Bloomington Progress, Volume 6, Number 37, Bloomington, Monroe County, 8 January 1873 — Page 1
BAIXI OF TUB B.V1X.. ous. "Come right in! How are yon, Fred T Jlnd chair, and tune a tight." thed. " WIlt old boy, reoovored yet From lb Slather' jam hut night 7 " oca. "Didnt dance; the Otannan'a old." num. "Didn't yon T I had to leadAwful bore; but where were you?" oca. " Sat it out with Mollis Mead. "Jolly Uttle girl sho t Said she didn't c-a-r-o to dance Bather haxe a quiet chat, Then ahe gave nie such a glance. " 80 when you had cleared the room. And had captured all the chain. Having nothiug clue, we two Took possession of tbo stairs. M I waa on the lower step Hollie on the next abore, Gave me her bouquet to hold A-s-k-e-d me to draw on her glove. " Then, of course, I squeezed her handTatted about my wasted life Bald my sole salvation must Be a true and gentle wife. " Then, y 5u know, I need my eyes She beateved me, every word, Almost said she loved me Jove 1 Such a voice I never heard. "Gave me some symbolic Sower With a meaning, oh, so sweotl Don't know where it Is, I'm sure, Hunt have d-r-o-p-p-e-d it in the street. "How I spooned ! and she the goose ! Well, 1 know it wasn't right, But she did believe me so. That I k-i---e-d her; pass a light."
" HoUle Meade ! Well, I declare ! And walking up the avenue ! After what occurred last night, Who'd a-thoughi of seeing you ? "Oh, yon awful wickiid girVTteeie, dost brush 1 saw it all."
" Saw Ul what 1" mm, " Saw yon, last night. At the Mather's in the hull." MOLLIS. " Oh, you horrid I where were yon t Wasn't One an awful goose? Most men must be caught; but he Bun his neck in the noose. " I was almost dead to dance I'd have done it if I could But papa said I must stop. And I promised ma I would. " So I looked up sweet, and said I didn't mind a talk with him. Hope he didnt see my face Luckily the lights were dim. " Then he gently squeezed my bend, Ijwklng sweetly in my face With hia handsome, loving eyes; r-eally, he's a funny case 1 "He waa all so earnest, too; But I thought I'd have to laugh Wl en he kissed a flower I gave, looking silly as a calf. " I suppose Gfos has it now, Zn a wine-glass on Ms shelve; It's a mystery to me Why men will deceive themselves "Saw him kiss me? Oh ! you wretch; Well, he begged so hard for one. And thought there'd no one know, 8c 1 1-e-t him just for fun. " I knew it waant really right To trine with hia feelinag dear, Bat men are such funny things. They need a Lesson once a year." Eli to-ttua.
ARTE Hit WARD. Is he gone to the laud of no laughter. The man that made mirth for us all ; Proves death but a silence hereafter From the sounds that delight or appal ? Once closed have the eyea no more duty. No more pleasure the exquisite ears ; Has the heart done o'erfiowing with beauty. As the ey-as have with tears t Kay, If aught can be sure, what is surr Than that earth's good decays not with earth ? And of all the heart-springs none are purer Than the springB of the fountains of mirth. He that sound them has pierced the heart' hollows, The places where tears chose to sleep ; For the foam-flakes that dance In life's shallowu Are wrung from life's deep.
He eame with a heart full of gladness From the glad-hearted world of the West, Won our laughter, but not with mere madness, Spake and joked with us, not in mere Jest ; For the man in our heart lingered after When the merriment died from our ears, And those who were loudest in laughter Are silent in tears. London Spectator.
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BLOOMING TON, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1873.
lew Series VOL.VI.--NO. 37.
COLMAN & CO., "PEE C." I am Louis Colman, half of the firm, long find well known is the county as Colman & Co. I want to tell 70a how I worked my way to this position. At the age of fifteen, with my free consent, my father signed articles which bound me to give to William R. Lee, cabinet-maker, the labor of three years. In hen of board, clothing, etc., the usual equivalent given, I was to receive the sum of one dollar per week, and, at the expiration of three years, fifty dollars in money. My home in the meantime was with my father, who boarded and clothed me. A backward look of three, the years seem pleasant to me. I suppose many times during my apprenticeship I longed for more liberty, more leisure, more money, or something different from what I had. I should hardly have been an average boy if I had not, but in the main I was tolerably contented. 80 eighteen came. The heir of an
English estate, on the happy day when he was to take possession could hardly, I think, have felt happier than L Upon the morning of the day when my indentures were to cease, Mr. Lee came to mo and said: " I suppose I shall not have to tell yon that I have no farther claim upon your time after to-night." I felt a certain amount of independence as I replied: " I know it, sir," and drew a sigh of relief. Come to the office," he said, " after hours," and turned away. In the office at night I meet my father, who, with me, saw the writings canceled. I then received 50, shook hands with Mr. Lee, and turned to leave the
"One moment," said Mr. Lee; "have you any plans for the future ?" " No, sir," I said, promptly; " to-morrow is my eighteenth birthday, and I want to spend it without a thought of anything." He smiled a little gravely, and then said: " Well, take a week to think of nothing, and then come back to me." Outside, I found my fellow workmen waiting to give me a cheer, for it was customary among us on such occasions to have a general hand-shake. "Come, Colman, cannot we have beer ?" said several voices. This was also customary, and I hesitated a moment, but something said to me, " Begin now as you expect to go on, " and I said : " Thrtie times the sum, boys, in anything eke yon like ; but let us have no drinks." " That's so," snid one of the number ; "remember poor Stearns." Steams was a man whom Mr. Lee had employed again and again. A week since
he had boen turned away because ho came to his work intoxicated, and we
knew lie had had no work since.
Mears' remark gave me a thought, and I turned quickly and Raid : " If the crowd will forego treats, oysters, or what it may be, well agree to send the money to Stearns' wife and family." My plan took well, and was seconded not only with words but deeds, and wo deputised " Little Tom," as he was called, to take the money to Stearns' house. "And mind," said Mears again, "you give it rx Steams' wife, eh it may go yet for drink." Then I went home and spent the week after in idleness. Perhaps I ought to have felt guilty of waste of time. I do not think I did. I thoroughly enjoyed my respite and liberty to lie out at any time in the day. A curious feeling, almost like seeing a new world, comes to a person, who, having been shut up from the sunshine for a considerable tune, is
suddenly given the freedom to walk, lonngo or loiter, subject to 110 hours, times nor bells. My father nitil mother left no entirely to myself during that week, though I "have since been told that my mother's heart beat anxiously for fear I was beginning a downward path. My judioious father restrained her fears, saying : " Give him his time a week, wife nunc, let him run to the end of his rope. I think he will begin to pull in then. " I evon deserted the family pew on Sunday, a thing unheard of before, and looked in at the differing faiths around, but no comment was made. Until the appointed time I had actually taken no serious thought of my future. Punctually-then, howover, but with n sigh, I presented myself to Sir. Leo. My father was also there. Mr. Lee smiled as I came in, and said : " Well, Louis, what do you call your last week's work ?" " Relaxation," I promptly replied. "Does it pay?" " It has so far," was again my prompt lesponse. " Bnt I suppose yon expect to go to work sometime," said he. Tho satisfaction of returning to my every day work came suddenly to me then, and I said with animation : " I do, indeed, and I am hero hoping you have work to offer me. " He looked pleased and gratified. So did my father. Mr. Leo said presently : "I have to offer you my office work. If you will engage, with mo for another three years, I will give you three hundred dollars per year, and at the end of that time an additional one hundred, making it one thousand dollars for the three years work. What think you ?" My father then spoke : " Louis, the decision is your own ; bnt the offer is i.ur. If you choose to take it, your board at homo is just to pay your mother for extra care, say two dollars per week ; and if you do well, I will cover Mr. Lee's ono hundred dollars with another hundred the day you are twenty-one. Can you do better ?" I knew I could not. I said so. So again I was back in the familiar place, with three years before me, but they proved uneventful, save as the first links which connected me with the firm of Colman & Co. The first duty ossignod mo in my new position was the opening of some letters; and the first letter I opened flaunted the bill-head of "Colman & Co." My own name! Just so, some day, I should send out large sheets and bills, with just such a heading! So I raised an air castle. But this letter contained besido the
order some reference to a " superior casket," and a slip from a paper making public announcement that the decease of Colman, of the firm ol Colman & Co. , would not alter the business arrangements of the firm. It would still bo carried on at the old stand, with the same name. Signed, Colman & Co., "per C." I handed the letter to Mr. Lee, who said: "See to the order immediately, and make a note of the reference to casket,
and rile the letter on hook G. He rose, took down a package of letters, Baying to me: "Look at these curious signatures; Colman always signed like that, with a long coil. The son has, I suppose, inherited or acquired the same curious coil to his signature." I roturned answer to the letter, and when finished a sudden fancy possessed me to make of my "perC"" the same fanciful coil. After a few endeavors, I succeeded in doing this, and signed William R. Lee, "perC," making of my " C." an exact imitation of the longcoiled C. appended to Colman & Co. For the three'' succeeding years not a month elapsed that we did not receive an order of some kind, largo or small, with the eame Colman & Co., "per C," and then the long coil; which I as invariably answered with my employer's signature, William B. Leo, "per C," and
a flourish of the same around my C. I found mysolf at my majority in what I thought then, and think now, an enviable state. I hod at twenty-one a fair address, good health, good habits, a good trade, an average education, moderate ambitions and a willingness to work, and three hundred dollars a year in ready money. Such was my start towards fortune. When my time expired
with Mr. Lee, he again asked me mv
flans for the future. Though this time had many and many a one, they were
very mdefmite, and none of them practical. Mr. Lee, as beforo, gave me advice and opportunity. He sent me upon business of his own through different parts of the State, saying: "Look out for yourself as you go, ond if you find the right business Toint, let me know." I liked this change. I was making a valuable acquaints ice with business men and tho country, and for a year longer found nothing which made me desire a change. One night I tool a branch road and a new route, to reach a certain point. Starting with (a most unusual thing for
me) a racking heidnche, with tho jar and rattle of the cr.rs ho increased, that by ten o'clock I determined to ask for a lay-over ticket at the next station; I stopped not to ask where, but threw myself into an omnibus, and arriving at the hotel, into a room and bed as quickly as possible. Next morning I awoke with my head clear, but with a feeling of exhaustion that decided me to remain where I was for that day. After breakfast, I sauntered out, going slowly up the principal street, gazing idly at the signs, dreamily settling myself with a home, and a business, and a name, and my sign would read I started, there it was: " Colman k Co. " Yes, 1 read it aright, it was Colman k Co. Is this Abbetown ?'' I said to a man who was passing. He looked hard at me, but said civilly enough, "It is, sir." 1 crossed the road quickly, curious to eonfront the bona-fide personages who had so many timert appeared to me uder the jagged signature of "Column & Co.," and the singularly coiled "per C." I entered the open door and strolled through the rooms. Nothing but a nice
lot of cabinet ware-rooms, with the arrangements, perhaps, in better taste than is usual in such establishments. A quiet, light-haired young man, about my own age, came forward. "Behold per C!" I said to myself. He politely waited till I had made a survey of tlie outer rooms, then asked if lie could be of service I said I would like to see Mr. Colman. A slight hesitation, then lnsaid "Step this way." Beyond die sides-room a gronn baize door opened into a room about twelve
feset square, neatly carpeted, -furnishi-il with desk, chairs and sofn. Occupying.' the room were two young women. )m at the desk did not raise her head at my entrance. The other rose and bowed, with the air of a business woinuu, ami the grace of a cultured lady.
ror myself, I could only strive to conceal the awkwardness I felt. Who could
possibly expect to meet ladies and a
Indies' parlor in a gentleman's counting I room? I managed to bow and say: "Shall I beg pardon? I eame in expecting to see 'Colman,' of the firm of Cokmu & Co. '' "I represent that name," tho lady said, quietly, then added, "Pleaso be seated." Ntvv, if Colman had been a man, I should have had no difficulty in stepping up to him, shaking hands, and introducing myself and firm, and becoming business acquaintances in a moment. Thit, however, was a new programire, and I became still more involved by my next remark, which was that the person I wished particularly to see was "per C." Involuntarily 1 made a circling motion with my thumb. The girl's head at t ;e desk bent low over tho loaves of the ledger. Tho woman sitting opposite me, with a kept-back smile in her eyes and on her lips, indicated with her eyes tho direction of the ledger, and said, "That is per C." Was there ever such a posi'iion? I glanced towords the desk. The eyes of the girl wero raised from the book and I met icy doom! I yielded to fate. Henceforth, whatever befell me, my heart and destiny were at the mercy of "per C." There was a pause, and growing desperate, I determined to explain matters. Rising, I said : " "Will you grant me grace for five minutss ?' I was turned away from " per C," and was looking straight into the comely faco of the older woman. Sho bowed, just raised her eyes toward the desk, and I knew then that "perC." was looking and listening as well. " I im Louis Colman, of Moeonville. I have written, I suppose, one hundred letters to ' Colman & Co.,' of Abbetown. The first I wrote was in reply to an order for a 'superior casket,' sent on the decease of 'Colmiui,' of Caiman k Co. I signed it ' per C.,' and copied as nearly as I could tho peculiar signature of the order sent. It has beea a notion of mine never to put it on any other letter. '' (I wished then that I could have seen 'per C.s" face) "I have come to Abbetown quite by accident. The sign it was which attracted my attention. I came in to see Colman. I wanted to see 'per C' Please don't misunderstand. Believe me, I did not expect to find allairs conducted by wo men." The lady I addressed, as Boon as I had finished speaking, said: " Mr. Colman," ond bowed as sho pronounced my name, "I givo entiro credence to what you have told mo.
Four years ago, when you commenced your business life, we, too, commenced ours. My father was Colman, of Colman & Co. He died suddenly. The Co. is Mr. Hicksey. He is, and has been for many years, helpless in body, but his mind is perfectly clear. He always advised, but the business was overlooked entirely by my father. Through
my father's short illness, nry sister and I
took temporary charge 01 the correspondence, and when affairs called for a settlement, with the consent of Mr. Hiek-
eev, we retained the name and the busi
ness. Mr. Hicksey's advice we followed,
and have been so far successful. Of course, in our own town we are known;
beyond that, people generally may naturally have come to your conclusion, that a son has succeeded the father in business. I am Colman, of Colman & Co., 1 to the outside world; in proper person, I ! am Miss Eugenie Colman. As such," she said, with a smile, " as audi, I introduce myself to yon." I arose,' bowed, and turned to receive an introduction to the younger sister as Miss Caddie Colman. I felt that this was intended as a dismissal. Taking my hat in hand, I said: '" May I see you ogain beforo I leave ?" She bowed acquiescence. After leaving Miss Colman, I indulged in a long
walk for the purpose of settling a plan which had suddenly presented itself to we and and upon which 1 was resolved to act. In short, I had suddenly determined to settle in Abbetown. As soon as I had matured a plan, I called on Mr. Hioksey. I proposed to buy out his interest in the business. Ho thought he did not care to sell. I then went to Miss Colman, She said that Mr. Hicksey had been exceedingly kind to them, and she felt under obligations to him; and that lie wished soon to advance Harley, his son, to his interest in the business and retire. My jealonsy took immediate alarm, and I sought Harley, the young man whom I had een first in the salesroom. I was rather surprised to find that ho agreed with me, until ho gave as his reason that another hand would keop Caddie out of the place, and that would suit him. Caddie, indeed ! I coolly said: " I shall try to see that Miss Caddie has interests elsewhere, if I take an interest hero." Ho looked at me, I returned it; then
we understood each other. I stoyed in
Abbetown tliree days longer, during which time I cultivated Miss Caddie's
EDWDf FORREST.
nnd
acquaintance as much as I dared. I
also told Aliss Uoirntm that J. desired to settle iu Abbetov.n; that I loved her sis
ter, and wanted to try and win her for
my wife. I then returned to Maeon-
ville, for a week. I was somewhat uneasy at leaving Harley Hicksey alone in
tie neltl, lor i tliouglit 11 lie loved the girl as well as I knew I did that he
would not give her up without an effort.
In eiiiht days I was again at Abbe
town. Harley Hicksey had again of
fered himself to Miss Caddie Colman, and beer refused. Mr, Hicksey, knowing this, was ready to conclude a bargain for sale, and Miss Colman desired
to remain with me, as before with Mr.
Hicksey.
ah ti is seemed so entirely to my
wishes that 1 began to fear that 1 might
miss the one thing to vlneii all these
were made subservient the loss of Cud
dle Colman. Bnt as I had always tried
to use my opportunities, so I was not remiss in this respect, and in one yeur from the time of my settlement at Alihe-
t'jwn I was a married man. We, Col
i:.iun k Co. , me prospering in our busi
nss. yim. (Jolmnii is a (lignitied, mat
ronly ntt.'e liuly, out among her family
she likes and J think Will never I0..0 the
miliri'ii ( of ' per 0."
more is a moral to my story, f.verv
boy worth the n;une. probably sees it.
will write it ne.vi rthless: Wn n a 1 total
injiortniiifi occur (hut, t stdiid idU- and
u tat lor a tti iter.
Tiffiire is one boy in Danbury who
won't get anything ill his Htocking, Christinas. He left a pan of hot ashes on
the front stmrs, to follow an organ
grinder, and 11 moment later his indulgent
her came (trashing out ot the lrolit door and down the front stool), accompanied by
i.liat, i:ui and ils contents, and looking
tor all the world like a real god riding in
uie eiouas. i-or a few minutes that boy
thought nu had a pile-driver for an an
cestor. JJanbury JVtiwa,
Some Interesting: Itriiitntscriiccs
Aiicctlotes of iilfi Uiest Tragedian. A writer in tho St. Louis Democrat has the following pleasant gossip about tho late Edwin Forrest: BETTER TO WEAIl OUT THAN RUST OUT. I knew Mr, Forrest only for a short time. On my way to Washington, a'aont five years ago, I stopped at Columbus, Ohio, and while there, was introduced to him. Next morning I met him at the depot. The trait s were nil snow-bound and late, and tho weather was cold and gloomy. Ho was on his way to fulfill on engagement. "It seems to me," said I, " that a man as famous nnd as wealthy
as you are ought to be able to keep out of these big storms and enjoy himself ot home." "Yes, "said Forrest, "I know i a great many people think I am old ; enough and rich ijuongh to retire :'rora the stage; but I shall never retire until I retire into the graye. I have known a great many successful merchants to rotiro from business at sixty years of age, when they had a competence; but 1 was counting np, tho other day, and found their average life of retirement was not five years. They might have lived to eighty in active business, but they all seem to rust out in a few years when they attempt to lie by j ast like a ship she'll last twice as long on tho ocean as sho will at tho docks, " HIS BAD TEMTEB. Probably no star actor was ever as unpopular among secondaries and subordinates as Forrest. This was because of his bad temper and haughty disposition. He would curse men and women alike at rehearsal if they failed i:i his ideal of their parts te ll Desdemona she was a fool, and Iago that he was more fit for a bricklayer than an actor. Ho was conscious of this grave fault, but said he could not control it, and fli: ally, more on this account than any othe::, ho abandoned rehearsals altogether, and sent his agent to take his placo at them. Even during the performance ho woidd frequently let his bad temper gc; the better of him, and often cursed an actor in an undertone while holding a dialogue with him before a large audience, or get into a towering rage while waiting for his cue at the sides. Even to his friends in social life ho was a man of curious moods. I believe it was at Peoria that ho told a calling party of citizens, who sent up their earos to his room at the hotel, "to go to h 11" that ho coi.ddn't see anybody, and didn't want any courtesies. his opinion oymsoww "t,bak." He was playing at Si. Lotus about a year ago. You could tell from his humor at tho breakfast table whether ho had had a good audience and good support the night before, I met him at his coffee one morning, after lie had ployed Othello tho night before. "How did you like it ?" said ho. I replied that I thought he deserved unusual credit for having so good an Othello to such o poor Desdemona. " Yes," said he, " did you ever see such an abominablo faroe as she made of it ? She rava the Ho to the whole thing; sho mado Othsllo a laughing-stock for being 'jealous of such
a creature as sho t And 1 felt, all the way through, that I was makinsr a fool
of myself in trying to make it appear
that I loved her. Othello has always been a very peculiar ploy to me, and' I generally refnse to pity it'except to sonie
uesaemona who comes near to what we
all snppose the original was."
WHAT HE KNEW ABOU5J MADMEN. Forrest was great in many cluracters.
but toward the closo of Ms life ho was greater in Lear than in anything else. In private conversation he was nuito
egotistical on tho Bubject, and did not hesitate to say that he could piny Lear better than any other living man. "I
have made a special study of madness for twenty years," he said. "I have visited every great Innatio asylum in the world, and I know more about madmen than any other doctor or actor in America." Ho said ho had seen a groat many
criticisms of his Lear, but he had never seen what ho considered a just ono.
Some of them talk of me boinpr too
loud and Btrong in the mad act. I used to think so myself until 0 madman, who was naturally older and weaker than
l,ear, throw me over hts shoulder as ho would toss an old broom. It was in an asylum in Paris. I was visiting there, and tho superintendent showed mo an old, white-headed man, who hail been a soldier of tho old Napoleon. He seemed to be perfectly quiot and peaceable. I talked to him for somn time on a green sward behind tho building, whero he had
been airing himself. Ho consented to
all I said on general topics, and t Id me
his Wo and history. I began to talk about French polities, ond said some
thing against old Napoleon, when sud
denly ho seized mo and threw 1110 into
the air. He might hiivo killed mo if the
keeper hadn't uiterfnred to ituiet him.
He weighed less than :120 pounds, and
was more, than seventy years old, ami 1 weighed 180 pounds i.ud was young and active. Ten minutes before or ten minutes afterwards, a child could liavo knocked him down, hut in the ecstasy of his madness ho was i p;iant, and lnid a giant's Htrengto. From that day to this 1 have laughed at these mild nnd quiot Lears we hear about. Thoy are untrue and unuuturul."
bomb qtrnnn inatics. "What do yon think," said Mr. Forrest, "of my speech iu the fourth net, be
ginning, Aye, even- inch a kinp: T ' I
borrowed the make-up and conduct of
that not from luy observations in
European asylums. T have seen, (luring my travels, at least a dozen madmen wliose special mania vns a belief that
they had boon unjustly deprived of a kingship. 1 saw a man in London who lielievod he wan the rightful George III., mid a man in Paris who believed he was Louis XVT. I have also seen a son of Henry fflay's, in Lexington, who believed himself to be a Oeorge Washington." "Bnt," said I, "Theodore Clay became insane from disappointed love with a then beautiful young w iinnu, who is now the second wife of a Pennsylvania politician, and why should l:e know anything about, Kings or Presidents ?" " Well, he does," snid Mr. Forrest. " When once this idea of thwarted ambition gets into their heads, they all act alike, and yfiu would lie astonished to see how much a crazy Oeorgo Washington resembles a era.y Oeorgo I I. I have seen them in the asylums and hoard them talk by the hour, nnd I mndo np a great deal of my Lear from them by imitating them as closely as I could. I wns only afraid at one time that in studying them so closely I would get crazy myself."
Personal. CaIiI'S'obnia has an editor named Bnshyhead. Thomas Nast is an indefatigable worker, and is growing rich. DlEI. recently, in Crawford county.
Pa., Mrs. Mary Snyder, aged 108. Ortyn Looan (Svitas) is to retire permanently from the lecture field this season, and will hereafter reside in Paris.. Mas. Fiiemont is described as havin, grorn stout and gray, and never, in tho dayS of her girlish beauty, was so fascining as at the present time.
It ilia special order with the newspa
pers iji printing the advertisement of
iiiiuip s .inoatei' to prim ino name 01 thom.TOriator- in small true, and not in
capital letters.
Thii "Aunty Lampson," whose name has become familiar to tho American people in connection with Mr. Greeley's fast days, is Miss Susan H. Lampson, of East Poultney, Vt, Tub amount that Gen. Goorge .
McClellan was swindled by the Arizona diamond speculation has not been ascertained, but it is stated that he was "severely victimized." These aro in tho refreshing Western style of personals, "Mr. Waggoner found fault with the beef at a Memphis hotel, the other morning, and the Coroner made 83 on him." "Peter Ink, an. old citizen of Knox connty, Ohio, was blotted out the other day, ago 75." It is so nice of William Finn to be 107 years old, live in Bowling Green, and moke wooden bowls for a living, for it gives his biographer an opportunity to say that ho has doubtless resisted tho tempting and "flowing bovl," and having worked at the trade for aver seventyfive years,, ought to Finn-teli tho business, TitEI tell a good story of CoL Davidson, Adjutant-General of Texas, He received a bogus dispatch from Bell county, indicating his election to the Stnto Senate, whereupon he -promptly resigned his Adjutant's office, and his resignation waa promptly accepted. If he had to do it again he would probably wait for the official returns.
Curiosities of the Census. It has already been mentioned in commenting on the census iJiat the six Now England States with a white population of 3,445,043 have bnt 5,421 churches, while the six Southern States upon the Atlantic, with a wMto population of 3,450,903, or virtually the some, have 11,567 churches; but apart from this mazing' revelation there are other items
,. interesting ecclesiastical information to gathered from thereport. Thepopulati Uof the thirty-seven States is 38,1 15,641, and the total ncmber of oburches this multitude is 52,622, with 21,395,642 sittings, leaving 1(5,720,099 of our people apparently unpiovided for. The .truth is, however, that the population of 'ten years of ago and over amounts to 27,899,535, which leaves but 6,503,993 persons of church age, so to speak, who could find no accommodation should every man, woman, awl 10-year old child in the Union be simultaneously moved of a bright Sunday morning to attend religious worship. Still that as many as 6,503,993 persods, or about one-sixth of our entire population, have no church accommodation, is a pregnant reflection
for divines. The aggregate value of the
church property is 39,619,780. In the Territories and the District of Columbia there are 560 chui-cies, with 269,520
sittings, and a church property worth
$4,863,801.
Coining to partacufar denominations,
the disciples of Wesley and Whitefield tower, in point of numbers, above all; the Baptists come r est, the Presbyterians next, then the Catholics, the Christians (or Campbellitfs), tho Lutherans, the Congrcgationalists,the Episcopalians, and the German Reformed, in the order named. The numbsr of churches of these and some other less prominent denominations in 1870, 1860 and 1850 are
as follows:
, Churches. , Dnvrmlnattom. 1870. 180. 1850. Methodist 21,337 19,883 13,302 Bavitist 13,962 12,160 9,563 Priwbyieriau 7,071 6,406 4,858 ClltlioHc 3,806 8, 560 1,823 ChrlDtiall 2,822 a,068 875 Lutheran 2,770 2,128 1,231 ConftrtfRatioual 2,715 2,284 1,725 Epineopal 2,601 9,145 1,459 German Reformed 1.145 676 841 Friends 662 726 796 UniverBaliat 60S 66 630 Unitarian 310 984 245 Mormon 171 94 16 Jewish 152 77 36
Statements aro current respecting two well-known humorists. One accounts for the orthography of Josh Billings, saying that ho "did not write a line for publication until ho was more than 45 years of. ago, when it was too late for him to learn to spell." The other mentions that "many who heard the Bev. Petroleum V. Nasby tell the story of Hannah Jane now have an additional horror of Locke-jaw." There is said to have been a man at Port Jervis, lately, who was regarded as a curiosity even in that place of human monstrosities. He had the power to move his heart to any part of his body at will, and to stop its pulsations for a time altogether. Ho also rejoiced in an extra set of ribs, which he could shut down over the lower part of his body. He has a cousin who can change the relative position of his two hips, This story comes direct from Port Jervis, and
may be regarded as among the best that
it con produce.
Hon. Henby. Wilson is the eleventh Senator who has been elected VicePresident. The others were Bnrr, Col-
. i, , . , , I, uvuuwu, 1.1. .'11. . , , j ler, Dallas, King, Breckinridge, Ham-
nn, and Andrew Johnson. Ot tnese,
Van Burcn, Tyler and A. Johnson be
came Presidents, as did Senators Monroe, J. Q. Adams, Harrison and Pierce, The Vice-Presidents who became Presi
dents' wero John Adams, Jefferson, Van
Buron, Tyier, I ulniore and A. Johnson
tho lost three succeeding to tho othco by the death of tho Presidents with whom
they wosp elected Vice-Presidents. Only
one v ice-president nas oeen elected as
his own sucoessor. This was Daniel 1.
Tompkins, who served during the two
terms ot irresidont jiionroe.
The several rates of increase or de
crease for the two decades are as follows
1860-70.
.07
dec. dec
.15
.10 .49 .86 .30 .22 .21 .69 .09 .09 .17
5.23
.97
Value.
$69,854,121 60,985,566 53,265,256 41,608,198 36.514.549
25,069,698
It is gratifying to learn from the Clirixtiini Otmt rvt r that not one person in millions is buried alive. The editor Mays: "We have asked at cemeteries in Kurope, where bodies are always kept anil tested, whether :my one over revived, and tho answer invariably i, not one."
Foreign.
As American newspaper has just been
started m Dublin.
Gambetta belongs to tho downtrodden race of Disraeli, Bothscliild, and Isca-
not
Fobtunately for Prince Bismarck his membership of 141 different German societies is an honorary distinction not
involving tho payment 01 yearly dues.
A Fbenchman boasts that he is prepared to establish a system of transportation of 14,000,000 tons a day around the earth by means of balloons. He re
quires a capital of only 4,000,000.
A genkbai, war is being waged against
tho nso of slates in tho schools ot Ger
miuiv. There is scarcely any sound
more offensive to the human ear than the
grating of the pencil on the slato, and when this is multiplied by numbers in
the school, tho eaeet is said to be ex
tremely injurious to tho nerves of many children, and to leave evil influences in life. In addition to this, tho use of slates is attended with many other dis
advantages.
Kvrry pay a new snrprise is created
by the Jananeso to the world at largo.
Their progress is marvelous. Late news from that wonderful people is to tho effect that tho Government has ordered tho organization of eight colleges and two hundred and fifty -six high schools. In addition to this, it is in contemplation to establish over fifty-three thousand public schools, in which the attendance
of aff children over six years of ago shall be compulsory. M. Paw, Janet, a French writer, has shown that since tho year 1789 there have been twelve different governments in France, the average duration of which has been from seven to eight years. What is curious in this connection is that none of these governments has been tho expression of the free will of tho people, but all have been usurped. Every eight years, therefore, forc-;i in France overthrows the regular authority ar.d creates a regime of chance which is itself better destroyed in time by the same weapons that raised it. Whether the Government of M. Thiers will survive the allotted eight years remains to bo seen. Gaimmki), Sr., one of tho leaders of La Commune who contrived to escape recently, said: "When we shall return to Paris our flint business will be to make reprisals for the wrongs done our friends. We have already resolved that 1,000 rich men shall be shot for each one of our friends shot on Satory plain. No rich man shall lie allowed to vote. No rich man's child shall be allowed to attend school ; pour men h children alone will have ti right to be educated. All those who have hitherto hunted because they owned land, or rented shootings, or were able to pay for shooting licenses shall be interdicted shooting; this shall bo reserved exclusively for poor men."
1850-60.
Methodist 60 Baptist 27 l'renliyteriiin 32 Catholic 1.00 Ohristiaa 1.36 Lutheran 73
Congregational 29 Episcopal 40 German Reformed 98 Friends
UniTaraaliHt .25
Unitarian 08 Mormon 50 Jawiah 1.14
It will be seen that none of these de
nominations, except the Mormon and
unitarian, mointaiE. m the last census
decade the rate of increase shown in the
one prior. The fal' ing off in the ease of
tho Methodists, the leading denomina
tion in point of numbers in tne country, is particularly great; as notable, in fact,
as the portentous growth of Mormonism,
The wealth of ths leading denomina
tions compares as follows: DenomiMttont. Chitrchei, Methodist 21,837 Catholic 3,806 Presbyterian 7,071 Baptist 13,963 E;ipal 9,601 Congregational 2,719
It is a comfortirg deduction from tho
census that, while we may not buili as many churches in proportion as we once did, they are every way more costly and resiiectable-lookiug edifices. The plain
brick Ebenezer seems giving way to a more ornate strucmre. The number of
churches in 1870 is not yet double the,
number m 1850, lint tne value of onurcn
property now is four times greater than
u, was iweuoy years uku,
Doming to the subject of avocation,
the census treats us to some rare imagin
ings. Its dry figures body forth before us 12,335,172 men and women, boys and girls, working away for dear life at every nnaginable occupation the country through. Two-ti:irds of the population of the United States are drones, accord
ing to the census, for whom the other third toils. Hov it toils can only be seen in its bewildoring completer, ass in
the serried columns of the census report.
but here and there a fact sometimes
pathetic, sometimes humorous, but al
ways suggestive appears even to tho hasty prlanoe. One-half of the entire
working population is engaged in agri
cultural pursuit-, and of the 2,885,996
agricultural labo::s 073,332 axei women,
the brawny helpmates of tho Scandinavian settlers of tho Northwest or the Southern negress who has not yet laid down the shovel and the hoe to disport at the heels of her sooty lord in the halls of legislation. Among other curious avocations we find forty-five female stock
holders (how savage a calling none know
but; those who tuve seen tne Texas "cow
boy" dash like lightning hero and there through droves of half-wild cattle like
a dragon in a charge), u lemaie appren
tices to Darners, women ueiiusui,
female hostlers 3 female orofessional
hunters and trappers, 5 she-lawyers, 525 she-physicians i jid surgeons, 67 female clergymen, 2 women scavengers, 7 female sextons, 10 female "conoliaen," 196 women draymen, 1 female pilot, 6 female
iruano laborers, 4 ane-gas-stoKers,
women Kuusmiths, 7 female gunpowde:
makers, and 16 female ship-riggers.
Among the mea appear 2,512,664 agricultural laborers, 2,995,030 fanners and
planters, 1,046 florists, 22,706 barbers.
43,807 clergymen, 40,731 lawyers (an ecclesiastical p: oponderonco euffioient to
keop tho legal nind down), 61,858 physi
cians, 1,971) ut: dertaters, 1,144 sextons.
141 , 774 blacksmiths, 161 , 485 shoemakers,
152,061 miners, and so on by the army
corps ad 1 nftni tum. ivew lork World.
Agricultural Patents.
The total number of agricultural im
plements for which patents were granted during the year 1871 is 1,200, subdivided 1 b ,1 Ti V i ITO.
into 01088O8 ti ioiiowb: uee-iuveu, 10 churns, butter and cheese-inoking im plements, 90, corn-buskers, 13; comshellers, 15; cotton-pickers, scrapers, cleaners, choppers, etc., 16; cultivators, 90: diirtrers. !il; CKK-carriers, hatchers.
defectors, etc. , 10; feed and straw cutters. 30: forks, hay, manure, etc., 20
fmit-cntherers, 12; fiower-Btands, pots
etc., 10; harrows mid rollers, 40; harvest
ers and attachments, reapers and mow-
ers. 160: hay-tedders, loaders, etc., '&
hoos, 11; mili cans, coolers, stools, cow-
milkers. 24: planters, drills, seeders,
etc., 177; plows and attaclimeuts, 160;
pinning implements, W, rtiCKS, ieed, hay, etc., 5; rakes, 36; thrashers, sepa rators, and cleaners, 72; miscellaneous. 70; total, 1,2 )0. Among the uiiscellunc ouit natents are coops, cattle-tios, flax
pullers, gar.len implements, graftingtools. hoc-miouterH. hedire-trimmers.
hair-clippers, insect-destroyers, pokes, root-euttors, sup-collectors, tree-protectors, transplanters, vases, vine-trel-liess, etc.
The Death Boll Necrology for 1872.
The year just closed has been remarkable over most of its immediate
predecessors for the number of per
sons who have died in it whfo were of
unusual prominence before the world.
A review of the death roll of 1872 would be intoresthig at this time. It "would
certainly recall many mournful thoughts inspired during the year, by the sudden taking off of this or that conspicuous public character, and which in the hurry
and wnirl of our busy lives were necessarily transitory. Hie great names which naturally occur to us the moment we begin to think of death's doings for the
past twelve months are tnose of ureeiey,
Seward and Morse. These were our own
countrymen, and it is worthy of notice that the old world bad no losses of eaual
value and disfcinctiQn,, It is a pariou coincidence that the founders of throe
leading metropolitan journals should die within five months of each other Greeley of the Tribune: Bennett of the
Herald: and Snaldhitr of the World.
A celebrated French journalist, Adolph
Craexoult, editor of the 1 axis jsatwnaie,
and a well known American editor, rjx-
ward A. Pollard, formerly of the Bich-
mond Examiner, also passed away.
Anions' the distinguished soldiers who
nrssed awav were Mai or-Generals Meade
and Halleek, of toe regular army, ootn of them very conspicuous commanders
the late war. L ieutenant-Oenerals
Ewell and Patten Anderson, of the Confederate army : Marshal Forey. of the
French army, the man who beat the
Austrians at Montebello ; Field-Marshal Sir George Pollock, K.C.B., Constable of the Tower, a veteran of the Indian wars, and General Ponnefather. another
British soldier of renown. Among American statesmen were Seward, es-
Postmaster-General Randall, ex-Minister
to Russia Infirersoll: Humphrey Marshall,
the rotund and jovial Kentucky Congress
man ; ex-Senawirs vyall, oi ew jersey Grimes, of Iowa : Walker, of Wisconsin
Bratrar. of North Carolina : Van 'Winkle,
of West Virginia ; and Senator Garrett Davis, of Kentucky, over whom eulogies
were pronounced last weeK in tne oeuaw.
On the roll of foreign statesmen were Juarez, the President of Mexico ; Earl
Mavo. Uovernor-ucnerai ox juaaia, wuo
wob assassinated bv a native religious
fanatic in that country ; Joseph M ftz?nni.
the famous Italian agitator, who was planning another revolution when death quieted his restless brain ; the Duke of , 1 n-l , XT 1 - I In
Jrersigny, uiu x nix n iuKKm d and right-hand man ; Sir HenryBulwer, formerly British Minister at Washington, and recently created Baron Dalling, and Bulwer, brother of the novelist; Lord Lonsdale, late Postmaster-General, and the Duke of Bedford. Boyalty
suffered in toe loss or isjng unaries -a. v . of Sweden, a wise and industrious monarch ; the Archduke Albrechtof Austria, known in history as ' ' The Victor of Cusbozza ;" the Duke of Guise, one of the the younger members of toe Orleans family, and Don Angel Itubirde, the son
of the first .Emperor oi jaenoo. among the noted writers of books were Charles Lever, author of " Charles O'Maliey " and a host of other Irish novels which have given delight to millions of readers in both hemisphere ; D'Aubigne, the famous author of the " History of the " TliAnrthilA n&niiAF. the
popular Parisian feuilletonist ; Professor
Halley, of I ale, tne uree& ana ontmuu
scholar ; Sir John Bownng, who wrote
reform: " Fanny Fern" barton;
Norman McLeod. the theoligical author.
and Fullom and Horace Mayhew, toe English novelists. In the departments of science and philosophy deaths have
been of the illustrious Prof. Morse,
inventor of the magnetic telograpn ;
Feuerbach, the German Bhilosopner ; Babinet, the French scientist, and Dr. Franeis Liebar. of our own country.
Divinity has parted with toe itoman Oatholie nrelates Cardinal Amat, Arch-
biHhon Srialdimr. of Baltimore, and
Rislion McGill. of Richmond : toe Epis-
emml "Dr. Francis Vinton. Hector of
of Trinity church in this city, and toe eccentric Methodist Peter Cartwright. Among tho actors who have died are Forrest, the "Nestor" of the American stage ; Hackett, the greatest of Falstaffs ; wri kXT;i lw. mvMfAcf. trunA ajvtonnati
in England fifty years ago, who died LadyWrixon Boecher; Eliza Logan, McKean Buchanan and William EL
fSedlev) Smith. Two eminent Oerman
tragedians, Bognnul Dawison and Emil Devrient, died in Dresden during tho year ; the former visited this country in
leea. Among wie uramw wcra nouucott, the English sculptor; Kensett, Sully, Ames and T. Buchanan lieed, who was also celebrated as a poet The dead lawyers were David Paul Brown, of Philadelphia ; Gen. Howard, author of "Howard's United States Supreme Court Reports ;" and James R Whiting,
Bobert James jjuion, ana wui a. McCnnn, of this city. The composers of muBio were Lowell Mason and Henry G. Chorley. Tho millionaires and speculators, James Fisk, Jr., Samuel N.
Pike, Krastas Uornuig, Jonn a. xtvswold, and Joseph H. Scranton, the founder of Scranton, Pa. Last and not least among the useful members of society were two great hotel proprietors
jfaran Stevens ana omieon jjcuuiu.
KAGBm POKTRT. Tbe nutanehnlr day tore come. The aaddfrt of the year ; Gone are to pumpkin ao4 tlx pinion, Tfce falling loam are ere ; Tbe partridge row forget to drum, The ninirrd to ujirear His merry tail ; tbe brooks aragium; Tbe angler Uappcar ; Tbe crow parraca tbe nnut crumb, Too grateful for tbe ebeer; Tbe top baa ceaaed ita eonuaer km, Tbe kitee are out of gear ; O'er Mother Earth a feme ailtiiaw Invert ita icy spear. Sash morning some imbibe their ran. And some absorb their beer : Toting soldiers mumble " ri-fVv-fnm !" To drive away their fear. Blithe, joyous, happy school girls thrttln Pianos far and near. Or cot the cake of Sally Lnm, . Or Clara Vare de Vere ; -While others go to chewing gmn To check the truant tear. A bBid young msu did once caliuuBiate his precious dear. And railed, instead of being man. BeoenM be did n.it see her; But when with cold his feet grew Bomb, Be turned in his career, And danced a polka on bis thumb, And walked off on his ear. fSomething broken! pi mm), J in the V qoeer, 1 machine ) tmn-ti-tuaa,
HulMVMp. Mk o color Painter.
BBOTHM6I-IiAW--Tlra jo30- ' TaschadTrm'slrixigdonil Thb rock thai topers spiikC--BflaV.? Ooxkos scbmtb Mask and -rafeen. Thb table of interests -The dinner-ta-:
ble.
Fob anoe
Trials for the human undersUriidhig
Long walks.
Thb acrobats of every household i h
pitcher and tumbles'.
Osb can always find a sheet ci water in the bed of the ocean. "Mbkt me at toe gate, love," has-been changed to "Meet me at the grate. Pabtkidobs are tame enough in Illinois to eat from tho hand when properly cooked. Which travels the fastest, heat or cold? Heat, of course, because you can catch oold. Thb entire tobacco crop of the United States last year was 263,196,100 pounds, over one-third of which was raised in Kentucky. "War should we celebrate Washington's birthday more than rnme?" asked a teacher. "Because he never told a he! shouted a little boy. A kan advertises for a competent person to undertake the sale of a new medicine, and adds that "it will prove highly lucrative to the undertaker. A oom?ra of Hooaiers, one of whom was named Trooth, recently had a little quarrel over the division of some corn. Trooth was crushed to the earth, but he rose again and vanquished his assailant, and now the eternal ears (of com) are his.
"H. G." and the Beggars. Horace Greeley was, until the last day
of his life, the victim of impecunious
elieata. He was ofposed on principle to
giving them a penny, and yet in practice he was a perpetual purveyor to their
imaginary needs. JPor many years x doubt if any energetio applicant for a loan ever left the presence of the great
journalist witnout carrying u pum During the last twenty-five years of his lifn Mr arealev must hitve lent to en
tirely irresponsible persons, without the slightest expectation of getting anything bock, not far from $50,000. Every week he would berate himself for his encouragement of such " oonfounded loafers," os he styled them, and express his determination to reform his loose and lavish habit Bnt with the new week would be resumed the open-handed generosity, from the injpossibilisy of saying "no," even to tho most transparent impostor. Wliile entering the Tribune office, the editor would often notice a borrower lying in wait, and tell him beforehand there was no use of asking for money; that he could not get another penny under any circumstances. The cozener, however, knowing his man, would follow him into his sanctum, and, in less than a minute, Mr. Greeley would be seen opening his pockot'book, and be heard to say, " Now, take that, and don't coaie hero any more; for I'm going to turn over a new leaf." Of course, the new leaf was never turned over, unless in a backward diivetion. The journalist's reputation as a suooorer of suckers was so iiimly estitblished that he drew them from every quarter, and could not
shake thorn off. -Yew York lA-tter.
A news pap eii is published in the dia
mond district of Bouth Africa ttt the low
price of sixty dollars ft year.
Bacatm you haTentcaah in hand, To freely adrertise your stand, Dont be backward nor afraid To offer na your gooda in trade. For anything bnt law or physic Well freely "set" our type "on tek" AdTerUsers, dont be afra'd To delve in mines, where fortune's nawlr. Tint Ww York Mail says the law just
passed inEansas, giving mothers control of their children, is a capital measure,
and should be imitated in otoer oues. Children have had control of their mothers so long it is time for a change. We beliero in rotation in the domestic
offices.
A frkacker, one slippery, frosty morning, going home with one of his elderly members, the old gentleman slipped and feQ. When the minister saw that he was not hurt, he said: "My friend, sinners stand on slippery places." "yes," replied the old man, looking at the preacher, "I see they do, but I can't." A Tbot man spent three-quarters of an hour, the otoer evening, in trying to Sick np a piece of moonshine from his oor-step, which he fondly fancied to be a newspaper. His afflictod wife came out, brought him to consciousness by toe aid of loose fence picket sua steadied his tottering steps into the house. Thkbh ought to be a straight, square, stand-up-ativeness about an adveretiaoment that wfll convince without a doubt Do not say, "My stock is certainly, ' ot "is doubttess" toe best; say H it is toe best; you cannot get beyond that if you swear to it It is worse yet to say, "One ... - , . a 1.1... Wl ' An
of toe best, or, "Among mo - toomrh von wanted to bo Washington
with his little hatchet Keep the beet and let every one know it, and toe Lord will befriend you.
FluMphonajeenos. Many kinds of fish, which can make
no claim to luminosity when in Me. be
come brilliantly pnospnoresceni aner death. Mackerels and herrings especially, when their dead bodies are exposed for a short tune to the air, become tomijious in the dark, and have often appalled some rustic youngster by their strange phosphoric glitter as they hang outside a cottage door. Stretch forth your hand and touch them, and you will find your fingers covered with a greasy substance, and lurninous, as if rubbed with phosphorous. If this greasy substance be separated from the dead fish, and placed on a plate of glass, it continues to shine in toe dark. But, as in all toe otoer oases of physphoresoenee, there m no heat-only light. When these dogfish are placed in sea-water, in a few days time they render it luminous evidently from the huninoas grease pennabBg toe surrounding liquid; moreover, toe water shines everywhere with equal luster, and suffers no dimiBwtiou otiis bjnnnosity by being passed through a sieve. Water which has thus been rendered luminous loses its transparency, looks milky, and acquires a disagreeable odor; and ita phosphorescence may last four or five days. Dead animal matter of all kinds occasionally becomes phosphorescent Peep, some winter's night, into the larder, and perchance yon will uu d TVr. Bovle onoe saw s neck of
veal gleaming all over with spots of light Ton may fancy, as most people j ti,.t chia nhturohaMseence w sum
I of decomposition, and that both theveM
and toe gleaming ib "'! "
ought to be torown away, f -mistake; for it is a i-emarkabte fact thai this luminosity from dead animal matter always shows itself before decay .begins, and either ceases at once or rapidly di-
minishes as scon as cnenuosa wmnu waitionsetsin. Wemsjy add thatw vestige of infusoria or other sjuxnaknlJa is to be found in this luminous mataer
when examined under tne riucroscupe.
Greeley At & tora-HBsMng. The Orleans (N, Y.) Jtepvblica "An aunt -of Horace Greeley, Mrs. DwinelL is now living in the town ot
Gaines. Some years ago wreetey was to deliver the address at the County
Fair, and he being ansoas sos w
relative's family shuuidhew hwreirsVta, proceeded to his aunt's farm, end, puffing
on: his coat, nelpou to nuaa a mm w w., at which all the hands on tbe promisee were working. Tho neighbors also i"0 with toe difgcished editor, and that corn was husked in time to aUowaO hands to attend the fair and hoar Mr. Greeley'saddresa.'' A OrTB-ABBBDmaninSalemWeW-plied for a divorce on the groona tst toe hand he had given his -wife BWriage waa lost ana that the contract ws therefore void.