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YOL. II.?NO. 29. BEAUFORT, S. C., JUNE 7, 1876. $1.50 PER ANNUM.
The Burden of the Wind.
Oh, wind I fresh wind of springtime,
What hast thon borne away ?
A bnrden of light-winged moments
k That hovered, and would not Btay ;
The music of children's laughter
From meadows all dewy and sweet,
Where primrose buds and cowslips
Are trodden by joyous feet.
Oh, wind ! toft wind of summer,
What hast thou borne away ?
A burden of love and longing,
The dream of a golden day ;
Tho murmurs of passionate voices,
The exquisite perfume pressed
From the heart of the rose that nestled
? In tho beloved ono's breast,
Ob, wind ! wild wind of winter,
What hflfit thAM VkArnn awan O
A burden of mournful remembrance,
The sigh of the year's decay ;
The skeleton leaves of the forest,
Tho drift from the ohill snow-wreath,
And tho prayer of a soul that is passing
Into the shadow of death.
MISS PEVERILL'S PRIDE.
i "I never heard of such impertinence,"
said Agnes Peverill, throwing down the
letter she held, and half crying in her
anger. " How dare he write such things
to mo ? What business has he to love
me ? He never would have dared write
like this if?if papa were alive and we
had not lost our money."
"You may thank yourself for this,"
said Grandmother Peverill, looking over
her apectacli-s with an air of concern.
< < "V 1 J ''
- j.on uavw umuseu yourseu consiaerably
with Harold Helper, to my certain
knowledge. When one dance?, one
must pay the pi|>er."
"I don't uuderstan 1 yon, grandma.
I certainly never gave bim a shadow of
encouragement. I have guessed for
some time that he?that he didn't dislike
me, you know; but I never dreamed
that he would ('are say as much. Papa's
clerk ! Why, I've seen bim sweeping
ont the office, and his lingers as inky as
Caddy Jelly by's."
' Men are audacious creatures," observed
grandma; "but if you knew that
ho didn't * xactly bate you, you oughtn't
to have ncc -pted him as oscort when you
were le lrning to ride. When your papa
brought him home to dine, you noedn't
1 havo made yourself so attractive, need
you? You might have had a headache
in your own room, or an invitation out.
You needu t have talked pretty nonsense
with him by the hour, while your father
and I took our nfter-dinner naps, need
you?"
"One cau't help flirting a little,
grandma."'
"What, with one's father's clerk?
And x>o doubt one can't help working
him slippers and braiding watch chains
eitherf"
"Why, of course, oue gives birthday
and Christmas gifts to all one's acquaintances,
even to old Biddy, ihe pauper.
One doesn't expect them to presume on
iXJUl'j UOITCIClt
"Au I bo you tbiak that Mr. Helper is
presuming when he offers you his heart's
love and all hi worldly prospects. Why
so ?"
" I think he is presuming, because
the Peverills are not of his order, grandmamma.
They came over in the Mayflower;
th< y di amended from Ijord Peverill;
they graduated at colleges, have
enjoyed elegant accomplishments ever
since the flood, and have never soiled
their hands with the grime of labor;
while Mr. Helper's ancestors were illiterate
mechanics, who murdered the
king's Euglish, Why, hii own father
wdH a stonecutter. I've heard papa shy
so."
"And supposing that yours had been
a mechanic, what objeotion would you
have urged?"
" Why, it's not a supposable case,
grandmamma?a Peverill a stonecutter I"
" But supposing you were not a
Ml 0??
x uvorrnt
" My imagination is not bold enough
for such a flight. You see, I have all
the prejudices of my olass. I would
ohoose unhappiness sooner than marry
beneath me."
"Tlieu I am to understand that you
consider yourself superior to Harold
Helper. It is some years since he figured
as your father's inky-tingered clerk,
remember. Sinoe then he has written a
book, ho has invented a machine, he has
lectured to scientists. Wherein does
your superiority consist? What have
you.been doing in tho meantime?"
, "I have been rubbing papa's gouty
toe, and accepting the attentions of
Miles Bond."
" You don't mean "?
"I menu tlint I shall probably marry
Miles Bond somo fine day, if nothing
nappe ns."
" Marry Milos Bond J" repeated
grandmamma, as if ahe had said that
she was going to marry the khan of
Tartary.
"YouBeemto bo astonished, grandmamma."
" Yes?a little. He's a born aristocrat."
" Exactly?there's a pair of lis. I
shall be entitled to consideration in the
beau monde as his wife, don't yon see?"
For it must be confessed that since Mr.
Pcvcrill's deatn and insolvency the beau
monde had looked coldly upon his pretty
daughter, in spite of the Peverill coat
of arms and the luxuriance of the family
tree.
" Then you do not care a fig for Mr.
Helper ?" asked grandma.
" Is it necessary for me to deny the
soft impeachment, when I have almost
made up my mind to aooept another?"
" When I was a girl"? began the old
lady.
You loved brocades and brocatelles e
as well as your granddaughter." r
" But I did not sell myself for them.
And so you are really engaged to Miles I
Bond, and there's no help for it ?" t
' Well, not really engaged; I won't 1
give my word?at least not quite yet. i
You see, grandmamma, one hesitates to s
rivet the chain, as they say in novels, c
And then Miles says he will wait; he i
won't hurry me ; he'd rather wait a I
century in sweet suspense, as he calls it, I
than to be refused at once. But I sup- !*
pose it will all end one way." t
" And what will y .m answer to Harold a
Helper ?" r
" Heaven only knows. It will not do 1
to tell a man who offers one Irs heart <
that he ought to have known better. c
'Nor that you will not marry him r
U Li- #-1.1 ' ?
uvmiuiK) 11 in itibiier was a stonecutter. ' t
Mr. Helper accepted liis refusal, how- 1
ever, with a good grace. Ho made no t
fuss about it; he merely assured her s
that her happiness would always bo fc
dearer to him than his own.
" That's the letter of a gentleman," i
said g'andma, " if his father was forty a
times a stonecutter."
"Pshaw!" said Miss Agnes, tearing I
it into fragments; but, curiously enough, 1
gathering them together as soon as
Mrs. PeveriH'8 back was turned, as if p
they were sweet to her as scattered rose
leaves. Perhaps she was thinking of
tlio days when Mr. Holper was her
father's clerk, and had taught her chess
of winter eveniugs?da\ s when she was <
not so worldly minded, and more romantic,
and didn't guess the worth of c
position a id long descent. Perhaps she 1
regretfully remembered the spring i
mornings when they pushed through
the woods for wild flowers and ferns, s
when he made a quaint album for her of 1
pressed seaweeds? she had it hidden r
away somewhere now. a
" It wouldn'tdo," shesaid, half aloud, u
answering some unspoken thought. "I i
should always be haukering for family I
and money. One must give up some- s
thing; it may as well be lovo as any- c
tiling. Oh, if my father had only been I
a stonecutter, too!" i
Grandma Peverill met Mr. Helper in 1
the street later. " I hope you don't j
mean to desert us," said she, " because I
that foolish chit of an Agnes doesn't i
know when her bread is well battered. 1
Remember it's a woman's privilege to i
change her mind. If you neglect us, t
'You shut your life from happier chance,' ^
as the poet says. Nobody knows what i
may happen." <
" But I hear that Miss Peverill has ]
encouraged Mr. Bond," Baid Harold, i
helplessly.
" And you're going to stand aloof aud i
let that little Miles Bond walk over
you? Now let mo tell you that I mean i
to make you and Miles executors of my
will; so I'd like to keep on friendly i
terms with you?dou't you see ?'
"Thank you; but aren't we friends, 3
near or apart?" t
" 'Tis said I hat absence conquers
lovo," she laughed; "and haven't you 1
beard of tbe virtue that resides in pro- t
pinquity ? If Agnes sees Miles every e
day, and you ouoe iu six weeks, which t
do you thiuk she will be most likoly to
love best ?"
"It is not likely that she will over e
love me, whatever happens." s
" Who said she would never love you?
Aren't you worth forty Miles Bonds ?"
" Certainly not in Miss Peverill's regird."
" Prithee, what do you know of her
regard, Sir Faintheart ?"
"Very little, to be sure."
' ' He either fears bin fate too much,
Or his deaei t-i are Bmall,
That dares not pnt it to the touch,
To gain or lone it all.' "
"Haven't I put my fate to the touch,
Mrs. Peverill, and haven't I found that
my deserts are miserably small ?"
" Dear me ! I .see that you don't
know that women blow twenty ways of
a morning. Who knows but she is crying
her pretty eyes out this minute, and
wishing with all her silly heart that she
had it to do over again ?"
" Miles knows," laughed Harold. c
" Come and see who knows best. An
old woman's advice isn't to be sneezed I
at. I refused my first lover myself, be- i
cause I thought he'd come back and
t i.iso mo into it, but he never did.
Served me right, too." f
And Harold did as he was told. He t
made himself intimate at the Peverilla'
as of old. He was there in season and 1
out of season. He bore with the i
caprioes of Agnes and the condescen- 1
sions of his rival. He was often left to
the tender mercios of Qrandma Peverill
while Agnes and Miles made the garden
or tho river echo with their songs. He
came and went liko a shadow. When
Agnes chose to listen, he let loose his en- i
thusiosm; when sho gavo him tho cold 1
shoulder, he accepted it without a miir- 1
mur?as if one should bo grateful for (
any gift of hers?and fell back upon the t
old lady's unfailing kindness. One day, i
however, even Grandma Peverill failed i
u:? at.. 1?i ?j 1.-1- #
mm. outs wukuu mmueiuy i rum a
doze, find asked : "Is it really love?"
glancing after the two, peltiug each
other with roses in the garden.
" It looks like it," gasped Harold.
"Time will prove?time, that nnlooks
all secrets and discloses all impostures.
Miles is of the earth, earthy. He
loves floe society and grandfathers
and coats of-arms. . It is a orime in his
eyes to be born without a silver spoon
in one's mouth."
Theu she fell into a doze again. The
shadows draped themselves about her ;
a star came out and leaned to look into
the window ; a late bird tilted on a
spray near by, and made a sudden gush
of music through the place ; the murmur
of laughing voices came faintly toward
tbem on tho breeze. But Harold listen- 1
k1 alone, for Grandma Peverill was aloady
far away.
A few weeks later Miles Bond and
dr. Helper were engaged looking over 1
lie private papers of the lat > Mrs*
Peverill, as her executors. That modest
>ortion of her fortune which her son's
peculations had left intact she had be- .
[ueathed to" Agnes. Presently Miles
aised his eyes from the paper he had
>een inspecting. "A rascally piece of
main ess," he groaned, between his teeth,
ihould he quietly light his cigar with
he paper, bury its contents in oblivion,
nd marry Agues, and go on his way
ejoicing ? No : perish the thought ? A
Bond, of the Bonds of Bondholder, who
jould trace their lineage to the Con[uoror
? A thousand times no! He
oado a desperate resolve, and passed
he sheet to Harold, It was merely a
etter from the late Mrs. Peverill, seti:.g
forth a certain family matter, which
lio had deemed it wise that thev shrmld
;now, not as executors, bnt as lovers.
" Of course this will not affect your
nterest," said Herold, filing the paper
way, qnito at his ease.
"It might not," sneered Miles, "if
' wore not a Bond, with family credit
to sustain."
" And yet," said tho other, " Shukesteare
tells us that
" ' Love is not love, which alters
When it alteration fiuds.' "
" Shakeipeire be hauged !" quoth tho
juondam lover.
Tho following week, when Mr. Helper
Iroppod iu to pay his respects to Agnes,
le found her watering her beds of miglouette
and pansies.
"Oh," she said, presently, and half
hyly, "the oddest thing has happened !
! must tell somebody ! How dear grauduamma
would laugh if she were here,
md say it served me right. I received
\ note yesterday (you could hardly call
t a billet doux, though it was from
ililos), and what do you think ? Ho
lays in it?there, turn your eyes away,
lon't look at me so while I toll you?he
)3gs me to release him from an engagenent
which, upon close examination of
lis heart?under the microscope, I supjoso?he
finds himself unable to fulfill 1
Uoff you must know that there never
vas an engagement at all between us ;
le just teased my soul out of me to
narry him, and I promised. Only to
hink of it 1 A Peverill, a descendant of
>ue Robert Peverill, who figured in the
Crusades, jilted by Miles Bond 1 It
nust be that grandmamma's jointure
iisappointed the poor youth. Motto :
Never appoint as your executor the man
vhom you wish to marry your heir."
" You don't seem to take the affair
nnch to heart," said Harold.
<( l\AAflnsA mr liaarf wnan'f
t it."~
"What under heaven wore you thinkng
of, then I"
"I was thinking whether or no you?
rou had changed your mind, sir;
whether you would ever again dare "?
"I dare do all that doth becomo a
over," asseverated Harold, inclining to
he level of her lips. " Will you reconlider
the question I asked you a year
igo, darling?"
And Agnes reconsidered.
Mrs. Helper had been married a year
ind better, when it occurred to her, in
in idle moment, to overhaul Grandma
Poverill's papers, now that they were her
>wn possessions; and when she heard
Elarold calling her she went slowly out
? meet him, with ono of them crushed
n her soft hands.
" What have you thore, darling?" he
isked.
" And you knew it all the whilo !" she
inswerod, irrelevantly; "you knew I
vas not a Peverill, descended from the
3rusader; you knew that I had been
ulopted from a foreign foundling
iHylum ! And yet you loved me ! and
pet you married me. Agnos Nobody 1"
md Mrs. Helper begun to ory, and alowed
herself to be olasped in tho arms
)f a stonecutter's son, and found comfort
in it.
" 'Love is not lovo, which alters
When it alteration finds,' "
laid Harold.
"Bnt I may bo the daughter of a cob
uior, 01 a pauper, or worse, bus
jobbed.
"You are my wife, and I love you."
" Then I would rather be your wife
;han the daughter of a king," said alio,
uniting through her tears.
Mr. Helper had forgotten to burn the
otter which Grandma Peverill had
written to lior executors, and so .pride
lad a fall.?Bazar.
The European (Drain Trade.
The Mark Lane Express, in its review
of the British corn trade, Bays
iliore has been no noticeable change in
;he aspect of the country. Ail vegetaiion
is making slow progress, owing to
;he prevalent cold winds. The season
n Scotland in much behindhand; adverse
weather has caused seeding to be
inusnally protracted. In the trade a
'.nndnn/tTT I/t A Uaa..
ivuu?<uojr l/W IUU1 DCK)DU OUblVlbjr UUO UCT5U
apparent, millors buying more freely,
iml speculators showing considerable iu;erest
in the present course of prices,
rrunsactions for the continent at our
ocal markets have l?-on only of a tentative
nature. Some small quantities of
both English and foreign wheat have
seen taken for export. The export demand
for oats having abated, prices dedined
slightly. The supplies of maize
rnvo been sufficient to check any advance.
Continental advioes, exoept from
Franoe, are fairly satisfactory as to the
jondition Of crops, although want of
lunsbine has been felt there also. Navigation
has not been resumed at St.
Petersburg, and prices of wheat are
very high, both there and at Odessa.
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
I
tui
Th? Convention nnd Electoral Calculation* .
m Illade by I.eadlBK fflca la Both Parties.
NX
Thoro is a good deal of guessing abont iar
Presidential chances just now, as the eif
conventions draw near, and political ex- au
perts go abont with slates tolerably well tai
made up in their pockets. Tlio New co;
York Herald figures on the Republican -^i
convention as^jollbws : Of tho total
number of delegates, 742. Blaine, of aft
Maine, will have 310 ; Conkling, of New to
York, 288 ; Morton, of Indiaua, 224, and an
Bristow and others, 100. These calcula- frc
tions, tho editor says, are the result of ar(
much figuriug on tho part of leading mr
politicians, and it believes tho votes on 1
the first ballots will vary very little from m(
the figures as given. ]at
Of the Democratic convention the co
same authority says that tho opening
struggle will be between Tilaen, of New
York, nnd Hendricks, of Indiana. Judge pr
Davis, of Illinois, will not develop much co
strength at the outset, but his friends Ei
will hold his name back until the an
strength of various candidates is de- wi
veloped. It is claimed that on the first pp
ballot Tilden will have 294 of tho 742 Qa
votes, and that Hendricks will at any
1,1 me iinve zoz votes against any Eastern
man.
The calculations made by well in- no
formed men of both sides show singular ev
discrepancies, but each side, it will be ob- va
served in the followiug lists, claims New mi
York. The following is a table made by co
Republicans : m<
Hem. Hep. \ Hem. Hep. 6V
Alabama 10 ? Mississippi 8 ? iui
Arkansas 6 ?j Missouri 15 ?
California. ? C Nebraska ? 3
Connecticut 0 ? Nevada ? 3 ^
Colorado 3 ? New Hampshire ? 5
Delaware 3 ?Now Jersey ? 9 ric
Florida . 4 ? New York.*..... ? 35 pii
Georgia 11 ?North Carolina. 10 ? ar,
Illinois ? 21 Ohio ? 22 ,
Indiana ? 15 Oregon 3 ? .
Iowa ? 11 Pennsylvania... ? 29
Kansas ? 5 Rhode Island.. ? 4 ru
Kentucky 12 ?South Carolina. 7 ? alf
Louisiana 8 ? Tennessee 12 ? vft
Maine ? 7 j Texas 8 ? ;1
Maryland 8 ?JVermont ? 5
Massachusetts.. ? 13 Virginia 11 ? Q11
Michigan ? 111 SVest Virginia.. 5 ? Pi
Minnesota ? 5l Wisconsin ? 10 C<
(p|
Total* 160 219
The following is a Democratic calcula- th
tion: ri<
D em. Rep. Dem.Rtrp. pj.
Alabama 10 ? Mississippi..... 8 ? p(
Arkansas G ? Missouri 15 ? pi,
California U ? Nebraska. ? 3
Colorado 3 ? Nevada 3 ? P?
Connecticut.... G ? New Hajppshire ? 5 St
Delaware 3 ?New Jersey.... 9 ? Qj
Florida 4 ? New York 35 ?
Georgia 11 ? North Carolina. 10 ?
Illinois ? 21 Ohio ? 22 ari
Indiana 15 ? Oregon 3 ? an
Iowa ? 11 Pennsylvania .. ? 29 tit
Kansas ? 5 Rhode Island.. ? 4 oi.
Kentnokv .. 12 ? Snnth Ctrnlina ? t
Louisiana 8 ? ronnoHtjeo 12 ? . .
Maine ? 7 Texas 8 ? lft"
Maryland 8 ? Vermont ? 5 A(
Massachusetts.. ? 13 Virginia 11 ? th
Michigan ? 11 West Virginia.. 5 ? tje
Minnesota. ? 51 Wisconsin ? 10
Totals 211 158 i"i
Pr
th
Sleight of Hand Shooting. th
A murder caso awaiting trial in India
was, according to tho India papers, ex- SQ
peotod to give rise to much legal discus- J
siou as to whether the circumstances
justified the charge. A juggler who al- ^
lcged that ho possessed some power
which rendered him "bullet proof," invited
tho prisoner in the case to aim at
him with a loaded mu <ket, assuring him
that he might do so without the slightest
fear of producing any painful results. *1
The prisoner accepted the kind iuvitation,
and with a loaded musket presented
to him by tho juggler immediately "5
sent a bullet through his head It is J*1
urged that as there was no intention on *1
the part of the prisoner to kill tho de- j"
ceased, the charge of murd? r cannot be
maintained. The juggler was thorough- Jrt
ly confident of his own invulnerability,
and several of his relations who were to j1-1'
be called as witnesses for tho defence
were prepared to prove that, although ftQ
several times shot at before, he was ?v
never lmrt. Some few years ago in ltl
England a "wizard" at one of the vo
theaters begged one of the and enoo as cf).
a favor to fire a gan at him. The spec- c"
tator thus invited loaded the gun with m'
a ehargo of shot ho had brought with e.('
him for the express purpose of te-ting rV
the alleged invulnerability of the wizard.
The rosult was painful in the ex- Kr
treme. The wizard's face was peppered j11'
with tho shot, and the spectator who
tired tho gun was given into the custody 11 1
of the police. Both narrowly escaped ,n'
death?ono by tho gun, the other by the ^
gallows. 811
til
The Khedive of Egypt. Br
tli
E. D. Holton, one of the Centennial mi
commissioners now in Egypt, writes mi
hrirriA fhaf Iia Itoa flvo mining* 41%
state, who taken a deep interest in tho
Oentennial. Mr. Holton says : The
main point I had in view in meeting the^
secretary of state was thin : Would the*
khedive seud TueQk Pasha, his oldest til
son and heir to the government, to 17
America? The minister replied that the 17
khedivo had anuouuced his purpose to fei
do so, and iu auswer to my inquiry if of
there was any objection in giving noto- do
nety to that purpose, said there was not. is
Therefore it is reasonable to expect that B?
this fine looking and accomplished gr
young Egyptian will be at Philadelphia, au
Accompanied bv our consul I had an in- de
tor view with this princo at his own pa
palace, and found him much interested M
iu his proposed journey. His father as lie
Jet had not given him his orders, but he tb
a?l many inquiries to make about his he
journey, whioh I was happy at being ci
able to answer. * W
In Agricultural Hall.
Tho number of exhibitors in Agriculral
hall is, of Americans, 1,450; of i
reignors, about 800. In the oenter of I
9 hall is a fountain, said to be the J
gest in this oountry, discharging s
jhty gallons a minute. It would be -j
almost endless task to mention in deI
the exhibits of oonfectionery, tobao- c
s, prepared meats, fruits, bread, f
nes, seeds, starch and the like, but it
II be interesting to note many here,er,
and especially will it be profitable ,
give descriptions of the wool, cottons "
il other raw materials that form fabrics ^
>m all parts of the world and which
9 scientifically arranged, not in small 4
isses but in commercial packages. 4
The display of agricultural implemts,
or, what is the same thing, of 8
>or saving machinery, is the most j
replete ever made in this, and probay
in any other country, and the work- _
inship of the specimens is remarkably
aisewofthy. It is yet too soon to
mpare our implements with those of
iropo, Africa and Asia, as these last
3 not vpt fnllv on AtliihiHnn and
len tho proper time oomes it will be ^
ghly proper to place the implements e
ed by our fathers along side those
lich we use to-day. _
Of all tho foreign exhibitors in this *
jricultural hall l.one is in such readi- ?
rs, and probably none is so varied and e
en exhaustive, as that of Brazil. The 8
st range of exhibits of the shop, farm,
luufactory, mine and forest; the taste; i
rreetness, carofulness and good judg- ?
jut shown in the collection of Brazil, '
en in this department of agriculture, _ F
licate a directing mind. ' t
Brazil has done everything that seems
ssible to do to make known to the t
>rld the vast natural resources and <3
lies of this great South American em- t
re. From the province of Amazouas o
3 shown india rubber, tobacco, ooffee, d
:e, cotton, sarsaparilla, a peculiar kind
maize or corn, but the chief article is e
bber. Para shows much of the same, 0
10 cocoa, which iB extensively culiited;
sngar, arrowroot, and various r
Is. Maranhao, cotton of superior j
lality, rice, coffee, indigo, tapioca,
auhy, sugar, coffee, woods, leather,
rara, tobacco, sugar, rice, farina, oof- f
3. Rio Grande de Norte, coooa proicts,
medicinal plants, etc. Parahyba, v
e same. Norte, sugar, ootton, woods, 1
je, wax; but at present the other c
ovinces need only be named, viz.:
3rnambuco, Alagoas, Sergipo, Bahia, *
ipirito Santo, Rio Janeiro, S. Paulo, 1
irana, Santa Catharina, Rio Grande do *
il, Minas, Gerdes, Goyaz and Mai to i
rosso, all of which are more or less 1
presented. Many of these provinces
s largely engaged in wool growing a
d in cattle breeding, and the oapabili- t
>b for extension in these branches are t
nply enormous. r
Most of the other foreign nations are e
:o in displaying their goods in the
jricultural hall, and in a few instances j
eir cargoes, having been unexpectedly t
layed, are but just arrived. Spain, r
issia, Portugal and Norway are plao- i
g theirs in position. The agricultural e
oducts of the French are behind, but
ey will soon be on hand, and among
e other nations nearly ready are the *
atherlands, Venezuela, Japan, Austria,
-ussia, England and Italy. One reaa
for this delay arises out of the great *
lount of work these exhibitors have
en doing in other departments where
oir displays are complete.
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Marrying Intemperate Men. c
In a case of divorce heard by the i
anklin county court, Vermont, divoroe J
is asked for on the ground of intoler- *
le severity, and was refused for the
no being. The St. Albans Messenger 11
ves the following account of the suit; ?
jo evidence showed gross ill-treatment 1
tho wife, tho petitioner, by thehus- *
ud when intoxicated, and that he was ^
squently in that condition. At the T
aring tli6 court asked the petitioner,
e wife, if sho knew when she married (
r husband that he was a drinking man, z
d sho replied that she did. After the t
idonce was in the court remarked that t
oy woro not prepared to grant the di- J
ice at the nresent time, but winhnrl t.r? a
usider the case, anil that they were in- t
ued to think that, when a woman c
irried a drinking man with fnll knowlge
of hia habit, she must atand by the ^
k she had knowingly taken, and that a a
vorce should not bo granted on the j
onud of abnae by the hoaband while g
toxicateil, he at other times treating c
r well. On tlio coming in of the court r
tew days subsequent they further oom- <
tinted on the case and the rule that in fo
minds of the court should apply in
ch cases ; and Baid that in this case
o habit in the husband had become so ,
oss, having grown upon him dnring
o five years that tho parties hail been '
irried, and the wife had suffered so j
uch from him that they would grant .
o divorce in this case.
E
That Brilliant West Star.
A curious advertisement appeared in
e Londonderry Journal, April 30,
83 : " Whereas on February the 14th,
83, it pleased kind Providence to oon..
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i un luiiiuirw ^ruiv, ui Dliruttliy, |)HriHn *
Tamlaghtfinlagan aud county of Lon- I
mderry, a man child, whose appearance ^
promising and amiable, and hopes the ?
dug who lirst caused him to exist will (
ant him grace. Also in consideration
d remembrance of the many heroic i
eds done by that universally renowned t
triot, General Washington, the said j
atthow Neely has done himself the t
mor of calling the said man child by i
e name of George Washington Neely, t
i being the first child named or so i
Hod in this kingdom by the name of \
ashiugton, that brilliant West star." \
What he Expects.
The following poetical advertisement
dicates humorously, but very truthally,
how much a man expects of his
rife:
ranted?A wife wh > oan handle a broom
'o brush down the oobwebe and sweep op her
room;
Jan make deoent bread that a fellow oan eat,
lot the horrible compound you everywhere
meet;
Vho knows how to boil, to fry, and to roast,
lake a good oup of tea and a platter of toast;
L woman that washes, oooks, irons, and
stitohee,
ind sews up the rips in a fellow's old clothes,
uad makes her own garments?an item, too,
which is
k> horrid expensive, as every one knows ;
i common sense creature, and still with a
mind
'o teach and to guide?exalted, refined :
sort of an angel and housemaid oombined.
Items'of Interest.
The first "trick horse" on reoord?
he wooden one in which the Greeks
n to red Troy.
With a sigh of relief we annonnoe the
act that daring the past week no oaadilate.for
the Presidency has been aocnsd
of murder, forgery, burglary, or aron.
There is life in the old land yet
A Boston firm is said to be doing an
mmense business in buying damaged
nd refuse butter at fire cents a pound,
rorking it over and ooloring it, and then
mtting it on the market as fresh country
utter.
The Washington Jiepublican, with
ears in its eyes, says : One of the sadlest
things to contemplate just now is
he large number of persons in this
ountry who have no relations in Philalelphia.
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Now subscribe for the newspaper. An
minent physician says: One of the
heapest and most efficient chest proteoore,
when unexpectedly exposed to oold,
aw winds, is a folded newspaper iiyride
he vest.
A Harrisburg man who boasted he'd
tever seen the horse that could throw
dm, was landed in a druggist show
rindow five minutes afterward, amid a
horns of "There's a light in the winlow
for thee."
In Nevada, when a building falls and
lills two or three people, the jury first
innt up the contractor and hang him,
tnd then bring in a verdict that nobody
s to blame but the contractor, who cantot
be found.
An Irishman, noticing a lady pass
long, espied two strips depending from
inder the lady's cloak. Not knowing
hat these were styled sashes and in the .
ight place, he exclaimed: "Faith,?
na'am, your gallusses are untied."
A quarrelsome hnsband and wife in
owa decided to separate and divide
heir property evenly. The land was
neasured off into two farms, and the
louse and barn were out in halves, and
aoh half removed a short distanoe.
"Yon have a considerable floating
>opnlation in this village, haven't yon?
eked a stranger of one of the citizens of
i villago'on the Mississippi " Well,
res?rathei," was the reply; "abont half
he year the water is up to the seoond
tory windows."
The superstition of sailors was strik glv
illustrated in Chicago a few days
go.' The straits of Mackinaw opened
in Thursday by the breaking up of the
oe, and on Friday the news reached
jhicago, bnt not a vessel would leave
>ort until Saturday.
Sometimes you see a sun browned
nan with a slouch hat, and with the
mds of his fingers turned down as if .he
magined himself abont to strike the
:eys of a piano. He is not a pianist,
ie is a base ball player, and his Angers
nil always stay that way.
A company has been organized at
lalifornia to manufacture sugar from
nelons, which are to be raised on a
ract of reclaimed land in the delta of
he Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers.
i correspondent of the Baltimore dim
ays the melons make mnoh better sugar
han beets, and can be raised much
iheaper.
A Chicago man handed in an adver'crtisement
offering $3 for the return of
> bull terrier, but it was printed #25.
Ie then sent in another notjoe offering
>5.00, and it was published $500, the
onseqnenoe of whioh was that his
esidenoe was besieged by owners of
'dorga" leading a countless host of
mil terriers. The reward was not paid.
A blind boy, who was taken into an
levator for the first] time in a Cleveland
lotel, set np the most terriflo screaming
rhen the cab began to rise, and would
inf. Ka nnlil if wan
le explained that he supposed that be
tad been misled, and was being taken
lown into the dissecting room of a
nodical college to be used as a subject.
The Canadian minister o! the interior
sports that there are 91,910 Indiana in
he Dominion, of whioh number 10,000,
>olonging to nntreatied tribes, are sailed
between Peace river and the United
Jtates boundary. In the five older
provinoea, they have personal property
vorth $489,234 ; real estate worth $7,133,708,
and in invested capital the sum
>f $2,844,972.
A strange custom has been preserved
n Nottingham, England, from remote
imes. One of. the heads of the family,
previous to looking the street door for
he last time in the year, carefully deposits
a gold ooin in olAe proximity to
he door, where it is allowed to remain
intil the new year has been ushered in.
riiis is believed to insure the supply of
noney for the years' necessities.