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1 I n LU3 V iVOL. T. The Century. . t storm and calm the years lure led Ition on from stage to stage, rs space, until we tread Iresbold of another age. '. : , itliere o'er our pathway ewapti -,t nut stream of blood and fire ; ' Ink the gnardftui power who kept ored league ot State entire. .9 l checkered train of mn. furnvnll ' With til thy strifes and hopes and fears ; ns let thy memories dwell To. . u , - t 7 "i" uu mjc4 wie cuming years. , . inmiuug bv I by the past, and nptjin yjtfnjj J: i lairs-.-, wnicer page . kdrf thy happier reign. ' . , i-tWUUam Cpiitn Bryant, yf"Z c i I I orooaj "cent r im fc. I tori 1 " 'w-riuljli . ... 1 H site WofSti,d' her I, IT - I de Flor, "Butt yon to look at it" "I shouldn't know any more about itj f.ItfU,;- J.-- f -. I 'Wep,4lien, I want you to buy it." wnajfor?" - - - ? "Why, for me." V " Pay five hundrei dollars 6r a hand .kerchief for you ?" Junk it was gbmathiair kn I ' f" ( O wia wva AU the, other giria- uave tuemj 410 umui ujtle, the least little icur than theirs. I don't ijcy should have a nicer- rumdw,,;,f than i; just Wcause sHfe married. Any-; lody else Would say it was enough to be irned, and so let me have the hand srchiefr Married women Tiave every- au iaoe and diamonds. w, papt hist take out vonr nonW.- ik." It WilH u COftTinOr vnlr a " " ' o yon Buppose I carrv five-hnn- .lollar Ijilla ip my pocketbook ?" m?.kes no , odds. Your- cheok tb en. I've ant mv 1 . j ... v v JU, '-h a beautv. If von Onlv look at. k at that wreath of flowers so P'ely shaded; here the close work fe light, you see, there iha open in the shadeo perfect, you can feiancy Nthe colors; and all done in ?ne thread. See, papa, there's a aropi that round hole in the mesh' 'tfonsBnse. Flor: I Can't RAA ftnTtliini kind there. " t'4iouie your eye isn't edu- .arv Mine isr for I have Hindis eople's laces till I could almost ,em. That's, a rood d. You always do. One. two: r And tlieiijVMMMUw, 8nd liis daughter that Lucian MaJ- beard over the open transom ot the room to his in the hotel where he overnight a year or two ago, seeing Iher people nor handkerohief, and fast at the thought of a handkerchief ling five hundred dollars, which was want 'oal-third of the mortgage ou his little '.pUlo, thnt-he was trying to pay off, hear t and soul a conversation that now leJirrod to him in a moment of real gluyJ9 the housemaid stood before bin holding a little ymp rag iu her hi id that she had just snatched out of .; 11 i wasbtub, and that last night was a b uf dainty laco that Miss Rose Mer ' r hod called horhandkerchief, and h 1 given him to hold during the galop. -1 C od heavens, how was" he ever going 4 V rostora it ! ' k le was a ypnng lawyer,' just entering 0 on-what in time would probably -be . fi n practice, but which was now rather e ipirical. He had started in the race f wealth aud honor with good legal . ility, good name, and good morals, 1 iu with no other .impedimenta than a - .1 tle'patrimony in thd shape of a modest jiveHing in tha suburbs, which' he had fLiaWied to mortpsge for the means , Jtogeta V&. ' n'a education and his JT" profession, h'on mortgage he was striv jf ) ng to pay that he might begin the 1 1 futnra "cleatf" of the world. He was a handsome fellow, this Luoian Malvin, an ambition8 ne too, in some degree, lan4 very flflwly as proud as Lucifer., - E(e used to 1el many a pang in the as sociation, with those so much ' wealthier thia- Vm8 w0" certain circum fltancea'ba ' aubjectied. him. He had important case 'accidentally (0 his hands, and had acquitted IJ that the. wealthy clieut tfkand would not let him J then Luciatt remenstrated I- his power to keep up and was mortifying to . pride besides, ths client had assured npt pride, but -vanity, that . ' shs mortified, and that the wcy to be as -, wealthy as those he met was; to keep fcneir oompaiiy and, get their cases: and TJtf uiuuyut, uu iiuo wuuie, tuai pernaps i linen d wns right, and he tegan to Id with an ignoble motive, had never- less beoome very fond of tha ways of people to whom wealth had given y opportunity of culture anil graee. jfho knew how to treat life like a 1 of art' Moreover,. it was not a ItUEthat be i was petted by vsrioos of feweawS people, ; Cfflrtaia motierlyl ,aunfaaue mm at home with them, and Via his confidence and his affection, notably Mrs. Barnetta. Parents with (rood t ntrolls of thiair own, as Mrs. Earnest used to- tell him, were not so insistent in the matter of rentrolls as of -virtue aid talent in their daughters' utbandt ; and he was invHed" here and thee,' and given ' to Understand a great eal more than he choose to under- tand. ' Front m Lucifer,, as it was reviously siafed, he was going to marry o heiress o't them all and be the thrall her moiiHTf he could not 'marry a fo womafaeoald not many a poor e. wnen th gnmed, ne was going give, hot ue,'and at present he had Jthing to gj, Perhaps he) would Itc been I noi et person if Lc had not uu 411 :k so gi Tenuous in this matter obhgution ; then, at Mrs. Barnetta ofhave been Lucian U 1 'L IOOK mil V in urn v 1 f M&lTin T - w , . , , i-"imura was a vert 7 " " "?r " tna mere are few v oui nave our faults. It was among these people that ha happene4te meet Bos Mercier. She had oomft from rditant place, and was toting his pleasantest acquaintance; and certamlythe house was pleasanter still af ter her sonshiay little presence dawned On it. It seemed as if, for in stance, theip never;had,beea any flowers .itImMe,T)efosfc--aXthough it had always been overflowing; it seemed as if there Jjad been nonnsio there.no light oroJor,A flAei; ted now th. place was too dangerously delightful for young man. who did not want to many Jofwuent J5he was such a lovely lit tle thing; Hot exactly beautiful that ,rhf ar.ra not have bcaa-hontu.i Picture, but in flh 1 1 r, . i - . wwaf iuiu 111 Xjuoifln Malvin'g eyes, she was ta - e"i i uor urigni nair tnat broke into a cloud of sunny rings about her sweet face; such a gentle gayety went with her wherever she did, uch a tender grace of manner, too. in the in. terwalsef her buoyant spirits her voice wat. Buca a wartjhng voice, her ways were inch winsome ways. . Lucian Malvin fell that' he mrt forswear her presence unless he wanted to make life a bunlen to himself ; and he eased going to Mrsarnetfa's, where she was stay ing, ataoSt as suddenly as day forsakes the horizon in that dreary season when twilights are net. ,' But if he could shut himself out from the Bainettas', he could not shut Miss Itosa out from general society; and go where he would, he met her almost nightly, laughing gayly, singing sweetiy, dancing Jightly, till he declared to him self that if this was going to last, he muf t indeed cease going out at all But that was a little too much; he did not know how positively to deny himself the mere eight of her. Tet things were growing very precarious when he could hot take a book but he saw that blush ing face slide in between the pages, when he could not make out a writ without being in danger of slipping her name into the blanks, when he heard the - delicious voice murmuring in his ears when he walked, and walked all right with the little spirit when he slept. He made a c&mpromiae with himself it was all he could and de clared that at any ratee would not dance with her again. It was an idlaeffort. He might almost- as well iave danced with her as have stood looking at her, quite uncon- r, of frij general air, and all the l6v- oneu iumto her side; he stood there jubt as Bosa came up from her prome nade and left the arm of one cavalier to be carried off by another, "You are not dancing, Mr. Malvin?" she said. "Oh, would you hold my fan and hand kerchief ? " . He followed them with his eye again as the-"music crashed Into a dashing galop; What right had that other man with his clasp about this darling? why did she suffer it ? what decency was there1 in the society which commanded such sac rifice ? . In his enibraoe-whirling wild ly to this .wild music 1 "Ion do hateiim, don't you?" said Mrs. Barnetta, in his ear. "If looks could slay" He started. Was he car rying his heart upon his sleeve for daws to peck at? ."Oh, I don't pity you a bit," laughed'Mrs. Barnetta, low toned. And putting out her hand, she took Ro sa's fan and opened it as she talked. 'Anybody," said she, , " with such a power of. making misery, ought to en- y it." . I I beg your pardon, Mrs. Barnet ta, but if you tead me riddles, I must ask you also to be their sphinx. Oh, no : it was the function of the sphinx to propound the riddles, not to solve them." And. Mrs. Barnetta lanehed her low. pletjant laugh. "You do not come to us any more," she said. And aa I used to be in your confidence beforeyou, deserted toe, I can imagine the ea8on I do not like to say it is very shabby treatment of an old friend. Of course I cannot say that it is rude. But if you do not dance with Miss Mercier this evening, I shall be fearfully offend ed. I am not going to have my little for the sake of the 'safety of. the prinee ct; all good fel laws himself. ' . Luoien changed eoTor'sd suddenly that Mrs. Barnetta put out her hand in af fright, half expecting to see him fall but in a moment he was himself again. "Do you Is Miss Mercier "he began, and paused half j way. "As if I shonld sayjanothtr word. and had not already said alto gether too much!" said' Mrs. Barnetta. "There, she has left. dancing and gone for an ice. ; What do you think of round dances', on "the whole?" And they were, to all appearanoes, deep in a discussion of the subject when Bosa re turned and swept her late partner courtesy, and took shelter on the other aids of Mrs. Barnetta. - Perhaps She had seen the way Lucian 's eye had fol lowed her, and it had given her a certain illumination that made ber Lrink, . Juetlheril.the band began one of the Hungarian waltzes, a sweet and raptur ous measure tht set the blood itself to dancinff in one s veins. Why not ! Une last danoe, one last moment ot ecstasy, ere he went out forever into loneliness. Directly he had crumpled the bit of lace into his pooket, and was bending before the little Rosa, who seemed suddenly to have lost al her light gayety, and who put out her hand to him with a con scious burnicg bltish upon her face that hie hearti refloated in. a meltiag flow. And then there was no thought of pride, or of negation, or forgetting ; the music was swinging them at its will; they cir cled in each other's arms to its delicious 1 and delirious movent int. Yet only ' mo ment was it," a5 fe, moments, a brief sweet Bonce of half oonsoioua tune: mad 1 then famtfeoognitioD crept througn us speiiand waraed Lucian of tha .-.ououey. aewasintheactofsur. .u0ri ue was aoout to-ot; his fateand that a this sdear girl; to take her away from h iiv . . - : . i """c: " wwuui ana ner luxuri ous ease, and condemn her to the cark- mg cares of poverty. All his nature, re belled.; he chose not to be swayed by this melody of horns and stringa;"he """" no passion, either musio nor love, so master his soul as to beemrio the element in which it swam, an exclu sion of fought nd fear, of sight and onnd, Md all other emotion; and "with his imperious determination he chose to break the, enchantment;; the real world orspi back upofc'hii. senses, he heard tha tune, beyond this cloud that wrapped th-breakliiggaih into it djgtiilisive measure, and exerting his will, he con trolled their steps and paused at last be side Mrs. Barnetta, and with a hjw bow, and without a word, gave Bosa back into that lady's care, and passed into the crowd and out of the place and home to his lonely rooms. It was daybreak beore he sought re pose, walking the floor till then, hardly knowing what he did or what he thought, but intent upon conquering himself. " He would give the world for Bosa Mercier's love, but he would not give his pride. To him that pride meant self-respect; to marry her, the child of opulence, meant either to sell himself for a price, or to reduce her to trouble and weariness in which her love might soon wear out. He did not doubt that bve now; without a syllable's speech, he felt sure of it While it thrilled him wildly and deepl f, it cast a sudden sha dow of regret;', he only hoped, and cursed his fate that forced him to hope such a thing, that presently the love would pass, and spine one who would make her happier would claim her. At length, with maledictions in the act, he emptied his pockets of the gloves, handkerchief, :iad trifles there, and went to bed, with the sun coming throngh the curtains, and, worn out in body and mind, slept to the blessed and thorough oblivion of all the world. When he awoke it was late in the day. AIT his trouble rushed over him, but in a moment all his will to repel it rose too. ,He dressed himself leisurely; he meant to call that night on Miss Mercier, restore her handkerchief .that he had forgotten to give back after the dance, and in some indirect way let her know that he intended never to marry, and so seal his doom beyond hope. He went into the next room when he had completed his toilet, and, after attend inKtoone r two other affairs, looked ,. . ... , Mber- ed to have taken wfad to have tossed upon thie thefwaIt was not on. the table ; it was nowhere'in the room. in a panic, he runt? the bell; and when it was answered, insti tuted au inquiry concerning the thing. Yes, indeed, Susan had seen, it, and thought it was so yellow and soiled she would take it down and wash it. "Lors, sir, it was the dirtiest little rag," she said. "Just straw color. And I thought d give it a run throngh the tub and the bluing and moke it fit to be seen." Good heavens!" he cried, with a horrilled flash of remembrance that the yellower lace was the more precious was and that it never'was washed on any account except by people who did nothing else. " Let me have it at once." And in five minutes afterward Susan stood before him holding up the little limp rag, and with a pang as from e blow, of. something unknown and dread ful, the conversation that he had heard over the transom of the hotel door, a year or two ago, swept back upon his recollection. Five hundred dollars ! And gone to grief in a moment 1 And he could no more replace it than he could fly, with out what was the same to him as abso lute ruin. Of course' he must replace it; he could not be indebted, through the stupidity ot his servant, or through any other means, to Miss Mercier in that sum. Without any doubt, she valued such a bit ot lace; and if anything were heeded ta demonstrate to him the wis dom of the course he had decided on, and the utter absurdity of haying dared for a single moment to look with love on one of these darlings of fortune, it was the fact that her handkerchiefs alone were j items of lv hundred dollars. What av shame! what a wickedneness! what a preposterous f ollyl How could a young ; nianmatrji He burned with indigna-j tion then. Bnt to replace -it : one-third of the! sum he was saving- to redeem his little; property from mortgage all the money; he really naa in tne wona oeyona mat for his daily expenses ! It was the ruin of his hopes, lus ambitions, his Tride,j that scorned so to be anybody's debtor ; it threw him back in the race, how long ! But it must be done. He had a tnlie over five hundred dollars in the bank. He drew his check for the necessary; sum and fplded it away in his pocket-i book, and then went about his. business! till nightfall, when he came back to his dreary rooms, ana maae nimseu reaujs for a call at Mrs. Barnetta'si j The nicht had never seemed so Deaui tiful, the stars so large and keen and far above the earth, so .remote and old-4 they typified all the dear and happy things of life forever removed from him. Hia heart was CUlUeu tuiu ilia into white when he stood at last in Mrs. TWnetta's diawiwr-room, and she floated forward to meet him. He had not asked for Miss Mercier. . "Tlfa at delicate errand, Mrs. Bari netta," said he, with a dreary attempt at smiling. "But the truth is that my maid, in her officious kindness, has done such damage to a bit of Miss Mercier's property that I must replace it And I have come to beg you, out of your friendship for me, to transact the affair, if meh an article can be replaced here. I believe these little trifles are rather costly, and if yon procure one " and he htid the check he had drawn that morning and the little limp rag in Mrs. Barnette hand "as like the original aa TVMfdble.1" "My dear . Mr. Malvin, what in the world are you talking of ?" cried Mrs. Barnetta. - " Have you money to throw about in this way I Five hundred dol larswhat is it fori" "To replace Miss Mercier'i handler 7 MOllGAJiTON,: K C, TUESDAY, AUGUST chief, if you will be so good as to make we purcnase. i "Like this?" said Mrs. Barnetta "H mo unite ump rag py one wrner. j "Like that," said Lucian. I " Oh, that is too good I" cried Mrs. parnetta, with a peat of laughter. It v oo gooa, it is too absurd ? Whatcrea jures men are 1 Did you imagine that this bit of finery was worth all that f this little acrid of grass oloth and Ger man laoe? No wonder the young men don't marry, then I My dear Mr. Mal vin, this miserable handkerchief cost ex actly two dollars and a half, and was hearly worn out at that. Did you imag ine, too, that my poor little Bosa could wear nve-hundred-doliar handkerchiefs, without cent to her name I" 1 "Without a mit tn paatA, epriDging to bis feet. 7 r t jsxaowy. Aba ! Is that the trouble t How why didn't von come and talk it all over with me in the way you used to do, and save yourself all this vexation, and pave my little Rosa, too ? What an ab- sura boy you are 1 Another would have waited to hear that she was an heiress : you wajt to hear that she is penniless. Well, she is, if that satisfies you, except for .what I shall leave my little god daughter when I die which will not be at present, D. V. And there she is in the next room now. But. bless me" Lucien had not waited for thn rent nf the invocation. He was already in the next room, and Bosa was already in his arms. Bazar. J A Story About Worms. The Allentown (Pa.) Register contains the following curious narrative : Mr. George T. Hersh, of this city, while on a recent visit to Hellertown, met an ac quaintance, who related a most singular story concerning an army of worms. The occurrence took place in Buels county, and the story is this: "As I was at home they told me that about a mile and a half away there was an army of worms marching from one given point to the other and thenoe back again. This seemed very strange to me, and I came to the conclusion thftfcl would eo and see for myself. Consequently I hitched in the carriage and drve to the place. I tied my horse to the fence, and commenced to examine, and to my great astonishment I beheld the worms in great numbers creeping at the place named, just from one given point to the other, a distance of about three or four huudi ed yards. No worm is to be seen anywhere else. This worm travels only mornings and evenings evenings affer sunset and mornings till. about eight or nine o'clock. In the daytime fchev lift ronnenlftd under rofika isc-.iu openings. I.saw them lie under one acainst the Other. It is so f nil at aJafe inarching' time that you eaunotJ. help killing a number at every step you take when walking through that place It is a worm atiout au inch or an inch' and a quarter long, having a whitish or yellow ish color, with a black stripe over its back. It has sixty-six Teet, with wldch it hurries itself along at a very lively speed. When you catch the worm it screams. It has also a very offensive odor. It i? so tender that if you touch it a little hard it goes to pieces. It is not a destrnctive worm, as it only eats earth. I never saw such a worm and the curiosity of them prompted me to procure some; so I caught a number of them and put them in alcohol. Hun dreds of people flock to that place to seethe worms." In another paragraph the Register adds the following: Mr. Cnarles Eck- ert was in Bucks county, and by a friend taken to the place where that singular army of worms holds forth. He reports that-the place is visited by many people from all sections of the county and from distant places. An immense crowd was on the ground watching the marching of these curious worms. scientific men who have seen specimens of the worms say that they never saw anything like them, and can give no reasonable theory for their presence in this peculiar locality. The place where this curious phenomenon, if we may so call it, can be seen is about three miles from Dunnelltown. near Pleasant mil. The Bill to Suppress Lotteries. The fact that both Houses of the Uni ted States Congress have passed a bill which will have the effect, if earned out, of entirely suppressing the lottery bus iness in the United States, or even the circulation of lottery tickets or advert tisements, has escaped public attention. Such a bill was sent to the President for signature-. The first section relates to the circulation through the mails of ob scene literature, and is a slight amend ment of the present law. The second section amends section 3,894, so that it will read as follows: No letter or circular concerning lotte ries, so-called gift oonoerts, or other sim ilar flntemnses offering prizes, or con cerning? schemes devised and intended I to deceive and defraud tne puouc ior me purpose cf obtaining money under falsa pretenses, shall be carried in the mailj Any person who shall knowingly deposi anything to be earned oy mau in vioiit tion of this section shall be punishabB by a fine of not more than $500 nor lea than 100, witn costs oi prosecution, How They Fined Tories. The Frederick (Md.) fixaminer pruts the following : In looking over the records of the clerk's office of oounty, the following criminal p: ings, among others, were discove: the prosecutions for Toryism institil near the close of the Revolutio: war : - State against one A. C, presentef for saying " he wished all persons who ent About warning people on militia uty murht be hanged, not by the neck J but by the heels. " Fined 25 specie. State against J. H., preeenl "da'nmng Gen. Washington ai Congress of the United Stats of America." Fined 15 specie. 1 ' ' State against E. L.. present for " drinking a health to King Geoand damnation to ,-Gen. Washifton. Fined 5 specie. I . The minutes of tne court snowaumer ous orders passed by the eourppro nriatin? money for th) suoxirt of the wives and ohildren of aoldief in the t Maryland line. THE LATE SANTA ANSA. A Sketch mT the Uf mt m NataMe Hexlcu. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, former ly president of 'the republic of Mtxico, died on June 24. He was born in the city of Jalapa, February 21, 1798, and entered the army in 1821. He met with some success, but having been dismissed for insubordination, he raised the banner' of the republic in Vera Cruz in 1822, and commenced hostilities against the emperor, Iturbide, and accomplished his overthrow. Defeated in the elections, he shortly after secured the overthrow of Pedraza and the elevation of Guerrero, who made him his minister of war. He subsequently haaded two othor rmocess- Kul insurrections, one to replace Guer rero by Bustamente, and the other iu the interest of Pedraza. In March. 1833, he was himself elected president, and was a favorite with the people, though suspected by the army of im perial ambitions. He took his turn at suppressing insurrections, the most for midable of which he suppressed May 11, 1835, by 'a victory which proved a fatal blow to the Republican party. Shortly thereafter arevolutionaryfeeling in Texas showed itself in open insurrec tion against the government, and early in 1836 Santa Anna took the field and crossed the Bio Grande at the head of six thousand troops. In March he stormed the Alamo at San Antonio and massacred its defenders. At San Jacinto he was defeated by the Texan army under Houston, and in April, 1831, was oy mm taten prisoner. h 1 unctions as president were thereupon suspended. He came to the United States, and in 1837 returned to Mexico and stood for re-election, but was defeated. TJSon the bombardment of Vera Cruz My the French, the same year, he assisted in its defense, and there received the wound which resulted in the amputation of a leg. During the lone contest between the Centralists and Federalists he was a leader of the former, and from 1841 to 1844 was virtually dictator, under the title ' of provisional president. Under the instrument of reconstruction of June 12, 1843, he again became consti tutional president, but September 20, 1844, he was deposed by a new revolu tion, taken prisoner and banished for ten years. He then took up his re i dence in Cuba. In 1846 he was recalled, appointed generalissimo, end subse quently made provisional president. He at once marched northward with 20,000 men, and February 22, 1847, attacked the American tdjeopeat Buena Vista, Ave thou&rad strongunder General Taylor, who repulsed him the next day. He then raised a new army and was again defeated by General Scott at Cerro Gor do, April 18. He at pnee retreated to the city of Mexico with tho faBgmmiH hia army, and organized a new one, 30,000 strong, for the defense of the capital; but the storming of Molino del Bey, September 8, and Chapultepeo September 13 and 14, 1847, opened the city to Scott's victorious army. Santa Anna made a last stand at Puebla, but was attacked by General Lane at Hua mantia and forced to retire. By permis sion of the American commander he sailed for Jamaica April 5, 1848, and did not return to Mexico till 183d, when he was appointed president for life, with power to appoint ms successor. his rule was so despotic tnat a revolution ledby General Alvarez overthrew him, and August 16, 1855, he signed his uncondi tional abdication and sailed-for Havana. During the French invasion of Mexico he returned and was appointed grand I marsnoi oi me empire vy mnniiuiuttu. In 1865 he conspired against the em peror and was forced to retire to St. Thomas, in iwi ne maae ms last av. tempt to regain the mastery of Mexico, but was taken prisoner at vera (jruz and condemned to death. President Juarez pardoned him on condition' of his quitting Mexican soil forever, and he came to the United States. After the death of Juarez he returned to his native soil and lived in seclusion in the city of Mexico till the time of his death. Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence of the United States was dratted by Jeffer son, and examined and slightly amended by Franklin and Adams. It was writ ten by Jefferson in the first room of the second story fit the house of Jacob Graff, southwest corner of Seventh and Market streets, Philadelphia, which is still standing. Jefferson was a board er in that house, and in that chamber, SJeordttig- Jo his own statement," made in a letter to Dr James Mease, SeptembefOpojiector for contributions to celebrate 16, 1825, the Declaration of Indepen dence was written. Congress adopted the declaration in secret session. It was already known E" e fourth that Lee's resolution, was the vftal act in the opposition xvt Britain, had been adopted on the second. The declaration was mere ly an assignment of reasons for the of the resolutions, a vindica tion of an act already done. There was, therefore, no excitement in Philadelphia at the time the declaration was adopted. In fact, the character of the declaration was not known until two days afterward, when it made its appearance in Dunlap's paper. On the fifth of July Congress sent out circular letters, to all the as semblies, conventions and councils of safety of the various States, asking that the Declaration of Independence should be proclaimed. Such proclamations generally followed. In Philadelphia, the declaration was first read to the people on Monday, the eighth of July, by John Nixon, in the State house yard, from an - observatory erected there in 1769 to observe a transit of Venus over the sun. Nixon was a member of the council of safety, and read the declar ation instead of the sheriff of the county, who was originally requested to perform that service. In the afternoon the declaration was read to the five bat talions of associators on the commons. The king's arms over the d'or of the supreme courtroom were torn down by a committee of associators ap pointed ior the purpose. In the eve ning they were burned amidst the ac clamations of a large crowd of specta tors. Bonfires were lighted, bells were rung, and the most noted of all the peals which sounded over Hhe city was that of the old State house bell, whieh had been east twenty-four year before, bearing upato its side the prophetic and remarkable motto: "Proclaim liberty thronghorat the land to all the inhab- itanta 8, 1876. THE COLORADO BEETLE. When ft Case Fran What It hew aa Deetrev It. Kata. aid tThe Colorado beetle, of potato bug, was nisi discovered "th the canyons of the Colorado mountains, where it fed upon several weeds, natives of that re gion, and was known to entomologists long before it became a pest to the farmer. Until potatoes were plrnted in the far West, it had nothing to subsist upon in a journey eastward, but when the country became settled, the insect rapidly increased with the abundance of food; it was first noticed aa injurious tk; the crops about 1850. and auusa them ha progressed eastward and into Canada with accelerated rapidityv .- i It attacks tomatoes, and especially egg plants, c which it seems to be more fond than of anything else. Ornamental plants of the family are attacked by it. It seems, since it has oome eastward, to have acquired a taste for other plants, not at all related to the solan um family; pig weeds, mullein, thistles and smart ' weed among wild plants, and the cab bage among those iu occasionally culti vation, are plants it has been known to attack. So far as experience has shown, the insect on its progress eastward does not move on, but some remain, and while they do not seem so numerous after the first few years, potato growers appar ently must accept th r beetle as a fixed fact. It has kept a foothold wherever it has come, and there is no present in dication that it will soon leave. It is in vain to hope that it will cure itself, but it demands the serious attention of all who cultivate the potato and related ( plants. To be sure, there are its natural enemies, which we may hope, judging j from other insect scourges, will increase sufficiently to keep it in subjection, but these slowly follow the pest. There are several of these, one a genuine parasite that deposits its eggs in the larva of the potato beetle, and several others that attack, kill, and feed upon the larvss. Several larva) of the ladybirds are very active in this respect, and should be en couraged, or at least not destroyed, as we have known to- be the ease. They move with great activity, and destroy numbers of the young grubs of the po tato bug; these are usually lead colored, with bright orange spots; these and the perfect ladybirds should be unmolested, as should their pupa). The ladybird larva enters the pupa state on the potato vine, attaoning itself to a stem or leaf; " 00118 nP aB&JZZSlTtt11Z the rafflhgfiehihd Which onih htk? destroved. This is perfectly dormant and attached, while the other will move, and is readily picked off. Other insects in the perfect state, and as lame, aid in the work of destroying the larvae of the potato bug. The only safe wav is to watch every other insect found among them, and do not destroy it until it is found to be injurious to tne potato plant. When the potatoes firsi appear above ground, begin the search for the bugs. The first that appear oome out of the ground after their winter's rest. If these are captured at once, before they breed and lay eggs, it will materially diminish their future numbers, mucn may be done by mechanical means when the insects -are not in overwhelming numbers. Some have been very suc cessful in simply knocking them -off by means of alight paddle made of shingle, and ca toning tnem in a pan containing water. We have successfully used a pan of sheet iron thirty inches long, with the other parts in proportion. The edges of the pan curve inward and make it difficult for the insects to crawl out With this in one hand, ana" a light brush in the other, one can knock off the in sects in large numbers very rapidly. The brush should be stiff enough to re move the larvie and not injure the leaves; we .find a wisp of straw, or a bunch of some strong growing grass, as handy as a. ythiug. There are patented oontrivanc-. s for mechanically removing the bngs, but they promise no better results than these simple means. Agri culturti The Difference. There was a man who said to himself, whenever I devote a dollar to pleasure I will devote ten cents to charity. This idea he got from personal experience, for ne been chosen for a single day an-fLnmveraarv. suu ainj waowi iu fundfbfjjoor widowgr& vnsfitf8fiL with the jtwo" Sppeals ; - ih the right pocket he put the money secured for the celebration and in. the left the jnoney given for widows. When he got home, he took account, and found that five hundred men had contributed for the celebration, and only five for the poor widows. Then he moralized. Now here, said he, in this hand I nave two thousand dollars, all to be burned up in bad smelling fireworks, and with this five times as much value in buildings that these fireworks' will destroy. On the other hand, I have twenty dollars for a thousand of hard working widows, who to-day cannot be sure of their din ners, and then this . reckless man said, loud enough for all the world to hear : Go to the average citizen with an appeal for a starving fellow creature, and you may get a penny and you may not ; but show him that you earn waste a thousand dollars in rive minutes in noise and smoke, and he will immediately' give you his check for the thousand and thank yon for calling. If Hail Colum bia were a poor widow, she might starve "unless she could eat firecrackers. ' Circaasian Girls. The sale of Circassian girls to Turks still continues. A correspondent of the London Tinw says that a Moslem dealer makes choice of four young, nn- sophisticated girls, imports them to Ctoiistanrinople, sells them aiid then goes. back for more. If he can achieve four each trip. n . year he can make . good livinir ont of sixteen women. Man nt . i i: : rfS.v an1 T cn ', having r.0 more shame Tbout it than a fashionable English mother may feel aW hrinriT, oet hr riris for the tp f.tri m iajm arkwt. Germany to America. Mr. Cadwalader, acting secretary of state of the United States, presented Mr;- Schloser, the German minister, to the President for the purpose of deliv ering an autograph letter of congratula tion from the emperor of Germany. Mr. Schloser in presenting the letter stated that he was instructed by his majesty to deliver upon the fourth day of July to the. President in person an autograph letter of congratulation upon the occa sion of the centennial anniversary, and wished to add his personal good wishes for the United States. u- OWFreeident briefly replied, assur ing him of his satisfaction in receiving tins evidence of rood feelini? on 'r--vii4 of his majesty ; that his kind7 expres sions, toward the United States were ful ly appreciated, and that the letter should be properly acknowledged. The letter is as follows: William, by the graoe of God, Empe ror of Germany, King of Prwitia, etc., to the President of the United SUUet: Grb&t and Good Friend : It has been vouchsafed to you to oelebrate the centennial festival of the day upon which the great republic over which you preside entered the rank of independent nations. The purposes of its founders have, by a wise application of the teach ings oi the history of the foundation of nations, and with insight into the dis tant future, been realized by a develop ment without : parallel. To congratu late you and the American people' on the occasion affords me so much the greater pleasuie because since the treaty of friendship which my ancestor of glori ous memory, King Frederick II., who now rests with God, concluded with the United States, undisturbed friendship has continually existed between Germa ny and America, and has been developed and strengthened by the ever increasing importance -of their mutual relations, and by an intercourse becoming more and more fruitful in every domain of commerce and science. That the welfare of the United States and the friendship of the two oountries may continue to in-, crease, is my sincere desire and confi dent hope. Accept the renewed assu rance of my unqualified esteem. (signed) William. (Countersigned) Vok Bibxabck. How Hesing Received Sentence. When sentence was pronounced Hew ing stpod as if deprived of the power of movement. It was one of those! mo ments , which occasionally occur m a court of justice when there is suoh painful intensity of excitement as tor a. 1 law seconds to rob as xsstt3ZS?A'& ha tood. and the fearful whirlwind of emotion that cassed over his face 1 was only observable by the judge and the automation-like clerk. Consternation was plainly visible upon the faces of the ten defendants left sitting . in the jury box. The judge at last considerately came to the relief of tho fallen giant. " You may take your seat, Mr. Hes ing," he said. The eld mau turned, Btumbled back to his chair, and without raising bis eyes to gaze upon the curious crowd watching his every motion, buried his face in his handkerohief and burst into tears. It was, indeed, a bitter moment Chwago Paper A Smart Boy. A traveler stopped at Brussels in a j post chaise, and being sharpset he was anxious .to buy a piece of cherry pie be fore his vehicle should set out ; but be was afraid to leave the publio convey ance I est it might drive off and leave him. So calling a lad to him from the other side of the street, he gave him a piece of money and requested him to go to a restaurant in the near vicinity and purchase pastry ;and then to make as surance doubly sure, he gave him anoth er piece of money and told -him to buy some for himself at the same time. The lad went off on a - run, and in a little while came back, eating a piece of pie, and looking very complacent and happy. Walking up to the window of the chaise, he said, vith the most perfect noncha lance, returning at the same time one of the -pieces of money which the gentle man had given him : "The restaurant had only one piece of pie left, and that I bought with my money that you gave me ! " The Centennial Legion. The Centennial Legion, which joined procession in Philadelphia on of July, was commanded by and composed of the follow una E. B. Bullock eonunand Bifles, of Georgia; Phfl ards, of Elizabeth, fi. J., Cap. W. H. DeHart; American Bines, of Wilmington, !Deh, Capt. 8. M. Wood; detachment of the Fifth Mary land regiment, Col. Loney ; Boston Light Infantry, of Boston, Mass., Capt N. N. Noyes; Wasbipgton Light Infan try, of Charleston, S. C, Capt M. G. Moore; Old Guard, of New York city; Fayetteville Light Infantry, of North Carolina, Major Haigh; a section of the First New Hampshire cattery, uia mounted. and acting as infantry; the New Haven Grays, of New Haven, finnn Htat Fcncibles. of . Philadel- riiia. Carjt. J. W. Ryan; NprfolkLight Artillery Blues, of Norfolk, Va., Capt, Hodges, with guns and caissons. A Ceaeentrmted Jury. In a hind case being tried in San An tonio, the jury having eeen ai-yeu- with, his honor acts as judge and jury both., To have a single man acting for tweWesLnvT ry iple, but it - be - wilderiDe to the depuU hei ff, wbo has i attending juries for a 1-nrf time. One morning, for ii-stance, he looked fiddly at his h 'nor, md after counting :him tin, inquired : j Where is the rest of you t" " When oourt joued, the sheriff , ftsvML. ncuer hciiut. nav- ' ; honor ! "No., don't you go talking .bout this ea among ylreanJ aU of you boys been hand prompUy or I II hunt some of you np in a way that you WOn't'lilw." ttt6ifat thefrJV01 Gen. I ingorl aati Infanr Boh Kearnjvj NO. 20. Items of interest. The longest periods in a boy's life are those between meals. There is no man clever enough know all the evil which he does. What the hog lacks in culture he makes up in seal and enthusiasm. A true American is too proud to beg and too honest to steaL He gets trusted. Two hundred liquor sailers of Port- land, Me., bare just gene out of busi ness. " Tjeunire ia sweet to those -n earned it," and iMWSry com fort air your uncle has earned it for you. . Dpbba says the first time a girl kissed him he felt as if he was sliding down a rainbow .with butter and honey in each hand. A oonple of young, women at Frye burg, Me., appeared on the road hoe in hand a few days since to work ou their highway taxes. ; Ask no favors of any one, and you will succeed a thousand-, times better than those who are always beeeeching some one's patronage. A man in a neighboring town who had a good spyglass loosed al ms laird cousir- through it, whioh brought him as near as a first cousin. This is the season of the year when man delights to lie beneath wide spread ing shade trees, communing with nature and getting bugs iu his ears. To feed sparingly and irregularly is to lose all you give to fowls; but to study into their wonts and anticipate them is to render them very profitable. A woman who was purchasing some cups and saucers was atkod what color she would have. " Why, I aiu't particu lar," she said ; " color thnt won't show dirt." ' How ministers are killed " is the caption of an article circulating through the newspapers. You may not have one to kill, but it is well to kuow how it is done. . - Agricultural journal: Question $Vill the editor please inform me how the Hollanders salt cucumbers 1 Answer The most common way, as we observed when abroad, is to salt them with salt. The nominating dajs have come, the maddest .niL the Tear. a When every poiitioian Qhap strata rouod He flaps hia little wings and i olianuoleer : sVaSBWE-' And now some onearrir-iiiat n W idiotic to suppose that sunstroke is caused by a stroke of tho sub ; that, in fact, it frequently occurs at a time when there is no sun at all, and that the physical break down called sunstroke is simply nervons exhaustion aggravated by excessive heat, whether iu sun or shade. All this may be true,, even though it dots knock over a venerable pet theory. . The Stonx Chid Sitting Mr. ' Magianis, of. Moutaua, in tho United States House, during a diHcUs sion on the Indian question, gave the following history of Sitting Bull: The first time that Sitting Bull be came known to the people of this nation ams during the great Minnesota massacre in 1962. In 1863 he fought Sully in the Black . Hills. In 1864 he ravaged the Missouri river, attacking several steamboata. In 1865 he made war upon the peaceable Indians. Iu 1866 the government sent out a peaoe commis sion to Fort Yuma, which gave him presents', including twenty kegs of 1 . . i m. i. povvuer, ana as soon an no go mo iu euis he broke up the commission and drove away the commissioners. In 1867 he continued a c ireer oi preaaiory war fare. 1868, when this treaty was made at Laramie, he refused to come in and be a party to it In lttG'J he attacked the settlement ou the Musser Sheh, which was the first time he was ever de feated, because the settlers had got no tice of his coming and had ambuscaded him and killed thirty -six of hie war riors. In tnat same year he made war upon the Crows and the Man Jans. In 1870 Gen. Hancock thought of an expe dition to subdue him. About that time-' this peaee policy fever was raging, ar on consults ion with the other gene of the army, Gen. Hadrodt MPv mended that anpther effort BtVjJv treaty with Si, oeeding wintei 1750,000 to buy ThatfTMtrl. propriationin tare of which I bad been j succeeded in get mau. jauj " ; o-- ting about One-half of his foroe into the agency at fort rec, put ne mmaeii re fused to oome in. ui iota ne auu ju ried on war upon the settlement of Montana, and ravaged them constantly. He also carried on war upon the Crows, whom he drove from their reservation, upon the Shoshone, and upon "every Indian tribe friendly, to the United States. In 1875 he attacked two gov ernment stages, run off the stock ot the stage oompany, aud apa'a drove the Crows off the reservation Into-Montana. By this time the peaee comriwijer(( saw that he was intractable, and that he must be disciplined. Mewrs. Brunt and Stewart, and peaceful men of like char actor, petitioned the Indian dparBsetit to take steps to snbjngate HiUiog Bull. This petition rebuked in the Var de partment finally taking bold of mat ter. I ask whether the government has violated its fth in making war on this intrtahl Indian, wbo feas never re- cognised lU flag; but w.io aeues i , authority, and boasts that, if he could i get the Sioux nation to join him, he 1 would drive this government into tho , ocean. - Yorfrt-I' ! this the same Indian who organized tl j gcj to murder Senator Allison j k0d other citizens, last summer f ! ,Mr. .MIu?jBtnf I plan and organised that eonspiracy , " - 7, k . or sour mux, one nt"u. dissolved in the milk. one tablespoonfnt of lard, a little salt ; mix soft, and cut with . tumbler ot oak. cutter ; bake on jnjpiddU. j L it!cis ssssr . i -a- '. ..v f Vv it
The Blue Ridge Blade (Morganton, N.C.)
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