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You think I love it ? If this nerveless hand
Could gain immortal strength this very hour
I'd sweep the whole hellish traffic from the
land,
And crush its blighting, maddening, night
mare power.
Yea, now, with my latest, dying IN eath,
I'll curse the thing that drags me down to
• death.
Love it? I loathe it 1 Yet I drink and drink,
And hate my bondage with a loathing hate,
And hate myself as through the town I link.
The pledge ? No, no ! Too late—too late I
No pledge I I've tried it twice—a waste of
breath I
Too late ! There's no release for me but death.
It's bad enough to drink ; but not to drink
Doth such a train of ghastly horrors wake
As in one hour would leave me dead, I think.
Ah, keep away, ye fiends, for pity's sake I
The very thought of them effects my brain,
My end will be when they shall come again.
Love rum ? I'd love to hold my head up high
And breathe God's air a free and fearless
man
And look with undimmed eyes on earth and
sky,
With steady nerve to do and head to plan;
I'd love to grapple trials as they come
In manly fashion, brave and strong. Love rum?
If only I could come into some land
Where no drink is, God knows how willingly
I'd fight these dreadful torments of the damn
ed
That clutch the scul of him who would be
free
But marshal up those grizzly shapes of woe
To fall again as twice before ? No, no
Ah, if I might have known bow it would be
In those old college days so wild and gay,
When first I drank in youthful revelry
flow easy then to put the cup away I
A mother's hope and joy I was till then;
Now see me trembling—ah I Those eyes again
Back, fiery eyes, to hell, where you belong,
I'll drink you down—what blood ?'Drink
blood ?
Help ! Help I They come, a hideous, devilish
throng I
Back, get ye back ! They'll toss me in the
flood!
Long, crooked hands are crawling in my hair I
Is this the end Ha, ha! Too late for prayer.
[Written for the JOURNAL.]
HOW HE DONE IT.
There are many courtships worth nar
rating, while a greater majority are con
ducted in such a business-like way as to
be void of all romance—so unlike human
nature that a recital would not be pleasing.
The one we are about to disclose is of the
romantic order, and will amuse the young
folks generally.
A party consisting of six individuals,
men of wealth and leisure, had gone out
for a boat-ride on one of the Western riv
ers. The evening was mild and sunny.
The boat was one of grace and beauty, and
would carry twice as many as were on
board beside the men who did the rowing.
It had a neat little deck above the rowers,
with cushioned seats, upon which the six
men were reclining, and seeming to be
very happy.. Two of the party were mar
ried, one of whom was John Foster, a jolly
young fellow. John had been singing
songs and telling stories, to the great pleas
ure of the boys. At length one of the
party addressed him thus:
"See here,. John, I have beard your
courtship and marriage spoken of as being
a romantic affair, but never heard the par
ticulars. Come, old fellow a little more
fun at your expense willl make things
lively.".. . .
"Well, boys, I often laugh over my ex
perience, and think no man ever drew a
longer breath than I did after the minister
pronounced us wan and wife. My father
in-law, Mr. Hamlin, was a widower, and
thought very handsome by the ladies. He
resided some three miles from my father's
farm, on one of his own. He had not
lived here long, however, and when I
came home from school, I beard all the
boys talking of "pretty Nellie Hamlin."
Mr. Hamlin came to see us very often, and
never failed inviting me to see him. At
length I decided on going over, more to
see ' pretty Nellie" than any one else. I
was treated in the most hospitable man
ner each time I called, and began to feel
interested in Nellie. I think he noticed
this. I supposed it would please him, but
on the contrary he began to be more re
served and treated me coolly. It was not
long until I was in love with hisdaughter,
and had gotten up a little courtship, when
he told me to "please cease calling." I
became angry and told him he should do
the same. He did not come to our house
any more, and I did not go over to see
Nellie for about two weeks. But who can
Sght against a love that is stronger than
the love of life ? I wrote her a note to
meet me, when we decided to meet once
every week, clandestinely, of course, at
her house or in a neighboring grove. This
worked well fur a long time, as Mr. Ham
lin was in the habit of spending Saturday
evening from home, and I made it suit to
see Nelge in his absence. She could not
ascertain where her father went, but was
glad to see him leave home on that eve
ning. I would conceal myself about the
barn till Mr. Hamlin would leave, when
Nellie and I would have the house to our
selves. I'll tell you, boys, I never had
such a happy time. At last I discovered
where Mr. Hamlin was spending his eve•
nings, and in a way I didn't like too well.
You see I went over a little too early. It
is natural for lovers to be on time, and
often ahead of time. I had toretnain hid
den until Mr. H. would be gone, so I took
shelter in a carriage, a double-seated affair.
The curtains were all closed down, and it
seemed just the place. Soon after I heard
him •alking to his "Billy horse," and I
expected him to be off in a few moments,
but fate worked against me this time. My
heart ran up into my throat when I saw
Mr. H. bitching "Billy" to the carriage.
What to do I could not tell. I had to con
fess to myself that I was afraid of him. He
sprang upon the seat and started off at a
fearful rate. I felt a good deal like pray
ing, for I knew I would fare badly if he
saw me there, He wonl , l laugh to himself;
and then give Billy a cut with the whip.
I began to think lie was going to see some
lady—but who was it ? He might possibly
drive me twenty miles from home, and al
low me the pleasure of walking back. I
passed the time in watching him, and
planning how I would get out, when he
turned short into a lane which led to the
back part of our farm. I now began to
fear that he knew I was in the carriage,
and was driving me back to what we called
"dark hollow," to hang me, or do something
to terrify me, but what was my surprise
wheehe stopped at theend of a lane which
. led into our house, and I saw a lady
coming toward us. Almost paralyzed, I
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recognized the voice of my sister Anna.
She was soon by his side, and I'll fall into
the water this moment and drown myself,
if he didn't put his arms around her and
kiss her. I felt like dying from shame
and indignation. Be who had forbidden
me his house, to meet and kiss beautiful
sister Anna thus ! And she who had ever
protested against the practice of kissing,
as being altogether wrong and unlady-like,
to permit him, a widower, to kiss her. I
was so angry, and was nearly drawn double
with my cramped condition, but there I
had to stay and watch them much against
my will. I had never asked Nellie to allow
me to kiss her, just because this sister,
who was older than me, taught me it was
wrong. and now to see her allow this man
that privilege, was too much for me. I
never had had such a ride in my life, and
prayed I might never have another. You
need not laugh, boys, but I would rather
have been where Nellie was. I could see
that "Billy" bad been here before, for he
did not more than move, and often stopped
and nipped at the bushes by the way
side. I can tell you that "Billy"
had to be his own driver. Mr. Hamlin
talked love till I grew sick, but Anna
smiled as I had never seen her do, while
I was boiling over with rage. True, I was
engaged to Nellie, and should respect her
father more, but I could not. If I bad
not been afraid of him, I would have yelled
out from anger till he would have jumped
over Billy, ald thought the last day was
at hand, and the trumpet was sounding to
resurrect him from the love into which he
had fallen. But understand I had to keep
quiet. This state of' things continued
much longer than I have dignity to own.
Here we wandered up and down the road,
while Billy looked up at the trees, and
stopped to listen occasionally at what was
going on around him. I never felt more
silly, and if it had been my grandmother
acting so, I should not have felt worse. I
closed my eyes to shut out the sight, but
no use; the kissing went on, and I had
to hear if not see it. Mr. Hamlin was now
as hideous to me as an owl. I heard the
promise to meet again next Saturday eve
ning, and saw my sister trip off up the
lane. I began to fear it would get day
light, and I would be seen. We had not
gone far till I saw • Mr. H's. head drop,
and knew he was sleeping. I 'opened the
side door quietly and sprang out. I could
scarcely walk, but made my way home,
thinking I would introduce the kissing
subject at the breakfast table. My younger
sisters always joined me when teasinc ,
Anna. I began the next morning by
saying,
"Anna, you should of had some loved
one to kiss you awake, this morning, as
you are late to breakfast."
"Brother," she said, you should not talk
so before your sisters, and you know very
well there is no man who would do that."
"0 yes," I said, "there are enough who
would do it.'
"Yes, but I mean I would not think of
allowing it. It seems to me you don't
think of anything else."
"I doubt, Anna, if you think of arry
thing else," I said.
"No, John, that will do after marriage,
not before." I began to fear ate was
married, and dropped the question. I was
now very anxious to see and tell Nellie of
my ride. When I told her I omitted the
kissing, for I was ashamed of my sister's
conduct. She laughed till I began to think
it was not so serious a mutter after all.—
When I told her of' their promise to meet
the following Saturday evening she said
at once,
"We must go with father."
"No," I said.
"Yes, we will, Johnnie, you must let
me have my own way in this, dear."
I said no more, but felt very nervous
over it all week.
According to promise I was in the car
riage at the appointed time, and was soon
joined by Nellie. She trembled a good
deal when she came, but soon whispered
more calmly. The night was even darker
than before, and we were soon flying across
the country. I was again to see enacted
what had made me sick just one week past.
If Nellie bad known the fate awaiting her
she would not have been in that carriage.
Mr. H. took the same road, and was soon
joined by Anna, whom he addres-ed as his
"darling." I felt Nellie twitch a little,
and knew she blushed when her father
acted as if he was going to devour my sis
ter. When I saw him acting thus I felt
like having revenge in some way. I be
gan to realize that I had a kissable being
by my side. I knew it was mean in me
to act so, for Nellie dare not make a fuss,
and if I was cruel enough to take advan
tage of her situation, she could not help
herself. So, for every kiss he gave my
sister I gave his daughter two. I was try
, ino• ' to get even with him on the first ride.
At last the awful moment came. He
put his arms around my sister, (mine were
around Nellie,) and said :
"My darling, you know how much I
love you; at east you try to know, but
cannot tell. It surpasses any demonstra
tion I can make; without you I shall be
miserable, but with you the happiest man
on earth. Anna, will you be my darling
wife?"
The answer came so low I could not
hear it, but a lover's ear could, and he
"thanked heaven," and everything else he
could think of, then kissed her. (I kissed
somebody twice.)
"Now, my dear," said Anna, "you have
not been treating brother John as you
should. I hear you do not allow him to
see Nellie."
"Oh, yes, he may go to see Nellie."
"Yes, but you promised me once before,
and I have beard since then that you still
prevent him."
"Noble sister," I thought.
"No, I don't; he may go as often as he
wishes. Aud we will be married in six
weeks, pet."
The time was act, and a kiss to seal the
bargain. (I took two.) My heart rolled
about like a big potato, and I thought it
had turned into a drummer boy, when
Nellie said :
"Thank you, father, for allowing John
to visit me."
Anna screamed, and Mr. H. was out
upon the dash of the carriage ready to run
away like a man and leave his precious
charge.
"Who, or what is it 'I"
"0 !it is John and I. We thought we
would take a little ride with you, and since
you and Anna are to be married in six
weeks, and you have learned to like John
so well, you will allow us to get married
at the same time. Won't you, father,
dear ?"
What could he say but "y-e•s ?"
From that moment I loved Mr. 11. We
all live very happy. I still tease Anna
about the propriety of kissing, and ask
Nellie if she has any liking for the back
seat of a carriage. Our young wives fuss
a good deal as to which baby is the pretti-
est, but no matter about that, but I would
like to know what relationship those ba
bies sustain to each other.
glvatling for the Mon.
J. Howard Payne
A newspaper correspondent in one of
his letters from Washington, gives the fol
lowing brief sketch of one whose name is
as little known to the world, as a single
emanation of his genius is widely appre
ciated :
As I sit in my garret here (in Washing
ton) watching the course of great men and
the destiny of party, I meet often with
strange contradictions in this eventful life.
The most remarkable was that of J. How
ard Payne—author of "Sweet Home !" I
knew him personally. He occupied the
rooms under me for some time, and his
conversation was so captivating that I have
often spent whole days in his apartment.
He was an applicant for office at the time
—Consul at Tunis—from which he had
been removed. What a sad thing it was
to see the poor man subjected to the hu
miliation of office seeking. Of evenings
we would walk along the streets, looking
into lighted parlors as we passed. Once
and a while we saw some family circle so
happy, and forming so beautiful a group,
that we would both stop—and then pass
silentl . on. On such occasions he would
give me a history of his wanderings—his
trials, and all the cares incident to his sen
sitive nature and poverty. "How often,"
said be once, "I have been in the heart of
Paris, Berlin, London, or somo other city,
and heard persons singing, or the hand or
gan playing "Sweet Home," without a
shilling to buy the next meal or a place to
put my head. The world has literally
sung my song till every heart is familiar
with its melody. Yet, I have been a wan
derer from my boyhood. My country has
turned me ruthlessly from office—and in
my old age I have to submit to humiliation
for bread."
Thus would he complain of his hopeless
lot. His only wish was to die in a foreign
land, to be buried by strangers and sleep
in obscurity.
I met him one day. looking unusually
sad. "Have you got your Consulate ?"
said I.
"Yes—and I leave in a week for Tunis
—I shall never return."
This last expression was not a poetical
faith.—Far from it. Poor Payne—his
wish was realized. He died at Tunis.—
Whether his remains have been brought
to his native country I know not. They
should be, and if none others will do it let
the homeless throughout the woald give a
penny for the monument to Payne. I knew
him and will give him my penny, and for
an inscription the following:
HERE LIES J. HOWARD PAY,NE,
Author of "Sweet Home."
_
A wanderer in life—he whose song was sung in
every tongue, and found echo in every heart—
NEVER 11AD A HOME !
He died in a foreign land !
It is a singular fact that very few per
sons in America , know that the author of
"Sweet Home" was an American. You
ask nine persons out of ten, even among
those who have any knowledge of musical
history, they will tell you Sir Henry Bish
op or some such person must have the
credit. The truth is, this song is almost
the only thing that Payne ever d'd which
is entitled to remembrance. The author
was a maker of melo-dramas and musical
plays. "Home, Sweet Home," was a song
in one of them. Payne did not remain in
the country to see the piece performed,
and the first time be ever heard his own
song was in the streets of a great European
city. Its pathetic appeal to a sentiment
which exists in every human bosom gives
an immediate echo over the whole world,
which has not nor never will die away.
Acheen and the Acheenese.
Many people having read frequent dis
patches in the papers about the Acheen
ese, will be glad to learn where they live.
Admen forms the northwestern portion of
Sumatra. It covers an area of 800 geo
graphical square miles, and has 2,000,000
inhabitants belonging to the Maylayan
race. The Acheonese are tall, strongly
built and of a violent and haughty tem
perament, though they are much more in
telligent and skillful than most of the
other inhabitants of Sumatra. They are
mostly Mohammedans. The capital has
about 8,000 houses and 36,000 inhabitants.
The country generally is mountainous, but
exceedingly fertile; pepper, coffee, cotton,
tobacco and vegetables grow freely and
produce abundant crops. Gold and pre
cious stones are also found in great quan
tities. Although part of Sumatra is under
the equator, the climate is very mod
erate. The air is healthy in the moun
tain districts, but not on the plains or on
the coast. Acheen abounds with wild ani
mals—there are elephants, tigers, buffaloes,
rhinoceroses and orang-outangs. The lat
ter are never killed by the natives, as they
believe the souls of their ancestors have
passed into these animals. Among the
allies of the Acheenese are the Battas, a
cheerful people, who are cannibals, and al
ways take salt and lemon juice when they
go to war, so as to be able to regale them
selves on the flesh of their dead enemies.
Short Sermons.
Paradise is at the feet of mothers.—Ma•
hornet. _ _
Corn is cleaned with the wind, and the
soul with chastening.— George Herbert.
The defects of the mind, like those of
the face, grow worse as we grow old.—
Rochefoucauld.
He that has never known adversity is but
half acquainted with others, or with him
self.—Cotion.
How many persons fancy they have ex
perience simply because they have grown
old.—Stanislaus.
Always rise from the table with an ap
petite, and you will ■ever sit down without
one.— William Penn.
At twenty years of age , the will reigns ;
at shirty, the wit; and at forty, the judg
ment.— Grattan.
I am no herald to proclaim men's pedi•
grecs ; it is sufficient for me to know their
virtues.—Sir P. Sidney.
Old friends are like old boots. We nev
er, realize how perfectly they were fitted to
us till they are cast aside, and others, finer
and more stylish, perhaps, but cramping
and pinching in every corner, are substi
tuted.
As TUE Lord's mercies are new every
morning, so those to whom they come have
a perpetual freshness of life untouched by
the burden and heat of the day.
Go to the Jounzret Stationery Store
for bargains.
Up a Tree
One night, recently, young Mullen, of
New Castle, who feared that the lady he
loved was entertaining an admirer, deter
mined to climb a tree in the yard, from
which he could see into the sitting-room
in the second story, where the young wo
man was supposed to be. Just as he got
himself fixed in a comfortable position
commanding the window, some one upon
the inside pulled the curtain down. Then
Mullen made up his mind to descend. It
was very dark, but just as he began to
slide down the trunk, Mullen heard a dog
barking furiously beneath, and, looking
down, he saw a huge animal capering
about, apparently very eager to nip Mr.
Mullen's legs. Then Mullen suddenly
climbed up the tree again, and endeavored
to drive the clog off, but the more bespoke
to the brute, the more it danced around
and barked. Then Mullen came down as
low as he dared, and tried to coax the ani
mal, bnt this only made him hop about and
howl more furiously than ever. So it be
came apparent that Mullen would have to
spend the night in the tree. He fixed
himself as comfortably as lie could in a
crotch of the limbs, and kicked his legs,
and moved his arms, to keep himself from
freezing to death. Several times, when he
thought the dog was asleep, he attempted
to descend, but each time the brute awoke,
and began to caper about. By the time
daylight arrived, Mullen was so benumbed
with cold that he could hardly use his
hands; but, as the sky grew brighter, he
leaned over to examine his persecutor, and,
to his amazement, he found that it was his
own dog, which, unknown to him, had fol
lowed him to the tree, and had barked and
capered only to express his delight at the
prospect of Mullen coming down and going
home. The suddenness with which Mul
len reached the ground is said to have been
remarkable, and the language used by him
bad. He has some of he rheumatism
which he got on that night in his bones
yet.
Forestry.
Few persons have any idea of the im
mense extent of land required to grow trees
for building and other purposes, , In Europe
alone 500,000,000 acres of land are devoted
to woodland. Norway and Sweden have
about 80,000,000 of acres coverod with
trees. Indigenous to the country are the
Norway spruce, fir, maple, Scotch pine and
beach. The introduction of foreign trees
has been attended with success, and the
oak, pine and walnut are reported as grow
ing to very fair dimensions. Spain and
Portugal, though their woods are little
known in commerce, set apart about 6,000,-
000 acres fur tree•growing. Germany has
taken better care of her forests than other
nations, and has replenished her woodlands
with fresh stock. In the 50,000,000 acres
of timber-growing land, she possesses near
ly all the important varieties of wood which
are found. To Italy we are indebted for
very excellent walnut, but her 5,000,000
acres also produce fir, pine, oak and pop
lar. Neither Turkey nor Greece are of
much importance as wood-producing coun
tries, but that they might be is gathered
from the fact that they have 10,000,000
acres under forest cultivation. Denmark,
producing oak, Norway spruee, fir, etc., has
500 000 acres of woodland. Although
Russia has no system of forestry, she has
300,000,000 acres devoted to timber culti
vation. As to British North America, no
ono can form anything like an accurate es
timate of its enormous wealth of timber.—
It is roughly computed that there are 900,-
000,000 acres occupied by timber, or an
extent equal to the whole of England a
dozen times told. In the large forests of
British Columbia are found firs reaching
300 feet in height. The United States
possess 560,000,000 acres of forest land.—
The great influx of population has led to
wanton waste, and the time is not remote
when the loss will be severely felt.
First Cost of a Man or Woman
An economic journal enters into strange
ly curious calculations as to the "actual
cost, in dollars and cents, which a man or
woman would be to the world and society
by the time he or she got old enough to
begin to pay expenses," or to return back to
the country what thus far had been ex
pended in rearing their population.
Every baby, it is fair to assume, when
properly brought up, costs its parents at
least fifty dollars a year, an expense which
increases largely as food, clothing, the
shelter of a warm home,' education, and
spending money are required for the grow
ing child. The acturl cost, up to the fif
teenth year, of each child in this Repub
lic, is certainly not less than one thousand
dollars. At that age its labor would be
worth its subsistence. Not till it reaches
the age of eighteen (and a great many not
even then) does it really begin to be pro
ductive. For every 100,000 children the
nation has to produce six or eight millions
of dollars consumed without adding at all
to production. To rear that number of
children to a productive age certainly costs
a hundred millions of dollars, without any
profit whatever in return. Herein is the
great value of immigration. This great
Republic receives into its broad and glor
ious bosom every day not less than one
thousand immigrants from the Old World.
Of course two-thirds, perhaps seven
eighths, are adults, ready grown for us by
Europe at her cost up to the productive
point, when they come to our shores to give
us the benefit of their toil. Annually does
Europe labor industriously to produce and
raise for our Republic, free of cost, more
than 300,000 persons, with whom we could
not have furnished ourselves at an expense
of $300,000. No wonder that we grow
rich and prosperous, for the loss of the
world is our gain, and all the countries are
nursing mothers for ours.
SPECIMEN of heavy writing on the Dan
bury News : "Thursday evening of last
week was a spring evening. Forty thous
and screaming demons rode the winds that
surged through the streets, crumbling up
the hard snow and frozen mud, and blind
ing pedestrians with the powder. All night
long the demons howled, shutters rattled,
signs creaked, branches groaned, and shed
doors slammed. All night long the beau
tiful birds of spring hung their heads and
hushed their carols, and all night long the
sweet flowers of the gladsome springtime
shrank within their petals, and smothered
their fragrance in their palpitating bo
soms, and boarders screamed for more
quilts."
A HINT TO WivEs.—A lady adminis
tered a severe beating to her husband the
other night over the banisters, with a
broom. She made him believe that she
took him for a burglar.
GREAT bargains in School Stationery at
the JOURNAL Building.
Tit-Bits Taken on the Fly
The proposition to introduce ladies as
railroad conductors is frowned upon in view
of the fact that their trains are always be
hind.
A Wyoming paper delicately announces
that its charges for marriage notices is
"just what the ecstasy of the brdegroom
may prompt."
A singer in Vienna is said to have a
curiously abnormal formation of the vo
cal organs, by which he is able toeing two
notes simultaneously.
It is said that the essential oil in onions
is so powerful that if a man were to die
shortly after eating one, his brain would
exhale the odor of the vegetable.
It is said that counterfeit half dollars,
bearing the date of 1871, are circulating
in Sacramento, and bogus quarters, dated
1844, are very numerous in San Francisco.
Persia is said to be the land of roses,
but recently an order was received in Eng
land for some or the finest varieties of
English roses, to be planted in the Shah's
gardens.
A csmplaint is made that the New York
undertakers are in such a hurry to put
bodies on ice, that in the case of persons
who are not dead, they must inevitably be
frozen to death.
A quicksilver fever is said to be exci
ting the mercurial temperaments of the peo
ple of Sonoma county, California. The
hills in the vicinity are reported to be
"biack with prospectors."
A curiosity is shortly to be placed in the
Ordnance Museum at Washington, con
sisting of a Federal and Confederate bullet
impacked in the air, which was picked up
before Petersburg in 1864.
The excursion season has commenced in
New York. Two boats recently went from
thence to the fishing Banks, and the five
hundred people who composed the party
succeeded in catching one porgie.
A spelling contest, open to all children
attending the public schools, took place in
Washington last week. There were 221
contestants, about one-half of whom were
girls. The prizes consisted of medals.
A medimval galley has been found in
the excavation of the port of Savona. It
is full of blocks of stone, and was one of
two which the famous Genoese Admiral,
Andrea Dorta, sank to construct the en
trance.
The island of Bermuda is reported to
be having a very dry season, and its vege
table crop will not be more than half the
average. Many of the early vegetables
which reach American markets are from
Bermuda.
According to all accounts, those Men
noites who are coming from Southern
Russia to settle in ourVestern Territories,
are an industrious and thrifty people, just
the kind to make the wilderness blossom
like the rose.
The corner-stone of a Roman Catholic
college will be laid at Macon, Ga., on Sun
day, Bishop Gross officiating. Catholic
and Irish societies from Savannah, Atlan
ta, Augusta end Columbus will take part
in the ceremonies.
A female cat, says the LebanQn Courier,
belonging to Mr. David Aughbaug,h, at
Sheridan, gave birth, last week, to six kit•
tens, all attached to each other at the
stomach by a ligature at that place. This
beats the Siamese Twins all Lo pieces.
The Boston Flower Mission, established
four or five years ago, bas begun work in
the hospitals, prisons, Ste., fur the season s
places having been designated where con•
tributions are to be sent every Monday
and Thursday, tIM flowers to be distribu
ted by young ladies.
The Steel Works Company from Pitts
burgh who have been prospecting for a
site to locate for some time past, have late
ly secured a tract of land in Beaver Falls,
a short distance from the saw works, where
they will soon commence the erection of
the necessary buildings.
According to the Wilmington Gazette,
there is a woman living in Pencader Hun
drefl, New Castle county, Del., who has
been married twenty-four years, and who
last week gave birth to her twenty-third
child, which makes her record one child
per year since her marriage.
An English chemist, officially employed
to detect adulterations, reported forty
faulty samples out of a hundred and sev
enty. Arrow rttot was mixed in starch,
coffee with chickory, milk with water,
mustard with flour tumeric, vinegar with
sulphuric acid and oil of vitriol.
Miss Grace : "Why, cook, I declare !
here comes the long-lost tortoise Uncle
Philip gave us last year ! And out of the
coal cellar, of all places in the world !"
"Lor, Miss Grace, is that the tortoise ?
Why, I've been a usin' of 'im all through
the winter to break the coals with."
At Davenport, Is , recently, a boy five
years old found a cup of whisky, the con
tents of which he drank, and shortly after
died in great agony. The child's birth
day had been celebrated the previous eve
ning,'and the whisky had been left over
with other remains of the festivities.
A luckless undergraduate on being ex
amined for his degree, and failing in every
subject upon which he was tried, com
plained that he had not been questioned
on the things he knew. The examiner
tore off about an inch of paper, and push
ing it toward him desired him to write up
on it all he knew.
In the Perry county Court last week
Judge Junkin sentenced a Send incarnate
named John Baker, who was convicted of
committing a rape upon the person of a
little girl named Alice Robinson, aged
eleven years, to separate and solitary con
finement at bard labor in the Eastetn peni
tentiary for a period of ten years.
The Southwest Pennsylvania Railway
will be extended this season from Connels
ville to Mt. Braddock, a distance of about
seven miles. The completion of this road
to Mt. Braddock will put the Pennsylvania
Railroad in direct competition with the
Pittsburgh, Washington and Baltimore
Railroad, for the coke trade of the Fayette
branch.
The graduates of the Washington semi
nary are making arrangements for a re
union in the hall of the institution on
Thursday, Juno 25th, with a view of ex
tending a farewell offering to Mrs. Hanna
upon her retirement from the active man
agement. The matter is in the hands of a
committee consitsing of Miss Martha Gray
son, Mrs. 8.. B. Gamble, Mrs. C. Lemoyne
Wills, Miss Jenette B. Lourie and Miss
Jane W. Baird.
NO. 21.
[By Request.]
The Gypsy's Warning
Trust him not, oh gentle lady ;
Though his voice be low and sweet.
Heed not him who kneels before thee,
Softly pleading at thy feet.
Now thy life is in its morning ;
Cloud not this, thy happy lot;
Listen to the Gypsy's warning;
Gentle lady, trust him not.
Lady, once there lived a maiden,
Young and pure, and like thee, fair,
Yet he wooed, he wooed and won her,
Thrilled her gentle heart with care.
Then he heeded not her weeping,
He cared not her life to save ;
Soon she perished—now she's sleeping
In the cold and silent grave.
Lady, turn not from me so coldly,
For I have only told the truth;
From a stern and withering sorrow,
Lady, I would shield thy youth.
I would shield thee from all danger,
Shield thee from the Tempter's snare,
Lady, shun the dark-eyed stranger,
I have warned thee—now beware.
Take your gold, I do not want it,
Lady, I have prayed for this.
For the hour that I might foil him,
And rob him of expected bliss.
Aye, I see thou art filled with wonder,
At my look so fierce and wild,
Lady, in the church-yard yonder, ,
Sleeps the Gypsy's only child.
Personal
Mr. Brooks, of Arkansas, was formerly
a Methodist minister.
Gen. Schenck has made arrangements
to return to England, on the 20th, inst.
He is now in Washington.
The Rev. William R. Alger will be one
of the speakers at the demonstration of the
Boston workingmen, on Monday.
The Rev. Robert Collyer, of Chicago, is
affectionately termed "Our Bob" by the
religious daily, the Chicago Times.
Providence, R. 1., has an old citizen
named John Williams, who recently cele
brated his one hundred and sixth birth
day.
Mrs. Belva A. Harris has been admitted
to practice before the Court of Claims in
Washington, beginning with a $lOO,OOO
suit.
Mr. J, C. Hall, an official in the Indian
Political Department, lately became insane
and murdered two natives near Ormutt
India.
Miss J. Edgar Thompson has her dresses
made in Paris. On a recent invoice this
lady paid $6OO customs duties, and it was
only a trunk full.
The Rev. Adriondack Murray is cred
ited with havizig laid out $60,000 on his
Guilford, Connecticut, stock farm within
the past five years.
A great affliction has befallen Lord Lyt
ton ("Owen Meredith") in the death of
his only son. His little daughter is also
in very poor health.
A Southern paper says that General
Forrest, "the brilliant Confederate cavalry
leader," is now engaged in hauling wood
to Memphis. driving the team himself.
It is reported that Judge Hoar has de
termined to retire from public life at the
end of the present term of Congress, and
devote himself to his large law practice.
A king of Babylon ordered cremation
for his subjects and built for that purpose
the first furnace, but Messrs. Shadrach,
Meschach and Abednego wouldn't cremate.
Brigham Young has begun to be made
a grandfather-in-law. In a few years it
will be necessary to calculate the Prophet's
family connections by geometric progres
sion.
The Sumner family, which gave Massa
chusetts Colony a Governor, and was rep
resented in our time by Senator and Gen.
eral Sumner, migrated in 1604 from Bi
cester, in Oxfordshire, England.
The wife of ex• Governor McCook, of
Colorado, died in Washington, on Tuesday,
of typhoid pneumonia. She had been in
the capital several months with her hus•
band, who is awaiting the result of his
nomination to the Senate for Governor of
Colorado.
Late investigations have completely dis
proved the formerly-received genealogy of
the Washingtons, which derived them from
the north of England baronets of the
name, and the Father of his Country is as
entirely without a pedigree as the obscu
rest Democrats among us.
The Milwaukee Sentinel has a special
court correspondent in England. The
latest intelligence he sends to that journal
is that "Queen Victoria allows the Duke
and Duchess of Edinburgh to board at her
house while the Clarence House is being
whitewashed ; but she makes them pay up
in advance every Saturday night."
The instruments used by Dr. Living
stone, in his last journey, a sextant, ther
mometer, and chronometer, are still ex
hibited in the map-room of the Royal Ge
ographical Society, of London, together
with some of his maps made in 1856—i.
The maps arc said to be executed with
great care and neatness, and to contain a
vast amount of information.
Ole Bull was once seeing the sights at
Donnybrook Fair, when he was attracted
by the sound of a very loud violin in a
tent. He entered and said, "My good
friend, do you play by note ?" "The deuce
a note, sir." "Do you play by ear, then ?"
"Niver an ear, yer honor." "How do you
play, then ?" "Ba main strength, be
jabers."
Mrs. Captain W. H. Wilson sailed from
New York for Liverpool, Saturday, on the
Republic. She is well known for her he
roism in having some years ago brought
her husband's vessel safely into port, when
he had been so disabled as to be entirely
unfit to manage the ship. The English
Government gave her a gold locket as a
memorial.
The Vienna journals announce that, ac
cording to an ancient custom still observed
at the Court of Vienna, the Emperor and
Empress of Austria washed the feet of
twelve old men and twelve old women, on
Good Friday, one old woman being 107
years old. The ceremony was performed
with great solemnity in the presence of the
Court dignitaries, and each old person re
ceived thirty pieces of silver.
Prof. Loomis, of Yale College, like es-
President Caswell, of Brown University,
has been making comparison between the
April which has just left us and its prede
cessors for 96 years, and he finds that it
had a mean s temperature of six degrees be
low the average of any of them. The re
cords have only been kept at New Haven
for 96 years, but that is long enough to
give our youngest April a very bad repu
tation.