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PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY NOVEMBEB 1,1877.

NUMBER 46.

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Furnitur manufacturer. Dealer, and Undertaker. Ke-ps a I. A A''; A' and moat CHOICE stock of rL A IX and FAX' Y FURNITURE AND BURIAL CASES 'AT PRICES CHEAPER THAN EVER BEFORE. CALL TS AND SEE ME licfore buying elsewhere, ami Convince yourselves of the alovc facts! Four doors north of Wheeler's Bank. PI ymouth. In

O. O. WOLF,

KOCHET ER, IND. JEWELER & WATCHMAKER Annonnces to the citizens of Kahnu and surrounding counties, that he has now on baud one of the largest and beat selected Mock of Medium & Fine Watches Clocks, Jewelry, ilverware. Gold Pens, etc., Tbatcanbetoind y wh re in Northern Indiana LOW PRICES. The decline in tha price of jmtd has correspondingly reduced the prW-e of Gold Jewelry , and now la the time to bay it at BOTTOM PRICES. My stock of Pianos, Organs, Violins, Guitars, Banjos, Ac

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SPECTACLES OP ALL KINDS Very cheap. Musical lastrwsseata. Jewelry, Watches, l. locks, etc., warranted to tie aa represented. Repairing nf Clocks and Fine Watches A SPECIALITY.

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1HY8ICAN .V BURGEON, renders hisproJ f.-.s.si..nal -rv,. .-s t-. the citizen of Walnut and vi.-infty. All . nil . ly attended to. Chaws n iww.iialde. i jnyn Dr. J M- JENNINCS. PHYSICIAN AM SUKüEON. office with Dr N. Sherman o.t Lauer' Store, on Michigan tret. l'lyniouth, Ind. Residence . a i eater street. oipsito MMM church, bm nut AMASA JOHNSON ATTORN KY AT LA W . Prompt attention given ts collections, selll.-m.-nt of decedents' estates and gnardianahips. deeds, mortgagee, and other coii--rarts drawn np and acknowledgments taken. Oftee orrr Bnck Toan's llardwa Store. P. O. JONES, Attorney at Law A Dist. Prosecutor Prompt attention iriren to all claims and ! otioua leftiu his care. Office in corner of Star a brick block. Plymouth Ind O. M. REEVE, ÄTT0RNE i T LW. Located In 184. Collections and conveyancing a apoeility. Buys and sells real estate on eoiumixlon. Insures lives and property In A. l commnies. Desirable real estate for sale in t!ie jite and adjoininc. Nov 1-75 J. R. LOSE Y. JEWELER. Clocks. Watches and Jewelry repaired promptly, and In a workmanlike manner. Keep for sale Clocks. Watches. Plated Ware, Jwelry. Gold Pens and fill stock pertaining to his trade. Occupies part of Hawley's boot A shoe store, ichigan St.. Plymouth. Indiana. Jnneao-7 DR. I. BOWER. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, will bw pleased to receive patients at his office. No. si i -higan street where he may be 1 .end at all times, except when professionally absent, bin residence being at the same place. July ist.iS7. im Wm. N. BAILEY. M. D.. PHYSICIAN A SURGEON. Thirty years practice. Graduate of two Medical colleges, and six yean Burgeon in the army of the U. 8. (vol. servj Can compete success folly with any quack In the United States. Thankful for pas favors, is still in regular practice, and only requires to be better known to have an extensive one. Office in Sears' new brick, eor. of JbTichUran and LaPorte street. Plymouth. Ind.. uly 1st. 187. It J. O., 8.D AJ W. PARKS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Notaries Public and Authorized War Claim Agents ; Ofli.-es at Bourbon and Plymouth. Indiana. Especial attention iriven to the settlement of decedents Estates. Conveyancing, and the collection of Soldiers' Claims for Pensions: will attend promptly to all professional business entrusted to them, and practice in Marshall and adjoining eonnties. Plymouth office on Gano street between Michigan and ('enter streets. Bourbon office over irror printing office, jsif -yjKS. K. W. MUX a? . HOMEOPATHIC Physician and Dentist, and Dr. J. A. Dun lap. regular physician and surgeon, respectfully offer their services to the public. Office in (Whin's block: residence on East Gano street.

JOHN S. BENDER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND NOTARY ITBLIC, IALC0NT BLOCK. PLYMOUTH, IMO Especial attention given to the Mcttlen.eOt of estates, and partition of lands; also the collection of daima and foreclosure of mortgagee. Kemittances prompt. lysl A. C. A A. B. CAPRON, attorneys & Counsellors AT LAWREAL ESTATE ACENTS.

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L. WHEELER'S BLOCK. PLYOVTB, IND.

SNYDER BROS., ttorneys and Counsellors at Law. Real Eatule and Insurance Agents. Colections a specialty. Office ova Hawley's Kt ainl shoe, ritor-. PImoutl. Ind. J7-ly. W. B. HESS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ' AND NOTARY PfBLiC, war ill attend promptly ta ivl professional linsiness ;ntrusul to him. Particular attention given to real stale bosiueaa, titles examined slid ijuicted. Caiectious made aixl promptly, renittted. Room No. I, over the Poet Office Book Store, Post Once Block, Plymouth. Ind Ivnl

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lUx bestT. Ind. Rocsftstoi nd. Dealers in Fancy Ooods. Stationery and General vatiti s. sadyar address and get circular of prices. nol2 tr T"At J. cMAHTER'H Cash Htore. the oaly Strictly Cash Htore in In wood, Ind. Coffee A Hugar lOi ceuts per pouad. Light Creamy Sogar H cents per pound. Brown Sugar cents per pound. Best . j le Flavor Syrup 75 cents per gallon. Bo-t Dark Green Coffee M cents per pound. Prints. Shirting. Ginghams. Musiins. etc.. down to the lowest cash prices. D.S. MM MSTROITG Caxriaice. Sign and Wagon PAINTER, Shop on the cor. of Michigan and Sophia Streets. PLYMOUTH. INDIANA.

J. I). M ( i Aitr.v G. It. CSAMBT. McClaren AChsney. 4 TTORNrVH AT I AW. Will practice In all the J V' "urts in the stale. Office in Wheeler's hhs k. over Becker A Wolf's dry goods store, f tyuiouth.

Every style of the art from a Gem or Photograph to the finest India Ink picture, exeeated ia the bigheat artistic skill. Also eopyin and enlanrinc made a specialty. We have the best of light, so that pictures may be taken in any kind of weather. Pic tare frames kept constantly on hand. With our kindest regards for an already liberal patronage, we wooid beapeak a continuation of the same, hoping to be able to render perfect satisfaction, both in price and quality of work. Remember the place. Michigan street, near Wheeler's Bank. Plymouth. lad.

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DP. 8 W 8 WISEMAN. 1)HY8l:lANaiidttargfon. lately I mm Ann Arbo, . University, Will attend all professional cal day or night. Office in J. II. Hill's Orocery Mannont, Ind. Pure Drugs kept always on hin'.'

GXTT DEU88T0EB. Lucius Tanner. Proprietor. One door South 1st Nat. Bank, Plymouth, Ind.

My stock is Full, Fresh and Reliable. I sell for cash at the lowest market price ami guarrantee the quality. Physicians prescriptions and family receipts compound ed day and night. I have also SCHOOL BOOKS, STATIONEY, 31snk Books, T Funcy and Toilet articles, Tobaccos, Cigars, etc., which I in vi he public to examine before purchasing elsewhere and save money by it. L. TANNER, Plymouth, Ind.

Slowly we gather, and with pain, From many spoils a scanty gain; We strive to know, but scant our power. And short the time, and strait the honnds And ever unwiirinounted tower Oar being; and the body still Imperious slave betrays the will, Slow ly we gather and with pain Uut quick the scattering again; Whether it chance the falling brain Lets slip the U -asare it hath won Through weary dayj, or sodden blowLays the unshsttered fabric low, A uil all our dv!ng is undone. Slowly a nation builds its life Prom barbarous chaos into law And kindly social lien an J aw.' Of powers divine. For ivic strata Skill opens wide within the wails The yawning gulf that w ill not . rntnthe noblest vletim fall; r. Bene without, the shock of tons In one wilil hour of blood o'erthrows '1 In- lalMir ot the pafhrnt yiHr ; Ami when at laxt the work B.-:ir CRiilet- In stately strength to ntand, Itlot wltti narrlrnial blow, Or mad authitlou's traitor hand, Pierce clutchlug at the tyrant's crown. In headlong ruin lays it low, Or brute battalions tread it down. Or ease and luxury, and ein. Pall cankers owu ot peace devour, Till trapping of imperial poarr Uldc bat the living death within. Cat, douhtlessgrowUi repairs lecay. And still the great world grows to more, Though men and nations pass away, Hut what if at the source of day home ctMJinlc change exhaust the store Which feeds the myriad forms of life? What if some unimagined strife Hasalrl raise so high the solar fire, That all this solid, earthly frame Should in as bref a space expire As rain drops in a I urn ace flame. Yet, U our faith is not the scheme Of priestly cunning, nor a dream Which in some fair illusion caught Oar angrown manhood's childish thought; If Christmaa tella as true, "to-day The child divine in Bethlehem lay!" If he Is man, who, paat the ken Of science In her widest range. Ordert the law of ceaseless change, Content we know that live of men 1'aas as the keavea of Spring away That time will bring it- filial day, To the great world itself, secure The eternal manhood shall endure. Ismdo Spectator.

For The Republican.

Lodoiska

The Russian fount's Daughter.

BY FRED LANO.

French police would not reach you with the exception of the army: there they will not seek you, there the immediate interference of the commander frustrates all reach. "I shall knov how to submit to that which cannot be avoided," said Frederick firmly; -but my mother my sister, they will be left inconsolable ; their sorrow will cause me Indescribable anguish, and you Henry; that I should plunge you into this abyss!" "Soldier or galley-slave, according to my notion, is all one and the same Fate joins our destinies together here is my hand my comrade I require nothing more." Frederick gave him his hand in silence, but turned his head away in deep emotion. "You will learn to like your lot, my friends," said Raslnski; for I hope you will become acquainted only with the agreeable and glorious relative of our profession. You enter as oluiteers, and I will keep you near my person. We will live together as friends and messmates, and lodgo beneath the same tent. Your educations secures you free intercourse with the ofHc3rs; my friendship will procure for you those other privileges and advantages which are valued by cultivated minds. When a few months ahall have rolled by, some means may perhaps be found to bring all to rights again, That which I propose seems to me at least the most honorable, the easiest to be endured, and what is to be p.irtiutlarly "to bo considered the only safe one." The good soose nnd the good will manifested by Rasinski's speech, inspired confidence, and Frederick confessed, that there was no choice left him; but it pained his noble soul exceedingly to involve mother, sister, and friend In this calamity. "Does my mother already know," he asked In a tremulous voice, "all that has happened?" "She and your sister are sufficient

ly prepared," answered Rasinski, "and havo submitted to the steam decree of necessity with a fortitude which I

must admire," "Uut will they not lay my escapo to the charge of ray mother?" said Frederick. "Will she not have to dread the vengenco of thoso in power? Should I learn that she experiences the smallest insult, I will return!" "Re easy my friend," answered Rasinski; "I have already arranged everything, so that your friends shall have nothing to fear. Listen to what has been done, I have procured a courriers pass for Jurorair, under the pretext that I must send him before me with all possible speed, on account of the organization of my regiment. Yon both receive passes from me as your chief, and go with him. I have ordered two uniforms, which Jaromtj has orders to bring, so that you may pass unknown out of the city, even in broad day." Henry silently listened U, all Raainski was daying, at last, said I will take my share in whatever happens, I partake of the destiny and choice of my friend. We will live or die together." While they were thus engaged, Jarorrir arrived with the uniforms. Henry and Frederick were duly clothed in their new habiliments. Soon after a postllioc sounded his horn, a vehicle stood at the door, they mounted, and It rolled away through the midst of the city and the walking crowds of promenaders outside the gates, without one in that crowd suspecting what a sad and singular destiny lay beneath those rich and dashing uniforms. It was late on a Saturday afternoon that our travolers, from a neighboring eminence, caught the first glimpse of th spires of the ancient capital of Poland. The road for some time had wound through a dark pine forest, which excluded every proipeet It now made a bend, and ascended a hill overgrown with fern and blackberry bushes. From its

Do you , gummit a widely-extended plain was

seen; at the further end of which arose the stately pa'aces and towers of the city of Warsaw. Jaromlr called out to the postilion to "Halt," and with eyes kindling with exultation, sprang from the vehicle. "That is my native city !" he cried; "for eight years I have not seen it; but still 1 know every house, and every spire in it. Come my faiends, and let us walk up the hill. As wo go along, I will point out to you the most prominent objects of the place all around as far as your eye can reach, you see not a church-steeple where there are not Polish heroes buried who have bravely fought for their country. Look at that village right lefore us. That ta the Wielka Wola, where Kosciusko rought in 1794; to the left, behind that pine grove, you sec the pointed towers of Opalin. and further down that of Waroryacow. At both places Hdwed Polish blood in that same year, and

CHAP8EB x. "The devil! and how is that possible?" oried Henry. "In the simplest way In the world' After you had made enquiries about, the stranger, whom now I ean nuvne to you as Monsieur Rcaucaire, St Lucas' secretary, and was leaving the house, ho was standing in t? e balcony above. Of course he was surprised to find that you had followed him; he therefore, in his turn sought

information about you. This same t

porter was yesterduy also in Pillnitz, and saw you there walking arm in arm with Frederick, whom he knows, as you met St. Lucas and Reaucaire. The former is the greatest villain on earth, and the latter no better." "I am almost ready to drive a ball through my head," cried Henry. "Ant! my mother?" said Frederick. "Is already informed of everything," "Has she been in any way molested?" "Not yet, for the porter fortunately, though he knows your name, is ignorant of your residence, but they will find it soon enough." "I will at once deliver myself np for examination, and thus release you all who hav become entangled in my affrai." said Frederick. "I would not answer for you Ufe, my young friend." answered Rasinski

gravely; "for you have, as I have been informed, assisted in the escape of one of the most dangerous secret agents of our enemies in Italy." "Did they tell you whe this agent was."

"No," answered Rasinski. ' know nothing on that point!''

"Not the least," answered Frederick ; "so in that respect, at least, I am perfectly guiltless." "Knowing or not knowing, our articles of war award you death. But take courage! yon may be called upon to make some sacrifice but I think that I can save you. For the present farewell. You shall soon hear from me aguln." Rasinski left, and Frederick nnd Henry remained two hours longer, in anxious perplexity. At the expiration of which Rasinski returned. "I can save you if you will Join ray freecorps; th' uniform may open the way for you out of Dresden, for I know of no other which the machinations of your enemies have not already barred against you; for once in the army, you are under my protection and care. I can give, you passports to Warsaw. There you must report yourself to the commander of the division to which I belong. In that

manner only oan you escape out of ; at Opalin fell my uncle, Casimir, Dresden. The police have already Count Rrescinski. My friends, here spotted you and denounced you as j many a heroe lies buried who merits fugitives. The authorities every- our tears. During this recital, the

where receive orders for your apprehension : there is no other place on

the continent where the power of the J ant path through rich meadow-lands.

young men had descended the hill,

and were now proceeding on a pleas

After a half hour's walk they regained the high road, mounted their carriage, and drove rapidly towards tho gates of the capital, Our friends arrived at tho city gates, where, being strangers, they experienced some delay. Jaromir threw his eyes eagerly around, iu hope to discover some friend or acquaintance. Fortune, however, did not saein to favor him much. Somewhat vexed ho exclnim.'d: "True enough, eight years makes ono a stranger iu lite own country; it appears I know no body here, and still les am I known by any one!" Ho hail scarcely uttered these words, when a female voice from a carriage passing them uttered: "Count Jaromir! is it possible? or do I deceive myself?" Jaromir quickly turning in the direction the voice came, cried out loudly: "Countess Mikielska! Is it you! do you know me still?" Tho coachman seeing that a conversation had began between the lady and Jaromir, stopped the horses without further orders. "How glad I am," said the Countess warmly, extending bur hand, into which Jaromir placed an open letter from Rasinski which in a few words explained his connection with the friends and recommended them to a hospitable welcome, "that I happened to encounter you directly on your arrival! of course you will take up your residence with me; your time I fenr will be limited, and I wish to improve evesy leisure moment, in order to obtain intelligence of my brother. On that account you must overlook ray selfishness if I make you my prisoner in my house, I will hasten forward to prepare for you. Her coachman put her handsome greys into a brisk trot, the Countess giving a friendly bow as she drove away. "An excellent omM," cried Henry which is worth more, I ween, than the twelve v iltnt.- i Romulus saw on the Aventine Ulk? It was nightfall when thry drove up before the palace of the Count --. Two lackeys sprang to .the steps, and received tho trawlers and conducted them to the apartment prepared for their reception. After they had prepared their toil ets, a valet conducted them to the saloon, whero they were mot at the door by the Countess ir. person with renewed welcomes. Her tall majestic figure was now first seen to advantage, and showed at ouce the striking resemblance to her brother. "Let us be seated," she said turniug to all around. "In the first place, I must know something about those whom I have tho honor to entertain as guests, which you will pardon on the seore of female curiosity: for my brother writes merely that Count Jaromir is accompanied by two friends." Upon which Frederick and Henry proceeded to state why they had chosen tho military profession yet deviating somewhat iu the main, so as not to appear before the Countess as criminals and fugitves. While still engaged upon the topic of their choice, there was heaid in an adj inlng room, a sweet silvery voice in sweet melody with the sound of a harp. All listened attentively to the sweet songstress: when she ceased, the Countess rang a boll, and spoke a few words to the valet in waiting. Ho left the room. "I expect tho visit of some female friends this evening," she said addressing her guests; "I hope it will not.be disagreeable to you." Sho was interrupted by the opeuing of a side door, and the entrance of a young lady attired in a light summer dress. The gentlemen rose from their seats with polite alacrity, and the Countess rose to meet the new comer, took her by the hand, and presented her with those words: "My home-companion, the name I withhold, as Count Jaromir must give us proof whether he possesses a retentive raemorv. Jaromir looked at tho charming figure with that expression of uncertainty which a challenge of recognition is apt to produce, when one is not very llrm in his remlniseonces. The noble features of tho incognito were suffused with an amiable blush. In her rauideuly timidity she presented an almost nun-like appearance occasioned in part by the large many folded white vail which she wore. The slender statute, more revealed than hl l by the nmple summer costume, tho shyness and hesitancy observable in the whole attitude, the bashful smile, the timid yet trusting look, completed the bewitching grace

so conspicious iu that apparition. "Indeed," said Jaromir at last, "I feel quite ashamed ; if you had any daughters, Countess" "You still guess wrong," she interrupted him. "I was too much of a child", began the unknown in a sweet voice, "to daro to entertain any claim to be kept in mind even by so near a relative." On this hint, Jaromir fastened his eyes more searchingly on the charming creature; she smiled sweetly, as If she would say: "Well, dost thou not know me yet?" Then suddenly ho cried out:

"Lcona, is it thou?" "l'otaitl at last," said the Countess; but Jaromir hud seized Leona's hand, kissed it passionately, und then drew the blushing girl gently towards him, embraced her, aud according to Polish custom, imprinted the unrestrained kiss on her brow. "The long deceased parents of these two young people were brothers," the Counters began in explanation to Frederick and Henry. "The mother on her death-!. ed bequeathed to me.this lovely gift. She was my most intimate friend. My fosterdaughter and her cousin Jaromir were brought up together, and have throughout their early years regarded each other as brother aud sister." The intimacy between Jaromir and Leona was quickly re-established, Jaromir led his cousin to tho sofa, sat down by her side, and asked her a thousand questions. Not long after this, the rattling of a carriage was heard, and presently there entered two elderly ladies, whom the Countess introduced as her friends. The conversation now became general; tho lauguage being predominantly French, but the Countess, who spoko German very fluently, addressed Frederick and Henry in that language, because she loved it. Thus was the party occupied when they were summoned to tho supper table. Theoung soldiers did not retire to their rooms till toward midnight. Each one had his own apartment, but by taking only a couple of steps could enter that of his neighbor. Jaromir bid the other two a good night; he appeared to be tired. Frederick and Henry remained yet some time together, talking over the singular position of their circumstances. This was indeed the first confidential hour which they had spent tog ther since their departure from Dresden: for from several motives, they had been obliged to perforin the journey bo rapidly, that no time had been found for a quiet chat together, whi.-h besides, the presence of Jaromir, yet a comparative stranger, had prevented. It was near one o'clock When lYt deriek shook Henry by the hand, wished him a good night, and passed to his room. Henry felt the stimulus of the noble tokny, of which ho had not sparingly partaken, coursing too fiery through his veins to resign himself to slumber. He went to the window opened it, and looked iuto the garden. For an hour or more, the cooling night breeze fanned tho hot brow of Henry: the moon illuminated the paths and grass plats with almost tho light of day, Ho was about to turn away, when he spied a spectral figure enveloped in a large white veil, emerge from ono of the shady walks and glide rapidly past the window, vanishing in tho shadow of the palace. Immediately after he heard the noisfr of a key turned cautiously In the lock of his neighbor Jaromlr's door, nnd all was still. Ho left the window, threw himself upon his bed; but a long time elapsed before the multit'ide of circumstances awakened in his miud, suffered him to drop into a sleep. ( To be Continued.) t SIS Tile Adopting Baslaess. There is a grape arbor in front of a house on Macomb street, and the tempting clusters of black grapes make more than one pedestrian's mouth water. A boy about ten years old softly opeued the gate yesterday forenoon nnd passed In. When he enme out fifteen seconds later he was only sixteen iuches in advance of a family dog, and he seemed greatly em harassed. "Hello, bub, been in after grapes?" asked a pedestrian. "N-no, sir," stammered tho lad; "I -I went in to see if they wu-wauted to adopt an orphan, but they didn't seem to c care much about it!" "I see they havo grapes in there," observed the man. "Yes, sir, but grapes ain't good this time o' year they p-pucker the mouth all up!" Detroit Free Fretts.

How Pirates Were Huns'. There once prevailed a custom in England of hanging persons convicted of piracy and other crimes on the high seas, on the shore of the ocenn at a point where the tides would wash over their bodies. Harrison states in his "Description of England," that "Pirates nu 1 robbers by sea are condemned in tho Court of Adtnlralte, and hanged on the shores at low water mark, where they are left till three tides have dverwashed them." In Murray's "Handbook of Kent," Execution-Dock, Wrapping, I., is named as the place where pirates aud others committing capital crimes at sea were hung at low water mark, "there to remain till three tides had overflowed them." The old ehronichler, Stow, also refers to the custom in nearly the same language, remarking of a certain locality, that it was "the usual place of execution for hanging of pirates and sea rovers at the low water mark, there to remain till three tides had overflowed them." In this ancient practice the writer finds an explanation of Antonio's remark to the Boatswain, in "The Tempest," Act I., Sc. 1 : " Wonldt tin a nilglit lie drowning The washing of ten tide-."

Hoiidiu's House. Robert Houdin acquired a comfortable competence by the exercise of his amusing arts, and was able to build himself a handsome country-house in the pleasant village of Saint Gervais, near Blois, whero he was born. Into this house he introduced a number of curious inventions which wera not only of great service in the every-day work of his home, but were matters of never-ending wonderment to the peasantry round about The garden gato was situated at full four hunred yards from the house, which was hidden behind towering trees, and could only bo reached by a winding path. Nevertheless, the amazed peasant who enme to the house found that he had only to raiso a little brass hand, not as big as a baby,s, and let it fail on the forehead of a fantastic brass head, the rap making but a faint sound, when a real musketry of bellpulling was heard to take place in the remote house, and the garden gate swung open of itself. Instantly the brass plate on the gate, which bore the conjurer's name, "RobertHoudln," dissappeared, and another took its place whereon was engraved the word "Entrez." When the postman came, and inserted his mail in the box made to receive at the gate, lie also set an electric bell to ringing. He was reduested to put in what he brought in the following order; first newspapers, then circulars, finally letters, one by one. Each insertion set a bell off. Thus Houdin, lying in bed in the morning, with his door locked and his blinds down, knew chat this morning's mail would consist of one package (or more, or none) of newspapers, ditto of circulars, and exactly so many letters. When he wanted to post letters himself he was not obliged to go to the village with them. As soon as he heard the postman's electric bell ringing, he set another ringing up by the mail box, and the letter-currier knew then that he was to couio down to the house to get letters. Ho rang for himself, so to speak. These simplo little contrivances created the greatest astonishment in the rural neighborhood where they were employed, and though no one was disposed to be in the least disagreeable to the juggler, their neighbor, their curiosity concerning them was sometimes rather annoying. Oue day the belt was heard to ring at

the gate, the door-plate changed as I usual, and the entire electric perfor

mance was gone through satisfactorily; the family of Houdin expected to see a visitor coming down the path. Uut no: the bell began as before, the door plate changed, ect, and so on again and again, until at last the gardner walked down to tho gato to see what was the matter. To his surprise he found one of the inhabitants of tho village who was amusing himself by going in at the gate and out of it over and over again, quite regardless of the racket the electric bell was keeping up in the house. "Why, what are you doing?" asked the astonished gardner. "Oh yes; I know the bells are ringing down at th house. I wanted to see how it worked. Don't mind me" The gnrdner was a man fond of his joke. That night, at midnight, armed with a dark lantern, he stood at the door of the inquisitive neighbor, pulling the bell till it pealed like the belfry of Notre Dame sounding the massacre of the Huguenot. The night-capped head of the neighbor issued from an upper window, his features aghast with dismay. "Mon Dieu!" he cried," what is the matter? Has any thing dreadful happened?" "Oh no," cooly replied the gardner. "The bell rings up in your room, I know. I want to see how it works. Don't raind me." The gate and the letter-box were not the only parts of Houdin's house whose functions were facilitated by the aid of electricity. Sitting in bis study, with his stable situated fifty yards away, the juggler nevertheless was able to feed his horse himself, and to be sure that an exact portion of rations fell iuto the manger. All the docks on the place were regulated by the mysterious current the master had under his hand at his writing 1 -K The breath of the lightning fiash hissed out of the iron back-log of his fire-place and whispered in his ear that his distant conservatory was heated too much for the geraniums, or that the thermometer had now been allowed to fall too low for the orange trees. A little bench placed by the side of a ravine at a remote part of his grounds endowed with the fairy-like power of transporting any passenger who merely sat down upon it across the gorge, when it travelled back of its own accord to take anyother person ov

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Agricultural I teats. . Massachusetts has 1,019,343 seres of wood-lawn. On the island of Jersey land rents for $50 per acre. Steam cultivation of land is increasing in Europe. One-half of the land in Scotland is owned by twelve persons. Onions fourteen inches around are said to be raised in Minnesota. Georgia crop of dried peaches this year will be worth $1,500,000. In Oermany fairs are instituted that contain nothing but agricultural machinery. The receipts and shipments of cattle at Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the 17th inst, was 1.200 heads. Our consul at Liverpool sends word that American poultry, alive or dead, will find a market there. The Italian government supports, free to all, permanent agricultural exhibitions in certain sections of the country. There are 31,000 acres of State lands in Holmes county, Fla., which can be purchased at the rate of 75 cents per acre. The number of persons deyoted to agricultural pursuits in Sweden, including their families, amounts to 3,000,000, out or a total population of 4,383,291. In Virginia and North Carolina the acreago planted in tobacco le fifty pet cent, larger than last year, aad the yield promises to be better in the same ratio. A yellow Nansemond sweet potato weighing five pounds, and raised by J. B. Doane, of Hamlet, Ind., was on exhibition at the late inter-State ex position in Chicago. Charles Stetson, of Cummington, Mass., has a grade cow that has produced 310 pounds of butter in eight months, besides supplying milk for a family of four persons. H. 8. Hondryx. of Van Buren county, Mich., recently bought -tho two-year-old Hambletonlan colt, Egbert, at a sale held at Worcester, Mass., giving $3,425 for him. A farmer writes to the Elmira Farmers Club that alchohoi is a safe and sure cure for lice on animals, injuring neither hair or skin, and it Is seldom put to so noble a use. A basket factory is about to be built at Frankfort, Mich., employing sixty men and using from five hundred thousand to seven hundred thousand feet of elm lumber yearly. Bush fires are raging at Wilberforce, Ont. Considerable property has been destroyed, consisting of barns, grain and fences. The child of a German family was burned to death. This year's peach crop is one of the most profitable in the past decade. The aggregated value yield in Maryland and Delaware is estimated at $3,420,000 of which amount the growers received about $1,900,000. The Mechanics' Falls, Me., corn factory, has just sent three carloads of canned corn to California, two to St. Louis, and seven to Chicago. During the season two hundred hands have canned twenty thoyand bushels cf corn, making three million cans. Castor beans are found growing wild along the banks of several streams in Nebraska. They probably sprang from seed dropped by settlers in their journey to the far west, were carried along by the water, and deposited in the rich soil where they germinated. And now comes Charles Spliman. of Milton, Ky., and claims to be the champion sun-flower raiser In the country. He claims to have a stalk is his yard fourteen feet four 'inches In bight and ten ioches in cicumference. It contained thirty-eight flowers at one time. Speaking of what is known as the Texas disease, the Houston Telegram says: "Every once in a whUe a strange disease is reported somewhere outside this State and attributed to Texas cuttle. They have such a complaint at Cleaveland. O We have no such disease here that anyone ever heard of."

A. L. Jewelt, of Winchester, N.

reports raising on his farm this

son, from one hill of eight-rowed corn, six stalks, producing fifteen sound ears, which latter contained 4500 kernels. Oue of the six stalks had four ears, that contained 1164 kernels of sound corn. This shows an increase hard to heat. The newest industrial feature in the world is the Introduction by Kansas land owners of the contract system in raising wheat. Large tracts of prairie are bioken. seedod, and harrowed by the poorer emigrants for the older settlers, at a fixed price per -fe. The plan permits the cultivaon of immense areas by capitalists . a small expenditure, while It -logs ready money to the doors of ose arrivals who require employent for themselves and teams while Rivaling their own homestead.

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