Bloomington Progress, Volume 6, Number 40, Bloomington, Monroe County, 29 January 1873 — Page 1

TJBACH1X6J (PUBLIC SCHOOL. Eighty littlA nrchim doming through the door, PiialiizK crowding, milking A twmPiitlouH roar. At ny dnut jam keep quiet ? Can't yon mlml the rule ? Bieas me ! tbi i ple&.-uil, Keeping public school. Eighty little pilgriiua On the road to fame ! If they fail to rtach it, Who will be to M une ? High and lowly atationa, Birds of every feather, Gn a common level Here are brought together, Mny little fa . Irving little hearts, Kyea brimful of mischief. Skilled in all the arts, That's a precious darling ! What are yon about ? "May I pass the water?" " Pleaec may I go out ?" Hoots and shoes are shuffling, Slates and books are rattling. And Id the corner yonder Two pugilists arc battling ! Others cutting didoes, What a botheration ! Ho wonder we gro w crusty From suck association. Anxious parents drop in, Merely to inquire Why his o!ife branches Do not shoot higher tiays he want his children To mind their p's and q's. And hopes their brilliant talents Will not be abused. Bpaffing, reading, writing. Putting up the young ones, Fanning, so Wing, fighting, Spurring up the dumb ones, Oymnast, vocal music ! How the heart rejoices ' When the singer comes To cultivate the voices. Institute attending. Making out reports, Giving object lessons. Class drill of all sorts ; Heading dissertations Feeling like a fool Oh, the untold blessing Of keeping pnblic school.

hOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.

It was not a word ! It was only a look ! From your eyes, true and clear As the wild mountain brock ! A look of such love. Of snch ownership, too ! I forgot there was any one living but you ! it. None saw i: but me ! But it beamed Iron your tyes, Swift, sweet into milt?, Like an Alpine suciise ; With strange, trembling joy, Was my heart thrilled all through, As it struggled in ain 'gainst the rapture so new ! m. It was not a word ! It was only a look ! But easy to read As a printed book ! So tender, so mastering, Without touch or tone, II caught me, it held me, It made me your own !

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THE TKCMl'ilTEB'S HORSE. I was newly forty, and felt myself so securely anchored in my old-bachelor crochets that on every occasion I swore, with all sincerity and by all the gods in the heathen calendar, I would never take a single risk in the matrimonial lottery ; but I counted without the trumpeter's horse. It was toward the last of September, 1864. I was on my way back from Baden-Baden, and intended to spend, at most, a day in Paris. I had invited four or five of my friends, for the hunting season, to my estate in Pitou. They were to arrive early in October, and at least a week was necessary to make preparations, at La Bxjche-Targe, for their reception. A letter from my steward, that awaited me in Paris brought me unwelcome news. My hounds were all in good condition, but five of my twelve hunters had either fallen sick of some horse disorder or had become lame during my absence. I was, therefore, compelled to supply their pltces with others. To this end I made a tour in the Elysian Fields among the dealers, who showed me any number ol animals some better, some worse that they recommended as hunters, at a moderate price about three thousand francs, on the average. I had experienced losses at Baden-Baden, and consequently I was in no humor to spend 3even or eight hundred louis d'or without mature deliberation. It was a Wednesday. Cheri, one of the principal dealers, had his first sale of the season. Without any further knowledge of the animals he offered than what I derived from the catalogue and from their appearance, I bought eight fox fire thousand francs. Among them I hoped to find four ox five, at least, that would do for relays, which would enable me to get through the season. Among my purchases there was one horse that I bought almost solely on account of his color, which was truly beautiful. The catalogue attributed no special qualifications to him for the chase. He was entered simply as " Brutus, saddlehorse, well built, thoroughly broken, age unknown." He was a beautiful dapple-gray, large, and very handsomely formed. The neit day I went home ; and the day following, early in the forenoon, a servant caine and informed me

that the horses had arrived. I immediately went out to see them, or, rather, to see Brutus ; for this handsome fellow had been in my head ever since I bought him, and I was singularly impatient to find out what kind of a comrade he was going to make, and what he was capable of doing. I had brought him out of the stable first. He certainly had all the signs of being of a respectable age ; but ha was clean-limbed, nad a very handsome neck and head, a powerful shoulder, md a well-turned quarter. But it was rot his fine points that so much excited myrses miration as the intelligent manner als, which he observed all my movements. He even seemed to be interested i a what I said. He inclined his head toward me, in order, apparently, to hear better ; antr. when I had done speaking, be uttered ft low whinny, seemingly in response. I looked at the other horses hastily. They were ordinary animals.

without anything to distinguish them from thvusands of others. Not so with Brutus. He certainly differed widely from the vulgar herd, and I was impatient to make a little tour through my park in his company. He allowed himself to be saddled, bridled, and mounted, like a horse that knows his business ; and we set out in the best possible humor with each other. Cteri's catalogue had only told the truth. Brutus was exceedingly well broken ; indeed, he was too well broken for my purposes. He would give me a slow trot or gallop at call, but would eonthtnally strike the ground with his fore-feet m a peculiar manner ; and, when I tried to make him raise his head, which he carried very low, he would nearly tear my arm off. Finally, he took to prancing in grand style, like a horse-show in an arena. " Humph !." said I to myself ; " I have here or I am greatly in error an old stager from the riding fchool of Hanmur or St. Cyr. He will have to be gotten out of some of his fancy paces before he will do for the ehase. ". I was about to return home, having sufficiently satisfied my curiosity with regard to Brutus' accomplishments, when I heard the report of a (run discharged apparently within twenty yards of me. It was ou of my keepers shooting; a hare, anil who miW.nr,(

craved a handsome present for the shot

l una ins wilt'. I was at the moment exactly in the center of an open space ftmne1 liv the junction of six long, shaded alleys

Tvueii uruvu.t in;uni me report of the gun, he stopped short, planted his foot nrmty in the sand, pricked up his ears, and raisedjjis head high in the air. I wiwj surprised to see him so disturbed by tWf report of fire-arms. I would have supposed that, after the liberal educa

tion he hod received in his youth, no

amount of firing would have excited his curiosity. I touched his flank with my

heels, in order to urge him forward ; but Brutus refused to budge. I tried to turn him to the right, to the left ; not a foot would he move. He stood like a statue ; and, nevertheless you need not langh, for, be acsnrcd, what I nm telling you is strictly true and, nevertheless, at every effort a made to induce him to go ou, he would turn his head and glance; at me with an expression of impatience and surprise ; then he would relapse into his statue-like immobility. There was clearly some misunderstanding between us, for I read very distinctly in his glances that he would say: "I, the horse, but do my duty, and you, the cavalier, do not do yours. " I was more puzzled tlian angered. "What manner of beast is this that I have bought of Cheri ?" said I to myself. "And why does he look at me in this

queer way I was on the point of having recourse to extreme measures that is, to administer a shower of well-laid-on blows with my riding-whip when we heard another shot Brutus and I at which he made one bound, and only one. All my endesnors to induce him to go on were fruitless. He planted his feet anew in the sand, and more firmly, if possible, than at first. I begun now to get out of patience, and, as a consequence, to ply my whip ; but Brutus also losttijatience, and, instead of submitting tamely to the punishment I inflicted, he pitched and kicked in the most furious maimer imaginable. Bnt while the battle was at its height, and I was dealing him heavy blows with the loaded handle of my whip, ho found time to give mo a look, now and then, full, not only of indignation, but of surprise. It was plain that, while I demanded of the horse what ho refused, he expected something from me that I did not do. And how, think you, did this end ? To my shame my great shame. I was ig-

nominiously unhorf.ed-Mhrown ! Brutus, it seemed, came to the conclusion that nothing was to be effected by violence, and that ho must change his tactics. After a moment's pause, which was certainly a moment of reflection, he stood straight up in the air, not on his hind-legs but on his fore-feet, and that, too, with as much calmness and address as a clown walks on his hands. Of course 1 slid down over his head into the sand, which, fortunately, was tolerably deep. I tried to rise, bnt one of my legs refused to do me service ; I uttered a cry of pain, and fell forward liat into the sand. I had ruptured one of the smaller tendons of my right leg, which, although not a very serious matter, caused me great pain whenever I attempted to stir. Nevertheless, I succeeded in turning over and sitting up, but at the moment when I began to nib my eyes, which were full of sand, and to wonder what had become of my rascally dapplegray, I saw a horse's foot descend on my head, then the foot was placed gently against my breast, and I was stretched out again on the sand ; this time on my back.

I was now, and very naturally too, I

BL00M1NGT0N, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY A2, 1873.

Hew Swies.-VOL.VI.-NO. 40.

"I don't want to marry !" Madame do Noriolis always figured among the first of my aunt's widows, and I noticed that she never failed to dwell at length on alt the advantages 1 saw in this union. It was not necessary to tell me that Madame de Noriolis was pretty any one could sec that without promptingor that she was rich. She chose.

rather, to remind me ever and again that ; the day become Madame do

the late Monsieur tie ruinous was a tool, j large, sue saict to me

the reins, and with the right I supported Madame de Noriolis. My leg hurt mo most fearfully ; still I bore it without a murmur, and continued to suppurt my lovely burden. It was thus that Madame de N.niolis made her first visit to La Roche-Targe, "When she returned about midnight, some six weeks afterward, having during

.La lioelie-

who was never happy as when he had

succeeded in making his wife exception-' ably miserable, and that consequently ; nothing would be easier than for her ; second husband to make himself adored. Then, after a lengthy eulogy of ; Madame de Noriolis virtues, graces, and merits, my aunt, who was very adroit, : and knew my vulnerable points, would take from her secretary a map of the ' neighborhood and spread it ou the table. ; The map was very exact and wnipleto, ; and hud boon bought for the sole purpose of convincing me that, if I had any j sense at all, I would marry Madame de ; Noriolis. The chateaux (if Noriolis and I of La Roche-Targe figured on the map, j and were hardly five leagues apart. My ! aunt, having artfully drawn a red line j around the two domains, would oblige i me to look at it, saying : ' j " Two thousand one hundred acres, 1 good measure, and not a single division hedge, if Noriolis were united to La ; Roche-Targe ! Eh, isn't that sufficient j to persuade my huntsman nephew ?" The, temptation was so great that I ! could only turn away and take refuge in ! my usual refrain : j

I don t want to marry.

What a Htrango thing Inn is, my denr ! Nothing of all this would have been but for the trumpeter's horse." Applctona' Journal.

Miscellaneous, leans more and

mo -o this

Canada

way. Coaii was discovered in Eng and in 1231. FiiOidDUMa revel in luscious watermelons. Texas has .140,000,000 acres of unoccupied land. Over 2,500 Philndelphians died of srnall-pox last year. BALTiMonn sends out $8,000,00i worth of oysters annually. Tub average storm trnvcls at I he rate of 25 miles on hour. At least t wenty new paper lnillH arc projected in Indiana. A young r,ArY is the most accomplished whistler in New York. The Beechcr mine in Nevada yields

But I felt that I was in dancer, never-1 "bout 8500,000 a month.

theless, really in danger ; and, whenever j Monograms on envelopes are said to I met Madame do Noriolis, I always saw j i,e no loinrer fashionable 1 : i.i i i ' 1 l : i : i- :

iiti- muircieu my uuui a ruu line, lute an aureola, and couldn't help saying to myself : " Exceedingly nrettv- there's no denv-

! ing it and clever and sensible, too two

thousand one hundred acres without a division-hedge humph ! Fly, Monsieur de La Roche-Targe fly, since yon don't want to marry !" And fly I would, and always did, but how could I fly this time ? There I was, stretched out on the grass, covered with sand, my hair in disorder, my clothes torn, and one leg that refused to do mc service ; and now there stood Madame de Noriolis before me, dashing and fair, the rijd line wound all round her as visual; and asking, in her must seductive tones : "Man Jrtcu ! is it yon, Monsieur de La Roche-Targe ? What are yon doing here 1 What has happened to you ?" I frankly confessed that I had been ignominionsly thrown. " You arc not hurt., I hope ?" " No ; not seriously, at all events. I have strained my right leg a little ; but it is not serious, I am sure." '' And what horse acted so badly not this one, certainly ?" pointing to Brutus, who was quietly browsing near at hand. Yes, that one ; he is the culprit. " " What ! this noble fellow ? Well, he

j has fully made amends, I assure you ; but I will tell you all about that by-and-

by. We must first think about getting

TRANSPORTATION WANTED. Wily Fnrmlii- s 1'iilirofttalile In the IVfat. The policy of our Government during the, lost twenty years (and nobody lias been especially to blame for it) has been tojpeople the unoccupied lands of the West with feverish haste. Each additional quarter section placed under cultivation has added that much to the stock o grain produced. The grant of land to; the Illinois Central railroad opened up a SC tntry t cultivation, and transferred to the ownership of private pcrsotojniid brought under cultivation about tWO'millions of acrpr. of wild land. Since thfcttime, under like grants to railroads, nenily the etitire State of Iowa has been disposed of, and immense trasts have bjijn brought under the plow. the same thing has been done in Michigan, Missouri, Wisconsin , Miimesti .fmd Kansas,, and "ft now being done beyond the Missouri river ih'"'Kefraskay Dakota, and Colorado. Everywhere there has been a frantic effort tj people the unoccupied land and to swell the aggregate of farm products. At this moment there are railroad companies who hold 200,000,000 of acres of hind, and have their agents in every city and village in the United States, Canada, and Europe, inducing persons to settle upon this land, and of course to ra se corn. There is more corn raised than can be consumed at home or transported to foreign markets by any existing mode of carriage. What cannot be consumed or transported must be used as fuel. What is true of grindstones is true of corn. When the supply exceeds the demand there is no sale for the surplus. Corn now sells in New York at 67 cents, while at Oilman it is worth but 20 cents. If

j Lincoln, Neb., is the yonngent city in ; all the surplus corn of the West could j the world lighted by gas. j be landed in New York at a cost of 10 i A mechanic owns the best aiui largest ' ccnts. Pef shel, the price would not j library in Memphis, Tenn. I remain at fx cents, but would fall to a ! . , , point where supply and demand would ; There is a general movement fo:r the iiltcl their equilibrium.

anontion oi tne usury laws. i We ,io not qv.sstion that tits rates of

Personal. Napolhon was f5. Jons P. Hale is hopelessly ill. Bret Haste keeps house in New York. Female car-conductors are the latest. Bill Abp has entered the lecture field. Seoretakv Delano's health is restored. Smote ant Bates is ealletl the International Jackass. Gov. Waiimotii commenced his career in a printing office. RoHFjtT Dale Owen thinks the Biblu "year" was only a month. ' ' Old Ta-jc-Talk" is what Mark Twiiin calls George Francis Train. Mayor Havemeskr, of New York, is 70. tall. Dortlv and white-haired.

. l jnissioners, bearing with then

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The fractured portion of Wilkes Booth's skull is still preserved in Washington. Capt. Spauldino, of Skowhegan, Me., aged 79, took his first ride on the cars the other duv.

Purchase of Haraana Bay by American Capitalists. Some uonths ago several business men, of the highest standing ir the financial world, conceived the idea of purchasinj? H&maua Bay and Peninsula, for which the Government attempted to. negotiate in 1867. Correspondence took place between them and the Dominican Government, an.l the prospect appearing favorable for the realization of the design, a company was formed, with the following officers: President, Alden B, Stockwell ; Vice-President, Paul N. Spofford ; Treasurer, Henry Clews ; Secretary, R. B. Hazard ; Directors, Fred. Scliachardt ; George M. Pullman, C. K. Gitxrison ; Oliver Ames, Sitmuel G. Howe, William G. Fargo, and S. L. M. Barlow. After several meetings held by these gentlemen, it was resolved to send a special steamer with three com-

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think, exceedinglv frightened, and, more, j you home. '

I felt that it would be useless to make j " I cannot take a step." any further effort. I therefore remained j "Oh, I will drive you home, at the quietly on my back, asking myself, once j risk of compromising yon. " more, what manner of beast was this j And she called Bob", the little groom,

that 1 had bought from (Jhen ; at the . who took mo by one arm, while she took

some time I closed my eyes and awaited death, for I expected to be killed. But, instead of receiving my coup de grace, I suddenly heard a strange stamping in

tne sand, and, at the same time, a ptan- i tity of dirt and gravel struck me in the ! face. I opened my eyes, and lo ! there j was Brutus, using all four feet with won- 1 derful address, endeavoring to cover me np in the sand. He was doing his best, the dear fellow, and every now hd then i he woidd pause to see what progress he was making ; then he would raise his head, give expressions of self-satisfaction in a low whinny, and resume his work. This continued four or five minutes, when, thinking me, doubtless, sufficiently covered, he approached respectfully and knelt got down on both knees, and seemed actually to be uttering a prayer while I looked on in wonder and

amazement. His prayer being finished, Brutus bowed his head Blightly, rose, walked away a few steps, stopped, looked toward me, and then began to gallop round the open space in the center of which I was lying. This he did some twenty times round round round nntil I began to le dizzy from watching him, w hen I cried out, " Halt ! halt ! " He obeved, but seemed embarrassed to know what he should do next. At this moment he noticed my hat, which had fallen off when I was dumped so unceremoniously into the sand, and lay a few feet from me. At the sight of it, Brutus seemed to be relieved of his embarrassment. He immediately went toward it, picked it up with his teeth, and started off at a brisk gallop down one of the six alleys that I have mentioned. Brutus disappeared, and I remained alone. Never was a man more puzzled confounded. What the strange conduct of the horse meant, was more than I could divine. I shook off the sand

that partially covered me, and crawled on my hands to a little spot of grass at the corner of one of the alleys. Arrived

there, 1 made myscn as comfortable as possible, and then cried out at the top

ot my voice, m the hope of making myself heard by some one ; but I got no response. The park, at least the part where I was, seemed to 1ms entirely deserted. There wwi only one thing to do to wait till some one came that way. I had been a full half hour in this unenviable position, when X espied Brutus a long distance, off, at the end of the alley by which he had disappeared, galloping toward me in a big cloud of dust. Little by little, as he came nearer, I discovered a pony-chaise in the cloud ; then, in the cfiaise, a woman, who was driving herself, and behind the lady, a little groom. A few minutes after making this welcomo discovery, Brutus, covered with foam, stopped before me and let my hat fall at my feet, saluting me with a' sym

pathetic whinny, which seemed to sav : " I went for help, sir : and here it

is." But I had no eyes for Brutus, or

oars for his explanations. My senses

were occupied with the minister ng fairy,

who soraner lightly from her Jitttc car

riage, and hastened toward me. She,

too. on her part, looked at mo very m

quiringly, and suddenly we cried out in

one breath, respectively : "Madame de Noriolis !"

" Monsieur de La Roche-Targe !" Now, I have an aunt, and for years bC'

tween her and me, there has been a con

uimea oattlc.

' "et married !" she has insisted. tt I don't want to man v !" IA you wmt a yonii K frirl? I have Mademoiselle A-, Mademoiselle B , and Mademoiselle (! , ete." "I don't want to marry !" " " Do yon want a widow? r have Madame D , Madame E , Madame F , and so on. "

Railroad laborers consume

pounds of beef each per day, A Pennsvlvania woman has hid seven pairs of twins in seven years. New York boasts a thrce-mor.tli.s-old baby that weighs 75 pounds. It costs a New Yorker $8,000 u year to dress a fashionable daughter. The copper yield of the Lnke JJaperior mines last year was $8,000,000, Barmim's hired men ore ransacking all Africa after nice fresh lions An air-line railroad is projected between Chicago and Kansas City. Two of TE.T. pension agencies of this country are managed by womei.. Sixty-three of the 330 c.tizens of Goshen, Vt. , are over 60 years ld. A Lafat:ttk, Ind., man lias just shaved for the first time in 58 years. Strawberries, large and Insoious, are plenty in the Son Francisco markets. Velvet boots are worn by the New York fashionables, to match the dross. In Philadelphia, last year, them were 701 fires, causing a loss of 86,5H8,415). A California Chinaman committed suicide by cramming paper np his nose.

Eight hundred and eighty-seven Bol-

timorians died irom consumption in 1872. The balance of trade npainst the United States last vear was in. round numbers, 118,000,000. The Italian editor who snid King Victor Emanuel was a repulsive looking man has no paper now. A census at Denison, Teens, taken when the town was three n.ondis old, shows a population of 3,010. Lake Champlatn was frozen over during the firet week in January, for the ! first time in fifty-eight years. Tite nnmber of marriages in Ohio in ' 1872 was 2(1,303 ; divorces granted, j l,02fi ; births, 01,210 ; deaths, 25,202. The oldest inhabitant of Maine has ; made the attempt, but failed, to remember when there was such weather before. The American-Merchants' Union Express Company will henceforth lie known as simply the American Express Company. 1 A mathematician says that if Kansas ! was as densely peopled as Massachusetts ! it would contain a population of 17,oiv noo

and, as you did not

fall, the horse, indignant at this neglect : English papers predict that Ameriof duty, threw you off. And what did 1 cans won't use the postal cards more he do when you were on the ground ?" ; than a month before they vvill become

1 told her of the effort he made to give ; disgusted.

Grace Greenwood thinks that Washington will ere long become a city for millionaire:! only. Toyama, a studious Jap at Ann Arbor, Mich., studies sixteen hours a day, and plays poker eight. George: P. Putnam's sons will continue the umc and fame of the old unci honorable book firm, David Brown, the Vermont hermit who died last week, left the largest collection of books in the State. Gen, Sherman won't receive orders from the Secretary of War. He wants them to i3ome through the President direct. Have wo forgotten to say that Santa Anna still lives ? He is daily expected at Vera Cruz. The old fellow is about 76 years of age. Mr. Bo dt well says that the financial credit of the United States stands first

the facts as we fand them. The means I wi,i i; t ;.,

n 1U3I VII ilLiUUQ,

railroad freights are far in excess of what : they ought to bo, and what they would i be if the railroad business was con- ! ducted honestly, and not for the aggrau- j dizement of stock-gamblers it the ex-

pense ot the public, but we must treat

and facilities for the transportation of

grain to the seaboard have not increased during the last twelve years iu anything like the proportion of the new land brought under cultivation. We have constructed railroads westward almost without number ; but in those twolve years we havo not added a mile additional to the trunk railways from Lake Michigan to the Atlantic. The Erie canal in 1800 was unable to cany the surplus grain of the West to market, and its capacity has not been increased an iota since 1S60. While we have gone on, year after year, giving land away and crowding the West with ir on to raise corn, we have not done anythiug to increase the means of sending it to market. Look at what we have done since I860 iu the way of constructing loe il railroads connecting with the trunk roads :

Peter Crawford, of Chicago, made on New Year's day a gift of 75,000 worth of real estate to each of his four children. The old gentleman has still a " farm" worth 480,000 left. A Connectojct inventor has patented a machine capable of turning ont 4,000 keys a dsiy, which he thinks will be very useful if ' somebody else can invent an equally rapid way of making locks to fit them. ' Childh, of the Philadelphia Ledger, " attributes his success to the reliability and respectability of liis paper. He asserts that he will not allow a line to go into his papper that is unfit for the eye of the most refined woman."

me by the other, and helped me into her

chaise. Two minutes more, and we were ; on the road to La Roche-Targe. We ; were alone in the chaise, Bob having taken charge of Brutus, who had shown no unwillingness to be caught. ! " Make yourself comfortable, and keep your leg as straight as you can," said ; Madame de Noriolis. "t will drive yon , S3 gently as possible." ' In fact, she said a great many little, 1 amiable, womanly things, that I found it very pleasant to listen to. Then, when she saw rae in a comfortable position, " she asked me to tell her how I came to be thrown, saying that afterward she ; would tell me how she chanced to come , to my aid. I began my narrative, to which she listened attentively until I commenced to describe Brutus' efforts to throw me, j after the two shots, when she cried, j laughing in her silveriest tones: ! " Oh, I see it all ! I see it all ! Yon ; have bought the trumpeter's horse !" " The trumpeter's horse ?" "Why, yes; and that explains the whole mystery. Have yon not seen many a time, at the Cirque de l'lmperatrice, the feats of the horse of the trumpeter ? A chaMeur d'Afriqite enters the arena

on a large, gray horse ; the Arabs follow, and shoot at the chasseur, who is

wounded and falls

MILKS OF BAILWAT. Jan., (m. 77! 2.1IH 2.7UJ WIS

Terrible Panic in a Cincinnati Theater.

" Divorce," by the New York

Jan., 1872. 3,74(1

ftlalt. Ohio Mir-hitfan IufliniiA Illinois WiKcorisitt. . . . Minnf- wts . . .

Iowa 635 KauM Npliradlia Missouri SIT

ll.Odi 28,388 We have in the twelve years peopled hundreds of millions of 'acres of new laud, and set them to producing corn ; we have built 17,000 additional miles of local railroads ; but we have not added anything to the trunk railways or to the Erie canal, by which this additional product of corn can be moved to the East. The railways have, of course, increased the number of their cars and locomotives, and have laid down double tracks in some places, but the amount of freight to be moved has largely outrun the means of moving it. To have kept pace with the increase of farm products, there should be at this time eight trunk routes to the Atlantic, instead of the four railroad and one canal routes now in operation. The question, therefore, might be appropriately discussed at the Formers' Convention, and by farmeis everywhere, " Is there not too much com produced, ! and is there not too much land under cultivation?" The question might idso be asked whether farmers, failing to get

higher prices for corn, may not finfl mcs.ns to pay lower prices for dry goods, hardware, and lumber. This brings up the tariff question, but we are not now discussing that. Chicago Tribune,

In 1871 Ohio mannfacturet'. over 70,000 tons of rolled and hammered iron onetenth of t:ie whole amount made in the ! United States. ! The present Protestant p mutation of ' the world is estimated at liJl, 000,000. j Of this number 33,900,000 aro in the

U nited States.

A large quantity of sujjar-eane cut-

me a decent burial.

"The trumpeter's horse!" she continued " tonjou rs the trumpeter's horse ! He sees that his master is wounded ; the Arabs may come and dispatch him. So, what does he do? He buries him. And what did he do then ? Started off on a gallop, did he not ?" "Yes, carrying my hat "

" Instead of the colors, to prevent i t.Jinii-fnlbnrr intn tlin l,,vilu f tlw. .,,.. !

There being no floe, ho' took what ho I M"?8 fm tho Ffist Indies lias arrived

could find. And where does he eo ?" ! 111 J-"Binft. w o pla ;o ol tho de-

" To find the vivandierc. " j generate native seed. " Precisely. He goes to find the ri van- Ego-nogo is not an intoxliAfiinc bevor-

dierc; and the vivandicre, to-day, if ! age. Henry Ward Beechcr snys so, bnt you pleose, and I, the Countess of Nori- j admits that he always steps high, as if olis. He entered my yard on n erallon. i sroine un hill, after drinkir.ir it.

I was on the steps, putting on mv cloves A t i. m . .

preparatory to driving ont. The stable-1 i11 f' ". '. i oaioer win cut

noys, seeing a horse approach, saddled ' . ' """"- ..;'"!

andbriddled a hat in his mouth, and ! imT your tec t, anil brush

without a rider, tried to catch him ; but i ur cio-ue"' " IW n cpnthe avoids them, and, coming straight to ; The propriety of knowing 'whom one

tne steps, ne nuis on his knees before marries is venhed in the ense of an aged me. The men try again to catch him, ! conple in Iowa, who, as widow and but he springs to his feet and starts off i widower, married, and whr, it was after-

on a gallop. At the gate he stops, looks ward proven, were brother and sister,

buck, and calls me " Calls you ?" " Yes, I assure yon, calls me. I cry out to the men to Jet. him go. jurat) into

separated in childhood.

Krnnk Blair's Successor.

my chaise and follow him over roads not

originally intended for carriages ; but no

matterI arrive, and I find von.

Just as Madame de finished her narrative, the c

a fearful shock from the rear, and the next moment we saw Brutus' head towering proudly above and behind ns. He and Bob had been following close liehind, when, seeing tho groom's seat yacant, he had availed himself of tho opportunity thus offered to make a further exhibition to his new master of his accomplishments. He hud reared np,

and placed his fore-feet on the vacant !

seat ; nnd now, with Bob clinging for ; dear life to his mane and the pommel of j the saddle, he was trotting along on his j hind-feet only, with all the nonchalance j in the world. As for Madnmo de Noriolis, she was so terrified that she dropped the reins !: and threw herself into my arms dear, : adorable Madame de Noriolis ! and : rested her little head against my shoul-! der. With the left hand I caught np I

Col. Lewis V. Bogy, of St. Louis, the Senator elect of Missouri, was born in Ste. Genevieve, April 0, 181S, son of ..,1 U..-I . rn' .... t

-j .,. , . .. i"i wi uuu ins:;n l nrruoriai

morions nau i Secretary under Spanish dominion. He huise received ' road law in the otrW ,if J ,Aa p,, ,(

Kaskaskia, 111., and in the aune year (1832) was out in the Bli ek Hiwk war. In 1835 he settled in the inictiec of law at St. Louis. In 1847 he purchased an interest; in Pilot Knob, mi l this inte.est he afterwards increased to one-half, and was for some years President of the Pilot Knob Iron Compa iy, and of the Iron Mountain Railrotd. The war destroyed his Pilot Knob property, and he sold out. He could not, however, resume the practice of law because of the Missouri "test oath," bnt he did not foil to make his intluenc Mt as an avowed hard-shell Demoi nt. Col. Bogy was a member of the Mi ssomi Legislature iu 1840, and agaiu in 8'l-'55. He was a candidate for Congrefs in 1852 and 1802. In the spring flection of 187'.!.

ho wa-J made on Aldern aii, aid is now

President of the City Council.

Foreign. Dumas has written his lust novel. The circulation of the London Times never varies. Seven thousand women belong to the Belgian International, In Manilla tho women at cigar-makhig get seven cents per day. iUL the monarchs in Europe will attend the Vienna Exposition. There are 50,000 foreigners hunting go.id and diamonds hi South Arica. Tun Melbourne (Australia) Argun yields an incomo of $200,000 a year.

Queen Victoria's signature is beautifnily formed, with each letter clearly cnt. Tire Chinese claim that Noah's real mime was Ah-boo, and that he lived near Pokin. Gkoroe Washington's autograph is

more in demand m iuiropo than JNa-poleon's.

France and Germany are not going to

beat each other any more, but both are

going in to the beet-sugar tremendously.

Belgium is the most densely popu

lated country of Europe, yet some prov

inces of India are oven more densely populated than Belgium.

The superintendent of a London work

house has been convicted of manslaugh

ter lor relusmg admission to a poor woman who afterward died of neglect. The agricultural statistics of Ireland

for 1872 give the country 540,745 horses, I

valued at tflU eaeli; t.(hr7,153 horned

cattli

shoe

Gent. Kkkdan, of sharp-shooting faun

(luring the war of 1801, has established himself in St. Petersburg, Russia, as a manufacturer of firo-nrm, and is said to be doing a very profitable business. English love of sport may be shown by the fr.ct that during the past financial year British sportsmen have paid into 'he Exchequer more thar half a million pounds sterling, the items being: Dog licenses, 270,425; game licenses, .tl8!l,824; gun licenses, ti2,4i!7; and racehorse duty, 0,021.

com-

i pany, has oeen attracting immense audiences to Wood's Theater for a week

2,233 I past. Aivorce is u jpowenui owieiy 3,.-,39 play, and it has been presented by a i,W4 1 rt...KJ,ff.ii, 4-lt.i lili-a Jf rtili wa lintw

'Jill not seei:. since the days of the first Pike's

Opera House. The crowd that packed Wood's Theater yesterday afternoon was the largest ever seen in that place. It left no room for evsn a glance at the backs of the audience. If the theater could be made to accommodate 2,000 persons with comfort, there must have been 8,000 human beings ' within its walls. At about half-past 3 o'clock, with all this pnek of people there, one of the hotair registers on the first floor (a smoky register at all times) suddenly emitted a big cloud of smoke. The alarm that was created cannot be described. Those who saw the smoke quivered with fear, and in the next instant, as the cry of fire was hoard, that dense mass of human beings, womsn of all ages, helpless children and strong men collapsed into a trembling bunch of terror-stricken humanity. A rush was made for the passages to the street. Down stairs from she balcony came women and eldldren down on top of women and children t'rom the dress-circle. Out from the top-loft came a crash of men and boys. Down in the porquette and in the

dress-circle crowds ot people sprang to their feet, and with blanched faces

looked at the crush of human beings that out them oJf from escape. Ou a thousand others hope conflicted with fear in the condensed expression of escaping people. Others who had already comprehended the situation held to their places and watched the fear of the'malority and tho tumult they made. The

musicians caught the panic early, but

were restrained by somebody in authori

ty who ordered them to play on, saying, "There's no danger fiddle ahead, you sons of ." With trembling hands and lips the members of the orchestra struck up a tune. This served to quiet the f ears of those who were too closely blockaded to make a rush. Fortunately, men who understood the situation had prevented the terror-stricken women who sought to ump from tho windows from accomplishing their desperate purpose. And there were those all over the house who had the presence of mind to

cry, 'Only a little smoxe no nre I But as it was, the panic was terrible, and while the only injuries sustained were those of ribs coming suddenly and rudely in contact with elbows, hundreds o'f women were scared out of a year's growth. Many were carried down stairs in the pressing, rushing throng, and when they reached open air couldn't say how they hod done it, or whether they had touched a step in tho descent or not. In the midst of all this confusion, a party of pickpockets had been hanging aronnd, who attempted to get their w ork

m, but people who understood them knocked a couple of them down and ended theni for that job. Of eourso, numerous articles were lost in tho crush muffs, gloves, vails, furs, etc., but nearly everything was recovered when order was restored, and the play resumed. After all the excitement was over, it was discovered that a gas globe

over the south side of the dress-circle

had been denu ashed by a man who had

consummate the transaction. The steamer Tvbee was chartered for the

purpose. On the 15th of December the convention was held by the commissioners represening the company, President Baez, and the Cabinet of the Dominic an Government. After full deliberaticn a satisfactory result was arrived at and a purchase effected. The people of Son Domingo ratified the arrangement, and a treaty between the Dominican Government was concluded, to go into effect Jan. 1, 1873. The company it. granted almost all tho right of an independent government; and will have itsi own. flag, police, and revenue officers, the right to construct railroads, charter vessels, collect taxes, etc., etc. Anyqnastion arising between the company arid the Dominican Government, it is stipulated, shall be referred to some European power for arbitration. Ou tho treaty being completed the Tybee sailed for Puerto Principe, from whence the company received intelligence of the satisfactory result of negotiations . The capital of the company is $20,000,000. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company intend to inn a regular special steamer between New York and Sarnan i Bay next month. Thi Lydia Sherman Confession. Further particulars given concerning

Mrs. Bherman's confession are as follows : She relates that she was born in New Brunswick, N. J., in 1825, and was early left an orphan. At seventeen she joined a Methodist church, and at a love feast met Edward S. Struck. They were quite ftrnek with one another, and subsequently married. He became a policeman a" Yorkville, one of the suburbs of New York city. One night there was a row on his beat. A detective was killed, and Struck was off without leave. He was reprimanded and suspended. Finally he became crazy and was discharged. He b scarce physically helpless ana a burden, and a male friend suggested to Mrs. Shaman to get rid of him by poison. So she poisoned him with arsenic mixed, iu his food. Next she thought it woulci be a good plan to get rid of her two c aildren and save thorn from growing u p to meet the care of this world,

and f;he poisoned them. She was not

suspected, came to Litchfield, and married Dennis Hurlburt, and finding him

not just her fancy, poisoned him .Next it was suggested to her that she could, perhaps, marry a wel.-to-do man in Derby, Horatio N. Sherman. Accordingly she became Sherman's housekeep ;r, married him, and poisoned him. She says, however, thit she did not mean to poison him, but that ho mixed arsenic in his cider to make it foam, thinlcing it was saleratus. She purchased the poison to kill Sherman's two children and to kill rats with. She put the Kison on a shelf w th the saleratns which Sherman used, and she finding he

was taking the wrong article, did not

tell iim his mistake, t-he poisoned the two children, and thinks Sherman died of prison. She drank by mistake some cider with arsenic in it, and was very sick after it. That was once when Sherman asked her to drink with him. Mrs. Sherman has been visited by reporters this week, who have conversed with her, but she does not say anything more on

the subject of her oonfesaiou. New

Haven Journal,

An Important Discovery.

The proprietors of tho Cleveland Herald have recently applied an apparatus

to their office chimney which if- claimed

to be a preventive of smoke and a great saver of fuel. The discovery, which the Herald thinks is a very valuable one, wan purely accidental. A mechanic of that city was trying to secure a better draught for a sluggish fire, and the thought occurred to him, after other devices had failed, to try the effectacf steam. A small pipe was made to conduct the " dry steam" from the top of the boiler to the upper part of the furnace, where it entered in two small jets, striking downward on the burring fuel. No sooner was the steam injected into tho furnace than the aluggisli, smoky fir-3 sprung up into a clear, bright, yellonrish and intensely hot flame, filling th 3 whole furnace with a loud ;oar. The

found he had not only secured a

Who grumbles wbea I MkftrraeaM, "' " ' ttyluafewt. Who, wbri I buy tne thilliug gOUTO, Will look upon kt vm frowa 7 ' Mylractand. WkoitodafMjltwHli tti un tltmt, ' And mjm donkey asd I trauU make pdrT tbktaua. ....

win

if I repeat to kJbBorfirr, .

iota up n sraas in innnt

j j .nawrJMi.

Wlio smoke dgr strontaac m tfll bMM, Then feeto ia the mood ufA ne to ltt Mfhuabsad. WlM situ with his feet lw bit hetA, And soolds me if t word J f ii My btUlMHd. Who when it eight win seek Ml rmt, And be imoring in bed when I'm haKwadrtat? Ky hnabtnd. Who makes me be n mbj vj wife, And is the peater of my UfT Hy hnahradV Who mitB down to a cap of strong tfl, And drink to the health of XJ. 8. G.T

My hiwbauu

5.

Hnmrows. .' . A 8Tisodo letter B. ( . . . Erk long A donkey. A STEBK dutTh ruddar'fc , ' A mvoK jay no moreay-GcukL-ChujDken of thebnrd'aeltoctlljowwa. The best frontispiece An lonfaee. High words Those oxxien in a bat loon. Vested interest Money in tla veal pocket. ' Pbofib who sell hay d boaipiJiia on ft

large scale. . ' '

Thb bums of dcsawcbyenettfcA

Mi

WTtWafOnaJBi! Aa Til

sea- wm.mfi

what does a mas

wave? Sea foam.

4 Thb acrobats of every householdv The pitcher and tumbler. Lkavbnwobth hits a divorce suit styled Jelly vs. Jelly. Family jajrs did it A"WEsrEiMpcet"ttiiika ' Ttonreettocotnt; hot oh! how hitter, To court gir! and mot to git her. A Wisookots man is so oppoacd to capital punishment that ho einf even tolerate paper-hangkgs. r ' Wire is a volume of Snalceapmro bound in old calf like therrjekof Gibraltar? Because it is bound to last. At Waterloo, a young man found the kerosene oil w a can frozen floljd. He applied a rod hot. poker, and he is anxious to know what has beoonvB A Ota can. ' - "MAantA," demanded three-year-old Emma, " what iixe those things?" ".Sausages, dear." "Going to ea 'em?" " Yes, dear." " Eat 'm with the peel on?" Daniel Dbsw can lose three million dollars' worth of hit greenbaa nd ' feel it, but the loss of five doHara' Wipi" of his religion would probably barijp?; , him. Danbury New. '

ZXZrh?&?$ 3"-ped front the balcony down into the p and I,38v58; pig,. ' ' parouette He was lucky in not rnjur1 1 b j mg himself, and also in not jumping on

anybody. Several ladies were fright

ened to tho point of insensibility, and hud to be carried out. Cincinnati Vonmr.rv.iaf. Tick arrangement of having newspaper mails made up and labeled in the ollice of publication and sent direct to the, railroad depots, it is announced, will soon be put in experimental operation in several of the large eities. This avoidance of the passage through tho postoffice, it is believed, will save .rnuch time in transit.

strong draft, but something much more important, a smokeless fire. As an experiment the apparatus was attached to the furaoce of the Herald engine, which was instantly converted from a neighborhood nuisance of smoke and soot into a perfectly smokeless Hue. Tho inventor has taken out a patent, and if half tho Herald claims for it le true it is a very itiportant and valuabla discovery. A Falthfnf Bog. Amid the horrors and distressing details of the Minnesota storm, one pleasait incident is related by the St. Paul

Pioneer. A gentleman residuur four

and a half miles from St. James happened to be in town when tite storm come up. Of course he was unable to

reach home, and his wife became alarmed f ir hie. safety, and he was uneasy about his family. Imagine his joy on Thurs

day when a shepherd dog belonging to him came bounding into St. Junes with

it little leather bag attached to his collar,

in which wt s a letter from his wife cou-

tiaining the joyful mteUigence that thoy were "all well at home, and asking for

news of her husband. Another letter was written informing the wife that the husband was safe and would return home as soon as he could teach there. Ttis

letter was placed in the leather bag, and

the fnithtui animal told to " go noma" Away started the almost human aninvd,

through the fearful storm and snow drifts, and arrived safely at home with

the precious news so anxiously looked 1'or bv tits waitinp; wife and mother. The

next day the husband reached home.

This same dog was also sent with a let- ' tor to a si-k neighbor and brought bfick

an answer. That dog is not for sale.

" The crisis has cone," cried a boy as he rushed into the house pontine: with

excitement from seeing the circus enter

town, " and l want a quarter."

The House of Bonaparie. . The living members of the Bonaparte family are Prince Napoleon (Tcm-Flon), who married Princess Clothilde,:uughter of the King of I taly. HeoonsStuted himself a sort, of breakwater between the despotism of his cousin the Emperor and the Hberalism of the party of progress. He lived in fine style in the Palais Royal until the Napoleonic fabric broke down. He is now among "ibe dismounted cavalry of the Empire, and passes his time contemplat ing the beauties of Lake Lemon. Prince Pierre Bonaparte, who murdered Victor Noir .tzd was acquitted of die crime, was bora at Borne on the llti; of October, 1815. He was the son of Lncien Bona)arte by his second wife. At the age of 16 hd took part in the Tuscan insurrection, was arrested, and shut np for six moi.tha ia the extndel Leghorn. Oil being set free he proceeded to the United States, as the doors of th Church were closed against hexo. Ia January, 1832, he arrived in Htm York in a Yankee commercial brig, and went up to Breeze Point, on tite Delaware, where his Uncle Joseph wse living. From that he turned to New awtda, where a straggle for iudepaedaitoe m going on, and Saatamkr being hist uncle's friend, ho received theirXBnmiasion of Chef tFEaeadrm. In 1438 be returned to .Europe and waa perntittod by the Pope to settle at CanjA,ia the Maremma. After many infamow scrapes he finally polled up in Paris witft an intense loyalty for tite Napota6Meqfiwe. In a cowardly way be shot avjwrimismfr young Frenchman, Victor 2190, and after being acquitted of the dffeheeJeft France. He is now reported' to be is Corsica. Cardinal Lncum Bonaparte, of the Order of Priestsol the Sacsed. College of the Vatican, in vhich he fAandt) twentyeighth on the fist; was born in- Borne, Nov. 15, 1828. He was nojninated Cardinal March 13, 1868. Hejflneef the t private secretaries to Pope Ppw the Ninth. He is a man of finished education, extremelv taciturn, and has tho

"J" reputation of being a consummate' diplo-

Prince Low Lucien BouepaXfe, bora Jan. 4, 1813, was Senator, with tjie title of Imperial Highneaa. Prkf Antoine Bonaparte, born Oct SI, 1816, boar the title of Imperial .

Hiehness, and holds a poeraofi ,ra toe-

household of the Pope,

rrmcess iuexananne mane, wucthjc. 12, 1818, married to Coaxtt Viaoant Valcntini de Canino.

Princess Constance, bora JaaUft). 1823.

became Abbess of the Convent of the

&acrea Heart as jtvome.

Princess Julie Charlotte Zenaide Pau

line Letitia Ieaire Barthoaomea. born

June 6, 1830; married Augopt 80, 187,

to Aieianxiro juaucs, jaartjwo-w- . cagiovino. Princess Charlottee Hcoorine Jotav

phine, bom Ufareh 4, 1888; married Oct i, 1818, to Prince PieupoBnt of

ITimon. ...

Princess Mime Jjetnree

sephine Philomene, born

married March g, 1851, to

de Campeilo. . ., I Prince Napoleon Claries OregoaA'i t T-t.rnl lw IKtWH fiM,

President of tho General CoWtJl of O- 3 sica. Chief of the Battaln Inlaatir J

in the service of France, 0daBo

ma-iH.imc.

nil flnanta

BaHBJmaVuirl

cer under the Emperor; 22. 1859. to tW Princess

tine, bora Jury 25, 1842, Jean Nepowaeene, Priuee

and of Cervetcri and of

cess of Maaiiao and d'ArsoU. ' .. .!

Princess MathQde ltitu Wllhei1BUaa;A.'

born May 27, 1820; married mm

1841. to Anaatole DemadeC :f daw

San Dana to; became irwoww 1870. She ia now reajdiak.in.iaw; like a good many more of flwieW

New York HcraM, .Ji

In early tumea in daliforum. mib'torir'

v. it. . v

uuras an unawxm kt mk aaaarwn? twj. 1

nranamoa. rutin r-rifranr Mwaana mil -n

tlat he was one dav Wtwiit Han tAto

c soo by the steamer.' ItShnGMg V&jSm

was mtiiit jewi w xioro,, 90 mvmf.

rioilcnowaaoauaBttiaertfwd. mmmt of hie ltmebnwB, 44 boaiaoeKd

ha called omt in a MW.we,-

bye, Colonti r and, 'wvmjpmm. eirerv one on the wharf took MP

Md'shcwrtl, 'Cel0obWr

Ore a recent

nvmbeir of about

Kings of over ti ptmm,,

ctde, 11 went mad, iwj field, 133 were mM

came or were

saints, 151 were

ed, and 1W 963,

v- -VI.