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B. F. SCHWEIER, - THI C053TITUTI0H THI UHI05 A5D TM ENFORCEMENT OF TH LAWS. -..-.' -V' - ; , . Editor and Proprietor.,
VOL. XXIX. , MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.; SEPTEMBER S. 1S75.;' : , ; ' - , " NO. 3t.
AFTER 1 WEILL
After whila im m beautiful day
The atorm will be eoded and brighter tin ran.
The weaiineaa over, the teak will be done,
t-ome eweet thing ootning to every one.
After a while.
Aflere while ie a proaperoae day.
Thea we ehall have all the wiedom we need ;
Our eameet endeaTora ehall alwaya aoeeeed.
Till erery ideal expend to a deed.
Afterawhile.
After a while ie an affluent day.
When oar fugitive treuare ehall all be eecore.
And we ehall forget hat we ever were poor.
When petieoee ehall bloeeam and friendship
endure.
; ' Afterawhile.
After a while ie a halcyon day.
When the lore we have laviabed oar boeom
ehall bleaa.
Then ehall be true erery hand that we preea.
The hearta we eonflde in, the lipa we naraas,
Afterawhile,
After a while, tie a merciful day.
Filled with all comfort and free from all fear.
And thrilled with all lore. Ah! If only 'twee
clear.
What the day of the month and the month of
the year,
Afterawhile.
After a while. Tia a far-away time ;
For now, while impatiently oonnting. I eee
Tie not in the calendar open to me,
80 it moat be in God'a, in the life that'a to be.
After a while.
The Little Black Fiddle.
It hung in the garret, on one of the
big nails there, all around it the usual
lumber or an old bouse trunks, broken
chairs, superannuated chest of draw
ers, a spinning-wheel, cobwebs.
Yearn and years ago a tramp had been
taken in at the door in a faiuting con
dition, lie lay ail day in stupor on the
settee where tber had placed him ; and,
moved with pity, an J in some slight
consternation as to what was to become
of him, and of themselves too, if this
state continued, the household did what
they could for him. Just before dark
he began to murmur a broken jargon
of English and foreign tongues, and
took hi little black fiddle from his side,
and gave it to Mr. Brooks with as im
pressive an air as if he bestowed a king
dom, the children looking on, wide-eyed
and oeti -mouthed. Then he died, and
was buried, and nobody knew anything
farther about him; and the children
twanged the fiddle a while, and there
had been the end of it.
The little fiddle hung forgotten on its
nail ; but the children grew in strength
and beauty every day, and made the
house nearly as lively as the ark must
have been in all the forty days before it
rested on Ararat. Sometimes the little
fiddle vibrated to their laughter, and
gave it a faint echo from tin hollow
breast, hut that was all the share it had
In it.
What a cheerful group they were,
Belle and Jessie and Fred and Frank,
and the twins always rolling over each
other, and chuckling as if that were the
freshest joke in the world. They were
just as cheerful when a dozen years had
passed, and the children were becoming
men and women, childish boisterous
ness was becoming high-bred gayety,
and the special talent was developing
that belonged to each of them.
But the general talent of that family
was for charity. They had a genius for
it a genius, as Mr. Brooks' neighbors
used to gay, for turning themselves out
of doors iu order to let somebody else
iu ; a little house, but the largest you
ever knew, for it held the most hos
pitable to rich and poor, the wayfarer
never leaving It unrefreshed, the suf
ferer uncondoned.
Yet the means to do so much were
but limited. Mr. Brooks bad bnt a
small income; Mrs. Brooks found it
necessary to count every penny twice
over, to turn and piece and remake, and
never to waste a enrjub. But, when
that was all done, t lie re was always
something left for the widow and father
less; and the moment there was any
tiling to do, either for North street or
the Five Points or Borroboola, Mrs.
Brooks' door was the one first rapped
at. And w hat a vivid interest it w-as
that was taken throughout that house
in every rase that came up, from the
time the little bright heads could cluster
together, the little fingers could hold a
needle, the little legs run an errand!
You could never see a prettier sight
than those bright heads, those glowing
faces, those pitying eyes. "My bunch
of blossoms," Mr. Brooks used to call
them, and say they gave their honey to
every bee that, vagabondized about
them. And by-and-by, when Belle
was eighteen, and Jessie just turning
sixteen, and the rest coming on, this
same sympathy with all suffering was
as active as of old ; and Jessie's lovely
face seemed every day to grow lovelier
with the melting tenderness she felt to
every one that needed gentle word or
deed, and wtien she sang her songs in
the evening, the trait seemed somehow
to have strained itself through the rich
sweet tones of her voice, and to make
the hearer's heart respoud to its touch
and always fill his eyes with tears.
"Our Jessie," the father used to say,
"ought to have different instructions
with that voice. If you hadn't been
such a Sandemanlan, wife, all your life,
we should have laid by enough to send
her to Italy and have her voice culti
vated as it should be."
"Well, dear, would you throw away
all your pleasant memories of pain re
lieved and all the benefit it has wrought
the children's characters, and take it
out In music T" his wife would ask. "I
should like to have Jessie's voice at
tended to; but, bless you, it might do
her more harm than good."
'Harm !" said . Belle ouce, as they
talked it over, , .
"Yes, dear; we all have our vanities,
aud to nurse one's pride "
"Oh, mamma, but to stand up and lift
a thousand people on your voice as if it
were wings for them! Think of that!
Of the delight she could give so many,
and then of the fortune she could make
and the thtngsshe conld do ! We would
have that children's hospital, and"
"Very true," sighed Mrs. Brooks.
"Very true," sighed her husband.
"It would take fifteen hundred dollars
to send Jessie to Italy. She would be
too old to have It do her voice any good
bv the time 1 could get so much to
gether." Ami just then came in the
minister's wife to see about the concert
she was getting up lor the benefit of the
poor, Pe Maurn children, whose par
ents lately organist and soprano in the
little church were lost in the Destroyer
on their way to Europe for some pur
pose, at which concert Jessie was to sing
a song, if ahe could find the courage.
"You needn't be afraid, Jessie' said
the good minister's wife ; "there's, no
body in Uie audience knows ,a .note
mora mask) than too do," -' '- ' -t' -
"Ob, but he w'iU the violinist, you
know; . and - Madame. Keuter, If- she"
comes" , - c : . 1 . - - : , ' ' '
"She's coming. "We're to pay' ex
penses.. And she represented the case
to Signor. Parian' and told him they
were the children of musicians, and he
volunteered. It was too good of him !
They're to stay with me.'p
"Oh, not both of them, Mrs. King;
one's enough, with all your care. Send
one nere," said Mrs. Brooks.
"Well, I should be glad to. really.
Ill send you the slgnor. Xow, Jessie,
sing The harp that once through Tara's
halls,' just as if you were on the plat
form, and we were all down on the seats
be 1 ore vou.
And so Jessie sang it, and her voice
swelled out as If a young sibyl sang,
wiui me woros,
Thae Freedom now mn eeldoni wekes-
The only tbrob etae gives
U when enme been indiraant break.
To that cull abe Uv."
And the minister' wife cried and went
home,
One afternoon next week Madame
Reuter came down, and Mrs. King
brought the Sirnor Pazsaui into the
Brookses' parlor, and left him.
It was not much preparation the
Brookses had been able to make for
their distinguished guest, they could
only fill his room full to overflowing
with Belle's flowers, that grew and
blossomed in every window the winter
long, as ror their table, it was alwayf
a miracle of snow and silver and
parseiy-trtmmea aisces, aud It was
impossible for them to make much
difference. They found, though, that
it was of no consequence, for the signor
was inuinerent 10 everytntng but bread
and fruit and salad, and presently looked
about him for the young lady who was
to sing. "You are she," he said, pres
ently, to Jessie, and began talking with
her about her music while he crumbled
his bread. But it was not till some,
hours after they left the table that he
came dowu from his room aud demanded
to hear what she could do.
Poor Jessie had no more idea of hesi
tating or refusing than if an angel of
..! .: 1 . 1 1
annunciation iiau appeareu auu uiuuen
her. . She went Instantly to the piano,
though Belle ran before her to play the
accompaniment. Belle had to play the
prelude twice over, though, before Jes
sie could command her voice; and in
the til st measure it trembled so that she
was afraid she would have to stop, aud
she was pule as death. "Courage,
courage, my child," cried the signor,
and she took a little and went ou ; aud
soon she lorgot the signor and her
fright, and was singing as freely as a
bird in the wild wood. "It is grand !
it is delicious!" cried the signor, in his
own tongue, which Jessie and Belle
understood tolerably. "It is a voice in
a thousand. In a thousand f A voice
in millions! It is the nightingale's!
and it must have care, study, training
tuny: '
Jessie shook her head aud felt very
much like crying. She knew it she ever
showed the least desire for Italy, her
father would cramp himself, her mother
forego her comforts, the children deny
themselves everything; they would sell
the piano, move into a meaner house,
live on little, give nothing away. She
had never intimated that she thought
the thing worth while. Xow she shook
her head and ventured to say in such
Italian as she had. "It is impossible.
1'lease don't sieak of it; It would only
make grief here. But thank you for
the kiud words."
Aud then the signor gazed hard at
the lovely face with its Madonna-like
oval, and its great soft dark eyes, ami
said: "Nothing is impossible. Xow I
must seek my violin, it was to come
by express, but has not, the good house
mother says."
Xo; it had not come, and, what was
more, it never would come in its old
shape. Ihe express had met with an
accident, and all its contents had been
shattered. The violin that the Queen
of Holland had given Signor Pazzani,
that Jacques Staiuer had made himself
in the Tyrol two hundred years ago aud
more, was nothing but a handful of
chips.
It would have been ludicrous. It it bad
not been in reality harrowing, to see
the signor's grief and rage when be
heard of the destruction of his darling,
and had the broken bits put into his
hand. He remembered nothing more
about Jessie's voice, about the evening
concert; he sat down among the frag-
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menis, iiKe .alarms 111 me ruiiu ot w
thage, and bewailed himself.
It was an Intensely cold and still
winter's day; there was not a sound to
be heard in the village, save now and
then a distant sleigh-bell, the droppiug
of some huge icicle, or the loud report
of some nail as it sprung with the frost
in the ratters. As the signor sat there
now with the broken volute of his violin
in his left hand, and the .other hand
wound in his hair distractedly, one of
these nails went off, as you might say,
with more of an explosion than usual
upon the frosty silence of the afternoon,
followed by a clear, resonant note that
for half a moment seemed to fill the
house with a silvery vibration. They
all heard it, and looked up bewildered;
and suddenly Jessie, with a joyous cry,
sprang to her feet and darted from the
room. The garret door had beeu lea
open by somebody, she found. In a
moment she was back, and had placed
in the bands of the signor, whose mood
of frenzy had been succeeded by one of
silent desperation, the little black fiddle.
"It fell from its nail," she was saying.
"It was that we heard. Jt wanted to
come and comfort you, you see. Is ft
good for anything? Can you mend
your own with itf Is it so old I"
"Whv do you bring me this, my
child f'' he asked, sadly, but took it, and
ran his eye over it. Something seemed
to strike him as he did so. He bent his
head quickly, lifted the violin to his ear
and tapped it and listened, ran his fin
gers down its lines, took out ills hand
kerchief and dusted It minntely His
hands began to shake; he was holding
his breath; he was comparing the mea
surements of the little black fiddle with
certain figures iu a memorandum-book
drawn from bis pocket. He peered into
its every dimension in a sort of mad
haste. He took a magnifier, and then
with a bit of chamois leather began
rubbing the end of the little black fiddle
as if he were polishing a jewel. All at
once he cried out :
"Aha! Behold it! It is here! Read
it. mv children, read! Sott la disci-
plima !' A. Strndiearins, Crrmona. I US.'
It is bis, the Uiuseppe del Jesu s, wnen
the great Antoiue was his master.
That is his seal, I U S.' Oh, the rogue !
But he knew music ! And . Antoine
Stradivarius has had it iu his hands;
has looked at its sides, its table, iu
omits, its lustrous varnish ; has drawn
the bow across it; has said it was good !
Quick! where are my strings? We
will see; we will see. There is no
bridge. That Is all right. The bridge
would not have answered. My Stainer
briilge is whole yet."
He whs silent in a long but hurried
unrolling and fastening of strings, an
endless tuning and hearkening and
tuning again, and then the walls or the
room were vibrant about them, and
Signor Pazaani was playing on the little
black fiddle, and the sweet, powerful
sonority, the suave, silvery. Intense
tone, the mellow but majestic strengtn,
were ringing in their eara like the
hiimminir of a swarm of angels' wing's."
aid the signor, suddenly leaving off,
with his bow in the air. - -
"Ah, look at. it J What, grace. In the
obrvesL now aevere rncvoruiei now
-j.at!.wliiiw1W the tone! and the
mlnr f How nurnle and rich and full
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of ltntreB It "JI1 faruc.wniea ji Uu
restore it 1 Oh, I shall restore it!" he
cried, gaily, smiling on them one and
all. "it will be mine; yon will not
think of keeping it; you can none of
you play on it," he began to implore.
"It's a Guarneriiis, the Giuseppe del
Jesu s. It Is worth money it is worth
more; you shall have a thousand, yon
shall have fifteen hundred, you shall
have two thousand dollars for it."
"Oh, hush, indeed," cried Jessie.
"Of course you shall have if, Sir. It is
valueless to us; it is yours."
"Stay, stay a moment, Jessie," said
her father.
"The little black fiddle is mine. That
poor old vagabond, fallen from his high
estate, gave it to me. It is a way bread
has of coming back npon the waters
after many days. If the signor wants
to pay me a thousand dollars for it, we
will compass the other five hundred by
ourselves, and you shall go to Italy."
The next morning Signor Pazzani
went off with the little black fiddle
tucked under his arm, and Mr. Brooks
went to the city with him to secure
. essie's passage in the next steamer
.hat sailed for foreign shores. And the
uttle fiddle had some share iu it, after
all.
Hew tm Unie.
The true way is to let the horse
drive himself, the driver doiuir little
but dtrectiuir him aud giving him
that confidence which a horse alone
freta in himself when he feels that a
guide and friend is back of him. The
most vicious and inexcusable style of
driving is that which so many drivers
adopt, viz.: Wrapping the lines aroand
either nana aud pttuuig the uwrse
backward with all their miirlit ami
main, so that the hor.-e in point of
tact, pulls the weight hack ot him
with his mop t and not with his
breast and shoulders. This they do
nnder tiie inipres-jon that snch a dead
Dull is needed to "steailv" the horse.
The fact is, with rareexceptiou, there
should never be any pull on the horse
at all. A steady pressure is allowa
ble, probably advisable : but anything
beyond this baa no jus iheation in ua-
ir or reason ; for nature suggests
the utmost possible freedom of action
of head, body and limbs in order that
the animal may attain the lnithet rate
of speed ; and reason certainly for
bids the snppoMition that bv the bits
and not the breast-collar, the horse
is to draw the weight attached to it.
In speed 111 it my horses I seldom irraKp
the Hues with both hands when the
road is straight aud free troiu obstruc
tions. The liuea are rarely steadily
taut, but held in easy pliancy and
used chieflv to shift the bit in the
horse's mouth, and by this method
my horses break less aud go much
faster. Murray.
Oris la fCwrlraa Pnraaea.
The origin of phrases and some of our
common words presents an interesting
study. The term tub rota is said to have
originated as follows: Cupid gve
rose to Hippocrats, aud from this
legend arose the practice of susiiending
a rose over the lame wnen eating wnen
it was intended that the conversation
should ,be kept secret. The explana
tion of the origin of "ny hook or crook
is that in the olden time persons enti
tled to get firewood in the King's forest
were limited to such dead branches as
they could tear down with a "hook or a
crook without hurt to his Majesty's
tree." "In spite of his teeth" origina
ted thus: King John of England once
demanded of a Jew the sum of ten thou
sand marks, and on being refused, or
dered that the Israelite should have one
after another of his teeth drawn until
he gave h's consent. The Jew submit
ted to the loss of seven, and then paid
the r quired sum; heace the expression
"in spite of his teeth." Mr. F. Crossley
suggests that as the ongin of the word
"humbug" the Irish "uim bog," pro
nounced "inn-bug," literally "soft cop
per" or worthies money." James 11.
issued from tbe Dublin Mint a mixture
of lead, copper, and brass so worthless
that a sovereign was intrinsically worth
ouly two pence, and might have been
bought after the revolution for a half
penny.' Sterling and urn-hug were
therefore expressions of real fictitious
worth merit aud humbug.
Cam Btrde Can vera?
Dr. Charles C. Abbott cites the fol
lowing occurrence to show that birds
possess some mode of conveying ideas
to one another. In the spring of 1S72 a
pair of cat-birds were noticed carrying
materials for a nest to a patch of blackberry-briers
hard by. To test their iu
genuity, lr. Abbott took a long 11.1. row
strip of muslin, too long for one h'.nl
conveniently to carry, and placed it on
the ground in such a position as to be
seen by the birds when searching for
material. In a few moments one of the
cat-birds spied the strip and emlcavored
to carry it off, but Its length and weight
however he took hold of it and he
tried many times imjieded his flight,
and, after long worrying over it, the
bird flew off for assistance. In a few
moments he returned with Jiis mate,
and then, standing near the strip, they
appeared to tolit a tiKullutiim. The
chirping, twittering, murmuring, aud
occasional ejaculations, were all unmis
takable. In a few moments these all
ceased, and the work commenced. Each
took hold of the muslin strip, at about
the same distance in each case from the
ends, and, taking flight simultaneously,
bore it away. Soon there was much
jabbering at the nest; the birds could
not agree how to use the strip, and it
was finally abandoned ; but so, too, was
the nest, ami the birds left the neigh
borhood. Pimlur fn-ltm-e Monthly Jr
wautt Shall We De With Oar Sou a?
Seqnel to w hat shall we do with our
daughters.
" Teach them common sense.
' Teach them not to drink.
Teach them not to gamble. -
Teach them not to smoke.
Teach them not to chew tobacco.
Teach them to sew on buttons.
" Teach them to nicud their own
clothes. :
Teach them to niiud their own busi
ness. Teach them not to flirt.'
Teach them self-respect.
Teach them to be economical.
Teach them to obey their parents, '
Teach theui to .be honorable in all
things.
Teach them to stay at home eveniugs.
Teach them not lo m-e profane aud
obscene language.
Teach them not to make remarks
about ladies as they are passing iu the
street.
. Teach them that women are their
superiors.
- Teach them that self conceit is the
most abominable of all thiugs.
We seldom repent of speaking little,
very often of speaking too much. A
vulgar and trite maxim, which all the
world knows, but one 'which all the
world does not practice. : :. -- -
-According to "M. Peupion, who has
been practically investigating the sub
Lieut, a pickerel Will eat 47 uouikU and i
a u . .1 . r 1. . .
weight per fear. -. : . -.-r
waa mm Flak.
On account of their supposed destruc
tion of fish, there is at present a great
raid against the swans on the I names.
It is alleged that they have increased to
an extent which deducts considerably
from the picturesque Wordsworthian
ideal of the swan that "floats double-
swan aud shadow;" that they should be
seen in ones or twos, but certainly not
in swarms. Mr. S. C. Hall, in the Book
of the Thames, says, with pardonable en
thusiasm, "we would almost as soon
part with the trees which border, as
with the swans that grace the surface
of our noble river." They certainly
tend to keep down the too great exub
erance of aquatic weeds which, with the
coarse grass which grows luxuriantly
at the waterside, form their salad. But
they are accused of rendering their
vegetable diet the more palatable by an
admixture of fish-spawn, particularly
that of perch, which, being suspended
on the branches of submerged willows
in convenient festoons, is looked upon
by the bird of Leda as being purposely
placed there for its especial enjoyment.
It has been pleaded by some that this
lubricating luxury is necessary for the
proper assimilation of Its food ; but the
oDxiieuts of this doctrine have ex
amined the internal economy of tbe
b'rd to prove that it possesses a gizzard
of such a woudrously grinding power
as to admit of no such excuse. This
fondness for the ribbon-like ova of the
Ptrca family U no false indictment, as
we have been or those who, in tbe in
terests of the fisheries, have vainly at
tempted to drive away swaus from the
spawuinz-STOunds. In these encounters
J the birds did not always get the worst
of it; the blow of a swan communicated
from the bend of its wing, even upon
the end of an oar grasped by the hand,
giving a shock to the muscles of the arm
that Las been felt for an hour after
ward. And then iu these sallies we
were not allowed to resort to violence
or injury, as there are penalties attached
to even disturbing swnns while on their
nest. Taking eggs from the nests of
swans and ot certain other birds was an
offense severely dealt with in olden
times. Even the keeping of a swau not
marked, without license, was a mis
demeanor; aud stealing marked and
pinioned swans is still felony. By the
old law, when a marked swan was
stolen in an oieu and common river, tbe
purloined bird, if it could be obtained,
and if not, another swan, was hung up
by the bill, and the thief was compelled
to give the party robbed as much meal
as would cover all the swan, the oe ra
tion being performed by pouring the
grain ou its head till it was entirely
hidden. A similar fine was imposed for
stealing a cat from the Princes' grana
ries. Z'hnmher's Journal.
A Baath Aaaerieaa City.
A correspondent writes of a visit to
Para, the emporium of the Amazon:
Para juts out a little into the river, giv
ing us an admirable view as we ap
proach. It looks like a city of the past,
the mildew ou its white walls aud
church towers making it look older
than it is even. Here, for the first time
in this part of the world, we see towers
and high building. We cast anchor
just in front of the city, and have
plenty of time to examine its appear
ance from the distance, to study the
steamboats (second-class river boats
from the United States, all of them).
sloops from all parts of the world,
plenty of time while we are waiting for
health olhcers and custom-house people.
We are ready to go ashore aud impatient
to do so, but the Brazilians tike their
own time and everybody else's. At last
we laud, and no sooner have we done so
than 1 feel that Para may be a good
place to visit but not to live in.. The
streets are wretched, unpaved, and
when it rains become regular mud-
puddles, and it rains every day in the
tropics. We see some gentlemen in the
streets, an umbrella being part of their
toilet. Xoone stirs without one; if it
is not raining, the sun shines fiercely.
But here again, strange to sav the ther
mometer never goes over 96 degrees,
and they have a cool breeze in the even
ing. Xot a single lady to be seen in the
treet. 1 hey seldom go out in the day
time, not even to shop, everything being
sent to them. They seem to pass much
of their time in looking out of the win
dows. e drive through several stree "
where the houses look cool and delight
fulone story high, but deep, large
windows ami doors; a garden filled
h ith tropical plants aud flowers around
each, and a line of Mango trees running
all down the street. The aspect made
is delightful. Floors of two kinds of
wood, cane chairs, light tables all cool
and pleasant to look at. At a short dis
tance from these houses you come upon
uncultivated plots of land, where fruit
trees, large-leafed plants, and low brush
give you au idea of luxuriant growth.
The avenue of palms is beautiful. These
palms come from Guiana, and are, of all
palm species, the handsomest. A row
of them stands ou the wharf. Cocoanut,
banana, and orange trees grow on every
side. We pass the theatre an immense
building of brick, plastered and painted
white; it will bold from 3,000 to 4,000
people. "Io you ever have entertain
ments to justify this?" I ask. "Xo," I
am answered, "liien, wnv was it
built ?" "To satisfy tbe ambitions of a
certain president w ho wanted to make a
monument for bimseir." It has not
been used at all yet. and may never be,
as it is considered unsafe by some.
There are several churches,. and some
bushes are growing on the roofs, and
the mildew discolors the walls. The
cathedral is 200 years old. There are
no seats, of any kiud in tlie body of the
church. A few of the pictures are
gems. Another church is literally cov
ered with carving and gilt the most
elaliorate I ever saw. Jt is the cleanest
and coolest-looking place imaginable
many altars and immense space. This
church, from its apiearance, might lie
1,000 years old, but cannot, I suppose,
be more than 2o0 years, if that. How
lelightful to hear the church bells ring
ing once more, and te see them swing
ing outward rrom tneir towers, ine
business streets are very narrow, and
the roofs of old tiles overgrown with
leaves rather unsightly. The stores are
smaller and the walls thinner than in
St. Thomas; but there are a few French
stores, where enods are both good and
cheap, though, for the most part. Para
is considered the dearest place in this
part of the world. Many of the down
town houses have tiled fronts. Tiles
are manufactured here. They make
their own furniture and their own car
riages, of which rows are always stam4
inj in the streets. They are very heavy
and clumsy, but most roomy and com
fortable, like our oldest-fashioned hacks.
he harness is of the poorest, and the
horses the worst yon could see any
where. They are kept in a gallop all
the time, which gives an appearance of
haste where no such thing is known.
1 he streets are niled witn negroes, old
and young, most of them slaves.' They
are not so well dressed nor so clean
looking as in St. Thomas, but they look
as it they bad something to do, and
were doing it. If the women have a
dower in the side of their heads they
seem satisfied, be their dress ever so
dirty. Almost every one wore a flower
there. The Para children are, for the
most part, handsome. The streets, as
w-e returned, and the open spaces were
filled with them. The day was drawing
to a close, and we were hastening to
reach the shin before dark. It is al
ways dark at six here, of course. We
were offered a monkey for a dollar and
a half, a bird with a long neck that
caught flies with ease, a snake, some
electrical eels, but we declined to pur
chase. Br the way a boa constrictor
makes a good rat catcher. They are
put into tbe floors of new houses when
they are young, and taking up their
abode there keep the rats away. 1 bey
are said to be harmless, and to live in
ninety out of everyone hundred houses.
The Para market is a sight. It is under
a stone arch-way, four sides forming a
square. In the centre are wooden booths
for meat, which does not look inviting.
though the meat is said to le very good
Mutton Is very scarce. - The principal
articles for sale are fruit, bananas, pine
apples, oranges, cocoaiuits, fish (a cat
fish eight feet long was lying there), a
few eggs, aud some few thing4 that
may have a name, but are unknown to
the greater part of mankind. The flow
ers and bananas were about the only
teinptingobjectsoflered. All the sellers
are negroes. Here, as throughout Bra
zil, the Portuguese language is used.
Para is a city of about forty thousand
inhabitants. Brazil nuts and rubber
are their principal exports. The nuts
grow several in a group, Inclosed in
skin about as large as au apple. When
ripe, the bottom of the ball falls out.
They are hard to gather, lieing so far
Iroui the ground. 1 he natives build
huts under them, and wait for a good
wind; while the wind lasts, they lay
under cover, as the fruit in falling
would hurt them. The financial affairs
of Para are at a low ebb just now ; in
deed, the whole of llruv.il is under a
cloud, three banks having smashed in
Kio, and spread a panic throughout the
country.
The Cheerralaeea ef the frearhaaea.
Dr. Henry M. Field, in the interest
ing series of letters which he is writing
for the raNrctf.upon histoiiraronnd
the world, discourses thus about tbe
cheerfulness of the people of France
in contrast with tbe bugusu or own
countrymen :
bat pleases me most in Pans is
the general cheerfulness. I do not ob
serve such wide extremes of condition
as in Loddon, such painful contrasts
between the rich aud poor. Indeed. I
do not find litre such abject poverty,
nor see such dark, sullen, scowling
faces as I saw in the low Quarters of
London, which indicate such brutal de
gradation. Here everybody seems to
be. at least in a small way. comfortable
and contented. I spoke in a former
letter of the industry of the people (no
city in the world is such a hive of busy
bees) and or their great economy, and
this shows itself even in their pleasures
of which they are fond, but which they
get very cheap. Xo people will get so
much out of so little. V hat au Eng
lish workman will spend in a single
drunken debanch a Frenchman will
spread over a week, and get a li t tie en
joy lueut out of it every tlay. It delights
me to see how they take their pleasures.
Everybody seems to be happy in his
own way, and not to be envious of his
neighbor. It a man cannot ride with
two horses lie will go with one. and
even if that one lie a sorry back, with
ribs sticking out his sides, and that
seems just ready for the crows, no mat
ter, he will pile his wife and children
into the little, low carriage, and off
they go not at great speed, to be sure,
but as gay and merry as if they were
the Emperor and his court, with out
riders going before and a body of cav
aliy clattering at their heels. When I
have seen a whole family at Versailles
or St. Cloud diuinr on five francs (0
no. that is too mairnilicicnt : they carry
their dinner with them,aud it proliably
does not cost them two fraues), I admire
tbe simple tastes which are so easily
satisfied, aud the miracle-working art
which extracts honey trom every daisy
by the roadside. Such simple and uni
versal etijoyuient would not be possi
ble, but tor one trait which is peculiar
to the French an entire absence of
miHrie houte, or false shame: the
foolish pride, which is so common in
England and America, of wishing to
be thought as rich or as great aa others.
In London no one would dare, even if
he were allowed, to show himself in
Hyde Park in such unpretentious turn
outs as those in which half Paris will
go to the ISois de Boulogne. Bnt here
everbodv jogs along at his own gait,
not troubling himself about his neigh
bor. 'Live and let live' seems to be, if
not tbe law of the country, at least the
universal habit of the people. What
ever faulta the French have, I believe
they are freer than most nations from
'envy, malice aud uncliaritahleuess.'
With this there isafeelingof self respect
even among the common people that is
very pleasing. If you speak to a French
servant, or to a workman in a blonse.
he does not sink into the earth as if he
were an inferior being or take a tone
of servility, but auswers politely, yet
aelf-respectingly, as if conscious that
he too is a man. The most painful
tl-ing that I found in England was the
way in which the distinctions of rank,
which seem to be as rigid as the castes
of India, have eaten into the manhood
and self-respect of our great Anglo
Saxon rare. Bnt here 'a man's a man,'
aud especially if be is a Frenchman, he
is as good aa anybody."
Br. Hollaad Elevator Herat, lhy
eleal aed Edaeatlaaal.
This is an epoch of elevators. We do
not climb to our rooms in the hotel ; we
ride. We do not reach the uper stories
of Stewart's by slow and patient steps:
we are lifted there. The Simplon is
crossed by a railroad, and steam has
usurped the place of the Alpen-stock on
the Khigi. The climb which used to
give us health 011 Mount Holyoke, and a
beautiful prospect, with the reward of
rest, is now purchased for 25 cents l" a
stationary engine.
If our efforts to get our ImmHcs into
the air by machinery were not comple
mented by our eflorts to get our lives up
in the same way, we might not find
much fault with them ; but in truth, the
tendency everywhere is to get up in the
world without climbing. Yearnings
after the infinite are in the fashion. As
pirations for eminence even ambition
for usefulness are altogether in advance
of the willingness for tlie necessary pre
liminary discipline and work. The
amount of vaporing among young men
and young women, w ho desi re to do some
thing which somebody else is doing
something Tar in advance of their pre
sent powers is fearful and most la
mentable. They are nut willing to climb
the stairway; they must go up in an
elevator. They are unable or unwilling
to recognize the fact that, in order to do
that very beautiful thing w hich some
other man is doing, they must go slowly
through the discipline, through the ma
turing process of time, through the pa
tient work which have made him w hat
he is, aud fitted him for his sphere of
life aud labor. . ,
- To get a high position without climb
ing to it, to win wealth without earning
it, to do fine work without the discipline
necessary to its performance, to be fam
ous, or useful, or ornamental without
preliminary cost, seems to be the uni
versal desire of the young.
. There are no surprises to the man who
arrives at-eminence legitimately. It is
entirely natural that he should be there,
and be is as much at home there, and as
little elated, as when he was working
patiently at the foot of the stairs. There
are heights above him aud be remains
humble and simple.
Preachments are of little avail, per
haps; but when one comes into contact
with so many men and women who put
aspiration in the place of perspiration,
and yearning for earning, and longing
for labor, he is tempted to say to them :
"Stop looking up, and look around you!
Do the work that first comes to you.
hands, and do it well. Take no upward
step until you come to it naturally, ami
have won the power to hold it. The tip,
in this little world, is not so very high,
and patient climbing will bring you to
it ere you are aware.
ervaati la laalta.
Indian housekeeping is at once very
simple and paradoxically complex. The
fact that all servants are on Ixiard
wages, from the moonshee, who takes a
temporary engagement as secretary or
tutor, down to the humblest puukah
wallah or grass-cutter, renders it com
paratively easy for a master to know
his expenses. But then t'ne.e 'is some
thing bewildering in the subdivision of
labor, in having to harbor tailors and
cobblers, washermen and watchmen,
and florists and sweepers. It is per
plexing to find that every servant so
well knows his or her pla-e that a
palki-bearer would scorn to fetch a
pitcher of water; that hereditary poultry-keepers
attend the hens; hereditarv
grooms the horses; aud that not a m-al
"Can lie cooked, ora carct spread excepfi
ny tne agency 01 siuieiMxiy whom; caste
points him out as the appropriate iierson
to iierform the duty. Aa j.n-rliii resi
dent, also, is apt to be puzzled by that
habit of the native domestics, strange to
our notions, of collecting around I hem
a clan of relatives, old and young, more
or less dependent for sustenance 011 the
monthlv wages 01 the bread-winner,
These "followers," like others of their
plastic race, are by no means ohtru-ive.
and are vontent to be nicked awav iu
sheds and huts, or to lie aliout the pas
sage or some rambling villa, while a
pipkin of grain and a sHMnful of ghee
comprise, with a little cotton doth
their few wants. But nianv a Briton
utilised to the country, yet drawing
high pav, must marvel at the numlw-r
of mouths that he indirectly has to till,
and must feel at times iincomfortaMv
uncertain as to whether he has not
made a gigan.i.- mistake in supposing
that the monthly payment of a few
ounds sterling expunges his liabilities
toward his servants, and as to the pros
pect of a little bill being sent in for all
the rice ami ciirrie, all the wheat, ami
puLse, and clarified butter consumed by
ihe domestic army that salaams at his
approach. Servants in India have two
merits to counterbalance such faiits as
are inherent in a race remarkahle for
the subtle ingenuity with which, on
occasion, it can cheat and lie. 1 hey
are grateful, not merely for exceptional
kindness, hut for the bread and salt that
they have eaten; aud breach of trust is
abhorrent to even the elastic conscience
of a Hindoo, so that the very man who
tikes the lead in plundering theSahili's
store-room, when pitting his wits
against the duller fancy of his EuroMan
employer, may be rendered honest by
being appointed dragon in ordinary
over the treasures it contains. .1 iu
IV'ir llimuA.
Heleatltle Mea.
The families are usually large to
which scientific men belong. But the
number of their own children is com
paratively small.conli ruling the common
belief in a tendency to the extinction of
the families of men who work hard with
the brain. The results derived from the
study of heredity are apt to be dis
appointing, on account of the dillU-ulty
of obtaining good historical portraits.
Even the value of these is diminished
by the passion of distinguished per ns
for uniforms, wigs, robes, and .other
drajieries, which indicate their otlice,
but conceal the man. But there can
no doubt that certain families exhibit
remarkable intellectual abilities through
a course of several generations. Or this
the Darwin family afford a striking
illustration. Dr. Kras.nus Darwin, the
grandfather of the celebrated living
naturalist, was a phyician,physioogist,
and poet. His "Botanic Garden" had a
prodigious reputation in its day. The
ingenuity of his numerous writing is
remarkable. He was held iu high es
teem by his scientific friends, im-linling
such celebretie as Priestley and Watt,
and was a man of great vigor, humor
and geniality. In the second generation
his son, Charles Iarwlu, who diid at
the age -of twenty-one, had alieady
achieved an honorable di-linclion in
medical- science. Koliert Waring Dar
win, (the lather of the present harles)
was a physician of great provincial cele
ority, and a shrewd observer. Another
brother, Sir Francis Darwin, was origi
nally a physician, but for many years
lived in a secluded part of lhrbhire,
surrounded by animal oddities; half
wild pigs ran about the woods, tamed
snakes frequented the house, with other
curious appliances for the study of natu
ral history. The third generation is
illustrated" by the name of Charles Dar
win, "whom all scientific men reverence
and love, the simple grandeur of whose
conclusions is as remarkable as the mag
nitude -vd multifariousness of their
foundation." Another example of here
ditary intellectual aptitude is presented
by the Taylors of Ongar. Xiinierous
members of this family have shown a
.singular combination of literary talent,
artistic taste, mechanical faculty, ami
religious disposition.
Its founder, Isaac Taylor, went to
London with an ambition of an artist,
and became a reputable engraver. One
of his sous, Charles Taylor, was a learned
recluse, and edited Calmet's "Dictionary
of the Bible." Another, the I'ev. Isaac
Taylor, Was the author of several edu
cational works, and in the third genera
tion", bis son, Isaac Taylor, author of the
'Natural History of Enthusiasm," and
other works, has been distinguished a
a writer of peculiar subtlety of thought,
and variety"of learning. His sister,
Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor, are well
known for their contributions to juve
nile literature. The character of the
family is ampiv sustained irr the fourth j
onur.ti..., i." t-. 1.... T..t-i.,r
author or "ords and Places," and
Etruscan Researches." and by other
descendant, both in the male and re
main line.
Hardealag the f emetitatiea.
Men talk about "hardening the con
stitution," and with that view expose
themselves to summer's sun and inter's
wind, to strain, and over-effort, and '
many unnecessary hardship. To the 1
same end ill-informed mothers souse tive politeiie-. It is not education
their little infants in cold water day by aldne, nor wealth, nor high social posi
day; their skin and fiesh and bodies are j tion, nor costly trapping, that makes
steadily growing rougher, ami thinner, I one a pleasant traveling cominuiou.
and weaker, until slow fever, or water 1 There must exUt a kindness of feeling
on the brain, or consumption carries
tneiu to tbe grave, and then tbey ad- I of equal rights In tbe comforts aud con
minister to themselves the semi-com- j veniences provided for the public, and a
fort and rather questionable consolation ; quickened discernment of the' need of
of Its being a mysterious dispensation of I others. Summer journeying in crowded
nature, when, in fact, nature works no j boat and cars is a test of both patience
miracle to counteract or follies. The
best way we know of hardening the
constitution Is to take good care of it,
for it is no nore improved by harsh
treatment than a fine garment or new
nat is maue Detter oy being nangen
about.
TorrnT coirs i.
Fathers. Attrtium .'What ought
w hat can a mother do, when a good.
pleasant careless bnsband constantly
towarts all her effort to teach or
govern tbe children, and yet cannot be
made to see or feel what be is doing T
Let ns illustrate and sketch from
memory, not imagination :
".Mamma, please give me a piece of
pie 1
.o, darling, oue piece of pie is
enoi.rh V
"Half a piece, please, mamma f
"Xo, Freddie, no inoref"
"lo give the child piece; 111 risk
it hurting him."
And the mother gave it.
"Mamma, may I go ont to play V
"Its very chilly, and you have a
cold."
"Bundle me nn warm, mamma, and I
won't take cold."
"I fear von will ; you must play in
doors to-day."
"Just a little while, please mamma T'
"No, Freddie, you must not go out
to-day."
"lolet the child go ont. What a
girl you are making of him. Women
never were fitted to bring np boys.
I'ress him np warm and let him run ;
it will do him good."
And Freddie went out.
"May I have my blocks in the parlor,
mamma T
"Xo, Freddie, make your block-houses
in the dining-room. Mrs. L. is an
invalid, and 1 want the Darlor verv
I qil'et." "
I 11 be very quiet. '
"Vou will intend to be, but you can
not help making some noise, and as
Mrs. 1. very rarely goes anywhere I
fear she will be verv tired : so be a good
nine ooy ami piay in 1 lie uiniug-room
this afternoon."1
"I wont make a bit of noise nor tire
her one sjieck."
"Von must play in the dining-room.
Freddie and not sav any more about
it."
"Nonsense ; it will do her good to
see a happy little face ; it will give her
soniethiug Ix-sides her own pains and
aches to think of. Let him bring his
blocks in the parlor."
And he brought them in.
"What a torment that hoy has got
to be. It's tease, tense, tease, from
moruing till night. It's enough to wear
the patienre out of Job! if yon don't
whip him I will."
And he whipped him.
Query Who ought to lie whipped?
Mother at Home.
A Par.ilile.l held in my hand a lit
tle dry tree, an infant hemlock. Had
it lived a centurv it might have tow
ered aliove all the forest and held np
its head iu majesty. But it grew on a
sort of a bog, and a musk rat, digging
hi hole 11 ml it it, bit olf it roots and it
was dead. It was full of limbs and
knots and guarls. and I felt curious to
know how it was so.
"Poor fellow If you had all these
li.ubs and knots to support 1 don't wou-
der you died."
Aud with mv roots, which were mv
mouth with which to feed, all cut oil,
too!"
"Ves. but where do all these nsrlv
tim Income from f said 1.
"Just where all ugly things come
from," said he. "I am pretty much
like you men ! Find out where mv
limbs come from and yon will find
where all human sins come from."
"1 II take your word. sir.
So I took out my knife and peeled off
all the bark. But the limbs and the
knots were left.
"Vou must go deeper than that, sir."
So I began to split and take o!f layer
of wood after layer. But all the knots
were there.
"Deeper still," said the dry stick.
Then 1 split it all down to the heart,
taking it all off aud separating it. Tbe
heart was laid bare ; it looked like a
small rod and about six feet long, and
perhaps au inch through the eud. Ah!
and 1 was now surprised to see that
every liuiH, knot and gn.irl started in
the heart! Every one was there, and
every one grew out the heart. Tbe germ
of the starting-point of each one was
the center of tlie heart.
Tribute to a Mother. Children, said
Loid .Macauley, look in those eyes, lis
ten to that dear voice, notice the feel
ing of even a single touch that is be
stowed nixHi you by that gentle hand !
Make much of it while yet you have
tli;'t most precious of all gifts, a loving
mother. Ki-ad the unfathomable loveof
thine eyes; the kind anxiety of that
tone and look, however slight yonr
pain. In after life vou may have
friends, fond, dear friends; but never
will you have agaiu the inexpressible
love aud geutleness lavished npon you
which none but a mother bestows.
Often do 1 sijrb in my struggles with
the dark, uncaring world, for the sweet
deep security I felt when, of an even
iug, nestling in her liosom. I listened
to some quiet tale, suitable to my age,
read in her tender and uutiring voice.
Never can I forget her sweet glances
cast upon me when I appeared asleep ;
never her kis of peace at night. Years
have passed away since we laid her be
side my father iu the old churchyard;
and still her voice whispers from the
grave, and her eye watches over me, as
I visit sKts long since hallowed to the
memory of my mother.
Wir Mnrhles are Mmle. The chief
place of the manufacture of marbles
those little pieces of stone which con
tribute so largely to the enjoyment of
boys is at obenrfein, on the N'ahe, in
Germany, wheie there are large arate
mills aud quarries, the refuse of which
is turned to good paying account by
being made, iuto small balls, employed
by experts to knuckle with, and are
mostly sent to the American market.
The substance nsed in Saxony is a hard
calcareous stone, which is first broken
into blocks, nearly sqnare, by blows
with a hammer. These are thrown by
the hundred or two into a small sort of
mill which is formed of a t1at,stationary
lab of stone, with a number of eccen
tric furrows upon its face. A block of
oak, or other bard wood, of the diame
tric size is placed over the stones and
partly resting npon them. The small
block of wood is kept revolving while
water flows upon the stone slab. In
aliont fifteen minutes the stones are
turned into spheres, and then, being
J'f Ior nenceiortu caiteu niar-
bles. One establishment, with but
three mills turns out sixty thousand
marbles ei ch week.
4'aarteay la Traveltac
Xow here is well-bred courtesy, or the
lzck of it, more observable than in
traveling. On the steamboat or in the
cars, the quiet observer ea-ilv detects
those who have l-en educated under re
fined influence, or tho-e who, without
special cultivation, are possessed of na-
toward strangers, a general recognition.
and politeness. Thrice happy they who
pass nobly through it, for the comfort
of companions, and for the reputation
of poor human nature in general.
It is safer to be humble with one
talent, than proud with ten ; yea, better
to be a humble worm than a proud angel.
- jiws n BRH7
A fat girl lu Rome, X. Y., aged 17.
weighs 300 pounds.
The Onondaga Indian re-ervatiou
embraces 0,000 acres and a lopulatiou
of islO.
Tlie colored school. in Meniphi
have all been turned over to colored
teachers.
The Madge, the new steamboat mi
Saratoga I-ake. made a half mile tliw
other day iu 1 :'.t2.
Josh Billings makes a Canadian
tour iu Octolicf and a Souther- tour
from January to April.
There are steamboat 011 the Hudson
that have been miming every season
for forty years.
A convention of all the grange pur
chasing agents will be held al l.iiis ill
on the 1st of October.
The Cincinnati Gazette sa tn
drought of 1S74 did far more damage
than the floods of ls...
Clipped gold coins have apeared
in Nevada, aud Chinamen are charged
with the crime.
The watch factory at Elgin. Illinois.
ha begun work oh new watche
for the English market.
The Silver King mine in Arizona.
yield ijOOO to the ton of ore. and the'
McCracken is still richer.
A iHMiiocratic candidate for Vice
'resident exists in the iM-r.ou of e-
Gov. Warker of Virginia.
Tber Hun. James G. Blaine has had
the degree of I.L. D. conferred upon
him by Colby University.
Robblustown, Me., boasts that it 1
so healthy that w ithin a few years it ha
actually starved out four doctor.
West Troy, X. Y.. has a boat club
of young women, but they usually take
young men along to do the rowing.
Mrs. John C. Breckenridge contem
plates moving from her old home in
Lexington. Ky., to Arkansas, in the
autumn.
A large numher of catfish are
caught daily in the water of I ike
Champlaiii." They weigh from leu to
thirty pounds each.
Old eopleare numerous in Tou
kins county, X. Y. Iu the one little
tow u of Groton there arc l.'iO l them
over 7!' years of age.
Parker, ex.State Treasurer of Snub
Carolina, who recently escaied from
jail, ha been recaptured, ami was taken
to Columbia in irons.
The colored men at Norfolk, Vs.,
are going into the husiues of raising
singing birds for khipinent to the K.tsi- -eru
aud Middle State.
There are 4000 key to the vaults of
the Safe lepo4t Company iu San Frau-
cisco. ao company can expect lo get
on a higher key than thi-.
A re 3.20O feet long, and weigh- .
lug a ton and a hall', wa recently
hipied by a Xew Itedford manufac
turer to a Titusville oil firm.
President Grant has conferred Hmhi
hi biographer, Gen. Badcau, the otlice
of Minister to Belgium. Ilf was for- .
merly Consul General at London.
Gen. I.ongstreet ha decided to be
come a citien of Georgia and to settle
in Gainesville in that State, should his
family be pleased with the location
A volunteer and gratuitous service
among the sick childreu of New ; Yol k
city is proposed by physicians during
the mouths of August and September.
Bethlehem Penna. comes to the
front with the oldest hotel. The Sun '
tavern wa built in 17-Vt. Washington
and Lafayette drank from a stone well
near.
The uew anti-tramp law i now
vigorously enforced in New Hampshire.
The vagrant march off to jail and
work, aud may be kept there for six
mouths.
Some scamp ha been representing
himself in Texa as the on of l'o-t-ma'ter
lienernl lewell. Thi, too, in
f: cs of the fact that Mrs. Jewell never
had a son.
Mr. S. T. Van Buren, a sou of ex
Presidcut Vau Buren, has lieen taken
to the Hudson River Hospital for the
Insane. Hi mi. id ha been seriously
affected for some time.
The KiioxvilJe I'rts report that
Mr. Andrew Johnson, whos condi
tion has been considered quite critical,
is slowly recovering from the slmck oc
casioned by her husband's death. '.
The New Y'ork State debt imi : ,
covered by sinking funds now amount
to less than $U0r,,0U0, and it is said that
a tax of a quarter of a mill for the next,
year will wipe out the entire indebted
ness. Near Mansfield, l.a., James Means,
a reliable planter, and hi little son,
killed thirty-seven snakes the other
day while clearing np a turnip patch,
and it wasn't a good day for iiak
eithei. .
Dr. Scuenck, of St. Ann' Church
Brooklyn, prefers to stay at home ami
preach during the heated term, and su
lessen the chances of some of his parish
ioner having to endure a heated term
hereafter.
A co-operative association ha been
forme-1 among the larmers of Stephen
son county, III. It already inimler
three hundred stockholder. Carroll
county has formed a similar organiza
tion, w ith a capital of $.VKo.
A Labor Reform State Convention
will lie held in Worcester, Ma., Sep
tember lf. The Central Committee
complain of the practical niilliticaiiou
of the ten-hour law and want it rpa.le a
live letter as soon as poxsiMe.
The Rev. J. Sella Martin, tin col
ored preacher, recently delivered a lec
ture in Cincinnati on the "Future of
the Xegm." . He contended that the
Southern negroe were in general In
dustrious, and that they were rapi lly
improving in this respect.
Some California railroad builder
have discovered iu the Cajon Pass a de
posit of honey which heat anything
ever heard of. It is in the siile of a
mountain ami is thought to represent
the labor of 7,6, 135,78! bees since the
seveutt-euth year of Confucius.
Mr. Win. Coppinger, Secretary of
the American Colonization Society, in a
recent letter presents some testimony
which shows that I.ilieria is prospering -finely.
Xew plantations are developing,
commodious dwelling are going up.
and the schools aud churches an? well
attended.
Gen. X. P. Banks, the Hon Alex
ander II. Rice, aud Mr. A. Worth
Spates, of Baltimore, have been selected
by one thousand Massachusetts ladies to
Iiroent mementoe of the late Bunker
liil centennial to la lie connected with
the Southern soldiery from the States 01'
South Carolina, Virginia and Mary Ian. I.
During the past three years about
thirty English and Irish gentlemen '
; have settled in Amelia cininty, Georgia
on estates which in the aggregate
amount to nearly 10,000 acre. These
eolouLsts have, it U estimated, invest tl
in real and personal propertv and
otherwise between $400,001 and f.ro", '
000.
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