The Syracuse Enterprise, Volume 1, Number 24, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 17 June 1875 — Page 1

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FRESrt ToftC'S. M**, MooWJW, of Wausau. Wiscon- I rau. presented her husband with triplets. j Os e<rars« tfa y l *”’ very poor, ami Mr. > Hioodhw -» *B»d *> boa worihtesa vaga- ( Immml. The question now is, does Moodies deserve a pension I • A liowri** journal complains thaU STo,.ly and Rinkey Ilves nn.f hymn books, insulting .their superiors with such iqjiegfioiw as these : * Haven't yer got a Xml to save I’ Don’t yer want to find Jeanst And all fftry want to find is the profit.” ThiT* most singularly-named man in ’New.- Yv.k ia Walter R. T. Jones—the middle inlt.ids standing for Restored Twice, His pnnutaJiret had a son called Walter, who died. , Another boy was born to them, and christened after the j find, wrttennadditum, Walter Bcatenil. Ho dn il,idyl a third utale child was b<>ni, ' idid received the name he now bears, , Walter Rretored Twice ■ Junes. • —• It in a notorious fact that » great deal ot smuggling goewon in New York. >■ - jiecialiy in *<lk goods; but it is not true, as some persons think, that the revenue | from duties on that branch of imports has fallen off. Ou the contrary, it has ? increased. The average increase this year, as iimipan d with corn -qi,tiding months us last year, is at the rate of. three <*» Mir nrilMimS* year. . ■ ... - * I ► Ht ajux B. Anthony hM been an mi tiring attendant st the bedside of her brother, W IS JHfcMiy, '«* ■'V*'* f worth, during lux illness resulting froiu Embry's pwlol^lMjt; and if the wounded ; mail recovers, it wifi lie due largely to Miss .Anthony’s ,skill and attention. Every particle of fowl eaten by the Col one! was prvjwrvil by her hands, and for the time, at least, the strong-mindisi . woman was merged in the loving sister. Tub “ balloon wedding" has been out- . done by tho proprietors of a variety shew in San Francisco. It waa anmnuioed on j the bills a few days since that one of the ! “varieties” of the evening would Is- an -actual wedding with a real minister,' and the programme was carried out accord iug to the contract, the parties being a j favorite clog dancer and the leading vocalist of the troupe. After the cere-1 Stony the happy jarir expressed their appfeetaKon Os the applause bestowed on them by a combined song and dance. *~t*~ — ■ . i DoaOM the receiiLvisit of ' the Illinois I to 8U Louis, they called upon ' Gob. Rujrman in • I ody and praed a few pleasant words. Th,eqs, of the , Wyoming /W, shows* of the party, ’ says that a few of them lingered after the matubody liad depsrtAd, audyvoceeded to interrogate old T< h about his book. His characteristic reply to a ipiestion was, “I think I wrote the truth, but if you think differently, after cwrefully reeling the book, you ought to give me *” A vicjio lady of Porthuid. M<\, u.»t long since met a hatnlsome Boston oomnrercW drnramrr MO tf»e care, struck upr an acquaintance, allowed him ,to visit hrr, arul finally consented to t* his vrife. She afterward repenbnl of her hasty premis? utnl wrote him to jrcteaae her, bntho wouldh’t. Rhe has now nretved a letter from a Boston lawyer, stating tliat her was-to-be husband had retained him aa counsel, and thrft nnleas the mare riage takes place at the time act, a suit will be commenced against her for breach of premise. As the young lady is worth a luuidaomc property, ahe is afraid th» tenaotoua drummer's native:; are not rincerv, and that ahc has beau very fi» l* iah to allow heraelf to get into all thig muddle. J Ftvw hmnlred young * met together at Richmond, Va,, as rcjH nwutatives of Young Men's Christian i Areoeiatioua iu all parte of the country, t The convention was strikingly oua, and i» it» avoidams» «4 Mwatahes as well presented tan excellent i nMslel to other large wuiveiiC tons, whether polfltedhr religkutt iu tin irCharacter. The Young Men's Qiristian Araoeiatiou ; has enviable reputation of diav- i jug <Complished a vaat atmntni of good umireympatued by aus- M-amlahi prtfvok ing publie distrust, or any mistakes r > ] milting from misdiMk-ted jn'a), ami its j prosperity, as evidenced by the proceedings of the convention, is a matter over which all thoughtful persons, wbetla-r professedly religious or wifi lie who ’ it is j whispered, is no other than the young' 1 Don Alfonso Jt seems that, wh|b» oa beard a vessel on his way to his domipiona, jane ot his m-wiy-introdweed nobles jMflfeocstdMKl himself before his sovereign to impart some important piece of»informattoK. The -jpugg King listened and then began hia reply. Un fortunately, just at that moment, the ■hip began to roU in • most agonizing fashion. The unhappy courtier felt very, eery ill, and finally, to conceal his misery from the King, he waaforecd to tride his face in his hat. Don Alfonso, while continning his discourse, furtively observed all that was going on. and, when he judged that the crisis was passed, he intempted himself suddenly. “Count,” />• said, in mote majestic tones, “you fotget that you are a grandee of Spain. Put on yoor hat, I command yon AanroKnmfm' the St. Loom: ftme# recently interviewed Gen. Albert Pike, who to at present attorney for the 000-

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; taw nation of Indiana. He holds that ■ ! the Indians of Indian Territory have a ! jiatent for their bujd. hav* kept up all ' i fheir obligations, and caugot be remixed 'or disturbed, except by invasion, the ' government having no right to give one ' hundred feet on each wide of the track to i two railroad companiee, aa ’ Rocrefary D**"”** “® r ! Cherokees and whij> any wild nation of Indiarik'OU toe plains. When, Jeff. Da vis sent me up there at the beginning of | i the war, I sent put a plug df tobacco, tied around with a ribbon, which they ‘ call wampum, and a bullet, saying to the Comanche*: you cau take whichevy I you Uku If youSmnl tolwcoo. cerine in ’ and malts ft frably. tt you dbn’t, I have * a thousand Cherokees here with whom I mcafi to clean you ouL They came in. I The United States government could profitably employChootawu, Chiekaaaws and Crwks to manage all the wild Indians of the plains. Every time Sheri1 dun kill* an Indian it cobU S 10,000. ( MOTIIKH r - “ If there’s one class of would-be-witty scribblers I condemn more th.ur another,” suul Mrs. Brown, “ it's those fdi lows who srecontm nnlly flinging Iwi jokes at mothers-in-taw. Why, sir, I shudder jat what my lamie might liave iieconie iuul it not bepnforMra mother. I offered her a home when I nmrriiNl Km; < but the good soul wouldn't tk^cptit—said young married folks ought to be ' Jone, the first yeas, i» order to find each oto<sf*s fauft, foibles, and so forUi-r- --•» piei’C of ftouud wisdom, by the way ; wish all motimrs-itetow would ‘ nmke a note of it. ’ Well, sir, when Em was in a ]>eck of trouble about youug Master Tom, who dhl nothing, for the first mimtli of his existence, but yell like a •brave,'and when thy nurse quarreled with the cook and left the house, that : bh-iml mother cri ours brought her trunk to the house, and without waiting to take | off her bonnet, took tliat young savage I in her arms, patted him on the back, weut I through some other mysterious man clivers, and to! peace « , usn«'d. And tliat was the begiuning of her usefulness, sir. She nursed Em back to health ; helped her take care of her baby ; looked after ; the servants, in her quiet way, and detected the cook in rolling butter and ! < gff* frolll °. ur dozen of onr spiums in the chamber-. miu<&s bed ; and, in fact, put a stop to jntpojtion g-cnendly. And as for the bwaems of economy and practical wisd«un iatofttaught Em! .^Thy,air,imrexpense*, i were reduced to om -half. You roe, young |>eople uceil an adviser, or else j everybody imposes on them ; for it to [ jwetty well known that old heads don’t grow ou young shoulder*. And though mother has a temper of her own, sad » n little fussy, we don’t mind it } toe cornea round all right in an hour or so. No, wr, IV fto sympathy with men who traduce luotlienHiihv-as a elate, I mean, of ww ; they are eaceptioQß to all rules. Just treat your mother-in-law as tliough toe were yonr own mother ; Iponfide in her ; don’t reaent her little peftiltanties ; and, my word for it, you'll have your reward.” Tht»swra Mr. Bnmrn, •iml it to high time tliat tomlur tetountmy should be given by other Bemilicta, for siothcrs-in law hare long borne au.tm- »< rited l«ul of opprobrium. Why should traditional droUeiy I"' MJpwed to Hind bs to the pattont, good, nnaelfito w ? Who often take up the burdens of life again in the marriage of their children? Who luui not stspi the mother in-law on duty as sick fture' 1 How often she to the guanliau angel that hovers around, and. toads off danger ami mtoery ! How often her laxum to tlie as which a child «N-ks repoae again, when th| <b cote Os life Ims pone by eontwire, end tin- poor hiwrt wakes and broken ! How often the rmitiicr ui I tow is the one link connecting ths fondly • with rcsp«'ctabihty, comfort and aymj<a j ; thy ’ How often a wialowed Ruth ba*.| , d«»uU.iu aafoty-»ith her uwtoasdnda* 1 f Ififc'w often the widower taw bhxsed Godl tltot his wife’s mother remained when hto i ! wife w» taken I If it is tona.-fams other-1 the fact to to l» traced to error and « | folly on one side «■ the other. He riMq ! marries wisely must think beforehand. that he murt sustain some kindly rela bripu to the family of hto wife, and be [ r*U> is not willing to bmd a bikie and make things pleasant, and allow for the . tartro and feelings* 4 otliera, to not yet | fit to be a good hualsuid or a wire. father, • ' .■ ~ A —— Hixnt rrt i.<rrJKite»r«rrK«4s. In writing a letter to the President or . the Goverfior of the State, it to proper to] r cUßkea hto raune in thtfuezHito. If the letter to to a Judge, the proper preface ’ hto Htorfftrr TWloW* name of Congnwa, “ Honorable ” to the proper whirtrto aHtayStftod in adding officer* dr the’lfovernmenE Tn writing to a friend, whether the friend to: dear or uot,faahion dictates the use of the I IggpMarikm. “My dear Mr.or Mra.” ■fa dosing a letter, many say, truly.” or “ Youra respectfully, ’ but I there are letter* written by dignitaries; hijgh in power, who simply sign thvir name when they have said what they had to nay. The date of a tetter to usually written on the right hand portion of the.; sheet, and the body of the tetter begins ;on the line below where the address Fisa Uxmramn has just graduated , ite fast oofiege dare of two young men sod two young women.

THE CADFX JUD<H3tEMT. J —— BY JOHX a. KAXB. Aqlxmert «i»tar. by mWito. * SOdtnau the giddy wrt I Wbrrvhe vMperehed and frmatte roof Fen headlong in the street. And aa he fell—woe worth the day • Down from hie eeat on high, “For each alto, mjftatrt to amaa." The grateful elater eaid; . * I *• But, what to thto that 1 hare done t . Alaa! the.Mtt to dead J" And roon the etrangert ecu appeared; f And when the man confeaaed What he had done, he straightway went And ord< ml hto ai-rvet. s Before the Cadi now hr atanda. Os whom the angry »ou ! , remaded jnattre, qteMlly, . ."F A. f. r a uronh r.loi! “ What to thy pl at” the Cadi raid; “,To »toJ' a man. or cause I That be be alain (without exetre) I. death by Turktoh law»!’ • Allah to great!” fl» rioter crto<!; ••wjmt to tore, wm t«; & The thing occurred to you have beard; 4 make no other ptowt" •' Allah to groatand law to law I” The c*-*> made reply; . “ Ito dear the slater, by hto fto, l>id atay the paaacr-by ; “ But aa there aaema no certain proof I Os criminal Intent.; And ttiatUx penalty * tj»i'U«l May amt the event; ° . “ The iWCTKsetiwr-’tto decawd - Vpoa the cad may < limh, And, falling on tbc’iTte.mer, Shall thua avenge hi* crime t” THE BOOR# AFFAIR. ..< Sturf) ('fTrumshtutinl Kr»drure. On tho morning of the iiGtli of November, 1819, I read in the Ruthunl ( Vt.) Herald the following notice : “ mukoek! “ Printers of newspapers throughout the United States are desired to publish tliat Stephen Boom, of Manchester, iu Vermont, is sentenced to be executed for the murder of Colvin, who Ims been alwent about seven years. Any person who can give information of said Colvin may save the life of the innocent, by making immediate communication. Colvin is about five feet five inches high, light eohiplexion t ,light hair, blue eyes, and about 40 years old. Manchester, VM Nov. 26, 1819.” This communication was copied very generally by newspapers, and created a great deal of interest Before describing events that fallowed, let us go back to the year 181*2 and to the little town of Manchester, Vermont Harney Boors, an old man, had two aouH, Steplmn and J«we, and a daughter, Sarali, wife of Russell Colvin, a halfcrazed, half-vitted day lalxirgr, They were a bad lot, poor, ignorant, *»d iu doubtful repute for honesty. Two miserable hovels served them for shelter, and a few acres of pine barrens eqjtftituted all their possessions. They mised a few , potatoes ami garden vegetables, find eked out • scanty livelilHxxt by days work for tfo neighboring farmers. In May, 1812, Coh in was at home. In { June he was missing. At first this occa- J ftionod no remark. He alway s a tramp, absent from home sometimes for weeks together. But this time he did not come back. As - weeks grew into j months inquiries began to be made artpng ' the neighbors about the missing man. There are no tengfies for gparip like ttatoe fahteli wag in ft Yankee village. One to another. Excitement grew. Wonder,like aeontagions disease, aff<*et evl * It was known tliat there tetdlotog existed b tw<««i the old man and boys a grudge against Colvin; it was in proof that the last time the missing nuta was •eon ho was at work with stone* from a field, and that a dispute was going on ; and IrtwfaColvm, j IbojT MUet Eub.s-41, l ,ivl "taiid that his ' father hml sfrnok lifa jihch' Steplw, and ■ i that the other feffl rat'd the blow, and i that then he, the bey, becoming fright-1 | aned,|ari away. Again, a Mr. Baldwin I had heanl §tepben Boorn, in answer to j I the inquiry as to where Colvin was, say, * “He’s gone to hell, I hiqie.” | “la bestead, Stephen punmed Mr. { Railtwin. | “I tell you again,” replied the man, | “ that Colvin has gone where potatoes j i wunl freeae." For seven yeara the wonder grew, i Colvin’s ghost haunted evmy house m 'Benningtou-coiuity. Tlx-re was no known | pnxif that the Booms were guilty, ftnd yet everybody believed it A button i and jack-knife were found, which Mrs. C. j believed to have belongi,-d to Bussell;; dremps, thrice, repeated, were had by old women and kitchen girls—and ten ; I thousand stories were in circulation. N. Y., while Jesse remained pt home. After the former had left some bones were stradrotafiy fonmf in thrdeotyed trunk of a tree in his house, though : all surgeons said to the contrary, it was universally believed that they were part of a human skeleton. Os course, then | they must be Colvin's bones. Jesse was I arrested, Stephen ww brought back from Danmark and both were held for examination. Although all the testimony when i sifted was found to be worthless, yet the ; two brothers were remanded Ucktojail, ‘ and Jesse was worked upon to make him turn State's evidence. The jailer tor ' ness. Neighbors helped. Beset with preaching and prayers, tracts, indiermons, religious conversation and pious directions—that there was no doubt in any one's mind but that Stephen committed the murder—urged to matte a , ctaan-treaat of it and thus save his body

, ■, ■ . ; ■ - -■ — — SYRACUSE. INDIANA, THURSDAY, JUNE 17,1875.

and s6nl, what wonder that the man con- ’ fessed, or was alleged to hive confessed, that Stephen Boom did murder Bussell Colvin I On Sept. 8, 1819, the grand jury found ; a bill of indictment against Stephen and ' - Jesse Boom for the murder of Russel ; Colvin. William Farnsworth testified that Stephen confessed that he did it, ’“and that Jesse helped him; that they hid I the body in the bushes, then buried it, • then dug it up and burned it, ais then I scraped the stew remains and hid them ’ !in a stump. Upon this evi-I denoe the jury returned a venbet of: guilty against both prisoners, and they \ were sentenced to be hung on Jan. 28, ; 1820. And now the men came to their senses. • ‘fhcyt iwaertcrb their inuoOMice. They , ' said that they liad confessed as their Lust hope. Seine compassion *began to be felt for them. They might, after all, be innocent. A petition for their pardon 1 ■ was presented to the Legislature. Bnt it availed only to obtain commutation of . Jesse’s sentence to imprisonment forl life. No mon*. Stephen was to be hanged. Let the reader now turn to another | chapter of this strange history. , In April, 1813, there lived in Dover, j Monmonth county, N. J., a Mr. James; Polliamus. During that month away- i farer, lagging food, stopped at the door. ’ I Being handy, good-natured, quiet and . ! obedient, homeless, and weak of intel- ' lect, too, he was allowed to stay. He' said his name was Russell Colvin, and I j that he came from Manchester, Vt. < Not far from Dover lies the little town. | : of Shrewsbury, then a quiet hamlet, now invaded by the cottages and villas of j Long Branch pleusure-seekers. Here | lived Tidier Chadwick, brother-in-law to Mr. Polhamus, and intimate with the family. Accidentally reading the New i York Everting Poxt, he met, not with j the notice of the Rutland Herald, bnt I. ' with an account of the trial of the j Booms. Convinced that the Russell Colvin, alleged to have been murdered, was the very man living with Mr. Polhamus, he wrote to the Evening Port ’ a letter, which was published Dec. 9, ! 1819. Upon the arrival of thia paper at Man- 1 Chester it excited but little attention. I The letter was believed to |,»e a forgery or a fraud. Had not the best people in the town long believed the Booms to be guilty? Had not one. perhaps both of them, made full confession ? The bones : of the murdered man, a portion of his j coat, his jack-knife—had they not all j been found I Had not an upright Judge ■ made solemn charge that ihe evidence t was conclusive, and an intelligent jury found them guilty, and the Legislature sanctioned the findings I There was no doiibtjjof their guilt —none whatever,: 1 and Wjefore no benefit Os a doubt had ■ been given by jury, Chief Justice or | Court of Appeal. Mr. Chadwick's letter was, nevertheIsm, taken to Steplien’s*Ml and read aloud. The news was so overwhelming that nature conld scarcely survive the ■ shock. The poor fellow dropped in i a fainting fit to the floor, and hail to be ■ ; recovered by dashes of cold water. Intelligence came next day from a Mr, j Whsipiey, formerly a resident erf Man- . cheater, that he himself had been to New i Jersey and seen Russell Colvin. * The , i members of the jury which had oonvict- ; ed the Rooms, however, hesitated to ac- .j j cept anything short of the man’s presence, and Judge Chase, who had sen- •| teneed them, pointed to Stephen Boom’s Confession. ■ ' j The third day came another letter. ** I have Russell Colvin with me,” wrote | Mr. Whelpley. “I personally know Russell Colvin,” swore John Rempton;! “he now stands before me. " “It is the same Russell Colvin who married Ann Boom, of Manchester, VL,” affidavit Mrs. Jones, of Brooklyn. Bnt it ; wrath! notanswir. Prate at opinion isi ! stubborn. Doubt of opinion dies hard, j Manchester intelligence, not to say piety, | wan on trial, raid it behooved all good j | residents to hold out against conviction I j th the last. However, Colvin, or Colvin’s double, i j was on his way., As he passed through I ( Poughkeepsie the streets were thronged Ito nee him. His story wm printed in i every newspaper and told at etwytoe|aide. It Hudson cannon wore fired; in ! Alljanr howss shown to the crowd from I a platform ; and all along the road to Troy bands of music were playing and banners were flaunting and cheers were • given as Colvin passed by. Some men i become famous from having been mnr i I dered. Bundi Colvin was famous be- ' ‘ cause he was alive. Toward evening of Friday, December | 22, 1819, a double sleigh was driven so | riouriy down the main .atee<af Manchester to tavern door. It contained Whelpley, Kempton, Chadwick, and the bcwUderrti Rwwell Colvin. Hnmediately a crowd of men, women and children gathered around, and as the loaded its occupants and ttoratook their place on thepiaara, exhibiting the last 1 man to view, tCThat’a BomeU Colvin, sure enough! There’s nodoubt about I it!*’ came from the lips of toorea of ’ gazers. He embraced his two children, asked after the Boorns, and started for |tl»e jail. S ’ The prison doors were unbolted and I the news told to Stephen Boorn. * Colvin has come, Stephen,” said the < Rev. Lemuel Haynes. “Has he?” asked the prisoner. “ Where is be ?” “ Here I atn. Stephen,” raid his t brother-in law. “ What’s tfilt on your ( leg»r I “ ShaekiM I” replied Boorn. -J .“What-for?” i

“ Because they said I murdered you. ” “Yon never hurt me in your Hfe,” re- ' plied Colvin. The sequel is soon told. Stephen Boorn was released from prison, as was ‘ Jesse also. Russell Colvin returned to | ' New Jersey. nt the Jmlge who suffered I an innocent man to be convicted of murder by the admission of extra-judicial confessions—the members of the jury, who deliberated but one hour before ; agreeing upon a verdict of guilty upon evidence that should not hang a dog—the deacon ami church members who urged confession and preached repent- ! anee—and the ninety-seven members of the Legislature, sitting as a Court of i Appeals, who refused re-hearing of evidence—what became of them ? o-r/rj' eating. Throughout tne entire country, the rice of opium-eating is becoming ftwfully prevalent, particularly in those sec- j tions which an? supposed to be most ex- ■ empt from this and kindred social I scourges. In the crusadre against the j liquor traffic and the spt amodic efforts ‘ that an? periodically ma le to promote and advance the cause off temperance, . ! our philimthn>pists appear entirely to ' have lost sight of the monster evil that' is growing up in our midst, and tliat is 1 year after year assuming such terrible , r ami alarming proportions. Only the i medical faculty have the means of ascertaining tile extent to which the practice I prevails, and even they ran only approximate the actual figures by a rough estimate. It is estimated th it of the whole | amount of opium eow turned in the I I United States, only about one-third is ■ : employed in its various f arms for medi- j I cinal piuqxoses, while it is maintained 1 1 tliat not more than one-f ftli is so used. What becomes of the ot tier four-fifths ? This question is frauglt with serious import. There is not a a ! druggist in the country who is veraant with more than one casdßßndiridual ruin caused by this insithouS and idniost ineradicable habit. There as I hardly a village in the land that does not number among its population its proportion of opium eaters, laudanum drinkers > or morphine consumers, and the sale of these articles is not confined to the village drug store or apothecary’s shop, but even the grocers have $a sujiply of the eoveteil stimulant for tlit‘ir regular customers. The familiar sign displayed in some shop windows, “If you don’t see what you want, ask for it,” has for the initiated a meaning that is well under- : stood. Many women of fashion, and litI entry men, become the slaves of opium ; and concerning the working classes many a talc of woe-and suffering, mental and physical, is to be found in the medical records of our great cities. Occasionally they find their way into the public j ■ journals, but they fail to do more than : elicit a passing remark, while the great ’ and growing evil which threatens eventually to rival in its proportions and the ; number of its victims the prevailing vice .ol intemperance, is hardly deemed j worthy of the slightest consideration at j tlw hands of our so-called philantiiro- > piste. Not a few of the imitates of our ■ lunatic asylums have been deprived of . their reason by a long and excessive indulgence in the use of opium, for insan- i ity is sometimes the result, and the unhappy victim finds onjy in death a re- , lease from his sufferings. Three hun- 1 dred thousand pounds of opium, inde- j pendent of the supply useil for medicine, is annually consumed in the United States ; a comparison with China shows \ that we. consume more opium than the . Celestials in proportion to our population. There is certainly a wide field 1 {wesented here for a great movement of j the benevolent against the ruin wrought among thousands of our population by ; I this terrible viee. j-'p • ■ ' | itACK EOR .1 COKRUE. \ ; Two Troy Coroners, Blackball and i Seaman, were simultamxHjsly notified tliat the deail body of a man had been j found in a field, where it bail lain a week . or more. They started hastily for the tqxit, which was six miles out of town, in a wild neighborhood, each morally certain that the other would make abvely race for the fee incident to an inquest They took different roads, but when half ; ! a mile from, that hail been de- > scrilied to them, and where wagons had ‘ to be abandoned, they caught sight of | each other. The start on foot across the rough fields was about even. Each raw a duster of crows circling in the air, ( and conduded that the birds had been attracted by the corpse; but it happened that there were two flocks, and that j Blackball ran toward one, while Seaman legged it for the other. Neither saw two flocks, however, and each wondered at - his rival’s divergence from a direct course. Seaman arrived at the hums body breathless and exhausted, but very exultant Blackball arrived st a body, too, but found it wav that of a horse, xosr wis orfojSTVjrirr. A Georgia paper tells the brief story <rf John Boyd, a white man, who was ! convicted of stealing two horses and two milks in Noxubee county, that State. < ' When asked what be had to say, Mr. . ' Boyd declared he had “always intended . to be honest,” and that “ he did not think of stealing the mules more thau a i month before he did it!” Referring to the time when he was arrested by the ' officers of the law, he said he was, as was natural, “ straining every “ get away, and that if he had succeeded wassatisfied he would have madpa good citizen.” Tax New f orit Tribune courts an avalancbe of libel suite for damages, by, •• exposing” the very unsafe condition of between fifty and a hundred New iYorichotete.

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. ' , Farm Kokinys. Thb Pmmtrg Gentleman says harrow-1 ing winter wheat three or four times in tiie Spring has always largely increased ‘ the yield. It advises using the smooth- * ing harrow. Adam Grimm, of Jefferson, Wis., is j ' one of the largest honey raisers in the 1 world. His crop for last year was 25,919 pounds, and his apiary contains 1,158 colonies. The New England Partner (which is good authority), dismissing Hungarian ; grass and ’ millet, says: “After many trials of both we Itave ho choice between the two tliat could not be derided by a ‘ difference of a single dime in the cost of a bushel of seed.” ■ ■ ■> "Y* ■• « / ~ \ 'v.l • . I Those who make« wool-grouring a , prominent part of their business usually give their flocks more or less careful ■ attention in winter, but these animals I are often neglected to the great loss of . their owners, especially by those who< | keep but small flocks, and make other J i branches of farming their main depend- ! i ence. Insufficient food and total lack of j ! shelter often cause death to decimate the i flock; and a still greater loss is sustained | t in the reduced fleeces at shearing and in j Jlie death of lambs in spring, for in > vidue both depend much on the care previously given. Farmers must not only so cultivate the crops upon which they mainly depend for income as to make them profitable, but they must make all the minor 1 creqis, which they raise for feeding stock ! or for family supplies i»uy cost of culti- ' ration, otherwise the profits of the lead- ' ing crops will lie alisorbed by the losses on minor crops, and the farm accounts will show a lialance on the wrong side. A eoRREsroNDEKT of the Maine Farmer says: “ Btx t seed must be covered well in order that it will come tip even, and if sown with a drift will not get covered deep enough. My practice has been to soak the seed a day or two before sowing, then to roll the seed in plaster so it will be as large as peas. In this way a man can sow a large breadth in a day. I fur row my land out with a horse, the same depth I do for com in rows, about two and one-half feet apart. This enables me to run them with a horse cultivator, and saves a great deal of hand hoeing. I have raiseil in this way eight tons of beets on one-third of an acre ?” Swedish turnips, sugar beete and mangolds are the varieties of roots best adapted to ordinary cultivation,‘as they arc most easily and cheaply grown. On soil well manured they need not cost more per acre than a crop of com or potatoes, as the rows should be made far i enough apart to do most o' the work with the horee-hoe and cultivator. Carrots are more expensive, as they start so slowly that weeds are almost sure to get in and liave to be pulled by hand ; but carrots are so good for horses that a few should be grown for them. Some recommend growing carrots for all kinds of stock; but this is too expensive. The Cmmtry Gentleman gives an account of a recent visit to John Johnson, Esq., of Geneva, N. Y. The venerable man is 84 years of age and oversees his i farm and farm-hands. Fifty-two years ago he came from Scotland to this country, comparatively a poor man. *He attributes his success in farming to the free application of manure. A number jof years passed, and he bought fifty acres adjoining his original farm. The I owner of this land said that manure j would do no good on it In the liarayard, says Mr. Johnson, there was three years’ accumulation of manure. That manure jmid every cent for the farm. lkomr»tir Eeonamif. \_ Preserve eggs by a quick dipping in" boiling water, and i»aek in fresh salt, small end down; | Linex can be glazed by adding a tea spoonful of salt and one of finely scraped soap to a pound of starch. ; Wash floor cloths in clear, warm water, then go over them again with a wash composed of an egg well beaten and I mixed with a pint of warm, clear water. This will give them a newness which will be quite lasting. Veby dainty, fanciful frames for photographs can be made by ingenious fingers by tying and gluing raitin stems togethet, and varnish with common varnish colored with vermilion. They will look almost exactly like coral branches. Fio Pcdducg.—Take a quarter of a pound of figs, pound them in a mortar, and mix in gradually half a pound of bread-crumbs, and four ounces of beef snet, minced very small; add four ounces of pouHded loaf sugar, and mix the whole together, with two eggs beaten up, and a good teacupful of new milk. When all these ingredients are well mixed, fill a mold, and boil for four hours. Puasts are good indicators of the I healthy air of a room, for where the air ’ is hot and dry (as most parlors are, and j consequently unfit for persons to live in, . as welUs plants), the same feeble and stunted look the plants always have, j On the other hand, if they are where ■ they can get the moisture from the cook stove, and even but not high temperature, they usually thrive, and delight tho happy possessor. For this reason we j frequently find beautiful plants in the homes of the humble, while richer neighbors, with more dostiy plants, do not succeed. ' i Dombshc Hair BkJnBWER. —Steep a i handful of sage in a pint of water. When cold strain it, adding one tabteI spoonful of salt, one gfll of bay nun or

other spirits. Bottle and cork closely. If a very dark ‘ shade is desirable put a few rusty nails into the bottle or in the sago while it is steeping. ‘ This not only promotes the growth of the hair, preVeAfiug.it frbm coining ortt,' but restores the color. My hair was coming out at a fearful rate after a severe illness ; this compound arrested that and restored the , color also.— Cor. New York Herald. »- I Chocolate Cream.— One quart of j milk, two tablespoonfuls of corn st rch, four of grated chocolate, and a little salt, and two-thirdi cup of sugar. Mix chocolate and com starch together with a little water, sweeten and salt it, and add it to the milk just before it comes to a boil. Boil about five minutes, stirring all the time; add a bit of butter, and flavor with vanilla. RAG-PICKING RESPECTA It I LITT. Catharine jEftker, a poor old woman of 1 Indianapolis, did her part toward fouudi ing a respectable family most thorough- . 1 ly. She and her husband were Prussians, and moved to Indianajiolis forty I years ago. They were poor. They ex- ; j plored the gutters aud collected nigs and I 1 garbage and slops, aud turned them into .focal and shelter. They went poorly clad and never succeeded in transmuting any of their rag-picking profits into good ’ clothes. They were honest, but none I of the silk-and-broadeloth passers, seeing ! the Bakers at work in the city’s gutters : and slop-lmrrels, would have thought of i them as respectable people. Yet they ■ were aiming at respectability, without any feeding of self-respect, Finally the ; husband died, and was slowed away in ; the ground at the city’s expense ; cities have that much to do for a poor num in i self -protection. A man, however poor, is sure of burial. Catharine Baker continned to be a gleaner of the city’s refuse, and as an auxiliary to a livelihood took in washing. She was perseveringly industrious to pick up a living, and she hail two boys to care for. The boys were not kept at home, but were supposed 1 to. be grubbing somewhere else. The : other day Catharine Baker died, aged 69. She died in rags and with all the signs of poverty about her. Destitution and want can join her to the earth no more. Her two sons came, and they appeared to be respectable, educated men. Catharine Baker’s affairs were investigated, and it was discovered tliat slie was possessed of one hundred thousand dollars worth of property, in houses and lots and farms, and government Ixmds at interest. She hail managed her affairs so that nobody dreamed of her wealth. The sons will make a comfortable divide of the spoils of a rag-picking life. There is no doubt tliat they are resjiectable. Tlse Bakers founded a respectable family, and did their whole duty to society so far as they knew it. Their lives involved a scheme of deceit, and yet nothing could be more respectable than the grand result. OCR Kin FIRE It wasn’t so big as it might have been, but we know how it feels. The sensation was unmistakable. With one lum-ber-yard roaring up and carrying with it the surrounding manufacturing shops, with the next street of wooden houses all going off in dusky flame, iwith a ( block on Main street beyond control, and two streets of good wooden and brick dwellings in another quarter all on tire at once—this was quite sufficient to give us a taste of the tires called “ big.” For an hour we had a general panic. Main street in a little while was converted from the sobriety of a New England Sabbath into a wild fair of dust-be-grimmed people and rushing express hams and hacks, toiling with dry goods, musical instruments and mercliandise and personal effects of all kinds. Lone Bridget dragging her Saratoga through , w cold and unlubricated world betokened j the genend desperation. Springfield has simply made a long step forward in one afternoon, in the process of getting rid of its wooden buildings, and on the whole it is to be congratulated that so little else of real damage was done at the same time. A harder wind or a different direction of it might have given us quite other results. The tire department and the waterworks did well on the whole, but they lack acquaintance with each other. — Springfield Republican. A.’feCDOTB OF NAPOLEON 111. Successful tnen, even though their success has been brief, and less noble than brilliant, have generally been those who have followed one purpose, and ntuck to it through all fortunes : In 1887 a dinner party was given in New York city, at Chancellor Kent’s. ! Some of the most distinguished men of ' the city sat down at the table. Among them was a young and rather melancholy i and taciturn Frenchman. “In the course of the evening,” says Professor Morse, who was one of the guests; “1 drew the attention of Mr. Gallatin to the stranger, observing that • his forehead indicated great intellect” : “ Yes,” replied Mr. Gallatin, touching his own forehead with his finger, “ there is a great deal in that head of his ; but he has a strange fancy. Can you believe it? he has the idea that he will one day be the Emperor of the French. Can you conceive of anything so absurd ? It was that idea, persistently cherished >in exile and imprisonment, and despite disaster, that made him fourteen years after, Emperor of the French. Lucky man? Not stall Itis not lucky men that achieve, but plucky men.—(7.rwtian Statesman. ——. ■ - ~ Barnum’s no-haired man died recently. The secret of his baldness has leaked out He was married eighteen times.

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ASKING TOO MITCH. j [We have received the follwWiug with a request to notify the writer whether we accept or reject it. Vo couldn't think oC rejecting it;J Twas on the river Ohio A steam boat with a full cargo. The downward trip ah? was making Not far from the town of Wheeling. I Three the deck or more Who saw a woman on the shore i• ‘ . ! Making hailing signs with her hand . For the boat to come tojand | The Captain ordered boat ashore i To take on one .passenger more_ The boat hovaio a plank run out Now mam please step upon the boat The Captain sir I ?ish to see If he would do a turn for me No sooner call’d than forth he come What’s this you wish from now mam To New Orleans I wish tosend One dozen of Eggs with you my Friend Twelve cents here is aU they bring y While at Orleans we get Thirteen Some things from there I like have bough? We get themtacxe** cost i Here is the bill that you can see > * One skein of silk three cents in siluffidhe rest in tea Ton’ll find them all at Jason’s firm \ * Please stop with them on your return , Here is the basket eleven in it The Hen is m her nest please wait a minute —Detroit Tribune. PLEASANTRIES. Bound in calf—Veal. Musicians often have staving times. What animals are often seen at funerals ! Black kills. An excliange says: “ We’ll ride two miles to sec two brothers under twelve years of age go to bed together without having a dispute about something.” A Virginia widow rides with a leg on either side of the horse. People used to stop and gaze at her before she killed John Cass,; but now her mode of riding is not commented upon. ! <» At a teacher’s institute in Ohio re-, ceutly a lady teacher was given the word “hazardous” to spall and define, and 1 did it .in this style : “ H-a-z, has—a-r-d | ard—e double s, ess—luizardess, a female hazard.” ' A Cleveland woman recently married a Chinese laundrynum, and three days thereafter the unhappy Celestial appeared at a barber shop and ordered his pigtail cut off, saying in explanation, “ Too mnehee dam yank.” In the moments of inspiration the Western man can soar. This voice comes ’ from the region of Duluth : “ Thar he set, like? a stormy petrel on a fence-rail; with his face ag’in the tempest, a defyin.’ of the lightnin’ and the grasshoppers.” Cremation. Nephew—l hope you haven’t been waiting long, uncle? Uncle —All right, my boy. Been reading a paper and had a pinch. By-the-by this is queer flavored stuff in this jar of yours, Fred. Nephew [aghast]—Snuff, unclejar ! Good gracious ! That’s not snuff. Those are the ashes of the landlord’s first wife.— Punch. “O gracious, no!” exclaimed Mrs. Marrowfat to Mrs. Quoggs, raising her hands and speaking in a very excited tone. “ She was so ill when her new bonnet came home that she couldn’t get up ; but, dear sakes! Jane, that didn’t i matter nothing, for she just put her hat on, and lay with her head out of the window the whole afternoon.” A Nevada lover turned out recently to serenade his lady love, and after sawing away for an indefinite time, a heathen Chinee poked his head out of the wini-* dow and said : “ Melican woman all gonee way, and me no likee Melican man’s fiddle.” Slowly and the Melican moved away with the offending fiddle, and retired to the nearest saloon to drown his sorrows in the flowing bowl. KINDNESS TO ANIMALS. Many motives ap[H'al to all for kindness to Our domestic animals. Selfishness should suggest to their owner that ho can make more money by treating them kindly. They will do more labor, produce more meat, milk, or wool if treated with kindness. Duty demands kind treatment. To lead one into a position where he cannot care for himself, and then neglect or misuse him, is universally regarded as base in an extreme degree. A man is under obligations to help any one in want, but his obligation is many times increased if by his own act he has made the needy ones dependent on him; and thia is what we have done with our domestic animals. We have deprived them of their liberty, made them serve us, and for food, shelter and comfort tljey must look to us. Cruelty to animals not only injures them, but injures the person inflicting the ill-treatment. The man who purposely makes animal suffer unnecessarily; who treats it with cruelty, by so doing makes himself a worse man, helps i to develop the bad aud repress the gooil in him, and brings himself nearer the savage. The influence on the young is especially harmful. To bring a boy up in the daily witnessing of harsh, cruel, treatment of the animals around him, especially if he join in this treatment* is i to do much in the way of educating him ! to be a harsh, cruel, unfeeling man ip I his relations to otheNmen, and ’ toward those weaker than he. • In 1861 a Bostonian passed a worthless tive-dollar bill upon the Boston Museum. He has ’since lived in London, anil his morals having mended, fie sent a genuine bill to Mi*. Bhitchford, manager of the Museum, explaining the j whole -matter. The Czar of Russia lias recently b*" , afflicted with' the toothache, and they do I say that his expressions were not unlike those of ordinary mortals in such casee.