The Indiana Press, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 January 1859 — Page 1

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GIlEENCiVSTILE, INDIANA, SATURDA.Y, JANUARY 30, 1859.

[No. 37.

GENERAL NEWS.

Jaii, Deuvirv.—Escape of Smith,

A Leafcr’t Experience. An original spccimeu of the loafer tribe

Xiomay Margaret.

dent surprise at the request. “You now, and he tried, but in vain, to put them

“ifoSToXed o^>U'cliLfod before j '^"ufl^Twn on all hi, flowery

their escape, and arc now at large. It Justice Osborne. On being asked the seems that they sawed through a heavy usual questions, how he obtained a liveli-1 ten-inch oak door, leading into their cell, hood, he told the following doleful story ! making a hole at the bottom, of IC by j uln not ^ blame) y 0 ur Honor, because ! 14 tnehes, through which to crawl.- I can’t earn a living. 1 never did earn bimth (the murderer,) was very heavily niy brcad . j bave been unfortunate all ironed, but he sawed the irons in twain my ] ife . Even when a baby, 1 lost part the whole work evidently done with of one 0 f n ,y ears l,y falling out of the an old casc-knile, which was found in the t . r . ullc on to tbc ^.arp side of a dilapidated!^ this morning. After getting out of edconl-hod. Afterwards,at various times, their cell, and reaching the yard, they b f e n i nto a kettle of hot soapsuds, pulled appear to have made a sort oi ladder out a barre i 0 f potatoes onto my head and of an old bedstead, by which «ieans one cooke j tbo whole of my internal machine of them was able to get through the by drinking boiling water from the spout, window above into the second story, and 0 f , be tea'kettle. Indeed I met will, then assisted the other up by means of more than the usual assortment of boyish! a rope formed by a blanket found hang- misfortunes, besides the usual accidents jng from the window this morning.- which happen to all masculine juveniles.! fhis accomplished, they had nothing to i of being blown up with gunpowder on the debut descend the stairs and walk out of Fourtb 0 f J u ly ( and breaking their legs' theback door—and they were free. An 8 li r p illg down hill on Christmas. At examination of the door and irons clear- one time l had this hand fholding up hisj ly indicate that it has taken weeks to' r ight one] mutilated by a plaining ma- ! accomplish the work. The names of ehine( b;u j ni y hair cut off Tby a circular the prisoners escaped arc-AV ilham Smith, 8aw , was carried from the cellar to the charged with the murder of Catharine fo urtll B t 0 rvof a cotton factory, heels up-1 Halpin, in this city, on the 2, th of Oe- „ llr ds, on the hook of the hoisting rope 1

This ballad wa» originally published in the t . an ’ t R0 a i onC) all d p ( , r ,,,0 to loavo my out of sight.

of the hoisting rope

r , - in my pantaloons— for larceny, finally 1S also charged with | was wbir ] cd around a machine drawn by ni<rh Prime* in ln\r'i I hnan fwn rrion , « ... ... ^ I

tober; and William bmally, imprisoned w hich had caught in my pantaloons-j

has jflered a reward of loOfl for their ap-, miputeS) at tbc rafc of seven timesa scc-j prehension.. 1 w. Am, 18/A. . nd, lost «w,. finger* in a threshing maA Ci:uim;s Railroad Incident.—A ;chine, had my loot mashed by a Third d a y* a rl 0 i ^Ir. .John Lindwood, o: Avenue < ar, and was once run away with Cadiz, Henry county, Indiana, was a by a locomotive engine, which 'l had passenger in a train on the Baltimore started, and did n’t know how to stop.; and Ohio Railroad. He occupied a seat When it came time for me to go into bunear the door, and after dark dropped in- siness for myself, I set up in the apple 1 to a snooze, from which he was aroused and peanut trade, but the boys kicked! by a passenger in the seat behind him over iny stand and stole all my stock. I withdrawing his hand from his breast then acquired a new capital by begging' jiocket with his pocket-book in it. He pennies on the corners, and went into «tu mpted to seize the hand but missed it. the ballad business. I arranged my life and idle pickpocket immediately started ' ’ ' " r '

for the door. Mr. Lindwoodcaught one of the skirts of his coat, just as he emerged from the door. It gave way in his hand, and he then caught the other skirt, which also gave way, and though the train

The faded and the fair;

The sun hath gilt the crested cast.

And shincth here and there. Ho peeps into all casements, And chambers every one:

What news of bonny Margaret,

Thou bright and merry sun ?

Hast thou R<>en her at her lattice, Where she welcomes thee with smiles That make the world more lightsome

Than all thy sunny miles.

There's a linnet at her window, And fre-h flowers by the pane,

But thou'lt know her by her merry look.

That welcomes thee again.

0 sun 1 thou hast a throne in heaven,

And robes of kingly hue :

But most T envy thy far sight. To look the wide world through ; Thou peepest in all easements,

And chambers every one :

What news of bonny Margaret,

Thou bright and merry sun ? — Alas for bonny Margaret, Rinee e'er it oped to sin 1

Her tears hung forth on gossamers,

And faded flowers within;

1 sought her with a glaneeof gold

To hid her forth and shine,

But alas! her eye wa« pale and dim,

And gave no light to mine.

Her hair ndown her shoulders white Hung wild with strange neglect, And nil her snowy linen fine

Had lost her hand's respect;

And then she took her jewels up, And cast them on the floor:— “ Lie there, where all my tears do lia, For you havo made them pour; Your light was of the devil's eyes,

And falsely dazzled mine;

And now the sun looks down from heaven,

I cannot bear his shine.

The moon so fair and stars so bright

Reprove my tarnished fame;

O nothing hut the dark of death Can hide me from my shame!”

Agricultural.

Slinnll Pens for Fattening Hog*. This is a matter of much more impor-

tance than might appear at first glance. Our attention has been called toil by aa uneasy, frisky sow that we had occasion to purchase in September. She had enjoyed the run of a pasture during tha summer and was thin in flesh. Wo put her into a large p<)n, about 14 by 20 feet, and though she had fattening feed in

business is out of the question." How little had he taken her needs of Tears came instantly to the soft brown mind or body into consideration during eyes of the young wife. all the years of their married life. He “ I have not seen my mother siucc I had scarcely thought of her as a being ,came from hoRi-e.” with necessities like bis own ; but rather Down, down through years came to as one given to be the servant of his jMr. Carson the voice of his wife, as it wants and pleasures. It mattered little I trembled on this sentence. Not a single how she thought, felt, or desired. If her shade of its tender sadness was gone.— action served him, that reached the com-

And now it fell upon sensitive ears that pass of his estimates. , , - (searched into all its meanings. Rut “Loving and patient.” What a new “ un< ance » s ‘ ie kept so constantly upon when living lips uttered the words so power to smite him, as with a whip of ! 10 move 1 . t , y. '°°“ ] 8eeme d to help faithfully kept by memory, they awak- stinging scorpions, was this testimony of , jr I 11110 - "'‘ 10 a comfortable, ened no feeling of sympathy in bis sel- the preacher gaining every moment.— ' r ' s t!e P)ng apartment, with plenty of fish heart. “Came from home I" lie Yes, she had been loving and patient, la Ji “J 111 '* s ' le slept vvell by night, there then said to himself, angrily, “Isn’t this amid cruel wrongs and neglect, that sap- I''’ 18 , 1 ? 0 res . t “J'l a y- Aftcrseveral weeks her home?” ped the foundations of her life. Loving! 0 . 1 ils ru lt in:,( ‘ n > wo yarded off a corner of “ Write to your mother, and ask her to an d patient, though daily she bent low- '.I 0 P cn ’ ni!, king it about $ feet square,

come and make us a visit," replied Mr. er and lower beneath the heavy weight of

Carson. her uncheercd duties.

“Mother has a large family and many And these were theineineriesthat came , rr , .-

cares. She could not get away for so hack upon the bereaved husband, as he j <;re W8 * a rapid increase of flesh and long a journey." sat, with his motherless children, in thc| at ® oou a ‘J er the close yarding. “And you have cares, and a home home now made desolate. There had , ^ rom observation#, extendiug oyer a

where your presence is needed,” said the been an angel in his house for years; but husband. Then he added, “No, no, Mary, in his blind selfishness he had not rccogI can't see that it is possible now." ; nized her presence, even though her hand “I can go alone.” Tears had kept crowned his days with comfort, and made i gathering in spite of her efforts to restrain his pillow soft for him at night. And (them, and now a few drops fell slowly worse than this, for good deeds he had j over her cheeks. I returned harshness; for love coldness;

Don't think of that fir a moment, and for gentle words unkindly speech-

Her errant propensities were cured at oneo ; she takes her rations with decided gusto, and sleeps well between meals.

do;en years or more, made in villages and in the rural districts, we have noticed that the fattest and best pork is made in tho former, where one or two pigs aro usually kept in a small pen. Tho villager has but small room, and crowds his pig into narrow quarters for tho whole j year. It is fed on slops for eight months,

I am particularly opposed to ladies tra- Not a gleam of consolation found its un . wr * iist l, ^ r crammed with velingalone. 1 don’t think it at all safe, way into this night of sorrow and self re- s . <a .'. 1 ' me , gete pork of And then, the baby is young. It would buke. Our dead return not. As we y letter quality than he can purbe certain to take cold, and might con- have been to them so will be our memo- ' ' :HC ' an ' . b r 1 et:i cheaper I he whola

LOVING AND PATIENT.

tract a fatal disease.”

“Baby is nearly three months old—" “It’s no use arguing the matter," said Mr. Carson, with considerable impatience of manner. “Tom can't go, and you might as well give it up at once." Memory had kept, with daguerreotype fidelity, the expression of his wife’s face, when he flung back upon her this unfeeling interdiction, and now it was before

ries of them—blessed or accusing memo-j ^ 'f; ainui; * ^forced by his

ries. according to our deeds.

How many hundreds of bereaved husbands arc sitting in tho shadow of grief to-day, mourning for the departed ones, whose loving presence will no more give warmth and light to their dwelling? Ah!

training into the production of flesh and

fat.

The pigs of the farmer, on tho other hand, run in a pasture or on tho common for six or eight months, and are shut up a dozen or moro in a largo pen to fatten

“A faithful wife, a tender mother, n him in all of its rebuking sadness,

rarv stock on the curbstone, but a high true friend, tho life of our departed “Loving and patient." This was the wind scattered my hopes and my songs sister was beautiful. She had trial, pain, commentary. No angry, impatient, or

together; I saw a chimney sweep walk suffering—the common lot of all; but rebellious word escaped herlips, nor’did r oil with “Jessie, the Flower of Dun- there was this difference between our a frown disfigure her brow. But she to give, if that great sacrifice could change M u,tc as much a » 'be village pig, which Mano. a fat countryman stamped “The!sister and many others — in her trials, seemed to shrink before him as if a the record ‘ 8 rcac E' *“r tbo knife. We have two

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what are their comp^ion Jho^htsTl because he has plenty of room. Tho onWhat their crowded memories? What er ^ of , tho , rMmual h . as S" ne muc b their pictures from the past? Like thc devclo P mcnto1 atloutan ^ foGt » aa<i those of Mr. Carson ? Not all, we trust; , !‘ e Propensity to run and to root is not yet to all must come the recollection 0 f!circumscribed v cr y much in his roomy acts or omissions, that the world, if we 11 ' , . } Christinas he is not more thau possessed it, would hardly seem too much tw o-third» fattened, and he has consumed

? IW .l, f J T H j i Mrar’beMrmt’of cflnDdni nTs.il Vn tl.l'LnUt, ’ fv "7 sb 0J ran round the corner with the minister closed his eulogy. His Two months from that time news came with hope as well as rebuke. Ah, how a P^n, 8 feet by 12, aince they were eight ormt.skir Mr T B, ,,, l,,^ " Kathleen Mavourneen a candy girl voice was earnest, and there was a Uw of tho mother’s sudden illness. little inclined are some men to think that old. Small pens, kept dry, and coat ^kirt Mr. L. found, however, to com- nlnrwul u-th •< Ri>n U,. D u T'l, ^ w. n i. »►, 11. i... i ... . ,, , .. , .. . mirnlnr B.mlint, latlin c,,,. . f , ,i , t.»

8150.

A Woman Killed.—The Lafayette Courier says that on last Friday, a woman was run over by a freight train, on the Michigan Central Railroad, between

“1 must go home now," she said. “It is impossible for me to accompa-

. found, however, to com- eloped with “ Ben Bolt,” “The Yankee tremor of feeling in its tones. He had pensatc him, twocostlygold watches worth Sailor,” and “ Lord Lovell," the rest of known this faithful wife, this true friend

my property disappeared in like manner, well, and therefore he had uttered no and all that was left to me was a single mere commonplaces, as he stood, uncoveopy of “Billy Lackady,” and two of cred, by the grave around which were “ Beautiful Jenny;” 1 traded Billy for a gathered tho weeping mourners, penny cigar, which I lighted with Beau- “Loving and patient,” said one to nn-

Miohigan City and Chicago. Both legs. tiful Jenny, and prepared to start in life other, as they walked slowly amid the were cut oil below the knees, and hor-j again. I then went into the plaster im- flower-covered tomb-stones, on their way ribly mangled. The unfortionatc wo- age business, but the boys spoiled my as- out from the cemetery. “Yes, she was] worse, I will go with yon."

man was taken on board the train and sortment by stealing my “ Napoleons "all that—few so loving, few so patient." j “Oh, Thomas I if 1 should never sec

conveyed to Michigan City. Amputa- to throw stones at, and abstracted all my j “And few with more need of patience,” ! her again I"

tion was performed, hut she survived the Greek Flaves” to practice at with pea' was replied. “They speak of hoinc-| “ You indulge a needless alarm,” said operation but a few hours. Her name shooters. The fish business proved no'martyrs sometimes. I think she was | the husband, coldly. “This sickness is is unknown, and nothing could be ascer- more profitable ; my old enemies, the boys, one. The loving heart asks for love in but temporary, a d will pass away." tainediu regard to her, save what pertains stole all the lobsters, while I was eating [ return, and if it receives not this food to! The pleader was silenced, but the pale, to her melancholy death. the clams to keep them from spoiling, and nourish its life in sufficient measure, it Rad face gave signs of intense sufferin '. Nor Matt Ward the Murderer.— my porgies got fly-blown before I could droops, wastes, dies. 8o did our precious | A whole week passed without another

The report that Senator Matt Ward of ,U| J an .V customers. 1 tried cobbling of Texas, is the same man who killed shoos, but 1 lett the pegs too long in the tho schoolmaster Butler, in Kentucky, inside. I also essayed gardening, and has proved of so much annoyance to tlie'”°* a situation ; hut the first day I pulled

the patient, uncomplaining ones, who r 1 c “. a * ar K‘ c| btipi is the secret ol thoir move daily through their dwellings, have, thnlt -'^ lmmca '* Agrtc^Uurut.

ny you. Wait for a few days. Your equal wants and aspirations with them- smut uTwiieot. mother will he well again." selves. How singularly inclined are ! William Myers writes to the California “ 1 can go alone, fhomas, urged Mrs. selfish, sensual minded men, to under- Ko j Bluff Beacon, from Pleasant Grove Urs r on - , „ „ value and think lightly of a womanV F arni) Tehama county, that he has heoii “ I will not consent to that. Mary was wants, yearnings, peculiarities and ne- i 8 f arIlier j n California for four years, and positively objected “Next week, if cessities. I heir range of thought and bas bcen endeavoring to ascertain tho

your mother should continue to grow |feeling sweeps rudely away from hers.— Ica"use o7smutT^ wheat. He thrashed

1 heir hearts but rarely respond to the !0U ^ a portion of his seed wheat by a masame touches ot sympathy. It now and | chine and a portion by horses, lie kepi then, a wife drops her pure pearls of t j lcm g ep ara te and sowed them on tho feeling at the feet of her husband, he 8amq kind of land. That which waa tramples them in lijrht scorn under his thrashed by horses had no smut, whilo bet, iitnl she learns from these sad expc- that which was thrashed by a machine rtences to keep more sacred her precious bad considerable. He says he could trace

. ... I trpa9U, 'cs. . And so she withdraws more tho 8mut to a f urrow where the machine

fr i cl)J .. - I . rni Ck P a89ed wl tJout another and more tnto herself, and, it may be, u , rain waa sown tbc other being perfectly “ You think so ?" ! W0 - d ‘,i 1 ,Cn “ ° m hCr 1 1 cV 18 , hCr ,USbl } nd 80,ne roUfrhcr 81,10 free from smut, both being clean seed “I am sure of°it " er in these woords: Jof her character thus exposing one that whea t 80W n. From this fact, Mr. M. has

i am sure or it. ^ | “Your mother is dying! Come! O will suffer least from the rude contact to ‘‘Air. Carson was not an unkind man.” come quickly ! We have been looking j which she is daily exposed. “He did not treat her with the bra for you every hour during the last four And who can tell in what externally

. _ n . - - - _ . tnlity of an ignorant F rench peasant, but, i days. Don't delay a moment after re-1 pleasant homes these fearful heart-mar-report, and stating that the .Sniator is onion bed, and cut up the rose bushes lor all that, he is none the less guilty of ceivingthis, if you would see your moth tyrdoms are going on. Beautiful manone of the most estimable men in Texas, >"idcr the impression that they were last having diminished, by years, the period er alive." sions, richly attired, give c harm and elo-

and that he was a delegate to, and Vice year’s poa-brush—the unreasonable man of her earthly existence." There was no objection to urge now.-

President of, the Cincinnati Democratu-: Ji'i-harged me. Since that I have been “ 1'hcn it wasan uncongenial marriage?” But when Mrs. Carson re-crossed thejupon us everywhere, with their assur- j w ;Vh a fl nii "nr withhnrsna Convention, and that ho was also a dele- a t<, >'oet sweeper, a bill sticker, n billiard i said the other. threshold over which she had gone a bride, 1 ance of happy hearts within. But every t.i .l ’ n f Imnt to tho Baltimore Convention, which n j ar kcr, J ia ' e sot up juiis in a bowling “ A niild way of speaking truth, an- it wnis to fall, with a deep wail of anguish, now and then wan faces and sad dreamy ; n will bn rm mom bnird in nominated (Icneral I’iereo. | 'b y, and cleaned ells in the market, and swered the friend. “ \ os, it was. I think, insensible, across the bod where lay the (eyes look out upon us from the windows, i. ,,d "

Robbery at North Vernon.—A jew- hiiled in all through my adversities, wholly uncongonial for her. Ho was, cold form of her almost idolized mother, or we catch glimpses, through fluttering

dry storo in North Vernon, Jennings l ' l '° e ' on * r iod to >e a gentleman and probably, as well satisfied with bur as he back to whom she had so panted to fly, veils, of hopeless countenances, as vieeuunty, was entered by burglars on Thurs scholar.. ia\o done my best. 1 am would have been with any woman. >Shc through more than a year of patient wait-! tims of social wrongs glide in and out

friends of the Senator, as to cause the up the young cabbages and left the pig publication of a card, contradicting the 'veods. transplanted the tulips into the

deduced the following theory: Tho bruised kernels have not vitality enough in them to mature the grain, but enough to produce a stalk and head, and tho grain blasts or smuts. So confident is ho of tha truth of his assertions that ho thinks if

“between sixty i tlie Tictim A a bard and bitter unrelent- ministered to his selfish pluasures, and ver watches a ‘ n n bite. My education I havo picked was, as we have just heard, loving and er pencils and 11 1’ as h 08 . 1 1 eou * ( l. I learned to road patient. It was all right, so far as his

day night, and robbed of

and seventy gold and silver watches,

lot of chains, gold and silver pencils, and , . . various other articles of icwelrv ;t!ientre bills from flic newsmen, and , enjoyments wore concerned; as for her. What it is doing for the Sick !_ !’. ick , od “I' *y*H™<* by hanging about life, I think, was one long martyrdom

NV m. Hchuehman, Esq., the well known

lithographer, says : “1 have frequently used Bierhave’s Holland Bitters, and find it invariably relieves indigestion and debility.” Rev. Samuel Babcock says: “I found special relief from its use for a so-

the Court room.

A Warntuu to Miil-I’rncll'-tiiK Pliysl-

clnnii—Sl.V.OOO Verdict.

Ill the Court of Common Pleas in

Chicago, the case of Curran vs. Beach,

of the heart, sleeps well."

But it is over now, and she

our

Weight of Cattle*

According to the Now York Tribune,

mg. I of waiting carriages. Alnslalas! What the ordinary rule of ascertaining tho not There was a strange expression in the a mockery of life is all this! If some arc "'eight of beef cattle from the live weight facaof Mrs. Carson for months afterwards, not patient and loving, as was Mrs. Car- ° n lb e scales varies according to quality, Its meaning her husband did not seek to!son, who bore under her heavy burdens ' s ' zo an J a g e i •'md, after all, is no rule at

penetrate. Indeed, perception with him with seeming cheerfulness, until she fell had no plummet lino that could reach far; exfimsted and perished by the wayside, enough down to fathom her conscious- ere half the usual allotment of days was

an action instituted for the recovery of husband carried the wordshome with him. reproach escaped her lips. fcdio was

vere headache, with which 1 had long i °bv^ Trdi T' 1 " Tho y. ha d failon upon his ears with a new loving, dutiful, and patient. But she suffered.” J. W. Woodwell. Esq. says: ^ “nlafotiff^Tl,- Sonnl fus2 a l'pl'fd to h.s wife, and gave never spoke to Mr. Carson^ of her

“1 have used Bccrhave’s Holland Ritters myself, and recommend ittoolhers, knowing it to be just, what it is represented." Suicide.—John M. Johnston. ofGreen

And so they talked, as they went out ness. Months passed before any warmth filled up, who can wonder—who can from the place of graves. ! came hack to her cheeks, or any light to strongly blame? All have not the relieving and patient.” The bereaved her dreamy eyes. Yet no murmur or ligious trust that gave strength in her

weaknessand hope in lier despair. Still, blessings on the loving and patient, though even their paths be rough

■..to, 0, and it having been permitted to t 0 her character. “A faithful wife, a the dear departed one, but she did not like the rest—falling at noon and mid-1 of live weight. In extra fine animals the come m as part ot the plaintiff sevi- tender mother, a true friend." These seem to hear his remark; and he, from a dsy in the journey of life—but their dq- P fir centage is higher. In New York, deneet bat the defendant was worth 81.ill,- were the minister’s words also, and they 1 vague suspicion of the truth, held back parture is in light, and, as their garments where the hide and fat arc left out of tho (IDO, the jury, having been out some were sounding still in his cars. How from repeating the reference. | trail behind them in thcirfinal passage up- calculation, the bullocks aro estimated at

the plaintiff. . Die amount claimed was to his mind a certain new perception as mother. £7:> 000 jiihI it VinYMno* i i<»r tn t tOw] t/» 4.. 1. i a .. » n •. i <» / • <. i i

all, because it is entirely a matter of agreement between the parties at the time. It also depends upon the locality. In New York, the net weight of the beef in the quarter only is wanted. In Roston, tho hide and fat aro included, counting those products equal to one quarter of the beef, or. rather, calling the whole five quarters. There the net weight of a fat bullock is estimated at tiO to (18 pounds of each 100

m itt o d' 1 u iddeTiVed nesd’a l b v break !'? U,S |' do,cl ' m ‘ nod to mulc ‘ hl "‘ . ,ria »' n gulo r| y elevated h«d become, all at With what painful distinctness was [wards, to all eyes, even thowTnade duUest 55 (i0 pounds net to each 100 pounds

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MU1 j ii i i 1 }]• U 11 compassion, one of tiicni n iv- tinctness. 4 She had trial, pain, suffer- desolate home from which the liirht of a B^A*. Winter is here, and with it will and ordinary lean stock run from 55 dowi> n,u ' 1 ' P i' ,,, n r i ii some " 1.1..J ... i„„«n.i,,.„ jug, Alas! usid this was true also— loving face had departed forever. Oh, appear coughs, colds, croups bronchitis, to 47, though not often below 50 pounds,

true to the bereaved husband in a way what would he not havo given for power asthma, consumption and death. There- or one-half the live weight at home.—

never before appreciated. jto change that one cruel act? Away j fore, immediately supply yourself with Rack to his home returned Mr. Car-[from the rebuking record, written in his | that never-fuiliiig remedy for pulraonarv son, and gathered his motherless chib book of life in characters never to bo |affections. Geo. W. Phillips' popula'r

nectod. He had been guardian of some fog a SU por added fitness in being him children and had used some 81,600 of R0 |f sbort 0 f 0 nc limb. The cause of aetheir money, and could not make restitu- t j on occurred in 1852. All the medical lion when it was demanded. On the day witnesses concurred in the opinion of his death he had agreed fa mortgage that tho treatment of tho fracture in the

some property to secure the money bo first place was unskillful and inipro- dren around him. How very, very do- erased, the grieving and repentant man familymcdiciueswilIatoucearrestthe.se had expended, and the pecuniary dithcul- per, and that the amputation was a solate he felt. What a pressure there turned his ey«s ; but it was only to gaze affections. Do not put it off. Reinem-

ty in which he had involved himself is supposed to havo been tho cause of the

rash act.

Shockino Tragedy in Kentucky.— A man named John Islay, with his wife and step-daughter, had, for some time past, kept a small grocery at the Taylor Flats, near Covington, Ky. The place was kept closed during the Kith inst., and on the next day a wagon was seen to stop at the door, when some of their neighbors, suspecting mischief,and headed by a magistrate, hurst open the door, and found the corpse of Islay's wile pierced through the throat, and dreadfully mangled. Islay and his step-daugh-

bungling piece of butchery. In view of was upon his bosom all tho evidence it was one of the grossest void within.

cases of mal-practicc which has ever

transpired.—Chi''. Trih., 10/A.

The Grain Trade of Chicago.—

what an aching upon another almost as painful fo behold,

as this faded memory restored other

“Loving and patient. The brief son- scenes in which he was the meaty, selfish tence found an involuntary repetition in | opposer, and she tho loving, patient, long- , bis mind. He kept saying it over and suffering wife. It had been all exaction

During the i>ast year there were received 0 ' <r,u !!‘'! 111ir ) K_.ui t > di.iu pic- on his pait, and gentle compliance on j#... .o ...v, ^ at Chicago 610,042 barrels of flour. t “ r0S ° • , P "* St ; ,, us tran8,ur on . Q ‘ors, even thoigh compliance must often ! one partner in each. Their plan tlnwn nmfiirPM rn thr> r»n n vnu »4 l. 1 . *1 i. _ i , • ... . , . .

her that “an ounce ot prevention is better

than a pound of cure.”

BS*fc..Two fast young men formed a partnership in Roston, Mass., for the purpose of doing a retail business, and opened two stores in different parts of the city—

The common practice at the West is to weigh fatted cattle some hours after feeding and a little exercise, and calculate tho net weight at 55 pounds per 100 of

the live weight.

til/ V/ IlIL/tl HU U i. Y/,V 1 D. Ill UI.8 ID UU U1 * ! /•,! •. .*-.*1 ... II * i i . 1 uv. j ui i i i ■ x. i tit v>i»v it. j in, 11 v*tti. against 443,631 in 1857. The receipts| ‘b®! 0 r*® tu res to the canvas. Gere it have been through reluctance or pain, crafty, for customers would visit one of of wheat reached 0,005,880 bushels, i l8, Larson gazed upon it until it He had beoty aJselfish tyrant; she a yield- tho stores, aecertain the price of an nrti-

gaye him the heart-ache. ^ iug. dutiful snbject, though often bur- ole, and on stating that it oould be pflr-

against 10,203,833 in 1857. Of corn the rccipts were 8,055,661 bushels. The; receipts of all kinds of grain, including flour, reached 22.333,690 bushels, an in-

crease of 1,330,600 over 1857.

1 hey had bcen married over a year, dotyed beyon4 nature's power of endur-(chased elsewhere for a less sum, would when Mrs. Carson, who had not seen her ance. !he told that there was but oee place in mother during that period,asked to “go And now, as Mr. Carson read over the Boston where it could be done, and that

home,” a distance of some two hundred past, he saw new meanings in almost was the store of (the other partner,) following number of sheep have crossed miles, and make a short visit. Since every lifo-inoidcnt. The sad eye; the who undersold goods to the in finite dis-: tho ferry on thoir way to California : Jose her marriage she had not visited the dear pale, pleading face that grew thinner and gust of the entire trade. The same pro- i Artnigo, 14,000 . Magill Ramirez, 8,000;

To Measure t orn In the Ear* Find the cubic inches in the bin, divide by 2,815 the cubic inches in a heaped bushel, and take two-thirds of tho quo-’ tient for the number of bushels of shelled corn. This is upon the rule of giving three heaping half bushels of ears to make a bushel of grain ; some fall short and some overrun this measure.

Sheep In CMllfornln*

A letter dated Fort Yuma, December 18, says: “During the past ten days the

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ter were forthwith taken to Covington in Huntington county, has bcen com- old place, though her heart kept going paler with every passing year; the almost cess was carried on at tho other store, jjohnSuiith, 1,300; Antonio Fares, 20. mtl lodged in jail. They refused to an- initted by the United States Cominission- back to its loved ones yearningly all the stony look that answered to his unkind and the consequence has been that both 000. The Gila, for twenty milt*

wwor any questions, although their gar- or at Indianapolis to answer. \V hen ar- whilo. words; the silence that often scaled her together, each playing into tho other's here, is lined with them. 11

Vents were covered with blood. They rested he had 8100 on his person, taken “I don’t sec how that is possible," lips for hour af'or his arbitrary denials;; hands, have done an immense business * l '-‘ ‘ l — DA M cross e

Vr? to he examined sgain on Monday from letters answered her husband coldly, and in evi- all these, and more, were present to him and realized large profit*

that there aro 80,000 *tiU ^

ferry at this point