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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor, and Publisher.
NIL. DESPI3HANDTJM.
Two Dollars per Annum.
NO. 48.
VOL. VI.
MDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1877.
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Tapper's Tribute to America.
Great and undemtanding nation !
Hear with one whose lmtnblo pen
Sends this hearty commendation
Flying through the months of men ;
Not in vain prefnimntmm daring,
lint with gratitude sincere,
As your thousand bountios sharing
This Cciitenuial lmnvy year.
no need doulit my faithful fitness
Tims to judge, and bo to sneak,
As a (rue and Inmost witness,
Mindful, tliouuh his words he weak.
Hinco I may not tell out htronly '.
All the host I feci mid ncc,
Lost suspicion, sneering wrongly
Find a flatterer in mo.
Five and twenty years have vanished
Binco I hailed yon once bofore,
And my memory holds unbanished
How you greeted me of yore;
Even now pome few surround mo
Though tliut quarter century's fled
And their love lias newly crowned me
With old blowings on my head.
Thanks to you, dear old and new friends.
Knch and all my praise recoiv,
Everywhere I know you true friends,
And your cotdial words believe;
As a brother greets a brother
Mill our generous feelings blond,
And we look on one another
Each with each as on his friend.
Noble peoplo ! now returning
Absent thus so many a year,
With what ken, not undisoerning,
Can I judge your great career 1
How docs liip Van Winkle find you
Worso or better than of yore?
Flinging all your faults behind you?
Forcing all your best before?
Yes ! as in that old Dutch story,
Vou have grown both great and good;
Truly, progress is your glory,
Winning all that mortals could;
Truly rising better, wiser,
For adversities and woes,
Gathering good from each adviser,
Tar and peace, and friends and foes.
Temperance, morals, courteous bearing.
And tbe hand to help all round,
Each another's burden sharing
Generous traits like these abound;
Energetic, self confiding,
And religious, and sincere,
l'alicut, duteous, law abiding
Men like these are common here !
(lod's go,d will your country blessing
Helps your words of human will,
Wondrous cities, each possessing
Every type of ni t mid skill;
While Uio wilderness rejoices,
Showing Edens on the earth,
With the shout of freemen's voice:',
Woman's song, and childhood's mirth.
Since your pilgrim fathers landed
(Some of mine sailed with them, too
Giant hearted, giant handed,
We still tight life's battles through,
'Till th universal empire
Of our Anglo-Saxon race
JSmTJ.t us dc epev, 1 roader, higher,
Kings and r.. is in every place !
Martin F. Tutn-i:
DAISY'S COURTSHIP.
The old fashioned kitchen door stood
wide opon, imd the strong, swept west
wind poured through the sanded Honied
room, swaying in slow, graceful waves
tho blue muslin skirts of ia'.:y May's
morning wrapper, ns she stood beside the
table arranging a pile of stemless flowers
in n shallow glass dish.
" Indeed, I'll never marry ft farmer,
auntie. I love the country well enough
here nt home, where nothing but the
poetry of it falls to me gathering
flowers, drinking creamy milk, sketching
shndy spots, driving whenever I want to,
and uhvays sent luscious things to eat
and in winter rides, and sleigliiug, and
plenty of books and my music."
" And John Maurice." Her aunt tacked
tho name very tersely at the end of the
l'jUsj list of attractions ; then watched to
nee the effect on Daisy's face.
The pretty lips pouted charmingly.
" Maurice ! Oh, John's good enough,
of course ; but "
" It'u a good thing you have got over
your foolish attachment to him, Daisy,
for he's going to be married soon. En
gaged to one of the prettiest girls you
ever paw a Mis Winchester, visiting at
Castledean's."
Daisy's eyes grew a little darker, and
then she elevated her eyebrows coldly.
" He's engaged, is he ? Oh, well, that's
-perfectly natural, I am sure. I suppose
Miss Miss Winchester, did you say ?
I suppose she is a decided blonde, and
petite .'"
Daisy didn't say that Maurice had
ofteif sworn that there was no other style
of beauty for him but Daisy's own.
" Oh, bless you, no! Miss Winches
ter is tall, almost as tall as John, aud
very stately, and a lovely brunette.
Everybody thinks John a lucky fellow. "
Duisyrose and took down her garden
lmt.
" I dare say he is only I never could
see what there was about those tall, dark
women to captivate anybody. Auntie,
I'm going over to Minnie Castledean's
aw hile may I ?"
Mary watched the petite, graceful fig
ure in the navy blue foulard cambric,
nud white tarletnu shale hat, tied over
tho clustering, floating curls, aud nodded
her head wisely and smiled serenely.
. " You darling you perfect darling to
come to us, Daisy, I've been just dying
to see you and have you at home again.
We're going to have the most jolly
times this summer, you know. The
h mse is full, aud there is Nellie Win
chester especially I want you to know,
and the handsomest young officer on
leave Gus brought him up Colonel
Cressingtou; and we've impressed John
Maurice you remember John. He's
the handsomest fellow beats the col
onel, I tell you, and Nellie's just be
witched after him. "
And Daisy laughed aud assented, and
declared she lialf remembered John
Maurice, and was dying to see Miss
Winchester, and hi tended inaugurating a
flirtation at once with the military gen
tleman. Minnie rattled on, as seventeen-year-old-girls
have a way of doing.
" It's too bad I Null's gone down to
the citv to-dnv to buy ribbon for tho pic
nic oil, you'll surely be here next Tues
day for our picnic nt Eagle's Ilea 1,
Daisy? I suppose John Mnurice will
take Nellie, nnd I am sure Colonel Cres
singtou will be delighted to lie your es
cort." " Colonel Cressington will bo happier
than ever before in his life, if he may
have that honor, Miss Minnie."
When her morning mil was over, Col
onel Cressington insisted on walking
home with her, and Daisy permitted it
not becnuse he was so handsome and so
entertaining, or she so pleased with him,
but because well, she felt a little pro
voked at hearing so many praises of the
lady to whom John Maurice was en
gaged; and somehow it made her feel
better to flirt ft little.
And, as if the very fates themselves
were propitious, who should she and her
gallant cavalier meet, face to face for the
first time in three years to Daisy, but
John JUauriee
John Maurice so perfectly splendid
in his clear, dark, manly beauty, his styl
ish clothes everything just as it should
be.
This John Maurice aud aud engaged
to Nellie Winchester 1
Daisy's heart gave a bouud as he ox
tended a hand which she saw had a plain
gold ring on the little finger.
And then she crushed nil the joy she
had felt at seeing liim, aud gave him her
hand with n cool, graceful little bow
" Daisy May 1 is it possible ? Why,
you are prettier than ever, and I de
clare, Daisy, I nm awfully glad you're
home again."
He was so easily familiar, so frank
ond engaged to her !
Daisy smiled.
" Thank you, Mr. Maurice, fur your
good will. I am glad to see you."
It was very proper, very ladylike, but
a shadow came over John's 'handsome
face.
" I hope I shall see you often, Daisy.
You'll be nt the picnic on Tuesday ?
Cressington, keep that sunshade over her
head. Good-bye till I see you again."
His horse was prancing restlessly, and
ha wns oft' like a dart and out of sight
when Daisy bowed good-bye to her uni
formed gallant nt the gate.
" What a handsome fellow John Maur
ice has grown to be, hasn't he, uncle,?"
Daisy was sipping her coffee slowlv
that Tuesday morning a cloudless June
lay, tlmt tne gods had arranged for the
Castlcdenn party's picnic, nnd Daisy, her
lovely golden hair brushed on her lore-
hcad in loose burnished waves, nud
caught at the back of the head with pale
blue ribbons, wns impatiently trying to
get through her toilet.
Her undo buttered a slice ot home
made bread with keen relish.
" You might tiavel a seven days' jour
ney and not come across ins equal. And
hu4s Jnekv too. He sold his interest in
that railroad for ten times what he gave,
enough to buy him the prettiest farm in
the e(y..trv --.Ige Wire, and its stock
ed iir.t -duns, 1 "!u tell you. He's bound
t make n fori-iiie and thev sav that
Winchester rrirl'll bn'ii" him consider
able."
He'll never think of her monev.
He's not that kind of a man at all."
Aunt Murv stole a glane? nt the girl's
face.
"John's a splendid fellow, and his
wifo'll bo the happiest woman going. I
do say, Daisy, nothing would have
pleased your uncle and I better if John
had taken a notion to you."
"You should have t-aid if I had taken
notion to John. But vou see I
haven't."
She threw a kiss coqnettishlv ami van
ished through the door to have a foolish
cry up in her room before she dressed
herself.
And when Colonel Cressington drew
up in his two horse phaeton, he thought
he never had seen such a perfect picture
of girlish beauty nnd happiness in all
his life.
Aud Maurice dashed by in his chaise
with Nellie Winchester, radiant in white
muslin and rose hued ribbons, in time to
get a bow and a gleaming smile from
Daisy, r.nd to think, with another of
those slindows on his face that Daisy
had seen before, that Colonel Cressing
ton and Daisy were good very good
friends.
The long summer day had crept
pleasantly along, and the lengthened
shadows were warning the gay picnick
ers it was time to be preparing for re
turn. Colonel Cressington aud Nellie Win
chester had strolled oft' urm in arm an
lonr before, and Minnio Castledeau and
a dozen others were lounging on the soft
sward, gossiping, laughing aud enjoying a
doleefar tiiente geuendlv. while Maurice
was walking about unobserved, uure
membered by the others, with head bent
down, as if in close search for something
lost his ring that until several minutes
before he had not missed, and missing,
had at once commenced to hunt for.
Not that it was so valuable.
But a pained, white look on his face
thnt had been there nt intervals all day
intensified as he thought how dear that
simple band was to him and why.
He went on aud on, seiiarating further
and further from the party, until subs,
low, indistinct, as if unsuccessfully sup
pressed, but unmistakable sobs, attracted
his attention, and a second's continuance
in the direction ho was going brought
him in full view of Daisy May, with her
head bowed on her hands audi her frame
convulsed with violent weeping, and
glistening on her fair finger the circlet of
gold for which he was searching.
Seeing him she sprung to her feet, aud
dashing the tears from her eyes, said :
"I found your ring, Mr. 'Maurice."
She drew it off her finger nnd handed
it to him, calling ell the powers of on
unhappy, foolish little heart to her aid to
make her strong and indifferent who
had been sitting there kissing and crying
over John's engagement ring.
John took the ring, and, holding it be
tween his fingers and thumb, looked iu
her face, with his own pale and eager.
" Daisy, tell ine you were crying be
cause you love me. Is it so ? Daisy,
my only, my own darling. I almost
dread t have your answer, for I fear it
will be no. But do yon love me, my
darling?"
A sudden glory flashedover her face,
her very soul looking out of her eyes.
Then, her lips quivering piteously i
"Oh I John, how can you talk to me
so ? Nellie Winchester "
He pressed her suddenly closely to
him and pushed her hond down on his
shoulder.
"Look up, little one. Nellie Win
chester is nothing to me, although ru
mor has said so. You are all the world
to me, darling. Am I so to you ? Will
you take the ring I bought when I heard
yon were coming home, and determined
to secure yon for my own as soon ns I
saw you ? Daisy, I have been engaged
to vou since I can remember. Will you
ratify it ?"
And with nil her soul in the kiss she
gave him, Daisy knew her heart was nt
rest in John Maurice's love.
That night it wns announced in the
(Jastledean parlor privately, ot course,
that the rjicnic had been a creat succosb.
Colonel Cressington had proposed to
Miss Winchester, nnd had been accepted,
aud Minnie confidentially whispered to
Daisy :
"Wasn't it cunning? for Nell carried
on with John Maurice just to try to
make the colonel piqued, so that he
woidd propose. That's the way I mean
to do; don t you 7
Aud Daisy smiled and blushed, and
stole a glance at Jolin's happy face, and
thought how good everything was.
Vniuleibilt's Second Marriage.
Commodore Vaudcrbilt's first wife
died in 1807. During tho summer of
1S08 he married Miss Frank Crawford,
who was about thirty years of nge, the
commodore then being m his seventy'
hllh venr. jiiss urawford s father was
a well-to-do planter and merchant, who
came of a lrguua family. He moved
to Mobile, Alabama, where Miss Craw
ford was born. The war made serious
inroads into the Crawford estate, and
shortly ntter its close Mr. Crawford died.
Early in 1800 the widow and her daugh
ter Frank moved to New York. Thev
became members of the Church of the
Strangers, in Mercer street, of which
the Rev. Dr. Charles 1 . Deems is pas
tor. A distant relationship was found to
exist between Mrs. Crawford and the
commodore. Her mother was a Miss
Hand. The mothers were first or sec
ond cousins. The relationship gave
rise to visiting and intercourse between
the two families, and the commodore be
came enamored of the daughter.
During the summer of 1808 the com
modore paid his usual visit to Saratoga,
Miss Frank Crawford was also, in Sara
toga. From what the commodore has
said to acquaintances, it would appear
that lie made up his mind to tho new
! alliance suddenly and brought it about
wli lithe, suddenness nnd determination
which characterized some of his railroad
exploits. The commodore has said that
when ho "popped the question," Miss
Frank said she would have him if Dr.
Deems could be found to perform the
ceremony. Tho commodore immediate
ly telegraphed to New York for Dr.
Deems, but the clergyman happened to
bo out ot' town, and the commodore
hating ns usual to let anybody know
what he was about until his plans were
consummated, decided not to make a
telegraphic search for Dr. Deems. He
aud his young bride, without exciting
any curiosity at Saratoga, made a rapid
trip over the New York Central railroad
to Canada nnd were married by a young
Wesleyan minister in the city of Loudon.
The commodore in speaking of his wed
ding journey, afterward said : " I didn't
want to raise n noise iu the United
States, so I slipped over to Canada and
had it done in a jifty, anil I guess the
knot was well tied." Mrs. Frank Craw
ford Yanderbilt has one brother, who is
in charge of a freight department of the
New York Central.
Mrs. Crawford has formed a part of the
commodore's family since the marriage
of her daughter. ' It is told of Dr.
Deems, that one day dining with the
family he and the commodore fell to
talking with some levity about the recent
marriage. Said Dr. Deems, nodding to
Mrs. Crawford : " Commodore, this is
the lady you ought to have married."
Oh, no," said the commodore, re
garding his mother-in-law with a look of
satisfaction, " if I liad married her,
Frauk would have gone off and married
somebody else. Now I have both."
Proverbs for Subscribers.
"A wise son maketh a glad father,"
and n prompt paying subscriber causeth
an editor to laugh.
" Follv is a joy thnt is destitute of
wisdom,' but a delinquent subscriber
causeth suffering iu tho house of a news
paper maker.
"All the ways of a man are clear in
his own eyes," except the way the delin
quent subscriber hath in not paying for
his newspaper.
" Better is a little with righteousness,"
than a thousand subscribers who faileth
to pny what they owe.
"A just weight and balance are the
Lord's," but that which is due upon
your newspaper is the publisher's
thereof.
" Better is a dry morsel aud quietness
thereof " thau a long list of subscribers
who cheateth the printer.
" Better is tho poor mnn that walketh
in integrity " and payeth his subscription
than the rich mun who continually telleth
thy " devil " to call again.
" Judgments are prepared for scorn
ers, stripes for tho bucks of fools," nnd
everlasting damnation for him who
payeth not for his newspaper.
' ' Hope deferred maketh the heart
sick," is a proverb sadly realized by the
publisher who sendeth out bills,
"A righteous man hateth lying,"
hence an editor waxes wroth ngaiust the
subscriber who promises to call and set
tle on the morrow, yet calleth not to
settle.
It biteth like a serpent and 6tingeth
like an adder" when the adder gets
through adding up the amounts due
from his subs. Whitehall Times.
By-and-Bye. Wm. B. Martin, a ship
ping clerk, went to his boarding house
in Chicago, and after eating his supper
and chatting with his roommate, struck
up " Sweet by-and-bye." His roommate
joined in the hymn, aud finally the
chorus was reached. At the words " by-and-bye
" there was a sharp report of a
pistoL Martin had suddenly drawn a
revolver and shot himself. There was
love affair back of the revolver.
THE OLI WORLD.
ItllHi-ulllt-a or n Rnmo-Tiirktsb Wiir
nnd Hcvcre (nimmlHO.
A Long
By a recent cable dispntch, Gen. Von
Moltke is reported as predicting a long
and severe campaign in case the differ
ences between Russia and Turkey were
not adjusted by the conference and ended
in war. Von Moltke, besides being the
highest strategical authority in Europe
served himself, before Ids first promo
tion, as Prussian Colonel in one of the
Russo-Turkish wnrs, and has written a
book upon it Whether he hns publicly
expressed this opinion or not, says the
New York Times, all pnst experience of
wars on the Danube will confirm its cor
rectness. In the war of 1828-9, which
ended in the pence of Adrianople, the
Russian Army was nearly eight months
in advancing from the Pruth to the Bal
kan, which mountains, indeed, they did
not fairly reach iii that year. The Turks
were ill miserable pliglit for defense, and
possessed then none of the modern arma
ment, and had not then adopted the mod
ern European organization. Their forti
fied places were poorly strengthened nnd
defended, nnd they hnd no important de
pots of provisions. Yet; by their remnrk
able tenacity of defense 'in the fortified
posts, they delayed each step of the Rus
sian advance, and had their genius for
attack been equal to thnt for defense,
they could have utterly cut to pieces the
Muscovite army on the right bank of the
Danube. As it was, the Russians met
with terrific losses both by battle and
disease1, in the first year of the campaign,
nud only reached tho district a little be
yond the Danube. They had then, also,
vessels of war to support the flank of
their march over the Balkans and along
the sea to Adrianople and Constantinople.
As to those mountains, the Turks, at that
period, did not seem to fully appreciate
their importance, and the passes were
not well fortified. The great defenses
relied upon were the fortified posts at the
front of them, Shumla, in the interior,
and Varna, on the sea.
It should, however, be said for the
Russians in that campaign thnt, owing
to a drend of alarming Europe, they en
tered the contest with a very inadequate
nrmy, nnd fearing for the safety of Po
land, left large forces in that disturbed
country, and broke up their invading
army by uselessly occupying the1 princi
palities. Manv stnpid blunders, too,
were made in tlieir conduct of the cam
paign, yet in that respect they were not
unlike tlieir opponents. Among other
deficiencies, they were entirely lacking
in nn efficient light cnvnlry. Though
the Turks were finally beaten, and made
ft pence very disastrous to themselves,
yet it is believed by good authorities that
had the sultan held out a little longer,
the necessities of Russia would have
compelled her to make a pence very dif
ferent in its results to both countries.
Without considering other wars, ninny of
our renders will remember the obstinate
defense by the Turks under English offi
cers, of Silistria nnd other fortified
places on the Danube nnd in Asia, in the
war of 1854-0. In that struggle the te
nacity of the Ottomans fairly compelled
the Russians to retreat, with heavy
losses, mid to leave the Turkish side of
the Danube uninvaded nnd secure.
In weighing the possibilities of the
coming war if war there should be be
tween Russia nud I'lirkey, we are to re
member that the bTdtan has now a very
large nrmy and thoroughly equipped.
When the armistice was declared, the
whole Turkish force under arms
amounted in actual numbers to some
300,000 men, with 6(!G Krupp guns, nnd
18,000 cavalry. The full number which
can be called out, when the enrollment is
complete, is 700,000 men, with 872 guns,
and, in addition, some 70,000 "Zap
tick," or veterans, nnd 20.000 Circassian
cavalry, the best light armed marauding
cavalry in the world.
I he heavy Russian cavalry, it should
be bomo iu mind, are utmost useless in
the muddy plains of the Danube and the
wild passes of the Balkans. The Turk
ish infantry are, to a large degree,
armed with improved guns. Then, nil
tho fortified places, whose importance
has so often been tested iu previous wnrs.
are put iu better condition. The Dan
ube itseli makes a formidable line of de
fense; then behiud it come places like
Silistria, Shumla, Varna, and others.
Shumla is a vast fortified camp. Varna
must be taken before any army would
venture to cross the -Balkans and march
on Adrianople. It would continually
threaten the flank and rear of the invad
ing forces. But uTna is on the sea. and
nny power holding the sen could make it
impregnable. The passes of the Bal
kans, though not more than from 4,000
to 0,000 feet high, are yet easily capable
of obstinate defense, and would be ex
ceedingly difficult to occupy, unless the
invading nrmy had a fleet to defend its
flank nud furnish supplies. The Turks
would no doubt contest these mountains
with the utmost tenacity, and they would
form a second and powerful line of de
fense. It is nt least five hundred miles
from the Danube to Constantinople, and
tne ivussians nave probably no fleet in
the Black sea to support their invadincr
columns. It will be seen that the taking
of Constantinople, even were Turkey
without allies, would be a difficult task,
and with Euglaud for supporter, would
be impossible. Then, all recent history
shows that the Russiau management of
campaigns is exceedingly blundering, so
that the war would probably be protract
ed by the mistakes of the more powerful
combatant. A Russo-Turkish war will
certai ul v not be a short one.
What lie Would Do.
Says James Parton : For my part, if
I were twenty years of age, I should
strike for the soil. As soon as I could
raise two years' supply of clothes and
money enough to transport me, I should
go to a region where nature had provided
for the farmer favorable conditions ; say
Pennsylvania, New York, Tennessee,
Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Texas, Iowa ;
and there, about the first of April, I
would search for a good farmer, who,
for the space of two years, would give
me food, lodging and instruction, in re
turn for my hearty and loyal labor. By
the end of my two years, I should be
ready, perhaps, for a step forward. The
iigm man is always wanted, always wel
come ; by the time I knew enough, a
food farm would come seeking me, and
would go upon it, and earn it, and live
and die upon it.
A Brave Girl.
The Pittsburgh Gazette tells this
story : Mr. Close and family had gone
out in the afternoon, leaving no one nt
the house but ft girl, who is a servant
in the family and whose name, unfortu
nately, the reporter did not learn. She
also 'went out for a few minutes, and
when she came back found a burly look
ing man standing on the porch. She
asked him what he wanted, nnd he
answered that it was none of her busi
ness. She then ordered him away, nnd
Jie retorted that he wouldn't go until he
got rendy. The girl beenme frightened,
nnd slipping in the hnll door closed it
in the man's face, locked it nnd put the
key in her pocket. She hnd been in the
house but a minute or two when she
heard a noise up stairs, which she
thought was coal falling from a grnte.
She went up to attend to it, but on
reaching the room door (which was
standing open) from whence the noise
proceeded wns astonished and frightened
to see a thief rummaging among the
bureau drawers. She retained enough
presence of mind not to cry out, ns
ninety-nine women in a hundred would
have done, but stepped away cautiously.
Remembering that iu another rixira was
a revolver belonging to Mr. Close, she
went in and got it, nnd theu walked
down into the hall to wait the coming of
the thief. The Intter, perhaps having
heard her, came down also in a minute
or two with his hands nnd pockets full of
jewelry, and wns nstonished to find him
self confronted by the brave girl with
the cocked revolver in her hands. She
asked him wlint he hnd been doing, nnd
ordered him to disgorge instantly. He
refused, but the girl, trembling nnd cry
ing with excitement, yet evidently de
termined, told him she would toll him
three times, nnd if then he didn't obey
her she would certainly shoot him. The
man ngniu hesitated for a few moments,
but before waiting to ho told the third
time, concluding thnt he was iu a posi
tion from which escape from the threat
ening revolver nnd daring girl was im
possible, capitulated, and laid down his
plunder, consisting of a lady's gold
watch and chain, gold bracelets, etc., to
the value of $200. The girl then threw
him the door key nnd ordered him to de
part, which he did without loss of time.
The Dying nnd the New Year.
The Independent, in n retrospective
nnd prophetic mood, snys : There has
been no grent quarrel between Christians,
no grent division of believers, no such
remarkable difference or wonderful re
union as marks the external nnd ecclesi
astical history of the Church. It has
been n year of quiet, of peace, of grow
ing harmony; a year of the progress of
that spiritual history which most bless
es the Church, but which does not find
its record in its chronicles. The best
type nud illustration of this stronger,
deeper and better movement of Christian
history is to be found iu the revival
meetings which have been carried on in
several of our large cities, nnd which
have brought together into one body of
workers believers of every ecclesinstienl
name. And nothing more important or
notable has occurred during the year.
It is iu the continuation of this work in
other cities nnd in the towns nnd villages
of our country that we look for the re
ligious progress of the new year.
In our own country the threatening
words which immediately followed the
disputed election have been withdrawn
or modified, nnd no one believes that we
nre to have a Mexicanized republic. The
situation is grave; but our people nre
patriotic, nud they love their country
more than party. We shall have peace.
When this political riddle is solved we
may also expect the much needed revi
val of business interests and the restora
tion of prosperity. We close the year
thankful for its mercies and trustful that
the new year has in store for us the love
and pence of God.
Mr. Cute nnd his Horse.
Mr. Alphonse Cate returned to Wil
liamsburgh lately, aftr nn absence of
five years. His return recalled tho story
of his departure. Ti en he was the owner
of a large sorrel horse, and the work it
had to do told on the poor animal. After
months of ill treatment, the horse be
came unfit for work, nnd Mr. Cnto was
forced to give it to the offal contractor to
be killed. To the oft'al wharf he led it,
belaboring it on the way with a long
stick. The horse was tied, and one of
the contractor's men raised the axe. As
the blow fell on the horse's forehead the
animtd tore the rope from its fastening,
tottered for a moment, and then dashed
through the crowd of idlers direct for
Cate. Terrified, Gate ran up the wharf,
the horse pursuing him to a pile of lum
ber in the ship yard on the opposite side.
The horse was almost on him with out
stretched neck nud open jaws, nnd fire
flashing from his eyes. Cate doubled
about the pile and climbed on its top as
the horse tried to spring after him. The
effort, however, had exhausted the horse,
and it died with its fore feet resting on
the pile.
Cate was so overcome that he had to
be carried down from the lumber. A
few days thereafter he sold out and dis
appeared. When question on his return
Cate shook with terror nnd begged not
to be reminded of it. "I went away,"
he said, " to escape talk ; don't begin it
A State's Debt. The message of the
Governor of Ohio shows that the hx-al
indebtedness of the State is now $36,059,
987.5(1, the reimbursable debt SMI, 481,
503.30, and the irreducible debt 4,207,
716.90. The taxes levied iu 1876 aud
collectable in 1877 aggregate 29,965,185.
The taxable valuations in Ohio, as shown
by the grand duplicate of 1876, is $1,597,
469,966, which is a decrease from the
grand duplicate of last year of $1,105,896.
The State debt has been reduced during
the past year nearly $500,000, aud the
indebtedness of the counties, townships
aud school districts has been reduced
over $1100,000 ; but cities of the first aud
second class have increased their indebt
edness more than $10,00,000.
An Army of Them. The total num
ber of, arrests made by the police of New
York during the year 1876, as computed
f lma tlieir returns from January 1 until
th4e morning of December 80, was 91,401.
THE CYCLONE IS INDIA.
Wbil i
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Had Afliiir.
A minute by Sir R. Temple, dated the
twenty-first of" November, has been pub
lished respecting the effects of the lnte
cyclone and storm-wave in Eastern Ben
gal. The minute snys :
" Proceeding to Noakally ou my or
dinary tour, I heard that a disaster hnd
happened in the highly cultivated nnd
thickly inhabited islands at the mouth of
the Megnn, viz. : Sundoep, Hattin, Shah
buzpore, aud on both coasts of the gwat
river. I cut short my visit to Noakally,
and hastened to the points where it was
probable the worst distress must have
been. I visited the islands named nnd
the western const of the river district of
Baekerguiige. In all the localities visit
ed I took the number in each of the vil
lages and had the precise mortality in
each house ascertained in my presence
on the spot, to prevent the possibility of
deception. From authentic data thus
obtained I was nble to check the locnl
estimntes nnd measure the nctual mis
chief done.
"The estimate of the probable num
ber of lives lost, nearly nil by drowning,
has been prepared by Mr. Beverley and
myself on our own data, compared with
local reports, oral nnd written, nnd based
on returns of the last census. We ap
prehend that in an area of 3,000 square
miles 1,162,000 persons had been sud
denly thrown more or less in danger, of
whom 215,000 must have perished; this
is is only nn estimate; the exact number
is not known yet, nnd perhaps never will
be. The storm wave rose to a height of
teu or twenty feet. The Noakally peo
ple think it came from the sea up the
Megna with salt water, and then that the
cyclone turned it round and rolled the
fresh water of the river down; the reflu
euce caused the piling up of fresh and
salt water which rushed over the sur
rounding districts; drowned bodies were
earned great distances; corpses begun to
putrefy before the waters retired.
"The Mohammedan population have
no cremation, and the masses of corrup
tion of human and nnimnl bodies were
frequent, presenting a sickening specta
cle. Many corpses were seen at sea; the
bodies of living nnd dead were borne
across tho ami-of the sen from Snndeep
to Chittagong, the former clinging to the
roofs of their own houses. The force of
the inundation nppenrs to luive lasted
from midnight to two o'clock in the
morning. By daybreak there was much
subsidence of the flood, aud by rmon the
survivors came down from the trees
und regained terra Jinna, and must have
been foodless and shelterless all that day
mid the next. They then got out tho
stores of buriod grain nnd dried it; co
coanuts also afforded thorn a sustenance.
There was much trouble about drinking
water at first, but the tanks must have
speedily recovered from brackishness, ns
tho water was generally good when we
tasted it, though in many cases rendered
bad by having putrid' corpses in the
tanks.
" No estimate can be formed of the
number of cattle lost; the loss is bad for
tho people, but fortunately there is no
immediate demand for plowing their
fields. At the time of my visit there was
no severe epidemic save round Noakally;
I have since heard that cholera has
broken out on the Chittagong coast nud
on the east side of the Megna. The first
day or two nfter the disaster there were
some attempts at plundering and lawless
ness, but they were promptly suppress
ed. Most of the local native officials
were drowned. When the storm burst
the abundance of the rice crop ripening
was the well known Deltaic rice crop,
which is far beyond the demands of tho
local consumption and which affords
quantities in thousands of tons for ex
portation; of this a great part is lost,
but if even one-third be saved it will
afford sufficient for local consumption.
" The boots, great and small, which
constitute the only means of carriage
were all lost. The Noakally authorities
were thus bereft of resources for moving
across the floods, and this was a very
hard case on the Hattia island, where the
people were three days succoiiess. In
the Backerguuge district the boats were
saved, but much wealth was lost almost
entirely, in the form of agricultural crops
or cattle. With the exception of Do w
lutkhan, a trading town, which was clean
destroyed, eight thousand inhabitants, a
quarter of the number, perished. On
approaching it we steamed for two miles
through the creek; the banks were
strewn with human bodies." London
Daily Telegraph.
Before Marriage.
Lovers' quarrels arise from different
causes ; sometimes from mere intensity
of affection making undue exactions, and
nt others from causes which, properly
understood and appreciated, would warn
the parties of the impossibility of their
ever living happily together.
For instance, a young mau who is en
gaged finds his affianced very jealous.
Whenever they meet other ladies iu so
ciety, she treats him with great coolness.
This chills his ardor, and makes him dis
contented, so much so that he is in doubt
about marrying her at all. He has, iu
fact, come to the conclusion that if he be
lieved she would treat him after marriage
in the same way she does now he would
never many her.
As a geueral proposition, it mny be hud
down thnt persons will not change essen
thdly after marriage. A belief thnt they
would has 'been the cause of countless
unhappy uinrringes. They will be just
about the same after ns before, nnd, if
anything, a little more likely to give way
to strong natural proclivities, or peculiar
ities of temper.
If you would not marry a young woman,
provided you believe she would continue
to be as she is now, without any very
marked change in her disposition, then
you do a very perilous tiling to marry
her at all.
The same rule, on the other hand, ap
plies to the young men. Many and
many a girl has made shipwreck of her
happiness for life by mnrrying a young
man iu the confidence that after mar
riage she would wield such an influence
over him as to reform his wild habits.
She finds her influence diminished rather
than increased, after they are married,
aud disappointments, disagreements and
misery necessarily follow.
Marry no one with whom, without any
changa of character, you are not satisfied.
Items of Interest.
Gold is the goal too many are striving
for.
Counterfeit dimes are in circulation,
well executed in composition metal, but
lacking the ring of silver.
The man who vs " moved to tears "
complains of dampness of the premises,
and wishes to be moved back again.
The times are so hard that an Irishman
snys lie has parted with all of his elegant
wardrobe, except the armholes of nn old
waistcoat.
Capt. McNelly's rnngers Imve, in tho
last few mouths, captured or killed about
seventy-five of the worst desperadoes in
western Texas.
Every man stamps his value on him
self, the price we challenge for our
selves is given us. Man is made grent
or little by hiH own will.
If you nre desirous of keeping your
mind ' occupied while on the street, just
contemplate the different styles of over
coats that nre to be everywhere observed.
If you want to see and appreciate the
vary acme of innocent surprise, turn re
porter and call on a railroad ngent to
get the particulars of a smash-up ou his
line.
A beverage made from the leaf of tho
coffee shrub, instead of from the berry,
has lntely been introduced into Australia,
and is said to be superior to ordinary
coffee.
Praise belongs to the Minneapolis
school teachers, who marshaled 1,000
children down the winding stairs of a
burning school building, and saved
every one.
What the Sioux Indian said to the
government officer : " Why don't white
man put Injun on wheels, like brave at
tobacco store, so he can be wheeled
around ensy V"
Sweet thing in compliments. Totty
(archly) "And so you've never been iu
love before ? Astonishing 1" Horace
" Oh, no. It would have been astonish
ing if I had, since I have never seen you
before !"
The Baltimore Gazette wisely remarks :
Many men would prefer to go ou nn un
certain mission in the vain hope of dis
covering a gold mine aud speedy fortune,
than coining right down to hard work in
a large city, with a certainty of obtaining
a fair living remuneration.
Mr. Schuyler's complete report ou
Bulgaria states that seventy-nine villnges
were burned, many more pillaged, at
least 9,000 houses burned, 72,000 per
sons deprived of nil shelter, 15,000 killed,
ond that many more died from disense,
exposure and imprisonment.
A sad story of the ruin wrought in ft
family by an erring son conies from
Washington, where a young man named
Tyler, the son of an old and respected
physician, has been convicted of forgery.
The disgrace killed his mother, and the
cost of the trial ruined his father finan
cially. A circuit judge in Florida was arrested
for beastly drunkenness irpou the public
highway nnd locked'irp in jnil. As soon
ns he became sober, he had a writ of
habeuK corpu issued returnable before
himself for the production of his own
body. It is needless to say thnt th
jftdge discharged him.
His majesty the king of Dahomey bit
terly complains of the stoppage of the
slave trade. "Here am I," said he to a
traveler, ' surrounded by hundreds of
slaves whom I cannot employ and do not
like to kill, nnd you Englishmen have
stopped tho slave trade by which I used
to get rid of the surplus."
The Paris Exhibition.
Lucy Hopper, in a letter from Paris,
says: A good deal of anxiety, not loudly
expressed but very evident nevertheless,
is manifested respecting the success of
the Exhibition of 1878. Not only has
Germany testified her refusal to take
officially any part therein, but Italy has
not yet sigualized any intention of par
ticipating. As to the United States, I
presume that Congress will indulge more
in speech making respecting it than in
appropriations. As to the French them
selves, they grumble heartily over the
near approach of auother Exhibition,
when, as they say, they have made no
particular progress in any form of art or
industry since the last one, and will have
nothing new to show. Trade is very bail
iu Paris just now, the exports having
fallen off greatly, and the usual influx of
winter visitors having failed to arrive;
House agents, trades people and hotel
keepers all complain that there are neither
Russians nor Americans here this season,
and the prevalence of the yellow placards
that announce "Furnished apartments
to let " tell a conclusive tale of the lack
of inhabitants in the quarters generally
favored by foreigners. The hard times
in the United States and the war cloud
that broods over Russia have kept the
citizens of those great monej'-spending
nations at home, and their loss is severely
felt.
Worth Knowing.
If bmallpox can be cured by cream of
tartar, it is time everybody knew tho
fact. A correspondent of the Liverpool
Mercury says that it is not only a never
failing remedy in the worst cases, but is
also a preventive. The directions are to
dissolve one ounce of cream of tartar in
a pint of boiling water, and to drink,
when cold, at short intervals. Not a
very exact prescription, to be sure; but
the remedy is so simule thnt it mo, i,
well worth trying. It is said that thou
sands have thus been cured, and that no
murks of the disease remain.
English. Rector (just returned from
a tour through Palestine)" Now, for in
stance, take the valley of the Jordan :
it is really most interesting in fact
I " Churchwarden Clodrush (who bos
already stood about half an hour's soien
tiilo description of the tour) Ah ! it
mun be all vara wonderful ; end pray
how might tounups be a-lookia' i' them
parts, sir?"
Tope Pius IX. The Roman Catholic
church throughout the world will, on the
twenty-first of next May, celebrate the
fiftieth anniversary of the elevation of
Pope Pius IX. to the dignity of the Epis
copate. Mrs. Gen. Sherman has charge
of the subscriptions for the event in th
United States,