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The Song of 187C.
Waken, voioe of the land'i devotion !
Bpirit of freedom, twakc til 1
Ring, ye shores to the eong of ocn,
Rivera answer and mountain call 1
The golden da; ha ocmo
Lot every tongue be dumb,
That sonndodita malice or murmured its fears
8'ie ba'.h won her etory j
She wears her glory ;
We orowu her the laud of a bandied years 1
Ont of ilAiUneci and tell ard danger,
Into the light of victory's day,
Help to the weak and home to the stranger,
Freedom to all, she hath beld ber way,
Now Europe's orphans rest
Upon her mother breast ;
The voice? of nations are beard in the cheers
That shall cast npon ber
New love and honor,
And crown ber the queen of a hundred years !
North and Bonth, we are met as brothers 1
EaBt and West, we are wedded as one ;
Right of each shall secure our mother's ;
Child of each is her faithful son 1
We give thee heart and band,
Our glorious native land,
For battle has tried thee and time endears ;
We will write thy story,
And keep thy glory
As pure as of old for a thousand years 1
Bayard Taylor.
A Revolutionary Hero.
Incidents in the Life of Gen. John
Mead and his Family, of Horse
Neck, Conn., During the Revolu
tionary War.
In Fairfield county, Conn., just
where the State borders on New York,
is situated the beautiful village of
Greenwich, called in "ye olden time,"
Horse Neck, taking this natno from n
neck of laud jutting out into Long
Island pound, on which the Indians pas
tured their horses. Like most Now
England towns, Greenwich has a
graphic colonial history of tiaiei
when the Mohcgaus skulked through
the f.jrc'tf, waging unrelenting
wars. And later, during the Revolution,
the town comes into notice as a point of
Gov. Try on'a attack, and the bold es
cape ol Put nam down the precipitous
hill an incident which will bo remem
bered to the end of time. From the
top of this hill the view of the scenery
is grand. On the south is the sound,
ever dotted with craft, and Long Islano
itself in the distance, with its bald sand
bulks. The appearance of the village
from the sound is particularly flue, and
always attracts the attention of passen
gers by boats. The first house in the
village, approaching it from the west,
by the old mail routo from New York to
B st-in, was tho house of Col. Richard
Mead, whose father Dr. Amos Mead
was surgeon of Ye Third Connecticut
, regiment, at Ticonderoga, in 1709, as
his powder horn iuforms us. A. short
distance fnrther on was the residence of
Gen. John Mead, tho subject of this
sketch.
This hero of the Revolutionary war
was born in Urecuwicu in the jear 17-o,
and was the son of John and Flizabetb
(Lock wood) Mead. In personal appear
ance he was short of stature nnd very
floshv so much so that the story is tol l
that bis tailor, having niadu a vest for
him, by way of experiment buttoned it
around timself and four other men. In
character, ho was firm aud decided.
sometimes looked upon as severe, but
withal extremely just.
Gen. John Meai was a member of the
Connecticut Legislature for nino years
before tho Revolutionary war, and after
the war till ho died, making in all nine
teen consecutive years. King George
Rent him a commission as captain, which
he declined. When he entered the
American army be was made major, and
three weuks afterward was promoted to
be lieutenant-colonel. Three years be
fore the war closod he was made gen
cral. At home he also held the office of
probate judge. His captain's commis
sion was at one time found among bin
papers, by the British and Tories, when
they surrounded and plundored his
house during the war, and by them car
ried off as evidence against him, shcnld
he, by any chances of war, fall into th.?ir
bauds.
During three years of the war he bad
command of the American lines at Horse
Neck, and for long distanco either
way. He saw some active service, and
was with the army at New York when
that city was taken by the British, hav
ing command of the last detachment of
our troops that left the city. The
thou Col. Mead, as related above, was
short of stature and very fleshy. Tlae
day on which the army evacuated New
York was a remarkaby hot one, and our
troops suffered severely from beat and
fatigue during the retreat. At night,
so soon us a plaoe of safety had been
reached, every one sought rest. The
officers found accommodations on the
floor of the hotel, aud everywhere, until
not a place remained. Col. Mead came
in last, and carefully sought a place ;
lying down, be thoughtlessly appropri
ated an officer's feet for a pillow. The
officer awoke, and in a rough tone de
manded who was lying ou bis feet. Col.
Mead politely apologized, but the officer,
recognizing bis voice, cried out : ' Col.
Mead, is, that you ? I never expected
to see you again alive, after the dread
ful beat and struggle of the day ; n ake
a pillow and welcome, if you can find
any rest here.
His farm and residence at Horse
Neck were below the American lines,
which, with bis position as officer, made
it a plaoe especially exposed. His house
was repeatedly plundered, bis cattle
driven off, and bis life and the lives of
bis family greatly endangered by the
Tories and Cowboys ; bis buildings torn
to pieces, bis fences burned, and eventu
ally be was compelled to remove his
family to the adjoining town of Norsvalk,
afterward New Canaan. For bis losses
the State afterward gave him a large
track of land in Ohio, then considered
of little value, and at his death it was
divided among his children.
General John Mead was married, in
1755, to Mary Brush, daughter of Ben
jamin Brush, of (Scotch extraction. By
this marriage he had nine children, as
follows: John, Anna, Mary (twins),
Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Alan, Seth, Ben
jamin (who died young), and Walker.
Mrs. Mead died in 1785, aged about fifty
five, and be married again, Mehetabel,
widow of Jonathan Pock. By this
second marriage he had one child, Darned
Mehetabel for her mother. This child
could not have been more than four
years old at the time of hqr father's
death, and in his will ho speaks of ber
as " my little daughter Mehetabel."
Ho died of dropsy, Dec. 3, 1790, and
was buried in the old burying ground at
Horse Neck, on the brow of Putnam's
hill; bnt the spot is no longer known,
for there is nothing to mark bis last
resting place. The burying ground it
self is overgrown with briers and
thorns. Quiet now, yet it overlooks
the scene of Putnam's wonderful ex
ploit, and tumult of tho warriors on the
plnin below.
Tho bravery of the father descended
to his childreu, and the incidents con
nected with them serve to bIiow of what
stern material our "rude forefathers of
the hamlet " were made.
Two aneodotes of tho twins (Anna
and Mary) come down to us. At one
time when a raid was made on their
father's house, and it was surrounded by
Tory Light Horse, the family were at
breakfast with some of tho general's
friends. They had barely time to es
cape through the rear door, though not
entirely unperceived by their fierce pur
suers, when one of tbem rode up to the
door and demanded of Anna, then a
girl of about eighteen years of age,
where they were hid. She refused to
give a satisfactory reply, when he de
clared wi;h an oath he would kill her,
and gottiug off his horse, aimed a blow
at hor head with his sword. She dodged
the blow, and his sword struck the door
casing, " cutting it quite in two," says
one report.
Finding he could not intimidate ber,
the cavalier remounted bis horse, rode
into the hour-e, placed bis foot under the
edge of the table and tipped it over,
breaking the dishes. Confronting a
large mirror, he dashed his sword
against the glass and broke it into a
thousand pieces, at tho same time ex
claiming : " There's Congress for you."
General Mead's son, Alan, was at that
time a very small boy, nnd took refuge
behind some evergreens in tho firo
place. Being very much frightened at
their wanton and boisterous conduct,
he begun to cry, when somo Tory
cavalier said to him : ' Stop your noise,
or I will cut your bead off."
Anna always declared that she would
remember that man, no matter where
she should see him; and, singular to
relate, sho met him frequently after the
war closed, almost always at the panic
church.
At another time, wheu the oldest son
John was 'home from the war on parole,
it being very dry and tho water at tho
house having failed, Mary went to n
spring some distance in the rftr of the
house to rinse some clothes. WLile
there, she saw ber brother run from the
back door in his shirt sleeves, through
the orchard, to a thicket thathad sprung
up from the roots of a trie that had
been removed, and conceal himself only
a short distance- from her.
In a few minutes she was surrounded
by British and Tory Light Horse, w ho
demanded of her where her brother had
lied to. She not giving the informa
tion, a horseman rode up to her, drew
his sword aud placing it at her breast
swore ho would tako ber life in an in
stant, if sho did not reveal her broth
er's hiding place. Her presence of mind
did not forsako her, and she explained
that sho came ont there early in the
morning, bad not been from there, and
therefore under tho circumstances could
not know what had takeu place at the
house. She was finally successful in
convincing him that she did not know,
and he left ber; yet the placo of con
cealment was within sight and almost
within sound of ber voice. Thus bho
succeeded in saving her brother's lifo.
Mary married Levi Hauford, a resi
dent of New Canaan. Iu the month of
October, 1776, Hanford enlisted in a
troop of horse under Captain Seth Sey
mour, whose duty it was to guard at d
protect the seacoast. On the thirteenth
of March, 1777, Hanford, with twelve
others of the troop, was detached as a
guard and stationed at South Norwalk,
then called "Old Well." Tho night
was dark, and the woather inclement,
uud the officers in consequence negli
gent in their duties. In the course of
the evening they were entirely surround
ed by a party of British aud Tories
from Long Island, who came over in
whale boats, and the whole guard wero
taken prisoners, Hanford included,
though he was at the time but a little
over seventeen years of age. The
prisoners were conveyed across the
sound to Huntington, from there to
Flushing, and thence to New York.
Upon their arrival in the city, they were
incarcerated in tho old " Sugar House
Prison " in Crown, now Liborty street,
near the old Dutch church, at that time
used as a riding school for the British
Light Horse. Of those who were taken
prisoners at that time, all died in prison
of smallpox or other diseases, except
two, Ebenezer Hoyt and Levi Hanford,
who lived to be exchanged.
In January, 1852, an advertisement
appeared in the New York Journal of
Commerce, stating that the anthor, Da
vid Barker, Esq., had iu his possession
a cane made from one of the beams of
the " Old Sugar Houso " in Liberty
street, aud calling upon any surviving
sufferer in that old prison to send in his
name, that he might have the pleasure
of presenting the relio to him as a sup
port to his declining years. To this
call fivc only responded, disclosing the
melancholy fact that of those prisoners
only five remained alive. Each of these
applicants sent in bis name, with a brief
acoount of bis imprisonment and suffer
ings. It appeared from these state
ments that Levi Hanford was confined
the longest of the five, and was the
youngest of the number when impris
oned. There being so many applicants
for the cane, it was concluded to leave
the choioe to be determined by lot.
When the decision was made known to
Hanford, be at once gave up all hope of
receiving it, saying that in a'l his life
be never bad any fortune in chance
operations. The drawing, however,
came off. and the oane fell to bun. It
was transmitted to him by a grandson,
and be received it In the ninety-fourth
year of his age, with a deop feeling of
pride and pleasure, ne kept it con
stantly by bis side, cherishing and pre
serving it till the day of bis death as a
memento of his early years.
The Story of Rip Tan M'Inklc.
In a hollow of tho Catskill mountains
is the scene of Rip Van Winkle's en
oounter with the Dutch ghosts and the
bewitching flagon. The story of Rip is
one of tho most charming of Irving's
legends. He tells us that he was a good-for-nothing
idler about the village tav
ern that stood iu the. evening shadows
of these mountains, and was properly a
heupeokod husband. Rip feared noth
ing so much as Dame Van Winkle's
tonguo, which was sharp and l.vely
when the good woman was irate. He was
much away with his dog and gun hunt
ing in the mountains. On one of these
occasions he heard the rumbling of the
ghostly niue-pins among the hills, which
often sounded in the ears of dwellers
near; and ho soon came upon a queer
looking company, who were solemnly
and silently engaged in that game.
They were doubtless the ghosts of Hen
drick Hudson and his crew iu carnal
form, ne was introduced to them by a
mau who was bearing a keg of liquor on
his shoulder. That liquor was poured
iuto a flagon, out of which the ever
thirsty Rip drank freely, fell asleep, and
did not awako until twenty years had
passed away.
When Kin awok", his first tnonght
was of his wife's tongue. " Oh, that
flagon I that wicked flagon 1" he ex
claimed. "Whatsh'ill I say to Dame
Van Winkle?" Alas I all had changed.
His rustv irnn barrel, without a stock,
lay by his side; his dog was gone; his
beard was white and flowing, and his
clothes were rags. What could it mean ?
As he wandered back to the village, he
saw nothing that was familiar to him
men, politics, the tavern, all' were
changed. Everything was a mystery to
him, and he was a mystery to every
body. At length some recognitions oc
curred, and the first real happiness that
beamed in Rip's dim eyes was when he
was assured that death had silenced
Dame Van Winkle's tongue. ' His story
of tho mysterious nine-pin players was
finally believed; and "even to tins day,
said tho romaucer, tho Dntch inhabit
ants never hear a thunder r.torm of a
summer afternoon about the Katskill
but they say Hendrick Hudson and his
crew are at "their gamo of niue-pins."
Co-operative Vine Growing in Cali
fornia. The viueyard men of Sonoma valley
have taken the matter of wine making
in their own bands, and hereafter the
profits will inure to the benefit of the
producers and not to manufacturers.
Last year a number of tho vine growers
in and around Sonoma, with Senator
Hill at the head, determined not to sell
their grapes for 12 a ton, the highest
price offered by distillers and wine
makers. Accordingly they joined in
with their capital aud formed a joint
stock company, about five hundred acres
beiug represented. They rented a build
ing and employed a thorough man to
tako charge of the business. They last
vear made something over 200.000 cal
lous of wino and brandy, and instead of
selling their grapes for $12 a ton they
were enabled to pay the stockholders as
the rate of about $20 a ton, end for
Riesling grapes as high as $37.50. This
is simply the price paid to the stock
holders for their grapes, and in addition
to this they will receive a dividend from
tho wine sold. Each holder of a share
of stock is entitled to furnish one ton of
grapes. The company have au agent
ubroad who has made some very advan
tageous sales, although the wine is not
yet ripe for market.
Such corporations as these will no
doubt be eventually established through
out the Stato, and by this means alone
can wine growers hope to get tho value
of their crops. It costs proportionately
less to tako caro of a large lot of grapes
than for each farmer to work up bis own
crop, and by this means the most im
proved machinery can be brought into
use, and experienced men employed to
take charge.
To Broil a Steak.
First see that the fire is clear and not
too much of it; open wide all the drafts,
to carry oil all the smoke that is made
during tho process of broiling; then see
that the-gridiron is smooth and quite
olean, rub it well with whiting or chalk,
lay on your steak. Do not pound it,
nor, after it is ou the fire, stick a fork
into it, or the juice will escape. Neither
salt nor pepper it; do that ou the dish.
Throw a little salt ou tho fire, and put
over the steak; place tha gridiron close
ou the range for the first few minutes,
to carbonize the surface, then turn it
over quickly to carbonize tho other side.
Now it should be exposed to a slower
fire, to do which place two bricks on
their1 edges, and lest tho gridiron on
them. The steak should be turned re
peatedly aud carefully, and wheu it feels
rather firm to the touch it is rare, and if
so liked it should be taken off, laid u a
hot dish, on which one and one-bait
ounces of butter has been melted, less
than one-half teaspoonf ul of salt, a pinch
of white pepper and one teaspoonful of
chopped parsley, well mixed; lay the
steak on oae side and then on the other.
Serve immediately.
A Desperate Soldier.
The Spanish troops recently killed a
man named Troilan Garcia, in Cuba,
who was formerly a Spanish soldier, but
having had some punishment inflicted
on him by the commander of bis detach
ment, deserted to the rebeln, and at tho
head of a few chosen men had ever since
devoted himself to the work.of revenge
on the particular company to which be
bad belonged. He bad continually lurk
ed in their neighborhood, picking off
one straggler after another, until he had
killed thirty-seven men of the company,
besides the particular officer who bad
punished him.
A French giantess has married " the
wandering skeletou," a wonderfully thin
man, attached to the show with which
e he travels. She wanted a husband she
could Bee through.
THE BLACK HILLS.
Sorry Condition of the Bcrklna Miners
movements or the military Expedition.
Parties of frightened ' miners,' who
have hastily left the Black Hills and
pushed southward witu ail convenient
speed, daily arrive at Cheyenne, Wyo
ming Territory, bringing melancholy
stories. The mining settlements wiil
soon be deserted unless the terror of
returning aero a the open plains, which
are now infested by bands of blood
thirsty Sioux, should counterbalance in
the minds of the unfortunates the bard
ships and perils of remaining where
they are. Food and ammunition they
report to be very scanty there and held
by traders at fabulous prices. Many of
the repentant immigrants suffer from
enforced fasting, except when they may
chance to secure small supplies of wild
game, which has become very shy.' The
majority of ' them have ventured and
lost their all in seeking the fancied El
Dorado. They are depleted not only
in purse but in health and spirits.
Those who have reached Cheyenne say
that the Sioux are in the heart of the
Black Hills skulking among the rocks
and in the canyons, nnd opening a
treacherous fire upon white men when
ever they can reach them. They can
neither hunt nor dig for fear of the un
seen foe. John Kelly, Martin Dean aud
John Golden, members of a party of
ninety which escaped from the Hills, re
late their discovery of three white men
on their outward way dead and scalped
near Mountain City, twenty-five miles
north of Custor. One of them had
been tomahawked, and their wagon was
riddled with balls. Dead horses and
mules lay along the trail. In Cold
Springs canyon they found the corpse
of another invader killed by a wound
given behind and scalped.
It is reported that Jim Sanders, o
gallant scout and hunter, has been
butchered by the Sioux near Iron creek,
in the Black Hills. The returned
miners, who are of course terrified by
their experience, say it is impossible for
the squatters to hold out against want
and the Indians long. " There are only
two alternatives, to risk a massacre on
the plains or to submit to be picked off
and starved to death in the Hill country.
The settlements have already lost by
departure and demise two-thirds of
their inhabitants. Custer City once
claimed 1.200 souls and has now only
300. Hill City has 200 empty cabins
and twenty miners; Mountain City six
cabins and two inhabitants. The Dead-
wood and Whitewood gulches, where
there were 1,000 people, contain now
but 200; Little Beaver and Potato
gulches have about twenty-five men;
in Bear gulch there are two women.
This census was taken by Allen Haight,
who was mail carrier for the minef s. .
In Agricultural Hall.
Agricultural hall is an immense
Gothic-roofed, cathedral-like structure
of glass. The building is quite com
plete, but the work of arranging the
Roods for exhibition still progresses,
and entire sections are yet filled with
great piles of unopened packing cases
containing articles wmcn await arrange'
ment in proper order. Near the entrance
we find a fine exhibit of Rhenish wines
of every brand and value. On the right
hand side of the main avenue of the
building is placed the vast collection of
agricultural implements, from a grub
bing hoe to a gigantic machine for piling
bay, plows, barrows, steam machinery
for the performance of every kind of
farm work, machines for felling the
forest and upturning the surface of the
prairie, reclaiming the swamps and
leveling mountains. With these we
nnd in their proper sections specimens
of every bird, beast, reptile and insect
known on the American continent, with
the different products derived from
them, such as hides, lard, glue, etc
The exhibit of breadstuff's is very large,
but not yet quite complete. Bread in
its various stages of production, from
flour to the crusty loaf, is there. Steam
cooked food for cattle, oat meal and all
varieties of crushed grain are exhibited
Ou the right band side of the building
the animals of the prehistorio periods
of the world s existence are present in
skeleton and model. Gigantio mastodons
and saurians, great turtles and monster
shellfish are shown to the wondering
visitor. On the left hand side we find
a fine collection of teas, coffees, spices.
sugars and other groceries. Really the
show here looks like a branch of
some Centennial tea company's estab
lishment. African elaHtio gums, india
rubber and gutta percba lie in heaps
within the spaces marked for their ex
hibition. Bird cacres aud fibbing nets.
corks and pig iron appear to bo crowded
together without regard to difference of
character. Yet all is order. There is
no confusion of arrangement. Each
section presents its special exhibits,
Louisiana sends a tree loaded with the
somber, hanging moss which renders
some of her landscapes so gloomy ; but
this hanging, fiber has a commercial
value, and science lias already converted
it into a useful substitute for hair in
mattresses and upholstery. Veterinary
surgery is not neglected, for we find
pieces of horse of every kind, from hide
to hoof, exhibited, for the purpose of
illustrating en nine diseases, bad shoe
ing, etc California sends her cacti and
grain, as well as her gold quartz. Ciu
cinuati her hams and packed pork
Spain shows a fine collection of hemp
from Manila wine, oil, tobacco, woods
of evory kind and leather but the space
is not yet ready for visitors, i'ortugal
has her fruits and cereals, wines, and
ttven the corks to keep it safe in bottle
until needed for consumption. Brazil
tends woods, wines, cereals, tobacco.
sugar, leather, skins, and has a cotton
trophy well deserving of notice. Even
Liberia sends specimens of her coffee
and eoooa, with many curious things
from the Gold coast.
This Cat. "Ma! does pa kiss the
cat?' "Why., no I my son, what in
the came of goodness put that in your
head t" " 'Cos, when pa came down
staii s this morning he kissed Sarah in
the hallway and said : ' That's better
thau kissing that old oat up stairs, ain'
it, Sarah t' " And that, people say, is
the reason why Smith stayed in the boa
pital lor nearly two months. . .
BADLY DEMORALIZE!).
8nn Frnnrlsca Knrthqnnke nnd Its Kf
fuetu ns Described by Bret 11 arte.
BretHarte, in "Gabriel Conroy,"in
Scribner'a Month!;, gives us the fol
lowing idea pf a San Francisco earth
quake: The middle of the broad street
was filled with a crowd of breathless,
pallid, death-stricken men, who had lost
all sense bnt the common instinct of
animals. There we're hysterical men,
who laughed loudly 'without a cause,
aud talked incessantly of what they
knew not. There were dumb, paralyzed
men, who stood helplessly and hope
lessly beneath cornices and chimneys
that toppiea over ana crusnea tnem.
There were automatic men, who, flying,
carried with them the. work on ' which
they were engaged one whose bands
were full of bills and papers, another
who held his ledger under his arm.
There were men who had forgotten the
irdinary instincts of decency somo
half dressed, one who bad flown from a
neighboring bathroom with, only the
towel in his hand that afterward hid his
nakedness. There were men who
rushed from tK a fear of death into his
presence; two wore picked up, one who
had jumped through a skylight, another
who had blindly leaped from a fourth-
story window. There were brave men
who trembled like children; there was
one whose life had been spent in scones
of daring and danger, who cowered par
alyzed in the corner of the room from
hich a few. inches of plastering had
fallen. There were hopeful men who
believed that the danger was over, and,
having passed, would by some mysteri
ous law, never recur; there were others
who shook their heads and said that the
next shock would be fatal. There were
crowds around the dust that arose from
fallen chimneys and oornices, around
xuiRway horses that had dashed as
madly as their drivers against lamp
posts, around telegraph and newspaper
offices, eager to know the extent of the
disaster. Along the remoter avenues
and cross streets dwellings were de
serted, people sat upon their doorsteps
or in chairs upon the sidewalks, fearful
of the houses they had built with their
own hands, and doubtful even of this
)lue arch above them that smiled so de
ceitfullv: of thoso far-reaching fields
beyond, which they had cut into lots
and bartered and sold, and which now
seemed to suddenly rise against them,
or slip and wither away from their very
feet. It seemed so outrageous that this
dull, patient earth, whose homeliness
they had adorned and improved, and
which, whatever their other fortune or
vicissitudes, at least had been their sure
inheritance, should have become so
faithless. Small wonder that the owner
of a little bouse, which bad sunk on the
reclaimed water front, stooped in the
speechless and solemn absurdity of his
wrath to shake his clenched fist in the
face of the Great Mother.
The real damage to life and property
had been so slight, and in such pro
nouueed contrast to the prevailing ter
ror, that half an hour later only a sense
of the ludicrous remained with the
greater masses of the people. Mr,
Dumphy, liko all practical, nnimagma
tive men, was among the first to re
cover his presence of mind with the
passing of the immediate danger. Peo
pie took connuence wnen mis greai
man, who bad so much to lose, after
sharply remanding his clerks aud every
body else back to business, re-entered
his office.
Desolate Traveling Iu Spain.
A correspondent of the London Times,
traveling through the Spanish province
of Murcia, was stmck by the loneliness
of the journey aud the absonce of life
and animation scarcely equaled iu any
other part of Hiiirope. lie says: An
other matter that would strike the
stranger and cause a moment s uneasi
ness might bo the fact that two civil
Kuards. fully armed, aooompany tne
coach, their rifle muzzles protruding out
of the windows of the berlina, which
seat they occupy, giving an id a at once
of insecurity and security. This road
was once notorious for its bands of rob
bers, hardly a week passed without the
soacu being stopped ana rouDea; uut
now relays of civil guards posted along
the roads have effectually cleared the
distance of such pests. On an English
highway, again ouo meets many a woll
ordered gentleman's carriage, and sees
many an outlaying house sleeping in its
aniet belt of trees; but on these roads,
of outlaying houses there are scarcely
any, save in the immediate suburbs of a
town, aud of carriage traveling there is
marvelously small amount, indeed,
with all classes, traveling is the excep
tion and not the rule. Hundreds of the
poorer classes have never even visited
the nearest town or city. The thinness
of the population also presents another
feature in these parts, as do the gaudy
and ever picturesque costumes of the
women, contrasting with tho euowy gar
ments of their mates, as they work in
the gardens.
Hating One Another.
Two aootchmen occupied the same
cottage, each being bound to keep his
own side of the house well thatched.
They were Fadly divided religiously,
one being a Burgher and the other an
anti-Bnroher. After repeated battles
of words they were not on speaking
terms. One day these men were at work
on the roof, each thatching his own side,
and they met at the top aud were forced
to look in each other's faces. One of
the men took off his oap, and scratching
his head said to the other : " Johnnie,
you aud me, I think, has been very foor-
ish to dispute as we have done concern'
ing Christ's will about our kirks, until
we bae cleau forgot His will aboot onr-
sels ; and so we hae fought so bitterly
for what we oa' the truth that it has
ended iu spite. Whatever is wrong,
it s perfectly certain that u never can
berioht to the uncivil, unncighborly,
unkind ; iu fact, tae hate one anither.
Na, na, that's the deevil's work, and no
God's I Noo, it strikes me that maybe
it's wi the kirk as wi' this bouse ; ye're
working ou ae side and me on the
t'ither, but if we ouly do our work weel
we will meet at the top. at last. Gie n
vour .ban', auld neegabort".. So they
shook hands and were the best of friends
ever after, !::.- t
1 'Tho New Mexican Penl cntos.
Ihe New Mexican is very particular
about his religions observances
Throughout the Territory the Penitentes,
on Holy Thursday, tile into the April
twilight of the snow covered street to
the doleful musio of a shrill reed instru
ment played by an attendant. They are
destitute of other clothing than a thin
pair of drawers, and their heads aud
faces are hidden in white cotton wraps,
bo that their neighbors may not, by
recognizing them, have cause to wonder
what orime they expiate. i.ne leaaor
staggers' under the weight of a heavy
cross about twenty feet high, and his
companions, phiveriug with)ld as the
wind boats their naked bodies, carry
thick bunches of the thorny cactus in
their hands. . The attendants place them
in position, and at a given signal the
procession moves, chanting a plaintive
hvmn to ths time of the musioian s
nine. i At every second step the men
strike .themselves over the shoulders
with the cactus, leaving a deeper soar
with each blow, until the skin is broKen,
and the lacerated flesh pours its blood in
a oarmine trail on the snow. Several are
bound at the ankles by rawhide thongs,
a dasrerer. Dointed at both ends, being se
cured between the two feet in such a
mv that when thev stumble, it stabs
them in a most sensitive part. The sight
becomes sickeninor with horror, and re
pressed moans of anguish fill the uir as
the cactus Drusnes airesn tne Bireammg,
nuiverinar wounds. No one is allowed to
retire, and when the cross bearer sinks
to the Bxound from exhaustion, the at
tendants ouicklv raise him and urge him
on again with his heavy burden. The
route is traced alouer. the white road iu
crimson footsteps, and after parading
the alleys of the town, tho procession
turns off toward a Bteop hill, in ascend
ing which their bare feet are cut to the
bone by the sharp projecting rocks.
The eminence gained, preparations are
made for a new and surprising torture.
The cross is laid upon the ground, and
the bearer is so firmly bound to it by
lengths of rawhide that the circulation
of the blood is retarded, and a gradual
discoloration of the body follows. His
arms are outstretched along tne trans
verse beam, to whioh a sword, pointed at
both ends like the dagger before men
tioned, is attached, and if he allows them
to drop a single inch from their origiual
position, the weapon penetrates the
flesh. Amidst the unearthly groans or
the bystanders and tho shrill pipiug of
the musician the cross is raised, aud the
crucified turns bis agonized face to
heaven, while the blood slowly trickles
from his woundi and a livid hue over
spreads his skin. How long he remains
is merely a question of enduranoe, lor
eventually he loses consciousness, and
not until then is be released. At the
conclusion of this barbarous perform
ance, which occasionally results in
death, the Penitentes return, and the
celebration is brought to a close.
The Longing for Fresh Air.
The Virginia City (Nevada) Enter
prise says : it is a curious faot that the
one constant wih of an old "forty
niner," or any man who has lived much
in the wilds, once he becomes seriously
ill, is to be taken out into the open air
It being mentioned an evening or two
since that a sick " Pioneer was con
stantly begging to be carried to the
mountains and " loft under a tree
wrapped in his blankets, several first
settlers present gave their experience,
and all agreed that it was the most na
tural feeling in the world. Tho moment
they were taken ill they begun to think
of the wilds where they rambiea in the
davs of their youth and strength. Sev
era! instances of the beneficial effects of
a removal to the open air were given
One gentleman said that a year or two
since be was taken seriously ill, and at
once begun to pine for the mountains,
He said he could not get well unless he
laid on the ground under a pine, high
up in the Sierras. Hia physician sent
him to San Francisco, to Son Jose, to
Santa Barbara, and to all manner of
places to which he did not want to go,
and where he was lodged in houses and
tenderly cared for as a sick man. He
gained no strength, and finally took the
matter in his own hands and went up
into the mountains and camped out by
the side of a big rock at the headof
AiuericHU river, xu kwu wee&H no wuo
running, gun in hand, all over the mouu
tains.
Another man who had long been ill
in this city bad himself carried to Lake
Tahoe. Arrived there, he sought out a
big pine tree on the shore of the lake,
aud under this he lay from morning till
night every day for over a week, doing
nothing but listen to the wind sign
through the leaves overhead, and each
day fat accumulated on his ribs. One
of the old miners of the days of " forty
nine " is almost woll when you tell him
that yon will take him into the moun
tains where he may oamp oy a spring
and sleep on the ground in bis blankets
every night.
Dogs lu Nevada.
The worst nuisances are the little
dogs; they are not much on the fight
themselves, but are remarkably success1
fnl in starting and urging on rghts.
Two bttle curs will commence by snarl
ing at each other, and in less time than
a cat can wink its tail the surface of the
full width of the street for the length of
a block will be covered with a sea of
surging, snapping, growling dogs, and
out of the chaos it is possible that there
may come one fully-developed, square-
up and-down dog fight, and then the
little dogs take seats in the dress circle
and watch the fun.
A Venerable Slab.
It is odd that just now a aaible slab
should be unearthed in the military park
in Newark, N. J., containing the follow
ing inscription : The citizens of
Newark, in grateful commemoration of
the fiftieth anniversary of American in
dependence, have on this fourth day of
July, A. D- 1826, deposited this stone as
a f oundation of a monumental memorial
here to be erected; and wben the dilapi
dation of time shall discover this in
scription to future generations, may the
light of the Gospel illuminate the whole
world."- The memorial baa never been
built; aud the hope expressed bos hardly
Fashion Notes.
Fringes are very fashionable.
Guipure laces are not fashionable.
The coaching hat is tne latest novelty
in millinery.
Alsace gingham is a oeautiiui new
Wash fabric.
Riding hats are Tery tall and slightly
bell crowned.
Tionc sweemnflr Mercutio plumes are
worn on coaching hata.
Percales, cambrics, and an wasn goods
dresses are made np in composite cos
tumes. Black garnet jewelry has been revived
for second mourning and plain demi-
toiletes. ." . .
Capote' bonnets require strings, for
which barbes of lace or gauze ribbon
are used.
Gilt and steel buttons are coming in
vogue for dressy costumes of silk aud
wool fabrics.
English round hats are worn by young
girls and capote bonnets by young mar
ried women in .fans.
Fine double and single ostrich plumes
are more worn this summer than they
have been for years.
Dark prune, dark blue, ana aars
brown are favorite colors for calico, per
cale, cambrio and lawn, are more fash-
ionable this summer than last.
Marguerites with brown, black, ov
yellow centers and of various sizes are
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in uemiiuu lor euuiuirr uub tuuiuiiugri.
A novelty just introduced is wool aud
silk gauze in all shades for the crowns
of bonnets, for fichus, cravats and
scarfs.
Oriental scarfs with arabesque and
geometric designs following the Indian
and Persian types are among the new
evening wraps.
The Dubarry coat, a garment resem
bling in shape a gentleman's swallow .
tailed dress coat, but trimmed with
plaitings, lace, or other feminine garni-.
ture, is the rage of tho moment in
Paris. '
The latest novelty in lace is the Esther
necklace, a production in American lace.
It is made of Honiton, applique, round
point or any lace preferred with lace
lockets and lace charms hanging from
it.
The lace strings of opera bonnets are
sometimes trimmed with chains of deli
cate flowers, such as daisies, forget-me-nots,
violets, and buttercups, sewed flat
on them to form garlands that encircle
the face and neck.
The verv lonar kid cloves, reaching
almost to the elbow, worn with Centen
nial costumes, have seven buttons which
form a row on the outer edge of tho
arm where the glove oens, instead of
beneath as in the ordinary kid glove.
Eoghsh lisle thread gloves, well cut
and fitting exquisitely over the band
and wrist, are preferred to kid for travel
ing and ordinary summer wear. They
have three, four, five aud six buttons,
but those with three buttons really look
best.
The Gainsborough is a handsome new
hat in Panama chip. The crown is high,
the brim droops on one side and rolls on
the other. . It is trimmed wiih a very
long double ostrich plume, which is
passed around the crown and sweeps
the shoulder.
From Le Bon Ton we learn that
" round skirts are no longer worn ex
cept in the morning or traveling; for
visiting, for walking, or for races all
dresses are trimmed;, a well bred lady
holds ber skirts up in her band out of
doors.
Curious Caso of Foisoning.
The Niagara Falls Gazette gives the
particulars of a curious case of poison
ing which occurred in that village a few
days ago. The wife of a prominent
merchant was suddenly taken ill a short
time after supper, and her symptoms
rapidly growing more and more serious,
a physician was summoned, lie imme
diately detected symptoms of poisoning,
and npon questioning into the character
of the food the lady had eaten for sup-
Eer learned that none of the family had
een able to drink the tea that bad been
served that evening, on account of a pe
culiar taste, which rendered it nauseous
and unpleasant. The singular flavor
was first noticed by a daughter of the
lady referred to, but not until her moth
er had drauk half a cup of the deooo-
tion.
The doctor immediately made an in
vestigation into the contents of the tea
kettle, and found that a good sized cigar
stub had been boiled with the water
that had subsequently been used in
making the tea for supper. Upon mak
ing this discovery the dangerous condi
tion of the Buffering lady became ap
parent, and most strenuous efforts were
made to save her life. For some time
it was feared that the poison would
baffle every effort of medical skill, but
a strong constitution finally triumphed,
aud at length the lady, who had suffered
terribly, was declared out of danger.
The cigar stub which caused all the
trouble bad been carelessly deposited on
the hot water tank of the stove by the
husband of the lady, and had subse
quently been accidentally knocked into
the teakettle without attracting any no
tice. Describing a Pastor.
A blind phrenologist lectured the
other night at a church in Troy. There
was a large crowd of ladies and gentle
men present. At the close of the, lecture
a oommittee was appointed to 'select a
candidate for examination. The lucky
man was the Presbyterian pastor of the
city. The blind man of science pro
ceeded to say that the doctor was very
fond of the fair sex in fact, as Jose-
pbus said to Solomon, "immoderately
fond of women; that if nis wile were
to die he would lose no time in looking
out for another; that he had a splendid
appetite, loved good eating, and liked
to "dine out' and was sure to make it
understood when be did that the doctor
was there, etc.
Some one in the audience wanted to
know about his religion. The sightless
scientist replied : " Publicly be is very
rebgious, but privately be is not troubled
with piety; be has a fine mechanical
bead, and, while be would make a fine
blacksmith, be would not make much of
a preacher." ... ...
Here the doctor turned very red iu
the face, and said : " Sir, I have been
a preacher of 4the Gospel for forty
years t"- - - , ;
ueen immiea. , . .
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