The Syracuse Enterprise, Volume 1, Number 28, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 15 July 1875 — Page 1

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TOPICS. Department to feel i&rifimdy the shrinkage in itfa*evenue wnMki* star to the dive reimi of “ third ria «i matter," so called, iutoihe hands of the express companie*It in nun orj thtaMri fcobe* Bonner, of the New York L«tggr, mMtitateami incursion into the field of daily jour naliam. Mr. Bounga has wta ao magnificent a tuecerii.iif hfoqwii ffißil that it is not improbable that h> should derir to extend It. J'mi committee appoint. | l.y th Naahvill.vCottan to obtaijOftformat uni A rogjtrd.to'|j||«' growing erdpta>f the South, ex proto th belief coming harvrih. lioat'bf < cotton and Ota l . will be the largestWodueled in tliKtoetion sinoedfee Tin: Beedta trial tasted six mouths, lacking twri The cam* Wum called for trial <rf» Monday morning, Jan. 4, and the jury fate discharged July 2. : One hundred and eleven wituesseff were examined, Xbtt etumtyug iqi for the de- 1 tense consumed fourteen days, and Mr. Ueach ad<tc***l th« jury <>« Sic prtt < the p|ain||ff seven days, i I I-. •| i I I . J -idLV-a .1 ’ I | Amkrica fa fanwus for A few days ago our Mintator at IkeJtaliau ' Court, Hou. tiro. P. Marsh, decided a j very delicate and important question of ' Swiss boundary, giving .satisfaction tv 1 1 both side*. About tl»e wmie time Hr. |* Logan, our Chilian Minister resident, ended a lionndary controviHay of long!' standing l»et ween Chili and Pent. The ! 1 settlement .was. iutrutaal to him some . nine months ag*’- Hfa iiacMuMf on all ! 1 the jointa are cheerfaUj acquiesced in j 1 by both governmental “ Blessed are I the peace- makers. ’’ II Jersey City with some g;g,(MX) Ixfongiug to that city in his q>om«wu«>b, wax lurt week sentenced to State Prison for three years. The money which Hamilton stole umma did Jiim a*»y good.- When he fled from Jersey €.’ily he w«nt to Mexico. ' There Cortina's gang of marauders got 1 hold of him and plucked him clean- ' When the dutactivo who went ui search 1 of him ftmnd him. he won lying sick 1 and penniless. Now, stripped of char- ' actor, of wealth, of everything which ’ makes Ufa euduralde, he enters a Htate I 1 Prison. May thus faU <U who betray ‘ > the people. i . T-—e— ~: .! *ll Tiuh time it is a negro who is sued tin < drr the Civil Rights law. A white mail I in Washington hM liegun suit against a I colored man who bears the unusual j 1 name of Smith. It appears that during I the b-mfyjppry filwSW* of SjUH|h lua i iifra-i a room- for Smith ks. pa a tin Camterian* Wlieit Jfofhh YetttriiM he rtnarxT the door* on the pale-faced gentleman, tell ' ing him that he had no accommodation < for people of Ins color. Thereupon the white man. )]0 A warnxut kfomd against ! < Hmith for from the houac | contrary to «f tbu dfteenth 1 ayMtkdment to the ’ . r - Ox Um lai of Jnly it was one y.wr since little Charity lUws was kidnapped. ( Though the-neareh for him lias been thorough, there luai l>een no clew discovered which gives hope that the parents will ever recover the lost boy.: It w ’ : ftwvd that in the hunt for the boy those : who had him m their poasesaion were • compelled to so often change their quar ' I the boy diul Uirm|gh 1 aad WMt ctf MM, or that ? dereil him to eacape detection. This is a ( /pttaelu**® »*> am re at, but it ( seenw the only reasonable one. Bad the boy been alive it is almoct certain tlwt ■' he could iM>t-.haw <xwapyd defection, A Ln many eaaea recommendations for | cadetships in the MiMiarr and Naval , Jopngrcmmen ’ .jitter a comjH'titft'* 4 flkmlhation law been . UghgreAM^ l clfofoa Et w Mi**** hr in these eimninaiionru shown f \ jj>y the following statament.whickwQtmw afroni Washington : “Os forty camli- . data* for >• Naval i ' -W^ w “ ien ‘- T ’ ***° n "riwfod or ap i ■ jpailod to B|>ell tlui word ‘ competitive * • I 8 ’""sik niost.obvious if not ti»»rhot im>| CZis UnJ* lemfe the world In no otbefb-tu.tr*j W1 in.iSpMrtiaisr their afiairwyaiieriy t<{l ffiAwnliivma, or wfoattShahM cuch an'lll®*? afh * trikiNbart in pauftWtig by the ' . :; Mfcflden«‘. The champion example of A and ' . ***** **’*** ru * a e “H» l<> ? er ’ Henry O. Moms. The embeaaler 3S?BE®gl bMig witlrin die last two years. In one wmnfli he charged himself with three -SKof *IO,OOO each ; in another month a-rc-jr-J himafilf with a xvf tAllAiviZlf the time, and for the sake a* a *- *** ah 1 j - - i-- - > ■ ' klOftOOtt and salmly Araw the* on it- Whenever the muaclee of

i ei.v hi Ad** his liaud became flaccid from inertiieas, he would stir them up by issuing these notes. Mr. Morris cleared $1,000,000 he first three years of Ida business, and Mr. Ervin | fUarod yitb more than a million during the next three. -OKK.4T COTrOff." The Washington Capital tells the folowing amusing and improbable r * t * of abaaitt-miiidhidn.'itßikiiil vretxmiiMhmti.- | occurred»last week' with a prominent Treasury gentleman as the principal performer. Business detained him at the office until after dark, and the rain ' coming on be was still further detaineil. He w<>r<-jiilbw;pi<Ql»'t s ’®^ M panta rof light material, and not wishing to rumple the goods in a June shower, detailed to take them off, leave them in the I desk, and homeward pike his dreary way in hi» limb-underclothing, trusting to . the night to k«*ep them from observation. He starteil out umbrellacil and . his dnrwers pulle.l down as fjloeely to his instep as they could be induced to go. It seemed so. natural, and no one ; appearing to notice, it, that he atx.ut the condition of things altogether —no entirely so that he hail opportunity to remark a young lady acquaintance glide j>a»t a gaslight on her way to a memorial ma-ting a Shak<«]x>on’ club | is rfonaanc*. Ila was only sEAUHy qiiaintisl, but counfcsl. on his umbrella ami the ram to hurry over and offer his Hervi.i sas i-acort. Tli. s. l were reailily d and the ootiple got tolerably itifemata, lhro«oj» the slushy stn et, so much t*> Rwtt they arrived at the girl’s lUvrtination she invibal him in. He ought not to have accepted it, but feeding tliat a little relaxation, such as is affonleil by our amateur dramatics, would l*'nertt his mental qualUwatums for the m xt civil-eervice examifiaiion, ! overcame hi* acruplea and entered. Quite a number of ladies and gentlemen were present when he was ushered in, and, taking a prominent seat, as Treasu- ! ry clerks are wo»l by da, atartetl with a facetious remark to a neighbor and to pull his pantaloons up to save tlienifrom I creasing nt the knees. He stopped in the middle of the facetioua remark and j didn’t pull them, up either. He merely gaiwd at lu« lower self for a moment in I that st.vulfast manner in which a man looks when he sees something he hasn’t aeen liefore, and with a jminfnl interest tliat allows he doesn't care much if he don’t see it agani. The females blushed and puckered^their months like aa if they were starting to whistle and and- I denly recollected that they couldn’t, and * the gentlemen smole wicked smiles. Our j friend arose with velocity, tad, merely munuuring “Great <ottun J” slid out of tla» hvtiw with celerity and another timn's umbrella, KTHIf .'i vr tn KT. A. lady of some reputation assures ns I tliat when she was a child of ten, she “ listed eleaiilißwHH, and loved aotliiug so well in the world aa rolling down the green slope at the back of the house;’’ but that at fifteen, “ her love of dirt , gave way to an inclination for finery, j and she grew dean as site grew/ smart. ’’ i That, we take it, has )»een e«]taaliy true of targe ctasvM'H of society. Their love of dirt has given way to an iodination I for though by no j nie«ii always, they have grown clean as j they have grown smart. But is this change d«*erving of very high praise ' , The pleasure in good look# is no nobler I in itself tlian the pleasure in noise and j scrapes> andi wilddudiflgrenixxto oulwjrd np|Mwmnr«>. •flw*tuw* state of nrthffTte!longs to one stage in the individual and j in the social life, and the other to another ; but there ia no particular moral rtwtkm for praisingthe fovdwf cotnel&ess,' | any aiocu tlian tho tata of uneonwuitional, luirum scarum enjoyment The fop • who will not walk or ride lest he should dirty his lioota, is, on the whole, a more : comes mto dinner cm and,: ! never brushes his coat from week’s end to week's end. It is quite true, a* one 1 etaas of moralists tell us, that th<? dislike 1 a evrtdn petak, ta a contemptible self-indulgence, indeed, ; a thoroughly unchristian sort of Inxuriensures and effeminacy ; m>r do we set* tliat, even short of this contemptible extreme, a highly refined personal fastidi ousness can often be consistent with the wider and manlier oreter of clmracte r. It is Dot the truest purity which has the i greatest hMor MAA. W it '■ in the truest humility which has the greatest love of self-abasement. Childten who, in their way, are almost fond &if dirt, because th.-v ffihte what tin y are lass rndf-reganling, than Mho same individuals are at the later age Ji when they cense to be dirty and begin to tgrow “ smart.” The extravagancies of r jit forbid in their way as the extravagancire of selfhnmiliation. no ftw tad no prinHng pretew, and I hope we shall not have any for a * humlreil years ; for learning ha? brought i dieobeditaee, and heresy, and sects into •the world, and printing nas divulged them and libeled government*. God help us from both !” omwwi Mattrawan, N.> 1., for $300,000. The original cost of the mills was «,fioo,ooo. K [Tim ’ wfoneWeta, tayMbtateytat a chance; tbs want of the age ia sleep.”

, ——— — s —— .4 r.ISTOXAL LAT-OVT. I I st »o«i. Fwm. 1 014 Farmer Jone* ■» gathering hia hay. For Toiupkine pr->ph eied twonl.l ram that day, And Tompkina ™ a wiae old village }4um. Who couM profnorticate the weather amne; But, Brown esine up and offered Jones a bet. That if hl* hay stayed out twouM not get wet. Thia made TompUna mad. And be uaed laaguage that was rather pad ; t But, Brown, be was a jolly kind <g rasa, , >. » who aometimc* was persuaded tn a inne*; Would go bis bottom dollar on a race,. ‘ A ehlehen fight, ayaflie, or an aee. So, w th a smile peculiar, Muitcr Brown Sai l. Tompkina was the gas-bag of the town. Or rather more r' acmlded a wind-mill « I That om,-c had etoo.l on Simpson's bill; . Hl* rar*, tike nail* that almost reached the grortru! in* nose, the abait, which rtce-red the thing around. f< ’ I At Uuo «ki I vnijikiM* got his daud- r rawed. I And m»pjr d lu* eyea until they fairly biased. He squared IximaeU and waded into Brown, With dlr* intent to knock his neighbor down; , Bu| Brown, yoii see, wa* soon thing on the spar. And etriking ttetn the shoulder. Brown wa* fA«r. j 80> Tatuptaw’ right be pamed nicely by ; Ilia deafier buulsd over Tump kin* eye. Then. Tompkins tried to put in fnrwus blow*. Brown banded she io Tooipkm* on tbs nose. Ami madder Mill <+l Tompkins grew When Brown bad put m number two,, <Ud Fanner Jove*, upon hi* load st bay. Haw TolUiAm* handled rowghly on that day. ' TiU. with a yell, he landed on a rake That stuck it* toeth iu Tompkins like a snake; And it wa* very plain to arc, or tell J Thai Bndism bad given T<®ipkin*—well, , wa* very ted on Tompkins, after all, : That not a drop of rain did fall. // OA L.s I wrafifaV. New director* were appointed, other irrfiuoncre were brought to bear, and ho Katie failed to secure, the district school. Teachtta were many, schools were few. Katie’sTOotlior was a widow, and poor, j and she of all the applicants for the situation needed it mum timm any other. It h£pp«Ded that Katie was corrqwdled to sew. Bread and fuel would not come in at the widow’s door unearned, nor would the widow’s measure of meal replenish iteelf. The times were hard and work scarce, and pay small, and yet Katie’s heart was full of sunshine, for it was full of love, and the shadow cast by poverty ovsir their taunl»te Rome wm not deep enough to eload her bright life. But though the heart was brave and strong, yet Qte frail little body shuddered as the wind whistled over it, and the painful cough racked it, and the hectic spot on the check told a tale of fife own. " Stitching herself to death,” said the old doctor, bluntly, when consulted. ■ “ Is there any remedy “Yes. Put away the work. Wash dishes, sweep, bake, run in and out That fa all." A cheap prescription, the widow thought, if Katie could only follow it And why might not? Kate questioned. eagerly. Work her beet hlib , couhln’beero four dollars a week, , and boerd herself out of that Mrs. Plum wanted a girl to do second work; taewonM ’■pffy ftrrec doffirntM week and ‘ board. So it was nettkxl, and Katie took her ? jMstaim IU Mra. F’mfe® ite'itatoid ,a» hired atavtai. “It won’t always be eo," said she, • hopefully. “ Walter will noon be set- | tieci, and then I shall have a home of my 1 own. Oh, I shall be ao happy I” ® Poor little Katie. Walter came one day to call on Lawyer • Plum. He wanted to make arrange . mente with him in regard to entering I hfa cdfioa. Mr. Plum brought him home I to dinner, i» company with one of Walter’s mates, an aristocratic young fellow, , with plenty of blood in his veins, of j yellow gold in his pocket, bet a very I small share of common sense in his head. Katie turned scarlet as she ci«u,e for- h ward to take the young man’s order, anit ‘ met Widter’n glance ; then tae saw the first look of glad pleasure fade from Jm r | face, and an uncertain, shameful expres- ‘ tian take i|s place, she grew white taihe cluua plate in her hand. He did not» / *p«ak to her. Then it waa Uta proud young boart Xtaat asserted itadf. She liad not done., ahytiitbg of which she had need to be She had always hail to work ’ for her living. He knew tliat I Ctachou • art cafiing was aagood as another. What i was there in a woman’s work, the work I that two-thirds of the women throughout ' the world muhi fallow, to dwgTade her ! She would not be put down. If the , i homes of the nation were the nation’s tmactoariea, then the hands that helped to they ig l ’A < F<l tsed aa a hotua'kwper’s, and infinitely tte're ennobling was her work now than |it had lavn when rtitching puffs and rutiles from day’s end to day'send again, in and week out f And vet there was a quivering about II eyes. , That night she received a letter from ■ Walter. “ How could you, Katie f ’ he wrote. '* A common servant to the mau who ia Itobe my lfosinri* partner t (so home, | Katie, and I will come and see you. I j couldn’t spesk to yon there.” > J The little hand clutched the tetter ’fiercely, the| deliberately dropped it i into the glowing grate. I “It is all over between us,” she said. > will not go home- He may think as I hs pleases. I shall be true to what I I tljuta fa right.” J ■•anr'Wseral®. Everything* bas goiie t parting.” • • k s Plamt’ ’» ■ . -Ob, U»i-» Ml right It. Katie. » “About KhtteV’ ’ » “I found kiteben.**

SYRACUSE. INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY 15,1875.

—'■tg— ■'■■i iyi ■■ nini mi i .. .i on ••I know. The brave little girlt” “Bnt, John, the disgrace! The in- 1 jury to my business. The world! will say: Walter Howard’s wife was a hired girt” “Walter!" cried John, in indignant' surprise. “My brother Walter!" “I on't help it, John. That's the I way I feel about” •SI hope you did not let Katie see it!" I “J-I—" “Well, what?" J “ I didn’t speak to Katie at all. Don't , look so, John, I couldn’t. Augustus J Ludlow, the most aristocratic fellow in the ' world., was with me, and—l know lam 1.1 a coward, say, “how do you do, Katin!” with his sharp eyes ' looking, on. Why, I’ve raved about her a ‘hundred times to him, and he would .' havebeen sure to know.” “ Walter Howard, Dm ashamed of yon! ! J If another had told me this, I wonk! not ' < liavc believed it Why, your mother, 1 boy, has done housework all her life. * Wouldn’t you speak to yonr own mother 1 —to yonr own sister t lam a working man, too. It wasn’t my ambition. I 1 had a different one from that. But I' buried my dream—laid it away forever, Walter, that you might live the lifereou < longed. And yet another, and a holier dream came to me.” ’ Here John’s voice grew husky, and ' liis eyes tilled with unshed tears. 1 “ Yes, another dream, Walter; for • when you came* to me and said, * 1 love i her; she loves me,’ then it was I laid,that ♦ 1 away forever, too. But the sacrifice Ii 1 have made, the first one as well the j! last one was useless, You have learned to undervalue working people as a of the first one, and this has learned you 1 1 to treat the only woman I ever loved, or ‘ ever could love, cruelly. ” 11 “You, John, you! You love little • Katie Brown 1 AnfTso blind 1 Forgive p , mo, John, forgive me. I see it all now. s , I came home, and in my boyish selfish- ! T ness took her away from you. Poor old 1 John, dear, old great-hearted John ! I J have been cruel. But don’t hate me, I1 1 , didn’t know it I never dreamed it 1 What a wretch I was to come to you ' with my plana, upsetting all of yonr own; 1 to come to you with my love story, tor- 1 tnring yonr great brotherly heart with 1 my selfishness. ” “You blame yourself too severely, Walter. It is not this that lias hurt me, ! but your nnkindness to that poor child, ■ whose least smile would have been to me worth more than gold.” “I’ll go to her at once. I’ll beg her . forgiveness. She’ll forget my cruelty. 1 1 And if she’s willing, John, I’ll make her I mine at once. And yet, John, I scarcely ( dare go. Somehow, I’m a coward. I’m I losing confidence in myself. Would you ' j mind tolling her, John l Would it hurt i i you to say these words to her J” « John looked up eagerly, his face grow- j ing white and red. ' “ What an excitable old fellow he is," (said Walter to himself, watching him; ; ( “ he’s so glad to make it all right be- ! twees Katie and me. ” j 1 In his farm suit, with no pretensions j of finery, John walked over to the vili 1 lage. ] He called at Lawyer Plum’s for Katie. , , , Katie came in, her fair face blushing, and ; he laid her hands in his own. ( He looked down upon her kindly and . said gravely : “ I come from Walter, Katie. He is very sorry he treated yon so, and liegs, through me, your forgive- ' ' ness.” “I am very glad to forgive him,” said , Katie, quickly. John sighed,, for had not a strange, hope been to lym that through i Walter’s and Katie’s disagreement, hap- ’ juness might come to him ? He thrust ! "the traitorous thought aside, but Katie ‘ ( saw the hopeful look in his eyes, and ;' read aright the meaning of the bright 1 spot that burned on his qhoek“And the wedding may be awn !” “ Walter’s wedding and mine ?” ; “Yen.” ’ t “It will never be, John,” said Katie, vary firmly. ' “Oh! Katie?” “ No, never ! I mast respect the num ' that I marry. Index'd, I cannot hwe a man that I do not respect, so that's the end of it—not another word.” t “If will break the boy’s heart—” “ You don’t believe that, John. If it was you, John —” • Then Katie stammered, hesitated, and | the look of eagerness came into John’s face, the great’ longing to say what was j in his heart, but kept back by his sense of its hopelessness, and still further, »y i his honest purpose to bo titfo to Walter T I and the cause be had trusted liipi wide “ Think well of it Katie. Don’t thrust . . poor Walter aside too hastily. His years Jin college, his associations, have given him a different view of life. But yet he is manly and generous. Why, I iiaw | known him all his life, and I know that the woman who marries Walter will i never repent her choice. Let me take ; back to him the work, when it may be.” “This is anlike you, Jobs. Yon have my anawesr.’V . .. “ Yoa can’tineaaiit, Katiei” “Yea, John, I shall never be your brother's wife.” J “ She loves some one else,” said Wai-1 I ter, when told Karie’s words. “ No, no," said John unwilling to believe ia this new misfortune, “ Go, like , man, Walter, and ask the giri’s *hesß for y our blunder.” I a Walter smiled wisely to himself and went as Jahn directed to call cm Karie. i “It is no use, Walter, I told John, . ? ? I Aril nerey marry apy <jne,r ' P “ Katj?, now tlrnt i inow that yon J./ ' not love me, lam not going to ask you ’to marry me. But tell me the name <rf

’ that other more fortunate one, for you must admit that there is another. You j see I am not deceived, however much John may be.” Katie held her hands to her face, which was shining scarlet between her a fingers. — . “ May I guess his name, Katie?” “ Nd!” she cried, angrily. “ Is it—" “ Don’t yon dare ! I won’t hear it!” and without another word she ran away. Walter went home, whistling softly to himself, and said, as he came up to John, . who was hoeing, “ I am a miserably selfish fallow. I can’t help regretting that I have lest hex, even when I know tliat it will make you so happy.” < *‘ Me liappy ?" cried John. ‘ * What do you mean ?” “Only this, old boy: Katie •loves you. Don’t grow so white, man alive ! It is not such a terrible thing, tliat you need grow frightened over it!" “It is too much happiness,”.murmured John. “ Not So much as you deserve, John— God bless you and God forgive me that I ever crossed yonr honest path.” “Hush, Walter, Idt me think. Am I to go to Katie?” 1 “Yes, John.” ’ Then and there John started off, believing tliat Katie had confessed her love of him to Walter. It was only this certainty that gave him his assurance. He went into the room to wait for > Katie. She came in timidly, her bright! hair freshly combed back from her pure young face. “ Katie,” he cried, holding out liis arms, “4s it true, Katie, tliat you care, for me —that you love old John ?” “More than all the world,” she said, ; gladly nestling up to him. “It took me a long time to le:irn yonr worth, John, but I know it at last.” “ My litHe darling !” ? So it ended. John and Katie live on 1 the farm. Walter married Lawyer Plum’s Bnt, though his wife never worked in man’s or woman’s kitchen, yet he is fain to confess that little Katie, John’s wife, is the more intelligent of the two, and yet he does not regret tliat lie lost her, for after all, he ! is too honest at heart to do even so much | willful wrong W Honest John. - - — — MEtKSCH.tVM. This German word, which signifies sea-foam, has been applied to the min end substance which is so universally, manufactured into pipes. From its having been found on the sea-shore in some places, in peculiarly rounded snow-white lumps, it was ignorantly imagined to be the petrified froth of the sea, This is a { poetical fancy and has no foundation in fact. Its component parts are silica and magnesia, and though found in many parts of the world is most abundant in Asia Minor. It is found very pure and ; abundant in the Crimea and in Moravia, but the largest present deposits which . axe worked are in Asia Minor, about; twenty miles southwest of the city of Eskischer, formerly known as Dorylea. i Here reside some ten thousand Armenians and Turks who are employed in col-, leering, preparing an I dealing in the raw < material. It is regularly mined for, and shafts are sunk about forty feet deep in tlie ground, at which depth it is found in abundance and of excellent quality. ! The miners form themselves info companies c>f thirty or forty and divide tiieir united profits equally. The meerschaum is found in lumps, irregular in shape, and varying greatly in size, being from I a square inch to a square foot in mean- 1 urement, the largest pieces being most in demand and bringing the highest' prices. When first dug the mineral is of a yellowish-white color, and is cov- ’ ered half an inch thick with a red, : greasy earth, so soft tliat it can easily be removed with a knife. The treatment i of the BieereclMftim before' it is fit for ex-_ qmrt is expensive and tedious. The pieces must first be freed from the extraaeotta matter, dried for five or six ; days in the sun, or, if by artificial head, a hunger time is required. It is then carefully cleansed a second time and polished with wax, to show its texture and finemw, and also to exclude dampness. Nearly the whole amount of the article. wltich is found is manufactured into smoking pipes* in winch Germany takes the lead. Vienna contains many large ( 1 establishments devoted to the trade, and , ; in which some very artistic productions . an* made. Pipes worth a hundred (Aitf- ' peas (five hundred dollars gold/g from the IxiuiV of their design and^glaborato-, hitss of finish, are by 90 means uncouv- ■ I Mon. There .are some large manufac , stories, niso, in Paris, where costly pipes i are produced and find a large sale. Knowing these facta, doubtless our gentlemen readers will go on , their' meerschaums with increased satis.faction. _ ■' ~ ; 1 STICK EJ.. It' may not be generally known that the nickel deposit near the Gap, Lancaster county, is considered the largest in the world yet discovered, and the only-deposit of the ore worked in America. The mine is on the high dividing line between Chester and Pequea valleys. Besides nickel, copper, iron and limestone are found in the same locality. Nickel was discovered there about the ~ year 18545, though copper, which is taken I from the same mine, was known in the i locality seventy yens ago. The ore has a gray color, is very heavy/ and so hard that it is mined entirely igt blasting. . “ No, not zactly,” was the complacent -i-iS'l ~ ,Z T do Krai a oh ffeghro/traTsnyHung off! worki to oblige ima!”— Weilburg Harald.

FAKM AND HOUSEHOLD. Around the Farm. The advantage of cross-breeding sheep are set forth in a statement in a recent issue of the AgricuUural Gazette, in I which it is said that Cotswold ewes crossed with pure Hampshire Down rams yield 115 lambs to the 100 ewes, while ninety per cent, is the extreme yield of lambs by the pure-bred Cotswolds or Hampshire Downs. Twix heifers will breed as surely others. If the dam is a vigorous, strong animal, and the calves strong and hearty, they ;can be counted on as good for breeders as single calves. If the con- 1 trary is the case, however, it would be [ best to reject them as breeding animals. In case one of the twins is a male, it is 1 always a matter of deftibt whether or not 1 the heifer will breed. Probably there 1 • is not more than one chance in ten that ■ she will. Among fancy breeders the , twin heifer is generally rejected except as a show animal ; Seediko to Clover. —A Tennessee cxirrespondeut of the (\nintrt/ Gentleman says : A neighbor has a field seeded with red-top, but the soil was hardly I thick enough, so last summer, I do not i know exactly when, but presumably not i at the driest time, he sowed clover seed upon part of it, without any harrowing or other treatment of any sort, and now (May 20) he has as fine a set of clover as could be wished for, six or eight inches ' ! high, rank and healthy, and showing, almost to an inch, the line to which the seed is sown. A oood-l<x«ing farm will sell quicker and at a better price than 11 bad-looking farm. Ornamental trees, vines, shrubs, and fences may not yield any money to I the owner.while he has them in his pcs- 1 session, but they will bring many times ' their cost when the farm comes into market. In the early day's of Chicago a '• gentleman planted many thousand ever- i greens and other ornamental trees on a i large tract of land near the city, which ! he intended for his future home. He 1 never realized his desire of living on it, but the place was sold. It was put on the market at the same time an adjoining place was which was unimproved, , and brought over twice as much money. Potato Rot.—Mr. Francis Gerry , Fairchild writes, in the Scientific Amer- ; ican, that a bland solution of carbolic acid in common whale oil or kerosene is the scientific remedy for the rot. The ! best way to use it would, I think, be to 1 dip the potato, just before planting, in ! the solution, which is very inexpensive | and very easily obtained. I may add tliat my experiments convince me tliat -I carbolic acid in this bland solution, in : Ino way impairs the germinal activity to the tuber ; but, byway of certainty, let \ me recommend your farmer readers to j first try the experiment on a few hills , this spring, and if successful to adopt it as a remedy for the blight. Currant Worms. —A correspondent ' of the Congregatumalut gives directions . how to prevent currant bushes from be- i ing destroyed by worms. The eggs are de- ' posited on the underside of a tender leaf ( about the time the suckers of the currant J hush are a foot high. When the eggs ! begin to hatch* the young fet'd on the ! juice of the leaf until they can crawl. ; . Then they drop down and scatter. Soon after the egg i» deposited the leaf will turn a purple reddish color. Such leaves I should be plucked as fast as they appear, I and hundreds of little creatures will be j found. The microscope reveals them 1 plainly. The leaves slioidd be cut so | carefully that none of the destructive inI sects be scattered,About the Tfoune. To clean a brown porcelain kettle, boil jieeletl potatoes in ik The porceklin will 'be rendered nearly as white as when* new. I ■ ■. p Cold green tea, very strong, and sweetened with sugar, will, when set about the room in saucers, attract flics i and destroy them. I t Spbios of wintergreen or ground ivy will drive away red ante; branches of wormwood wilLaexrc ihf.aatim.purpose for black ants. /I A TEABFOONFCL of nitife (l>er gallon of milk) dissolved in as much water as it will take, and put in the pail before l milking, will kesen the taste of turnips 1 , or other vegetables in the milk. Cucumber Pickles.—Pick the oncumbenr and phue them in a wi*ak brine, strong enough for give them the ueceslet them lay in the brine twenty-four hours ; take vinegar enough r to cover them, and put it with the neees- . snry spices over the fire, and leave till it boils; then put in the pickles and heat tliem through; then put in cans, and seal the same as if canned fruit Try it , -T- Cincinnati Time*. Bread and Apple Pudding.—Line a pudding dish with slices of bread dipped tn cream, then pour over it a layer of warm cooked fruit sweetened to suit the taste; then another layer of bread, then , sri fruit* and so on until the dish is filled, •having a layer of fruit for the top. ■ Blackberries or blueberries are partici ularly nice, but any kind would be goodi To Make Good Coffee.—French cooks (; are famous for’ the excellence of their t i coffee, which they maka..ao. strong that , \ <Mie part of the liquor requires the add** . , tion of fon> parte reduce it to- the !;proper strength. This addition is made J wi&hotinilK The large proportion of 1 hot milk, in the place of so much warm h.wateftigiwsi the coffee a rfolraefo.’W ■ '‘Miat maita by the;ad4itio« cream .»• LI ordinsiy way. By this means any >* housekeeper desirous of making good I coffee can have it without cream.

DOGS THAT HAVE •• S'HOT NIAGApropos to the case of a dog which, during recent, low water, crossed the rapids above Niagara Falls to a small islet, and is now unable to return, the , Niagara Falls Register recalls two instances in which dogs have been sent over the falls and survived the plunge. ,In November, 1836, a troublesome female bull-terrier was pift in a coffes sack by a couple of men who had determined to get rid of her, and thrown off from the middle of Goat Island bridge. In the following spring she was found alive j and well about sixty rods below the ferry, leaving lived through the winter on a dead cow that was thrown over the bank the previous fall. In 183$Tariothcr dog, a male of the same breed, was thrown into the rapids near the middle of the bridge. In less than an hour he came up the ferry stairs very wet and nos at all gay. The reason why the'animals are not killed is that the water pours down i so rapidly and in such quantities that the water below, so to speak, cannot run off fast enough, and it piles up in large • water cones, which are constantly form- | ing and breaking. If any strong animal ; should fall on to one of these cones, as upon a soft cusliion, it might slide safely into the current below. The dogs were doubtless fortunate enough to fall in this way, aided, also, by the repulsion of the water from the rocks in the swift clian- . nel through which they |>asscd. It is ■ not impossible that some strong man, in a light strong Ixiat, may thus, at some future time, go over the Horseshoe Fall ‘ and not be killed. l‘H ILA DE LI'H IA JOI R.VALISM. A Chicago paragraphist, who had got i a place on a Philadelphia paper, was thus addressed by his proprietor : “Os j course, you know our Philadelphia pa- ’ pers are different from those of the ‘ West ; they have to be. You must be a ' little guarded in your paragraphs. I ‘> know that, you come from the West, the ' land of robust thought and outspokenness, but you must remember that our subscribers are a peculiar people. Don’t pitch into anybody —that is, anybody who is alive now, or who has died ■within, say, five hundred years ; don’t even say I anything harsh of Mr. Richard Turpin, 1 for there are some of our subscribers' who go so far as to admire him. 'No : man of genius, no matter how mean he was in private life, must be ridiculed in I our paper, for our people love great men and always stop their' jiepers when they t see anything against their heroes. Why, ' we lost forty-three subscribers one day by a harmless little paragraph on that • old humbug, Wm. Penn. By the way, if • you should at any time feel as though you really must attack somebody, just ; pitch into Seeostris, that old Egyptian • fraud who pretended to Ite a conqueror I when he never conquered anything at all.'' i That was a good while ago, and none of I our sulwcribers know anything about the Egyptians. A good, many of those antiI q tinted old scoundrels need writing up, anyhow. Suppose you begin on old Seeostris at once.” SOME GOOD PROVERBS. Borrowed clothes never fit. Better go round than fall in the ditch. Better go alone than in bad company. Be slow to promise, but qnick to perform. Cut your coat according to the cloth. Catch the hare before you sell bis skin. Charity begins at home, but does not eiid there. Do not rip oj?en oftl sores. Doing nothing is doing ill. Diligence commands success. Debt is the worst kind of poverty. Dependence is a poor trade to follow. Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves. Do unto others as you would Imve them do to you. Every couple is not a pair. Everything is good in its season. Everybody’s business is nobody ? s business. False friends are worse than open enemies. Fortii'ie knocks once at least at every \ man’s door. > Fire and water are good servants, but | bad masters. Great barkers are not biters. Great gain and little pain make a man | Weary. ! ‘ Give a rogue rope enough and he will ! hang himself. A BREAKPAST FOR THE GOBS. The age of extravagance does not culminate in mere costly attire, but extends itself to tire table and its appointments. A breakfast give not long since in Washington seems almost to smack of the ' days made glorious by the Arabian • Nights. The eyes of guests were greeted as they entered the breakfast-room with j a table spread with ripe fruits hardly yet iin the bud. Great luscious peaches I looking temptingly up from a bower of j j green leaves, pears golden and juicy i ' enough to make one’s mouth water, pur- j | pie and white ) grapes, bananas, oranges, ■ pomegranates and plums. The surprised party took their seats, and upon being I served to the fruit, opened peaches to | find some lovely article of jewelry con- | cealed in the perfect-looking stones with-. i! in. In the bananas and pomegranates | were necklaces and bracelets, snd the . plums resolved themselves into tiny j vinaigrettes filled with rare perfumes. ' After this charming mine en scene ices >jand wine were served, tire ices reeemj bling in form and color stalks of celery .. and earS of green corn, while the cream 11 partook of all thc-pemliar fancies bred 09 of the caterer. l&ieW [ I naled by' givers of banquets among the • immortals.

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■'" - —— —— —: —•—* • . i I ■'li i —— MF OLD CANE-BOTTOMED CHAIR. (BY W. M. THACKMAY. Tis a high-ebonldered, worm-eaten & •eat, With creakißg old back, and twisted old feet; Butainee the fair morning when Fanny eat there, I bless thee and love thee, old cane-bottomed chair! ' If chairs have but feelings, in such charms, . . L . A thrill must have passed through your witheied old arms; ■ I looked and longed, and I wished in despair ; I wished myself turned io a pane-bottomed chair. it was but a moment she sat in thia placet: She’d >. scar Con her neck, and a smile on her face! A smite on her face, and a.rose in het- hair, • And she sat there and bloomed in her cane-bot-tomed ehair. ” ' ' And so I have valued my chair eVer since. Like the shrine/ of a saint, or the throne of a prince; / Saint Fanny, Jby patroness sweet, I declare, The queen of my heart and cane-bottomed chair. When candles burn low, and the company's gone, In the silence df night as I sit here alone — I sit here alone, bnt we yet are » pair— My Fanny I see in my cane-bottomed chair. She comes from the past; and revisits my room She looks as she then did, all beauty and bloom So smiling and tender, so fresh and sq lair, Aiid yonder she sits in my cane-bottomed chair I 1.11 1.l ' I ! ■ PLEASANTRIES. It is easier to get a friend than to keep •no. Police courts should be the courts of last resort. If you don’t bridle your tobgue, saddle be your fate. ‘ The public prints are now lying about the biggest rose. , ■_ The hair of a young lady iq Vermont turned white in a single night. She fell into a flour barrel. * When may the lawyer’s clerk be said to have seen much of the world ?—When he has witnessed many deeds. Mbs. Grubbins says her husband ia like a tallow candle: he always will smoke when he goes out. “Is there any man in this town named Afternoon ?” asked an Irish Postmaster, as he held up a letter addressed “P.M.” Mother— “ Now, Gerty, be a good girl, ahd give Aunt Julia a kiss, and say good-night.” Gerty—“No,, no! If I kiss her she’ll box my ear’s, like she did papa’s last night.” Boating coach to coxswain | It’s perfectly ridiculous! Here yoit’ve gone and gained an ounce and a half in the last fortnight! If you go‘ on like this I might as well steer the boat myself ! A Texas exchange is discussing “.who fired the last shot in the late war !” That is easy enough answered ; it was a sol- . dier, on his way home who shot our best laying pullet;— Atlanta Constitutionalist. 0 A gentleman drove a sorrowful-look-ing horse into town last Saturday, and stopping in front of an inn, he requsted a small boy to hold him a minute,. him!” exclaimed the boy; “juet lean him up against the post—that’ll hold him. ” While writing veiveh for my lovejl iwk'ed up from the p«i>er. And there < Bbe stood! I rose in haute and overturned the taper. “.How carele«B to put out the light,” uhe e»id. “ I it surprising,” I answered, “ that I quenched my tamp when saw the sun arising?” , Qommodore Vanderbilt recently remarked to a New Yorkreporter: “I 30 years old; I had been working for several years for my employer at 81,000 a year, and when I left him I had not more than 820,000, all told.” Now, that’s the way to start out in life. Young men of America, here is a pattern for you ; go thou and do likewise! THK IUrRIfTOR’S PARADISE. “ A thousand patents,” says a London writer, “are granted every month in the United States for new inventions. This number exceeds the aggregate issue of all the European States, yet the supply does not equal the demand, and the average value of patents re greater in America than in Europe by reason of the vast number of new industrial enterprises and the higher price of manual labor. A hundred thousand dollars is no unusual consideration for a patent-right, ' and some arc valued by millions. The annual income from licenses granted on the Blake sole sewing machine is over 8300,000, and other patented inventions are equally profitable. Inventors are Encouraged by the moderate government fee of 835, which secures an invention for seventeen years without further pay- , ment; the rightaj/X pateutoea are generally respected by the public; and no national legislator, with a single exception, lias ventured to propose the alxiljtion of a system which at once secures substantial justice to inventors and proves of incalculable advantage to the nation.” SWALLOWED BY A SHARK. A sailor was painting the sides of a i bark in the harbor of Matanzas lately, j when suddenly the rope sustaiijpng the plank on which he was seated gave wtwr, . and the man fell into the water. i a good swimmer, he easily kept himself ” I afloat, shouting to his companions to ; lower a boat for him. By this time he had pushed his Way alongside of the vessel, when his companions flung him a rope. At the moment of catching it, and while they were preparing to haul l him up, the unfortunate man was heard to give a terrible cry, while at the same time the sea was assuming a reddish j color, and the body of the man disappeared below the waves. A few seconds / i. after the upper half of the body reappeared, the dorsal fin of an immense j shark appearing over the water a few ■ feetoff. The mate ordmed the boat to be lowered so as to get what remained of J the poor sailor, but the shark gave a iimidden turn on his side and swallowed " the other half of poor Jack at a angle, jgulp.