The Syracuse Enterprise, Volume 1, Number 47, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 25 November 1875 — Page 1

J. P. PRICKETT, Editor and Proprietor. J

VOLUME I.

FRESH TOPICS. It w "aid that th- recent severe illness of Vice-President Wilson was the result of too mhckdinihg with his friends. ' Ji The Hon. M. C. Kerr says Thomas Jefferson is hi** model of a statesman. ( Webster he thinks was not a statesman, but an orata* Caul Schvkz has not, as has l>een erroueously reported in the papers, taken ( uu hi* residence p»>tma neatly in New fork. He has only edabli.sjied his fam ily there for the winter, that he may have a more convenient headquarters during his lecturing tour. ' Gov. iMwoiiwr, of Maine, in resuming the editorship of the Lewiston Journal. nays he does so “ with a stronger conviction than ever that no petition iu life is more honorable, or opens largtw* op» |M>rtuiiities for influence and usefulness than that of the journalist Reader, don't sleep with your month open. A Chicago man did it the other night, and when be awoke in the mom- I ing ho discovered a full grown, ablet Ixxlied spi.hr iutheaet of lowering its- lt into the orifice indiis countenance, like a workman . going “xjown in a coal-I mine." Nowauight** he ti«* up his nxmUi with his watch-chain. The us is something ••>yst< rious in the wav mining Ht«*ck*-,hicr«'as‘e or decrease in value. Now, there are the Bomiuza stocks. By the Are at Virginia City the i property of those mines w damaged to the amount of and yet the next day the shares ahruik $35,000,0110, and the shareholders at Ban Francisco ar. I loginning to inquire into the matter. Os the 292 member* of the House of Representatives of the Forty fourth Congrvsa, but 108 were member* of the Forty-third and preceding CongreeaH*, thus leaving IM who hare never serv»*d in the National legislature. Os the 108 who .. have been re-elected, the Republicans Imre 08 and the Democrats 40, but among t lie latter are several whose term of service exceeds that of any member on the Republican side. The Louisiana sugar industry, which was once large enough to supply nearly the whole Routh and West with sugar, U rapidly recovering from the disorders brought bn by the war. In Itffil the crop ’ reached 469,410 hogsheads, the largvat ever raised. The war sewn* to have completely annihilated thebumneas of sugar growing, as in 1864 only 10,387 hogsheads were produc'd. Since tliat time it has been gradually growing, and the crop of 1875 is eatiniated at 190,000 hogsheads. Th* Texas Constitutional Convention has adopted a mort comprehensive nr-I tide providing for State control of railroads. It gives *v« n toad the right to construct and c perate connections with intersecting roads; prohibit* consolidation of jiandlel or comi*etiug linen, or the consolidation by contract or under judicial mile of any read within the Stat* with one organized under the laws of another State, or of the United States, and reserves to the I/egidaturv the right to establish reasonable rat* s and to enact law* prohibiting discriminations. Th** farmer.* in the Convention dictated a clause requiring any nsul hereafter constructed to within three miles * f a county seat to lay a track thereto and establish a depot there. The annual report of tue condition of the Biltinrore and Ohio Railroad is a most gratifying exhibit of the finances | of that eorporaticu. The total revenure of all the branchwifor the year foot up $14,426,552, and the expenses $6,181,972. The entire mortgage indeldedneaa of the company is $28,716,334, and the surplus fond $84,026,566, or $5,307,232 in excess of the indebtedness. Tin* management of the Baltimore and Ohio is conducted on strict btutinraM priucipies*, and this splendid financial exhibit ia the result. It ia an eloquent argument in favor of honesty in railway management, and if other companies would imitate the example we would not only I have fewer bankrupt roa*ls, but vastly lower freight and pas*«engvr rates. A Cmcauo man, according to the Tribune, has perfected a new motor which appears to be, in a general way. similar to Keely’a invention, though differing in application and effect. The Chicago motor, like the other, derives its power from water and air, and is conceived on the seemingly contradictory principle of multiplying force without the aid of force to begin with. The Tribune tinker that, from practical teste made by the inventor, it has been shown that an extraordinary apparent pressure can lie produced by hut apparatus, though it has not yet be<m demonstrated that jpotire power can be obtained in proportion to the amount of this pressure. Seeing is believing, and nothing etoe ia now-a-days, and until the invent or succeeds in applying his motor to a train of can or in some other public and practical way, no one will bo likely to invest largely in stock in the new inven two. Th* history of the run on the National Gold Bank of OaKfomia that brought atowntita test wMpenrfotiUmgmfieantin. illustrating bow eerily a panic is exerted. The bank was welt known to have a large ■ amount of coin in its vaults and assets or—idrrahly larger than liabilities. • But ’ a check sot sl,(M>o wax presented, about which there was some irregularity, until the correction of which the bank refuse*! '

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— eWW>-*»- JPHT ■ payment Tlrer.-an the holder industriously circulated the news on the street that the bank couldn’t pay a >4,000 check, and the run l>egnn. The bank stoo*l it until two minutes of the closing , hour, 1 taring paid out §460,000 in gold, and having still a small balance left, . whan a ebeek for $17,000 was {Weeented aud the doors were closed. The official examiner then found that the assets were $1,3*29,903 in excess of a|l li«biliti»*s, but i such was the extent of the panic that it 1 was impossible to get a (fay's time in which to nulize ou a portion at least of this amount, and the concern went into liquidation. .jE-i .1 . 1... -I l-l - . TKACKU O*- T«i AVW3 5 * London seems lately to liave discovered another and older London under ground, of which the present civilization has been in utter ignorance. A great deal of curiosity is manifested in this subterranean London, which is probably as old as the Roman times. Tlie discov eries commenced by the officials of the Marylelxme vestry coining upon a large subterranean building deep’down in the J course of Oxford street. It was supposed to lie the ruins of the Lord Mayor’s banqueting house, long buried Ixmeath the roadways of surging Loudon. A still more iiitereatuigdiaoovery has rino** been made. The church authorities re ' oolvt-d to lay a uoiaeleM pavement in Oxford street, in lieu of the rattling granite cubes. A gas company, in carrving out a system of repair* fa connec tion with the design of the church, came to.two iron fliq* near the enrb, which seemed to have no relation with the present system of gas or water. The curiosity of tlie workmen was aroused, and after much difficulty they sneededed in raising them. Th<iy opened tlie way to other sul h rran»*an works, not of the present age or people. Sixteen brick steps le*l down toa dark and moldy chamlier, el.wen feet long by nine feet wide and nine feet high, the roof being of arehtsl stone, ami all iu good repair. The walls are of small red brick, such as were us«xl by the Romans, in which are eight chamfered Gothic arches with stone |sun*ls, id* though originally U* d an windows for obtaining light. On a stone cornice in tlie chsuiilier is an inscription which cannot b- deeiph.-ml on account of Age, and the eouturies' overlying mold aud «lirt. In th** middle of the aparttnent is a pool or bath 7Jx9 feet, built of stone. It is 6 feet deep, and at present contains about 3| feet of water, tolerably clear aud freeh. A spring of water bubbles up from ite bottom, aud provision ia made in the sides of the liatli for an overflow. Tin* walls were all covered with slime, and the air was found to be offensive. Tlie veetrymen think the place was originally a baptistI ry. But a few yards away some wbrk- . men, while removing old foundations, found a large'piece of Roman lead pipe six inches in diameter. Tbey seem to have found a mine of tlie old Roman civilization in Oxford street, and tlie relics may lead to still further discov eri<w. Pt VZZMZ.VO W£ I.V.VBW ••Til give sl6 to have- that train stopped!” exelaime*! Maj. D. A. Carpenter on yesterday to Mr. J. B. Hoxsi**, master of tranap* rtatiouof the East T«*nn*WMß*, Virginis and Georgia railroad. Tlie eastward-bound passenger train had pulled out of the depot, and was rattling through tl*<* yard, tin* bell ringing merrily. Maj. Carpenter stood within the dejxjt. and_Mr. Ho xs io was watching tin* fast receding train. Tlie request was sufficient for Mr. Homie to act upon, al- . though ignorant of the reason, and a freight engine standing near by shrieked slirilly at the engineer of tlie jsutsenger train, and th** alarm was taken up by other engines in the yard, while the train wm motioned down by every employe ol the company in the vicinity, and in thirty teeohda it had come tea atop to the wonderment of the passengers and the curiority of the engineer. It liappcned in this wise; Just before the train start*-*! a man standing on the step of one of the cars had called to him a little girl with a basket of apples on her arm, and pureliaaed a dime*9 worth of fruit He placed the apples in his pocket, and just then the train moved slowly off. Taking a ten-cent note from lus veet pocket he held it in his hand as the train moved on, the little girl following imploringly along, and finally he returmal the money to his ptxsket and went inside the car. The little apple girl burst into tears. Just then Maj. Carpenter crossed through the depot on his way to ilinuer. He asked the reason of her tears, and she told him. “ I’ll give $lO to have that train stopped,** shouted the Major, who, though a small man physically, has a heart as big as all out of doora. The train w.s stuped i and backed into the depot, and with tbe Major's protection the little girl identified the fellow, who was made to give her the dime, aud then to listen to an opiuI ion about himself expressed in very vigorous Englrnh by the thoroughly aroused Major. Officers Madden and Cain were called, and tlie fellow was taken off the train, marched to the calaboose, and kept there until evening. Then ho was made to solemnly promise that he wouldn't eat toother apple for twelve | months, and released, taking tbe evening freight train for his home, near (Teris.j uhW fj * It has been decided by a Buffalo Judge that tbe owner of. clothing stolon iua sleeping car has no redress if he.eaunoi get his own clothes back again, except te buy new garments and redress in them. ! He esnnot make the sleeping car oom ' pony buy the new suit

* , - L«r V* SITE TIIAUKS t II < isv. k * 0 men ! grown eckolb toil •ml < are, ~ ! Leave for a while ttoerow*!*'! mart; * . 0 women! rtilrtng irtft drvjxur. Weary of lixub and faint of heart, > Forget jour yearv to-riy. ani * '■'’“O' 1 A« < ba k eitfMbood’b home ! I When climbing up the anmtner hil a, ' In their green iaj« you aat loutrnt. I Anti aofUy leaned your he*.! to rot 1 Oa NMurr'a c«Ua *n«i p>*a<*<al t*rr**t. f I walk through the eere and failing woo!, j So bghUy trodden by your feet. When atty on knew of We «»> gw*d. And all you dreamrd of life »w ewect. And let find ui< tuory lead you beck j O’er y outhful love * enchanted track. r»«te the nj“" UuU ol orchard teurfw, r IWhk fron tt* theory Wil One*, more, , Breathe fragrance from the crowded mow. With froh. «wee»door running o’er, I And c*>unt the trvaaorr* at yo*xr feet * Os to* er rye »nd golden abort. *E> rtl Urtdc the h- arth Again, WL.ee circle once waa glad and gay; > , And if from out the preciou* chain Soane ehintng Unka have droppeti away, ■ Then guard with tenderer heart and hand ' The remnant of thy houeeholti land. I Prww near the lw»rd with plenty rptend, 1 And if nt th. aecirrton>«d plara ! f Yah aeb the falbi r - reverend Im «d, Or mother** patient, loving face, Wbatc'er your life m«y have of ill. Thank God that three are left yon rtiU. And though w here home hath >*en you rtand Today tn alien lonelincm; 1 hough you may claep no brother's hand. And claim no eiater’b tender kis*; Though with no friend nor kner nigh. The part is all your company— ! Thank Ood for friends your life h<u known. For every dear, departed day ’ Tbe bleeeed part is *afe alone— God give*, but doe* not take away; ! He only safely k**p« alo*e ( For ua the treasure* that we invr. ’ .1 . - ..1 -UUULWJXA’r’S ll ISH-ROSE, .4 TfcanXatfiriwjz-Twrkrjf Sturff. Th** big brown turkey’s days were . numbered. For several w*** ks Aunt * Rhoda had fed him like a prince or jiaslui, in view of Iris anticipated sudden death, . t nd now as she stood by the kitchen table finishing up the last touches to the i pumpkin pies that wen* to“ follow his remains," abo aud to Winny, who sat 1 near her stoning ntisius for the mince- I i meat: “ My cup of happiness would be full if Joel could help eat him ‘‘Joel e*t wlm>, Auntie,” and Winny’s ; brown eyes sparkled, and her red lips grew redder with the laugh she was | struggling to keep liehind th** wall of l . ven, jierfect, white teeth. Aunt Rhoda , liad Such a curious way of saying things, continuing a train of thought in her own ■ tniud and expecting everyliody would | know just what tlie links meant “Whv, eat old Gobble, to be sure; I don't you hear him singing his last song : I out in tlie yard ? They say swans ring a ' death aoug, why shouldn’t turkeys? He i knows he is to be killed shortly. Ah, ■ me! Thanksgiving, and he to be away j on sea'-sjpid he so fat and nice." Winnydteighed outright now, as she cried: “Well, Auntie, I suppose you mean Gobble is ‘ nice and fat,’ and Joel ■ is ‘away on sen ;’ but if Joel isn’t here I think we can liave just as good a time picking old Gobble's boues *" and a toss |of the head told very plainly that Joel, in its curly estimation, would not be such a very desirable acquisition to th** | festive board. Winny Weid«»n was Aunt Rhoda’* i ' niece's child.- Since the death of her ’ parents—uot quite a year— Winny lia*l j , ctwne up country to live with her mother’s ■ ( aunt, and a« the old lady was quite alone j now, her only child, Joel,* Laving gone j to sea, she .was very glad to liave the ’ ! bright-faced, merry girl as a c&nttot eonqmnion. Winny had lived in the city i , all her life liefore she came to Aunt I t Rhoda an orplian, tod she knew very j , little of conutty peopte tod their ways, 1 but she Kked them now, since she lived among tlie good, honest-hearted folk* j who made the “ways” pbasant, tod they all grew to love the plearaut-faced, bright ! city girl. < Winny liad seen very little of her aunt ’ • lielore she come to her for a home, and I of Joel she remembered nothing, Fave , ‘ tliat when she was a very little, short girl; 1 he was a very tall, awkward boy, who ’ used to bring home the cows and help j milk them with his great red hands in J tbe l>ara-y«rd. Aunt Rhvida talked inceosantiy of him, ’ j and Winny was tired of the sound of his ; j name and the list of his and imagine*!, besides, he must be a middleaged mon by this time, instead of the • “boy” Aunt Rhoda called him. “ Home--1 * ’ Iv tod awkward still, no doubt,” die . J 1 * I j | Brought to herself, when Aunt Rhoda - , ended her tales of his “ goodnesses” with . her usual “and there i-n’t anotlier boy > . , like him anywhere round!” 7 j This Thanksgiving Winny expected p two of her girl friends from the city to I P come out and have an ohl-fashioned j country dinner, and Aunt Rhoda had inP vited the yonng doctor from the village to coll in the evening; and, besides, t e , girls were to have two young gentlemeu - friend? to drive ont with m th6 evening e ' and take them home; »that altogether e Winny had a pleasant time in prospect 1 without Joel, and was consequently more S ■ interested iu her thoughts of them than B lin Aunt Rhoda’s wishes for her absent e ■ son. Vary selfish, no doubt, but very girl-like and natural. . , Thanksgiving morning d»wued clear sad cold. - >oor Gobble was beginning . to turn a pule golden- brown in the oven * Winny*s friends drove ap to Aunt a . Rhoda's _ hoqutable door, where Winny it | sfawl awaiting tlwwr* Such kissing, and o embracing, and laughing, and talking as 1. there vis nt the quiet old bouse ’ ~ Aunt* i- I Rhoda wiped her eyes as she Ifetened to the merry voices, and said to herself a*

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she basted the turkey, “If my boy was only here—and he’s roasting so nice and i brown, too!” “Who’s coming after you, girls?” asked Winny, when tho overskirts were all pinned back tighter and tho crimps pulled out “fluffier.” The three girls came down-stairs in the parlor, where Aunt Rhoda Imd had an old fashioned wood tire built on the hearth. “ Isn’t that gorgeous!” cried the girls together, girl-fashion, as they entered the room. “ Wlk> is coming, did you ■ ask ?” continued Katie Crafts, settling , herself in Aunt Rhoda's big chair. “ Well, Miss Winny, I’ll tell you. Two of the splendidest young men you ever saw! We know you will like them —and one we invited on purpose for you to fall in love with, and vice versa.” i “Indeed! How kind,” said Winny, laughing. “But I never intend to marry, Jso I shan’t fall in love. May I ask, however, who the vouth is—‘what’s his i • - , name, or where’s bis home i’ ” “No; don’t tell her, Sue," cried Katie, i stopping her companion’s mouth with a dimpled white hand. “Let’s hang up a wish-bone over the door for Winny, and -then see if the right one cornea in under it first.” “ But supposing it’s the »rro»»g one— I Dr. Gray may come first—what then ?” ' asked Winny. “Why, whoever it is, we’ll give up I our interest in him. You shall have the first man who comes in under the wish ! bone—shan’t she, Sue'?” and the ripples 1 of laughter reached Aunt Rhoda again, and made her sigh. Such a dinner ! Old Gobble in state at one end, chicken-pie that melted in on?’s ’ mouth at the other, to say nothing of I Aunt Rhoda’s famous canned corn and i jx'as and Ixxms ; then the mince-pies, ■ pumpkin-pies and plum-pudding! Ah, Aunt Rhoda knew what girl’s liked, and : helped them boun'ifully; Mid there i wasn’t ;i merrier table anywhere round the country that day than Aunt Rhoda’s. <To be sure, when they first sat down Aunt Rhoda was a trifle jiale and looked j as though a very little would make her cry instead of laugh, but the girls kept , back the tears, and with their happy I faces before her she put her sad thoughts away. “ And now, girls, this is Winny’s wish--bone, and we’ll hang it right over the parlor-door, and we'll all watch to see who enters firstand Katie Crafts, the • tallest of the three, mounted a chair ami I hung old Gobble’s breast-bone over the parlor door. It soon grew dick enough for lights, ; and they were all sitting round a warm ' blazing fire listening to Aunt Rhoda tell how Joel came to go to sea, when steps were heard coming up the walk and a I knock at the door announced the arrival of : some of the expected guests. “Novr, Winny take a good look at your future husband,” whispered Kate ; and as shbspoke a tall, handsome, sunbrowned man rushed into the room and took Aunt Rhoda in his arms kissed her ; again and again. “ And to think it’s Joel after all!" said Aunt Rluxla, after the excitement of his I unexpected return had subsided and she had finished hugging and crying over her boy and introduced him twice over to all : three girls. ? “ Why, who else would it be, mother? Surely you wouldn’t welcome any other i man as warmly as you liave me!” and , Joel looked at his mother in a very natuI ral sort of surprise. “ No—no—but old Gobble, you know I —and Winny’s breast-bone —” Aunt | Rhoda began, in her usual bewildering, - mixed-up fashion. “ Oh, aunti'i—please!” whispered Winny in a beseeching tone ; and then auntie laughed and stopped, short, and just then the two young gentlemen and Dr. Gray arrived, and Joel forgot, in the introductions that followed and the i merry games that made the evening all i too short—forgot his mother's mysterious i half explanation of her strange wonder- : ment that it “ should be him after all!” “ Let us know if it comes true, • Winny,” cried th® girls as they bade • their friend go»xl-by, and Winny shook her curls at them and echoed, “/fit comes true!” That night wh< n she had gone up to her room Winny thought to hers* If, as she combed out her long brown ringlets : | “ What an improvement the sea must be i to ngly boys. Here is second-cousin Jo } a handsome man—and he used to be a i hideous boy ! Not so old cither. He I can’t be more than twenty seven. I was ; five when he used to take me to the l arn- | yard to see him milk. Nine years are a ’ big gap when one is five. Wonder if he ' thinks I have changed?” and Winny held the candle dose to the glass and | scrutinized her pretty, dimpled, rosy , face very closely. ■ Strangely enough Joel’s thoughts seemed to ran the same way that night. “ What a pretty girl Winny has grown j into. How the years change one,” he said to his mother after Winny had bade them good night “ Indeed she is—and as good as pretty. II only wish I had a daughter just like her,” answered Aunt Rhoda warmly. “ Would you like a daughter, mother I” asked Joel, faking up Winny's picture that lay on the table and studying it intently. “ Yes—one just like Winny, Joel—and if you’ll look on top of the parlor-door maybe you’ll find one,” "replied Aunt Rhoda in her rambling, queer mode of speech ; and with these words she kissed her boy good night and went to bed. “ What on earth does mother mean? Is she crazy t Look on top of the parlordoor for a daughter! Well, Til look, ” and, reaching up his hand, Joel found— Winny’s wish-bone

t » 4 “ Ah, ha ! That’s the answer to the 1 riddle, is it ? lam agreed I I’ll keep it for a talisman and with a laugh to liitn- ’ self at the thought, he put old Gobble’s , bone in his vest pocket. i Joel’s ship had come home quite un- ’it i expectedly, but it staid a longer time in , port than ho thought it should—long J enough for him to find his mother a daughter and himself a wife, “on top of , the parlor-door, too,” be declared ever after. When old Gobble’s sons and daughters began to run rotund the door-yard that spring, Winny wrote down to her girl < friends : “Deaii Guns : In old Gobble’s breast-bone * heart beat for me! Come see if it lias not} ■ “ come truefor on Easter Monday a wedding . ] will take place at Aunt Rhoda’s, and it is alto- j gether the result of our eating the Thanksgiv- • ing turkey and your hanging up Winny’s wjsli- ! bom!” LIC.INTHKOrr. It is not an uncommon thing for luna- i tics to be possessed of the idea that they , liave been changed into some animal, as the dog or the wolf. Out of this insane notion there was developed, in the early and middle ages, a popular superstition that men were often transformed into 1 wolves, and, like them, roamed the forest impelled by the fiercest instincts. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, I this hallucination became epidemic, and large numbers of persons in France and Germany were affected by it. The sufferers crept on all fours like quadrupeds, and barked, leaped, and howled, aft t the manner of’wolvt s. They herded to- . gether in the mountain districts, and were as destructive as the brutes they simulated. They were calle ’ werewolves, and, uniting the cunning of men ' with the ferocity of wild beasts, were greatly to be dreaded. The chief atrocity of which they were guilty was the murder of little children, on whose flesh they feasted. In 1521, three of these werewolves were tried at Besancon, and con- : fessed that they had sold themselves to i i the devil Oae of them admitted that he had killed a boy with his teeth and claws, but was deterred from eating him by fear of the country-people. Another acknowledged that had killed a girl as she was gathering peas in a gar den ; and the third, that he had killed and eaten four different children. The wretched maniacs were punished for their crimes by burning at the stake. In 1600, great numbers of these were-wolves infested the Jura, and, by their depreda-I tiens, made themselves a public scourge. : Six hundred were executed on their own > confession of child-murder ; and yet the most terrible punishment visited upqn the lycanthropcs scarcely sufficed to I bring the epidemic under control. Mr. Latouche, a late writer on Portugal, men- | tions that, among the peasantry of that country, the superstition of the were-' wolf still prevails almost universally, j When sitting at the fireside of the small land-owners in rural districts, he was | often regaled with stories of the craft with which these children of the evil one ; ingratiated themselves into the confidence of simple, trustful folk, only to! betray them at last by stealing infants from the cradle and devouring them in ; desert places. .4 rrojf'i.vcA’ or kb.il luk. A letter from Portland, Me., relates some facts which have recently come to light there, and which read like a novel. Mr. John Rodman, a mechanic, was a I sufferer by the great fire of 1H66, and moved with his family to Harlem, N. 1 Y., where he bad a brother residing—a widower with a small property. Soon afterward Mr. Rodman went to Vai- 1 paraiso, leaving h'a wife, sonaud (.laughter with his brother. At first be sent money home, and then his letters ceased, i The brother died, and his little property ; was eaten up by lawyers in the settle- ' meet.. Tlie widow, with her young son |' and daughter, returned to Portland and became a reamstress. The latter part of 1873 an English Captain took the son, a boy of 15, to sea with him. The vessel was wrecked in the gulf, and all were supposed to be lost. The mother was taken sick, but a physician of that city I took charge of her and afterward ten- ■ dered her much aid. A short time ago ' Mrs. Rodman saw an advertisement in the New YorK Herald that if the wife of I John Rodman, formerly of Portland, I would apply to a certain New York law firm, she would hear of something to her ; advantage. Her doctor advised her to go to New York, and she went with her daughter. There she interviewed the j law firm, and ascertained lliat her husband had failed to hear from her before i she failed to hear from him. He had [ , been with Meyena the great American I railread speculator, and made a fortune, . and wanted |ii» family, if possible, to join him in New Orleans, for which be ( was about to sail. The mother and ! daughter went to New Orleans, arriving | ttiere a day or two Ixrfore the vessel by which Mr. Rodman was expected. While , out walking the daughter was insulted by a young dandy, who thought the two women were unprotected. A young, j sailor knocked the dandy into the gutter, and as he turned disclosed the features »of the long lost son. It seems that after , I his vessel was wrecked he was picked up * j ■ by a Norwegian vessel and carried to a port in that -country. Thence he went i j to Calcutta, thence to Southampton, and , arrived in New Orleans the day before, jA few days afterward the father arrived, f and the long separated family were re- ; united and happy. Tux total cost of the Chisago Custom- 1 ? Home to this time has been §3.322,293. -! It has not reached the second story. At ’ i this rate the building, when completed, - ■ will have coat not less that eight or nine infllionsof dollops.

FJB.U AND HOME. /'arm Kaki/ig*. A writer in the Oskaloosa Herald says he is informed that one bushel of ■ salt per acre 'will always save a crop from the chinch bug. Hox. John Wrxrwor.m says he feeds his chickens on wheat bran, giouud oat- 1 , and corn meal, scalded, and occasionally adds a little bone dust. He has never, lost a chicken by cholera. Fnvrr trees may be set out safely, even after the leaves have partly expanded, provided they were dug early, and the roots kept moist, and the trees healed in a cool place. But trecx should never lw dug, nor shtxrts shortened back, after the leaves, begin to open. The harrow is not used enough. It is good on m-nulows, pasture, winter or spring wheat, oat l , bailey or corn. If ■ farnu-is are fe;.rfnl let them experiment. This year and next year be prepuvd to harrow everything, espec ally if the ground is baked. The farmers of Somersetshire, Eng., through their Cheese Association, challenge the whole world to the production of a better sample of cheese that wh it they exhib.t They offer a premium of §IOO to the best, SSO to the second, and §25 to the third. It is time our cheese makers were accepting the challenge. Mr. Starr, an experienced orchardist at the Alton Horticultural Society, said “he believed in very little pruning. When I prune I cut clear back to the body of the tree, but get along with as little pruning as poasibb. I would not allow a man to go into my orchard and prune in the ordinary way if he would do it for nothing. I say prune, but prune sparingly ; and I have year less and less faith iu this indiscriminate cutting away in the head of an apple tree.” Preservixg ClDEit.—The following method of preservirg cider sweet is; recommended as superior to any other : ■ “ I allow the cider, after it comes from the press, to stand until the pomace settles. When this point is reached 1 -put it in a clear vessel, and,let it come To a boil, skimming off the scum carefully. It is then put into kegsand demijohns, and tightly Corked and sealed. By this process I have excellent sweet cider, not merely for the entire winter, but for years. This. method would not of Course be available where large quantities are made, but for an ordinary family it answers admirably.” Bhrnisg out Stumps.—l dig a hole about eight or ten inches deep by the stump—if possible, between two projecting roots. If I cannot find two, then beside one. Then take a two-inch auger, with a long shank ; set it near the center of the top of the stump, ranging the point to the hole dug by the . side, and bore through. Make a fire in the hole hi the ground, and there is no more trouble with the stump except to fill up the hole wh re it once was. The auger hole serves as a flue or pipe that draws the fire, not allowing it to go out. —Southern Cultivator. CABfIAGES FOR Stock. —Cabbage are rich in nitregen, and for making milk or flesh are valuable. In gathering a patch of cabbage for market, there will always be more, or less soft which are unsalable, but will answer for stockfeeding, and where heads are cut oft and sold instead of being pulled up by the roots, the leaves make a good feed. It is very hard Work to induce farmers to change their practices, but we think that if they would try the experiment Os raising an acre or two of cabbages for stock-feeding they would be so well pleased with the result as to make it a p.irt of their of farming. When cabl>ago are high, the larger, firmer heads could be sold, and the poorer, with the leaves, fed.— American Hural Home. Domratir Economy. Whitewash.—Mix some fnsh-slaked lime with water till it is of the consistency of cream ; dissolve a small lump of copperas in warm water ; when cold, | mix with the lime water. Lay it on the walls with a large brush, taking care to stir up the mixture every time the brush is dipped into it. Steamep Afpues.—Pare and lialve good, sour apples, remove the cores, and place them in a steamer over a kettle of boiling water ; when tender, serve with sugar and ert am, and imagine they an* peaches, Apple Float.—-One pint of stewed apples; when cold, sweeten and flavor to taste. Just as you want to send to table add the beaten whites of fonr eggs, lightly stirred, into it. It is said that water lilies may be raised about one’s house by the follow ’ ing method: Sink in the ground the half j of an cak cask, and cover the bottom with peat and swamp mud, and then fill with water. Dig the lily roots early in the siting, and place them in the earth at the bottom of the tub. A gentleman who has tried lhe experiment has a num- ! ber of lilies in bloom. Vegetables should never be washed until immediately before prepared for .the tall”. Lettuce is made almost worthless in flavor by dipping it in water ■ some hours before it is served. Potatoes suffer even more than other vege- . tables through the washing procere. They should not be put in water till just ready for boiling. I Before washing almost any colored fabrics, soak them in water, to each giltou,of which a* spoonful of I been added. A tea-cupful of lye m « j pail of water is said to improve the color !of black goods. A strong tea of common

hay will improve the color of French lineus. Vinegar iu the rinsing water, for pink and green, will brighten those colors, and soda answers the same end for both blue and purple. Heat is a perfect antidote to taint in milk in all its phases. Passing milk through charcoal will remove taint from warm milk and give it a most delicious, flavor. Cold will silence the activity of . the yeast, but will not kill it, and acidity will neutralize the oil fur'll time, but it will assert its sway npoifthe first favorable opportunity. In the treatment of milk, airing is a more efficient antidote. orr of .1 lzfz.vw ghave. A Massachusetts man named Moses B. Wheeler presents a case of most shocking wrong which must command universal sympathy. He and his brother were in the late war, and fought side by side for the old flag. They had a dependent mother at home. Moses saw his brother shot down at his side. The dying man charg**d his brother to see that their mother had his property. When Moses B. Wheeler returned from the war he found the property claimed by his sister on the strength of a forged letter purporting to be from the dead brother. Then there was trouble iu tbe family about tliat property. Wheeler seemed resolved to carry oat the dying request of his brother, aud see that their old mother got her rights. The sister was equally resolved to Jian~ on to the property by the thread of the forged letter. That sister appears to liave been au uncommonly wickinl woman. . She was watching for a chauce to put Wlioeler out of the way, and to opportunity was at length presented. They all lived in Brighton. One day a widow’s house caught on fire. Wheeler, being close at hand, for they w* re neighbors, worked hard to extinguish the flames aud s ived the widow's house. Thirty dollars damage was all. Wheeler's sister saw the point and had him arrested on a charge of setting fire to the house; and, at the trial, swore she saw him do it. „ Her husband I corroborated the testimony of the false witness. Tlie widow, - herself, t**stified that Wheeler had saved her house from burning. But it was two against one, and in February, 1866, Moses JJ. Wheeler was convicted of arson and sentenced for life to the Charlestown State Prison. Two years after the prison doors closed upon him his sister died. On the day before her death she confessed to another sister tliat . she liad perjured herself at that trial for tlie purpose of getting her “brother out of the way. But before a legal disposition could be obtained the remorseful woman was too far gone io give it Her lips were closed forever and the innocent man languished on in prison. The facts became well known, but there seemed to be no way of loosening the grip of that terrible sentence under which an innocent man aas suffering. Wheeler himself made incessant efforts to have his sentence revoked, but always failed. There was no legal process to lift him from his dungeon into the light of day. On Friday of List week, however, after eight years of false imprisonment, he was pardoned as a criminal, for a crime he never committed, and per-

mitted to go free. A RCTICEX ELOK AVION. r In a paper, on the principles of Arctic exploration, read at the German Seien- j title ami Medical Association, by Lieut. t Weyprecht, the author maintains that the Polar regions offer, in certain iinportaut respects, superior advantages for j the observation of natural phenomena — £ magnetism, the Aurora, meteorology, zoology, and botany. He also contends that the main objects for which Polar expeditions have thus far been conducted — the extension of geographical and topographical knowledge—are of secondary value. In detailing the observations that should be the purpose of future Arctic expeditious, he urges the importance of sustaining stations at points where investigations of the phenomena io be studied can with most advantage be preserved. The cost of one geographical exploring ( expedition would support a half-dozen stations in the neighborhood of the Arctic £ Circle for a year. At thes j various sta- } tions, which should be provided with j similar instruments and worked under j similar instructions, simultaneous obser- j vat ions might be sustained through the £ year that would yield results of great , value. Were stations of a like cluiracter to be established in the Antarctic regions, the profit to science would un- t doubtedly be great And the expense i of these station , divided among the j various civilized nations, would fall very £ lightly upon each. The suggestions by f Lieut. Weyprecht are reasonable, and de- ] serve the consideration of all govern- ( interested in ths advance of , science. < HLIIIS Os VAN KATC. ] The Katt family have now been struck by the lightning of good fortune. Over two hundred year® ago, John, Jacob, Joshua and Catherine Van Katt, children of an Amsterdam burgomaster, emigrated from Ho land to this country in a ’ bunch. After the d-ath of their father, the chd hen received the interest on the . estate regularly every year in Dutch j merchandise. Such payments of inter- ’ e-t were continued to the descendants of , these children up to the war of 1812, when they ceased, in consequence of the : heavy duties imposed on imports during ■ the war of that period. Since then the interest has bet u accumulating in AmsI t nhm, and Carman Van Katt, of New Bochelle, N. Y-, has just smelt it out. He ( finds that the sum of fifty million florins— , 1 near twenty-five million dollars—awaits • the Van Katts in the Orphans* fund at ■ ‘Amsterdam. It was worth looking after.

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NUMBER 47.

TOX’S THANKSGIVING. “ Fray, are yon thankful,” Margaret asked, “ For all the blessings of your life ' Said Tom i “Ah I one thing ye* I want— The blessing of a loving wife; And till I find that precious gift I cannot give thanks quite sincere.” Ah, wicked Tom!” the maiden sighed, “ Your case is hopeless, then, I fear!” “Not so I” cried he; “if you, my friend, Would only try to find for me A maiden fair, whose heart is mine, Devoutly thankful I shall be ; But she must have—well, letjue think— Eyes like your own, as soft and blue, And hair as golden, lips as red— In short, she must resemble you!” “ That which you ask,"she answered then, “ I really dare not undertake." “ What.'" answereel Tom, “ have you the Heart Thus a poor mortal to forsake J” Low dropped her head before his gaze ; (. “ Ob, Tom!" said she, “ what shall Ido ?" Said Tom: “ I think—indeed, I’m sure I could be thankful, dear—for yon!” , - TL HAS A NTJSIJSS. The favorite pndxling among lawyers —Suet. A regularbeat—The heart beat; still, the heart is never a “dead-beat.” Rings and canalboats resemble each other, since both are used to deck hands. They speak now of Weston as a man who has two soles and a single thought. KPITAVH. ( The stove was cold and the kettle wouldn’t boi’, So she tilted the can and poured on a little oil; Gone to meet the man who blew out thnae. “ I don’t think, husband, that you i are smart” “No, indeed, wife; but everybody knows tljht I am shrewd." J An old lady in Detroit hearing that American Girl was dead, remarked: “I’ve alius said that this tight lacing would lay ’em out some day.” The family man who doesn’t expect at least fourteen of his relatives to help him devour his Thanksgiving turkey can’t single throb of happiness in looking forward to the 25th. Man (with hands in pocket) —“Seen anything of a job o’ work lately, Jolin ?” Other Man (with hands in other pockets) —“ Saw one t’other day, but didn’t like to ask, ’cos they might ’a said yes.” A youngster, who had several teeth extracted, was comforted by the dentist with the assurance that they would come again. With an eye to the immediate future, little Johnnie inquired, “ Will they come again before-dinner ?” > Did yon ever come down stairs on j Sunday morning and ask your wife to put a button on your waistband, but what she lifted her eyes to Heaven, and with clasped hands assured you that when tliat shirt was put away there was a button on it t „ John Bright is reported to have said that girls are intellectually the equal of boys. It must be so, for oft in childhood’s sunny hours, when a strategic movement is made for which somebody has to take a licking, it’s the * boy’s back tliat aches, though the girl puts up the job.— Brooklyn Argus. A Danbury man who wears a very promising boot went homq to tea the oth* night, and being asked to get a scuttle of coal, he refused because of weariness. Said he: “It don’t seem as if I could put one foot before the other. ’* I “ What's the matter?” asked the miseri able woman; “ain’t there ,robm?” He got the coal. — Danbury News,

At a meeting in London to receive a report from the missionaries sent to discover the lost tribes of Israel, Lord H was asked to take the chair. “ I take,” he replied, “a great interest in your researches, gentlemen. The fact is, I have borrowed money from all the Jews now known, and if you can find a new set I shall be very much obliged.” You c»n never gather honey If you're frightened at the leee * Fortune never will Come near you If you Bit and take your ease. You can neither plow nor harrow If of dirty boots afraid— Kid glover, perfumes and cosmetics Will not do at any trade. Rouse I then, boys I be up and ready Find some honest work to do — is the great preserver ■ • • Os your lives and morals, too. An exchange says: “James Rotfaby was run over at the upper station yesterday by a coal train when drunk. ” And this sad accident should impel temperance men to ask, “ Whither are we drifting ?” When a coal train gets drunk it is high time the brakes were put on the rum traffic. If a coal train can’t indulge n “bumpers” without becoming inebriated and running over a man, it should be “ switched ” off—and often. A Detroiter had his hair cut the other day, and after the barber had finished the head was the worst looking job ever turned out in Detroit. The man was hopping mad as he looked into the glass, and he roared out: “ Why, you blamed fool, you don’t know anything about haircutting!” “ Dat’s so, boss,” said the owner of the shop, coming forward. “ I told him to take your head to learn on, bnt it don’t ’pear to me dat he’ll ever make much of a barber!”— Free Press. WEARING APPAREL. Ladies’ wearing apparel of all descriptions is made of much warmer stuffs than formerly. Shoes are made warmer, stockings also; under-garments are also universally adopted, and outside garments of all styles are made of warm and heavy goods. The old notion of wearing thin shoqp, doggedly persevered in for so many ye its, has been entirely abandoned by American women, as well as other silly and demoralizing ideas of dress and fashion. What is needed now in the matter of dress is simplification so long as women wear complicated and complex costumes, with week® xrf tdil on separate article of dress, they will re-» mom, to a very great extent, the slaves of dress and changingstyles. If Captains were less reckless, there would l>e less wrecks. ‘i