The Syracuse Enterprise, Volume 1, Number 33, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 19 August 1875 — Page 1

J. P. PRICKETT, Editor and Proprietor.

VOLUME I

(XtßsiiFTorics. a woman “* Chicago who has for two years and has mv.-i-uttered a word to he? tasband. She is flnuxb. , A Mevnttav i« on foot at Neville to "have ex-Pre«ident Johnson’s »tauiin.«, with those of Jick*>uand in a grind uuiosolcuiu, to bo egi-cted on the State CnpiioJ grounds. DoiMXunxxt has had the cffifOntery to write to his "dear Cotfiuf Alfonso,” ’King of Spain, nakfog him iogive up the holds, and join teffaciiig fWloa) ou flu throne tohud. Thj/mode-t . pjfdß is signudv “ Thy cJuriu that loves ttirf. Ca«m>s.” ' iA. * Tats widow of Andrew .lo£nso:i is prostrated by the slxoOtf tarbtataixd’a sudden tteath. Slid has long.lxH ii an it is thought she will not lougwprvive. Mr. JolmflOn was but nin< t<awr years old when he married, and bv his wife he was taught writing and iirithhwnK 4 There was a devoted attachment I ♦'ween them all throrgh their wedded hfe. . —s-i Mu. J«xT. CTxyitnwn, ilia financial, editor of tlib New York S-tttonjL roughly handled lathe New York-Stock Exeltange, the other 4tay, by a lot of bmtil brokers white did not relish the tune of his money articles. Mr. Cleveland is an old gentleman, and his gray luirs ought to uccura him immunity from personal nssnnlt *d least, lint these bariKirinns, whose souls and bodies are given up wholly the worship of Mammon, have no reject for gray hairs, and they hu'-UM the venerable editor around in a most ruffianly manner, kicking and striking him in the face, and only ceasing their maltriidment when he gained Utt> street. Musa AkkiCCvlvbr, of Peiuisyltnnia, a young lady of education and refinement, who Ixecame religiously jajHacssed with/the conviction that she “had a , call” to. convert the.heathen, waasent as missionary to the Fijp Islands, This was her first venture in Ip-atbeUHsmver-sion, and she was dumbfounded when her Sunday school chew of men, women j and children appeared before her in tire scanty owtuxne of tleeir native aim plicity, consisting nmyily of a necklace of Log’s teeth. Annils is now on her return trip, believing that she was mistaken in hearing the “call,” and firmly ’ convinced that the Fiji Islanders are more in need of clothing than they are of religion. Tx spite of tire convincing teatimony developed in the trial of Bishop Lee, the teatier of die Mountain Meadow Maa aacre, the jury failed to convict him. Thia wdght haste Iteeo exported. To oonyict Lee would A to condemn die whoto M«>nnon dhareh. Alr<<y re .porta reach ns of threatened on tragus by Indians baptized into s the Mormon Church, and this is donbdres die first result of the failure of the tag trial. 'Flu* Mormon leaders, emboldened by j their succom in the Territerial courts, j and having thousands of willing redakiua ( at Uieir command, will ndw, probably, i seek to avenge themselves against those • witnesses who dared to testify against them. But, if We mistake not, they will boom reach the end of the rope, and sjieevty and bloody retribution will yet be meted out to them by the soldiers of Unde Bam. Natitie has been in a terrible mood th is sum mcr. W e had scarcely heard of die terrible earthquake in South America wte'B Motta esupe < fearful inundations in France, The Garonne was overfilled in one hour. In six hours the valley had I wen turned into a take, ttd 1 a flood rushed on. destroying the crops, ' houses, and bridges in its way, In a few honre-Touknree wm submorped and St. Cyprien engulfed. Quo persons in St. Cyprian tdbne were ; by falling houses ami drowned by rush-, fng iteteM It ti lfcW ffiiil altogethor 3,000 livre ’ldrf,’ 3,000 ttouaee de- j molished, and propdcMtrrj**!. A few .lavs uflF news 1 and andthen came the disasters, in our own country. In the West it had ' mined for weeks, the rivers began, to Ovctflow, and tann-V-hou-sea, and crops were washed awiy finite fearful flood of waters. The memorable M one of |he most ditestrous in all < fre trjkl eyj/lp^wm-'J A aoKsx iuoi terminated in an extra t ■er at lan-1 in, nrete h of eMed bei itaerally hMorehired and in' far lw ahead. rrangement Me or fwo “posted” friends, the yagpinfere ptoto buy np they could gvbod,one, and ttakod heavily.. They put a hunky boy on Naiklriver, in order Jg hold her back, and giving White *"*•* tici tm wil&ll v *ud the boy jerked her out of the conrre into the wweda Naddrirer, eridfcnUy surprised, but not discouraged, r ,. into the right i&mW madly forward, white the boy tried to' ran her into Ito ? oppeeite faMMk This only tatetarf toomaawilre Aeiy mare, »nd to rfder, abe flew ferwa, paw d the rtmga t

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gling White Eye, and came in one length ahead. Time, 47 seconds. To b make the intended swindle more plain, b the rider of the mare declared it was no “go,” ns he did not understand the start. Even the White Eye men tried their utmost to instruct the judge that ’ he did not declare a “go." Tins dis ' gusted the citizens present, about 200 in • number. The judge, a Mr. Shaw, was as fixed in his determination as had been the Naildriver, and after thanking the agitated owners for their instructions, declared it the mare’s race, amid loud applause. May all j udges and rnce-horees emulate Mr. Sliaw and Naildriver. UtXrsfKJtlAL JfAM£S In the minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in. the United States of America for 1874 are given the names of 4,597 ministers and 309 licentiates. The names present a great vari«‘ty of trade* and professions, • quadrupeds and fowls, both wild and dsjj rnestic, trees, shrubs, implements of > war and manufacture, beverages, etc. In the index we find the names of 7 Mills I and 27 Millers, 12 Bakers and 9 Cooks, 53 Smiths, 4 Masons, 3 Carpenters and i a Jhmmw 'There is .a Tipra, with 9 Wards and 3 Streets, a Lamnnjjpfl 3 *'Tk>«K "Th* icautetaaata <rf war are 5 Shields, 2 Sjx-are, a Cannon and a Gunn, la.Dnun and a Kite, luere.are Wm*, Waters and Beers, mid a Ceuar—for the ywßSu—reqnirmg’Ore ; owe of 5 Bullers. There is a variety of animals ; the tame beasts comprise , a Kidd and a Lamb, 10 Kerrs, a Buck, a Bull, and 3 Jacks. The wild animals are 5 Lyons, 5 Foxes, 1 Coon and a Wolfe. There are 2 Crowes, 3 Hawks, 6 Cranes, 6 Herrons, 10 Martins, 6 Swans, 3 Drakes, 1 Nightingale, ’a Parrot, a Peacock, and 2 Birds with , only one Wing and a Bill. There is a Barber, a Beard, and 3 Haire, 2 Tanners, and 4 Hydes. There are various Hughes and Dyes, such as Blacks, Brow®, ‘ Greens, Whites, Grays, Dunns, and a Roane. Thtre are Hills and Dales, Woods and Parks, Thorns and Roses, f R«'«ils aad a Brier, Barns and Shedds, | Bars and Gates, Nobles, Kings, Lords and Lairds, Parsons, Priesta, Abbotts, . Bishops Bnd lUdera, Hunters and Fowl ! era, Weavers and Webbs, Walls and j Hedges, Days and Knights, Ireland, ■ Holland and France, English, Welch and • French, and a single Hollander, Ponds | and Mnralies. There are 11 Walkers and a Trotter, a Hand, a Foot and a Shin, Arms and Hearts, True Virtue, : ; Bigger Mix, Cann See Savage Swift, Orr Poor Robb, Shed Manns Blood. ' ~ ... ■ 1 MICKOSCOI‘IC ITRITIXa. In the United States Museum, at Washington, there are two specimen glass plates, on each Os which there is marked space as large aa the dot on the letter ». Within this space, which is equal to one two hundred and ninety-] , fourth port of art inch in length by | one four hundred and fortieth part of an inch in width, is written the Lord’s IVaycr. The prayer contains 227 letters. - Such is the pureness of the writing that 29,431,458 letters written in a similarway i would cover only one square inch of the glass surface. The Bible contains 8, 566,481) letters; hence the entire con- ' tents of morn t|ian eight Bibles might i be written within the space of onesqnare 1 inch. The writing is done by machinery invented by Mr, Wm. Webb, of London. During the siege of Paris by the Germans, a pigeon post was sent from London to that city. The following is a description of the method of making np tiie mail: Written messages for Paris were repeiveJ, and, by jihotogrfcphy, reduced to microscopic siz<-, each letter being redttoed so sfiall as to bo invisible to the eye except as a speck. Some 2,000 of there specks were than printed •on bite of tissue paper about an inch I and a half square, whirfi was jtoltedand carefully attached to one of the tailI feathers Os the pigeoh. On tin- arrival iof the bird in Pans, the postal officials , which enlarged Ute several specks ifito. | readable coaumtnieationa, which wore' I duly eopted in writing, and delivered to , the persons to wham they were addrewa d. ; The total postage received for the tranai miammi of one nt there tiny irita < I paper frequency amounted to' 32,000. '* ,-m* cosrtr JOKK. > Dearer, Col., gave an instance of a jeke being carried t*> tar. It petrated yeareago, tat only lately oeate to light in public drees. Sometime after the Atlantic cable had been established, a tel«>graph operator at Denver i sent the following dispatch : | “7b Ato/teror Awxi&on, Purii, .• Gov. Gilpin will net accede to the eserfon of i Italy to Ktapre. Bteaee ta Bohemia j atone.” t « i The operator supposed tt would make . aomn fun in the Omaha office, and stop 4 there, as the station agents had a gen- | end wMdetaanding in regard to each Other’s jokes. By some hook or.crook J flte dispatch went ou, and Sired under , 4ta«NMU> and eaate up smiling in the Garden of the Tuileries in Fraud'. The manner of its ftateptian by Kepoleon been letet to history. AH fldW is known is the Emperor did not pay for it, and . flie iaeetans operator wan hunted %p 'ftaddAigbd-’to pay» bfflof»B7.flQ in j gold for his little jokto operator .aaae 4!te result of ■4'--'; .. wuewi. 1 *"'! Im PutaMi Kentuekwa Mr. Claude . 'n-vrt' • “»<■ “ ** ■^4SdU wSsrlrom it.

»l . LATK m C'HVRCK. ■ ■■, ) bt mnui DOVGtaS. 5 i Along me rood OB either (ide, ' I Th» elder bougiM ore budding, Thr meadow land* * rooy tide - i Os clover Uoom io flooding; . ... I | The Bunny landscape ia ao fair, j ; So aweet the bkuaKwxacaated air, That whoa I went to church to-day could but choose the longnt way. 1 Loud -a»g the taobolinkß. and round * The niUk-wccd fltnren the beea wen- humming; I I aauntervd on, but aoon I found r Behind me tberv was aotuc one coming. I did oat tjMwavy imad tu I M, I ‘ And yet X Knew who followed me I IW<vr Tom called me— '■ Kitty 2 stay, I * And let me eharv *ith you the way!" • We did not mind our it-jw grew slow. Or nofine *ten the b<k Mopped rtoting. | Or tlithk or batroTu*. bat. Io! < When -WO bad reacbed Ahe church, the tinging 4 Was over and the lawyer was done, ’ i The senuon fairly was begun: j I Should we go in. stiouM we stay out, IVeaa boldly on. or turn about? , , Torn led the way, and up the. attic e I follow «'d—around were staring— . ' Aud hsrr and there I caught a in-flc ; t And yet I blushed, j know, and showed j A fisoe that Hke s pof»py giowed, *-s For every one eeemed saving. •• Kate, 1 W<‘til know why you are so lair !“ '■ Another Sunday, come What aid, ' . I mean to be at church !n season ; I i But to regret this morning tiili, . I ; I trust I never shall have r> aeon; ;j For should I wear a wedding drees ’!a year from now, perhaps youll ghess * ' What Tom said to me when, to-day. We walked to church the longvs! way. J . -j OLD BE AV. Tim rrerek- rereltainnii txmreraiug deed forgeries at it criminal trial at Cliii«agb, remind ms of oa incident that oc- ! currvd a few years ago in the vicinity of ; tit Lbitis, wliteii seems to me to be | worth relating. j]. (Hara and Mary Merwin, elaters and orphans, Were in the sitting-room Os their : pleasant home pn the edge of a village near the Missoiiri. Tln ir mother had . bren dead revand years; their lather luul lately died, leaving them an estate, | «s they supjyosed, of the value of some 840,090 ; but they had learned quite re- ; j cently that the property was encnmliered to such an extent that they were likely I ‘to be deprived of it aIL This discovery, ■ gas may be supposed, filled them with sadness and anxiety, and they were, waled in silence, unable to read, to con- ’ verse, to work, to do anything but brood ov.et their great misfortune. While they were tlins occupied with ( somber thoughts a buggy drove up m ! j front oi the house, and a man alighted, | and the buggy drove away. The man mustliave been on the shady side of fifty, judge from his grey hairs, although his fore was fresh and unwrinkled. He was dressed with remarkable neatness, and his manners indicated briskness as well as precision. In one ; hand he carried a small valise, and in I . the other an umbrella, and stepped j I quickly to the door and rang the bell. . i In a few minutes he was ushered into ! the presence of the young ladies. “Tm obliged to introduce myself,” he said, smiling and bowing in a courtly manner—“ Abner Pierce. Here is my 1 card—professional caret You will percrfva l am a lawyer in hit. Louie, and presumably a nwpei'tabte man. Don't be afraid ; I am not here to hurt you, but to help you. I have the honor to call myself a friend to your tamily—that is o say, although it is many years since ’ I have seen any member of said family, i I always had the highest possible regard for your sainted mother, and nothing would please me better Jlian to be ' of soma service to her children.” “We are happy to meet you,” murmured Clara. “ Thank you- 1 happened to hear—no mrftgr how—thst you Oto Th trouble, * ■and have come up here in the belief that 1 I can assist you. I hope you will feel that voa can trust me. lam actually an ; honest man, although a lawyer, and I' mean well, although I may express myself damrily.” “I am free to admit,” said Clara, imtaWA fo to !o<Jt for ’ “ welL R xsa groa thing, no j doubt, that I have come. Now, sit down . and tell me all about it.” CJara Merwin, who was the elder of «hd tender in everything, told how she and her sister had taken | out letters of administration upon their father's estate, when b nan of whom Uny had navar before heard put iu an - and j with txmds included, executed by the | late Mr. hjafiftaitete, j for the ram dr Not dbntent j with prohibiting them from attempting I he had tied up their ’ money in tank, leaving them absolutely penniless. Thev i but tradesmen wed) becoming impatient, j and, some, had safused to supply them /Z^^tpay./ 7 ; I “ This is a tad Mr. Pieroe. ■ “ Yon need money—thaiis the tint thing i to attend to. Yon aunt lot aae act as : yoW banker until I get yon out of thia ■ scrape, and that gpn ’t be tong, I hope. i iKw machdo ytaoweF ' H ; ■ > “ More than §100,” answered Clara. | , Xtaota tanttanan eoxmted otat §2OO i from a well-filled pocketbook and handed I it to hex;. ... ► ’•’for your mother’* Hate,” he said, i *wtan ata refused to receive it, and he Hfoned it upon tar in such away that f she could not help taking it. He then accepted ttaymog lady’s invitation to , ’make their Ebnite his home during hip .• inquired he. I srfrfthat it’was a plmn case against us, had. ,

’“■ a a,,-. ' FT —7 Z —— SYRACUSE. INPLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1875.

“ Very strange. What is the name of the man who holcte ret** “ Alexander Campbell.” “ Ham. A good name, but a baaman, lam afraid. When and where can I see him?” “ He will be here this afternoon,” answered Clara. “He propose® if we will make him a deed of the real estate to give up the bond and mortgage, leaving ■ our money in.bank and the rest of our personal property.” “ Very liberal. Introduce me to him, , when he comes, as an old friend of the i family, and not as a lawyer.” I Mr. Alexander Campbell called in the ■ course of the afternoon, and was made acquainted with Mr. Abner Pierce, at whom he looked suspiciously; but his - eyes fell when he mot the old gentleman’s intent gaze. Mr. Pierce glanced but slightly at the deed which was offered for • the consideration of the ladips, being occupied in studying tj*e oounteuauoe of the. man in whose favor it was drawn. “I can’t decide upon it just now,” he said at last “Asa friend of these young . ladies, sta ding, as I may say, in loco par.~ntis, I must make a few inquiries concerning the value of this property. {Suppose you come after .supper, Mr. ’ Campbell, and suppose you bring that mortgage with you. I have no doubt it is all correct, but I would like to see it.” ‘ Mr. Campbell assented to this, and withdrew. “ I hope that you have some good news . for us,” she said to Abner Pierde. “ I am see it in your face.” “ Not bad, my child. I hope and trust that it is very good. A good 1 name, biit a bad man, I said, and that is true .1 think I see my wny out of this difficulty, and the money I lent you is I , rafe. But you musn't interfere with me. young ladies, or be surprised at anything I may say or do, or object to it. You may trust me, and let me work i in my own way.” After supper, when Abner Pierce had . <^n versed with the girls concerning their mother as he had known her in her youth—» subject upon which he grew z ?fuite eloquent—Alexander Campbell came in, bringing the deed and mortgage, both of which he handed to Mr. ' Pierce for examination. “I have made* inquiries concerning , the property,” said the bld gentleman, , “ and am satisfied that it is not worth | more than the amount of the mortgage, and would probably bring less if sold at foreclosure. Your offer is a liberal one; hut I must first look at the mortgage. j. This appears to be correct,” hetcontin- j ued, when he had examined the instrument “It is properly acknowledged, and the signature is undoubtedly that iof Philip Merwin. I suppose the young; I ladies will have to go to the county seat I to execute the deed.” The girts’ countenances fell at this sudden surrender on the part of their champion. “ This reminds me,” said the old lawyer, picking up the mortgage again, “of an occurrence that fell under my obeerv ance in Tennessee. Not that the two cases are alike, as the Tennessee case was undoubtedly a fraudulent affair ; but: there is a similarity in the circnm- ’ ■■ stances. Don’t look so down-hearted, 1 young ladies. What will be must be, I and it is useless to cry about what can’t | ’be helped. As I was about *to say, a i j man died in Tennessee, leaving a widow and one daughter. The widow was, about to administer upon his estate j when a man who was unknown came forward and presented a mortgage rimi-; lar to this, and for exactly the same I amount. It was examined by lawyers ’ who were familiar with the signature of the deceased, and pronounced correct . Although there was something strange about the affair, they could find no flaw j lln the instrument. It was particular iy puzzling to one of them, who thought i | he had transacted all the law business of I I the deceased. He got hold of the mort-1 I gage and brought it to me when I was lin Nashville. I Isappened to have in | I possession a very powerful magnifying I glass that had been presented to me— ; the most powerful single lens I have ‘ I ever seen. With this I examined the i mortgage, and soon discovered that 40! I bad been raised from four. There was I no mistake about it I could easily sea l the marks of chemical erasure, and the I ! difference in pen and ink, between the t ‘ raised * and the rest yf the instrument | I How the rascal got into the register’s } I Office, I don’t know; but the record there ■ had been altered in the same manner. :He ran away, and it was not con- > ridered worth while to follow him. I Strange circumstance, wasn’t it, Mr. ' Campbell 1” .. Mr. Campbell was fidgeting uneasily in his chair, and made no reply. “Here m the glass,” continued the ' old gentleman, taking it from his pocket, I “and you ean see for yourself how well' it magnifies. Now, as I look at this I •forty’—why, bless me, the same signs' are visible that I saw in my Ttenesa^e, 1 mortgage.’ I think you will be obliged ( to drop this, Mr. Campbell My Tennessee man’s mane was Alexander Bell, and' he has added a camp to it since he came to Missouri.” Campbell, his face as red as flames, i reached out a hand for the document. “ I beheve I win keep thi-sMrl Campbell, for fear of accidents. What, do you ‘ think you couhl take it by force? Herej as something that shoots five'times. Going, are yon ? Very well, I don’t i think you wifi Imj molested, if you will leave this part rt the country and never retdrn to It is barely possible that the estate of Philip Merwin may really owe you $4,000. If so,! adviae.you not ( co^®ct U l6 M Hucli “ •attempt would land you in the peniteu

'.sr.-:.....i , •• 1 tiary. Good night, Mr. Campbell, and farewell.” “What h it! What does it mean ? u asked Clara, as Mr. Pierce, rubbing his hands and smiling, bustled about to fill ; his pipe. “ Are you so dull, my child ! Why, the fellow is a swindler and has been found out’ T guessed as much when I . first beard of the affair, and was sure of it when you told ate his name. You will soon be able to pay me my S2OO, and then we will straighten up matters. %liank you, Mary, you are very kind to give me alight.” “Don’t you mean to puniahhim?" asked Mary. I “It wdhld hardly pay. We could put him in the penitentiary, but you might lose $4,000 by the job. By trying for §40,000 he has lost the four that may have been justly his due. He will be far from here by morning, I have no doubt, and good riddance to him. Ah ! thia is comfortable, I know that 1 feel better, and I hope that you do.” The girls were sure that a great weight had l>een lifted from their minds and hearts. Alexander Camp, alias Bell, decamped, and Abner Pierce stayed a week with the orphans, during which time he arranged all their affairs, satisfactorily, and won their lasting gratitude and love. “ How can we ever thank you for all 1 you have done for us T” said Clara, when he was about to leave. “ It was for your mother’s sake, my child. And for her sake, if I can ever help you, all I have is at your ; service.” Abner Pierce has made visits to the orphans frequently since the event > above narrated, and they have always had a cordial welcome for “ma’sold' bean.” QV£ER RESULTS OE ADVERTISING. The accident to which Orange Judd j owes the suddenness of his success was j this: Mr. and Mrs. Judd lived, in their | early history, in a modest house in a retired street in Flushing, L. I. Mr. Judd went to New York every day to work upon the A mcrican Agriculturalist —a struggling paper sold at the rate of ‘ 31 a year, and in the evening he and his j wife put up seeds in little paper bags, : which were sold in the New York store. I He kept an old horse for business pur- i poses, that went by the name of “the hair trunk,” and it was a standing joke ,in Flushing that gentlemen would go i to the city in the morning, passing Mr. | Judd’s horse at a certain point on the ! road, and, though he was evidently moving, it was at the same spot when they returned at night. The laugh was not I all on one side for long.- One day Mr. Judd sent a clerk ont to collect some . money, to the extent of 3100, out of which ke was to pay for the insertion of ' a two-line “ad” in a daily paper. Through j • lucky stroke of stupidity the clerk left ■ the “ad” and the 3100 at the newspaper office, and said that it was to be inserted to that extent. Imagine the frugal seedman’s horror on finding that the money : which was to have carried him through : several weeks had all been spent in one advertisement. For the length of two columns the morning paper repeated the lines, “ The American Agriculturalist out to-day.” The consequence was that I the edition was exhausted early, and the I subscriptions came pouring , in. From | that day Mr. Judd and his paper became established successes, and now he owns * a stylish team and about half of Flushf ing, they say. A similar clerics! blunder lately oci curred at Scribner’s. An advertisement i of four lines was sent out to 100 newspapers, with instructions to spread it I over “eight lines,” it should have read, but the clerk wrote it eight inches, and ' the consequence was startling. The arI tide advertised was the Baltimore Bonapartes, and the different printing offices have taxed their ingenuity and type fonts to spread so few words over [so large a space. The result was net unlike that of Mr. Judd’s blunder, for the orders poured in at such a rate for that number of Scribner’s that a new . edition had to printed. I H EALTH OF THE PEOPLE AHH THE STATES. A, communication in the New York 1 Evening Post condenses the census st*- ; tistics in regard to the wealth of this country. The average personal wealth throughout the whole United States and [ Territories is $772. The wealth per ■ capita, in the various States, is as fob * lows: In New York, §1,481; Massachn- | setts, §1,463; Coanectikmk 31,441; Rhode bland, 31,366; California, 31,097; | Pennsylvania, §1,081; Ohio, §838; IHi- ' nois, §835; Maryland, §824; New Hamp- ; shire, 3793; Delaware, 3777; Indiana, | S7M; Missouri, 3746; Vermont, $711; i lowa, §600; Michigan, 3605; Wisconsin, ’ §659; Kansas, $506; Oregon, 3506; Min .ueeota, $513; Nevada, $530; Maine, 8555; Wert Virginia, $431; Nebraska, $435; Louisiana, $454; Kentucky, $431; | Virginis, $384; Arkansas, $322; Tennes- ■ see, 3395; South Carolina, $294; MM* sippi, $252; North Carolina, $243; Florida, $234; Georgia, $226; Alabama. §202; Texas, $194. The slave States are now comparatively poorer, as every slave was formerly esti- ; mated as so much property. The correspondent notes the fact that the States that have the highest per capita tax are : the most prosperous in the land. ’ .. .... ' Frask B. Cabfester has finished his < pertriut of President Lincoln, ordered ‘by the New Ybrtt Legislature. It is said to be a remarkabte £kenef% and a sui perb work of art.

ASD HOME. IRe ConJber Wiarm. I . ■ Hew <«oth th* gentle cttnlcr worm I i Tiupewe eack riming hour, | n . AndniMtiCfte the apple trees „' With epigastric poveK Aaa.*benhi« humble work pt dear. He caatr hi* eye around. . • ' Then on a home-spun fishing line He slide* him to the ground. And now, the lesson we may learn Is plain enough to see. To what a depth we must descend When we get "up a JWrst* RalciHffa. Asparagus should not be allowed to ripen its seed, but the stalks cut down ; as soon as balls begin to turn, and a heavy coot of manure with a liberal sprinkling of salt scattered over the bed. I Art absorbent will give relief from bee stings. But perhaps nothing is more effectual than lean raw meat. The sting of a bee or wasp may be almost instantly ; relieved by it It is said to cure th bite of a rattlesnake and to relieve erysipelas. i The Massachusetts Board of Health : gives an interesting paper on the longevity of the farmer’s life. It says that evidence collected from county physij cians throughout the State for the last j i twenty-eight years, shows that the average length of the life of a farmer, in that State, is 65} years. This is much longer j than that of any other class of citizens. The class most nearly approaching farm- i era, viz: out-door mechanics, live only i 52} years on an average. ■ Some horses are Itetter when clipped, j others worse. To know when to clip a horke, and to use a clipped horse properly, requires more good judgment than i lis generally possessed. A coarse, thick- I ■ coated horse,> that does fast or heavy ! work, will be more comfortable, and will ; i consume less feed if elipped, but such a ’ horse should be carefully treated or the I loss of a natural coat may cause sufferI ing from cold. It is one of those mat i tors in’ which each horse owner should ’ie a law unto himself. A stock-raiser says: If sheep are addicted to the vice of jumping, take a board about two feet long, five or six ; inches wide, and one inch thick, and i fasten it to the sheep’s neck so that it ' ■ will come flat against the knees. When I the sheep attempt to jump, the board I prevents a foothold on the fence and throws them back. A few trials satisfy : them. The wort t jumpers can be cured in this way. Last year I had nine which J were such bad jumpers that no fence ’ could stop them. I fixed them in the 1 way above described and had no further trouble. At the same time the board will prevent much running about and cause them to fatten better by remaining more quiet A cheap way to construct a cistern is to make a box two feet square and two and one-half feet long, and sink it two ■ feet into the ground. Digging is then begun at the bottom of the box, the earth raised through it, and an eggshaped cavity made. Care must be had j not to make the cavity so wide as to allow the earth to eave in on the workman. If the soil is hard, and there is no pressure of water toward the cistern, it con , be made very good by plastering with water-lime cement on the earth. It is so far below the surface that frost will not hurt the cement A good cover . should be put on the top of the box, and a pump put in the cistern. A farmer recommends copperas and lime as a safe, sure, and cheap destroyer of the Colorado potato beetle. He says: “ I used five pounds each of copperas 1 and slaked lime, dissolved in twenty gallons of water, and applied it with a whitewash brush, effectually destroying the enemy. A trial of the same mixture, with twice as much water, did the work equaDy welt” His field was alive with the beetles and their larva? before the application. The mixture improves the growth of the potato vine, and it certainly cannot do any harm. The copperas is itself a manure, operating some- , wb*t as gy r sum, or land plaster. Our agricultural exchanges are requested to pass this item around. Cheap, Nice Pvddinc.—Boil one quart of milk; then add 3 tablespoonfuls of flour, 4 eggs, 6 tableepoonf uls of sugar, and a little nutmeg. Bake half an hour. If wanted richer, add raisins. gon GnrGEBBBRAD.—Two cope oi molasses, 1 of shortening (either butter or drippings), 1 cup of boiling water, 1 tablespoonful of ginger, 1 of soda, ami flour to thicken. ~ ' Gtsgeß Swaps.—Take 1 tablespoonful of ginger, 1 even do. of saleratUß, 1 of lard, } pint of molasses, } teacupful of water. Knead soft, roll thin, and bake ■ in a quick oven. Soda §ake.—One cup of butter, 1| cups of sugar, 2 cope of floar, 1 cup of milk, $ eggs, J teaspoonful of soda, 1 teaspoonful of cream tartar. To Prevest Tie Rusting.—-Rub fresh lard over every part of the dish, and then put it in a hot oven and heat it thoroughly. Thus treated any tinware may be used in water contantly, and remam bright and free from nut indefinitely. Ripe peaches may be prevented from decaying for many hours by covering tbsm with fresh cold water. I saved two crates in this way one night last autumn, which were fuDy ripe. The water will t not extract the flavor from the fruit ExdudiDg the air from them is, of course, what saves them. To Waite French miutard,iake A quarter of a pound of best yellow mustard

pour it oyer a half a pint each of water and vinegan Add a pinch of salt and a piece of calamus root about the size of a . pea. Put it on the fire, and while it . boils add a teaspoonful of flqjir. Let it jboil twenty minutes, stirying it con.- , stantly. Just before taking it off stir in a teaspoouful of sugar and honey. i When cool put it into bottles and cork tightly.— lfyrperq Bazar. To get rid of the little red ants, use carbolic acid, diluted with water, and apply with a small bunch, of feathers , wherever the ants are. If they do not leave the first time you apply the acid apply it again and stronger. Another good recipe to get rid of ants or any other vermin is to apply hot alum-water with a whitewash brush : Two pounds of alum to two quarts of boil until the alum is all melted. This will banish any of the pests housekeepers are bothered with.— Cincinnati Times. THIS T.ATE I. M. SINGER. In the death of Isaac M. Singer, announced from London, says the Toledo Commercial, a strange life closed. The deceased had a chequered history. Os his earlier life we know little, beyond the fact that he was a young man of , bright talents ami mental promise, with a special tendency to development in mechanical arts. When about thirty-six ! year? of age (in 1846), under the name l of I. S. Merritt (substituting his middle i for his last name), he appeared in Ohio as the proprietor of a “ Great Moral I Drama,” designed to illustrate the vice i of drunkenness and enforce the princiI pies of total abstinence. The success of the enterprise seems not io have met ' his expectation, for in a short time he I found himself at Fredericksburg, Wayne | county, bankrupt and compelled to ; suspend operations and sell out bis con- ! cern. Thus situated, he set about look- , ing for other business. Having some knowledge of wood-type manufacture, he soon found in Mr. Day (afterward i well known to the printers of Ohio), a partney for the prosecution of that business in Fredericksburg, under the firm name Day & Merritt. A limited establishment was improvised, with tools and machinery driven by horse-power. The next spring Mr. “ Merritt ” started out with a one-horse wagon loaded with types, which he sold chiefly to country printers in northern Ohio. Encouraged by the results of this trip, ths firm went on and manufactured so liberally that the next spring Mr. “ Merritt ” set out with a double team and a larger load. The s *:result of that trip was not known for many years, for the peddling partner failed to return to make report, having decamped with load, team, and the avails of the trip. The type business was continued for many years at Fredericksburg, and subsequently at Cincinnati, by Dr. Day and a brother, but “ Merritt ” “ returned no more.” Subsequently, as already indicated, he turned up under his proper name, Isaac M. Singer, the sewing-machine patentee, in which character he has long been known to the world. To what extent he was the real inventor of the machine bearing his name is disputed, it having been alleged that it was chiefly the work of other brains; but he became the patentee, and as such secured an enormous income, which, for many years past, has contributed liberally to the gratification of his tastes and desires, most of his time of late being spent in Europe. His life was a success in respect to pecuniary gain and notoriety ; but in other respects, which most men regard as higher attainments of human ambition, he was not much known, and his record can hardly be held up for the emulation of young men. .4 rnajrr-s death. The New York Tribune gives the following letter concerning an Associated Press dispatch published in New York: “A train on the Hudson River railroad ran over a woman and her child at Glenwood, yesterday morning, killing the mother instantly, and injuring tire child so seriously that he will die. They were ‘tramps.’ ” What a train of thought this fragment of press news inspires! “They were tramps. ” Who was this poor woman? - How far had she come with her child in her arms, and where was she tramping to ? Whose daughter was she, and who was her husband? She must have had friends once—a father and mother, sisters, brothers, and nearer yet—a lover. She may have been reared in luxury, and have been drawn at lightning speed over the same road which she was so wearily tramping when she had been swept into eternity. What was the difference between this woman and child and those who rode in the palace-cars of that express traini All belong to the same family; all are human beings actuated by the same motives, the same joys and sorrows, the same loves, hopes and fears, the only difference consisting in the possession of a little dross called money. ■ Ah, who can believe that if this life were Ml, that the great Creator would have so distributed its joys and sorrows t Who can resist the feeling that, somewhere beyond, there is a recompense for the pain and trouble of this life ? Somewhere a place where the little tramps which have scarce opened their eyes on this life will have as snowy wings as those whose heads have rested on downy pillows from their birth! Somewhere a great and glorious eternity, to which this life is only a threshold, and through which we aie all tramping—tramping onward to our rest From Germany there comes a statement that Bismarck’s sons, Count Herbert and Count John, are very bad young men, and give reore anxiety than the government of the Empire.

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r’ “ "»0 jroir XOFJS BVTTKRf” I Tw children under the apple tree, $ May i» • two-year-old, Ralph is three. Voder May’s chin Ralph's fingers hold “ Buttercups bright in their sheen of gold, t And this & the prattle his wee Ups utter, . ; 131 see, Itile May, if "on love butter I” , 1 i A boy and fl girl are under the tree: , A curly -haired, rpsy-cheeked May is she, ’ i Overflowing with frolic and glee and fun, c ‘ And Ralph is her plsyihate and champion. | He holds a buttercup, now, to sec what her j Chin shall reply to, “Do you love butter?” | A youth and a maiden are under the tree, “ Shall we try the buttercups, now,” says he, 1 “Just as we used in onr childish days?” * * » May’s cheeks flush red as he whispering says, [ While her ebin grows gold, and her pulses flutter He is sure that he doesn’t love any— but her! PEE A SAN TRIES. ' A crow will never leave a cornfield without cause. ' | The only thing that will discourage a 1 ’ California flea is a sledge hammer blow on the head, bat he is ready for business the next day. A California paper says : " The milkmen of San Francisco have formed a , mutual aid association. One holds the , cans and the other pumps.” It used to be believed that the earth’s [ surface was flat. We know better now. ' So far from being flat it is artful enough to get round the sun.— Judy. • “ Ma, go down on your hands and, knees in a minute, please.” “ What on earth shall Ido tliat for, pet ?” “ ’Cause I want to draw an elephant.” It has been ascertained that all the mile-posts in New York State are set wrong, the distance having been shortened so as to encourage travelers. “ Mamma, I’ll go to church to-day, Although thia ia a * wilter I ll not pin back toy drew so tight, And go without my tilter.” “ Hope told a flattering tale.” What musical instrument ought this beautiful song to-be accompanied on ? I see you are bursting to give the answer. Out with it! The lyre, of course. A correspondent suggests that the thing that will make a boy yearn for the resumption of study has at last been discovered. It is rolling a baby around in a wagdn while a base-ball match is being played. Mamma : Oh, Alfie, you must not speak such bad grammar ! Alfie : Why not ? Mamma : Because incorrect grammar grates on the ears of those who speak it well. Alfie : Serve them right for learning it!— Judy. Th®& famous French surgeon Ricord recently had a corn extracted by an operator in the neighborhood. After the operation the great surgeon drew from his pocket a 20-franc piece. “ Oh, sir,” cried the chiropodist with emotion, while declining the money, “ there is no charge between professional brothers.” A New London fisherman has captured, off Montauk, a trunk turtle, seven feet long and two feet through, which weighs over half a ton. It is not a turtle cominon to this latitude, and its flesh is of no value. On the Mediterranean, where it most abounds, its shell is used for small boats, drinking troughs, and bathing tubs for children. The other day, as an aged lady stood in Reynolds’ drug-store and surveyed the hundreds of drawers and bottles filled with drugs and medicines, she sighed and whispered to herself; “ Dear me! how I’d like to be twenty years younger, and have about fourteen sick children, and have a chance at ail these medicines!”— ■ Vicksburg Herald. IX>V«'g LABOR W«T. I 1 loved her with a perfect love, That flung aU mnae away I And near my heart I wore her glove, And ktaeed it ev’ry day! I kepi the flowers from her hair— I have some rose-leaves still; And thought how very dear they were— When came the florist’s bill! p I flved a life stupid bUss, Yet never dared to speak! And if t got her hand to kis* . , Was happy for a week! But when at last my fate I tried. She said in icy tones. “ Next week, sir, I shall be the bride Os John Augustus Jones.” STRANGE VERIFICATION OF A DREAM. The Boston Herald relates the following on the Authority of a man who had a singular dream :. “ His father and mother had recently died within three or four weeks of each other, and one night in a a ream he saw his mother standing by his bed, and a little distance away he saw a cot-bed, with a peculiar coverlet, on which lay a man, with his back turned toward him. His mother called him by name, and said : ‘ Here are seven dollars.’ He attached no significance to the dream until, when he went to the Postoffice, he received a letter stating that his brother, who was on a Western railroad, had been badly crushed, and requested his presence immediately- On arriving at his brother’s home, he was struck with Surprise when he found him lying on a cot-bed; with the same kind of coverlet that he had seen in his dream, with his back turned toward him. The brother died, and the gentleman was still more astonished, when on settling his affairs the first bill presented was just $7 in amount. Strange as the story may seem, it is told’ by the man himself, and he is a gentleman whose veracity no one would impeach.” Twa eighty-one ton gun in course of 1 manufacture at Woolwich, Eng., is f*Pidly approaching completion. The bore 1 is being rifled at the boring mills, and 1 the only other process required to finish 1 the gun in the rough is the shrinking on 1 of the trunnion rip# B - £ immense sire the J j sc®*