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Q\ HEAIUNK BIRDS SI!VG,
BT MRS M. A. SPOONEB.
From sweet sleep refreshed they spring,
Mounted high on joyful wing,
l ove’s glad carol hear them sing ;
K irth’s low joys beneath them lie,
t’nheeded by their raptured eye,
I’ierciug the bright, the deep blue sky ;
Oh my soul! thy lesson win—
Soar aloft to honor Him,
And to sound God’s praise begin.
Far above the world be seen.
Unruffled by its passing divaui
u glory clad, with peaceful melr...
Then like them thou ’lt pass away,
Not waiting for the gloomy day.
Nor with the slightest wish tc stay ;
And when the dismal winter’s past,
Hope to love resigned at last.
In bliss, for aye. thy lot be .asl.
KILL OR CURE.
Frm Every Saturd: y.
One evening, late in November, an
man with beetling brows, pierc
ing gray eyes, thin compressed bps,
and long bony hands, sat in a shabby
furnished room in a splendid old house,
casting up accounts by the light of a
single candle. The weather being cold,
one of those baskets for live ooals which
are sometimes most appropriately call
ed “kill-joys,” glimmered in the huge
grate. The door of the room, which
opened into the fine oak-panelled hall,
was ajar, and presently a servant-girl,
bearing a light, flitted by from the stair
case. Her master called her. “Hi,
Jenny ! come here. What makes yon
look seared ? Is your mistress worse ?”
“ I'm afeared so, Sir Timothy.”
“ Eh ! what ?—really bad ?”
“ Ye-es.”
“ Going to die?”
“She says so, Sir Timothy, and O,
she looks it 100 1 O sir,” cried the girl,
earnestly, blurting out what was on her
soul, “ if she were to die without a doc
tor !”
This abnormal possibility shocked
Sir Timothy Grabhara also, the invalid
being, in a manner dear to him. It was
a very general notion amongst his neigh
bors and tenants that the man was in
capable of caring for anybody ; but this
was prejudice ; he did care for his wife,
after his own fashion. It was not per
haps an enthusiastic attachment, or a
deep one ; I don’t suppose that he loved
her as well as a good bargain, forex
ample ; but comparisons are odious.
He remained silent for a while, look
ing down, and then muttered, “ 1 de
< lured that I would never seud for that
h How Radford again”; which was an
error on his part; he had never made
that rash observation, —it was Mr. Rad
ford who had vowed he would not come.
“ Shall Charles go for Dr. Radford,
please, Sir Timothy?”
“ There’s no one else; sol suppose
he must.”
Jenny vanished in search of that foot
man -groom-gardener named Charles ;
and her master tried to get back into
his sum, but made a mistake of two
pcuce-farthing and lapsed into revery.
Sir Timothy Grabham was not a nice
man, but if he had remained indifferent
to Ids wife’s condition, he would have
been a monster. She had now, for
thirty years, devoted herself to the dif
tieult task of pleasing him; she had
brought him money and saved liimmon
ey; born economical, she had develop
ed the faculty into extreme meanness,
to gain his approbation. Passion would
have been out of place at his age, and
hers, but he esteemed her.
After a hard day's work, Air. Radford
had turned into bed with the snug con
viction that he was going to remain un
disturbed up to eight o’clock on the
following morning, for Ids last “lady's
ease” was going on as favorably as if
civilization had been unknown, and no
fellow-creature looked to him for in
troduction into the world for the next
fortnight to come. But at half-past
eleven Ids sleep was broken by the
night-bell, and he had to wrench him
self from his warm nook in the feathers,
feel for his dreesing-gowns and slip
pers, blunder into the dressing-room,
which looked out on the front of the
house, and open the window. “ What
is it ?” ho shouted, shivering as the
frosty night-air blew in upon his face,
and played about his unprotected legs.
“ Please, sr, it’s me.”
‘ Idiot!—your name ?”
“(’harles, from the Hall.”
“ Then, Charles from the Hall, you
may go back again, for i am not com
ing.”
“ My lady is very ill, sir.”
“Can't lielp it. Tell your master
that 1 won't attend him or his family,
and he need send no more messages, as
1 shall muffle the night-bell.” And with
these words the doctor banged down
the window.
“ What are yon doing, John?” said a
voice from the bed presently.
“Tyinga stocking around the clap
per of this confounded bell.”
“ What for?"’
“ To get a good sleep, iu spite of Sir
Timothy Grabham.”
“ Why, he has never sent for you !”
“ He has, though, the insolent screw;
his wife's ill.”
“ <well, tie up the bell, John;
she may be really bad, —dying, you
know. ”
“ What is that to me ?”
“ 1 know they have treated us verv
badly ; a rich man like that to refuse
to pay for your attendance; it is un
heard ot ! But other people might
want you.”
“ Not likely.”
“No, but it is just possible. Don't
muffle the bell.”
f need hardly tell the married render
■find the doctor got growling into bed,
'nth the bell-clapper free to rouse him
out again. In an hour's time the pro
voking bit of iron availed itself of that
bberty, but for some minutes Mr. Rad
n>r.l declined to stir. Consideration
’or bis wife s rest, however, at length
induced him to turn out once more, and
again go through the process of refiig-;
oration.
“Sir Timothy’s messenger again, I
suppose r he cried.
“No, replied a well known voice;
“ I am here myself.”
“ For what, purpose. Sir Timothy
Gnibham, do you come and disturb
me, when you know very well that I
never intend to enter your doors
again ?”
Ay, ay, replied the voice from be
lon ; “but this is not a time to bear
malice. 1 tell you that my wife is dan
gerous ill, - dying, I believe; and if she
dies for want of medical assistance, you
will he responsible."
“ Not so ; the responsibility will all
lit' on your own shoulders. I am a poor
man. working hard for my living, but
no one over knew me neglect a patient
because he could not pay me. Two-
thirds of my work is done for nothing,
and those "im can afford it ought to
take some share nf the burden, more
especially you, the lord of the manor,
under whose protection the whole poor
are placed by Providence. Instead of
which, you refuse to pay me for actual
attendance upon yourself and your fam
ily for upwards of a year!’’
“ Stay, stay !” cried Sir Timothy :
“ yon mistake: I never refused to pay
you ; f only omitted to doso. Tenure
n all v wrong to look upon it as a per
son.tl matter, because I never pay anv
one unless I am actually obliged.* Why
did yon not bring an action ? But !
come, lot ns see if we cannot do busi
ness together. Have ray wife, and
will pay you a hundred pounds.
There!”
“Eh!” said Mr. Radford, rather
staggered. “ But you know there is
no taking your word for anything.
“ Come dov a, and let me in, and I
will put the promise down in black and
white,” said Hir Timothy.
“ That sounds like business, ' replied
the doctor, not altogether sorry for an
excuse for going to the aid of a dying
woman. So he shut the window, put
on some clothes, and admitted Hir Tim
othy Grabham. taking him into his con
sulting-room and lighting the gain
“ Now, how am 1 to word it i in
quired the baronet, taking up a pen,
and arranging a sheet of foolscap before
him. “ /promise to pay (he sum of
£IOO to Mr. John Radford, surgeon, if
he cures —”
“ No, no,” interrupted the doctor ;
“ ft is only quacks who make such bar
gains as that; I must have my fee
whether I am successful or not. ’
“ Very good,— 4 surc/con • for aften-,
dance upon my wife , kill or cure.
Will that do ?”
“Yes; that will do; but sign it.”
“O, I forgot. How stupid!” And
Hir Timothy Grabham rppended his
name to the document, which Mr. John
Radford locked up in his desk ; and
then putting on his greatcoat and hat,
he left the house with lu,. successful
visitor.
He found Lady Grabham very ill in
deed, quite past human aid, in fact;
and though he was indefatigable in his
attendance, and performed that feat
which is popularly called “ exhausting
the resources of his art,” she sank on
the third day. The widower was not
inconsolable. The undertaker took
some timber which had lately been fell
ed, in part payment of expenses; and
on the very day of the funeral. Sir Tim
othy let a farm, the lease of which had
expired, at an increased rent, without
having to do as much in the way of re
pairs as iie had anticipated ; so that he
was enabled to bear his domestic mis
fortune like a Spartan.
After a decent lapse of time, Mr.
Radford sent in a note referring to the
promise which Hir Timothy Grabham
had made him, and requesting a check
for a hundred pounds ; and no answer
being vouchsafed to this communica
tion, he presently wrote again in more
urgent language; but the second letter
was ignored as quietly as the tirst.—
Then the good doctor got angry, and
meeting his debtor one day iu the
course of his rounds, he upbraided him
with his conduct, and tnreatened to
take legal proceedings.
“ Quite right, doctor—quite right,”
said Sir Timothy. “ Force me to pay
I you, and I will do it ; but I never part
with a farthing except under compul
sion ; it is against my principles ; and
I am sorry I.cannot make an exception
in your favor.”
8o Mr. Radford put the matter in the
hands of a lawyer; and in due time the
: case came on. It was a gay day in the
little country town, for the ease excit
ed a great deal of curiosity and amuse
ment ; the poor doctor, who was a gen
eral favorite, had been pitilessly chaf
fed, though everybody hoped for and
anticipated his success ; and the court
was crowded with county magnatesr.
It added to the attraction of the affair
that Sir Timothy Grabham, with all his
faults, had the merit of being consis
tent ; he would not employ a lawyer,
but conducted his own case. Of course
the doctor's solicitor was jubilant, and
quoted the proverb which avers that
the man who so acts has tVol for his
client. “Not but what the case is clear
enough,” he add ; “ all the lawyers in
London could not get him off paying
up. ”
And indeed it did seem simple. The
doctor was put into the witness-box,
and told his story; and Sir Timothy
did not question the correctness of it ;
on the contrary, he openly said, that,
to the best of his remembrance, every
thing had occurred exactly as describ
ed. But,” he added, “ 1 should like
to look at the document which has been
alluded to, and ask the plaintiff a ques
tion or two about it.”
The memorandum was handed to
him, and he read it aloud : “/prom
ise to p<nf the sum of £lOO to Mr. John
Radford , surr/eon, for attendance upon
mjf wife, kill or cure.” Exactly. Well,
Mr Radford, did you cure her?”
“No; that was impossible.”
“ Did you kill her ?”
Holies de Cliaiuhre.
The Historical Museum in Munich
has recently been presented with anew?
and certainly very curious article ; it is
the robe dr chambre of the late King
of Bavaria, Ludwig 1., the same who
made the famous Lola Montes a count
ess. The letter which accompanies this
present states that the monarch wore this
garment for sixty consecutive years.
It is to be hoped that it has under
gone a through scouring previous to
being placed among Hie other curiosi
ties of the Museum.
Tlio idea of exhibiting robes dc
bhamhre in historical museums is not
new ; the Mitfei rb's Souvcrrrhis in Paris
; contains several of them, but they are
not all as interesting as that of Ludwig
f. This museum is considered by many
a very useless institution. How many,
among the present generation, care for
most of the sovereigns? Yet the crown
of Charlemagne, the panoply of Fran
cis I. and that of Henry IV. are worth
being preserved : so are the small hat,
and the gray coat of Napoleon I. But
among these interesting curiosities, the
most worthy of attracting our attention
is the precious little slipper made of
black silk, worn out and patched, a
mere rag, whose miserable appearance
forms a strange contrast with the gaudy
rags around.
This shoe is poor Marie Antoinette's.
It slipped from her foot when her muti
lated body was taken down from the scaf
fold. picked up by a child, it passed
into the hands of a royalist family,
who kept it religiously for a loilg time,
and afterward bequeathed it to the
Museedes Souverains.
Its elegant shape, the delicate texture
of the material, the perfection of the
workmanship, show that it is the same
which the unfortunate woman wore
when she left Tuileries for the prison
of the temple. During all the time of
her captivity she could not get any
other, and was reduced, poor queen, to
mend it herself. This waif tells more
of the sufferings of Marie Antoinette
than all the accounts of historians.
Olive Logan in her lecture on “The
Bright Side ” —which is vastly inferior
both in quality and manner of delivery
to any of her previous lectures—closes,
always, with a very tine piece of path
etic acting, wherein she refers to her
own personal experiences of the dark
side. It is in her favor that it is acting,
for to drag one's griefs or wrongs be
fore the public, with a view to make an
audience use its pocket handkerchief,
is as unheroic as it is “bad form.’’ Pos
sibly one may be forgiven for pouring
his sorrows into the patient ear of the
Friend of his soul; but a larger audience
hardly merits such high confidence.
Defiance, Ohio, is to have anew
#75,000 Court House.
A RACY INCIDENT.
Commissioner Pleasanton In an Km
barrassing Predicament.
Washington Correspondence of the Cincinnati Com
mercial.
I heard a good story last night about
our new commissioner of internal rev
enue. I told you in a former letter that
the vehement female committee of
eighteen, all strong-minded, was here
in perpetual session, sitting in solemn
conclave in Brother Senator Pomeroy’s
committee-room, from which the sensi
tive and blushing Scott Smith was
driven by their discussions. These fe
males do not propose to lose anything
through lack of energy and activity.
They rush about in tire liveliest manner,
capturing the men brutes on all sides,
and strengthening their cause very
ranch as Sampson carried out the gates,
through sheer force. They do not seem
to have read the Rt. Henry "\V ard
Beecher's beautiful little story of the
rose-bud. Instead of wooing with a
gentle persuasion of the south wind,
they come upon a fellow with the force
of a hurricane.
The other day, Gen Pleasanton, a
delicate, sensitive little gentleman, was
dressing for dinner. He had divested
himself of every garment except the
one spoken of by Hood in that melan
choly song called “ The Song of the
Shirt.” He was sailing about under
bare poles, when he heard a knock at
the door, and supposing it to be his
man—who ought to have been there,
and was not —he sang out, “ Come in.”
To his utter consternation, that consti
tutional female known as Mrs. Wood
hull, with a peaked hat and a man’s
overcoat, terminating in unmistakable
crinoline, stalked in. As she did not
immediately stalk out, but stood look
ing at the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue in the abstract, the last-named
gentleman, hiding behind an arm-chair,
stuttered out, “Excuse me, madam 1”
“ I wan't to see you on business,
Gen. Pleasanton.”
“Well, madam, won't you be so good
as to come to my office. lam not iu a
condition to see any one on business
just now, and I beg of you to desist and
I come to the bureau.”
“ I don't care anything about your
condition, General Pleasanton; but it
is a matter of some importrnoe that I
wish to see you upon, and this is as
good an opportunity as any.”
“My God! madam,” exclaimed the
agonized commissioner, shifting his fi
nancial person from one leg to the oth
er, “won't you permit me to dress for
; dinner?”
“I have no objection to your dress
■ ing for dinner, but what I want to
: know' is, what are 3 011 going to do about
1 this Vanderbilt case ? That Vanderbilt
! ease is a great outrage, sir, and I can
I see that somebody is to be swindled
| out of half a million of dollars,” and
I here followed a statement of the Van
; derbilt case, that occupied just 20 min
| utes*by the clock, and was very forcible
and emphatic. At the end of i(, when
the strong-minded constitutional Wood
hull pxused for breath, the commis
; sioner said :
“I don't know anything about the
Vanderbilt case, madam. I have not
looked at a single paper. 1 have not
1 heard anything but what you have told
me. I have not had time. Mv God, 1
don’t get time to get on my breeches.
1 don't want to be rude, but I wish you
would go away and let me dress.”
At this moment a knock was heard at
the door, and Pleasanton yelled hauler
than ever gave command to a battalion,
1 “ Come in. ” The door opened, and the
' substantial figure and handsome ta™ ..f
1 Commodore Alden appeared upon the
entrance. So soon as he did this, the
commissioner chassezed from the rear
; of his arm-chair to the back of a sofa,
and Alden, thinking that he was intrud
ing upon some tender scene between the
general and the female, beat a hasty
retreat. But the commissioner was not
i to he forsaken, and he ran to tHe door,
jerked it open, and, with the tail of his
linen flying in the wind, seized Commo
dore Alden and brought him back, when
the cool and courageous Woodhull rose
I in a majestic manner, and wished them
a good clay. Pleasanton sank exhaust
: ed into a chair, and begged Alden for a
j little brandy, to try and rally
tremendous attack of woman's rights
made upon him.
“With a brief garment of a weak defence
He etond appalled.”
ifahils of Sluily.
Rev. Charles Brigham, of Ann Arbor,
has an article in the Herald of Health
; <"1 this topic which contains a good
deal of sound sense. The following is
:an extract: *
! It is not proved either hy school
statistics or by health statistics that
there is “too much” study iu the civil
ized nations; certainly the general in
telligence of many people has not
reached the point of redundance in
j knowledge. The fault is more in the
methods and habits of study than in
its quantity. Ministers are sometimes
called “hard students,” and are pitied
because they have to spend so much
time over their sermons. But not one
minister in ten who breaks down pre
maturely is disabled because lie has
done too much or worked too hard, but
only because he has worked in the
wrong way. The amount of study does
not do the mischief—it wearies and
kills only because it is badly adjusted.
Some will study straight on for two,
four, six or eight hours, witli no relief,
reading incessantly, writing incessantly,
hardly stopping for food. Six or eight
hours a day are not excessive in quanti
ty, but six or eight consecutive hours
are sure self-destruction. Few consti
tutions can stand that strain, even if
all the rest or the waking hours be
spent upon the playground, and a solid
bar of sleep be put between the days.
It is never pleasant to hear a student
say that he does all his work at a
“single sitting ;” that he locks himself
in his room after breakfast and stavs
there until his late dinner, when liis
work is done for the day. If the man
who does that, month after month, and
year after year, escapes organic malady
anand
is a clear miracle, a special Providence.
Such statements we find in the biogra- .
pliios of great men, but they arc usual- *
ly exaggerated and misleading. Too i
many consecutive hours of study are
just as bad for the strong man as for
the school boy. One will keep a bright
er mind and more capacious and re- j
tentive, too, who breaks away and :
walks in the garden at the end of each
hour, than one who plods on without
rest through the long day.
Hans Christian Andersen, who visit
ed Charles Dickens at his home several
years ago, said of Mrs. D.: “I had
previously heard many people remark
that Agnes, in ‘ David Copperfield' was
like Dicken's own wife. Mrs. Dickens
had a certain soft, womanly repose and
reserve about her; but whenever she
spoke there came such a light into her
large eyes, and such a smile upon her
lips, and there was such a charm in the
tones of her voice, that henceforth I
shall always connect her and Agnes to
gether.
advertisement of Dr. Butts'
Dispenssuy. headed Book for the Million—Mar
riage G fide—in another column. It should
be read by all.
Summary of Congressional Proceedings.
Tbe Senate has passed a bill extend
ing the time for the completion of the
railroad between Madison and Portage
City, and giving construction to the
acts of Congress granting lands to the
State of Wisconsin to aid in building
railroads, throwing open the lands
within the company’s grant to actual
settlement, and imposing other restric
tions.
The House has passed the Senate bill
authorizing the sale of the military
reservations at Forts Line and
Walla, Oregon ; Fort Serah, Kansas ;
Camp McGarry, Nevada; Fort Sumner,
New Mexico ; Forts Wayne and Smith,
Arkansas, and such portions of Fort
Abercombie as east of the Red River
of the North, and such portions of Fort
Bridger, Wyoming, as are no longer
required for military purposes.
The Senate bill extending the laws of
the United States over Alaska, has been
concurred in by the House.
A bill has been passed by the House
for the sale of timber lands in Califor
nia and Oregon and Washington Terri
tory. It authorises the sale of timber
land in quantities not exceeding 640
acres at the minimum price of $ 1.25 per
acre, except alternate sections within
railroad grants, which may be sold at
double the minimum price.
Miller, Senator from Georgia has
been admitted to his seat.
The House has passed a bill to en
able the Jackfcon, Lansing and Saginaw
railroad compahvjto change the north
ern terminus of vnL road from Traverse
Bay to the Straits of Mackinaw.
The Senate has concurred in the
House joint resolution appropriating
five thousand dollars to George F. Rob
inson, in recognition of his services in
saving the life of Secretary Seward.
The House has passed a bill, by a
vote of 144 to 64, to enforce the rights
of citizens of the United States under
the fifteenth amendment to vote in the
several states. It is principally an
amendment of some of the details of
the bill of the 31st of May, 1870, on the
same subject. It provides for the ap
pointment by the United States Cir
cuit Judge, of two supervisors of
election of different politics in
towns having over 20,000 inhabitants,
and prescribes their powers and
duties. It also authorizes the United
States Marshal to appoint a special dep
uty marshal to assist in the supervision
of the election, and prescribes their
powers and duties, and authorizes them
to call to their aid bystanders or a
possc comitatus direct. The authority
to call on the military authorities is
struck out. It also provides for
the appointment, in each ju
dicial district, of a chief su
pervisor of elections, and prescribes his
powers ami duties. It extends the ju
risdiction of the United States Circuit
Court to all cases in law and equity
arising under the act. It also provides
that hereafter nil elections for Repre
sentatives to Congress, to which elec
tions the whole bill is confined, shall
be by ballot, written or printed, any
thing iu the law of any State to tire con
trary notwithstanding.
The House adopted resolutions di
recting the restoration of cadets Baird,
Barnes and Fleckinger, who wore ex
pelled by the members of the Ist class,
and ordering the dismissal of the lead
ers and instigators of the first class and
the court-martial of the others.
The army appropriation bill was tak
en up on Friday and discussed at length
in the House, but not disposed of. It
appropriates $27,475,000. , .
uu.fi, uhs concurred m tne ocu
atc hill establishing a territorial form
of government for the District of Co
lumbia.
\\ hat Germany Remember*.
From the Cleveland Leader.
It seems to be a favorite theory of
those American newspapers which,
during the Franco-Prussian war have
been persistently on the side of France,
that in their proposals for peace, Bis
marck and Kaiser William are carrying
things with a very high hand. Among
others, the Cincinnati Enquirer believes
that Bismarck’s terms to Favre are
more absolute and humiliating than
those imposed upon Franco in 1811,
when she succumbed to the combined
armies of Europe. Others maintain
that the First Napoleon in his grandest
, days was ntodest and forbearing com
pared with the Prussian Premier. Let
us see. In December, 1805, the victory
of Austerlitz placed the empire of Ger
many as absolutely at the feet of Napo
leon as France is now prostrate before
the Emperor William. The Corsican
conquoror took Hesse Brunswick and
Westphalia, and out of them made a
kingdom for his younger brother. He
parceled out the German States among
Ids marshals, converted the Batavian
republic into a monarchy, placed his
brother Louis on the throne of Hol
land, and made the Rhine Confedera
tion an appendage to France.
To Prussia, as the price of her neu
trality, he threw Hanover, and when at
last Prussia, no longer able to serve
Ids purposes, abandoned her neutra
lity, he poured his legions across her
frontiers, and at Jena and Auerstadt
completed the conquest of the king
dom. From the ‘2sth of October,
1806, when Napoleon entered Berlin,
there was no longer any limit to his
absolute sway. He neither consulted nor
condescended terms. Like an
other Ciesar, ho knew no law but his
own will. He admitted no negotia
tions, listened to no appeals, recogniz
ed no authority, permitted no elections, j
“ He granted no armistice, but by the j
mere force of his own order, took from ;
Prussia nearly three-fourths of her;
territory, transferred her people to j
other and foreign crowns, all bearing |
feudal sendee to imperial France. Sit-}
ting in the palace of the great Fred-1
crick at Berlin, and holding Prussia as i
a conquered province, he issued his
famous Berlin decree, declaring Great
Britain in a state of blockade, and for
bidding all nations to trade with her,
declaring all articles produced in Eng
land to be contraband, and the proper- i
ty of all British subjects on the s< ai
lawful prise of war.”
It is with the remembrance of all
this in mind that King William and
Bismarck are asking for their millions
of francs and the border provinces of
Alsace and Lorraine. Judged by all
ordinary standards, their demands
are exorbitant and cruel; they only be
come merciful and modest when com
pared with that which was taken with
out asking by the French Emperor
sixty-five years ago. Since the mo
ment that Paris showed signs of yield
ing, the Germans have done nothing to
needlessly deepen the humility of their
enemies. Not a Prussian regiment has
marched into Paris. Even the victor
King has refrained from riding into
the city he has conquered, and but for the
illness of Bismarck would have hur
ried away to Berlin, like Grant from
Richmond, without pausing to see the
capitol which he has humbled. Ger
many in arms has faults which connot
be overlooked, but wanton cruelty to a
defeated enemy is not one of them.
Sailob ties of bias silk, in any be
coming color, are worn with standing
col hire.
Summary of Late Nows,
Saturday, Bishop Whitehouse form
ally suspended Rev. Mr. Cheney from
the ministry, in accordance with the
findings of the eclesiastical court. By
a unanimous request of his wardens
and vestry men, Mr. Cheney will con
tine to occupy the pulpit of his church
at Chicago.
A policeman named Harisou was as
sassinated, on his beat, at Chicago.
Saturday night. No cine to the murder
has been obtained.
John Bern was instantly killed at the
La Salle street tunnel, at Chicago, Sat
urday, and John Gorman so badly in
jured that he can survive but a few
hours. The derrick chain broke and a
bucket full of clay fell to the bottom of
the excavation, a distance of twenty
five feet, striking the men named.
A Chicago dispatch says that a severe
storm of sleet, snow and wind com
menced about eleven o'clock Saturday
evening and lasted two hours The re
sults of the storm was the complete de
molition of the Oakland Congregation
al Church, located about live miles from
the city, on the lake shore. The church
cost $20,000. It is a total wreck. Win.
Schwartz, an insane man, was frozen to
death Saturday night in the town of
Jefferson. His home was at No. 135
Townsend street, Chicago.
James Boyd, of Frelighsburg, Cana
da, was committed Saturday, at New
York, in default of $15,000 bail, for
wholesale traffic in counterfeit money.
Boyd is sheriff, mail-carrier, and rev
enue officer in the Canadian service.
A man on Saturday walked into the
office of the agent who hells tickets for
the Hamilton Opera House Drawing,
at New York, and seized a box contain
ing $2,700 and started for the street ; a
clerk managed to grapple the fellow',
when he dropped the box, jumped
through the window, and escaped.
Two hundred and fifty workmen
were discharged from the Brooklyn
Navy Yard Saturday.
An extensive fire occurred at Buffalo
Sunday. The Post and Courier were
both burned out. Loss estimated at
about $150,000.
J. Bovd and Henry Builder, of Cin
cinnati, were attacked by four highway
men at the intersection of Reading and
Walter Hills roads, about 7 o’clock Sat
urday, and robbed of SIB,OOO. The rob
bers all escaped.
The hurricane Friday night destroyed
or damaged a majority of the buildings
left by the recent fire at Helena, Arkan
sas. Mrs. Stewart, a widow, was fa
tally wounded, and her little son in
stantly killed. The Baptish Church
was demolished, and a large number of
other buildings either demolished or
badly damaged. The same night the
villages of Pocahontas and luka, Miss.,
suffered severely.
The French Relief Fund, of New
York, now' amounts to 95,000 dollars..
The Swedish bark Alette, cleared Sat
urday for Havre with 5,211 barrels of
Hour.
Senator Sumner had a serious attack
of illness on Saturday, but was better
Sunday, though his condition gave some
alarm to his friends.
FOREIGN.
A schism has occurred in the Mexican
Church party in consequence of the ac
ceptance by a large part of the party of
1 E^Vr 1 r '"’ nr ’' ,^es the constitution
Napoleon has received notification
' not to again overstep the privileges of a
| prisoner, and to abstain from any inter
ference in politics in the form of pro
tests or proclamations. Orders have
been given to watch him closely.
The appointment of Thiers as Chief
Executive of the French nation is well
received in Paris, and the journals gen
erally approve of the election of (frievy
to the presidency of the Assembly.
The Lakes of Europe.
An American tourist, writing to the
Boston Transcript, thus pleasantly
! gossips about Switzerland and Italy's
noblest lakes:
i In the wild, grand character of its
scenery. Lake Lucerne reminded us of
Lake George, Loch Katrine and the
! upper end of Luke Geneva; in its
| lovely curves and windings, it resemb
i les the Highlands of the Hudson, the
J Lyles of Bute and Loch Lomond ; in
; its glimpses of snow scenery it calls to
rememberance the view of Monte Rosa
and the Simplon group obtained from
the eastern shore of Lago Maggiore,
! and in this one point it carries oil the
I palm from Lake Como. But in the
; softer and more delicate features and
touches of landscape scenery the sur
roundings of Lake Lucerne present no
1 comparison to the vine-clad shores of
: Lake Geneva or the banks of the Rhine,
, or still loss to the sunny slopes, cover
ied with luxuriant vegetation and
sprinkled with most charming and pic
turesque villas, by which the Italian
lakes are girt about.
Of island scenery Lake Lucerne has
none. In this particular our own Lake
George is almost without a European
rival, so far at least as our observation
has extended. The Barromean isles of
Lago Maggiore, four in number, are
indeed most richly and elaborately
adorned—having been at one time
merely bare rocky islands—and consti
tute the peculiar charm of that lake;
but they are very small and grouped
together in a little bay near one end of
the lake, so that they do not form a
general feature in the scenery. Lake
Zurich has two flat and uniteresting
islands near its upper extremity. Of j
Ellen's Isle in Loch Katrine we will
venture no criticism, for in our humble ,
opinion it constitutes, with its] sur
roundings, one of the most perfect
gems of lake scenery that exist, but we
will only gay that it is alone in its
glory. And those are the only instances
of the combination of lake and island '
scenery that we remember to have seen
in the * course of our European ram-1
blings.
Sure Enough.
Thai wise “ Old Bachelor ” in Har
per's Bazar, saw Lucilla laughing at the
strange appearance of Mugger, who,
hung with ribbons and trinkets and
much fantastic toggery, was promen
ading the streets advertising a very
superior article of snuff “For sale
by ,” etc., etc. And the Old Bach
elor goes on to say : “ Ah, my dear Lu
cilia, if you could see yourself as Hen
rico and 1 see you, you would not need
to spend your mirth upon Mugger.
Ypur body is thrown forward from the
waist, and you have a huge kind of bal
loon behind, and clumsy braids of
somebody else’s hair hanging from the
back of your head. And your body is
so bent and your feet so squeezed that
you hobble—or wobble, as the rude
boys say—instead of walk; and you
have ribbons and streamers and fringes
and cords and chains and trinkets hung
all about you. If gou think Mugger
ridiculous from his motley apparel,
what can you think of yourself, I won
der, dear Lucilla ?”
FARM, HARDEN AM) HOUSEHOLD.
Clay Farming.
From the Western Farmer.
What is a clay farm ? It will be im,
possible to answer this inquiry to the
complete satisfaction of all, or even,
an “overwhelming majority,” so for
the present 1 shall call that clay land
which has no more than fifty per cent,
sand in its composition, and so down,
to pure allumina, if such can be found.
An ordinary clay farm requires much
more skill, or knowledge to produce
uniform crops than an ordinary sand
soil; the former being more at the
mercy of the elements than the latter,
but with that judicious management
which modern science and practice has
enabled some to exert, the clay is al
ways superior in point of productive
ness to farms composed mostly of
sand.
The secret of properly managing a
clay farm is found in aerifying or infus
ing air among its particles, by so sub
dividing it that the roots of plants
may easily penetrate and at the same
time have air down to the normal depth
which the particular plant requires;
without such condition it is nseless to
attempt the raising of paying crops
from such soils. There are some farms
•whose natural condition, inclination,
or sub-soil, or all together, renders their
management comparatively easy, but
most clay farms require a large outlay
to fit them to answer their owner's ra
tional expectations.
The most effectual means to secure
the result desired is in draining.
There is not a clay farm iu the laud
that would not bo improved by drain
ing, some more, some less, but always
a paying improvement. Air cannot
penetrate to advantage where water is
held in any great amount, or where
water has been retained any length of
time ; so that the first important com
mand to the owner of clay land is,
“ Let there be air"' and let draining do
it. The surplus water is drawn ofi,
while the life giving air follows ; and
such change will be marked as none
but those who have witnessed would
believe. The next work iu order is to
I increase the depth of the soil lying be
j tween and over the drains (premising
that the drains are two rods apart ly
i iug as directly up and down an incline
| possible) with the plow.
Deep plowing on well drained clay
lands is orthodoxy; on undrained lands
I—call 1 —call it what you will; on sand land
! useless. By deep plowing is meant the
increase of the furrough each year an
inch, (or two inches at most,) until a
: foot in depth or two if you will and
have the power, is reached. All such
l plowing to be done, if possible, in the
fall of the year, so as to have the bene
1 fit of nature’s surface and subsoil plow
—the frost—to comminute the parti
clcs of earth and warrant abundant
crops; if plowed in the spring it should
be only where the earth is in the best
condition to seed, which is a matter of
as great importance as the having or
not having a crop. Hero if any where
the old adage will bo verified “great
haste makes waste waiting is paying.
It is of the greatest importance also,
that fall plowed land should be what is
known as dry, before teams enter the
field to prepare for sowing. The drag
ging—harrowing—of clay land should
bo accomplished with as little treading
of the soil as possible, (and the roller
considered an abomination). A many
toothed harrow will accomplish the
work well and speedily. More anon.
L.
AVhrn to Mmkft.
With many farmers this, perhaps, is
the most perplexing question The
season fur gathering fruits and vege
tables, as a rule, is the best time to
market them; then will be the greatest
quantity of them, and their quality
will at that time be the best. Yet wo
hear farmers say that potatoes will be
higher. He hears of rot in some sec
tions, and puts his potatoes in the cel
lar to wait higher price. But rot and
sprout and rats and mice and labor and
sorting, and in many instances exposure
to frost, lessen day by day, the quan
tity and quality of this product, and he
holds till spring, and then the market
is flooded with men who thought as he
did, and with ten per cent of loss he
finds himself compelled to take twenty
five per cent in price or not soil at all.
Apples will be higher, another says,
and he holds his to meet decay and
trouble.
Hops too, are too cheap, and the
grower piles up his bales to wait the
moving of market, and thus wq might
say of grains, butter, cheese, and of
nearly all the products of the farm,
hay perhaps excepted.
The most successful farmer, as a
rule, is he who can show the best bal
lance sheet at the end of the year,
; and markets his produce when it is
ready for market. After having prepared
j your articles for market, as lias been
i devised, take the market price and
pocket the money. Your neighbor may
in some instances, sell fora higher price
I by holding, but in the experience of ten
! years, you will be far ahead. Produce
marketing is done with, all waste
shrinkage, and care of it ceases; and
then again you have the use of your
money, and can apply it where it will
be of use. One more reason for this
time of marketing is, that dealers are
in the market, and have made their
arrangements for buying.
It is important to the farmer, in dis
posing of his produce, that he should
meet a good demand. This lie will be
most likely to find when the article is
yielded from his farm, and is ready for
market. Dealers have then arranged
with banks for binds, and are anxious
to invest. You will always meet a poor
market when buyers have closed their
accounts and gone home. You will be
considered out of season, and if you
sell at all it must be at sacrificing con
cessions in price.
Prepare your articles in the best man
ner for the market. Represent them
honestly and fairly in the market, and
then sell at the best price the market
offers. Let the motto be “keep soil
ing,’ 1 and your cash account will be
largely in your favor. —Ohio Fanner.
Rev. Robert Collyer, of Chicago
said in a recent sermon: “It is finally
a settled thing now with thousands of
our bright, wide-awake American girls
that, while they intend to get married,
when their time comes, they do not in
tend to spend their time waiting and
watching for it, eating the bread of
idleness and drinking the wine of mo*
deru dissipation. They are determined
to secure themselves against the chance
that is always possible of not meeting
the man they can love, and to maintain
themselves handsomely, if love be their
lot, until he does appear; and then if
he falls sick before they are so fore
handed as to keep them out of poverty,
or dies and leaves them in widowhood,
they want to have a calling that will
stand them in as good stead as any
good handicraft does a man.”
White poplin or wool-repped cos
tumes are the latest novelty. They are
imported as upper dresses to be worn
with black velvet skirts.
Miscellaneous Items.
Canton, Ohio, has six banks.
Seven railroads now center at Terre
Haute.
Mobile is now the fourth coffee port
in this country.
Miners in the New Lisbon, 0., coai
mines are on a strike.
There are 324,799 school children in
Missouri.
Peddlers of prize candy boxes are
indicted in Knowille.
All the State prisoners at Kansas
City dug out on Monday night.
The Senate of Nevada has passed a
law for the protection of fish.
Agriculture, wedded to manufac
tures, gives birth to commerce.
A Boston bank was recently defraud
ed of $50,000 by an adroit forger.
The Spottswood Hotel, in Richmond,
is to be replaced in Virginia granite.
The lake at Cleveland is frozen over
as fur as one can see.
The colored men of Des Moines,
lowa, are about to establish a paper.
Peoria (HI.) gold mines have sns
peuded operation for the present.
The average wages of school teachers
in Ohio is $33 per mouth.
The Society of Friends have estab
lished a college at ludiauola, lowa.
Musquaka Indians have a winter
comp near Colma, Tama county, lowa.
An lowa family named I>odd have a
crop of sixteen children in ten years.
Vienna, Illinois, has lately built the
finest court-house in Southern Illinois.
Blount county, Tennessee, has a
bear, a panther and dogs with the hy
drophobia.
One of Chicago’s clergymen owns
and drives one of the fastest horses in
the city.
Chicago calls her foundling hospital
a “refuge for anonymous humanity.”
A poor woman, too proud to beg
starved to death in San Francisco on
the 24th ult.
Three tons of coal are said to repre
sent the labor power of a man for his
life time.
The Soldiers' Gazette, at Marysville,
Tennessee, has stood picket lor the last
time.
The Catholic institutions of Memphis
are worth nearly three hundred thou
sand dollars.
Panthers have made their appear
ance in the country around Fish Lake,
Michigan.
The new Soldiers 1 Home at Evans
ton, Indiana, will be formally opened
oil the 22d mst.
A little Nimrod tired into a flock of
wild turkeys in Virginia, the other day,
and killed a large gray eagle.
The Florida Legislature has refused
to change the capital from Tallahassee
to Jacksonville.
A ladv residing in Hi ply county,
Ind., has been frightened into insanity
by the receipt of anonymous letters.
All of the vessels in Michigan City
(Ind.) harbor broke loose from their
moorings during the late thaw.
There were four hogs raised in Mon
roe county, ind., this season, that
weighed over seven hundred pounds
each.
The Missouri agricultural lands will
be ready for sale or lease by the Ist of
March. There are in all 210,000 acres.
A Building Loan Fund and Saving
Associat ion has been organized at Terre
Haute, with a capital stock of £lOO,OOO.
The banks of Indianapolis, Ind.,
have formed a clearing-house associa
tion, and it went into operation on the
Ist inst.
An exchange is authority for saying
that a man from Sullivan county went
to Torre Haute, Ind., a few days ago,
to buy a jug full of gas.
Young ladies mustn't expect 1 eir
beaux to take them out much j st at
present. January is the month for
talers’ bills.
A joint stock company has been form
ed at Forsythe, Georgia, for the pur
pose of erecting and putting in opera
tion a large manufacturing establish
ment.
The last great snow-storm was very
heavy in Hancock county, Illinois. On
level ground, where the snow did not
drift, it measured twenty-two inches in
depth.
A Massachusetts railway in 1834 gave
notice that “Passengers are not sent
by the company, but seats are provided
for all who apply at the ticket office.”
The bills of fare at a large dinner
party in New York, recently, were of
different colored satin, painted in va
nous beautiful designs and framed in
mouse-colored velvet.
One hundred and twenty-eight con
victs will be released from the Indiana
! Southern State Prison during the com
ing year, by reason of the expiration
of their terms of imprisonment.
The Missouri Legislature has just
passed, without a dissenting vote, the
bill making it a misdemeanor for a
juror or commissioner to take a rail
1 road pass when the railroad is a party.
How to Lobby.
A woman writing to the Chicago Re
publican, describes Mrs. WoodhuLTs
method of approaching members of
Congress, and persuading them to swal
low the “ apple” of female suffrage :
“ It was Eve that first persuaded Adam
to eat of the ‘apple of sin,’ and every
body knows that Eves have been kept
picking, and the Adams eating the ap
pies ever since. A few' weeks ago. while
visiting the Capitol, at Washington, I
had the privilege of witnessing a very
complete illustration of this truth. I
was present when Mias or Mrs. Woodhull
interviewed several members of the
House, some of whom, to their honor
be it said, could not be ‘ mesmerized,'
and did not relish the apple; but at
last came Mr. Julian of Indiana, who
proved an easy prey. The process was
perfect. She sat verjf close to him on
the sofa, put her face very near his, and
far toned upon him her magic orbs. She
laid the tips of her magnetic fingers
upon his hand and arm, as if to enforce
and nrake emphatic her arguments. He
90011 looked dreamy, smiled as if gent ly
wafted on a sea of bliss, and one could
see the apple was tasting very sweet.
She talked on until he was completely
under her influence, bowing his head
and responding, while that sweet,
dreamy smile lit up his noble face, till
at length she placed in his hands her
‘memorial,’ which he took, when they
gracefully rose to their feet, joined
hands while several adieus were spoken,
and th< apple teas swallowed.' I'’ 1 '’
Basques with postillion backs are
worn universally by old and young la
dies, and as a consequence sashes and
belts are for the most part lain aside.