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.l;.0 . : m imm mm. ': : JAMES E. CHAMBERS, Editor r PI BL1SHSEVEBV 8.1TIBOA1 AT PAINESVILLE, LAKE COUNTY, OHIO. Counting Boom and Publication Office Utockwell House Slock, JVo. 114 Jfafis St. Yearly, by rmiiforIirder .. -t V9 - Six Months, by mail or Carrier..- 1,25 Three Months, bv mail or Carrier..... T5 gfe-jVurtMia alitamf A.dvanm faymu-lU it required. ' JOB- DEPARTMENT. HOOK arm ttinnK "r. iim.". - -. HowU, Bill Head, Card and every description of Job Work, executed with dispatch an4 " neatest stvla or the art. Having o entire cv outilt of Types, Presses, and Machinery, toifether with a force of compe tent and skilfull workmen, we feel that our fa ' enities are second to those of ao other establish. . ment In the place. 1 , - ol'B 0.1E E.IFE. - ' ' ' 1 i t . ' i -f " .... , Ti not for man to trifle. Life is brief, " ' ' And sin is here; Our age is but the falling of a leaf , . A dropping tear. ' We have not time to sport away the hours, ; ; AH man be earnest ia aworld likeouys. . Sot many )We, but only one bare we-- , ,".. One, enty oaeA . , How sacred should (hut oue 1 ire ever be That narrow span ! Dav after clay tilled up with blessed toil. Hour after hoar still bringing in new spM. ' Onr being is no shadow or thin air, . f ; ! No vacant dream; No fable of the things that never were. But only seem. Tis fuH ar meaning aa of mystery, s J Though strange and solemn may that meaning ...... , ... be. , . ...... ,i .. i ' ,. Oor aorrows are nophantomsof the night, Xoidle tale; ,. . Xo cloud that floats along a sky ofligbt, , . Y On summer gale. . . They are the true realities of earth. Friends and companions even from our birth. . THE OLD STORY. .1 ' .'-fcti s--t .. i I . : IT ALFRED VIVIAK. Beside the Tine-framed window there you sit, The wanton sunshine with your curls coquetting. And there yon ply your needle, sing and knit, i While here and there your deft white finger . - flit, ' A lovely picture to a lovely setting. " ;; When, unaware; your guileless lips let drop, -.., ' ' 1 Some tender stral ns of melod v outgushing, . , My Oriental birds grow mute, and stop ' , To listen, poised upon their swaying prop ! 1 1 Dumb praise that well -might move your cheek to blushing. i Yon wear a smile upon your happy face. Ton never know the pain of vague regretting, Nor care, nor grief have left the slightest trace; Thus I, a worn-out worldling, read your face Your sun of joy has never known a settiag. Sometimes you turn your shy, sweet eyes this way. . , And haply envy me my state and glory; You do not see the thorns that hedge my way, . You do not know my life is blank and gray . 'Tis only, after all, the same old story. ' V , W 4 I .1 jw'l..-t ''I- I wear a smile, as joyless women may Yon do not see the worm beneath the blossom; But ob! the wound that rankles night and day. But oh! the hurt that aches from dawn to gray. PAWESVILLE JOUENM- A FAMILY PAPER, DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AGRICULTURE, AND GENERAL NEWS, VOLUME I. PAEraSVIlVLE, LAKE COUNTY, OHIO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1872. NUMBER 30. K'H. trwmirhi wer a gem upou iuv houiu. -6.A. - --- i i - ary:J . . GBOWIIie OLD, One by one they are passing away The old t que town to their llnal rest; . - With reverence fashion theplllow of clay. And pile up the earth on the quiet urea.-. .Oil That pillow is soft to the time-worn head, That load is light to the aged dead. Thev have horne their burden of Joy snd pains. The; their smiles, they have wept They have had their rtion of hopes and fears hey have wrought out their work, they have 5 Gained their (rain- t i M S i. They have smi ilieir tears It is over now I The record close And leave them there, to their long repose. ( Speak of them gently, remember them well. They were children of earth, as we are now; They strove with temptation tueyjyielded and fell, .- : , i - - And anon they conquered, as we still ilo, t t Their history ia what ours shall be. ; . Speak of them, think of them, tenderly. But few remain, and when they are gone We shall fill the places which they bow hold; Our heads will le tiwted our bosoius lone, Kven our hearts will grow tame and eold ; And the faltering step and failing breath , , Will reiniuil us, too, of approaching death. Revelry, coldness, worldliness, pride Why should ye yield to their baneful thrall? - "Let ns crasp hands closer, as downward we glide Into the shadow that waits ror ns all; v , , ... For Boon we shall be among the old. And the days of our eurs shall soou he told. HEBE. in. i.ft) i.! t. , . . i, - . ' - .;. BT M8B TKBRY. i. ft ' . . ; ' : . . i ' -' When ntght comes brooding o'er me,' Like a prison's dreary cell; And its visions rise before me, WlthMroad no speech roay tell;'. Wlien alone with my longing, ' 'And the darkening spell 01 sear, ' I watch the sad stars thronging. Till the beams of dawn apuear. . Then, like some silver chimes . , . .Comeback the old, old times The dear old times, my darling, ... , Theliving, loving times I Unsleeping, 1 remember The davs that are all gone, -. . " Like June dreams ra DecemJier, Or flowers when summer's donel The times that are never over, For they live in heart, and brain, And like Kisses from a lover. Their spell comes back again. Like a song of magio rhymes, . .. , . Beturn the dear eld times The living, loving times: ,,,' , i This is my lone life's treasure. That none eaa take away Remember without measure, Of every vanished day, Of love-light rotlnd me streaming. Of tender lips and eyes; Awake I lie, yet dreaming, Nor sleep till day shall raise. I,UU! a bee in- blossomed times, I live in those old times The times you know, my darling. The living, loving times 1 . Cold are the skies above me, The earth is wrapped in snow, . And if still, ae then, you Wive me. - . - Alas! lean ac know -i -Silence between ns lying. More chill than winter's cold. , And my heart like a baby cryiug For its mother's wonted hold: But I breathe the summer's prime. Remember that old time. Though yon forget it, darling, The living, loving time! the cold winds of evening, and appeared to live only in ber answering aftection. Xow, when the moments of greatest per il came when the ship was reeling over, till the great mountains of waves threat ened to sweep every living aoul from the deck, and the only safety was in being bound with ropes to the masts I saw this man, fixed to one, with a cord that was not very strong, and holding his wife clasped in his arms, that the waves might not carry her away. At last there came one gigantic billow whose power it seemed impossible to withstand then I saw this man withdrew the support of his arm from the poor creature, who seemed anxious only to die with him, and used both her hands to clasp the pole which sustained him. She gave a piteous cry, more for his cruelty, 1 feel sure, than for her own great peril, but with the impulse of self preservatiou,she suddenly grasped the frail cord which bound him. Then he uttered an impious curse lifted up his hand I can scarcely bear to tell it," and Lllias shivered and grew pale. -'Go on," said Walter, bravely. "He lifted np his hand, and struck her with a bard fierce blow, which sent her reeling away to death in the boiling sea, for death It would have been, had not a sailor caught her dress and upheld her until the wave was past." "How horrible!" exclaimed Walter. "Oh! miserable to be thus rescued! Happy thrice happy had she died!" said a deep toned, mournful voice behind ner. ' 1 Lilias started and looked around words had been spoken very low, and as if unconsciously, like a soul holding con verse with some other soul, rather than a human being communicating with those of her own kind. Yet she felt that they came from Aletheia, who had been sitting for the last hour like an im movable statue, in a high backed open chair, where the shadow of the heavy curtains fell upon her. She had remained there pale and still as marble, her head laid back in the attitude that seemed hab itual to her, the white cheek seeming still whiter contrasted with the crimson velvet against which it lay, and the hands folded in dumb, passive' submission on her breast. But now, as she uttered these strange words, a sudden glow passed over her face, like the setting sun beaming out upon snow. The eyes so seldom raised, filled with a liquid light, the chest heaved, the lips grew tremulous. "What! Aletheia," exclaimed Walter, "happy, did you say, happy to die with that cruel blow?" 'Most happy oh! most blessed to die by a blow so sweet as from the hand she loved." Her voice died into a broken whisper. A few large tears trembled in her mourn ful eyes, but they did not fall. The un wonted color failed from her face and in another moment she was as statue-like as ever, and with the same impenetrable look, which made Lilias feel as if she should never have, either the wish or the courage to address her. Her astonish ment and utter horror at Aletheia's strange remarks, were, however, speedily forgotten in the stronger emotion caused ner uy an moment, wiucn occurrea im mediately after. Sir Michael had not been in the room since dinner time, and now he suddenly entered. , He came for ward with a rapid step toward Lady Ran dolph, and even she seemed to quail be neath tne steady gaze or ms angry eye. He stood before her for a moment, as if the rage that swelled his bosom was too great tor utterance, ana his race became of the color of Iron, white with heat. "Lady Baudolph, he bas again pre sumed to cross my path, I have met him, 1 bave seen him, 1 stumbled against him, as he came with his noiseless step, like a viper, I should have fallen lr bis arm had not upheld me. How has he dared how have you dared to molest me thus?" . "It was not Intentional, I am sine. said Ladv Randolph, evidently annoyed. so much that was mysterious and dark. But she resolved to hold firm her own sweet faith and practice, that there was mercy in all events and good in every heart, and that she had naught to do but , to love all uianuna witn an active cnan table love. And so she trusted to be as safe and happy here as in ber Irish home; where simplicity of life was the natural result of simplicity of heart. TO BK OOHTIJtUED.l CELIE. BY GEORGE SAXD. SECOND PABT CONTINUED. ' Kan HE buildings add to the charm of the landscape. Kicn or poor, rlipv- nre sIvsvr nrertv or nneit- p lc. - While the resident of the South thinks of following th&ttule and is i'ond of glaring colors, that of the North remains in harmony with his fogs, and seems to aid them in softening down its outlines. He has not the bad taste to be smear his bouse with gaudy paints. He employs almost the crude material that the soil provides him with. The rounded silex that the sea rolls up on his shores have fractures of a satin grey, that every where harmilv sets off the frameworks of black or reddish flint-stone. The reliefs of the ancles and the openings are not The vulgar shame in distemper, violatf ngall yo 8ullU do M yo pIease. but x have honest layers of pale gray stone, or, In the older buildings, of wooden plasters, wnicn make no attempt at deception. What need to seek for brilliancy of tone where nature gleams witn venture, witn flowers, and with fruits? All that the houses have to do is to efface themselves Montroger drew near. I rose. Ste phen, having no hope of convincing me, followed. We walked straight toward him, and I stretched out iny hand to him with a feeling of the goodness of my cause, but with a determination to sub mit to no refusal of iny advances with out demanding the reason. He had not expected to find me so soon, although he had come for uie. His eyes were cast down ; my appearance surprised him, and his countenance changed; but he made no hesitation whatever to taking my hand, aud salut ed Stephen politely. Reassured by this reception, Stephen passed on as if to con tinue his walk, and I returned toward Yport with Moutroger. "Ah, well! my dear Armand," said he soon as we were alone, "it was be cause you wished to be delicate with me that you condcuiued yourself to leave the country ? It was very generous on your part, and it must have been painful to you. Now that the blow has fallen, I don't know what should prevent you from returning; and if you like, I will take you back again toLa Canielle to-day.' I thauked him, saying that I should not return to La Cauielle without having re ceived orders to do so. 'I bring you a verbal order," he said. "You are waited for with an impa tience " , "An Impatience which yon exaggerate probably, and in which I shall have faith only after receiving a written order." "lou are either distrustful or moaest as much as possible, so as to be no blem ish in this splendid garden that surrounds them and emDraces them, straggling vines and bowers of clematis and bram bles protect the maturity of the fruits and vegetables on conditions which else where would seem prejudicial to them, and. ignorant of the rights of owner ship, grow over into the neighboring en closures to . entwine themselves witn their fellows. .The valley of Yport is an adorable specimen of these cases, which extend their beautiful vegetation and their mild and sheltered climate even to the foaminsr edfire of the waves. Of all those that f have been through, none ap peared to me more- rustic ana more tun of character. At that time there were as vet no sea-baths, no villas, no cottages. Those of to-day have not yet spoiled any thing. But beware of the fashion, the Cockney, and the Englishman, when they introduce into tms enciianteu spot the sham ruins anu tne nuicuious ieuuai fortresses with which they have bastued the valley of Etretat, the hillsides of Hveres. and all our shores! As Mile. Merquem had told me before hand, the village was inhabited only, by fishermen; and I found them the same handsome and hardy race of mariners as those of La Canielle. There was this dif ference, however, between them that, thanks to the admiral's gifts of land and his counsels, the fishers of La Canielle were accustomed to the cultivation of little gardens, and to the knowledge of the pleasures or a semi-pastoral lire. At Yrioit. the fisherman's houses, joined one to the other as near as possible to the little beach, were entirely separate from those of the gardening peasants, scatter ed about the neighboring orchards. The disdain of a maritime race for the enjoy ments of the land was there to ne seen in all its rudeness. While on the borders of the Mediterranean the old sailor de votes himself to the pretentious construc tion of his cottaze and the cultivation of African plants in his garden, carefully enclosed and jealously guarded, the sail or of the North, more poetical and more sombre, disdains to strike a spade into the soil that bears him. : . He has a horror But am I to be exposed to the possi- wanted to tell you on my own account. We have much to talk about, for this is a delicate situation. I have suffered much; not so much from Mile. Merquem's de termination to which I can make no opposition in any way as from the mys tery with which she has surrounded ner proceedings. I had a right to more frankness on her part, and perhaps also on yours." . Ou mine? 1 do not think so. ine secret belongs only to her." "Well then! admit, however, that you have risked making me very ridicu lous, " "Such was not my intention ; out al low me to refuse to answer any questions whatever, or to defend myself from any reproach, before knowing the motive of the visit which you do me the honor to make me." - That is just; I will proceed as you 1 must give you an account, then, of what has taken place since your departure. Let us sit down I am fatigued, and suf fer a little." His face was really altered. He had not zrown thin, bnt his eyes were sunk en, and his cheeks purpled. Whether It was the effect of the sea wind or ot sor row, he was no longer the same, and his look seemed to me feverish. I pitied him, and made a promise to myself to be very good-natured, mless he should force me to be hostile, we sat down, and I waited till he was quite ready to rpeak. He made an ettort, ana saia t he last time that we met at .la ijameiie I saw plainly that Mile. Merquem told me a falsehood in saying that you had come ou some business about money, lor you will admit that you did not come for that purpose?" 1 have told you, sir, that l will not submit to being questioned. 1 thought I had done enough to be excused from it Dv saving that 1 nad never tnougnt oi placing you in a ridiculous position. Must I repeat it? I consent; but I will enter into no details before you have tes tified to an absolute trust In ray truth fulness; and so far you seem to express some doubt, the complete expression of which I wait tor." You are risrht again," he answered. drying his forehead, which was- bathed in perspiration ; "it is my part to ex plain. Well! that day, seeing tliatl was played with, by Aer at least, i ar ranged a play myself. I pretended to ed to see me again the next morning, in order to tell me if she still persisted. This was a little ruse; she wanted to give you time to save yourself." "Whatdovou sav. sir?" I rejoined. placing my hand ou his, and looking fix edly into his eyes. He had a flash of hope at seeing me ir ritated, but he felt that iu following up the incident he would take upon him self the part of provocation. He con tinued : "I have made use of an improp er expression. You had sworn to depart you departed. At eleven o'ciock in the evening 1 was at La Plantier ; they told me that you were on your way to Paris. I ran to the depot. Too late. I waited for another train. Iu short, I was at your house, in Paris, at five in the morning. I was balked, and set out an hour afterward to be at La Canielle by noon. 1 was iu a rage ; I did not con ceal from Mile. Merquem that, since she had laughed at me a: the moment when I wa8counting on her entire confidence, I should find some way to discover you in order to have an explanation with you." "Will you be good enougn to ten me what explanation vou intended to ask of me when you were looking for me at La flantier,lat the railroad Btation, ana at Paris?" I would be embarassedto tell you. I had not fully made up my mind ; but one thing is sure, 1 didn't intend to clasp you to my heart " 'Then Mile. Merquem wasnghtinnot having confidence iu you, and in delay ing matters a little in order to preserve your life, which is justly dear to her; for my head was no cooler than yours that day, and I inspired her with no more confidence than you, since she forced from me a promise to depart and even to conceal myself. You should understand that I have suffered in submitting to this, and that it is not becoming for you to re mind me of it too often. You are right, and I was wrong! You are master of the situation and I am its victim. Triumph U easier to bear than defeat; have a little patience, then, if in my explanations I do not possess all the calm that is desirable." As soon as vou invoke my patienco, I promise you to show a great deal of it." Stop! will yon promise not to Inter rupt me? Let me say what I have iu me; you can answer afterward on ail the points, as you understand it.7' 1 consent; but do not abuse too much the advantage that I grant you." "1 will do my best, for it is necessary to understand the situation clearly, and see what ground we stand upon; It is frightful to live as I have lived for three weeks; I have never been so unhaopy; it is an endless alternation between doubt and hone. I have seen Mile. Mer quem almost every day ; she has allowed me to besiege her with my representa tions and my prayers, my despair and my threats, lor l have made a scene witn her more than once. She has shown the patience of an angel. It has gone so far that, in seeing her depart, through com passion tor me and anxiety for you, trom her habits of seclusion, the town of La Canielle has been in a a ferment; the neighbors have talked, and Mme. de Mal- hois gives out that I am at last happy : That gives you a cold chill all down your back, I see; and I can even give myself the pleasure ot making you. a little jeal ous, I who have only one part left to take -that of conducting you to the feet of Celie and of blessing your marriage, tinder penalty of passing for the most complete dupe under the snn." "Is that the part on which you have determined r" "Wait! do not interrupt. ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC JflElV. BY COI J. W. FORNEY, NO. LIII. On the 19th of March, 1791, President Washington wrote from Philadelphia to General Lafayette as follows: "My health is now quite restored, and I flatter myself with the hope of a long exemp tion from sickness. On Monday next I shall enter upon your friendly prescrip tion of exercise, intending at that time to begin a long journey to the southward." He had been invited by many of the leading characters of the Southern states, who promised him everywhere the cor dial and enthusiastic greeting which two years before marked his triumphal pro gress through New England. The car riage in which he traveled was that in which he usually appeared on public oc casions in Philadelphia. This carriage was built by Mr. Clarke, of that city, and was carefully preserved in a house built especially for its reception, where it re mained for half a century. It is describ ed as "a most satisfactory exhibition of the progress of American manufactures." It was drawn by six horses, carefully se lected for their handsome appearance and endurance. Washington started from his residence, in Market street at twelve o'clock, on Monday, the 21st of March, 1791. Mr. Jefferson aud Gener al Knox escorted him into ttie State of Delaware, and there left him. Major Jackson, oue of his private secretaries, accompanied him until he returned to Philadelphia, the capital of the nation. He arrived at Annapolis, Maryland, on the 25th of March, and remained two days. He stopped at Georgetown, thence proceeded to Mount Vernon, where" he remained a week, thence to Fredericks burg, Virginia, where he dined with his old friends and neighbors, recalling, with Chancellor Wythe, the scenes of . his youth and early manhood. The party arrived at Richmond at 11 o'clock on Monday, the 11th of April, where, as at Annapolis, Washington was greeted with acclamations and public illumina tions. They visited Halifax,' Newbern, Wilmington, and other places in North Carolina. Leaving Wilmington, Wash ington was rowed across Cape Fear river ir. an elegantly-decorated barge. He ar rived at Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday, the 2d of May. Charleston was then the gayest of cities. Milliners and tailors corresponded directly with in ventors of dresses in London and Paris. Women preferred French fashions and often improved upon them. Gentlemen were partial to blue, the product ot their staple, indigo. Pantaloons baa been in troduced, and were worn by some of the younger men, but in a few years were entirely laid aside, and breeches resum ed. Duels were frequent. "Drunken ness," says Dr. Ramsey, "was the en demic vice." There were periodical races, bunting and fishing, and luxur ious dinners, followed by dancing and music. The Due de la Rouchefoucauld Liancourt observed that "from the hour of four in the afternoon the Charleston rarely thought of anything but pleasure. They had two gaming houses, both constantly full. - The In habitants had acquired great knowledge of European manners, and a stronger partiality lor them than was round In New York. A foreign style of life pre vailed." This view ot the inner society ot Charleston was the key to a future largely controlled by the political opin ions there nurtured and disseminated. Here the President had a royal greeting. A twelve-oared barge, commanded by tumes, were different things when Wash ington lived in Philadelphia from what they are to-day. His habit, when the day was fine, was to take a walk, attend ed by his two secretaries, Mr. Lear aud Major William Jackson, one on each side. He always crossed directly from his own door, on Market street, near Fifth, to the sunny side, and walked down toward the river. He was dressed in black, and all three wore cocked hats. They were silent, men. and seemed to eon verse, very little. ' Washington had a large family coach, a light carriage, and a chariot, all light cream-colored, paint ed, with the enameled figures on each panel, and very handsome. He went in the coach to Christ Church everv Sun day morning, with two horses; used the carriage and four for his rides into the country, and the Landsdowne, the Hills, and other places. When he visited the , Senate he had the chariot, with six horses. All his servants Were white, and wore liveries of white cloth, trimmed with scarlet or orange. It 'was Mrs. Washington's custom to return calls on the third day. : The footman would knock loudly and announce Mrs.- Washington, who would then pay the visit to- comr pany with Mrs. Secretary Lear, He manners were easy, pleasant, and uncer emonious. The late lamented Richard Rush, who I knew well and who occu pied very many distinguished positions, local, State,' national, and diplomatic, and who died July 30, 1859, aged seventy-nine, recalls a scene in Philadelphia lu 17SH-'9d, when ' Washington opened Congress ia person, and which Mr. Rnsli saw as a boy His ' words are almost mine. ' The carriage of the 5 President was drawn bv four beautiful bav horses. It was white, with medallion ornaments on the panels, the liveries of the servants white turned up with red. Washington L got out of the carriage, - slowly crossed the pavement, ascended the stens of the edifice, corner of Sixth and Chestn ut, upon the upper platform of which h paused, and turning half around he look ed in the direction of a carriage which had followed the lead of his own. Thus he stood for a minute, distinctly seen by everybody in the vast -concourse.: His costume .was a full suit of black velvet ; his hair, blanched by time, powdered to snowy whiteness, a dress sword hanging Dy ms side, his hat in his hand. ; Pro found stillness reigned . throughout the dense crowd ; not a word was heard; every heart was full.' It seemed as if he stood In that position to gratify the as sembled thousands with a , full view of the Father of his Country... Not so; he paused tor nis secretary, who bad got out of the other carriage, decorated like bis own. : The secretary ascended the steps, handed him a paper, probably a copy of the speech he was to deliver, when both entered the building.,. An English gen tleman, . a , manufacturer,! Mr., Henry Wansey, breakfasted with "Washington and his tamlly on the 8th of J une, 1794. He was greatly impressed. ' The' first President was then in his sixty-third year, but had little appearance of age. 11 L I i.nl..M w--- I 1. 1 .. ifA .1 : 1 . UBOpU) UI . "Mrs Waalilrxrtnn horaolf mails tea and coffee for them: on the table were two small plates of sliced , tongue and dry toast, bread and butter, but no broiled fish.: as is generally the custom. Miss Eleanor Custis, ber granddaughter, a very pleasant young lady, in her six teenth year, sat next to her, anu next, her grandson, George Washington Park Curtiss, about two years older. There were but few slight Indications of form ; oue servant only attended, who wore no livery. Mrs. Washington struck him as CRIMES AIVD CASUALTIES. ' Joseph Hayden was struck bv a loco motive while returning home to Mt. Aity from Columbus, and instantly killed. A young German named Loom, while attempting to cross the Scioto River at Columbus, oo the ice, was drowned on Wednesday. - ' -1 At Erie, on Wednesday, a woman seventy-five years old was sent to the peni tentiary at Pittsburg for twenty-seven months for committing perjury to obtain a pension. "-"An old eolored wouian, Aunt Phyllis, said to have been a spy in the Federal service, among the Tories, in Revolution ary times, was ' burned to -death Friday night at Brickton, N. J. At Worthington, Franklin county, it few days since, a- womati kicked at her husband," missed him, aud struck a small child ill the abdomen, killing it. The woman's name was Ross. ""AMrsL' McGulre" and"" two infants (twinsi were recently found frozen to death in a hovel near Bennington, Ver mont; while the husband aud father was away On & drunken spsee.' " - Samuel 'Bateman, a workman in a Louisville plow factory, ,waa .found in the Ohio1 river Jon Wednesday,4 with, a horrible gash in his head. He had been missing for ..seven,, weeks,, aud was un doubtedlyuiiirdered.l.A X, Mrs. Cornelia Burke, wife of Captain Thomaa E. Burke, was burned to death at her boarding house in Hartford, Con necticut, on Thursday forenoon. She was alone in the room, and in some wav I not known her clothing caught .fire, and sne ran down stairs in a Diaze and ten dead in the kitchen. and there were days in which I was per suaded to it; bnt I could not surrender myself ; it was too strong for me. It seemed to me that I had a right to make her suiter, I who suffered so much ! I spared her nothing, not even threats, and born : the same year. , &he was short in certainly offered me by Mile. Merquem, veyed him, with several distinguished think seriously of a charming marriage, . the curse of her grandfather was bevond ' I w 1 1 . i - I I . . " i . . . . the tomo. i made her atraid, l made her weep, I made her sick. You must know The Test of the Heirs; OR , J : Tha Secret 'Haniolpla Abbey, ' . .j ' ' .V;"? BY THIS AUTHOR OF "The Wrecker's Daughter;" "The Deteet- -, ire's . Story ;" V The -JIatd oJAtnne, ete.; etc: CHAPTER IV. ; (costinved);' kNLY once that ; evening did Lilias hear the sound of Aletheia's , -Voice, and then the' words she uttered seemed so unnatural, so incomprehensible,' to that light heart in its passionless ignorance, that they did ... .i. r .1 : . i : i . .. f-DUttenu to increase uiu germ ui uinnivu and even fear, that was, asjwe have said, already planted there against this feingu- ' 'V lar person, it Wasafte they bad return ed to the drawing room that some men tion was made, of the storm of the pre ceeding evening, to which Lilias had been exposed. Walter was questioning her as to the details,; with all the ardor of a bold ''nature, to whom danger is intoxieattng. "But, I suppose," he continued, smiling, " von. even like all women, wei too much terrified to think of anything but your which I had never dreamed of; and when I saw Mile. Merquem reassured concerning my intentions, I satisfied, by taking leave ot her, tne very great desire which she nnsiuituuy snowed me mat she had of dismissing me in order to re join you." lie made a pause, aud looked at me. l remained impassible. I was, however, revolted by the want of propriety and dignity with which this man so well brought up, but with so little delicacy of mind expressed himseir in regard to Celie. He spoke as if he had some right over her, almost like a deceived husband ; and such disclosures as these, to a happy rival, argued the softening or a troubled brain, or a secret desire of provocation from me. 1 believed that ne had prom ised Celie not to take the initiative, and that we were equally bound by an oath which each of us wished to see DroKeu bv the other, "t or some time," ne continued, "l saw plainly that yon were pushing your point, and that day I wanted to be sure of the fact. I followed Celie, and saw her enter with you into a grotto In the cliff. There was no longer an v doubt; I had been played with! I resolved to kill you yes, my dear sir, it is so; but before I could descend the rocky steps, you were far away, and Mile. Merquem was returning alone to meet me. She took me by the arm with a desperate de termination, and said to me: 'I am glad to find you again. I have something to say to you in private; come into the house again with me.' ! I submitted. As soon as she treated me like a man, I could yield to her. She was very sincere ; and, after having'given me an account of the wrVi-1 rt a fti i w alia os'kiiitli'if f 4ul Vicr eai'l it ir liaa onnt a'ua anAulrincr QIhI f -latirif! taL.1 4-Wa. nmawnrk a mnitaaahnnriWim nlaM I . - - I , y ' o , l ""-"S "v" that she had imposed one condition upon lowed terete i"5.ey. Sift .SSI to P1"56- 5sner eaPes thU miBe7 her marriage with you that I should elosed on the dark figure. Fheii became by his associations. We recognize ia -o, to it without too much snfferino-. wun mauy exH-esiuu oi kuiui v niwrr-1 mm tne man or action, tne roousi uescen-1 Tr ir ij v ftn,i .- T k voll lf ., co, . : . . " -: I w" t j ' i iiiive accented that condition " prey, RIWHllMUm WWJBUITW J " m;uw. tary laDor. mere are some very oia bility of such a meeting? Was It not a distinct stipulation that he should avoid even the risk of encounteritigme? Lady Randolph, is it or is it not a part of the agreement by which I permit him to dwell in this house, that I am never to be tormented with even the sight 'of him?" "It is, it is.;' she-answered impatiently, "and for that reason I am vexed that it fhonld have occurred. I admit that you are justified in your complaint, since such was our contract, however cruel this condition. ' But I will take care that it does not happen again, and at all events, Sir Michael, it seems to me that this Is most unfit discussion to be heard by your nephews and ueices! ' "Then I- differ from you, "he said, with a bitter smile, for he loved to hum ble the proud woman, who bad trampled on his heart these many years. "As they haye various motives for seeking to please me, it is as well they. should know my peculiar tastes. Let me tell yon then he said, turning towards them "that there is one man in the world whom I hate as I would hate the vilest reptile, and that man is under this roof. Who ever wishes my favor, therefore, will avoid hiin as they would a pestilence. "Let us go," said Lady Randolph hast ily rising, "it is quite late, uome, Lilias, you look pale with fatigue. ' I will show you the way to your room, in case you lose yourself in the long passages. This produced an immediate dispersion of the party, Aletheia glided away while rock, builds himself a shelter, and, when not upon the waves, does like Stephen I smokes, contemplates., or tells stories. Near him the laborer strives to produce, and the exchange of commodities serves for a bond between them, without any better mutual relations ever modifying I in any way the sharp contrast between their tastes and customs, rue tning is so well established that there is no longer any ,. discussion possible, no longer any Question ot moral or intellectual pre- c- . ... ... I cedence ; but at the oottora or ms soui tne i fisher feels his superiority, and his pride iu his profession is written ou his fore-1 head. He is a constant fighter, with great dangers for his gain. At the hour when the countryman goes to supper or to bed, he makes ready and undertakes a majestic work. , He puts on a manly dress, he calls together a triDe or asso-1 elates, he prepares Immense engines, he sets steadfast boats afloat, all the while giving orders to his family , like a man who says to himself every day, at the same hour, that perhaps he may not re turn. In other respects, here as at La. Ca nielle. the types are clearly contrasted, and to the last rampart of the cliff, the countryman Is a countryman as the sail or is a sailor. The latter is known by his high stature, his proud air, and his brief wav of speaking. The other's speeeh is thick, his gait shuffling, his look impressed with cunning and anxie ty to please. The amall manufacturer Is of the same blood. The countryman is not contented on the richest soil In the world ; He is unhappy, and can see only I all this, and perhaps you cannot pardon me for it. It is what 1 wish ror when 1 am alone, even though I repent when I see Celie pale and downcast; then I sub mit and ask her pardon, ;and promise everything she wishes. The next day I resume my attack and drive her to des pair. I wished that, worn out by such a struggle, she should nnally and solemnly renounce marriage. 1 sometimes place your life or mine at this price. I wish to force her to explain what she under stands by not making me suffer too much. Will she be arrested only by the dread of driving me crazy or ot making me blow out my brains? Is she only afraid of the scandal of my despair, of a duel between us, or of being blamed by her friends for my grief and my complaints? Or has she really a feeling of remorse at inflict ing so cruel a humiliation upon me r in short, she was wrong to impose upon you the condition of my consent. I try in vain to give it to you; it will, perhaps, be only wrested trom me with my life, She might have dismissed me brutally ; rage would have given me strength, hate would have sustained me, I would have revenged myself cursing, her happiness, while- "While you are Its victim," cried I, in- t own saieivr -. ".No, said Miias, mii trg np her large while Walter warmly shook hands with her, and seemed, in his simple "good night," very fervently spoken, to ex press far more than his cousin had done. But It was not fatigue that had changed for a moment the color trom tne sweet face of Lilias it was the blighting breath of that deadly thing, the hate of a hu man heart. Never before had this inno cent child come lu contact with such a passion. Of love she knew enough. Its fragrant atmosphere had been , around her trom her cradle, it nau come to ner i .... i: ' i 1 . ,.r K ..1 ..I. . eyes to n s viui a pecu.mr 5 nt by nig,lt, in the fond kiss of her ness. which reminded mm of the dawn- ... .. ,..,. , K , ing of morning,. "the appearance of the tempest was so.glorious that its beauty filled the wind, and left no room for fear. I wish you could have seen it. It was as though some fierce spirit were imprison ed behind the deep black veil that hung J i. Jpver the western heavens, to whom free dom and power were grnuuai ir a uuie Beasou for suddenly one vivid, tremen d uous flash of lightning seemed to cleave asunder that dark wall, and then the wild, liberated storm came thundering forth, shrieking and raging through the skv. and tearing np the breast of the sea with iu cruel footsteps. It was the graud ' est sight I ever saW." . "I think-there must have been anoth er yet more interesting display on -.!", HrunA t.li vessel itself." said the sweet low voice of Gabriel, "I should have lov ed rather to watch the storms and strug gles of the human soul in such an hour ' of peril as you describe." "Ah ! that was very fearful," said Lilias "shuddering, "I cannot bear to think of ' It. That danger show d me'such things in the nature of maliJis 1 never ureatueii or. I think irthe whinwinu nau uiienj 1.1.1 rmre the dentbs of the sea, as it seem ed striving to do, it conld not have dis played more .monstrous and hideous sights then when its powers stripped those souls nrouud me of all disguise." . 1 ' "Pray give us some details,' said Ga briel, earnestly.. He seemed to long for dissection of human nature in agony, as an epicure would for n feast. Lilias was of too com plying a disposi--fHfl to refuse, though she evidently dis- Uki J the tat!t' "0l,e lUntie may ,?e. a surfitjjent example of what I mean, sno rfaid. ''There was a man and his wife. V . . . . . ... I V 1 K u-linm. Jirevions to me xurni. 1 "- grandfather, and well nigh hour by hour in the endearing words and caressing arms of the kind old nurse, who cher ished her, as such sweet blossoms of life's early spring ever cherished by those who have attained its winter, but of hate she knew nothing. It was the first time that this accursed thing had crept into her presence which steals about this world, poisoning the well-springs of friendship and affection that rise to refresh us out or tne oesert sanos 01 tnis our pilgrimage, and turning their pure waters into blood The first touch of this vile passion sick eued the voting heart of Lilias and filled It with the most iutense compassion for him. unknown as he was, who had be come the victim of sueh a fierce aversion. How she wondered who he was,and what he had done to be so detested, and it seem ed to her gentle nature that 110 man, not the worst ciiminal, could, with justice. be so dealt with by a fellow creature, But a kind of instinct told her that the hate was causeless, and therefore did it umin t.n wound her. ait if herself had been I think if the whirlwind had utterly injured. She followed Lady Randolph bill VMSt" in'- iuuk Koiici ics, nuu di whose step had been so fearless on the dangerous mountains, now shrank from the shadows ou the wall, for It seemed to her us if this house, and every heart with in it. was full of dark, strange gpecters bail thoughts haunting these souls like ghosts evil passions lurking be neath fair outward appearances, and words full of meaning which she could not fathom floating ou tier ear. But for the deep peace ot her own in nocence, the clear cool waters of perfect truth In which her own soul lay steeped, so- fresh and pure. Lilias would have .rvl iE entirely devoted each to the trembled to remain an inhabitant of this x.ther He guarded her so carefully from' place, when she felt lnstinctiy mere was are some men among them who are still erect as masts: from fatlier to son neither the pickaxe nor the mattock, nor the thin arms of the plough, have hardened their hands, narrowed their chests, or bent their backs. Their large noses are peak ed like harpoons, and they have the round, clear, prominent eye of the diving birds: nothing or the porpoise or tne seal. The monsters of the abyss are the ene mies or the victims which fly before the fisher. The type of the dogfish, the pro file of the cod, was seen elsewhere in human society ; here the man of the sea is the eagle of the sea, and the sometimes exaggerated resemblance constitutes an ugliness which is never vulgar nor un pleasant One day. wnen 1 nan inuueeu atcpnen to seize the sense and spirit of these faces, which uo to that time he had Deen un willing to consider, we approached, at low tide, a pedestrian who was coming from the direction ot 'ecamp Dy tne oase of the cliff, and who directed his steps toward us. I paid very little attention to him at first, but Stephen seizing me bv the arm. "The devil take me," said he, in his hoarse voice, which seemed to become clearer when he was ' moved a little, "if that isn't Montroger coming there! I've only seen him once they pointed him out to me bnt I would swear that I am not mistaken." "Ah. heaven be praised!" I cried. looking at him attentively, "it ts he ; lit is come to look for me! 1 was obedient in shunning him, but 1 can do no more. 1 can't hide myseir. uome, Stephen, let's go and meet him ; let ns at least know what he intends to do." 1 "Excuse me, my dear fellow," ans wered Stephen, "but, in the first place, it is not certain that he Is looking for us. A man can come to Yport without know ing that you are here. . In the second place, without hiding yourself, yon can stay there very well, with your back turned, lf he is looking for you, be has already seen and will approach you ; if not, he will go his way, and you will avoid a quarrel which might compromise your fiances." -.- ''I will avoid a quarrel by my language and my actions at least, unless he Is a brute-beast, determined to quarrel any how ; and In that case " "Yes. I did not accept it with pleas ure, as you can easily believe; but 1 sub mitted to it out 01 devotion to Aer." He took a long breath for a moment, as If relieved of a part of his burden ; then he resumed; ''But the -question is, what did she understand by the words. 'agree to It without too much suffering?' Mow did you understand it ? ' "1 did not understand it. She only could be the judge ot tne degree 01 pain which she would have to spare you ; .and I submitted blindly, as, in such cases, a man with a heart ought to do with a wo man who he adores and respects." And yet 1, too, respect and adore this woman ; and 1 did not submit all at once like that " "You were wrong." "What!" "You were wrong." "Possibly; but I had other'riglits than yon. ilteen years ot friendship are more serious than two or three months of love; and she had so confirmed me in my belief that she would never love any oue, that her reti action produced 011 me the effect of a theft or a murder. I will not conceal from you that I have done everything in the world to dissuade her from marriage. I have said no ill of you, because I had none to say. lf I had known of some bad action committed bv vou, I would not have concealed it' from her" "That would have been your duty. "I cursed you for being a man of mer it aud honor; but toher 1 represented that you were too young for her, that she would repent of her folly, tiiat her old age would be sorrowful, ridiculous, and suspicious; and then I spoke to her of myself, of our situation, of our ages, of iny inviolable attachment, of the wishes of our friends, all that the desire and the wish to supplant you could suggest to me." "It was vour right." "Yes! I see plainly that you have the calmness of a victor; but you must know all. I continue. She made me stay to dinner, and we talked together all the evening. She was wonderfully amiable in the conversation, and even as the eve ning advanced she appeared to become less firm in her resolution ; for when I went away, she Bald that she would re- fleet during the night, and that she wish- capable of listening to him any longer without indignation, "lou do not re venge yourself you! You torture her for three weeks, and she conceals it from me! You punish her bitterly for her goodness, tor her unyielding patience: For fifteen years, to recompense you for some days or devotion, she has devoted herself to the tender care of the insatia ble vanity of a man without courage and without virtue : This miserable egotist refuses himself nothing ; he Is renounced to pleasure, he makes pretention to mar riage, he has his vain desire ot it ; he uses his liberty in the present,he reserves it for the future ; aud he pretends that the woman he honors with the novel In junction of his preference should nounce everything, in order not to con tradict him! She should condemn her self to an eternal solitude, lest anyone should say in your little world that an other has been more deyoted and has deserved to be more happy! Stop! Mons. de ilontroger, 1 pity you notwithstand ing: for self-love can impose upon a con science that has but little delicacy, and cause it torments which resemble those of passion. I was resolved to respect as much as possible, the secret ot your weak ness and your want of dignity ; but you have just confessed that gentleness and goodness only render vou more exacting and more brutal ; you bave just proclaim ed your right to make others sutler, and now 1 regard vou as a madman, whose folly I wish to cure, if It Is gentle, but to which 1 know very well how to apply the strait-waistcoat of force, if it becomes furious." At last," he cried, rising, "you insult me and you provoke uie: ' ".Neither," l answered, shrugging my shoixoers; "l judge your' That word overcame him. He turned pale, stammered out some contused words, and lost consciousness. Stephen, who had kept within sight ran up aud helped me in bringing him back to life. "Have ine taken," said he, "somewhere where 1 can lie down. I faint from fatigue, and am afraid of be ing ill." We were at a little distance from Yport A boat presented itself just iu time. We took him to the inn where I was stop ping, without his speaking a word, and gave him my bed, in which it was not long before lie was asleep without at all knowing where he was. I passed into the next room, occupied Dy Stephen. gentlemen, from Hadrill's Point, sur rounded by a fleet containing an instru mental band aud a choir of singers, which greeted him with triumphant airs and songs on his way to the city, where he was received Dy the Governor, the Society of the Cincinnati and the mili tary, amid ringing of bells, firing of can non, and public acclamations, tie re mained a week the . center of affection and admiration. At the corporation ball two hundred and fifty ladles wore sashes decorated with his likeness. A part of their headdress was a fillet or bandeau, with the- inscription "Long live the President," in gilt letters. He sat for his portrait to Colonel Trumbull, the same that now adorns the City Hall In Philadelphia. On Monday, the -9th of May, he left Charleston, accompanied by a committee from Savannah, and was es corted on board a richly-decorated boat, rowed down the river Dy nine sea cap tains, dressed in light blue silk jackets, black satin breeches, white silk stock ings, and round hats, with black ribbons, inscribed "long live tne President," in gold letters. Ten miles from Savannah they were met bv other Darges, tn one of which the gentlemen sung the popu lar air, "He comes, the Hero comes:" Here new honors and festivities awaited him. . He passed on to Augusta, where the populace rapturously received him ; returned into south Carolina, visited Columbia, dined at Camden, passed through Charlotte, Salisbury, Salem, Guilford, and other towns In .North Car olina, and arrived at Mount veruon on the 12th of June. On the last day of that mouth he started for Philadelphia by wav of Frederick, York, and lancaster, and arrived at the Presidential residence about noon on the 6th of July, having been absent nearly three months, durln that period, performing a journey of 1,887 miles. It was aaid of Washington that "no man in the army had a better eye for horses." This long tour was a severe test ot the capacity of his steeds. and liefore reaching Charleston he wrote to Mr. Lear, his secretary, "that, though all things considered, they bad got on very well, yet it brought back they would stature, rather robust, extremely simple iu her dress, and wore it very . plain cap, with her hair turned under: It." ; This description of; Mrs. Washington corre sponds exactly with the portrait painted by Trumbull, now in the Trumbull gal lery, at t New - Haven Connecticut. , lu 1793 : Washington left Philadelphia for nearly three months during the preva lence , of yellow ! fever, and stayed at Mount Vernon. -The disease -broke out in August, but he continued at bis post until the luth or September. He wished to stay longer, but Mrs. Washington was unwilling to leave him exposed, and he could not, without hazarding ber life aud the lives of the children, remain. Fre neau, the editor who was charged with having written the bitterest things against tWashiugton, complained in the following . stanzas that,. the: physicians fled from Philadelphia to escape the plague: ? . ; '.. On prancing steed, with sponge at nose, . , from town behold Sangrado fly, .,1 " , Camphor and tar, where'er he goes, The infected shafts of death deiy '; Safe in aa atmosphere of seents, - ,. I, . . Ho leaves as to our own defence. ; Among the public characters attacked by the yellow fever were Mr.- Willing and Colonel Hamilton, but they recover ed. ; The officers of the Government were dispersed, and the- President even deliberated on the propriety of conven ing Congress ' elsewhere, but the abate ment of the disease rendered this unnec essary, and in November the inhabitants returned to their homes, and Congress reassemDiea on tne za 01 jjecember. THE BEAUTY OF WINTER. Winter scenery has charms of Its own. that yield to no other season. On a clear winter (lay, the landscape often has depth of coloring sach as no other time of the year affords. An indescribably sore ana tender atmosphere rests upou the earth, through which glows the deep purple ana Diue or the distant mils. The whiteness of the snow gives to the scene a celestial purity, a suggestion of heav- tint, cut enners as thev did on setting- out. I enly things. Mv horses, especially the two I bought Ihere is abundant beauty, too, of the iust before I left Philadelphia, and iny minuter kind. What is more delicate The following specimen of Gospel ap pears 111 a sermon ot a Second Adveutist 'We live In an age ot unparalleled phen omena, ah terrestrial things show signs of age aud decay. The earth's pulse has Decome excited aud intermittent, throb bing heavily in the volcanic regions, aud its death-spasms are witnessed, as It vom its forth more frequently the burning contents of Its fevered bowels," old white one, are much worn down. and yet 1 have oue hundred aud It fry or two hundred miles of heavy sand before I get into the upper roads." yy hue the resident was in tne south , Thomas Jeflerson and James Madison were making a tour iu the North. . Thev proceeded to New York, sailed up the Hudson to Albany, visited the principal stones of the British General Burgoyne's mislortunes, at Stillwater, Saratoga, aud Bennington, Fort William Henry, Fort Ticonderoga, Crown Point, and other memorable Revolutionary places. Jef ferson amused himself with his gun and hook and line, aud indulged his strong taste ror natural uistory. I recall these facts to show that the custom of Presidential journeys did not originate with President Grant. The example of Washington was followed without censure or exception Dy all his successors, save Mr. Lincoln, who was constantly at work in the midst of a great war. jiignreen nunurea and eighty seven miles in three months was regard ed as an extraordinary teat In 1791 ; and if the most hopeful of our statesmen had then predicted that the day would come when a successor of Washington would preside over thirty-seven States, with a population of nearly forty millions of people, and travel from Washington city to tlie Pacific and back, by way of New York and Philadelphia a double dis tauce of over seven thousand miles, with plenty of time to see and converse with the masses, all iu one month he Would have been denounced As a lunatic. Washington was pleased with his Southern tour. In one of his letters he said : "It was accomplished without any interruption by sickness, bad weather, or any untoward accident. Indeed, so highly favored were we that we arrived at each place where I proposed to halt on the very day I fixed before we set out. I am very much pleased that I under took this excursion, as it has enabled me to see with my own eyes the situation of the country through which we traveled. and to learn more accurately the disposi tion of the people than 1 could through any information." But these contrasts aud comparisons do nut end here. Official maimers, cos- and exquisite than the tracery of the Dare tree-trops relieved against uie sky? And every snowstorm works a myriad miracles of dainty architecture. , It clothes the black spruces with a huudred feathery plumes. It hides every unsightly object with a soft white mantle. Under its touch in a single hour the whole earth is transformed, and masquerades in ev ery variety or - oeautmu and grotesque apparel. - Then, as by the quick changes of a magician, comes a sudden shower or thaw, and again a frost, and the sun rises upon a world clothed in diamonds. But the deepest charm which Nature has In winter is that which night brings forth. The earth is not more uulike in summer and in winter than are the heav ens. Compare the mellow glory with which the harvest moon floods the earth. with the cold bright light of the far-off moon 01 winter. And tne. winter stars what sight that is given to man so stirs his sense of awe aud mystery, so moves mm to rejoice and reverence and adore, PA1S1LE JOIML A. T V 1 : 1 IT I I JN G BATES. 8PAOK. 1 1 w. I 8 w. I 6 w. I 8 m. 6 m. 13 in. 1 iiyi). 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MEIANtiE, It seems to us that in the severity and sternness of winter, the inoods which Nature suggests are higher and more he roic ' than tne milder seasons inspire, When the earth abounds with every fruitful thing, when the warm air wraps ns and the wind breathes gently upon us, the sense of these things bring great delight. - But when the blood quickens to resist tne cold, and douiki in frost and snow the earth seems under the power of some mightier influence than those which minister to the physical man, then we seem to come closer into the presence of the Infinite One. Let one stand In the forest at night, when the ground is white about ills feet, and look up through the net-work of tire great branches to the stars blazing from their Infinite distance, and listen to the mysterious voices of tha wind, and he may well feel himself with in the courts of God. aoB.icco users will pi Mrs, Chloe Flatford. of Fredericksburg. Ya., has just died from excessive use of the weed.. Having smoked and chewed for oue hundred years, her constitution was ruined, aud she died a victim of bad habits at the green age of one hundred aud eighteen years. ?At Bait Saginaw. Michigan. Tuesday. Mrs. Wity, having occasion to visit a square off, locked her three children, all less than four years, tn the house;' Soon after she left, the house took fire, and two of the children were burned to death. The .oldest escaped by. jumping through the window. 5 A ';., At Chillicothe, a young lady, daughter of A.' J. .West, while standing on the steps leading down to the gate of an iron fence, slipped and fell forward, catching under her jaw upon an iron picket.; Her breastpin and ribbon bow were forced up through the jaw into the mouth, mak- ng a fearful Wound. It is thought site will recover. ; . , - r As a western bound train on the Van- lalia : Railroad was approaching High land Station, between Brazil arid Terre Haute, at noon on Wednesday, a girl about eighteen years old, living near Highland, rushed toward the track, pur posely threw herself in front of the en gine, and was torn in pieces. - Her name and the cause ot the strange suicide have not transpired. s ; -w . : On Friday night about ten . o'clock, a man named West, formerly a city con stable, went to a gambling hell on West Madison street, Chicago, in an intoxica ted state, played and lost considerable money. , This resulted in a row, and West was twice shot and otherwise dam aged by the gamblers. He finally con- .A . , W flia UUUDC) .111,1 l.T IIUTT IU critical state, me gammers wm ne arrested as soon as found. " .,, , , An exciting shooting aflair took place at' Charleston, West Virginia,' Monday evening, under the following circum stances: -During the war the lands of John Clarkson, wealthy: Virginian, were sold: for taxes, and Saturday he sued for their recovery.-- Dnringthe pro gress of the trial Clarkson called the de fendant. I). Marshal Stock, a liar. Stock then struck Clarkson, and a gen eral melee ensued, in which seven shots were fired. . The room was small, and over a dozen persons . were present. Clarkson was shot four times and one wound is dangerous, being in the breast. All the parties are wealthy and respect able, and the affair causes great excite ment. : ' :. . , .; A brutal murder occurred at Oakland, Armstrong county ,near New Bethlehem, on .Christmas evening. Simon Burket was shot and killed by Jwry Kirkiand, of Putney ville, Armstrong county. A man named ueham and the deceased were quarrelling, when Klrkland inter fered, telling Beham to go home, and he would settle Burket. The deceased see ing Kirklahd coming, commenced call ing him names, saying he would cut his heart out, at the same time holding a Knite in one hand and a stone in tne other. . Klrkland also called .Burket names and afterwards' threatening to shoot, finally did shoot, and killed Bur ket almost instantly the ball entering the right side of the abdomen, wounding the mesenteric arteriea. Kiriciand was arrested.'..'. . , ' ' : In Louisville, on Sunday forenoon, a young man, named Theodore Thome, in a fit of insanity, ' shot his sister, Mrs. Green, and - her two daughters. Wil helmina, aged twelve, and Larmina aged eight.' "' The two forme.' were shot in the stomach and wuiproDaDiydie. . The lat ter was wounded in the hip, and will recover. 'Thome also attempted to shoot his brother-in-law, and then put the pis tol to his own head and fired. , The bul let arlanced. inflicting a painful and dan gerous wound. : Thome is in Uie hospital, and was arraigned iu the city court, when an application was made to send him to the lunatic asylum. .All are re spectable Germans. Green keeps a gro cery near- the foot of Clay street, and lives in a room aoove where tne tragedy occurred. The sudden withdrawal of Mr.TI. K, Foster from the pastorate of the Third Avenue Methodist Church of Columbus, and the surrender of his parchment as a minister, Is caused by his failure to live the life that a Christian minister should. One day last week an official of Picka way county called on oster with the in formation that a girl about 17 years old, living iu Cireleville, who had formerlv had charge of Foster's rooms, while go lug tq, school, was about to become the mother ot a child, that sue declared Fos ter .to be its father, and that a marriage would settle the matter. It is said that Foster admitted the truth of the story, and told the officer to send the girl to this city with a license. On Saturday even ing Foster met a lady at the depot, upon the arrival of the Hocking Valley train, and left the city.' Tills affair falls with great force upon the Methodist clergy of (jolumDus, and upon tne memoers of the Third Avenue Church. Foster is an ed ucated man. about forty years of age, and has occupied various places of prom inence in Ohio as a pastor, lie is an Englishman by birth, and was a minis ter when quite a young man. : During an evil hour he forsook his high culling and became somewhat rapid. He then came to this country, and after a season located iu Chillicothe as proprietor of a barber shop. Ills intelligence and social qualities soon drew about him mauv men of culture, and he was a very popular citizen. During a revival of religion he professed conversion, and was ordained a minister of the Methodist church. For two years previous to October he was in charge of a church in Cireleville, and was considered a very talented preacner, the principal complaint being that his sermons were too intellectual to suit many of his hearers. While in Cirele ville his wife died, aud It Is said his in timacy with this young girl began soon after, the girl being in tne nanit or com ing to Foster's room to prepare it for the nay, previous to going to school, and while there she was Induced to fall How long this Intimacy was kept up ts not known. When Foster went to Co lumbus he corresponded with the girl and it is said promised to marry her and then subsequently refused to fulfill his promise. This refusal so affected the girl that she went to the Prosecuting At torney or tne county ami made a clean breast of the whole nfl'air. . These facts are learned from residents of Pickaway county. The Cuba-root of all evil Valmaseda. What would Dickens say to his bio grapher if he could speak? Spare my life. Victor Emanuel doesn't allow bores to hunt him. He prefers to hunt the boars. Cincinnati has a score of females iu a brass band, and the toot ensemble is said to be very fine. New Hampshire has a town named "Old Bye," which won't go down with the temperance party. A much-married Missourian was horse whipped by his wife for going out riding with a widow last week. Massachusetts proposes to enact that car passengers need not show fare unless they get a fair show for a seat. . The North Carolina Legislature Is hav ing an acrimonious debate over a bill to encourage the growth of peanuts. Mr. Grant, with great self-abnegation. is willing to be nig-'lected if the white folks don't want him for another term. Mr; Colfax has given up smoking. though he is still willing to receive puffs from the small pipes of the Kadical press. A lisping damsel of Quebec, thinks that the agitation of the quakerth had thome- thingto do with the earthquake there on Tuesday; ' A decided perversion of military pow er When armed troops "defile" them selves at Mr. Grant's bidding for elec tioneering purposes. Sixty-eight towns have applied to the Weather Bureau at Washington for ap propriations to enable them to do signal service to the country. . , , . A modest Ciiicinnatian is organizing a brass band of twenty female performers, on the supposition that brass should be bann'd among women. ' - Sunday journals are discussing the question : "Can . we cultivate rain ?" Doubtful, says the Jew lork j'ott, but wecan "raise thunder." What is the difference between a pre served herring and a fat earthenware manufacturer ? One is a potted bloater, and the other is a bloated potter. - A sentimental chap intends to petition Congress for a grant to improve the chan nels of anection, so that nenceiortn tne course of true love may run smooth. The Prefect of Orizaba extracted a loan of $5,000 from the citizens by - making them stand on one leg all night. ; They very naturally 'came down' in the morning- . . ...': Here's a comical advertisement: "To the Credit Drapery Trade Wanted, a young man, to be partly out-door, and partly behind the -.counter." What will be the result when the door siamsr The former "belle of New-Haven" is said to have been committed as an habit ual drunkard in New Jersey. Perhaps she took to drink because when she was a belle her feelings were wrung. A candy-boy, passing through a car, saluted a cross old gentleman, with, "Pop corn, pop-corn!". ."Hain't got any teeth," angrily replied the man. "Guin-drops! gum-drops!" persisted the enterprising vouth. --..-..i!', An old lady Complaining of the bad quality of a ham to the provision dealer, the latter assured her that it was a reg ular Westphalia . , "That it is, indeed!" exclaimed the dame, "and the worse fail ure 1 ever had !" A little girl having noticed that after her mother's toilet, there was invariably sprinkling: of powder on the carpet, ob served on seeing the snow the other morn ing, "See, mamma ! the angels have been using the potidre de rig." Kitchen girls are now termed "young ladies of the lower parlor." People who go about grinding knives,scissors and raz ors are termed "gentlemen of the revo lution." Folks who dig clams are termed profound investigators." John Steele("Coal Oil Johnny"), who won national notoriety during the oil panic for his great extravegance' is worth at present aoout ?ou,uuu or fou.uuu anu profiting by his former experience,, nows how to keep it. His penchant now is the purchasing of diamonds. A young gentleman bearing the gen eric name of Brown, in Iowa, also bears diflerent parts ot his person twenty- in seven bullets received during tne war, and his existence is rendered miserable by the way in which wherever he's lead he's followed by some surgeon who wants to show that his diploma correctly styles him a "rir probus.". ' The following is the statute in the old Saxon code referring to leap year: 'Albeit, as often as leap vearre dothe oc cur, the woman holdeth prerogative over the menne in matters of courtships, love and matrimonle; so that when the lady proposeth it shall not be lawful for the man to say her nae, but shall entertaine her proposal lu all glide courtesle." Mrs. Partington entered the office of the Probate Judge (called "Civilian"), agd inquired in her blandest tone : "Are vou the civil villiau ?" "Do you wish to Insult me, madam?" ' said the judge. Yes." replied the amiable old lady: "My brother died detested, and left three iufidel children, and I'm to be their exe cutioner; so I want to1' insult the civil villlan about it." ' "A solecism In grammar or rhetoric is a violation of the idiomatic rules of gram mar or construction in writing or speak ing a language. The word is derived from Soli, a town of Cicilia, said to have been founded bv Solon, and peopled by the Athenians, who were- afterward charged with corrupting the language of the parent state, ooiecism diners iroin barbarism, in that the latter is applied to the erroneous use of single words. In Boston socictv.it is Bald, everybody snubs everybody else; in New-York so ciety everybody gossips about everybody else ; in Philadelphia everybody attends to the morals of everybody else ; in Balti more society everybody fraternizes with everybody else, and in Chicago society, just at present, everybody is borrowing trom everyDody else, isostou, tneretore, is aristocratic; New-York and Philadel phia, democratic; Baltimore, patriarchal, aud Chicago, communistic Illustrative of the hps and downs of this life in general, and politics in partic ular, Thurlow Weed tells how some New Yorkers raiseda fund to defeat Fillmore lit 1856,whlch wasgiven to him for 'judicious distribution." He placed $ 10,000 in bank to the credit of his partner, to be drawn out as it was needed. A tew days after. the latter dropped dead in the street. The bank paid over the money, in due pro cess of law, to the widow. A year or two passed, and Mr. Fillmore met and mar ried the widow and the siu.uuu. T"ie Utica Herald says : Christmas eve ning there wandered into a hotel up street a youthful stranger, well dressed, pale, and somewhat the worse for liquor. Two men of mouey at ouce formed a plan to get the- youth very drunk. They ac cordingly asked him to drink, and they asked him again and again, many times. The young man on each occastou took whiskey, and the others took 'the same.' The languor of the young mail's air was not dissipated, although he seemed rather dissipated, and he did not get drunk worth a cent. Next his wouid-he-per-Recutors drank wine, and he drank wine, but still he was no more drunk and no more sober than at. first. More whiskey was tiled, and then brandy, until the two had paid about $15, for liquor drank by the three and by "transients." The plotters were at about two o'clock in the morning very drunk. The stranger was In the same condition as at first. At about that hour he opened his mouth and spoke as follows: "1 hlc I know what youwa-ant. You hlc can't get me any Ilrunker ; you can't. Liquor won't do It. Gent hie gentlemen, 1 fw from Ti riisrille." To him replied one of the ITticane : "Why didn't yer tell us that before? We we hlc we never would haye tried tried hlo to get A TituaTl man d drunk."