and proud enough to despise the coward
ly insults of a few envious people.
Where, then, was the obstacle? The
fear of humiliating a fool? the danger
of a duel with him?
"Alas! yes;" answered Celie, gently
before whom my thought, had escaped
me aloud ; "the danger of killing him
who closed the eyes of my grandfather,
respect, for he protected me against his
curse aim renounced me without atfer-
tnonguc,
"You deceive yourself. Celie! He did
not renounce you ; he confessed it to me
he hoped everything froin your grati
tude, You ntade hjin furious,"
"Ah, well! no matters I cannot ac
cept (tie remorse to which your wrath
exposes me. Ah! i was wrong to
Shu was going to say that slio repented
aireauv ot having lutoiiud to tile, j. pre
vented her. "No," I said toiler, "vou
were wrong in nothing. That sublime
folly, from which yon almost reproached
yourself for having been preserved by
your coldness and egotism, you commit
ted on the day In which you saeriltced
your future to this friend of your father
For that, Celie, I adore you, even while
cursing the stupid object of so generous
a devotion ; but you have not told me
all, and it is not now, when 1 begin ti
know you and to love you a thousand
times more than I believed, that yoi
should stop to talk to me ot the lutur
TO BE CONTINUED.
ANECDOTES OF PI BLIC JHEN.
BY COL. J. W. FORNEY,
NO. XI.VIII.
From the month of December, 1SC0, to
the r.th of Agril, 1SC1, we made history
like magic. Parties dissolved and sec
tions consolidated. Professed politicians
became practical patriots ; professed pa
triots became practical traitors. Andrew
Johnson struck the first blow on the l'Jth
of December, 1800, in the Senate, and
ontiuued iKHindiug against the seces
sionists all through the war, insanely
changing his course only when assassi
nation and accident made hiui President
throwing away the ripest fruits of
what seemed to be honest endeavors, and
that golden opportunity which rarely
comes more than once iu a lifetime. Of
Buchanan's Cabinet, General Cass, How
ell Cobb, and John B. Floyd all resigned
at an early day, and Jacob Thompson
later Cass iu the spirit of . profound at
tachment to the Constitution ; the others
with dehance and threats. The two
Houses of Congress were two theaters.
The galleries were filled with excited
spectators. Few speeches were made by
the Union men, and almost none ot the
Republicans, until honest Ben Wade of
Ohio, broke silence and gave tongue to
the feelings of an outraged iteople. Es
pecially was Philadelphia an interesting
scene during these initial mouths. The
meeting at the Board of Trade Rooms on
Thursday, the 3d of Jeauuary, 18(11,
called ro decide "What measures should
be adopted in the present condition of
our national affairs," was an extraordi
nary event. The vetern Colonel Cephas
G. Childs presided. There were some
differences between those who participa
ted, but the sentiment ot devotion to the
Union was almost unanimous. That
meeting resulted in a resolution to make
preparations for a larger demonstation at
national Hall, on the evening ot the Sat
urday succeeding, January o, 18(11. Iu
looking over the names of those who took
part in that monster and electric popular
upheavel 1 hud representatives ot all
parties. Many have passed away. We
no longer see the tannliar forms of Com
modore Charles Stewart, Evans Rogers,
J. Murray Rush, Joseph R. Ingersollj
H-dward Coles.George W. JSebinger, John
B. Myers, John Grigg, Oswald Thomp
son, Henry Horn, Cephas G. Childs, Ed
ward Gratz, George A. Coft'ey, John M.
Butler, James Landy, Edward G. Webb
Robert T. Carter, aud George W. Thorn.
All these have gone. Among the resolu
tions adopted and indorsed by the Repub
licans and many of the Democratic lead
ers of Philadelphia, was the following
axiomatic and fundamental declaration :
That all persons who wage war against
the United States for the purpose of de
stroying the Government established by
our fathers, and for any other purpose
whatever, or who aid, sanction, counsel.
or encourage them, can not be regarded
in any other light than as public ene
mies. The gentleman who introduced the res
olutions was J. Murray Rush, since de
ceased, son of the late venerable Richard
Rush, widely known as a consummate
statesman. Co-operating with him were
such Philadelphia Democrats as Generul
Robert Patterson, Lewis C. Cassidy, Wil
liam A. Porter, George Northrop, "Ben ja
min Rush, and George W. Nebinger. The
veteran William D. Lewis, who presided,
and whose speech was as lull ot lire as any
of the younger orators, and Horace Biu-
ney, who wrote a glowing appeal, now
almost a centenarian, both are yet among
us.
Other cities and towns were equally
prompt and outspoken, but Philadelphia,
with Boston, took the start and main
tained it. When war was enevitable,
Philadelphia, like Boston, became it ren
dezvous of loyal spirits. She symbolized
her purpose by her memorable reception
of Mr. Lincoln at Independence Hall on
the 22d ot t ebruary, 1801 ; by her hrst
welcome to the Union troops as they
passed along Washington avenue to the
national capital; by the impromptu or
ganization of the Cooper Shop Refresh
ment Saloon, which soon became a na
tional Mecca; by her magnificent Sani
tary Fair, And her great Union League,
beginning with a few gentlemen at a so
cial meeting, and increasing into a broth
erhood of seventeen hundred, wieldinga
potential influence in local, State ami gen
eral politics a society not less distin
guished tor the culture of its members
than for the gracious hospitalities ex
tended to liberal strangers of every sect
and clime.
On the day after the firing upon Fort
Sumter l met Stephen A. Douglas upon
Pennsylvania avenu, in the city of
Washington. Naturally anxious to as
certain what part he would take iu coni
ng events, 1 put the question to hini,
'What is now to be done? My dear
friend, what are we to do?"
I shall never forget his answer : "We
must fight for our country and forget
all differences. There can be but two
parties the party of patriots and the par
ty of traitors. We belong to the first."
Abraham Lincoln was President. His
old adversary, who had defeated hini lor
Senator iu 1853, and whom he (Lincoln)
had defeated for President in 1SG0, called
that yery day at the AVhite House and
proltercd his counsel and his services.
The firing upon Sumter on the 14th of
April, followed by the attack upon the
Massachusetts troops on the 19th of the
same month, raised the question how the
soldiers ot the .North were to reach the
capital, already beleaguered by the pre
pared nosts ot the south, it was in the
discussion of this question that Mr. Lin
coln made the memorable remark, "If
we cannot pass over Baltimore, we must
necessarily pass through Baltimore;" and
it was in one of his interviews that Judge
Douglas pressed the suggestion which or
iginated iu Massachusetts, that he might
go round Haltimoreand reach Washington
via Annapolis by water a suggestion
subsequently successfully carried out.
During this cordial intercourse Mr. Lin
coln solicited Judge Douglas to go to the
west and raise his voice in tavor of the
Government, and it was in response to
this request that the great Senator turned
nis lace homeward, and made the mag
netic speech which aroused his followers
aud gave to the Administration that time
ly support which helped to fill our ar
mies, to increase the Republican column,
and to add to Republican counsels the
culture and courage of the flower of the
Democratic party. Let me quote this his
farewell speech at Chicago on the 1st of
May, 1SCI the faithful echo to Mr. Lin
coln's affectionate appeal iu the preced
ing April. These golden words should
never be forgpttpn ;
The election of Mr. Lincoln Is a mere
pretext. The present secession move
ment is the result of an enormous con
spiracy formed more than a 3'ear since
formed by leaders in the Southern Con
federacy more than twelve months ago.
They use the slavery question at a means
to aid the accomplishment of their ends.
They desired the election of a Northern
candidate by a sectional vote, in order to
stiq'w that the two sections can not llyc
together. When the liistory pf ttie two
years from the Leeompton question down
to the Presidential election shall be writ-;
ten it will be shown that the scheme was
deliberately mado to break up this
Union,
They desired a Northern Hepib)leai)
to be elected by a purely Northern vote,
and then assign this fact as a reason
why the sections can not live together,
If the disunion Kiiudldiito in tlm late
Presidential contest had carried the unU
ted South, their scheme was, the North-,
ern candidate successful, to seize the cap.
ital last spring, and by a united South
and divided North, hold It. Their scheme
was defeated In the defeat, of the disun
ion candidate in several of the Southern
States.
But this is no time for a detail of causes.
The conspiracy is now known; armies
have been raised ; war is levied to accom
plish it. Then! are only two sides to the
question. Every man must be for the
United States or against it. There can
be no neutrals in this w ar only patriots
or traitors.
A little more than a mouth after, (June
3, 1861,) Stephen A. Douglas died at Chi
cago, aged forty-eight years and two
months. But Abraham Lincoln did not
forget him. He directed the departments
to be clothed in mourning and the colors
of the different Union regiments to be
craped. Nor did his sympathy end in
words. He seized the first occasion to
honor the sons of Douglas an example
fitly followed by General Grant. Ro
bert Martin Douglas is one of the Presi
dent's private secretaries, and his broth
er, Stephen A. Douglas, Jr., a leading
Republican in North Carolina, in full ac
cord with the- Administration. It is
gratifying to add, as I feel 1 may now do
by authority, that had Judge Itouglas
lived he would have been called into the
Administration of Abraham Lincoln, or
placed in one of the highest military
commands. The relations of the Chief
Magistrate to the friends of Douglas were
closer and more intimate than those of
Mr. Lincoln, and it is more than proba
ble that had Douglas survived he would
to-day be one of the counselors of Presi
dent Grant, who himself was a citizen
of Illinois at the time Judge Douglas
was sweeping the Buchanan hosts out of
the field. John A. Rawlins, the nearest
friend and Secretary of War of Grant,
was also the nearest friend of Douglas.
What a power Douglas would have been,
enlisted on the right, side, with all his
prophecies proved, all his Southern ene
mies crushed, with his plan of transcon
tinental railroads vindicated and in
creased, with our new Territories con
trolled and freed by the voice of the peo
ple, witli the Mormon problem he so
boldly attacked on the eve of solution,
and the great West realizing every day
his hopes of supreme empire !
A2HBER.
BY". J. H. KII.GROVE.
A very large proportion of the amber
appearing iu the various markets of the
world is supplied by the province of
Prussia, including the neighboring dis
trict of Memel. The amber trade in
this district is entirely iu , the bauds of
one firm, and as their transactions are
kept very secret, it is difficult to ascer
tain its exact extent. The following
particulars, which are gleamed from a
report by Mr. Ward, her Majesty's Vice
Consul at Memel, are not without inter
est: !..-
In the Western portion of the province
of Prussia, amber is found not only on
the sea shore, but also in tne mountain
ous ranges of the interior; excepting,
however, in rare cases of its appearance
in so-called "nests" amber is only te. be
met with in isolated pieces in the latter
localities, so that the profit arising from
the amber diggings amongst the hills is
but a very moderate one, and may be es
timated at about double the amount paid
by the proprietors for the wages of the
diggers. In East Prussia, however, and
especially in that part called the Samland
amber is more abundant, and during the
prevalence of certain winds, is frequent
ly thrown upon the shore by the sea in
large quantities; it is collected there, as
well as fished for in the surf ; it is also
dugout of the sand-hillocks running
along the scacoast. In the sand-hillocks
regular beds of amber are found enclosed
in a soil of blue clay, which is to be met
with at an average depth of about a hun
dred feet, in a thickness of twenty-five
to.thirty feet. It is stated that out of
some diggings established iu those parts,
4,500 lbs. of amber were raised iu the
course of four months of the year 1869.
Diggings of this kind exist at present in
various spots of the Samland." more es
pecially at Wangen, Sassen, Groskuhren,
Kleinkiihren, Kraxtepellen, Kreislacken
and Hubiiicken. Besides these works,
there are other establishments at Brus
terort, where amber is obtained by divers
from the bottom of the sea, and at Sch
warzort (near Memel) where it is raised
by dredging for it at the bottom of the
Curish Haft'; the dredging establishment
last mentioned has been noticed at length
in the Trade Report for theyear 1866; its
importance and size has of late years in
creased Considerably, and at present about
80,000 lbs. of amber are annually obtained
by it.
The total amount of amber obtained
during the year 1867 in all parts of the
province of Prussia by the various means
of collection, is estimated at about 150,
000 Prussian dollars. : The quantity col
lected (by fishing for it) in the sea and up
on tne snore, is about equal. to that raised
by the digging and dredging works. .. ...
According to the opinion of competent
persons the prod uce ot the diggings con Id
be iucreased considerably , by working
tnem upon a regular mining system
Apart from the fact that no certain know
ledge has hitherto been arrived at as to the
actual extent of the amber fields in the
blue clay, and these fields exist most pro
bably not only in the vicinity of the sea-
coast, out also in the interior ot Samland,
and even beyond that district and the
frontiers of Eastern Prussia, it is most
likely that below tho stratum of clay to
which the diggings are at present con
fined, there are other strata in which am
ber would be met with. This supposi
tion is based upon the circumstance that
considerable quantities of amber have
been found amongst the. soil washed
away by the sea during heavy gales,from
those portions of the coastal sand hills
which lie below the layer of blue clay
first alluded to.
The prices of the principal kinds of
amuer, as stated (by an Official Report,
vary accordingto the size, ranging from
twenty-two Prussian dollars per pound,
Where the pieces run about hiue to the
pound, to four dollars, where the pound
requires one hundred pieces or more. The
prices of larger (so-called cabinet) pieces
are subject to great fluctuations, and are
fixed by the increase or decrease of de
mand from the East ; the prices of the
commoner kinds seldom vary more than
about 10 oer cent.
The chief seat of the retail amber trade
is Dantzig; the wholesale trade is at pres
ent in the hands ot only two or three
firms in the province of" Prussia. The
working of the Prussian amber into
mouthpieces, beads, etc., is likewise qtr
ried on chiefly at Dantziar. hut also in all
large cities; of late a manufactory of apw
per yares qas Dcen establisued at Polan
gen, a small Russian town near Memel,
aud it is intended-to open similar works
at Kdeigsbery, Moscow, and at New
York.
THE IN VEN TOR O F LITHOGRAPH!
One hundred years ago this month.
there was born iu a garret in the city of
Prague, Alois Senefelder, a man to
whom civilization owes one of its great
est inventions lithography.
Born of poor parents, he led for a
while a semi-vagabond life, and under
took in bis youth various occupations,
in which, however, despite his early ad
vantages, he distipjujsl)pd lii(nsof ijboye
the ay'crago mark. ' iit jiis'projects yas
not reiiiunerativij. 'Among his' other
talents was g'ne for music. In this he
received some encouragement, and it
seemed to him at last that this was the
field in which he was to obtain djstiuf
turn, 4 o composed a imnihor of mauqg.
bit, athouu! tjip celebrated Liiiusteeg
ftitm biutu imv were ijuuc creuuauie,
young Senefelder was unable to flud ;
publisher lor them. So he resolved to
engrave them himself, nnd publish them
athisotvu esipoimo, Ho finished two
cupper plates, and an old engraver pro-
iiouuceu uieni good. 4 lie cost oi me un
dertakiug was too heavy for Alois' slen
der purse. His creditors became clam
orous and he had to lice fo Passim, where
he rejoined his mother, his father being
dead. In that small episcopal city,
Senefelder continued engraving on cop
per plates. One day just us In- was put-
Hug ink on a plate, his mother entered
the room ami asked him to copy a small
note ior ner. lie had no writing pajter
on his desk, and therefore hastily copied
the note on a smooth grindstone witli the
printing ink. Jo sooner had he done so
than it struck him that he might take an
impression Irom ttie stone. The exper
iment turned out so well that he rushed
to his mother, embraced her, and told
her enthusiastically he believed he had
discovered something that would enable
them henceforth to live in ease and opu
lence. By dint ot much ingenuity,
patience and perseverance, he perfected
a process of stone printing, which is
still, although greatly simplified and
improved, the foundation of the art of
lithography.
Alois Senefelder, at first, carefully
guarded the secret of his new invention.
He used it exclusively for printing his
own compositions. The sale of these,
however, did not conic up to his expec
tations. Instead of becoming richer lie
became poorer and poorer, until he was
finally obliged to disclose the secret of
his invention to his two elder brothers.
who had some means, They became his
partners, and removed with him to Vi
enna, where they started a stone-printing
establishment. The business did not
prove very remunerative. People pre
ferred the expensive copper-plate music
to the cheaper work printed on stone.
The Senefelilers, who had in the mean
time obtained patents for Alois' inven
tion in most of the German States, were
finally compelled to sell these patents to
M. Andre, of Offenbach, the famous mu
sic dealer. He retained Alois Senefel
der in his employment, and opened litho
graphic establishments in Loudon, Paris
and Madrid, all of which proved quite
unsuccessful.
. Alois Senefelder finally withdrew from
Andre's house and went, to Munich,
where he tried to obtain coutracts from
music and map publishers for lithograpc
ic printing, ile had very bad luck, and
was finally almost penniless. In his dis
tress he applied to the King, who imme
mediately relieved his necessities aud
placed him at the head of the large royal
lithographic establishment, where most
of the war maps for the use of the French
armies were printed. Senefelder, who
now had leisure and means to perfect his
invention, succeeded in improving and
simplifying It to such a degree that it was
soon generally .used for printing music
and his patents, in which he had retained
an interest, became exceedingly valuable
The King of Bavaria and other monarchs
conferred various titles, orders and other
marks of distinction upon him, and he
died iu 1834 at Munich, iu consequence of
overtaxing his strength in hastening the
publication ot a large map orGerinany,tj
be presented to the King on his birthday.
CBRITIAN SPIKITl'ALISM
BY HENRY WARD BliKCHER.
"The wind bloweth where it listeth and
thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst
not tell whence it coineth and whether
it goeth ; so is every one that is born of
tho Spirit."
The famous declaration of our Saviour
is of transcendent interest, because of
the insight it gives ns into God's minis
try. It brought into view a new con
ception of the divine mind. I suppose
from the beginning of things this world
was open to the influence of spirits. It
is not impossible to believe that there is a
spiritual influence which we can not ap
preciates This is certainly the doctrine
of the New Testament. It was taught
by the Saviour and the apostles, that both
divine and demoniac influences did roll
in upon the human soul. It is natural to
thinkers to repel everything they cannot
prove by the senses, and therefore the
doctrine of spiritualism has not been
generally accepted. ' Now I aver that
there is nothing men so much need or so
much desire to " believe as that there is
wafted into this sphere influences from
the very heart of God. The demoniac
powers are certainly not desirable, and
should be carefully repelled. This trans
cendent doctrine of the New Testament
is given to all. It fits and harmonizes
with our ideas of ' the divine life.
It doth - not appear what we
shall . be. We are conscious of aspira
tions.longings and dissatisfactions which
we can in no wise understand. Every
thoughtful man should not only desire
but welcome everything which lifts him
or teaches him the meaning of his
thoughts. This truth is not to suffer
doubt, because fantastic notions arise,
and are sometimes ridiculous. This de
velopment is not natural to the lower fac
ulties. Men sought astronomy through
astrology, and chemistry through alche
my, loaded down as they were with ig
norant superstitions; but they sought a
verity and found it.
' It is impossible to interpret a higher
sphere. We can have some conception,
but a perfect doctrine, never. Curiosity
though sometimes praiseworthy, cannot
be satisfied. We are not to suppose this
influence a supersession of our frailties.
So far as we can gather from the word of
God it would seem as though the spirit
of God developed into activity the jww
ers of men's minds. It is called, and is
indeed a new faith. It wakes up dor
mant power, it ministers to our necessi
ties, it revives, beautifies and fructifies.
We are often conscious of being influ
enced by a spirit outside of ourselves. It
conies unexpectedly, is uncalled for and
oftentimes unwelcome. In one sense
this is understandable. There is a way
to prepare ourselves for the presence
and action of the spirit. Men prepare
themselves for friendship, for art enjoy
ment and development, for social pleas
ures and amenities, but refuse to put
themselves in a state of receptivity for
the spirit. This is all accomplished by
co-operation, by meeting the spirit anil
welcoming it. Iu this way we cannot
only make the soul to fructify, but we can
also successfully resist demoniac influen
ces. We are first to be made.willing.and
not set up antagonism to the workings of
the spirit. How many men have been
lovingly warned from evil ways. These
are the influences of the divine spirit.
This Divine mind stirs us up to work. If
there comes to you these harmonic pres
ences that stir and soothe the better na
ture that makes you hate evil as you
never did before believe! It is the
light that comes from above. If there
comes a senso of direct spirit commun
ion, believe that there is a God, and that
through his great love He sends the min
isters .of Ills bounty to guide, comfort
and in'struct: who finally will bring you
to life everlasting the eternal salvation !
THE WICKEDEST CITX.
Those who think Chicago was destroy
ed of God for its wickedness, will find it
difficult to account for the escape of New
York City. A city that originates the
"wickedest man ;" is guilty of the largest
frauds : makes the ballot a farce; sup
ports debauchery iu gilded palaces ; gives
a living to 100,000 ruin-sellers; spends
$70,000,000 yearly for strong drinks; $7,
000,000 for public amusement; witli oyer
half its population foreign, and reprer
sentipg fifty dMmvent nationalties: if
such a city s not the wickedest, it must
at least lack not a little of being strictly
pious.
According to the Mayor's estimates
the local taxes arc $23,300.1 KXJ Federal
taxes, $50,000,000, Also that 9,000,000
gallons pf domestic spirits and 600,000
gajlons of foreign wines, 100,000 gallons
of foreign spirits, 400,000 gallons ot fer
mented liquor and f0,000 dozens of chanu
pague are consumed, The bare tax on
these amount to $2,000,000. The police
nrreuu last, year were 75,602, of which
31,(I!U were for intoxication and disorder.
ly conduct ; 111,780 persons were accom
odated Willi lodgings at the police station ;
8,8-10 is tho average number of persons
continually in prisons, asylums, hospiials
etc.
Tiik leader of a new reliirious sect has
appeared in Russia, who glveR himself
out asi ne saviour, lie preaches polyga
my and the abolition of all denomina
tional creeds. lie alvavs expresses him
self in rhyme. The police proose to ar
rest Mm aim scatter jus loiiowers.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Pertet, the negro wife murderer, of
Chicago, is sentenced to be hanged Jan
uary 12, 1872r
A man named Greirsons was brutally
murdered near Covington, Kentucky, by
some unknow parties.
A fireman and engineer were killed by
a locomotive explosion near Hartford,
Connecticut, on Saturday.
The Robinson murder preliminary ex
amination at Salt Lake has closed, and
Hampton, Toms and Blithe committed to
await the action of the Grand Jury. The
others were discharged.
T-homas Larkiu, conductor on the
Third avenue Railroad, New York City,
was murdered Saturday night by Roliert
Hallorau, a discharged driver with a
car-hook. Hallorau escaped.
Mrs. Ann Eliza Nichols, residing at
639 Third avenue, Brooklyn, was fatally
burned by her clothing taking fire from
a kerosene lamp, which she had knocked
from the mantel on the stove.
A lad only eighteen years old, giviug
his name as Harry Wj Andrews, and
who states that lie is from Cincinnati,
was arrested Saturday, in New York,
for forging a check for two hundred dol
lars. A roaring gale on Saturday in Chicago
very much of the same stamp as fan
ned the great conflagration to its mam
moth proportions toppled over several
old buildings, and seriously injured a
number of men.
William Donovan, a farm hand, who
murdered Winchell, his employer iu
Contra Costa county, California, in a
quarrel over a disputed account of wages,
has been convicted of murder iu the first
degree, on a second trial.
Frank Mayo, colored., was hung at
Grenada, Mississippi, for the murder of
his wife, with rat poison, last April. He
had been respited twice by Governor
Alcoru.x He refused to confess the mur
der to the last. He was so overcome with
fright that he had to be carried to the
scaffold.
AtShambnrg, Pennsylvania, about 9
o'clock on Wednesday night, at the
Shamburg House, John McCracken and
Charles Young, while under the in
fluence of whisky, ' quarreled and were
parted. Young clinched McCracken
again and stabbed him six times, two of
which are considered fatal. Young was
at once arrested and sent to the loek-np.
A child of Patrick Fiuiiegan of Colum
bus, four years of age, was left by its
mother alone in the house, Tuesday,
while she went on an errand to a neigh
bors. The child began playing with the
fire in the stove, and in a little time was
in flames. A passing neighbor threw a
quilt about the little creature, but not be
fore its body was so horribly burned as
to make recovery impossible.
Monday two negroes who approached
the commissary building of the contrac
tors of the Memphis and Selma Railroad,
five miles east of Memphis, were ordered
away by a man named Reynolds, iu
charge of the building, who threatened to
shoot if they approached. Not heeding
the warning, they started for the build
ing. He shot both through the head,
killing them instantly. He then fled.
A heavy freight train going east, on
the Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad,
ran off' an einbarkinent near St. Mary's,
Indiana.ou Wednesday, instantly killing
John O'Neal, engineer, and Daniel Grif
fin, fireman, aud making a complete
wreck of the engine, tender and four
tenn cars and their contents, including
150 hogs. Some track repairers had taken
up a number of rails, and just replaced
them, and had spiked all but two. These
spread when the engine struck them, and
the whole train went down the embank
ment, about thirty feet.
A Mrs. Heel of Columbus was 60 ter
libly burned by a gasoline lamp, Monday
night, that she will not recover. Tue
lamp was upset by a child, and the
fl lines spread over the floor, when Mrs.
Heel attempted to smother them with the
skirt of her dress. Her clothes took lire,
and in her terror she avoided neighbors
who sought to throw a quilt around her.
She ran down High street, her clothes iu
flames, jumped through the window of a
saloon, and was filially overtaken by a
party of men who smothered the flames
by throwing their coats over her. Parts
of her body are burned to a crisp.
The Cleveland and Columbus aud Pan
Handle trains, coming into Cincinnati
from Columbusat8;30 Wednesday night,
in Pendleton Avenue, in the Eastern
Ward, ran against a wagon containing
teu persons at Crawfish crossing, upset
the wagon, killed Miss Bradley instautly
and injured a boy fifteen years old named
Ware. Mrs. Walker, wiio resides iu
Tennessee, was injured, but not severely.
Rev. Mr. Bradley, brother of the lady
killed, is a Methodist member stationed
iu Henry county, Kentucky. He had
lieen visiting his father at Maysyille,
Kentucky. His wife and two young
children were not hurt. Two sisters of
the boy Ware escaped unhurt, as also the
driver. The bystanders say the driver
was drunk.
Tuesday morning Colonel Machart a
victim of the fire residing at No. 236
Brown street Chicago, committed suicide
by blowing out his brains with a pistol.
Just before committing the deed he wrote
a letter filled with tender reference to
his mother, wife and children, saying
that he could find nothing to do since
the fire, and was tired of life. He ex
pressed the hope that his wife would not
do as he did, but educate the children
and raise them to be good Christians. As
his wife has been an invalid since the
fire this act is remarkable for cowardice,
but the poor wife is now a raving . naniac.
Hearing the report of the pistol, she got
out of her bed and went into the room
where her husband was. The shocking
sight was too much for her weak nerves
and reason forsook her.
About three o'clock Friday afternoon
the boiler in the glue factory of Wahl
Brothers, on the south branch of tile
river, near Archer avenue, Chicago, blew
up. Five men, John Rich a carpenter,
and Charles Becker, fireman, who were
passing through the room at the time,
were instantly killed. The former was
scalded by steam till his fiesh was cook
ed, while the latter's head was blown to
fragments. Each leaves a wife and chil
dren. The lioiler was an up-right one,
and was almost new, having been used
only about ten days. The end was car
ried perpendicularly through the roof
and then diagonally through the air for
a distance of 250 feet. No satisfactory
explanation is given Of the accident, hut
it is supposed to h.ive resulted from two
low u wage of water. The damage to the
building is about $2,500.
Notwithstanding the summary couvlc.
tion of Rosenzweig and the other- abor
tionists who have lately beep consigned
to the State VlUm, tho danger of being
sent to Join them does not seem sufficient
to deter others from the commission of
like crimes of trafficking in human
blood. Wed nesdayjuoruitig anot her un
mistakable case of abort Ion was brought
to light, Catharine Cnhill, aged about
thirty years, unmarried, was taken sud
denly ill at her boarding-house, No 22
Pike street. Xew York, and not having
any friends or relatives to care for her,
and as she was apparently iu a dving
condition, the jxilice were' called. "The
IKtlice surgeon visited her, and on exam
ination found that she was the victim of
somo abortionist. The )oor vomu ap
peared sutlering intensely, aud it was
deemed advisable to send her to tho hos
pital. An ambulance w as procured, and
she wa conveyed without delav to Bel le
vue Hospital and attended by Dr. Me
.reerv, who, after examination, gave it
as his opinion that instruments had been
unsuccessfully applied, resulting iu ter
minating her life.
Name it Alexis, of course, if it is a biy.
An Atlanta lover bought off his rival
for $20.
A Connecticut canary bird w.iUzes di
vinely. Enoch Aniens are becoming painfully
numerous.
Vieuxtemps will profess the violin nt
Brussels.
Stephens' paragraphs have dwindled to
a column and a half.
The Swiss army is to be reorganized
after the Prussian model.
She died at Savannah this time. Aged
one hundred and teu.
Mr. Nihillof Illinois recently fell from
his horse in a fit nihil Jit.
A Savannah man was shot and killed
an hour after being married.
"Ammonia straight" is the proper way
to call for it, in Greeley, Col.
Football constitutes the chief form of
worship on Sunday at Cairo, 111.
The moribund Siamese twin is at the
point of deatli in North Carolina.
The Athletic base-ball club is $G,223.
51 "out" on the last season's play.
Most hand-organ tunes are classic.
They are the productions of Handel.
There are in Corpus Christi, Texas,
seven churches and seven bar-rooms.
A California Coroner was interrupted
in his inquest by the corpse waking up.
In Griffin, Ga., policemen are requisite
to maintain order in the Sunday schools
A hopeful Wisconsin convert offered
to wager $100 that he would "stick to it."
On a cold day one likes to see the fire
getting up, yet one grumbles at a rise in
coals.
One California prison convict is eighty
four years old, and another seventy
eight. The Orleans problem is to Tie one of the
Prince-ipal difficulties of the French As
sembly. Ex-Senator Gwiu is gwine to make
money out of his new gold mine. Bos
ton Post.
An Atlantic eleven-year-old, shot and
killed a playfellow iu a quarrel over a
mud-pie.
An Indiana editor is represented as
"squealing hack a squawk of soul-satisfied
bliss."
Mr. Moffat of Ohio tried to melt a bul
let out of his gun. He succeeded. Aged
sixty-two.
And now the non-explosives have ta
ken to killing people without anybody
touching them.
Texans are now all'ecting linen coats,
and talking about the balmiuess of In
dian Summer.
Pittsburg politicians accuse one anoth
er of making use of "skulduggery and
shenanigan."
A Miehigander sweetly contemplates
two tons of honey which he has marketed
the pist year.
At Charleston, S. C, those who ap
plaud a performer at the wrong pla-e are
liable to arrest.
The partof the Column Vendome which
commemorated the victories over the
Prussians cannot be found.
A. II. S. lias taken to making jokes.
In a late uumlier of the Atlanta Sun he
calls Bullock "his ex-Oxcellency."
A vigorous Connecticut preacher ac
tually kicked his pulpit to pieces, aud
was with difficulty fished out of the
ruins.
These "immense estates" will soon be
come a drug iu the market. Now a Oc
troi ter has learned that he is heir to one
in Amsterdam.
A Georgia train ran oil" the track, and,
after breaking one man's leg, jumped
back on the rails, and ran on again as if
nothing had happened.
An Indiana criminal wept copiously
when his term of imprisonment expired
and the inhuman jailor thrust him out
into the cold world again.
At a fashionable Louisville party, a dis
pute between two gentlemen in regard
to dancing witli a young lady, led to the
production of pistols and many feminine
shrieks.
An Iowa eagle made one fell swoop
and pounced upon a young and tender
pig. Contrary to all precedent, howev
er, the porker proved recalcitrant, and
slew the proud bird of freedom.
All St. Paul, Minn., including an ex
pectant Coroner, gathered before a sa
loon in which sat a countryman eating
two-dozen hard-boiled eggs." The Coro
ner was disappointed, however.
A Kansas man sent for a clergyman to
preach his wife's funeral sermon and in
cidently to marry him, at the close of the
discourse, to a young woman whom ho
had selected on the death of his spouse.
Paris Conversation : "I, a Liberal ! O,
no!" said a Deputy to his friend.. "But
you love liberty at least ?" "Yes, assur
edly, my faith! But one may love an
omelette without beluga cookI"- French
paper.
His precise age is one hundred and
four years, and he lives at Council Bluffs
this time. But being an eccentric cen
tenarian, he does not walk twenty miles
and saw three cords of wood daily ; on
the contrary he begs.
An ingenious Mississippi negro
thought he would kill a sheep by hold
ing it iu front of an approaching loco
motive. The animal escaped with a bro
ken leg, but the ingcuioiis'individual was
made the subject of a funeral oration.
Of the seve nry-four Senators fifty are
lawyers. Garrett Davis is the most garru
lous member of Congress. Senator Sum
ner has seen the longest service twenty
consecutive years. Hon. Simon Camer
on is the oldest Senator, ami Mr. Spen
cer, of Alabama, the youngest.
A Wisconsin man was taken danger
ously sick. He sent for Ids wife to como
at once and care for him. Now iho
wife's mother was sick, too, and she sent,
this dispatch to her languishing husband :
"Dear Tim, mother is sick ; 1 can't leave
her. Do the best yon can. If you die,
send your body home."
Mr. and Mrs. Elkanah llewett, while)
passing through Main street Saturday in
an elevated state of bier,were thrown from
their carriage by an inadvertent gambol
of the family mule. Mr. llewett fell on
his head, and assumed the form of a
double bow-knot for some minutes, bur.
it not being positively known that beer,
as a beverago, exists beyond the limits
of this world, he declined to pass in his
checks, and iu consequence was at onco
arrested by the police for a misdemeanor.
Norwich Bulletin.
In Louisville, recently, a handsome
but bashful youth was walking quietly
down town, when a lovely young lad'y
ran opto him, threw her "nrins around
his neck and kissed him with emphasis.
The bashful individual felt an "allover
Ishness" immediately, and at the same
time the blushing iady discovered her
mistake, apologlxed by saving that she
thought he washer uncle, and fled like
the startled fawn. At last accounts tho
bashful youth wished he could be mis
taken for an uncle again.
An elderly gentleman was recently
"confldeneed" on a train running into
Keokuk, by sharpers, who induced him
to buy a draft (worthless) on Buffalo for
$157 40, he paying them two $100 bills,
and they paying him $-12 60 as change.
The conductor on the train took the first
opportunity to quietly suggest to the in
uoceut old'gentleman that he was iilraM
the draft was a fraud. "Well," was the
bland resjMiiiso of tho imcitiii'ba
hie greeny, "if it is any bigger fraud
than my two one hundred dollar noles
were, thin 1 nm not forty-three dol
lars ahead which 1 think I am. 1 nut
not in the habit of dealing iu counterfeit!
currciicy, but I always keep a little of
that sort of stuff about me for the benefit,
of that sort of customers'