Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1874 — Page 1

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THE NEWS.

Count von Arnim was held to bail in 100,000 thalers on the 28t]i. A Berlin dispatch of that date states that he woald not be allowed to expatriate himself. On the 28th the cotton mills at Oyer, England, were burned to the ground. Ten of the work-people perished. A Spanish gun-boat recently fired into a French merchantman off Santander. According to an editorial in a Washington newspaper the President had recently said that he regarded the agitation of the third-term question as solely tlje work of certain sensational newspapers, and that he did not think it comported with the dignity of the President of the United States to respond to sueh clamors, ' A canon against ritualistic practices was adopted by the Episcopal General Convention,, at its late session in New York, by a vote of 72 to 5. The Democrats carried toe B&ltknere municipal election on the 28th," the,majority being aboat,lo,ooo. The First National Bank of Utah, located at Salt Lake City suspended on the 28th. Early resumption was expected. Laird, the builder of the Confederate steamer Alabama, died in London on the 29th after a protracted illness. Dockray, the American who was arrested as a spy in Cuba, has been sentenced t 6 a penal colony in Africa for ten years. He hopes to secure the intervention of the United States Government. The President has designated Thursday, Nov. 26, as a day of National Thanksgiving. R.*W. Burke, a New York petroleum refiner, suspended on the 29th. Gov. Leslie, of Kentucky, has offered a reward of $3,000 for the capture of the masked rufljans who recently committed the outrages in Shelby County. The report that Oliver Dalrymple, the great Minnesota wheat-grower, had failed is pronounced untrue by that gentleman. In New Orleans, on the afternoon of the 29th, as Gov.. Kellogg was riding in his carriage with Judge Atocha, Maj. E. A. Burke, of the Naturalization Committee ot* the Conservatives, stopped him, and yhile engaged in conversation drew a whip and attempted to strike the Governor, when the latter fired a pistol at Burke, who retaliated in kind, firing three or four shots. Neither party was wounded. On the night of the 28th the town of Greencastle, Ind., was visited by a destructive fire, 'thirty buildings were destroyed, causing a toss of $358,500, on which there was an insurance of $122,900. The fire is believed to have had an incendiary origin.

According to an Indianapolis dispatch of the 29th extensive forest fires were raging along the lines of railroad centering in that city. Like fires were reported as raging in many portions of Ohio. Kuhlmann, the some time ago attempted the assassination of Bismarck, was on the 30th found guilty and sentenced to fourteen years’ imprisonment. Cardinal Cullen and the Catholic Bishops of Ireland have recently issued letters to the Irish clergy, in which they denounce Prof. Tyndall’s late address at Belfast as a revival of paganism. The Governor of Syria has been ordered to suppress all Protestant schools in his province. The Milford (N. H.) Savings Bank has suspended. The boiler in Isaac Roder’s saw-mill at Lancaster, Ind., exploded on the 29th, killing two of the proprietor’s sons, Timothy and William, and severely and probably fatally injuring another son. A man by the name of George Beddle was also badly injured. Yellow fever prevails at Charleston, S. C.

The recent gale was fruitful of disaster to the lake marine. According to Madrid dispatches of Ist Don Carlos had been visited at Tolosa by influential Carlists, and advised to abaddon the war.’ ' f « / Secretary Bristow has directed $2,000,-' 000 in gold to be sold in New York during November. Ex-Gov. Throop, of York, died on the Ist. « The base- ball season closed on. the ill* t ult., leaving the Boston Red Stockings still holding the championship pennant. Count von Arnim’s private secretary during the time he waq German to Paris was arrested in St. Louis lately, at the instance of the German 'Gothrnment He left for Europe on the Ist, . taking with him the letters taken from the archives of the Embassy. A Detroit Coroner’s jury have found the Captain and Second Engineer of the propeller Brooklyn primarily responsible for the recent explosion. They find that the safety-valve had been tampered with and that the boat was racing with the Cuba. A late London dispatch announces the finding and splicing of-the direct cable:; The laying had been recommenced. Cuban delegates, according to a late Madrid dispatch, had recently visited the Carlist headquarters to secure the exchange of prisoners with a view of sending them to Cuba to quell the insurrection. The Madrid Government was willing to consent to the arrangement, but Don Carlos had demurred, unless the prisoners were willing to go.

THE JASPER REPUBLICAN

VOL^'L

The following statement of the public debt for the month of October appeared, on the Ist of November: •* Six per cent, bond* $1,182,183,250 Vive per cent, bonds 538,528,200, - j Total coin bonds $1,720,706,450 Lawful money debt 14,678,000 Matured debt. 20,748,960 Legal-tender notes 382,075,267 Certificate* as deposit., , 4 52X85,000 i iJS.B Interest .*.. 37,115*70 Total daW. Y.JX!ZXI3BzSU Cash in Treasury— Coin $90,089,241 Currency 16^386,770 tpbeial deposits held for the redemption of certificates of deposit, as provided by law ... 88,325,000 Total In Treasury $158,011,021 Debt less cash in Treasury $2,138,061,701 Decrease during October 681,431 Bonds issued to the Pacific Bailway Companies, interest payable In lawful money, principal outstanding $64,623,512 Interest,anraaed and not^al.paid — 1,288370 Interest paid by the United States.. 24,325,396 Interest repaid by the transportation ' of mails, etc....*..™ » 5,497,258 of interest-paid by Qnlted 1^836,143 According to the Associated Press dispatches Of the 2d the efitotion in Louisiana had resulted in substantiaLConservative gains. New Orleans had been carried for the Conservatives by from 10,000 to 15,000’majority, and they claimed to have secured four Congressmen.. It was conceded that the vote-in the State would be very close. Reports from the Various parishes Were Tery meager, but enough returns had been received to indicate that about 20 per cent, of the colored vote had Ibeen cast for the Conservative candidates. Gov. Allen, of Ohio, has named Thursday, Nov. 26, as a day of Thanksgiving. Under the provisions of the Enforcement act Diggs, County Solicitor, and Morgan, Tax-Collector, both Republic cans, were arrested at Seijna, 'Ala., on 'the 2d, upon the Charge of conspiring to, intimidate colored men from voting the Independent ticket. They were held to bail to answer to the District Copf'tt j According to a St. Louis dispatch of the 3d a band of vigilant# h%<L hupg, a couple of horfie-thieve# atMAMentown, Mo., on the preceding night.. A mob had gathered with the avowed intention of burning the town.

ELECTION NEWS.

The news receLvhd .on the rooming of the 4th from the recent State elections indicated the following results: m ILLINOIS Returns very meager. .. The Opposition claim to have gained five and. perhaps six Congressmen. The Chicago Tribune makes out the following: First District, Sidney Smith, Rep.; Second, J. D. Ward, Rep., reflected; Third, Charles B. Farwell, Rep., re-elected; Fourth, Stephen A. Hurlbut, Rep.*re-elected; Fifth, Horatio C. Burchard, Rep., re-elected; Sixth, Thomas J. Henderson, Rep.; Seventh, Alexander Campbell, Ind. (probably); Eighth, Greenbury L. Fort, Rep., re-elected; Ninth, Richard H. Whiting, Rep.; Tenth, John C. Bagby, Ind. (probably); Eleventh, Scott Wike, Dem.; Twelfth, William M. Springer, Dem.; Thirteenth,.-Allai E. Stevensop, Dem., gain; Fourteenth, Joseph ■ G.‘.Cannon," Rep., re-elected; Fifteenth, tTohn R. Eden‘Dem., reelected; Sixteenth, William A. J. Sparks, Dem., gain (probably); Seventeenth, William R. Morrison, Dem., re-elected; Eighteenth, William Hartzell, Dem., gain; Nineteenth, William B. Anderson, Ind. (probably). The Republican State ticket probably elected. Legislature Opposition. WISCONSIN. The State Legislature very close, but the Republicans probably have a small majority on joint ballot. Senate probably Democratic by two majority. The Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee claims a majority in the Legislature, and the election of six out of eight Congressmen. The Dements, however, do . not concede the <&xth District, which is very close. The Congressional delegation is 'probably as follows: First District, Chas. G. Williams, Rep., re-elected; Second, Lucien B. Caswell, Rep.; Third,.Henry S. Magoon, Rep.; Fourth, William Pitt Lynde, Reform; Fifth, Samuel D. Burchard, Reform; Sixth, Gabriel Bouck, Reform, gain (probably); Seventh, Jeremiah M. Rusk, Rep., reelected; Eighth, Alexander 8 r McGill, -ReP? re-elected. " ' ' **Fv MICHIGAN. r The new Constitution overwhelmingly defeated. The woman suffrage amendment also defeated, but it received a larger vote than was generally expected. Bagley,-Rep., for Governor, is elected \jy.a small majority. The Legislature will be even in the Ben ate, and the Republicads lmTe a majority the House. Congressmen elected: -First District, A. 8. Williams, Dem., gain; Second, Henry Waldron, Rep., re-elected; Third; George Willard, Ref)., re-elected; Fourth, Allen Potter, Dem., gain (probity); Fifth, William B. Williams, Rep., x£-elected (doubtful); Sixth, George H. Durand, Dem., gain; Seventh, Omar D. Gqpger,Rep., re-elected; Eighth, Nathan B. Bradley, Rep., re-elected; Ninth, Jay A. Hnbbell, Rep., re-elected. KANSAS. Osborne, Rep., re-elected Governor by about ‘20,600 majority. ,The, Republicans claim the three r district, though a Leaven wbrtn dftpAtch reported the* Second District doubtful. MISSOUBI. Hardin, Dem., elected Governor by abonV 25,000 majority. Legislature Democratic tyy a large majority. The following Congressmen - are probably elected: First District, E. C. Kehr, Dem., gain; Second, Erastus Wells, Dem, re-elected; Third, William H. Stone, Dem., re-elected; Fourth, Robert A. Hatcher, Dem., re-elected; Fifth, Richard P: Bland, Dem., re-elected (probably); Sixth, Chas. W. Thrasher, Rep. (probably); Seventh, John F. Phillips, Dem.; Eighth, Benjamin J. Franklin, Deifl.; Ninth, DMW Rea, Dem.*gHn (prOb*-‘ Jbly); Tenth, mrn Hyfle, "re-efbdffed 4 (probably); Eleventh, John B. Clark, Jr., -Dem., re-elected; Twelfth, John M: Glover, ■ Dem., re-elected; Thirteenth, Aylett H. Buckner, Dem., re-elected. .TV'IvT i, MASSACHUSETTS. Wm. Gaston, Dem., elected Gdvefnor oner, Talbot by about 5,30 ff majority. * Congressmen elected: First District, James Buffington, Rep n re-eleeted; Second, Benjamin W.

“VWft-AitH PWHI GOD, TELL THE TROTH AND MAKE MONET.

RENSSELAER* INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1874.

Harris, Rep., Mai*, Henry L. Pierce, * Rep,, Fourth, Jeeiah 6. Fifth, Nathaniel P. Banks, Dem., gain—6,ooo majority; Sixth, ,ojh*fltef Jt*Thompson, Dem. (over Bntler); - Seven A, T >Joln K. Tarbox, Dem., gain; Eighth,.William W. Warren, Dem., gain; George F. Hoar, Rep., re-elected; Tenth, Charles A. Stevens, Rep. (probably); Chester W. Chapin, Dem., gain. f NEW YORK. Democratic by afiont twenty majority. The Congressional delegation will probably stand ,as follows: First District, H. B. Metcalf, Dte*., gain;, Second, John G. Schumaker, Dem., re-elected; Third, Simon B, Chittenden, Rep.; Fourth, Archibald M. Bliss, Dem., gain; Fifth, Edwin R. Meade, Dem.; Sixth, Samuel S. Cox, Dem., re-elected; Seventh, Smith Ely, Jr., Dem.; Eighth, Elijah Ward, Dem., gain; Ninth Fernando Wood, Dem., re-elected*; Abram A. Hewitt, Dem., gain; Eleventh, Benjamin A Willis,-; Bern., gain ; Twelfth, N. Holmes, .Odell, Dem.; Thirteenth, John George M. BeebetDem.; Fifteenth ,’Bey»fiur L. Stebbins, Rep.; Sixteenth, Chas. Hhsdams, Rep., gain (probably); Seventesptta, Martin I. Townsend, Rep,; EighteenthJJndrew Williams;Rep,; Nineteenth, WllliaWA. j Wheeler, Rep.; Twentieth, Henry H/HatyGm, Repj (prehfibty); TwentyCfirst, Samuel F. ! Miller, Rep,; Twenty-secons Geo. A Bagiey, Rep.; Twenty-third, Scott Lord, Dem.,. gS£n; Twenty-fourth*.William H. Baker, Rep. (pfcfbably); Twenty-fifth, Elias W. Leavenworth, Rep.; Twenty-sixth, Clinton D. MacDottall, Rep., re-elected; Twenty-seventh,; Elbjsdge G. Lapham, Rep.; Twenty-eighth, Thgtoas C. Platt, Rep., re-elected; .Twenty-nffith, Harlo Hakes, Rep.; Thirtieth, Jamqs| L. Angle, Dem., gain (probably); ThirtyMrst, George G. Hoskins, Rep., re-elected; Tqictysecond, Asher P. Nichols, Dem., gain; Thirtythird, Walter L. Sessions, Rep., re-elected. PENNSYLVANIA. Legislature Democratic. Republican State ticket probably llect|B. Democrats i*obably gain two Congressmen. !:■ I & virioiNiA' Congressmen elected: First District, B. B. Dquglas, Dam.,, gain; Second, James H. Platt,-* Jr„Rep’Jelled; GilbertfcValke,,, Dem., gain; Fourth, William H. H. Stowell, Rep., re-elec(edj Fifth, George C. Cabell, Dem., •,gßfai4,sixth* tfbhn..R. Tuoker, Dem -; Seventh, John T. Dem., re-elected; Eighth, Eppa Hnnton, Dem., re-elected; Ninth, William Terry, Dem.

TENNESSEE. State Democratic by 25JX)0 ie 30,000 majority. Legislature largely Democratic. Congressmen elected: First District, Roderick* &. Butler, Rep., re-elected- (prt>bdbty)Fs dJdwKd, Jacob M. Thornburgh, Rep., re-elected (probffewram John M. Bright, Dem., re-elected; Sixth, John F. House, Dem., gain; Seventh, Washington C. Whitthome, Dem.; Eighth, John D. C. Atkins, Dem., re-eleet#di ■ Caldwell, Dem., gaffc-f»Mrth,]*. Caecy Young, Dem., gain. kenttoxy. Ail the ten Corfs-6sfelOnal districts probably Democratic. Democratic gains on the vote throughout the State. LOUISIANA. . The Conservative State Central Committee regard the election of Moncure, their State Treasurer, as certain. Many colored people voted the Conservative, tjeket. The Democrats probafty (Jongresemen. T | r j Largely Democratic on the State ticket. Democrats probably gain four Congressmen. MINNESOTA. Legislature Opposition on joint ballot. Congressmen elected :__Sj ar h H. Dunnell, Rep., in the First District, re-elected; E. St. Julien Cox, Dem., gain,in the Second; E. M. Wilson, Dem., gain, in the Third. MARYLAND. The six Congressmen all Democratic—a gain of two. ARKANSAS. The Democrats elect the four Congressmen —a gain of three, j J ) < GEORGIA. “* Th% entire''Congressional delegation, nine in number, Democratic —a gain of two. RHODE ISLAND. The Republicans elect both Congressmen in this State. ; SQUffH CAROLINA. Result for Governor in doubt. Probable Conservative gain in Congressmen. The Democrats claim .certainly five Con-grtessmen-*-a giih of two. Many colored voters supported the Conservative ticket. • K.T, l . ? vJ..\ DELAWARE. Returns incomplete, but all three counties probably Democratic. Jatnes Williams, Dem. (gain), elected to Congress. VERMONT. Dennison, Ind., in the District, is elected oYflrfJoland, Rep.*by a large majority. *' TEXAS. Returns from the principal towns show a large Democratic majority in every district. The Congressional delegation of six is Democratic. There will be an Opposition majority in the next lower House of Congress of from twenty to thirty.

THE MARKETS.

f C^^r^MiidlhSli^jktllHc. Live Stock.— Beef Cattle—slo.oo9l2.oo. Hogs -Dressed, $8.00©8.25; Live, [email protected]. Sheep——Flour—Good to choice, $5.05 9X7$; white wheat extra, $5.7596.15. Wheat -*WL flChicaflb, $1.0091.02; lowa spring, sl.Ol ©1.03; No. 2 Milwaukee spriug, $1.0491.05. Rye —Western and State, 89@90c. Barley—sl,3o9 1.35. Corn—Mixed Western afloat,. 9099014 c. Oats—western, 58@60V4C. Provisions— Pori*—Moss, $19.75©20.00. Lard —IS#9MHC. ’ Cheese-12tt®153£r. Wool.—Common to extra, 45968 c. CHICAGO. Livm Stock.— Beeves—Choice, [email protected]; good Hogs—Live, $5.9096.50. Sheep—Good to choice, f 5.7394,50.. , "Provisions.— Butter—Choice, 31@38c. Eggs— Fresh, 19920 c. Cheese—New York Factory, 16911 ft; ' Western Factory, 14©15c. PorkNew Mess, $18.00918.10. Lard—l29l2s4c. Breasistufts.—Flour—White Winter Extra, $5.2696j55; spring extra, $4.2595.00. WheatSpring, ' No. 2,8398354 c. Corn—Lo. 2, 70 @7o)4c. Oato-No. 2,4694654 c. Byo-No. 2, 82983 c. Barley-No. 2, $1.2491.32.

Wool.— Tnb-washed, 45@57c.; fleece, washed, 40@50c.; fleece, unwashed, 27@35c. Lumbxr.—First dear, $80.00953.00; second clear; S47i««6NOjSS; OOmmon Boards, $11,009 12.00; Fencing, : $ll.00912.00; “A” Shingles, $3.0093.25; Late, $2.00@2.*5. CINCINNATI. BuabsicVM.- -Fksar—[email protected]. Wheat Red, $1.06. geen—New, 6096 MC. Rye tec, Oats —50966 c. Barley—sl.ls® 1.35. ' PaonsioKs.—Pork—s2o.oo92o.so. Lard-ISH ©l3*c. so. LODIS. •*»). Hogs—Live, $5f.00®6.00. Bb*ADsTurrs.—Floor, XX Pall, $4.25®4.75. Wheat-No. * Red Fell, [email protected]>4. Cora-No. 2, 60©Tic. Oats—No. 2, 4»X9»Kc. Bye-No. 2,83@87c. Bariey—[email protected]. Pbovisiohs.— Pork-Mess, $20.00®30.50. Lard —l2©l3c. - . , MILWAUKEE. Bbxamtcpps.—Floor—Spring XX, [email protected]. Wheat—Spring, No. 1, 92@92*c; No. % 849 84*c. Com—No. 2, 76@78c. Oats—No. 2,46® 47c. Bye-No. 1,86937 c. Barley—No. 3, $1.12 @1.13. .- . DETROIT. Bbbadstutfs .—Wheat Extra, $1.1791.17 %. Com—Bl9B2c. Oats-50@50Hc. TOLEDO. p; Bbkasstupps.— Wheat—Amber Mich., $1.06 HftljOW; No. 2 Red, $1.0303.04. Com—Mixed, L£B979c. Oats—so@soV4c. ; CLEVELAND. L Bbeadstutps. — Wh^at —Np. 1 Red, $1.09© WHO; No. 2 Sad; $1.0091.04. Com—New, 54 ®6sc- Oats-50@51c. , BUFFALO.. f ’ ' P Live Stock.—Beeves—s4.oo96.2s. Hogs— Live, $5.5096.25. • Sheep-Live, $3.7694.8754EAST LIBERTY. Vr Lira Stock:— Beeves Best, ; [email protected]; medium, $4.7595.00. Hogs—Terkers, $5,609 >6.90; Philadelphia, $6.60©6.80. Sheep-Best, $4.2594.75; good, $3.5094.00.

The President’s Thanksgiving Proclamation.

g -Washington, Oct. 29. . The President has issued toe following ■ proclamation: By the President of the United Btatas: it is time to pause in oar daily vocations and. offer thankff lib Gcfd f&r'the Eftferdls and abundance of the year which is drawing to a close. The blessings of free government continue to be vouchsafed. The earth has responded to the labor of the husbandman. «she land has been free from pestilence, internal order is maintained and peace with other powers has prevailed. It is fitting that at stated periods we should cease from our accustomed pursuits and from the turmoil of our daily lives-and, finite in thankfulness for the blessings of the past and the cultivation of kindly feelings toward each other. Now, therefore, recognizing these considerations, I, U. S. Grant, President of the United States, do recommend to all citizens to assemble in their respective places of worship, Thursday, the 26th day of November next, and express their thanks Jor the mercy and, favor of Almighty God, and, laying aside all political contentions and all secular oocupations, to observe such day as a day of thanksgiving and praise. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my band and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington on the 29th day of October, 1874, and of the Independence of the United States the ninety-eighth year. (Signed) U. S. Grant.

“ Blazer” Finds a Paradise.

We have in this town a genius known as “ Blazer,” who is “ never at peace except when at war" He would leave Us dinner any day if be thought he could find a fight When he is unable to find a muss he is perfectly wretched. A week without a battle and be begins to think there is nothing so this world worth living for. Although he seldom wins more than one fight in ten, it is all the same to him. He rather enjoys a good pummeling. A night or two since some friends of his who happened to be passing through the “ Barbary Coast” region of the town had their attention attracted to a shebang near at hand by a tremendous uproar. There was a smashing of glass, a crashing o£> chairs, bottles Mid tumblers; fierce yells, bitter curses, and, in short, a fearful commotion. Thinking one of the voices within had a familiar sound, the, gentlemen looked in at the door of the “ gin-mill,” and there beheld Blazer surrounded by about half a dozen “ Coast rangers,” whq were giving it to him “straight from the shoulder” on all sides. Blazer’s noSe was flattened; one eye boasted a watch-fob; his npper lip was laid open by » blpw from, a tumbler, and bis clothes were nearly tom from his back. "A'<SlpufiHei'tße ? ;to grass,” when those nearest him began jumping upon him and kicking him in the ribs. His friends at" Once rushed to his rescue. The breath was com pletely knocked and kicked out of poor Blazer, and he lay senseless upon toe floor. Some water dashed in hip face revived him. . Recognizing hie friends, he smiled as amiably as was passible with his bloated and distorted upper lip, and huskily whispered: “Boys, it’s gorgeous! I’ve stumbled into a regular Paradise V'—Virginia (Wct.) Enterprise. ' " v ‘'' —^. — The , pastor of a Fall River church, having made an arrangement to ex-, change pulpits with a Methodist clergyman last Sunday, the good brother came according to* agreement; but, unfortunately, M fhd appointed time for afternoon service'he walked into toe wrong' church, entered toe pulpit, and took his seat. White toe choir was singing the voluntary in came the pastor and discovered his brother clergyman seated comfortably in his, place. The pastor, who knew fom, said': “Are you not in the wrong church?" He replied: “No, I know where T Am. ‘ I was to exchange with the pastor of Ihfß church,” to which the pastor* rejoined that he knew nothing of such an arrangement, and proceeded to give out the hymn atod preach his sermon as usual. Finally the strange brother whispered : really believe that I am in the wr#ng place.” At the church where he was to preach the eongregation sang, waited, had prayer, and departed for home.— Springfield (Mass.) Republican.

A COLLEGE GARDEN REVERIE

[“ L’homme propose,” etc.] Yondeb— a stone-throw from this seat of mine— The gray old college rises through Its leaves, Bright with the arrowy glinting summer-shine. Sweet with the birds' Anting 'neath the shad - owed eaves. .How fa&, lhmfliar and unaltered still That giimpße of roof, that sunlit's gable end! Those gey. flowers, gemming that deep windowsill; That ivied archway and that cloister bend 1 There slopes the lawn away beneath it^trees; There peep again the college walls beyond; There, as of old, in white, majestic ease, 'The swans move, oaring np tee lilted pond. The graybeard gardener, with his swinging scythe— Lot how he shakes I He is too old to mow. It seems bnt yesterday I saw him blithe Andyonng. Ah, well! we all must older grow. It seems bat yesterday that here we walked And sat and smoked, my own best friend and I, Gay, happy-hearted lads, and fbndly talked And planned our futures and their honors high. How both would win a feildWship; and he ‘ Should plead and question, wearing wig and gown, And I should don the sober suit, and be— Quickly, of course—a shining light in town. Then came one gold-green June, that somewhat hid Our wig-and-mitar dfeatns,* and* made them How fitfiLand fair the sweet flower season slid! How'bf’the present was bur only thought! * -How the old place was changed, and sudden made . Vocal with merry maiden voices sweet! Bright with gay gleams shot down tee happy shade, Flashed through by rare white hands and fairy feet. And one there was who drew ns to one spot And made ns meet—no more in friendship fair. In love of her our own love was forgot, And where she was there we two always were. So hate rose np between my friend and me. Poor, pretty girl! she could not love us both. “Ugh! win your miter And your wife!” sneered he; I gibed, and called him “Judge,” and made him wroth. * * * * * * * O friendship, fleeted like this fleeting shade! O this way planned, O that way acted life! He Uvea and grinds in Oxford; I, in trade; He won hja fellowship, and I, the wife. —Temple Bar.

DOLLY.

Just before young Fanning went to Rome six or seven years ago—.he showed me his sketch-book. “ I have been up among the Moravians all summer in Bethlehem, Pa.,” he said. “ It’s the only place where one can ’catch a flavor of age in this cursedly new country.” The little fellow, from his yellow Dundreary’ whiskers to his dainty gaiters, was, a mere exaggeration of his mother’s aesthetic sensibilities. If nature had thrown in to boot.a little back-bone or stomach or passions it would have been better; but, no matter. As things were, one was not surprised the country jarred on him. The old Moravian town had apparently contented him; he had made studiaa of the- , and the quaint Eagle Hotel and the fortress-like Brother and Sister and Gemein Houses, which the first settlers built in the wilderness of solid stone and which stand now unaltered in the village street, solid enough to last for ages. He had the gray, massive piles in crayons and in water colors and in oils, with the yellow harvest sky behind them,. or a thunder-cloud, or the pale pink of spring dawn. Here was a bit of the buttress with wild ivy flaming red*over it; there was a dim interior of a stone corridor and an old woman, cloaked, with velvet slippers, and a blue handkerchief on her head, sat on a highbacked bench, fingering the dusty strings of an old violin which she had just taken from its case. “ That,” he said, “is one of the old. Sisters, Frau Baum. The Moravian missionaries come home to these houses when their work is done, and find shelter and repose. Life in them is but «long, calm twilight. That violin was unearthed one day from some closet where it had been buried almost one hundred years I If it had been knocking about the world in that time just think of the thousands of waltzes and dances and song tunes it would have given to people! It would have been worn out, or at least have been common and unclean. But there it lay, with all its music, Bacred and dumb, unwakened within it.' I like to think of that.” I could not follow the young man’s fantastic talk. M These houses seem to have had a secret enchantment of some kind for you,” I said, turning over the sheets; and just as I spoke I guessed that I had found .the enchantment- Ttook up a carefullyfinished picture of the door of the Sister House, a deep-arched cut in the stone. In it, as in a frame, was a young girl looking back with a laughing good-by before she disappeared in the darkness. There was another sketch of the same young woman standing in the graveyard, her hands clasped, her eyes bent thoughtfully on the rows of flat, gray stones at her feet. ** - Vs “A portrait, George?” , “Yes.” He hesitated. “The niece of (fid Sister Banm. She is nothing hut a' child—has JJved her sixteen years in that old house, just as pure as a flower that never felt the oatside air. Did you ever see innocence or unselfishness shine so transparent in any face? Dolly—that is her That is a poor picture enough; the real Dolly, with the shimmer of yellow hair about her face, is fairer than one of Correggio’s Madonnas.” N , I . thought Dplly much less inspired than any ot these virgins, who, surely, were only immaculate from sheer lack of ideas. There were inexhaustible resources of honesty and friendliness and sweet temper in this soft, pink-tinted face. " " “

NUMBER 8.

a Your Dorothea coold bear the outside air,® I suggested. M “ Bhe witt never be tried, I hope,” suddenly shutting the portfolio, with a scowl., “ Surroundings make a life, as a background a picture. This little girl will not leave the Sister House until — until I comeback for her.” He went on to convince m$ and bun self of the wisdom of marrying her. The ordinary run of American girls Were necessarily tainted by the publicity of their training and free manners. The girl ad been reared in a equal to that of a; French convent, etc., etc. The Fannings, mother and son, belonged to that class of Bostonian swho stood on a level above consideration of wealth, conventionality, or even birth. I thought that there was every probability that Dolly’s history, as it Rad begun like a story in a cheap magazine, would end in the same romantic groove. Mrs. Fanning was precisely the woman to in her daughter-jn-law’s picturesque antecedents, more than in a dower of Pennsylvania Central stock, and would go through society making out of Moravians, and old Sisters, and Gemein Houses a halo for this, glorified Madonna. George Fanning had been gone for a ydar, however, when, being on a visit to Bethlehem, I heard mention of an auction sale of some old chairs and, crockery belonging to a Sister Baum* who had died the week before; certain lovers of rococo furniture bewailing an ancient clock which had brought twentyfive cents, and a priceless harpsichord sold for firewood. Dolly* I learned, had been carried off by a cousin living in Pennsylvania, who “ charged herself with the girl’s keep.” She was, they assured me, “ a helpful young woman, a good housekeeper, and the best hand with children!”—which is more than could be predicated on sight Of any pictured Madonna of Southern Europe. Dolly and her fortunes had died out of my remembrance when, a couple of years later, I landed from an old-fashioned stage-coach with a dozen other passengers, late at night, at the door of a pretentious inn in a country town in the Alleghenies. It was raining hard outside; cross women in water-proofs, whining little boys in knickerbockers, lunch-bas-kets, screaming babies in crushed, whiteplumed hats, umbrellas and gaping leather valises were huddled in one damp mass in the whitewashed parlor, a kerosene lamp flaring on the mantle-shelf, and a lady-boarder, with red chignon, calmly playing Twilight Dews” on the piano. Suddenly, enter to Her marvelous hair was not in a frouzy halo, bnt tucked up in a comb. She was ready, bright-eyed, low-voiced ; she wore ah apron with the pocket full of keys. I knew her the mombnt she opened the door. She Went quickly, %ufotty, to one and another." Yes, madam, the rooms are ready. Yes, the fire is burning quite clear. And you are all back already ? Where are the dear children? Let the baby come to Dolly. I shall have time to* *put her to sleep presently. Ah, how wet you are!” loading herself with dripping cloaks and overshoes. “ Come up-stairs at once,"it is so comfortable—it is almost too warm there. I shall bring your supper up my ‘ self as soon as you are dry.” One of the men asked if she were the chambermaid. She might have been the chambermaid —these were all mehial things that she did. Bat she carried quiet and comfort about - With her, and we were wet and shivering. What Polly’s social rank was did nqt matlerfQ p nor her. Fanning had not overdrawn the rarity or fine quality of her beauty. Her eyes were dark and blue, and as full of light as any mediaeval saint’s —but I protest they seemed most beautiful to me when she brought me a cup of hot tea or went tugging up the stairs with the driver’s lame and dirty boy in her arms. George Fanning was of our party; he had come up to the mountains for the tront-fishing. He happened to enter the hall, dripping, in his oil-skin coat* as she came down again, a tray of dishes in her hand. Ido not believe he really ever wo&Id have gone hack to Bethlehem to find his Madonna; t but thi£ was not - the less terrible shock to him. She Reid out one hand eagerly. Many people had been kind to Dolly, and-George Was only one of the many. He hiad'been well? Sh# had been well, and was very comfortable —oh, as comfortable as could be! There was a good deal to do. She had not time to be idle or melancholy—and she went on to see that his chocolate was properly made. • George looked ghastly —nauseated. He went to the other hotel that night, bat said nothing. He was too well-bred to make his moan over his dead illusions for the benefit of the public. One conld not but wish maliciously that he would come back to see “how many tunes, waltzes, dances and lullabies” his musical instrument was giving to the very common world about her. The landlord and his wife had adopted her—she took the part of the daughter of the house. “ Dolly” was known to the public of three counties. Nobody called her a heroine or a mediaeval the public—teamsters, and traders, and tourists—were only so many human befogs whom the modest, friendly girl had fed or cared for when they were hungry or tired. Each man and Woman fancied they alone had discovered how bine and soft was her eye,R6w delicate and gehtle her voice; their thought of the little Moravian was always modest and friendly. .. There was deal of gossip in the inn about ayoung farmer whom Dolly was going to marry, but'George Farming was scared that. Hfl-went up the mountains

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the next day through the pelting storm, - “aftertrout,” he said. Two winters later P. T. Baraum brought his traveling museum to Philadelphia. Attached to the show was a hippodrome, in which young girls ran chariot and hurdle races, driving three or four spirited hQrses abreast. George,Fanning took my Roys and their mother to look at the horses and audience, a queer phase of American life. In the midst of a headlong race I heard the little man give a groan and mutter*“Good God! has she fallen to that?” . < , Following, his eye to the arena )L saw Dolly in flowing robes of spangled bine, standing in a gilt ch&riot, driving three horses abreast *t a frightful speed. Her eyes were flashing, her soft cheeks burning; her yellow hafr floated behind her. It was for the moment Moanargesjushing to victory; the next the poor creature had disappeared behind the curtain. With some confused thoughts of the best w»y to" appeal to unrepentant erring ones, £ followed her there when the crowd had dispersed. She Rad taken off her butterfly attire, and in a gray suit and sober bonnet was walking composedly toward her cheap boarding-house, holding a little boy by the hand. She turned on me, beantfog. r-*— lii *« “To think of meeting me! Every day some old friend found her out. It was so pleasant! This was Joe, her boy, and the baby whs at home. A girl—yes. So good to have it a girl. Me was in Nebraska —had gone out to And them a Rome. This riding was a little trick of hers. He had written wonderful bit of ground to be had for S4OO, and Mr. Barnum just then offered fifty dollars a week for chariot drivers. In two months—there was the moneyryou see. Bach a surprise for him 1” All this with flushes . and wet eyes, and a thousand little bursts and thyills of delighted laughter. The appeal to poor lost creatures seemed strangely inappropriate jnst then. Yet George Fanning’s brain.was full of just* such thoughts as he went night after night to watch her drive her horses. What the angels’ thoughts were, keeping record overhead —how can We tell? .Yet they surely would keep watch ovfer .hippodromes and country sons as well as over the saintly seclusion of ancient nunneries or Bister Houses. But Dolly, flashing by, probably never thought of men or angels; she only felt she was doing the natural and right thing for her to do, just as she had felt when she had served the guests with hot tea in the country inn. JShe only saw “ him,” away off in Nebraska, and little Joe, and the baby in its cradle, and plenty of friendly people ajl jiboijt hear. I heard of Dolly's husband the other day. He is a Judge—governor, for aught I know—in Nebraska. “ Hlb wife,’’says my informant, “is a lovely, genuine woman, of singularly quiet, gentle man-, ners. , Husband and children and. the people about her fill up every moment o ' her life.” George Fanning heard the story and said nothing, but I observed hup showing a picture that evening to his; wife of a fa,ded old woman in the Moravian Sister House, and heard him tell her of some instrument of marvelous sweetness that lay buried toe re until it crumbled to pieces—“ died with ail its music in it.” Something in the picture and the story seemed to please his esthetic sensibilities.—Rcribner’a Monthly.

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“Two young men had a fight with an adder m Connecticut the other day. To sum it up, they killed it after some figuring.” They probably had to reduce it to fractions. California now holds the Yosemite Valley in trust for the nation, and has paid $55,000 to settle the pre-emption claims of the persons who colonized there. The estate of a bankrupt was settled in Hartford, Conn., lately, the'assets allowing a dividend of only a half of 1 per cent., and the highest dividend was $55 on a debt of til. ooo. | A dog commanded to lie on a wagdn at Taunton, Mass., during the absence of his master, tfhb other day, Staid alone at his post from Friday morning till Mon day evening without food or water. An Oil City (Pa.) woman’s hair instantly turned gray the other day when rite was left by a departing train. Upon inquiry it turned out she had left her new bonnet mi board and just stopped off a moment to .say “good-by” to 9 friend. A bull with a human arm has been brought to this country from Calcutta. The arm hangs from one of his shoulders, is as large as that of a full-grown man, and perfect in all its parts from ike shoulder to the wrist, where there is a bunch of flesh, on which are four small horns, like fingers. Thb schooner Florence Bailey, Capt. Wesley Clark, sailed from New London, Conn-, recently, for the Society Islands, where she will engage in the pearl fishery, Capt. Clark has followed the pearl fishery by means of submarine armor, on the coast of South America,for twelve years. He took $95,000 worth of pearls and shells on the coast of California last year. When a man milks a cow he should not attempt to smoke a cigar or an old stinking pipe at the same time. 4 young man in the country tried it, and got along until he lowered his head and touched the cow’s flank with the lighted* end of his cigar. The next instant himself and cigar were dreadfully put; out. The cow introduced about two tons of weight into one of her hind legs, and then passed it under the milker’s left 3*w, and thus served him sight. ...