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HINTS TO FARMERS.
We have printed in the course of
the past ten years, a large amount
of useful matter, principally original,
addressed to the practical minds of
the farmers, with a view to make
them more systematic in their busi
ness, and consequently to possess a
more accurate knowledge of the re
sults of their labors, than has usual
ly been the case. The following
which is added to the mass, we find,
without a source and we copy it as
worthy of perusal and remembrance.
—Germantown Telegraph.
Those who have never kept, in
detail, a record of the income and
expenditures of the farm, will find
the present just the period to com
mence, an operation of this nature.—
You ought to know, at the expira
tion of each year, the amount that
has passed through your hands—the
receipts, and what has been paid
out—what purchased, and what sold,
and the exact state of your finances.
Any person doing business without
a full knowledge of thislepartment,
is working in the dark. w •
BE SYSTEMATIC.—here we have
one of the•first principles of success
ful agriculture. Let all your trams
actions be in a business like manner.
Take note of every operation, wheth
er you buy or sell, receive or dis
berse, sow or reap, make a promise
or a bargain. To do this, it will be
necessary to keep a diary; • and we
say, do so, if for no other object than
as a ready means of comparison.
BE THITROUGH.—Never half do
anything yourself, nor permit your
men to glide over their labors. "If
it is worth doing at all, it is worth
doing well," would prove a golden
maxim to thousands of farmers if they
would not only adopt it as a portion
of their creed,but exemplify its teach
ings in their daily life. Away with
these scratchers—men that go be
neath the surface are the kind want
ed.
LEAVE YOUR LAND IN GOOD HEART.
—lt should be the object of every til
ler of the soil to leave his land in
good condition after the removal of
a crop, and, at the same time, obtain
as many remunerating returns as pos
sible. This can be done only by hus
banding all the sources of fertility
upon the farm, and adding thereto in
every available manner. This is the
Alpha and Omega of progressive ag
riculture. Never boast of a "buck ac
count" if it is obtained at the expense
of your Varrn.
STUDY YOUR PROYESSION.—It is not
hlone the energy that wields the
plow or spade that insures success.—
`There is a "higher law," the culture
of the mind, and it must go hand in
hand with the culture of the soil
The relations of science to the farm.-
or's calling are intimate. Good books
are aids in the attainment of knowl
edge, but never pin your faith to the
ipse dixit of any-individual—think,
experiment and judge for yourself.
STICK TO THE FAam..—,A.mid your
plans for the future, never for one
moment, harbor the ilea of bettering
your condition by"entering the arena
of commercial Life. Do not exchange
a home of quiet, real enjoyment for
the turmoil and illusion of a city res'-
dence. Barter not sweet repose for
visons of empty wallets, nor let notes
due on the morrow assume the pre
rogatives of the nightmare. Very
poor comforts for care and anxiety
are these little walities in the com
mercial world. Stick to the Farm!—
What thopgh hard labor be the every
day command, it is noble,
healthful
and conducive to the development of
the whole man.
MAPLE SUGAR.
The following timely article is
from a large sugar manufacturer of
New Hampshire
We have been in the practice of
Rakng - annually, in our sugar estab
ment, from 2,500 to 3,500 pounds of
maple sugar ; and when we could
obtain from two to four cents per
peund more than the cost of the
best loaf and granulated sugars, we
have sometimes sold ourselves so
short as to be obliged to buy for
home use a barrel or two of the best
granulated sugar. Much depends,
however, upon the manner in which
maple sugar is made. We make our
sugar in this way :
Our buckets and holders are all
thoroughly scalded and rinsed previ
ous to setting. Our evaporating
pans, of which we use eight, are
scraped, washed, and made perfectly
clean befere use. We then endeav
or to ged4her and evaporate the sap,
as speedily as possible after it has
left the trees, to a consistency a little
thinner than molasses.
It is then strained and set aside
until we are ready to sugar it off.—
When we commence this process, to
syrup enough to make forty pounds
of sugar we add one pint of milk
and one or two eggs well beaten and
mixed together. Place the syrup
over the fire , and when the skum ri
ses skint it dr for future use. After
the skimming is through, remove the
syrup from - the fire and strain it
th-rough fisntiel, to remove all little
curd*, whit*, it *aged to remain,
troika sot oaly - injure the quality,
but, `b/lietbling, 10 the bottom, we*
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1863:
endanger burning. Now we wash
our evaporating pan, return the
syrup, and place it over a brisk fire,
and evaporate as quickly as possible
to the right consistence. If it is to
be caked, it must be harder than
tub sugar, or to stir off dry. Keep
saleratus and all other drugs out of
your sugar, if you desire a pure ma
ple taste and a wholesome article.
When the season is through,
gather your utensils, and scald and
scrub every one perfectly clean, if
you wish to continue making good
sugar in the future. In this order
the evaporating pans are excepted;
which should be put away in a dry
place with the glazed coating on
them, which is the best protection
from rust.—Journal of Agriculture.
Bi,stEllantnito.
The Fredericksburg Battle.--
Scenes in the Hospital.
At the hospital we found poor
Bayard. Of all the ghastly wounds I
saw . that day, his was the most awful.
It needed but a glance to see, as he
calmly stated to those who visited
him, "that his days on earth were
numbered." If his wound had been
a mere scratch, he could not have
been more cool, quiet, and collected.
He talked calmly of his death as of a
settled thing, and only inquired par
ticularly how much time he had left
oil earth. He was told; "perhaps
forty-eight hours." He did not live
twenty-fbur hours. My heart sank
within me as he gave me his hand in
farewell, and I almost murmured,
"Why are the best taken ?" The
large house to which the wounded
were brought, was now filled - with
mutilated and dying men. Cries and
groans resounded from every 'apart
ment. Ghastly- and bloody wounds I
met the eye in every direction. Some
had their eyes shot out,the tongues of
, some were swollen out of their
mouths; some had their bodies shot
through ; others were torn and man, I
gled by shell and solid shot. and all
were crowded wherever there was 1
any space. The surgeons were hack
ing off limbs and E.rins by the dozen.
The odor of blood was oppressive.—
One
man called me to him, thinking /
I was a surgeon, and said that one of
his wounds bad been dressed, but he
found that he bad another, which was j
, bleeding rapidly. Another poor fel- I
low hold up his arm to me, with a
great bulging hole in it, and asked
with an expression of pain and anx
iety that I could scarcely endure,
whether I thought be would have to
lose it ? Such is the horrid reality of
war behind the painted scenes of
honor, glory, and romance. How
ever cold an ear the poor fellows may
have turned to the story of the Cross
when in health, es a general thing
they were ready enough now to listen
to the offers of mercy. One woun
ded boy had his leg taken off just a&t:
; be was entering the hospital, which
building was under fire all day, and
was repeatedly struck. The scene
from the windows of the hospital was
truly splendid as night came on
umerable camp-fires gleamed from
the hill-sides, and occasionally the
darkness was lighted up by the flash
of cannon. But weariness, and the
knowledge that our own regiment
might be engaged the next day, caus
ed me to seek a place of rest. The
medical department of our brigade
hid been rendered small by the ab
sence of some of its members, and it
might be that our duties on the mor
row would be 'very arduous. The
ground outside the hospital was so
tramped up, muddy, and filled with
horses, that it was impossible to sleep
there. But there was a stone alley
way under the hospital, filled with
tobacco in the leaf; part of it lying on
the ground, and part drying overhead.
One end of this place was already fill
ed with wounded men, but the sur
geon in charge said that the other
would not be occupied before morn
ing, and that I had better stay there.
As a light came I saw something
White lying near the wall. I first
thought it was a dog, and going up,
I stirred the object with my foot.—
On looking closer, I found that it was
a ghastly pile of arms and legs from
the amputating room. But I had
seen so much of blood and horror
during the day, that I had grown
callous. I quietly spread my blank
ets within ten feet of the bloody
heap, and listened sadly to the shrieks
and groans from, the hospital above
till I fell asleep. The reopening of
the battle on Sunday morning awoke
me, and as I was rolling up my blan
kets, a shell bursting near warned
me to hasten. I joined the regiment,
and with it recrossed the river. We
have since been doing picket duty
on the Rappahannock.
Many a careless light-hearted sol
dier wore an anxious troubled look
that day, as we stood facing the rebel
batteries, and many a loud-mouthed,
coarse, swearing fellow, was quiet
and pae. Bat I saw no flinching or
skulking. You at the North who
cosily read about battles in an arm-
Thk*, know little of a man's sensa
tion who stands in frontof the ene
my's guns. He hears shot and shell
scream sad explode over and •sikeknd
hitt Before bid wiles - the wat
ous smoke of the conflict. From out
of that obscurity, he knows that at
any moment some swift messenger of
death may be speeding on its way
to his heart. Ho thinks of unfinished
plans, of bright prospects and hopes
fbr the future. His home, its belov
ed inmates, and the forms and fea
tures of those friends that hold the
chief places within his soul, rise up
before him, and he knows that at
any moment he may be snatched
from all these, and lie a mangled
bleeding corpse upon the ground,—
And then come graver and still more
solemn thoughts of the shadowy
world beyond, and "conscience which
makes cowards of us all" awakes.—
In the mad excitement and tumult
of a charge, everything is forgotten.
When patiently standing under fire,
everything is remembered, and this,
of all that the soldiers has to do and
endure, is the most difficult and dread
ed. CHAPLAIN
=II
JAPAN,
America was the first to find the
key by which the long-locked door
of Japan was opened. But it re
quires something more than an open
door to insure an entrance. There
must be bold, zealous and holy men
to speak the Word. "What," the
London Record pertinently asks,
"would have been the present condi
tion of Japan, had its people beheld
in the teachers of Christianity, and
in the conduct of its professors, a
spirit and practice more worthy of
that Divine religion? What, also,
wo may ask, would have been the
fruits of Evangelical missionary toil
in other parts of Asia, in Africa and
in the South Sea Islands, had Chris
tianity come to the. natives recom
mended by nothing of a more exalted
character in those who preached it ?
The wilderness that now blossoms
like the rose, would have been a wil
derness still; and where tens of thou
sands have been brought from the
depths of pagan wretchedness into
the light and freedom of the gospel,
the people would even now be either
the blind devotees of' a barren cere
monial, or be driven, by their very
disgust at the Christian's hypocrisy,
into a more hopeless slavery under
their own superstition.
"Japan is generally allowed to be
the most civilized and refined of the
Asiatic nations • nobleness, intelli
gence and docility being strikingly
characteristic. of the people. Their
remarkable industry is of itself' an in
dication that men possessed of such
a quality, have capacities for the
greatest intellectual and moral ad
vancement. The very hills and moun
tains of the country are richly culti
vated; and wherever a square foot of
soil can be brought under agricultural
treatment, it is made to yield its
quota of the general produce. Nor
do the Japanese, like the Chinese,
everlastingly move in the same track,
working and manufacturing as they
did five hundred years ago; but, on
the contrary., are highly progressive,
copying the inventions of other coun
tries, sand bringing out similar pro
ductions with marvellous rapidity.
They put Europeans to shame in the
matter of education ; for the instruc
tion of their children is almost univer
sal, and the consequence of such a
general attention to the training of
their youth in elementary knowledge
and industrious habits, is, that indi
gence and pauperism are almost un
known in their land. To what ex
cellent purpose might not such qual
ities be turned, if once fairly brought
under the influence and direction of
Evangelical truth !
"Taking the facts as they stand on
both sides of the question, we cannot
but regard that interesting country
as one on which the eye of Christian
expectation should rest with plea
sure ; as one the conversion of whose
inhabitants might in itself be a sig
nal instrument in spreading the light
of truth through the nations of the
East. The unhappy prejudice con
tracted against the religion of Christ
has, doubtless, been a formidable hin
drance to the missionary's success in
that country; but there is a might,
and a power, before which even this
great mountain may be made a plain."
Gen. Casey's Division at Fair
Oaks.
It will be remembered that a storm
of censure has been visited upon
Gen. McClellan for the tone of his
dispatch, i n which be spoke of the
discreditable behaviour of Gen. Ca
sey's division at the battle of Fair
Oaks. Gen. Heintzelman's report
has just been published. He says :
—The defensive works of Gen. Ca
sey's position, in consequence of the
increasing rains, and the short time
alldwed him for labor with entrench
ing tools, were in a very unfinished
state, and could oppose but a feeble
resistance to the overwhelming mass.
thrown upon them. The artillery
was well served, and some of
the regiments fought gallantly
till overwhelmed by numbers. Af
ter they were once broken,
however,
they could not be rallied. The road
was filled with ftigitives (not all fiam
this division) as far as Boston's
Bridge. Col. Starr's regiment of
Gen. Hooker's division, lad to force
its way throagh them with the bay
onet, ands gaud I pissed at Bot
tom's Bridge, stopped over a thou
sand men. An officer informed me
that after we had driven the ene
my beyond our first entrenchments,
he visited Gen, Casey's camp, and
found more men bayoneted and shot
inside the shelter tents than outside
of them. As Gen. Casey, in his re
port, has not designated the regi
ments who did not behave well, I do
not feel called upon to name them.
HOW TO TREAT AN IDLE HUSBAND.
The people (the inhabitants of'
New-Zealand)are much attached to
their chiefs. •If they require an ad
ditional patch of land, or liberty to
build a Louse anywhere, it is grant
ed. If they quarrel among them
selves, or have complaints to make,
the head chief's ear is kindly opened
to all—to the poorest man as well as
to" the petty chief. If invasion
threatens their district, he is in the
front ranks to repel it ; and, let the
war cause a sharp skiimish or a
great battle, he is always in the
front, and where danger presses
most, so that he has their love and
respect. The head-chief often inter
feres in minor matters of a domes
tic nature. For instance, if a lazy
fellow has a wife or two and a few
children, and, through his love for
fishing, dancing, or loitering idly
about, neglects to bring in the neces
sary supplies for his amily, a com
plaint is made. The chief visits the
house in person, and, if he sees just
grounds for punishment, ho orders
out the whole population of the vil
lage. Men, women, and children
arm themselves with a stiff birch,
made of canes, and then form a dou
ble line about six feet apart, and
wait, with anxious glee, the approach
of the delinquent. At last he is
placed, at one end of the lines, amidst
a shower of yells, screams, jibes,
etc. The word is given by the
chief, and away he darts at his ut
most speed. According to his des- .
erts, he may get off with running the
lines once, or may have to do so
twice or thrice ; but he is skilled in
cunning and fleetness that can run ;
the lines once without having the
skin tickled for him by the hearty
application of the birch, wielded by
some strong woman. As the pun
ishment
is not of a fatal kind, the
whole affair creates unrestricted
merriment. For . one month after
wards his family are provided by the
public at large under the fatherly
superintendent° of the chief. At
the expiration at Oat time, &he has
all domestic matters in perfect or
der, as a good father and provident
husband used to have, he again re
sumes his place in society, and short
ly aftewards helps, with L.x, .peri
eliced hand, to flagellate see one
else —Coulton's South America.
JAMIE FURGESON.
In the early days of our country
the Scotch-Irish Covenanters were
numerous in the western counties of
Pennsylvania—a branch of the Pres
byterian family. The Covenanters
of those days used "Rouse's version
of the Psalms" exclusively, and held
the composition of Watts and others
in utter detestation; and so tightly
did they draw their sectarian lines,
that for a Covenanter to attend,
even once, the services of any other
church, though it might be of the
Presbyterian order, was considered
a crime almost as bad as sheep.steal
ing. James Furgeson—or, as he
was generally called, Jamie Fergu
son-a well-to-do farmer of Wash
ington County, was a member of
the Rev, Mr. Buchanan's congrega
tion, and one of the strictest of the
strict in all matters of church doc
trine.
"Ila,v,ing set up a distillery he be
came, in another sense also, very
often more tight and more blue than
any of his fella v-members—which,
indeed, is saying a great deal on
that point.
"His parson (a truly good man,
but suspected of using Watt's book
in the family devotions) did every
thing in his power to reclaim him.—
Suspensions from church-member
ship and restorations thereto follow
ed each other for some time, unti:
the good parson, losing patience,
resolved if possible to effect a radi
cal cure, and exposulated• with him
in the strongest terms. Jamie• con
fessed his numerous short-comings.
[Men are wonderfully ready to con
fess themselves great sinners; but
greatly dislike being told that they
are such 4 "Quet it, mon,' said the
good parson, in his broad dialect,
`quet it at onee. No more of this
aye sinnin' an' aye repentin'; but
quet it entirely, or you'll become a
disgrace to the congregation !'—
This was rather too much for Jamie,
substantial man as he was, and a
liberal contributor to the support of
the church. It put him on the of
fensive. lie began to think he was
not altogether so bad as other men,
or even as his own pastor, in some
respects; and he determined to re,
taliate.
he,
I am a poor weak body.'
said he, acknowledge that I do get
a little drunk, or so, occasionally ;
but I never sing enrol Watt's pawns:"
The parson withdrew; and Jamie
kept or aye sionin' and aye repentin'
to the day of his death.—Harper's
Magazine.
FRANCIS XAVIER.
Some three centuries and a half
ago, the little kingdom of Navarre
' gave birth to an extraordinary man.
His family oft both sides was among
the proudest of ancestral Spain.—
While his elder brothers were trod
, with the military ardor which ad
I filled the escutcheon of their fathers
with deeds of renown, Francis, call
ed also, from his mother's family,
Xavier, was smitten with a passion
for letters. His education was com
pleted at Paris, and there where
five centuries before Abelard had
drawn upon himself the eyes of Eu
rope, and attracted to his lectures
admiring thousands, Francis was
now expounding that same Aristotle,
and was rapidly winning a similar
popularity.
He had fallen upon an auspicious
hour. It was the dawn of a new
era. Faust had just revealed the
magic of movable types. The Port
uguese had opened the ocean path
way to the East Indies. Columbus
had returned from his discovery
with a story that electrified the na
tions. Luther and his coadjutors
were agitating Europe with the pro
foundest religious sensation. At this
opportune moment Ignatius Loyola,
one of the great founders, made his
appearance in Paris. Re had as yet
found but two men fit to become his
associates. lie presently marked
Xavier for the third. He sought his
acquaintance, and laid open to him
the glory of converting the infidels,
to Chretianity, but his words fell on
ears deaf to every thing but the glo
ry of this present world, which was
just then opening to the rising phil
osopher in its brightest splendors.—
And "What shall it profit a man if
he gain the whole world and lose his
own soul?" was the solemn message
which he reiterated from day to day
and from month to month, till at
length, in an hour of sadness, it
struck a new chord in the heart,
which had at first spurned so grave
an admonition. The great thought
which now began to find an echo
within him, "What shall it profit a
man if he gain the whole world and
lose his own soul?" went on —deep
ening its own impressions till it
transformed the world and him, The
world, which had been his god, ho
now despised and spit upon; its hon
ors were faded rags; its majesty
mean ; its riches despicable dust.—
He literally forsook father and moth
er, and houses and lands, for the
kingdom of heaven's sake. He
seized the first opportunity to sail
to India as a missionary, and pass
ing on his way to the seaport almost
within sight of the home of his child
hood, he refused to look upon it with
bis eyes ; refused to see the face of
kindred; refused the final adieu of a
fond mother, lest.the tenderness of
earthly affections should shake the
steadfastness of his soul.
Arrived in India, he wont up and
down the valleys, and over the moun
tains, and through the islands, learn
ing the languages of the natives by
miracle, and preaching Christianity
with a zeal which brought hundreds
of thousands to seek baptism at his
hands. With an art which none but
a disciple of Loyola could imitate, he
knew how to become all things to ail
men.
Repulsed by the Emperor of Japan
for the meanness of his garb, he
forthwith arrayed himself in the
gorgeous priestly robes of the Bonzes,
and, presenting himself again to the
monarch, with a tone of authority he
commanded reverence and obedience,
and thus, through the edict of the
emperor, a nation was converted in
a day. He, now looked over to the
broad valleys of China, and burned
to add her hundreds of millions to the
list of his converts; and midway in
his voyage to this enterprise, which
was to be the crowning glory of his
life, his great soul was obliged to for
sake the frail body that refused to
sustain this additional labor. ,
It matters little that we say he
was a Jesuit, arid that his converts
were no better in their baptized
heathenism, who shall claim perfec
tion of creed or act for any man ?
That which is worthy of our atten
tion is the superhuman energy of a
great soul under the inspiration of a
great idea. Here was an earnest man
p th e i n n e g t r a a ted
appointed
i with a
d him conviction
to d ea of the
thing
t he e
did it with a might that will stand to
all ages the astonishment of the
world. In this example of the single
eye, the undaunted courage, the un
resting aim, Francis Xavier exhibit
ed all the human elements of moral
power in the highest degree. And
the minister of the Gospel, whether
in heathen or in Christian lands,
who shall imitate the'apostle to the
Indies in these things, and shall in
addition have his soul filled with the
light of truth and with the Holy
Ghost, shall, even in the blaze and
stir of this nineteenth century, give a
new imffulse to the moral world, and
a higher tone to the Christian life.
/®-Ceremony was always the com
panion gr weak minis; it is a plant
that I'M never grow in a strong soil.
NEW SERIES.--VOL. 4, NO. 37
( Frightful Casualities on Oil
The following are the details of a
terrible calamity near Titusville,
which we have already briefly no
ticed :
On Saturday afternoon, Jan. 31st,
a shocking accident occurred on the
Mellhenny farm, on Oil Creek, by
which three estimable ladies lost
their lives. About four o'clock in
the afternoon, a fire broke out in the
house of H. C. Poole, blacksmith and
machinist, burning it to the ground
in a short time, and in it the bodies
of his wife and only daughter, also
the wife of Silae Gonzales, formerly
of Stark county, Ohio. Miss Poole
bad been visiting Mrs. Gonzales du
ring the afternoon, and the two
started to a store on the Mellhenny
Farm. The house of Mr. Poole be
ing on their way they stopped. In
less than five minutes from the time
they were seen entering it the house
was discovered to be flames.,
Three men, who were near, rushed to
the house and tried to open the door,
but found it fast at the bottom.—
They
. then took a plank and forced
it open, but they had just time to see
2 of the bodies lying black and lifeless
near the door when the flames forced
them to retreat. All possible eer
tions were made to save the house
and rescue the bodies, but all in vain.
It was nearly an hour before the
bodies were recovered. They were
then a black and shapeless mass, and
could only be indentified by frag
ments of their clothing that lay be
neath their bodies. Mrs. Gonzales
and Poole were both in the prime of
life, and Miss Poole was a beautiful
and accomplished young lady of
sixteen. They were highly esteem
ed by the community among *tom
they resided, and their dreadful fate
is sincerely deplored. Mrs. Gkiniales
leaves three small children.
Poole was absent in Erie, and Mr.
Gonzales was in Pittsburgh. The
cause of the accident is all conjectaire.
Ten gallons of refined oil •Kere
known to be in the house, sitting up
stairs.
On the Thursday previous, a Mrs.
Vincent, residing on the Story Farm,
was so severely burned that she has
since died. She had been washing
some of her husband's clothes in
benzoic, and in passing through a
room, her dress caught tire from the
stove, burning her so severely that
death ensued next day.
Shocking Accident to Union Pa'.
roted Prisoners la ibichniond
--A Number Drowned.
The Richmond Examiner of the
26th ult. says:
Between 4 and 5 o'clock yesterday
morning, while upwards of 1,000 ex
changed prisoners were being con
ducted from the Confederate States
Prison to the Petersburg' depot„ for
transportation to City Point, the foot
bridge spanning the basin at Eight
street gave way, while the line was
passing over it, and went down a
wreck, in ten feet of water, carrying
with it all upon the bridge, from 50
to 80 in number. The utmost ex
eitement at once ensued among the
prisoners, and the members of them
under guard the company having ex
erted themselves strenuously to res
cue them, but the morning being
dark and cloudy, their efforts were
attended with but partial sivftsa.—
On calling the roll, 21 of the priso
ners were found to be missing, or, at
least, not answering to their names.
Two of the guard, members of Capt.
Maule's company (E.) City Battalion,
were also missing, and it is feared
they have shared the fate of the pris
oners.
Notwithstanding the lamentable
mishap, the prisoners were sent on
to Petersburg by the regular train.—
During the morning throngs of per
sons assembled on both banks of the
basin and at the [midge to witness
the preparations for recovering tho
bodies from the basin. At the sug
gestion of Coroner Sanxay, the out
lets were opened for the purpose of
drawing the water off; but the basin
emptied slowly ; and up to 5 o'clock
p. m. yesterday but three bodies had
been discovered, two of them Union
prisoners, and the third the body of
a Confederate soldier that had evi
dently been in the water a month or
more.
• Darkness approaching, the further
search for the victims wag. postpon
ed until this morning, when an offi
cial investigation will be held.
It is stated that the fallen bridge
was constructed after a pattern in
troduced from Cincinnati, Ohio.
1B The Greek Question is settled at last
by the selection of Duke Ernest, of Coburg,
to fill the vacant throne of Greece. Duke
Ernest is a brother of the late Prince Al
bert, and of course uncle to Prince Wilfred,
of England, who, as the Duke is childless,
is next of kin, and his heir to the vacated
dukedom. The Duke is said to be an ex
cellent man, of large and liberal view
iThe best way to do good to
ourselves is to do it to others ; the
right way to gather, is to aesittar.
aq.The evil that ota4 , lira after
them, but the good is oft inAarred wit b,
their bones.
Creek.