Bloomington Progress, Volume 6, Number 41, Bloomington, Monroe County, 5 February 1873 — Page 1

varro death. Oh 1 it is thou, the augcl oi my life, The one faint voire from Heaven, That tilled my ear amid mv hours of strife-, When hope, and Joy. and light were all but rivea Trora nio. My more ttaa-i friend. My love through an the ye&rd love haa mode dear ! Wait with me till the end ! Thoo'at waked me from eweet dreams ; and yet 'tis well, For thou than eweotet dream Are better far, Ami I would ever dwell Within the glory of the tender k lea in Of those bright evea, which lend Heaven's light to earth ; and yet tt cannot be : Wait witli me till the cud ! And thou, my lte, has come to me from f t.r ; From Mat deep, sheltered vale Where first I met thee, inv own guiding atar, Vl3 in twilight hour love's early tale was spoken Hint. Oli, bend Thy fair young face above roe vet again I Watt with me till the and, ' Tot I would have the Bps love's A rat dream Breathe kindlv on me now, And give their blewing, falling like a gleam Of Heaven upon a death-o'ershadowVd brow ; A blewing that sbj'l ier.d A glory that shall light mo through the gloom! Wait with me till the end 1 Thy presence lent a beauty to the flower, A sweet nose to the dove, A charm to all the sounds of twilight's hour ; And I had all thy heart's impassioned love 1 But now my kouI must .end Iteelf from thee, and go it lonely way I Wait with uic till the end '. I left thee on that day now long gone by. And while I searched for fame. My soul fed on the love iu thy dark eye, And burned that I might gain a noble name, And that we yet might blend Our lives in one renown ; but all i-t o'er ! Wait with me till the end 1 Thou knowest not how oft hroughout the night Thy vreseuce hovered ar, " And lent a luster to my 'onely light. As through the silent hours I seemed to hear Thy voice a prayer send To Heaven for meJ Now. more than guardian one. Wait with me till the end ! Dear love I feel thy kis? upon mv brow. Weep not. my love and life ! Ill bless face till we meet : be near me now. While I am passing through this mortal strife ! No other hand cau tend Me like thine own amid this hour of need ! Wait with me till the end ! Chambers' Journal.

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BLOOMINGTOiV, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1873.

New SIes.VOL.Vl-NO. 41.

A POET'S DHKA5I. BY JOAQVIN M1LLEB. I know npon this earth one spot Wtiere cliukiutf coins, that ctink aa chains Upoa the Bonia of mou, arc not ; Nor man ia measured for bin grains Of gold that steam with criir.tf cn etaiua. The rivers run nntnastered yet. Unmeasured sweep their sable breilee ; The paiups unpOitfeflei is set With Htormy bauuera of her steeds Tnst rival man in martial deeds. The mow-topped towers crush the cloud. And break the still abode of star. Like sudden gbtjsts in snowy triiroudu, Now broken through their earthly bars ; And condor hold with crooked handa The rocky limits of the lauda. O, men that fret, a f rots a main ! You irk one with your eager gaze Down in earth for fat incrtaae - Eternal talks of gold and Rain, Tour nhallow wit, your shallow ways And breaks my soul across the whoal As breakers break iu shallow teas.

DEATH-BLOW FROM AX UXSEEX HAND. " What an odd idea, Florence a bracelet instead of an engagement ring ? Was it Victor's idea, or your own ?" "My own, mamma." Florence Atherton tnmed from the window, out of which he had been gazing, and drew near her mother's side. Even in the vague twilight glimmering that filled, just then, the sittin g room at Eight Elms, it was easy to see what an exquisite softness of expression the young girl's face wore, framed in fleecy affluence of pale, golden hair, and lighted with deep bine, earnest eyes. " Yon know, mamma, that most of my ideas are odd," Florence went on presently, in mild, meditative tones. "I have a fancy thai something which merely clasps the finger is not half so strong "a lows bond as something which clasps the arm. However this may be, Victor has yielded to my wish, and has promised that I shall have the bracelet by tonight. " "Victor would give you his head, Florence, if yon were only to put the request persuasivelyiiough !" a voice ia the doorway now exclaimed ; and Letitia Atherton entered the room a moment later. She was, perhaps, two years the junior of her sister Florence, and though belonging to a wholly opposite type of beauty was yet fair to look upon. Her eyes and hair were of oriental darkness ; her figure, though vet scarcely developed

to its utmost, propnetic of faultless sym- ! metry and ripeness; and the abandon of her graceful carriage and gestures I would have been sufficient to fascinate '

many a male heart, even if their accompanying charms had not existed. ' You are sure, Florence," asked Mrs. Atherton, "that Victor will arrive from the city this evening ?" " So he assured me," was the answer. "I always believe Victor's promises, mamma. Late that evening Florence's lover made his appearance at Eight Elms, bringing with him the bracelet (an exquisite shackle shaped piece of Etruscan gold, studded with fine opals), which, as we know, his fiancee, had considered preferable to the more conventional engagement ring. This Victor Bnchanun was a fine, manly looking fellow, whom Florence had met several months previously whilst on a visit to some relatives in New York ; and the acquaintance then formed between herself and her present lover had rather speedily ripened into an attachment. The match was a brilliant one for Florence, as Victor Buchanan wa already the possessor of a large forruio, inherited from his deceased parents. A month after the evening on which Florence's singular love gauge was brought to her she became the wife of Victor Buchanan, and bade her mother and sister farewell, for what promised to be at least a year's absence among the sights and diversions of a European tour. The young bride was so perfectly happy at the thought of being finallv united to ope whom she almost worshiped as a god, that in her farewells there was little evidence of actual sorrow, while Mrs. Atherton bore up with admirable selfcontrol in saying adieu to her first born J and best loved daughter. Letitia. however, wept very bitterly. " I am the most miserable creature in all Christendom," she wailed, on the; afternoon of the day which had. witnessed Florence's departure; "I don't care to live an hour longer." "Nonsense, Letitin," said her mother, very reprovingly ; " I am afraid, darling, that your sorrow spri.igs more from envy of your sister's happiness than regret for her absence. " " Perhaps yon're right," murmured the newly created Misa Atherton. " I suppose I shall have to mope here at dismal old Eight Elms all the rest of my days. Why can't Auntie Wilkinson invite me to' go and visit her in New York, and at least run the chance of catching a splendid husband, like Florence ? But, of course, t he won't do it ; it isn't ray luck that she should. " Nor did she. And a very dreary, soeietyless year passed over t he head of our despondent Letitia. At the end o f that time A fearful Wow was dealt her in the shape of her mother's sudden death. "Auntie Wilkinson" made up for rll past neglect then by offering the poor, friendless orphan a home in her handsome Madison avenue mansion. There the first .month that followed Letitia's bereavement was passed, when, with the same suddenness that had attended her &mi affliction, she was called upon to bear a second Victor Buchanan wrote to her from Pari a letter filled with the wildest expressions of grief, and telling that his beloved Florence was no more. She had left a little boy, but the infant, hid survived his mother's death by not longer than a (lav. Amid all her grief, Letitia could not hut feel consoled nttheintelligeucitwhich Victor's letter contained of h;s purposed immediate return to New York. His face and character were more familiar

than those of the comparative strangers by whom she was now surrounded, and it wo ild be an inexpressible pleasure to meet him once more and to hear from his lips the details of poor Florence's dying moments. Auntie Wilkinson, an elderly lady of rather strict social ideis, stood by when Victor aud his young sister-in-law at length met ; aud it is safe to fsy that she felt immensely shocked at the affectionate fervor with which Mr. Buchanan was embraced and kissed by the beautiful young creature who seemed so overwhelmed with joy to see him. Victor, in spite of his recent widowhood, was but a man ; and it was hard, during the long interview that followed bstween himself and Letitia Atherton, to shut his eyes to the fact of how a year had ripened her charms into an ensemble of such wimanly loveliness as her somber costume could :n no way conceal. Perhaps .it was because she reminded him. fit the Florence whom he had adoreS so passionately that he now noted her with such depth if ill-concealed admiration. Their interview, however, was of a mournful character. He described to Letitia the death-bed of his wife, and told how peacefully f.nd resignedly her pure spirit had passed away. Her last words had concerned the opal bracelet given her on the day that their betrothal was sealed. "Promise me, Victor," she hn.l said, " that you will guiv.'d it sacredly as a memory of our life together, whatever changes the years m.iy hereafter bring to you. Promise me that no arm save mine shall ever wear it, whatever now love time may console yon with." And Victor had solemnly promised. The young widower's visits were quite frequent at Mrs. Wilkinson's house during a space of fully four months, and the uninterrupted interviews between himself and Letitia very frequent likewise. To Mrs. Wilkinson nothing seemed more natural than that such. visits and interviews should take place. It was almost like the bursting of a bombshell when Victor Buchanan Renounced to her one evening that he had asked for the hand oj her niece, and had received an aftirmath e answer. Braving comments, they were married about three weeks later, and Letitia found herself the proud sharer of Victor's name and fortune. It was not till afte:: marriage, perhaps, that she confessed i;o herself the real truth concerning how she had loved Victor at a time when such love seemed capable of resulting in nothing except mis-en- ; nor was it till then, either, that : full realization of how perfectly her latent, though intense ambition had been gratified made itself clear to her. Not long after their marriage, Mr. i.nd Mrs. Buchanan were installed in a superb residence, and l iving at a rate of expenditure that, to say the least of it, harmonized perfectly with Mr. Buchanan's liberal income. " Keeent bereavement in the family." as Letitia erphuistically expressed it, "would prevent them from entertaining for at least a year tt come ; but at the end of that time they hoped to do so in a manner consistent with their wealth and social standing.'' And at the eni of the year Mrs. Buchanan so far kept her word as to send out cards for a grand bsJl. For many days before it was t happen, this ball formed the subject it countless on dits, and wass uuiverally prophecied to be the most important similar affair of the season. On the evening w'len Letitia Buchanan, robed in a dross whose richness of laee and needlework seemed wholly unsurpassable, swept through the yet vacant but brilliantly lighted drawingrooms of l;ev sol oi did mansion; pride lent a richer color to the complexion for which many a woman would have spent thousands, and gave, perhaps, a more voluptuous swell tothesnperbbust, whose whiteness gleamed under sparkling diamonds and mist-like 2oint d' Vcnisc. " He loves me thoroughly," she murmured, in low, scarcely audible tones. " He has forgotten Florence's love, as though it had been the merest unsubstantial dream. I possess him utterly as my own." Then her lips were silent for a second or two, growing a trifle firmer as they continued: "And yet, for all that I am certain of his affection entirely, I still mean to test it. I .shall never rest until I receive that one proof ! She was knocking nt the door of her husband's dressing-room ; presently "May I come in, Victor? You're dreadfully late." Ho opened the door and stood, dressed in full evening costume, before her. "I am lost, in admiration, Letitia," he murmured. " No houri was ever lovelier than you a re now. " " And yet, Victor, I have a fancy that my costume needs one thing to complete it. " " What's that ?' She held up an arm, faultless enough for the Oreek Phryne of old, savin ?: "This needs an ornament of some kind, Victor." " Pshaw ! you're joking, love. Yon can count your bracelets by the scores, " "I know it ; but "her 'beautiful lips were very close to his ear now, and those marvelous arms of hers were wronthing his neck " there is one bracelet, Victor, that you will not give me. I mean an opal bracelet, which you keep up stairs in that great, old-fashioned cabinet. Khali I tell you wiry von will not give me this?" "I am amazed, Letitia. You well know that is been use " "Because you lovod Florence better in the old days than you love me now. Don't deny it. I know it, Victor !" She had turned away from him, and buried her face in her hands. Victor Buchanan's face was very pale, as he presently s lid : "Surely, Letitia, you have not forgotten how Florence on her dying bed " She interrupted him in tremulous tones at this point, revealing her face again, which looked agitated and painwrung. Criticised as mere skillful acting, her behavior certainly deserves praise. "You have forgotten nothing about Florence. You will never forget. Oh, no, Victor ; I cm not believe that yon love me as I wish to be loved until I receive this proof of it." " Yon mean that I must let you wear the opal bracelet to-night ?" "Yes." The monosyllable was pleadingly spoken, as with a childish, impulsive gesture she placed both hands upon his arm, and let the dark glory of her questioning eyes fall upon his 'face. He met the look with one that was restless, noxious, uneasy the sort of glance by which a man says, with all the distinctness of spoken words: "Do not iitplore me, or I must yield !"

" Consent, Victor please consent. 1 only ask the favor of you for this single time. Afterward, I will return the bracelet to the cabinet, and let it remain there as long as you choose. Consider, it will be like 'sealing our love with a new and beautiful seal !'' She could scarcely disguise the smile of feminine triumph that rose to her lips, when, after a moment of hesitation, he murmured: " Vou know, Letitia, that I can refuse you nothing. Get the bracelet, since you are bent upon wearing it. " Leaving an eagerly-given kiss upon the lips, she hurried up stairs as fast as her voluminous draperies would permit. " Victory victory !'' a voice was whispering in her ears. " He loves you as though Florence had never been. He is all your own while life lasts ; and even in heaven, after this proof of his devotion. Florence will hardly dare to claim him !" Meanwhile Victor passed into his dressing-room, and began pacing the floor with impatient steps. He was acting faithlessly, treacherously, to the dead. He was insulting poor Florence's memory. He had even dealt his own self- respect an almost mortal blow. And yet A: this point his meditatations were shaiply broken by the sound as of some falling body on the floor directly above his chamber. He paused in the center of fhe floor, and turned white, as a strange presentiment of unknown evil flashed lightning-like through his mind. An instant later he was standing at the foot of the staircase, up which his wife had hurried, and was calling, " Letitia ! Letitia !" in somewhat unsteady tones. No answer. Rapidly, and impelled by a row growing sense of alarm, he aseen led the steps. A. quick passage through the brilliantly lighted -.pper hall brought him to the door of the room into which he knew thas his wife had recently entered. A low cry left his lips as he beheld the form of Letitia, prone in front of a massive, old-fashioned cabinet, one of whose drawers was wide open. ' Letitia, for God's sake, what has happened?" He was kneeling at her side now, and had placed one of her hands between both of his own. But while in the act of doing this, something had dripped with a faint sound from his wife's effortless fingers. It was the opal bracelet. A second cry, far louder than the first, left his white lips. With trembling hands he raised the beautiful fallen herd, and saw npon one of its pearly blv.e-veined temples a deep purple mark, as of some heavy blow. Then he felt for her heart, and presently knew that it had ceased to bent. Had the dead Florence dealt vengeance from beyond her grave ? Victor Buchanan believes so to this day, though friend nfter friend had tried to persuade him of the folly of so believing, and pointed to one of the sharp oaken abutments, at the foot of the cabinet, saying that his wife, in returning to close the cabinet drawer, had tripped and struck her head in falling. He will not believe this explanation. His friends call him a monomaniac. Does he deserve the name ?

Bismarck's Fall.

1 have advices from. Berlin, from a source in which T have grei.t confidence, to the effect that ;he resignation of Prince Bismarck means nothing less than that the great Chancellor has received a very heavy check an 1 defeat. I am assured that "the report that the defett and cheek is due to she absence, through illness, of the Crown Prince is entirely false. This report mal:es, it out that the Crown Prince is the especial

friend and supporter of the Ch ineellor ; but 1 am told that so far from tiiis being the case, the truth is that his Imperial Highness agrees with his mc-ther, his wife, aud the other members of the family in viewing with alarm the conflict with the Catholic church which (Jismh.'ck has urged em, and in elesiring to wean the Emperor from his submission to Bismarck's will. In this they .'inve now succeeded, says my informant, and is prof . able that the fight with tliS church will now be quietly abandoned. Bismarck attempted to make the Prussian Cabinet entirely subservient to hinuelf but this did not suit the other ministers nor the King either; and when Bismarck, suddenly recovering from his pretended illness when he saw bis scheme for swamping the House of Peers defeated, hastened to Berlin awi tried to make the Emperor see through his spectacles, he found himself too late. The court, the Empress, theCrowi: Princess, the lung's old friends, the other ministers and the King's own j udgment were all against him. They all saw that his poli cy would inoliennte from the throne the nobility, the gentry, the clergy, Lutheran as well as Catholic,' a: id all the conservative interests in the Kingdom ; anc the old Emperor put down his foot aiui. said he would go no i'urtlier in the path that Bismarck had ni.irkxl out for him. The Chancellor then olleree. to resign. " He did not believe that, tho Emperor would accept it," says my i nformant : " he believed that the Emperor would become alarmed, anel beg him to retain his office at any price. But the old man went out of the room for n fe ,v moments and consulted with Augusta, who was in an Adjoining chamber, and wl en he came back his mind was quite made up. Bismarck might go his health was not strong enough to enable him to bear the double burden of the Einpi'e and the Kingdom; he had better be re lieved f rom the work of taking care of Prussia, and give himself rest for a while. " You will see how important and significant is this view of the case. London Cor. Xt:u York World.

Miscellaneous. Smr-nuiMJiNQ in Maine is again looking up. ' IjrnEPKNDiJXf'E Hai-l is being rej stored. ! Sri.i.iVAS is Pennsylvania's prize county on wild cats. ! The present site of Pittsburgh was

once sold for a fieldle.

Lonis Xapo'con.

Personal. Stokks suffers from nervous debility. Piohtino J of. Hookek is visiting the Tennessee coal fields. Joe Jeffkhsos's four nights in Baltimore produced $0,500. A black and white man practice law together in Columbia, S. C. Gen, SnnsscK's youngest daughter is to marry an English nobleman. BY.echek's pews rent for more than sixty thousand tlollars this year. Mrs. Shei!Ma?j, after ten murders, " feels resigned anel contented." Amos II. Eno, proprietor of the Now York Fifth Avenue Theater, is worth 31,000,000. Gem. John C. Fkemost has gone into the manufacture of improved railroael cere at Erie, Pa. Bancroft is wandering in the direction of the Pyramids, gathering material for a forthcoming book. Senator Wilson is working on the second volume of his "History of the SSavo Power in America," which will be issueel next fall. Li: Message, a French paper in New York, determined to speak only good of the dead, says Unit the cx-Emperor was a good comedian. Mrs. kx-Pkesidkn-t TvrjEnhas become n resident of Georgetown, D, C. To gratify her children she will purchase her husbanel's old estate in Virginia. It is said that the White Star Steamship Company offers to bring Sergeant Bates back to this countryfor nothing. It is a "blarstcd" British corporation. Howard Glyndon Laura C. Redden a frequent contributor to tho periodicals of the day, writes under several disadvantages, being partially eleaf anel blind. Montioei.lo, the home of Thomas Jefferson, is in litigation. Its last owner bequeathed it to the United States for charitable purposes, but the will is contested. Joaquin- Mirj.r.n, now in the city of London, is hard at, work preparing a new poem for publication, though it will not be issued for many mouths. It is written in the Speneerian measure, and was mostly dashed off in the Sierras and on the plains. He is giving it a careful revisal. We are afraid our English visitors will not retain pleasant recollections of this e-onntry. Tyndall was robbed of his valine and money, Miss Emily Faithful i ditto, Mr. Lee was nearly assassinated, and a " gutter-snipe" tried to spit tobacco juice on Fronde's patent-leathers just as he was going on board the steamer. Pmr,AiEi.,ri!iA editors are not very poor in pocket, for it is said that George W. Childs, of the Lrdrir, is worth 3,000,000 ; AVm. M. Swain, of the Hn-urd, $2,000,000; John W. Forney, of the 'J'rexx, 2,000,000 ; Mortem McMichael, of the Xorfi American, S150,0t0; John IT. Taggnrt, of the Time, S7o,000 ; William W. Harding, of the Inqnirrr, 100,000; E. W. C. Greene, of the Trami-ripl, $50,000 ; E. J. Hicken, of the IH,uth, 8100,000; Dennis F. Dealey, of the Jlerald, $75,000 ; William Meeser, of the Mercury, $60,000. The New York Metropolitan Record, which was starteel some twenty years ago as the official organ of the" h.te Archbishop Hughes, and which afterward rendered itself obnoxious as the month piece of the Tammany ring, is dead.

Of the "Character of Napoleon," Wilkes' Spirit of the Tt inea writes : We hear France spoken of ui contempt, liecause of her unrest am', perpetual troubles ; rather should she be loved as almost the only country ef Europe tliat is not at peace, that canuot rest, that is forever struggling with herself and her rulers, that longs :o be free, that cannot remain still anel be enslaved. When she ia thus at peace then all Europe may despair. It was from tliis nation that Louis Napoleon acce-pted t :ie trust of a defeneler of the rights of the people ; not without doubt, but as a me iace to legitimate royalty, the young and liberal France gave to him the guardianship of the- Republic. What m.glil he not have done with it, could he have been tine to the golden opportunity :f (he century 1 Imagine the influence on Europe had the Republic of 18-18 remained to this ilay, as it might have remained had its President kept his oath, anel had he not been dazdeel by the idea of four ding a Napoleonic empire. Freedom in Europe has been put back fifty years i:y the treachery of this one man. Louis Napoleon had superior merits of his own, no doubt; but that which eiableel him to gain the throne was the name of his predecessor, than whom no greater man of the world has perhaps ever liveel. He eliel much in his way fen France, and served Italy well when he rescued her fairest provinces from the Austrian. It is not strange that Milan suould wish to build him a monument.. But the history which will be written, whieh unlike tlie history of the past will not record the triumphs or monarchs, but tlie struggles of the people, will give him his p.aee of bad eminence among the betrayers of liberty. That treason wa s his greatest deed. fhe MeliiodistK. From tho o.Hciol statistical returns from the several annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Canrch for the year 1872, the Christian A Ivooate, compiles the following summaries :

fncn'a:. Annua! ouferpucefl 76 4 H!fiHops 13 g Tniv-Hti prrachcrf? .4 10.2.Y2 543 Local prrnclirrH H,'.VU jJH-2 Total prf-acla-r-t . . 22.20G l,12.t Lay n,etiil.cr ,458,441 Total meinlorit 1 4M,ttS 37,669 Churches H,008 5fi8 Value of C'l 11 relics 13 3U.1,)7 $5,481,3.17 .Parrtonages 4,4S4 175 Value of parwonarfffi $f ,575,H7T $789,073 Value of cburche-H and par r nW f70,09,lH $(5,260,410 Sunday m hools 17,471 d--o. H Officer and tearhera 1!M,691 dw. 2S8 Sunday m-liool Hcholartl l,2H7,-59 ll.fcl" Mii,nary collectio-!-. ;?fiTl,0tl0 $5.'t.69e Cliti!:)i 'Xt-iwiou collect iilili. . J4,ri72 l!),92i Trart collect !"il 21,580 14U Sunday School Union collections 22,674 d.-c. 4M Woman Foreign Minjl."i.a.r.v colle-IUmn ', ' 17,755 l,7."i Free-lnw-nV Aid Society collcc tin VJ.MK 12,01,1 roller! iou for c-mfcrt-tc claimants 150,141 R.'.RW The Precious Metftls Product in 1872. The Kan Francisco Alto gives the following statement of precious metals produced during 1872 in tin- gold and silver bearing districts west oif the Missouri river, furnished by the General Superintendent of Well;, Fargo ,k Co.'s. Express :

California , Nevada eiri-K-m ' ' ' Washington Idaho '.'.'.'.'.'.'. Montana Ttali Arizona e.ira..i! ;;;;;;; Mexico twefct co.i-ij .' llritiHh Columbia . . .

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! St. Lorra claims to have erecteel 1,500 I new buildings last year. ! Baltimore annually exports $8,000,000

worm oi canned oysters. The surviving soldiers ef the Mexican war are all to be pensioned. There are four colored men in tho Memphis ConimtMi Council. A California man has collecteel, in 50 years, 14,000 different coins. Sitka has a public debt of 0150, and only 70 cents in its public fund. The Surveyor-General of California returns the population at 657,821. A Vienna microscopist has demonstrat-

' eel that flies disseminate small-pox. Duni'QfF. has an insane woman who i has not slept in a bed for seven years. i Saw is used more than any other i siHten fabric for ball and evening j dresses. Key West, Fla., sends its mail matter j to Tampa, in the same State, by way of ' New York. The debt of Milwaukee is larger than ) that of the State of Wisconsin, viz., 2,200,000. The new style of bonnet is a crosis bei tween a locomotive smoke-stack find a custard cap. YaijE CoMjEoe now requires freshmen to be at least 15 years old, instead of 14, as formerly. I TnE latest blanket sheet newspaper to ! assume a quarto form is the Boston j Transcript. The expenses of New York City last year were 89,600,000 less than under I Tammany rule. The latest wonderful California proi duct is a yearling baby that weighs : more than his pa. Stokes' lawyers say that if the press hael kept still they could have cleared I the murderer as slick as a pin. , The fragments of good resolutions ; made on New Year's day bestrew the I streets of every city in the Union. A .machine is now in operation in i Philadelphia which turns out 3,000 com1 plete paper match-boxes per hour. For more than twelve consecutive days, last month, the thermometeir was j below freezing point in Boston. Peace, peace, when there .is no ! peace," made famous and popular by I Patrick Henry, is from Jeremiah, viii., 1 11. j In I860 Iowa was twentieth in the roll ; of States. In 1870 it was the eleventh. . In 1880 it is estimated it will be the sixth. When- a new town is started on the plains Chicago drummers camp out and , wait for the new stores to be completed, ! to sell the owners goods. ! Kalamazoo, Mich., will be forty-two years old next June. It enjoyed seven years of comparative happiness before, j receiving its present name. Such is the rage for speculation in i California that thirty-two mining companics, representing 0,250,000 in capital, were recently formed in one day. j Ten thousand bushels of Iowa corn : was recently shipped to Liverpool anil : sold nt a profit of ten cents per 'aushel. j It was semt by the way of New Orleans. Foreign. ; Titrix, Italy, has produced a 38-ton ! cannon. The public charities of London amount to $35,000,000 a year. Bayard Tatmmi is lecturing in GerI many and in German. j Lons Napoleon had nearly a million ! dollars' worth of property in New York ! city. The Lorel Mayor of London sat down ! to his Christmas dinner with 186 relations and none of them were pc-or. ! Zinc is used very extensively as roof covering in France, Belgium and Ger- ' many. The area of roofs annually cov- ! oreel with this material is from 40,000,000

to 50,000,000 square feet.

tl!,099,(l()rt.24 . 231S,SS1 . 09 . l,!'i.!i:U.:2 22ll.nH.IW . 2,514,09. M . 4.442, UW.'-fJ . 3,521,020.00 1 i:t, 777.00 . 3,mil,"50.S5 5;t.-.n7i.i . 1,3.10,0(11.14

Grand total ".2.2:i0,9Kl.H9 The product of the vear, d,:Bl(?.9l3.8i). is 83,952,881.251 ia o.cess of 1871, which was 8,2t,02i). 6l Tlie! increase is confined to Utah and Nevada alone, some of the other local: ties falling off slightly. It is proper to state that our express communication i so limited, anil the knowledge so imperfect of Arizona, that we do not consider the figures given for the Territory as reliiijle for the" product ef that section.

The foreign trade of th during the past year sh crease in cxiiorbi. .ilmnt

a large increase in impoi

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tit we have been '

have economy j

The official report of M. Klotz, architect to the Cathedral of Strasbourg, states that the cost of reparations reuelereel necessary by the Prussian bombardment will be 5y8,0O0f. In Germany, when the vote of the jury stands six against six the prisouor is acquitted. A vote of seven against five leaves the decision to the Court, ami in a vote of eight against four the prisoner is convicted. There is a Blight moving of the dead hones of progress in Spain, as evhlenced in the proposition to have an international exhibition nt Madrid in 1875, for a display of the arts and industries of Spain of the present day. Titr. confidential valet of the Granel Duke Alexis is said to have sold to a publisher in Brussels enough of American belles' letters to make a good-sized book ; but, fortunately, he has been caught nnd bound in Russia, and the correspondence roeovereel before the printer hud put it in covers. An Arab surgeon has been created a Pacha and rewarded with a fee of $5,000, for curing the mother of the Egyptian Khedive. And still, the practice of me-dierine and surgery there has some drawbacks, for if the old woman had died, instead of being made a "Pacha" he would have been pocked in a sack and thrown intei the Khedive's goosepond. Sea-Sickness Abolished, Mr. Henry Bessemer, in n letter to the London Times, remarks : " I am rejoiced tc say that the very able men who direct the affairs of the Bessemer Saloon Ste-ainb" at Company have lost no time sine-e its formation in issuing their contracts to ship-builders and engineers, so that we may in ten months from this time hope to see the 'horrors ef the middle passage ' removed forever. In its place an atrreeablo hour and n. nuar-

ter's trip will break the monotony of a railway journey between the capitals of England and France. To this end, ' so devoutly to be wished,' I am looking forward with unbounded confidence, and with that intense pleasure which th? great realization of a great aim in life

uioiie can inspire.

The (uality of Minnesota Cold. ! How Chinese Spend their Sunday. The Diesent winter, which is one of : 'Phf San FrnnntRivi TttilltUn aivm it in

niusnal severity through a wide range ; a custom among Chinese hoase servants

if latitude, strikes recent comers to this

State with positive dismay. The eildest inhabitants maintain that nothing like it has been experienced here for a quarter of a century ; but old age is a perioel of feirgetfulness, aud I suspect that the eildest inhabitants of Minnesota form no exception to this general rule of senility. The cold meat must be once felt in order to gain a correct impression of its intensity. During Christmas week the

thermometer here in St. Paul ranged from 23 to 30 degrees below zero. At several railroael stations on the prairie, westward, thermometers indicated 42

to stipulate with their employers for a

portion of Sunday, on which day they visit their countrymen, in the Chinese Snorters, talk over news from home, hare ieir head ) shaved, go through with their genuflections and salaams in joss houses, smoke opi am, etc. , some of them closing up the dov by getting rid of their week's wages in the Chinese gambling houses which ore so thickly settled along Dupont street. The sidewalks swarm with these gregarious beings, whose nature it is to huddle in flocks on the surface and burrow in bands beneth.

Their dens are hives of industry on week

degrees, while at Kandiyohi, near the I days and .rooms reeking with smoke on middle ef the State, the mercury froze. ; Sundays. A visitor who ventures insMe

Mention of a few of tlie visible effects of

the cold Trill aid in forming an opinion

,uy ts severity. In this connection, perhaps I eiannot do better than to give a

bit of personal experience. Having never spent a winter here, I was caught napping. On rising, the Monday morning before Christmas, I discovered that every article of food in the house, the contents of the cellar not excepted, were frozen soliel. "This must be a pretty cold morning," I observed to my wife, who returned an emphatic assent, and added that the water-pipe had burst in two places. As no water was to be had, we dispensed with coffee for breakfast. "You had better wrap up your ears," she said, as I prepared to go down town. I wrappeel up my ears and went out. On gaining the street the air seemed

much less keen than I had anticipated,

has to step over the prostrate bodies of opium sm ikers, and feels his way through clouds of moke, mi wiliiiliiifclipfc lilii nose agaiist a sickening stench o '. fetid

breath, ia short a conglomeration of

odors nowhere to be found outside a

cellar reeking with the fumes of a crowd of Chinese. For the soke of delectable

nleasures to be fonnd in sneh nlacea.

John frequently refuses to take situations

in the country ; like Bridget, he must be in a town, where he can, at least once a

week, see his cousin. The Chinese

has hosts of relatives; uncles and consins especia lly the latter are counted by scores. These " cousins" are generally friends, all belonging to the same commercial company ; and when they meet on Sundays, the jabbering is energetic

beyond c escnption. All day and late in

the night; John keeps up his rounds of visits among his cousins, but manages

to be on band Jlonday morning, ready,

but I noticed that the snow creaked re- ' for his work, which lie genendly does

inarnaoiy uneier my ieei. wnon x mux cneenulJy and with fidelity,

wiuiieu u sepuue ana a emu x met a man,

who said, " Look ont for that nose when you get into the house." I regarded this remark as impertinent, and made no reply. I had wsJked another square, when I met another man who stored at me with such unfeigned commiseration in his eyes I ooulel not see his face that I said : " Well, sir, what is your great discovery ?" " Your nose is frozen," said the man. " How tlo you know it ?" I asked. " It's as. white as chicken meat," said the mar,, " and as solid as a stone. Put some snow on it quick, for God's sake. " The same morning there were many cases of frozen members, and even faces.

A young man hi the pineries, stalwart

Finding Longitude at Sec

A very elementary acquaintance with

nautical instruments enables seamen to determine tho latitude of a vessel -But

ascertaining longitude so as to be moral

ly certa n of the exact position of the

ship in relation to i's distance from any particular port, uland, mountain, or dangerous rock in the ocean, requires a

very accurate knowledge of the motions of the earth in the vast orbit traversed

in its circuit round the sun.

When it is noon at one place, it is exactly 1 o'clock in the afternoon some

where e'e, 2 at another, and 3 at anoth

er. Time, therefore, is constantly differ

ing every moment, reckoning from any point on the earth. The reason why it

so liappens is because this world runs

and robust as full of vitality zb a chest- les tma vhich & nnt is full of meat, had his feet so i

I seconds, and a quarter of a mile in one

1 second the tick of a watch apparently

badly frozen that amputation was neces

sary. rru. - a i. it i j i

u jLjeiwaV com wanner ww jj, fcom the Sun, going east or about eight d its. During that period i west probably nine -tenths of all the potatoes j mvjrxmpetent

r, "i't-" J j , I to direeit-avessel across a trackless ocean the same fact holds good throughoutthe muBt familiar. without making a State. Notwthstanding its severity, definin(? s degreTthe

wio wuuer ujo wmu. ine aar is yolae ( chronometer, or perplexing

;r v J f.i V v6'-" j ,B' the mind of unprofessional readers with One has but to be well protected by how longitude ascertained east orwest clothing out cf doors and by worm fires . Greenwich, or any other national

w,nm, m oremrxpieeinrsi rate. xieaa- meridi:U1 0Bjecf contemplated in ache and lassitade except from special thifJ paph Jto impre88 &em with causes are iinpoaHble. The nights are deviating revolutions of

b ,Srv -TV v- i tlie heavenly bodies, which enable man to be seen The moon and stars shine to steeroff iito widewaste of mighty resplendent. Even when the moon is m confident in the resources of science her quarter it is light enough to read, j fa find in to

.... ..... .6, j of the habitable globe. chimneys mes m white, vertical collimns, that can be seen at a long distonce. TJneler foot the snow creaked so ! Chinese Sen ante a Failure.

Olive Harper, of the St. Louis Globe, savs:

Chinese as servants are a failure. You cannon make them understand yon en

tirely, and, in spite of all your teachings, though he may make your kitchen clean as pot Bible for it to be, he will, nevertheless, surprise vou some day by wash

ing in the bread-pan or drying his bead

witu your damask tabie-nnen. ne also has his own peculiar manner of doing all

loudly and musically that the tread of a man may ba heard distinctly at a distance of a quarter of a mile. It glistens whitely on the roofs of the houses. Tlie cold weather causes our streets to present a really picturesque appearance. Fur caps and overcoats are much worn by the men. These garments vary in style and quality, accordtng to the wealth or tocial nosition of the wearer.

For instance-. Gov. Austin, who. bv the thines. and he sprinkles the linen he is

way, is a very estimable gentleman, ! to iron by taking his mouth-full erf water

wears a seal-skin overcoat worth 810, : and Mowing it over the ciotu, eiampenand a cap of the same material worth j ing it very evenly. We can stand that, 815. A teamster wears atdiaecrv buffalo. I even though it be towels and napkins.

costing perhaps $10. Between these j but w-a naturally object when he takes a

two extremes are costumes of every con-; moutllul of pudding aance and splicers ceivable style. Many of the laborers i that all over your pudding. Then, too, wear moceasins and boots of Indian-j they have a playful habit of picking up cured buckskin, the same being, when j unconsidered trifles and hiding them new, of a bright yellow color. Silk hats j away, and all the while wearing the most are almost as rare in the streets as are j placid of smiles and innocent of looks ; white foxes. Occasionally a Boston or ! besides, they sometimes take a hatchet New York e'lrummer makes his appear- i and clop you up a little if they think . . ii i i - it- i i ? 1 e t 11 A 'M'

aaea in a toll hat, but finding lumself

the object of derision on the part of luwkmen and newsboys, he speedily invests in a cap. A due regard for his ewu comfort has equal influence, probably. The fact ia, one must dress warmly hare or freeze. The ladies bury themselves in wrappings to such an extent.

finishing oi' with a white nubia about

vou hi .ve money. About a year ago Mr.

Sauffly, in Oakland, let bis cook know that h'.j had $5,000 in the house, and that night staid cook, with another Chinaman, went i i and chopped Mr. and Mrs. Sauffly up pretty well left both for dead,

took tlie money, buried it, and the next morning tlie cook was at his post Of duty. That cook looked au if he had

the head and face, which reveals nothing been brought up to attend Sunday school but the eyes, that to recognize one of regularly all his life. He nowroruriates them on the street is as difficult as it is at San Quentin for the rest of Ids days, to detect an acquaintance among the j So you can see something of what very veiled women who walk the streets of j valuable servants they become. Cairo. St. Paul Cor. Boston Globe. j Boston's Affiction.

Boston is suffering from the worst

epidemic of small-pox that has ever been known in Massachusetts. There axe

State Debts.

From several gubernatorial messages

lately uenvereei some curious lacus are . ,i- ,3

m-u "r- wa8 known, there were, in 1700, accord Northwes ern States. Exclusive of the j f Mather, 1,200 fatal caaef New England aud Southern, the most Mtiente,

populous and least populous states, viz., twit,tfltft 'dintr Df modem

skill, are dying at the rate of 3,000 a year, or 60 a week. The mortality reaches the frightful proportion of one

ing to t ie census of 1870, of 4.882,759, ; a m nf which represents a burden of 5.79 to "lenrd of th individual Nevada has a debt of Europe. The sueiden spread oi

New York and Nevada, keep tlie lead in the relative burden of their indebtedness. Tho fnneled debt of the former is

5,38(5,725, with a population, accord-

the disease is attributed, in Massachu

setts, to the repeal of the " head money tax," which has thrown the State open to Canadian immigration, which brings

the infection with it In -die nihe months whic i have passed since this repeal, there have been more deaths from small-pox in Boston than in the whole State in

each individual. Nevada has a debt of $379,21(1, and a population of 42,491 a burden of $8.91 per capita. Pennsylvania has a debt of $16,521,029, and a population of 3,521,769, or $L69 per heaei Ohio, with her 2,665,260 people, owes 88.583,546. or 3. 22 for each inhabitant.

Wisconsin's debt is $2,252,057, anel her I

Michigan has a debt of 91,7S4,2lKi, whieii j J would require $1.48 each from her 1,-1 184.059 inhabitants to settle it Ineli- : A SUgfct JUsUxe.

ana owes about $4,000,000, representing i The gentleman who does the Annanias a burden of $2.84 per heael. In contrast i and Saphira business on the Terw with these spenelthrift commonwealths j Haute Express says that a city minister behold the economical eaamples of Iowa, j oper.ed bis front deor suddenly, and sarwhich is entirely out of debt, and Bli- j prised a guilty-looking man, who was nois, which has none worth speaking of. j just in the act of depositing a neatlyExchange. covered basket on the door-step. The I meeting was not rapturous. " Ah 1" said Tha-: terrible visitation commonly tlie minister, rushing out and grasping kuownasthe "spotted fever," but known the man by the collar, while he plied a to tlie medical profession as wrcbro hoa"y-aolcd boot vigorously under the 'pinal mcnincitix, ia fearfully prevalent i coat-tail of his visitor, " what do you

in some portions of the Mississippi Val- j mean, you villain, by 1

lev and other localities in the West. We

hear e-t its tmaeien attacks ana speeeiy fatal results in the regions of the Wabash and the Illinois rivers. It is a matter worthy of remark that nervous and spinal

wring a baby on

my loor-fitep? Ah, I liave you, scoundrel ! I'll show you how to abandon an infant to the cold mercies of the world." Ane": all these remarks were punctuated

tucks. " 1 nam t left any baby at your

i;u,i,. niiiio.il- to lie em the increase door, said tlie man. taJmur UD the

throughout the country of late. Over- j basket aud lifting the cover. "I brought work, business anxiety, and too little a right fat turkey for you ; but I'm d d Hleep are suggested as the possible j if you shall have it now, if you were causes I starving," and he walked away.

iramnnt iuoh Aim

VrunoM ia truly fair, Bertk fe Jrarelr brigfei, Clara la clear to ae, Lncy 1b a Htar of Ugh, FcitteU is bapp; u bappjr can be ; Cai&ariae ia paw, Barbara from afar, HiM ia very fair, Henrietta ia a ataf. Margaret a pearl turown ap from Uia e. Xnriel i awoeteet nqmta, Amelia iaeUwwe,; Agatha ia tci-t good, Bridget ia riiiniog here. Xtttlda ia a Udy of honor true ; Snaan ia a lily, CeUadba sight, Jane a graceful willow, Beatrice giirea delight, Elliabeth an oetli, pore aa noraing 4ew. Sophia lj wisdom, Letitia ia Joy, Eveline a prince, Julia a jevd joy. Rebecca ia f aithf ai aa the light of day; Cooatance it reaohite, Grace g favor meet, Charlotte ia nobility, Barriet an odor aweet, Ahigail is Joyful aa Uw robin-a lay. ' Harah ia lady, laabel ia fair IVneijida ia eoBsta&i, Jemima soaods in air, Caroline ia noUe-aplrited and brave; iydla ia well, Judith a ong of praiae, Cornelia ia harmony, Priacilla ancient of daya, SeUca a nightingale where braadaea wa-a.

JBtt.

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BOBML

Hntnn, Sweet home A bee-hive. A stock-in trade Hosiery. A XABXXX swell The porpoise. Fancy bread A roll of tlie eye A rovsa shaver A barber's baby. Bus, like a flea, is subject to hep.

Boabo of education';

tjusNTXiE and srmpie

fish. A wise man changes his mind a fool never. A cbtjctnaXi ootTBT Sparking snotfaer man's wife. New book" The Stray Wur." by the

autnor oi - xne wanaenng i

Be temperate in diet our first

ate themualves out ot noose and

a sailor, though, has seen whales Mjabber. A society man is said to have laughed so much in his sletTB that it is quite worn out. To keep out of debt Acquire the rep

utation of a rascal, oq-J none will trust you. To get rid of red hair Hold your head for a few minutes in a strong bbt '-a of gas. How to get all the music ont of a piano Let a steam fire-engine play on it a few minutes. As Irish writer says : "I know of no earthly reason why women should not be

come medical men. The gentle turkey gobbler now roosts on the barnyard fence, with none to molest him or make him afraid. " We'be in a pickle now," said a man in a crowd. ''A regular jam." said an

other. " Heaven preaejrve us !" moaned an old lady. "What's the use of trying to be honest ?" asked a young man the otbar dary of a friend. " Oh ! you ought to try it once to see," was the reply. " When I put my foot down, TR hrm you to understand," says Mrs. Natter, " that there's something there. " On investigation it was found to be a No. 11 shoe. It was a North Carolinian who, in speaking of the extreme loanness of his hogs, said that he had to pot overeoate on them to enable them to make a shadow in the sun.

a customer to the naur-cntter. " Well," said the hair-cutter, "reefy, sir, I east say, but it do seem to be meditating a change of oolsr." People who believe the current stories about intelligent dogs will read with pleasure that a lost dog in Norfolk having seen his master's advertisement in a local print, promptly went home. Cambridge, Mass., recently had, some awful excitement over some bloody clothes found ou the ice, and several

would-be detectives pawed tnem orer, smelt of them, and cried for vengaanee, until a doctor came along who pronounced them the cast-off clotting af a small-pox patient

Bad Breakef a

The following conversation, roppoaed to be reported verbatim el tttrrtUim, will give an idea how perplexing our use of prepoaitdoTiB with verbs is to far-

I begin to understandyonr laiuraaM

better," said a Frenchman to his friend; "but your verbs trouble me still, yon ' mix things up so with roar miipiMiiliiim, I saw your friend, Mrs. James, jogt . now," continued he ; "she saptahe BK tended to break down lrouBeksepiag. Am I right there?" "Break np housekeeping, she mast have said." "Tea, I remember break np homes keeping." "Why does she do that?" inquired the listener. " Because her health is bo broken' into." "Broken down, yon mast say." " Broken down oh yea. Ana, indeed, since the small-pox is broken tip in year city" "Broken ont, yon mean." ' " She thinks she will Jnm it for a few -

"Indeed I And will she close her house ?" " No ; she is afraid it will bebrokrta broken how do I say that V "Broken into." ' . "Certainly; it is what I meant to say. " Is her son to be married soon ?" - No ; that engagement is broken - ' broken" " Broken off." "Ah! Iliad not heard that, very sorry about it - Her son oafrbcotia the news to her last week. Am I right? I am bo anxious to speak the Irtish.

" He merely broke the news ;'o? aep-

"It is hard to ur.dewtanad, i-Tfcnt young man, her son, is a fine faBow-i. breaker, I think." " - "A broker, and a Terr fine fellow.

Good day," " i

WeeplafM?j.Brs Vst .. -The young ladies of rJvwinass F;; smart One of 'em told me her Om didn't keep anyhorsea, but . , Says' she, " He's going .

Hays she, " Wftes BQMkgsmw pv ' I went to walk with' her. 'Mmmmm

1

a block, ai ahe allowed ,t

keeps a corner groeei-rw

inaau,-. .uxm-wb

wnifealnflL--.?'

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had a chat with tiae eld

vonnat lady showed nte the

Says she, "There's where

frfL'r

says a, .ruiaamj wa vmKmmma

Says she, " He was indeed. 2 Says I, " Wtstr lMhfa!l, though." . .St:

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iter eyes m up wnp as and. --Atk

wasaUbCrtcpole.

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