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Iwiir-sBYSOTesiF.
A vast amount of poetry lias always
been thrown around that
special ti.ue of a woman's life
when,
Standing with reluctant feet
Where the brook and river meet,
she is no longer a child, and yet
not rpiite a woman?that trnnsi
tion time between the closed hud
and the full blown flower, which
the people of England express by
the term, among others, of sivect
seventeen. Without meaning to
lie sentimental, or to envelope
things in a golden haze, wrought
by the imagination only, and no
where to l?e found in fact, we cannot
deny the peculiar charm which
belongs to a girl of this age, it 6he
is at all nice, and neither nort nnr
? ? ? # ? ?'" ' "*v"
* silly. Besides, it is not only what
she is that interests us, but what
she will be ; for this is the Tunc
when the character is settling into
its permanent form, so that the
great thought of overy one connected
with her is, how will she
turn out ? into what kind of woman
will -the girl develop? and
what kind of life will she make for
herself? Certainly Sweet Seventeen
may be a most unlovely creature
; and, in fact, she often is a
creature hard and forwai d, having
lost the innocence and obedience
of childhood, and having gained
nothing jet of the tact and grace
? j
ui wuiiiaiiiioou ; a creatnre whose
hopes and thoughts are all center
od on the time when she shall be
brought out, and have Jier fling of
flirting and fine dresses with the
rest." Or she may l>e only a gay
and giggling school-girl, with a
mind as narrow as her life, given
op to the small intrigues and scandais
of the dormitory and the
playground, a girl who scamps her
lessons ami cheats her mastcre;
whose highest efforts iu intellect
arc shown in the cleverness with
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I lie establishment without being
found out; who thinks talking at
forbidden times, | ecping through
forbidden windows, giving silly
nicknames to her companions and
the teachers, and telling silly secrets
with les^ truth than ingenuity
in thorn, the greatest fun imaginable,
and all the greater because
of tbe spice of rebellion and perversity
with which it is dasheo.?
Or she niaj' be a mere tomlioy, regretting
her sex and despising its
restraints; cultivating schoolboy
habits ; ridiculing her sisters, and
disliked by her companions, while
thinking girlhood a bore and womanhood
a mistake, in exact pro|
Kir Iron to its feinininalitv.
Or she ma}- be a budding miss,
shy and awkward, with no barm
in her, and as little good?a mere
sketch of,a girl, without a line as
yet made out, or tho dominant color
so much as indicated. Sometimes
she is awkward in another
way, beiny studious and preoccupied,
when sire passes for old and
original, and is partly feared, part
ly disliked, and wholly misunderstood
by her own young world ;
and sometimes she has a cynical
contempt for men, and beauty, and
pleasure, and dress, when she will
make herself ridiculous by her revolt
against all the canoes of good
taste and conventionality. But af
ter her debut in tattered garments
of several colors and ungainly cut,
she will probably end her days as
a frantic fashionable, the salvation
et whoso soul depends on the tankless
propriety of her wardrobe.?
The eccentricities of Sweet Seventeen
not un frequently revenge
themselves by an exactly opposite
mature extravagance.?
j>ut Though there nro enough and
to spare of girls according to all
these patterns, the Sweet Seventeen
of one's oftVction* is none of
tliein. And yet she is not Always
the mmo, but has her different
presentations, her var> ing faces,
which give her variety of charm
and benntv.
Married men are always sacred
to Sweet Seventeen when she it *
good girl; so are engaged men.?
For tho matter of that, she believes
that nothing could iildnca
her to marrv either a widower or
one who had been already ongag
cd, as nothing could induce her to
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marry any man tinder five feet
eleven, or with a snubbed neee or
sandy whiskers. Sweet Seventeen
ha* in general the meet profound
aversion to boys. To be stire, she
may have her favorites?very few
and very seldom ; but she mostly
thinks them stupid or conceited,
and reseats impartially either their
awkward attentions to herself, or
tlieir assumptions of superiority.
An abnormally clever Doy?the
I'oet-I Jinrnato nr Nfvirtn* RtA*mi.
son of hie generation?is her detestation,
because he is odd and
unlike evcy one else; and the one
that she loves best among them is
the school hero, who is first in the
sports and takes all the prices, and
who goes through life loved by every
one, and never famous. For
her several brothers she has a
ronge of entirely different feelings,
tier vonnger school-boy brothers
she regards as tlio torments of Iter
existence, whoso unkempt hair,
dirty boots, and rude manners, are
tier special crosses, to be borne
with patience, tempered by an active
endeavor after reform. But
the moio advanced, and these who
are older than herself, are her lovers,
for whom she has an enthusiastic
admiration, and whose future
she believes in as something specially
brilliant and successful.
Great fact 18 ronnirnd with
Sweet Soventecn in sucli society as
is allowed. Care is taken to bring
her out without obtruding her on
tlie world, of making her forward
and consequential, and without attracting
too much attention to her.
She is no longer a child to be shut
away in the nursery, but she is not
yet entitled to the placo and consideration
of a member of society.
And yet it would be
cruel to debar her wholly from
all that is going on in the house.
To be sure there is the governess
as well as mamma, to look after
her manners, and to give her rone
enough and not too much ; but by
the time a girl is seventeen, a governess
haa ceased to be the antocrat
ex officio, and sbo obeys her
or not, according to their respective
strengths. Still, the governess
or mamma is for the most part at
her ell>ow ; and Sweet Seventeen,
if well brought up, is left very little
to her own guidance, and sees
the world onl^y through half opened
doors. Girls of this ago arc often
wonderfully 6ad, and full of a
kind of wondering despair at the
sin and misery they ure learning
to know. They take up extrcmo
views in religion, and talk largely
on llio nothingness of pleasure,
and the emptiness of the world ;
and many fair young creatures
whom their ciders, laden with sorrowful
experience, think full of
hope and joy, are ready to give up
all the pleasure of life, and to lay
dowu life itself, for the very disgust
of that of which they know
nothing. They delight in sorrow
ful lamentations and sentimental
regrets put into rhyme, and one of
the funniest things in the world is
to sec a girl dancing with the merriest
in the evening, and to hear
her talking bruken-hearteduess in
the morning. It is merely an example
of the old proverb about
the meeting of extremes?vacuity
lending to tho same results as experience.
Hut however she takes
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nut} uiiKiiown life, it is Always in
an unreal and romantic aspect.?
Some oi more robust inind delight
in the bolder stories of Greece and
I won i e, and wished they had played
a part in the sensational heroism
of those grand old times, while
others go to Venice and make pictnrcs
for themselves out of the gliding
gondolas and the mysterious
Council of Ten ; the lovely ladies
with griin old fathers and gruu
brothers acting as insufficient jailors,
aud the handsome cavaliers
serenading them in the moonlight.
That is their idea of love. Tnoy
havo no perception of anything
warmer. It is ail romance, and
poetry, and tender glances from
afai, and long and patient wooing
under difficulties, and a little danger,
with scarce a word spoken,
and nothiug more expressive than
a flower furtively given, or a fleeting
pressure of the finger tips.?
They know nothing also, una expect
nothing else. Their cherry
is without stone, then bird without
hone, their orango without rind, as
in the old song; and they imagine
love ns unreal as all the root.?
When thrown into actualities,
though?aud when left motherless
and tho eldest girl of perhaps a
large family, with a father to comfort
and a young brood to seo after
?Sweet Seventeou is often vory
beautiful in her degree, and rises
grandly to position. Sometimes
the burden of liar responsibilities
is too much for tender slioulders.
And she is overweighted, And fails.
Sometimes, too, she is tyrannical
and selfish in such a ]>osition, and
uses her powur ill. Sometimes
she is a martyr, and makes herself
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and every one Clsfe uncomfortable
by the perpetual demonstration df
bor martyrdom, and how she considers
herself sacrificed and put
ftpon. Indeed, she is not unfrequently
a martyr from other
causes than heavy duties, being
fond of adopting unworkable
views, which cannot be got to run
in the family groove anyhow. If
she falls a pen this rock she is in
her glory; youth being marvelously
proud of tlus kind of voluntary
crucifixion, and thinking itself especially
ill need because it must be
made comfortable, and is prevented
from making itself rklioulous.
But Sweet Seventeen is intolerant
of ail morel differences. What
she holds to be right is the absolute,
the one sole and only just
law ; and she thinks it tamperine
with sin to allow that any one else
has an equal right with herself to
a contrary opinion. But on the
whole she is a pleasant, loveable,
interesting creatnre; and one of
the greatest faults about her is
that she is so often in the hands of
unsuitable guides, and tbst bee
powers and uoble impulse get so
stunted and shadowed by the com*
monnUco training which is generally
her lot, and the low aims of
Ufa which are the only ones held
out to her.
-1 JBgHttBggJi L'-l J- LI-LLLL
Fr?* the Pkdwont Intelligencer. *
Farmiag or Ranching in Califer*!*Si'ANioi.AUS
Co., C.1L., Jnne, 1870.
Mr. Editor?The mode of
farming in California is altogether
different from wiiat it is in tins
Eastern States. I have not been
living in the State long enongh to
do justice to the subject, but 1 hope
I may be ablo to interest some of
| my distant friends who have &n
eye towards this distant land.
The majority of the ltancbcs
(as tliey are termed here) consist
of a quarter section of land* equal
to one 1 wundred aud sixty acres.?
The Government will give any
man 160 acres, as a homestead, if
he will build and live on it five
years, or, if he prefers, he can pay
the Government price, ($1.25
per aore,) after living on it six
months. This is the reason why
so many people have quarter sections.
there are plenty of men
here who own thousands of acres,
aid imvo farms in cultivation,
tlirco or four miles square. I
know a man who owns over fifty
thousand acres of good land bought
from the Government at $1.25
per acre, in currency, who now
refuse $10 per acre in specie,
when sold by the qnyrter section.
I am living in Stanislaus County,
on the west side of the San Joaquin
river, 50 tnile3 south of Stockton;
the above mentioned river is nav*
igable for steamers, for six or
eight months during the year.?
Not three years ago the most of
this land belonged to the Government,
and has been taken up in
homesteads, (160 acres,) or bought
at $1.25 per acre, and now the
farmers refuse $10 per acre iu
gold. Mr. Wilson, who live* eight
miles from ino, sold lust year 1800
gcrcs, four miles from the river, at
$20 per acre to one man, who liad
nearly the whole of it seeded. 1
have gotten gome what oft' pf the
subject.
The gang plow is generally used,
requiring from four to twelve
horge* to the plow. There are
from two to ten pluw* in the gang.
Some soils in the State, when very
dry and hard, reqt ire six horse*
to a gang of two plows, and then
again four horse* will draw easily
a gang of four plow*. The majority
of former* sow and plow
the grain in at tire same time, by
having a eccd-sower attached to
the gang?sometimes the 6eed fo|)
before the plows and sometime*
behind, followed bv a Jiarrow fastened
to the gang. 1 hey sow, plow
in and harrow at one operation, or
plow, bow and harrow in at one
operation. Some farmer* sow by
hand, and souse large former* have
sowing machines that will sow
twenty pace* on each aide of tlio
machine?1 mean a broadcast
lower, placed in a wagon and
drawn by two or four horse*.
California has two seasons, via.:
the wet and dry ; and a* aoon as
the wet union ?4?iinn*??w*.A* u l.toK
is sometimes in November .and
sometimes in December, the fatin
or begins to son* grain. They get
two crops from the seeding of one:
the latter called volunteer, sad
frequently it is the better crop.?
In making the voluuteer crop,
some plow tlioMubble under, some
run a cultivator over the ground,
others bush R, and some others do
opt do anything, ,bi?t ju#t let U
come up so. No farmer .works
less than /our horse* to .a .gang,
and an industrious man can seed
a half section of land (890 acre*)
without any assistance, with four
good horses, and .will wajto on. that
' quantity of laud, not less than ten
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IVILLE, 80UTH CAROLINA,
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biwlitls per acre, and ho mar
make fifty or even seventy bushel*,
to tho acre; for there is plenty of )
land in this State tbnt will yield <
those figures. Wheat li worth, i
something over one dollar per j
bushel in gold. a
farmers e6w grata until tfce first c
of March, then they sow some to {
cot for bay, which is generally feat j
in sauj. miaw re iwuj for IM
header the first of June. Reapers *
and cradles are not mtich need, |
tat machines, oatted headers?from
the tact that thej only cat the
heads of the grain off. It requires
from foar to eight horses to draw
the header, depending upon the
size of it; and they cut a row from
ten to tweutyfire feel wide. It
on three wheels, and rnns the
horses are in the rear, hitched to
the end of something like a tongue, 1
tliat extends hack, supported by a 1
WIIMI ?*- aUvajtliM 1
w?ivn v??l *A7 j
elianged in or dor to govern the j
course of tlie machine. Tmc horses i
are all abreast. . He heads of the ]
wheat never isH upon the ground, j
bet are elevated ieto and through ^
a spout, high enough from tire
ground, and extendi eg far enough ]
tram tire mac iue4e allow a wag. <
en with a large body Upon it t* j
run under and catch the heed# as i
they fi*U?both wagon ami ma- \
chine moving simultaneously*? |
When tliis jrofon is loaded, the 1
machine stops?it drives on tothe <
rick or stapk- another wag on comes i
under, and qu they go a# before.
It requires not less than two wag- i
ons to a machine, sometimes three |
or four. Tl?e heads am generally <
ricked in the field, but sometimes i
the wheat is ihreslied from Urn <
header. Some headers cut ?i*
aouie 80, and others 80 acres per <
day. Farmers pay 7 or ? ecrtt*
per bushel for threshing and sack- i
nig grain, wliich is done with a i
separator, and by straw. They <
will turn tint) out ironi 500 to 800 i
sacks of wheat per day, wMh scums
ing near two bueliol* to the sack.
The sacks frequently are piled ng ;
in tho field, and remain there for j
four or five woeks, and no rain to <
wet tliem and no one to steal them. i
All wheat is sacked in California; I
and some of the largest farmers i
have to pay small fortunes for j
sacks every year, viz.: $5,000, and i
sotno few double this amount.-? ,
I he sacks costs 12$ cents apieoe.
The man who Iniys tlie wheat gets i
the sacks, and the wheat is export- |
od in the sacks.
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P. S.?A great many farmers
work mustangs or Mexican horses,
because 11 toy arc cheap. Mustangs ,
c?ui uo uougiii tor ten or fifteen
dollars each unbroken by the ,
wholesale, and twenty dollars
apiece. 'Ihey are worth frotn $40
to $50 when broken to the saddle ,
and harness. There are plenty of
them 100 miles from here in the
wild state. Ditto.
JTfcs IfO?t *97.
A Paris letter tells the follow*
ing story of a fats in that city ;
A wealthy family in the aristo
cratie boulevard Malesberbes were
amusing themselves in seeking the
king's portion, or the ring in the
festival cake, when a lady of the
company said to the hostess, **I
wish my portion to bo given to the
poorest' httle boy we can find in
tbo street." Tlvo servant was dispatohed
on tlie freezing night; not
far from tho house he found a rag*
ged urchin, trembling with cold
and hunger. He brought him op,
was ordered into the gay saloon,
where a thousand lights glittered,
and a sparkling fire, gladdened and
surprised, lie drew tlie portion
which the benevolent laay had
promised, and, as lock would have
it, the little fellow found the "ring,"
(beans they use in Paris instead,)
and of con ran he was 44 king."?
They all shouted out tjiat, being
a king, he mnst choose a queen.?
He was asked so to do, hnd look*
iug round the company be dioec
the very lady who .md purposed
to cede Iter portion of the cake.?
lie was asked why he chose Iter.
He said, 441 don't know; she looks
the most like mother 1" "Mother! >
whose mother!" 44 My mother! |
never knew her, but 1 was stolen
away from her, and here U fier
port rait 1" W itli this he Arew from
nnt I.U - ?t? * ' 1
v.. <) wvv m iikuiioh wii1cq
proved to be that of the lady herself,
who, In Itplv, liad bad her
child stolen from nor, aqd now be
turns up a poor little rapped Savooard
dragging atvng;a miserable
existence in Parip, while hp fnpUh i
er, hy fn intuition, felt tl|4t in (ha
air near .to yvhete ahe HAS.a^oue
so dear to ber.
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A too no pant let nan sent seventy-jfl
ve cents to Kew Vo*k recently
for a method of writing sailboat
pen or ink. He received the
following inscription, in large
type, on a card: 44 Write with i
pencil.*
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J J.'i...iimiii?iiiiiiiii>i wiuwI)*01^
*1* jltpdMB |U> ThO **:n ?-.? |
TbeKloofOWtee LmArNapo- '
eon BnenerpartO, bet few tfayt ago j?
me of Hie timet powerful rnoh- ,?
irehe of Europe, amTto diva '
>rwoner *rx* drfhi-Oned, ^ ntfpof i
tagtlfcr fc?Wfety* ' tje
^ '5$* mSJI^ I
moio ciist off bii WfUerpai gra?4nather,
taauee ebe yeedweed no. i
MUT to toeUurautt an* allied Iikb
*lf aritli the hooaa of-Anetrt*. Tl*e '
ittit of theaaoond awriwe ?m? 1
toa, who died while the Boarbons i
xxupied the throne, Mid Jose* '
irfiine, in spite of her rejection bj 1
Ur hatband, gtte to France, in 1
bonis Napoleon Buonaparte, ah <
Emperor At his birrti salvos of t
SvWAtvUJ^uis* we K i
IMQP'V laWyiii^T o I
y Aiter tlia downfall ?i Xapuleoa 1
U hit early years were spent ia 1
aih. ttis sdneaftioe was* excel*
kmt, 'tn^ ie 'votr tame as # ar
Hm.u 4a UW ha IHh ptartw thU
Prfw^rfi K^iM St) Al1*
iv*vai? ?iav? 10 ?i?uuy^l IV
\i%i* Anna faWr 4ft*
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mother m Switzerland.
In 1838 he tnada liie famous at- j
tempt upon Strasbourg, which I
having foiled, he e&rae to Am^i- I
Sft,brit shortly after he returned <
to Switzerland. On France threat- |
*m,w $ 1
W yiJgWi wjwo h? agjitiu
Jeveted tuwwf to Uteratw*. 1
In 1-H0, relying epon the eo- i
iberiaon prodneed m France by i
tiie return ?f the body of Napoleon
he made his celebrated effort
to obtain the throtie of France.?
He fulled, this caught and tried.?
Beirver, (ha m??t celcbr^ed' M^"
rer of Fr*np& a (^?V?WW^ #ntf
also the man who prosecuted the
claims ot the American Buonapartes
for recogniton after $tapoIcon
III. became Emperor, tic
fended him on his trial, 39 an argmpent
which ranks among the
most brilliant specimens qf legal
eloquence and logic. He was convicted
and imprisoned in tl?e Fortress
of limp, from which lie made
hip escape through his coolness fis
well as through the fidelity of his
vajet and his mistress.
On the organization of the
French Republic in 1848. ftp was
elected to ft 8ertt >n M'?
Aepeinblv, find was subsequently
elected l^resideut of France by a
majority of three end a halt' million
ot votes. In 1851 lie ancoeedod
in causing thinisclf to be
elected President for tea years.?
In 1852 lie made his celebrated
coup d'etat and was elected Emperor
by the largest popular vote ever
cast in France. * In 1858 fie |
married the Empress Eugenie, by
whom he had one son, borti in 1.856.
He always conciliated the Catholic
party,'and it issingnlar thai hip
downfall should have tolfen place
as soon as he abAndonea the pope.
As Einpa-pr oT '^iia, be ban
done more for Paris what Aligns
tus did iorRosne. fls has made it
a city ot palaces. He has largely
increased the re^o'qrces vf tjio
country, b??U g pQ^r^rf^I My*, extended
her pofntrteroe, and yi U?e
Crimea and in Jtaly avenged the
wrongs dona by the treaties .of
1815. UjfkJcne tb%t in thoJtal
ian war 4*c.vsraa outgeneraled by
Cavour, What 1* desired mm a
?:? .r i.-?? ??
va/iiivuci biivu vi rauwu him
with the pope 0? the Jtead, each
Stele however, retaining its indepcndanca
end its separate 4orm
of Government. This was the
scheme, foreshadowed in a phaniphlet
published In Paris at the
time, supposed to hare beep dictated
by the -Emperor himself.?
He also probably claimed ad Italian
throne for one of his famib*,
fiut the skljf pfjf&W. fcXSlflf 9*
Gsi3W<k % Mr,
Il'rptiop of the Julian pooojju af.
upUjr, deteafetnus w*
sjgji. Jo :tho attempt 90 Jftexjoo
he also made agrwo poljiugwd vnia
take, but taken aU ip nlU he eras,!
until his quarrel with Prussia,-the
greatest ruler, both aa politico**
.1 i>AmA ??:-? -? 1
that aver utt upon tbe throne of
France, expect, perhape, his uncle,
who had paved the way both
by hie brain and lib a word.?
More (ban this, be vm more their
half a Republican, and bit whole
domestic poller aeema to tyave
been to gradually give the French
people roe right to govern thjpm8*1
vca. lliat tills teema to "have
been Ma intention, wodld appear
from his acta as well as from Ins'
life of Csewpr, a feyr jr^s
ago. We Wb huwavar, (alien,
and France baa let loose the spirit
of 1799 and of 1*46. Whether that
frrtrrt ^
eaHfrvafaJt ?f? m -*?) '.iit
k1; ,'?<- '? ^ -*'vr-?T V v^-'.I *1
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Ipirk will spread over Europe or
rfa?tl?er Reptiblicanfsni win "tie
nwtked in we bad, rofnafna to bjqi
leen.?CK&rtidtpn Qovr\#r.
tn? *?*'-> T ; 'i "r" ' ; I
o??)! .11* ' Qq-J Adtlot
torn U9 wqf*?4 rifcfaft to the
fm ?JW#W ??ooroi?g i* ?bsp*
Mf, to tbeiv health.?
Hie mora Ijfijddjr they are fed the
mpB? intporteut it is to clean them.
WMt woe ate the onrrj?oMfb too
much, end tiie whisk end the
brash too Kttle. I do not myself
insist npo* it, bat I believe it
iwrnld pf ahrays to take the
a note Harness irotn Cfte horses
at ton put h the stable at noon,
m*4 n? them dry, washing ?Fid
motilder* with cold water and qflerwardh
thorough It drvjtqg thptn
#lth *' tfldtti. gn4
team on the fhrm Cost me at least
I?50 f }*F i^T9W?Wf.W?
farmer In a hundred only apprestales
how taScb lie loses from
iMvmf^poor liorees, and tnnot k'cetv
InflP them Hi rigorous health, ana in
mMMm cp do * maxlmhta' d?yrp
wee?. '^'^d'tnatvy of rig ftyn?
baring' inefficient horses, poor,
titows, dnll" fjarrdwk m>tr cuhi;
ratoriL-'stiakV wagons, apd ptljcc
^perfect Ji^&ipgpU md m*chfnea.
IiMA fmm nna-llili (I ?a An?
Sis?
And, U*>#k, 4o we
&M?JV*tC taw iftiicU wa lose by
K?Uiflg bpl'j/M) WvUt our woik kona
tUepp mid aimila* causes!
V * 9** *" ?*^ mowing machine
that I got withjiia form that ** for
the sake of saving it V 1 need for
two year*. Dirowy and indirect
ly 1 have no doubt that machine
coat $1,000. it cttt jest as
well a* a Wood's or a ftneke, but
it was a one wheel machine with
a wo?dew entter-baf. We soIit
Ike bar and had to repair ft: tiipn
we broke the knife ana had to take
it to the blacksmith sljon to h*v?
it welded. F|e u ^nrrjt" ijt and it
brokp again. i ??0t to New
York for a new k?Me- This cut
off the finger of tfyp mjly man who
Vpew jiow to operate the machine
apiJlaid him up fc>r several days.
Thp poneeqeence was, we did not
get thronglt haying until after
wheat harvest.
And you cau imagine what kind
of hay I liad to feed out next winter.
Now 1 have two new mowers that
a man cannot break if he tries;
and in looking beck I can hardly
believe that 1 was ever so foolish
as to waste time in tinkering an
old worthless machine.? Walk?
c.t%d Talks on the Farm.
Baltimokr makes a good show
of business H?r last year. The
imports of coffee were the largest
ever Wei ore known, amounting in
the aggregate to three hundred
and forty-six thousand three hundred
and seventy bags, nearly all
from llrazrl. The receipts of flour
Itaire been largely inyxqpaf of
former years, footing up otje rntllloti
opehnndred pnd twenty-thrce
thosand tfittf hundred an d dM*:
one barrels, lhe same may he
said iff grjItW.Mf^fiyrp^tl^erop
tew swpct. t "fit? fWji pts gf vyheat
P.r^viotjs year v>erpOv.<jr
ji niijlion .Uu&liels. Tb? trgde in
gnano has also largely increased,
whijgt \iBDQ/t*Uiy> of foreign
hides jtae greater thap for many
years past. The augur and molasses
trgde is ateadly on the inn
Crease and with theaugumented 4a
Uities -for refitting by lite formation
ot new ootnpAH ies and the
erection of additional 4mibrings, the
beeitsees the preeent year is existed
to be larger -than ever before.
The reputation*of lfcfltimore as a
tobacco market liae been'kept np
during lhe year,'the inspections
being forty-four tUorisatid five
hundred and ' tprty-eight hogs
PoLmcfL TaotiBi.es pr Tkxas.?
A letter received fn Washington,
froth Austin, Texas, states thero is
very good r^on 'jo^ppct trouble
W W Jftt? MKSMWV**
jRmW Al? ^yocntive
pob<?o lur.ep m ja ourUtn polgioal
interest. A bead v^iuaxtial Jaw lias
beon doolared io Waoo,.where, on
tbe?th of August. something of a
formidable riot broke ont between
the whites end negroes, *6verpl
being killed end wounded. Uovqr
nor Deris declares the inability of
his force J\p Jfftop thp J*ace, and
threatens to aj?ply tOsCctfigre** for
;the restoration of lite &t^te to military
rivle. ,XUe Conservatives, on
the oilier hand, say .that all the
t<rouble arises from -the proposed
(State polios and armed colored
militia. Kr. Connor, the Democratic
member of Congees, has is,sned
an address to his constituents
denouncing the Davis administratTon
Tn th^lp^.terros
4
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The Qseneda, Miss., Sentinel,
gives tbe following additional par*
tieulars of the late aasaasination at
Winona: On ^fagedaf evening last
a number of the ladies of Winona
wore engaged in giving a concert a*
the Monti haH, in aid of the Sunday
school. Near the dose of the
exercises, while the attention of tbe
assembler was fixed upon an enters
taming charade, the' report of a
pistol was heard, and Arnold J:
Brantley* Esq., mayor of Winona,
! yvap observed to sink from tils chair
I ir^ tl^e concert rooifi, and fall on
'the floor. TTia nlninul ?AiiiTna!ft?
instantly prevailed, and the Compaq
ip>n?r%lly dispersed ?fUh
cip.itatiop, A physician i?imediately
approached and felt hit pulse.,
! which soon ceased to beat Mr.
Brantley was ahot by qpme one
from without in the stroet, through
an open window while sitting with,
his wife and other ladies, and sur?
rounded by Ladies and gentlemen.
The gun or pistol, we understand
was loaded with a mixed cbarga
of lead and pieces of nails, or some
such tilings some parts of tho load
striking the window sill, and some
part or the wall within. It scema
wonderful that no one else waa
struck by the shattered missiles.
We have heard of no clue to the
discovery of the perpetrator of
this'horrible deed, but it is to be
hoped that the murderer will not
long remain concealed. This it
tfoo second case of secret assnssinatiqnlh
Winona within the last few
months.
*"' rr j? fi ...
Tijf! and T*t* Maniao.
?The Empress Eugenie recently
told a little anecdote quite a pen<?
ant to the history of a similar epip
ode iu the life of thp Ejnprea#
Josephine. Said the Empress to
the deputy : t* One day in the sum*
tner of 1850. being very fond of
the Pyrenees, as my wont annual*
Jy was, 1 whs at the Eaux-Iioones,
when 1 was met in the country by
an old woman named Marianette,
who was universa)ly considered to
be crazy. She begged, and I
gave her, much to her astonish*
ment, a piece of golj, upon which
sue looked in my face fixedly for
moment, and then said, "They
say I am mad, I know, bnt I am
not mad, though I sj?eak as others
do pot; as (i proof, remember
this: One day, and soon, too, yort
shall be an Empress." llqr majesty
said: "At that moment so
ynprqhahlo, as a Spaniard, was
any such prpspppt, that I only efttprtaiucd
jt w |i wild raving, b?^
on tup very day I became an Epa^
press, M?e fact reverted yivjdly to
tny mind, and I caused inquiry to
be made for Marianctte, with the
desire to giant her a pension for
lite, but learnt, with regret, tb*^
she had died two days before."
Ik any poison isewallowcd. drink
instantly-half a glass of cold water,
with a heaping tcaspoonfal
each of common salt rnd ground
mnBtard stirred into it. This vomith
as soon as it reaches the stomach.
But tor fear some of the poison
may remain, swallow the white 61
one or two eggs, or drink a cup of
strong coffee?these two being atitidotes
for a greater nnmbcr of
p Msops than any other dozen ai*t'vefes
known, \vitli the advantage
of fhetr being always at hnn.d ; y
not. a pin' of sweet oil, lamp oil,
drippings, melted butter or lard,
are g?x>d substitutes, especiully if
tbev vomit onicklv
[American Housewife.
??
Tomatoes.?Use tomatoes largo,
I)', both at breakfast and dinner;
, take tl?em hot or cold, cooked or
rave, with vinegar or without vinegar,
fried In sugar and butter, or
stewed with salt and pepper.?
Their healthful properties consist
in their being nutritions, easily digested,
and promotive of that daHr
regular action of the system without
which health is impossible.
A ,youxo lady iu llcnsacloer
Cou:Uv, New luik, paid a man
430,0f)0 to piarry her. The cash
was in greenbacks. That girl must
have been exceedingly green.?
Why did she not advertise for
> sealed proposals, and award the
1 contract to the lowest bidder?
t An inebriate inan, walking
,.along tho street, regarded the
r moon with sovereign Oontcmpt i?
u Von needn't feel so proud, ' hp
' said, " you aro full only once *
1 month, and I ain every ni^ht."
Tiik oldest iiewapa|>er in the
worm u published in PoUin. It it
printed on a largo shoot of ?ilkt
and, it it said, lifts made a wee M f
appearance tor upward of a thoip
taiid \ ears.
In Prussia, while the men are
' at war, the womon preform tiojd
i find tarjn labor, and are gathering
the cro)M, guarding the flocl^t
land doing tiolu work.