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* - Alg-V Desportes & Williams, Proprietoru.] A Family Paper, Devoted to Science, Art, Inquiry, Industry and Literature. [Terms---$3 00 per Annum, In Advance. VOL. VII.] WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 26, 1871. [NO. 6 TIE FAIRFIELD HERALD s re0seasee1D WI EKl.y PV DESPOJJRTES & WILLIAMS, Terns. --TerD: l1 VRALD . Pisliihel Week in the Town of Winsboro, at 63.00 ins wareab isn leance. ~_ Sf- All transsietL a'lverhisements to b Id it ailvano. Obit uary Notioces and Tributes $1.00 p s qu-i re. The Biide's Soflioquy. nrv zonteet.. 'TIs night.. c'lehl ilinng, starlit night, (it Citrolin-i's floral ito -'rs. Ieev'cn's nirid lanmps 'lispense their :ight And swift'ly sliced lie golden hours. Oh ! lovely night, in Snithbern climle, Was ever beutoy like to lhii e? Thy orhs clip4e cite gen- of' time. Thy stars outshino Golconda's miine. In pensive itood sils ls bright, With golden hair an-l eyes of blie, Her dress or pure vattid spoile P white, A pictire itir Aer man to view. 1er hall- ir, decked with vrnnts tlow're, A brid i veil sl-ni I her biw, The -sn1V arsi-Is inii-lng sisw'rts. With aiddt-d gite-n lce- rom enedow. A gli:st'nilig teaRr i in her ey,-, Ahou her ennui i sic rtieap -sinile. Se &ok- up tli Whe sitr of l1tnmei hky, Ai 1Vt! iinshu itlse nuses all t lhe % hite. ,'I o. - chibhol's hisippy liby,, tiow flown, 1 *re'mto.-el n ll i lt i 41 Wn ith r like , ti, W)enl I ! k-, sI-et-:1 Sep.It .I tottt'U , hisoiild rule 1 lie irt ior %oc sr b.6is. Ure itiled not ils %, I wen i gladily leave, Mty lA.her~l's ru 01, ilny giril.,o-l's hotine, An,) i tt lii eta Im lity br'idal eve, To moreNw 1. from it, mst rnm. M lthiinke I see my fatier's fice, As it eppiimiried itn tier yar, No vlui, lsu Is, wn ttil noti t ii, trace, Of sin, regret, nor glootmy fen.s. My mother's too wass sweet aind fasir, All wriat ed in bright anid winning smiles, How, when I wept, she soothed wy. care, How galyly lauisghed at hatty's wiles. Anil now lieirskv i ov,-reaut, The littlt is pnstsing fsocm their door, Their ciid, thei' r pi., tihe tinth , the last, Will leave (Item soon forevermwore, Ohs! must I say farew in hote ? 'Rosund which so isuany mtens rie'i wine? Alt I in this t wilighit's pensive gloat.i, I half repet that vow of nime, This wealth of Itive I eins wcay, Perhaps Al eitant give to nie, Perchntse I n.y t egret tihe day, Wh en Guit) came o'er hI le dirk blue sea. A step is heard. the door is oped, A unsin nopers. o' noble mein, "1renr blionche, (he hour for which I've hopel, Is hoe at. last, come thon, my queen. The man ofi God awnite below. Atnd happy fats betm nround. laite. Pwset. one, for I lono to show, Aly prioeless gem, ity inanhooss crown, All - one her fears, slse osnb,a no more, The parson apes the hsook of lile, 'Tim done, Guly stoops tind whispers low, Aly Blntche, 'm bride, my wife, my life.' " Men 1nd Money, Some time sit.ee tihe New York Tri. ijune's Sun Fraticieo corre.poL deiet wrote au a tiee entitiled "o0n e over atid Mstry US." lie said that there was motie gold in Califtornia than women. An contern "irl in -1plyirg to this ay "0u tink, pe tp-, the girl that come many be diapointed in marriaugo, but not in wneges. Thsat which we d1 sire motst, is the moey. Wh'en we hasve thaut, we are insde. pendent. M->naey bn.,s what you Want to eat, drinek, an~d wear ; len somie times wons't; so I thisnk .the mtone, pref'erable to thie ma. 1'This is smtnible fulk; ad if the geeaiyo oe e tstuined simni uinhsppy mllarritgs. GiI is ofit th rows tbtheselves away on somte w'orthlesi follow, in the hope thiat he will give themo a support. Sooner thin sup port thtemselves, they becisme " a ljin unwiliteeg in a fleshey ebain." Thebo dratg out a miierable existonee witlh a mant. not the husebantd of their ehomee, but nf their nece4.s-ity, simn.ly foe the' tell)n t f tecieg fedl, el th-.'l and~ ho~uesd. As the enu tun girl Iays i -n omaeticiesi wonf't etecd that, ort if etey do, it is done fee qjedntly iln so e~parse tlhn, estby no~ mens to latotso for the eaenilite madeim lu masrryineg 'heml. The Scoto poet. lasi sung of the1 glotriou~s p'rivile1,O if be'ing inde' petadent,'' but, we fe-ar, neo many womzenD hv echoe~d his a relin. There haeve si be e ay r.aeen, u-gedl agelist womwen workintg fur a uatennnt~fee, onec of wbieh is the smllss of their wages, and heunthter, the difficulty of t hieir, obtaining work.. WVthout eneteritg into *the merits of thee objection., we sineply remtark that ii is better to woeh fo~r smoall wages thb.ri to be dependenn) on eveu , knhiuband that we do noet love ' it is betterr te flght for a living, than to fuld thte hamnd.de idlxeess. Tirert .1.,. doubelees, , a~ ways mr difueulty In a woman gaIcep agher J3 v. lng, thb so ers is It. a mnaq gainineg his, al It 1a far hetter to onepautteg thetnd dilfltities and bee Ihdjee deint than to tmarry fur support, or depend on others for' a miantenanee. -. To a woman, ate the eastern girl e*14 "Money is preferable so a ae tbal is, a man mnarried feor any othe moit. than )o',e and reepest. Blue Ridge aailroud. The following extract it made frot a letter recently written by the Pre.,i dont of the road to the Canwiijuati Railroad Recoider: "After nmany vexations delays, cc casioned innioily by the pecnliar coon di-i-o of the finat.ces tof this State, anid the di.trost of eapitallatm to i. veht in Southern uecuritieg, the B-n. Ridge Railroad Company in Sutb Ciarolini is again in a coudihion. I hope, to press the coT;struetion along the line uore vigorously. A new compntii ctompo.t d of e pitili.,ts in Sosuth UaroPliana and N. w Y.ok, i4 nowt forming, who prvpo:,e to ctomplete the road in a sh1ort thuse nn oetun condi. tions. Ti0 proponsi 1i incluee the isne -of a prefe-red srock fCd *2,000,. 000, he-aring even, eight or teun per cent. unjtil the road id can-phtted; after completion to hove satno prefer eiue over stock now [sissud. The new cOipan3 to huol or retire otld Atock. The conipeny in tlets 8 a.e ant1d in Ne v Yo-k psijoiose to stai. s cbe .0t once :or o.e-h1Iaf ..f tais pr--ared st.ook. With tIte $2.000. 000 A' pref.rred stouk, and the $4, 000 000 inmortg g , tii ns endoredol by 'le .of' 8 .uidh Car..lin4, ihi, roati cal be c"LIpleteo.. in two % air fre'uns t.h -t.ate. h teP t we nos pr.p.e is to applo4&i to tlt ' t as m4 ot Coenn ti, elt i.el aJ a ca p.at or a divi . al.4, to Cemie to our aid, and -Oberihe at I-ast $1,0110.000 ofttit pr.-ft.trem t..k. T h S .a:e uf Sosuth (..r .iti:, city of Charib-stiton and iadividual -tockholdeort', h *ve alrtedy p.eid on avi -xpeinded on this road nearly $3, 000,000. We propose n) to re.ti i hie old stook, and per.uit new par. ties to comse in with $2,000,000 1r- - fe-rrd .took, and by the se of $4. 000.000 morungo bonds guaranteed by the State of Sauth Car.otina, buil the road and own it after it is con pleted." Ploted.1 - - _1f .0. 0 1M__ --- - The Earl of Derby. The Earl or De-by h-es trampled upon the mosxt chetished traditionea %f hies party. Tocy peert in the House of Lor d- a vit have lo ked unnitera. ble sttna.taent yec'teriay w obn he, their acknow!edged 1. ader, rusg in de ninee1i.itio of the purchuas.. )steo in the a my. Tile privieege of bu3ing military rank with the title and mnieery ha55 ever beeii dear to the tory he-.rt. The p.eeth of Lord D- ri 'y against this timia.lt.ored inoti nt iou Iat sk- an era in the history e-t Ii-, par. ty. He has dealt the I tit dee I.blow to the eitrnighoeld of the t..ry aislaoc r oy. The abolition of the purchase by-tem wiHl be a great. r.Nf. rm in the british armtv. But1 it will lead to a ,till In tue impoc tacet le.-lt-to a so cial revoltiton in Eoglibh tanciety-if tha moanre. should be y-eassed, as ,n all proboabilit. it will. The sons of the nobi ity who h.ve hitherto had it pretty muah their own waiy in the ar my, will ienter into a list where only haid work and superior ar.,tinitinuts will obtain a eoummitsion. Thus the aholition of the pirhobase toyatema in the &rm will be a great leveller of rank and tend to induce deumcratie ideas Into Eaglish society.-N. Y. Herald. Prince ilienmarck in ecnstantly in receipt of tso tmany substrantial preaa enta from all parts of Germany, prini' oipal:y WIne in casks, barrels of lageir Ibeer, provisions, ('among thema a gi. gantbo sausage fifty feet loig anad twelve Inches thick,) &e., that lhe bhas publlicsly annaounoed that the lardrs and cellar in his house at B~erlin are full, and that he will tio Iviser he able to store away mnytbicag further of the raame descrip jti1on. IAlthough the WVhite House i.4 Ipretty wei-i stlonked in all tl:eae re-' speote, still we are ha.ppy to eagy that our gtftaed President cotitueis to A~ roomll for the *fferit'g of his friendaI, sa~d has tao .inlten iets of itaittinig the examiplo of Prin'te B.semauek. is l"'oota arnd hia cel'ors h -ste nu elrattie capacity quito eq eal to the i enierous disa.eti~en of all who pre poesee to seupply eit herv. The . UbileO sieat-idue.'.4a:md, ho--'ver, theat the "toernment" req'uir, a all expeancs tob adon preents, wh-clh h ave noDit 1. 60(d anad poaateva value beotid this conet of ttenportationi. 'That principle e was l uttl in thle nelebra tedl dog case.--WVun~engton P'haai. IThe peremrctory maandvns lssued by Judge Willate again~t J. K. Jll on, to force him to des lis duty by *paying off the teachbere of the public sohootlee, of' which het isfiat e Suparin tendent, allons him tntl1 Natirtlay to do so. We hope that his itdsdieaee will and oh that day and thiat the'Jus* tic. which has beeni so long and so Ipatiently awaited will not be delayed any longer. Virginia papera hay that- the po# dei tanke fonuud by the c'rekora is the Cofderate Ironie1Ad ltehon, pow !Inlag .ls tbirty -or foity feet ef water, arella good conditieth ant the powder ap dry and ready forbuae ae forg the syulinesion 4l years.agei Treasurer Spinnet fthd the Rothsebilds. American funds will probably re, ceive a 'eevero hboek on hearii-g that Ubitud Statea Treaki-rer Spinner hat lallen, out with the Rutheohilds, and this id the way it came about : Spin ner, mell aware of hi financial puoi tiotn and dignity, paid his first visit upon arrival in Loidon, as in duty boun-d, to the offiee of the Roth.* chilt.. The flunkey in waiting invi. ted him to a teit in the anto-room ; and as time rolled on Spinner grew nervous, theta tired, and finally in. dignaita ; sro ho suddenly reared up upon bia hind legs, informed the flun. key in waiting that they "did not treat dogs that way in America," and Irt.. Next day the itothbhtlas isent a I-sseUger to apologize. The de. lay as onuted by inability to read Mr. Spinner's autograph card. It had been ..ubmtitted to the confi des~tL. tilrks of every nationutlity, meaolu 'ing . the ianese and H..ttentut ; h at all had giaV.%h it up in despair. Nobody had cor eeri such a card ea-fore. Miz-piocian wa euijted and the poiiite selot for, tto be presenst at the iuteie-w. . wa1l while awaitlog the ativ. or the polIeo that M,-. R..inne '- p.tience g so out. The Ruti.schild- were very torry on di.. eroag boe thby had ti eated "O:d Gr-eanhu..k" hinvelf. but the lat.-er wa. net teo be a'peased ; he telt that tie U. ite I 3 atur, eutrreney had It. en 'ely insiulte.d in his OWn p rsin. [I, -.i6tamuel the deor( of his chamber .n Rileschildr'i, fliuke1iy's face, broke 0.1 nP() A firade .ahuit the e >rrupCog influneric.a of "h it i.h g.sd," pack ed hi, rtpra, uanl hif for the ('ontiu.nt in disgust. 'l'te a m e day speti I etst-ngerP. were delimtched trot Rothachild's Lotndln h.-ne to eve y brunch house in HErope. Spenner n):i3 yet be conciliated. Lot i hubuhly trut o. The Landlords and the Working men of England. Mr. Olger, at a Republican meet ing at Niwe.Astle in Englhnd, recent 1v said that the Houses of Lords and Comnais had taken away nearly all the land which originally was the peoeple'r, and load kept it for thew selve' ; aund n'.w if any member of the comimuaaniy, if any humble working. man or iaiddle cluss man, conceived that. those lands should be dealt with in a more satifuttary manner, in thae itntereet Ot the nation, he was inme diutely called a robber, and while those who held the great estates of Enatnnd obtainted them to say the I ast. of it, in a very qiestionable mnanner. They wete not coutent to hatve the lard only. They cl.imed the water that walmher through the I and, they claimed the fish that swam in the water that washed through the land, they claimed the hares and rab bits that run on the land, and they claimed the birds thit flew over the land. Atod they were not satisfied with these thing., but they claiied also the miuersin that lay undet the land, and if they could get at it, and it were of anay luiportance in the shape of wealth. they would go down t thee domaini., of But liehub and would clain all that I and if the old gentle man ki pt them there when he got tihem, England would not be very inuch worse off GolIng to Libefla, We learn that a large nastnber of negroe.s-comaptisinag sdaty or eigh. ty families-Ina thes vicinity of Clay Hill), in- the Noith-east part of this C..unty, heve cetermained to emigrate to Litaeria, and are how vuakinag their arrantgeiiinws to emnhar-k In the ?eygeI of the Colounittion Society, which will satil fromr Chiarleaaton or Btltimaore early ini November next. lew, IEltaa Hil aned Ju:.s Mloorr,.twq olored men of this Coucay, are at the headl of -the unovenasentitnd it 1n the inten tiona of' rhe etnsigrat.4 to locat, in that part of iberlix ktiohts is the Noeikb Caureltism 006eay. lThtele~ etiianti ate-to be receavad at Roo~k H-ill,'atd wlil be foajishr-I iratiaportatlit to Liberia by the Olonail tion Society. Wet under,tanad that several hunadred othera aiegeoea Ira this (County' -te ssaking pr epaaraetious to folloti i u the velw wh(iih .sil. noxt May.- Terf. afie Min guirer. Emnaucipation Is inralI A testi Vte on' thE' goeernme6t *enanei'1tionu measeure resulted in a povernm henlt-vietatry, the *ote being~ 63 to SS, only eight deputies 'heiig absent. Ths vot-e was nousinal, and It showed tat the atrength o e position to e~ianeip~tdty ialt comee r~intly feom thai two previoon of Rioe de Janaartarnd Mtna dr/a'. A coneidetable nsembet 'f ~trat6 *man~peaterr :bated tne fromn katlianspset. of--tby . iS6IddleI n e't pose~ns-~i~r d1Oe60 i -t ~ - i 4' now then, 6e th f 4 4pietty -Shef ee se n en~ edb~~ih sefbther deelt is pooltesy Profilled by the War. The Frank fort Journal says "When thu *ar of last year was pro. longed, aid assumied ever increstilig dimensions aid a more oruelobaracter serious apprehcensionse were expressed in Germany le4t our own troops iight become demoralized. It, was feared they itght adopt habits and manners which, on their returu home. must prove injarious to society. We are now entirely free from these appre. honaions, and it is righit publicly to to say soa The terrible war has not impaired the discipline, nur, hat; it undermined the honesty, the morals or the muanners of the moo. On the cctri'ttry, nimany einployers gladly bear witness to the fact that a better un derstanding between Lhemaelves and their attiaans never exi.ite.l thail that now establi.hod with inen who, not long ago had arni u their hands but who have now retu ned with a new kost to their old oedupations. .fore the war strikes were the order of the - (y ; now they are not the. .ught of. 'hre service they kave porroern.:d in thre cawe of thef 4iruntry ha4 erano biled the nil nd- of rhe o-rk men, ad cleared up their Views on the haolal quiesiti. . Whoever has panticipimed in the suffe.rititi of this war fOtis more btrom gly th sn ever ho1w reat ia the blesshing uf pt.Iitoeful labor. In th-s re.eot, too, we have porofitted by b war."' Where is the Champlon Type Setter Nowj? A lun.ttroal pper of 'uatiday ln.. tan 1 "At a t) pe-seturnrag 11t0h held in Li Noeaivou Monde offiee. lait Thurday eveoig, between Al phooic B.ri ett i.no Alphnrse Moni.on, the foer ue- set 20J38 ens and the lat. ter 1944 ems4 in au hour. T'ie n,ea.+ u4e, type and copy were similar to thuins need at the math held through out Cnada ad the United States on the 10th of May last. The best dune then was by Ge.orge Arensburg. ot Philadelphia, who composed 1822 eis and received the ch . meii praso from the Internationai Union. The two younig French Canmidians above mentioned have now surpassed him, aid have proved tha.ir superior swift. ne.:s, so far over tie craft on thia con. tinent. About fifty person were prex ent at the nartch refe:red to Tho proofs of the contestants were re.. markably clean. The Great Railroad Consolidation. The Washicigton Chronicle of the 12th instairt say' : "The great Sutithei n railroad routes attract in. creau.ed attention. The Pennsylva. nia Central conbinaition stretches southwardi by wR of Richmond, Wil. mington. N. C., Columubia, S. U., Au. usta, Go, and is stretching every nerve to make its throu4h ounnection by way of Vickasburg with the South ern Pacifc. The B-iltimnore and Ohio Roid nroies out by way of Lynch. burg, Knoxville an:i Ch trtanooga, and expects to reach the Mississippi by its own route. A heavy contract has been awarded for a through mail to New Orleans by way of Knoxville and Chattarnooga. This seetbe an importat gain for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. A young Prussian officer, who, as the story goces, doubted the love of his affianced bride, requested one of hras fa iendse, after the battle of Grave lotte, to inform her that hre had been killed, apdito report to him how she bore the news. The result was tha~t the girl committed suicide ; and the lover, rihooked at the tragedy he had co unwittingliy eaused, became a ray ing maniac, and ienow an itnmate of the asyluar iti Darlin, where hre is re gardeod assintuurable. The young of. Alcer might have remembered Uer. *Vantesr' aeid story of Iimpertiienit auriosiy,i and have been restfrained from tr)ing so: dangerous,, and what, in tils irstanrce, has proved so fatisl ant experiment, hew inWbt Withdrawn, There does riot asrem to be any dodibt thiat t(he new Goverrniment loarn is teo be withdraewn frem the stharket, anIthst, two9 Yory speedily. The * ncea in .this eotamutry haa niot by~ any meanas met the espectation of tile Tmeriy o~ilse, arnd the intormuatiou fro-o JianaeuWs-eneawa&uopo's :.nything but ttesrgg, 'Hence tie Sueryof the Treaansr .ma -~ nsined that't i udefde a't n af force it ti n the 'erutrtyl 1r. Hie pry D P k let t' s t rb t stig r drYj'Yri a nd ' i t atobeodi s to t a4 uitta for ti re th;aI ( Fe ebe t bes' s 1 lo th. n dm dy3 Brutal Outrage. The Orangeburg News presents the following ha rrowing story : On the 15 h1 in14sitant, a ImosHt d;I bolical attempt was inide by a young Inegro woian to kill the wife of a go. timonan residing In the vioitaity of lranchville, whose nam e, for ddlioAte resasoniq, we foi beAr to mention. It appears that on the ni.'ri.ing of the day abvvo named, while Mr. -- was in hit, field s Ubual, this nregro womian (oho was also an cm ployee of his ) lvft her work, und went to the house, with au axe iii her hand, dealing his wife blow aftev blowv. The noise of a wagon, oi sole vChicle passing, occasioned her to desist for a moment, through fea. of being detected ; and in thik short interval she scined to have bee struck with reiose of oonsuienco, ano she could not diltI cot age to f urthe lacerate, and tet the poor bleeding. agonliz'ng piece of suffling humoanuih thnt lay before her, anaI told her th6 she would apare her life if she woul, promise not ta tell her husband wh. ooniuilted the deed. 'the neg.' womi~ti then returned to the field nut re'eumed her woei. The nndi ion o Mre. was disoovertd by soein one on the place, who imurediatel comminuunioated the intelligeice to he' hbao4dnd. When ie got to her side. lie founid her lying upon the bed we. I el ing in her blood. ThIe Only thin. that t-urpribOs us is that lie did no iake short of the life of the one whoi -lid the deed. Tie negro woman i low ii- jail. [The Orangeburg News is a Ratdi oal paper, and aty story of negro atro city in its colunms may be received tn mildly mtated.] Government and People. The New York Tribune says there can be no .uab thing in this countr) as 'a strong government and a weak people." Both government and peo. tie, it says, moust be airong or weak ogether. To which the Sa'nunah Itepuiblican adds: "Did we not have a strong govern. ment and a weak people when the au. thorities at Wash ingtc.n compelled (uo iAtter how) the Nottlerii 8tutes to vote for negro suffrace, when near. ly all of thema had just repudiated It, when presented as a distinct issue, at the oll., and by iuiniao majori ties Y "Did we hot have a strong goverti went and a weak people when the Southern States were thiro.tled and made to Vote for the foun teenth and fifteenth amendnents against their will and judgment ? "Did we not have strong governa went and a weak people when Can grean, by its mere fiat, overthrew the established governments in the &outh ern States and ereated tuongrel gov ernments to suit itself, and in no wise representing the people t" Speaker Bluine, in a late speech, charges the Denoertit.4 with "not reenguising the Conmtitution of the United States." Who can, ftsooth? Since the RIddicals have been tinker ing with it, it no* resembles the boy's knife that was. twice repaired-firit with a new blade, and then with a hew handle8. That youth grew to old age without being able to deoide whether it was the saime knife or tnt. So it is with the onstitution of the United Stattes. Sometiuses we think it i" the same old instrumneut atit soeirnmes not, If Mir. IMtaine would help str ip off sonie of the disguises with which, he hat. helped to Invest it, the Do, ots will niot encounter the lea.t dif SenIty in Is recognition.-Wlmi1ng.d ton ar. A Disease has been raging for a month past among the horses in New York city which pnhles all the veti known am "pink eye,'' the majority cif brseu think it entirely a bew disa ease. At kills the anirtal in mn lin credibly ulbort time, antd Is believed to he I.eit origin In atmanpherie cus es taken it souhetiontlf wIth the condl. tioni .f the horse at the tIin. The disonne flrst tiamnifeata itself by a wreakneft. it the hinder parts of the toimlaI amul loas of control them rewlin ofitbe legi 'cud then tofal gata . and cthe'i 1besb i ima- lpI.' I oetil the paralynIe ha6 ea ided to I henkhteint blIvr aft Tes ted to, ,. pre vent the. he fe't ye dou'g, fVt'af oned dow*,'I4AednwI tdag bIn 'gdn4. .hik rtet di..ses to ,eine enivrt, and thoutI iht be bait' ui ht qf by'own'e s oft atdalt~ Th proe ,we remarkrt In a 1Ubagd e se helpdi.bkei Ao wear id Iem eee wee barlod y t * onr Inc a U8 Oc(Osle' If he ednasy he alA bare 4#4dWdheeta, io~ 66 ite be getm of." Nut Lovingood al a Candy PalIa#. I had i heep of troble lset Christa a-, anid Ile tell you bow it happened, )ekent Jone's gills give a candy pull. 'I, and I got a atool, as they I4y i I \oith Kirlina, amd so over I goes, i-ter Poll and mie went together, ad when we got to ole man Jones the on1Ie was chuck full, Dog niy cats -f there was room to turn round, here wus Suze-llarkitin, shose as big H a skintied huss, amd misty other -Nikinses, and all the Sorogginses, nt Williamse-i, and Simonses, and Pudierews, and abool master and his -al, beides the old Deken and the Dekenso, and enough little Dekenoes to bet up a half dozen young folks in le fmilmili business. Wel, bimeby the pot begun to bilo :id then the fun begun. We all got, our plates reddy, and put flour oi our han.ds to keep the candy from 'iukin, and then we pitched into pul. liii. Wozent It funl I I never saw siib aiflin aid euttin up in all my horn daze. I made a oendy bird for EemA Simmons. H1er mnd mue expeoti tw trot iii double h.rness one of these dozo. She maido a candy gooso for fie. Then we got to throwim candy lbilla intu one another's hair, and a runmmninl fron) olin side of the hotiso to tother and out intu the kitchen, till everything on the place was all over gommed wit h candy. I sot on a pine bench and En Simmotis set close to ine. Suse 11akins, confund her piS ter, throwd a candy ball sock intu one of my izo. I looked around and thar was the gablo end of my bran now britches a sticken to the piue benuh. I backed up agin the wall sorter crawflish like and grinned. "Silt,' ses sister Poll, 'what's the mnatter ' 'Shot up says I. 'SBitt,' says Em, 'Come awa from that wall, 3ou'll git all over greasy.0 'Lot her grease 1' says I, and I sot, down on a wash bord, that was lying aerosa a tub feeling worse than an old maid at a wedien. Purty soon I felt t-omethitg hurt, and purty soon it hurt agin. le-whis I I jumped ten root high, kieketi over the tub, out flue old Jones Christmas turkey, anid )oiu ougeht to a seed we gitt I out for tall timber, jumn t staked nid ridered fences and atinamhed duwt bi uhi liko a runaway herikan till I got home, and went to bed and stade tlhe'ro two daze. E( old dekin Jonesei barn burns down next winitor, and iue arrested for it, and anl) body peers as a witness 4gin me1i, ile bust his doggoned hod I T1hemU's my sentiments. SUT LOVENGOOD, One of the oddest questions evet submaitte l to lawyers is now pusiling 1h1se of Hartford, Ct. It seems that a 1aman who recently died there left a widow, childle.,s, but expoting short. ly to become a thother. By his will lie provided that if the expected child hut411,Uld prove to be a boy,' two-thirds of the lproperty should go tb hin, and one-third to the widowed mother. If however, the child pr ved to be a girl only one-third of the estate was to go to her, and two.thirds to the moth er. Tie result of courge, was await, d with an interest even greater than thasit usually bestowed upon such even's. T1he result is the widow has besomite the mother of Twins--a boy anid girl. [This, or a very aimilar problem, ls stated in Greenleaf's arithmetic.) P nalor Trumbull's Fortrth of eluly or. tion telivered at Galesburg, Il11' niois, o. oa ted quite a stir in the radioal wigwam. It was antl-radleal and an iGrant. lIe deulatred ina favor of allo~wing women to participate in the g.vrnment "wheneiver they asked for it," iondemnd the exeroise of war powers in time of peaewideelared that centralization was the great danger of thet reptublio, amnd ekxpressed the belief thj~t' "Niberal and kindly action ona the part of the general governmen6 was needed to heal the wounds of the South." if Trumbull keeps on In this astrain5 he will soon be "read oat" of time radical party. blitsister Sehenoik has madO anoth. or speech to the Britons on the ineal. eulbl benedte of the new treaty. TIhis time he addressed the merohant tailors of Lonrdon at their annual ban' quset He intimated bie belisf that the present treety was one that would not shrink with wearing or ,washing but being admirably out to order, omut of the very best of goods, would fi6 well, suit all and never go out of fashion, a1rrow, gatuge tailroadas of whiqka we have been heerlagso quoh of lates are soon~ to be feet ieall 4 at oar very 'doors. '4oggI~ s~ies the honor of~ brea ing grousi hane onurt epise; 4 Wels togw Co. lumebue l~ t~a ,the 9ontr$et for b'uIding he. 4a wntyp~ileg op she North and Nonth Railroad was givq out latet week. A isage of three foqt 'us adept~d..PA5%fs for t , eafr i Put nt . gseerally 4onceded *bai she, Darie se3e i7 1a SPsRt@5i4 the lowet atiMude beIm * 41s # Annie Laurle. Notes and Queries hins the follow itg interesting me moranda oneetni.O the heroine of the well-known ballt of "Annuie Laurie :" "'ie ith of this young lady, so well-knuwu to mnuy of your reasdoit. is rl.titlntly recorded by her fathei Mir Ribert Laurie, of Maxweiltown. in the family register in thn..' words " 'At the ple'nsuro of the Almighty Go-l, my daughter, Annie L ourie, w:.. born upon the 16th day or December, 1861 oars, about iix o'cluk in thli mnorning, and was baptis3d by Mh. Geo' [Ilu'ner,of Olencairn.].' "Anid hii own miarri -go is given in the sane qI unt ht) le: " 'At the pleasure of the A imighty, I wus married t., my wife Janii Rid. sell upon tue 27 i1 day of , .111%. 11"74, n the itroun Kirk of E iinib., by Mr. . inn.anne.' "'i'These statements I (ind in the .'tilughle collee'i' o.1-f unail.seripts ett by the I ato Mr. W. F. Arndell, .lnd wich lilt; san W. F. Ilntter krundell, H.q., of A.rj.rg Tovor, i)u nfiiesshiro, has kiandly allowed me ) examunine antd make uto of. T oy Ontain i vast fund of enrious infor .Iation tespectinag the mmignity aind unty faimilies of Dunaerie'sshino. \l army of )our asider will kIn. w that Aianie was wood byV Willi ;In I)oupla, 't Eanglamnd, in kirikudbtightthiiro, ler etarius tare thus ,poken of iln his pat etio lyric, 'Houio Annie Lau rie': "'Her brow is lilke the siaw drift, Iler tetk is liko tihe swat, flair fi-ce it is the fnirest Th t e'er tihe sun shote on, h'lat o'er the sisn shioit) 0n, And dirk blue t, her e'e And for bunnio Ant.i Laiulie I'd lay mie donn and die.' "4he was, however, ohdurite to his pan:ionute nppee.l, preforring Alexat. der Fergumn of Crtigdaroebn, to whom the was evenitially mnsarried. l'lis Wiitin m D.mglas was8 id to havo been the be. o of thu well khwt aOnig, 'W1VI1th was i Wainton,1 W ag.' Tihough he was refomed by Anuie, lie did tnot pine away in sila1e blessed fnees, but unide a runiawaiy umarliage with Miss ElItbeth Clerk, of Glen boig, in G.Jlway, by wh.1 ie had four Hos and two daughtorets." What RaditAlihm has Done. It disfranchiued thousands of whito cit iles. It inVaded the Vederal constitu. tion. It usurped the ra .;''y of --he States. It antdiliiated ten St-ates. It abiolished cisil law in certain parts of the United StateS. It created military oommissions to try civil eases. It suspend.d the habeas corpus in time of profridnd pence. It deniod to thb whio citizens tt! trial by jury, five yetr after the late war ended. It has ondorsed tho outrages of llolden, andl others. It encourages the negroes to idle bees, it gave about two hundred millions of adoes of the public dominion with. in thne last two yoars to corporations of rioh capitalisits. .It dirregarded solemn obligations. It broke every pledge it. u'.er made to the people. It ungmen-ed temocratic Congress nienh who were duuly elected. In squanndered the public t reasure. It reltisedl to pro.eisuto the thieves of pub-a tmoney. It favored thne pr'oset'uhiti of manu facturers faor trifling irregeularities. It atteunpted to c rrupt the b..llot box. It taxed every species of property of the poor nDan. It ekempted the rich mm's bonds from taizition. h tpaid thae tieb ,ftan in gold. It paid thn e tarditar, his wido* and otphalh in greeatnbacLks. It apponoted spies in every comtimu. nrd ow seks b's perpetuation by thne enactmient of ltinunau laas to prevent Democrats from .voling.-' Louisvile Demneurtg. What is g bemocratb tils queastiorn, seys then Paris Vrue tKentuoktaan, was addlressed~ toa Deoorit tin a pol)itial'n"$veiLton a few dg eine. by a "liedhInt Reo. puabhean. "1 would liko '.ery mueb to be what .pn call a good hotneat ,emrct at Bo kimid enmotgh to tell sno what change I will have to tundera ~o to beoa-iuh,rend. ho* <I will noow.sit4 ? .ena changed" "Well. V6.ifd the Demnn9erst. 'gou to, spmWf eohtexenroo-se, mind if you earn pass it by withbut feeling ann inoibattht toJ 'oon~soate,' you are ara hiounest D~emo. orat, ;but If yths cmannot rbsist ,the teigptat ion tp. pg gto fias, y'.t* are i. flaJI st;, .an46 bae po$ ggf en*~d a obistig." Thei itntlons in. 'quirer hdd-ad itoro quaeaitit tio" pro poung e - ee a A a:. 1 for ed~J~, trat s ~ tp e of g thu resehs ,eanpt.