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STROUDSBURG,MONBOE COUNTY, PA. MAY 2G, 1859.
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Theory and Practice.
Oh -if there is one earthly bliss,
More precious than another,
It is when, .with delight, you hiss a pretty
ffirl, she sending a certain individu
al out of the room, on the important er
rand of seeing what hour is indicated by
the hand of the lumily lime piece down
t-tairs
Certain individual being her brother.
While must!!" thus, one summer eve,
' As by my fair one's side 1 sat, '
The time was near at hand to leave, so, steal
ing mv arm around her waist, I drew
her geiitiy to me, and when in the act ,
of applying my lips to hers, the door was !
softly opi.'iied and her respected Ala," I
appeared, armed with a broomstick, and, I
before I knew where I was j
I was knocked into a cocked hat.
HOME INFLUENCES.
BY SYLVAN US COHB, Jit.
'Who's that, I wouder.' t-aid Mrs. Sea
burn, as she heard a ring at the basement
door.
'Ah it's Marshal,' returned her hus
band, who bad looked out at the window,
and recognized the grocorn cart.
'And what have you had sent home
now, Henry !'
But before Mr. Seaburn could answer,
tho door of the Mttiug-room was opened,
and one of the domestics looked m, aud
aked
'What'll do the dimjohn?, mum!
Deiuijohus !' repeated Mr. Seaturn
'Let them set in the hall, and .1 11 at
tend to them,' interposed the hubaud.
'Henry, what have you had sent home
now!' the wife a.ikei, after the domestic
bad gone.
'Some nice wine, Cora, and a little
choice old brandy,' replied Hmry.
Cora Seaburn glanced up at the clock,
and then looked down upou tbe floor.
There was a cloud upon her fair brow,
and it was ery evident that uictliiug
lay heavily ou her heart. Presently t-he
walked to the wall and pulled tbe bell
cord, and the summons was auswercd by
the chaajbcr-uiaid.
'Are George aud Charles intheir room?5
Yes, ma'am.'
Tell thexu it is school-time.'
Tho girl went out. and in a little while
two boys entered the sitting-room, with
their books under their arms, and their
caps iu their bands. They were bright,
happy, healthy fellows, with goodness
and truth stamped upon their rosy faces,
and the light of free consciences gleaming
iu their sparkling eyes. George was thir
teen jears of age, and Charles eleven, and
certainly tho.-e two parents bad reason to
be proud cf them. The boy ki.-scd their
mother gave a happy 'good morning' to
the father and then went away to school.
'Cora,' said Mr. Seaburn, sometime af
ter tbe boys bad gone, 'what makes you
bo sober !'
'Sober!' repented the wife, looking up.
'Tcs. You have been sober aud mute
ever s-ince the grocer came.'
'Do you want mo to tell pou why I'
'Of course I do.'
'Well, Henry, I am sorry you have bad
that rpirits brought into the houfe.'
'Pooh ! What's the use in talking so,
Cora! You wouldn't have me be without
it, would you If
Yee.'
'Why what do you mean !'
'I mean that I would cut clear from
tbe stuff, now and forever.'
'But Cora vou are wild.
What '
Bbould we do at our dinner parties with- j
out wine I'
'Do as others who have it not.' I
'But mercy! what would people say!
Aro you afraid . But no I won't ask ;
so fooiish a queetiou.' !
Ask it, Ileury. Let us speak plainly ,
now that we have fairly commenced.'
Well I was about to ask if you were
afraid that I should ever drink too much
That is not a fair question, Henry. I
was not thinking of that at all. But I
will answer it by and by. You have no
fixed appetite for it now !'
'Of course not.'
'Then it would not cost you any effort
of will to abstain from its use I' j
'Not a particle.'
'And vou only have it in the house,
and serve it to your friends; aud drink it
yourself-because it is fashionable! or, in
Other word, you do it because others do!'
4I do it because said Mr. eaburn,
hesitating some in bid choice of language
'because it would appear very odd and
cry niggardly, and very fanatical, not to
do it.' This last was spoken emphat-
ically. ,
'.But,' pursued Mrs. Seaburn, with the
calmness aud assurance of one who feels
tbe sustaining influence of Right, 'you
would not do what you were conviuced
was wrong, out of respect to any such
considerations, would yoa-?-' i
'You know 1 would not, Cora. This
question of temperance, I know, is a good
' ne n tlie. attract, and I am willing to
live up to it, as i unuerstanu it; out 1 am
no tcc-totalcr.'
'Henry,' said his wife, with an earnest
look into his face, 'will you answer me a
few questions 7 aud answer them hon
estly and truly, without equivocation or
eva.sion ?' "
'Bless me, how methodically you put it,
Cora. But I will answer.'
; 'Then first. Do you believe you, or your
friends, arc in any way bcncfllted by the
drinking of intoxicating beverages at your
board I That is do yoa derive any real
good from it I'
I 'No I can't say that we do.'
i 'Do you think the time hns ever been,
' siuce wo were married, when we actually
! needed wine in tbe house, either for our
health or comfort 7'
'Why I think it baa ministered to our
comfort, Cora.'
How 7'
'0 in many ways.'
'Name one of tbea.'
Why in the enjoyment of our guests.'
'Ah, but I am --peaking of oursclvos,
Henry of you aud me, and your own
little family. Has it ever ministered to
our comfort 7'
'No T can't say that it has '
'And if it was bauished from our house
to-day, aud forever, as a beverage, should ,
we suffer in consequence 7' J
'Certainly. What would our frind '
'Ah but stop. I am only tpeaking of
our own affairs, as shut in from the world,
by our own firesiie. I want all extran
eous considerations left -out. Should we,
as a family, culler, in our moral, physical,
social, or domestic affarirs in the total
absence of this beverage!'
'No I don't know that we should.
'Then to you, 33 a husband, and a fath
er, and as a man, it is of no earthly use!'
'No.'
'And it would cost you no effort, so far
as you alone arc concerned, to break
clear from it!'
'Not a particle.' !
'Aud now, IIenr3',' pursued the wife, ;
with increased earnestness. I have a few
more questions to ark : Do you believe
that the drinking of intoxicating bevera
ges is an evil in this country V
'Why as it is now going on, I certain
ly do."
'And isn't it an evil in society 7' ;
Yes.'
i
'Look over this city, and tell me if it is
not a terrible evil.' i
'A terrible evil grows out of the abuse
of it. Cora.'
'And will you tell mo what good grows
out of the use of it 7'
'ReaUy, love when you come down to
this attract point you have the field.
But people s-hould govern their appetites.
All these things may be abused.'
'Yes. But will you tell me the use the
real good to be derived from drinking
wine and brandy 7'
'As I said before it is a special cus- !
torn, and has its charms. i
'Ah there you have it, Henry. It does
have its charms, as the deadly snake id
said to have; and as other vices have !
But I see you are in a hurry.'
'It is time I was at the store.'
'I will detain you but a moment lon
ger, Henry. Jut?t answer me a few more
questions. Now call to mind all the fam- '
iiies of your acquaintance; think of all
the domestic circles you have known,
from your school-boy days to tho present. ,
Run your thoughts through the various
homes where you have been intimate.
Do this, and tell me if, in any one in
stance, you ever knew a single joy to bo
planted by the hearthstone from the wine
cup. Did you ever know oue item of
good to flow to a family from its use 7' i
'No. i cannot say that I over did
not as you mean.'
'And now answer mo again. Think of
those homes once more. Call to memory
the playmates of your childhood think
of other homes think of the fireside
where all you have known dwell and '
tell me if you have seen any great griefs
Panfe the intoxicating bowl upon the I
Henry Seaburn did not answer, for .
tuere passed between him such grim speo- 1
t o Sorrow aud Grief, that he shud-
dere(1 at lbo mental vision, ne sow the .
youth cut down in tho hour of promise ,
be saw the gray head fall in dishonor '
he saw hearts broken he saw homes
made desolate he saw affection wither
up and die and he saw noble intellects
stricken down 1 Good Heaven ! what
sights he saw as he unrolled the canvass
of his memory !
'Henry,' whispered the wife, moving to
his side, and winding ono arm gently a
bout bis neck, 'we have two boys. They
are growing to be men. They are noble,
generous, and warm-hearted. They love
their home, and honor their parents
They are here to form those characters
to receive thoe impressions which
shall be the basis upon which their future j
weal or woe must rest. Look at them
0, think of them ! Think of them doing
battlo in the great fitruggle of life before
them. Shall they carry out from their
home oue evil infiuenoo ? Shall they,
in the time to come, fall by tbe way side,
cut down by the Demon of the Cup, and,
in their dying hour, curse tho example
whence they derived their appetite? 0
for our children for those two boys for
the men we hope to see them for tho
sweet memories wc would bayo them chcr-
iah of their borne for tho good old ago
they may reap let us oatt this thing out
now and forever !'
Cora kissed her husband, as she ceased
-peaking; aud then ho arose to ms leet;
but he made her no reply.
nenry are you oueuueu.
'No, he said. He returned her kiss,
and, without another word, leit his house ments away m the rooming. Not one
and went to his store. jword had he spoken to bis wifo all tho
How strangely did circumstances work , while, nor did she spfak to him. He re
to keep the idea his wife had given him turned to the sitting-room, where his bovs
alive in his mind. That very morning
he met a youth the son of one of his
wealthy friends in a state of wild intox-
ication: and during the forenoon ho heard
that Aaron G
had died at sea.
Ho knew that Aaron bad beonsent away
from home that he might be reclaimed.
After the bank had closed, and as Hen -
ry Seaburn was thinking of going to hia
dinner, he received a note through the
J SJ
Penny Post. It was a from a medical
friend, and contained a request that be
9
would call at tbe hospital on his way
home. This hospital was not much out
of bis way home, and ho stopped thcrou
1 lirn iq n mill in rtnn nf flirt ilntrpt
wards who wi&hes to see yon,' said the
doctor.
'Does be know mc!' asked Seaburn.
'He says
'What is
he does.'
his name !'
'IIo won't tell us. lie goes by tbe name
of Smith; but I am satisfied that such is
not his true name. Ho is in tbe last
stage of consumption aud delirium. IIo
has lucid interval.?, but they do not last
long. He has been here a week. Ho
was picked up iu the street, aud brought
here. He heard your name, and said be
knew you once.'
Mr. SeaUurn weut to the room where
the patient lay, and looked at him. Sure-
ly he never knew that man! 'There must'
be some mistake,' he said.
Tbe invalid heard him. and opened his
eyes, such bloodshot, sunken, unearthly,
looking oves
'Harry,' he whispered, trying
himself upou his elbow. 'Id this
to lift
Harry
'That is my name.'
'Aud dou't you know mc !'
'I'm feure I do not.' And he would
have said that he did riot wish to, only
the man seemed so utterly miserable that
he would not wound what little fecliug he
might have left.
'Have you forgotten your old playmate
in boyhood, Harry your friend in other
years your chum in college?'
'What !' gasped Seaburn, starting back
aghast, for a glimmer of the truth burst
upon him. 'This is not Alec Lomberg !'
'AH that' left of him, my Hal.,' return
ed the poor fellow, putting forth bis was
ted skeleton hand, aud smiling a faint,
quivering, dying smile. 'Ah Pater,
J?eccavi '
'Alexander Lomberg !' said Henry, ga
zing into the bloated, disfigured faoo be
fore him.
'You wouldn't havo knowu me, Hal 7'
'Good Heavens no.!'
'I know I am altered. Ah, Hal., sic
transit gloria inuudi '
'But, Alec,' cried Seaburn, 'how is this?
U by are you here 7
Lium.
Hal.
Rum ! I'm about done for.
But I wanted to bee you. They told mc
you lived not far away; and I would look
upon ono friend before I died.'
'But I beard you were practising in
your profession, Alec, and doing well.'
'So I did do well when I praoticod.
Hal. I have mad
some pleas; but I've
given up all that.'
And your father where is he V
'Don't mention him, Hal. We've bro
ken. I don't kuow him. He taught me
to drink ! Aye be taught me ! and
then turned the cold shoulder upou me
when I drank too much I But I'm go
ing, Hal., going, going!'
Henry Seaburn gazed into that horri
ble face and remembered what its owner
had been; the son of wealthy parent.-1; the
idol of a fond mother; the favorite at bis
school, at play, at college; a light ot in
tellect and physical beauty; and a uoblo
generous friend. And now Alas?'
'Alec can I help you?'
'Yes.' And tho poor fellow started
higher up from his pillow, and something!
of the old light struggled for a moment!
in
i
his eye
Pray for me, Hal.
Pray
where
ior my soul ! Pray that I may go
my mother is! She won't disown her
boy ! she couldn't have done it if she lived.
Oh I she was a good mother Hal. Thank
God she didn't live to see this ? Pray for
me, pray- pray I Let me go to her I
As the wasted man sank back ho fell
to weeping, and in a moment more one ot.tijic American.
his paroxysms came on, and he began to
rave. He thought Harry was his father,
and he cursed him; and cursed the habit
that had been fastened upon him under
that fathers influence But Heury could
not stop to listen. With an aching heart
he turned away, and left the hospital.
He could not go home to dinner then.
He walked down town, and got dinner!
there. At night ho went to tbe hospital
again. He would inquire after his friend,
if he did not sec him.
'Poor fellow!' said the physician, 'be
never came out of that fit. He died in
balf an hour after you went out.'
It was dark when Henry Soaburnrcaoh
ed his home.
'You didn't tell Bridget where to put
those demijohns, Henry,' said his wife.
She had not uoticed his focer for the gas
was burning but dimly.
Ah I forgot. Come down with, me,
Cora, and we'll Gnd a place for them.'
His wife followed bitn down into tho
(basement; and one by one, he took, tho
demijohns and carried them into tlie rear
yarn, and there ho emptied their contents
(into the sewer. Then he broke the vea-
aem iU pieces wun nis loot, anu oaae
Bridget have the dirt-man take the frag-
were at their books, and took a seot upon
one of the tete-a-tetes. lie called his
wifo aud his children about him, and then
ho told them tho story of Alexander
Lomberg.
I 'And now, my loved
ones,' be added,
the heads of bis
solemn vow that
i laying nis hanaa upon
: boys, I have made a
henceforth, my children shall find no such
influence in their homo. They shall nev
J
er have occasion to cune the example of
meir laiucr i . Jt will touch tho wine-cup
no more forever. What say you, my
boys, will you join me in tho sacred
- pledge V
They joined him with a glad, gushing
willingneh; for their hearts were full,
and their sympathies all tuned, by a moth
er's careful lovo, to Right.
'And you, Cora !'
'Ye, yes I' she cried. 'And may the
holy lesson of this hour be never forgot
ten. 0, God, let it rest, as an anirel of
mercy, upon my boys! Let it bo a
Ihht
to their feet in the time of temptation !
And so shall they bless, through life, tho
influenco they carry with them from their
Home !' N.
Y. Leda,e) .
How to Make One Hunrdred Per Cent.
A correspondent of the Lady"s Ameri
can Jtfaiiazine rMVOH nn nrnnnrtf nf n nun
horse monev broker in Buffalo, who had
a knack of making one hundred per cent.
on Dins brought to uira to exchanse.
j Xhe way be did it is this
He kept
an exchange
office near the
Lentral JLJasin, nnu had a lot of counter
feits btuck up on the wall behind the coun
ter, with "counterfeit bills," in great black
letters over them, while on the counter
stood a box of wafers. A canaler would
rush into the offiue aud ask for change. for
a bill. Old Specie would tako tho bill
very blandly, put on bis spectacles, and
give a look at it. The moment he did
bo his whole countenance would change.
With an indignant look he would petrify
his astonished customer; and in grim si
lence, still keeping his eye ou the canal
er, be would feel for the wafer box, stick
a couple of wafers on the bajsk of the.bill,
turn round and fasten it among the coun
terfeits with au indignant jam; then, turn
ing, bo would open bis mouth, and assail
the wretched culprit in the manner fol
lowing to wit: You miserable scoun
drel, what do you mean by offering me a
bad bill! If there's an officer in sight I'll
have you arrested!" With which address
he would make as if be would sally from
behind the counter; whereupon the canal
er would incontinently flee for his life,
and the old gentleman would sweep the
bill into his money drawer, and "rest
from bis labors."
n i -r 1.1. j. -nr , t
Sample Letter to a Member of Congress.
The following letter, which is publish-
ed verb at aim, will give our readers
au
DJ
idea of what kind of labor members
Congress aro sometimes called
their constituents to perform:
on
"Will you please to inquire in the pa
tent office for a patent rat trap that goes
by woightlike a Clock that will catch from
8 to 12 rats at ono running down aud
then has to be wound up before it will
catch any more.
"I wish to knowif there is sack a patent
there when it was patened and when the
time expires also the name of the paten- ,
tec and his post offico address. And 1
thu9 oblige yours."
Cure for Sprains.
In tho Paris hospital a treatment is
practiced that is fouud most succccssful
for a frequent accident, and which can
be applied by the most inexperienced.
If the ankle is sprained, for instance, let
the opetatpr hold the foot in his hands,
with the thumbs meeting on tbe swollen
part. These having been previously
greased, are pressed successively with
increasing force on the injured and pain
ful spot for about n quarter of an hour
This application being repeated several
times, will.-in tbe coumc of the day, ena
ble a .patient to walk, wbcu other means
'would havo failed to relieve him
Scicn-
An English jury, in a criminal cascT is
Baid to have brousiht in the followinc vor-
diet somo years ago: ''Guilty, with somaus. . r. i
little doubt as to whether he is the man." r! . V .
A building for the education of horse
doctors is, now going up in the city of
New York, at a co.st of 8-10,000.
A lady down East gives her views of
woman's rights to tho world, oho is a
gainst tbe interference of woman in poli-
tics, bhe a.ks pointedly:
l'U men can't "do the voting, and
take
oaro of tho eouutry, what is the use
them?"
of
By means of a photograph likeness a
defaulting- Spaniard was-lately 'arrested
in N'ow" York, a fefw days after ho landed.
from ja. Havana steamer, with' ,10,000 sto
len dollars.
JRich Pike's Peak Letter j
The Milwaukee ffeicshn a letter which
j is so genially humorus that we cannot1
refrain from makin room for it. lfou
; like tun read it. Jt ls"alle"ed,, to be
j from a citizen of Horicon Wi-
con.-ni:
Pike Peak. March 1. 1F5U.
My Dear Brother: I promised to years ago, married a neighboring girl
write you a good long letter as soon as I the daughter of a very respectable family;
arrived here: and I take mv nen in hand They removed immediatelv to a distant!
: to let you know that wo aro all well, aud
to hope that these few lines will find you
' eujoying tho same blessing. You know
' we left Horicon for tho land nf .ml.l ...
j r
bout the first of February, and we arriv-
.
ed here yesterday. My wifo .stood the
journey first rate, but my five oldest boys
wore nearly tired out when we reaohed
here. Jane, the Iitrle sis is happy as a
lark, and says, "Tiss Uncle George for1
1 I V-f W W V A
me." God bless her sweet heart.
e had all the bardchipa in tho world
before we got here. We lost our horses
at Dubuque they were stolen from us.-
ue got some extra oxen, and lost them
one hundred, miles from Omaha. We
then tried wbeel-barrows, my wifo and I
wheeling by turns, till the Iudians stole
our barrows. I hen we walked, till the wilderness. jje here settled upon a pro
Indians stole our provisions, and my fam-; Siting piece of land, aud in its cultivation1
ily got sick, so that I had to carry them ;an tBC cares of lifo, sought forgetfulncss
on my back. Our money gave out long ! f tnc past. He succeeded rneasurcably
before, and for two weeks we traveled, nas filled offices of trust, and grown?
through a wilderness where the foot of a wealthy. After a few years, bis home ro
hutuan being had never trod; in thison- quiring attention, he married, but his wife
dition, seeing no living being and with- lived only long enough to bear him a son,
out money to purchase even a cracker at ' and witness the first year of the little one's
any of the groceries along tbe line, we ; existence.
lived on roots till my children all looked) A few weeks f-ince, as the well-fo-do-like
pigs, from rooting so long. iman of the world was sitting by his fire-
I have canied my family on my back side, there entered the bouse a woman
till I am so round shouldred that I can ; we,l cla(J. f fuller form and twelve yeara'
only see the blue sky and the bright sun ! older, but the picture of the long-lost
by looking between my legs, and up to:Dr,ue f a week, aud she was accompah-
hcaveu's canopy
that way. I lo.-t two
hundred pounds ol nesh horse meat
when I started from Dububue, or we
should have got along better.
I read in the Milwaukee JScics that
Pike's Peak was a humbug. But it ain't,
and tbe JTeics knows it as well as I do.
We got here in the morning, after walk
ing all night, aud though wc arc now
twenty-four hours in the country, we aro
not well off, but have a good prospect.
There is gold here lots of it. The
gophers dig it out of the ground by tbe
bushels, and in tbe moonlight the whole
earth, for miles around, looks like Heav
en with its myriad stars, or like a pretty
girl with yellow freckles. The wood-1
chucks dig out bushels and bushels of it,
and the snakes iu this country look like
solid gold ones, from crawling
It is found in all sized pie-
se of a hen's eg up to the
anions !
gold chunks.
m . t
ces irom tue size oi a hen s egg up
bigness of a large stone, and of tho finest
quality.
We have raked together what lays
loose on an acre of grouud, and have
twenty-two piles about as big as a large
sized hay stack.
Last night two hundred Indians came
to rob us of a set of silver spoons and a
fine comb that my wife had to use on the
children, aud we barricaded our house
with rocks of cold, until they could not
gain admittance, and were forced to beg
, fn , f. , '-,. . T. rllififljiiS
; down his weapous and Camc into camp,
when my wife used tho line comb on his
, head till his gratitude was as lively his
head was, and he was so tickled that be
offered to marrv my wife, aud show me i
where cold was plenty. I loved mv wife
you kuow that ueorge; but thinking
"
that I miiiht die before I got rich, and
feeling that I must mako some property
for my children, I consented to tho match,
! and she has eone off with the Indian, whoj
is a great chief, and taken tho fino comb
with her. Come out with your wife, aud
bring a fine comb, brother George.
I am going to leave these diggings for J recently chartered an association of gen
a better one. It is too much trouble tojtlomcn under the title of "The Pbiladel
tug aud pry up the great big chunks of I phia Company for the improvement of
n.l.l f K 4 stili hiiir a r rr c n twl
so thick you cannot get them out without)
uaugcr ot oreakiug your tegs, nnu am
going up to a ravine, where all I have to
do is to go to the top of a high mountain,
and roll it down to the river.
Tho country here is fine, but the winds
are awful. My boys got 60 light with
eating roots that I can only keep them
i- t i
by me or together,
by piling lumps oi
gold, about as big
as mallets, on their!
shirt-tails, as the little innocent? sit down
on tho grass to play. Everything grows operations, they awakened Mary Quaid, a
hero. I can raio twenty bushels ofinorvaut girl keeping there. She, rose,
wheat to the acre. Oranges, lemons, and J took a wash-basin, went softly to the win
all, such colored fruits grow wild here, i dow, and as boon as the bead of the firs!
while melons, pears, apples, peaches and j mau appeared she rtruck it with thecrock-applo-dumplings
are so plenty that they cry, breaking both the head and the ba
find no market. isiu. The man screamed aud Mary
Sell off what stuff you have in Wicon-'screamed he from pain, and she for tho
and come out here, lou can get
e while, and go back in such
style that will astonish tho natives.
Givo my love to all the folks around the
corners, and put a notice ou the .school
house, that they can get an outfit in ,
Chicago for $5200. Cotco out boro, dear'
brother, by all means.
Yours affectionately,
John Smith.
"Tlmfc's a fino strain:" said a scntlo-
man at,a concert, referriug to tho tones has been the most disastrous Uregon has
of a lady singer. (overseen. It will not, however, matcrial
' "Y-c-s," responded an uhappreciating ly cheok the progress or prosperity of th
rustic, "and if sh& strains much moro, country. '
-she'll bust." ! .
,
, A wng wroto over the door of a school
house: "The
New Enaland. Whaling
Ala-.- 4
Institution.
j ' ' . "
The Bride of a Week P.eturns after
Twelve Years Abs ;nce.
We have been requested to suppross tbe'
names in the following curious history,
which has recently transpired, or rather,
the last chapter which recently occurred
m this county. A farmer's son, some 12
j
place, where they had bceu living but e
few day?, when upon his return homo on&
evening, the wife of a week was missing,
She did not return that nirrht. during
which he felt, of course, the utmost at'x-
icty, and in the
morning
be started in
' search of her. He could only learn that'
tsho had takcu the stage alone, which led?
to a railroad station,-some miles distant.
He followed, but at bs depot Ios al! trar
f I
-cesofher. He wroto to her former home,
and published notices in the newspapers
but could obtain no clue to her where
abouts. He grieved in loneliness at hor
supposed criminal act, and to escape the
scene where his week of unsullied happi
ness bad been followed by so great a' grief,
he removed to his then sparsely settled
le(1 y a g'rl 01 near a dozen years.
Iho sober man of tortv was startled.-
but asked the stranger visitor to be seat
ed. Then came her long and agonizing'
story. All was oblivious to her for the'
first ten years of their separation. She'
could toll nothing, except of one hour of
returned reason, when the little girl be
side her, his daughter, was brought into'
the world. After that long time, fitfully,
aud at periods remote from each other,
came back reason and memory. She"
had wandered to a distant city, in a state'
of mild insanity ; there she fell among
kind people, and was installed in an in
sane asylum. After tbe birth of the"
daughter, and ten years more spent witbm:
its walls, thoughts of her youth, her home'
i and Der bus-baud came back. She slow-
ly recovereu ; men visitea uer parents,-
j learned where her husband was, and flew
i t0 u'm e sure h0 clasped her in his
arms, and they wept upon each other s
necks. Again going before the altar, tbej
were united and she now presides with4
careful dignity and ease over his house
hold. But little is said about it in tbe neigh
borhood, except expressions of wonder at
Squire D's sudden and unexpected mar
riage to one whom they supposed to be' a
fair widow with whom ho had recently
become acquainted.
Madison Arsni.
School Teachers allowed-to Dance
The New York State Superintendent
of Public Instruction, II. II. Van Dyck,
has sustained the appeal of Miss Head.-
of the Third Assembly District of Steu
ben couuty, who was refused a teacher
; certificate by School Commissioner Pet-
i . . . - ........
i tengni oecause sue uecnuen pieuging her
self
not to dance d urine
her
engagement
as a teacher iu one ot the otate common
I schools
The right
of sohoolmistreses to
dance is now fully established.
A $400,000 Theatre
Tho Legislature of Pennsylvania has
! tlisv linn m ' '
whose intention it is to
build a Theatre whicbshall beequtl to a-
ny on the continent, in its adaptability
for drimatio purposes. A large amount?
of stock has already been subscribed for"
tbe contemplated edifice, the cost of which
is estimated at about 400,000.
Some
burgulars
tbe other knight at
l tempted to cuter
a
dwclliirg house
rn
I roy, N. 1 .: selecting a bed room win-
; dow at the rear of tho house as a point of
watch, lheburgular escaped.
It is believed that twenty-five hundred
ueaj 0f cattle havo perished in Oregon
ani Washington during tho past winter,
Ouc farmer in Marion county, we learu,
loet sixty head iu fifteen successivo davtr.-
! Another in Polk county, having four hun
dred head, lost one hundred during tho
; winter. The loss was not confined to
!neat5tock. Valuable
horses and brood
The past season
mares havo per'i-hed.
j a colored girl, 18
years old, in Tren-
,tou,
committed suicide on Sunday" fey,
Bwallowing laudauum, because uerotu
. , t it.' -
er bad whipped her.
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