The Superior times. [volume], July 15, 1871, Image 2

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A Life Story.
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rn fiaste I call, a him I >e lißfit word
That darken’d life forever ;
My pallid face nor moved nor stirr’d—
iliw lips but one short quiver.
He pave me that long yearning look.
And spake : ‘}df such I lie ”
And all Ids frame a shudder shook—
“ I am n< and fit for thee ”
11.
We never met again—until
L'ng years had swept : :
His face was cold, and calm, u.,.i still—
My hair was tinged with gray.
Upon his arm a lady hung
His voice was kind and free:
He did no' know the blood-drops wrung
From my heart’s agony.
in.
We met but once again—the day
On whieh my darling died.
His wife and child had pass’d awa . :
i bade farewell to pride.
We met— mj face to his lie drew—
He called me by my name;
And in his dying hour we knew
i nor love had leen the same.
Tin; IVUT’F.KS.
Tile Story TiiM l*y )■ •* on Host ■, Ivi'i-p
--i i of flte lin kiiryiow n Com t-’sii in,
Springfield Hepublican.
“Wall—yes—they’re a queer h*t,
them town paupers ; but then-—wall
ther’ is a master sight of queer folks in
this ere world n I dunno’s paupers is
any queerer ’n the bulk on ’em. I dun
no ’s they’re any stranger ’n folks' 'll
average. Some times I think they be,
n then ag in I —don’t—know.”
De aeon Moses took off his hat, and
gazed fixedly into it like a witch into a
pot, as though expecting to find there I
the solution of the perplexity. Then
he drew, from the hat’s depths, a
pocket-handkerchief, so called by the
compliment of custom, the which, how
ever, no pocket ever did, w ould, or
comfortably could, contain, by reason
of its size; in fact, a very marvel of
magnitude and gorgeousness was this
pocket or hat-lmndkmehief. So large,
indeed, was it that Mrs. Deacon ’Moses
was reported, and commonly believed,
to have worn it, folded “kitten,” on
her eonubial shoulders, one afternoon,
to the “lecture preparatory," which
assemblage was, in lliekorytuwn, a sort
of undress solemnity, neither requiring
nor admitting of tull-dress pontifieials.
Vs to the color, this same article in
evitably suggested a millennial union
of the flags of all nations, their com
bined hues and mingled designs being
brought together to produce a kaleido
scopic effect, which was, in an eminent
degree, unique and startling.
If I have seemed, in this description
of the handkerchief, to lose sight of
the man, it is because the man is, at
the present, lost sight of behind the
handkerchief,his w rinkled, grizzly face,
being for an instant, obscured in the
gorgeous folds of the bandana. From
this brief eclipse, however, Deacon
Moses emerges, and with fresh strength
picks up 1 lie threads of his conversa
tion, if, indeed, that can be called con
versation which is not dialogue but
monologue, not coloqny but soliloquy.
“But I set out to foil ye 'bout Aunt
Reeny. You see we don't hev much
company up to our ’us’n’ ef i do git
anybody tu talk to I’m apt to run on* —
but ve see Vuut Reeny Irene Man ton,
she that was, merried to Uncle Mace
iah Bangs. Vn an old brute he was,
an' a beast's life lie led her, ’n bimeby
he had a cancer n that made him forty
times crosser n he wos before, which
warn t necessary no how. Beat ail how
long he lived arbu that thing took holt
on him. Seemed as ef ho di-inf die eoz
the L( rd warn't in want o’ just such.
But he did die finally , tin' twam’t long
arter that fore Lis. widdev e sue to mir
place. I tell yon she was a woman.
“‘ ( Toss I Bless yer dear heart, no!
She was just the meekest, cleverest,
blessedest leetle ole critter’t ever did
live. From ihe dav t she come b our
house—! remember it ’s if t w s this |
ere mormag, come ,i settin in an old
rocker, the only property she owned in
{h*‘ world—from the day she came in
ter my house a-setlin" in that cheer to
the day 't she went out on't a lavin’ in
her pauper’s coffin, that air woman
never said or did a thing to trouble
any livin’ crittur inside ou t. Gin'raily
speak in women paupers are more pes
terin' than men paupers. I dunno why,
only they be. There’s Bash now. She’ll
have her tantrums to this day. Like
Tiongh she'll git mad an' won’t open
her head, nor speak a word to none of
us from one week's end to 'nother.
Taint a woman’s way, mostly, o’ show
in’ her spunk, but see’ll talk b> herself,
tin to Jerry—that s her brother, you
know—he has to take it at than times.
Now, I don’t never pay no Mention to
none of her fraetiousuess, but my wife
don’t like it. •
“ You see flier was a good dealt’avus
■ xtraordinarj aboul kunf Reeuy. Meb
by .I sh'll tire ye out with this yarn ?
i hank ve—much obleeged for the com
pliment, I'll go ahead.
“You see Aunt Reeuy vvarn't in* com
mon woman. Poor as poverty’s back
door n lud ben, all her horn da vs.
Yon know most o' the town’s poor
‘ have seen better days. ’ IJ they hand,
they (Avar* thev hev, an hi come long n
and se’ doAvn "mongst ’em, 'vv' hear 'em
ruuniu’ on, wliy bless my soul, you’d
think they'd all ben kings n queens
once. But \mit Rooney warn t worth
a dollar in tin* world when - she come
there, n' yet she hadn't ben there a
month before everybody under that inti
respected her 'set she’d ben the grainiest
lady in the land. She wus so kind n
lovin' iT forgivin’ ’nonseltish like. Ef
I wus a goin’ oil auner’ers it was,
* Deacon Mdses, can't I git down yei
overcoat, and can’t I find yer
amberel fur you { An’ when
1 got back, slic'd come a-walk
ing so slow an’ soft like—
she amis lame out ou t the piazzy tu
meet me, peats to me sometimes I can
see her jest as she list'd to look, her
face all peaked, and wrinkled, and her
hair white like the under side of a sil
ver-leaf poppler tree, ereepin’ out on't
the stoop a-sniilin' and askin’, ‘ Have
you had a good time. Deacon Moses ;
Did you Hud Sophy well ami the chip
dreu?’ Thou when I got in she’d come
an' se’ down with herknittin"work long
side o llu* table while 1 eat niv supper,
and she'd want tu know all about
Sophy, and little Jack, and all of 'em.
\u' her words—wall. I can’t tell you
nothing—-there ain't no sort o’ use try
in to toll you nothin' t all about it.
I her ain't no givin' you no sort of an
idea what Aunt Been* was anyhow, no
way nor shape. But ther’s something
I must tell, ’cause t was s< rt o’ remark
able. An that was the way she died.
“You know Soph a’s my married
daughter. She's wife to young Ned
Langley the storekeeper down t the
Falls. Ever been in't th if store* o’ his
’en ? I s'pose it’s bout the neatest
tiling o' that sort (her is in these parts.
Sophy alius was a proper smrri girl.—
Takes after her mother. Sophy does.
But then, that aint neither here nnr
there. AVhaf 1 was goin’ to tell was
hoAV Aunt Rceny died. It was in *dr w
berry time, if 1 renn*mber right, and
Sophy A\as stayin' t home with her
boy, that's Jack. He was goiu'on three
vears old’t that time, 'n he took the
greatest likin’ to Aunt Reeuy, just as
all the rest of us did for that matter.
First thing when his miss fetched the
little scamp doAvn in the morning he and
stretch out his hands to her and get
into her lap, lie would, an' pull the
comb out, and letdown her hair. It was
kinder crinkly, and curly. Aunt Reeny’s
hair wue, an’ alius made me think
o’ corn silk inside of the husks.
It wus so sort o’ wavy an’ soft. Wall,
they’d set there. Aunt Reeny a-smilin'
that shiny kind of a smile o’ hern, and
Jack halloin' an’ laughin’ so't you
might a'heered him down there in the
ten-acre lot where the railroad runs
across my mowin’. No matter what he
diil I nil down her hair, pull oft'her
cap, draw out her knitting needles,
Amit Reeny wasjust as clever and meek
tewlmi. The boy was named fur his
grant fher —old lawyer Langley—an
the\ do say, I s'pose most prob’ly its a
fact mebbe, "t ole Jack Langny had a
likin' for Aunt Reeny when she was a
girl. Mebby that was one reason why
she would look such a long while in t
the b>v s face and eyes. Great, wide
open brown eyes Jack has, what they
call hereabouts ‘the Langley eyes’ and
mebby the old critter made the young
days come back ag’in. There ain’t no
tillin'. Anyhow, there was some dit
ference. Lawyer Langley when he
was alive a-settin’ in the Judge’s
bench, ’n Aunt Reeny in her
ole chair up tu Hickorvton poor-house.
“ Wall, it was a powerful hot after
noon, and the Fourth o July, Inde
pendence Day. i’he work was done up
an' the house was uncommon quiet,
only Aunt Bash had Jerry up in a corn
er to scold at him ’cause he jest lost
her datum’ needle. Jerry he whs a
stanniu’ thare with his lingers in his
mouth, lookin’ master silly, for Bash
lied just hen a boxm’ his ears, ’fore she
begun her scoldin’. It was a way she
bed about once a week, 'specially on
Saturdays. Bashy, she would
set him up there, and keep him
there for an hour, mebby, of
it didn’t interfere. And, lawful heart,
H‘eh blessings as she did give him I
Wall, that day, Nora, the miss, hed
gone off w ith her beau, Jack was stay
in’ with me an’ mother, jest’s it hap
pened. L wus asleep on the piazza—or
half asleep—for I remember hearing
Bashyys voice kinder high ’it’ sharp,
like liling the saw over t’ the mill, her
a’savin’, ‘What d’ye mean, you lazy,
hateful, blunderin' fool, yon v . Now,
where’s my darning needle, I'd be
pleased t<> know V An’ Jerry, he an
swering very modest to Bashy, who was
a little deaf, ‘tain’t likely 't nobody
knows.’ ‘Nose! What about my nose {
Hain't it a good nose I I slid like to
know. Yon mis’rable, saucy critter,
vou—”
“ Wh-r-r-r !’’
“Down in the mender, across the
ten-acre lot, afternoon traift from the
Falls whistled. I heard it half a
dream in', an' half a walkin’, and next 1
know'll Aunt lleeuy rushed down the
yard run, flew by me like a wind, w ith
her face white and her gray hair a
biowin’ after her, as she went. It was
all so quick, seem’d ’s ef I hadn’t
more'u a breath o' time to think fore I
knew Aunt Keeney was rushin' like the
wind, right straight inter that air
’spress train. I thought the woman’d
ben crazy all on a sudden. Bead o’
sec!i things, ye know. An’ I jest up
and arter her, about s quick smy o]e
i.% . could fly ; but she’d got the start
’o me, it all I could do was to toiler on.
Up come taetrain, a whirrin’ audhissin’
and Ihunderin’; themg. cat black ingines
make me tliiuko’ the evil one, just out ‘o
t'ue pit on it come, an’ the taster the
iiigiiie come just the faster raced on
Aunt Ileeny, till—all in a breathin’,
there was a rushin' sound close by, and
a gust o’wind clearin' up the smoke,
au I looked down, aiui close tor my
feet was lavin’—our tittle Jack! .lust
a lay in there with a bunch o' blue flag
in ins hand, t he trotted oil* over the
railroad to pick. There he was, safe
hi sound—where Aunt lleeuy had
ketehed the child and thrown! him, the
minute afore the train come up. But
Aunt lleeuy herself, poor critter, she
stepped her last step. I just picked up
the ole woman, bleedin’ and cut up,
she was, too, most too bad to tell on,
took her in ray arms n' brought her up
to the house.
“O, wall, we did what we could for
her, the women folks did, ’n I did. 'u'
wt all did. Even Aunt Bash stopped
her sputterin' for ouct in her life, n’
run bout helpin’ as gentle s a baby.
But twa'nt all no use. Nor warn’t the
doctor, neither, tho' hed im on as
soon as horse flesh could fetch him.
But he only shook Ids head kinder
mournful, an' gin ns to understand,
"twa'nt nothin’ only a question of time,
pu ty short time, too. An’ there she
laved in mother’s bed, her eyes shut
up, ’a’her poor old hands outside of
the white coverlid, fingers work in' ’n’
worknT, this way ’n’ tliat. Tho't she
was knitting, you see, poor critter. I
dunuo sit ii strike you st did me,
but, somehow, i can’t never git rid o
! the sight o them old, withered, big
veined, thin hands. After the poor
thing didn't know nothin’, then weak
hands were gropin' bout to and fro,
kmttiu still, trying to do somethin' to
the very last, bless her! for other folks
I An’ I s'pose Tm silly, but I tell you,
the last knittiii’ Aunt Ileeny
1 ever did, she toed oft'a pair o’ foot in’s
for me, "iT Iv’e kept them air footin’s
as choice as ef they wuz di’mous.
Wear ’em. Bless you, no. 1 shall go
b arefoot through Vermont snow-drifts
a good while fore 111 wear them stock
in’s Aunt Keenv knit last.
.“Wall, she kep’ them hands goin’
slower ’n slower, an' it got to be later
in the evenin’ on to’rd the turn o' the
night summer, you know, ’s I R iled
you - n’ we was all a settiu’ round the
room, and listenin’ ter the tickin' in the
corner, Sophy was a settiu by the bed
bathin' Aunt Reeiiy s furred, an' Jack
had been asleep, with his head on her
pillow. I remember mindin’ how
kinder pretty't looked, the old wo
man's white hair mixed up on the piller
on the boy's curls sort o’ Avct and
heavy they was when he was asleep
an jist then Jack started ’n' sot up,
broad awake, on the bed, loanin' agin
his mother, an'a lookin’jist as straight
m t Aunt Reeuy s face. Just that min
ute- now you'll think this is sort o’
queer, but this is jist how it happened
—Aunt Rceny opened her eyes and
looked right into the boy’s an' then, all
t once, all over her ld face there come
such a shinin' an’ glowin’ as 1 never
see, n’ can’t think o’ nothin to de
scribe. Then sez she,speakin' out plain
iT clear—so they heerd her clean out in
t'other room—said the dear old critter,
‘ (). Jack, it's you !’
“So pleased and happy the words
was, an' they was the last t ever she
spoke. She jist shut her eyt s ’n’ fold
ed up her hands, and drawed one long
breath n' was gone. M ther brought
a looki ii’-glass ’n’ put it to her lips,
but there Avan’t nothin’ to show't she
was a1 i \ in’. * She’s gone, (>. dear Vnut
Rceny!’
“Sophy said it with a little sob. ’iT
sunk down on her knees ’long side o’
the bed, w ith her face bn tied up in the
clothes. Nothin’ but a poor old wo
man, yon sec, miss. Never had five
dollars at a time in her life, 1 s'pose.
AV asnt eddicated nuther, as them
things go noAv. But for all she was old
n’ poor, 'n' ignorant—nothin’ but a
dead pauper—l tell you we all set
round that room ’n cried s ef she’d
been a mother to us."
“We found out afterward how t wus.
Theuus, Nora, bein’ gone, the boy had
stolen off down in the meader lot, ’n
nobody missed him nor see him, till
Aunt Reeny, jist the instant the train
whistled. That was how, you see tshe
run off then, ’a’ lost her own life a sav
in’ the boy’s. Somehow, I can't help a
thinkin' ’t was jest the way she’d ought
er a’ went out o’ the world. She spent
all her life n try in' to make other peo
ph comfortable, an'she died try in to
save somebody else trouble.
“Up there on the hill, you’ve mind
ed it, mebby, the ole buryiu’ ground.
Itdown 'n the south-west corner,
where the sun shines warm, down there
lliekorytou’s been in the habit of bury
ing’ its paupers goin’ now twenty years.
There’s a white monument there with
just her name, what we all used to call
her by. It says, ‘Aunt Reeny,’ that’s
all. It's enough to them of us that
knew her, an' fur them as didn’t, 'taint
nothin’, no ways. ’Twas my son-in
law, I s’pose, Edward Langley, t set
it up there as a sort o' token o' respect.
She wus worthy out, I tell ye, Aunt
Reeny wus.
‘Ther wus one other thing ’bout that
woman. Yon see arter she wus dead,
when my folks come to lay her out,
they found out what nobody ever
kuowed afore, 'n that was, t all this
time, while she was a workin’ for other
folks ’n’ goin’ round so calm ’n’ smilin’,
she hed one ol them orful things ‘t’ her
husband died on. A cancer, you
know, ’n’ he never telled a soul, ’n’
went on bearin’ it all to herself s tho’
she’d been a martyr.
“ I tell y on, miss, you may be ever
so putty ii young n edicated ’u rich,
y e may try yer best, ye can’t be no bet
ter woman TT that old pauper, Aunt
Reenv. ”
Tin* I,as( of i lu* *1 > ntaiiks.
A lawsuit of novel and interesting
character is at present pending before
the Hon. B. W. Downing, referee, at
Montauk, Long Island, between the re
maining lopreseniatives of the once pow
erful Montauk tribe of Indians and the
present occupants and proprietors of
the soil, which once comprised their
hunting ground. This embraces about
900 acres, situated at Montauk Point,
which the present holders claim was
purchased some two hundred and eleven
years ago by one Thomas Baker, one
llobert Bono, one Thomas James, and
several other “ ones," the widow of one
Wyandauch, and of her sons Wiancom
bone, Shebauow, Massagent, Yambo
and Gonthoman, in consideration of an
annual payment of ten pounds sterling
for ten years. Since that time the prop
erty has, of course, risen immensely in
value, and is now divided into and rep
resented by live hundred shares, of an
estimated value ol live hundred dollars
each, or $250,000 for the whole tract.
The Indians yet surviving of the tribe
that ejected the sale claim that their
ancestors reserved certain rights and
pri\i leges, which have been from time
to time completely ignored by the white
men, who, by vaiionsme ' s, have tried
to restrict the dcwlopm, nt and in
crease ot the original holders and just
owners, among which wen- the exact
meuts ot three bonds, one dated in 1071,
another in J7l'->, and a third in 1715, by
which the Montauk Indians pledged
themselves, under a forfeit of il()0,
not to intermarry with any other Indi
an tribe or strangers.
The result has been, as the holders
of their land exported, that the tribe
has gradual! v heroine ext inct, •• that
there wow but thirty amis remaining,
who are fuie ( { to Intermarry wlUi tlielr
own relatives, or else become amena
ble to the forfeit, and lose w hat l ights
they claim to have inherited in their
ancient hunting-ground. Ihe suit is
brought bv these Indians to set aside
this clause, and recover the full pos
session and < ujoyrnent of the rights
that were reserved for them at the
time of the tii -i sale or lease by the
wk.owed squaw of Wyandauch.
Bi ii/ii.
Letter trom Rio de Janeiro give in
teresting accounts oi'the departure on
Mia Jet!i of (lie Emperor Don Pedro I.
of Brazil, and Ins wife, the Empress
Teresa, fora visit to Lisbon and Eu
rope. it is stated that this is the first
time for thirty years, and the second
time in its history, that Brazil Jias been
governed In a regent. The Brazilian
Legislator voted an appropriation of
*200,•'()() to defray the expenses of the
journey of the Emperor, but Don Ped
ro absolutely declined to accept any
sum whatever, not wishing to burden
the national expenditures. The Em
peror will be absei t for a year. Pre
vious to Ids departure, on May 20th, in
the presence of the Legislature, the
Ministeis ot State and other high
officials, the oath of otlice was taken by
the Regent, the Princess Isabella,
daughter ol the Emperor and wife of
(iastou Louis, Count d’Eu, the son of
the Duke de Nemours, and grandson of
Louis Philippe. The Regent Isabella
was born July 2'Jth, IHIO, and was siar
ried on October loth. lS(i4. The oath
taken by the Regent binds her to main
tain flu Roman Cat Indie* religion, the
integrity and the indivisibility of the
empire, to observe the constitution and
laws ot the Brazilian nation. She also
swears fidelity to the Emperor, and to
deliver up to him the government on
his return.
\ Sunken Monitor.
Efforts now making to raise the mon
itor WeehaAvken, sunk in Charletson
harbor during the war. reveals the facts
that she lies due east and west on a
bottom ot mud, and there is about
eight feet <>f water over her at low tide.
In this position she is a dangerous ob
stmetiou in the channel. All her ma
chinery has been taken up, and like
wise the iron of her turret and deck.
Her interior is all tilled with mud and
garbage, among which human bones
are here and there visdde. The diver
is able to see about him when the wa
ter is clear. When the water is not
clear he is compelled to go entirely by
feeling, and in the muddy water he
sees better by night than by day. This
is owing to the presence of innumer
able phosphorescent sparks (said I>a
scientists to be composed of animalcn
he). (her two hundred tons of iron
and various metals have been raised
from this ship.
The aeronaut connected with James
Robinson's eiren- met withan accident,
at (treen Bay, last week, which came
near proving fatal. He made an ascen
sion, and had reached an altitude of
one thousand feet, when a leakage in
the top part ot the balloon caused it to
descend with tearful rapidity. For
tunately h>r the aeronaut, it landed in
Fox river, otherwise he would have
been dashed in pieces. He could not
swim a stroke, but clung to the balloon
until rescued by a boat.
Somebody written a book en
titled “AViiat shall in* sou In .“ Upon
which someone re] dies, “If the boy is
as bad as the book the chances are that
he will be hangpd. ”
ANOTHER FLOATING PALACE.
'l'll* 1 Sr tv Steamsli i p Atlimi ic, <i tli<
WliitcStar I.in* 1 —Lnxurlvg of Tran, at
laiilit- Navigation—Tin- l.nli.t ln
provtnant iii Steam l’o t r,
From ilu 1 New York World.
The second steamship of the White
Star Meet—the Atlantic —arrived at lu r
dock, near Pavonia ferry, on Friday
morning, on her first trip, having made
the run across the “pond ” in ten days
and a few hours. She arrived at Quar
antine at ten o’clock on Wednesday
night. In giving a description of this
splendid vessel it may be slated at the
outset that every thing written of the
construction and adornment of the
Oceanic applies equally to the Atlantic,
which is built on the same model and
finished after the same designs.
the desensions
I are as follows : Length, 140 feet; beam,
47; depth of hold, 33 ; with the same
i registered tonnage as that of the Ocea
n-1 ic. There are four masts and six wa
iter tight bulkheads with every facility
I for extinguishing Mre, let it break out
‘ in whatever quarter.
ONE am?.AT IMPUOVEMENT
i in this vessel is the steam steeringgear.
| We no longer see two and sometimes
i four men tuggiig at the wheels-—a la-
I bor in stormy weather fully as sev< re
las that on the old treadmill reserved
; for the dangerous class of society, < )ne
man standing on thr bridge moves a
lever which a child rould control, and
by regulating the .iiovement according
to the points on the dial over which it
passes this
IMMENSE WEIGHT
glides to the right or the left, or main-
I tains a steady course. An index moves
cross the dial and, like the little tell
tale at school, gives information to the
master how his pupil is acting. If the
helm does not follow the direction
pointed out, the index will not follow
the direction of the lever, and it is ptT
ceived at once that the gear is out of
order.
THE STEAM POWEB
calls for especial notice. There are
eleven boilers and four cylinders on
the compound principle. It is not yet
two years since the compound principle
was applied on our transatlantic ves
sels, and here we have a further ad
vance in that direction. The ordinary
compound engine consists of two cylin
ders, one high pressure and the other
low pressure The steam employed in
the former, instead of being lost by
condensation, passes away to the lat -
ter and does good service, lu this way
there is a
CHEAT ECONOMY IN EC EE.
But in the present instance tuere are
four cylinders—two placed in the ord
inary position, seventy-eight inches
in diameter each and two others
forty-one inches in diameter, standing
over the larger ones, much in the same
position as the smaller barrel of a tel
escope over the larger, but separated.
The two pistons are attached to the
same rod, and move up and down with
a stroke of live feet. The great advan
tage derived is not simply the -increas
ed power of steam operating upon a
larger surface, hutagreater iiinfurmit x
in the action of the pistons, or, as the
chief engineer, Mr. Watson, expresses
it, there is aneare approach to “equal
ity in the working, i'he engines are
registered at 3,000 horse power, and
are warranted to sustain a pressure ol
seventy pounds to the square inch.
The maximum pressure on the trip out
was sixty pounds. When it is stated
l-Ua£ < Tily
FIFTY-FIVE TONS Of CO AT. If ♦' '*M
were consumed, no further remark is
necessary as to the new principle appli
ed to navigation.
THE MAIN SALOON,
with its gilded cornices, brilliant
mountings, bronze statues, marble
chimney pieces, carved furniture and
dark red cushions, surpasses in grand
eur anything to be seen in the transat
lantic service. The saloon extends the
whole width of the vessel, and what
ever the eye falls upon is handsome.
THE ELECTRIC BELLS,
running through the saloon and in all
the berths of saloon passengers, from
not onty a novel, but a most desirable
innovation.
The Atlantic was built by Harlaud
& Wolf, at Belfast, ami reflects credit
on the Emeral Isle, which shows signs
of rising prosperity in this revival <j
shipbuilding.
The Wheal (Top.
The June returns of the statistical di
vision of the Deparment of Agriculture
indicate a small increase in the acreage
of the wheat crop amounting to about
four per cent., or nearly three-fourths < and
a millon acres. Nearly all this increase
is west of the Mississippi I liver. The
States indicating an enlargement of area
in this crop are as follows: New York,
1 per cent; New Jersey, 2; Ohio, fi; Mich.
4; Wisconsin, 1; Minnesota, 10; lowa,
Jo; K ansas, 30; Nebraska. 25; and Ore
gon, 3,. A small decrease appears in
the New England States ; in Pennsyl
vania a reduction of 2 per cent. ; Mary
land,3; Kentucky, 2 ; Indiana, 2; Mi
sissippi, 2; and South < ’arolina. 8. Ihe
condition of the crop in Massachusetts
is now placed at II per cent., below an
average; Connecticut, 0: New York,
2; Virginia, 8; North (’arolinia, 17;
South Carolina, 27 ; Georgia, 25; Ala
bama, 23 ; Mississippi, 4 ; Texas, 11 ;
Arkansas, 13; Tennessee, 20; Kentucky,
20; Indiana, 3, and California, 12. The
States reporting superior conditions
are; Delaware, 2; Maryland, 2; West
Virginia, 4; Ohio, 7: Michigan, 0 ;
Wisconsin, fi ; Minnesota, 2; Illinois 3;
lowa, 8 ; Missouri, 1 ; Kansas, 0 ; Ne
braska, <5; Oregon, 4. With the excep
tion of California, no principal wheat
growing State indicates a poor yield of
of wheat, and most of them give prom
ise of a product sufficient to make good
the loss upon the L’acific coast, and the
trifiing reductions elsewhere. If no
disasters arc encountered hcrealt*T. the
crop should be fully equal to that of
last year.
Chinese Piety.
A man in St. Louis who has tried a
Chinese servant, finds but one objec
tion in him, and that is his religion. It
is a very peculiar form of devotion
which the poor fellow has. He found
an old brass andiron in the garret, and
thinking it was an idol, immediately
set it np as “the god of his idolatry."
He sacrificed several rats belore this
graven image, a proceeding which had
one advantage at least, as it would be
likely, in time, to exterminate that
class of vermin from the premises; but
some of the other portions of his re
ligions services interfered too much
with his devotion to other duties. H<
was wont to spend some tour hours
a day at his orisons, using a prayer
book in seventy four volumes and a
supplement. The fellow, in his own
peculiar fashion, was too pious for
practical life. The gentleman thinks
that in order to make good domestics
in this material age, the Chinese will
have to get rid of some of their Celes
tial peculiarities.
Switches and Uiignons.
Few persons, says the Poston Com
mercial Bulletin, probably realize the
magnitude which the articles of switch
es and chignons have reached. I lie
first switches were made in Central
Falls, 11. 1., by a workman in one of
the Max mills. For a long time all
that were used, tin* number of which at
first was quite small jvere made there.
Afterwrrd a firm in Providence com
menced fhe manufacture. The price
f hen was from S7.QO to 9.00, realizing
a large profit to the u anufactnrer.
Switches t hen retailed at $ 1.50 to $2.00,
are now sold at 25 to 07 cents. Several
parties started in this city employ
from ten to forty men each. Some
idea of flic amount manufactured can
be found from the experience of the
largest of Boston manufacturers, em
ploying forty men hacking and finish
ing the jute, and fifty to sixty girls in
the manufacture of chignons, using ten
bales of ‘SOO pounds each and 3,000
pounds of hair per day. This firm
used over 600 bales f 180.000 pounds)
in dozen per day of switches alone.
Much has bee > said of the presence of
insects in the jute, but it was probably
without truth. In the large amount
used by this firm, no sign of one was
ever seen, and the article of jute is as
clean, or more so, than human hair in
the course of manufacture; at least one
half the weight is combed out at one
time. The prejudice was strong against
them, particularly in the State of
Maine, that they could not be sold at
ail.
There are also many switches made
of tine glazed cotton thread, also of
silk dyed without washingouttliegum,
which gives it the nearest resemblance
to hair, of any article used. Much of
this hair silk is woven the same as
ribbons, and afterwards braided like
wool into chignons. Jute in a great
measure superse led this article, owing
to its extreme cheapness. At one
time during last Summer the stock in
market was almost entirely used up,
from immense quantities used for this
purpose, causing it to advance nearly
50 per cent in price.
.Mr. Spurgeon liuir l't 20,00(1
Persons.
The Loudon correspondent of the
I‘oston Advertiser says:
I once heard Mr. Spurgeon preach in
the Crystal J ’alaee to 20,000 persons.
\\ hichever way yon looked, you saw a
mass of human beings. His wife sat
immediately below Ids pulpit. She
grew frightened and began to shed
tears. Mr. Spurgeon observed her,
and, calling someone to him, sent a
message, asking her to sit where she
could not look at him, and after she
had moved her nervousness passed
away. So little did he exert himself
that I could not believe the people at
the rim ol the circle could hear, but 1
was wrong. When the doxology, after
the .-ei'inog. had been sung, the great
baptist preacher, with the familariity
which seems to be allowed, b particular
men, said: u Nu, no, that will not do.
Not half you snug then. Let us have
the words again, and let every one
join. Mr. Organist, please play the
verse once more.” The organ was at
the extreme end scarcely in sight.
I lie organist looked like a black dot.
But he heard the little stout man in
the pulpit, and turning around to the
keys, sent forth a glorious volume of
music ; and Hit' people had heard as
well. The 5,00(1 -angers became 20,-
000. It was wonderful to find those
enormous regiments of singers sudden
ly joining the rest.
SagaciD of .1 Pox.
J'lir Rev. Cljurlets I>. Nofct, of SI.
Louis, sends to the Independent :i
story suggested by the remark of Dr.
MeCosh, that he had “doubts whether
the lower animals can abstract, w hot her
they can generalize.” “ V former pas
tor of mine," says Mr. Nott, “told me
the following: When a boy, lie had a
fox. which, I regret to say, bore the
reputation of possessing far more brain
than personal piety. This fox was
kept m the yard in a sort of raised den,
nicely sodded over, and was confined
bv a chain that allowed him a generous
circumference. One evening in the
Fail, the farm-wagon, returning from
the field with a load of corn,
passed near lie* den, and by chance
dropped an ear where the fox could
reach it. He was seen to spring out,
seize the corn, and carry it quickly
back into tiie den. Wind he wanted
with it is u mystery, as corn formed no
part of the gentleman’s diet. The next
morning, however, the mystery was ex
plained, for the fox was observed, out
of his den, and considerably within the
length of his chain, uibiding off some
of the corn and scattering it about in
full view of tlu poultry, after which he
took the remainder back into the den
and awaited events. Sure enough, the
chickens came; and, while eating, out
•sprang the fox, nabbed his man, and
quietly took his breakfast in his back
parlor. Vow it seems to me that this
is pretty good ‘generalizing.’
\ Valuable Canine.
In tin* London dog-show tins year
is exhibited a mastiff <•! a breed reput
ed to l>e flu* purest and oldest of ascer
tained pedigree in England. It is de
scended from ancestry said to have
been in tiie possession of Sir Percy
Leigh from whom the ancient family,
still seated in Cheshire, Laugh of Lyme
is descended—who in 1415 was saved,
when lying apparently dead on the
field of battle at Agmconrt, by his mas
tiff bitch ; $5,000 was the price put up
on this beast of noble lineage. Amongst
other interesting animals is Lady Emily
Peel's (wife of Mr. Robert, and sister
of the Duchess of Wellington ) Russian
dog. whose parents were presented to
her by the Czar; a magnificent (hiban
mastiff, bearing the sears received in a
bear light, and a live toy terrier, so
precious that he was exhibited under
a glass ease.
\ Wife Advertiser.
The Newport “News’’ says:
“Recently a white-headed veteran
came into our office to ‘advertise his
wife.’ He wished it distinctly under
stood that as his wile had left his Tied
and board without just provocation,•
no one was to trust her on his account.
The advertisement was written and
ready for insertion, when informed
that it would require one dollar to pay
the expense, the money was wanting,
after a .diligent search seven cents
were found, and the would be adver
tiser wished ns to lay the notice one
side and he would hunt up the remain
ing amount. The supposition is that
he is still hunting, as the notice is still
laid aside, and all the world still have
the privilege of trusting the wife on the
husband’s account.
A 'luenul removals and changes in
the various bur ams of the Interior
Department have been made recently,
and a good many more will be made in
the course of the next few days, es
pecially in the pension and land offices.
Some fifty removals have been made in
the land office since the change in Com
missioner.
Wit and Wisdom.
Private-earing—Listening at a key i
hole.
How to keep your head clear bhave
every hair oil.
A lady in this city says the latest ;
tiling out is—her husband.
Why are cashmere shawls like deaf
people?. Because you cup’t make them
here.
Whit are the most disagreeable arti
cles for a man to keep on hand i \u -
- Handcuffs,
People say ii<>n natures never weep,
and yet we have seen whole rows of
culm* us in tiers.
“What Shull My Son Be?” is the
title of u book. We should suppose it
would be a boy.
When a pickpocket pulls at your-i
watch, tell him plainly that you have
no time to spare.
An Oregon toast over a glass of the
ardent: “Here’s what makes us wear
old clothes.”
Why is the treadmill like a true con
vert { Answer—Because its turning is :
the result of conviction.
“This is a sweeping catastrophe,' as
the man said when his wile knocked
him down with a broom
Who was the w isest man ? Knower.
What did he know ? He knew enough
to go in out of the rain.
Saxe graphically describes a certain
case of beefsteak as “an infringement
on Goodyear’s patent.”
Speaking ol apples, it is remarkable
that the first apple in paradise should
have turned out the first pair!
When may a man be said to be really
over head and ears in del*t { Answer—
When he hasn't paid fur his wig.
Why does a coat get larger when
taken out of a carpet bag ‘ Because
when you take it out you'll find it in i
creases!
“ Mamma,” said a little boy who had
been sent to dry a towel before the
fire, “is it done when it’s brown ?”
An Irishman recently soliloquized
“What a waste o' money to buy mate
when you know the half o’ it is hone,
when you can spend it for rum that;
hasn’t a bone in it.”
Why is a woman tying her corset like I
a man drinking to and rown care ? Because
iu so-twiny herself she becomes thjht.
A gentleman traveling on a steamer,
one day at dinner was making way with
a large pudding close by, when h<‘ was
told by the servant that it was dessert.
“Jt matters not to me,” he said, “I
would eat it if it were a wilderness
••John Rogers’ nine ch:l>ln n aw* unr n> th*
breast ,
Were but nine as I make it,” said Many.
“There were ten as I figure it up,” sai 1 his
guest,
“Or there would not have been out t>>
carry /”
A modest bachelor says all ho should
ask for in a wife would lie a good tem
per, sound health, good understand
ing, agreeable physiognomy, pretty
figure, good connections, domestic hab
its, resources of amusement, good
spirits, conversational talents elegant
manner:', and money.
“ Vor here. Tonkin ! lion the deuce
did you find your way out?" “Find
my way out! Out of where. What
do you mean . “ V\ liy the last time
1 saw you you were lost-lost iu slum
ber.” “ (ih—ah ; w ell, 1 rude out ou a
nightmare !”
An awkward-looking, stage-struck
hoosier went to see one of the theatri
cal managers at Philadelphia lately,
and solicited an engagement. ‘ W hat
vou (ii’cl'er, in- friends ”
asked the immagev. “ VVwil,
said the would be American Roscius,
“ I ain’t partial to rolls, no how ; eorii
dodgers is my favorite.'
In the execution of a recent deed by
a man and his wife, the wife was taken
aside, bet >re the acknowledgment was
made, b a commissioner, who, in the
usual form, asked, “Do urn execute
this deed freely, and without am fear
or compulsion oi your husband ?”
“ Pear of my husband ! exclaimed the
wife, “I've had five husbands, and
never was afraid of am of them !"
Mu. Muthe, the author of some pop
ular works ou “The Seasons,” was
originally a teacher in I fundee. He
happened to be one of a tea party at
the house of Rev. Dr. M. The Doctor
was reputed for the suavity oi bis man
ners and his c pecial polib ness toward
the fair sex. Handing a di- !i of honey
to one of the laities, he said, in his
wonted manner, “Do take a little
honey. Miss ; tis so weef, so
like yourself.”
11 ';i it !i >(<!('•'.
From Home and Health.
Remedy fok hysteuks. -Carraway
seeds, finely pounded, with a small
proportion of ginger and salt, spread
upon bread and butter, and eaten every
day. especially earb in the morning,
and before going to bed, are success
fully used in Germain as a domestic
remedy against hysterics.
I>on’t eat waum iiUEAi). An intelli
gent American traveler, win* was spend
ing several months in Berlin, called at
a bakery and asked for bread. “We
have none,” was the reply. “ Vou do
not understand me," persisted the cus
tomer; “ I want a loaf of bread," point
ing to the huge piles of bread display
ed on the shelf. “(), that is just
baked,” answered the dealer “ and is
not tor sale.” The Prussian Govern
ment compels bakers to keep their stock
at least one day before selling to cus
tomers. Let ns learn wisdom.
A hint to Consumptives. —A physic
ian of no little experience says he has
known several consumptive patients
cured by observing the following rules;
Live temperatively, avoid spirituous
liquors, wear flannel next the skin, and
take every morning, half 4. pint of new
milk, mixed with a wine-glassful of ex
pressed juice of green hoarhound.
Health fulness of Aeules.—Aiiem
inent French physician thinks that the
decrease of dyspepsia and billions af
fections in Paris, is owing to the in
ereased consumption of apples, which
fruit he maintains is an admirable pro
phylatic and tonic, as well as a very
nourishing and easily-digested article
of food. The Parisians devour one
hundred millions of apples every win
ter, that is, they did before the war.
Simple Remedy fok Nose-Bleed.
A friend who has tried it. says : “ Put
a piece of paper in your mouth, chew
if rapidily, and it will stop your nose
from bleeding. This icinedy has been
tried frequently with success."
A physician says that placing a small
roll of paper of muslin above the front
teeth, under the upper lip, and pressing
hard on the same, will arrest bleeding
from the nose, checking the passage of
the blood through the arteries leading
to the nose,
Itie Lak-Ache. -Generally heat is
the best remedy. Vpply a warm poul
tice or warm oil to the ear. Bub (he
back of the ear with warm laudanum.
In case of a foetid discharge, carefully
syringe the ear with warm milk and
water. In all cases keep the ear thor
oughly cleansed Relief is often given
by rubl.ing the back of the ear with a
little hartshorn and water.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Misf cl Ia lu oitti.
Base ball — Athletics 20, Kek-oiigas
3; Mutuals 12, Atlantic's 0.
Chas. E. Dewey, a prominent lawyer
of Rutland, Vt., and member of the
last Council of Censors, died at the
Hartford Retreat for the Insane on
June 2fi.
The commissioners of the new capi
tal at Albany have refused the demand
of the stone-cutters employed on the
edifice for the same-wages, sl,ro per
day* of eight hour., as they are now re
ceiving lor ten hours.
Wm. o(,i on ess. owner of tlie; yacht
Sappho, challenges any yacht on the
Atlantic coast totv'd 'ith an eight-knot
breeze, twenty mite? to windward and
return, for live thousand dollars or a
set of colors. It is said i‘J> it LorriT
lard’fi yacht Wanderer "ill acC'l’t the
challenge.
The managers of the Cincinnati in
dustrial Exposition, to commence on
September (3, have issued circulars of
classification and premium lists. The
classification is more extensive and per
fect than last year. the premium list
embraces 271 gold, silver, and bronze
medals, besides special premiums for
raw cotton.
1 >i-' Kiist.
Base ball—Athletics •>, Mutual i:
Forest Citys of Cleveland, 32, Pas
times, 9.
George Francis Train, George
Smalley, of the Tribune, R. M. t or win
and wife, and James Girard, have
sailed for Europe.
The New York Sieugcrfest resulted
in a loss financially, which must be
made up by the city societies.
Michael McLaughlin, of Philadel
phia, shot James McGee in that
city about a yeai ago, ha pven him
sell up to the aiithoritie .
Fv-Mavor Cahoon, of Richmond,
lias been found guilty <>t complicity in
forgery, and sentenced to two years
imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The Connecticut Senate has passed
resolutions appropriating $.‘>1)0,000 for
anew state house in Hartford, and au
thorizing t lie city of Hartford to appro
priate a sum not exceeding $1,000,000
toward the same.
At Brady's Bend, Pa., half a dozen
nnui were working about anew oil well
flowing at the rate or thirty barrels per
day, the gas ignited from a lamp and
a loud explosion followed. Richard
Steele wa fatally bui ned . Fr ink 1 1 ■
vis, Christ. Miller, Thomas Rankin,
Miller Brown, seriously.
The
It is reported that gold has been dis
covered near Richmond, In 1.
N warrant tor $151,27-1 has been is
sued bv Gov. dewell, ot t'oinii cticut,
on account of war claims of that state.
'lus. E. Stark was burned to death
in Cleveland, on Tuesday evening, by
the explosion of a coal oil lamp.
Recent i; officers seized the tobacco
fact*>rv of Busher A Miller, in < n
naii, Thursday, upon charges of fraud.
Hii Fir t Battallion,] i ( Rej iment,
N. G. made a limed march from
Sacramento on Sunday.reaching Sutler
• Jreek, Amador < ounty. that night, tak
ing the riotous miners In surprise. N<
resistance was offered.
Tin >oll ll* .
Circumstances indicate that the out
rage on tlie Moody family, near < hieaiis,
Ky., Sunday night, was the result of a
family fend, and tl> it the assassination
of the whole family was coolly planned.
IN v I m IJiuxiui. Soi.iiwv. a well
known Jew i: h rabbi, who has officiated
in Rochester. St. Louis, Ni w (Orleans
and Ciiidnnili, was thrown from his
buggy, on the way from Lebanon to
Foster’s Crossings, Ohio, where lie re
•ided, and so injured in the spine that
he died.
< I • !*< - I !i<? f IftMf It If ii' .
Highway robbers captured a Nevada
stage-coach on Friday last, and secured
considerable plunder.
Ft is stated that the defalcation of A
A. Robinson, of Henry Walsh's grocery
establishment in New York, will reach
at least f20,000. It is believed that
Robinson, who is thought to have lost
the money in stock speculations, has
committed suicide.
The La Grange County (Ind.) mur
derer, Barnes, is sinking rapidly from
the effect of his selt-intiicted pistol
shots, and is not expected to survive
much longer.
Mu. Reims, Republican nominee for
Lieutenant Governor of lowa, was
thrown from a sulky at Decorah, on
•Tune ffiith, had several ribs broken and
uts otherwise badly injured—his physi
cian fears fatally.
Kin s.
The tannery, brick building, anil
stables at Battle Run,owned by Defend
A Cos., uf Baltimore, were destroyed
bv tire Friday afternoon. Loss, !jc.J( (,(>(>.
insured.
The brass founding establishment of
C. I’mjh' A Cos., and an adjoining build
ing occupied by H. Weiser, in Bntlalo,
wen* destroyed by tire on Thursday.
Loss, !?lo,0U0; insured.
The storehouse of Messrs. Ewing
A Cos., together with two or three
adjacent business houses, ;n \ ictoria,
Knox county. 111., were destroyed by
fire Tuesday night.
OI>i( ns< ry.
Rev. Samper J. Mav, a Universalis!
divine, died in Syracuse on Saturday
evening.
Bishop Luers, Roman Catholic
Bishop of Fort W ayne, died in Clevc
land, Thursday, of apoplexy, aged 48
years.
Edward S. Leadbeateh, City Treas
urev of Detroit, died Friday e\ening,
after an illness of a few weeks. He
was serving his third term in office, and
was a faithful and popular officer.
The wife of Mr. S. (). Griswold, a
prominent lawyer of Cleveland, was
found dead in bed at her elegant resi
dence on Euclid avenue, Tuesday morn
ing.
Fori' ign.
< too Rt'sseljlj has been appointed
Minister to Berlin.
News is received from Antiipia to
the effect that the cable has been suc
cessfully Li id from Saint Kitts to that
Island. The Island of St. Thomas is
therefore already in communication
with two of the windward islands by
cable.
The Emperor William has decreed
the dissolution of the present army
combination in France, and the forma
tion of all German troops in tli.il conn
try into one combination, called “the
army of occupation of France. ” of
which Gen. Man tend'd is appointed
1 commander.
B via in Gkuoivt, the German Minister,
ion Thnrday, took formal leave of 1’• <
I’reside nt, the usual appropriate nd
complimentary addresses being e
changed
The Russian Government has sns
pended the publication of the Moscov.
Gazette for disobedience of the lav
against libellous language concerning
i tiie constituted authorities.