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WALK I It & ODER,
VOLUME I.
The* lileal.
F>rty iiml live years old i d> y.
And alone in the world ami:
All my lovers have trorso their way.
Hut not for them do I siirh.
I would sit hy in v lonely heart h. Ihe . nut
As all these years I have.lone.
Ami answer. No. if to-night they.. tine
And questioned me one hy one.
Yet, one was brave, and one was wise.
And one was lair t" see :
And 1 would not have you think I despise
Their love, lor it honored me.
And well for me had I answered yea.
Hut a shadow, a form unreal.
Rose u n like a ghost and said me nay.
And I knew 'twas my heart’s ideal.
So l have waited these forty years—
Forty years and five;
Waited with hopes and waited with fears.
To meet that shade alive.
Oft I have sat in my hearth’s red gleams.
When the eyes were lonely and still.
And striven to comfort my heart v\ ith dreams.
As lonely women will.
1 have cradled my htihy upon my breast.
And roofed with him to and fro
Till his eyelids drooped, and he sank to rest
To my crooning* tender and low.
And ever the shadow was at my side,
The noblest men among men.
And Ids heart was loving and true and tried.
Till I woke from my dream ; and then
1 have wept hot tears, as I do to-night,
For a love that was never my own :
For a hearth-stone that was never alight*
And a man 1 have never known.
•II T IIK LYNCH IN LAWN.
Possessing the fine imagination you
do, dear reader, conceive yourself*, upon
a brilliant Sunday morning in the
spring, in the center of the vast cypres*
swamp, west of the Mississippi river.
You are one of a large camp of emi
grants from east of the Father of Waters,
on vour way, with two households com
posing the camp, to a new home upon
the banks of the White river. Be de
liberate in acceding to this imagination,
since, if you do, it makes you a member
of a church, for the camp is not only a
neighborhood alloat,a future town upon
White river in the air; it is also a regu
larly organized church, pastors, officers,
members and all. In that large wagon
with the close covering, otf to the right,
is a particularly large and new trunk
containing the pulpit cushions, com
munion service and font, tli * huge gilt
Bible, tip* church records, and all the
lesser volumes for the psalmody and
the Sabbath school of the building for
worship, which, by the by, will be the
very first structure erected when this
church itinerant shall have reached its
selected resting place.
Look around you ! If the woods are
nature’s churches, these gigantic live
oaks and cypresses which environ the
closely clustered tents and wagons of
the camp, with their limbs interlocking
overhead, draped in great bantu rs <>f
hanging moss of the peculiar gray of an
old man’s beard, make up to-day a
cathedral. Nor is the dim religious
light wanting, so dense is the hanging
moss and the foliage above and around.
Nor is actual worship lacking. Tlu*
men and women, in their Sunday de
meanor and clothing, arc seated in
semi circle, of which a rude pulpit i
the center, upon the hide-bottomed
chairs, brought along largely for (hi*
vey purpose. A baby being carefully
bushed upon its mother's bosom there,
an aged woman here, a whitc-hcud< d
patriarch supporting his chin, as lie sits
upon tlie horn-handled top of his cane,
his right hand hollowed behind his car,
that he may lose none of the sermon
those, with others of every age, make
up the congregation ; one more solemn
and deeply serious meets nowhere el-*
in the world ibis Sunday morning.
Breathless solemnity, even, for the
venerable pastor is just closing a sermon
upon the divine command from crea
tion to slay the murdcicr; and iimncd -
ately before him. beside some long ob
ject supported l-y a horse-trough under
eueh end, and covered with a <|iiilt of
white Marseilles, sits the murderer,
already condemned to die, and to In
hung a* soon as the benediction is pro
nounced ! The fact being simply the. :
•lohn Armstrong, a sandy bailed, hug*
limbed, resolute Scotch-Irishman, pillar
ot this church, and born leader among
men, was the getter-up of this move of
tin* church from its worn-out lands in
North Carolina to tin* new and fertile
location selected by himself, after year*
of careful examination cut West, sent
out bv tin* church for that purpose. As
the leader of the party, lit* always rides
a few hours in advance of the camp,
along the militaiy road upon which tin v
are journeying through the swamp, t<>
select a camping spot for each night.
Now, only last Monday, they stayed in
Memphis a day or so, making the last
purchases before leaving all civilizati n
belli ml and plunging into a world al
most as new as if created tin* year be
( re. At that date Memphis Swarmed
with desperadoes, Hying from the older
States, unwilling to go on to Texas if
they could avoid it. One of these.
Beauty Hannon by name, chances in
Memphis upon .lohn Armstrong while
making his purchases, for Armstrong
is treasurer ot the colony as well as
everything else; sees him in possession
of large sums; follows him upon his
lonely ride in advance; shoots him
from behind upon this spot; rides on
with liis plunder only to be ridden
down and captured by the young men
of the colony, forescape is impossible in
such a swamp; no turning otf to tin
right or the left from the embankment
for the military road through the same,
and the horses of the pursuers were
freshest and tleetest. And so, there the
murderer sits ! But far from silent.
Now it is impossible for the camp to
halt while the criminal is guarded back
to civilization. A long trial tarried for,
almost certain escape from the log jail
there while awaiting trial! Besides, the
whole colony are wholly satisfied that
no jury can be found just now in Mem
plus which will not boa ••bung jury,”
whatever the evidence, even if it does
hot acquit the murderer, leaving him
tree to wreak after vengeance upon
them; associated, as they have every
reason to believe he D, with the M Mur
rell gang,” then the terror of that
region. No! The matter has been
thoroughly discussed all the Saturday
night by tin* men of the colony, the
pastor presiding, and with frequent
prayer lor Divine guidance. Are they
not in town? The having not yet
reached,and actually turned their tents
into log cabins upon their town site—
what ditlerenco does that make? And
| who dmiht.s nr denies the guilt of the
i iiiurderder? Money, watch, menioran
! dum book, well-worn pocket Testatinent
, even, of the murdered man found upon
i him! Ami Beauty Harmon never de
nies the crime at all ; only curses, and
strikes and spits at them till lie is ex
hausted, boasting all the time of what
“tin hoys” will do to them for his
death, bewailing only the fact that he
separated himself from ‘‘the hoys” and
“took to rough gambling” hy himself.
Very easily could the criminal have
had his c so at least postponed, for he
is not twenty years old ; “ the most per*
h r lv handsome human being / ever
saw,” one of the men afterward told the
writer. lie had hut to acknowledge all,
beg and pray, and promise for the fu
ture, and over the very body of his
victim pcs ibly—by tin* women first, the
men afterward—lie would have been
held, at least, un ier advisement. But
he has driven the women into silence
from the first hy liis obscene curses upon
them; si nply a beautiful wild animal,
a sleek and spotted panther, utterly
untamable, too wicked and dangerous
to let loose!
And so the sermon is ended, not with
out doxology and benediction. 'The
weeping pastor attempts a beseeching
exhortation to the condemned, till
cursed by him into despairing silence.
The women uncover the face of the
dead for a last look, but are hastened
from it by the brutal language of the
munleiv . 'Then the men, the pastor
following in the rear, bear the murdered
and the murderer to the live oak be
neath which tin- body was found, and
where a wide grave has been already dug,
a stout halter from one of the horses
already secured to the limb overhead.
It is wholly useless, the attempted
prayer of the pastor, for Beauty Har
mon gives way to a fiercer fienzy of
cursing, possibly to keep his courage up
to the last—cursing which ceases oniy
when a sudden blow upon the horse on
which he is seated with the rope about
his neck, leaves him struggling in the
Sunday light, in a few minutes to hang
revolving to right and left— dead ! And
so the two are laid side hy side in the
same grave. The women, too, cluster
about the dead now and lend their tears
and their voices to ti e funeral psalm.
Another prayer, in which both of the
<lead are left in the hand of Hod, with
entreaty for forgiveness if any sin has
been committed in the matter. 'The
doxology and benediction yet again,
and the service is ended !
It was years after, that one of the
officers of the church, now an old man,
told the writer the whole story with no
shade of regret as to tlit? course they
had pursued!
•‘And, you see, we wrote to Beauty
Harmon's people as soon’s we could
learn where they lived, told them the
whole story just how it happened,” tin
old pioneer said to me in continuation.
•* And what did they write?” I asked.
“ They never wrote. 'The old man,
the boy’s father, he came out here. You
see, we bad kept the boy’s saddle-bags,
an’ didn’t know what to do with the
things. Mighty had hoy, Beauty al
ways was ; desperate had boy, the old
man said !” my aged friend added.
“ But what did lie say to your hang
ing his son?” I ventured to ask. Ami
how the exact words of my imformant’s
reply linger to this hour in my ear!
“O, the old man, lie grumbled about
that mightily! It was such a cold
blooded murder, and .lohn Armstrong
he was such a good man, real valuable
man, 1 bad no more feeling in hanging
that young wild cat—vvliat a Beauty lie
was, eyes and claws and satin skin !”
iii) friend added after a long silence.
*• But when we came to examine his
saddle-bags closely after ho was buried,
we lound one little bundle. The women
they had a cry over it. 1 couldn't help
feeling some myself!”
u But what was it?”
“O, nothing in the world! In that
saddle bag was loaded dice, decks of
marked cards, hooks full of the dirtiest
pictures you ever saw. But that little
bundle! Nothing at all, at last, hut a
pair of little red baby shoes tied up very
carefully in a hit of white paper all to
themselves. It is mighty foolish I
know,” added my friend, taking out
Ins large, black, greasy pocket-book,
selecting a rumpled hit of paper there
from and putting the same in my hand,
•’ but I’ve kept that, tied up in the shoes
it was, ever since, a reminder like !”
I carefully unrolled the worn paper,
and could hardly make out the tailed
words. What a foolish old man he was !
Nothing at last written there but the
words, *• Anise pare of littul shoase
bought by Beauty for his deer littul
baby bruther!”— William M . linker , in
Atlantic Monthly.
Socialism in France.
'The Baris Patric is responsible Tor a
most revelation in refer
ence to socialism in the rural districts
of France. According to this account,
tin* property of a proprietor at Saissac,
in the District of Aude, was, last Janu
ary, invaded by a large hand of persons,
who proceeded to appropriate it to their
own use. Not the slightest heed was
paid to the remonstrances of the owner
when he ventured to put in a word for
his lights, nor did his intercession with
the Magistracy prove of any avail, inas
much as the appropriators set the offi
cers of the law at defiance. At length
the military authorities were applied to,
but they appear to have done no more,
than send a squadron of cavalry to the
scene, in the expectation, no doubt,
that its mere appearance would inspire
a wholesome terror, but this hope
proved delusive. The proprietor is
afraid to go near his estate. It must be
admitted that these proceedings quite
take the shine out of Tipperary and
Westmeath. The boldest of Mr.
French’s heroes, in his work on Irish
life, never went quite so far as these
socialistic gentlemen.
Some idea of the value of land in the
crowded business portions of the city of
London can be gleaned from the fact
• that a small plot in Lombard street,
containing an area of 1,530 square feet
1 —about twenty-live feet by sixty feet—
was recently sold for £OO,OOO. This
> averages over £39 or about $195 per
- I square foot.
An Independent Paper—Devoted to
FROSTBFRG, ALLEGANY (’(
1 A Mouthful of Fggs—Tile Tallies I uriinl
on a Practical Joker.
From the Cincinnati Gazette,
l Aii Irishman ha* tor sonic months
, i kept ;in egg stand in <\>urt Street
Market. He was accommodating, cour
j Icons, polite, and upon suitable
occasions fond of a joke. With his
l customers these qualities made him
grow in favor, and so his business
nourished. Upon bis shrewdness be
j indulged in a special pride, flattering
himself that it was an exceedingly difli
, cult matter to “ take him in.” Yester
. day morning he met his match—that ;
is, according to the judgment of disin
r terested observers. A huge Switzer,
, whose youthful muscles had been hard
ened by toiling up Alpine steeps, clam
bering over mountain rocks, and, with
. rasped heel and mountaineer’s crook,
gliding at railroad speed down glaciers,
i approached his market stand. lie was,
i indeed, a muscular, heavy-jawed cus
. tomer. “ Here is fifty cents I will give
i you for a mouthful of eggs,” said the
Alpine mountaineer, laying down the
- fifty cents by the egg dealer’s cash box,
. and looking his man straight in the eyes.
Our egg merchant surveyed his cus
tomer’s mouth, took in its capacity at a
, single glance, turned hi* eyes a moment
- to the sky, then lifting them, looked
right into the face of his customer,
answering: “ Yes, for one mouthful ot
. eggs, I’ll take you at your word.”
** Dour,” said the customer, “ take your
money, and I’ll take my mouthful.”
The dealer whipped the half dollar
into his money box, and the brawny
Switzer, seizing one board of a twenty
five dozen box, full to its capacity, be
tween bis teeth, walked off with it, his
hands hanging free by his side.
He had gone about twenty-five yards
when the dealer saw the “ sell,” 're
pented him of his bargain, and started
in pursuit of his remarkable customer.
'The dealer caught his man, and choked
him until he let his whole mouthful of
eggs, box and all, dropon the pavement.
’The eggs turned out and broke spoil
taneously into a raw custard. The by
standers laughed their sides sore, shout
ed, and hurraed for the Switzer. 'The
Irishman said the terms of the bargain
had not been complied with. 'The
Switzer said that they had, and the
crowd took sides with him. “Pay me
for twenty-live dozen of my eggs,” said
the dealer. “Give me hack my half
dollar and take your eggs,” sail I the
customer. So it went. A [olicemau
was called to arrest the customer, and
then, upon consideration, let him go.
Tiii-n the Irishman thought lie would
tight it out,hut upon tak'ng in the dimen
sions of bis customer, reconsidered bis
determination. The Switzer left his
caul, and the dealer intends to appeal
to the courts for a decision of the ques
tion, “ What constitutes a mouthful
of eggs?”
Preparation of Beet Leaves for Fodder.
Mehay maintains the entire success
of his method of so preparing tin
leaves of the beets as to render them
capable of preservation for seve
ral months as fodder, and at
the same time greatly improving
their qualities as food for cattle. The
method consists in simply placing them
in baskets and immersing them in a
link containing diluted hydrochloric
acid of T of Beaurne. The result of
this is to greatly condense the volume
of the leaves, and to render it necessary
to add more fresh ones to fill up the
basket, which has to be again im
mersed, and finally allowed to drain oil.
The leaves may then he placi d in beds,
in dry earth, and kept until needed for
use. According to a report of a com
mittee who examined the results of
this process, domestic animals become
extremely fond of the leaves tints pre
pared ; and, indeed, milch cows fed
with them are said to have a large in
crease of milk, with a decided improve
ment in the quality of the butter. 'The
tendency to uiairhei in cattle produced
by the fresh beet leaves seems not to he
developed hy this prepared fodder, and
for this and many other reasons it is
strongly recommended to agricul
turists.
Vaccination as a Preventative of Small
pox.
About two years ago a small pox hos
pital was established at Hampstead,
near London, on account of the in
creasing prevalence of that disease. The
superintendent lately published an ac
count of bis observations in that hospi
tal of the effects of vaccination in miti
gating the severity of the disease. Noth
ing could he more conclusive than the
result. 'The percentage of deaths among
those admitted without vaccination
marks was 55.43. Among those with one
mark the percentage of fatal cases sank
to 17.39; among those with two marks
it was 13.29; among those with three
marks only 10.58 percent, died; only
8.38 of those with four marks, and only
(’>.l3 of those with live or more marks.
Of cases of small pox after successful
re-vaccination there were hut three out
of 6,221, hut there were many cases to
prove the fallaciousness of the doctrine
that persons not susceptible to vacci
nation are proof against small pox. But
the conclusion is that successful re
vaccination after the age of fifteen year*
is a sure protection against the disease.
Cases are rarer than those of second
small pox,and aie very mild when they
do occur.
A Seductive Bat Trap.
A man in Pennsylvania has invented
a rat trap that is made to operate upon
the selfish passions of the poor rat and
lure him into trouble. The Mechanic
t ami Farmery in a description of the trap,
> says that a mirror is set in the hack part
5 of the device beyond the bait, and as his
i ratship is out on a foraging expedition,
* lie espies the bait, and at the same time
believes his own image in the mil*-
l ror to he another rat making for it
. on the opposite side. This is too much
i for rat nature to stand and he cool over,
* so he rushes for the bait. But, alas !
the noble rat has fallen ; for a sharp,
two-tined fork has come down upon his
luckless head and penetrated through
f skin and skull; and in the brain, where
t one short moment before rankled av
, arice, now rankles two of death’s ar
t rows. But that is not all. The gullet,
- down which was expected a sweet mor
s sel to pass, is now pierced and bleeding,
r for another spear has entered it from
below.
Literature. Mining, Domniereial. Agricultural, General and Local News.
r.VTY. MARYLAND, SATURDAY, JULY t>, 187*2.
Curious ami Scientific.
Dr. Akliige. physician to the North
Staffordshire (England) infirmary, ami
one of the pottery inspectors under the
Home Ottiee, writing in legard to dis
ease.-, prevalent among potters, says that
where tea is used several times a day it
produces a deterioration of health among
the laboring elasses and a lowered
vitality in the rising generation. Ladies
who love cold tea should take warning
from this, since for certain medical rea
sons they are peculiarly liable to he in
jured by it.
CJriTE a n table phenomenon was ob
served in Williamsburg, N. V., after the
severe thunder-storm of Friday morn
ing. Within a certain circumscribed
area millions of curious worm-like
beings, each with an appendage of tail,
were noticed. They tilled the gutters,
and wherever there was a hole they fell
into it, and were eaten by the hogs
which rooted among (them; and thou
sands of sparrows seemed to have been
collected at the place for the sake of
devouring them.— Xcw Yrk World, l Oth
insl.
A novel but practical idea has been
recently originated and successfully
carried out in Atlanta,(hi., which might
with equal facility and benefit be
adopted in other cities. The city water
works have been successfully applied as
a motive power for the running of light
machinery. The proprietor of a print
ing establishment of that eity, using
the. water from an ordinary street pipe,
is enabled to run all his presses at a
great saving of labor and expense.
A laDy entered a Brooklyn drug
store recently, and placed a live mouse
on the counter. The little animal had
a very sore head, and the doctor was
asked whether he knew what the mat
ter was. He was also informed that it
had been brought from the tenement
house 156 Hudson avenue, near York
street, where, there have been several
cases of small pox. After examining
the mouse, he found that it was covered
with sores. He sprinkled some disin
fecting powder over it, and in a short
time it died. It w;us then dissected,
and a clear case of small-pox in its worst
form was tevealed. The remains were
inclosed in a glass jar, and are to be
sent to the hospital for further exami
nation, as it is believed to be the first
case of the kind ever heard of.
The moon is our nearest celestial ac
quaintance, but it has the safe distance
of iM7,000 miles. (Jreat as is the space
between the earth and the moon, the
sun could not pass through it; hut per
haps a still hotter idea of the sun can
be obtained from the fact that if it
should he entirely hollowed out, and
the earth placed in the center, there
would still he room for the moon’s en
tire path, and an unoccupied apace of
-04,000 miles in diameter :tll round
lor the diameter of the sun is 882,(HR)
miles !
New .Mode of (Jading a Riot.
The efficacy of religion as an agent
of police was admirably shown during
the recent riots in the town of Kliarkoir,
in the Province of Ukraine, Russia.
The people were having a holiday
drunken bout in the square of St. Mich
ucl, and making a great noise. The po
lice ordered them to disperse and de
luged them with water, but this only
incensed the people, who immediately
proceeded to stone the police. Troops
were then called in, but were repulsed
with considerable loss of life, and for
over a day the rioters held possession of
the town and threatened to do great
damage to (lovernment property. The
(iovernor finding himself powerless ap
plied to the Archbishop to assist him in
restoring order. The latter then ad
dressed the crowd, censured the police
and the troops, and ottered to celebrate
a funeral service for those of the rioters
who had been killed. This quieted the
people for a time, and enabled the au
thorities to put themselves in a condi
tion to enforce the preservation of the
peace.
A French Suicide.
I’iwirt (Juiu*) Corrwßpumlenci* New York Tiim'H
A singular suicide was recorded yes
terdaytwo of them, in fact—and the
present mania seems to he for the most
bizarre modes of putting an end to
one’s existence. A strong, able-bodied
man, who wished to shuffle off his mor
tal coil, look a long rope, reaching
about half way down from the fourth
story, lie then secured one end of the
rope firmly, and tied the other end, not
about his nock, but about one ankle.
Fastened in this manner he made a
leap from the window. Of course,
when ho reach the end of the rope he
came crashing against the wall of the
house with such force that his brains
were scattered upon the wall and the
people below. The other sought death
i V tying his hands and feet, and then
sticking his head down between the bed
slats. He was found upright, but re
versed, and appears to have made great
efforts to escape from the trap he had
so carefully prepared.
A IHg Farm.
California now claims the biggest
farm in the United States, and it is lo
cated in the San Joaquin valley. The
big Illinois farm is in Ford county, and
comprises 44,(HR) acres, 29,000 of which
have been planted this season to corn,
the balance being under excellent till
age. The California farm contains 84,-
000 acres, under one fence, and it is
said that 00,000 acres of it have been
planted to wheat this year. A Sacra
mento paper says that this isn’t any
thing to brag about, to be sure, for il is
Ibis system of land monopoly that is
playing the very deuce with California.
Wool.
Wool is now commanding a high
price, and one which, it is believed, can
not long be maintained. The Ohio ar
ticle is held in Boston at from 70 to SO
cents; very little is ottered below 75
, cents, and buyers are not inclined to
i pay more than 00 or f)5 cents. Califor
i nia has 9,000,000 pounds, and the hold
• ers arc desirous of keeping it till fall,
- while Eastern buyers who have can
- vassed Western markets will not pur
, chase at present rates. The Toledo
- Commercial prophecies slight stagnation
, of the market till after shearing time,
i and then a probable decline in the
price.
Current Items.
1 Cu in a spends $400,000,000 a year for
1 religion.
The national game ol base ball is
( dull this year.
t I’lle rush of Herman immigrants to
, America is immense.
I There are 404 colleges in the United
i States.
! The Hoosac tunnel has cost $14,000,•
(KM) thus far.
Cincinnati has 46,000 people to the
square mile.
Kansas editors are about to make an
‘ excursion to Philadelphia.
. Peter’s pence yields the Pope two
millions of dollars a year.
Twenty-five cmnon will be used by
’ the Boston Jubilee.
| One hundred anvils have been sent
* from England for the Boston Jubilee.
The eight hour strikes are extending
i to all parts of the country.
1 Nutmegs of excellent quality grow in
1 California.
They use dogs to draw about the milk
1 carts in Brussels.
Four-fiftiis of the widows in Canada
. remain widows less than thirty months.
A Li.ir.AToK fights are a street amuse
; ment at St. Augustine, Fla.
England is ahead of the United
States in the consumption of tobacco.
Four hundred new oil wells are drilled
in the oil regions every montff.
Two million paper collars arc wilted
every day in the United States.
The Western wool clip is pronounced
finer than for fifteen years past.
More women are arrested in Brook
lyn for petty offenses than men.
Boating is to a great extent superced
ing base hall as an athletic amusement.
It is said that $75,000,000 worth of
fuel is burned yearly in the United
States.
Mr. Alexander, of Kentucky, has
sold two short borne 1 heifers to an Eng
lish purchaser for $14,000.
A Springfield cat deliberately at
tempted to walk through the big wheel
of a stationary engine. The cat is dead.
A California sheep raiser owns
90,000 sheep, which bring him a yearly
income of SIOO,OOO.
Canada musters about 44,000 militia,
and has a reserve force of nearly
700,000.
Tiie trip to California is by many
deemed superior in attractions to a voy
age* to Europe.
Sailing ships, notwithstanding tin*
great increase in steamers, carry three
fourths of all the passengers that cross
the ocean.
Next to the Bolshoi Theater. St. Pc
i tersburg, which seats 5,000 persons, the
New York Academy of Music is the
largest structure of the kind. That
seats 4,790.
Tiie Adriatic, a new and splendid
ocean steamer, recently made the pass
age from (Queenstown to New York in
seven days and sixteen hours—the
quickest westerly voyage ever made
across the Atlantic.
A convict of the Rhode Island Peni
tentiary Inis fallen heir to an immense
fortune, and he is now talking of buy
ing the State and having the prison
moved from the premises.
Tiie numerical addition to the strength
of the Northern States from immigra
tion, since the census of 1800, is esti
mated at 17,500,000, and the value in
wealth at $5,000,(HR),000. The immigra
tion as between the late slave and free
States is over 10,000,000 in favor of the
latter.
A benefactor of his race in Georgia
has invented a pretty piece of furniture
in the shape of a parlor still, which, tin
dcr the superintendence of the young
ladies of the house, who would other
wise he frivolously occupied in piano
playing or novel reading, will run out
from live to ten gallons of brandy a
day.
Personal.
i he Grand Duke Alexis will visit San
Francisco in September.
Mr. Gillott’s pictures, recently sold
in England, brought $945,000.
11. W. Beecher’s life is insured for
$1(H),(H)().
The wi<low of ex-President Tyler has
become a ('atholic.
A Texan farmer cultivates over 84,000
acres, ard has 65,000 cattle, 10,(HR)
horses, B,O<R) goats, and 7,0(H) sheep.
Mrs. Bklva Lockwood, lately admitted
to the District of Columbia bar, hangs
out her shingle as a criminal lawyer.
A Green Bay man was mean enough
to elope with the only school teacher
in the town, thus shutting up the school.
It cost Alexis S2OO,(HR) to visit this
country, and it cost the country S2OO,
(HR) to entertain Alexis. But a fair ex
change is no snobbery.
Lucien G. Matthews, having bought
the Indianapolis Sentinel , hs brother,
Robert J. L. Matthews, succeeds to the
I ownership of the New Albany Ledger .
i Koocmansciiai* attributes his failure
, to the loss of SIOO,OOO, money advanced to
Chinamen, ami $160,000 in bonds of the
Chattanooga and Alabama railroad.
* The claimant Tichborne was ottered
1 SB,(HR) to SIO,OOO a month by the lessees
of no less than three London theaters,
to appear for a short time each night in
> a dramatic performance; at least lie
* says so, but adds that his “ dignity ”
* would not suffer him to accept the otter.
Trenor W. Park, of Bennington, Vt.,
4 having sold his interest in the Emma
mine, of Utah, to English capitalists for
$1,500,000,is reported about to establish
j a banking-house in London.
Secretary Boutwell, while at his
> home at Groton, Mass., last week, plowed
an acre of land.
A reverend gentleman in Minnesota
, has horrified his congregation beyond
i* expression by the prophecy that the
- end of the world cannot possibly be de
o layed beyond next autumn. lie has,
ti however, undertaken the cult vation of
;, an unusually large*, crop of wheat, be
e lieving, probably, in small prophets and
quick returns.
I
Power of tlie Press The Era of Ed
itors.
II anything were needed in indieate i
tin* power whieli tin* press has attained j
all over the world, sufficient authority I
is afforded by the prominent position !
and personal inti lienee of journalists I
who mingle in public affairs. It is trite
to allude toThiersor <iladstone. If the
journalists of Trance were in better re
pute as a class, the destinies of the
country would be wholly in their hands.
But even under the Empire, the lead
ing editors were the men whom Louis
Napoleon sought to conciliate by gifts
of’office; ami Provost Paradol earned
bis ambassadorship by bis editorials in
the .Journal des Debuts. In Germany the
editors’ era lias not arrived ; but Bis
marck knows their weight so well that
lie owns a paper in Loudon as well as
all the influential writers at home. In
St. Petersburg, the journalists are rap
idly forming a political aristocracy, out
of which they send diplomatists like
Catacazy, with more craft than charac
ter. In London every politicianof note
essays a political article now and then
for his favorite paper, and if Granville
does not semi leaders on the Treaty of
Washington to the Times in his own
handwriting they are furnished in that
of the clever Bohemian who is his Sec
retary. In Ireland, every revolutionist
of note is an active or an honorary
member of a newspaper staff. In the
United State editorial force and bril
liancy have well nigh revolutionized
parties. The Cincinnati movement was
the progression of editors. An editor,
Carl Scliurz, was its presiding officer,
(irosvenor, an editor, was its temporary
chairman, and Pulitzer, an editor, was
its chief secretary. Horace White, an
editor, wrote its platform and directed
its rhetoric in general, and his pen will
undoubtedly have weight in a like man
ner at Baltimore if it was quite without
it at Philadelphia. William Cullen
Bryant, E. L. (iodkin, Samuel Bowles,
editors, and Edward Atkinson, writer
for the press, were its chief seceders.
Henry Watterson, editor, was its prin
cipal wag; George Alfred Townsend,
correspondent, the only delegate repre
senting an entire State; and its nomi
nees are both editors. The platform of
the Philadelphia Convention was writ
ton by an editor, (leorge William Cur
tis, and read by an editor, Gen. .1. It.
Hawley. The temporary chairman was
an editor, Morton MacMichacl; the
only two candidates for the Vice Presi
dency were editors, Colfax and Wil
son.— Chicago Post .
The Exodus to Europe What Ameri
cans Spend Abroad.
The New York Herald calls attention
to the increased exodus of fashionable
Americans this year to Europe. 'The
cabin accommodations of the IU steamers
per week which leave New York for
European* booked up to near the end of
August. These steam era carry lf>o cabin
passengers each, or 1,8(H) per week, for,
say, seventeen weeks, giving an aggre
gate for the summer of 30,600 outward
bound cabin-passengers. If each of
these passengers spends on the steamers
and in Europe only SI,OOO, it would
make for the whole host for the season
the handsome total of $30,000,000 ex
pended by Americans in Europe in
pleasure-hunting. The aggregate, how
ever, is far greater. Fifty millions per
annum would be a low estimate. We
also purchase about $ 1 f>0,000,000 more
of European wares than Europe pur
chases of our own productions, paying
the difference in either coin, bonds or
products shipped to other countries.
Early Thrift.
'flie Troy Whig tells the following
story: “( hie of our prominent physi
cians, making 1 iis daily rounds to see
his patients, had occasion to call at a
house where there were no facilities to
fasten his horse. He left it in the care
of a small boy of the lsraelitish faith,
whom he happened to see in the street.
On coming out of the house he naturally
enough expected to lind his trusty ser
vant treating himself to a ride; but no
—Moniecai knew the use of time and
value of money a little better—he was
letting the horse to little hoys in the
street, at a cent a riue around the
block.”
It is not safe to trifle with the affec
tions of the factory girls of Providence.
They arc* expensive commodities, an I if
damaged have to he paid for at ruinous
rates. An imprudent but wealthy bach
elor of tV.) was wont to rise at six o’clock
in the morning to walk to the mill with
.lulia Yallot. Julia became sick,and he
gave her a pair of stout shoes and lent
her bis book of mortgages to read. AI
terwaidshe took her to ride, and in an
unguarded moment the ardor of the ven
erable swain led him to make proposals
of matrimony. They were accepted, and
when tin* ancient lover in his cooler mo
ments desired to rdlreat and ottered a
dollar to settle* with Julia, he found him
self caught in the gauzy meshes of J ulia’s
web. A suit for breach of promise fol
lowed, and $14,000 was allowed by the
intelligent jury as the value to Julia of
her venerable bachelor.
A Florida Recluse.
St. Vincent, Fla., is an island of 7,000
acres, owned and occupied for the paftt
three years by Mr. Hatch, a gentleman
of intelligence and fortune, formerly
Mayor of Cincinnati, who chooses to
lead the life of a hermit, solitary and
alone, save with a servant or two, and'
seeing few visitors. Indeed, he is in
censed whenever his privacy is intruded*
upon except on invitation. sland |
swarms with deer and cattle, liis library
is full of books, and with these and
bunting and tishing he passes his time
away—the monarch of all he surveys.
Condition Fonder for Horses.
The Turf } Field and Farm says those
keeping horses should twice a week
throw in a handful of salt and ashes.
Mix them by put ing in three parts of
salt to one of ashes. Horses relish this,
and it will keep their hair soft and fine.
It will prevent hots, colic, etc. A little
ground sulphur mixed witli salt and
ashes, and given once in two or three
weeks, is also beneficial. *AU domestic
I animals will be thus benefited.
Proprietors.
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NUMBER 41.
Coin plaint of the Chinipnn7.ee.
J A healthy old ai*o from the Cape of Good Hope,
I With a fine head of hair and a tail liko a rope,
J G|, hearing that Darwin had ventured to claim
i Relationship with him. pronounced it nnhame.
i Said he: " Twas provoking enough to ho called
; A (luadriiinanouM mammon; hut nothing ha*
' galled
My sensitive nature to stroll an extent
As this ino-t presumptuous claim of descent.
“ This man whose audacity made me so spunky
Wrote a volume to prove his grandfather a
monkey.
And that every man has some ancestor dead
W ith a prehensile tail and elongated head.
" 1 readily grant that nomr men are ns good
As any orang-outang found in the wood;
But fellows like Darwin are going too far
In trying to be something more than they ar
"So I enter my protest against the great wrong.
And the Jiirrhn* Vulfinri* my wail shall prolong.
Else Darwin to Ceylon would emigrate soon.
To pass himself off for a sacred baboon.”
Varieties.
Win do carpenters believe that there
is no such thing as stone? They never
saw it.
Soso of the garden seed—Lay me in
my little bed.
Why is Ireland like an unopened
bottle? Because each has a Cork in it.
The first ark tick explorer—Noah’s
bed-bugs.
A horse v man,hearing mention made
of the 44 Latin races,” wished to know
where they were held.
What requires more philosophy than
taking things as they come? Parting
with things as they go.
44 Let’s investigate,” is what they say
now, instead of the more vulgar 44 Come
and take a drink.”
An old sailor at the theater said he
supposed the dancing girls wore their
dresses half-mast as a mark of respect
to departed modesty.
They have 44 Dolly Varden ” chills in
Georgia. The sufferer turns all sorts of
colors, and is terribly humped up.
YViiv is Salt Lake City like an orphan
asylum? Because there are so many
Young children there.
A Western editor, in writing the
obituary of a respectable citizen, says
that 44 he has gone to that undiscovered
burn.”
Josh Bii.i.inc.s says he never knew a
dog of eny breed whatsumever to take
liyderfoby after he had been thoroughly
vaccinated with buckshot.
Boa rhi no school miss: “0, Charlie!
I expect to graduate at next com
mencement.” “Graduate! what will
you graduate in ?” 44 Why, in white
tulle!”
In White county, (4a., on the 16th
nit., Mr. Chas. Collingsworth was mar
ried to Miss Annie N. Bred. Having
got his Bread, Charles said he didn’t
want any but her.
A middle-sized boy writing a com
position on 44 Extremes,” remarked that
44 we should endeavor to avoid extremes,
especially those of wasps and bees.”
A village lawyer saw an advertised
recipe to prevent wells and cisterns
from freezing. He sent his money, and
received the answer, 44 Take in your
well or eistern.on cold nights, and keep
it by the lire.”
44 I don’t mean to retlect on you,” said
a coarse, would be wit to a man whom
he bad insulted. 44 No,” was the reply,
44 you’re not polished enough to reflect
upon anybody.”
Scene: Recitation in metaphysics.
Professor —Which is the most delicate
of the senses? Senior —The sense of
touch. Professor—Give an example.
Senior—My chum can feel his mustache,
but no one can see it.
Smith and Jones were at the menag
erie, and the conversation turned on
Darwin’s theory. 44 Look at that mon
key,” said Smith. 44 Think of its being
an undeveloped human !” 44 Human !”
said Jones, contemptuously. 44 Ls’s no
more human then I am.
44 We will meet in heaven, husband,
dear,” is the atfcctionate epitaph which
an Ohio woman has had inscribed upon
the tombstones of each of three departed
husbands. Trouble ahead in that family
certain.
Spinks says that when he is buried ho
shall not be particular about plumes
and things on the hearse, but he would
like to have somebody in the proces
sion carry his life insurance policy on a
pole, that people may see what a rich
widow he has left.
Two New York Assemblymen were
walking down State street, in Albany,
after the passage of the charter hill. 44 1
feel,” said one of them, 44 as if 1 deserved
to be kicked for voting for the charter.”
His friend replied, 44 That’s just the way
I feel myself; let’s go up this alley and
kick each other.”
44 Is this seat unoccupied?” asked an
exquisite of an elderly la ly, of rustic
design, in the cars at Norwalk, Satur
day evening. 44 I don’t know,” said she,
hastily running her hands with a great
deal of feeling over the surface. 44 It
feels mostly like plush, but you can’t
always tell.”
Illustrative of the reputation Ameri
can grass widows have all over the
world, tin*, following about women items
from the Ramarische Post, Bucharest, is
interesting: 4 * A Connecticut widow,
bowed down with grief, telegraphed to
her friends : 4 My husband is dead. Loss
fully covered by insurance.* ”
An attendant at Mount Vernon not
long ago observed a lady weeping most
bitterly, her handkerchief to her eyes.
Going up to her, he said, 44 Are you in
trouble, madam?” 44 No, sir,” she
sobbed. 44 1 saw you weeping.” 44 Ah,”
she said, 44 how can one help weeping
at the grave of the Father of his Coun
try ?” 44 Oh, indeed, madam,” said he,
*‘ that’s it. 'flic tomb’s over yonder.
This is the ice-house.”
Every iron rail on the north and
soutli railroad, so far as I have been
able to examine, is a perfect magnet,
the north end attracting the south pole
and the south end the north pole of a
magnetic needle. So also in a T rail on
such a railroad the lower flange attracts
the south pole, ami the upper llange the
north pob* of a needle.— Dr. Richard
Owen , of Indiana State University.