The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, January 25, 1877, Image 1
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VOL. Y. NO. 8,
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Tupper's Tribute to America.
Great and understanding nation!
Ikar with one whose humble pen
Sends this hearty commendation
Flying tnrongn tne mowns 01 men;
Not in vain presumptuous daring.
But with gratitude sincere,
As your thousand bounties sharing
This Centennial happy year.
None need doubt my faithful fitness
Thus^o judge, and so to speak.
As a true and honest witness,
Mindful, though his words be weak.
Since I may not tell out strongly
All the best 1 feci and .see,
I.est suspicion, sneering wrongly
Find a flatterer in me.
Five and twenty years have quashed
Since I hailed you once before.
And my memory holds mibaaished
How yon greeted mc of yore:
Even now s< me few surround me Though
that quarter century's tied?
i And their love has newly crowned me
With old blessings on my head.
Thanks to yen, dear old and new friends,
Each and all my praise receive.
Even-where I know you true friends.
And your cordial words believe;
As a brother greets a brother
Still our generous feelings blend.
And we look on one another
Each with each as on his friend.
Noble people! now returning
Absent thus so many a year,
With what ken, not undiscerning.
Can I judge your great career ?
t How does Rip Van Winkle find von?
. "o -
I ? orse or ceuer mi u 01 yore:
( Flinging all your faults behind you?
Forcing all your lest before ?
? Yes ! as in that old Dutch story.
You have grown both great and good:
Truly, progress is your glory,
Winning all that mortals could:
Truly rising better, wiser, ?
For adversities and woes.
Gathering good from each adviser.
War and peace, and friends and foes.
Temperance, morals, courteous bearing.
And the hand to help all round,
F.ach another's burden sharing?
C<euerous traits like these abound;
Energetic, self-confiding,
And religious, and sincere,
Patient, duteous, law abiding?
Men like these are common here !
God's gocd will your country blessingHelps
your words of human will,
Wondrous cities, each possessing
Every type of art and skill;
While the wilderness rejoices,
Showing Edens on the earth,
^ With the shout of freemen's voices
? ^ Woman's song, and childhood's mirth.
Since your pilgrim fathers landed
I (Some of mine sailed with them, too'*.
J . Giant hearted, giant handed,
I We still fight life's battles through,
/ Till the universal empire
I . Of our Anglo-Saxon race
m P-.iilds us deeper, broader, higher,
i Khigs and priests in every place!
I ?Martin F. Tupper.
DAISY'S COURTSHIP.
The old fashioned kitchen door st >od
v.-me open, and tlie strong, sweet west
wiud poured through the sanded floored
room, swaying in slow, graceful waves
the blue muslin skirts of Daisy May's
morning wrapper, as she stood beside the
table arranging a pile of stemless flowers
fegfeA shallow gla?8 dish.
Indeed, I'll never marry a farmer, j
? -'aimtie. I love tlie countiy well enough
?here at home, where nothing but the ,
]K>etry of it falls to me?gathering
flowers, drinking creamy milk, sketching !
shady spots, drivhig whenever I want to, j
and always sent luscious tilings to cat? 1
aud in winter rides, and sleighing, and
plenty of books and my music."
" And John Maurice." Her aunt tacked
the name very tersely at the end of the
long list of attractions then watched to
see the effect on Daisy's face.
The pretty hps pouted charmingly.
l 44 Maurice ! Oh, John's good enough,
of course ; but"?
44 It's a good thing you liave got over j
your foolish attachment bo him, Daisy,
for he\> going to be married soon. Eugaged
to one of the prettiest girls you !
^B ever saw?a Miss Winchester, visiting at
Castledean's."
Daisy's eyes grew a little darker, aud
then she elevated her eyebrows coldly.
44He's engaged, is he? Oh, well, that's
H perfectly natural, I am sure. I suppose
Miss?Miss Winchester, did you sav ??
1 suppose she is a decided blonde, and
petite ?"
Daisy didn't say that Maurice hail
^B oitcn sworn that there was no other style j
of beauty for him but Daisy's own.
^B 44 Oh, bless yon, no! Miss Winchester
is tall, almost as tall as John, and !
Bl very stately, and a jfcvely bmnette.
Even-body thinks Jolwa lucky fellow." '
H Daisy rose aud took down her garden
hat.
r 4 441 dare say he is?only I never could
see what there was about those tali, dark
women to captivate anybody. Auntie,
I'm going over to Minnie Castlodean's
awhile?may I ?"
IMary watched the petite, graceful figure
in the navy blue foulard cambric, I
and white tarletan shade hat, tied over
the clustering, thating curls, and nodded
her head wisely and smiled serenely.
' Yon darling?you perfect darling to
come to us. Daisy, I've been just dying
to see you and have you at home again.
We're going to have the most jelly
times tin's summer, you know. The
h >use is full, and there is Nellie Winchester
especially I want you to know,
a id the handsomest young officer on
leave?Gus brought him up?Colonel
Cressington; and we've impressed John
Maurice?you remember John. He's
the handsomest lcllow?beats the colonel,
1 tell you, and.Nellie's just bewitched
after him."
And Daisy laughed and assented, and
declared she half remembered John
Maurice, and was dying to see Miss
Winchester, and intended inaugurating a
flirtation at oyce with the military gentleman.
Minnie rattled on, as seventeen-year(.ld-girls
have a way of doing.
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" It's too bad ! Null's gone down to
the city to-day to buy ribbon for the picnic?oli,
you'll surely be here next Tuesday
for our picnic at Eagle's Head,
Daisy ? I suppose John Maurice will
take Nellie, and I am sure Colonel Cre>sington
will be delighted t > be your esi
cort."
; " Colonel Cressington will be happier
tliau ever before iu his life, if he may
J have that honor, Miss Minnie."
When her morning call was over, Colonel
Cressington insisted on walking
i home with her, and Daisy permitted it?
not because btj was so handsome and so
entertaining, or she so pleased with him,
i but because?well, she felt a little provoked
at hearing so many praises of the '
: lady to whom John Maurice was en
-gaged; and somehow it made her feel j
better to flirt a little.
And, as if the very fates themselves .
were propitious, who should she and her ;
gallant cavalier meet, face to face for the
flrst time in three years to Daisy, but
John Maurice ?
John Maurice?so perfectly splendid?
iu liis elm-, dark, manly beauty, his stylish
clothes?everything just as it should j
! be.
| This John "Maurice?and?and engaged
to Nellie Winchester !
| Daisy's heart gave a bound as he extended
a hand which she saw had a plain ,
gold ring on the little finger.
And tlien she crushed all the joy she
had felt at seeing him, and gave him her
hand with a cool, graceful little bow
"Daisy May! is it possible ? Why,
you are prettier than ever, and?I dei
elare, Daisy, I am awfullv glad vou're 1
home asrain."
He was so easily familiar, so frank? j
and engaged to her !
Daisy smiled.
" Tliank you, Mr. Maurice, for your
good will. I am glad to see you."
It was very proper, very ladylike, but
a shadow came over John's handsome
face.
441 hope 1 shall see yoil often, Daisy, i
You'll bo at the picnic on Tuesday ? I
Cressington. keep that sunshade over her
head. Good-bye till I see you again."
His horse was prancing restlessly, and
lie was off like a dart and out of sight
when Daisy bowed good-bye to her uni- J
formed gallant at the gate.
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44 What a handsome fellow John Maur- i
ice has grown to be, hasn't he, uncle?" j
Daisy was sipping her coffee slowly j
that Tuesday morning?a cloudleaf June I
day, that the gods had arranged for the
Castledean party's picnic, and.Daisy, her 1
lovely golden hair brushed off her fore- '
head in loose burnished waves, and
.caught at the back of the head with pale '
blue ribbons, was impatiently trying to
get through her toilet.
Her uncle buttered a slice of homemade
bread with keen relish.
44 You might travel a seven days' jour- 1
uey and not come across his equal. And )
he's lucky too. He sold his interest in j
that railroad for ten times what he gave, !
enough to buy him the prettiest farm in j
the country?TMge Wire, and it's stock- !
ed first-class, I tell you. He's bound j
to make a fortune, and they say tliat
Winchester girl'll Ir.ing him considerable."
44 He'll r.ever think of her money.
He's not that kind of a man at all."
Aunt Mary stole a glance at the girl's
face.
44 John's a splendid fellow, and his <
wife'll be the happiest woman going. I j
do say, Daisy, nothing would have ;
pleased your uncle and I better if Jolin
had taken a notion to you."
4 4 You should have said if I had taken j
a notion to John. But you see?I
haven't."
She threw a kiss coquettishlv and van- 1
islied through the door to liave a foolish
in bev room before she dressed ;
herself.
And when Colonel Cresaington drew ;
up in his two horse phaeton, he thought
he never had seen such a perfect picture j
of girlish beauty and happiness in all ,
his life.
And Maurice dashed by in his cliaise j
with Nellie Winchester, radiant in white '
muslin and rose lined ril>bon3, in time to !
get a bow and a gleaming smile from 1
Daisy, and to think, with another of |
those shadows on his face that Daisy
had seen before, that Colonel Crossing- :
ton and Daisy were good?very good >
friends.
* * * * *
The long. summer day had crept;
pleasautly along, and the lengthened
shadows were warning the gay picnick- j
ers it was time to be preparing for re- j
turn.
Colonel Cressington and Nellie Winchester
had strolled off arm in arm an j
hour before, and Minnie Castlcdean and
a dozen others wore lounging 011 the soft '
sward, gossiping, laughing and enjoying a
ciolcefar nicntc generally, while Maurice
was walking al>out unobserved, unremembered
by the others, with head bent
down, as if in close search for something
lost?his ring that until several minutes
before he had not missed, and missing,
had at once commenced to limit for.
Not that it was so valuable.
But n pained, white look on his face
that had been there at intervals all day
iiffensitied as he thought how dear that
simple band was to him and why.
TJ^ ?? nn/1 nn colv)r(ltl')l(r flirtllOr I
nf nrui v?n aun vn, ov
and further from the party, until sobs, !
low, indistinct, as if unsuccessfully suppressed,
but unmistakable sobs, attracted
his attention, and a second's continuance
in the direction he was going brought
him in full view of Diiisy May, with her
head bowed on her hands and her frame
convulsed with violent weeping, and
glistening ">n her fair finger the circlet of
gold for wilich he was searching.
Seeing 1 im she sprung to her feet, and
dashing thf tears from her eyes, said :
"I found your ring, Mr. Maurice."
She drew it off her finger and handed !
it to him, calling all the powers of an
unhappy, foolish little heart to her aid to j
make her strong and indifferent?who
had been sitting there kissing and crying
; over John's engagement ring,
i John took the ring, and, holding it be- j
tween his fingers and thumb, looked in j
her face, with his own pale and eager.
"Daisy, tell me you were crying be- |
cause you love me. Is it so ? Daisy,
my only, my own darling. I almost
dread to have your answer, for I fear it ;
will be no. But?do you love me, my
: darling ?"
A sudden glory flnshed'over her face, ;
her very soul looking out of her eyes. !
1 Then, her lips quivering piteouslv :
:aui
AND PORT
BEAUFORT, S. (
"Oh
! John, how can you talk to me
so ? Nellie Winchester "?
He pressed her suddenly closely to
him and pushed her head down on his
shoulder.
"Look up, little one. Nellie Wincliesfcer
is n:?th'ng to nie, although rumor
has said so. You are all the world !
to me, darling. Am I so to you ? Will
you take the ring I bought when .I heard
you were coming home, and determined
to secure you for my own as soon as I
saw you ? Daisy, I have been engaged
to you since I can remember. Will you
ratify it?"
And with all her soul in the kiss she
gave him, Daisy knew her heart was at
rest in John Maurice's love.
* * * * *
That night it was announced in the
Castledean parlor privately, of course,
that the picnic had been a great success.
Colonel Cressington had proposed to ,
Miss Winchester, and had been accepted,
and Minnie confidentially whispered to
Daisy:
"Wasn't it cunning? for Nell carried
on with John Maurice just to try to
make the colonel piqued, so that he
would propose. That's the way I mean
to do; don't you ?"
And Daisy smiled and blushed, and
stole a glance at John's happy face, and ;
thought how good everything was.
Yanderbilt's Second Marriage.
Commodore Yanderbilt's first wife
died in 1807. During the summer of
1808 he married Miss Frank Crawford, :
who was about thirty years of age, the
commodore theu being in his seventy; J
fifth year. Miss Crawford's father was '
a well-to-do planter and merchant, who ,
came of a Virginia family. He moved i
to Mobile, Alabama, where Miss Craw- j
ford was bora. The war made serious
inroads into the Crawford estate, and j
shortly after its close Mr. Crawford died. >
Early in I860 tho widow and her (laugh-!
ter Frank moved to New York. They j
became member's of the Church of the j
Strangers, in Mercer street, of which j
the Rev. Dr. Charles F. Deems is pastor.
A distant relationship was found to
exist between Mrs. Crawford and the
commodore. Her mother was a Miss !
Hand. The mothers were nrsi or second
cousins. The relationship gave
rise to visiting and intercourse between
the two families, and the commodore became
enamored of the daughter.
During the summer of 1868 the commodore
paid his usual visit to Saratoga.
Miss Frauk Crawford was also in Saratoga.
From what the commodore lias
said to acquaintances, it would appear j
that he made up his mind to the new
alliance suddenly and brought it about:
with the suddenness and determination \
which characterized some of his railroad '
exploits. The commodore has said that ;
when he " popped the question,"'Miss }
Frank said she would have him if Dr. j
Deems could be found to perform the
ceremony. The commodore immediate- !
ly telegraphed to New York for Dr. j
Deems, but the clergyman happened to !
be out of town, and the commodore ;
hating as usual to let anybody know |
what he was about uutil his plans were 1
consummated, decided not to make a j
telegraphic search for Dr. Deems. He |
and his young bride, without exciting
any curiosity at Saratoga, made a rapid
trip over the New York Central railroad '
to Canada and were married by a young 1
Wesleyan minister in the city of London. !
The commodore in speaking of his wed- j
ding journey, afterward said : " I didn't!
want to raise a noise in the United 1
States, so I slipped over to Canada and ;
had it done in a jiffy, and I guess the i
knot was well tied." Mrs. Frank Craw- ,
ford Vauderbilt has one brother, who is 1
in charge of a freight department of the '
New York Central.
Mrs. Crawford has formed a part of the
commodore's family since the marriage j
of her daughter. It is told of Dr.
Deems, tliat one day dining with the j
family he and the commodore fell to j
talking with some levity about the recent j
marriage. Said Dr. Deems, nodding to I
vo \r Pntvl " Commodore, this is !
the lady you ought to liave married."
Oh, no," said the commodore, regarding
his mother-in-law with a look of
satisfaction, "if I had married her,
Frank would have gone off and married {
somebody else. Now I have both."
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Proverbs for Subscribers.
"A wise son maketh a glad father," j
and a prompt paying subscriber causeth !
an editor to laugli.
" Folly is a joy that is destitute of j
wisdom," but a delinquent subscriber !
causeth suffering in the house of a news- j
paper maker.
" All the ways of a man are clear in
his own eyes," except the way the delinquent
subscriber hath in not paying for !
his newspaper. i
" Better is a little with righteousness," j
than a thousand subscribers who faileth
to pay what they owe.
"A just weight and balance are the,
Lord's," but that which is due upon
your newspaper is the publisher's
thereof.
" Better is a dry morse! and quietness ;
thereof " tliau a long list of subscribers j
who cheateth the printer.
" Better is the poor man that walketh 1
in integrity " and payeth his sul>seription j
than the rich man who continually telleth
thy " devil " to call again.
"Judgments are prepared for scorn-|
ers, stripes for the backs of fools," and
everlasting damnation for him who!
payeth not for his newspaper.
" Hope deferred maketh the heart;
sick " is a oroverb sadly realized by the
publisher who sendetfi out bills.
"A righteous man hateth lying," 1
hence an editor waxes wroth against the J
subscriber who promises to call and set- !
tie on the morrow, yet calleth not to
settle.
" It biteth hke a serpent and stingeth
like an adder" when the adder gets
through adding up the amounts due j
from his subs.? Whitehall Time*.
By-and-Bye.?"Win. R. Martin, a shipping
clerk, went to his boarding house
in Chicago, and after eating his supper
and chatting with his roommate, struck
up " Sweet by-and-bye." His roommate
joined in the hymn, and finally the
chorus was reached. At the words " byand-bye
" there was a sharp report of a
pistol. Martin had suddenly drawn a
revolver aud shot himself. There was a
I love affair back of the revolver.
FOR'
ROYAL CC
THURSDAY, JA
THE OLD WORLD.
Ditiicullir* of a Ku*?o-Titrki*h War--A I.oiik
and Sot-re ('aitiiuiiKii.
By ti recent cable dispatch, Gen. Von
Moltke is reported as predicting a long ,
and severe campaign in case the differences
between Russia and Turkey were
not adjusted by the conference and ended
in war. Von Moltke, besides being the :
highest strategical authority in Europe i
served himself, before his first promotion,
as Prussian Colonel in one of the
Russo-Turkish wars, and has written a
book upon it. Whether ho has publicly
expressed this opinion or not, says the !
New York Time*, all past experience of
wars 011 the Danube will conlirm its cor- ;
rectness. In the war of 1828-9, which
ended iu the peace of Ailrianople, the
Russian Army was nearly eight months ;
in advancing from the Pruth to the Bid- (
kan, which mountains, indeed, they did
not fairly reach in that year. The Turks
were in miserable plight for defense, and
possessed then none of the modem armament,
and had not then adopted the moil-;
em European organization. Their fortitied
places were poorly strengthened and
defended, and they had no important depots
of provisions. Yet, by their remark- j
able tenacity of defense in the fortified j
posts, they delayed each step of the Russian
advance, and had their genius for
attack been equal to that for defense,
they could have utterly cut to pieces the
Muscovite army on the right bank of the
Danube. As it was, the Russians met ,
with terrific losses both by battle and 1
disease, in the first year of the campaign,
and only reached the district a little be- [
yond the Danube. They had then, also,
vessels of war to support the flank of
their march over the Balkans and along 1
the sea to Adriauople and Constantinople. ;
As to those mountains, the Turks, at that j
period, did not seem to fully appreciate
their importance, ana uie passes were
not well fortified. The great defenses
relied upon were the fortified posts at the
front of them, Shumla, in the interior,
and Varna, on the sea. '
It should, however, be said for the
Russians in that campaign that, owing
to a dread of alarming Europe, they en- ;
tered the contest with a very inadequate
army, and fearing for the safety of Poland,
left large forces in that disturbed
country, and broke up their invading
army by uselessly occupying the principalities.
Manv stupid blunders, too,
were made in their conduct of the campaign,
yet in that respect they were not
unlike their opponents. Among other
deficiencies, tjiey were entirely lacking
in an efficient light cavalry. Though
the Turks were finally beaten, and made
a peace very disastrous - to themselves,
vet it is believed by good authorities that
had the sultan held out a little longer,
the necessities of Russia ^vould have
compelled her to make a peace very different
in its results to both countries.
Without considering other wars, many of
our readers will remember the obstinate
defense by the Turks under English officers,
of Silistria and other fortified
places on. the Danube and in Asia, in the
war of 1851-0. In that struggle the tenacity
of the Ottomans fairly compelled
the Russians to retreat, with heavy
losses, and to leave the Turkish side of
the Danube uninvaded and secure.
In weighing the possibilities of the
coming war?if war there should be?between
Russia and Turkey, we are to remember
that the sultan has now a verylarge
army and thoroughly* equipped.
When the armistice wns declared, the
whole Turkish force under arms
amounted in actual numbers to some
300,000 men, with 66G Ivrupp guns, and
"1 O AAA 11 nm-nliov u'lltol \
JO,(IUU I'ilVllLlJ . Xlic 1UU uuuiuvt ' 111V? I
can be called out, when4he enrollment is
complete, is 700,000 men, with 872 guns,
and, in addition, some 70,000 "Zaptick,"
or veterans, and 20,000 Circassian
cavalry, the best light mined marauding
cavalry iu the world.
The heavy Russian cavalry, it should
be borne in mind, are almost useless in
the muddy plains of the Danube and the
wild passes of the Balkans. The Turk- ;
isli infantry are, to a large degree, j
armed with improved guns. Then, all j
the fortitied places, whose importance
lias so often been tested in previous wars,
are put in better condition. The Danube
itself makes a formidable line of defense;
then behind it come places like
Silistria, Shumla, Varna, and others.
Shumla is a vast fortified camp. Varna
must be taken before any army would
venture to cross the Balkans and march
on Adrianople. It would continuallv
threaten the flank and rear of the invad- j
ing forces. But Varna is on the sea, and j
any power holding the sea could make it i
impregnable. The passes of the Balkans,
though not more than from 4,000
to 6,000 feet high, are yet easily capable
of obstinate defense, mid would be ex- 1
ceedingly difficult to occupy, unless the *
invading army had a fleet to defend its j
flank and furnish supplies. The Turks
would no doubt contest these mountains
with the utmost tenacity, and they would (
form a second and powerful line of de- j
fense. It is at least five hundred miles !
from the l)anube to Constantinople, and j
the Russians have probably no fleet in j
the Black sea to support their invading '
columns. It will be seen that the taking i
of Constantinople, even were Turkey
without allies, would be a difficult task,
and with England for supporter, would
be impossible. Then, all recent history
shows that the Russian management of
campaigns is exceedingly blundering, so
that the war would probably be protracted
by the mistakes of the more powerful j
combatant. A Russo-Turkish war will 1
certainly not be a short one.
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What hp Would Do.
Says James Parton : For my part, if ;
I were twenty years of age, I should [
strike for the soil. As soon as I could j
raise two years' supply of clothes and '
money enough to transj>ort me, I should j
go to a region where nature had provided :
for the farmer favorable conditions ; say I
Pennsylvania, * New York, Tennessee, ;
Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Texas, Iowa ;
and there, about the hxst of April, 1 i
would search for a good farmer, who,
for the space of two years, would give |
me food, lodging and instruction, in re
turn for my hearty and loyal labor. By
the end of my t\vo years, I should be
ready, perhaps, for a step forward. The j
right man is always wanted, always wel- j
come ; by the time I knew enough, a i
good farm would come seeking me, and j
I would go upon it, and earn it, and live 1
and die upon it.
T T
JMMBROIAL.
NUAEY 25, 1877.
A Brave (Sirl.
The Pittsburgh (Sazctte tells tins
story : Mr. Close and family had gone
out in the afternoon, leaving no one at
the house but a girl, who is a servant'
in the family and whose name, uufortu- ;
natelv. the reporter did not learn. She '
also went out fo* a few minutes, and
when she came back found a burly looking
man standing on the porch. She I
asked him what lie wanted, and he
answered that it was none of her business.
She then ordered him away, and
he retorted that he wouldn't go until he
got ready. The girl became frightened, i
and slipping in the hall door closed it
in the man's face, locked it and put the
key in her pocket. She had been in the
house but a minute or two when she !
heard a noise up stairs, which she
thought was coal falling from a grate.
She went up to attend to it, but on
reaching the room door (which was
standing o})en) from whence the noise
proceeded was astonished and frightened
to see a thief rummaging among the
bureau drawers. She retained enough
presence of mind not to cry out, as '
ninety-nine women in a hundred would
have done, but stepped away cautiously.
Remembering that in another room was
a revolver belonging to Mr. Close, she I
went in and got it, and then walked ,
down into the hall to wait the coming of 1
the thief. The latter, perhaps having
heard her, came down also in a minute
or two with his hands and pockets full of
jewelry, and was astonished to fiud him- i
self confronted by the brave girl with
the cocked revolver in her hands. She
asked him what he had been doing, and
ordered liim to disgorge instantly. He !
refused, but the girl, trembling and cry- |
ing with excitement, yet evidently determined,
told him she would tell him
three times, and if then lie didn't obey j
her she would certainly shoot him. The
man again hesitated for a few moments, !
but before waifing to be told the third !
time, concluding that he was iu a position
from which escape from the threatening
revolver and daring girl was impossible,
capitulated, and laid down his
plunder, consisting of a lady's gold
watch and chain, gold bracelets, etc., to
the value of $200. The girl then threw
him the door key and ordered him to depart.,
which he did without loss of time.
The Dying and the New Year.
The Independent/m a retrospective
and prophetic mood, says : There has
been no great quarrel between Christians,
e l?1 ^,,^1,
no great division 01 ueiievera, uu duui i
remarkable difference or wonderful re-!
union as marks the external and ecclesi- j
astical history of the Church. It has |
been a year of quiet, of peace, of grow- j
ing harmony; a year of the progress of j
that spiritual history which most blesses
the Church, but which does not find
its record in its chronicles. The be3t
type and illustration of this stronger,
deeper and better movement of Christian
history is to be. found in the revival
meetings which have been carried on in
several of our large cities, and which
have brought together into one Ixxly of
workers believers of every ecclesiastical
name. And nothiiur more important or
notable has occurred during the year.
It is in the continuation of this work in
other cities and in the towns and villages
of our country that we look for the religious
progress of the new year. * * *
In our own country the tlireatening
words which immediately followed the
disputed election have been withdrawn
or modified, and 110 one believes that we
are to have a Mexicanized republic. The
situation is grave; but our people are
patriotic, and they love their country
more than party. We shall have peace.
When this political riddle is solved we ;
may also expect the much needed revival
of business interests and the restoration
of prosperity. We close the year
thankful for its mercies and trustful that
the new year has in store for us the love
and peace of God.
Mr. Cate and his Horse.
Mr. Alphonse Ca^e returned to Williamsburgh
lately, after an absence of
five years. His return recalled the story
of his departure. Tl en he was the owner
of a large sorrel horse, and the work it
had to do toM 011 the poor animal. After
months of ill treatment, the horse became
unfit for work, and Mr. Cate wasforced
to give it to the offal contractor to i
be killed. To the offal wharf he led it, j
belaboring it on the way with a long j
stick. The horse was tied, and one of i
the contractor's men raised the axe. As I
the blow fell on the horse's forehead the
animal tore the rope from its fastening, I
tottered for a moment, and then dashed
through the erowd of idlers direct for !
Cate. Terrified, Cate mu up the wharf, i
the horse pursuing him to a pile of lumber
ill the ship yard on the opposite side. I
The horse was almost on him with outstretched
neck and open jaws, and fire
flashing from his eyes. Cate doubled
about the pile and climbed on its top as
the horse tried to spring after him. The
effort, however, had exhausted the horse, J
and it died with its fore feet resting on
the pile.
Cate was so overcome that he had to
ba carried down from the lumber. A
few days thereafter he sold out and disappeared.
When question on his return
Cate shook with terror and begged not
to be reminded of it. " I went away,"
he said, "to escape talk ; don't begin it
now."
A State's Debt.?The message of the
Governor of Ohio shows that the local
indebtedness of the State is now $36,059,987.56,
the reimbursable debt $6,481,503.30,
and the irreducible debt $4,207,716.90.
The taxes levied in 1876 and
collectable in 1877 aggregate$29,965,185.
The taxable valuations in Ohio, as shown
by the grand duplicate of 1876, is $1,597,4(59,966,
which is a decrease from the
grand duplicate of last year of $1,105,896.
The State debt has been reduced during
the past year nearly 8500,000, and the
indebtedness of the counties, townships
and school districts has been reduced
over 8300,000 ; but cities of the first aud
second class have increased their indebtedness
more than $10,000,000.
An Army of Them.?The total number
of arrests made by the police of New
York during the year 1876: as computed
from their returns from January 1 until
the morning of December 30. was 91,401.
RIBI
$2.00 per
THE CYCLONE IS INDIA.
What ail Eugllth (j?ntlcniuu IYIIn Is of the
Sad Affair.
A minute by Sir R. Temple, dated the
twenty-first of November, has been published
respecting the effects of the late
cyclone and storm-wave in Eastern Bengal.
The minute savs :
" Proceeding to Jioakali.y on my ordinary
tour, I heard that a disaster had
happened in the highly cultivated and
thickly inhabited islauds at the mouth of
the Megna, viz.: Snndeep, Hattia, Shahbuzpore,
and on both coasts of the great
river. I cut short my visit to Noakally,
and hastened to the points where it was
probable the worst distress must have
been. I visited the islands named and
the western coast of the river district of
Backergunge. In all the localities visited
I took the number in each of the villages
and had the precise mortality in
each house ascertained in my presence
on the spot, to prevent the possibility of
deception. From authentic data thus
obtained I was able to check the local
estimates and measure the actual mischief
done.
" The estimate of the probable number
of lives lost, nearly all by drowning,
lias been prepared by Mr. Beverley and
myself on our own data, compared with
local reports, oral and written, and based
on returns of the last census. We apprehend
that in an area of 3,000 square
miles 1,162,000 persons had been suddenly
thrown more or less in danger, of
whom 215,000 must have perished; this
is is only an estimate; the exact number
is not known yet, and perhaps never will
be. The storm wave rose to a height of
ten or twenty feet. The Noakally people
think it came from the sea up the
Megna with salt water, and then that the
cyclone turned it round and rolled the
fresh water of the river down; the influence
caused the piling up of fresh and
salt water which rushed over the surrounding
districts; drowned bodies were
carried great distances; corpses begun to
putrefy before the waters retiied.
" The Mohammedan population liave
no cremation, and the masses of corrapI-.*
immon ond animal bodies were
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frequent, presenting a sickening spectacle.
Many corpses were seen at sea; the
bodies of living and dead were borne
across the arm of the sea from Snndeep
to Chittagong, the former clinging to the
roofs of their own houses. The force of
the inundation appears to have lasted
from midnight to two o'clock in the
morning. By daybreak there was much
subsidence of the flood, and by noon the
survivors came down from the trees
and regained terra ftrmat and must have
been foodless and shelterless all that day
and the next. They then got out the
stores of buried grain and dried it; cocoanuts
also afforded them a sustenance.
There was much trouble about drinking
water at first, but the tanks must have
speedily recovered from brackisliness, as
the water was generally good when we
tasted it, though in many cases rendered
bad by having putrid corpses in the
tanks.
" No estimate can be formed of the
number of cattle lost; the loss is bad for
the people, but fortunatelv there is no
immediate demand for plowing their
fields. At the time of my visit there was
no severe epidemic save round Noakally;
I have since heard that cholera lias
broken out on the Chittagong coast and
on the east side of the Megna. The first
day or two after the disaster there were
some attempts at plundering and lawlessness,
but they were promptly suppressed.
Most of the local native officials
were drowned. When the storm burst
the abundance of the rice crop ripening
was the well known Deltaic rice crop,
which is far beyond the demands of the
local consumption and which aflbrds
quantities in thoud&nds of tons for exportation;
of this a great part is lost,
but if even one-third be saved it will
afford sufficient for local consumption.
" The l>oats, great and small, which
constitute the only means of carriage
were all lost. The Noakally authorities
were thus bereft of resources for moving
across the floods, and this was a very
hard case on the Hattia island, where the
people were three days succoirless. In
the Backergunge district the boats were
?.1 lx,,4- mimli vcaltli tx'jis lost almost
MtVCUy Ulit uiuva -w?
entirely, in the form of agricultural crops
or cattle. With the exception of Dowlutklian,
a trading town, which was clean
destroyed, eight thousand inhabitants, a
quarter of the number, perished. On
approaching it we steamed for two miles
through the creek; the banks were
strewn with human bodies."?Ixttidun
DciiIn Telegraph.
Before Marriage.
Lovers' quarrels arise from different
causes ; sometimes from mere intensity
of affection making undue exactions, and
at others from causes which, properly
j understood and appreciated, would warn
the parties of the impossibility of their
ever living happily together.
For instance, a young man who id*engaged
finds his affianced very jealous.
I Whenever they meet other ladies in scj
ciety, she treats him with great coolness.
This chills his ardor, and makes him dis!
contented, so much so that he is in doubt
about marrying her at all. He has, in
I fact, come to the conclusion that if he be!
lieved she would treat him after marriage
! in the same way she does now he would
never marry her.
J As a general proposition, it may be laid
down tliat persons will not change essen.
tially after marriage. A belief that they
would has been the cause of countless
: unhappy marriages. Thev will be just
j alwut the same after as Wore, and, if
anytliing, a little more likely to give way
j-v of mil cr nntiiml nroclivities. or peculiar'
, ^ -O t
, lties of temper.
If you would not marry a young woman,
; provided you believe she would continue
j to be ns she is now, without any very
marked change in her disposition, then
you do a very perilous thing to marry
; her at all.
The same rule, 011 the other h$ad, applies
to the young men. Many ami
many a girl lias made shipwreck of her
happiness for life by marrying u young
i man in the confidence that after war'
riage she would wield such an influence
j over him as to reform his wild habits.
I She finds her influence diminished rather
j than increased, after they are married,
; and disappointments, disagreements and
| misery necessarily follow.
^larry no one with whom, without anj
cli^pge of character, you are not satisfied,
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Annum. Single Cony $ Ceils.
Items of Interest.
Gold is the gonl too many are striving
for.
Counterfeit dimes are in circulation,
well executed iu composition metal, but
lacking the ring of silver.
The man who was " moved to tears "
complains <>! dampness 01 uie preiuuw,
ami wishes to be moved back again.
The times are so hard that an Irishman
says he lias parted with all of liis elegant
wardrobe, except the armholes of an old
waistcoat.
i Capt. McNelly's rangers have, in the
last few months, captured or killed about
seventy-five of the worst desperadoes iu
western Texas.
Every man stamps his value on himself.
The price we challenge for ourselves
is given us. Man is made great
or little by his own will.
If you are desirous of keeping your
' mind occupied while on the street, just
contemplate the different styles of over.
coats that are to be everywhere observed.
! If you wantr to see and appreciate tho
very acme of innocent surprise, turn reporter
and call on a railroad agent to
get the particulars of a smash-up on his
line.
A beverage made from the leaf of the
coffee shrub, instead of from the berry,
has lately been introduced into Australia,
and is said to be superior to ordinary
coffee.
Praise belongs to the Minneapolis
' school teachers, who marshaled 1,000
, cliildren down the winding stairs of a
burning school building, and saved
: every one.
What the Sioux Indian said to tho
government officer : " Why don't white
man put Injun on wheels, like brave at
j tobacco store, so he can be wheeled
around easy ?"
Sweet thing in compliments.?Totty
! (archly)?"Ami so you've never been in
i lave before ? Astonishing !" Horace?
j " Oh, no. It would liave been astonishing
if I had, since I have never seen you
j before!"
The Baltimore Gazette wisely remarks :
Many men would prefer to go on an uncertain
mission in the vain hope of disj
covering a gold mine and speedy fortune,
*l?on nnminnr l-iodlt dnWTl to hard WOrk in*
"uo" ~r> "n?
a large city, with a certainty of obtaining
I a fair living remuneration,
i Mr. Schuyler's complete report on
Bulgaria states that seventy-nine villages
, were burned, many more pillaged, at
i least 9,000 houses burned, 72,000 persons
deprived of all shelter, 15,000 killed,
; and that many more died from disease,
j exposure and imprisonment.
A sad story of the ruin wrought in a
family by an erring son c. "nes from
I Washington, where a young man named
! "Tyler, the son of an old and respected
physician, lias been convicted of forgery.
The disgrace killed his mother, and tho
cost of the trial ruined his father financially.
A circuit judge in Florida was arrested
; for beastly drunkenness upon the public
highway and locked up in jail. As soon
as he became sober, he had a writ of
habeas corpus issued returnable beforo
i himself for the production of his own
j body. It is. needless to say that tlis
judge discharged him.
His majesty tfee king of Dahomey bit!
terly complamdjcf the stoppage of the
slave trade. "Here am I," said he to a .
traveler, "surrounded by hundreds of
slaves whom X cannot employ and do not
like toL kill, and you Englishmen have
stopped the slave trad$^ which I used
to get rid of the surplus."
The Paris Exhibition.
Lucy Hopper, in a letter from Paris,
says: A good deal of anxiety, not loudly
expressed but very evident nevertheless,
: is manifested respectmg ihe success of
| the Exhibition of 1878. Not only has
! Germany testified her refusal to take
officially any part therein, but Italy has
not yet signalized any intention of participating.
As to the United States, I
i presume that Congress will indulge more
in speech making respecting it than in
appropriations. As to the French themselves,
they giumble heartily over the """*
near approach of another Exhibition,
when, as they say, they have made no
particular progress in anyjorm of art or
industry since the last one, and "will have
nothing new to show. Trade is very bad
: in Paris just now, the exports having
fallen off greatly, and the usual influx of
winter visitors having failed to arrive,
i House agents, trades people and hotel
keepers all complain that there are neither
Russians nor Americans here this season,
and the prevalence of the yellow placards
| that announce " Furnished apartments
j to let" toll a conclusive tale of the lack
of inhabitants in the quarters generally ?
I favored bv foreigners. The hard times
! in the United States and the war cloud
i tliat broods over Russia have kept the
citizens of those great money-spending
' 1 ?? oAi-nrnlv
nations at norae, ana uieu UPOO id O^TUVAT
'felt- - '
Worth Knowing.
?
If smallpox can be cured by cream of
; tartar, it is time everybody knew the
fact. A correspondent of the Liverpool
Mercury says that it is not only a neverfailing
remedy in the worst cases, but is
! also a preventive. The directions are to
j dissolve one ounce of cream of tartar in
a pint of boiling water, and to drink,
j when cold, at short intervals. Not a
| very exact prescription, to be sure; but
the remedy is so simple that it may be
; well wortii trying. It is said that thousands
have thus been cured, and that no
, marks of the disease remain.
! English.?Rector (just returned from
i a tour through Palestine)?" Now, for in
stance, take the valley of the Jordan ;
l i it is really most interesting?in fact,
j I"? Churchwarden Clodrush (who has
; already stood about half an hour's scientific
description of the tour)?" Ah ! it
l mnn be all vara wonderful; and pray
! how might tounups be a-lookin' i' them
;parts, sir ?"
. Pope Pius IX.?The Boman Catholic
cl mrch throughout the world will, on the
twenty-first of next May, celebrate the
, | fiftieth anniversary of the elevation of
i Pope Pius IX. to the dignity of the Episcopate.
Mrs. Gen. Sherman has charge
r of the subscriptions for the event in the
. United States.