Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 1874 — Page 5

HOW PEIWlMMON'H TOOK , X ' i .BABY

ail OB DER ;T . vr v (t Nicholas for May. ' Persimmons wa a olored ladI i I 'WaydownlnLousianny. l(. .-..,. And all tbeteacbing tnat he had ' Wm given him by tola granny, t . , But he did hit duty ever . : , . ' At well as you, H may be; Wim fa'thfulneaa ami pride always, vHe minded missus' baby. He loved the counsel of the saints. And, sometimes, ;hos of sinners, To ran off'possuin-buntlng and. Steal "water-mlllon" dinners. And fervently at meet In', too, , u; . . On every Sunday night, He'd with tbe elders üout and pray .By the pine-knota flaring light, l J And sing their rudest melodies, Wllh voice so full and strong, J You coold almost think he learned them From the angels' triumph song. . . . , . - . :h ' ' ' ' . , BO' , - . , : . t ' We be nearer to de Lord ' ' . - ' Danue white folk and dey knows It, icede glory-guie unbarred, -, Walk In. darkle. pas de guard. Bet yon dollar He wont close it. -Walk in, darkles, troo de gate, Hear de kullered angels hollers Jo 'way, white Mks, you're too late, We'sthe winnin'kuller. Wait Till de trampet blow to roller. lie would croon this over softly As he lay out in the sun; But the song he heard most orten, , . ills granny's favorlteone, Vas,".T a wge Washington, ThomM JetferHon, Persimmons, Heory Clay, be Quick, shut de do', i Get up otT dat no', .. Come neah and mind de baby. One night there came a fearful storm, Almost a second flood ; The river rose, a torrent swoln Of beaten, yellow mud. It bit at its embankments. And lapped them down In foam, Till, surging through a wide crevasse, ; The waves seethed round their home. They scaled the high verandah, They filled the parlors clear, "Till floating chairs and tables Clashed against the chandelier. Twas then Persimmons' granny, . . Stout of arm and terror-proof, Jy means of axe and lever, Pried up the verandah roof; Bound mattrasses upon it With stoutest cords of rope, ' lilted out her fainting mistress. Haying, -Honey, dar is hope! You, Jawge Washington, '. ' Thomas Jefferson, Persimmons, Henry Clay, be tuick on dat raft, lKn't star' like a calf, But take good cab. ub baby f The frothing rtver lifted them ontonitrtiurbld tide, And for awhile they floated on Together, side by side; Till, broken by the current strong, The frail raftsnapt in two, .And Persimmons Mir his granny Past fading from his view. The deck-hands on a steamboat Heard, as they psissed in haste, A child's voice singing in the dark, Upon the water's waste, A nonsi of faith and triumph, Of Mose and the Lord ; And throwing out a coil of rope, They drew him safe on board. Full manv a stranger city Persimmons wandered through, A-totln of the baby," and (Singing songs he knew. At lengtn some City Fathers Objected to his plan, Arresting as a vagrant Our valiant little man. They carried out their purposes, Persimmons"'lowed he'd spile 'em," So, sloping from the station-house, He stole baby from the 'sylum. And on that very afternoon, As It was growing dark, He sang, beside the fountain In The crowded city park, A rude camp-meeting anthem, Which he had sung before. While on his granny's fragile raft lie drilled far from shore: SONG. "Moses smote de water, and Ie sea jribe away; De chillt-ren dey passed ober, for I)e aea iabe away. O Lord 1 J feel so glad. It am always dark 'fo' day, So, honey, don't ye be sad, Ie sea'il gib away." A lady, dressed In mourning, Turned with a sudden start, liave one glance at de baby. Then caught it to her heart ; While a substantial shadow, That was walking by her side. Seized Persimmons by the shoulder. And. while she shook him, cried: You, Jawge Washington, Thomas Jeflerxon, Persimmons, Henry Clay, be Quick, splain yerself, chile, fctop dat ar fool smile, Wear yon done been wld baby ?" NEWS AND GOSSIP. Hrlgnoli is singing in Paris. John Brougham is improving. Mis Kellogg will build a house in Washington. There is a rumor that Bret Härtels in danger of loss of sight. Mr. Gladstone's expenses at the recent English election amounted to $6,615. The annual meeting of the National Acad, emy of Science is in session in Washington. Virginia pays 1 19,000,000 per annum for whiäky, but cannot meet the annual inter--est on her debt. Mr. Swinburne ha completed his tragedy 'Bothwell." It will exceed in length the limits of a stage piece. Germany hxs now 50,000 Old Catholics, organized into 92 socio )ies, which are ministered to by 31 priests. In 1S73, 140 members were added to the society of Jesu (Jesuits), making the total number of members of the socity 9,102. . Two books on "The Women's Temperance Movement" are already out. They will, of course, have only a temperance demand and sale. The signal station3 in the United States row number 38, This calculation does not include many signals of distress throughout the country. The Liberal Christian asks: How many of the prayers which are now made would be made if there was nobody but God to bear them? Mr. Julian Hawthorne will shortly publish a novel entitled M Idolatry." It will probably have something to say about that idolized being." , Vice President Wilson presided at the Ssmner memorial meeting at Howard University, Washington, and President Langston delivered the address. Mr. Winans, the wealthy Baltimorean, Jias taken a lease of Mr. Gladstone's houe, which is said to b6 the most handsomely famished establishment in London. A daughter.of General J ubal JEarly, of the confederate army, now " thinks of it." Her thoughts turn toward a youug naval officer. rShe evidently believes" that " the early bird," etc . '. Mrs. Sarah F. Ames, the widow of Joseph Ames, the artit, and herself a sculptor of no ordinary merit, proposes to make an early appearance on the stage in the character of Lady Macbeth. Mr. Horace White of the Chicago Tribune, Mr. Murat Halstead of the Cincinnati Commercial, and Mr. Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier-Journal, are on their way to Boston on a pleasure trip. Admiral Tucker, who was sent out by Colonel Prado to explore the Peruvian branches of the Amazon, baa finished, the

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the valuable data he das couecte aanug vu exploration.. ;,. y ' .'. , f.-j , . ? i ,: j Senator Jones Bays the present income 01 his min is 1125,000 month. , lie iiveein Stanton's mansion, v and - keeps bachelors hall. Personally ha is wna, brown eye and gray nair B13 fP I easy and somewhat blanu. '" ' ; Trom' lSC6 to the present date, 169 resN dents ot Cincinnati have committed suicide. Of this number 102 were Germans ; 51 Americans; 7 Irian and 11 belonged to various nationalities, the majorities beinsr, Bohemians Danes and Swiss. ', Reverend Stephen II. Tyng, junior, con tinues to preach on Sundaj evenings to large and increasing audiences at Cooper Institute, New York, lie neither wears the gown nor uses the prayer-book, and no person- would suspect . from his manner his Episcopal church relations. The singing is congregational,and the sermons are extempore, spirI itual, practical and earnestly impressive. I , i" irrfn T-.TOTFUT-CJO TXT VTr'TTOVQ THK AMOCST OF SCFTERINO OIVEX IN TM- ., .. .... BE RS. I i J Nkw Orlklns, April 23.Captain Blanks, in a letter to a member of the relief committee, says: "I have just returned with the Onaehita Belle from Camden, Trenton and Monroe, through the overflowed districts ef North Louisiana, ana saw vna enons have been, and are being, made to relieve the suffering occasioned by the overflow. , I have also seen a tabular statement, which was presented by you to a meeting ol citizens from the overflowed districts, held in the Senate chamber some time last week. h mm oAraonal knowledge and direct infor mation derived from others within the last few days, I am satisfied , that said estimate is by far too low. As you have hn renuested by three different -public meetings, held in the overflowed district of T-nnlsiana to remesent their want and con dition. I now present you a statement of localities and numbers needing help at once an that vou mav Dresent the same to the governor and the committee on distribution annnlnted bv his honor, the mayor; The mwr Black river lor 300: Marde's. includ Including that part of Concordia Parish on Black river, 600; Wilsons on Black river, for 400; Trinity, including Tinker's bayou, Hn. . Harriannhnrtr. including bavou IxiuisC 1,000; Starb's landing, including Rraine landini. 300; Carter's landing, 400: Bunker Hill," including both sides of the river and swamp Balaven, Ouachita, and noeuf. 1.500: Columbia, including Franklin and Onaehita or Boeuf. and between Oua chita and Boeuf rivers, 2,000; St. Albans, includlnz the bottom on both slues, l.&uu Hopewell and Waco, including Back swamp up to the ouacnlia line, i.uuu; monroe, i,ow, total, 11,600. Now, at the lowest estimate, this number may be said to be in actual want, and many have been so for da vs. as their land has now been under water for some two or three weeks. They have lost all their hogs and nearly all their eattle are either lost or starving. The people themselves have neither money nor credit, no place to go to, and nothing to do. But this estimate by no means discloses the districts of those residing on small bayous and creeks who have been overflowed by THE BACKWATER AID THE FLOODS of rain. They generally have been on land, but have lost much of their stock and improvements, and are out of provisions and money. The prospect of making crops are so discouraging that none are willing or able to advance the supplies. They must suffer or receive assistance. If these be added, the number needing help is not short ol 20,000 people in tho districts referred to. 1 The Times says that the extent of tho damage which has resulted from the great overflow is just beginning to be fully juderstood. Tbat it was vast was readily conceived but tbat it should involve 5,000,000 of acres and a population of 170,000 was appareutly beyond reasonable calculation. Yet such is really the case. In the cotton regions, it is now ascertained that four of the largest and richest parishes producing cotton have been inundated. The parishes of Carroll, Morehouse, Richland, Madison, Franklin, Tensas, Caldwell. Concordia and Catahaula are alloverflowed.embracing fully 2,500,000 acres. The amount of cotton land in these parishes in actual cultivation is estimated to be two hundred and fifty thousand acres, besides one hunnred thousand acres in corn. These estimates include only the large places, leaving out hundreds of mall farmers and all the estimates for cattle, hogs and gardens. The population of these nine parishes are 2Q,J)i, according to the census of 1870. In the sugar producing ptrishestbe ascertained facts discover an eqnal, if not a greater amount of rain and suffering.. Tbeae parishes are Point Coupee, East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Iberville, Ascension, Assumption,Lafourche, St. James, St. John, the Baptiste, fit, Charles, Tirrebonue and Plaguemines. The overflow in those parishes covers nearly two hundred and fifty thousand acres, tilled and untilled, including a production oi 30,000 hogsheads ol sugar, besides a large product of rice and crops of small farmers. of whom there are : many hundreds who have lost their stock and nretty much every thing else they possess. The population of these parishes, according to the census of 1870, was 60,3 3 whites and 72,241 blacks, making a total of 122,609, from which must be deducted the population of East Baton Rouge, as a small portion of TIIAT PARISH HAS SUFFERED ' from the overflow. That deduction being made, the parishes named contain a popu lation of 1C3.C09. In all the parishes Darned it is believed tbat more than 25,000 people are now in actual suffering for the necessary supplies of life, and that in less than GO days the number of those whose circumstances will require alleviation will increase to more than 50,000 persons. Above we present all the facts, as far as ascertained by the relief committee ud to yesterday. Mr. John K. Clow, of St. Landry parish, in note referring to the above, säys: "I hai just seen in the Times of this morale an approximate estimate of the extent of damage which have resulted from the over flow in the nine northeastern parishes ef this state which includes only the parishes north of the Red river, and then passing to the mouth of said river over to the parish of Point Coupee. - The estimate includes all of the parishes between the Mississippi and Aicha fa v lave rivers to the gulf, which is all very correct as far as it goes. : But resulting from the immense body of water which is coming down the valley oi the Mississlpppl, Onaehita and Black rivers and passing across Red river some 40 miles from its mouth, and meeting with no obstruction until It reaches the levee on Bayou de Glace, it sweeps with irresistable force over its feeble barrier, and occupying a breadth ot country from 25 to 30 miles wide through the eastern portion of Aveyell'e and St. Landry parishes, and covering all lands in tbat region, which in eludes within its limits the larger portion of the most productive lands in those two parishes. beginning at Morean vine, washing around what is called Big Bend of Bayou de Glace, down to Sims Port, a distance oi more than 40 miles by the meanders ot Bayou, which is thickly settled, thence down the lowlands on the eastern side of Atcbafaylaye river, behind the plantations on that river, and innndating them from behind. Within the limits of the land thus submerged there are not less than 19,000 souls, including white and black mostly ot the laboring classes, but no doubt some of them proprietors, and in a suffering condition on account of the almost total failure of crops of both corn and cotton account of wet weather last year.

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL? TUESDAY, APIJIL" 2

izuxr - 8PRINO. BY TH0XAS HOOD. The air bites shrewdly It Is very cold. Hamlet. Come, gentle spring ! ethereal mildne, come ! - ,0b! Thompson, void of rhyme as, welf as reason, : a How eoulist thou thus poor human nature - burnt " ; r ; i There's no such seaSOD. . . -.' The spring! I shrink and shudder at her name! r or wny, i nna ner Dream a Diner ouguier, And suffer from her blows as If they came i rom spring the nghter. . Her praises, then, let hardy poets sing, And be her tuneful laureates and upholders, W ho do not leel as if they had a spring 1'ourea down their shoulders. . ' i Let others eulogize her floral shows. From me they cannot win a single stanza ; I know her blooms are In full blow and ao's The innuenza. . . . Her cowslips, stocks and 11 iL of the vale, Her honey-blossoms that you hear the bees at; Her panny, daffodil and primrose pale. Are things sneeze at. ...... . 8mltten by breezes from the land of plague, To me all vernal luxuries are iaoies; Ob, Where's the spring in a rheumatic leg btilT as a tables 7 - I limp with agony, I wheeze with cough. And Quake with ague, that great agliutor, Nor dream before July of leaving oil ly respirator. In short, whatever panegyrics be In 1 Oleome odes too many to be cited, . . Tbe tenderness of spring is all my eye, And this is blighted. .1 HUMAN AKXOYANCE. - BEATTIE. ' ' One part, one little part, we dimly scan Through the dark medium of lifes fervlsh dream, Yet dare arraign the whole stupendous plan, If but that little part incongruouh seem, Nnr is that Dart, perhaps, what mortals deem; Oil from apparent ease our blessings rise. O! then renounce that impious self-esteem That aims to trace the secrets of the skies; For thou art but of dust ; be bumble ana be wise. THE ROSE OF TUOLUMNE. A NEW STORY BY BRET HARTE. From the New York Times. "I allowed to go to bed, Ridgeway," said Mr. McClosky, meekly, "but my girl Jinny's j'ist got back from a little tear up at Robin son's, and ain't inclined to turn in yet. i ou know what girls is. So I thought we three would jist have a social chat together to pass awav the time." "You mendacious old hypocrite, she got back au hour aeo." said Rideewav. "as that savage-looking escort of hers, who has been hauntincr the house ever since, can testify. Mv belief is. that, like an enterprising idiot, as you are, you've dragged that, girl out of her bed that we might mutually bore eacu other." Mr. McClosky was too much stunned by this evidence of Ridgeway's apparently superhuman penetration to reply. After enjoying his host's contusion with his eyes, Ridgeway's for a moment mouth asked grimly : "And who is this girl, any way?" "Nancy's." "Your wife's?" "Yes. But look yar, Ridgeway," said McClosky, laying one hand imploringly n Ridgeway's sleeve, "not a word about her to Jinny. She thinks her mother's dead died in Missouri. Eh!" Ridgeway nearly rolled from the veranda In an excess of rage. "Good God ! Do you mean to say that you have been concealing from her a fact tbat at any day, any moment mav come to her ears? That you've been letting her grow up in ignorance of some thine that by this time she might have out. grown and iorgottenr anau you nave oeen ike a besotted old ass, all these vears slowly forging a thunderbolt that any one may crush her with? That" but here llidgeway s cough took possession oi his voice, and even put a moisture into his dark eyes, as be looked at racciosky's aimless band feebly employed upon bis beard. " But," said McClosky. " look how she's done? She's held her head as high as any of 'em, Sne'a to be married in a month to the richest maa in the county, and," he added, cunningly, "Jack Ashe ain't the kind o' man to sit by and hear auything said of his wile or her relations, you bet. But hush that's her foot on the stairs. She's cummin." She came. I don't think the French win dow ever held a finer view than when sbe put aside the curtains and stepped out. She bad dressed nerseu simply and nurriedly, but with a woman's knowledge oi her best points, so that you get the long curves ef her shapely limbs, the shorter curves of her round waist and shoulders, the long sweep of her yellow braids, the light of her blue eves, and even the delicate rose ol her com plexion, without knowing how it was deivered to you. The introduction by McCloky was brief. When Ridgeway had got over the fact that it was 2 o'clock in ths morning, and tbat the cheek of this Tuolumne goddess nearest him was as dewy and fresh as an infant's that she looked like Marguerite, without probably ever having heard of Goethe's he roine, ne taiKea, x a are say, very tensiDlv. Wheu Miss Jenny, who from her childhood had been brought up among the sons oi Anak, and who w;s accustomed to have tbe supremacy of our noble sex, presented to her as a physical fact, found herself in tbe presence of a new and strange power in the slight and elegant figure beside her, she was at hrst frightened and colt. Hut finding tbat this power, against which the weapons or nerown pnysicai cnarms were or no avail. was a kindly one, albeit general, she fell to worshipping it, alter the fashion of woman, and casting before it the fetiches and other idol9 of heryonth. ' She even confessed to it. So that in half an hour Ridgeway was in possession of air tbe facts connected with her liie, and a great many, I fear, of her fan cies except one. When McClosky found the young people thus amlcablv disposed, he calmly went to sleep. It was a pleasant time to each. To Miss Jenny it bad tbe charm of novelty, and she abandoned herself to it for that reason much mere freely and innocently tnan her companion, who knew something more of the inevitable logic of tbe position. I do not think, however, he had any intention of love-making. I do not think he was at all conscious of being in tbe attitude. I am quite positive he would have shrunk from tbe suggestion of disloyalty to the one woman whom he admitted to himself he loved. But, like most poets, be was much more true to an idea than a ' fact, and, having very loftyconception of womanhood, with a very sanguine nature, ne saw in eacn new face the possibilties of a realization of his ideal. It was perhaps an unfortunate thing for the women, particularly as he brought to each trial a surprising freshness which was very deceptive, and quite distinct from the blase familiarity of the man of gallantry. It was this perennial virginity of tbe affec tions that most endeared him to the best women, who were prone to exercise toward him a chivalrous protection as of one.llkely to go astray unless looked after and in dulged in the dangerous combination of sentiment with the highest maternal instincts. It was this quality . which caused Jenny to recognize in him a certain boyishness that required her womanly care, and even induced her to offer to accompany him to the cross-roads when the time of his de parture arrived. With her superior know ledge ot woodcraft and the locality she would have kept him from being lost. I wot not but that she would have protected him from bears or wolves, but chiefly, I think, from the feline fascinations of Mame Robinson and Lucy Ranee, who might be lying in wait OU I for this tender vounor noet. Nor did sbe cease to be thankful that rroyidence had, so

to speak, delivered him as a trust into her hands. ' It was a lovely night. The moon' swung low and burnished softly on the snowv ridge beyond. There were quaint odors In the still air, and a Strange Incense from , the woods perfumed their young blood and seemed to swoon in their pulses. Small wonder !h they lingered on the white road, that their feet climbed unwillingly the little bill where they were to part, and'that when they at last reached it, even the saving grace of speech seemed to have forsaken them. For there ; they stood, alone. There was no sound nor motion in earth, or woods, or heaven.' They might have been the one man and woman for whom this goodly earth that lay at their ft, rimmed with tbe deepest azure, was created. And seeing this, they turned toward each other with a sudden instinct, and their hands met, and then their lips, in one long kiss. ' : And then out of the mysterious distance came the sound of voices and tbe sharn clat

ter ot hoofs and wheels, and Jenny slid away a white moonbeam from the hill. For a moment she glimmered through the trees, and then reao'iing . tbe house, passed her sleeping father jn the veranda, and, darting into ner bedroom, locked the door, threw open the window, and. fall in or on her knees beside It, leaned her hot cbeeks upon her hands and listened. In a few moments she was rowarded by the sharp clatter of hoofs on me stony road, but is was only uorseman, wnose dark figure was swiltly lost in the shadows of the lower road. At another time she might have recognized the man. but her eves and ears were now all intent on something eise, it came presently, with danclnzlichis. inutical rattle of harness, a cadence of hoof-beats, that sot her heart to beating in unison, and was gone. A sudden sense ot loneliness camo over her, and tears gathered in ner sweet eyes. bhe arose and looked around her. There was the little bed, tbe dressine-table. the roses that she had worn, last nisht. still fresh and blooming in tbe little vase. Every thing was there, - but everything looked strange; the rose should have been with ered, for the party seemed so longazo: she could hardly remember when she bad worn this dress tbat lay upon the chair. So sbe came back to the window and sank down beside it, with her cheek, a trifle paler, leaning on her band, and her long braids reach ing to tbe floor, lhe stars paled slowlv. like her cheek; yet, with eyes that saw not, she stiu looked from the window for the coming dawn. It came, with violet deepening Into purple, with purple flushing into rose, with rose shining into silver and glowing into gold. The straggling line of black picket-fence below, that had faded away with the star came back with the sun. What was that ob ject moving by the fence? Jenny raised her head and looked intentlv. It was a man endeavoring to climb the pickets, and tailing backward with each attempt. Suddenly she rose to her feet as if tbe rosy flushes of the dawn had crimsoned her from forehead to shoulders; then she stood, white as tbe wall, with her hands clasped upon her bosom Then, with a single bound she reached the door, and with flying braids and fluttering skirt, sprang down the stairs and out in tbe garden walk. When'within a few feet of the fence sbe .uttered a cry tho first she bad given the cry of a mother over her stricken babe, of a tigress over ner mangled cub. and in another moment she had leaped the fence and knelt beside Ridgewav, with his faint ing head upon her breast. "Mv boy my poor, poor boy! who has done this?" Who, indeed His clothes covered with dust, bis waistcoat was torn open; and bis handkerchief, wet with the blood it could not stanch, fell from a cruel stab beneath his Shoulder. 'Ridgeway! my poor boy tell me what has happened." Ridgeway slowly opened his heavy blueveined lids, and gazed upon her. Presently a gleam of mischief came into his dark eyes, a smile stole over his lips as he whispered B-'.owlv: 'It was your kiss did it Jenny, dear! had forgotten how high priced tbe arti cle was here. Never mind, Jennv!" he feebly raised her hand to his white lips "it was worth it," and fainted away. Jenny started to her feet and looked wildly around her. Then, with a audden resolution, she Btooped over the insensible man, ard, with one strong effort, lifted him in her arms as if he had been a child. When her lather, a moment later, rubber bis eyes and awoke from his sleep upon the veranda, t was to see a coddess erect and triumphant striding toward tbe house, with tbe helpless body of a man lying across that breast where man had never lain before a goddess at whose imperious mandate he arose and cast open tbe doors before her. And then when she bd laid her unconscious burden on tbe sofa, tbe goddess fled, and a woman, helpless and trembling, stood before him A woman tbat cried out tbat she had "killed him" that she was "wicked!" and that.even saying so Btaggered and fell besides her late burden. And all that Mr. Mcuiosky could do wa3 to feebly rub his beard, and to say to himself, vagnely and incoherently, tbat Jinny bad fetched him." CHAPTER II. Before noon the next day it was generally believed throughout Four Forks tbat Ridge way Dent bad been attacked and wounded at Chemisal Itidge by a bighwavwan, who fled on the approach of the Wingdam coach. It is to be presumed that this statement met with Kid 2e way's approval, as he did not contradict it, nor supplement it with any details. Iiis wound was severe, but not dangerous. After tbe first excitement bad subsided, there was, 1 think, a prevailing impression, common to the provincial mind. that his misfortune was the result of the de fective moral quality of his being a stranger, and was in a vague sort of a way a warning to others and a lesson to him. " Did you bear that San Francisco feller was took down the other night? was the average tone of introductory remark. Indeed, there was a general suggestion tbat Kidgewaya presence was one that no self-respecting, highminded highwaymen, honorably con servative ol tbe best interests of Tuolumne county, could for a moment tolerate. . Except for tbe few words spoken on that eventful morning, Ridgeway was reticent of tbe past. When Jenny strove to gather some details of the affray tbat might offer a clue to his nnknown assailant, a subtile twinkle in bis brown eyes was the only response. When Mr. McClosky attempted tbe same process tbe young gentlemen threw abusive epithets, and eventually slippers, teaspoons, and other lighter articles within the reach of an invalid, at tbe head of his questioner. "I think he's coming round, Jinny' said Mr. Mcciosky, "lie laid for ma this morning with a candlestick. It was about this time tbat Miss Jenny. naving sworn ner iatner to uecreey regard ing the manner in which Ridgeway bad been carried into the house, conceived tbe idea of addressing the young man as "Mr. Dent," and of apoligizing for intruding whenever she entered the room in the dis charge of her household duties. It was about this time that sbe became more rigidly con scientlous to those duties, and less eeneral in her attentions; it was at the time that the quality ot the invalid's diet improved, and that she consulted him less frequently about it. It was about this time that she began tosee more company, tbat t ae house was greatly frequerted by her former admirers, with whom uhe rode, wpjked and danced. It was at about this, time, also, and wheu Ridgeway wr a me to be Drought out on the veranda in a chair, that, with g-reat archness of manner, she introduced to . him Miss Lucy Ashe, the sisttr of her betrothed a nashinre brunette . and terrible, heart

breaker of Four Forks. (To 6 continued.)

, 1874.

;;; . .. CHEDO, s H .:. .r By the burden of sorrow and sighing' ; The load that I hnr . Through area of silent denylne ' 1 Eh? char nd the ieash, and the chaining, era v l Dir in a mnM . . r MZ.h and my soul Uercely straining By the grace and the gaile that enthralled me, uiva ui tue uruu, , An1 B bonds tbat so pitiless galled me, ' . ucuwuu i leaned. . - . , i Bylhe dreary and absent awaking . TbecominK tollfe. - ... The heart in its agony breaking iu wauucH ut nine: By the rescue then planned and secured me ' me saiery irom Harm - - ' -' To rest on the breast that had lured me Impassioned and warm; ' To drink In hex sighs and tbe glory Or love In her eyes . Forreltlng the terrible story V hUe clasping the prize. . O'er the grave of the past waves the willow, Grass bourgeons Its turf; . . ,t On the rock of my youth-lime the billow Breaks madly In surf: The love-light oflife, with its gleaming. Illumines my path; The agony was but my dreaming " A vision the wratn. , VANITUS VAX1TA1UM. ' The whole of this great world, I say, From the first to latest born, Since it passes swllUy away, Is not v orth a barley-corn. , To some better world than this Hie thee ; open wide the door To some chamber such there i? Whence thou shalt depart no more! TAB STORM. MBAVirAIJi OF SNOW IX THE EAST DE 8TRÜCTIOH OF 8 HIPPING. Potjohkeepsie, April 25. The storm of last night at Boston Corners was terifSc and heavier than any known before in years. The Harlem mail train was pomnsli) to lay at Millerton for fear ot being blown from the rails. At Welsman's Cut the snow was four feet deep. MONTPELIER, Vt.. April 26. It be?an snowing hear last evening, and one foot of snow fell in twelve hours. It was one of tbe heaviest snow storms of the season. . Boston, April 26. A severe snow storm. accompanied by a heavy gale, has prevailed tnrougnout the .New England states to-day. The suow is from six inches to a foot in depth. At Rockland, Me., the gale has been the severest experienced for years, and resulted in much damatre to the shinning. bix or seven vessels are ashore. Twentv inches of snow is reported at Danbury, Philadelphia, ra., April 26. A wind and rain storm passed over the city yester day and to-day, causing considerable dam tge. Two houses in the course o! construc tion in Mifflin street were blown do wu, also a nouse in r ran mora. SYMPTOMS OK CATARRH. Dun, heavy headache, obstruction of nasal passages, discharge falling into throat, sometimes profuse, watery, acrid, thick and tena cious, mucous, purulent, muco-purulent, bloody, putrid , Offensive, etc. I n others a dryness, dry, watery, weak or Inflamed eyes, ringing in ears, deafness, hawklug and coughing to clear the throat, ulcerations, scabs from ulcers, voice al smell and taste, dizziness, mental depression, tickling cough, etc. Only a few of the above symptoms axe likely to be present In any case at one time. 'o disease is more common or less understood by physicians. The proprietor of Dr. image s uaiarrn Kemeuy will pay loou reward ror an incurable case. BEAD WWAT IT WILL DO. Brookville, Pa., April 27, 1S72. Dr. II. V.Pierce. ik Hav.nii first applied to a nnmbcr of heme physicians a d failed to get relief, 1 resolved to try your remedy. Four bottles have completely cured me of one of the worst cases of Catarrh of which I have any knowledge, having suffered for months with an acute pain in the head, and breathed only wita the greatest difficulty. 1 deem it due you as well as suffering humanity that this recognition be cade of wnat we deem n lnvaiuaoie meaiclue. CHAS. Q. ANDERSON. 3KK-EKKEI SPECIALS. Heggeman's Cordial Elixir ot Callsaya Bark. pleasant cordial which strengthens and Improves the Digestion, an excellent preventive of Severs, Fever and Ague, et& and a great Reno vator and Tonic for Invalids and aebUltated pert sous. Hegeman & Co.. New York, Bole M aim lac turers. Bold by all Druggists. DR. WHlT'im, 8U, Loncest enraged, and moat occmrul slclan ef tb mcc Consultation or pamphlet tre. C or write. gFlXIAL HOTICZS. In sickness with medicines tnaf depress tbe physical energies, what the sick principally need is an accession of vital strength to enable them to oope with the enemy that has ansalled them. The diseased system should be sustained, toned, purified and regulated, and there is no medicinal preparation In existence so largely endowed with the properties required to eil eel these objects as riosititer's btonuch miters. In ordinary practice aperient, blood-depurating, nti-biiious ana seaauve meuicinesare aaministered separately, - In lioetetter's Bitters all these agents are combined, and act together in perfect harmony, so that undue debility and undue excitement areaiixe prevented, ana ine strength of the patient rallies while tbe disease is losing ground. In dyspepsia, liver complaint, chronic constipation, intermittent fevers, general weakness, and all ailments involving physical and mental depression, this pure vegetable, restorative is a sovereign remedy. 0 PERSONAL. Steele & Price, of Chicago and St. Loots, we are pleased to say, are among tbe few whe put into the market articles Just as representedperfectly pure, selected wiih care, and combined in a manner t be perfect in their actioa and results. Their Dr. Price s Cream Raking Fowder has been approved by the United states government, and large quantities are manu fact a red to meet the wanUof their -various military posts, while their Dr. Price s Special Fla vorings or vaniiia, iemon. etc., are oecoaiing equally as popular. Tbe only way to force adulterated, cheap articles out of the market ! to encourage honest manotacturers. o Koilee. OBSTACLES TO MARRIAGE. Happy Relief for Tonng Men fromths effects of Errors and Abuses in early life. Han. hood restored. Impedimenta to Marriage removed. New method of treatment. Kew and remarkable remedies. Books and elreola sent tree. In sealed envelopes. Address HOWARD ASSOCIATION, No. 2, south Ninth street Phil adelphia, Pa an Institution having a aigl rep utation for Honorable eonauct ana Mweesioiuu Skill. Kakaus! "Vitality. The "Science of Life, or Self-PresarvatlOB,' a Medical Treaties ob the Cause and Cure ol xnausted Vitality, Premature Declnte la Mas Nervous and Physical Debility. Hyvoehondria 1m potency, Bperaaatorrncea or Beasiaai Weak ness, and all other diseases .irlsLsg froaa th errors of youth or the lndlscretloas or ex cusses of mature yean. Tals is indeed a eeok for ever man. Thousands bave been taugai ey uus woi a th trne wav to health and haopinesa. It Is tbe cheapest and beat medical work aver pnnitahed. and the omy one on nis cutos ui uum wuna reading. lKh edition, revised. much enlarged, illustrated, bound In beauttfal Frenea doth. Price only one oouar. nent cv man, pua pam, nnnmtninfTiriM. Address PXABODY MEDI CAL, INÖTITUTä, jno. 4 BUinnen street, uosion. MassoT Dr. w. tu i"A.Kitt, ABKisuuai myst lan. N. B. The author may be eonsuitect on the above as well as all diseases requiring axui and experience. 0 naBTkesnersia ! Despewia! That hydra-headed disorder, with Its s&d depression of spirits, sick headache, sour stomach, scalding eructations oppieslve luuness, loss of appetite, wan, wasiea appearance, anu nervous aeoiniy, an inuicuug imperfect digestion and assimilation oi ioou,ana thereby lack of nutrition, so necessary to the support of the body, can be effectually cured by the use oi noonanaa uerman omwo, mo ite prescription ot that eminent oerman pnj bjcian, Christoph W. Hoofland, of Langan-Satp, Germany, the efficacy of which won for him many marks of distinction by the crowaed heads and. nobility of Kurope. It tones tb.e stomach to healthy action, regulates the novels, arouses the torpid liver, promotes natural perspiration,

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invigorates the nerves, and restores aM the fnnelions of nature to vigorous health. The efficacy of this remedy la oaily acknowledged by tbe happy subjects of its treatment, who now enjoy rohllKt. glowing hMilth. uoonana s r-OdophylUn 1111 are recommended when a brisk Durir&uve l n.nmrvi Tho nn. f,tbornthly. wlihonMtTiping. They are the piSW.," LI()LLOWAY Co., Proprietor, Philadelphia. Sold by ail Druezifrta. tTT-1?10 AOENTS-T canvass InJ1in Illinois wiegeln. A rem mimt rurntnh hmw nrl hnwr urjuU pnicuUri, adrfrwn. i,h itimp end" m1. U H. HI fc.LL.Ind napolit, Ijd. SnV9 i WEEK. Agents wanted; particnurn. orin & Co , til. Louis Mo IV i ior-,mun wiu caroole diseases to TT mil ißt. f A K H ICut WAAhlnvt. smumkm. Mod ,u m t I or d real. TNDIANAPOLI8 ItifXD ' ASP AGRICULTURAL WAEEH0T1SF. CT. CJEÖBQE STIIjZ, No. 73 EAST WASHINGTON ST., INDIAN APOLC8, IND. Manufacturers' Indiana Central Agent for the , . sale of s.H0Miu'co:6Eicnmifi, plul The Eagle teed Cutters, for hand and power, each size cut five different lengths. Caboons & Wells' Grain and Grass Seed Sow ers, sows all kinds of seeds broadcast. I Field.Flqwer and Garden Seeds, 300 bushels choice Clover Peed. c. V) bushels sapllDg Clover teed. 230 bushels new clean Timothy Heed J 5u0 bushels cleaned Kentucky Ulue Grass Seed F.ng'lsh Blue Grass. Orchard ;nu. itvit. tiIiatL?wn Urnxa, and a large stock of fresh and reuauie v egeiaoie seeds, in store and for sale by J. GKORGhi 8TILZ, SEED AND IMPLEMENT WAREHOUSE. No. 78 East Washington St.. Indianapolis, Ind. yALUA B LtU INFORMATION. Bowtox, Dec. 12, 1889. Gentlemen My onlv oblect in tirinrrnn thia testimonial is to spread valuable Information. Having been badly amlcled with Halt lUieaml and the whole surface of m v skin betnr COTPM With t)lm Dies and ernntinna manv nf H.V.I.V. caused me great pain and annovance. and knowing It to be a blood disease, I took many of the advertised blood preparations, among which wnaauy quauuiy OI rsarsapamia, without obtaining auy benefit, until 1 commenced taking the Vettetlne;and before I had completed tha nrst bottle I saw that I bad tot the riirht mnl. iclne. Consequently I followed on with it nntil had taken seven bottles, when I wm nm. nounced swell mau, and my skin Is smooth) and entirely free from plmrles and erumions. 1 have never enjoyed so good health before, and I attribute it all to the use of Vegetiice. To benefit those afflicted with Rheumatism. I will make mention also of tbe Vegetise's wonder ful power of curing me of this acut unnJaint. of which I have suffered so intensely. J i 1 1 N PCL'L'U Tk a - k a i . v..". itv,ji, ram. AKl. JU1CB. Kj, It. rw, Tyler btreetlioston. HAS ENTIRE" CURED ME. Boston, October, 1870. Mr. II. R. Stevens: Dear sir My daughter after having a severe attack of whooping coogh. was left in a feebl state of health, being advised by a friend, she; tried the Vkgetine, and after using a few bottles, was fully restored to health. I have been a great sutteier from Rheumatism. I have taken several bottles of the Vegetinb lor this complaint, and am happy to say it baa entirely cured me. I have recommended tha Vegetine to others, with the same good result. It is a great cleanser and purifier of the blood; it i pleiant to take; and I can cheerfully recommend it. JAMES .MOUSE, m Athens street. NO TROUBLE SINCE V81SQ VBQ-ETI2SrE. Chaislestowsw, October, 1S70. This certifies that my daughter has always been troubled with a humor, which has caused frequent swelling on her lace and about her eyes. Physician called it the Kryslpelas; bnt alter having taken two bottles of the Vegetlne, she has not been troubled with it since. ÖlMÜ.V 4LDKICII, Charltstown, Mass. Dr. Tc-Sek fays : "Iiis unnecessary for me to enumerate thedineaaes forwnich the Veff"-.ti should te used. 1 know of nodineaae whlci not admit of iti use with good results. A'HLQal innumerable complaints are vansed bypu w ous secretions in the blood, which can bees 'it -ly expelled from the avstem by tbe ose oi Vegetlne. When the blood Is perfectly cleai sff, the disease rapidly yields; all pains f( healthy action is promptly restored, an a patient Is cured." The remarkable cures effected by Vegetlne, have induced many physicians and apothecaries whom we know, to prescribe and use It ixs their own families. In fact Vegetine Is the best remedy yet d 1 scorer d, and is the only reliable RLüOD-r URlMEft yet placed before the public. Sold by all druggists and dealers everywhere. D AMA6ED BIT WATBK;. EElght case.1 ef BTjBAOHED MUSLIMS 4-4 Hills, 4-4 Lonsdi le, 7-8 Hille, A-4 Baymlon, will be sold at lO and 121-2 cants. FARMERS' STOKE 94 and 96'East ashktoa street KLKCTIO.V NOTICE. The Stockholders of the Indianapolis A Fait Creek travel Road Company are hereby notinedt that tbe annual election for five directors lor said company will he held at School-house No. 11, in center township, Marion county, inuianaB on the 9th day of May, 1874, at 9 o'clock m. By order of the Board of Directors, Powell Howlanp, Secretary. ELECTION NOTICE. The stockholders of the Indianapolis Fall Creek Gravel Itoad company are he reby notified that the annual election for five lHrectors for Mid company will be held at school house No. 11, in nter township, Marion courty, Ind., on the Ut nday of May, 1X74, al o'clock A. x. By order of the Bor rd of Directors. 1MWEIX HOWI.Ayp. Secretary. ELECTION NOTICE, Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Fall Ceeek Warren Township Gravel Road company will be held at scboolhouse Jiio. 11, In Center township on the vth day of May, 1874, at 10 o'clock A.nia elct five Directo'. for said company for the ea suing year. By order of the Board of Dlreetors Jos. iL ESU.USH, Secretary,