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v< ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER I ' ! , BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ' ABBEVILLE, S.' C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1878. NO. 32. VOLUME XXV. i ? ? $25,000!; F T THE 0 ? mzm dp ruRftPKT - UilllUUUi U1VU UUUlUllUi r a , tc stock of f] Goods! Ir ever brought to tl ti GREENVILLE! ? fi ai Twenty -five thousand dollars ai worth of GOODS which he intends to j,j dispone of It Gi AT OR BELOW 41 ai NEW YORK 01 Retail Prices!* ' ai oi 0' -* " * i* w iv is tue Tie lor mips. COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. A' ar lo tb CAPT. W H WHITE bl G Ih with me and would be glad to meet with his old Frie; d? and Customers, and will S vYK at THEM SOME MONEY. b< Pi th hi A No. 1, Wagon Yard " b< w: IN REAR OF STOR5/. ' jdi ar FREE TO S ' I t(> ^ ? , '.V./- * ** Respectfully, ' ' Wi T. I. DAVIS, ' I . . . > t MAIN STREET, * ai GREENVILLE. S. C. tl Cct 17, 1877.?3mo< O] tl J. C. Ai.kxaxukii, Josti-a Aixny, w Vasukv JIcBke. b< ALEXANDER, ALLEN & McBEE, ? 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C. n UmbreUaa Had? and Repaired to Order. * Octoltt 8,1877.?3m _ Jj The Entry of the Snow. tat aoon all soft-aim died, and from between tie east and north a strong wind blew fnll keen or many a day, and from the steely sky he nun deceptive let hi* arrows fly n bank and brake, and without heat to fall 'en 'gainst the garden's gleaming southern wall ; nd c jlderstill it blew, till one bright morn lolled awhi e npen the sp: eading thorn ; he field-fares bickered at the ruddy haw, nd load the finches chirruped in rhe trees; 'hi!e high o'er all, ia blue, thin columns broke rom the tall chimney-tops the palace smoke 11 things shone cii-p and cold, till from the sea, etween the east and north rose gradually great gray woolly cloud, that grew and grew j'uminiuous, till from the ether blae blotted oat the sun ere overling's hour, ad wrapt the ghostly garden, tree and bower t its thick folds obscure. Then from on high 3 earth slow spiraling adown the skv, tie first great feathery snow flakes mado their way, lil a'l the garden changed from blask to gray rom gray to white. Then rose the wind again rom the fell north and growled against the paue ad round the house, and each successive blast ?the night fell grew stronger than the last, Jl, as the great whales gathered in a shoal, i some far bay anear the shining pole, imbol in thunder, while the waters boil ronnd them like the Maelstrom's whirling coil, id high to heaven the sheeted foam-wreaths toss,v > that strong wind among the feathery floss f falling snow walled the livelong night, imultuous, till at length the morning light )86 calm and clear, and upward spraDg the sun, id with his level beams serenely shone i the soft snow rapo that lay white and pore er glade snd splendid hill and dazzling moor. A Life for a Life. Bertrode Dodge was blue. It was ugust weather?there was no air stirng from one arid noon until the next, id the insects hissed maliciously all day ng in the parched grasses. Perhaps tat was the reason that Bertrode wai ue. Perhaps it was that as she walked rover's Tract, day by day, and saw the immer's hinted completion in the red >ples burning among the gray-greer )ughs, the hay-fields at aftermarth, the irple tasselled corn, and yellow wheat, iat she felt her life to be aimless. She id let the summer come and wane ro6s her passive existence. The preous winter Bhe had said, " I feel ice)und now. When summer comes, I ill shake off this inertion and redeem -day." Yet the summer was rapidly passing id she was still a-dream. The honr jver seemed to come which called her i exertion. Well, "Love's young earn " comes but once ; it was all well, jrhaps. Grower's Tract and her farmhouse life as not dull as she had expected it ould be when she returned from her ountain tour a year before; only at mes the out-door sounds and the isurely growing works of nature opressed her. In the winter she had een gay, looking at the sunset acrosR le snow, watching the chick-a-dees, and iarcliing the woods for purple merer>n. In the spring the long walks to the ost office had been full of joyful fancies id golden realities; she loved the veet country sights and scents more rnn ever before in her life. But in August something seemed to ppress her. The sky burned too blue, le woods were to calmly content in leir greenness, the days closed too eautifully in their ripe splendor, as she alked the Tract at sunset, coming om the post-office?coming always npty-handed. Yes, something wan rong, and when she. realized it fully, le said: "I am idle?I am steeped in idleness, have been doing nothing for a year, ow I will have some work, and Dick isy go to the post-office. I' care too mch for those letters." Whatever those letters might be, there ime no more of them. A certuin gay rarist drifting about the world, forgot > write them at last; perhaps Bertrcde as pretty, but one traveling everywhere leets many pretty faces. Bertrode's cheek grew thin and white, [er mother saw that Rhe struggled to rereBS a growing irritubleness. But she orked on unceasingly at her new 6mloyment of teaching the district school f Grover's Tract. She devoted herself > the children. Their parents said they ad never before learned so fast. Berode smiled only faintly at their praise, mo rid*? (viminc home from school irough the woods, she flung herself own among the ferns find dry grasses. " It is dust and ashes 1" she cried. The sky gleamed blue through preen ouffhs overhead, and a bird sang cheery in a neighboring bush. She lay lere until she felt the dew falling. As ie rose up, something rustled at her de. She looked down ; a great rattlelake -was slipping through the grass, Ding from her, apparently unaware of er presence. Fascinated, immovable, at full of horror, she stood and watched )? creature. For a moment it glided ;eadily on, its course so direct, its apearance so subtle and deadly, that she sit spellbound as she regarded it. addenly, with a thrill of horror, she iw the reptile's aim ; it was making irectly for a shady spot, vhere a man y asleep beneath the irees. One toment more would be too late to pre9ut the threatened attack. Starting om her passivity, she seized a stone at er feet and hurled it full at the creaire. He had just paused and raised is crest to view his position, when the *>ne struck him upon the back of the Bad, and with a vengeful hiss he leaped ito the air, then fell at full length upon ie ground and slowly expired. Bertrode stood looking at the dusty sngth and bloody head of the dead lake, her mind in a sort of wonder that ivthincr could be so loathsome, when )e beard her nams spoken. She raised er eyes and saw Fennel Gonld standing efore her. The young man looked at le snake with assort of shudder, and lid: "Bertrode, vou must have saved my fe." "I suppose I did," she answered. The creature was coming directly toard you. Did you ever see anything so orrible, Fennel ?" He took her hands; she hardly glanced t him. * " Darling," he said. She snatched her hands awayi euden impatience. "Don't!" she said. "I wisti vou ouldn't, Fennel." " But I love you." "I cannot help it." He regarded her sorrowfully. She >ok her shawl from the grass and put s on. * " It is chilly here, and late. I am oing home," she said. He walked silently at her side out of ae woods and across the wide fleldB ol trover's Tract. Never was there a more opeless lover than Fennel Gould. At he farmhouse door he said, "Goodight, Bertrode." She bowed, and he rent on over ths hill in the warn gray wilight, cuning his cruel fate as loveri m onrMd their fates before, Through a succession of hot daj 1 month went out. Before it had pn Bertrode was taken sick?mineral j of.fever. She suffered wearisomeb little could be done for her. It | slow fever which must burn on ; oourse. She was thirsty contiui : and suddenly in the midst of her s , ing, the spring which had supplie j with cool water grew dry, and all ! water tasted warm and brackish fc ! fevered lips. ! " If I only had some ice, mother 1 ' moaned. " I know, dear, but there is no i j less than twenty miles." ! Too ill to express her misery, j poor, fevered girl fell asleep, to d I * - 11 ?ii r\ | oi me om yeiiow uxuver irwi i i straining its way over the heavy ? roads to Northboro', the only where there was an ice-house?the procure for her a great green blc the refreshing ice she coveted. " It will be so nice !" she murn in her sleep. " My throat is par* | and it will cool my drink so deJiciou A cricket sang in the heated wa! J woke her. She heard the stage trun I over the hill. " Haa it come, mother ?" she ask '"What, dear? you are dreai j Wake up, and drink some of this iced lemonade." "Ice, mother! Where did you gel " Fennel has been to Northborc it. He, s very kind to you, Bertie, d "It's refreshing. How long ha , been asleep, mother ?" " All the afternoon, and I really i I yon look better, Bertie." Bertrode turned on her pillow an j asleep again. In the morning sh j better, but not well. The pale lips i still parched?the mouth so longfev | tasteless. She relished only the di I iced and cool, which her mother pared. One day she said : " How ib it that that ice lasts bo ? " Why Fennel goes to Northborc a fresh piece every other day. I weather is so -warm that it melts fast." " But it's baying time. How ca be spared ?" "He goes at night after eight o'c ; I don't see bow he can do it who j works in the field until be is rea drop." j " Then why do you ask him, motl "Goodness, child ! I never asked II guess I didn't! It's his own servic I never dreamed of asking him." Bertrode, bolstered up in bed ! silent awhile. " Fennel's very kind," she said at "but I don't like to tax people Mother, if I am better to-morrow, I ride out ?" "Perhaps so." To-morrow Bertrode was fev again. Nothing passed her parchei but a yellow peach, a rareripe, tha a wonder to the neighborhood. " \? here did it come from, mothe " Fennel brought it." The next morning when she a? a gust of spicy coolness whiffed int face. "What is that?" she cried, eta up. Just ft pitcher of sprays from 1- ?1 1 11. _ 1 BCJTUU-UUKB ui LlltJ 1u wjhuuh, uucu t? pendant acorns swinging among glossy leaves?branches of bayb sweet fr_M, and a handful of cue berry mixed with sweet swamp 1 trope, and wild asters, all dripping morning dew. " O, mother, bring it closer! ^ ; did you get it?" placing her thin, \ j bands among the cool, sweet foliag< 41 Fennel left it at the door this n ing. He thought it would please j " It does please me." No one but Fennel knew how liked fragrant green leaves and sv heliotrope. She was grateful, and 6he told F< so when she Haw him. To prove it let him drive him her out and find roses again among the fields. Ai light came back to her eye and the pie to her ch<-ek, she laughed m< sometimes, and forgot to look wist * towards the mountains, as he had ticed her doing so often # two m( before. Oue day she was pale and trot wnen r eunei c;imw wimi mo uug^jr. waG silent for a few moments after began tbeir drive. "Fennel ?" "Well?" " Are you going away ?" " Yes." " Why, tell me, please?" " I think I had better." That was all. She did not dare pr< not to understand him. Both faces pale. He turned towards her at smiling faintly. " Yes, Bertie, you don't need mt longer, and I am going away to t: hard as I can to forget you. strange that suoh a sweet-eyed should cause bo much pain, isn't it Bertrode didn't speak. They ro< ailferina olnrxy thfl river rf>fl.d. Bftr was listening, as if charmed, tc chirping of a little bird among the i oaks the river. It was a he cheery little bird that seemed to ha nonsense abont it. The road grew narrower. The branches met above their heads gradually grew lower. Fennel pu his whip to hold them out of their i The motion startled the horse?( might have been twanged by the sp ing sprays. He leaped suddenly ward, and Bertrode was flung fron carriage and down the steep bank the river. Stunned by the shock, she floatec a corpse. If she hod seen Fi Gould's face, then, she would have dered, even though she believed she knew his love. He drew ir prancing horse, and fluog himself the carriage. Dashing down the declivity, he threw himself into i river. The tide was rapid. Already ' r\f renincr trirl liftlf "8?>D ***? o?i merged, was floating into the midc the current. There were strong, rapida a quarter of a mile below the tide swept them both towai Fennel Gould expended every res of b<Hly and heart in that struggl life and love. She floated on?on fore him in the flowing water unti I great beads of agony and pain stood his forehead. But one fortunate st and he caught her scarf. He struggled back to land anc exhausted upon the bank. For ; ment he lay there, panting; then ri he lifted Bertrode into the carriage carried home the life he had Baved. Evening came. Fennel was at ?pacing thoughtfully the floor ( little chamber. It was twilight, an scent of the ripe apples in the or filled the dim room. He did not i , either, but he was roused suddenlj knock at his door. It was little : Dodcre with a note. He opened i bore these -words: " Fennel come home with Will i want to see yon." i That was all, but he knew who it He went out of doors with the < Holding the boy's hand, he walkec fields he had walked a month b< ' with his heart bitter as rue. The en ! were sinking among the grasses i strange lightness possessed him, ai i he kept putting down his heart daring to hope. The farmh<>nse i was open and Bertrode was Pitting poroh. Little Willy went into the h i Fennel ?*t down on the step. 11 What do yon want, Bertrode?' 8 the "I will tell you by and by." issed, I The twilight grew more dim as they ? I )]y ill j talked of unimportant things, until they but! could not Bee each other's faces. The ^ , was a j crickets -were singing hundreds of songs J* .t its ! in the grasses by the roadside. The dew . (i,, lally, i fell and woke the sweetness of the road- a^unj uffer- I 6ide ferns. mattei d her ! A long time passed, and at last Fen- ^ ^ other Ijael arose. , , o her i " Is it time to go, Bertrode. Will you llOQ _ I tell me now?" J" " she | The moon came up, and showed her ce6(jjn | lace paie ana ner nps tremuiuus, nut nnaral ce in she stood up by his side and spoke firm- j8j?^ ly. vast i the " I want to ask you not to go away, _n_-rc Iream Fennel. Don't go." Fitage There seemed more to be said, but sandy she could not say it. Her voice died on cj1^c place her lips, and the eager light in Fennel f re to Gould's eyea faded. J" .' ck of "I cannot stay, Bertrode; don't be troubled to pity me. Good-by, and God , * mred- keep you, dear, forever!" 1 - ? t-r j x. Li i "uarp ;neu, iie swopeu to iUKB uer iieuu. xioi Tharr jaly!" arms were around his neck. L and ?' My love, my love," she cried," don't ?j dling leave me. I want you; you make me ' happy; and I have never, never loved S?.'Z ed. any but you, true heart! Take my life -717^ ning. ?you have saved it?and spare me the f 1 nice one you risked in my salvation. I will try to make it happy, but indeed, in- A . i it ?" deed. Fennel, I am not worthy of you I" J >' for Heart to heart, at last; Heaven's i.ii ear." angels bless them ! hol1^ ive I Lne. ,= \ sproul think Torture In India. each c A paper published in India says : The spread d fell following facts, elicited at the trial at with < b was the recent sessions in North Arcot of a eaw-lil were case in which five natives were charged abroat ered, with having murdered five of their caste bR3 a ^ inks, people, show that torture is not yet ex- leaves pre- tinct in that part of the world : The ne^r ^ prisoners' fields were robbed of a small which " quantity of cumboo and the deceased only t< for aQd three others being suspected of hav- but le The iQg had a hand in the robbery, they sPr?ui very were, by the orders of the first prisoner, hollov who was tlie village redely (headman), ceedin a he seized and tied, some to the trunks of ^ePt11 trees and others to large stones. In the whole lock, first case the feet of the unfortunate vie- itself, n he tims were tied above ground, but the time ^ dy to mode adopted subsequently was even fields more cruel, for the men were bound growe: ler ?" w*th their faces exposed to the scorch- . The . ing rays of the sun, with their hands 18 to k e> I tied above their heads. The whole five that is having been firmly bound, cold water One n ^j. was, by the orders of the first prisoner, acres. ' poured upon the ligatures with the ob- are a E last j60*' ?* tightening the bonds and thereby known 5 80i' increasing the suffering of the suspected needle can't nien. After this the first prisoner poured object scalding water over the hands and arms gether of the sufferers. The object of this the erish was to extort a confession of their n0urP' 1 lips and a statement implicating oth- a Plne t was ers- After the men had Buffered excru- a broa ciating agony for eight hours, and were "lte ,r p" released, it was found that one of tliera brst in was dead, while the others were unable vegetn ?0j.e to move. Two of themaied in thehospiH produi 0 her a^? wbither they were sent for treatment; the fa< one expired in his village, while the yields rting fifth was able to give his evidence before twelve the committing magistrate, but never .-The: . rallied from the effects of the torture, midab 1 Tne - - - - ' -?. i lfw->Vin mder !ftni1 dietl atter tne case waH cominUM3tl 10 V the court ?f sessions. The medical evi- pe ral erry dence wns sickening in its details, as it 18 ftb?' cker- *8 desoribed how the arms, hands and taken lelio- l0XYer extremities of the victims had these w:ti. become gangrenious and how the fingers pmeap had rotted and dropped off. The an- destru rjjere thority and influence a reddy usually remed viiite a village weut in a great measure while 3 to deter the spectators of this wholesale 00X0 aorn- murder from interfering on behalf of t.lio jntrod rou " tortured men. The court convicted the *s diff" first, second, fourth and fifth prisoners, the p gjjg and sentinced the first to <leath and the atQonP uomn others to transportation for life. the re ,amP _____ dead f; mnel Strange Scene iu a Court. i she Mrs. Mary D. Hooper, a beantiful and W her fashionable-looking woman, who was s the convicted of grand larceny, for having seVeat dim- stoleD the diamond jewelry of her friend, Qj irrily Mrs. William Delaney, of 212 High \v0rU .fully street, Brooklyn, N. Y., was arraigned, a no- a few days after her conviction, for sen- 0f jnths tence. . She was dressed in a becoming poe'ma suit of black cashmere, and wore an ibled aureole black hat, from which dropped She a thin veil that was drawn close about they her face. Her eyes were swollen with raan 'q weeping, and her pale face indicated Tliaxh that she' had passed a sleepless night. i^^rs She walked slowly to the clerk's desk, Dana and trembled as the usual questions were put to her. She said she was j^g, twenty-nine years of age, and that Bhe (je8Crhad never been in prison before. On **_ -r * " 1 1 1 j -1--11 iur. x> iienu neing askwi wubuiw sue u?u ?uj mmg )( _ . were to say why sentence should not be gevent? last, pronounced on her, she seemed to be birthda thinking of a reply, as Judge Moore ad- snob an ) any dressed her, saying, "It is the uniform ranged ry as practice of this court, in cases where jj] " It is persons are convicted of crime for the w'hich ] girl first time, and nothing is known against whose ] ?" their previous character, and the crime occupie le in is not one of particular atrocity or enor- treated trode mity, to impose the lowest sentence pre> the scribed by the statute, and tho lowest the pra *erub sentence in a case like this is one year, shall b< larty, That is your sentence." its beat ve'no Mrs. Hooper buried her face in her ' hands, and then, letting her hands fall, i tree she said, piteously: "Oh, mercy, Jndge, i and have mercy! Have pity on me! have -m-it out pity!" Tlireg 'aces. She tottered, and was about to fall, as _ )r he officer Hamilton seized her about the >ring- waist and supported her. She was led This for- out of the court-room, and just as she With di i the reached the door she fell, fainting. The These f into stalwart officers picked her up bodily Made nnil nnrrifwl hftr into sheriffs office. Hike where she quiokly recovered. She seemed Bnnel to be crushed by her sentence, and said, reaci] won- over and over. "Oh, my poor father I oh thr ; that It will kill him !" The 1 i the woi from An Awful Crime. TheHpi steep At Lawrenceville, Ohio, one night re- Hermit ? the oently, Joseph Kuuzier was shot by his thirteeh-year old son, at the instigation , ' the of his mother. The husband and wife .V sub- had lived unhappily for some timo, and n?a lie of on the night in question the father had fierce gone to the village, and while absent Pa mif ', and Mrs. Kunzier prevailed on the boy to races d it. load the gun and lay in wait for his ?ere ource father. The boy obeyed, and, conceal- yield n e for ing himself behind a woodpile, waited ?be i for an hour, and when his father came The fai 1 the | into the yard shot him through the upon j back. This done, he went into the Hot blc roke, | house, when the mother took the gun | from him and laid it by the sido of her A^othe 1 fell j husband, who, still alive, was raying for Mcn kn a mo- I help. She then returned to the house ising, : and went to bed with her boy, but !, and neither being able to sleep, subsequently arose and cooked supper, which they home ate. All through the night they heard The jf his moans and appeals for help from the j Ohio d the father, who was still alive, but paid no new n chard heed to them. In the morning a neigh- more lotice bor came to the house to employ Kunz- "taki: r by a ler, and found him lying on the ground bungl Willy | in a pool of blood, although still alive, had ei t. It | while the woman was some distance men c I away unconcernedly engaged in her do- ever, j y. I | mestic work. When asked concerning good. ; her husband she replied tha t ho had every sent: shot himself. Subsequently the coro- ly line ;hild. ner was summoned from Lawrenceburg, ; tor re< 1 the and the investigation showed that the specta afore, ! man could not h ve killed himself, glory, ickets Suspicion was direc ed to the woman Proct< i. A aud her boy. The lutter wheu separated they i id yet from his mother, confessed that he had one's i ?not done the d?-ed ab her command, saying h ird door ; that she had been urging him to do it began in the for a year past. He also told how they Iowa .oub6, spent the night in the hearing of the I were i ones of his father, yet neither oame to I u tin on ' his MftisUnoe, I of bar Where Pineapples Grow. Fi tter from the island of Eleuthera, i Bahama group, written to the fork Sun, thus describes the oultiof the pineapple : That the soil N. euthera should yield such an do ance of delicious pineapples, is a Oi : for wonder to a person who de )een accustomed to the fertile of the United States. One who ever been on a coral island can but the faintest notion of the exg roughness of the surface and the ha teful aspect of the ground. The olt of Eleuthera. which furnishes such an lumbers of pineapples, is indeed ne id in tne main t>} a wild vegetation, 1111 the earth from which it springs is coat part of the roughest conceivable g? iter of rock. Holes of every size, "wi ,nd d? scription, some of them partly y? >lly filled with dirt, the debris of ^ id vegetation, loose fragments, A and small, round and angular, nu and hard, everywhere abound, thi >ck sticks up its stinging points and w g edges in the most irregular and thi ting fashion. No plough, no spade, dp e, can here be used. The only ' that can be done is to stick a sprout WB ie of the holes and let it take care to] If, which it almost invariably does 7e well; for it likes that kind of soil, &n ps its sweet nourishment from the 8P iirt it may happen to find in the r of the rock. ^ holes are very close together, the th a are placed scarcely a foot from be ther, and as the plant grows up it gh Is its long, Bharp, hard leaf blades, Se sdges armed with little rasping, b? le teeth, up from the ground and th( > -3 li? rm.? w i in every uireutiuu. j.ue pinuu thick supply of these outbending 0X1 , lapped closely one over the other fa le ground, and out of the centre of til oomes up the fruit, one pineapple <1? a each plant, which then perishes, ?r< aves behind a progeny of young pu a, and these being stuck into the in1 rs insure a new crop for the sueg year. This replenishing can be ke ip for about six vears, and then the ? field about exhausted, is left to gu the plants die out, in the oourse of in the soil is renewed, and fresher now demand the care of the pine 1111 r. in only attention given to the plant B1 eep the field clear of weeds, and Sp i almost daily work the year round. egro m&n can attend to about two be The worst weeds to contend with Oi ipecies of bidens, a plant very well i in the United States, as Spanish Pr 8, and a kind of crab grass. One ae of placing the plants so close to is to give the pineapple possession go soil, and the weeds little chance of ng the ground. Tiie first sight of wf field is astonishing, for it presents ap d intricate jumble, of a vast mass fe1 rlacing leafy sword blades, and the at' npression is that such a jam of fJrtr. rtrrvnl/1 ho nfterlv SnnannKlft nf de IU1VU ?? Vl**\4 " ? jing any fruit whatever, -whereas, to; ;t is, the acre properly attended to the enormous number of ten to ye i thousand pineapples. of re is another enemy, no less for- be le than the weeds that requires g after very sharply, and that is co t, which attacks the fruit just as it ab it to ripen. If no measures were te: to prevent the depradations of he troublesome creatures, very ferw sc. >ples indeed would escape their m' ctive jaws, The planter has a ha v. Sweet potatoes are cooked, and A they are yet hot, the sulphur ends hi imon matches are broken off and th nce?l iuto them. The phosphorus H sed throughout the substance of &b otatdfes, and these being placed ar ; the pineapple plants are eaten by to its, which almoBt immediately fall is rom'the effects of the poison. ne . th Jg liitlier's Seventieth Birthday. T^Vin rj-roonlflaf Whit.tiflr nraR I sa. y years of age on the seventeenth let t December, and the Literary dr I, of Boston, honors the occasion special number, in which the bard esbury is made the subject of by Longfellow, Bayard Taylor, an, Holmes, Hayne, G. P. jp, Holland, Harrison, Hiram ( Lydia Maria Child, James Free- , llarke, William S. Shurtleff, Oelia sr and Charlotte F. Bates; of , from Mr. Bryant, Mr. R. H. ? Bancroft, C. W. Elliott, Francis ? lan, Higginson, Mrs. Stowe, Oliver _j( du and Robert Collyer ; and of a ^ ptive paper by Charles B. Rice. ^ rvant's letter is as follows : ^ hoald be glad to celebrate in rem the 9th return of John Greenleaf Whittier's , ' y, if the thoughts and words fitting j f i occasion would come at call, to be ar- aD in some poetic form, but I And that I re1 >ntent myself with humble prose. Let fet then, that I rejoice at the dispensation a i has so long spared to the world a poet ife is as beautiful :.a his veree, who has BP' id himself only with noble themes, and th< tbem nobly and grandly, and whose po q the evening of life are as sweet ana g as those of the vigorous meridian. If -v., yers of those who delight in his werap i heard, that life will be prolonged in aft ' lty and serenity, for the Bake of a world tn< b "better for his having lived ; and far pa the day when all that we will have of an, II be his writings and his memory. W. C. Bbtajtt. jn< Longfellow's poem is called "The ^ Silences." We copy it entire: y)( lilencea there are : the first of speech, lecond of desire, the third of thought; m' is the lore a Spaniah monk, distraught , reams and visions was the first to teach. ('.a Silences, commingling each with each, ^ i up the perfect Silence that he Bought olc prayed for, and wherein at times ho j ight pa' Lous sounds from realms beyond our i. >u, whose daily life anticipates . ife to come, and in whose thought and P ? rd OK ritual world preponderates. olci of Amesbnry! thou, too, bant heard ib and melodies from beyond the gates, r sakeat only when thy soul is stirred. ' Mr. Taylor's poem -we give threo 0 '8. Reading tbe lines in Wliittier's | nnd studying the past as the ?t studies the future, Mr. Taylor I a-^ fhn lif? nf t.hfi nnfit. find writpn I .. t thou, Poet?more than warrior, priest; jn And here thy quiet yearn lore to us than sacrifice or feast, Or clash of swords or spears. as: th that lifts, tho courage that sustains, These thou wert sent to teach ; lar >od of battle beating in thy veinB, mo Is turned to gentle speech. cai r line upon thy hand I traco, (Je< All destinies above ; 00:ow thee most as one that loves his race, . And bless thee with their love. 8"1 pal Hanging as an Art. Detroit Free Press saye: The inc papers are all clamoring for a the lethod of executing criminals, or is i expert hangmen. Two recent g offs" having been sadly tw< ed in that State. The people have six lough of it; and the oondemned the ertainly had too much of it. How- abc it's an ill wind that blows nobody mo Proctor of Iowa, is glad that se? Uiie its uub nu CAporu ixt turn > of business. A mob hung Proc- uw ;ently. After quietly enjoying the ' cle they left hira alone in his ore In order to relieve hiH suspense, kin jr's family out him down, wlien vei could do so without hurting any lar eelings, and after sevoral hours' wn: work on th? execntod party, he is ^ once more to talto an interest in matters, Doubtless if Proctor 1 nterriewed he would express the Pu t eatUfaction at the present stato hal iging, m an art, in Iowa, qui LRM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Profitable Apple Orchard. We recently visited in Cayuga county, Y., the fine apple orchard of G. Lann, in the southern part "of the county. 1 approaching it from a distance, the ep green color of the foliage was obrved, indicative of thrifty growth, and entering it we found the trees bendI under the loads of flue fair fruit, ihough orchards generally are nearly rren. The trees are twenty-two years 1; were planted thirty-six feet apart, d the branches have now extended arly bo as to meet. The ground being >stly shaded by the trees, no crop is Itivated beneath their shade, and the 188 which has sprung up is kept grazed th sheep. "When the trees were ringer, the ground was kept cultivated, d they grew vigorously but bore little, neighbor advised a new course of raagement, including a thinning of 9 dense heads by pruning. They ire trimmed early in the spring, or inned out from above, and not trimmed from below, as is too often done, rhe surface of the ground about them & top-dressed with yard manure. The D-dreasing is repeated every two ars, and the pruning is performed anally, by the removal of the young routs which may have sprung up tere the pruning was performed, and tich, if allowed to remain, would give ick tops again. The orchard soon gan to bear heavily of fine large apbs. On visiting it this year early in ptember, we found the branohes nding under their loads of fruit, alough orchards generally through the an try are bearing but little, and some 3 entirely barren. Sheep, which are rned in early in Spring, and oontinued 1 the growing fruit bends the branches wn within their reach, keep the shard nearly free from the ooddling )th. We found very few specimens [ested. As the trees shade most of the ound, grass is allowed to grow, and is pt grazed short till after midsummer usually till about the middle of Aust. The droppings of the sheep assist enriching the ground. The orchard contains about 120 trees, d sixty or seventy sheep are pastured it. The best sorts are the Baldwin and lode Island Greening, The Northern iy succeeds well. Fall Pippins were served .with heavy crops. The Boxiry Russet is unprofitable. The Fall range bears fine crops, which sell as >11 as any, and would be selected as a ofitable sort, were it not the orop eds picking when other early autumn >rk is pressing. To show the effect of od treatment Mr. Landon showed us old tree of the Fall Orange, which s estimated sixty years old, from its pearance and size of the trunk, A sv years ago it began to die, and was out to be cut down. A successful hpmrifr, wns mfulfl to rflnovate it. The ad limba, including about half the p, were cut out, and the ground was ill top-dressed with manure. In two are, sixteen and a half dollars' worth fruit was taken from it. It is now :aring a large crop of fruit." In the apple orchards through the untry there is usually a year of mndance and a year of scarcity in alrnate seasons. Mr. Landon's orchard :are most profusely in the years of arcity?probably because the treatent which first gave heavy crops ippened to be in one of those years, few years ago his crop sold for five indrea dollars ; the year previous to e last he received six hundred dollars, o expects his sales this year to be iout four hundred dollars. The orchd stands on a ridge, where it appears have good natural drainage ; the soil not deep, and the roots thus coming :ar the surface are more benefited by e top-dressing than they would if on eper soils and extending to a greater pth. Some excellent orchards in' the me countv (arrow on deep soils, and are J8 affected by either cultivation or topeasing. ?Country Gentleman. To Tell the Age of Fowls. If a hen's spur is hard and the scales the legs are rough she is old, whethyou see her head or not, but her head 11 corroborate your observation. If 3 under bill is so stiff that yon cannot nd it down aud the comb thick and ugh leave her, no matter how fat and imp, for some one less particular. A ung hen has only the rudiments of urs; the scales on the legs are smooth, )ssy and fresh colored, whatever the lor?aay be, the claws tender and short, 3 nails sharp, the under bill soft and a comb thin and smooth. in old turkey has rough scales on the rs. callosities on the soles of the feet d long, strong claws, a young one the reree of all these marks. When the ithers are on the old turkey cock has ong tuft or beard, a young one, but a routing one, and when they are off, 3 smooth scales on the legs decide the int, beside the difference in size of the ttles of the neck and in the elastic oot upon the nose. in old goose when alive is known'by 3 rough legs,the strength of the wings rticularly at the pinions, the thickness d'strength of the bill and fineness of 3 feathers, and when plucked by the js the tenderness of the skin under the Qgs, by the pinions and the bill and 3 coarseness of the skin. Ducks are distinguished by the same tans, but there is the difference that a ckling's bill is much longer in proporn to the breadth of the head than the I ducks. 1 young pigeon is discovered by its le oolor, smooth scales, tender, coined feet, and the yellow, long down erspersed among its feathers. A jeon that can fly has always red-col>d legs and no down and is then too 1 for use as a squab. How to Keep Spinach. I?he Massachusetts Ploughman gives - J-1- _ J _ * 3 IOUOWlDg IIIULLIUU Ul 0t?viU? n^iuuvu 3r winter as practiced by the market fdeuers about Boston : To keep uach it is only necessary to cut it on 'ry day, about Nov. 10 or 15, and pile ibout six inches deep upon shelves a cellar provided with ventilators, so to be able to keep the temperature near as may be at 32 degrees. The lar is usually built on purpose in the ge gardens where 1,000 bushels or ire of spinach are stored. An ex- l ration 20x30 feet is made, six feet jp, and walled up at the sides and rered in with a roof of boards and ngles, with a door at one end. Two ths or alleys run the length of the lar two feet wide, and a shelving of -inch boards, with air spaces of an h between, are built up on each side > alley; the space between the shelves 'ourteen inches. Hie cellar should be provided with j or three ventilators of pine boards inches square, extending from near ) floor to a height of several' feet >ve the roof. These are kept open in derate weather, olosed in a very ere cold spell or in a thaw, the obt being to keep the temperature as -- -1 ir ol ?? muy ue. Hie roof and ends of the pit are cov4 over with litter of any available id to exclude frost. Spinach will keep y well in cold, dry weather in a cellike this with a littl? waste ; but if a rrn op?n spell of weather occurs, it rery likely to deoay and spoil. Honnehold Hint*. !ln Excellent Furniture Polish.? t into a bottlo one pint of linseed oil, i a quartern of spirits of wine, half a irtern of vinegar, and one ounoe of butter of antimony. Mix all together, and shake the bottle well before using it. Fob Cleaning White Marble.?Half a pound of pearl-ash, one pound oi whitening, half a pound of soft soap ; all to bo boiled together until quite thick) and put 6n the marble when nearly cold. It must remain on for twenty-four hours, then be washed of with soft water, and afterwards polished well with linen cloths. Spirits of turpentine for black marble. ?? m- i ^flf VJANAKY JOUtVB. JL.U actJp iiiscuw wit of birds, put the least bit of kerosene oil under each wing? say as much as remains on yoar little finger after you have let the drop fall off. Do this every ten days until all are removed. Clean the cage well every dav ; scour it in hot water; use borax and but little soap. Mate the birds during the last of Feb* [ ruary or first of March. To Cleanse a Kitchen Sink,?Every morning, after the dishes have been washed, give the sink a thorough scalding out; then sprinkle plenty of pulverized borax in and around the sink, under it. and the boiler: let the borax remain, as it is a disinfectant. It will also absorb the grease; drive off the bngs or ants, and will not in any way interfere with the cooking or dish-washing. Winter Plowing. Winter flowing is a good thing. It upsets the insects, turns them up from their warm quartera below to cold' quarters above. It throws up the clay to be pulverized by the frost and air. It gives muoh aid to spring work, as, if the soil is dry now, it will not need to be plowed again in spring?a good harrow pulverizing it finely for any crop. For. oats and clover, timothy, red-top, blue grass, orchard grass, Ac , by all means do winter plowing. Then in early spring you can sow the seed at onoe, and not wait till the ground Is in condition to plow, and then spend several days in doing what could better be done in any open weather in winter. "A word to the wise is sufficient."? Rural World. Heroism in the Lire-Saring Service. Instances of heroism are not wanting in the history of the life-saving service. The records are full of them. On the evening of the first of last March, the Italian bark Nuova Ottavia was wrecked on the North Carolina coast. The men in tne station saw ner at sunset unaer sail, and about five miles from the shore. The weather was cloudy and the wind from the southeast. The sea was rough and the 6urf high, heavy and winding. Soon after dark the bark stranded on the reef, with her head to the northwest before the wind, about 400 yards from from tho station. Her running ashore was a mystery. It was evidently not from stress of weather, as several of her sails were left standing, and were still so the next day when her masts went over her aides. The patrol hurried to the station and reported her ashore. She was rapidly breaking up, and might be ontirely gone before the life-car apparatus could be rigged. The men did not hesitate a moment, but instantly determined to put off in the life-boat to rescue her crew, if possible, before she went to pieces. In their haste they did not even wait to buckle on the cork jackets! The boat was successfully launched throngh the heavy surf, and the vessel was reached. A whip-line was made fast just forward of the mainmast. Ten minutes after the boat left the shore a shriek' was heard. Half an hour afterward four oars drifted ashore, and in a short time the boat itself came, bottom up. The brave seven men who put off to rescue the perishing crew were all drowned. Several of their bodies drifted ashore next morning, but the rest were never seen. Several of the crew of the bark drifted ashore, were taken care of under Dr. Sawtelle's resuscitating process and their lives were saved. Some of them remained unconscious for more than eipht hours, but eventually recovered. The Italian government afterward gave $408 dollars to the families of the lost crew?$78 to the family of the keeper, and 855 to that of each of the others. Tbe Bird of Paradise. , ... The Jardin d'Acclimatation, Paris, has just received some living specimens of the bird of paradise, which it has hitherto been found rarely possible to bring alive to Europe, 'this bird is a native of New Guinea, the inhabitants of which country endeavor to keep up the fable ralnfi'vo fhpflpi froecimens of the feathered tribe, by persuading the Indian merchants to whom they sell them that they have no feet, and that^aa they live on air and light, they have neither stomach nor intestines. That belief was encouraged by the form given by the Papuan naturalists or dealers to Srepare them for sale, by drying the ird with its plumes after taking out the inside and tearing off the legs. It is rarelv found excepting in the countries whicn produce spices, and particularly in Australasia. New Guinea, whioh is comprised in that part of the world, and the Aroo Islands near, contain many specimens. The pineapple and nutmegtree grow there in the midst of immense forests, and supply their principal food. The Papuans, barbarians as they are, derive considerable profit from the sale of the bird, and take it with nets or sticks smeared with birdlime. In the latter case they take it alive, but as it is very difficult to preserve, they prefer to use the bow and arrow. The manner in which t.hia chase is carried on is very curious. The men olimb silently in the dark like cats into the trees in which the bird sleeps, pass the night in the forks of the branches, and at daybreak shoot at the birds while they are still asleep, with very light arrows made from the ribs of leaves of the palm-tree. Their addref-s is so marvelous that the bird generally falls to the ground intact, " J-J HUa maam utunned ratner tuan wuuiiubu. a uo mou continue as long as they can, and then descend to the ground and proceed to the preparation and embalming of their victims. The Malays of Malacca arc- the chief purchasers of the birds, which they carry to the Molucca Isles, whence they are sent to India, China and Europe. House Plants. Dust, insects, dry air and over-watering are the principal difficulties they have to contend with. J3y arranging some light covering to put over them while the room is being swept, an occasional syringing in the bath-tub, kitchen sink, or elsewhere, supplemented by sponging the leaves of all smooth-leaved plants, this great enemy to plant health may be kept under. Iusects may be kept off by hand picking and a brush; if needed, apply tobacco water, or arrange a box or barrel in which they may be thoroughly fumigated with tobacco smoke. Over-watering kills more plants than dryness. Pots in the house, especially the handsome glazed ones, -should be provided with abundant drainage? I broken pots, cinders, oyster-she]Is, anything to make open layer at the bottom ; then a layer of moss, to keep the earth from wakhing down, and then a soil made so open by sand that it will always allow the water to pass through. With these precautions there ie Uo danger, but where the surface of the soil is muddy an hour after watering, there is something wrong, and plants will not ! thrive. ?Amerioan Affrioulturilt, An Eccentric Wisconsin Han. The Milwaukee (Wis.) Sentinel says: Capt. William Plocker, of Brandon, is a peculiar man?quite peculiar. He was c educated for a banker, but never adopted the profession. Thirty years ago he g located in the town of Metomen, Fon du Lac county, having purchased a large tract of land. Previous to that he had spent some years as a steamboat officiftl . on the western lakes. His was one of u the best managed farms in Metomen, yet he found ample time to tio an im- t pense amount of reading. His library h is one of the largest in the county, embracing many of the choicest works, and n every one of the thousands oi books has a been read and reread by the captain. I He is well posted on any subject, almost, that may be named. At times when 8 thinking or reading he is oblivious to c fivflrvthintr about him Tn hifl earlv ? days, his farm-house, near Fairwater, was converted into a public house, with himself as proprietor. While the cap- ? tain was in one of his brownest of brown ^ studies, a traveler stepped in and asked if he could get accommodations. There was no answer. A second, third and fourth 3 time the question was propounded, with ? a like result By that time the would- ? be patron's patience had departed, and he gave, the captain a slap on the cheek a which sent him whirling to the floor, a Imagine: the surprise of that traveler c when Piocker gathered himself up, reoccupied his chair, and proceeded with r his thinking, without as much as a ? " thanlfyou." On one occasion, when I the hired man was away, the captain had ten cows to milk. It took him until e nearly midnight, and when the task was a completed he deliberately poured the , eight pailsful of milk into the swill barrel, detecting the mistake just as the , last pail was drained. One day, at Brandon, he went to the house of | J friend when the house was full of visitors. Going to the library he picked up ? a book and returned to the parlor, filled with happy guests, stretched himself at full length on the lounge, lead an hour ? or more, and then, without having said ? a word or looked at a person, took his a departure. After serving his district in ? the Assembly in 1875, he sold his farm u for $12,000, visited the old country, and P is now a resident of Brandon, whose n people talk of making him their first village president. si a Popular Dress Material* - jj The material called neigeuse has be- if come so popular that all woolen stuffs tJ are made to represent this* appearance; ci all are speckled, flaked and dotted with b soft wool or floss silk. The cloth? h vigogne?which is so much used for b paletots, mantles and jackets, is in great v fevor, is soft, warm and light, and, be- s< ing inexpensive, will probably be much q in request for costumes. I Thibet cloth, thicker than vigogne, is of flner texture and sprinkled all over with long hairs. Beal Thibet cloth is a j 1 j ?. very expensive aim uauuoumo wnvciuu , p but there are many imitations in differ- j ent qualties and at different prices. c: The material called mouse and jj bourette are very similar to the neigeuse, j, in fact, they seem to be only different y names for the same . thing. The trim- n mingmost suitable to this material is t] either velvet or plush in plain bands, h but for cashmere or plain cloths a num- a of fancy galloons, etc., are employed i with very great effect. Another style a of trimming, which may be had ready a made and whioh is very effective, is a a border embroidered of colored floss silk p over a strip of cloth of the same Bhade 0 as the dress. Shades of moss green are 0 she most fashionable for this em- h broidery. , _ lj As for the styles the dressmakers have f( modified many of those which have been t in fashion during the past few months ; f, however, the long polonaise is still con- b sidered very useful for ordinary wear, f and the costume with gilet, for more d special occasions, as well as on the n blouse and plastron of various kinds,- 1 which latter are surely, if slowly, coming ? into fashion.?New York Herald. s C Russian Battle Songs, j* The Russian battle songs are mostly mournful. The inspiration of music, 2 the means of gain, the hope of glory, the intoxication of woman's love cannot . wipe from the mind of the Slav the ever-present possibility of a painful , death, in the midst of Ins dying friends. . rolling in anguish on a bloody field, ^ where the last sight of his eyes is 0< his flaming home, the last sound in his j' ears the cries of his wife and family abandoned amid its ruins. If they weep not for the loss of hair, of home, of w parents, or of sweethearts, they may still weep for the loss of an emperor. ^ " By the tomb of the Emperor & A yonng sergeant pr&yed to God, Weeping the while, as a river flows, For the recent death of the emperor, pi The femperor Peter the First di And thus amid his sobs he spake: g< ai ' Split asunder, 0 damp mother Earth; ^ On all four sides ^ Open, ye coffin planks; e] Unroll, 0 brocade of gold; m And do thou arise, awake, Gosundar,' " Ac. jc The present Russian army is said to ^ be very scantily supplied with bands, a< and tho men march to the sound of music Si and words of their own composition, w Apropos of Russian war songs, a witty li American once said that-when a man had hi been compelled to listen to a Russian hi melody he would certainly be exceeding- u] ly anxiously to fight somebody, even if tl he had to walk a thousand miles to find ct him.?London Society. e: ??_ ^ - - - tl A JfincRy woman. ^ The wife of B. J. Garrison, a Jersey g\ City (N. J.) storekeeper, was returning a to home, having spent the afternoon in (f shopping. She had a number of bundles fa on her arms, and in her hand she carried h: a pocketbook. * When near tha corner of b< Monmouth and Fifth streets, a man tl stepped from behind a tree which she a$ waa passing and dealt the woman a ai severe blow in the face, which partially tl: stunned her, but divining his intention, w she instantly recovered herself ami began hi to cry for help; but the thief placed his tl hand over her mouth and endeavored to fc snatch the bundles. The plucky woman tt made a*determined resistance,and clung h tenaciously to her purchases, despite the b; blows "which the miscreant rained upon si her, which pugilistic fire the courageous a] woman returned, but unfortunately with A but little effect. The thief, finding his efforts to secure all the booty fruitless, suddenly snatched laer pocketbook and fled. Mrs. Garrison gave pursuit, but, p being ladened with the bundles, the g, dastardly rogue easily distanced her. ^ The lady reached home in an exhausted p. condition. p, ? cl Singular Case of Heredity, Dr. Rizzoli knew a young girl who si had a long, thick lock of perfectly white w hair on the forehead, tho rest of the vi hair being a very pronounced black, al TKia rt-nr\tr*nlT? Viaart r?r\r\nronifol a?<l hereditary in the girl's family for two 'ti centuries. Whenever it ^listed in a ic parent, several of the children were ai certain to present it. The genealogical a< tree of the family could be traced back tit for six generations, including about di forty-five persons, aaore than half of it whom preaent-nd tho whit* tuft, ?Mcdi' bj Items of Interest. A rat is a-Chinaman's turkey. Horseshoes are made in California of. ompressed raw hide. Fine rabies hfive been discovered onthwest of Gtmnison, Utah. About forty different trades are reproented in the boilding qi a ship. Using the national flag for aclvertis og purposes is fined in England. The compositor who set up "$10,000" oread "1,000" might have prevented is mistake by a little fourth aught, The best brushes in the world are lade in America, but the bristjee re imported chiefly from Germany and tussia. The flesh and skin of several kinds of erpents are employed in China as mediine, care being taken to cut oft the head nd taiL A little four-year-old boy inquired oncerning the stars: " Pa, what are hose things up there?are they little Irope of sun?" One Kentucky farmer appropriates the early product of one aare of his farm o ine puxuuuoe ui raauiug uiawci iui timadtf and family. A boy up in Connecticut who ran ,way from home because the old man witched him, remarked that "his enlurance could no father go." "The book trade is affected, I supK>se, by the general depression. What and of books feel it most}." " Pocket* looks," was the laoonio reply. Our modest young men will breath? lasier when some ingenious chap invents , turkey-carving contrivance that works rath a crank like an apple parer. Do not, then, train boys to learn by orce and harshness, but direct them to io it by what amuses their minds, so hat you may be the better able to dia* over with accuracy the peculiar beat of he genius of each. > " My dream of life is o'er," murmured lr. Man, as he stretched himself out on lia o/vfa fnr an afterjlimiftrnan. '. Pake ongster," exclaimed his wife, about .ye minutes later, " your dream of life i'n' ore," and she fastened a olothesin on his nose to stop the dreadful case. v Why is a lamp ohimneylike a Chicago avings bank ? No one appears able to nswer this.?Banbury News. That's mere snare. It's too easy. 1. Because icy're sure to break. 2. Because a soot. i apt to grow out of them. . 3. Uecause ley can't stand a strong draft 5. Beinse there is something wick-ed at the > ottom of them. 6. Because they're ollow. 7. Because they've benzine to: ust 8. But there I there! we're eary, we're a-weary, we are sad and' jre perplexed; let our answer to your uery be oontinued in our next?Phila. lulletih. , Birds and Human Nature* What is that legend of Mrs. Piatt's oem about the bird in the brain? lirds are perhaps the most Human 01 features, and I should not be surprised ! told we all carry more or less of them 1 our hearts and Wains. I have seen ' ae hawk looking out of the human face lany a time, and I think I have seen be eagle ; I credit those who say they aye seen the owL Are not the buzzards nd unclean birds terribly suggestive ? .'he song-birds were surely all brooded nd hatched in the human heart. They re typical of its highest aspirations, and nd nearly the whole gamut of human assion and emotion is expressed more r less in their varied songs. Among ur own birds, there is the song of the ermit-thrush for deyoutness and reigious serenity, that of the wood-thrash 3r the masing, melodious thoughts of wilight, the song-sparrow's for simple aith and trust, the bobolink's for ilarity and glee, the mourning-dove's or hopeless sorrow, tne vireos ior auay and every-day oontectment, and the octurn of the mocking-bird for love, "'hen there are the plaintive singers, the oaring, ecstatic singers, the confident ingers, the gashing and voluble singrs, and the half-voiced, inarticulate ingers. The note of the pewee is a uman sigh, tho piping of the chickadee nspeakable tenderness and fidelity, 'here is pride in the song of thetanager, nd vanity in that of the cat-bird. There i something distinctly human about the Jbin ; his is the note of boyhood. I ave thoughts that follow the migrating )wls northward and southward, and lat go with the sea-birds into the desert ? the ocean, lonelv and tireless as they. sympathize witn the watchful crow erched yonder on that tree, or walking bout the fields. I hurry out-doors hen I hear the olarion of the wild under ; his comrade in my heart sends ack the calL ? John Burroughs, in cribner'8 Magazine,. Condensed Bomance. Who says that there is no romance in ractical America ? Who says that the iys of chivalry and love-making are ane, and that this is a world of ledgers id bine stockings ? Why, the exchange ible shows: (a) that romance begins irly: for a Chicago lad of fourteen oped, last week, with a sweet litUe iss of thirteen ; (b) that it gets on fan : ?r a dashing naval officer proposed to a Washington belle last Tuesday, was scepted on Wednesday and married on aturday ; (c) that it is numerous: for a oman in Coventry, Conn., swears that, ke the good wife in Chaucer's tale, she as had seven husbands, and that they aye annoyed her all her life by turning p after she had every reason to suppose lat they had been hanged as pirates, or irried off by small-pox ; (d) that it ia cceedingly uncertain: for "Clara," of festfield, Mass., broke the engagement te moment she heard that her betrothed ad been bitten by a mad dog, on the round that it would be unsafe to marry man who might have the hydr*|fcobia: >) that it is never too late for it: for a xmer in. Massachusetts, who confessed is seventy-third year, hired his neigbsr's son to find a wife for him, insisting tat she must be young and pretty, and the jent brought to the venerable widower 1 engaging lass of seventeen, who,rather tan work out for & living, professed her illingness to n?ry him, and to inherit is money in tnfsweet by-and-by; but ie marriage has cost the old man dear, >r, besides the commissions charged by ie neighbor's sohj he has had to give is daughter, who was the bride's senior y eight years, ?10,000 outright before* ie would consent to leave his roof and ilow him to enjoy his honeymoon.? rew York Tribune. * Terrible Result of a Joke. A special dispatch to the Loudon Free 'reus from Ottawa. Out, says : The man jmerville, belonging iu Thome, Pontiac mnty, who became insane through a ractical joke being played on him, insect through this city last evening in large of a friend, on his way to the asyim at Long Point, near MomtreaL A lort time since a party of shanty men ere on their way up the river, Somerlle being one of the number, when they .1 got on a drunk, more or lees. The vy following, Somerville was told ho ad shot a certain magistrate while itoxicated, and that he would likely be rested. In order to avoid this, he was ivised to dear to the woods, and during . te night, he did so. It was fourteen iys before he was found again, and then J it... L- ? ? I wflM uiHtvjv^reu mm jin?wiu u miwy, InniM, bavinw beoonw so through tmf