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The Beaufort Republican.
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AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO IS?TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR.
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VOL. III. NO. 46. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 187-3. ???
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NEW SPRING GOODS.
Jas. G. BAILIE & BRO.,
T> ESPECTFULLY ASK YOUR ATTEN
Xl tion to the following DESIRABLE GOODS offered
by thou for sale:
ENGLISH AMD AMERICAN FLOOR OIL
CLOTHS.
24 feet wide, and of the beet quality of goods manufactured.
Do you want a real good Oil Cloth ? II
so, coino now and get the very best. Oil Cloths cut
any size and laid promptly. A full line of cheap
FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, from COc. a yard up. Table
cloths all widths and colors.
CARPETS.
Brussels, three-ply andfeigraln Carpets of new de Jrwrta
A full s*AnV nf lnw.niMrs^l Mrrw>ia frrtm! 51/Vv A
yard up.
Carpets measured fpr, made and laid with dispatch]
LACE CURTAINS.
French Tambourd Lace, " Exquisites."
Nottingham Lace, " Beautiful."
Tamboured Muslin, durable and cheap, from $0.50
a pair and upward*.
CORNICES AND BANDS.
Rosewood and Gilt, Plain Gilt, Walnut and Gilt
Cornice*, with or without centres.
Curtain Bands, Pins and Loops.
Cornices cut and made to fit windows and put up.
WINDOW SHADES.
1,000 Window Shades in all the new tints of color.
^ Beautiful Gold Band Shades, $1.50, with ail trimmlngs.
Beautiful Shades 20c. each.
Store Window Shades any color and any slxe.
Window Shades squared and put up promptly.
Walnut and painted wood Shades.
RUGS AND DOOR MATS.
New and beautiful Rugs.
Door Mats, from 50c. up to the best English Cocoa,
that wear three years.
100 sets Table Mats, assorted.
MATTINGS.
New Matting, Plain and Fancy, in all the different
widths made.
Mattings laid with dispatch.
WALL PAPERS A\D BORDERS.
3,000 Rolls Wall Papers and Borders In new patterns,
In gold, panels, hall, oaks, marbles, chintzes,
fcc., in every variety of colors?beautiful, good and
cheap. Paper hung if desired.
HAIR CLOTHS
In all widths required lor Upholstering. Buttons,
Gimps and Tacks for same.
CURTAIN DAMASKS.
Plain and Striped French Terrys for Curtains and
Upholstering purposes.
Gimps, Fringe, Tassels, Loops and Buttons.
Moreens and Table Damasks.
Curtains and Lambraqutns made and put up. I
PIANO AND TABLE COVERS.
"""* English Embroidered-Cloth and Piano TableCovers.
Embossed Felt Piano and Table Covers.
Plain and gold band Flocked Piano Covers.
German Fringed Table Covers.
CRUMB CLOTHS AND DRUGGETS.
New patterns In any size or width wanted.
To all of which we ask your attention. All work
done well and in season, by
James G. Bailie & Brothers,
AUGUSTA, GA.
apl-17-iy.
H. M. Stuart, M. D.,
Comer of Bay and Eighth Streets,
Beaufort, S. C.
DEALER Iff
DRUGS AND CHEMICALS,
FAMIL Y MEDICINES,
FANCY AND TOILET A R TICLES.
ST A TIONER Y, PEIiF UMER J",
BRUSHES, dc., dc., dc.
Together with many other articles too nnmcroui.
to mention. All of which will be sold at the lowosi
price for cash. Physicians prescriptions carefully
compounded. fcb.ll.
PIERCE L. WI66IN,
ATTORNEY AB3 COUNSELOR AT LAW.
Solicitor Second Circuit.
_ Beaufort, S. C.
Sept.l-ly.
JERRY .SAVAGE & Co7~
Wheelwrights & Carpenters,
Carts, Wagons and Carriages repaired in the best
manlier at low prices.
All kinds of jobbing promptly attended to.
MAGNOLIA St., *
BEAUFORT, S. C._
J. K. Goethe, M. D.
Dr. Goethe offer* hi* professional services to the
public. He may be found at hi* residence,
Gaim Hill, near Yarns vll'e,
Beaufort Co., S. C.
jan.l-ly.
A. S. HITCHCOCK,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
BOUNTY, PKN8I0N AND CLAIM AGENT.
BEAUFORT, S. C.
Pcc.l-yr.
YEMASSEE
" Eating Saloon,
AT THE
P. R. & S. & C. R. R. JUNCTION.
The traveling public will here find Rood meals on
the arrival of train*. Al-o accommodations for man
and beast, near the dejiot.
33. T. SELLERS,
YEMASSEE, S. C.
Nov.21-ly.
W. H. CALVERT,
PRACTICAL
Tin, Sheet-Iron, Copper & Zinc Worker.
DEALER IN
Japanned and Stamped Tin Wares. Constantly oa
band, Cooking, Parlor and Box Stove*.
TERMS CASH.
Thankful for past favors, and hoping by strict attention
to business in tha future to merit your kind
favor.
W. H. CALVJECRT.
Boj St., between 8th and 9th St&,
BEA UFORTt S. C.
Apl.3-1y.
CHABLESTON HOTEL,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
raeh25-ly E. H. JACK8QN.
Redeem Your Lands.
I The Act* of Congress and the Regulation* of the
Treasury Department in regard to the Redemption
of Lands now in the possession of the United State*
by reason of the Direct Tax Commissioner* sales oaa ,
be had at this office. Prtoe tea seats. ?* mail AX sea
cents.
PAUL BRODIE,
A R CHIT EOT,
BEAUFORT,S.C
Drawings of Models prepared for Patent Offlcs.
Studies for special purposes, made at abort notice.
Box 31, P. O. decl-ly
William Gurney,
COTTON FACTOR
AND
Commission Merchant,
NO. 102 EAST BAY
AND
NORTH ATLANTIC WHARF,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
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ranicnur ?urmiuu ^m.u <\> ???v n,.?
mont of Sea Mail'] and Upland CottOD. Liberal
advances made on coiiM?ii)ncut?. d?7-ly
JOHN BROD1E,
Contractor & House Builder,
Jobbing Punctually Attended To.
OPPICEi
Corner Bay and Ninth Street,
BEAUFORT, S. V.
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PORT ROYAL e
SAW & PLANING MILL,
Beaufort, S. C. g
D. C. WILSON & CO., <
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MAJfrrACTVBERS OF AMD DEALERS IN
Yellow Piie Tinier ani Inter, ?
AND *
CYPRESS SHINGLES, t
ALSO, . a
Builders & Contractors.
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Plaster Lathes, ha
ALL KINDS or
JOB SAWING- J
Promptly Done.
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Flooring and Ceiling Boards Always a
on Hand. ' n
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Order* for Lnraber and Timber by the cargo cl
promptly filled. Terms Cash. j.
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THE BEAUFORT H0R0L0GIST! t
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P. M. WHITMAN,
Watchmaker and Engraver, ?
Mayo's Building, Bay Street. e
Will give his personal attention to the repairing of 3
WATCHES, CLOCKS and JEWELRY. Ornamental b
awl plain Engraving done at abort notice. x
Gentlemen having fine Watches can test them at
thia establishment by one of HOWARD A CO.'S
1500 REGULATORS. V
Having added to my stock one of J. BLISS k CO.'S
fine Transit Instruments, I am now prepared to fur- C
nish Beaufort time to the fraction of a second. b
Alfred Williams,
TRIAL JUSTICE, [
Crofutfs Building,
BAY STREET, BEAUFORT, S. C. z
N. B.?Court will bo held every Friday at Brick -y
Churcli, St. Helena Island. mch26-ly
A.MARK, J
BOOTMAKEE,
Bay Street, Beaufort, 8. C.
Ilaviug opened a shop upon Bay Street, I am pre- ^
pared to do first-clasa work. I
uicb20-ly A. MARK. f
PUEE WATER j
Guaranteed by the use of the t
AMERICAN DRIVEN WELL, j
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Now being put dowa in this County. They are f
Clioap and Dxiratolo, )
And give universal satisfaction. Pure Water can be f
introduced into any bouse by the AMERICAN
UUIVEN WELL in a few hours. Apply to
M. L. MAINE, Sea Island Hotel, or to
E. G. NICHOLS, Permanent Agent. ?
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S. MAYO, .
BAY STREET, BEAUFORT, S. C., 1
HARDWARE, !
Liquors, Segars and Tobacco,
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Net Yarns, Fish Lines & Cordage, \
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Glass, Paints and Oils,
Wliite Lead and Turpentine. 1
Special attention Riven to mixing Paints, and
Glacs cut to order of any size. fcbll
M. POLLITZER,
Cotton Factor
AND
Commission Merchant,
BEAUFORT, S. C.
sept4
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W. G. CAPERS,
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Old Furniture put in good order, Picture Framca
made. Mattrasses stuffed at the aborteat notice.
Corner Bay and Ninth KtrssU.
MlltlT
A Confession.
I met her on the care to-day?
I've often met her there before.
She baa an aroh, enchanting way
Which women envy, men adore.
She is not young?no more am I!
Indeed, my beard is white ae snow;
But Time has slyly passed her by,
Nor left a w.hkle on her brow.
Her eyes are blue as heaven's blue;
Her forehead with the Uly vies;
Her cheeks ha' e caught the rose's hue,
Her hair the sunset's golden dyes.
We meet and chat, and when we part
Perhaps wo kiBS, but neither tells!
And then for houre within my heart
There's music sweet as chiming bells.
Our talk's not of indifferent things?
Of bookB and pictures, birds and flowers?
But things akin to wedding-rings.
Of boys and business, girls and dowers.
Indeed, it is most grave and staid,
As doth become our time of life;
For we are passing into shade,
And I'm her husband, she's my wife.
THE DREAMING BEECH.
More than a hundred years have passd
Bince it was struck by lightning and
plit from top to bottom, and the plow
iaa well furrowed the place where it
jew. Before that time the mighty old
?eech tree stood, some hundred yards
rom the first houses of the village, on
grassy mound, a tree such as one
ever sees in these days, because auilals,
plants, trees, and men are becom g
small and mean.
The peasants said the tree dated from
he early Christian era, and that a holy
postle had been massacred beneath it
>y a false heathen ; that the roots of
he tree had drunk up the apostle's
lood, which, rising through the trunk
nd branches, had made them so large
nd strong. Who knows if the legend
e true ? Anyhow, there was certainly
ne curious fact concerning the tree,
nd everybody in tho village knew
bout it, great and 6mall. Whoever
ell asleep under the tree, and dreamt a
ream, that dream would surely come
rue. So from time immemorial it was
ailed the Dreaming Beech, and no one
new it by any other name. There was,
owever, a peculiar condition attached
o the dreaming, and if anybody lay
own under the beech with the idea of
reaming some particular thing, then
be dream would sure to be uothing but
onfusion and rubbish, and nonsense of
11 sorts, of which no one could make
ither head or tail. Now this was asnredly
rather a difficult stipulation,
>ecause most people are so very likely
o think of what lies nearest the heart.
One hot summer's day, when not a
ireath of air stirred, a poor journeyman
ame wandering along the road. Things
iad gone very badly with him for many
ears in foreign parts. When he reachd
the village he turned his pockets inide
out for the last time, but, alas 1
hey were empty.
" What am I to do ? " he thought to
limself; " I am tired to death, but no
me will take me in for nothing, and it
9 hard to beg." Justtb/en his eyes fell
ipon the noble beech tree, on the green
;rassy slope); an<i as it stood only a few
ards from che road, he laid himself
[own undfer it to rest. While he was
oundty sleeping a branch dropped from
he beech tree, with three leaves on it,
/hick fell just on hisbreast. He dreamt
hat he sat at a table, in a most cozy
oom, and the table was his own, and
he room, and, indeed the whole house.
it the table, leaning on it with both
lands, stood a young woman, looking
ovingly at him ; and that was
lis wife. On his knees sat a
jhild, whom he was .feecing
vith soup, and because the soup was
oo hot, he blew npon the spoon to
;ool it. Then his wife cried out, laughngly,
"What a capital nurse you
nake ! " Jumping about the room was
mother child?a fat, rosy-cheeked ur hin?dragging
about a large carrot, to
riiich he had tied a string, and shontn?
nut < TqIItt tin 1 ' no if it wpro ttip
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inest fox. And both children were his
wn.
This was his dream; and it must have
>een a very pleasant dream, for his
vhole fate beamed, in his sleep, with
lappiness.
When ho awoke it was almost evening,
ind before him stood a shepherd smokng.
He sprang up from the ground,
nuch refreshed, stretched himself, and
rawned, saying:
" Heavens ! if it were only true ! but,
it all events, it was pleasant to know
iow it would all feel !"
Then the shepherd came up and
isked him whence he came, and whither
10 was going, and whether he had ever
leard of the wonderful Beech ?
Having learned he was as innocent ns
t new-born babe, he exclaimed :
" Well, you're a lucky dog ! For any
>ne could read in your face you were
lrenming for a long time as you lay
here." And he told him the peculiar
rirtneof the tree. "It's sure to come
rue," he added. "Now, just tell me
vhat you were dreaming."
"Old fellow," answered the young
?nr> rrrinnintr " that is the VjlV. is it.
rou question strangers in these* parts !
[ mean to keep my beautiful dream to
nyself, and you can't be surprised at
hat. But for all thatnothingwill come
)f it. Stuff and nonsense ! I should
ike to know how a tree could come by
mch power!"
As he came into the village he saw
ituck from the roof of the third house
t long pole, with a golden crown danging
from it. And below, at the door,
itood the landlord of,the Crown Inn. He
lappened to be in good humor, for he
lad a very good supper, and was feeing
qnite happy and genial. So the
fonng laborer pulled off his cap and
isked for a night's shelter.
The landlord of the Crown Inn
ooked at the smart lad in his dusty,
agged clothes, from top to toe, and
hen kindly nodding, paid to him:
"Sit down here in this arbor. I dare
lay there's a bit of bread and oheeee
and a jug of beer to spare for ye, a
trttss of straw in the loft at night."
Whereupon he went into the hi
and sent out his daughter with
bread and cheese and beer, and sh<
down beside the young man and ai
him to tell her of the foreign la
and in return told him all the vil
gossip.
Suddenly she rose, leaned towarc
stranger, and sjud :
"Pray tell me what those three le
je, sticking out of your waistcoat ?
The young man looked down
found the twig, with three lea
which had fallen upon him while
slept. It was caught in the lap of
waistcoat.
" It muBt hate fallen from the g
beech tree just outside the village,
replied. " I had a nap under it.
When he ceased speaking, she b<
to question him narrowly, till she
ascertained beyond a doubt that he
really fallen asleep under the g
beecn tree, and that, moreover, he k
nothing of the wonderful power
properties attached to the tree. Fo
was a sly dog, and pretended to k
nothing.
As soon as she had done question
she drew him anothlr jug of beer,
pressed him to drink, telling him
the lovely things she had herself dr<
ed, and what a pity it was they had
come true.
Just then the shepherd came i
the field, driving his sheep throng!
village.
As he passed the Crown Inn, he
the two sitting in the arbor, in ear
converse, and he stood a moment
said ;
"Ah, yes ; he'll be sure to tell
the beautiful dream." And ther
drove on his sheep.
When the girl found that she ?
not learn anything about the dream
curiosity knew no bounds, and she
ed him outright what he had dr?
while sleeping under the beech.
Then the young man, who was a
chievous rogue, and in very high i
its about his pleasant dream, with i
look and a wink said :
"Ah! I had a most glorious dr<
which must come true ; but I dare
tell you what it was."
But she worried and teased hit
that at last he drew his chair towarc
and told her quite gravely :
" I dreamt I should marry the da
ter of the landlord of the Crown
and that after a bit 1 should bee
landlord myself."
On hearing this t'?e girl grew as w
a lily and then as red as a rose, anc
up and walked into the house. T
after some little tj^ne she dame cif
and asked if he had really drean
and was quite in eainest.
"To be sure, to be sure," said
she who appeared to me in the di
was most certainly just like you."
Then the girl went again intc
house. She walked straight to her
room, and thoughts flowed through
brain like water that runneth aj
" He knows nothing about the ti
she said to herself, " he dreamt it,
whether I wish it or not, it will su
come to pass : there is no possibilii
changing that." And with this
went to bed. When she awoke the
morning she knew his faco by h<
so often had she 6een it in her dr<
during the night.
The young man had slept soundl
his bed of straw. Dreaming B
dream, and all he had said to the 1
lord's daughter, were alike forgoi
He stood at the door of the tap-n
and was just shaking the landl<
hand, and Wishing him good-bye, ai
girl entered. On seeing him reat
start, an indescribable feeling came
her, and she could not let him go.
"Father," she said, "the beer
not yet been tapped, and the y*<
man has nothing to do ; couldn'
stay a day longer and earn his b
and lodging, and get something b<
for the journey home ?"
The landlord had no objectioi
mnke to this proposal as he had
had his morning draught and wi
the best of humor.
Somehow the beer tapping prog
ed but slowly. Then came bottlinf
wine, and when the cask was emptj
the bottles full, then the girl tho
he could help in the field work,
when that was finished there wa
many things to be done in the ga
that no one ever dreamt of before,
week after week slipped by, aud e
night she dreamt of him.
And no it came to pans that at the
of the year the young man was nti
the house. And then the floors
well nconred and white sand fir t
were thrown in all the rooms, and
whole village had a holiday. It wai
wedding day of the young journej
and the innkeeper's daughter;
everybody rejoiced at it, except
the few who sulked because they
jealous, or pretended to be.
Not long after, the landlord ol
Crown inn wan decidedly once moi
a happy frame of mind. He had
eating and drinking to his heart's
tent, and sat in his arm chair wit!
snuff-box on his knee. Long he s
and at last when they tried to wake
they found he was dead.
* * *
One day about five years later
young landlord, for such he now
had come in, and was sitting in the
room, when his wife ran in, and sa:
him:
" Only fancy ! yesterday at nooi
of our mowers fell asleep under
Dreaming Beech, without knowin
and what do you think he drei
Why, that he was immensely rich!
only think who it was?Caspar,
Caspar, who is half-witted, and e
body pities and keeps him onlj
charity. What on earth will he do
all his money?"
"Wife," laughed the husband, 4
can yon believe such rubbish ? Y<
sensible woman ! Just reflect for
moment How is it possible that a
can foretell the future?let it be
such an old and beautiful tree ?"
The wife gazed at her husband
wondering eyes, shook her head,
slowly said :
" husband, don't speak so wickt
You ought not to joke on such
jects."
"I am not joking, my dear," re
the husband.
nd a " Why pretend what you do not
mean ?" she cried. Surely, you, of all
ourg others, have most reason to be grateful
the to the tree. Hasn't all you dreamt
) sat Under it come truo ?"
jked "God knows," replied the husband,
nds, "I am grateful to Him and to you.
lage Yes, it was a beautiful dream, and I remember
it like yesterday, but everyl
the thing is a thousand times better than I
dreamt it, and you love, a thousand
aves times prettier and dearer than the
young woman who appeared in my
and dream."
ives, "But still it was strange that you
> be Bhould dream you were to marry me."
his " J never dreamt that! All I saw was
a young woman, with two children, but
;reat she was not half as pretty as you, or
" he the children either."
" Fie 1" cried the wife ; "do you mean
?gan to deny me or the trees ? Didn't you
had tell me the first day we met ? It was in
had the evening, out there in the arbor,
jeat Didn't you tell me you had dreamt you
;new were to marry ipe ft?d become the landand
lord of the Crown Inn ?"
r he Then the man remembered the joke
now he had played his wife, and said :
" It can't be helped, dear wife, I did
ling, not really dream ol you; and if I said
and so it was only a joke. I remember yon
all were so very inquisitive, and I wanted
;am- to teaee you."
1 not Upon this she wife burst into tears,
and left the room. He followed her,
Tom and did all he could to comfort her, bul
1 the in vain.
"You have stolen my love, and
saw cheated me out of my heart," she said;
nest "I shall never be happy again; no,
and never!"
Then he asked her if she did not love
you him better than anybody in the world,
l he and if they had not been the happiest
couple in the whole village,
ould She could not deny this ; but, never.
her theless. she remained sad and miser
ask- able, notwithstanding all he could
:amt Bay.
Every attempt at reconciliation failed
m^B* nearly all day she sat gloomily by hersP'r"
self, starting whenever her husband
* Bly came near her.
This state of things continuing foi
mm, gome time, he also began to grow mel?
not ancholy, fearing he had altogether lost
bis wife's love. Silently he moved aboul
m 80 the house, thinking how to cure tht
1 her evii. but no idea occurred to him ; st
at noon he went out into the village,
and loitered carelessly through tn<
IQn? fields. In the distance stood the olc
iome dreaming beech, queen of the forest,
He went and sat beneath its shade
rhite thinking of days gone by. Five yean
L got had passed since he, a poor, miserabh
hen, wretch had rested there for the flrsi
fain, time, and dreamt that pleasant dream
it it, Then the beech began to rustle again
as it had done five years ago, and t<
he ; move its mighty brances, and as the^
earn moved there fell, as then, the goldei
glittering sunlight across its leaves
> the and through the -boughs peeped eve:
own and anon the deep blue sky. Then hii
i her heart grew calmer and he slept. Sooi
>ace. he dreamt that dream again of five year
ree," ago. Tiie woman at the table and th<
and little children at their-play ; but now
irely the faces of his own dear wife and child
ty of ren, and she looked at him with he
she large brown eyes so Kincuy, an, b<
next kindlyl And then he awoke and fonm
eart, it was only a dream. More sorrowfn
;ams than before, he broke off a small twi|
from the tree and went home am
y on placed it in his hymn book,
eech The next day was Sunday, and a
and- they went to church, the leaves fell on
tten. at the wife's feet. He turned scarle
x>m, as he stooped to pick them up an<
ird's put them into his pocket. But the wif
?the had seen it and asked what it was!
ly to " Only leaves from the Dreamini
over Beech, which is much kinder to m
than you are. Yesterday I was restini
has beneath it and fell asleep. It wished i
>ung console me, for I dreamt that you wer
't he kind to mo again, and had forgive]
oard everything, but it is not true. Th
;side good old beech, though it is a nobl
tree, knows nothing about the future.
I to The wife gazed at him, and it was a
just if a ray of sunshine had crossed he
is in face.
"Husband, did you really drear
ress- that ?"
t the "Yes," he answered positively.
' and " And I was really your wife ?"
ught " Really my own true wife," and sh
and fell on his neck and half suffocated hir
is so with kisses.
rden " Thank God," she said, " now it i
So all right again. I love you so dearlyvery
how dearly you can never know. Am
all these long, weary days have I beei
> end in such dread, lest I was wrong i:
II at loving you. and that God meant me t
were have another husband, and you anothe
wigs wife; for you certainly did steal m
the heart, yon bad man ; and there was d?
? the ception at first?yes, you stole my hearl
'ifian but it did not do you much good, fo
and you know things must have happens
just just as they did, whether we would o
were no." Then, after a pause, she con
tinued:
the "Promise me "never again to spea
re in slightingly of the Dreaming Beech."
been " I never will, for I believe in it a
con- much as you do, depend upon il
1 his though in a different way, perhaps
lept; And now let us paste the leaves in th
him, beginning of our hymn-book so thfi
they may not be lost."
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the
was, The Makenzie Raid. A private lei
i tap- ter received by a U. S. Government ol
id to Acer, from a prominent American i
Mexico, states that the Mexican Goverr
1 one ment has no desire to assume an aggrei
the fiive position toward the United States
g it, on account of the Mackenzie raid ovr
imt ? the Rio Grande, and it is not feare
and that any efforts at retaliation or diph
old rantio complications will be the resul
I The truth is. the Mexicans are dealin
T Ci J ~ ? ,
r for *dth that question very tenderly, an
with the pnnishment Mackenzie inflicted o
the treacherous thieves engaged in dej
'how redations on the Rio Grande, is not r<
)u, a garded as so much of an offense againi
> one international law as some would hai
, tree it appear,
ever
His Fishing.?I had an uncle wl
with died from excessive excitement cause
and by brook fishing for trout. He ha
fished for thirty-two years without su<
sdly ! cess, but early in his thirty-second yei
sub- he got a bite. " Major, he observe
on his dying bed, "I should dj
plied happy if I were dead oertain that was
trouti"
Perils of Ballooning.
The late Prof. La Mountain, was a
brother of the La Mountain who with
Wise made the longest aerial voyage on
record, which was from St. Louis, Mo.,
to the eastern part of the State of New
York. La Mountain has been making
ascensions for the last eighteen years;
was connected with the signal service
during the war ; has made between one
and two hundred ascensions?all except
the two last with gas for inflation.
In the fall of 1870 he came verv near
losing his life at Bay City, Michigan,
i Having made an altitude of nearly three
miles in a dense fog, and getting completely
chilled, he endeavored to descend,
but found to his horror that the
escape valve would not yield, having
frozen to its surroundings. Pulling
with all his strength, the rope parted
above his reach. He then conoluded to
ascend the ropes from the basket to the
canvas and cut it with his knife, but on
i searching his pockets he found to his
dismay that he had left it on the ground
1 'at starting. Nothing daunted, he
[ climbed the icy, slippery ropes with
i his freezing hands, and on reaching the
[ Canvas tore with his teeth rents sufficient
to let the balloon descend. On
nearing the ground, the wind meanwhile
carrying him rapidly toward the
; lake, he found himself over a thick
forest of pines, but was powerless to
[ stop his descent. The basket striking
; a tall tree, he was hurled, bruised,
, bleeding, and senseless, to the ground,
but after some hours revived sufficiently
i to crawl to the nearest farm house,
, where he got assistance.
; His balloon at Ionia, where, the fatal
accident happened a short time since,
. was made of cotton cloth, filled with
. oil; was old and rotten from repeated
[ heatings, but was by him considered
safe. He made a successful start; but
, when some six or seven hundred feet
[ from the earth the balloon collapsed
I from a rent in one side, and fell rapidly.
He detached himself from the basket
. when about one hundred feet from the
\ earth, and struck squarely on his feet,
. breaking the left leg in three places and
[ the light in two. No other bones were
j broken, and there were but few bruises.
) His death was caused by concussion of
the brain.
' _
[ A Michigan Lumberman.
A paragraph in a recent Miohigan pa>
per has elicited from the Pantiac Oaj
zette the following respecting the landed
I wealth of a citizen of that State : " Dr.
. David Ward's great wealth rests in his
> immense amount of cork pine lands in
* Michigan and Wisconsin, amounting to
l over 150,000 acres, every forty of which
, he has been over himself, making a
r careful estimate of the number and di3
mensions of the trees, and noting all
% * - ?'-i-'? - * ?:i tt;~
1 tno cuaracierisucs ui nun. .mo uuu
8 was nearly all selected from 'close ob9
servation years before most people had
> an idea of their ultimate value, and the
" very best taken ; location upon streams
r and facilities for running the timber to
9 market were carefully considered, so
| that to-day he owns the tinest tracts of
I really available and valuable cork pine
? in the United States, and the most of
1 it. His pine lands may be summarized
as follows: On the Saginaw, 30,000
8 acres ; on the Manistee and Au Sauble,
j 90,000 acres; on the Chippewa, in Wis'
consin, 30,000 acres. Total, 150,000
* acres. In addition he owns 20,000
e acres of the very best hard-wood timbered
lands for farming in the central
? and northern part of the State, besides
6 all his valuable property in Oakland
I County, and 13,000,000 feet of logs
0 afloat. Placing the same valuation
e upon his pine lands alone, as other pera
sons are selling detached tracts in the
e vicinity of his, and it aggregates the
? sum of 86,500,000, and we may here say
that that amount of greenbacks stacked
8 up would not obtain the deeds of his
r pine property alone. The difference in
pine land is very great, as between cork
Q and other qualities, and acre by acre
the cork net3 more than three times as
much as any other variety." In Wisconsin
fully a dozen lumbermen boast
e that if their pine lands were laid out
a into strips a mile wide they would
reach across the State, or over two hun8
dred miles in length.
Love by Wire.
^ The report of Mr. Scudamore, the
0 Director of Postal Telegraphs in Great
r Britan, contains a romance of the most
7 original description. After saying how
successful he found the system of em'
r ploying male and female clerks to
(1 gether, and how much the tone of tin
r men has been raised by the association,
l* and how well the women perform th<
. checking or fault-finding branches oi
the work, he goeB on to speak of friend
ships formed between clerks at eithei
;8 end of the telegraph wire. They begii
by chatting in the intervals of theii
'' work, and very soon become fast friends,
? "It is a fact," continues Mr. Scuda
more, " that a telegraph clerk in Lon
don, who was engaged on a wire in Ber
lin, formed an acquaintance with anc
an attachment for "?mark the officia
style of the language?" a female clerl
" who worked on the same wire in Berlin
that he made a proposal of marriage U
her, and that she accepted him witliou
ever having seen him. They were mar
' ried, and the marriage, which resulted
, from the electric affinities, is suppose<
} to have turned out as well as those ii
which the senses are more apparently
" concerned." Nor must the pruduen
s reader run away with the idea tha
these young peraonsjwere very rash o
. that they married without due acquain
fjinre. For it is a fact that a clerk a
"I one end of a wire can readily tell by th<
way in which the clerk at the other en<
does his work " whether he is passion
ate or sulky, cheerful or dull, sanguin
or phlegmatic, ill-natured or good-no
l? tured."
?l
d A woman seventy-seven years old, a
s- Ripley, Miss., walked five and a hal
ir miles to market lately, "carrying on he
d baek seven turkey gobblers, twenty-tw
ie ohickens, twenty-four dozen eggs, am
a six pounds of butter," and she does the
sort of thing regularly.* ? -i
Items of Interest.
Iowa raspberry pickers get only 2}
cents a quart at the markets.
A circuit court?The longest way
home from the singing schooL
Beloit College, Wis., aspires to be
called " the Yale of the West."
"Millions of white worms" came
down in a shower at Elizabethtown,
Ky.
It is stated that all the candidates for
Governor in Minnesota have announced
their cordial friendship for the farmers.
If any person has doubts whether advertisements
are read or not* let him
put something he doesn't wish known
in an obscure part of the paper.
A Minnesota paper says : If pitching
fish from the lakes with an ordinary ,
thin-tined hey-fork is any indication of
good fishing, then we have good fishing
here."
The export of boots and shoes from
the United States in 1850 was $108,508.
In 1860 it amounted to $1,456,834, an
increase during that period of over
seven hundred per cent.
We have been told that Freedom
shrieked when Kosciusko fell. It appears,
however, that Freedom shrieked
for the wrong name. The will of this
Polish person has been found in his
own handwriting, and it begins: "I,
Thadeus Kosciuszlio," etc.
Mr. J. S. Thompson, of the town of
Auburn, Wis., hod a maple orchard he *
thought very attractive, xne lornauu
spoiled over one thousand of the trees,
mainly by the uprooting process. Oak
trees four feet in diameter, near the
same forest, were torn up by the roots.
A sohoolboy's composition on tobaoco:
"This noiious weed was invented
by a distinguished man named Walter
Raleigh. When the people first saw
him smoking they thought he was a
steamboat, and as they had nerer heard
of such a thing as a steamboat, they ^
were terribly frightened."
. An order for machineiy was recently
received in Indianapolis, which was
written on a postal card, which was
then enclosed in an envelope with a
three-cent stamp on it, and the package
then sent by express at a cost of twentyfive
cents, prepaid. The sender was <
one of your careful men, and determined
to have the thing reach its destination.
The mess system at the University of
Virginia has reduced the board of the
students to an almost miraculous degree
of cheapness. The University report
mentions a mess of eight whose board
only cost them 89 per month, and one
State student whose total expense for
living during the session, including
room rent, board, lights, fuel, and washing,
has been under 8140.
The editor of the Record, an Arizona
paper, has on his table two invitations
to act as second in a duel and one to an
Indian hunting raid, a pair of bearskin
pants presented by a hunter, a threepound
nugget of silver, a free pass on a
1 f I stir of a til rp A
ntiige route, iwu iuuci j vtvav?
Apache scalps, a call to act as Postmaster
and Justice of the Peace, and twenty-seven
dollars' worth of faro checks.
And still he's not happy.
It is said that in Richmond, Me.,
when a gentleman's family leaves home
for a week or two, the gentleman compiles
a list of his friends and neighbors
1 and mails them the following circular:
" sends his compliments and
announces to the gentlemen named
1 below that ho will do them the honor
' of dining with them on the days placed
opposite their respective names. He
will expect a good dinner."
The \Peoria Review has this blood
i curdling account of a fight with a monstrous
snake, happening in that town
lately: A rural gentleman visiting a
friend in the Third ward, found in the
back vard, after dusk, an immense
snake lying in the grass. He procured
an axe, and when he had chopped the
i reptile into about a dozen pieces, he
discovered it to be a garden hose which
had not been properly hung up in the
i coal shed.
i Charles Dickens, whose, criticism on
existing abuses were more orthodox
i than his processes of reform, thus plaini
ly sets forth a very pregnant fact: "The
1 first Napoleon caused more deaths than
all earthquakes since the days of Noah;
the cupidity of ship owners and the supineness
of sailors have lost more ships
and lives than all the storms that ever
t blew ; the filthy state of our towns
. sends more souls to Hades than all put
together. Plague, pestilence, war and
L famine yield to dirt 1"
r
The Shah's Gifts.
j Before leaving England the Shah
made some costly presents to several
' members of the royal family and the
? nobility. To the Queen he gave a set
' of very rare and valuable jewels, to the
Prince of Wales his photograph 6et in
r diamonds, and to the Duke of Cam1
bridge, as Commander-in-Chief of the
r Army, he presented an elegant sword,
' saying that " he rejoiced to place the
' sword of Persia in the hand of England."
' A photograph set in diamonds was also
" offered to Earl Granville, who extracted
| the picture, pressed it to his heart, and
1 returning the diamonds, explained to
c the Shah that much as he thanked him
> his position as an English Minister for}
bade his receiving a present from a for'
eign monarch. Lady Rawlinson and
- rtrmViaaa nf Sutherland also received
tliO JUUVUWW v.
| presents of diamonds from the Shah,
* who, at the same time, presented Lord
1 Morley with a valuable snuff-box set
T with jewels. He gave $10,000 to the (
t servants at Buckingham Palace, and
t $15,000 to the police of London.
t The Minnesota Wheat Chop.?The
0 Farmers' Union, the agricultural organ
j of the State of Minnesota, says: 41 Com.
mencement has been made on the gTeat
e wheat harvest of Minnesota for J878,
r and a most bountiful harvest is promised.
From a careful estimate we think
the State can exportthis year 90,000,000
,t bushels of wheat, provided we have our
f usual good weather during harvest, and
r provided further the crop escapes
0 worms and is secured." The Union
1 further advises farmers to market their
it wheat as soon as possible for fear of
till lower prices.
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