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The Evening Hearthstone.
Gladly now we gather round it,
For the toiling day is done,
And the gray and solemn twilight
Follows down the golden sun;
Shadows lengthen on (he pavement,
Stalk like giants through the gloom,
Wander past the dusky casement,
j Creep around the fire-lit room;
Draw the curtains—close the shutters—
Place the slippers by the fire—
j Though the rude wind loudly mutters
What care we for wind-sprite’s ire?
What care we for outward seeming—
Fickle fortuue’s frown or smilo,
I If around us love is beaming.
Love can human ills beguile,
i ‘Neath the cottage roof and palace,
From the peasant to the king,
All are quaffing from life’s chalice
Bubbles that enchantment bring;
Grates are glowing—music flowing
From those lips we love the boat;
: 0, the joy, the bliss of knowing
There are hearts on which to rest.
| Hearts that throb with eager gladness—
Hearts that echo to our own—
With which care and haunting sadness
Mingle ne’er in look or tone;
Caro may tread the hall of daylight—
Sadness haunt the midnight hour—
But the weird and witching twilight
Brings the glowing hearthstone's dowea,
Altar of our holiest feelings—
Childhood s well-remombcred shrine;
Spirit-yearnings, soul-revealings.
Wreaths immortal round thee twine.
--
LOFLVS GI ERDO.V
BT JEFFREY II. BOYLE.
“Oh, that I was a man! ’ sighed the
pretty daughter of old Calico, the re
tired dealer in muslins and niantuas.
**I wish I was a man,” and closing her
music book, she leaned the loveliest
face in Cincinnati upon a hand so pet
ite, yet graceful, that Praxiteles would
have forgotten the painter in the mau,
and instead of transferring its counter
feit to the dull canvas, have pencilled I
it unon (lie living heart.
ller cousin Harry heard the queru
lous exclamation; but his attention
was absorbed in framing certain mys-|
tieal combinations, us the blaze of the j
coal occasionally gave them to his
view ; so he said nothing, although the
speaker seemed to expect an answer.
“Cousin, cousin Harry, Isay!’’ ex-i
claimed the spoiled beauty, stumping a
foot of Chinese proportions upon the
rich Brussels, “you arc positively stu
pid to-night! Here I have been talk
ing to you. yet you pay no attention;
thinking of the lost l’leiad or tlie soph
istries of Thales, for aught 1 know!’’
“My dear Agnes,’- replied the gen
tleman, “what do you wish?’’
“1 wish I was a man !”
“Do you?” quietly responded her
cousin, at the same time stirring the
fire in the grate: it was the last night
of the dying year, and the keen blast
bowled fiercely, the requiem of a pass- i
mg fragment of a century.
“I do indeed” was the reply of Ag
nes, "for 1 feel that woman is deprived
of all those opportunities of becoming
j great, of doing good and bcnctitting j
mankind, which are so lavishly strewn
i in the paths of favored manhood. We
I are shut out from all agency in the
government of men ; we maybe fired
with ambition, but despotic custom lias
; deprived us of the right to assert our
; claims with tlio slightest chance of a
hearing! Pray, what chances have I
our sex of piling a fabric of honor and
fame, of accelerating the march of
knowledge, or curbing the progress of
: vice!’’
This speeeli came from the cherry
lips of sweet Seventeen, yet my read*
or# must not condemn her; ambition
is a (iod-like attribute, and burns as
J brightly upon the altar of woman as it
does upon t lie - shrine of manhood.
Woman can exercise her powers in the
tented field, the cabinet, and the hall
of debate as well as in the social circle,
witness Joan of Arc, Elizabeth of Png
land, and Fanny Dnrnsmont. Woman
lias a right to he ambitious, especially
i of tlie ambition of doing good.
| “You can do much, my sweet cous
in,’- answered her hearer—“to your sex
is given power to mould the plastic
mind that it may acknowledge the
truths of virtue and receive those
sound inculcations which, implanted
early, become the guiding principles of
tbe man, strengthening with the ad
vance of years.’’ ,
A cloud of vexation passed the brow
of the listening maiden, nnd with the
rn«h confidence of youth, she denied
the premises laid down by the speaker.
A smile, rarely seen upon the grave
face of llarry Harrington, illumined
j hist countenance, ns drawing hits chair
to tha side of tlie pouting Agnes, lie
thus continued his exordium, or, rath
er, nltereiNts direction.
“You well know, dear Agnes, of the
strong desire entertained by your fa
ther for our immediate union—nay
now do not get angry, but listen.—
You have bid me wait (ill another year
shall have passed—to this agreement 1
| seriously object, but am willing to rest
the question mgon the issue of an ad
venture, which w ill at Die same time
prove to’You that in deeds of virtue,
; philanthropy nnd kindly influence to
the human race, your sex have decided
superiority over ours.-’
Agnes looked seriously into (lie face
of her companion to see whether he
was not jesting with her, but reading
I there the same calm, serious features
that marked his general demeanor, she
bent her eves to the ground, and
1 laughed. “You maylauge,”continued
her cousin, “but listen—1 will under
take to prove to you all 1 have assert
ed—ay, more! Yourself shall admit
ttint 1 have conquered. If 1 do this
my guerdon shall he an immediate
union. If I do not, harsh as your im
perious doom of delay is. 1 will bow
submissively. Do you agree?
“I do, I do/ laughed the merry girl,
“and 1 know I shall win !
The hell was touched—the servant
summoned to bring her mistress ro
quclair* and furs, and Harry Harring
ton, with Agnes upon his arm, sallied
forth in quest of proofs which were to
decide this singular wager.
The demon of the storm was abroad
in his wrath as the pair wended their
way along the snow-covered streets of
Cincinnati. The ice in the Ohio heaved ,
and tumbled with a hoarse, dull sound
as the passing waters sluggishly lifted
the vast bodies of ice, one upon anoth- ,
er. The wintry heavens were starless
moonless; and the snow tailing in
flakes upon the person of Agnes made
her half regret her willing acquies
cence in the strange freak ot her
cousin-lover.
Yet was the little world of this
Athens of the West busy in its way. j
The paves were lined with groups of
young and old; the one anticipating
with their season ; the others, some
what affected by the merry voices and
careless aspirings of those around
them, were hastening to purchase the
gifts which childhood is very willing
to attribute to the generosity of Santa
Claus. The stores were in the bla/.e of
their holiday array, and toy and trink
et, book and bauble were temptingly
displayed to the gaze of the multitude
gathered there to purchase.
What a mercurial, easily cheated
world we live ill! Youth pleased
with trifles, age descending from its
gravity, finds enjoyment in tilling up
the requisitions of childhood. All are
gay, all forgetful that they are stand
ing ujion tiio spot wnere was nil im
portant landmark in tlie circumscribed
voyage of life! Hope, (Hat cver-atten-,
dant visitant, looks eagle-eyed from
tlie grave of the dead to the cradle ol
tlie new year, anil whispers to tho
mourner that with the past lias depart
en his sorrow; that brighter, happier
days come with tho advancing future.
Experience, judgment! tho monitors
of reality, come hut to be chased away
before the laugh of tlie bluc-eved
tempter.
Agnes pressed more closely to the
arm of her companion as tlie rush of
tlie rejoicing passengers obstructed,
their progress. Harrington seemed
not to notice what was passing around
them; buried in thought, he neither;
glanced at the world on tlie pave, nor
tlie vociferous mirth of tlie sleighcrs,
who, in their egg-shells, flow over tlie
bosom of the yielding snow. Agues
inquired where lie was going, but
without returning any answer, lie ;
turned down one of those suspicious
lanes which his companion had fre
quently noticed, hut never passed
through, and pausing before a wretch
ed cabin, lie knocked upon tlie time
rent panels of tho door.
Awe-struck and wondering, tlie tim- ;
id girl offered no inquiry, hut threw a
hasty glance over the exterior of the
building. It was one of those log
houses still to be seen in the by-ways
of our western cities. Decay had
done its work upon i*, and whatever
comfort it may have once possessed
was now destroyed. The windows
were stuffed with rags, and fhe sounds
of pain came upon the ear, as the door
was slowly opened through which she
and her companion entered.
Why describe the interior of the
dwelling where Want is lord, and Mis
ery has taken up its abode!—Yet Ag
ues, versed as she was in the details
furnished bv others, was sickened at
the display of wretchedness that met
her vision as site stepped within an
apartment which she felt was indeed
the habitation of misery. Upon a
couch by the embers of a waning lire
was stretched a woman apparently in
the grasp of the King of Terrors. Sev
eral children, young and squalid, were
weeping on their knees by the side of
tlie dying; and the tears swelled in
tlie eyes of Agues ns she heard their
sobs and felt their misery. A further
look brought a blush of shame to the
cheek of the gazer, for by the tire,
making a warm draught to give the
sufferer, was one whom Agues well
remembered having made the butt of
tier merriment.
This minister of mercy was Miss A—
who belonged to that despised body
called spinsters, and whenever the rich
daughter of Calico bad observed the
faded features and humble dress of the
retiring Miss A-, she had made
thorn the subject of ridicule among her
young and equally thoughtless com
panions, Now was the spinster's tri
umph, for the heart of Agues bowed
to tlie superiority of her whom she
bad formerly contemned.
Without noticing the pair, who
stood contemplating the scene with
sad emotions, ibis voluntary attendant
on misery proceeded with her task of
charity. A heavy groan from tlie
dying woman called her to the bed
side, and she saw that all earthly aid
would be of no avail. The dumps of
death were thickly gathering upon the
brow of the sufferer, and the film clos
ing over tlie eye told that that hour
was at hand.
••My children." murmured the dying
parent, (lie mother triumphing even in
that dark moment, “what will become
of my helpless babes 1”
‘•1 will protect them,” said Miss A—,
“I will be to them in tlie stead of the
mother thev have lost."
“And I," said Harrington, stepping
forward in the presence of the spin
ster, “will share with you in your glo
rious, your noble work. J.ct me, loo,
be an agent in clothing the orphan and
giving luend to the motherless.”
“I will also assist,” sobbed the spirit
softened Agnes. “Dear Miss A .
pardon the past, and make me your
pupil in the cause of holy charity.
“God forever liless you tor vour
kindness to toy little ones," hoarsely
whispered the dying woman. “1 have
alwavs placed my trust in the biieiid
of the widow, and the Father of the
fatherless, and he lias raised me up
many friends; nty cliildrcn"-thewords
died upon tier lips, her last look was
upon her offspring, and pressing the
hand of Mi»s A-to her heart, she
passed away Irom (he theatre ot her
many sufferings.—Concluded next
week.
FjsI Age.
Col. P. Homan thus speaks of the fast
age in which we live. His heads level
on this as it is on most all other questions :
It has, Herod like,slain all the children '
Where arc the playful “little girls" and
careless, ••IVolieksouie boys,’ of whom
historians wrote and poets sang, some
twenty years ago?
Where are the “innocence,” the “chil
dish gaiety,’ and the “noisy mirth ?’
Gone, gone, all gone, like the laugh ol
the Southern negro !
Our little misses step from pinafores,
bibs and pantaletta, plump into trails,
paddings, hoop skirts, false hair, paints,
Grecian bend, tinicking airs, and fuss and
feathers 1
Xo romping in the sun. It would not
t'C digmned) ami lauv-iiKc. anu uu mm
sort of stuff And tiieu it might make
her freckled, healthy and natural.
No hearty, j \ us rippling laughter.
It would he mde and vulgar, and un
becoming, and several other naughty
things. “Little ladies, never laugh sous
to he heard !”
No liliputian house building, no play
ing villi dolls, and riding stick horses,
and swinging on the the gates. It would
be childish, improper, and indecorous !
Oil! no; little missie, as soon as she
gets out of her spelling hook and multipli
cation table, must smatter over enough of
“1’arlez vous I’rnncnics" to lerrn ti c
meaning of l'Am ur moo mouehere aim
and oui Monsieur;" and nod her poor
silly little head over a huge astronomy,
which only teaches her how fur il is to
that heaven, of which so few of what the
world styles ‘'fashionable ladies” will ever
see anything more, than tlie faint glimpses
tliev get through a bearding school tele
scope !
(tut of .this, away she must hie to
some smirking, lascivious dancing master,
to he called “mademoiselle," and taught
to “move gracefully” in shoes with boltlo
coik heels, so high and slim, that the
Yeuus do Medici mounted iti them would
hobble like u lame cow !
A few weeks' training in “grace,” and
u-u-ngh ! she must have her miserable
little waist pinched in, till she can’t bend
without breaking, then ho bent till she
can't straighten without snapping; her
hair combed hack, and a pumpkin swung
to the nape of her neck, till she cant shut
her eyes without fracturing her scalp !
Then she must drive the neighbors to a
mad house while she hangs the wits of
the horrified Steinway or Cliickoring,
accompanying the tautinabulary unroar
with a terrific imitation of a aoreaeh-owl
with the colic known as "11 llacceo” or
"Rolrrt le Diobhr
Then, when she ought to be nursing a
rag-baby or troundlinga barrel-hoop down
the lawn, she must lounge around, pale,
dyspeptic, cross and hypocritical, read
pukily sentimental love tales, or Ooodey's
and I’eterson’s trash, and entertain her
'beaux !’
And such beaux !
No more hoys!
• No, no!
Would you, could you, style that
wretched, knittingkneedle-legged, star
candle-visnged insects, with seven stray
iiairs oiled and dyed, on its upper lip ; a
cigar struck in the expressionless hole in
its face, which passes for a mouth, and its
coffee-pot spout nostrils belching smoke
like a 1’itt'hurg stern wheeler—would
you, could you syle that thing a boy ?
Hear the horrid little animal swear!
Why, he’s equal to a Senator already !
Hear him belch vulgarity, discuss
horse flesh, women, faro banks and whis
key,
A getteralassimo in embro!
Call that thing a hoy !
No never!
Where’s the modesty, the honest, open
face, the fair complexion and rosy cheeks,
the true manliness, and indepeudeiiey, and
heartiness of a real, noble ‘boy ?’
Keho answers ; nary where ?
The ‘girls’ arc gone !
The “hoys’ are gouo!’
Hood manners and good morals gone !
Ami the glory of Israel is departed.
•Fast age,’ ‘fast ago’ has done it all.
From tin* Lafayette (tud.) Journal. Jaii It ]
A Mother Barter* Away ller
Diiusiifer’s Honor.
We have been made acquainted with
the details of an affair so terrible in its
iniquity that wo should hardly credit it
but that it conies so/straight there is, we
fear, little room to douht its truth. '1 he
particulars iti tlia case arc quite unfit for
publication, Suffice it to say that a day
or two since the daughter of a widow re
siding in the Fourth Ward, near the
verge ol binwood, acquainted a neighbor
witn the facts which we shall relate. She
stated that her mother hud deliberately
bargained for her dishonor with a clerk in
a downtown establishment, in pursuance
of which bargain lie had come to the
house the evening before. The unnatural
mother locked all the doors and left them
alone together, w hen her struggles were
overcome by main strength. The girl
resisted willi all her power, arid some of
the neighbors remembered having heard
uuusuil noises, nud as they thought,
smothered streams proceeding from the
house on the night in question, but
investigated no further into the matter i
until made acquainted with the facts wc
have stated by tho heert-broken victim.
The girl is about seventeen years of age,
mid was engaged to be married shortly to
a most worthy young man The neigh
bors. we understand, have taken the mat
ter in hand, and are determined to learn
the full particulars of the fiendish outrage
If the facts are as we have bean informed,
and stated above, they should not let the
matter rest until every particular of the
transaction is brought out, ana the name
of the scoundrel who would thus barter for
a human soul, and of the worse than
heathen mother who would deliberately
sell her daughter to perdition, dragged ta
light and published to the world. The
grand jury sits on Monday. If there is
anything in the matter they should surely
find it out.
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4 .Miracle of llimi d).
At a party one evening, several contend
ing for the houor of hating done the most
extroodinary thing, u reverend gentleman
was appointed sole judge of their respec
tive pretensions.
One produced his tailor's bill with a
receipt attached to it. A buzz went
through the room that this could not he
outdone, when a second proved that he
had just arrested his tailor for money lent
to him.
“The palm is his.' was the generous
cry, when a third put in his claim.
•Gentlemen,’ be said 'I eanuot boast
of the feats of my predecessors, but 1 have
returned to the owner? two umbrellas that
they left at my bouse.’
“I'll bear no more,’ cried tbe astonished
arbitrator. “This is the very acmo of
honesty; it is an act virtue of which I
never knew any one capable. The prize—
“lhold,’ cried unotber. “I have done
still more that) that.
“Impossible, cried the whole company.
“Let us hear.
“1 have taken my paper for twenty
years and paid for it every year in ad
vance. He took the prize.
Hospitality.
liayard Taylor thinks “man is natu
rally an hospitable animal,” and de
scribes the difference between the na
tures of the Kuglitdi, French and Gcr
1 mans:
You arrive in Knglaud a stranger,
and present a letter of introduction to
I some gentleman. 11 is reception strikes
I you as cold and formal; lie makes no
i special otters of assistance, and you arc
; inclined to think that his acquaintance
i will be of little service. By and by,
i however, vou will lind that he has
! . ... . . .
IMTII PI I I II U j 1 11 l v I I DU lip 11 1 III 3v I I ill
your behalf. lie has remembered
wishes that you have carelessly uttered
and procured you opportunities for
realizing them; the want of demon
stration has been more than compen
sated by solid service.
in Paris you find just the reverse.
Nothing can surpass the empressement
with which you are received. Every
thing is at your disposal; you will
makolthe man happy by the freest use
of his time and trouble. Nevertheless
you must beware of taking these offers
literally, unless you arc prepared for
disappointment. The outgush of be
nevolence lias exhausted the capacity
: for action. A few elegant cards are
i exchanged, and the matter rests.
In Germany we have the medium
between the two extremes—a genial,
cordial manner, moderate proffers of
service, and conscientious perform
ance thereof, whenever it is needed.
I Acts of kindness between strangers
are more common than iu almost any
other civilized country.
1 once stopped for a night in a coun
try inn, in a remote part of llavaria.
The delegate to the legislative clinni
1 her in Munich had just been elected by
the people in the district, and they
gave him a farewell banquet that even
ing. in the midst of the solemnities I
was politely invited to attend ; a place
was made for mo beside the president;
the principal personages present were
described and then introduced, and be
fore the meeting closed, 1 received an
invitatiou to spend a few days at a
neighboring castle. Yet 1 was con
vinced that not one of the assembly
had any knowledge of me, further than
I was an American traveler.
Slock noising In (lie South.
It is often remarked that the fanner is
more independent than any other class of
people, because he can raise what he'
wants- It is true that almost nil his rea
sonable wants may be supplied by the
farm, and it should he his aim to supply
as many of them as possible
One of the most interesting as well as
the most profitable branches of farming,
especially at a distance from market, is
stock raising To this branch of agricul
ture we at this time more particularly in
vite the attention of our readers. Their
system of agriculture has been confined to
the growing of a few staples crop, for the
sales of which they were principally de
pendent upon a foreign market. How
ever remunerative these sales may have
been, much of the proceeds had to he ex
pended in procuring many of the neces
sities as well as the luxuries to he consum
ed in the family that might have been
grown on the plantation; and then how
sweet the sensation in consuming that
which our own hands has aided in pro
ducing
A freshness in added to the zest which
is always wanting in the consumption of a
foreign article.
The mild climate and rich soil of the
South scent peculiarly adapted to the
raising of stock. To begin right is to be
gin with the very best stock in the coun
try. The additional outlay is at first a
little heavier, hut that is soon repaid when
you have some to sell It may be prudent
to not invest too largely at first, so that
experience will be gained as the business
increases, for all branches of business re
quire some experience as well as theory.
In the stock business, some attention must
he paid to tho growing of grass. This is
the natural food of most kinds of stock,
and the cultivation of the artificial* grass
will he indispensible to complete success
Why should a farmer in the South buy
meat for his family ? He can have fresh
meat on his table every day in the year,
grown and fatted on his plantation—uither
beet- pork, lamb, veal, mutton or poultry
— Does lie have tbit now?
The raisins of stock requires attention,
close attention—but giving this attention
is so interesting that it brings its own re
ward with it.
The weak must be looked after nnd
assisted ; the unruly must bo calmed and
controlled; the herdsman should be
familiar with every animal under his care,
and every animal should recognize him as
a friend, ami fu**' happy iu his presence.
However mild tlio climate may be,
there arc times in the year when stock
should have some protection from .the
elements, especially the young, the weak
and the sick. Many dollars worth will be
saved by affording this kind of protection.
The i nner of the plantation must not
trust too much to hirelings—he must give
this matter his own personal attention,
and just here is where ho will realize the
puriest pleasure, and this will lead to
profit.— American Stock Journal.
A Noted Corner.—The Astor House
corner is one of the most famous meet
ing places iu New York, and certainly
the most frequented. It is reckoned
that one hundred and twenty thousand
people pass that corner every day on
foot, and nbout sixty-five thousand in
carriages and omnibuses, making a to
tal ol one hundred and cighty-fivo
thousand passengers. Sixty thousand
vehicles roll by it in a day. From four
iu the afternoon to half past five, one
hundred pass in a minute. In Barclay
street are two lines of street cars—
the Broadway nnd Central Park,
and the seventh Avenue, and Central
Park—having between them soveuty
four cars, which give a fraction
ol over one a minute, inis relieves
Broadway of many thousands per
hour. Lovers, loafers, brokers, gam
blers, and the countless numbers all
1 going off somewhere to “meet a mail,”
I turn up very often at this corner.
How xo Succeed.—If wo w ish to see
\ what labor does in the world mentally
as well as physically and morally we
are to compare civilization witli bar
barism, it is labor aloue that has made
i tliis difference—labor to direct, as well
as to do. Thus schools have been insti
tuted. This was tor the improvement o(
I the mind for without mind to direct
the groat civilization could never have
been accomplished. It was therefore
mind first, sliowig the necessity ot
, mental advantage. To see the force of
this more particularly, we are but to
have a steady eye on the work ; no
coufuslou ; one by one added and ar
ranged. It is but using the alphabet so
to speak-not the great tiling we deem
: ed it to be mastered by the few, by the
i favored, a complicated machinery. I)o
j what is before ns ; do it one by one stea
dily, and wc shall succeed—wo must
' succeed.
The more value of the liqjtor drunk
; by the people in one year in the United
States is nearly fifteen hundred mil
lions of dollars or three-fifths of the
; national debt.
KafAny man who can bound out of
j tied ns soon as lie wakes of a mid
! winter's morning is worth something ;
1 no fear of his not making his
1 way through the world creditably
because ho has the elements of a
promptitude, decision and energy
w hich guarantee sureess.—Pr. Hall.
' From the Detroit Free Press, Nov. 21.J
.4 II rot lie i- and lister Marry, not
Knowing tlieir Uelatlonsliip.
There passed through through this
city yesterday cn route to Chicago, a
lady whose history is one of the most
remarkable ever brought to public no
tice. It has been well said that truth
is stranger than fiction, and (lie details
of this lady’s history abundantly verify
(he adage. For reasons for which all
will see the propriety of, we withhold
1 her name, merely relating the facts as
they were communicated to our repor
i tor by one who had heard her “strange,
true story’’ from her own lips.
In 1SI13 her parents emigrated to this
country from England, leaving behind
them an only son some ten years of
age, who had engaged as cabin boy on
a-merchant vessel in ttic East India
trade. They landed in New York, j
when, a few months later, the subject
of tirts sketch was born. While she
was vet a helpless infant her parents
died, and she was sent to the foundling
home, where she remained some time,
when she was finally adopted by a
lady, who then resided in Elmira, New
York. Of course slic knew nothing of
her sailor brother, and she grow up in
the belief that she was really the child
of her foster parents. At the age of
eighteen she married an industrious
young mechanic, and set out for tlie ;
great west. After traveling in various j
slates they finally settled in Missouri, j
where they continued prosperous and
happy uutil the storm of war burst up
on the country. Then her husband, in !
common with the thousands of his
misguided countrymen, enlisted in the !
service of therebelion, and was assign
ed to Gen. I’rice's army. lie served |
faithfully during the first eighteen
months of the war, but was finally
killed in one of the southwestern !
engagements. From the breaking out j
of the war the lady of whom we write
bad lost all trace of her foster parents,
owing to the disturbed condition of
she resided, and after tier husband's
death she removeed to St. Louis, where
she thought to maintain herself by
sewing.
In 1853 she again married, and her!
husband embarking in business in St. !
Louis. This last marrirga was a thor
oughly happy one, and in tlie course I
of time two children were born unto
them. The husband gradually exten-1
dud liisbusiness operations, so in travel- j
ing about the country, and during one !
of bis business tours lie visited Chicago,!
where lie became acquainted with a
lady and gcntlman, who, by a fortunate
chain of circumstances, lie ascertained
were the long lost foster parents of
his wife. Delighted at the discovery ;
lie bad made, and pleased, no doubt, |
with anticipations of the joyful sur-1
! prise lie should give his wife, tlie bus-;
baud at once concluded bis business j
with the intention of returning to St.
Louis and bringing her to Chicago for
the purpose of reuniting her with her
friends, without having first prepared
j either party for such an event.
On the night before his contemplated
i departure for home, while conversing
with Mr. and Mrs.-. it happened
that lie was led into a recital of bis ad
ventures about the world, and before
the narrative was finished his listeners
knew that their adopted daughter bad
married her own brother, who before
i slic was born, had sailed for the East
India. Horrified beyond expression,,
the wretched man fled from the bouse,
and from that hour no tidings of him
have ever readied his friends.
This was in Mareli last, and a few
weeks later the wretched sister-wife
1 was rendered comparatively poor by
I the destruction of a large portion of
the property loft in her band by tire.
Although written to oy her si no Kelt
friend-, their letters never reached her,
and a few weeks since site started for
IKlmira, her early home. lrpon her
; arrival there she learned the address
of her foster-parents, with whom she
at once communicated, giving them full
details of her experience since site had
first bade them farewell, upon setting
\ out for her western home. Their
answer to her letter contained a state
ment of the terrible discovery of the
identity of her husband and brother,
i together with an affectionate invitation
to oomc to them with her children and
share their home.
1 Heart broken, and nearly crazed by
the strange denoument ot her happy
married life, the wretched woman
hastened to accept the offer, and this
, morning will doubtless sec her reunit
ed with her earliest and dearest friends.
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an EXCELLENT LINIMENT.—Take the
whites of two eggs, beaten to a froth'
a wineglass of vinegar, a wineglass of
spirits of turpentine, and a wineglass
of alcohol, beating it all the time. This
! liniment must be put together in tlie
order mentioned above, or it will not
; lie thoroughly incorporated. We find
this very superior in all rases of
sprains, bruises, etc., on man or beast.
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-On and after January, 1%!). ail
editors, schoolmasters and ministers of
the (iospel will be passed free of charge
over t lie Lehigh (Va.) Valley Hail road,
upon allowing their certificates of off
. lee.
8*g^Au Alabama planter last year
imported some Itrazillian cotton seed
at a dollar per seed. It lias yielded
most proliflely this year, and he is
very sanguine that it will prove far
superior to any other variety of seed.
A Wife Wanted.
Somebody who wantB a wife pub
lishers the following advertisement in
a St. Louis paper:
Wanted.—T have lived solitary long
enough. I Want some one to talk at,
quarrel with—then kiss and make up
again. Therefore, I am ready to re
ceive communication from young la
dies and blooming widows of more
than average respectability, tolerably
tame in disposition, and hair, of any
color. .
As nearly as I can juge for myself I
am not over eighty, nor under twenty
five years of age. I -am cither
five feet eight or eight feet five
I forget which. Weigh 135 315,
or 531, pounds—one of the three—recol
lect each figure perfectly well but as to
their true arrangement 1 am somewhat
puzzled. Have a whole suit of hair,
dyed by nature and free from dandruff.
Eyes butternut brindle, tinged with
pea green. Nose blunt, according to
Ionic order of architecture, with a
touch of the composite, and mouth be
tween a catfish’s and alligators made
especially for oratory and the reception
of large oysters. Ears palmated, long
and elegantly shaped. My whiskers
arc a combination of dog’s hair, moss
and briar bush—well behaved, fear
fully luxuriant.
I am sound in limb and on the negro
question. Wear boot No. 9 when
corns are troublesome, and can write
poetry by the mile, with double rhyme
on both edges—to read backwards, for
wards, crosswise or diagonally. Can
play the Jew’s harp or bass drum, and
whistle Yankee Doodle in Spauish.
Am very correct in my morals, and
first rate at tenpins, have a great regard
for the Sabbath, and never drink unless
invited. Am a domestic animal and
perfectly docile when towels are clean
and shirt-buttons all right. 1 possess
a pre-eminating virtue, it is that of for
giving every enemy whom I deem too
I.1. i .. I.J 1 - T _ . _ . ...
every niglit, musquiters permitting; ns
to whether I snore in my sleep I want
somebody to tell. Money is no object,
as 1 never was troubled with it and
never expect to be. 1 sould like some
lady who is perfectly able to support a
husband, or if she could introduce mo
to a family where religious example
would be considered sufficient compen
sation for board, it would do just as
well.
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A Traveling Editor’S Outfit.
According to a Nashville paper, the
valise of one of the Louisville editors
recently fell from a cab in that city,
busrt open, and the following contents
were found laying loose on the pave
ment where they had been spilt—viz.,
2 clean shirts, 1 dirty do ; 1 dirty pair
of drawers; 1 hymn book; 2 packs
playing cards; 1 bottle whiskey; 1
prayer book ; 1 boot jack ; 1 brace of
pistols; 3 scraps candles; 1 pocket
testament, 1 razor and strap ; 1 shaving
brush; 1 cake soap; 1 vial sweet
oppoponix ; 1 photograph of a colored
girl and lock of kinky hair, and 4
copies of the‘‘Kight of Way.” We give
this catalogue to show the march of
Improvement, and as a proof of how
much better traveling editors arc oft'
now-a-days than of old. It is within
our recollection when an Arkansas
editor lost his entire baggage in this
city, and the sum total was as follows :
a dirty shirt, a bowie knife, a plug of
tobacco, a deck of cards, and a pam
phlet on draw poker.—N. O. l'icapune.
fcar'l’he great men of the world have
been workers. Demosthenes was an
A iliotii-in lt'noL'Citntli A iv i>i iv)»♦ w a u
a barber. In our own country, lien
Franklin was a printer, and was not
born with a gold spoon in his mouth.
Ho wandered about the streets ofPhil
adclphia for work, with a loaf of bread
under bis arm, but kings sal at his feet
and listened to his words of wisdom.
Jackson w as so obscure that it is not
known when or where lie was born, or
whether lie had any parents. Clay was
the mill boy of the slashes, and supplied
his mother's bowl with meal, Tom
Corwin was a wagon boy. Judge
McLean was a newsboy. Meu who
have tints made their mark are work
ing men—co-workers with the Al
mighty,
j®r*Thc Hartford burglar, who con
ducted own defence, disgusted llie Dis
trict attorney by calling him “mv learn
ed brother."’
Boston wants to invest one million
dollars in a hundred-foot wide street
that will run strait lor a hundred
yards.
{ijyThc oldest house in tlie United
Stales is a stone building at Guilford,
it was built in 10-10, the stone having
been carried in hand-barrows from an
adjoining ledge. The cement with
which the stone is put together is
harder than the stone.
JffirThe cypress of Somma, in Lom
bardy, Italy, is perhaps the oldest tree
on record. It was known to be in exis
tence at the time of Julius Casar,
forty-two years before Christ, and is
therefore uintecn hundren years old.
It is one hundred and six feet in bight
and twenty feet in circumference at
one loot from the ground.
8®“B enjamin Franklin, once puttiug
I to press a form of the common Prayer
| the letter c dropped out nnperceived
by him : “We shall ail bo changed in •.
I the tw inkling of an eye. ‘‘When the
book appeard, to the horror of the
devoted worshippers the passage read
l “we shall all be banged in the twiuk
i ling of an eye,’’