Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1883 — Page 1

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A BALLAD OF THE MIST. "I lore the Lady of Merle," he said. “She is not for theel" her snitor oried; And in the valley the lovers fought By the salt river’s tide. The braVer fen on the dewy sward, The unloved lover ntnrnea onoe mon; « In yellow satin the lady came An J met him at the door. "Hast then heard, dark Edith,” laughed he grim, "Poor Hugh hath craved thee many a day? Scon wo Id it have been too late for hint His low-born will to say. "I struck a blade where lay his heart's love, ’ And voice for thee have I left him none To brag he still seeks thee over the hills When thou and I an one!" • • ' • \ 1 ■ ■ i "■ Fearless across the wide country ; Rode the dark Laay Edith of Merle: She looked at the headlands soft with haze, And the moor's mists of pearl. The moon it struggled to see her pass Through its half-lit veils of drlying gray: But moonbeams were slower than the steed That Edith rode away. Oh, what was her guerdon and her haste, While cried the far screech-owl in the tree. And to her heart crept its note so lone Beating tremulously? 1 About her a black scarf floated thin, 4 And over her cheek the mist fell cold. And shuddered the moon between its rifts 0f dark cloud’s silvery fold. Oh, white fire of the nightly sky When burns the moon’s wonder wide and far, ’ And every cloud illumed with flame Engulfs a shaken star! Blight as comes morning from the hill. There ccmcs a face to her lover’s eyes; Her love she tells, and he dying smiles— And smiles yet in the skies. He is dead, and closer breathe the mists; He is dead, the owlet rnoftns remote; He is buried, and the moon draws near, To gaze and hide and float. Fearless within the churchyard’s spell The white-browed lady doth stand and sigh; She loves the mtst, ana the grave, and the moon. And the owl’s quivering cry. —Hose HcClothorne Lathrop, in the Century.

BESIDE THE ANTE.

Every one at Falaise "khoWthfe fetory of the mother of William the by heart. They trouble themselves very z little aboqt the of modern im ' vestigatiSn in regard io the real facts ift the case, these good folk of Falaise. They see no reason for doubting any part of the story they have always known. They will show yon with pride the beautiful old church of St. Gervais, and its not distant neighbor In the Grande Place, La Sainte Trinite; but they will bid you look longest at the great bronze statue of the' Conqueror in the center of the Grande Place. And it is well worth looking at. The Norman hero is mounted on a spirited horse, represented as plunging impetuously forward, and the King, in a suit of mail, and with visor up and grasping a lifted lanpe and pennon in his hand; is turning, as if to beckon an army on to victory. ' 5 “It is most wonderful,” the folk of Falaise will say to you, as you and they gaze at the warrior figure of whose hs- - they are so proud. But they have more to show you than this; for then they will take you up the hill and through the arched gateway of the castle. On the ramparts is a quiet, grassy walk, well shaded by trees, there is a school up here above the town and an old twelfth century chapel. But you have not been brought to look at these. You go, instead, into the castle keep, and there you will be shown a double-arched window, with a stone pillar in the center.hnd' looking out of this you will gaze into a deep, narrow valley very far below, tlwough which winds the river Ante, its eurface visible only here and there among the trees. On the other side frowns a steep range of hills, the steepest of all being known as Mont Mirat.

“From this window,” says your companion, “Count Robert first saw Ar"lette;” and then you are told how the youth of 18, looking down into the val-i ley of the Ante, saw the women an<f girls washing clothes in the stream; just as you see them doing now, eight centuries latef, and among them saw the beautiful Arlette, the tsnner’i daughter, and seeing, fell in love! You look down at the women below. You can just catch the sound of their voices but you cannot distinguish one from the other. If the story you have hfeard is true, lave, in RqJjert’s’case, at least, was not blind, but most extraordinarilv sharp-sighted. Be^lttCfJ| itftfiy, he afterward made her Dudhess <rf'‘ Normandy, and you are shown a litcre cell in the castle where their son, the Conqueror, was born, unless the historians are right who say that William was not born in this castle at (iQ. Afterward you will be taken to the top of Talbot’s tower, a hundred feet higher, from which a most magnificent view can be had; but since this tower, built by English King Henry the Fifth, can i' no way be associated with, William, ft | has but little interest for your Falaise companion.

Another day you go to the washing place beside the Ante, and watch the women-and girls chattering and laughing at their work and of the young Robert catching sight of his beautiftri Arietta in just; su<ii Another group of Workers eight .centuries before. Here the river rUris through a sluiceway, made for the use of the washers, and here are great square tanks heaped high with, peaking garments, the whole protected from the. weather by sheds. Each one pays 3| sous a day for the privilege of washing! here, but must furnish her own and carrosse for beating the clotheiv wd* one of the white-capped women wm ! perhaps inform you. Beyond are openair tanks, where those who have no 3 sous to spare may wash for nothing ! You wonder if there is an Arlette* among any of theWWttnen. They not very beautiful; ytnj. thifdL But as you stand at; the arched entrance to the washing-place you do not see aM the women, and, even if you Vqu would not know which was named Aflette, if there were one of that name there. Yet there “is an Arlette there, and, if you had been told of it, I think it would not have been difficult discover her.' Arlette must be beautiful to bear out her right to the name, you imagine; and,you, within the archway, are not much impressed with the faces, you see. But this modern Arlette is among the’ pooretwomen beside the Ante, ana top far off for you to. see her There .hag ab&ys Jfogp wleitil among the aOnMB ifSI a favorite name at FaUise, anjLnometimes there have beeil mwwhfpnßit at J present there is bat one —• Arietta Lechasseur, the daughter of a shoe-1 maker in the Faubourg St; Lwtfrent. Well, she knows the atory ,o| Adette, the tanner’s daughter, ve# proud she is of her name., . We have only tradition to assure us that the first Arlette was beautiful/ but it needs no second glance to convince us that Arlette Lechasseur is so. If only there were another Count Robert'to so«J -But she has too much sense to etJ4ct a Count or any other noble personage to come »ud make love to her there beside the

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Ante, even if she is pretty. ;; I “Where is thy Count Robert, ArLEtte ?” wom ®“ abmefimes say ■PWWIH**’ goqgffasurQa/augn. Yet she has dreams of her own never* to be sure, but they sweefen qxiaHME to her. East yearAhe-feirtf of GulI>ra e that, per-' never gets begpßifi the “perhaps" in ils. ' T.iw- thmty Harmaß feswt <M&|rn<ir'ry ®w-who- <’*” ■ «»<• fishing, nd the So j not d a “perhaps,” as I Maid beflffi boule learutpbecantwit v.th a vbj«Bttle, j And peasant to dreams. From her washing-place up at the grffif <%iff on ’fflHf’lty stands. Except for a few patches of furze and heatiwr, the gray rock is almost bar^,andcliff and which is ea&tje wall. ■&hard ’to tell, ..for the wall is at the- edge of the cliff, and Seems as if it might be a part of it, so Amd, high above all, the Talbot tower appears almost to touch the sky.’ Arlette has often been to the very top, but she does not like looking down into the valley so well as gazing up at the castle-crowned cliff. From where she is plying her carrosse she can see Count Robert’s window and the vine sprays hanging dowp from the opening. Then she thinks of the tanner’s daughter and Count Robert. Now and then she can see some one leaning from the window and looking dmm t into the valley, as that handsome stripling may have leaned and looked eight centuries before. But she doefc not imagine that any one can distinguish her frone the other women beside the .Ante. She knows very well,that the distance is too groat for that now. Perhaps eyesight was" better in Count Robert’s time she think* lint the day comes when some frffln Bert’s window does see her. It is a young Normandy, burdened only by knapsack -i-A.'tTrsim ■>“ tola Irtm'-rmre visit at jue .ftbieet haOt W he> washing finds •.!>. side the Ante. The .jglfef mj|p#erfu|one, flb flqjthe can •■setrner Wry distinctly a'thfhdrbeats the soaped linen with her carrosse, and afterward rinses the garments in the clear running water;’and he watches her a lon/f time. At last, however, he puts down the glass, and, after giving his guide a fee, he comes down from the castle alone.

Bui it is no youth-of 18 who sees this modern Arlette, but a man at least eight years older, who has looked»upon many beautiful faces before .this. Why should tlus one attract him especially ? But it does interest him, and he means to See more of it, as Count Robert likewise resolved long before. But the Amestafch is quite as handsome as any jpediaw.al Co W Cftn .possibly have been, though, as his figure is rather under the heroes were men of commanding height. But the clear, olive complexion, dark hair and eyes and delicate mustache, sweeping up at the ends in long curves, Count Robert probably did not boast. More than one woman had looked at this young American with admiring eyes, and he knew very well that he was handsome—perhaps had at one time been a little VStuof the fact—but now, at 26, he merely,Adepts it as a piece of good fortune. Anyone looking at the firm curves of the mouth would see evidences.of abundant strength of purpose. Whether it would be exercised with any higher aims thin obtaining hi* own way was the question. He had al way s - had it without mucp trouble, and he wfts.not more selfish than most w&n. JR/'iP \ As the hilj/hia mind 14 full of thw pfetty face hp>has just seen. Arid, not ? He is taking life easily this summer. When he returns to America his work awaits him, into which he means to plunge in sober earnest ; but at present he is enjoying life, and has plenty of room for vagrant fancies in his mind. But it is a long distance down the hill to the washing sheds beside the Ante, and he is not familiar enough with the town to find the nearest way; so that, by the time he reaches the arch entrance, many of the women have gone, and among them Arlette. Those who remginglfcice slyly At him, pointment. He meant to have gone back to Oden the next day, but now he decides to remain in Falaise another day; in the hope of getting a nearer view of the pretty face he has seen from the castle window. And chance is favorable to him that very day, for, ing just at sunset through the Faubourg* St. Laurent, he sees Arlette standing at her father’s door. The young fellow, menially noting the nature of her father’s business, for Guy Lechasseur can be seen through the entrance busy at Bk, sawiiT 1 * s vfry llndWg,” Tfllre4nio Falaise.” J,

“Good evening, my pretty one,” says the stranger. “Can I see M. LechasffiHW toward jnd, the American explains that he would like to be measured fon> pgif walking shoes. “They must be very easy and comsays, “for I walk a ? reat ‘■Hub yes, Monsieur/ jßesponds the father of Arlette, “I know what you would hawe- Cgnje in, And it shall be done at Onoe. - 'Arlette, my child, thou •* The hoaeeb sheemaker is a little excited at this sudden order from a’ foreigner, and speaks hurriedly. “Arlette, my daughter, is more precise than I can" be with the measurehq>emajLgins to eyes than nfine,-vou must kndw. fl * Th&othnr smiled at this. He js jery <NIw i w ri irftif^ rran « em^M!and • ’little—fog jfis a new her to have aark eyes bent on ireMo as now—does as her father desires. “Remember, I am very particular,” says the young man, when she has nearly completed her task. “I should not like to be- badly fitted. Will it not be be«t to repeat the measure, so as to be sure?” u. -w* > “But yes, monsieur,” responds Guy, “it is best to be sure. Jt is very pleasant, this unlooked-for

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“Bonjour,” he says to Susette and the others. “Bonjour, ma petite,” says to Arlette in a low tone, as he takes up his cane, which had been left on the ground beside her, “Arlette will see me again,” and then he goes on his way beside the Ante. “Bonjour, monsieur,” scream the women after him when he is almost out ofjflghi; and at this he turns and wayes In hat. They will talk about the handsome foreigner beside the Ante for many a long day. By mid afternoon Arlette goes home, and soon afterward an errand for her father takes her away from the house for an hour. “Monsieur has been here,” says Guy, when she returns, “and he would have liked to say adieu to thee, for he was going away.” “Going away,” repeated Arlette faintly. "But yes. my daughter, there was news from America that caused him to go at once, he said to me. And he could not wait for the shoes, but paid me the money and told me to give them to some one who needed them. I wish him a good journey, for he has done well by me, and not every one would think to remember that he owed an old shoemaker like thy father, Arlette. America is over the sea, they tell me, and be can not yet behalf way to Vm,"

little incident, and the young man determines to enjoy it. Arlette, kneeling before him the better to do what she is About, ventures one shy glance at his face, but, finding him looking tenderly st her, bends down her head. Yet on no pretext can he prolong the situation but after Arlette is through he remains to talk with the girl and her father. “Falaise is very beautiful,” he says to Arlette, after Guy has returned to his work, and the girl, at her father’s request, goes with him a few steps to point out a nearer way to the Hotel de Normandie than the route by which he came. “Does monsieur really think so ?” is her response. “I am very glad, for monsieur must know that I love Falaise. ” *Yes, it is very beautiful,” he repeats ; “but I know what is much more beautiful still,” he adds;- and there is no mistaking his meaning, even if the little pressure he gives her hand had been omitted. “Monsieur must not say such things," she says, slowly, after a pause. “But I shall say such things, because they are true, my pretty one. Look at me, Arlette.” They are in a narrow lane by this time, where there is no one but themselves.

“Look at me, Arlette,” he said again. She does look at him, with her sweet, wondering face. In the gathering twilight he can yet see the soft curves of her lips and cheeks. He can not help it that he puts his arm about her; and it'is all so new, so strange to her, that she does not resist him. “Does Arlette know that she is very beautiful?” he says, gently, and then draws her closer to him. “I must go back, now,” she says, simply, and so he releases her. “Monsieur will find the way now, doubtless, if he will remember to take the next turn to the right,” she continues, when he has taken away his arm. “Yes,” he replies, “it will be very easy; and now this is for showing me the way,” and he puts a silver coin in her hand, ajpl then, moved by a sudden impulse, kisses her once, twice, and* She is not angry with him when she is alone once more. Something new and sweet has come into her life, and it has all been so sudden that she is bewildered a little. But she does not try to analyze her feelings. She knows only that this foreigner, who looks so fondly and speaks so tenderly, has told her that she is beautiful and has kissed her. And that is quite enough for Arlette now. She wonders, as she goes homeward, if Count Robert could have looked like this stranger. She thinks of him all that night, and on the morrow, and as she stands at her washingtank beside the Ante, she is thinking of him still. Foolish little Arlette 1 But what should one do when one is but 18, and has been kissed by the handsomest man one has ever seen? Surely one need not be very angry or try to forget. The morning is half gone when she sees him entering the archway to the washing-sheds, but he does not see her. She hears his voice in good-humored passing chat with the woman there. What if he should not see her. At last he comes out the shed toward the free tanks. Surely, he must see her now. But he stops for a word with Babette and Susette, with Dorothee and Gertrude before he comes to her.

“Ah, my pretty one,” he says carelessly, as if this were the first time he had seen her ; but a look in his face tells her that he remembers, and she understands why he spoke to all the women oh the way. He has a sketch-book with him, and now, as he leans against a post near her, he takes a pencil and sketches rapidly. Now and then he says a word to her, and the women near by look at him in the pauses of their work with shy, admiring glances. At last he holds up a paper. . “Would you like to see, my good friends?” he says to the women; and then Babette, Susette, Dorothee and Gertrude crowd about him and examine his drawing with voluble exclamations of delight. “There thou art, Dorothee, to the life,” says one. “And there is Susette,” says another; “and monsieur has drawn me, too, ” she adds in- great glee. “Would you like to show this to your friend under the shed ?” suggests the artist; and, this appearing to be exactly what they do wish, off go the four girls, not observing that Arlette does not accompany them. “See here, Arlette,” says the Ameriean wlirn. they are alone. He holds up another paper on which he has sketched Arlette just as she looked when he saw her .at her father’s door. “Am 'Mike that?” she says timidly, and blushing a little. “Only a thousand times prettier,” he gays jmpulsivejy; and then, while no ohaobserving them, he showers a doZen kisses on her face and neck. And what should Ariette do? Soon the women came back with the drawing. “They say,” said Dorothee, nodding her head in the direction of the sheds, monsjegr must make a picture of them.*' “Very veil,” says the young man, and i he goes back to the sheds. Ha is gone some time, but at last Arlette hears murmurs of delight from the sheds, and she knows that the draw-, ing is finished. Soon afterward he returns. 1

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concludes the old man, drawing out Jus waxed thread slowly. Is it really true that she shall see him no more ? This is the one thought that fills Arietta’s mind. lt is this that sends her supper less to bed. It is this that causes her to rise in the morning with eyes that are red with weeping, and that have not been closed in sleep the night through. Foolish little Arlette, to weep for one who will soon forget her! She does not go to her work that day, but a day later sees her back with the others, a little pale, but that is all the difference. ’ * * The summer goes and the autumn comes, and the red leaves float along the winding Ante. The women are still talking of the foreigner who came and sketched them all so wonderfully one day. The summer goes and the autumn comes, and the young American is back in his law office deep in his work and his future plans. He has not thought of Arlette since his return. His sketchbook lies on an upper shelf where he tossed it when first unpacking, and he has not thought to look at it since. A privileged friend comes into his office one morning, and, turning over o-e thing after another, lights upon the sketch-book, and taking it down begins to examine its contents. “By Jove!” he "exclaims, “that is a lovely face. Where did you come across so much beauty, old fellow ?” It is Arlette’s picture that the visitor is gazing at. The other turns to see what his old friend has, and suddenly there flashes over him the memory of those two days at Falaise. How sweet she was, that little girl beside the Ante!

“It is just a study, ” he replies, carelessly. “A study?" repeats his friend incredulously, and then the drawing is laid away with the others. But in replacing the volume the drawing falls unnoticed to the floor, face downward, and the office-boy, that evening seeing it lie there like a piece of waste-paper, tosses into the wastebasket, and liter it goes to the ragman with the other paper. And Arlette is still beside the Ante. She never thinks now of the one she met at the fair in the Faubourg of Guibray, but always of him who came so suddenly into her life, with his handsome face and his tender words, and who went out of her life so suddenly. Only two days I But the sweet pain of those two days will linger a whole lifetime in one tender little heart beside the Ante. What if she should once more see him there by the archway! And she looks often that way with a vague hope. The Arlette of eight centuries ago was happy in her Count Robert, who loved her. There are no Counts Robert now, and Arlette is still at her work beside the Ante, and the slow seasons come and go, and life is long and remembered kisses sweet. Foolish little Arlette I- 2 The Continent

Messages from the President and other matters of great importance are usually referred to a committee of the whole House, where general principles are digested in the form of resolutions, which are debated and amended until they get into a shape that meets the approbation of a majority. These resolutions, after being reported and confirmed by the House, are then referred to one or more select committees, where they are reduced into the form of bills or joint resolutions. It is found that the sense of the House is better learned in committee, because in all committees every one speaks as often as he pleases. No gag law can be applied in committee by moving the previous question. The form for going from the House into the committee of the whole is for the Speaker, on motion, to put the question that the House do now resolve itself into a committee of the whole to take into consideration such a matter, naming it; to which the deliberations of the committee must be confined. If determined in the affirmative, he leaves the chair and takes a seat elsewhere, as any other member, and the person appointed Chairman seats himself at the Clerk’s table. The Speaker usually appoints a Chairman, but the committee has full power to set him aside and select its own Chairman. In case of the committee’s getting into violent disorder the Speaker, who is clothed with authority to call in the Sergeant-at-arms, if necessary, to enforce order, may take his chair, and at the tap of his gavel every member is required to take his proper seat, snch action having the effect to dissolve the committee. Cases of this kind are rare. Usually when the committee is ready to rise the Chairman rises, the Speaker Immediately resuming the chair; if the business is unfinished, the Chairman of the committee reports progress and asks permission for the committee to sit again, which the House may or may hot consent to. If the business is finished the Chairman tenders his report.— Chicago Inter Ocean.

Home life is the sure test of character. Let a husband be cross and surly, and the wife grows cold and unamiable. The children grow up saucy and savage as young bears. The father becomes callous, peevish and hard. The wife bristles in self-defense. They develop an unnatural growth and sharpness of teeth, and the house is haunted by ugliness and domestic brawls. This is not what the family circle should be. If rude to any, let it be to some one he does not love—not to wife, brother or parent. Let one of the loved ones be taken away, and memory recalls a thousand sayings to regret. Death quickens recollection painfully. The grave cannot hide the white faces of those who sleep. The coffin and green ground are cruel magnets. They draw us further than we would go.; They force us to remember. * A man never sees so far into human life as when he looks over a wife’s or a mother’s grave. His eyes get wondrous clear then, andhe sees as never before what it is to love and be loved; what it is to injure the feelings of the loved. It is a pitiable picture of human weakness when those we love best are treated worst.

The albatross, with its weight of twenty-eight pounds, its wings thirteen feet from tip to tip, has the ability to keep in motion for a whole day. 'We have in this bird a machine burning concentrated fuel in a large grate at a tremendous rate, and developing a very large power in a ygry small space There is no engine in existence which, weight for weight, gives out anything like the mechanical power exhibited by the albatross,-— J)r, Footed Health

Committee of the Whole.

Character in the Family Circle.

A Remarkable Bird.

The Fate of an Ancient Weather Prophet.

There’was A weather-prophesying impostor in Queen Anfie’s time, known as Partridge, the almanac maker. Partridge started in life as a shoemaker, but he soon left that for the more profitable and less Laborious pursuits of quack, prophet and humbug generally. His pretensions imposed on credulous people, and his almanacs were bought by the thousands. To show what sorry quacks Wiggins and Vennor are, notwithstanding the lapse of two centuries, during which the art of humbugging has been developed immensely, they have not improved in the least on Partridge’s system. He, just as they, foretold storms in March and December, showers in April, hot weather in August and frosts in November, and made as loud boasts as if a hit was made. Swift became disgusted at Partridge’s pretensions, and determined to put him down; Walking around London one day; he noticed over a smith’s shop the sign, “Isaac Bickerstaff.” It struck his fancy, and he stored it in his memory for future use. In January, 1708, Partridge came out with his almanac as usual. A few weeks afterward London waa astonished by the publication of a small sheet which purported to contain the predictions of Isaac Bickerstaff, astrologer. It made a profound sensation, and the sale was great. Instead of the vague and indefinite hints at futurity which Partridge’s almanac contained, it foretold foreign and domestic events with the greatest particularity, giving even the hour of the day when the deaths of famous men, great defeats and Victories should occur. But one statement created the most talk, for at 11 o’clock on the 29th of March it was predicted that Partridge, the almanac maker would die. Partridge himself stoutly denied its truth, but it was of no use. Qn the 30th of March another pamphlet came out giving a circumstantial account of his death after a sincere repentance of his sins and a confession of the worthlessness of his almanac.. Everybody believed he was dead, and Partridge was never able to convince the public that he was still alive. It, broke up his business, and in a few years he really did die. It is a pity that the dean isn’t still on earth to deal with Vennor and Wiggins. A good dose of ridicule.js probably the most effective weapon which can be used against them, and the dean was a master of the art.

Books in Plenty the Death of Conversation.

We are deluged with books that are born and fret their hour upon the counter and then are heard no more. B^Sks—hot account books, but books of no account. Books catalogued in the commonplace. Every one takes his turn at a novel or a drama, and society is the loser by it; for what might pass current in a spontaneous way for cleverness, when saved up and dealt out in ‘book-formula, loses ground and proves itselfnot worth the saving. People are niggardly of being bright, clever and witty in society because they are saving up for the coming book that shall surely yet be written, and that every one is supposed to be writing. All the bon mots are carefully tucked away, nothing is given out of itself. Every story has a price in the book market, and the vapid consequence of all this is that in general society conversation has ceased to exist. People no longer meet to converse. Life is too absorbing. Quiet groups in pleasant parlors have passed away. A larger scale of entertainment interrupts all this. Parties are of the past —“receptions” are the only wear—very crushy, very rapid, very, very much all alike, unless a deliberate stand is taken by tome wearied soul and a forin of entertainment is fixed upon, and in such case one is invited to be the privileged guest at the unfolding of the statue of —i. e., Mr. ’s MS., twenty foolscap pages, read by the author; or, it may be, Mrs. ’s blank verse, or somebody will strain forth Browning. Society has little spontaneity since the whole world turned author, and publishers have taken from it what they cannot pay back. —Boston Transcript.

Quakers of Long Ago.

A record book of monthly meetings held by Virginia Friends of Henrico county from 1699—0n1y eight years after the death of George Fox, the founder of the society—to 1759, now owned in Richmond, contains many interesting entries. It began with a report of a business meeting held to raise money for putting up a house to worship in, and at which it was ordered that of the tobacco crop raised that year, 5,050 pounds should be assessed on the members and paid over tn the builders. The structure was to be “30 foot 6 long and 20 foot wide;” and .at another meeting an assessment of 1,700 pounds of tobacco was.made to pay the expenses pt ceiling tliis meeting-house with'riven boards and making and hanging the doors. No record is made of the spot where the house stood, and every trace of it has disappeared. The clerk in whose hand the first records are written was Joseph Pleasants, believed to be a son of John Pleasants, who came from England and settled under a grant from the King in 1666. A portion of the grant is still in the possession of a member of the family, who now lives on it, and it has been owned continuously by the Pleasants for 214 years. The record book contains no instances of litigation, all disputes having been decided by arbitration. When the differences arose they were laid before the monthly meeting, which named a committee of “discreet men” who acted as a referred court, to which the case was taken for argument and decision. In no case mentioned in the book did their verd ct fail to obtain agreement from both parties to the dispute.

Grant on Lincoln.

After my coming to the East I saw a great deal of him. He seemed to love to spend his time with the Army of the Potomac, and was always at my headquarters when possible, and I never heard him talk seriously about any- ' thing that he did not illustrate the strong point he wanted to make by an anecdote, always appropriate, always clear, always such that might be repeated here or in any society. It is my firm conviction many of the anecdotes attributed to Mr. Lincoln were never utterediby him. All that I ever heard were -illustrative of the point he wanted to make clear, and I am told that this was/his course at the bar as a lawyer. When he wanted to make a strong point he illustrated it by an anecdote. " Inexhaustible good nature is the most precious gift of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather,

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The revenue collections for Indianapolis for the month of April amounted to <79,550.41 The Encampment Executive Committee have determined to offer >5,100 in prizes for the coming prize drilia The G. A. R. will give a huge picnic on Jhly 4 at Peru, and roast oxen, sheep and hog 3 will be on the bill of fare. A hol’ness convention will be held at New Albany, at Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church, beginning May 22. A horseman of Madison, while cleaning an animal the other day. was suddenly lifted up and shaken like a rat by the horse, who grabbed him with his testh in the small of his back. United States Senator Vest, of Missouri, is an own cousin to John and Henry Vest, employes of the Bauer Cooperage Company, at Lawrenceburg. He w s formerly a farmer in Virginia He years ago took Greeley’s advice, and has now risen to wealth and fame. Adjt. Gen. Carnahan, commandant of the Grand Divi ion uniform rank Knights of Pythias, has issued General Order Na 1 announcing that the first State Encampment will be held at Terre Haute, July 2 to 5, inclusive. A number of large pr zjs wiil be offered for the beet drilled. The ground upon which Lawrencebu g stands was given by the United States Government to Capt Samuel Vance and Cob Benjamin Chambers in consideration for their service in the Revolutionary war. In 18C4 the town was laid out, and in 1105 the first house was built of timbers brought from Cincinnati A number of citizens of Fort Wayne have interested themselves in es tabliihlng an astronomical observatory. Several meetings nave already been held, and the subject matter considered in so far as to digest plans and prepare articles of association, and also to draft a constitution and by-laws for the same. Several colored men surrounded the house of Judge Elliott on the out klrts of Indianapolis at 11 o’clock the other night, rang the door bell, and handed Mrs. Elliott a wellwritten note, warning her husband, unless he handed over his money and jewels, he would he shot dead by the gang from the window. While the lady read a’oud, the General, who is a cripple, saw a dr awn revolver covering him. Instead of complying, he hobbled to the window to smash the glass and attract attention. Mrs. Elliott from an open window screamed fcr help until answered by a neighbor that he would come as soon as he could dress. The gang below threatened to shoot unless she kepi quiet, until hurrying footsteps warned them to retreat from the grounds. The General for years could not walk without crutches, but in his excitement he flourished his cane And hopped about the room with great agiliiy.

The following are the conditions upon whlh the proposed endowment of Ashbury University, Greencastle, is to be completed: Fir it—The citizens of Gr. encastle are to enlarge the pi esent campus so that the grounds of the university will embrace about thirty-five acres in the heart of the city of Greencastle—to do which will cost probably $50,0(0 or more Second—The friends of the university are ti subscribe $150,003 to Increase the endowment, so that the university as now organized may have all its expenses met without the usual annual deficit, and after Aug. 1, 1883, the friends of the university are to pay $10,500 annually to meet current expenses, Jess the amount which may be received as interest from the above $150,000. When these conditions are complied with Mr. DuPauw will First—Give a like sum of $150,000, paying in dollar for dollar as the subscribers do, and also providing for the same amount of in erest annua ly for current expenses. Second— He will pay $50,000 to be used in the endowment of a chair of theology, and in the purcbase of grounds for the university additional to those now owned by the institution or to be added by the citizens of Greencastle. Third—He will contribute SIOO,OOO, to be expended in the erection of dormitories, gymnasium, law-school building and various edifices needed-by the university. Fourth— He wi 1 make the university his legatee to the extent of 45 per cent of his personal and real estate, with the exception of certain properties not publicly specified. The following are the dates, etc., of the Indiana fairs to be held in the fall

Allen county—Northern Indiana—Fort Wayne, Sspt. 10 to 15. Bartholomew county—Columbus, Aug. 27 to Sept. 1, Blackford county—Hartford City, Sept. 18 to 21. Boone county—Lebanon, Aug. 20 to 24. Cass county—Logansport, Sept. 18 to 22. Clinton county—Frankfort, Aug. 27 to Sept. 1. Dearborn county Lawrenceburg, Aug. 21 to 25. Decatur county—Greensburg, Aug. 21 to 25. Elkhart county—Goauen, Oct. 9 to 12. Fayette county—Connersville, Sept. 18 to 21. Fulton county—Rochester, Oct. 3 to 6. Gibson county—Princeton, Sept. 17 to 22. Grant county—Marion, Sept. 4 to 7. Greene county—Linton, Oct. 2 to 5. Hamilton county—Noblesville, Aug. 27 to 31. Harr.fon county—Corydon, Sept. 3 to 7. Henry county—New Castl ?, Sept. 18 to 22. Howard county—Kokomo, Sept. 4 to 8. Huntington county—Huntington, Sept. 18 to 21. Jackson county—Brownstown, Sept. 10 to 14. Jasper county—Renssela .r, Sept. 11 to 13. Jay county—Portland, Oct. 2 to 5. Jennings county—North Vernon, Aug. 7 to 10. Knox county—Vincennes. Oct. 8 to 13. Kosciusko county—Warsaw, Sept. 18 to 21. LaGrange county—LaGrange, Sept. 26 to 29. Lake county—Crown Point, Oct. 2 to 5. LaPorte county—LaPorte, Sept. 18 to 21. Madison county—Anderson, B~pt. 4 to 7. Marshall county—Plymouth, Sept. 25 to 28. Montgomery county—Crawfordsville, Sept. 10 to 15. Newton county—Morocco, Sept. 4 to 7. Noble county—Ligonier, Oct. 17 to 20. Orange county— Paoli, Sept. I'J to 22. Parke county—Rockville, Aug. 20 to 26. Pike county—Petersburg, Sept. 3 to 7. Porter county—Valparaiso, Sept. 25 to 28. Posey county—New Harmony, Sept. 11 to 14. Pulaski county—Winamac, Sept. 25 to 28. Randolph county—Winchester, Sept. 11 to 14. Ripley county—Osgood, Aug. 14 to 17. Rush county—Rushville, Sept. 11 to 14. St. Joseph county—South Bend, Oct. 1 to 5. Shelby county—Shelbyville, Sept. 4 to & Steuben county —Angola, Oct. 9 to 12. Switzerland county—East Enterprise, Sept. 11 to 14. Tippecanoe county—Lafayette, Sept. 3 to 8. Tipt n county—Tipton. Sept. 18 to 21. Vigo county—Terre Haute, Sept. 3 to 8. Wabash county—Wata h, Sipfc 11 to 14. Wa ren county—West Lei anon, Sept. 11 to 14. M amok county—Booneville. Oct. 1 to 6. Wasuingtcn county—;a em, hept. 17 to 21. tv ells county—B un ton, Sept. 4to 7. Whitley county—Columbia City, Oct. 2 to 5. Bridgeton ,Union —Bridgeton, Park county, Aug. 27 to Sept. 1. Cambridge City—Cambridge City, Wayne county, Sept. 4 1 o 7. * Dunkirk Union Fair Association—Dunkirk, Jay county, Sept. 4 to 7. Edinburg Union —Edinburg, Bartholomew coun y, Sept. 18 to 22. Fountain, Warren and Vermillion—Covington, Foun ain coun y, Sept. 18 to 21. Henry, Madison and Delaware Agricultural Association—Middleton, Henry county, Aug. 21 to 24. Knightstown—Knightstown, Henry county, Aug. 28 to 31. , ‘ Lawrcnco District Fair—Lawrence, Marion county, Sept. 11 to 15. Loogootee Agricultural—Loogootee, Martin county, Sep". 11 to 15. New Rosa Agricultural—New Ross, Montgomery county, Aug. 13 to 17. Northeastern Indiana Agricultural SocietyWat rioo, DeKalb county, Oct. 1 io 5. Orleans Agricultural' Association— Orleans, Orange county, Sept. 26 to 2.1. Plainfield Horticultorsl and Agricultural Association —Plainfield, Hendricks < ounty, Oct. 13. Union Agricultural and Mechanical Association—Union City, Randolph county, Sept. 18 to Wayne, Henry and Randolph—Dalton, Wayne county, Sej t 4 to 7. I Xenia Union Agricultural and HorticulturalXenia, Miami county, Aug. 28 to Sept. 1. '

NUMBER 16.

PROSPECTS OF WHEAT.

Report of the National Agricultural Bureau—The Outlook Not Bright The Acreage and Yield Below the Avererage, and the Crop 77,000,000 Bushels Less Than Last Year’*. The May return; of wheat to the Department of Agriculture at Wa hington make the condition, compared with the April averages, materially lower in New York, Michigan, Ohio and ILinoia Further injury was wrought by floats early in April, and in the Northern districts the real damage by the March freezing was more fully disclosed as the covering of (•now and ice disappeared. The average is 77 f<r New York; Micuigan 83, Ohio 52, Illinois 66. Further loss is suffered by plowing up large areas in Ohl i and Illino.s. A reduction in Missouri from 83 to 80 is also i eported. In Indiana the average is 75, and New Jer-ey reports 101, both the same as in AjriL All the remaining Northern States show an improvement since the Arril report, as well as the Pacific coast, ana nearly all the Southern S.ates. These averages were: Connecticut 96 Mississippi. 92 Pennsylvania. 96 Tex sB7 Delaware.Bs Arkansasß6 Maryland 99 Tennesseeßß Virginia 97 West Virginia9o North Carolina 96 Kentuckyßl South Carolina 93 Kansas9l Georgia 97 Calitomia77 Al batna9B Oregon 72 This is an improvement of 15 points in California and 17 in Oregon. The average condit.on of winter wheat is 83%, again* t 80 in April. The Joss in area from" reblant ng in other crops maybe assumed to red tee the prospect to that of April 1, m 1879 and 1880 the'general average was 99; in 1881 it was 88; in 1882,102, and in May, of last rear, 100. In former years there were no May returns. Two years ago the ave; age declined to 8U in July. Last year it increased to 104 at the time of cutting. It should be under food that, in the department repoit. of the condition, 100 means a medium growth with full standand healthy plant. The Ohio and Illinois State reports compare with last year's crop thus: Ohio reports 56 for May compared with last year, and 61 compared with average crop. The spring wheat area will not be complete till May 15, and will be repor ed June 1. The statistical agent for Dakota makes the probable increase 30 per cent. The agent for M.nnetota reported 86 per cent, of last year’s area already planted. An increase of 15 per cent, is reported in Washington Territory. It is riot probable that the increase in the spring wheat area will more that make good the loss of the winter wheat acreage. Without regard to the spring wheat breadth, the present prospect for the winter wheat area, in consideration of the reduced condition and acreage, is 20 per cent, less than in May Jast, representing a loss of about 77,000,0ut) bushals. THE CROP ABROAD. A disp tch from the London statistical agent, under da e of Apiil 28, reports an improvement In European wheat prospects during the last month. The severity Of March was followed by three weeks of dry weather, which was succeeded by one week of invigorating rain. The season is still backward, and higher temperature is needed. The small area of spring-sown wheat in England is thin, and much of it will be displaced by barley. In France and Germany rain is needed, and high temperature necessary. With a reduced acreage in Western Europe, and tome Injury from freezing in Maicn, a reduced crop appears inevitable. In Austrla-Hunga y the prospect is favorable for at least a me 1 ’ un crop. COTTON. Returns of the progress of cotton-planting show the work is later than usual in every State, and indicate that, on May 1, 74 per cent, of the proposed area was planted, when the usual proportion is said to be 84 per cent. In Virginia and North Carolina it was very late. The percentages were: Virginials’MissiPsippiß2 North Carolina3> Louisianaßl South Carolina 75 | Texas 76 Georgia 73 Arkansas 72 Floridaf6 Tennessee 67 Alabama .88)

OUR MENAGERIE.

A noted “dude” has died in Philadelphia. He was a baboon in the Zoological Garden. His postures and gait were exactly like the current American imitation of the London swell’s, and he showed just about enough Intelligence to complete the likeness. Camilla (Ga.) Clarion: A young lady passenger on the railroad the other morning had as pets two live chamelion lizards One was fattened by a ribbon to her shawl-pin, and rested on her bosom and shoulder. The qther the held on the back of her hand. When these die the boys propose to give her a gopher. Be it said sire was not a Georgia girl Georgia girls have good sense. Newman (Ga) Herald: Mr. John B. Goodwyn brought to our office some black duokeggs. Careless of George Washington’s hatchet-lesson, he asserts that his ducks have been in the habit of laying colored eggs for several years; some of them are biack, some drab and some pale blue. The ducks have not yet attained to perfection In the coloring art, as the colors are easily rubbed off. In Paducah, Ky.. the other day, two sparrows got into a light and tried to drown each other in a stream flowing down a street gutter. After a long and desperate struggle one got the other’s .head under and kepi it there until life was extinct A large number of birds gathered around the victor and chattered to it as it sat on a limb rearranging- its toilet The fight was witnessed by more than one hundred people. We have In Cartersville, Ga (says a correspondent), a cow who lost her calf some mouths since, and it seems that she does not like the Idea of being childless, consequently she has, unfortunately for her owner, taken under her wing of adoption an animal in the shape of a gott rged 6 months, ra sed up motherless, and from appearances it seems tnat tte cow Is in full sympathy with the poor little motherless goat, and permits it to follow her around and par.ake of the lacteal fluid fresh from the teats. She caresses it by licking it with her tongue with as much care and tenderness as if it were her own, and one of the most prominent features about the goat is, that if any one try to separate it from its adopted mother it will bleat as if it were crying after its mother. Charlotte (N. C.) Observer: Jake Barringer, a tenant who was plowing on Mr. John Wadsworth’s farm recently, turned up with the plow share one of those curiosities—a jointed snake. The reptile was about a yard n length and was nut together in four sectiona The darky did not know what sort of a snake it was when it first turned up, and hit it with a stick to kill it At the first blow the snake fell all to pieces, the head going one wav and the tail part another and the two body pieces jumped off in different directiona The amazed darky resumed Lis plowing, went to the end of the furrow, and on his return was surprised to see the snake all together again except the tailpiece, and, watching a few minutes, saw the tail coming up to join the body, taking sharp, quick little jerks. It came nearer and nearer until within a few inches of the three-fourths snak \ when it gave a sudden jump and hitened on in its pro* er j lace, with a tms resembling the pepr ing of a cap. The darky knocked it to jloces several times, and ea sh time it cametoge heraga n. He carried his amusement a lit le too far, however, in throwing tine tad i art of the snake a ro‘s the cre< k.-just to s e, as he ea d, “how 1 ng it would take it to catch up " but it never caught up. The make wit. its three joints was earned to the house, and the tail Is no doult still going about the woods hum. ng for a snake to hitch onto.

SINGULAR ACCIDENTS.

Samuel Cuslett. of Amsterdam, N. 1., broke his leg by letting a stone fall upon it, then 114 nose began to bleed, and he died from loss of blood. While p’aying In front of a fire-place with a dog, little Ne lie Burton, of Hushvi le, Ind., lest her balance fell backward, and was litl erally roasted alive. A son of Benjam’n Justice, of Hawk’s Bridge, N. J., 12 years of age, first lost his feet, then his life, by keeping tightly strapped skates on his feet several houra Two young women at tin birthday partv of Jesse Taylor, Findlay, Ohio, moved hij chair from under him as he attemj ted to take a seat them. Jesse fell gnd brokers peek,

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TIMOTHY KELLY.

Upon Third Trial He Is Found Guilty of Murder. Sentenced to Harg June 9—Hla Protestations of Innocence. The British Government finally succeeded in obtaining a Jury that would convict in the case of Timothy Kelly, one of those accused of ths Phoenix Park assassinations, who, upon his third trial (the juries having twice disagreed), was convicted and sentenced to be hanged June U. The jury deliberated one hour. Being removed, Kelly exclaimed: "I am innocent. Thank you, my Lord." He thanked his counsel fortheir exertions in his behalf, and hoped they might live long to defend the innocent. On the first trial of Kelly, one juror is said to have refused to agree upon a verdict of guilty out of pity for the youth of the prisoner, while ten, If not eleven, of the jurors were satisfied of his guilt The defense was an alibi, not very well sustained, but growing stronger on the second trial, when new testimony favorable to the prisoher was introduced. There was, of course, the evidence of the approvers, who weie the chief witnesses again-t Kelly, as they had been against Braay and Curley. The evidence of Carey, Farrell and Kavanagh . clearly placed Kelly with Brady and Curley as one of the men in the group in the park, and one of the four who were dihen uwryou Kavanagh’s cur. The pri oner’s counsel made a very am ong appeal to the jury on the chaiactt r < f the witnesses by who e evidence “the boy in the dock” was to be c< ndemned; but there was no Important point in which their testimony was not confirmed bv indoj en lent evidence In the first tr.al Kellv was iden itied by George Huxley, the English gardener of Mr. E. 0. Guinness, who had seen and noticed him among the group by whom the murders were comm tted, ana his evidence remained unchuken. Mr. Brown, Kelly’s employer, who gave him an excel ent cha. acter, p oved that he was absent from his work on the stn and i th of May except for the first quarter of each day. A hatter named Geoige Mottley saw Kely minding Kavanagh’s car-, as Kavanagh had slated, and had seen him cn Kavanagh’s car a second time on the 15th of May. On ths other hand, Mr. Glynn, the bull <’er, was called, as he had been on all the former cccaslons, to piove tat ha saw Carey siting on the seat in the position Oarey had himself detc ibed. This confirmation of Careys sta ement ife gave as before, but it was elicited, in cross-exam-ination, that he knew Kelly, and then asked if he saw Kelly on the ground Mr. Glynn answered “No,” but when pushed by the counsel for the crown, admitted that he had said on a former occas on that ha had not taken particular notice of the four men, of whom, according to the theory of the proseo it'on and the testimony of other witnes: es, Kelly waspne. It will be remembered that, nf.ee the second failure to convict Kelly, Del nt y and Caffrey p eaded guilty, and "1 e'i nay (who Tuesday had h s sentence commuted to imprisonment for life) oeclr rid that the informer Oafey had told the truth. Of course this fact was got before the jury whieh tried Kelly for the third time, ana this sufficed to secure a conviction.

HERNDON CONDEMNED.

Ths Little Book and Fort Smith Train Bobbery of Last March. One of the Men Who Killed Conductor Caln Found Guilty of Murder. A Clarksville (Ark.) dispatch says the jury in the care of Jim Herndon, one of the Little Rock and Fort Smith railway train robbers who murdered Conductor John C.dn, leturned a verdict of in rder in the first degree after be ng out thiitv minutes. The crime for which Herndon has bean convicted was committed March 8 lain, Herndon, with his fe.low miscreants, being soon after jailed in Ozaik, Aik. March 21 the Johnson brothers confessed their complicity in the attack on the train. It was the understanding that the train was to bo captured and the pa sengers robbed. Their intention was not to kill any one except in self-defense. The shooting of Conductor Cain was done under excitement, and was entirely unnecessary. A mon named McDonald was at the head of the gang. Herndon fired the shot that killed Conductor Caln. He then went to McL'o: aid to stop the shooting, but McDonald shot at him, supposing he was a passenger. Jim 1 eturned the fire, snooting his leader in the face. One of the Johnson brothers, known as the “Governor," served In the I nl ed army during the war of the Rebellion, and is now drawing a Government pension.

THE CZAR.

Magnificent Preparations for the Coronation Ceremonies. The cornatlon of the Czar, Alexander HL, will, it is thought, be the grandest and most magnificent ceremony of this kind of the present century. Beside the festivities in the Kremlin, the great fetes for the people will be one of the most interesting j.aits of the coronation programme. The enormous Chodynski plains are now the t cene of the most busy propargtiona Booths tents, barracks, and all other components of a gri at Rusfcian fair are being erected, with itands for the spectators, and an imperial pavilion opposite to the I’eti off sky Paia e, from which the Czar and the court can survey the entire field and the j opulace ut their amusementa At least 4 Ojlunsno s will be present. Drink ai d food for the people will be distribu el from l-Odecoratud lailwiy baggage cats, tiunsfoimed into temporary bars and drawn up in one long row. Every guest will receive an earthenware jug, stamped w th the imperial eag.e and the date of the coronation, with which he can call for his beer and mead. The Masslennikoff factory at Mos ow has furnished 600,000 of tne«e jugs in dir erent sizes and co ora Furthermore, every person will receive two meat pies, candles, dried fruits and cakea

FUNNY THINGS.

•Take Notice” lathe name of a new mining! town in Nevada. Baba Bernhardt committed suicide the other day near Dublin, Ga. Mil Drinkwateb happens to be the name of a Massachusetts ale-brewer. Zachabiah Taylor has been sent to jail at Syracuse, N. Y., for theft. Lains Bible and his wife Sarah Testament live in Crittenden county, Ky. An Indiana farmer has christened a calf with two mouths “O'Donovan lljssa.” The village of “Tight Squeeze,” Ga, is to be known hereafter as Nor. h At anta. Boone county, Mo., has a ci lien named Old, whose nearest neighbor is naiqpd Young. At Rockvford Mr. Graves lives a few doors above Mr. Gay. Geobge Washington is lecturing in Somerset county, N. J, David Davis te u les school at Middle Valley, in the same county, and Cornelius Vanderbilt work* in a mine near by. George Washington was a witness" bes re a Baltimore court last week; he was also discharged from ihe Botetourt (Va.) jail oh the 2nd met. after having terv<-d a term of twenty yearn

BRIEFS.

A man in Alexandria, Va., has been finsd s2j for cutting oft a cat’s ta 1 It costs $ A) a day to maintain a pest-house at Phoenix, Arizona. . A Cincinnati firm is making a *10,090 bar tor a Texas saloon. Charlotte, N. 0., pays par thousand feet for its gaa . .. •* A frog-shaped young negro, aged 13, is being eihbited at Lynchburg. Va ( < Work mules are being ki.led by, buffalo gnats in Morehouss parish, Louisiana. , Sweet potatoes are selling in Farmervtjle, Tenn., at 50 cents yer bvshel’ Nazareth has just had a to'egraph oflica, (he first opened in the Holy Land.