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r St i VOL. IV. NO. The Dreamer and the Sunbeam, A little Bunbe&m Btrayed into bis room And nestled on the paper, as his pea Traoed wearily .the word " Sometime. The gloom Which shrouded his sad fancy there and then Drifted away, t ik. ?;< > ka/nra fvia orvl nf JU&AO UiCibUi^ UUOH Wivtv v. ?^ Just like a crown of gold the little beam Circled the word?so little meaning! and Within the golden space he saw the gleam Of snow-white fingers and a dimpled hand. Which seemed to write Mysterious letters on this spot of light. Circling still the little word " Sometime," The fair hand softly moved, until the same Was all surrounded, not with liquid rhyme, But flashing pictures in a golden frame? Then passed away, Like fading cloudlets at the close of day. The sunbeam still remained and still the word. Like fabled picture in its frame of gold, Gleamed thro' its veil of sunshine, when he heard The mus e of a voioe, oft heard of old, But silent loDg Amid the chorus of a sadder song. u Read, dreamer, yonder mystic scroll My hand has drawn beneath the golden beam ! Then cast the shadow from thy doubting soul, Ahd change tbe tenor of they idle dream! Look, and behold! v The future hidden beneath its veil of gold!" The "dreamer" looked, and round the word "Sometime " Such fairy pictures clustered that his heart Filled with an ecstasy at once sublime, . Seemed of the sunbeam and the word a part, While all the earth Was filled with mnuc, such as hailed its birth! The vision of his brightest dreams fulfilled? s A sunny pathway, free from cank'ring care? A heart with every yearning passion stilled? A happy future?all were pictured there ! Aud?brightest, bestBeyond the liaes, a calm eternal rest! With head still beat, bat not with sorrow bowed, The dreamer long in eilent rapture gtood. The years of quiet sorrow round him crowd, A eileuf, uuoongenial brotherhood ! Each friend of old Stands smiling there, with folded wings of gold! Sweet hope! How welcome to the heart thy voice, When uanght bat echoes of the haunting past, Sound in its ch&mberB! or the loader noise Of battling passions, crowding fieroe and fast I s portals, filled With voioolees singers cruel fate has stilled. NEAR THE END. Culmination ot a Horrible Traced? ? A Husband Accidentally Kills bis Wife la Selt-Defense Against her Father and then Commits suicide?The Father Hangs Himself. * **--> -u J ?4.,*^ A SIX niUIll>Uii UiU uvuioouu uogcui, at Roseville, Ta., has 1 ad a melancholy sequel in the suicide of William Russell. William Rassell came to Roseville, a letter from that place sayB, about ten years ago from England. He brought with him his wife and two children, both girls. Buying a farm, it was not long before his industry and integrity plaoed him in a leading position among his rural neighbors. Three years after becoming a citizen of the community a sad casualty left him a widower and robbed him of his youngest daughter. The remaining child was ten years old at that time. Her name was Hattie, and being an extraordinarily bright and active child, despite her tender years she took almost entire charge of her father's household, a servant girl, named Lizzie Sackett, being her only assistant At a party in Roseville last spring the motherless girl met a young man named Horton Hurd. His father had formerly owned a farm adjoining the Russell homestead, but about five years ago a dispute arose between him and Russell as to the location of a line fence between certain of their fields. The dispute led to a bitter quarrel, and finally to long and elpensive litigation, which resulted in the defeat of Russell. The decision of the court was taken deeply to heart by the Eaglish farmer, and his hatred for Hurd became general against every member of his family. Two years ago Hurd died, and Horton Hurd, as the only male representative of the estate, endeavored to obliterate the feeling held by Russell against the the family by offering to make oertain concessions, but only succeeded in aggravating it. The Hurd farm was leased to other parties and the family removed to Roseville. The acquaintance between Miss Rsssell and youDg Hurd, ripened into an ardent mutual affection, and the two met frequents in the village. Although she made na attempt to oonceal her choice of a lover from her father, it was some weeks before he was aware of the intimacy that had sprung up between the son of his old enemy and his daughter. He at once and emphatically forbade her ever again meeting or speaking to Horton Hard on penalty of his severest displeasure. Loving her father devotedly. Miss Russell sacrificed her own happiness to his will, and wrote to her lover that all future intercourse between them must cease, and she thenceforth decliued all invitations and solicitations to the merry social parties for which this section is noted. Meantime Lizzie Sackett had grown from a healthy chubby girl of thirteen to be an attractive and tidy voung woman of twenty. For a year and over Miss Russell had noticed her father'e conduct toward the housemaid. Hei father was nearly fifty years of age, and the girl twenty. He was a rich widower she the daughter of a poor laboring man. Miss Russell at once made up he* mind to speak to the girl and warn he* of the impropriety of her conduct. 8hc did so. The girl told the farmer, whe commanded his daughter to confine her self to her household duties and noi make herself over officious about his affairs. Xb? familiarity Russell an<: VNDA > ] the Saokett girl increased, and the i daughter saw with pain that her father's I affection seemed not only alienated from her, bat that her position aud authority in the house were being gradually usurped Dy the servant. Smarting tinder this injustice, in July last, during the absence of her father, Miss Russell ordered the girl to leave the house, and in such decided terms that she did not dare disobey the command. When Russell returned home that night and was told by his daughter that she had discharged Lizzie Sackett his rage knew no bounds. He went away and returned with the discharged girl, reinstated her in her place and forbade his daughter using any authority in the house thenceforth. The poor girl determined to remain no longer under his roof, and hastily penning a note to that effect she left it in her bureau, walked to the village and sought the house of a friend, where she found shelter. Next day she obtained a situation in a family in the village, and set to work to earn her own livelihood. The affair, of course, was soon spread through the entire community and occasioned great scandal. The indignation of the neighbors finally became so intense that Russell was glad to send the Sackett girl to her father, and begged his injured daughter te return home. She consented to again take her place on the farm. About the middle of August she ascertained that her fath ir was; making frequent visits to the Sackettfl. She at once remonstrated with him, when he remarked that his visits to the girl was honorable, and that he intended to marry her and bring her back to the farm. During her brief stay in the village, after leaving her father's house, Miss Russell had been visited by Horton Hurd. She would not consent to a hasty marriage, but assured her lover that she would give him her hand the coming fall. Recalled to her father's house, she resolved to bring him to agree to her marriage. His subsequent avowals showed her the attempt woufd be futile ; but when she found that he had no care for her comfort and happiness she determined to wed Horton Hurd, let the consequence be what it might. On the twentieth of September last Farmer Russell, after eating his breakfast, dressed himself carefully, and told his daughter that he was that morning to be married to Lizzie Sackett; that they would be back to the farm for dinner. Crushed and dumbfounded atthis sudden intelligence the poor girl oould make no reply, and as her father drove away she fell fainting to the floor. When sbe recovered consciousness it was nine o'clock. Dragging herself to her room she dressed herself and packed a valise with a few personal effects. She then wrote a note to her father. Leaving the house she came to the village, where her story was soon made known. Horton Hurd visited her at once and she consented to his proposal of immediate marriage." They proceeded to the residence of a sister of Hurd, where they were married. About twelve o'clock on that day R used returned to his farm with his former servant, now his wife. He found no preparations made for his reception, and. greatly enraged, at once begun a search for his daughter. He found only the note in her room. He stormed and swore like a madman and started post haste for Roseville. He went to the house where were the newiy married ouple. He seized Hurd and attempted to stab him. All the inmates of the room exoept the young wifo, fled at the sanguinary appearance of Russell. The young man, driven to desperation, drew his pistol and warned Russell to desist, but the latter seemed crazed with fury, aud redoubled his efforts to kill his sonin-law. He at last raised his pistol. The young man's wife, wild with terror, sprung between her father and her husband at the moment the latter pressed the trigger, and the bullet crushed into her brain. She fell to the floor and died without a moan. Russell retreated in horror toward the door, and the husband kneeled by the side of his wife's oorpse, and frantically w.lled her by name. Seeing that his bride was dead he rose to his feet, and in an instant shot himself through the teciple, living but a few seconds. Russell was apprehended at once. He oould be held only on the charge of deadly assault, and he was admitted to bail. Russell went home, but it was seen that his mind was deranged, and it became necessary for a constant watch to be kept over him, as it was evident that he would destroy himself. For three months he gave no sign of even a glimpse of sanity, but finally, by degrees, recovered his mind. His wife had been his constant attendant, but when he began to regain his reason he eyinced a repugnance toward her which culminated in her being compelled to seek her father's house. Since January Russell has attended to his business matters as before the tragedy, and it seemed that he had entirely recovered. An indictment was found against him at the last term of court, and he was to ' be tried. John Coleman, a hired man i of Russell, went to the barn to feed the J stock. On entering the haymow he was j horrified to see his employer haogipg ! by a rope to a beam. He was cnt down, i bat found to be cold and dead. His bed ! had not been disturbed during the ; night, and doubtless he had hanged himself early in the evening. No paper of any kind has been found setting forth his reasons for suicide, but they are sufficiently evident to every one. A will has been found in Russell's writing desk, dated March 15, 1876, by which his property is left to a brother iu England. An inquest was held on the remains of the farmer, after which they ; were buried by the side of his first wife ' and youngost daughter in the family i graveyard on the farm. The only mourner at the funeral was his discarded t wife. > : In building a new barn, I would study to put in all the windows I could pos* sibly get in, of course not making a > greenhouse of it, but as maDy as most > folks put into dwelling houses. It is so much better doing the work in a light 5 barn than a dar& one, cattle are more ? easily taken care of, and are more quiet and better oontented iu a light pla?? I than in a dark ene< IPOPt' RD A BEAUFORT, S VIENNA BREAD. Something that will Interest Honsewlvea and Lovers o! Palatable Food. The Kniser Semmel, as the bread of Vienna is termed, is a smooth, irregularly rounded, small, wheaten flour loaf, of uniform weight. It presents a rich, reddish brown crust, and a delicately shaded yellowish?almost white?interior. It is always light, evenly porous, free from acidity in taste or aroma, faintly sweet without the addition of saccharine matter to the flour or dough, slightly and pleasantly fragrant, palatable without butter or any form of condiment, and never cloying upon the appetite. The first requisite is to procure good flour. Good flour can only be made from pure, sound wheat, and by good milling. This means in general flinty wheat reduced by the process of high or half high milling, and a selection of the products of the milling, not to exceed one-half the total weight of the wheat ground. The next requirement is fresh pressed yeast. It is not difficult to manufacture, since it is made by skimming the froth from beer mash in active fermentation. This contains the upper yeast, which must be repeatedly washed with cold water until only the pure white yeast settles clear from the water. This soft, tenacious mass, after the water has been drawn off, is gathered into bags and subjected to hydraulic pressure until there remains a semi-solid, somewhat brittle, doughlike substance, still containing considerable water. This is the pressed yeast, which will keep for eighty days in summer, and for an indefinite time on I ice. For use it should be of recent pre? *i Ml 1 ^ paration and sweet, so tnat it win yieia only alcohol and carbonic acid as products of fermentation. Next follows the very important opera(tion of mixing. Into the middle of a j zinc-lined trough, abont two and a half feet wide and eight feet long, semicylindrical in form, the Vienna baker empties his flour sacks. Then, into a pail holding abont Ave gallons, equal parts of milk and water are poured, and I left to stand until the mixture attains ! the temperature of the room, between seventy deg. to eighty deg. Fah. It is then poured into one end of the trongh and mixed with the b^re hand with a small portion of the flour to form a thin emulsion. The pressed yeast is next crumbled finely in the hands, and added in the proportion of three and a half ounces to eveiy three quarts of liquid, and then one ounce of salt in same proportion is diffused through the mixture. The trough is now covered and left undisturbed for three-quarters of an hour. Then followB the incorporation of the flour from the neighboring heap ; and as ! this is the last of the ingredients, we may write the recipe as a whole, thus: Flour, eight pounds; milk and water, three quarts; pressed yeast, three and one-half ounces ; salt, one ounce, Tqe mass of dough, being left quiet for two hours and a half, becomes a smooth, I tenacious, puffed mass, of yellowish color, which yields tq indentation without rupture and is elastic. It is now into r?nnnd masses, and each noiguvu ?? r- , lamp is then cat by machinery into twelve small pieces, each of three-quarters of an inch in thickness. Of each one of these, the corners are brought together in the center and pinched to secure them. Then the lamp is reversed and placed on a long dough board for farther fermentation, until the whole batch is ready for the oven. Before being introduced into the latter, the rolls are again reversed and restored to their original position, having considerably increased in volume, to be further enlarged in the oven to at least twice the volume of the original dough. In the oven they do not touch each other, and the baking occupies about fifteen minutes. To glaze the surface they are touched in the process of baking with a sponge dipped in milk, which, besides imparting to them a smooth surface, increases the brilliancy of the slightly reddish cinnamon color, and adds to the grateful aroma of the crust. No peculiar form of oven is required, the only necessary point being that the receptacle shall be capable of maintaining a temperature of about five hundred deg. Fah. Bad for the Fanners. Potato bugs are ravaging Long Island farmers' hot beds. Beetles, the parents of the potato bugs, that had slept in the beds all winter, awoke on the appearance of spring, and settled on the tender growth about them. They laid their eggh on the softest leaves. From the eggs were hatched potato bugs, and they begun to devour the leaves on which they were hatched. Taking the reporter to his hot- beds, wherein were egg plants, a Flatbush farmer uprooted a plant, whose leaves were pierced and withered, and peppered with bugs, and said : " See how lively they are! The potato bug eats a farmer out of house and home, until it gets to be a perfect beetle, men it caves into me earm, and stays nine days, probably getting ready to lay. When ready, the beetle comes ont of his hole, and lights npon the youngest plants. On them it lays eggs, and then bobs away. Last June the beetles came upon us, and caused thousands of dollars' loss by breeding upon the plants in the hothouses. I had egg plants enough to yield two hundred pounds of seed, that I was to sell to a Philadelphia seedsman for $800; but the potato bugs ate all but $40 worth. They couldn't hurt the potato shoots, because they were about a foot high. The beetles hung around all summer, crawling and jumping in the sun, and in the fall burrowed in the earth. Farmers are setting out only half as much potatoes as usnal, and are terribly afraid. In plowing, we turn up lots of beetles. The ground is full of them, and as soon as real warm weather comes they will begin to hatch."?New York Sun. Dealers in trees assert that experi, enced men buy small, thrifty trees, . while those who are just starting are ? anxious for the largest ones to be had. i Those who are to set trees the coming i season will do s. vil to learn from the exi perience of those who, at considerable h 1? s to themselves, have demonstrated j that small trees are the ones to buy. r ro lND < 1. C., THURSDAY, Two Orphans' Adventures. Says the Atchison (Kansas) Patriot : Conductor Ben Cole discovered, crouched under one of the seats in a smoking car, a boy and a girl. " Mister, is this road to Haven ?" said the boy, as he crawled out, and the girl said: " Mister, please don't put us off, our folks live there, and we ain't got any father or mother, and here's a letter," at the same time drawing from her faded calico apron a crumpled piece of paper, and handing it to Mr. Cole. After looking at it a long time, for it was badly written, badly spelled and blurred, he made out this: " All good people: These children ain't got no father or mother. They died here in February, and Is'e been tending to 'em. They ain't got no folks here; and their folks live in Haven, Connecnt. Ise a poor nigger woman, and can't keep 'em no longer. Is'e got myself to support, and theyse a going back to their folks. They is good children, and don't do 'em no harm. " Jane Maupin." Mr. Cole sat down by the boy, who was about thirteen years of age and blight. He learned that in the spring John Howell with his wife and two children left New Haven, Conn., for the West, and arrived at Pueblo, but that there both died, and during their sickness the old negro, Jane Maupin, was the only attendant at their bedside, and when the children were thrown out upon the world, orphans, friendless and penniless, she cared for them as she would for her own children. But having learned from the father that they were from New Haven, and that they had an uncle there by the name of Martin Howell, she conoeived the idea that they ought to go back, and she thought that the letter she wrote ana gave tnem would be a passport to all the world. They started, taking a train for Atchison, and a conductor had put them off near Pueblo. But they had started for Haven, and they resolved that they would go. By " stealing rides," now in a freight car, now under the seats in the smoking car, and now in the caboose among the piles of trunks and packages, and begging their food, they reached Topeka, fifty miles from Atchison. They wandered around Topeka all day, and at night thev hid themselves in a flat car laden with building stone. In the gray dawn they reached this city, begged a breakfast and dinner, and at two o'olock hid themselves under the seat in . the car where they were found by Mr. Cole. Mr. Cole took the children to Kansas City, the end of his " run," cared for them there, telegraphed to Martin Howell at New Haven, Conn., and received an answer to send the ohildren in care of the conductar to New Haven, and to draw upon him for the expenses of the trip. The American Prima Donna. Miss Emma Abbott, the American singer, made a very successful debut as Daughter of the Regiment at Covent Garden, London. Though her actiDg leaves something to be desired, she possesses a voice of great power and purity, and is almost perfect in her rendering of the character. She was twice recalled after the first aot. Emma Abbott was born in Wisconsin, her father being a well known violinist there, and although at an early age she developed wonderful musical talent and a voice of exceptional sweetness, yet there was little encouragement given to her, owing to the humble circumstances of her parents. At fourteen years of age, when she was singing in a church at Milwaukee, she h^l the good fortune to meet Miss Kellogg at Toledo, Ohio. She called on the great prima donna and asked her with childlike simplicity: "Will you please hear me sing?" A cordial compliance greeted her request. The rest is soon told, and it is a story that more deeply will enshrine in universal lovincr remembrance America's representative c acta trice. Miss Kellogg discovered the undeveloped purity, sweetness and power of her voice, and placed her under the care of our best musical teachers. Mme. Nilsson heard her sing at Dr. Chapin's church, New York city, and at the close of the services the Swedish Nightingale, with the enthusiasm of genius greeting genius, rushed up to her, introduced herself, embraced her, and said: " You can sing as well as I can; there are golden ducats in your voice." The growing talent of the fair young singer induced a number of admirers of *genkis to subscribe a sum of money sufficient to send her to Italy, where she received the most valuable instruction, and where renowned maestri predicted a brilliant career for her. Whatever success Miss Abbott may meet she owes to her own untiring energy and determination to succeed. . Another Wife's Protest. In the Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise is advertised a "notice" which reads: My husband, Michael McCarthy, advertises that I have left his bed and board. I wish to say that the bed was my own, bought with my own money, and that for the most of the time since we were married I hav^/urnished the board for both him anamyself. Last Sunday night he beat me, and forced me, half naked, to leave the house. On Sunday he came home beastly drunk and quarrelsome, and compelled me to seek a neighbor's protection. I am covered with wounds where he has beaten me. He has beat me and dragged me by the hair repeatedly, and is a ruffian and tyrant He has never clothed me, and has repeatedly robbed me of my little money and valuables. I could not get credit on his account. He lias none himself. The public may judge between us. Anxa McCarthy. A Good Idea.?A committee of the Cincinnati Bar association has applied for the disbarment of a member for advertising to procure 'divorces "legally and quietly" for incompatibility, etc., without any change of residence being necessary. As no divorce can be ob? taiued in the courts of Ohio without Eublicity, as incompatibility is not a iwful cause for divorce, and as a residence of one year is necessary before filing a petition, the lawyer in question, it is claimed, is a fraud, 1ERCI $2.00 per< CRUCIFIXION IN COLORADO. Horrible Rellctoni Rites of the Pesitentee. as Told by a Correspondent. The Denver Tribune gives a graphic account of horrible religious rites of the Penitentes performed in Colorado ilnrincr Passion Week. The account says : Perhaps some of your readers are not aware of the true meaning of the word " Penitente." A Penitente is one who is supposed to have committed some crime against society or the church, for which, although he may have escaped civil law, he is yet amenablecto the church, and must undergo a self-imposed punishment. A Penitente never does penance in a community where he is known. One who belongs here, for instance, dons a black mask and suddenly appears among strangers ii^ Comejas, Loma, or some other Mexioan town, while Penitentes from either of those points make their appearance at Oarheros. Not one of the eighteen at Garneros belonged there, and no one hod seen their faces or had the slightest idea from whence they came. These masks are simply black sacks drawn completely over the head and tied at the neck. One or two wore red masks. Whether or not it was a symbol of a different degree of crime, we failed to ascertain. Each Penitente wore simply a pair of the very thinnest kind of knit drawers. This, with the mask, was their only attire. They were formed in groups of four or five Penitentes, and six or seven attendants. The leader of each band walked before, carrying something similar to a watchman's rattle. Another attendant followed, playing a small reed flute, while the other attendants chanted in a low, monotonous voice some words in Spanish. All?both Penitentes and their attendants?carried an azote," or scourge. These were the dried leaves of the soap weed?common iq this country?firmly braided and twisted together into a sort of club, in ?the Widest part abont fonr inches, and three feet long. What we took at first to be red shawls was simply blood. They were actually dripping and drenching in' blood from head to foot. They had taken sharp flints and dug them into their flesh ail over the body nntil the blood fairly spurted from their bodies. They marched slowly to the chant, always kept up, and at every step1 gave them fearful blows with these "azotes." We could hear these blows ah eighth of a mile. Every two or three, minutes one would fall to the ground lifeless from loss of blood. The moment he fell an attendant would pick up his scourge and beat him with all his might on his bjjre body. He would again stagger to his jftet and again apply the soourge as long as his strength lasted; and when he fell again the same operation was repeated as before. Occasionally they would roll their scourges, wet with blood, in the sand and fine gravel, and lash themselves with renewed vigor. When one got very weak from loss of blood the attendants held him up and kept up the march in the prooession, while another beat him as they walked along. One Penitente had a long chain around each ankle, and the attendants, to vary the monotony, would drag him over the cactus plants and sharp stones by these chains. Occasionally they would jezk him almost dear from the ground, and always keep up their music. Another had his arms, fmm wrist tn shrive the elbow. this story : Myw jenme marsnaii, iu? fortunate heiress of $1,000,000, married the object of her affection, A. M. Brown, and started for England to claim the bequest. The cause of her leaving England was to avoid a hateful marriage, and having come out here was content to live as a servant, rather than live in affluence bv bartering away her better nature. Mi. Brown was not aware of the possibility awaiting his inamorata, but that need not cause all the young men of Napanee to "pile on the agony" in the back kitchens on Sunday evenings, unless they are willing to take the chances, which are about one in ten thousand. Better " marry for love and work for money," as the ancient adage has it. By her marriage Mrs.-Brown' forfeits a part of her fortune. ~ Unsatisfactory.?Anxious Lover : "Does your sister Annie ever say anything about me, sissy?" Sissy: "Yea; aha said if you had rockers on your shoes, they'd make such a nice cradle for my doll.' OOMft JUNE 1, 1876. Chinese Building Propensities. The Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise says : The Chinese quarter of the city is being rapidly rebuilt. The sons of Confucius work like beavers. They are busy early and late, and both underground and on the surface. In their part of the town the Celestials have kept pace with the march of rebuilding in that part of the burned district which is in the hands of the whites. In ordinary times no one ever hears of a Chinese carpenter, but now all are carpenters. One would suppose that "John," the manner in which his eyes are set in his head being considered, would never be able to saw a plank square across, yet he manages to make all manner of joints and bevels. When a house much above the ordinary size is to be built, they precipitate themselves upon it in hosts. They go at it much as they set about tunneling through a mountain. They swarm like ants, and like ants each is doing something. When a large building is being roofed by them, it seems, at a little distance, to be covered with a flock of giant crows, each pecking with all his might, and squawking with all his "main." When a Chinaman is excited and is rushing things, he is very unhappy unless allowed to "give tongue." To suddenly cut one of them short when in full vocal blast would be as difficult as to silence a donkey when in the midst of his bray. We have hinted at the underground labors of the Mongolians. It may be necessary to explain that once John Chinaman has come into possession of a piece of ground, he not unfrequently builds both up and down. He has an innate love of, subterranean dens and caves. In Chinatown, as it is being rebuilt, the underground apartments are likely to be even more abundant than in Chinatown as it is. In the "bombproofs " and other holes they are digging and building, and they will have their gambling and opium dens down below the sunlight,, underneath the ground. Sorrow by the Wayside. A family from southern Kansas, consisting of a husband, wife and three children, passed through Waco, Texas, in a covered wagon, and the following sad chapter in their history was related by the man. He stated that they left Kansas on the first of March, with the intention of joining a number of families formerly from Kansas, who are now living in Brown county. They traveled rapidly, and met with no mishaps until one Sunday morning, when their little babe, aged about eighteen months, was suddenly taken ill and died. The grief of the poor mother on the death of her child knew no bounds; in fact, she became temporarily insane, and when her husband wished to bury the body of the infant she clutched it wildly in her arms and fled from him and hid herself in the woods, where she remained over night along with the corpse. It was not until nearly noon on the following day that he found her. She was so completely exhausted by that time that he had but little difficulty in taking her back to the wagon. She was induced to take some nourishment, and soon afterward fell asleep. While she lay sleeping the little corpse was placed in a roughly constructed box, and the father and children buried it under a live oak tree by the roadside. The mother slept several hours, and awoke with her mind re stored. She assisted her husband in bnilding a fenoe around the lone little grave, and then, with many backward glances, the afflicted family pursued their weary journey. Fashion Notes. Clinging mantles ar6 fashionable wraps. The close polonaise is the accepted overdress for church and street occasions. Ecru batiste dresses will be made up with a great deal of silk. The capote remains a favorite style in bonnets both for straw "and silk. The long-pointed pocket or the newer square one is seen on almost all dresses. Vthere is a decided tendency to diagonal and shield fronts both in basques and polonaises. Gloves for evening wear are very long, requiring from six to twelve buttons. Square bows are a new feature in dress trimmings. > Squares and crescents of Mechlin laoe are now used for ornamenting the ends of China crepe neckties. Fine gingham, in gay colors, trimmed with Smyrna lace and elaborately made, will be the rage for country dresses during the summer. For general wear the undressed kid, or gant de Suede gloves, are most fashionable, and white undressed kids axe now selected for evening dress. Many of the linen collars are hemstitched, and are made so high that when they are worn it is almost impossible to turn the head without turning the body also. Romance in the Kitchen. The Napanee (Canada) Standard has ' " " i .11 1L. - - ^ AL. Annum. Single Copy 5 Cents. Items of Interest The "rinkinar" and "spelling bee" epidemic in England is there called * the foot and month disease." A man named Peters, eightv-iour years old, dropped dead the other day at Mendon, Vt., from excitement at seeing a fight between two men. Old steamers on the Atl&ntio lines when played oat for first-class tvaffic are switched off to the Mediterranean, India, and other way stations. English capitalists are said to have lost about five hundred millions of dollars in twelve months in Turkish, Egyptian, and Peruvian securities. An English judge has decided that a woman can keep her wedding ring and wear it when she pleases, but she cannot give it away without her husband's consent. ? Two hundred women of Guilford, Oonn., cleaned up the village green # with'rakes, hoes and spades. No men were permitted to participate in the ; work. The Ohio Legislature has passed a bill providing for the punishment by fine and imprisonment of all persons who get on or off railroad trains that are in . motion. The disproportion between the weight of a small boy and the noise of his boot heels as he walks out of church at the quietest moment is a curious problem in dynamioa. What exploration has accomplished in Africa may be judged by a single fact. In 1850 the area Of cultivated land in Egypt was 2,000,000 acres; in 1874 it was 5,000,000. An Iowa court has decided that if a man engages himself to be married and then commits suicide, the defrauded party can prooeed against his estate lor breach of promise. A shocking case of infanticide occurred at St. Valerien, Canada, when a woman named Guertin, annoyed at her infant's cryingj seized it by the heels and beat out its brains against a heavy wooden chest An exchange stsks: " What are our young men doing?" We can't answer for rest of the country, but around here they are engaged mainly in trying to lead a nine-dollar existence on a sevendpilar salary. It is mentioned as a singular fact that Solomon never laughed, and was a very melancholy man. It should be remembered, however, that he had nine hundred wives tc advise him what to do when he had a sere throat. A cat at a Detroit fire rescued her kittens by bravely entering the burning building and dragging them out; and har reward is adoption by a wealthy old woman, who will" feed her on dainties during the rest of her life. It may not be comforting to Black Hills miners to be informed that the Sioux, Blackfeet and Assinaboinee have held many conferences of late, and that they contemplate a raid on the settlers as soon as the roads are passable. A man who was reoently hanged in Canada for killing his landlord made a speech on the scaffold, in which he expressed a hope that this " might be a warning to other landlords who persisted in dunning their poor tenants." Sixty years ago, the Saranao river, which flows out of the 44 North Woods " into Lake Champlain, was navigable for sloops for some distance. Now it is a small stream, hardly navigable for small boats, except during the spring freshets. Our race of useful fruits iis now so extensive and of such excellent quality, that to secure an improved variety is no easy matter. Greater and better results can be achieved through improved cultivation than in the multiplication of mere varieties. * McCrispin?44 Quite right to get a pair of shoes, Molly, your fut '11 look lllegant in leather." Molly?44 But sure I can't pay for them till Christmas." McC. (after a thoughtful pause)? 44 Troth, and it is a pity to hide such a purty fut, acushla." The Bev. Grant Powers, of Haverhill, N. H., rebuked an ignorant preacher for exercising- the office of priest. He replied: 44 We are oommsnded to preach the gospel to every critter." 44 But," ? Ana.tr {a Tint (Vim. StUU lUNl'lO) CTtll ? mw manded to preach the gospel." Good beefsteak is twenty cents a pound in the Black Hills ; deer meat is twelve to fifteen cents a pound, mechanics get $3.50 to $4 a day, and laborers $2 to $2.50. The supply of men far exceeds the demand. 0 aster City has already had a wedding, a birth, and a law sain Mrs. Allen,, of Omaha, after twentyseven years of childless married hfe, gave birth to a boy, and in announcing ' the happy event to her relatives in Maine she wrote : " Long have I wandered in lonely cheerless gloom, bat thank Heaven, I now bask in the son-shine!" The Bassian goverment has in con- ^ templation a railroad through central Asia over 2,000 miles in length, the estimated eoet of which is $200,000,000. If this enterprise is commenced it will open a very considerable market for steel rails and railroad supplies. A ten-year-old boy was arrested in Biohmond, Va., tor disturbing public worship at St Peter's cathedral. The oonrt ordered him to be taken to the city jail and whipped bv his mother, and a police sergeant tied him to the whipping post, and the mother thrashed the vnnnenter sonndlv with a strap. The growing superfluity of brigadiers in the army recalls what O'Connell said to a British officer when he was being cross-examined. " Well, soldier," said the Irish barrister. , "lam no soldiery I am an officer, "was the indignant interruption of the irate Briton. " Well," said O'Connell; 11 well, offioer, who is no soldier "? They were digging a ditch and the day was hot, " Pat," said one, " this is mighty hard worruok we're at" " It is indade, Jimmy; but fat koinu of worruok would ye Ioik if ye coold get it ?" Pat leaned tnonght/ully on liis shovel, and wiping his forehead with the back of his hand, said: " Well, for a noice, aisy, claue busioew, I think I'd loik to i be a bishop." bound round and round closely with rawhide thongs, in such a manner as to completely stop the circulation, and from the ankle to above the knee in the same fix. The line of maaoh was generally from the lower cross to a log cabin, where a relay of Penitentes awaited the return of each party. Before we reached the Carneros two had died from the effeots-tof the scourging, and from a gentleman who left there we hear that three more are not likely to recover. We were told while there, by one or two outsiders, that one was nailed to a cross up the gulch, and out of sight from where we were, but we were not permitted to go up to see him. He was dead. Nails had been driven through his hands and feet, and he was actually crucified. Last year, upon this same spot, a man was crucified also. He lived twelve hours, and was not taken down and buried for two or three days, for fear he plight not be quite dead. Now this is not romanoe, as every word can be substantiated. Mayor Barker witnessed these performances with myself, Mr. Helphenstine and his wife, and Mrs. BoyaL We were the only Americans upon the ground that day. These things took place* within a mile of a well-traveled road, and in sight of two or three ranches. Not one ranchman dare interfere or object in the least to this business, as his stock and houses and barns are at their mercy. Emperor of Shopkeepers. The London Spectator calls the late A. T. Stewart " the emperor of shopkeepers," and pronounces the reported estate of ?16,000,000 sterling perhaps the largest fortune thatjever was atone man's entire disposal, and certainly the largest that was ever m&le out of a shop or accumulated by trade of any kind in one man's lifetime. It is four times the fortune acquired by the late Mr. Morrison, five times that of Mr. Thornton, two aqd a half times the highest estimate over formed of the wealth of Mr. Brown, of Liverpool, and probably exceeds that of any business man now alive and without partners, exoept, perhaps, Commodore Vanderbilt, the Amercan railway speculator, who is credited by rumor?which may, however, be exaggerated?with a larger accumulation still. < Practicing. There are some phases of savage life that it might not be amiss to adopt as laws of civilized cxytenwe. 9at instance, a squaw belonging to the Indians occupying a portion Of Modoc county,. Gal., reoently undertook the practice of medicine, and tried her skill upon one of thp tribe who happened to be ill. The result was the patient died, and the squaw, in accordance with a custom among the Indians,'was pnt to death for undertaking that which she eould not accomplish.