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VOL. IV. NO. 22. POET ROYAL, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1874. flK3.WWB * 1 Orer the Wall. 8ho Is my neighbor, end oyer the well, As I sit silently sipping my wine, Often et evening I heer her cell Her little King Cherles, the same ueme es mine. .Under the well, both hers end mine, Whisp'ring, I enswered, "I'm here, love, here!" Kissing the brenohes whose tendrils twine Over the well to tonch my deer. Only e voioe?but with sncb e tone! Only e dog thet she bids to her feet Only e fool, thet is list'ning alone? Iist'ningeloiie in his retreat A MOTHER OF GOVERNORS. The settlement of this continent by Europeans brought out phases of life which never occurred before, and can hardly exist again. Many a pleasing romance has sunk from our view in the waters of oblivion ; only here and there, like Ararats above the flood, brief passages, startling in their suggestiveness, are still occasionally to be lighted upon v.? kKuulino dnwAa nf thfl imacina *JJ M1W W*WX4?M0 -W . v- w- ? 0 tion. In this simple sketch I propose to relate some passages in the life of a personage who played an important part in onr early history. Whatever of that life is covered I shall not pretend to reveal; bnt the imaginative reader has fnll liberty to reconstruct from the facts here made known what must have been a remarkable career. It was in 1723 that a ship laden with merchandise, and bearing also a goodly number of emigrants, left Cork, in Ireland, for the shores of New England. w Though a continent was to be settled, emigrant* were not so numerous as at present; yet, among those who came, Ireland, then as now, furnished its proportionate share ; and in general they were a class equal to the best who have sought our shores from the Green Isle in later years. Wandering lonely among the gossiping groups on deck was a man of superior appearance to the others, both in manner and figure. He held no conversation with any, further than brief but courteous replies to some question or remark concerning the voyage, the rare sight of a sea-bird in mid-ocean, or the wide, the vast, the awe-inspiring sea itself, beating unceasingly yeasty waves along the curving bows of the sturdy vessel. His dress, his carriage, his preoccupied look, forbade faimli?KSa anHm nnuvniunUnm |U kvj 9 nunv with the other passengers indicated that the voyage had been undertaken for some pressing purpose and in much sorrow. It will not be foreign to our Bubject if we delay the narrative a moment longer to relate his painful story. He was a member of an ancient and worthy family of the Irish gentry, a native of Limerick, whither he had been recalled from his studies on the continent a few years before. Left alone by her other sons, who had joined the armies in one oountry or another, his widowed mother desired that John, who was mors given to study and qaiet than the others, should remain with her at home until, at least, the present commotion had passed. Bat cnildren always will be doing something not opEroved by the parent; so John, not to e an exception, fell in love with a young woman somewhat below his rank, and, honorable man, a3 he was, desired to marry her. His mother was so bitterly opposed to the matoh that she Dot only refused her consent, but declared that if he married the girl he should naver have any portion of the estate. This threat, if persisted in, would effectually prevent the marriage, as the girl's relations would not consent to her union with a penniless man. Neither were the lovers able of themselves to commence life without the aid of their families ; for he had not been trained to any profession or occupation, and he knew not how he oould make even his own living. "Mother," replied he, with passion, "if you do not withdraw that threat and consent to my marriage with the lady of my choice, I will go where you shall never see me again." His mother persisted in her purpose. Fale and tremoiing, ne Desougni uer to take till to-morrow to oonsider. The next day the cruel woman repeated the threat. At the evening meal John was missing ; in the morning his bed was found to have been nnoccupied ; and from that day his native country saw him no more. Instead, however, of seeking surcease of sorrow in the world of spirits bv an easy leap into the friendly waves of the Shannon, as others might have done, he projected himself upon the unknown regions in the present state of being ; thereby showing that there was an unextinguished spark of health within him still. With heavy sorrow at heart, it is n jt strange that he sat apart, wrapped in silent gloom, or paced the decx nnregardful of the babble of the light hearted emigrants. Self-expatriated, without hope or interest in the future, and in the recent past a great pain which smothered all pleasant recollections, there could be nothing in oommon between him and the moving forms who stared at him askance, save the usual matters of physical sustenance and oomfort; and even in these the conditions of his life had caused a wide difference of feeling. One person alone attracted his frequent attention, as her bright blue eye caught his own, or his ear was arrested by her cooing and prattling to the several babies on board, her musical snatches of song, or her sweetly Elaintive voice, when the loneliness of er situation, and the reoollection of friends she had left behind, seized upon her thoughts. John had watched her with some in 1 Koattfv reicow, puuj, ^CiUUJ/nf il/4 UV1 uvwuy | but chiefly for her peculiar relation or, rather, un-relatioD, to my on board. SeemiDg at first, like himself, a stranger to the others, she was soon mingling freely and familiarly with every family in the ship ; yet he was unable, watching with inoreased interest, to disoover any relation or connection whatever, other than the most casual, between the girl end any family or individual in the vessel. She, also, marked his lone- A) liness, and seemed to be affected by his s< evident sorrow ; and one day she boldly put herself in his way with some k trifling ' question. Tet her demeanor w was modest and in her eye, of the hue of si the sky where it meets with the sea li flashed forth no unholy gleam. Brown, tc hair, a clear complexion, with especially rosy oheeks, and a graceful figure, w made this girl of nine years more at- al tractive to the beauty-loving eye than tl any other on board?though presenting the attractions of more developed forms and conscious womanly feeling. I A brief conversation showed that the girl was without a relation or friend on te beard. * a] Surprised at this fact the young man (( inquired, half-earnest, half in sport: " What can you expect to do by go- n' ingoverto America ?" " " T\_ ? ?1 ?x. 1/U r WliJj laiDC |V T ti UWi a ?V4 them," was the instant, laughing an- a swer. V( What could have induoed the girl to , have left home and friends with no bet- n tor defined purpose than indicated by ai this reply was a mystery. She did not o] have the enthusiasm for the new conn- r( try needful to set even an adventurous B]boy upon so wild an enterprise as cross- c] ing the thousands of miles of sea, to reach a cold climate and an uncultured y shore. Subsequent years, however, furnished a possible explanation of the b mystery. During the remainder of the b voyage there was a growing intimacy g between the young man and the light- D hearted girl, whose beauty attracted, *, and wit emused him, winning bis mind a] from brooding so darkly over his woes. 8| The vessel, from design or stress of y weather, made port at York, in Maine. ol Here other strange facts wert de- g veloped. The girl?whose name was y Margaret Brown?had no means to pay a] for her passage, and it was necessary ^ that some one should pay for her, or a] she would have to be indentured?sold m to Bervioe for a sufficient time to reim- M burse the person who should advance w the passage money. This was aocord- ^ ing to a law existing and needful in those times ; and through most of our ^ colonial period there were many, both of black and white, held in temporary bondage. It was, of course, to be ex- ri pec ted that the young gentleman who ^ had been so much entertained by the girl during the passage should wish to ^ relieve her in this difficulty, and there ^ was none else able or disposed to render such aid. But the young man was no ^ better off than the girl, both were pen- rc mless. Both were therefore indentured jn to senrioe to reimburse Mr. Nowell, the ^ master of the vessel; the young man af John being, if we may trust tradition? ^ bound out to the town of Hampton, in ^ New Hampshire, to teach school. Finding this situation unprofitable ^ or unpleasant, he applied to Rev. ,u 8amuel Moody, of York, for aid, in a -p letter written, tradition says, in seven different languages. Why, he might have taken a professorship at Harvard College, only for this reason : he had been brought up a Roman Catholic. In reply he reoeived from Mr. Moody a c( loan sufficient to set him free from the remainder of his indenture, snd enable him to open a school ut Berwick. M Not long after he redeemed Margaret si from service ; and he seems from this ^ time to have adopted the girl as his . , child. The proceeding was not con- 1 sidered at all improper, as she was now ^ only ten, while he was thirty-two years el of age. For eleven years this relation was m continued, Margery living in the house ., of her foster-father, while he strove to kindle in her mind the love of learning, 8' but without any great success. Ho ol must have had a stormy time of it, for pi Margery was earlyand long distinguished T for her "ebullitions of temper." C Thus their lives went on, until a K nicely dressed young gentleman, pats- ol ing by, near the house, observed the P young lady drawing water from the ol school-master's well. Admiring her VI beauty, he stopped and engaged her in ii conversation; and such a passion was ni at once developed in his breast that he o< then and there proposed marriage, u Prnhahlv she referred him to her foster- ir father; for the young man immedi- oi ately proceeded to interview the school- al master abont a wedding in the family, ai Very likely the young lady had flirted e1 mischievously with the young gallant? b a performance to which we may believe k: her fully equal?from this description as of her from an authentic source: " She W was somewhat below the middle height, tr remarkable in her younger days for is beauty and vanity, at all periods of her al life for talents and energy." Yet it B was very proper for her to be thinking h about the selection of a beau, for she was now twenty-one years old. School-master John, after hearing the plea of Margery's suitor, sought his foster-daughter in the kitchen. I am in- a' clined to the belief that she made some le strangely exhilarating confession to the ft pedagogue; for he went back to the waiting gallant in high spirits, and showed the over-hasty lover out of the * door with an intimation that further s] prosecution of his suit would be suit- tl ablyresented. tl Yet there was really a wedding in that it house shortly after, to which the hand- H, some Margery and the young peda- a" gogne were the chief parties. tl " Young pedagogue 1" exclaims the af reader, with emphasis. a] Aye, young, I reply ; for John Sol- e: livan lived over sixty-one years after tl this happy event. Here is a descrip- H] tion of his aDDearance at a much later M ' date : I fc " A tall, slender but athletic man, six p, feet in height, -with, dark hair, black 0j eyes, and a florid oomplexion, very cj erect, and well proportioned." jE He lived in possession of his faculties V( and his physical strength to a remarkable degree, till he had reached his e, hundred and fifth year. It is recorded g: that he spoke and wrote both Latin and French fluently when even a hundred, aBd this Irishman never drank spirit- ai nous liquors. Was not School-master al Sullivan a husband worth having ? af All their children were of more than Q usual ability; one of them being Qen. fi John Sullivan, of Revolutionary fame, h and afterwards Governor of New Hamp- 01 shire; and another, James Sullivan, the ai able lawyer of Woolwich, and, later, of a Biddeford, who was twioe elected Gov- hi , ernor of Massachusetts, then including g< * ; [aine, having previously occupied ;veral other honorable positions. So Uttle Irish Margery was, all unnown to herself, a real prophetess m< hen on the sea, she utterea these ws range words to a man in the prime of tai fe?whose worldly prospeots seemed tw > himself to be utterly destroyed, ,. But, dear reader, I know no more b11 hy she left her home and set forth hif lone to a new and far away land than m< lese facts reveal. ^ Fixing the Fire. ^ " Woggles, my dear, would you at- thi ind to the fire ?" The voice is low id sweet, but there is no reply. Woggles, the fire is very low!" Voioe Bh ot quite so sweet; still silenoe reigns. See here, Woggles^ if you don't at- bo >nd to that fire it will be out!" Great ! rmness and rising inflection of the it lice. Woggles rises, too, lays down pe is book with the oalmnqps of despair, id- goes out ior a chunk. Selecting ^ ie with a view to being let alone the wc jst of the evening, he returns to the of !? 3 *4.1. it. .1.1 ming-room, ana, wnu iu? ruoaiug- wc hair tidy, removes tbe cover of the th tove, calmly ignoring the remark from be trs. Woggles that he "might know ai< lat that stick is too big!" Carefully he alanning it on the top of the stove, he ri? ends forward and peers down into the pa eiy depths, mentally calculating to a ut it in big end first; but, as the an noke ascends, he forgets the balanoe a ' ad misses his calculations, for the mf ;ick plunges in small end first. Mrs. oa toggles was sitting behind him, and, 001 f oourse, he wouldn't look around, aw at he saw her faoe in the mirror over Ar le mantle, and that smile nerved his an rm. First he tried to get it down so go ie cover would go on. He pounded mi ad shook to make it drop, but the up lore he pounded the less inclined it , jemed to move. He tugged and str restled to turn it, but when he paused I e ? cough and rub his streaming eyes m? tore was no perceptible difference in lik s position. Another seraphio smile pn ?amed on him from the mirror, and m< len began the struggle to get it out if rasping it about midway on both sides ne' [r. Woggles raised himself on tip-toe hu id palled, but soon couoluded that kn ie force must be applied underneath, me ow the chunk was suspended several bn iches above the bed of the ooals, and an toggles saw at once that there was sta torn for his hand, whioh he inserted, tui [tending with one good tng to unsettle in ie obstinate thing ; but he didn't, and rei 1 lie nibbed the leg of his pants with toi ie smarting member he audibly won- inj sred "who'd have thought it was so as ifern&l hot?" "Anyone but a born inj liot," sweetly answered Mrs. Woggles, ] id the mirror reflected another smile, mc hen that " born idiot" put on his loi rerceat and banged the front door. to saj A Strange Case. am be* The Waite-Waller polygamy case is srtainly the most lingular that ever we tat ever came before the courts of [aine. Mr. Waller, Mrs. Holden, his ster, Mr. West, a brother-in-law of r. 7~TI 1 W.lla.'o Vl;?ok?fVl I 1 aiiui} nuu yy auvi a juh<jhwwu| xai tentified Mrs. Waite positively as old rec Waller's wife. His daughter Carrie, So even years old, and son John, seven tio jars old, testified that she was their of other. John H. Stiles, of Picton, also on [entitled her, and several witnesses to vore to her identity, and photographs sib I her children were produced and bu roved to have been in her possession, ha he indictment in the case onarges that mc atharine Waller, alias Carrie M. as ent, alias Carrie M. Waite, on the 29th Le f May, 1862, married John Waller, at th< ictou, Nova Sootia, and on the 24th in 1 April, 1873, while her husband the Waller was still living, no divorce hav- boj ig been granted to either party, and ha 0 separation of seven years having jcnrred, she was married in Portland ?oi > Ed ward F. Waite, feloniously, know- cai igly and unlawfully committing the vol rime of polygamy. The defendant is ore bout thirty years'old, of slight figure an ad attractive appearance. She denies do rer having seen Waller, who claims to fia 9 her husband. Also ever having ovi nown the five children who appeared frc 1 witnesses. During the entire trial [rs. Waller-Waite has maintained the tin lost perfect composure. The evidence in( i overwhelmingly against her, and if a ie is guilty, her acting is wonderful, un [er last husband (Waite) still believes ou er innocent. to fin How Herrings Feed, to Herrings, as is well known, swim wg bout iu immense shoals, miles iu jn mgth and breadth, coming to and me om particular stretches of sea, in U1 hat seems a rather capricious manner. ^ hero have been several theories re- jn^ meeting these migratory habits. One aw ling appears to be oertain : they obey in< le instinct which leads them to favor- n01 e spots for feeding, and also for *ei Dawning. That instinot, however, is niversal in fish. They do not go where lere is a deficiency in their appropri- ] e food. The Mediterranean, for ex- ^ nple, has no fish worth speaking of, ccept the sardine. The reason is, 'hi lat there being no reoession of tides, aft id consequently no seaweeds to en- th< nirage the growth of Crustacea, as >od for fishes, the water oontains comiratively little animal life. The food an< f the herring is believed to consist lieflyofminntecrnstaceans and floating ifnsoria, but small fishes are also de- "? inred. The quality of the herring is wa jry various, and is evidently depend- ^ it ou the nature of the feeding- J01 round. f'? bo KOBBERT OF A .F ARM-HOUSE.?A DOJQ *u< id successful robLery was perpetrated spi I the house of Andrew Murray, an etc jed farmer, living in the town of of ailderland, N. Y., about eight miles is i om Albany, by four masked men, who dr< aund Mr. Murray and his sister, the pei ily occupants of the house,with oords, tui id then robbed the house. Thev stole tat pair of valuable horses, whioh they sic irnessed to a sleigh, and then made wil >od their esoape. ' * or A Bear Storj With a Moral. k man killed a bear and broughi the $at to town to aelL I asked bim if it m good to eat. He said, cernly it was, and oheap as dirt at enty-flve oentaper pound. I asked m why bear meat shonld be any jher than any other meat. He told ) bear meat bad a peculiar effect on a human system; that those eatj it would partake for a time, not ly of the meat, but of the nature of 9 animal; that bears were groat fairs to hug; that if I was a married in I should buy some for my wife d get her to eat it for supper, and n would undoubtely hug me. Now my wife isn't an angel, so I ught four pounds and paid that man dollar?my last dollar, and he folded np, rolled a paper around it and put down in his pooket. Then he slapd his pocket to see if it was there. i then went on to say that sometimes ten the bile wasn't right the meat bad b contrary effect, and made the iman growl; and sometimes in plaoe wanting to hag her husband she tuld want to hug the man thAt killed e bear. I told him that I didn't like ar meat, and never did; that I felt ik; that I owed a man the dollar and wonld sue me if I did sot pay him jht off, Bat he told me he had jn?t id his internal revenue tax and hadn't oent in the world. I thonght then, d still think, that he most have told lie. In fact, after thinking over the itter, I wonld not believe him under th. Now, I am a poor man, and old not afford to throw the meat ay, and so I took it home, and Mary in (that's my wife's name) cooked it, d we ate it for supper. It tasted od. I think bears and 'possums are ide out of the same timber, only put on different plans and specifications. Alter supper we sat down by the >ve. Mary Ann went to sewing, and at looking at her. Direotly my bear at began to take effect, and I felt e I wanted to hng Mary Ann. So I t my arm around her, and she told > to take it away, and wanted to know I hadn't been drinking again, (I ver drank a drop in my life). I gged her a little and she growled. I ew then the jig was np, and the bear at had gone back on me in her case, II thonght I would try it again. Her n flew back and I saw a thousand .rs. This riled me, my bear meat ned on me, and I slapped her square the month. Well, I nave confused nembrance of seeing her spring rard me, of hearing a frightful roarj in my head, and feeling a sensation if I was being run through a threshf machine, and then all was blank. [ can see a little out of one eye this trning, andean set np in bed with a pilr behind me. Mary Ann has gone out bny some ohairs. The servant girl rs they all got broken. I feel sore i bad, and I don't want any more it meat in mine, and if ever I get Id of the man that sold it to me? II, you know how it is yourself. A Horrible Scene. The Sydney Empire publishes a nar;ive of a shooting ooourrenoe which sently took place at Newcastle, New uth Wales. Among other demonstrans, it says, to celebrate the abolition the tonnage dues, there was a bonfire Shepherd's Hill. The firemen, eager make the affair as successful as posile, poured kerosene oil upon the riling heap, but for some time this d simply the effeot of creating a imentary blaze, which would subside soon as the kerosene was consumed, wis Wood, a member of the brigade, m mounted the heap, took the oan his hands, and commenced pouring ) oil on the fire. He was warned by ne of the danger herein, but took no ed of what was said. Presently, an ful explosion took plaoe. A dull md, like the booming of a distant inon, was heard, and an immense lume of flames shot out among the >wd. When the shock was over, the fortunate man Wood was seen rolling wn the burning heap in a sheet of me. The oil had apparently splashed Br his clothes, and as he emerged im the heap he was a mass of fire, s struggled to his feet, and gained 3 open space, his cries of despair bej terrible. The flames had got such complete hold of his oil-saturated iform that the work of putting them t mnwt l/v ?ntt/1 Via aanlr b HW XiCAb IAJ lUiJ/UOOlUlC) OUU AAV ouua the groand exhausted. Some of the Bmen took off their coats, and tried beat the dames off, but they still ing to their unhappy victim, and it b not until he had been wrapped up several of the large coats of the firein that the flames were subdued, s heavy uniform had protected the ink of his body, and his helmet had 0 prevented the flames from reachj his head, but his face presented an ful sight to look at. He lingered, in lescribable agony, till Sunday afteron, when death put an end to his sufings. Water Tor Children, [t is particularly with those who have an accustomed to water drinking, tt it would show its good effects in ef life. Daring the first nine months > infant is to be nourished by its ither's milk, whioh serves as food 1 drink ; it is gradually accustomed other sustenance during the period weaning. After this is aooomplished, wever, the infant should have fresh ter as well as milk. By water diinking in childhood and nth, the foundation of a durable unach is laid, and thus a healthy dy throughout life. The nervous i blood systems are over-excited by oes, beer, wine, chocolate, ooffee, l, and thus a oonstant artificial state fever is maintained, and the process so muoh accelerated by it, that ohilra fed in this manner do not attain, rhaps, half the age ordained by ne'e. Besides this, experience has ight that thev generally beoome pasmate and willful, having neither the 11 nor the power to make themselvee others happy. The Whisky War. Ohio Lidlei Prajrlax and Ilnflgg Down Rnmtaller*Retaliation* and Injections. The women's whiekj war shows no signs of abatement, says a Cincinnati correspondent. At Franklin, Warren oonnty, the siege of the saloons is kept np without intermission. On commencing their work for last week the ladies directed nearly all their efforts against one saloon, kept by a Mr. Web- 1 ber. Bravely did they stiok to their i post from early dawn to late at night, ] watching and praying in front of the saloon?ne would not allow them inside 1 ?from Monday until Saturday evening. 1 Webber was summoned on Saturday ] afternoon to appear before a justice to , armorer the charce of Sellinff to minors. 1 He asked his case to be postponed until Tuesday, and started out to get bail, but when he returned and found that another charge had been made against him, and that they were ready to follow that one with still others, he came to time and signed the pledge never to engage in the business again in the place. The committee then presented the pledge to a Mr. Spader, who also signed. After signing the pledge Webber opened his doors and invited the ladies in, and they had a general prayer and praise meeting. None seemed to enjoy it much more than he did, shaking hands with the women who had prayed so fervently for him during the week, and he seemed happy that he had taken the step at last Only two saloons and one drug store remain whioh have not oomplied with the conditions of the pledge. These, of course, will receive all possible attention now. At Hillsboro, Highland oounty, the eighty-three ladies who oocupied the tabernaclo in front of Dunn's drug store have removed their shanty ana suspended operations, on aocount of having been served with an injunction from Judge Safford. The following is an extract from the injunction This is to command yon and said above named defendants, each and all of yon, from nsing for praying, singing, exhorting, or anr other purpose, a certain plank and canvas structure or shanty erected on High street, in Hillsboro, or in front of the drug store of said W. H. H. Dunn. And it is further ordered that you, said defendants, are ordered to remove the said structure or shanty forthwith, and expand every part of the same, whether plank or canvas, and you are each and all hereby restrained and enjoined from re-erecting or replacing the said structure or any similar structure in said locality, or upon said street, to the annoyance of the said W. H. H. Dunn. And it is further ordered that you, Uio naiddofoadanta, each and all of yon, are hereby enjoined and roe trained from singing, praying, exhorting, or making a noise and disturbance in front of said drug store of said W. H. H. Dann or on the sidewalk or on the steps thereof, or in the v.cinity thereof, to his annoyance, or from treepaeeing io or npon his said promisee, or in any manner interrupting hie said business, and this you will in no wise omit, nnder the penalty of the law. The injunction will soon be argued. Several prominent Cincinnati lawyers have offered their services to the ladies. The fight promises to be an extremely < lively one. ] In connection with this Mr. Dann i has entered suit against the ladies for ' trespass and defamation of oharacter, ' laying his damages at $10,000. When the injnnotion is dissolved the ladies propose to continue their work of love in prayer and song. In the meantime immense temperance meetings are being held in the churches. At London, Madison county, the temperanoe excitement is at fever heat. A petition to stop the liquor trafflo in the town has received over 1,000 signatures. Crowded meetings, alternating between the churches, have been held every evening. The ladies have called on the druggists, and, without exception, they have signed the pledge and entered heartily upon the work. The dealers, of whom there are from twenty-five to thirty, have not yielded, though they are visited daily by from fifty to one hundred ladies. The feeling is becoming more intense every hour. Yesterday morning it was resolved to close all the business houses for one liour, from nine a. m., until victory is secured. At the tap of the bell, banks, stores, and shops are closed, and the people assemble for prayer. The morning meetings are had at the Presbyterian and the evening meetings at the Methodist Episcopal church. Strong symptons of a crusade have broken out i u Logan, Hocking county; also at Cedarville, Greene county. At the latter place saloonists have struck their oolors in anticipation of the trouble, and will move away. At Morrow, Warren county, at Jerold's saloon, they were received kindly by Jerold and his wife, who entertained them and thanked them for the calL Mrs. Jerold joined in urging her husband to sell oat. Another saloon keeper called on was courteous, but says though he has banished strong liquors, ] he will continue to sell wine and beer. At Waynesville, Warren county, the , war for total suppression is actively maintained. Three lawsuits have been ' begun by wives under the law. One j grocery keeper has sold out to a temperance man. The women bad a prayer ! meeting in Rapcr's saloon. He received j them moodily, but let them proceed without interruption. 1 Hostilities have commenced at Mos- 1 cow, Clermont county. The first meet- j ing was held, at which sixty ladies were enrolled. The first visit was made next 1 day at IV o'clock a. m. Twenty-six 1 ladies went to Winzel's saloon; he ! took each name at the door in writing. When the ladies got inside they discovered that red pepper had been put on the stove and scattered on the floor. Those who sang were obliged to go outside ; but several remained in and prayed, while the proprietor danoed 1 ana made irreverent remarks. His wife 1 and daughter ordered the ladies away. ] but were met with pious expostulation, I In the afternoon the praying band went I *- *1 1 ' l?nn Th? granting of the i VVJ UiUO immwmi ? 0 0 proprietor and his wife vu polite, and both were moved to tears by the per* i snasive talk of the visitors. The saloon* : ist, however, woold make no promise. At New Vienna, Clark oonnty, the 1 only saloonist holding ont is Van Pelt; i the gnard over his house consists of eight or ten ladies, who are relieved every two hours. Van. Pelt seems to 3D joy their prolonged visits, andfhvitee them warmly, and is treating them with svery civility. This daily watching i loes not snit the customers, who objeot to having their names enrolled as frequenters. Van Pelt says he will not. 1 quit the business as long as he ofln raise monev enough to buy a pint of t rum, and the women say they will never raise the siege until they pray him out. < i The Armjr and the Indians. General Sherman was before the i Q. B. House Military Committee in ( relation to the army as connected with ^ Indian affairs. He pointed out on the f nap a region of oountry in Texas, 200 niles in length by 100 in breadth, oom? < prising half a dozen organised counties, 1 which, when he passed through it two (rears ago, was entirely depopulated, t ;he inhabitants having had to abandon t their homes on aooount of the constant inouraions made upon them by Indians, t Ee said he had been led to believe that j these Indians were Oomanohes, but it was pretty well understood now that ( they were Kiowas, Cheyennes, and ( Arapahoes who raided out from Fort Bill Reservation. 800 miles off, penetrating through the military posts and J iielping themselves to the horses and 1 stock of their Texan friends, whioh they preferred doing rather than be at 1 the trouble of raising them themselves, t Ee gave a graphic account of his inter- t view with the famous Kiowa ohief Satanta, when he had Satanta, Santauk ? ownobd /InnVila imnad. . ind sent back to Texas to be tried for c in attack npon a wagon train and the murder of twelve out of the seventeen j teamsters that aooompanied it, one of t whose bodies was bound to a wagon e wheel and burned. Santauk was killed in an attempt to escape, but the other . two were tried, convioted and sentenced ? to be hanged. But the influence of the ( humanitarians had induced Governor ? Davis, of Texas, to commute the sen- 1 tenoe of Satanta and Big Tree, and the same influences at Washington had i Anally restored them to freedom, and i they are now on the reservation, ready I to start out on more murderous raids, i Ee reviewed the Modoc diflloulties, and Sive it as his opinion that General \ anby had been a viotim of the tern- i porizing policy applied to the Indians. < He favored the transfer of the Indians i From the control of the interior Department to that of the War Depart- j ment, and expressed his conviction that ( the army was more kindly disposed to { the Indians than th* oitiaens generally , were, and that if the country demanded extremely charitable treatment of the Indians it conld be accomplished by 1 and through the agency of the army 1 better than by and through the agency 1 of those persons who professed more 1 charity than soldiers, but who did not practice it so much. The Trlchlnn Hogs. : Mrs. Threnart, one of the sufferers by the triohinse in Aurora, Ind., by which < iialf a dozen persons nearly lost their < lives, had two pigs, which she was fat- ! tening in a pen in her garden for her own family use. During the summer ( these pigs were allowed to run in the , streets for a short time, after whioh | they were again kept in the pen. With- < in a lew days alter iney were penned , tip, one of them began to droop and refused to eat; the animal stood upon its , legs as if unable or unwilling to move, rod when forced to move it appeared to ' lie very stiff and its mnsoles tense ; 1 breathing was somewhat difficult. With 1 the assistance of her son and a neigh- ' bor Mrs. Threnart administered repeated doses of sulphur and milk, and after < three or four weeks the animal began to 1 eat freely and gained in flesh, and when 1 killed seemed to be healthy and in good * condition. The other hog, which was 1 in the same pen, remained perfectly well, and careful examination of his < flesh did not reveal any traces of i trichinae. These facts are interesting, I is they show that a hog may be fatten- I ed in the same pen and kept in olose I contact with one diseased with trichinae, without contracting the disease. They j ilso show that bogs apparently healthy , may be swarming with trichinae, making , their meat poisonous. The flesh of the , bog which poisoned the persons must | bave contained thousands of trichinae to jvery square inch. There is nothing in the appearanoe of j the flesh of the diseased hog which the | eye alone and unaided could detect, ex- , :ept, perhaps, that the meat had rather i i lighter color, and some very minute J grayish specks were perceptible to the lnnlrn/1 hAnH.hr And UJO. 1UO law paiM) uvmavu^ p . trad the proper consistenoe. ^ A Perilous Ride. ! A few nights ago there was an almost i penniless tramp in Woonsocket who 1 wanted to go to Providence, R. L He . applied to the conductor for a free i passage, but was refused, and then , offered the engineer a drink of whisky , to allow him to ride upon the engine, , bnt this was also refused. The fellow , felt that his case was an urgent one, so b6 crawled under one of the cars, took i position on the iron rod passing under it, and there, with his'feet hanging J nearly to the ground, his face within a , few inches of the bottom of the car, snd his hands grasping the rods for ^ iear life, rode to Providence. Upon it riving at the depot he was nearly and scarcely able to move, 1 A Fatherly Coal Co* In Cannelton, lad., where there are numerous coal mines, the ooal companies offer inducements to miners to become property-owners, and the result has been, aooording to a local paper, that the miners take a real interest in the prosperity of the town, and avoid strikes as much as possible. Continued wort, has induoed steadiness of habits, and in the 30 years during whioh coal mining has been carried on in the vicinity, the material prosperity of the town has been greatly increased, churches and school-houses have been built, and the relations between the ooal companies and the miners made < agreeable to the men. Facto sad Fancies. Three Ashuitee chiefs have been l&nged for oowardioe. Ia the chiropodist's work alwajs compete beoanae it tn toto t Druggists are not inappropriately armed the "pfllers" of sooiety. Some one has discovered that a spoilid child ia one who playa with keroiene. MoOarty, the Virginia duelist, helped lis oaae by ooming into oourt on jrutohea. Take care of your health and wife ; hey are the two better halves that make i man of yon. Here is the newest floral sentiment : 4 If yon wiah for heart's ease, don't ook to man-gold." That man is a bore who persists in alkingabont himself when yon wiah o talk about yourself.^ Dio Lewis says that people who use obacco lose their buoyant spirits and >ecome moody and peevish. A legal stone weighs fourteen pounds, >r the eighth of a hundred, in England, md sixteen pounds in Holland. At the great fire in Teddo, Japan, in Deoember, one merchant lost 100,000 >ales of silk, valned at $1,500,000. A grand inter-State exhibition for rfinneeota. Wisoonsin, and Illinois will >e held at Dubnqne in September lext. ? It is affirmed that heating the water n which steel is to be tempered preenta the development of flaws and racks. " How the U. P. has prevented the L P. from discharging its obligations o the U. S." is thehead-line in a KanM paper. Five women and a joke of oxen proInced seven bales of ootton, and gmn inongh for home consumption and to tell, on a South Carolina plantation aat year. One cause ef ooal-oil lamp explosions s said to be using too small wicks, bj vhich a spaoe is left at the edges for he communication of explosive elenents. The entire root of a very large tree vas found in a perfect state of preservation in an Indiana ooal mine, a few lays since, at a great depth below the lurfaoe. > Senator Sur?ner says: " There seems ? me nothing in this wide world, sither above or below it, that the accomplished newspaper man will not find out." Dubuque young lady gave up the man she loved, and took the one her parents favored in consideration of the mm of three dollars and a sky-blue merino dress. Old Curmudgeon, who has always hated the small boy, expresses his gratification at the mildness of the winter. He expeots mnoh from the thinness of the ice this year. * * " -? fJI- L The whaling Dusmess ib raptui/ noDoming extinct in this country. The entire whaling fleet of the oonntry cambers bat 171 vessels, 80 vessels having been taken off daring the year. According to the official aooonnt on exports, the valae of telecraphio wires ?nd apparatus forwarded from the United Kingdom last year had inoreased to 2.359,663*. from only 405,318/. in the previous year. The cranberry growers of New Jersey have sent Qaeen Victoria two barrels cf cranberries to eat with her tarkey ind venison, providing her also with a recipe for oooking and serving them in American style. A New Orleans paper boasts that their rity can produce to the square yard more young men who part their hair in the middle, wear canes, and daily air themselves in front of bar rooms, than most cities of its size. Cod-liver oil has been used with sunless for fattening poultry by an extensive owner of feathered stock in one of the oitj suburbs. The grain given to the chickens is soaked in the oil, and the obiokens like it The Providence Press tells'of'a married oouple who were passing a jewelry store the other day. Her attention was attracted by a "perfectly lovely" pair }f ear-rings. Said she: "Oh Ned, go buy 'em 1" Aud Ned went by 'em. A young German Prinoe, the oousin }f Prince Louis of Hesse, reoently lunched with Queen Victoria at Os borne. He is in the German naval ser rice, and is a suitor for the band or toe Princess Beatrice, and, it is said, a successful one. The House Committee on Invalid Pensions has appointed a sub-committee of five to consider the question of giving pensions to the soldiers of the Mexican war. It is believed the committee will report such a bill with great imanimitv. The Methuselah of horses is still living, hearty, fat and active, in South Durham, Vermont. He is the property >f Mrs. Pinkham, and in bis fortyleoond year. Every fair Sunday he nay be seen on his way to church?an example to all old horses. It is now said that many of the Maine ogging teams are making a failure, the present winter, in oonsequenoe of no rrost in the ground and no snow in the roods. It is thought that there will be i very small amount of timber got uua printer. The Director General of the Centennial Exposition declare* that he haa seen;asked by eight newspaper correspondents in Washington for money for their inflaenoe with Congress in favor jf an appropriation. The varnish applied to tea chests by the Chinese is made of freshly-drawn blood, a little alum, and fonr parts of powdered slaked lime. One, two or three ooats of this mixture, applied vhile viscid, make the packages impervious to moisture, rendering tinfoil unnecessary. The New York Tribune Almanac, lot msny years a standard authority in political, statistical and commercial matters, is this veer better than over. Several new ana valuable departments have been added, making the week indispensable. fiend twenty oentato Tkfi Tribune, New York, for ii ' 1'"*