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. t! ' ! ' . : . I ' . . , it r I ; . , , j j ;".':"':,' - ' i r. ,. . . ' .', .: - ' ' - ' y ALP WEL MesSENOEB. r; l.;:, U; :-.;;-; v ., . v. 1 , jas; c NUTfTY, Publisher. DBVOTEP TO THE GJCTSRAL IKTERSSTS OF CI KLL1 WATAUGA, ASHB AKD t ! adjacett OOUHTIES. TERMS : S150 per Annum. 1 VOL. I. LENOIR, N. G., THtsRSiUY, MAT 25, i . . 1 1 i it ' - . -j .- ' 11 - - f J '$. : r r- ? 1876. f xrr or OP THE ORKNEY ISLANDS. ! Ob, the Qaeen of the Orkney IaUnds, Bhe' traveling oyer the se ; I 8Ws bringing a cnt tie-fish with her, To play with my baby and me.! Oh, hia bead ia three mi)e long, deaf ; . ilia tail ih three 'miles short : Audjrbeu he goes oat, he wriggles his enout la a,' way that to cuttle-fiah ought, i ' i 'i ; . ' i Oh, the Qaeen of the Orkney Islands,:' 8he rides on a sea-green whale. lie takes her a mile, with an elegant While, Ateyery flip of his taiL T ' r Oh. the Queer of the Orkney Islands, She jlresaew. in wonderful tastej; The sea-serpent coils, all painted in oils, Around her bee-yatif ul waist. j ; v i - i t , Ad J though Bhe knows nothing of feet. 8'.e v.an manage her train, with an air of disdain, In a way that i perfectly swee. Oh, the Queenjof the Orkney I&lands She's traveling over the main ; So we'll hire a' hack, and send her right back Tn wr hf-antiful irtlantlri aL'a.in.! ! " ! -f3. TV v hiAax. r. Patience Rewarded. T . AndneW Ilogan' li?id been j ah opulent 1 fanner, and once rented a lirge tract of ! land;; Ins dwelling was situated close by tile, Ohio river. "With the Jvjew of ; increasing his wealth, he went into the specuhitionjof cattle, and Quickly lost j the fruits oflong years of industry. He i did not quite lose hone, hbwever. but . rented a small farm; and endeavored by j -patient toil to retrieve his altered for- tunes, In vainj.e struggled tO';Sustain j bimslf ; tht! times were duljl,- there was j no business iloiiig, for the 'country was , slowly and ai 1 1 fu 1 1 y recoveri n g f rora, a money panic, and Andrew .logan, for a scccnla time was compelled! to give up ins inline, nc nau au. oiny uaugiuer, a-f l ' .a. II. t... .1 1-- 1 1.1. jl girl of soirfe sixteen years of age j named j - nn; I ?hehad been of great seryiceto mi j;uiit'i in managing niq nouae, lor Hogai 's wife died when Anh was four teen, ipd young as she w;is, she was able to direct and control the domestic allairs of the' farm, and savej herj father many a dollar by her foresight and pru dence,) Andrew Ilogan wjas walking the floor with rapid steps, and his daughter was sitting-at a table in sewing. I "We shall liave to leave Here ngaged Ann,' lie said, "and I scarcely knoiv what we are to do. l'erhaps it would be best for you toirnarry William I'enddr, and gain 3'ourself home. I have bren sqliish in opposing the matter hereto.reV but I iigence to William as you se best. Ami Ilocan- taised her eyes sorrow fully to father's face. "Must yon leave this pUiceV" she asked, Is there no; way to! remain?" t. ; i replied her "None that I know that 1 father "except that I raise J money enough to continue farmingjuntil times becoin better ; :and to-day I could not command a hundred dollarsj if my sal vation -depended upon it." 1 The I conversation betweeh Apn and her father here terminated, iandf llogan put on! his hat and walked lout to cool his fevered brow. j I- ' Whtin William Pender heard from Ann's) lips the story of her father's trouble, he patted his Sweethearts cheek and told her to give herself no more concern than was necessury. "The small fortune 'my father hft me," he said "ii liave very much increased, and noWithat we are going to bej married,-I will purchase the place where you re side, and y our father .and ! I will try wnat we can do to make things pay." So Andrew Ilogan unexpectedly dis covered that.' there would belno occasion lor him to move, and in Jess than a inOnth! Ids' daughter was married to William Pender, and they were all "snugly living under the same roof. It seemed, however, as if misfortune had ! marked the Hogans for victims Dur ing the first year of her marriage, Ann's father imet with a painful accident while plowiiig. It was considered trifling enough at first, but bad syinptcjms be gan tojmanifest themselves Utter a few weeks and before thirty days had elapsed Andrew ilogan was dead . Had her troubles ended here, poor Ann . would; no doubt have been grateful ; but her hiisband, soon after her father's death, istarted awaylon horseback and never'i-eturned. The fact of his having quite ii, sum of money on his Ipersoir gave ri$e tolthe suspicion that he was mur dered. I ikdore six months was gone i Aim Pender was aerangeui rule xisca to spend her days la searching the neighborhood for her husband, her mind being impressed with the idea that Willie was losti She would go from iieighbbr to neighbor sojiicitli.g money!, that- she might employ , men to search for! him. Thus years. passed away, and j Annf Pender's hiinq never recovered its wonted strength. Her husband had left enough money to sup port her comfortably, and the authori ties placed her in charge, of a family who kindly attended to heriwants. About a mile from Ann's old home lived Franklin Morton, a man who was very wealthy and w ho livekl-inlexcel- lent style. I In early days lie had mar ried the daughter of a farmer, wljiobore him oie Child named Margaret. I When Margaret was seven years old her mother died, arid when she entered her twenti eth year her grandfather died, -aind be queathed to her his entire estate,! which was very large. The fact was, Marga ret's wealth exceeded that pf her par ents, and of course she had ah abundance of suitors, and among Uienifone Walter Clark. h Who and what he vas, df-es not f sigh ifjj. He was u love with :Iaggie M or toil, and she reciprocated hik feel ings. I Her father, who had high no tions of his daughter's marrying, com mandeid her to have nothinto do with Clark, and never to dare think of mar i-ying him. But wonin are obstinate THE QUEEN ' . i . in cases like these, and, notwithstanding ton refused to discard her lover. This act of disobedience roused all the latent ire in her father's heart. : "Would you marry one," he sneered, "without a dollar in his pocket, and never likely to have one, as he has no business?" 1 "Yes," replied Maggie with spirit; "if he were a beggar 1 would wed him, for I love hini. When I become of age I shall have more than enough; for both xf us, and as that period is not very remote, I imagine i we will be able to await it with patience." To say that Mr. Morton watched his daughter with lynx-eyed vigilance, would but faintly express the exceeding care he took to keep Maggie and her lover from meeting each other. But of oMr they U' jnc?fc twi j.o 2mvniit.4 taiciui v iiLciiiiig eouiu preveiii it. pome little distance from. Mr. Morton's house Ihere was a grove, and just beyend this rose a mound or hill which commanded a good view for the distance of a mile. It was in this grove that the lovers used to hold their clandestine interviews. But' the occasions when Maggie could meet her lover were so uncertain, that he would sometimes seek the rendezvous tor days at a time before he met her. One morning he was seated in the grove awaiting her when he saw a female form on the mound. In an instant he was hastening to the spot under the supposition that it was Maggie, but when he arrived there no one was to be seen. Disappointed and heart-sick he .turned away. For several mornings gJinito be perplexed and very nervous, At length, however, Maggie was able f meet him, and he lorthwith related to her what he had witnessed. She was as much confounded as himself, but they soon forgot the subject In talking over their own affairs. Not long afterwards poor Ann Pender went' to Mr. Morton's house, and re quested him to give her some money, that she might employ men to' search for ,fir niiasino- hnshmwl At hrst Mr. Morton spoke kindly to the ture, though he refnsed h poor crea- w V A VlllOVU 111 A UlyCt ViiTr ranuncr but when she became clamorous in her demand, he treated her rudely, and ordered his servants to see her iofl the place. "And you refuse the supplication of tne widow7' she screamed. "You do, hejr? Well, I curse you, and the time shall come when 3-011 will lose your daughter, and you shall seek her and not find her." These were the parting words of Ann Pender. .Some little time after this when Clark and Maggie Morton! were holding one of their stolen interviews in the grove, .Ann Pern! ; was lurking near at; hand. youiu oniy spenu a lew moments in juis 1 society on account of the -scrutiny, that 1 1. was exercised over her movements. "And is this to last forever ?'? asked Clark in a mournful tone. "Are we to meet and scarcely say two words welcome before we say good-bye, of to meet again we know not when?" "Be patient, Willie," answered Mar garet, "when I have a right to my for tune, if my father is still opposed to our union, I; will marry you without any longer delay." "Yes.V replied Clark, "and the world will call me a fortune hunter." "What will that signify?" said Mar caret. "I know you are not; and that .is enough for mo." "Curses on vou both." shouted a voice from the bushes, and a stout wo man in a"1 tattered and faded dress stood . UC1UIC Liiciii. x nave uiaw(iiiu j vu, have I ? I'll away and give the infor mation, and perhaps he'll give me the money." and in an instant the woman had darted off. " 'Tis crazy Ann," Maggie called to Clark, who was pursuing the creature. "She is harmless." l "But she win go and linorm your father," said Clark. "Never fear," replied Maggie, will do I nothing of the kind." Masreie Morton was mistaken. "she But Ann 1'ender hastened to her rather and re lated the conversation she had overheard in the grove, but Mr. Morton, failing to srive her money, the woman railed against him as she had previously done. and was again turned on tne grounds. For long days Clark waited in vain for Maggie to appear ; and was not aware of the terrible scene that had occurred between the father and daugh- 1 ter, when Maggie openly admitted that she had been meeting her lover. , Some time after when Clark was wait ing in the grove in the hope of meeting Mfj j- n- tuTl-irn pf em mi hct fore him. "I have done a thing," she said, "which makes me sleepless. I gave the wound, I will heal the wound. I did the mischief, I will repair it. I know vour trouble. Write a note, and Ann Pender will deliver it. Safely and quickly too." ! Clark Was deceived as many are de ceived by a mad person's temporary re turn to reason, and agreed to meet her in an hour with a letter for Maggie. But he morethan half repented having done so, when at the sight of the letter Ann Pender's iwilduess returned. It was too late, however, for she "was gone in a moment, clutching the note tightly in her hand. ; "I was a fool to trust her," mur mured Clark. "She will give the letter to Mr. Morton." He was mistaken, however. The next day the poor creature met him with a renlv from Margaret, she had man aged to crawl under Miss Morton's window unobserved, and deliver Clark's ; note and receive a reply. The letter of Maggie gave him some thing to ponder on. She directed him to keep himself concealed, and see that a report was circulated that he had left the country.- That at nights he could repair to a certain hollow tree in the grove and search for letters, and when it was necessary to communicate with him she would send him gome impor tant Instructions. For! two monthi William Clark kept himself concealed if and only ventured out at night to seek tne grove in hopes of receiving a letter At length he was rewarded. Ahurriet' note told him that her father was satis4 fled that he had left the country, and sne was not so cioteiy guarded as re fore. moreover, told him to watch for heron the third morning after hd saw a small lire kindled 4n the mound The third morning afterward, he was at his post, and Maggie appeared on horse back. . I . xvuay x am iw emy-pne, sne exis lover'f arms. ' if Wiii ybu fly with me S" asked Clark There is no occasion to rtec" renlieif miss K.rton. VDut l will marrv IGvt ,ornHd v4 f-k1-? ' i ... - i imam uiark renuired no seco bidding; he was soon on! his way to neighboring town where he made Man garet Morton his wife, j . j In the mean time a large company o friends had assembled atjMr. Morton' house in honor of Maggie coming int her fortune. As soon as her absence. was discovered, Mr. Mortohwas fairly frantic and with the guests "began til search the country lor the absent One. "Ha! ha! ha!" cried the voice of Ann Pender, "did I not tell you that yon would lose your daughter, and not And iier r And now again I curse you, nor will I aid you to seek her!" The consternation ol Mr. Morton andl his friends was indescribable wheni nignt came, but Margaret came noq with it. i The following day a letter from hi uaugnter soiveu the mystery, fehe wan married to William Clark, whom hei supposed to bethousands bf miles away. It was some time befoire the bafiledJ Art parent could forgive his daughter. last, however, discovering that resist ance was not only useless, but ridicu -lous, he consented to receive the delin-u quents. Grateful for the service that Ann Tender had done them, Mr. and MrsJ Clark had the poor creature placed under uioj Desi meaicai men, and were le warded by seeing her completely re cover her reason, ij, j How She Manages It. is mv nar, none f nn ren a m m looking lady at a Chicago; millinery es tablishment one pleasant day this veek. xes, ma'am," politely responded the shopwoman, "it will be here in a mo ment." ! Ah assistant soon brought up the bon net, and while the customer was duly inspecting it, the store ventured to inquire. proprietress - How nn vnn like it. ma'am ?" "liut it 13 just a youi af-acrocrtt. pleaded the maker of heau-wear "Yes, something as I ordered," wasi the short and sneering answer. "I'm real sorry, but ; "Well, never mind," ibroke in the buyer, with set lips; "what's the cx- liense nP-t "A-b-o-u-t $4, 1 guc said the woman, timidly. 1 i v 'Ihe money was paid jover ana tne bonnet ordered up to her house, when v .a the purchaser pranced put upon tlierSaints Dav the chestnuts and walnuts street and immediately exclaimed to an f-. will, to use a vulgar but expressive accompanying lady friend : 1 1 phrase have 'svvamped' the market, the "Isn't it perfectly lovely r v "Yes," replied the friend; "it's rav-i ishing, but how could you talk so to. that woman j "Talk so?" exclaimed she of the new: t r 1 1 1 1 1 1 how much I liked the hat, that woman wrouio .nave ceriaiuiy cnargeu me 111-; teen dollars, but now, you see, I've got, it for seven ! The other woman said) that she hadji never thought of that, buj vNOuld proflri by her fnemPs ripe experience andj never like an article again until aiten she had bought it. The Capital of ttreece. I half expected to find here a halj old asleep people, lazily following fashioned ways ot proceeding; Dut, on the contrary, a more wide awake govern) inen. cannot uc luuuu. ia", a constitutional monarcny mat ruies, Greece, It is like England in havings a king, but in everything; but the namej he is much more like our president, since in many ways his power is cir? cumscribed. Athens has some forty five or fifty thousand 1 people. But within three or four miles are manj little villages, thus making everything here more stirring, as the xuntry towui do their "shopping" here. Indeed 1 line it hard to realize that I am not In h real live 1 ankee city. Here the kingTr queen, ministers, and omcers dress jikc Americans, and thus, the fashionably example being set, fully iwo thirds, if . .J ...... . J ... , . . aie in me uuusi 01 a wiue-awaKe, iu tQn;.,f t.A U .i ial e 'f :lSv'Z T ,r P ' t .1 o hard to bel eve that they ire "heathen- tsh'in religious views.) The fact Id 1 ish they stand where German infidelity! does on materialistic erounds care less of the whole subject of reliirion. saying it is no concern ofj theirs. How to Please. One great secret of pleasing others lies in our wish to please them. The way to make yourself pleasant to others is to show them attention, lhe whole world is like the miller at Mansfield, "who cared for nobody no. not he oei-ause nonotiv c-areii lor mm " Atus; . . ' . . the whole world wouhlj do so if youj; gave them the cause. Lt people see that you care lor them by showing them what Sterne so happily called the small courtesies, in which there is no parade.a 1 : I- . ..mi ... . 1 wuoae oice is 100 sun ;io tease, ana which manifest themselves by tender, affectionate looks and little acts of at tention, giving others the! preference in everything. Iowa has just decided through her Legislature, to do without local option. Donnet; "wny, 11 1 nau et uer Kiiowrwhoie market will be one vast Fruit JSrket. one who has not nersnnallv j and Audied the fruit markets of Murcia J Aonua ana fort St4 Maryi in all the varying seasons, can? have the slightest idea of the enormous' size Aid Teauty of the vegetables and fruitJ In Port St. Mary's market rauf ishesi (called "tfrarano." W kverai rWim ;v. t. : i . i j. ' . . . o Funucues U) a loot lono' ami beinglof. vervouick ornwdi t0 inucn auu juicy, jserore. then, w a ; come tb cooking, and follow the peasant , iiin mjiimu- uome, lauen witrj her store of frull and fish, let us tak a hf..i . ' w f the fruit and ves-AtahlA fttifa Iet met premise that this zketh ftf in: t,.. f r"" s an Autumnal K . . . erV during the month of Here Is a pile of calavasa. 50m e oak; Some round and llat, measuring one foot in height and a foot and a half in diameter; .their yellow flesh is taste less, bat they are in universal request sold it two farthings per pound, every poor toman buys a lump of gourd flesh for her" stew. Some of these weigh as much is fifty pounds avoirdupois; the smalle-t which I weighed turned the scale it ten pounds. Here are water melons (sandias) weighing from ten to fifteen pounds apiece, their crimson and lak;-colored 'flesh, as thqy are cut, contrasung beautifully with the dark green, Lupromising-looking rind of the exterior; besides them is a pile, .five feet in height, eight in length, and four in breadth of fragrant melons of all kinds, shapes, and colors, called "mel ones de oor,'? which average four pounds in weight, and are sold at three farth ings' -per pound. Here, in hundreds, are rich lemon-pippins, called ''peril io;ies," heaps of crimson, yellow and PUrPie plums, or cimelas, sweet crab- luscious; tomatoes by the million, some of which are of the weight, of three quarters of a pound; pimientos, bitter and appetizing capsicums,of which the plants take six months before they bear and ripen fruit; some of these irimientos are so large that, although they are empty, or nearly so, they weigh three ounces apiece; heaps of parsley, cabbages, cauliflowers, which last put their comparitively tiny brethren in England to the blush; lettuces (the old fashioned cos lettuce,) of which two or three g to the pound, the pound costing but two farthings ; almonds, cocoanuts from .Havana; alyarrobos, or carrob beans; green tomatoes tor pick ling (to be had for the asking;) small cucumbers and gourds (ppinos a"nd cala vasinos,) two lor a larthing, used tor stewing with slices of ham; baskets of black grapes, each basket weighing twenty pound?, sold at three farthings IK- . if. 'ill . -WMHMHHHB iArafeppersl pimieiifo& MucinilvS,) ofgiett, vti5'54wsMjuiiJ-orr rtlor. sold at one penny per.pouna, are eacen raw or i in vinegar ; potatoes (pumpas,). of large size strewed in heaps over the ground; soine of them weighed one' pound apiece although, this weight is, of course, ex- centional : thev are sold at three farth- I ings per pound. Add toi these French beans, trreen unrine lemons, a few un- h j o i 1. . i r no nronmi! u-tiifo ffrnnM .,n npoa anfi nfiaches in abundance, and the j; gtoek of fruit is complete. Before All wi,0ie coloring of which, from that day until about the 10 of December, will be of a pervading tone of russet-brown. About thp.vmrddle of December oran2re will ; have come iuto season. and the orange .gtore. 7cyZe Bar. 1 , . lamvn, r-: a. gto half grote8que,balf revolting, of crueily ingenious showman to whom there had occurred the idea of getting up a Lilliputian exhibition or tiger-ta-ming. He procured four cats, whose bodies he painted orangertawny, with black stripes so as to be closely imita tive of the hide of felis tigrig, and then he en traced a little boy, who, clad in tights and spangles, was to enact the n ft KAQat tfimtir iin whn nrinr tn n nis appearance in public, was shut up in a caire Wlth the cats and instructed to reduce them to subiection and to teach them a variety of tricks by means of rigorous chatisenient. If, however, the poor little tiger king was provided with a switch, the four Liliputian ti gers had been endowed by nature with a due complement of claws;. and they so worried and tore the unfortunate lad that, had he not been able to make his escape from the cage, fatal results might hare followed. He ran shrieking into the street, pursued by his master ; ou 1 iuc uvneo juicucicu,: auu me cor rectional Tribunal may possibly have something very serious to say to the barbarous promoter of Liliputian ti- irer-tamme exhibitions. Scarcely, how- - 5 r.. .u.. 1. J c a.'-' j- 1 ever, uao iuc ccuu.ui iuib uair uicu awa ere e bear of.two very alarming acci5euU wuicll have becirred. to a pair u wiia-bet tamers of some no- toriety in r ranee. At Havre the lion king liidel has had a sufficiently nar row escape from a horrible death. It was this performer s custom to go into with , him a sheep, which, thfoagh the awe. inspired by his presence, was kept safe from molestation on the part of the .ferocious inmates of the den. On a recent occasion he entered the lion's cage, and placed the sheep on the back t t.l . Iwn.t a fefkf tctiii-li ho hail nffon t . t- ..,r.!;Kl ,,,-. ..-,. uciuir ou.uuiUiicucvi miu Lrcucvii oaic- iy. 0 feOODer uowever,; nau ue uone thi8 than a huge lion sprang upon the . - . t j unfortunate sheep, burying his teeth in its body. There was a general com motion and panic amongf the crowded audience, but the undaunted Btdell stepped forward, and with a heavy bludgeon dealt Leo such a tremendous blow over the jaws that the beast, ut tering a yell of pain, was completely cowed, abandoned his bleeding victim, and crouched humbly at the feet of his master. The sight and smell of the blood of the sheep were, however, too waa iuis perioimer scusivui w go mui jWed ln the guest's ear, "Chateau La Klfc!?;" I Kte ot 1822, sir ?" The colonel assented, mnch for wild beast nature to bear. i ne other denizens of the cage, began ,n ommons manner, and with singular unanimity of teeth and claws tber attacked Monsieur Rufol ?7iuas Mr. William Nye went at the uraureo mnee, me beast tamer, not wu ternnea, chased the first lion in to another cae, fooht -his way through the remaining brutes. . ami. rescning his wounded sheep, Issued from the den. - i f ? i Another accident to lion tamer oc curred, in Paris, at1 the theater of tho4 1 olies Bergeres, where r one Del monico has gained irreat populanty asaqueller of wildbeasU; bat acci dents will happen in the best regulated dens, and on Monday a highly grained lioness got her instructor into iioruer and severely mangled oiie tf hiclA&ds. swards the reporfof a nrUAKex wavjtArd. I which, of course, caused the agitation of the public to . grow more intense. Tranqnilityi however, was restored ' when Delmonico made his appearance at the footlights, apparently none the jworse for his encounter with the lio iness. Now it is quite probable that in the.accouut of both of these casualities ?there may remain something to be read between the lines. Wild-beast tamers must necessarily be men of unflinching courage, and or unerring presence ot mind ; but they are likewise, as a rule, something else they; are showmen; and the musket-shot may have been a mere coup de theatre.' . In any case it Ms understood that the Paris police have prohibited any future performances on the part of Deluioniconor is it unlike ly that these always. dangeroua and frequently fatal exhibitions will be de finitely urpressed by the law through out tbe?whole of France, London Tel egraph. I Spring. i A spring is always a vital point in the 'landscape; it is indeed the eye of the Jfields jand how often, too, it has a noble eyebrow in the shape -of an overhang ing bai,k or ledge. Or else its site is marked by some tree which the pioneer jhas wisely left standing, and which sheds a cooluess and freshness that inake the water more sweet. In the shade of this tree the harvesters sit and eat their lunch and look out upon 'jthe quivering air of the fields. Here the Sunday saunterer stops and lounges !with his book, and bathes his hands and face in the cool fountain. Hither the strawberry-girl comes with her basket and pauses a moment in the green shade. The plowman leaves his plow and In long strides approaches the life renewing" spot,' while his team, which cannot follow, look wistfully after him.- Here the cattle love to pass jthe birds to wash themselves .'nd make . Indeed a spring1 Is ilwaygatroasis in the desert of the fields. It is a. creative and firenerative centre. It attracts all ! f nings to itsen tne grasses, tne mosses, I M flowers, the wild plants, the great . . 1 i . 1 . . . . it. . i frees, ine wainer nnas u out, trie j lumping party seek it, the pioneer n - -: i .1 i. 1 . i.j 1 ...;. , 'UllUS 111? IJUl Ol lll IIOUSC IJCitl it. ijWhen the settler or squatier has found a good spring, lie has found a good place to begin life; he has found the fountain-head of much that he is seek ing in this world. The chances are hat he has found a.southern and eastern exposure; or it is a fact that water loes not readily How north ; the valleys mostly open the other way; and it is quite certain that he has found a meas ure of salubrity ; for where water flows, fever abideth not.;. ? The spring, too, keeps him to the right belt, out of the low valley, and off the top of the hill. I Then there seems a kind of perpetual Ipring-time about the place where water issues from the ground a freshness and K greenness that are ever renewed. The grass never fades, the ground is fiever parched or frozen. There is jivarmth there in winter and coolness In feummer. The temperature is equalized. In March or April the spring runs are a pright emerald, while the fields are yet brown and sere, and in fall they are yet green when the, first snow covers tnem. Thus every fountain by the roadside is jfi fountain of youth arid of life. That is what the old fables finally mean. A Kins Banquet. 1 On the anivergaries of remarkable events, and on great occasions, King Louis Philippe was accostumed to give rand dinners, to which member of the National Guards were always in vited. As the invitations were sent out somewhat haphazard, comic scene jsoiuetimes occurred as, for instance, a certain captain swallowed, without knovine a muscle, the -contents of his finger glass, believing that a Spanish pqueur had been set; before him. One sdav. after Fieschi's attempt upon the Bovereign's lile, the King gave a grand banquet, at which the Natioual Guards jfrorn all parts wa well represented, a jcolouel of most "military aspect being Seated on the right side of the King. Dish after dih had been served, with twines to match, when a servant whU- and wheu his glass was full, he 'sighted' 9t carefully, sceuteui tt en connoisseur raised it to his lips,' took a mouthful. massed it slowly over his palate, swal lowed It, then smacking hU lips and jrurning to the King, said, "Weil if they isnrp vrai that for I finite Ol lsxD. they ; 1 v.., Vrui J v juat j King's surprise may you I" The be Imagined. . . . . . ' . 1 . . . . . I of Bordeaux. I -Montana has taken an immense number of buffalo skins this season. The buffalo will soon become as extinct jas the dodo. ' Bartholomew county, Ind., contains four villages named respectively Crack kwir. Poasumerlorv. Kooncrelc and T- news nr 6&U7 Minnesota j boasts of millions of gr&ssnoppers already. The estimated Allentown, Pa.- Iron Works is 00,000 per year. Dr. Linderman approve the pro posed site for the Western Mint, at Co lumbus, O. - There are estimated to be over 5,- ' 000 dai y and weekly newspapers pub lished irr the United States. y You can travel 1,700,000,000 miles ona Massachusetts railroad before it will be your turn to be killed. Miss Stratton asndini nnt w. y the 3lst of January last, when the 1 temperature was 25 degrees below zero. Ttocome theuper4 jIInHructn Js- pan. ; A New York farme f2(XK) worth cf hpT-se-radlsh this year That's greater than most farmers ex pect. John Tyler J a son of the. president of that name, i proposes to run for governor of Florida upon an indepen dent ticket. 1 Of the one hundred and seventeen ; women now studying at the Michigan Lniver8ity, four have chosen law, forty seven medicineJand fifty-six literature and science. ! President McCosh at the opening of the 120th year of Princeten college said that during the Beven years of his pres idency, gifts to the amount of $1,250,. 000 were received. A monument to the late Vice Presi dent Wilson by the regular army is pro posed, j Company D, 16th Infantry stationed at Humboldt, Tenn., has raised $50 for the purpose. Liberia has withdrawn her appro priation for securing representation at the Centennial Exhibition on account of the expenses bf the war in which she has become involved. j General Schenck says he is ready and anxious to answer all charges against him, and that the press of the country has beep infamously and mall- , ciously false toward him. The U. S. Supreme court decides that the law levying a tax on passen gers arriving at the port of Xew York is unconstitutional. The decision ot the court below is reversed. The Fredericksburg Herald has found a lottery ticket signed by George Washington. That's the kind of a man who now comes forward and asks the country to buy him a monument. Senator-eleet Beck, of Kentucky, will bathe arbitrator on the part of Vtrtiria on, thV Mfttrlana-Vlticlnl Bouudary-Une Comtnlsalon, In plue of ex Governor Grahamf of North 'Caro lina deceased. " The Shelby (Ky.) Sentinel says: Whisky, less than thirty years ago, cost but2 cents a gallon It seems like a heartless, hollow mockery to boast that the Centennial year shows won derful national progress. Messrs. Cockerell & Co., the great London coal merchants, have set apart one of the offices at their wharf where lady clerks are' employed to manage the accounts. -The hours are from 9 to 6o'clock, and the salary a guinea a week. This is done as an experiment. Recently thirty-one estimates of the cotton crop of the current year, made by cotton dealers of Augusta, ha., were received and consolidated at the Au gusta exchange, when the average proved to be 4,4Ut,you bales. 1 ne nign- est was 4,600.000:; the lowest 4,200,000. There were! literally more persons killed and injured each year ln Massa chusetts 50 years ago through accidents to stage-coaches than there are now through accidents to railroad trains. Such is the conclusion of Mr. Charles Francis Adams in the February Atlan tic. ! James PartOn has been remarried in New York tcj his step-daughter, such marriages being legalin that state. Par ton was 34 when he married Fauny Fern, then aged 45.? He is now J4 and marries Fanny (Fern's daughter, aged 40. The whole! thing is a general aver age. I ; Walnut logs are in such demand that a man who recently purchased a farm of 250 acres near New Albany, Indiana, for $10,000 received an.offer of $9,600 for 120 large walnut trees grow ing on the place. There are also on the farm over 200 poplars, worth from $20 to $80 per treeJ , It seems to: be a pretty well estab lished fact thatl the ministry is one of the most physically wholesome of occu pations. Of the 178 Congregational clergymen who died last year, eight were over eighty years old, and only six under forty. The average age was over sixty four years. ' One farmer in Georgia last year planted fourteen acres in sugar cane; he saved fully three acres of eed, and had thei remainder ground up and made into syrup, which yielded him auout 2,300 gallons. This he sold at 65 cents per gallon, realizing the hauwme mm of $1,4& from eleven acres of grouud. Seven Chief Justices have occupied the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States:. John Jay, tlx years; John Kutledge, a part of a year; Oliver Ellsworth, five yeart; John Marshall thirty-five years; Roger B. Taney tweuty-elgbt years; Salmon P. Chase, ten years; and Morrison K. Waite, ap pointed in 174. Rollins and Co., bankers, of New York, announce that they have Institu ted a suit against James Gordon Ben nett, proprietor of the New York Herald in behalf of Mr. G. M. Rollins, seulor of the firm, for libel in a recent publi cation by that paper. Damages are claimed ln the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, 'Hardscrabble. r ' ' t .
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