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ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNE& BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APEIL 25, 1877. VOLUME XXIY.?NO. 46. " ??Ji? Love's Reveille. Love in a lethargy once slept A week without awaking ; And day and night his mother wept As if her heart were breaking. The Graces pinched the boy in vain ; He never felt their stinging : They sang to him a Paphian strain ; He slept through all their singing. To Jove at length the goddess soared, Most miserably crying: " Oh, save my son, Heaven's mighty Lord! The God of Love is dying !" " To earth," said Jove, "once pjoro repair, And cease your cries and weeping ; A friendly leech will meet you there, Who'll cure Love's oversleeping." Venus flew back ; the boy w&s freo ; For Jove, on special mission, Had sent hira green-eyed Jealousy, Juno's own state physician. Tho cure, much worse than tho disease, Olympus nliook with laughter ; For Love was never at his ease, And never slumbered after. "I NEVER WILL!" "I never will!" said Madge Roper, her beautiful brown eyes flashing with indignation. "Forgive me, Miss Roper," said Mr. Schenck. "I said it in a sort of desperation, for I can not?I could not thiuk such a passion as mine could fail to call out a response sooner or later." "You are mistaken," she answered, haughtily; "and, as you know, this ig not the first time I have assured you of this fact. I trust it is the last." "I withdraw my plea and myself finally, Miss Roper. Good morning !" He said it with such dignity that Madge respeetcd him more than she had ever done, and her face softened. But Mr. Schenck did not see it; he took himself and his troubles out of sight, if not out of mind. But as Madge turned to leave the parlor, she heard a boyish voice from some hiding-place singing loudly, with mischief in every inflection: "Hear what Highland Nora said : The Earlie's son I will not wed." "Little wretclU" muttered Madge, biting her pretty red lips; "he must be all this time in the conservator}'. And now 4 i. t> 1 -*11 1 ^11 ,* . T *1.1(111 X'iiciuy ?1U ikUiiW nil uuuui At. x may as well tell her." So she trailed the folds of her deep bine dress slowly up the stairs to Aunt Fliemy's room. Miss Euphemia was sitting in her arm chair by the window, a tiny old lady, with soft silver white hair, and a quaint black satin wrapper, illustrated with delicate laces,and the sparkle of one great diamond on her little hand. She was a cripple, whose sole change was from her bed to her great chair; but, for all that, she was the heart of the house, and her keen and kindly eyes saw everything that was to be seen, but her tongue kept charitable silence. Madge's mother had died young, and Aunt Piiemy had come to her brother's house to take care of him and his child till his wife's plaee might be tilled; but that had never happened. Mr. Roper was a grave, reticent man, and when the one love of his life fluttered away from him like a weary and storm-spent moth, his heart shut itself for all time; he even seemed to have little fatherly love for the wailing baby, whose birth he resented in his secret soul, as one resents a murder. But now he was proud of his beautiful and graceful daughter, proud of her spirited character, her good-breeding, her crowd of admirers; and Madge was equally proud of her handsome, highminded father, though there was little of the diviner element of love lost between them. Many and many an admirer fell at Madge's feet, and no wonder. The girl was young, fresh, lovely, and intelligent, aud every charm sho had was illu mined by the fittest results of wealth and taste. A beautiful girl is beautiful in spite of calico; she is enchanting in luce and pearls. Madge's profuse redbrown hair, dazzling yet tenderly tinted complexion, her soft proud eyes, her slender and exquisitely molded figure, her feet, her hands, were all perfect, and the insipidity of perfection was removed by the vivid and variant expression of the soul within. As she entered Aunt Phemy's room this morning, with the dark blue folds of her fine wool dress falling from her delicate waist, and her face heightened by a color that shamed the carnations which fastened the abundant lace scarf about her throat, the dear old lady looked at her with adoring eyes, for Madge was her aunty's idol. But the girl did not come at once for her daily kiss; she smiled, and then she walked across the room to the other window, and began to meddle with the mignonette and pinch the rose geraniums. Aunt Pheray waited?she was a woman who could wait? and presently Madge flitted suddenly across the floor, and dropped softly, as a little bird folds up into its nest, on to the brioche beside her aunt's chair, and laid her head on its arm. "I could not come up before, Aunty Fee. I\[r. Schenck was down stairs." Miss Roper said nothing, but laid her hand tenderly on the rich folds of hair, > and looked at that beautiful head like a benevolent old fain*. She knew when Madge called her " Aunty Fee " that it was propitiatory: something had been done or said that this wayward young woman was not quite at ease about. " And?aunty," Madge went on, slowly, picking a carnation to pieces as she spoke, "I?refused him." " I thought you had done that long ngo, Madge," said the old lady, with a certain trouble in her kind eyes. "Sol have, over and over, but ho wouldn't stay refused. I think he will now." Here her voice rose and rang, and her eyes flashed. The indignation returned. "I never will marry liiin, Aunt Pheray?never ! And I think he understands it at last." Miss Roper's eyes sparkled now ; she was old and wise. "Don't be troubled about it, Madge dear ; nobody can harass you on the matter. If you don't love a man, don't marry him, if he be king or kaiser. Jacob Schenok is a good man and a gentleman, but I think he is far too old for a rosebud like you." Oh, Aunt Euphemia! you too had been a girl, and remembered it. A little spark entered Madge's cool eye. " He's not so very old, aunty ; fifty isn't really old for a man." "No, it's not decrepit, but it is something more than nineteen ; besides, Mr. Schenck is only forty-five. However, we can afford to drop him now, since Miss Positive never will' marry him." Madge laughed, but there was an uncertain ring about her laughter, and Miss Phemy went on : " Are you going to Boston, dear ?" It T .1 >i. 1. i_ T it ? uuu t ijuive Kiiuw, uuiuy. i ruuier bute Boston ; but I love Polly." t I i " Then you'll have to take your choice ; n between the love and hate, mademoiselle, j 1 and that directly, for you know Polly is f: clamorous for an answer." I " I believe I will go ; perhaps Boston s may be nicer than I think. It is awfully > V slow, I am sure." t "Madge!" c "I can't help it, aiinty ; I don't know s what else to call it. Shall I say trixtc t " Foreign affectation is quite as bad as "] slang, and not half as natural." ' n ; "Oh, aunty, what a two-edged sword i t you are ! I must go to Boston to purify j 1 j my English, I see." a i "Hello, Madge !" and a small boy 11 : burst into the room with a bounce that! s is native to small boys. "Oh, Miss Roper, such a lark ! If you had heard Madge , s i give it to him ! She was stunning, I tell p you," and wicked Master Jack began his j t lilt of "Highland Nora" again. "You horrid little wretch ! Come ' r away directly," shrieked Madge, coloring r ~ t: i.? l-;il IU im* tipn ui ufi luio, xuu jlx xvm i aunty's poor bend." Ji "Oh, indeed !" feebly squeaked poor a Jack, as lie was hustled smartly out of ! \ tlie room, while Miss Euphemia laughed j s till the tears stood in her eyes, and said, 1 j softly: "Children and fools speak truth, j ji i truly." . ; \ Jack went home the next day; lie'was j a only a school-boy cousin come for the *1 holidays, and the luckless child had j I abridged liis own pleasure unawares; but r the rare delight of tormenting his beau-, c tiful cousin was a temptation too enti- i s cing to resist. And Madge was teased; 1 she hated the sight of the boy, and made ' c her journey to Boston the excuse for his c riddance. But the thorn he had left be- j hind was well planted; the piquant bal- J lad haunted Madge, and flushed her face s many a time when its lifting measures i s returned to mock her. \ So to Boston she went, to her dear a friend Polly, and found that proper and , I intellectual city mightily agreeable. ! n Beaux she had by the dozen, but there v were none like Mr. Schenck; none so de- I voted, so elegant, so noble-looking. She I missed the daily bunch of fragrant violets i on her dressing-table; she missed the , selection of new books that showed al- \ ways how he divined her tastes, the fore- c stilling of her faintest caprices, the de- i s votion that was too delicate to obtrude y itself, the homage that was sincere yet a courtly. n "How young all your gentlemen , | friends are,Polly !' she said to her friend '' one clay, after au evening at which at; ? least a dozen sets of English whiskers ; khad vibrated about her and been pulled , before her, as if paying a kind of mysterious kowtow to the latest goddess. j c " That's a fault they will mend of, ! v Madge," laughed Pojly. "Even in r dear old Boston wv have to grow up, anil ^ be literati to boot." " "But I do so hate boys!" sighed ^ Madge. i " And boys do so adore vou !" mock-, a ed Polly. * 1' Madge blushed, and sighed. Why did she think of Mr. Schenck ? ; In the meantime, there in New York, Aunt Phemy had a visitor now aud then. Mr. Schenck knew his friends, and never neglected them; he was least of nil like- ^ ly to set aside Miss Roper; but she never alluded to him in her letters to ^ Madge, and that young lady had already j decided in her own mind that her suitor t had taken himself off to parts unknown to stifle his anguish by absence. If Madge had so good an opinion of her ^ own powers, can she be blamed ? So bewitching as she had proved herself, j should this man be the exception to her , rule? . c: i One night there was to be a great and gay party, to which the friends could not ^ fail to go, and Madge took unusual pains <. i i.l " lC'liUVl XlUlOCli 1U * CiJ XU1 tuc UUlWlUlli I Q A new Paris robe was unfolded from its ? j boxes and wrappings for the occasion; V ! the delicate glittering pale green silk y | mingled and mixed with equally delicate | apricot and films of Maliues lace, was ^ I wonderfully adapted to her peculiar col ! oring and style; and in her red-brown ^ liair, and here and there about the dress, ; ^ clusters of tea rose buds perfumed the ! air as she moved, and harmonized with ^ her dress in every tint; besides these, g. her sole ornament was a necklet of great, opals set in black enamel. ? "Madge, you are a miracle to be- ^ hold!" exclaimed Polly, as she beheld ^ ' her. "You have given your mkul to it as much as ever Mr. Toots did. Woe to Q | the Boston boys to-night, my dear! Even Miss Dorr won't hold a candle to ^ you." c Pretty Polly, fresh and swee'# as a j June rose in her white silk and pink n corals, deserved comment hersolf; but ^ she ?vi>3 willing, fully, to be extinguished 1 by Madge Roper, whom she worshiped, ^ as one girl will worship another. So she nut the fur lined wrap over her friend's v shoulders with an amusing travesty of a fond, proud mother's care. As they went down to the carriage, Polly said, abruptly : S1 " Oh, my dear, to think I should have ^ forgotten ! Lucre tin Adams told me to-: ft. day, in at Copel&nd's, while you were | (J, talking to Ned, that there is to bo a new e< ' man at Mrs. Hope's to-night?a New j ^ Yorker, too; such an elegant creature ! * Lu raved about him, his manners and ^ customs, his face, his money, and I ]r don't know what more. I wonder if you know him." j' "What in his name?" said Madge, i seating herself carefully in the carriage, in awe of her fresh draperies apparently, really smitten by a strange thrill of curiosity. " I declare, I don't know. He's a cap- ui tive of Hope Dorr's, they say?' the j (, tenth Muse,' as the fosthetics call her. j] Madge was reassured. She could j] not, of course, know any of Miss Dorr's ,j adorers; but as she si<* down, au hour j, after, to rest a little from a long walk, a ,, little buzz and motion about the door of the reception-room attracted her, and j; looking up, she saw, as the guests part- u ed to admit their entrance?Mr. Schenek; A i and on his arm the most beautiful of women. 11 Tall, fair, with n stainless snowy skin, t and hair of living gold, Hope Dorr's ,"3 Greek features were indeed tho very n outlines of ancient sculpture, with the a insnired expression of a loftv intellect f beaming from her groat cool gray even t anil calm lips; and her simple statuesque ? dress of lustcrlcss white silk, utterly i, without ornament, fell about her like the draperies of Praxiteles, Madge's heart sunk. How she despised her Frehch fripperies, her puffed and creped hair, her jewels?herself! o What was her girlish, laughing, rosy ?] beauty beside this goddess from Olym- c pus, with, knotted hair and flowing gar- ii ments, stately as Juno and" lovely as n Venus, anfl, Oh ! climax of fate! lean- i: ing on Mr. Schenek's arm with gentle t condescension, and answering what he 0 said with a serene and lofty smile ! v How she hated in her heart, too, the a dapper youth who approached her, card v ! in hand, for the promised galop ! How a i he dwarfed beside her old lover's manly v ispect anil lioblo manner ! Poor Madge ! j la she rose to do her duty, she met Mr. Schenck's eye. He bowed courteously, jut coolly, aud, to her rage ami disgust, he felt the color steal upward to lier * )riglit locks, and she had a wild impulse C{ o drag the luckless youth at her side tut of the door, and bury lum ami her- ? elf at once in the first snow drift. But jl rlio ever heard of impulses at a party ? j die galop was properly danced, and her ()] ilready filled card of engagements gone j ^ hrough with; but in all the long eveling Mr. Schenck never approached her, cj md she went home iu a state of mind j0 hat alarmed Polly and disgusted her- . df. "I am tired and cross, dear," she p aid at last. " Don't talk to mo. I'll be jj food to-morrow, but I might bite you o-night; I feel like it." ^ So Polly kissed her with dumb amaze oent in her pleasant eyes, and went ueekly off to bed. ^ This scene, however, was by no oeans the last. She met Mr. Schenck ^ ,t the best houses in Boston, and alrays with Miss Dorr. While she herelf daueed and chattered with the young QJ >eople, she saw these two the center of ittention to distinguished men and m romen. She perceived the consideration nd honor iu which Mr. Schenck was iehl, and the deference paid to Miss )orr; and when the gentleman sepa- , ated himself from his compeers to ad- ^ Ircss a few courteous words to her occa- . inimllv slio felt it to be an effort of no itenes, and wondered bitterly liow she V ould have been sueli a fool?how she ' ould have been so blind. J Poor Madge ! It was well for her that Luut Phemy bided her timo in the . unny chamber at home; better still that: he had put her tiny old finger into the i-heel of Madge's fortunes and given it n impetus her way; for the day came >efore long when Mr. Schenck could , naintain his assumed role no longer, .1 rlieu Madge found out that Miss Hope ! , )orr was his own cousin, and when Aunt 5hemy received from Boston the follow- * 1 ug note: , "Oh, you de.vrest Auxty !?I know ] m ou will open your eyes so wide you | . an't half shut them again, and you will j js ay all sorts of bitter-sweet tilings to I 1 our dear, bad, weak minded girl; but, unty, I can't help it. I know I said I! ' lever, never would, but I don't mind j ,' hat. I've fallen awfully, desperately in 1 jvo, and some time I am going to be j ,, iarried?oh, Aunty Fee ! ?to Mr. i , Ichenck. There! Your own "Madge." i And Aunt Phemy both'laughed and j ried; but Jack turned a somersault i ,-hen, six months after, he read the mar- I , iage notice in a New York paper. And J, lailge found a letter waiting for her on I ' er [return from the bridal tour, in 11 . rhich was copied, in a big round hand, 1 lie last two lines of " Highland Nora," j , ud the significant and emphasized j l?voc;r? Italian fll ?li|?Ul T tlPVPV Will-" ! . ? I am afraid be never was invited to ^ 'he Birches. se sc The Cliico Slaughter. t], The latest advices from Chico, a San 'rancisco paper says, show that what is *r nowu as the Council of Nine is mainly ^sponsible for the recent outrages. cs 'his committee was elected by the Labor j v/ hi ion for the trial of members for j 'K flenses against the order. As vacancies j ?f ccurred the council lilled them, and J lc iins became independent of the order g( nd commanded the obedience of memers. It was soon found that the mcmers were congenial spirits, ami then nine suggestions for the commission of lie crimes which have since come to ght, and many more that were never j arried into execution. All the members i f the council are now under arrest. I lany members of the Labor Union eviently know nothing of the crimes of lie Council of Nine, and believe the ob)ct of the order to be only to distmrage the employment of Chinese by 11 lawful means. The oath administered 1 initiating members of the Labor j hi ion is as follows : g( I do solemnly swear that I will keep i lie secrets of the order. I do further | lu wear that I will assist any brother in | eed or distress as far as I am able. 11 re irther swear that I will "aid in execu- j lug the laws of the United States of: s<] .merica. So help me God. There is a secondary degree in the ' fft rder, the oath to which is as follows : | I swear before God Almighty that I: -ill carry out and obey all orders of the j ? louncil of Nine, whatever they may be. , f I do not so mv life is forfeited and I i lay be put to death by this Council of ' 'ine. | tr All the members are not taken into j le second degree. The oath ailminis- la jred to a member of the Council of j line has not^yet been obtained, but it n( i understood to be of the most strict! onclad order. j The people of Chico now fear the in- *a irance companies will cancel their sks in the town. New developments | of re being continually made. Some old ) dicers declare that the Labor Union was : di a -x* xi, _ 4.1.^ r\ :i 1 >gliizaiii oi ilie acih ui inv iajuiiuii ui | 'ine, and tlmt tlic council was merely [ Rf. sod as a cloak for the order. It is posi- j ' vely asserted that the order in Sacra- ; . lento and San Jose work on the same ! rinciples. The feeling continues very j dense, and the people are nervous and ' w;ited over the bituation. ? I gr Immigration. The following table (compiled from the | 00 (licial report of the British board of j ado), showing the immigration from 80 ic United Kingdom to the United States, j Iritish North America and Australasia, sil uring 187-1, 1875 and 187(5, is furnished ) the press by Dr. Edward Young, chief cr f the bureau of statistics: 1874. 1875 1870. ' jiitcd States 148.101 1(15,010 75,533; iritish N. America... 2~>,-lo0 17,378 12,327 1 ustralasia 53.1158 35,525 33,UH No The total number of persons who im-; K ligrated from the United Kingdom to tli lio United States from 1815 to 1870 was lo ,407,075. The amount of money re-! oc nitted by settlers in the United States v( nd British North America to their iu riends in the United Kingdom from 1848 I tl n 1870, inclusive, was ?19,085,0G8, the si Teatest amount iu any one year being ' tl: *1,730,000 in 1854. ' rc ? M A Blue Dress Cure. A young man in Dubuque, Iowa, went hi n Saturday week to a country dance and dl lid not return to his home until the tl: hurch bells were ringing the next morn- h< TT* r'.L\ 1.1 1 1 * _ 1. L Ui [)g. nia iuiiiLT umi iiiiJi IK? must gu tu u< meeting, and lie went. Before the min- m iter had finished the opening prayer i h< lie young reveler was sounil asleep and of [reaming of the dance. An old lady hi ,fho sat next to him touched his hand to pi rons? him, whereupon ho seized her pi crist and shouted : " All join hands ! w. nd circle to the left. Swing the girl ' g< i-ith the blue dreBa on.'" i ?a Steam Street Cars. As Philadelphia was the first city in le United States to introduce street iilwnys, it is now also the first to introuce a general system of steam street irs, covering the most densely crowded reets of the city, as well as those most jarsely settled. It is true, Baltimore, hiladelphia, and especially New Orans, had previously introduced them 1 the outskirts of the city and on cer,in lines, but not on its greatest thorighfares, such as Market street in this ty. It is therefore justly a matter of >cal pride on which our people are entled to claim credit for superior enterficn "Wn oro nrivrm flic* fnllnwi'nor V?v resident Morton, of the Market street ue, by whose unremitting endeavors id experiments, backed by his direciru and the inventor, the trial of Wednesday waB made a success, and to horn the public of this city not only, nt of other crowded towns are indebted, lie amount of coal (anthracite) used by tese steam cars is two and one-half tons 2r week, costing less than $10 for move power, while lor the round trip only 2C coaling and watering of the machine icurs". This applies equally to the roy car and to the Baldwin. In other >spects, however, there lire some radill, and it may prove essential differices between these two machines. The irmer has its attachment ~"iih the rear heels of the car only, while the latter ttaches to both fore and rear wheels, ins giving it greater power by presenting ">uble the surface of wheel for friction pon the track. The ntftity of this was lown on the trial trip, which occurred i a very unfavorable condition of the ;reets, the tracks being smeared with black mud of almost the lubricating ipacity of grease. Notwithstanding lis, however, the Baldwin .cur ran noothly and steadily, without sliding : wheels in stopping or starting, while rr?? ie ui tuc jliuj uiii ic\ui>cu x*pLly, with a disagreeable accompanying .r to the passengers when stopping or arting upon these greased rails. Anhor reason also exists for this steadier lotion of the former in the fact that it considerably heavier, while the latter iid rather of a tipping motion when inning rapidly. Their weight is about 000 pounds, or about double the ordiiry horse car. A part of the directors .vor one car and a portion the other, nt. the Troy car has so far been given le preference, as it is no doubt cheaper ; lirst cost than the Baldwin, upon hich no price has yet been made. The iventor, in answer to inquiries of other lilroad companies, if the old horse cars in be used by remodeling for these nmmies, has said that they can. Sinco ie trial trip, these cars have been used mtiuuously, and without the slightest indrance or delay, except in one or two ises of greasy tracks, when the sand ibes of the car-failed to work, and thus ailed the car. One of the directors of to road informed us that they have al:ady taken off ten horse cars for these iveu steamers, and he believed that so ?on as their track should be cleared of ie horse cars by the substitution of earn cars they would make the round ip from Front street to the Centennial rounds in half the present time. Real tate near the Centennial is said to be orth more in consequence, while the n*se dealers are already alarmed, one the officers of the company tell us, st their occupation shall prove to be me.?Exchange. Fashion Notes. Raw silks arc revived. Fashion has tiie jaundice. Shaws are worn in a point. Dress linens arc damasked. Pique is damasked this year. Postillion basques are revived. Japanese jewelry holds its own. The rage for Torchon is at its height. Gazeline berege is made of llama wool. Chedda twills are attractive new >ods. The demi-trained street dress dies ird. Vesuvius is the new name for cardinal d. It is not fashionable to wear the shawl [uare. Shot stripes on raw Bilk fabrics are shionable. Novelties in fashion are not always in >od taste. Gazeline berege is the newest gauzy ess fabric. Indian galloons are among the new immings. The novelties iu spring fabrics are rgely iu linens. Moorish designs predominate in the sw fringes. Large amethysts and topazes are again shionable. Crepo d* opera is a French imitation crepe de Chine. Buckles and slides are used freely in ess trimmings. Small pin head checked delaines make yliali demi toilets. Speckled designs are very fashionable all printed goods. Chambery gauze retains its popularity r evening dresses. Walking dress fabrics have multiplied eatly since last spring. Bourette suits for seaside wear are stly and elegant novelties. Machine stitching is seen on thohaudmest imported garments. Hair striped and pin head checked Iks are seen 011 the silk counters. Dress fabrics in linens are damasked, eped, armured and basket woven. A Lobster's Sagacity. A striking instance of the sagacity in a bster is recorded by Mr. Barker, of the nthesay aquarium, in a letter to ono of ie Scotch papers. It seems that three bsters were placed in ft tank previously ;cupied b- flat fish, anil in which* iniul:rtently ft flounder had been left buried . the shingle, where it died. One of te lobsters, '' a veteran of unusual ze," soon discovered the dead body of le flounder, and dragging it from its isting place, retired with it to a corner ' the tank. Shortly afterward it was 3ticed that the flounder was missing. It as impossible that the lobster could ive eaten it in the water, ftnd thfltfianle of ft net revealed the fact that upon le approach of the two lesser lobsters 3 h|}d buried the flounder beneath a ;ap of shingles on which he now ounted guurd. Five times within two jurs was the flounder unearthed, and as ten did the wily lobster robury it with s huge claws, each time ascending the ;le and turning a bold front to his coininions. This story shows conclusively lint a vast amount of quenched intellijnce may sometimes lie concealed in a J ad. FARM, GARDEX AND HOUSEHOLD. The Ilounekccper. Hot Slaw.?One lieacl of cabbage, half a pound of pork, and try it out and take out the scraps. Chop up the cabbage and put in the fat with water and pepper, if liked, mustard. "When nearly done, add one cup of vinegar. Indian Pancakes.?One pint meal almost; fill up with flour; scald the meal, but not the flour; thin with milk; salt: last thing add one teaspoonful cream tarter, and one-half of soda, mixed to getlier; ring and bake right away. Stewed Carrots.?Boil the carrot* until tender; also ' boil separately five small onions; cut the carrots into any small fanciful pieces you may choose; mince the onions, and chop a sprig oi parsley; have a pint of milk boiling, which' season with a little pepper and salt, adding a small piece of butter rubbed in a tablespoonful zl flour; put in the carrots and onio js, and let simmer ten minutes; stir in the parsley, and dish at once. White Beans.?Soak one pint of dried beans over night; parboil in plenty oi water, with a small piece of soda in it; drain perfectly dry and place in a baking dish; nib one and one-half tablespoonfuls of butter into four even tablespoonfuls flour, until it is a cream; beat ir this two spoonfuls condensed egg, adding slowly a gill of vinegar, and o sprinkle of salt; pour over the beans, place a plato, inverted, over them and put in a rather cool oven one-half hour. Pickled Fish.?Clean the fish thoroughly and cut into jueces about five inches long; nib each piece on the cui side with salt. Take a stone jar which will about hold the fish, put a layer oi fish on the bottom, then a few whole peppers and allspice and a blade of mace, then another layer of fish, spice', etc., till the jar is nearly full; then pour good cider vinegar over it until the fish if quite covered. Tie a paper over the top of the jar, and cover this -with floiu paste; this keeps in all steam. Put the jar in the oven and bake f3r three hours. i - f* i r 1j xne usii is nt ior use iw noun ?h uum, and will keep, in the pickle, for su months. Tho white fish, pickerel, etc., of the lakes are very nice.for pickling, while the land locked sturgeon of the great lakes is almost as good as pickled salmon if it be scalded in water before spicing^ etc. Shad is excellent pickled, as all tho bones disappear. Hard Soap.?Four and one-hali pounds fat, one box of condensed lye, one-half pound sal-soda, one and one^ I half pounds rosin; dissolve a pound car i of lye in six quarts of soft water; put the I grease in large kettle, add two quarts lye, two quarts soft water, and hoi thirty minutes; then add throe quartf lye, iittle at a time, not to Btop the boili ing, which continue from two to five hours, or until it becomes soap, which may be tested by cooling in a spoon, Then add the rosin, broken quite small, putting in rest of lye slowly, not to stop ] the boiling, which continues thirty miu| utes, then add one teacupful of salt, boi! ! till the soap is separated from the lye J and strings. When cooled in a spoon il | should be hard, let it cool fifteen min{ utes, then stir in the melted sal-soda, j stir thoroughly, pour in molds; wooder : boxes or pails will answer; when cold cul j in pieccs to dry. Kitclicn and Market Garden. 1 TX^ti "Rrna na 4-lm linof f\f fVia enn in. crenBCB, demand careful attention it ventilating; on warm days the sashet may be removed altogether, but thej must be replaced early. The whole object should be to secure to the plants an uniform growing temperature, avoiding both chilling and burning, and to do this requires attention and close watching ol j the changes. Water, weed and stir the i soil among the plants, to keep them in n i healthy condition. (In the Northerr i States this is early enough to sow eg<2 plants in the hot bed.) Cold Fkames should be ready to receive transpli rated tomato and othei | plants, and allow them to bo hardened i off, before setting out. Cucumbers and I melons may be started in these. Sowing Seeds.?Garden plants may j be divided into two classes, hardy auii i tender. The hardy may be sown as soot ! as the ground can be worked and hard I frosts are over. The tender can not be risked in the open ground, until the soil I gets warm, and this time is, in all parts of the country, that which experience I lias shown to be the proper one for plant ' ing Indian com. The seeds that may be ! sown in the Northern States generally, j this month, are: Beet, cabbage (and all its forms of brocoli, cauliflower, etc.), celery, cress, kohlrabi, leek, lettuce, onions, parsley, parsnip, peas, potatoes, radish, spinach, turnip (early). N. B.? Under no circumstances is anything gained?but much is lost?by sowing in, or working the soil in any manner, when it is wet. Make haste?but slowly. Plants from Cold Fkames.?Earlj cabbages, cauliflower and lettuce are sel out as soon as the soil can be male ready. | Set the plants well down to the leaves, i and press the soil firmly around them. ! Potatoes.?Have the sets cut and j dried off, ready to plant as soon as the I soil is ready. As soon as the earth is broken by the shoots, it is likely thai [ the potato bug will be there, and ham! I picking must commence. One beetle killed now, prevents the appearance of a : thousand later- in the season. If tint cannot be attended to, do not plant any. ! ?Agriculturist. C'nrting Out Manures In hauling out manure at this season I of the year, says T. B. Miner in the Sun, upon fields to be plowed in April or May, if ilie heaps' be made of a size to equal?ize its distribution, the same as would [ be made if the land were to be plowed i without delay, there will lie a great loss | in the manure by the escape of its ammonia and drying of the surface of the ! heaps. Suppose a two-horse load ol first-rate stable dung be placed in sn heaps in a field in February, and this manure remains in these heaps to the middle of April or the fore part of May, and are then spread and the land plowed, how much loss docs the manure sustein? ' Not less than ten per cent. There must be a certain degree of loss?more than farmers can afford to lose?and the question is, how is this loss to be prevented ? One way is to wait till tl? ground is to be plowed, and then haul out the nut; nure, and plow it under as fast as it is ; spread. But farmers are too busy to haul it o it then, and are compelled often to draw it out in the winter. If one must do so. it would be u pood plan to make the heaps large, but uot too large to be : pretul properly with a little extra hard labor; pack them as Holidly as possible. and if they be well built up ami trod [ a down, they may be made go compact with a little labor that, not over one or two jier cent. 1 jss will take place. Another wny it> to put only three or four j very largo heaps to the acre, making them compact, as in the foregoing case; and when the time comes to spread the manure take a team and a sled with movable sideboards and proceed to remove [ some of the manure to other places, so . that, when it is spread it will be evenly [ distributed. It would be but a Bhort * . operation to remove a part of the manure in that way, and I think the labor r( can well bo afforded by farmers, rather B1 than lose so large a portion of their stable -r dung by evaporation, as the ordinary ~ ' method of hauling out manure in the ^ winter is sure to cause. B1 Potatoes on Poor Soil. f( i N. J. L., Brash's Mills, N. Y.,'writes: ? i "I have a piece of sandy land that has 8 been under the plow for forty years, and . ; I have tried to raise potatoes on it, but ?r ' never have succeeded in getting over one . hundred bushels per acre, with plenty of ? . good stable manure. Now, I want to ^ know how it will do to use nitrate of ^ ; soda, and how much to the hill should ^ . be used; clear, or mixed with some other Jj , fertilizer, and will it pay to use it at eighteen cent# per pound ? Would salt " [ be of any benefit ?" T5 Reply.?Nitrate of soda would be of *? ! no use in this case. The value of this 11 ! fertiHzer is only four and one-half cents ! per pound, and at eighteen cents no one b . could afford to use it for any purpose. J1 i What is wanted is doubtless potash, . If one hundred bushels of wood ashes j*1 , per acre could be applied to the land, it J* would probably add very much to the tJ [ fertility. Salt would bo no help to it. If wood ashes cannot be procured, 300 ^ pounds per acre of muriate of potash, ? [ costing three or four cents a pound,would 81 ; be a very good substitute. Or, perhaps, 61 ' 150 pounds of superphosphate of lime .c , and 150 pounds of muriate of potash " mixed together would be better still. P ' Potatoes need potash and phosphoric c acid, and not nitrogen, which would ^ ; make stalks, but few roots. i a I c. I I Illack Teeth in Ilouft. ! g J J A. S. Plummer, Edinburg, 0., sent to \ a the American farmers' club two black I " ' teeth which he had just extracted. The " hogs in his county (Portage) are begin- ? ; ning to be troubled with these teeth, d : which, if not removed, are certain to cause death. The symptons are: First, ? 1 the hog refuses its feed; second, there " I comes a weakness about the back, and a f finally the animal fails to get up and dies. Cl * These teeth are found in each jaw?in M 1 the upper one near or over the tusks, and c; in the under jaw some are found between c ^ the front teeth and tusks. ^ As no one present could give any infor- 81 mation on the subject, the club desires n 1 fanners who may have any knowledge as J1 J to its causes and cure to communicate " 1 the same to them. P 1 61 Soft Errs. q, 0. E. F., writes: My chickens lay b j eggs with soft shells. What shall I give y l them ? ^ Reply.?Give them a rest. They are laying too many eggs, more than they J have material to finish properly. Some . bones burned and powdered should al[ ways be given to fowls when laying, but c , if the hens are supplied with a variety u of food and c;jn get plenty of gravel and e . earth or coal ashes, and are in perfectly d good health, they will not lay eoft eggs, tl [ This defect is au indication that they are f< t fed too highly and are overtaxed. ! u J s The Bravest of the Brave. | a I R It will be remembered that in the re-; fi i cently published statement of Red c i Horse, a Minneconjon sub-chief, who tl r was a witness of and a participant in the b attack on Major Reno, and the massacre j ti i of Gen. Custer's command in the fight p on the Big Horn, he mentions the re- j c >, markable bravery of an officer having ; b t long ypllow hair, and who rode a horse tl : with four white feet. Red Horse said ; c; ' this man the bravest man they had ever . tl i met, that the Indians all united in declnr- j e ; ing and that he alone saved his command o a number of times by turning on his p horse in"the retreat. This has been sup- tl : posed to refer to Gen. Custer, but such 1 a supposition is an error. The St. Paul j I 1 Pionecr-l'rcss publishes a statement j h based on high military authority, that i "w ' the officer referred to was not in Custer's T 1 command at all, but that a close read- i si t ing of a somewhat confused narrative ! o: I will show that Red Horse at that point I C ! was speaking of Reno's retreat across i p i Greasy Grass creek. There wa3 but one i d II man in Reno's three companies who wore [ g i buckskin. The Indians, of course, did ; tl I not know liim, but the soldiers in the ir j rear retreating column did, and it has ! tl , beenrftr sometime known to army offi- J tr I j cers who was "the yellow-haired hero : h1 I in buckskin " of this gallant fight against 1 tc , j savages in the rear of the flying columu. | d j His name is Thomas H. French, captain : ci ' in the Seventh cavalry, and who is now J tc ;! at Fort Rice. It is not creditable, the j fact that 110 mention of his gallant and i heroic service in that day's bloody fight ! was made in the official report of the ' i battle by Major Reno, and that the first ? ; | public mention of his magnificent n I bravery was made in narratives taken ! j ! from the lips of savages, whose admira-1 j tion of his gallantry aud daring was one 1 sj I! of the most most vivid impressions which '< ^ 11 the battle made upon them. > ^ 11 Capt. French was so commissioned in 1 'r ;'j tho Tenth infantry, March 20, 1868. j f( i! He had previously been offered a cap- ! jj ! | taincy in tho Forty-fourth infantry, but; ft i! declined to accept it. He is a graduate, ! i not of West Point, but of the regular 1 j ; army. He served as a soldier during n | the rebellion, and was promoted, on his t] ; merits, to a second lieutenancy in tho j y j Tenth infantry, May 18, 186-1. On June U 1! 23 of the same year he was advanced a jL ! file, and then in 1868 received his cap- ; ;lJ i taincy. From May 19, 1869, to January ^ I j 1, 1871, he was not on duty at all, but ' j', on the latter date was assigned to the , ^ | Seventh cavalry, with which command j lie lias since periormea exceneui service. : r( r His Family. |" J Postmaster-General Key litis nn ingen- i ) ions way of ridding himself of tlioso I ! bores, the owners of furnished houses in Washington?people who are always C I trying to get a good tenant with money r: ;, in his purse. Mr. Key placidly listens tl II while the anxious visitor sets forth the s< j advantages of his dwelling, its aristo- ti 1 cratic air, and especially the ample and t( ' luxurious fashion in which it is furnish- " ed; then says the general, with abeam- ti ing face and an amiable voice: "Well, oi I should want the house pretty well fur- d . uished its I have nine children." Visions tl i of these youthful scions of the house of 3 i Key careering around that furniture nud h i, romping over his carpets strike the " Washington householder with horror; hi lie hastily departs and never comes back ti anymore. tl r al A woman was caught with five smug- ei gled violins under herpullback skirts, in hi Philadelphia, as nh? was disembarking tc ! from a stenmer, j st A Lady's Millinery Bill. A case of considerable interest to kshionable modistes doing business with le fair upper tendom of the metropolis as tried before a jury in the marine Durt of New York. The plaintiff, [me. Ernestine Chevalier, a French lodiste and importer of French goods squired in her peculiar line of business, aed Mrs. Hannah R. Kohnstamm, of 'ourteenth street, for goods furnished ad dresses made and supplied, claiming lerefore $1,360.50 balance of a larger im. The plaintiff testified that the de;ndant visited her place of business in 1H7ft onrl nrrlprr>il finrnfl ootls to the amount of over "860; that lese goods were sent as directed, with istructions to the messenger not to save the same if not paid for at the me, or satisfactory reference given^ he goods were not accepted by Mrs] lohnstamm, who next day called on Ime. Chevalier and stated that she was imporarily in the city awaiting a setement of her deceased husband's esite, that if she had supposed reference as required she could give every satisiction in that line, and she expressed er own ability to pay for anything that hie required; that she had an income esides expectancies in her own right, ad a house in Amity street. Plaintiff ;stified that she, upon these representaons, furnished other costly supplies of lilies' wear to the defendant, itemizing lem in a long account, which was worn to in court. Here are some of the ;ems: One bonnet, silver trimmed, 65; two chemises, $60; a set of molique, $30; two handkerchiefs, $10; a itin trimmed cloak, $115; one robe de hambre, trimmed with satin and torchon ice, $175; hat, trimmed with silver and lurae, $30; baby's cloak, $40; one slate olored silk and velvet costume, $375; rhite Chamberry gauze dress, $65, and long list of smaller but all costly arti-1 les, amounting in all to $1,815. These oods were all furnished dnring October nd Novomber, the first bill for $60 beig incurred on the thirtieth of Septemer. Three payments had been made mounting to $455, leaving the balance ue and now sued for $1,360. The desnse set up did not deny the purchase f the goods as stated in the complaint ut admitted that the account was true nd just except as to one item?the slate olored silk and velvet costume, $375? rhich defendant contended she purbased for $300, and disputed the overbarge of $75. The principal defense 'as that the goods were bought and old on a running account which would ot expire until April, 1877?it being nderstood that the defendant should :om time to time as she felt able make ayments thereon until the expiration of lid credit. Upon this state of facts the | ase was given to the jury, who, after a rief absence, came into court with a erdict for the plaintiff in the full sum, ith interest. A Chinese Funeral. Coming up town lately, says * Canton | orrespondent, a Chinese funeral passed t le at a brisk trot. Seated with the drivr of the hearse was a Cliinaman who was ! uigenuy scattering sups ox pnpei uauug | lie street. Picking some of these up I j mind tliem perforated by a sharp instrulent, cutting them in several places. 11 topped some Chinese on the walk, and j sked the meaning of them, but could , et no satisfactory answer. I learned j rom a friend, however, that these paper I harms are thrown out all the way from ! iie house to the cemetery, the object I eing to keep the evil spirits from geting possession of the body. It is suposed that they follow the dead body in rowds determined on mischief, but that, eing very curious, they stop whenever ! icy see these paper slips, examine them ! arefully, and try, as I did, to get at j leir significance. Meanwhile the fun- j ral hurries on, other slips being tlirown j ut, thus keeping the little devils occu- i ied in their studies, till the friends get! le body buried and beyond their reach. A Chinese funeral reminds me of those | iible passages which make mention of j ired mourners. These orientals employ j omen to do their public lamentation. I 'he coffin is placed" upon a bier on the j dewalk, flanked by the inevitable pig r pigs, there bciug two, one roasted (see i lharles Lamb's essay on Chinese roast j ig) and the other uncooked, but both ! ecorated with flowers and paper hiero- | lyphics. The priest talks a little, and 1 len the professional mourners, dressed I i white, which is the mourning coloi; of rt liffln* flian mnrfl I It; UVUXCUb ? uuu^, mv4v ilk from the priest, followed by more mentation from the women; and so on ) the end, when the dead man and the ead pigs are hurried off together to the . metery with a shower of paper enigmas ) tease and cheat the demons on the way. A Love Story. Ten years ago a handsome young mau assed through Monticello, Ivy., and was oticed by a young girl sitting at the winow of the most aristocratic house in the )wn. She fell in love with him at first ight. She had wealth, culture and eauty. He was poor, and then on his ! ay to seek fortune as a cattle herder in | 'exas. After many ups and downs he I nmd himself the owner of a silver mine 1 New Mexico. The girl bloomed into j rarely beautiful womtn, with literary j bility, and became a Contibutor to the j K,,.Mlia wllfl Hip I ivi*is u. tmw wuw *vu?uvv? .. ? nconscious object of her firncy was, ami i :iey corresponded throughout the ten ears. She never wrote a word of her j ersonal attractions or family, nor did he ! peak of his good fortune. A few weeks go he wrote her proposing marriage, and [ ion followed his letter to her Kentucky ! ome, where lie saw her for the first > me. Recently they were married, and | liss Annie Berry, that was, learned on inching Silver City that her husband, i I. B. Metcalf, was the greatest capital-' it in New Mexico. I ? Stories of a Mayor. When the Princg of Wales visited loventry two or three years ago, the sec- | >tary to his royal higjiuess, thinking ! ic procession to the station was moving )inewhat slowly, sent rather an impera-1 vo message cominaniling " the mayor > trot." The onswer returned was: ( Toll Mr. Tvuollys the mayor of Coveu y does not trot." The present occupier f the magisterial chair was present at a inner party given the other evening by ic member for North Warwickshire, [r. Bromley-Davenport. He had the onor to take the hostess in to dinner. I don't know, Mr. Mayor," said the iily, ' whether you are at all afraid of ie measles, but my little children have lcm, and I myself have had a slisrht :tack." Once more the mayor of Cov ltry rose to the occasion. "Madam," e said, " I should be only too delighted > take anything from no charming a >urce.u What Shall the Jiarvcsi ve i 80wing the seed by the daylight fair, Sowing tho seed by the noonday glare, Sowing the seed by the fading light, Sowing the seed in the solemn night? Oh, what shall the harvest be V Sewn in tho darkness or sown in the light, v Sown in our weakness or sown in o>ir might. Gathered in time or eternity, Sure, ah! sure, will the harvest bo, Oh, what shall tho harvest be ? Sowing the seed of a lingering pain, Sowing the seed of a maddened brain, Sowing tho seed of a tarnished name, Sowing the seed of eternal shame? Oh, what shall the harveet boV Items of Interest. The Marquise de Caux is in her thirty-seventh year. * Some people can't endure a ringing sensation in the ear, while most ladies take ver^ naturally to ear rings. ThflBuenos Ayres Herald says: Young men w .th small salaries can find comfortable board and lodgings at 178 Corrientes street at $980 perrnonth. In the year 1758 Lord Olive, then governor-general of India, proposed to conquer China if Parliament -would supply him with a force of 15,000 men. But it wouldn't. ' The Virginia Legislature is discussing the proposition to tax liquor saloons at the rate of one cent on every drink sold. Perhaps the bartenders will be required to use bell punches. ^ ' The Senate of Connecticut lias passed a bill giving married women the same property rights which they held before marriage, but prohibiting husband and wife from conveying property to each other. All the male members of the Swedish colony at HoultOn, Me., were recently naturalized. There are now about six hundred Swedes in the colony, whicn is reported to be in a very prosperous condition. Rumor says that Miss Elizabeth Errety, of Minnesota, has fallen heir to a million-dollar estate in Europe. Young men linwevflr. should await a confirma tion of the news before they make "a bold stroke for Lib-Errety." "All the world's a stage," he ruminated, " and all the men and women are merely players, and most of the plays are lrom Shakespeare, too! Eefore we were married, Julia and I played ' Eomeo and Juliet,' and now its mostly 'Tempest.'" When a man in Nevada receives a notice, signed "601. "telling him that he must quit that section, he understands that if he disobeys he will be punished by vigilance men. Seven thieving gamblers have just heeded such a command in Eeno. Lady (to servant, who has given notice three days after her arrival)?But if you didn't mean to stay why did you take the place ? Servant?Well, 'm, when I see you at the registry office you looked so tired and fagged I took your situation out of charity like. A Spaniard and an American were recently dining together in New Orleans. The former in passing a dish of brains to the latter said: "What you lack!" The American offering the Spaniard a plate of tongue answered: " What you have a surplus of." ? By the new liquor law recently passed by the Maine Legislature, hotels are not allowed to publish wine lists on their bills of fare. In consequence of this act, the bills of fare of Portland hotels have gone into mourning, being heavily bordered with black. Scene in an Iowa court ? Judge : " That point has been decided against you by every court in Christendom, sir, and there is no use of further argument." Lawyer: " Very true, but your honor frequently decides against every court in Christendom." The Norristown Herald says : The men who have honesty enough to resist the temptation of removing an uncanceled postage stamp from a second-hand envelope, and using it the second time, nya L-i'nrl nf atfifpsmpn wfl want at the Lead of our government. A milk dealer in Chicago has retired with a handsome fortune. When a hoy asks him how to get on in the world, he says: "Don't be discouraged; you can't get rich all to wunst. Look at me ! All the capital I had to begin with was a milk can and a water pail." A Rondout chap, having heard of the wonderful effects of blue glass, has had inserted in his room two panes of violet hue, beneath which he has placed a dilapidated wallet containing a ?1 note, and now he is watching to learn whether it will bloom forth as a new Russia leather one containing a 31,000 greenback or ten $100 notes. An individual who sold clams on the Lord's day defended himself with the plea that he "feared the clams would not keep till Monday, and it would be better to pay the costs of court and enjoy a free conscience than to palm off dead clams on an unsuspecting people, and suffer the pangs of remorse !" George MacDonald, the novelist, has a family of eleven children. Girls and boys have succeeded each other in alternate order, and the usual regularity in the MacDonald family has been utilized by giving to each girl the sole charge of the brother next in age, ana expecting her to exercise over him a maternal care. Count Z. tie Z. married an opera star of remarkable beauty. His friends congratulated him, but a gruff old cousin, who was the husband of an ugly old cat, observed that he should scarcely care to have a wife whom a couple of thousand men had a right to lorgnette to eveiy evening. "Well, I don't know," said the count, " I think it's preferable to having a wife whom a couple of thousand men wouldn't look at if they could." "The baby has got anew tooth, but the old lady is laid up with a cold in the head, remarked a gentleman to a defeated canditate. " What do I care?" was the reply. " Well," said the gentleman, slowly, " before the election you used^to take me aside and ask me Ik w my family was coming on, and I've been hunting you all over town to tell you, and that's the way you talk to me. But it don't make any difference. I voted for the other candidate, anyhow." An old pioneer, who believed that "what was to be would be," lived in a region infested with Indians. He always took his gnu with him, uud once, finding that some one of his family liail borroweu it, h? would not go without it. His friends rallied him, saying that there was no danger of the Indians, as, anyhow, he / " would not die before his time came?"Yes," said old Lcathorstoeking suppose I was to meet an IndianJ^~ ^,ls time was come, it wouldn't "ave my gun."