VOLUME XI.
FARMERS LOH THIS WAT.I
THE opposition say that in a short time the ground
trill bo ready to sow Chat?, Barley. 3. e. HMV
they know this we are not aide to say, but this touch
we will say, that whenever .it gets ready. you had
butter give its a call for one of the best Crain Drills.
and warranted at that, (no large talk about refunding'
money,) but if the article i= not as represented, it eats
be returned, and all matters satisfactoridy arranged.
Likewise, in due time the grass will be in order for'
bay making, and then we are prepared to furnish c a n
with Allen's Mower, a splendid machine fur cutting
grass of any kind. And in addition, when desired,
see have also the combined Mower and Reaper, on
Manny's Patent, whirls is manufactured upon a slit . ..!
fcrent principle from those made heretofore, and war
ranted to cut gras ,, and grain as fast as one team of
horses can draw it. And further, we have the Pre-;
minun Corn Sheller of Lehigh county, and as there
ban been sold a very large moldier in a short time
that have rendered universal satisfisel ion, we are can-
jident in saying, that it has no superior hem or eh
. likewise have a mill fee chapping feed, •
is different seetiotm,
II C ; OS elI
ringer. do; David do: David Ktiliw, :Mewl
; George 13cieid.
CORN SRELLE?. REFFiIIENCES.
David .13ortz, IVe: , e4wsville; J, hu ISurtz. C1,1:1 r
Crook; - Jneol) Wenner, I.ne•cr 1 : ,, 1111 ;13 . : C. A. IV.
Edolllllll. Allentown ; Reuben l nckcuLuch, Nortl.
Whitehall.
FEET; MILT, IIi;IEltli\C1•
•
Charles Scagreavca, Allmiton•n.
Allentown, April 2.
RED: OVA
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lIHEIHIG, iil &9~El~le
T 1) THETTI NEW
CLOTHING HOUSE.
BIlErS1(1, NELWII 131tEINIG, feulittg it :it
imperative duty to iw.couttatiate tie pu6Ct
fuutul it necessary to proeure 0 more c( tomudiuu
pluue of Im:due:is. and .iceordingly erected a
PALATIAL cLuriiiNG
in Ilninilten:itreet. tie .r Alorcr's Urug Store. of wide.
they Imre jest taken th e hr go o
most commodious. and bebt arranged building for tin
business in Allentown.
The preprielors of this New and M:l , 4nifieent rit.lli
ing 14-tal.liAttient, take Idea-tire in further a.mimne
lug that they hare oleo increased their tree einhats
Winter Stock of Peady-Made
C 07'II 1 ,
and are daily adding thereto ell kinds of art icle3
pertaining to Men and Boys' wear. v.llMi will l
sold at extraordinary low rate, as they to upon tin
principle that a niinble sixpence is letter than
slow shilling." They have no trash of years on God.
shelves, lvhich they try to pales id fur new ion.,
goods, but on the contrary, are superior in quoin}
make and style, to any establishment in the pbtee.—
Give them a trial and you will find the I'AI..VI .1•
CLOTHING HOUSE is the place for every ho.ly.
Their winter purchases comprise ci,tirol3 new and d, .
skald° styles, such as can lust tie found at any othc
Merchant tailoring estahlishmect ill Alb:otow n. '1'11(.11
goods were seleoted with the greatest care. and Aril.
be made tip in the Latest style and flush inn, uud war.
ranted to prove the stone as represented at the time ol
purchase. Observe, that every article ~r
.441 by the proprietors' of this establishment is 0,
their own make, end may be relied upon as Letup
good durable work. Among Lahr extensive assort
mentpay be found. fine Mach tont Blue new styl,
Dross and Frock Coats, made in the latest fashion 0.
French and English Cloths, new style P,usiitu , s Cost , .
of Black. Brown, Blue, Olive and Green Cloths, end
plain and figured Cassimeres ; Over Coats, of till
finalities, styles and prices. pantaloons. reds, and
fact evorything in the READY MADE CLOTIII NG
LINE, from an over-rout down to an undershirt: The
three great features of, Breinig, Neligh
Store are, that they buy for Cash, and conselinentl3
Call sell cheaper than any of the others: their p o uts
ere 1111111 C op under their own supervision, and but
though not least, they sell the at for want they really
are.
Also, n largo Flock of Handkerchiefs, Shirts, Col.
Lars, Winter Hosiery, Under Shirts and DrnWerB of
all kinds, nud everything in feet that is usually kept
in stores of the kind. Call and see Lefore pin pin..
chase elsewhere, nn they willingly show what they
have. They are satisfied that nll their goods bear t,
close exnutinntion.
December 10,
FURS! FURS! FURS!
Are till the go now-a-days. anil we ore
'.. iteP"l determined nut to be behind the times.—
. .` Consequently we have procured a very
large assortment, direct from the best • innuttravittren
in New York city—where Furs ore got up in the most
fashionable style, and at the lowest rate:. Our as
sortment to compered of all the styks now in nt.e—
such no
Sable Vietorines, Tippets and Capes,
Stolle ' Idartin,
"
Fitch, .'
Imitation do. n o
Rock Martin. "
••
Siberian Squirrel, 0
Brown Coney,
Black do. n "
do. Lynx, ~.
Children's Furs of various styles.
dent's Fur Collars, Caps and CillVeS.
. WC have enlarged our thick of Boots
and Shoes and Hats and Caps. suita
ble for the season. Out stork of Over
Shoos is particularly large, comprising all the various
makes in tho market, such as India Rubber. Bur
thlo, Calf-Skin, Felt, Web, &e., Se. Ladies and lien
ileum in want of any of the above articles, will do
well to examine. our stock before purchasing else
where.
All the above goodl sold at Wholesale at a lib6ral
digeouut. te murehnnta•in the country.
YOITNO ,t; LEH, .
No. •15 East Hamilton
Allentown, Deeembet 10,.185(1..
y l AeßiontEL.—Prum'a Rua good No. 2, tlhllie wW
Large eize, in half, quarter. and eighth fluer.l
C. A. RUM; & SON.
Job Printing,
Of all kinds neatly executed at•this Office
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY HAINES & DIEFENDERFER AT ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS PER ANNUM.
MINNIE HILTON,
THE VICTIM MEIVIEMTC.-E.
' 0, how I hate Mabel Sylwood !' exclaimed
Minnie• Hilton to her mother, She is forever
my rival in everything. As long ago as we at
tended school together she sought to withdraw,
the aff:ctions of my companions from me to
herself, and far too well she succeeded ; and
now, not content with having made my school
days unhappy, she seeks to take from me the
love of Alton Melvin, whom she knew how well
I did love, but now I kite him, and her too,'
with all the bitterness of my soul. Ile, by the!
miserable lies and misstatements of Mabel, has
been led to believe that I am the contemptuous.
being who would seek to win his love and then
turn haughtily from hint. And yet no one.
sees the character of Mabel Sylwood in its true
light—they cannot see through the veil of art
ful hypocrisy that covers her ; but they believe!
that she is the artless creature - 011dt she wish-
es them to b.lieve her to be. And nosy, moth•
er, before you. I promise to be revenged on
Mabel Syl wood and Alton Men ;on her, for
the reason I have already stated to you, and
on him for being so easily turned against ins.
Such love !' she exclaimed bitterly, ' is not
worth keeping ; but oh! how I once loved Lim,
u uu no longer care for him. That love is
turned to bitter, hitter hatred, and once more
I repeat it, I will be revenged !'
Mrs. Hilton looked in astonishment nron her
daughter, and how her loving and gentle Min
nie could be capable of such feelings was be
ybnd her comprehension, and she answered
Minnie, darling• do not talk o ; you know
it is wrong. Why, Minnie, how no yon talk
so of Alton Mervin, and of your cousin Mabel.
too, whom T and every one dse loved ?'
• I know you love her, and everybody rl<e
loves her, for she has managed to show the fair
, i(le of lier character to you. and for that reason
I hate her. Everybody dislikt s rue through
her misrepresentations, and yet she ti.amiges
all in such a manner that E. cannot bleak off t he
outward semblance of friembdtip, and all th e
while she knows I hate her, nut still she will
go on vexing me in every way, and as I win
the love of one and anodic. r s c snatches it from
the as if she were fearful of letting me have the
love and confidence of one person while she
t iossesqes the love of all.'
We ask the pal din «I one readers for tloi
unceremonionsly in•rodoeing them to Mrs
ton and tier (laughter, and pet haps some expla
nations are necessary. • Mrs. Ililton was n wid
ow in comfortable circumstances though far
from being rich ; Minnie was her only child,
and the nufflter's heart was bound up ill the
happiness of her (laughter. Minnie. at the
time ire introduce her to the notice of the read
er was in her eighteenth year. She was pretty
but not handsome. II:r beauty was of the
Madonna style—a sort of wrap; placidity be
tug her characteristic mark of beauty. She
was of a very sensive nature. alive to the small
est act of kindness and feeling keenly every
slight and neglect. Mabel Sylwood was exact
ly as Minnie had represented her—seeking
every means of destroying the happiness of
Minnie Hilton. The cause of this hatred was
dated far back, as fur as the youthful days of
the mothers of the two girls. Their mothers
were sisters, but in, character they were -the
entire opposites of eaell other. Minnie's moth
er was of a very sweet disposition, always the'
same and thinking no Italia of anybody. Mrs.
Sylwood, the mother of Mabel, was; as has al
ready been stated, the opposite of this. Pos
sessing a quick temper, the also possessed a
mind that loves and hates with equal inteird ty.
Both sisters had loved George hliltoo, but he
had returned only the love of Minnie's.mother.
lie married her and at that time she.swore re
venge. But, Mrs. Hilton had long forgiven and . ,
forgotten all of this, and had been on the.best
of terms with her sister, who not long after her
disappointment, gave her hand to William Syl
wood, a man of twice her age, but who was
possessed of great wealth. Mrs. Sylwood had
not forgotten tier early vow of revenge, and she
determined to seek it, if not on her sister, at
least, she would on her daughter. Mabel had
been taught to hate her cousin from her earliest
infancy, but now a greater object than ever be.
fire, was presented her for endeavoring to blast
the life of Minnie Hilton, and. that 'object was
—Alton Mervin.
IRE
EMI
Alton Mervin was a young lawyer of great
promiSe, who had just returned from college,
and commenced his ; profession in his native
town. He had long . known Minnie, and had
loved her well, and he thought his love was re•
turned.
Mabel Sylwood saw all. She loved Allon
Mervin with all the intensity of her nature,
and she determined to win the affection he had
lavished upon Minnie for herself. Too well had
she already succeeded, hut her revenge was not
yet complete as we shall so-n see.
Poor 31innie ! She had fore borne all the
injuries of Mabel uncomplaint , ply, for she felt
that the love of Merritt was it that could
not be taken from her, but now t tat she saw
that he, too, turned front her w' t scorn, all
the fire of her nature was aroused, and she do•
CHAPTER I
iMIE9
Allentown, Pa., January. 21, 1857.
termined that Nobel Sylwood sboUld yet regret
her course.
Crt.iPTint If
Good morning, Mabel ! Why, I did not ex
peel you so soon. Have you finished the letter
yet ?'
Yes, mamma, here it is ; I think it will an
swer the purpose intended. What do. you
think, mamma—will it do ?'
I cannot tell you that, my dear, until I
have read it. You read it to m?, dear Mabel.'
Drawing her chair close besid2 the lounge,
on which her mother wai reclining, she read as
follows
ROCKY Gt.r.;;, June 18th.
' V1:111- nBAlt ETIEND write thi s
. note
according to my promise, to let you know how
&
that love air is progressing. Every thing is .
as I could wish. Alton keeps along finely.
He is the same devoted lover as usual and
thinks that I love him as he does me : but in
that respect he is much mistaken. I marry
Alton Mervin ; the idea is perfectly ridiculous.
It is pleasant enough to have him for a com
panion when one has nobody else. hut, in truth.
I tire of bin. True, he is agreeable enough.
but that is nut all that is Wed, and now, as
soon as he 'proposes—which I expect he will
soon do— I shall own the truth, that I care not
fur Imo. In much haste,
1 remain v2ry truly yours.
Mtxxic
Capital,' exclaimed Mrs. Sylwood, the
hand writing is exactly like Minnie's. How
did you manage that part of it ?'
0, that was easily enough done ; yen know
that I have received a number of notes from
her, and these I have pre - served and closely
imitated the writing. so that now I can write
in nearly like Minnie that no one would
observe :111 4 y
diirOlTllee.'
'lint how. toy love. Are you u going tn tonn
age to put this note in the way of Alton Mer
vin ? Aol how :Audi on direct it ?' .
' I have thought it a:I over, mamma, and I
have come to this' conclusion. 10-morrow Al
ton Mvrvin slarts fur the city. On his w•ay to
the &pot he is obliged to I.nss tifromr,li the
mot ow pall, 11( - 11r Rocky G!en. E,rly in the .
nunrnii•g I will deposit this in the pathway, so
shall Le sine of his finding it, as no one but
binist If ever pa , ses that way.'
Ti will answer admirably, but you have
not yet ansWered my other (pc:Aim), to whom
)ou shail diron the letter ?'•
0. I :dial' direct it to no one. it will look
as it' Minnie hnd hen over to the Pine Grove,
to %vtite hor letters, whieh she awn does, and
had inadvertantly dropped it in crossing the
' Thad, will do well. my darling MalnA, li T
can only .s.:e Minnie Ilihm miserable and un
ha;.py then the obj.c: Isf a life-time
Le cf
l'ecud, for iLc inwher NeCing her AliiMie Luling
31Way will soon follow, and dicias I hate al
ways dt:tirtnilwd alto should die —uf a broken
'wart
' Yes, mother. it shall be so, and I shun be
amply repaid in the thought, that I have again
triumphed over Nlinnie Hilton. And, mother,
I swear to - you. that b?forc another year passes
over my head I will be the bride of Alton Mer
vin.'
CHAPTER. 111
Late the next morning Alton Mervin might
have been seen slowly walking down the path
that has already been described. Ilis brow
wore a thoughtful and troubled aspect, and he
might have been heard to mutter to himself—
' Si it is all true Hutst as Mand has told me
all along-- fool that I was, to believe her, the
innocent and trusting being which she seems
to be ; but what is this,' he exclaimed, as he
picked tip the unsealed letter. — He opened it
and perused its contents. As he read. an in
dignant (lush covered his face, and he exclaim
ed : Fool that I have been not to have listened
more willingly to Mabel Sylwood, when she
warned me against Minnie Hilton ; but I
thought her prejudiced and unjust. Now I see
that she was a true friend to me. Would that
I had before listened to her.'
We have already seen the contents of the let
ter.which so disturbed Alton Mervin, and we
wonder not at his indignation, fin• little does he
imagine of the plot so deeply laid to blast and
kill the life of sweet Minnie Milton. '
As soon as Mervin had passed along, Mabel
Sylwood could have been seen emerging from
the woods into, the path. A glow of triumph
rested upon her features, and her very step
proclaimed—victory !
On reaching her home she immediately visit
ed the room of her mother. As soon as she en
tered the mother started up from her recum
bent posture, exclaiming—
' Is it all right, Mabel ?—is all 'as it should
be ?'
Yes, mamma, I could wish for nothing bet
ter ;' and so she went on to relate to her moth
er all that she saw and heard from her hiding
place among the bushes.
A proud smile lit up the brow of Mrs. Syl•
wood as she listened to Mabel's recital, and as
hhe finished she murmured, as she kissed the
glowing cheek of her daughter—
' Yes, derwest, we shall yet triumph.'
Alas that such principles sh o uld h e i nc h ill.
ed into the mind . of one so young. and that that
hand whose duty it was to lit her child for a
high and holy work—to fit her to make easy
the journey of her fellow travellers, should cul•
tivate that spirit of revenge, which would make
both the possessor and victim unhappy and
miser able.
CHAPTER IV
Poor Minnie Hilton !—and how does she bear
up under the sorrows and disappointments that
press so heavily upiii? Alas ! that re
venge should so surely and ?Many" do its work.
Minnie daily grew paler and thinner, and all
around• felt that she must soon die yet none
save her brother knew what had destroyed her
young hopes. just as they were budding to blos
sotn and had divested life for her, of all its joys,
and made her k - mg to lay down in peace in the
cold and silent grave: But one thought still
burned within her and urged her to live, and
that thought Was—revenge on Mabel Sylwood !
It is a beautiful evening ; the sun has disap
peared behind the western hills, and Luna is
pouring forth her flood of silver light upon the
earth : all is calm and silent, except when the
stillness is broken by the song of the distant
whippo•will and by the music of yonder bab
bling stream. Accompany me in imagination,
reader, along the gravelled walks in the garden
of the Sylivood's mansion. But hark ! we
hear voices conversing in tho arbor. Let us
draw nearer and play the part of eavesdropper
for a while.
' Yon cannot think that Minnie would act so
base a part. Alton, it is not possible !' ex:laints
the voice of !label 6ylwnu 1.
' Yes it is Mabel. I would not myself believe
it but for this !otter; just look at it—it is Min
nie's writing. that you can easily tell.'
' Yes, it is indeed the basil writing of Min.
nie. lam sorry for your sake that it should
be so, and yet it is better to find this out- now
than a little later.'
' Certainly it is,' answered Mervin. ' Now
that I have found out what deceit she is capa
ble of I cast her from me as ono who is unfit
for a place npim the earth.'
A glow of triumph lit up the face of Mabel
'wood at these words. It passed off, how
ever, unobserved by her companion.
Let us go to the house. The airgrows chil
ly and damp bete,' said Mabel.
' Stay one moment, Mabel, dearest,' exclaim
ed Mervin passionately, ' I have much that I
wotild.l,say, to you. Sit hete, darling by toy
side and let me tell you all. Mabel, I love yoti
warmly, devotedly and passionately. I fcc•!
that you have ever been my friend,intt I would
ask more than that. I would ask you, my
adored Mabel, to be my own loving and devot
ed wife. Say, Mabel. will you speak the word
that shall make •ne happy ?'
As he finish( d speaking, he took the •hand of
Main] 1. 4 v1w00.1 and prvsstql it to his lips. It
was not witlithaWn and he knew that his love
was returned.
Ah. Al; on :‘l6rvin ! little do you think whst
t viper you Circa to your bosom. Soon, alas !
too soon; it will turn and sting you.
CRAFTER V
The mother of Minnie Hilton is dying. Re
venge has partly done its work. As she saw
her darling Minnie slowly failing away from
earth, the ties that bound her to this eatth
were broken. Without, h r daughter she could
not live, and the thought of it preyed upon her
spirits and undermined her health.
A number of her friends have gathered
around her hAside. Minnie is there, too, look
og pale as death, but not a tear comes to hei
relief.
Conic here, Minnie dear,' says the low voice
of Mrs. Hilton.
Minnie bends her head to receive the last
words of her mother.
God in hi:aven bless you, daughter,' she
murmurs, while a heavenly smile lights up her
countenance. May he watch over and bless
you with his love. Soon, my darling, you will
join me in that blissful land where the wicked
cease from troubling and where the inhabitants
shall not say lam sick, 'Minnie. I forgi63 those
Who have so much injured me, and you, Min
nie, you must forgive•them too.'
At the sound of these last words Minnie
started up. Ftre flashed from her eyes as she
exclaimed—
Anything but this, mother. I cannot fur
give them, and once more I swear, before these,
our friends, and at the bedside of my murdered •
mother. that I will be revenged !'
No, do not say so, dearest Minnie, we have
been most foully wronged, but let us learn to
forgive as we would he forgiven. Good bye,
my darling, thereiigunsh I would say to you
hut I feel the satifili' ire arc fast ebbing, and
in a few moments I shall be in the presence of
my Maker. Farewell, my child, farcwell !'
As he, finished speaking she sank back ex
hausted upon her pillow. She
site
perfectly
still for several moments titan murmured—
No tears there,' and thou the spirit return
ed to Gt.who gave it.
Ci~Arun VI
it is now nearly three weeks since the death
of Mrs. Hilton. Minnie still coniinned . to' re
side in their flamer home, when one morning a
caller came in
' There is some in the parlor who wishes
to see you; Miss Hilton,' sail the servant Conl
in; to Miunio's door. • •
' Say that I will be down in a moment,' an
swered
In i a-little while Minnie entered the parlor,
she looked pale and wan, but a glow quickly
suffused her face as she discovered the visitor
was Mabel Sylwood. As she entered the room
Mabel immediately arose and extended her
hand saying—
Good morning, cousin Minnie. lam hip
py to no, you looking so well. I declare, after
all that r have heard, I expected to see you
looking quite ill. I should have called before,
but I have been so much engaged in my own
work that I have uochad the time to bestow a
single thought on any one else.'
Minnie shrank in open scorn from the prof
fered hand of Mabel Sylwood ; she merely an
swered—
Your absence is pettedly excusable.'
Thank you,' anwered Mabel, ' but I have
come here on quite important business, at least
tome, but perhaps it will not be so important
to you, What think you ?'
on,' answered Minnie, coldly:
' I will,' replied Mabel, ' to come to the point
then, I am to be married to Alton Mervin, the
day after to-morrow, and as he was once a Very
particular friend of yours I have come to invite
you to be present when tho ceremony is per
formed.'
This was said in a Litter and contemptuous
tone ; but the word,: did not have the tdreet on
Minnie that Mabel intended they should have.
Minnie merely replied—
' I will be present.'
Shortly after _Mabel took her leave.
en2,l-rcrt, VII
It was the bridal day of Mabel Sylwood.—
Early in the morning ,fittnie dressed herself in
a dress of pure white muslin. Around her neck
she hung a silver chain, to which Wr.s suspend.
cd a jewelled dagger; it had been the gift of
Alton Mervin ; who, in her happier days, play
fully put the chain about her neck, saying—
' rh fetid yourself with this, Minnie, when
the time comes.'
Then slowly put tin on her bonnet and shawl
she walked towards her mother's pave and
knelt he,ide it. ' Mother,' murmured she, ' th e
time is come when my vow to you shall be fill.
filled. Soon, aye very soon will Ibe revenged,
but it i s in a way that they 'think not of.—
Mother, soon shall I meet you on the banks of
Eden, there to
,part from you no more.'
She arose from her kneeling post ore and wrap
ping her shawl closely around her she proceed
ed towards the church in which the marriage
eeretoony was to be performed. When she or
ived there she found that the people had al
ready ass.. tobled. In the entry she cast caller
himnet and shawl, and as she passed up the
Ole she lool:ed more like a spirit than a human
being, so thin and light was she.
6 lint in her eyo
Them watt it ,ittettel.lc: , n encr;:y.'
Slowly she passed up the aisle, until she came
within a few feet from the alter, where stood
Mabel Sylwood and Alton Mervin. She paus
ed a moment. then taking the dagger from her
bosom she exclaimed—
' Alton 'Mervin, T forgive you. Mabel Syl
wood behold your work. Your a murderess
equally with your mother. May God forgive
you both.' •
As she uttered the last %voids she slowly
raised the dagger and plunged it to her !Kart,
and in another moment . Ilinnie Hilton was a
corpse
All around were struck with alarm. Mabel
Sylwood uttered one groan and fell into a deep
swoon. She was immediately conveyed to her
home, when as soon as she recovered sufficient
ly to speak, she called for Alton. Ile was itm
mediately sent for and was soon by her bed.
si
' Alton, I, have much to say to you, and I
must any it now, for I have but a little while to
live, and before I die would confess all to you.
When you have heard it you wi t Me as
I do myself, but nevertheless it shall all be told.
Minnie Ililton was as pure us innocence itself. I
I hated her, and circulated the stories which'
you heard, on purpose to turn you from ljer.'
But the letter, that letter, you surely had
nothing to do with that 1' exclaimed :Mervin,
eagerly.
Yes, I wrote it,' groaned Mabel. 'O, Al-'
ton, you hate me no&, but I deserve it.'
• Hate you ? Yes, Mabel Sylwood I scorn
you as I would the vilest reptile of the ear .
0, Minnie, Minnie!' cried he, that I tihould
ever have been turned from you by the lies of
this miserable, wicked —'
He ceased abruptly, for happening .to cast
his,syek towards Mabel he snag that a great
change had come •over her. ]es, Mabel .Syl
wood ha I gone to be judged by an impartial
God. how fearful must be that reckoning.
Two months after the death of Mabel, Mrs.
Sylwood7as laid by her side. •
Two years have passed away. In .. that lime
, great changes have taken place in the (joie!
village of W—. Rocky Glet Cotta!:e is de•
sorted and lonely. The mansion of Ole Sy!-
, woods is occupied by some distant relatives of
the deceased. But who is that man who 100115
so pale and hhaggard ? tiro !-he-goys towards
the grave of Minnie Hilton. Watch him as he
I bends over the grave. See the tears as they
NUMBER 16.
course down hi.; furrowed cheeks, furrowed
not by age but by trouble and sorrow.
Minnie, Minnie,' he murmurs, ' I am com
ing to meet thee ;' but now he is perfectly
!still ; his head reclines on the grave of Minnie
Hilton.. lie is dead ! It is the body of Alton
Mervin.
They buried him beside Minnie. There they
lie, side by side, in (inlet Rocky Glen. Peace
fully they sleep; flowers blossom over their
graves, and many a tear is shed there by the
villagers.
A marble slab marks the resting place of
.linuie oil which is inscribed—
MINNIE,
Aged 18,
TTI2 VICTIM 01' it r.vcsc
FATTENING CATTLE ON TURNIPS.—Many far
niers think that turnips, unless accompanied
with some kind of grain, will not fatten cattle.
A late number of the Boston Cu/GA/tor speaks
du:finitely upon this subject. The writer has
seen sheep well fattened on flat turnips. Mr.
Webster, at his farm in Marshfield, Massachu
setts, was in the habit of inaking excellent beef
with turnips and salt hay. His late neighbor,
Seth Sprague, used to du the same thing. In
1855, Samuel Chamberlain, of Westboro, raised
2,500 bushels of turnips, and 'these he fed, af
ter the 10th of November, fur eleven weeks, to
a lot of farrow COWS, at the rate of two bushels
a day to each. At the end of the term, his
cows. were fat, and sold at the full price of
meal fed anitnali, for slaughter. They were of
the ordinary stock, and weighed from 450 to
G5O pound.;, dresscd.—.oprioViaci R. puddicen.
1:N ]"trans' mainsoNmE:cr von DEBT.— All
old man named Gregg, who has been confined
in Fa - iquier county jail, since the first of Octo
ber, 18-Itl. for debt under the old lane, teas re
leased on Clu•istmas, day by jailor Cross, there
briny nothing lift in the hands of the law to
pay his jail expenses. We Icara that this mate
had property enough to pay the debt against
hini. but that he preferred spending his weary
hours within the gloomy walls of his county
prison to pat ing the debt which he owed. Tho
per::011 who bad hint confined has been dead
soma cars, but we !earn put a provision in his
will appropriating a sufiljent amount to keep
hint in limbo it , ; long as he lived. Somehow or
other, this stipulation has given out ; of course
Gregg becomes free again. When he left the
jail door he appeared to be perfectly bewilder
ed, and did nut know which way to travel, but
in a short time he became fully concious of his
freedom, and strutted about with the air of some
one who knew what liberty used to be in " by
gone days."—ll'ar•ren (Vu) Whig.
CI7SINGULAIt AFFELMON IS A DOG.—Charles
Huston, a man well known on the Alabama
river, but for the last few years a resident of
California, was kil!el by the explosion of a
steamboat near San d'rancisco a few months
since. A noble NVVinindlan,l dog, owned by
hint escaped injury; and dragged the body of
his master to tho shore. The dog was sent
home.to th mother of the demist,' residing in
Perry county, Alabama. On being shown the
daguerreotype of his lust master, the dog im
mediately recognised it and commenced licking
it, and sending up the most . piteous howls,
since that time he hae refused all food, and
moans •almost constantly: When last heard
from he was in a dying condition, and is proba
bly dead by this time. Where, in human his
tory, can be fOnnd such an instance of devoted
love, and intense r;eitTat die loss of a loved one.
It Er. Dit. Limeairosn, the celebrated Afri
can traveller, has returned to England, after
seventeen years' absence. lie crossed the great
African continent almost in the centre, from
west to east, has Leen where no civilized being
had ever Lech before, cued, has made many
nottibic discoveries of went value. He had
great difficulty in speaking a sentence of .ling
li,h, ha vi ;g disused it so long while traveling in
Africa. Ile had with a native from the in
terior of Africa. This man when ho got to the
Maurities, was so excited with the steamers
and rations wonders of civilization that he
%rent mad, and jumped into the sea and was
drowned.
oNc;bAlTr or A llon:FE.—Sothe weeks Ago
mblished an account of a horse which died
in Scotland, aged 3d years, after being worked
daily for 33 years, The editor of the Ohio
Cullireacir copied the paragraph referred to,
ind added the following :—Nearly twenty years
ago, in connection with a gentleman in Ashtn-.
hula county, we purchased an Indian Pony
mare, then known to be over twenty years old,
but lively as a cricket, under saddle or in bar
nesi. She bore us many n mile through the
woods of that then aboriginal region, leaping
fallen trees Mid fences like a deer. Last spring
,sho died, having been in active service over
fiwty veers. •
art 'A glpst•y iwninihed to Show two
yam% ladies their htrihand's faces in a Pail of
water. They looked nod exclaimed, " Why,
we only see oar races." ," Well," said the gip,
hey, these faces Will be your liuslands' when
you are married.
Mex (l:7 ieo A
agedN OLD
L.tnr.
.A lady recently died Ili
139 years
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