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A spectre stalks across the radiant face
Of man's most lucid principle,
Distorting by a hideous grimace
The beauty that his thought reveals.
O'er every sphere of life we see it loom,
A dimming shadow, to eclipse
The roseate tinges that in nature bloom,
And mar the product of the eager lip.
In youth's gay morn,when nature's powersyield
Abundantly the mind's rich fruit,
How darkly rankle on her verdant field
The scions of this poisonous root.
When time's hoar tinsel on the brow appears,
Denoting clearly death's approach,
When bows the frame beneath weight of years,
Mark the defacing monster's touch.
No high condition, from its ban exempt,
Can claim entire purity,
Though virtue's nobles make'the stern attempt,
Succeeding only partially.
No power deep innate in mortal man
Can serve to check its swift advance,
Like the black cloud which boundless ether
spans,
And dimly shades its blue expanse.
The Wild. hunter.
IT is ten years ago, said Mr. Belden,
and at that time the country back from
the Missouri way not much settled. The
fame"of the Big Blue lauds had spread far
and wide, and every week scores of farmers
from lowa, Illinois and Missouri came in
and settled on the rich bottoms, almost
invariably writing back to their friends in
the States that the land was one flawing
with milk ani honey, and urging them to
come and take up farms. So the settle
ment prospered amazingly, and Beatrice,
Neb., which had only been a town "ou
paper." became a thriving village in re
ality.
Among the farmers who came to settle
in this new country was a Mr. Thompson
and his family. They had formerly lived
in lowa, on the Big Sioux River, six
miles from Sioux City ; but, not prosper
ing there, they sought to better their con
dition by moving to Nebraska, and selected
the Big Blue as their future home. Mr.
Thompson's family consisted of his wife,
his daughter Mary, a sweet girl of sixteen,
and old man who had spent the best part
of his life in the service of the family, and
now that he was old, was retained for the
good he had done, and that be might have
a home in his declining years. At one
time Mr. T. had been well off in the world,
but unfortunate speculations in Western
lands had ruined him, and. at the time of
which I speak, he bad little left besides a
few horses, a wagon or two, and a dozen
head of cattle.
Near to where Mr. Thompson had set
tled on the Blue lived a wild young man
who had won for himself the name of the
"Wild Trapper of the Blue." He lived
all alone on the headwaters of a little
creek, and was rarely seen except when he
came, once in every two or three months,
to the traders to exchange his furs and
skins for flour, tobacco, matches, coffee,
and such other articles as he needed. On
these occasions, after having made his
purchases, he would lounge about the tra
ders for several days, drinking bad whis
ky, and quarrelling with every one he
could get to quarrel with him. When
under the influence of whisky he would
mount his horse, and, with two large navy
revolvers in his belt, ride up and down the
village, defying every one to come out and
fight him. For the slightest offense, either
real or imagined, he would fire at a man,
and if he had a grudge against any one,
that person's cattle or horses were sure
soon afterward to be missing. It was
more than hinted that he was the princi
pal or accomplice in many of the thefts,
and, if he were so minded, could tell where
most of the valuable horses stolen from
time to time on the Salt Lake stage road
had gone. Yet such was the reputation
of this young desperado for courage and
wickedness that no one cared to meddle
with him, and wherever he went his society
was tolerated rather than preferred. No
ten men could be induced to go to his
rattail to search for stolen stock, and so
the matter was allowed to rest—every one
blaming him with all sorts of crimes, but
no one being able to swear the suspicions
were correct.
WITH
One evening, just as Mr. Thompson and
his family were sitting down in their hum.
ble cabin to a supper of cornbread and
venison, a tall young man mounted on a
wiry pony, rode up. He was scarcely
nineteen years of age, and wore the inevi
table leggings and long frock of the West
ern hunters, fringed with buckskin. His
face was brown as a nut, and, when he
raised the broad brim of his slouch hat.
his countenance betrayed unmistakable
signs of dissipation.
Mr. Thompson politely invited the
stranger to dismount and partake of their
frugal meal, and, springing from his horse.
he prepared to enter; but when he saw Mary
he drew back, blushed, and would have
mounted again, had not Mr. Thompson in
sisted upon his stepping long enough to
eat something. It was not long before
Mr. Thompson discovered from the con
versation that his guest was none other
than the famous young desperado of the
Blue, and the discovery was attended with
considerable anxiety and alarm. The
quick eye of the hunter detected in an in
stant the alarm his presence had created,
and, rising from the table before he had
finished his supper, he said, with a digni
fied air:
BUSINESS CARDS,
CONCERT TICKETS,
LEGAL BLANKS,
"I am indeed the Wild Trapper of the
Blue, and, like every ene else, you think
me bad ; but I am not so bad as they say.
Oh ?" he added, after a moment's pause,
''if some one in the world would only be-
lieve me good, I might become like other
men."
PAMPHLETS
Then, fixing his piercing eyes on Mary,
he gazed at her a full minute, and, turn
ing on his heel, he left the cabin without
saying another word. The family, through
the open doorway, saw him swing his lithe
body across his pony, and gallop swiftly
away over the prairie towards his cabin.
From this visit Mr. Thompson augured
bad luck ; but, as day after day and week
after week passed they saw no more of
him, they began to think they had done
the young man injustice. True, they had
often heard of him in the village, where
he continued his drinking and fighting;
but, although the nearest way would have
led him by Mr. Thompson's house, both in
going and coming, he always crossed the
prairie some miles above, and never came
near the place.
Wottru.
Egotism,
BY THE BARD OF THE MOUNTAIN,
Zin gtorp-Ztlitr.
BY BEN. J• T. BRISBIN
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1873
Mr. Thompson, who had once been a
kind husband, an indulgent father, and a
man of good habits, disappointed by re
peated failures in business and vexed by
poverty, had of late years taken to drink,
and now was little better than a common
drunkard. His wife and daughter had
persuaded him to move from lowa, hoping,
when his old associations were broken up,
he would do better in Nebraska and make
their new home a happy one. For a time
their most sanguine wishes seemed about
to be realized. The farm they had taken
up was a good one, the crops were abun•
dant, and all seemed to promise a happy
future. Mr. Thompson had left off drink
ing entirely, and was again the kind and
affectionate husband andfitther of former
years. The happiness of this little family
was unbounded, when, in an evil hour, a
cloud darkened the bright sunshine of
their rude cottage, and finally buret in a
destroying storm. A man named Cook
opened a traveler's ranch, or hotel, near
Mr. Thompson's, and between this man
and the farmer soon subsisted the warmest
friendship. Night after night Mr. Thomp
son would go to Cook's, and sit in the so
ciety of bad men until the small hours of
the morning. The wife and daughter,
alarmed for his safety, redoubled their ef
forts to4make his home attractive, and re
sorted to every womanly device to keep',
him with them ; but, despite their eater
tions, he spent more than half his time at 1 1
Cook's.
Fur a long time he resisted every temp
tation to drink; but at length the evil of
keeping bad company became apparent,
and one morning Mr. Thompson came
home to his family reeling drunk. His
downward course was now rapid; he was
drunk every day ; and to the vice of
drinkino , he soon added that of gambling.
The land on which he lived was a home
stead, and the title could not be perfected
for five years, so he could not gamble it
away ; but, one by one, the horses, cattle,
farming implements were put up and lost,
until at last all thit was left were two
horses, a wagon and harness.
Among the persons who visited Cook's
was a person called Long Ned, a flashily
dressed individual, an ex-stage driver, a
drunkard, a gambler, and an unprincipled
scoundrel. Ned had won most of Mr.
Thompson's stock and money, and was now
waiting to finish up his devilish work by
taking the last thing the poor man had.
He had not long to wait,. fir, one evening
Thompson with his team and wagon, came
over to the ranch, and after sundry drinks
had been taken Ned proposed to play for
the team and horses. At first Thompson
refused, saying it was all he had left, and
he meant to keep that; but a drin)c or two
more and the exhibition by Ned of a hun
dred dollars in money changed his mind,
and he sat down at the fatal table ; he was
so sure he could win this time, and then
Ned said he only wished he would, fur he
wanted to see Mr. Thompson get back
some of his property.
In one hour the last horse was gone,
and Mr. Thompson rose from his chair and
staggered to the wall, where he stood with
his head hanging upon his breast, ponder
ing his misfortunes, and realizing at last
that he and his family were penniless, and
he had not even the means of getting,
home. Ned came up and, slapping the
farmer familiarly on the shoulder, said,
"Come, cheer up, old fellow, and let us
take a drink."
Thompson moved mechanically to the
bar, and, filling la's glass to the brim,
drank it off. Again and again he drank,
and at each swallow of the vile stuff seem
ed to grow more desperate. lie was now
maudlin drunk, and Ned led his victim to
one side, and said he had long wanted a
wife, and as Mary was a fine girl he would
like to marry her. He really sympathized
with Mr. Thompson in his losses; and as
it was the custom in new settlements for
men to buy their wives from the Indians,
he would put up all he had won of Mr.
Thompson against Mary. At. first the
farmer was shocked and surprised ; but
the more he thought of it the more reas
onable Ned's proposition seemed to be, and
after another glass be sat down and staked
his own daughter on a hand of cards.
Ned won, and the farmer burst into tears.
The gambler made light of the matter,
and assured him if he had lost a daughter
he had won a son-in-law. Again and
again they drank, and, Ned calling for a
bottle of whisky, the two got into the
wagon and started for the farmer's house.
On the road, Thompson drank heavily
from the bottle, so that when they arrived
at the farm, the farmer was so drunk that
he had to be helped out of the wagon. It
was very late, but the wife and daughter
were still up waiting for his return, and
Mary was clad in a neat white muslin
which made her look charming. They
were both much surprised to see a stranger
with Mr. Thompson, but received him
kindly, thinking, no doubt; he had merely
come to see Mr. T. sale home.
Ned turned out the team—his team—
and then entered the cabin. He was a
repulsive looking fellow at beet; but now
that the night wind had puffed and flushed
his bloated face, he looked perfectly hide
ous. Fixing his bleared eyes on Mary, he
stared the girl out of countenance, and she
turned away. Wherever site went Ned fol
lowed her with his ferret eyes, until the
girl became so nervous and uneasy she
went into the room and waked up the old
man. When she returned to the outer
room, she found her mother had fallen into
a swoon, and her father, who had been
asleep in the chair, was now sitting up,
apparently quite sober and talking to Ned
Mary ran to her mother, and raising her
in her arms, placed her on the bed, where
she sprinkled water in her face until she
recovered, and began to sob bitterly.
Her father now called her to his side,
and said :
"Mary, we have lost everything; this
gentleman has won all, and wants you
for his wife. I have promised him your
hand. Go to him.
The surprised and confused girl ran to
her mother; but Net; called to her, in a
rough voice :
"Came here to me, girl; you are now my
little woman, and I want you."
Scarcely knowing what she di 1 , with
one bound she reached the d,or, and in a
moment more was out io the dark night
and flying across the prairie towards the
barn. She heard her father call to her to
come back, and then halloo to Ned to run
round the house while he west to the
barn. Mary had intended to take her
pony from the barn and ride she knew not
whither ; but, hearing her father's voice
close behind her, she slipped out of the
stable by a back door and ran across the
prairie. For an hour she ran on, and then
sank down completely exhausted. Long
and bitterly she wept, lying prone upon the
cold, damp ground. „Then, startled by the
howl of a wolf, she sprang up and tried to
think. Where should she go ? What
should she do? It was not far to the riv-
er, and she would cast herself in, and be
neath its dark waters end her troubles.—
Arrived upon the bank, she stands like a
statue, gazing down at the gurgling flood.
Her purpose is firm; one plunge, and all
will be over. But bark ! what noise is
that? It is the dip of paddles; and, as
Mary stands on the very brink of the river,
in the light of the new risen moon, a
canoe, with four Indians in it, rounds the
bend of the stream within a few rods of
her. Why does the warrior in the bow ef
the boat rise, and, with a gesture. impose
silence on his comrades ? He believes this
white and statue-like figure is no human
being, and even the oirs cease to dip
while the boat floats silently by and the
savages pass on their way to the settlement
to steal stock.
Mary stood perfectly still, little caring
what became of her; but the sight of the
Indians had changed her purpose, and no
sooner had they passed than she hastened
from the river. As she turned about, a
gray wolf rose from the grass within a few
feet from her, and slunk away with an
angry growl, while a night-owl, perched
on the limb of a tree over head, flapped
his great wings and uttered dismal cries
as be flew affrighted up the river.
Mary had been thinking for the past few
minutes of 'The Wild Trapper of the
Blue," and she had now determined to go
to him. She knew she was not far from
his cabin, and why should sho not go and
chum his protection. Perhaps he was not
bad; indeed she had always believed he
was nut so wicked as they had represented
The night qir was chilly, but she. felt
not the cold, for her blood was full of fe
ver. The wind tossed her brown hair
around so that she took her shawl and put
it ever her head, and then ran briskly
along the trail In an hour she neared
the fierce hunter's cabin and her heart
beat wildly as she knocked upon the door.
Again and again she knocked, but still
no response, and then she went to the lit
tle window and peered into the cabin.—
She listened, but all was dark and silent
within.
Returning to the door she rapped louder
than before, and a voice whispered through
the key-hie
"W h 0 is it ?"
Fur a moment she knew not what to say,
then, summoning courage, she replied :
'•lt is I—Nary Thompson—who wants
you to protect me."
_ _ _
- Cautiously the door was opened, and the
hunter looked out and stared at Mary, to
whom ho said :
"I thought it was Indians or Regulators ;
but come in, girl, and I beg pardon for
having kept you out in the cold so long."
Then he lit a pine knot, and handing
Mary a chair, drew out his sharp jack-knife
and whittled some shavings to kindle a fire.
There was soon a bright blaze roaring on
the hearth, and, with all the politeness of
a courtier, he moved up Mary's stool and
bade her sit close to the burning embers.
"I heard you," he said, "even before
you knocked, for my ears have become
somewhat practised to the soma.' of ap
proaching fo-Asteps ; but I could not make
you out. When I saw your head at the
window with that shawl over it, I thought
it was a squaw's head," he added, laughing
and after a moment's- pause, inquired,
"Any Indians down your way ?"
Mary simply said "No," and he pressed
her no further.
The kettle was boiling, and he made a
cup of tea and gave it to her to drink.—
Then he said :
"Now, young lady, I know not what
brings you here at this time of night, nor
do I wish to know; but something dread
ful must have happened to cause any one
to claim protection from the Wild Trapper
of the Blue, and of all others, a young
girl. There ! There !" he added, seeing
Mary about to speak, "Don't say a word,
but just lie down on that bed, and take a
good sound sleep while I go outside and
keep watch over the house. You can shut
the door and bolt it after me, if you
wish," taking his gun, "but you need not
be afraid, Mary, for I would not harm a
hair of your head; and, as for others harm
ing you while under my protection, they
must Srst cross the dead body of the Wild
Hunter. Now, don't fret, girl, but sleep
as sound as if you were at home and hap
py; and, mind you don't cry and trouble,
or you'll be having a spell of sickness in
the morning after this night's trip, and I
can tell you I'm a mighty poor nurse," be
said, closing the door behind him, and
laughing heartily outside.
Was this, indeed, the Wild Hunter of
the Blue, about whom such terrible tales
were told, and in whom there was nothing
but wickedness? Mary thought she had
never met a more polite or gentlemanly
person ; somehow her fears had all disap
peared, and she felt singularly safe and
happy. She did not lock the door, for she
felt not the slightest uneasiness; but she
peeped from a little window, and saw the
tall bunter, with his gun across his shoul
der, walking up and down before the cab
in like a sentinel, and then she laid down
on the bed and soon fell into a deep sleep.
Next morning, when she awoke the sun
was shining brightly, and, springing up,
for she had not removed any of her cloth
ing, she ran to the window and looked out.
There was the hunter pacing up and down,
just as he had been doing the night be
fore. "How polite in him," thought Mary,
"not to disturb me ; and how considerate
of my comfort and safety he has been ever
since I entered his humble abode " She
made haste to open the door, and the hun
ter bade her good morning and hoped she
rested well. Then he made up the fire,
and, bringing Mary some water in a basin,
with a comb and brash, said he would
conk the breakfast while she made her
toilet. To this Mary objected, saying she
would do the cooking herself, -ld, as soon
as her simple toilet was made, set about
the work. The hunter brought the things
far her to cook, peeled the potatoes, and
showed her where everything he had was
kept. Every few minutes he would burst
out laughing, and say, "How funny to
have a woman code for me !" Mary's heart
was heavy, and she was constantly think
ing of her mother at home, and wondering
where they thought she was; but her po
' sition was so novel for j a young girl, and
her companion so cheerful, that she could
not help blushing, and at times, despite
her troubles, her small, steel-gray eyes
would sparkle with mirth. When they
sat down to breakfast the hunter thought
he had never seen so charming a creature
as Mary, and somehow she never seemed
to mind the great brown eyes constantly
fixed upon her. Strange she should not
be afraid, for she was alone with the most
desperate man of the West ; but, so far
from fearing him, she thoroughly believed
he was her best friend and protector.
After breakfast she told the hunter her
tale, and again claimed Ms protection. He
listened respectfully and attentively, and,
when she had done, said :
•`So you thought you could trust me ?"
"I did" replied Mary, while the hot
blood.rushed to bet temples.
For a moment the muscles in the face
of the hunter worked convulsively, and,
rising, he went to a small cupboard and
took from it two daguerotype,—the one
of a young girl, and the other of a middle
aged woman. Opening, them and placing
them in Mary's lap, while a tear dimmed
his eye, he said :
"These are the pictures of my dear
mother and darling sister, and I swear to
you by them I will always be to you as a
brother."
Mary held out her band, and, as be
grasped it, two hearts met in that clasp,
never to be divided again on earth.
The bunter told Mary that she must go
back at once to her mother, and, now she
had placed herself under his protection,
she need not fear Long Ned or any one
else. Placing her on his pony, he walked
by her side and led the little brute, who,
not being used to such a burden, was dis
posed to be a little vicious. Carefully and
tenderly, as if she were an infant, he guard
ed her until they came to her father's
house, where they had scarcely arrived
when that most startling of all cries on the
boarder, "Indians !" was heard, and a man
dashed up to say that the settlement below
had been attacked and all of Long Ned's
stock stolen. Waiting to bear no more,
Long Ned, who was still on the firm, leap
ed upon a pony and dashed away across the
Yttrium Mary in the arms of her mother,
the Wild Hunter left her to tell her own
talc, and rapidly followed Ned. The In
dians were driven off and all the stock re
covered, but Long Ned did not return.
Some said he was killed by the savages ;
others, that the Wild Hunter shot him ;
but, be that as it may, he was dead, and
no one seemed to care by whose hand he
had fallen. Nearly all the recaptured stock
had once belonged to Mr. Thompson, and,
Ned being dead, the Wild Hunter took it
upon himself to return it to the farmer,
saying he was Ned's heir; a decision no
one objected to. What was most surpris
ing, however, was the fact that the Wild
Hunter did not drink any more or quarrel
with any one. When pressed for an ex
planation, he simply replied : "I have quit
that sortlof thing."
. . _
Little moreremains to be told of this
true tale of border life, and it may be sum
med up in tl.ese words : Soon after the In
dian raid there was a wedding at Mr.
Thompson's and the fanner, influenced by
his new son•in-law, stopped drinking- and
became a prosperous and useful citiz If
you ever visit the Big Blue, just above Mr.
Thompson's place you will find the brown
haired, happy-faced woman, with her four
little curly-headed children playing about
her knee. The owner of this fitrm is a
quiet, orderly, well-to-do man; and, if you
will wait until he comes home from the
fields, you will recognize in him none oth
er than "The Wild Hunter of the Blue."
attading for Me inion.
Notes of Travel
NEWPORT, August 26;1873,
When, we last wrote, we had a trip
through Lake George, in anticipation of
which we promised to tell you. We land
ed at Ticonderoga, and such a pushing,
rushing, elbowing and jostling of one per
son against another, and all for what? to
get a seat on top of the stage. I ceuld'nt
help wondering whether traveling didn't
make one more selfish than anything else.
On steamers, people rush pell-mell to get
the first seat at the table, again to get
seats on the top of the stage, then to get
to the hotel first, and to be first to pro-
cure the best rooms, and so on to the end,
the unselfish, patient man, gets no thanks
and fares badly. We pushed on (with the
crowd) none•of the meekest, nor slowest,
and got to the top of the hill where stood
half dozen stages, all full en top but one,
and didn't we rush for it, just as three
Englishmen scrambled up before us ; for
tunately, there was room enough fur two
more, and as our seats were in front of
them,
they managed to make a rug out of
our dress, however we were only too glad
to be seated outside where we had fresh
air and an unobstructed view. Soon the
baggage was arranged and the array of
coaches moved off. The drive from Ti
conderoga to Lake George, is a eery pleas
ant one of four miles ; almost at the be
ginning of the ride is Fort Ticonderoga,
around this Fort, and all along the road,
was the general rendezvous of General
Montcalm and his army. We thought as
we rode, of the scene here about this time
years ago, July 1758, when a bloody bat
tle was fought between Montca!nt and Ab
ercrombie, how fearfully the English were
slaughtered, here too was the noble Howe
killed; remains of fortifications are to be
seen all along the road and still called the
"French lines." While taking this his
torical retrospect, we reached Lake George.
It would be impossible to accurately de
scribe the beauties of this lake. All that
artists and authors can do, there will yet
be wanting the reality to do it justice. So
calm, so beautiful in its Blear depths; so
transparent that the Indians gave it the
name o' "Silver Water—such lovely and
numberless islands everywhere, some so
tiny and rich in verdure, they look like
beds of soft green mo a set in glittering
gem', for the sun shining on the water
makes thousands of flashes. One of the
beauties of' the lake is its seclusion, like a
fair bed it lies between high mountain
ridges, some as high as 2,000 feet, and too
steep for even the skillful hunter to climb.
Some of the peaks are covered with fir,
spruce, pine and tamarak ; others are rug
ged and barren, over which we saw sever
al eagles soaring in proud fearlessness
Almost every island, bay and bluff has its
history connected with the Colonial wars
and the war of the Revolution. They
were either quarters for soldiers or tha
Iscene of skirmishes. After the loveliest
sail of about two hours we reached Fort
William Henry Hotel—at the head of the
like—a large, handsome house, built on
the site of Fort William Henry, where
was a bloody conflict in 1757. Monroe
commanded the fort and was obliged to
surrender, for want of aid, to Montealm,
who promised Monroe and his 'limy pro-
tection, hut we all know how that after the
surrender the 2,000 savages that Kontcalm
had in his army were enraged, and paid
no regard to the promise, but fell upon the
helpless and unsuspecting English with
fury, of demons, and the massacre was ter
rible and indiscriminate ; Montcalm refu
sing to interfere; the fort and all connect
ed with it was burned and destroyed and
was never rebuilt.
The road to Glens Falls—nine miles
from the lakeis through a wild and ro
mantic region. We passed a pond covered
with water lillies, it being near the battle
ground, the French made it the sepulchre
or the slaughtered English, and it still re
tains the mune of "Bloody Poud" then
given it.
And now let us pass over a bit of railway
travel and 'bide a wee . ' at New Haven,
for our week there was too pleasant to for
get. It is truly a lovely city, and is well
named the "City of Elms." We never
saw so many and such stately elms, every
street is bordered by them, some, whose
graceful boughs being arched entirely over
head, form beautiful and natural avenues.
I know of no other city whose improve
ment is more rapid ; there are many hand
some, even magnificent., buildings going
up all the time, and there is room to ex
tend in every direction, so that it is desti
ned, ere lows ' , to become an immense city.
We enjoyed some lovely drives, one to
Edgewood, the home of Ike Marvel. This
farm is situated'on a high ridge of land
overlooking the city, and gives one of the
finest views of the Sound and the surround
ing country; part of the house io built of
rough stones, just as they were found on
the farm, indeed the entire house, inside
and outside, is built according to the own
er's unique taste, and without regard to
any conventional mode of architecture.—
Yale College and its extensive grounds
were descrted, and we missed the jolly
songs, the whooping and' general noise of
students, that every one expects to hear in
that city.
• From the classical shades of New Haven
we went to the pretty village of Westerly,
in Rhode Island, about seven miles from
the Sound. It contains one of the hand
somest horde we ever saw, but is especially
noted fir its granite quarry, which is one
of the best in the country; of all monual
labor, I think I never saw aught so tedi
ous, or that required so much patience and
perseverence, as the working up and car
ving of granite; constantly working, and
Iyet the progress, to a looker-on, is not per
ceptible. We saw the great "Soldier of
Antietam," an immense column twenty-one
feet high—the features, form, gun, cap
and martial cloak, are yet scarcely recog
nizable, though they have worked at it
one year, and expect to work another, ere
it be completed. From there we had a
nice drive to Watch Hill, which is right
on the seashore. It is a great resort, and
in the warmest days of summer it is cool
there; from every hotel one can see the
ocean and hear its unceasing roar, and
great throbs as it lashes the shore. It has
the finest facilities for bathing, having an
unbroken sand beach of five or six miles.
Here it was the Metis was wrecked last
year, and some of the fragments still re
main. This year every hotel is full, there
are six large and several small ones. The
air was so cool, the beach so lovely, we
thought we should like to tarry there
awhile, but time wonld not permit, and
back again to Westerly we 'hurried, and
from there by railway to Narragansett Bay,
and from there, by steamer, to Newport.,
where we soon looked and after two miles
of a charming drive we reached our desti
nation—a lovely residence—from which
one has the Enest view of the ocean and
bay. Such delightful times we do have !
reading, lounging, dreaming, driving and
snuffing the cool sea breeze and fishing in
the "briny deep ;" and what fish we do
get, flounders and black fish, weighing
from two to five pounds, and there are
plenty of black bars too,
(but we did'ut
catch any.) The finest drives are the
ocean drive and to the Fort; the first giv
ing a fine view of the ocean all the way—
the other, to Fort Adams, is quite inter
esting, it being one of the oldest forts and
kept in good order. Twieo a week a very
fine band entertains the throng of pleasure
seekers, who go there in• the afternoon,
and by the way, that is the best time to
see the bsau monde. We watched the
handsome carriages drive round the circle,
one by one, and thought we never saw so
many homely and sickly noes. Money is
a great potentate, but it cannot a lways
bring health and hapriness.
Newport is noted for its handsome sum•
mer villas, they are numerous and of great
variety. Belmont has a splendid residence
here, George Francis Traiu, Royal Phelps,
Charlotte Cushman, and many other noted
and wealthy people have also. We missed
the stout, rheumatic form and still fair,
tho' not handsome, face of Fanny Fern,
that we were wont to see last season as she
took her daily drives; her essays were,
even then, so piquant and youthful that
one conld'nt think of her as old, until she
died. The whole island is an Eden, the
almost constant fog is the only damper to
oar enjoyment; everything feels damp, snd
one is bound to be cross, for the fog here
is no fleeting vision, but lingers from early
morning till late evening; but some days
are bright and clear, and then the skies
are the bluest, the air the freshest, and
the world the fairest here. All over the
island are quaint little wind-mills, kept in
motion by the wind alone, and used for
grinding wheat and corn, while from every
point one sees the ocean, these, together
with its historical associations, make New
port a romantic.and interesting, as well as
a fashionable resort, and now, with the
memory of the pleasant times we had there,
still fresh, and once more in the old Key
stone State, I bid you adieu.
GIPSY WILDE.
Tit-Bits Taken on the Fly
They have hickory-uut parties in Illi
nois.
Scarlet fever iv prevailing iu a portion
of Luzerue county.
Terms of the Liberia Advocate per an
num: One bushel of unhulled coffee.
Sharpsville is puzzled to know how to
get at incendiaries that infest that town.
A cat at Nicholasville, Ky., has three
kittens and three squirrels in her family.
There are now eight young American
ladies studying in Milan for the operatic
stage.
Four men have been arrested in Clear•
field county, charged with poisoning hor
ses.
A Minnesota guzzler drank seven glass
es of beer in two minutes and a half on a
wager.
A colt at Springfield has but one fore leg,
and one lung, but has a lot of extra ribs
and double joints.
A stock company has been formed at
Griffin, Ga., for the manufacture of coffee
from persimmon seeds.
Some California farmers recently held an
indignation meeting to protest against the
ravages of the squirrels.
Five fossilized shells, each nine inches
long and shaped like a ram'shorn have been
dug up at Menomenee, Wis.
A Memphis woman who was afraid of
the yellow fever, sold a piano fur $25 in
order to get means to leave town.
NO. 45
A swindler calling himself Rev. Charles
Goodheart has been raising money out
West by bogus subscriptions for Bibles.
A New Orleans correspondent report. 4
that General Longstreet is organizing a
fillibustering expedition to annex Cuba.
The Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise chroni
cles the recent elopement ea "handsome
and well educated young lady" with a Piute
Indian.
Queen Victoria was recently presented
with a horse ridden by one of the "Noble
Six Hundred" in the famous charge of
Balaklava.
General Jubal •Early and M. Victor
Hugo are both incensed beyond expression
by the report that they exactly resemble
eaah other.
A Peoria barber has a valuable parrot
whose appealing Have a shave, sir ?" often
induces passers by to enter and indulge in
tonsorial delights.
Tha advent of a wild cat broke up a
wedding in Missouri the other evening.
The cat wanted to introduce a new claws
in the marriage ceremony.
Nols Neilson, Neils Nelson, Nelson
Neilson, Neilson Nelson, and Nel Nei
son were lately fined $l5 each in Des
Moines fur drunkenness.
Miss Minnie ;Sherman, daughter of the
General, arrived on Saturday morning at
New York, her health completely restor
ed by her year's sojourn abroad.
It is now definitely settled that the tel
egraph wires in Germany are no longer to
be affixed to poles in the open air, but are
to be buried in underground tubes.
Mr. W. G. Grace, the great English
cricketer, has taken to wife a Miss Day.
He proposes devoting himself in future to
'the cricket on the domestic hearth.
Check Harlan commends certain officers
of the New York Custom House, for not
accepting a "paltry bribe of one hundred
dollars.' , Harlan's figure is in the thous
ands. •
Five thousand persons are thrown out of
employment by the suspension of the Har
mony cotton mills in Cohoes, N. Y. The
pay-rolls of the mills foot up $BO,OOO
monthly. It is said that the mill will be
opened in two week..
Miss Steerungambah, a ilindoo iady,
has been delivering lectures on female ed
ucation in Madras While in the business
why doesn't she educate her name up to
some civilized standard?
A man named J. Preston, a plasterer
by trade, was found dead ou Monday in
the old jail at Scranton. He had gone in
there on Friday to do acme repairs, when
he took a fit of appalexy and died.
The contest in Minnesota is realy over
the United States Senatorship- Senator
Ramsey wishes to be bi;own successor, and
C. K. Davis wants the place. At present
the odds seem to be in favar of Davis.
A movement has been started among
the ladies of the South and West to aia.
card extravagance ;n dress and to confine
themselves in the purchase of material to
home manufactures. Sensible.
The latest physiological discovery is that
the human liver distills alcohol from the
food as it passes through the system. We
know of several distillers who are good
livers, but we never heard of a liver that
was a good distiller before.
New Tork, with only 1,000,000 of peo
ple. has more crime committed within its
borders than London, with 3,000,00.1 of
people. while against less than 73,000
criminal arrests in London.each year the, e
are more than 75,000 in New York city.
Switzerland supplies a large portion or
the asphalt used in the construction of
roads in Europe, and also exports it t
America.. About 100,000 tons have been
extracted flow the mines within the past
thirty years, and during that period the
price has increased from 54 cents to $450
per ton.
Wrestling may be dangerous sport, even
when practised '•in fun," as was shown at
New Haven, Ky., last week. Two young
men took a friendly hold, and one fell, re
ceivinc,' injuries of which he died in four
afterdays, fter suffering great agony.
The druggists of Philadelphia on Tues
day last appointed a committee to bring
before the United States Court a test case
in regard to the stamp tax on labelled
medicines, and took measures to have the
entire stamp-tax, as applied to medioines,
abolished at the next meeting efCongress.
Most of the mills at Pawtucket, R. 1.,
began the present week with a reduction
of hours. A few hold unexpired contracts,
and will make no change fir the present.
One or two are preparing to run extra
time, and will try to meet incoming orders
by night work. The short time mills will
run on half time, on two-thirds , and some
on three-quarters.
Mr. Joseph Walkup, who died at Au
burn, California, recently in his fifty-fifth
year, was at one time Lieutenant Governor
of the State, and on another served credi
tably as State Senator. lle was proprietor
of the Placer Herald (newspaper), and
was one of the' most popular men iu his
State. "Jo" Walkup, as he was familiar
ly called, was an original "Argonaut of
49."
The $855,000 in double eagles deiivered
by the Philadelphia mint, on Thursday,
was the largest single delivery ever made
at the mint, but the largest amount
of coin ever delivered to the Treas
urer in one day was $l, 098, 900' in
gold coin, by L. R. Broomall, chiereeiner,
in two deliveries, on the 24th of July,
1861. So far as is known, this has never
been equalled by any other mint, at home
or abroad.
Flax culture is now an important indus
try in the northwest. About four thous
and acres were sown this year in Marshall
county, lowa, and in Waterman county,
Minn., there are seven thousand acres
against one thousand last year. The plant
also does well in western Oregon. Very
few of the growers in these localities make
any use of the lint, the production of seed
being their object.
Robert Siabury died last week, in the
town of Le Ray, Jefferson county, N. Y.,
aged one hundred and ten years and seven
months. He had acquired a great repu
tation as a hunter on John-Brown's track
in Northern New York, where he bad
killed over two thousand two hundred
deer. When past . eighty years of age he
met with an accident which necessitated
the amputation of one of his legs, and he
assisted a country doctor to perform the
operation without iiinehintr. His funeral
was attended by several children, aged be
tween eighty and ninety years.