Sweetheart bood-Bjc! Sweetheart, good-bye! tb fl muring sail In spread to waft mo far from thro ; And noon before the fav'ring gale My ship ahall bound upon the sea. Psrehsne*. all desolate a>id forlorn. These eye* shall mis* thee many a roar ; But miforgotten every charm Though loot to night, to ntem'ry dear. Sweetheart. good-bye! one lani embrace ! O cruel fate, true eouln to never! Yet. in thin heart* moot o acred place, Tliou, thou alone nhall dwell forever! And etill nhall recollection trace In Fancy'* mirror, ever near. Each omile, each tear that from that face Though loot to night, to uetn'ry dear. The hey to Thomas's Heart. ST WTU. VVRUtTVIN. Rule with me. Toole Nathan ? • • I don't caiv if t do. My poor old hem's in a hurry ; I'm anxious to get through. My soul outwalks my body ; my legs are far from strong; An' it's mighty kind o' yon, doctor, to help the old man along. I'm some a! full o' hustle ; there's business to be done. I've just been out to tlie village to see my youngest son. You used to know him, doctor, ere he his age did get. An' if I "ain't mistaken, yon sometime* see turn yet. We took him though his boyhood, with never a ground for fears; But somehow he stumbled OTer hie early man hood's years. The laudmai k thai we showed turn, he seems to wander from. Though ui hi* heart titer* was never a better boy than Tom. He was quick o' mind and body in all he dons an' said: But all tlie gold he reached for, it soetued to toru to lead. The devil of grog it caught him. an' hel l him, though the while He has never grudged hi* pareuts a pleasant word an smile. The devil of grog it caught him. aa' then he turned an said. By that wlnch fed from off lum, he henceforth would l<e fed; An' that which lived cpon him. should give him a liviu' oar; An' so he keeps ili*i doggery that's next to Wilson's store. Bat howaoe sr he's wandered. I've al'sys so far beard That he had a sense of honor, an' never broke his word: An' his snoUior. from the good I.orvl, alio says, b4i uudoraiotxl That, if he agrees to be sober, he'll keep the promise ev**l An' so when just this moruiu' these poor old eyes o' mica Saw all the women round him, a-ooaxin' turn to sign. An' when lha Widow Adams let if a home.-pun prayer. An' be looked kind o' wild like, an' started unaware. An* glanced at her an instant, an' then at ins keg* o' rnra. I eeiaehe* kuew m amicus the tamui'-,oint had come; An" he woftfcl We as good a man as ever yet there's been. Or else let go forever, an' aink in she sea of sin. An' I knew whatever eff -rts might carry him or fail. There was only one could help God to torn the waverin scale; An' I sknlkcd away m a hurry -I was bound to do my i art — To get the mother, who carries the key to Thomas 's heart. Bhe'a get tin' old an' feeble, an' childish in her talk; An' we've no hone an' boggy, an' she will have to walk : Bat she would be fast to come. Sir. the gracious chance to seize. 1/ she had to crawl to Thomas upon her hands an' knees. • ••••• Crawl ?—walk ? No. not if 1 know it: Bo set your mind at rest Why. bang it I 1 m Tom's easterner, and said to be bis beet' Bat if this blooded horse here will show his usual power. Poor Tom shall-see his motherin le-a than half an hour. JOE. " Do be a gentleman, Joe." Aud pretty, black-eyed Mrs. Whee lock, Joe's better half, knitted away for dear life on the little red woolen sock, turning the heel of the onnningest foot in the world, trying to frown, but mak ing a deplorable failure. Janie Wheelock, successful in all ber undertakings, never could get np a frown with a moment's notice. Some times Joe broke it up with a good natured laugh. She almost must laugh when Joe did, and sometimes Joe took it so very serious that it made her eyes run over with merriment to see his great sober eyes stare st her, and the corners of his mouth drawn down, as they were sure to,if there was anything tke matter-with Jauie. Bat the little woman was very mneb in earnest this time; she meant jnst what she bad said, and didn't mean that her big awkward boy should spoil it by any artful manoeuvre, as he often did her sage remarks. Joe took down Lis pipe, filled it de liberately with not over choice tobacco from a fanciful bag Janie had made of silk and worsted long ago, and setting it a-Sre with one of Janie'n paper lighters, smoked leisurely, gaziDg into the dull, red coals glowing in the open stove. "It's all very well to say 'do be a gentlemau, Joe,' but it's quite another thing to be one. I was never cut out for one." " Ob, Joe—" " Least ways not the sort you mean, little woman, with a silk veskit and a lot of fine speeches always at my tongue's end. It takes a lot of people to make up a world full, and I reckon He meant that just such fellows as Joe Wheeiock should come into it and go out again without ever aiming to be anybody ip particular." It was time now that the little woman should open her brown eyes wide as ever they would go, with aoaateraation and surprise. Down fell the little stock ing, needles, wool and all in a rosy mess on the cleanly swept kitahen floor, and Joe's little woman hesitated a moment, before speaking, because shs couldn't just Befctie on tho words which would most fittingly illustrate the feeling Joe had aroused. "Now, Joe Wheelock, (with a little tremor which frightened Joe), you know a great deal better than that; it's very wrong of yon to say things for the pur pose of aggravating me. You were cut out for a gentleman, and you are only trying to spoil yourself, aiming to be coarse and rough like the rest of them at the works. It isn't in you, naturally, to be unkind or rude to any living thiDg; I only want you to try and practice civility a little. Don't be like the mill hands, Joe, please." " And why not, Jane ?" Joe Wheelock must be very serious and determined when he spoke like this to his little woman, and it was so un usual, as to carry its full weight, which was all he wanted. He was not a great speaker ; in fact it bored him awfully to talk, and he had made a longer "say this night to his wife than for a long time. No one liked to hear agreeable discussions better than the big clnmsy sawyer—the very best hand at the works, everybody said that—but for all his being able to tell to a knot-hole what was in a piece of timber and lots of other curious things, the right words never seemed to fall into his month, and he made generally such an awkward, mess of it, that he preferred being si lent, by this neat stroke getting up a b'TIKT). KIMITZ, 1 vol. vir. reputation for keen judgment and wis dom which tu Uie tuiuu was more than simple flattery, "ion way \ relieve it or not, chaps," old Silas Biggs had said out* Mippy, muggy day, while girding the chaitia about a monster scrub-oak, " but our doe he do a deal more of thinkiu', solid like, than ary other man ou tlie works, even the master. Ji*< he dou t waste his breath in gabbiu', like anoKl woman at a ipultiu', but he thtuka u master sight, now, 1 toll yer." Jiv never smoked when in the least agitated. This was a sign as correct as that the halo about the moon predicts d.vnip weather. He knocked the gray ashes from l-.is pipe by three distinct taps against the wood-box, blew into the stem iu a me chanical way, and laid his little 'com forter a eonnolatiou in many quiet, if not lonely hours, behind a blue and white crockery teapot, with a broken spout, standing on the shell. No long er a useful teapot, but the gorgeous base in Joe put the howelv little flowers he came across in the old year for Jamie and little Pips, a small but very passable likeness of Joe, except that little Pips was a girl and hail her mother's big innocent eyes and long silken lashes. Joe had been very glad of this es pecial kindness in Providence—that Providence which ever presides at the birth and looks ont for ,the future of a poor sawyer's child. There could never be a more perfect work (Joe's big mind only comprehend ed machinery') than the "little woman ; she was simply grand, but if there was anything about her which Joe particu larly woudered at, it was her eyes. They were enough to make all the wor'd wonder. Joe could see a great mote in them, however, that was himself, iiow such twin stars had ever swooped Jowu from heaven to shine on him, quite passed his gigantic understanding. Sometimes an awful fear came over him like a sudden cloud, such as often pass ed over the mill and made him shiver, he loved the sunshine so. This fear was that the stars might go back to their exalted place and throw him once more into darkness—the dense] mid night of hnman isolation. N"o night can ever compare to that which comes to ns when the soul's iarnp is extin guished, or its sunlight gone away. Joe aske l very little of the world— only to be left to himself and permitted to work out his owu plans—they had all been for Janie. By and by little Pips had been let in, and Joe planned away now harder than ever, thinking more and talking less than before. People who did not rightly know the sawyer wagged their heads to and fro, surmised dark things, such as domestic disquiet. Or why the sober face and tirm-knit brow ? And why should he not smile at his work like a contented being ? Ah, there was where the wisest of the judges fell short in their judgment. Joe was far too happy to make a blaster about it, and afraid to scare it away from him. He had often remained in one position an uncomfortably long time to keep from frightening a blue bird or jay which perched near him in the cool dim woods where he was hunting the things he understood best for the broken tea-pot—Janie and little Pip's bouqtiat. It gave Joe a deep cut which made him hurt in some mysterious place in his breast when Janie spoke as she had on this night. What if she had taken him to be tuat which he has wot, that which it was never meant t! at he si. uih.V be, and bad suddenly diseovt rsl her mistake? Would she love the iiuitatiou as well as she had the original? If not— But the mill hands were all as horest as the day was long, and he had been one of them. And proud to be called an honest hard working fellow, asking nothing of anybody. " And why should I not be like them .Jane? They would any of 'em lay down their lives for me as I would for them, well, most of 'em would. " There's Creighton, a good chap enough, but we never took to one an other, and that ain't anybody's fault I reckon." Joe had bnt one enemy in the world and he winced in naming him. Big man as he was he could never bear to look on reptiles, nor even harmless toads ; they gave him a cold feeling, a clammi ness which was unpleasant, and he felt in this way whenever he met Jem Creighton, the engiueer. But no sour words had ever passed, it was simply understood between them. When Joe went to work the next morning after the talk witli Janie, he embraced ber more warmly than usnai, and held little Pips tightly against his breast tearing himself away at last with these words: " I may not be a gentleman, little woman, but I'll try to be a msn every inch of me, and that's as much 1 reckon as was ever intended." That day all the fiends incarnate seemed to possess Joe's enemy. Whispers went round that Jem Creighton was in liquor and not fit to handle the engine. The master was awav on business and no one dared to speak to him. He was like an uncontrolled wild beast in his mad fnry when his temper got the upper hand of him. He taunted Joe repeatedly, but Joe re mained silent, He then played fast and loose witli the machinery, acting like a bern devil, and compelled Joe to speak to him. High words passed, and he dared the sawyer to rcseut what he had said. Joe smiled contemptuously at this, measuring his adversary cooly with his eyes. Joe Wheeiock could have knocked the blusterer clear into tho saw-pit at one blow, or strangle him as lie might a kitten, had he minded to do so. Creighton *' no physical match lor him, and he determined not to be pro voked into putting his hands on him. "Go awuy from me, Jem ; I don't want to hurt yon, and I shall if I ever touch you. I could hold you with one hand if I liked, and yon know it. Don't be a fool; get sober, and we'll talk this over." Creighton let go the throttle and sprang over a pile of clean walnut slabs, laughing furiously. " Here, fellows, look at this great coward. He bold me, indeed 1 He'd run for his life if I made a motion to ward him. Such chaps always pretend to despise small game, bat big men never fight." Joe uttered a growl like a caged lion, and shut up his big bands spasmodi cally. He thought of the two little women, Janie and little Pips. Creigh ton was jealous of the mill master's favor which Wheelock enjoyed. He would do anything to get him out of it, or away from the works ; in fact, Joe knew he had on every occasion dealt unfairly by him, when talking to the master, anil had served him many an ugly trick in times past, all of which he had calmly borne for the sake of peace and the little women. "I shan't take your words to heart now Jem, I promise you that. You ain't responsible and I woif't hold yon to 'em, but I might forget that I am a man and strike you, so you had better go away quietly now; you've said enough, leastways in business hours. Your time isn't your own now ; ltsten to reason." " Then you won't fight, Wheelock: I'll see !" THE CENTRE REPORTER. Mi tor Mini 1 Vcvpriotor. lb> made a furious pass at the saw yer who returned it by a smart ship H till his open hand ou the engineer's rod cheek. Jiu< hail eha*Li*ed htm as he would have a boy, but he never could rightly calculate bis own enormous strength. Preighton staggered back The sub-engineer htllwed to him and two or tiiree others who saw his danger. The saw was going rapidly, and iu an instant more would have toru him liter ally piece-meal. Jie gave a great remorseful cry and sprang between the drunken man and the clean scantling. lit another moment he lay at the ls>t torn of the pit crush Oil ami b'eediug with one leg useless, and limp, with a thousand horrid sights in his closed eyes and a dull shivering and thumping iu his ears and then all was still. It was pretty bad for Joe, but worse for the two kittle women, when Joe was unable to plsu for them any longer. It was a long time to Joe, it seemed an eternity, that he lay in his darkened room listening to the whirr and roll of the restless machiuery which could not wait for him, and feeling an agonised sort of relief when it stopped for the day. The men trooped up to see Joe every night, leaving their tin buckets outside and tretulmg ou tip-toes until he begged them to walk like the big burly fellows thev were. Oreightou came before the rest, and remained later, although it was hard for Jauie to bide the sight of lnuiiu the house. One day he wore an uneasy look new to him, and took Joe's bleached fingers iu his hand awkwardly but firmly. " 1 never used to think much of yer Wheelock, yer know that; big as yon was you looked little to me ; but old fellow there's more real right down stuff in yer than any three chaps I ever seed, and 1 feels it an honor to be in oompauv with such a gentleman as Joe Wheelock." Joe looked at the little woman, the biggest one, with a gratified smile. After all he had stumbled un it with out kuowiug it. For her sake he was glad that even Jem (Jreightou could think him a gentleman. A Luekj Mistake, Among the steerage passengers who drifted over to New York from Havre, a little while ago, was a young French girl named Louise Dumont. Her des tination was Newark, Delaware, where she had a distant female relative living, in indigent eireumstauoes, and, as -he I e lieved, the only surviving kin she had in the world. By some mistake, owiug to her inability to understand the 1-Lug lish language, she took a train on the Delaware, Laekawana and Western Railroad, and got off at Newark, N. J. When she was informed of her error, she bought a ticket to return to New York in the next train, but on account of a very remarkable occurrence she was induced to change her mind. As the girl sat in the depot, downcast in spirits, alone, iu a strange land and almost {windless, visions of her home m " La Belle France " crossed her mind. She thought of her mother who had re cently died, of her only brother who fell with his father as they fought side by side at the terrible battle of Saarbruck, and as she mused upon her past joy* and present loneliness, she unconscious ly toyed with a large gold locket that was suspended by a strong silver chain from her neck, while tears triukled down her cheeks. She was a brunette of the lovliest type, and her jet black, wavy hair was arranged with such exquisite taste that it made the broad, high forehead ex pressive brown eyes, and graceful, full throat appear to the best advantage. While Louise wis abstractedly play ing with her locki t, there came into the depot a tall and handsome gentleman, about sixty venrs of age. He had something of a military bearing, and his countenance indicated intelligence and refinement. The gtri's appearmnoe immediately attracted his attention, and as he, too, was waiting for a train, he occupied the time in watching her. As he walked leisurely to and fro in the ladies' room, he came near to where the girl was sitting just ns she opened tin* locket and revealed a well-known faee, that was the exact counterpart of a pic ture that he had at home in his library. It represented the Empress Josephine, the deceased wife of Napoleon Bona parte. The gentleman immediately asked the girl, in good French, where she obtained the picture. She replied, with much simplicity : '• My mother gave it to me." Beqnesting the favor of examining the locket, hetoi-k it iu 1 is hand, and, with the greatest astonishment, read the following inscription : "Josephine, to Horten.se De Miratel, I*l J." " My mother was a Mi rat el," said We, scanning the beautiful French girl's features closely, " and," he added, as a light seemed to flash in upon his con fused ideas, "she was a sister to lior tense De Miratel, w ho, for some act of faithfulness to the unhappy Josephine, received this locket and portrait as a reward. My good girl, who are you, anvbow ?" I'he child then related her story— how her father and brother had been killed in battle, ami that her mother had recently died ; that she had com mitted her to the only relative that she believed to l>e living, at Newark, Dela ware. The gentleman then being satisfied that the girl was his own niece, dis closed his own name, Victor Provost. He had escaped from prison when a voting man, having been incarcerated l>y the Bonrhona about the time of the sojourn of Louis. Napoleon in America. He fled to this country and settled at Wilkesbarro, Pa., where ho now lives in affluence, being interested in large coai and iron tracts in that locality. It is hardly necessary to state that the niece needed but little persuasion to accompany her uncle homo. The ro mance of her story is increased by the fact that Mr. Provost has a son, who is a very promising young man, and that he immediately became fascinated with his newly-found cousin. The old gentleman is in testacy at the turn things have taken, and has re solved that his son shall marry the girl. Of course young Provost hns accepted this proposition with joy, ar.d orders for a magnificent bridal trousseau are now being filled by various parties in New York for the fortunate girl who, but a little more than a week ago, was a penniless steerage passenger in an emigrant ship. DOOB. —If you understand dogs, there isn't much danger from them. I never saw one that would bito me. Dogs, yon see, are like men ; if you pretend to know them, they are not sure but you do, and at least believe that certain civility is duo to the doubt. The fact that you arn't afraid of them, too, has to both dogs and men a convincing, peace-making mystery about it.— Owen Brown. Anderson, the late magician, has left a will totally excluding the members of his family from participation in his money or effects, bequeathing all he possessed to bis agents and other per sons about him at his death. The testament will probably be oontested. CKXTKK HALL. CKNTKK CO., LA., TIILIiSDAV. ATRIL 10, 1874. (' VI 11 Oli \I V II VMM l'S. I M Htu r|illll> a Krgtilar tutlnll, Itnfllt and ft on tin lit. la(r, ami I ulial tltc CstKUKclt. Tlu' luyo (Ctl.) hal-jt<'nt, nt mvt the subjoined account of tin' recent rob- Ihtj of a stage by I hit notorious Yu que* Mini 0110 other LIMN : " Hy the Southern stage we have the particulars of a most uondt rfully tlar nil? robbery committed by Vasijin r and one man of hi* gang, which t.>ok place at Coyote Holes, eighty miles south of this place, on the previous evening. To give the whole story requires reference to occurrences early m the day. That uioruiug a traveler who had stopped at the station the night previous with some stock, went out into the lulls to lH>k up his animals. Less than a mile 1 out he found himself in the camp of two Mexicans, who took him prisoner ami tied him. One ot them said lie was Yaaquea, and informed their prisoner that they intended to rob the station and both the up and down stages, and ascertained from him, as near as tie could tell, at what time they would be along. Soon after, taking their pri* oner, they proceeded in the direction of the house, ami while some distance away met Raymond, the station-keeper. Raymond was taken in hand, securely bound, ami, with the other similarly secured, left on tie ground. The two rob tier* went to the house, and when in suitable range opened tire upon it, tiring somt fifteen shots, bat without rc sponse. The inmates were told to come out one at a time ami give themselves up. This, to the number of mi or seven, including Mrs. lUymoiid. they did. But a man known us 'Old Tex.' refused to eorue forth for some time, until Vs.- utter went in ami marched him out at the tauzzle of a Henry ritle. The whole party were then taken to a small hilt about a quarter of a mile away, but not near the place occupied by the two prisoner* previously mentioned, sml there told to sit down and be 'investi gated.' All obeyed with seeming will tugm-ss except ' T-x.,' who Lad been drinking just enough to feel it his duty to be as contrary as possible. Vsequel insisted upon his taking a -eat, other wise he would have to shoot hint. Texas was still obstinate, wherenjKin the robber fired a shot through hi* thigh, inflicting a * verc but not nec * -aril* dangerous flesh wonncL 'Tex.' gave it up, ami took a seat, and the investigation was oarrii-d out with minuteness,hut without valuable rranlts. The whole party were put on parole not to leave the spot on pain of being shot. No other precautions were taken to insure their quietness, but until the finale, some hour* afterwards everyone of them made it s point of honor to stay exactly where he was put. The two desperadoes then returned to the house, and took things with patience for two hour*, or jH-rhsps longer, but at the same time not without keeping an eye on the party herded on the hill. At the expiration of two hours the ataco from the south drove tip to the door, where it was receiv d by tw i robliers. one on each side. M. \Y. Dolshttw, of (Vrro Gordo, was on the outside with l>avis, the driver ; inside, with the cui taius closely buttoned down all around, were Craig, of (Vrro Gordo, and Wni. Fesseuficld, of Los Angelra. llelahaw and Davis were invited to get down, and the same invitation wns extend' 1 to the gentlemen inside. To *v that the whole party were much surprised and mystified at these proceedings right there nt a regular station, where a num ber of persons were known to be stop ping, would be a mild way of putting it. Itut two Henrv rifles .-it a pn ■ nt, and four six shooters at the bonds of two desperate-looking men, even if !*■ lite, a* they were in addre**, allowed tiie propriety of first otieying onlers, leaving mystification for future elucida tion. All took seats in a row, pursuant to onlers, and each in turn was re qu< -ted to contribute something to the Yasqnez fund, which, • r. itrn, all did save Davis, the driver, who smuggled a purse containing s4') into the sml. Lease ml eu contributed S4O gold, a splendid spy glass, ami also tendered some silver, but the latter was returned to him. He had a watch he wanted to keep, ami that he managed to work into his overshoe, ami thus succeeded in saving it. Craig came out lilwrally, but the exuet amount of his contribution we have not heard, iielshaw helped to the extent of S2O in gold, tine silver watch, nod subsequently, from his c irjK'bsack, his new boots. These ceremonies ended, all save Davis were invited to fake a walk to a neighboring 1011, which, in company with one ot the roblnr*, they did. After being left to themselves to enjoy the outlo<>k and scenery, this party saw the larger one aorno distance away on another eminence, but thought they were n portion of the robber gang, so tbev said nothing. In the meantime Davis bad been or dered to unhitch his team, and that he me done, to get Wells A Cargo's box and break it open. Though not an adept at this business, Davis was too polite to demur under the circumstances, and by means of a bar of iron furnished by one of the robbers succeeded finally in get- : ting the box open. Yasqnez examined the contents critically, but fomid noth ing lie wanted. Up to this time the whole amount of their winnings in cash, not counting watches, would onlv foot up to about SIOO. Ity the time the ex press box business was ended two of IJelshftw's beiivv teams from Los Augel- j es drove up. The drivers were request ed to explain themselves,when they,too, were stationed on the hill, making four teen persons, all told, thus put on the . lookout by these two bold freebooters. | None of these cxeapt Raymond and the traveler (and old Tex., of course, since i he was disabled by the shot were put ! under any restraint by tying or other wise, except the wholesome regard each and all entertained for their twooaptors, i or rather their formidable weapons. In the house at the outset was one Henry , rifle, but no cartridges, and a shot gnu ; unloaded. One of the prisoners had a ! pepper Ihjx, or an Allen deadlcss, or J something of that kind, but wisely Con- j eluded it wasn't best to make himself j conspicuous with such a weapon. All were treated with great urbanity and gentleness except Tex. It was getting along toward cening, and there being nothing to justify a longer stuy, Yasqnez took a look through the stage stables, and selecting six of the best horses, started off south easterly, going out of sight a short dis tance from the barn. Vaaqnez rode away on bis own horse, his companion on one of the stage horses, lending his others between them. This companion was a short, heavy man, not over twenty five years of age. The other, claiming to bo Yasqnez, appenred quite tall, with cliin whiskers, mustache, and hair, all inclined to be sandy in color. In com plexion lie appeared, Have a sunburnt hue, to be quite fair. Without further comment upon this most extraordinary transaction, we will conclude by stating that soon ufter the robbers disappeared, all bands in con dition to travel camo in from their tations, on the hills, and proceeded to si t things to rights, anil to relievo ' Texes* and the two men tied down. 801110 hours later the down stage was met. It contained a number of passen gers. They were duly notified of what hud occurred ; but not having much cash, other than in checks, to lose in case of an attack, they decided to pro ceed." 110 KILLED 11(11 ILK! \ felot) ufa Miutltr lit a •mall w i• i11 • 111 im \% it. One of the must perplexing murder* ■>f the age was recently committed at Manitowoc, in Wiaoonaiii. Mr. Feehtor wa* a dealer in toys, no tion*, and stationery. On the evening iof Ins murder he was at his place of busiiieaa until nine o'clock, when he locked up and accompanied his wife to their home. Soon after their arrival there a man named Seeger (Milled for a Ihix of cigar*, and Reenter went with him to the store. He did not return. I bout eleven o'clock m the evening he Minted a livery stable to engage a hack to carry hi* wife t > the depot early in the morning, she journeying to Mil waukee to meet children. Near the same hour uiemliers of the City lloatd returning from a meeting saw him in hi* store door, a fact which ap jwared singular to thcin, knowing his prompt habit of cloning at nine o'clock. There was no light in the store, but they halted to stw-ak with him, and par ticularly noted an up|>arent anxiety on his part to L>e rid of them as quickly as possible. With l'cehtcr's wife at home, the ni|.-Tif wore away between sleeping, waking, ami waiting, and early in the morning, before the city was astir, she started out to search for hrr husband. She went to the store, and finding the door unlocked, she hesitated to enter, feeling at once that such a circumstance ii* altogether unusual, and indicated something wrong. At lost she turned the latch with a trembling hand, and • here sat Feolitcr in a chair, about the middle of the room. Hy the dim light of the morning she saw that he was in trouble, but still alive ; and approach ing nearer, found his bead mangled and swollen, and a pool of blood on the floor around him. She started back, and uttered a scream, which attracted bis attention, and, recognizing her, be asked what she was crying about. " This is not BO bail ; you are not a widow yet." Assistance was called in, the bloody! tuaas w ia corned to his home and placed under the care of physician*. It was found that he had received several blows one on the head i apparently the first one struck) and four or five others on the forehead with a hammer, which wua found in the store Itcsmeared with 1 blood, and bearing other vidences of i having played a part in the cruel boat- i oess of the night before. The skull j was broken ir> above the eyes, the brain was oozing from the wounds, mud it was canoe for wonder that such fearful in juries had nut proied instantly falal. Mr. Feebler lingered till the morning of the third day after the crime was committed and then died. When the dead was discovered and the victim re- ■ moved to his house there were no offi cers of the law present, and some one or more supposed friends interested themselves in putting the disordered state of things iu the slore to righto, i and cleaned away the blood before care ful note of everything hall Iwn taken for u* in the investigation of the esse, and thus at the outset a portion of the clew to discovery was lost. Enough ; was incidentally noted to indicate that , after the attack Feebler had wondered around the room, feeling Ins way by the counter*, and finding the chair him self. The hammer was found on the table iu the back part of the room, in the place where it is usually kept. On tliAt uioruiug a 'strange dog was seen alxuit the slurs door, mi J attention ; w:i* called to him. No one could iden- 1 tify him. and all efforts to drive him away were unavailing. A dog's track* were seen in the blood on the floor, and it is certain that the dog was not ad mitted to the room betwewu the dis- . coverv and the tune of removing i'cch ter to his home. When it was conclud ed that the dog did not Iwdong to any one in the city the Sheriff took him in charge, hoping that through him a clue might 1m? obtained, lie was routined iu expectation that hunger would com pel hi 111 to seek his home, but he has thus fur refused to depart, and is still in the Sheriff s possession. During the time lielween the a*a*- sination uud death of Fechtcr, repeated effort# w re made to get from him the name of the assassin and the cause of the assault, but again and again, in answer to the question, " Who hurt rou ?" ho gave the names of citizens whom all knew could not have'been there at inl. On one occasion the Sheriff, who was left alone with him, said : " Now, Mr. Feebler, it must be evident to run that you can't live long. We arv here alone. Now tell me who hurt youT" "Mr. Smart," said he, turning his head toward the Sheriff and speaking in a deliberate tone, " I will never toll that ua long as 1 live." And so he died, taking tho seeret to the grave with him, if, iudred, he ever had sufficient knowledge after the fact to have communicated it. and there are but few among those who saw him that do not believe lie had. There nro many throne*, and one is as good a* another. The only one that is untenable is that which assert* he wui murdered for money. He drew SSOO from the bank the day before, and it WAR in hi* wallet when he went to the store. When he was found in hi* store the empty wallet was in an inside poeket, over which coat and waistcoat were tightly buttoned. The money could not huvc been taken and the wal let returned after he wa struck with out making blood stain* where none were. When questioned he said that ho gave the money nway. This state ment he repeated many times. It is whispered that Feebler was not ex- Mll| a disciple after Joseph's own heart; that years ago ho narrowly es caped u husband's vengeance ; that there is a woman in the case. Hut no one says it openly, and those who sug gest sncli an hypothesis acknowledge that there is not the faintest suspicion upon nny one as being directly or in directly implicated. The Candidate's ((reeling. As this is the season when candidates do their work, the following interview will bp found intc-esting: " Howdy, howdy, howdy ?" " Howdy." " How do you do ?" "Tollable." " How are von ?" " Tollable.'' " How's all ?" " Tollable." " Your folks well ?" " Tollable." " How's yourn ?" "Tollable." " Neighbors all well ?" "Tollable." " How's yourn ?" " Tollable." " All for me this tiaio ?" "Sorter tollable." Pi'.n null I'M.—Galileo, when under twenty years of age, was standing one day in the Metropolitan Ohnrch of Pisa, when he observed a lamp, which was suspended from the ceiling, and which had heen disturbed by accident, swing backward and forward. This was a thing BO common, that thousands no doubt had observed it before; but Galileo, struck with the regularity with which it moved backward and forward, reflected upon it and perfected the method now in use of measuring time by means of a pendulum. lIKiZHU AMI 1111 It Y I'BOIH'iTH. rill* l*ro*|>ret* (or Itir Kul*r What 'ta> l>t Utint Iu 11.1 VV ajr of ltl.lu* < attic. When far ofT Western farmer* com plain that despite their great eropa of breadstuff* they make no money, nay* the New York Ti mrt, they *eem to for get that cereals can only lie profitably grown within a certniu distance from the aee-porta. As price* are fixed by lite European markets, it i* clear that in any locality HO far off that the coat of traiiajHirtatioU added to that of produe ( tiott would eat up the value of the 1 grain, cereal* can ouiy le grown for j domestic use. None the leas, however, can land beyond these Well-ascertained j limits be put to a profitable use. Jn Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, and New Mexico, there lit some of the finest praxiug land in the world, ami large tracts of country that, Inderal, are lit for no other purpose. Where land is cheap and pasturage good, there u | lmfdly any farm work that pay* better than raising cattle. Therefore it i , that the growth of this busiuews in Texas, Kansas, and some of the other district* alluded to, has l<cu very great recently, and the profits have been esti mated in some quarters as high as thirty |wr cent, upon the capital invested. In tlie near future, this industry is I likely to assume still larger pfopar . tioiis. There is every encouragement for its growth. Meat is ut a high price in all the F.aateru and Middle Sun*. l'er haps the decline in the number of cat tle, occasioned by the great army con sumption during the rebellion, baa not been made good, certainly speculators and forestallers have greatly controlled the trade. The transportation of cattle on tbe hoof from far-off regions might be so expensive as to prevent any relief from that quarter, but the experience of this winter in the transportation of meat in refriger-tor cor# bold* out hopes that a supply of meat tnsy be ob tained in this or in some similar way from the sufficient in quantity to lower prices here. If the cattle are in abundance iu that section, Yankee iu gcnuity can be safely trusted to devir the means of getting the meat here in good order. Even an inferi< r article in abundant *wpply would lie welcomed us long as it is fresh and sweet. liut entirely apart from the question of a west supply fur the K*t. cattle might be raised iu the far West fur their hides. The country can use all the hairs that can Ins furnished, ami the growth of the domostie hale trade fur the last few year#, although encour aging, has not been a hat it wight have been. The demand fur leather, both here and abroad, is necessarily uu the increase, so that price# can hardly fail to be remunerative. in the West itself, there is a constnatty growing demand for leather for boots, shoes, harness, etc., which must iuereas# with the rapid growth of that section and of its manufacturing interest?. Why should to re if n hides be sent West, at heavy transportation charges, when that sec tion cannot only abundantly supply ' herself, but ahip her overplus to u f 1 There seems to be no reason why, with s suitable stimulus given to produc tion. our existing foreign trade iu hides should not be largely diminished iu favor of tle home article. As for dairy products, in both butter and cheese, high prices stare c >n*um ers iu the face, and nothiug but largely ■ increac. d production will suffice to lower U.etii. The cheese factory has reMjlutiouixed the manufacture of that article to great advantage, both in the quality and quantity of the product. It is very clear that if the hand press had l>eeu r tamed, we would not have exported such large amounts of it. The butter factory seems destined to work a similar though not by auv means so j great a change. Many farmers' wives did not know how to make good butter, and the difficult* with the butter mar ket has been rather in matter of quali i ty than quantity. With a butter fac tory iu the neighborhood, all that is needed la to raise and Uiik the cattle; the factory stands prepared to lake the milk, and either pay for it or give an . equivalent in butter made by a careful Lrooesa. Tlisu' are, of course, draw acka to fho factory syatem which need not la enumerated here, and there are large butter districts where it is a yet entirely unknown; but it is fast gaming ground. To sum tip the whole matter, the grazing interests are being rapidly . developed .at the West, and there i* every reason to believe that eastern farmers are equally alive to the proprie ty of substituting profitable dairy pro- ; duets for unprofitable cereals. We can, j therefore, indulge in a hope that mea', j hid< s, butter, nnd cheese are lien-after , likely to l>e more abundant, and that the average quality of buticr will be improved. Woman's Resentment. Entire reconciliation, says an ex change, is difficult with a woman. Slie invariably keeps certain reserves. When she has once parted from you in spirit, she will hardly return. Though she seems to, she does not. Hhc gives her hand again perhaps her lips : but tho heart is no longer in one nor the sotil iu the other. Kiss her you have once roundly quarreled with—if it be not a men? lover's quarrel—and yon will tlnd the atatne under the crimson curve, the chill of the marble through the bounding blood. A keen observer may determine in society whether yon have had a discord with a woman you meet. However perfect tho breeding, however disciplined the manners, the past discord leaves a shadow that will not be lifted. The old wound may be closed ; it is not healed, nor can it bo by the highest skill in spiiitual sur gery. Frequently men like one an other better after fighting ; women never, be the foo of cither sex. With these the bloom of favor is taken off, not to ho restored. They feel, thongh they may not say or even think it, that slight or injury admits of 110 atone m cut. Woman reads the proverb: To err is feminine, to forgive impossible. Farts Concerning Human IJfe. The total number of human treings on earth is computed at 8,000,000,000, and they speak 8,063 known tongues. The average duration of life is thirty throe and one-half years. One-fourth of those born die before they are seven years old, anil one-half before they are the ago of seventeen. Out of one hundred persons only one attains the age of sixty. Out of five hundred persons only one attains tho age of eighty. hixty persona die cverv minute. Tall men live longer than short ones. Married men are longer lived than single ones. Rich men live, on an average, forty two years, but the poor only thirty. There ia a drunkard to every aeventy fonr. FEROCIOUS RATS.—A Bridgeport (Ct.) man has boon troubled by rats gnawing at the hoofs of the horses while stand ing in the stable. The horses were newly shod, and the hoofs behind thickly covered with tar. Next morn ing it was found that the rats had changed their feeding ground to the front feet, the hoofs of which were eaten off so close that they bled. Poison was plentifully strewn around the stable, and in the morning six large rats were found dead on the floor. 'I eririM: Jsi'-2.00 ft r ear,in Advance. An Obstinate Juror. Alternate ridicule and obloquy bare lung bi-eu the uncomfortable portion of that oue i uryman of the ci*e uuetiitnona twelve who I'aaurdlj refuaea to agree with hia exaapcrated aaaociatea on a verdict: but there have been caaea iu which hia scenting jiervemty baa proved ultimately to be the salvation of justice, and a venerable English judge, recently deceased, was wont to j citeouu instance in la* earlier judicial experience when such perversity led to au astounding discovery of mistaken truth. A man was on trial before this Judge in Court of Common I'leas for the murder of a neighboring land > lord, with whom he was known to have beau n bitterly unfriendly terms, pro tested actually with prayer* and tears that he was wholly innocent of the dreadful crime, though acknowledging his enmity to the dead man on ooouant of some disputed boundary between their propert!•, and that the clothing he wore and afterward conaealed on the day of the tragedy woo deeply stained with human blood. As he earnestly told and reiterated his story—he *m taking a morning walk, as customary, ' across the fields of a certain farm,when he stumbled upon the body of a man, who waa lying dead amongst some corn with two deep wound* in bit breast, apparentlv made by a pitchfork near at hand Raising the prustgato figure to ascertain if life yet remained, he was stained by the blood, and dis covered that the victim was hi* own quarrelsome neighbor. Humanity at first impelled him to give an alarm ; but iu another moment the thought of his well known difference* with the slain man filled him with eowardly fear of being connected with the murder. The idea o increased in its terror that he turned back to bis homo, removed bis discolored clothing, and hid it iu the baru wh< re the police afterwards i found it. Rut this story did not appear reason able to the Court ; and despite the pris oner's passionate persistency in it, and 1 deiqiairiug cry thai " God and hie oon l science knew hun to be wholly inno cent,". the coae went to the jury with apparently absolute certainty of in stantaneous'conviction Such, indeed, mnit here been the pe nult but for the dissent of one juror, Mid he the foremMi. This j*-mn, a miui of education, high social and moral estimation and large property, begged the Judge to permit the jury to re tire for consultation, and then so re.- aoned, pleaded, and actuallyprawd with his associates against their nu&aimous judgment as to fairly weary them Anal ly into joining htm in a verdict of ac quittal. But tiie iskwufaed Chief Justice indignantly refused to accent the verdict, aud aent them back again and again to their room, until at last he was obligbed to accept it. The un happy men, cursing their foreman, were discharged in disgrace, "with the blood of mi unavenged murder left at their door;" though the prisoner, at his unexpected and seemingly miracu lous release, fell upon his knees in court with the cry: " kou see, my lord, that God and s clear conscience can save the lost," When the Judge subsequently heard by what meant so strange a verdict bad burn effi-oted, and that the man respon sible fur it was l*>ih iut liigvut and of high character, he obtained a confer ence with the obstinate juror and ad jured him to explain his mcomprabea wide conduct in the matter. The late foreman exacted a pledge of secrecy to last during his own lifetime, and then calmly told why he had labored ao in flexibly for the accused man's life. On the morning of the murder the man doomed to be killed, who was the tith ing man of tne pariah, called early to collect 11 thee on the speaker'a eorn, and was so arbitrary and violent in hu man ner aa to provoke indignant remon strances. Ik-coming enraged, the tithe patlii rcr assaulted the other with a pitchfork which he was carryiflg, and which belonged to a neighbor, and in defense of his life the assailed man wrested the weapon away, and moo do ing indicted wounds of which the ag gressor fell dead on His way home ! 80 the actual slayer was the coming foreman of the jury—a |o*ition he se cured for himself at great pains and ex- I tense, that he might save an innocent man from dreadfnl punishment for a crime which be had himself committed in self-defense.. Hound to Get a Sobsenber Any W*j. An editor wa* once on* on a jaunt in the township of White Oak, Ingham county, Michigan, sticking to every farmer until he got hi* name and money, and it so happened that he came to a house where death had called a few hours before. The farmer's wife wa# laid out. and the husbandman and kia children were grieving over her loa# when the editor knocked at the door. •' What'a up ?" inquired the editor, as he saw the farmer's solemn countenance before him. "My wife is dead," replied the far mer. " Is that so*" mned the editor, a lit tle 6 isappointed. " Did she die esy ?" " Drooped off like a lamb." •' Did sue say anything?" "Not a word—just went right to sleep like." " 1 didn't know," continued the edi tor, a sad look on his face, " but what she might have requested you to sub scribe for the Cturade, which you know is the best paper in the couutv. If you w ant it I'll take yon name right in, and under the circumstances I won't charge a cent for the obituary notice 1" The farmer hung off for a while, but before the editor went away he had two additional dollars in his pocket, aud had written out an obituary uotico for pub lication in the next issue, which the be reaved husband pronounced a "mighty smart piece." What a Woman Can lto. Here is the way a farmer's daughter in Concord, Mass., made money in the ponltrv businees: She commenced with about sixty fowls in the spriug. From these she raised four hundred and fifty When young she fed on cracked corn, but when fattening them gave whole corn and Indian meal, During the season ahe sold eggs to the amount of fffiO, and from September 20, to January 17, she got ready for market 150 pair of chickens, which ahe sold for $260, making in all, j>Cs). It will be seeu from this statemeut what may be done by proper attention to poultry, the profit being perhaps greater than in almost any branch of farming. It alao shows that the business is one in which females may engage with suecoss. The time occupied in caring for sixty to a hundred liens does not average more than nit hour or ,i 70 a day. The exer cise is light and pleasant, and the change from household duties rather agreeable than otherwise. A generous, noble spirited man had a sick wife not long ago, and the doc tor said a sleigh-ride would do her good. Did the fond husband hire a two-horse sleigh and dash out over the breezy plains ? No !ho borrowed a sled of the boy next door, plaoed his wife on it, and made his hired girl draw the sled up and down the side walk for an hour. But the wife failed to thrive on the treatment, NO. 15. The Economic* of Life. You tell me that dsbtand despair ar* upon you; that when the clothes, rent, fuel sod lights are paid for, you have only six hundred dollars left with which to feed your family of eight, and that it oan't lie done. I think I have heard this story a thousand Limes, and that I have written advice about it a hundred time*. And as the whole subject is very simple, 1 must go ovar the saute giound ag*m. The largest item iu your table ex pense* is ttwat. Reef is high. In our city markets a good steak is worth from thirty to thirty-flve cents per pound. Beef steak for your family would alone coat, for breakfast and supper, bum than two dollars, and then if you had a roast or sirloin for dinner, thai would coat nearly as much more. Mo if tint's the light way to live,you are managing ' well to get on with six hundred dollars per year. But do you know that there are only about sixty pounds of the sirloin which is u*"d for roast and steaks, iu an ox weighing eight hundred pounds? There ar. other parts of the animal -good solid meat which sell for five cent* a pound. Portions of the neck, which, j when properly cooked, are the moaft l 1 substantial and nourishing part* of the carcass, and Sold for fear or five cents * pound. Ous pound of this cut in small pieces sod Wiled two hours in time quarts ut water, in a oioa* vessel, with five cents worth of potatoes, turnips, : parsnips and carrots, with salt and p*n ! per, and some savory herb, would make 1 s splendid dinner for si! of you. . w, ' bits of toasted bread upon the platter, I and then pour on your stew. That's s I dinner fit (or lung. Everybody likes variety. Well, par chase next day a knuckle of veal, which j ' will ooat you all told ten cents, sad j which your wife will treat in the same way as the Leaf, except that she will leave out the carrots and parsnips and put in bits of toasted bread or dump- _ The next day try a bit of the fore- '< ' shoulder of a sheep, which is very j I cheap. When mutton chops were sell i utg (or twenty cents a pound, I have ( sacs mutton fure-ahonbler.of (sir quail-1 IT, selling fur two cents. It is a part j | which is slwsye very cheap. Cut up ; into bits, and cooked as above, a grand dinner for the eight member* of your family can be got up for a quarter of a \ j dollar. Any of three stews may be be made I ' into a baked meat pie, byway of variety. 1 have givne tbeaa byway of illustra tion. You needn't have the same dm- ' tier twice a month. Fish may be em- i ployed occasionally, and aome excellent sorts are very cheap, j Bat these preparations of meats are' comparative'* expensive. That beauli-< ful white southern corn, cracked wheat, ; oatmeal, beaaa, and other similar foods are very cheap. A breakfast of oatmeal j and white corn, with a little milk, would j I coat for your whole family not more . I than tea cents, and it would be a break- j , fast on which vou could all work hard. 1 Skipping the dinner which has been ml- \ ready discussed, let ns consider for a ' ! monient the supper. If you keep a oow j : —aa every man properly located with a j ) family of' children should—a bowl of bread and milk, or some warmed-up t beau porridge, and a cup of tea, will satisfy you. Buch food as I have thus hinted at is I not only very cheap, and would bring I ' roar table expenses within two hundred dollars, bat upon it yon would all gam bush, have brighter eve*, line teeth, j sweeter breath, and be id together , healthier than if jou fed yourself upon j j the present fried, greasy, compounded 1 triifpi, with pies, cakes, 'and puddings, j 7b- Pmt. Hydrophobia, and What Is It! Thirty years ago, says the ILcprt**, a room-mate ol the writer died of this disease. He was u renewned maker or rifles. Hia weakness was the dog; he would pick up fancy caaiuea with out masters—had ten to twenty owner-, /MI animals in hia kennel. In sportive moments, we said: '' Brunker, yon will yet die of dogs—mad dogs!" He laughed. One Sunday afternoon, in his rambles, he picked up a stray little 1 "King Charles spaniel," in Lockport, N. Y. Tlie dog bit him in the wrist; he threw him down in disgust. and thought no more of the incident After the lapse of six weeks, he oomplahn-J that ln right wrist failed him. Soon after he bad repugnance to water, but could drink eider. Next day be could I not drink eider, bnt craved vinegar. On a Sunday evening, he came to the hotel and said to the writer: "J am po int? modi" "Brunker, I will give you a glass of water; take it—drink it." And when I placed the glass of water in his hand an involuntary spasm came over him, and the contents went into the fire. Then I knew he was mad, and became nervous and called upon others to aaiat to take care of this man. While the writer was absent be want into his room and tore the bed-clothes ia all shapes. A window was above the door. Stepping nnoa the shoulders of an as sistant and opening the window, we shouted to Brunker, "Here I am ; what , is the matter with vou ?" Meantime ■, the door was held firmly at the out- 1 side. Moon Brunker regained his com poaure and told enter the room, as ; the fit was off and all danger over. Stal wart man leaide as wavered; but we en tered. We went to a drawer and took a sash or face-muffier, and pinioned hia arms with it, as ho requested. Moon another and another spasm succeeded, lie said therolnntary muscles had be come involuntary ; and if he did injury he oould not aToid it. This lasted 24 hours, during which poor Bruuker had lurid intervals and knew his forlorn condition; but the rational momenta, lxUween spasms, became less and loss till he died. This was the most developed ease of hydrophobia the writhcr ever witnessed. Since then he has seen two dogs mad, : but chained, s Pouring water from one , dish into another to witness the effects, in all resprets (hey exhibited the same : repupuanca to water as did friend ! Brunker—a shudder followed by a ! spasm ! Yet it is now asserted that this i rabies in dogs creates no antipathy to water. And this is so asserted in Lon don journals. It may be so, but ex perience is to the contrary. It seems now to be conceded that, while men in this disease abhor water, dogs with hydrophobia court it and drink it. The two dogs the writer saw, in tlie midst of their madness, would rare when water was poured from one j dish into another. Ought not science to settle this mooted point ? Tiif. HorsuHOLn. —A resolution of fered by John O'Donnell in the New Y'ork grange, was adopted, setting forth that whereas, it is of great importance that the household department receive the consideration of this Grange, and that the social feature receive our warmeat support, therefore be it re solved, that the question of how to im prove the quality of household labor and labor-saving machinery be referred to a committee of sisters, to be appoint ed by the Worthy Master. The Worthy Master appointed all the ladies present as such oommittee. Epitaph for a cannibal—" One who loves his fellow men." Items of Interest, tide Royal, in Lake Superior, in the most northerly territory of the United Bute*. There ere thirty two thousand of the Indent Order of Hibernians in Penn sylvania. Mime of the wholesale liquor honeee j in Cincinnati hare had to call in their dm mines*. Bally Aon is the name of e new town just laid oat in Georgia. They abbre viate it to Satan. What is that which Adam never aaw, never poaseeeed, and yet gave to each of hia children f Parent*. Dakota haa been doing sums and . finds that she haa only three-eighths of a white man to an acre of land. Lately not a death occurred in the city of Bath, Me., for eleven days—an unprecedented leek of mortality, •i When the Indiana catch a bald ' beaded man they cut off hie ears to compensate for the lose of scalp. Hhow me the mantelpiece of a bonae, t say a sage, and I will tell you what * manner of persons reside therein. The day* of the army bine overcoat ere none. The moths hare contracted for all that oouid not be worn out. At no tuue within twenty years hare hones sold at so comparatively cheap rates in New York as this winter. Ltuimeoit labels are •- id to circulate freely among the Indians of ton North* west, who take them for greenbacks. laiafera are to be excluded from the Legislative balls of Wisconsin. How long before these halls wtU be vacant f Delmonioo paid six dollar* and a half for the hind leg* c* * White Plains frog, which weighed fifteen and a half pounds. The saloon keepers of Chicago have agreed to suspend the free taoch ■ystem, and many citizen* will now ! have to go to work. In Saxony a fellow is required to court hia girl by daylight, with the old woman sitting between them, and she allow* no winking or nodding. The worthiest people are meet in jured by slanderers ; a* we usually find that to be the best fruit which the bird* have been picking at. •' Are yon a burglar, sir? If no, do not ouino in, aa I am all alone," said a Somerrill#, Mass., servant girl, when a mun called, the other day. The California Senate has passed e bill to disband the National Guard, j Zhero are about 1,500 young men in the organisation in San Francisco. Deed languages are thoee which are V DO longer spoken or in common use by i a people, end known only in writing, a* the Hebrew, Greek and Latin. " Bob, did you ever see Miss 8. Y* " No." " How do you know aha'e handsome, then f" "IWauae the wo men are running her down ao." Homebody says that Boston, having ■ swallowed various other neighboring \ towns, is " now greasing the ear* of Maiden, preparatory to deglutition." In a suit for breach of promise in I row* the jury held that the young man i was justified in breaking the engage ment if the persisted in eating onions. The Michigan Granger* propose to establish market days in each county of j the State, upon which certain kinds of , grain or product* shall be said, and i.o other. If arithmetic were better taught in i our public schools, says the Richmond . F.nquircr. there might not be ao many ! public officers who can't balance their ; accounts. One of the Duchess of Edinburgh's j handkerchiefs is worth £I,OOO, and coat tor its production &. year* of labor, besides the eyesight of the unfortunate workman. Rice county, Kansas, which about two yean ago was a fertile desert, haa nearly 5,000 inhabitants, refuses to vote bond*, and won't allow a rumaeller within its borders. According to the Impartial , steps hsve been taken to organise a Spanish society for the protection of animals, which will endeavor, above all, to put i down bull fights and cock fights. I There are over forty regularly edu , oaftcd female pill makers in New York, , and most of them homrepeihiata. Sev eral of them have over $2,000 income, aome $5,000 and one over SIO,OOO. la view of the fact that a New Hamp | shire man recently paid $2,000 for a | game cock, the St. Louis Journal re ! mark* that those fellows evidently pre fer s shanty-clear to a mansion in the skiea. An entry haa been found ia the Record Office to the effect that King Edward IIL paid £1, on the lstof March, 1360, to ward the ransom of the poet Chaucer, who had been taken prisoner in the war with Prance in 135$ 60. •• It is true," remarked a pickpocket arrested in Rochester on Wednesday, - " that I am a thief. But a legitimate thief, air; for look vou, I was search mg that man's pockets for proof of frauds against the government." A practical firmer, who grow* corn in Massachusetts, says it pays to grow it there. He realizes 100 per oent on the cost of hia crop. He grows it at a cost of 50 cents a bushel, and every bushel he grow* brings him sl. There is no doubt in the mind of any observing shepherd sbat a good supply 1 of pore water is essential to the health and thrift of sheep, summer and winter, although there are a few theoretical people who assert te the contrary. The sea is bluish green, and the Arc tic sea is ultramarine and transparent blue to olive green or opsone it stripes, caused bv animalcul® and medusie iu countless mvreida. In the Gulf of Guinea it is white, sad round the Mal dives black. A bachelor remark ed to a young lady that aoapstone was excellent for keeping the feet warm in bed. " Yea," said the young lady i "but sotce gentlemen have an improvement on that which you know nothing about." The bachelor main tained a wistful silence. Among the carrier* for the British army in Aahantee were 1,400 women. 1 . They were treated with a brutality rarely practiced on animals, being kept atanaiiig in the hot sun for hoars after their arrival at a station, and fed scanti ly on water and biscuits. The best way of applying Paris green to Colorado potato beetles seems to be that of mixingit with water and sprink ling the with a water pot Ap plied in the dry state, mixed, with flour, plaster, or other substance, as has been practiced, there is danger ol inhaling the poison by the operator. A new " wrinkle " about the age of horses is discovery of an Illinois farmer, who determines the age of all animals over nine vears old, by the fol lowing novel method * After the horse is nine years old a wrinkle comes on the upper corner of the lower eyelid, and every vear thereafter he has one well definea wrinkle for every year over nine. If, for instance, a horse haa three wrinkles he is twelve ; if he lias four, he is thirteen. Add the number of wrinkles to nvne and you will get it. For Twenty-two Years. Twenty-two years ago a man named Throckmorton, of Louisiana, Ky. t de ceived a young woman under the prom ise of marriage, and then abandoned her to the cold oharity of the world. Sinoo that time, however, wherever the man is seen, the woman is not far dis tant. She visits the club room of which he is a member, and waits at the door until he appears on the street, and when he leaves she follows close be hind. Throckmorton visited New York, and what was his surprise to see the woman in the same city. She follows him as a blood-hound follows his prey, and whenever he has anything to do with another woman she is Bure to raise a disturbance. She has been arrested | several times on the oomplaint of differ ent parties, but never by him, and has always managed to get elear. A few days sinoe the poor woman was arrest ed, fined $5, and putgftnder SSOO bond, for one year's good conduct. The Court refusing to take her own bond, she was compelled to go to the workhouse, where she now is.
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