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- -J Y1 f I" I Sl AVEEKLI ERA. M. M. mum .V, Maxaoek. Khi at Sbb.rMt,.n. khki.v -One yw, in auvam-e, $1 00 six month. i no Three months 50 JoB 1kixtin: Jol. Work neatly -d promptly executed, or eve ry atyle nd on the mot reaaon.hlo t.ni.. Order aolicited from all iNirU of the State. 1 Cocrt Blanks a ecMiy. . Li KDUCATIOXAI . j Greensboro Female College,' GnKicxsiiono. 2C. O- ! TVk12 .-AI1' s,:;iSH la-gin on i presidency 'r "Vv. T. M.sJo.HKa. D. IX. ine former pie-, dent, Tlie Fat uity will cotiHistof Pn,r,Mn. W. c. lk.ul.. A. M., Alderman, A.M., uti.l F.J. Hahr, tlii rnl1 nrln 'f ifiiipli!.lioil ladv jeacuer. For fircuUn. containing fnil imoriuatioii, apply f the prKi1eiit, or O J . iTVIVi:i:lll Stf. It. TruaUi'K. ( Qreenabor.., July s, IS73. 5-0tpd Raleigh Female Seminary, .a F. I iiwiMJOOD. A. M.. I A. F. 1U-:dd. A. M 'Principals. 1R. U VON MKYKKIIOFF, of Vien ; '. M uical Department. . imposing new building with Its ! improved S mi1 inn.ni,.. -H-i jL.. I ly piirriasHl uiuical ..ut lit will open on i ill f Mepitabcr, lh3. The Faculty U leen Marvel v In treaU TUa Utuic IXirt.C.t" u In " 01 rrn numr Voit XIt.vurlu.tr pupil of Uubenatein. The l'nitHNor ia a uruiiaiit j-erfornu r. has auceeeded well a teK-hcr .-f Vmh1 ami Iiwtrn,.......! -SIuie in thU SUte. -M'P'y for -aulojiie. 4 m lMJAC'i:. instituti:, I A'.r, A. JWnU'KLL, I'riucjxil. j . J.lin It. Itu.u. i: A. M- 1 su.. i,... ! N. J. M.ven, A. M., Primipala. l'roT. A. lUuuiMiiii, IiiNtrm tor iu Vocal and lustruiiieiilal Music. The Fall Term Commence Sept. 11, 1N73. For circular contain! tier full tftrti4Mi. lars as to term address course of htuilv, Jtc.. Kkv July : U. IIURWKLL A SOX, -111 ltaleinh, X. C. ! HOTKI.S. NATIONAL HOTEL, J KA I.I.I (ill, X. C. IN t'ALI.IXt; ATTENTION to this lloiise.it is with toe anient hope! tliat I may have a liU-ral share..!' travel, I an.l I promise to mdcavor to make it j worthy of jMitronage. j Hales day, First Fl...r, Ski-.. nd Floor, '1AM J. .tl. lit. A lit, 1'roprietor. July 1.1. FREHCH'S NEW HOTEL, Ctl. COITIAIIT Jk, MEW CHUtCrf STS., NEW YOICK, OX TUIl EL'KOPKAX PL AX. IIIVIIAHD P. I'HKXCII, Son of the late Col. Hicharii Frkxcii, of French's Hotel, has taken this. Hotel, newly titled up and enlirelv renovat-d the rtrae. Central!. lucated in the JtL'SlXKSS PART 0 the City. I.AME&' AND GKNTLKMK.N S Dl.MNO IloOMS ATTACHED. 2 Clll c. c. willard; EBBITT HOUSE WASIIINCaTOX, 4s--m I. C. riTTsuoiio hti:i littboro. O'lini lintu C7o.. O 11. II. lil ltKI Proprietor. II. C. IICCLKS, 1'roprietor, CENTRAL HOTEL, CHAULOTTK, C. March 7. ' 171 If THE OCEAN HOUSE, J I KAUFOHT, JS. C SAM. K. STKEET, Proprietor. pilIS HOUSK i never closed and X has the atlvantancr being alwaya rea.lv lor the reception of guests. I'J.H.-iigers land at the Hotel Wharf, witl'n a lew feet of the House. The Table is supplied with all the delieucnn of land and ea. The Itoonis are delightfully ventilat ed, airy ami plesau. The Servants are well trained, fsdite and attentive. SII HKMKNTS. A Hand of Music fol dailv evening Heps; a Milliard Saloon; Pleasure Boats lor filing, visiting the auri-lmthimr grounds and for tishmg; aI,d a ItathiDg-t louse within a few feet of the House, l'n.ii.enades may be taken along the ..i.. . r ui.lahs. or ii tne l'roinenaue lioof of the House. Tlie Proprietor spares neither atten tion 1 nor expense to make the btay of hs guests happy .i fiir pleu"; an.l .... charge is made for u-e-water sent to room, or for any trifling extra attention. T Invalids he offer the very panacea TW moderate.--Special arrange ments made with lamihea. Keferatoall who haveever U-en guests t tbe Occn Hoise. THK Ocean. NaMET U oL coniouim iub " with' the " Atlantic " Housi-, Kailkoad Fake. vr. following IUte for Return Tick- ! v . i . i . n ct (cootl .or mo - North Carolina Railroad : kileigh to Mo.ebead C.ty and re- . .... n i a rm i ...n Hillslsro to .Morcutu v uj 11 10 t;rJnlsl"n l Morehead City and HiglPoVni U Morthea.1 City and LexinL"on'u Morchead City and 13 M 14 40 15 45 16 50 bury t iinnwu - "J tum. , ... . Hrlotl I" .vomiu 19 00 Atlantic CAIUS. II. KOOKItS, I SIOX Attorney at j KALEIVHt La w , raycttrrille Strret, tro half Smarts HuutA oy Yarborongh House, T iayirovf old office. Pi. e tic' urt- in Fetleral and Mate 49 3m B y. BADOEH. JIAIIGKK T. P. DKVCRECX. Jt UEVmtEUX, Solicitors in Bankruptcy, Oolce in Stronach Building, aecnid door i N.irth of Yarborough House, ' HALU1I, X. C, Will attend to all cases of Bankruptcy. Mr. Badger will attend all lb term of the District Courta. Xo extra le charged lor consuiiaiiou. May 13, 1S73 47 tf. JOHN ARMSTRONG, Xo. 1 FArETTtiVILLK STBKET, iJIOOK IirXUKK. And Monk Boo JIa'jn(adirrer. Xewspapera. Magannea,' ana i-w 7 ': TirkrtiMI lh v .Ah cirolin Kailro.l (good for the w re Kite Dollar from Ooldaboro M, rehed Citv.tBefrt Harbor.) WnShvo Ooldsboro daily at lJO, , d . .. " -i . -:-r K.4.i i , tu-very ltitVie, and at lowest pricea. in duim. ui nnrrnaciivuvu. i , 11 t n t Old numUN of Sunreme Ooart K Wrt.ul.u.e,cbWforbU,dlnlf, J"?"? ' " ' rj x. u. smith. . oxo. v, TBo.in-i.btrt ! SMITH Jt STHOXO, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, , . VOL. III. TOETKY. The Old Letter. IIY TIM LINKINWATER. An oM. faded letter. The writing dimmed with aie, To-dnv to my knee down fluttered, A I turned the heavy page Of n tjuaint and ancient volume, My futher'a Bible ami mine. And the leaf from a life there written. Was touching in every line. j A uirl, f iirainl young, on her birth-day. Many, many long yearn n;o, II ad s litre red her heart's richest treaa urea O'er the Uien Mpotles-i page to flow. And the words were pleasant as flowers, For love waa their tender theme. And love, in the agea vanished, Waa the tame as to-day' young dream. And thev thrilled 0110 heart with their painting Of f uture hour or life, "I accept, a a birth-day present, Tbe liuored m:ue of yor wife. For in earth iihlua no portioti So rich an Your honest love, I am yotuIearest Reuben, yours only, " 'Till called by the bridegroom above." Then I turned me to the records or marriage, and birth, and death, Lire'a trinity, ailently, aurely ; Wielding hope and fears r earth. And learned how Annie and Keubeii Sixty years touether hail trod The hills and valley of life's pathway, 'Kre called to ret with their Uod. Then again I read the letter. This lime with reverent care. As memory scanned the writer. The maiden a young and fair; The wife, the mother, the mourner. The sharer of joys and tears, The comfort of little children. The friend of mature.' years. The bride in her voting fresh glory. The woman of L.ary hairs. The matron with hive encircled. The aed with years and cares. Then the hvct I silently folded, And laid it gently away. And murmured, perishing, passing. All things that are made of clav. j The Fate of Theodosia Ilurr. One 0 the ,Satllt TrttyatU in Jfis ton. A ctrrresptmdeiit, writing to the New York Graphic concerning the noble-minded Theodosia Alston, the daughter of Aaron Burr, .-stys : She was, indeed, the good angel of that misguided man, and to James Parton we owe our knowl edge of her sweet and lovely char acter. There is a mystery connect ed with her disappearance, and, as you say, 'the vessel never reached its destination ; was never heard from after leaving Charleston har bor." With your permission, 1 will tell you what 1 know of the matter. What I am about to relate may be traditionary in a degree, but still may possess a peculiar in- terst to the reader. It win iinrlpr. I stood at the time that the cause of Theodosia's coming North to her father was because of the differences between herself and husband re garding Burr. Theodosia detended her father s actions, whip? Governor A slnn (If III ill lii'iwl 1 li cm us u'i : " " f iwv' viu--n. v cMiiwu. iiHiArr . c-auie. ine Dereaveu iamer gave her up for dead ; w hether the ves sel foundered at sea, or what hap pened they never knew. At this time my great grandfather, Phillip Freneau, visited Burr. As he en tered the office Burr met him, and, grasping his hands, said, "Mr. Fre neau, 1 know what you came for ; I have received no tidings; lam desolate!" As he spoke the tears gushed from his eyes, and he cried like a child. Freneau tried to reassure him, but to no effect ; the conviction that she was lost to him could not be shaken. Touched by the grief of the wretch ed father, Freneau afterwards sent him a jHjem entitled "Theodosia in the Morning Star," which was pub lished in one of the early editions of his poems. Deprived of the only being who ioved him, friendless and alone, the old man gradually sank, until death ended his grief. Now comes the mysterious part of the sad story. 1 cannot vuch for the truth of it, as I hive been un able to procure anything of a docu mentary nature bearing ujon the subject : Many years ago a notorious pirate named Gibbs was captured, brought to this port, and condemned to be hung and gibetted. On his con demnation he made a confession, and among other crimes confessed to having captured the vessel which contained Theodosia Alston. He said that he ret vi veil information that a vessel intended leaving iHHriesioii, Having on uoaru piaie of great value. He resolved to lay in wait for her ; he did so, and cap tured the vessel, with all on board. In the struggle for the possession of the ship many of the crew and offi cers were killed. Gibbs resolved to put the survivors to death, as the safest way of disposing of them. Mrs. Alston begged for the lives of herself and children ; she offered him all the wealth she possessed, and promised to secure him from harm. She knelt to him and en treated him in the most beseeching tones, but the pirate was inexora ble. He said that if he saved them he must save the rest, and that he could not do. He now forced them to "walk the plank." The turn of of the two little - boys came, and as. they disappeared in the sea the mother tinnly and proudly stepped off the board to follow them. Whether this a true story of tlw fate of Theodosia, I do not know. If there Is a copy of Gibbs Confession in existence, this incident would bo very likely be mentioned. If true, it was well that Burr was spared the additional jiain of learning the mode of his danghter's deatu. give it for what it is worth. Respectfully yours, C. TOWXSEXD II A KRIS. Piermout, N. Y., July 31. The American. The American accepts any work for the time, if it pays. He does it cheerfully; he -does It manfully; but if It is at the bidding of another, he does not intend to do it always, or to do it long. The American journeyman intends to be an em ployer. The American clerk has it in his own mind that in good time he will he a capitalist. Any man who is satisfied with ueroetual de- iendencef any man void of aspira- ; i i 1. 1 . . . i . a. noil, miiu iiimuauio ui tuui i, ia uot . i . . r . narmony wiy. F p.r. oi av rfia-i f aa i i in u rii ii I in w iiu cru i irm ' t!"2 V" , CHte Ilia scuuiucuii ' tupuauuu, it is aspiration ioj lowing iu Duruose with the constancy of Chris lorK. innie raru ui a .ur. viray, a . , w ,nrnil thut. ho nnur-hml'linnn .. ..V . ...i . ....,,.1,1.,, ,nth f'-in.linbin J -, nut tan rourm to ine noieis, ei . ihk wealtnj south Carolinian. she on average oftener than onoc a day, i ont tho ...ln .. s trains that will1 took two of her children, with her. . su that durillfc, his six veus resi- i "t dii A v or he inf or at . i also. large quantity of family plate hlenw in his native Statee deliver-1 of , n ' t av ell rs There is Tidings of her departure reached inore tlulll u thousand discourses. ; St a moment of the twentv-four OT? ,am,1 ,ntT arnval was Ahout thfl of the war, he re- hours th u irWn-er- are not either . anxiously looked for by Ihe lonely larnH,-t Georgia, wheie he re- I Jfi fro,.? the vasJ ! o,u man. iui, mas : n never . Imued till his death. He ww .(.,vanVi' llr, hotels. So tian rectitude, and with the nuiet off manly perseverance. Henry Giles' j. From the Biblical Recorder. Distinguished Nortli Carolina Itantlsts "Who Have Lived ni id Labored in other States. ! MKUCKH. i It was my purpose to bcin Ihi.s i series of sketches with tin nsime of I Jesse Mercer, but in rvadin' the life 'of tliis irreat iiisiu written liv the ssiinteil Dr. C i. .Mai lory of 'Geor gia, I iiiiu tnjt-. Niia. Meiver, tlie father of Jesse, merits mv attention first, lxth on ;iouiit of the force and iufluence of nis character and because he was in ire id.-i tilled with North Carolina r in ni- more dis tinguished son. .. inn indebted for the facts, and in p.irt, :or the lan- I guage! of this uoo.-- ti the elder Mercer, to the euu-rtuuiing book referred to above. Silas Mercer was born near Curri tuck Sound, N. C, February, 1745. lie waa a serious, thout tu.ul child. , mou .u.ut cmia, lood Vrcx-ioiH to r7' '.T: m.: .. . but did uot nrotttss arflved at manhood this time, he was devotidlv attach ed to the rite of the Episcopal Church, and as violently opposed aliotner religious denominations, especially the Baptists. Tluse were the people he had been taught to dread above all others, and be car. fully shunned them as conipan-v of deceivtrs, and a people aliected withubsuida id dangerous heresies. j But preserving an independent j spirit and a clear and diserimina- ting mind, he was soon led beyond the prejudices ot education, and ac cording to the rubric of the Episco pal Church, which enjoins immer sion, except wnen tne neaitn or the child might require a milder mode, he had two onus children limners- j ed. The eldest, Jesse, was baptized in a barrel of water at the house of! his pastor, and the next, a daugh-'i ter, was immersed in a tub in the I I Episcopal Church, where he was i accustomed to worship. ; His father was a bigoted church ! man and did not like these strange 1 notions of Silas. Hedid everything i in his power to prevent him from I having anything to do with the j blind and infatuated sect of B.ip- tists. But in spite of las own an- -i-r ;'- ineuus, ne giuueu ins consent ai length to attend a Baptist meeting. This presumptuous and dariug act provoked his father's resentment, and as the tears of grief and anger gushed from his eyes he exclaimed "SVa.yod are ruined." But neither the tears nor the rebukes of his father proved availing. Removing to Wilkes county, Georgia, some time after, he was baptized by Alexander Scott into the lellowship of Iviokee Church, in 177o. He rose from tho water a minister of the Gospel, for before he lefcthe stream in which he was baptized, he as cended a log and warmly exhorted the surrounding multitude. Hav ing been formally licensed by the t church, he at once entered upon a course of ministerial labor which was distinguished for itszeal.ability and usefulness. During the Revolutionary war, j Silas Mercer 'fled for safety to Hali- fAK count v. N. C where be remain- . . ...i. : u : i. .. etl six years, uuruig which nine ne wttsinccssa ntl v eneaired in tho worfc jrv-f -trptifetrs rrtmi justly regarded as one of the most exemplary, useiui ana pious minis ters In the Southern States. Though not distinguished for his literary attainments, ho was the devoted friend of education, especially in the ministry, and to promote this noble object, he established a school near his house, and procured an able teacher to lake charge of it. j He devoted much time to study, and wrote several pieces on impor- tant subjects, one of which, entitled I "Tyranny Exposed and True Lib erty Discovered," was publisneu in a pamphlet of sixty-eight pages. He was, however.more distinguish ed as it preacher than a w riter. T. II. P. Anet'dote of Callioiui. The following anecdote of John C Calhoun is told by William SchoulrtTj (in the. authority of the late Hon. Abbott . Lawrence : -Some time before 1840, Mr. Cal houn wrote to" Mr. Lawrence that he. had. been adding to his landed estaies, and would like to obtain a loan'of $10,000 or $15,000 in Boston, where money was more plenty than in South Carolina and the rate of in terest not so high, for the payment of which he would give his notes and a mortgage upon his estate, which would be ample security. Mr. Lawrence said he consulted Mr. Nathan Appleton and one or two other wealthy citizens of Beston up on the subject, and it was agreed to raise the money for him and t ko no security for the payment r.ut his own note. Mr. Lawrence informed Mr. Calhoun of the ar rangement which he had made, and expressed hLj gratification that it was in the power of himself and a few of his friends to do a kindness to one so distinguished, whose life had been devoted to the service of his country. Mr. .Calhoun imme diately wrote back,, declining the offer, and withdrawing his original request. 'He said it -did not agree with his sense of propriety to ac cept a loan on such terms ; that in the discharge of his public duties he did not wish to be embarrassed by a sense of obligation to any one." One complains of more than of death, that he is thereby prevented of a glorious victory ; another that he must die before ne has married his daughter, or settled and provi ded for his children ; a third seems only troubled that he must lose the society of his beloved wife; a fourth of the conversation of his son, as the principal concerns of his being. For my part I am ready to dislodge, whenever it shall please Him, without any manner of regret. I disengage myself throughout from all worldly relations. My leave is soon taken of all but myself. Nev er did any one prepare to bid adieu to the world more absolutely and purely, and to shake hands with all manner of interest in it, than I expect to do. The deadest deaths are the best. Montaigne. Rules to Regulate our Conduct. A man should be wise in dispute; a lion in the battle and conflict ; a teacher in his household ; a counsel lor in the nation ; an arbitrator in his vicinity; consciencioua in ac tion ; content with his state; regular in his habits ; diligent in his call ing ; faithful in his friendship; tem perate In his pleasure; deliberate in iiis. speech ; devoted to his Goo. So oe will be happy in ms lire, easy in his death, and an esteemed exam ple to his success rs. New York belles pay accomplish e I poodle-nurses $o a week. . RALEIGH, ' N, C, Correspondence of the Memphis Ap peal. Kail roads The Northwest and the South. St. Paul; Mixn., July 10. What do you think of a town in to whifh the Indians drove thesilrr rounding inhabitants in 18G2, that now possesses eleven railroad ter mini? That is St. Paul, Minnesota. What do you think of a town that had but eight hundred inhabitants in l&X) and now has twenty-seven thousand ? That is St. Paul Min nesota. What do you think of a i town into which, or at which, there J was no mode of conveyance twenty J years ago better than the primitive ox-cart, but now lias arriving and departing over railways eighty trains of cars daily? That is St. Paul, Minnesota. It is not the wheut-fields of Minuesota, nor the logs that tumble over the falls of St. Anthony, nor the excellent buiiding-rock so plentiful nbout tfPuiv a nlan til he curt "orine nue, succulent grasses, 0y sea and by land, or gooil hulk and butter that fnrtv Jr, abound on the prairie, but it is the eleven railroads that center here, which make St. Paul what it is. Those "eighty trains daily" practi cally bring all parts' of the State in to suburban relations to the city. Here is a State without iron and without coal ; a State open to the biting blasts of prolonged Arctic winter ; a State where not more than half the year can be devoted to the farm, and where hay must be raised in. three or four months to do the cattle during the other eight ornine. And yet we find a condi tion of wonderful prosperity, and a i hopeful energy marking the prog ress of every public and private en ternrise : and energy which shows that the people believe iu them selves and in the future, and are not scared by three feet of solid ice, fifty feet of snow and seven months of hermetically sealed winter. "Forty degrees below zero," men famishing while going from their houses to their stables.and children, nestling in the bosoms of their mo thers, frozen to death in their bed, do not discourage this indomitable population, composed principally : of foreigners. They overcome these natural uimcuuies with raw- ; roads, and the people of St. Paul ! make use of "eighty trains daily" ; to foree a prosperity which even the elements would stem to war against every winter. These peo- j pie up here iti frozen cities of the north learned long ago that rail- j roads are tin- secrets of prosperity, i You did not learn it yet. Chicago) might be burned down four times ; in ten years, the railroads would re- build her every time. Every road j that was run into that city was in j effect saying, "Here is a perma- j nent investment of twenty mil- i lions." That same thing is true of ! St. Paul. Those "eigthy trains dai-; ly" may be compared to as many , geese laying golden eggs for the in- j habitants. There are six other i such geese spoken of as preparing ! j to come here very soon to lay gol- ; i rorc;mfl thev will pome. With- ! in ,.!irs t hero will bo sivti on j railroad entering here, sending in . nn,i t.a-in.r ,,nt ,,ne hundred and twentv trains daw v. r.ven now i .Sr-r.,Tw-r.t,-rt.v.-ti- l.r.lf. l!iv or that 'busses do that there is a constant stir, bustle, movement, even bewildering ex citement observable. Having said this much about the capital of Minnesota, I think that every proper sense of commenda tion and praise has been used. This whole country up here, in my esti mation, is far inferior to our own in point of natural advantages. In the means of furnishing wealth to the people, the South is immeasurably superior. Let us institute a com parison. Take for instance a crack i acre of wheat stajile production up here. It will yiuld twenty-five ' bushels, which will bring now in I the market twenty-live dollars. The expense of production and of marKeting, say seven dollars, bat- ance in favor of farmer, eighteen dollars. This, mind you, is the lil- eral estimate of a crack acre for this section growing the staple product thereof. Now let us see what can be counted up in favor of an acre (crack) down in our section. uracK ; acre in cotton, producing three nun-1 dred pounds of lint at twenty cents Der DoUDd. sixty dollars. Lost of production and of marketing, twenty-five dollars. Balance in favor of planter, thirty-five dollars. Re member, I am not counting on or dinary acres in either case. These calculations are based upon crack pieces of ground. There are acres here that will not turn out eight bushels of wheat sometimes not pay for cultivating just as there j are acres of cotton down South that i have to be abandoned as worthless i both sections are equal in that j respect. I firmly believe that there j is a greater natural "show" for.) prosperity in Tennessee than in any j of those States up here. The man: from whom all, the wealth comes ; the farmer is in a state of chronic . billiousness, and the annoying sounds of his perpetual growl are cieating dismay, among capitalists and other powers that be. The far- I merssay that those capitalists and i other powers that "be," are levy ing a toll, and taking a very extor tionate mulcture" out of their seantv annual accumulations an nual accumulations did I say ? i Whv. the farmers, with discordant unanimity all over the Northwest, j say they are becoming ioorer every year, and that it is the capital ists and "other powers tnat be," who are victimiziug them. J. M. j Aud old Vermont farmer, up to , all methods of making a good bar- j gain; was very in, anu menus were expecting an early demise. His nephew and a man hired for the oc casion had butchered a steer that had been fattened ; and , when the job was completed the nephew en tered the sick room, wnere a iew friends were assembled, when ; to I the astonishment of all, the old man opened his eyes, and turning j his head slightly ; said, in a full; voice, drawing out the words. "What have you been doing ?" j "Killing the steer," was the re- ply. I "What did you do with the i hide ?" "Left it in the barn ; going to 1 sell it by-and-by." , i "Let the bos drag it around the yard a couple of .times ; it will '. make it weigh heavier." And the good old man was gathered unto Iris fathers, How home, . sweet a thing is love of It is not acquired it is a feeling that has its origin elsewhere. ; It is born with us, brought from ' another world to carry us on with joy in mis. it attaches to tne 1 w LI A I, A. I A. A I t 1 uuuiuirai iieart mat ever turoooea. j THURSDAY Trial. , No man is a man till tried till he has passed the ordeal, through deep waters and scorching hres. A man surrounded with comforts, friends and relatives, food and rai-mont-whose barns are filled with plenty, and whose presses gush out with new wine who eats to the .full,, sits and reads, doles. aoout, toi-ui hi int sinn ms uiwwie. smokes his pipe, or chews his tltcf- j is he a man? far from it. a man is, not a man till he is proved-Oias passed the ordeal, drunk the bitter cup, risen above life's conflicts, mounted the billow's wave. A as Joseph a man, in very deed, till he was cast into the pit, torn tway from the bewitching tempter, leav ing his garment behind till he. groaned iu the prison house? Mvas Moses a man till he passed tbdnery rirflen.1?- Wn I);iniel a mai-Ui east into tha lion's den? Vad sunerea perns and had re ceived fortv stri ties save one? "No man that warreth entangleth him self with the affairs of his life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." Let a man be forsaken of all, as was Job swing loose on faith, on God, and retain his integrity, rising tnuinpn- antly- -is he not a man? Who be- sides? Tough 3Iineral Water. Mr. Watsonville. noted as a prac- I tical joker, was asked by a lady in j the stage coach from Gilroy Hot j Springs to San Francisco to take j her inside seat and give her the ; outside as she felt unwell. The ! lady had made herself obnoxious at i the Springs, and as she passed the practical joker she directed him to take care of the two bottles of min eral water she was carrying to her j husband. The practical joker's first j act was to open each, pour out half, i add fill up with w hiskey, and we I leave the husband to tell there : suit : "San Francisco, August 30, 18G9. Proprietors Hot Springs. Sirs ', You are a precious set of scamps, you are! My wife, Mrs. , ; paid a visit to your confounded ; place, and brought back some I 'spring water.' I drank about a ' bottle of the miserable stun", and went to the Good Templars, and j hadn't been in the hall more than ! fifteen minutes before I was as drunk as any man you ever saw ; ; disgraced myself and the lodge, and this morning I am on a sick bed. my impression is that any set of men who will run anj institution of this kind ought to be soused into hot water springs until life was ex tinct. 1 am, sirs, with contempt, Adroit Spellers. In the capitol, at Washington, there is a statue of General Nathan iel Greene. An ignorant stone cutter who carved tho name on the bottom of the statue has spelled it without the final E. On being asked why he omitted this letter, he re- ! plied that G-r-ee-n spelled Green r ."iiucLjijUiItur c;l 4m JiuUk't kt; the use oi more than two vowels in that word. G-r-e-e-n-e Green v, and Greeiu The says this not Besides, said siells nothing he, but the man's name was ! New York Express very bad. Certainly , it is a little better thanCapt. Clapp's ship Asia written A-s-h-a, but in j this case the artist complained of the owner, who proyideu the origi nal spelling. "Leavejlt fts it is," said the braveenptaih. ; "If A-s-h-a don't spell Asia, what the devil does it spell !" ',' There was an old, attorney in Pennsylvania who tfld not think much of yielding his own way of spelling to thedictation of Webster. When his unorthodox spelling was criticised by a junior member of the bar, he retorted that the man who could not spell a word more than one way was a fool. ' ' Modern Dictionary. Distant Relations. People who imagine they have a claim to : j roh vou if you are rich, and to insult i you if you are poor, j Bkli.k. A beautiful, but useless j hisect without wings, whose colors i fu(je. 0n being removed from the j sunshine. Heart A rare article, some times found in human beings. It is soon, however, destroyed by com merce with the world, or else be comes fatal to its possessor. j Marriage. The gate througn which the happy lover leaves hft enchanted regions and returns t4 earth. Death. An ill-bred fellow who visits people at all seasons, and in sists upon their immediately re4 turning his call. I A Frenchman, convicted of the I murder of his father and mother, ! when asked by the judge if he had anything to say, by way of mitiga ting the severity of bis sentence, I replied : "1 hope , your honor will not fail to bear iu mind that now I am a poor orphan.1' , If we are to be pained, harrassed and obstructed i.n our course by the voices urouuu us, we vuereuy uum our .happiness and our very useful ness at the mercy of our enemies and the enemies of truth. Dr.'J. W. Alexander. There is something to imitate even in the uncivilized Chinaman. They celebrate their holidays by paying their debts, forgiving their enemies, and "shaking hands all round." ' A late Kuroean writer remarks that the Christian name pf Thomas is an eminently democratic one.and was never met with in connection with royalty or its offshoots, either in ancient or modern times. , Love is the shadow of tho morn ing which decreases as the day ad vances. Friendship is the shadow of the evening which strengthens with the setting sun of life. La Fontaine. Christians pray with outspread, because clean hands; with uncov ered head, because they are not ashamed ; and without the aid of a prompter, because we pray from the heart. Tertullian. Notwithstanding the assertions of mathematicians, the marriage ring is a circlein which husbandand wife have the problem set them of making all square. ,. ; - Carpenters arep&zne fellows, apt to chuel, often great , bores, and sometimes cut up people badly with their old saws. ' '. All that, is necessary for ' the en joy ment of sausages;'! at a 'rustuu I . . 0 7 A rant, IS canjlfitence, ' ..i. .K I 1 AUGUST 28, 187, Journalistic Courtesies. In looking over a pile of old city papers, one will be struck with the space given up to controversies with contemporary journals, and the sharp and often bitter personalities indulged in. Almost every paper had one or more articles of a con troversial character, and the editor seemed to be earryingon a personal warfare with three-quarters of the other editors of the city. There has been a great improve ment in the respect within twenty years. The old spirit breaks out occasionally in an editorial criticism which is little less than a personal altercation on paper, with adjectives for fisticuffs and insinuations for thrusts. Bat these journalistic en counters are less frequent and in letter tone than in other days, while the people look upon such editorial ebullitions withsomethins Ff like weariness, if not disgust. The modern journalist is so much more than a controversialist that the dia lectic element has almost dropped out of sight from sheer neglect, like undeveloped organs in the physical constitution. lie has to deal with questions in a calm, comprehensive way, as an organ of public intelli gence and as they are related to the public welfare, and not as they con cern his personality or are depicted in his personal opinions. The modern newspaper is no longer the work of one. mau. It is the pro duct of a score or hundred of minds working in concert. It represents a common thought. It stands for an idea, a sentiment, a tendency of the public mind. And it owes its importance and influence very largely to its representative charac ter, and the impartiality and dig nity and, force with .which it per forms its" public functions as an impersonal organ of the sentiments and ideas of that portion of the public of which it is the recognized exponent. It is this that makes a merely personal contest in its col umns an unwarrantable obtrusion j of private matter upon public no tice, and an impertinence, ears ago, in our small communities, largely isolated from the rest of the world by the abseuce of facilities for swift communication, the opin ions and controversies ol individuals naturally occupied a prominent place in public life. They were thought of and talked about in pri vate and in public. But the rail road and telegraph, which have wrought us into instant communi cation, with the whole world have pushed the individual from his old pedestal and put mankind in his p 1 ace. Graph ic. Why he Didn't go Fishing. The Superintendent asked me to take charge of a Sunday-school class. "You'll find 'em a bad lot,"said he "They all went fishing last Sunday but little Johney Rand. He is real ly a good boy, and I hope his exam ple may yet redeem the others. I wish you'd talk to 'em a little." I told him I would. They w ere a hard-looking set. I i aon't think x uvtsr witr.iait.'r Jifinr sbWbjack eyes wiiny lne. lJttle Johnny Band, the good,boy, was in his place, and I smiled on him approvingly. . j As soon as the lessons w ere over i I said : "Boys, your Superintendent tells nieyou went fishing last Sunday. AlTbut little Johnny, here. You didn't go, did you, Johnny ?" I said. "No, sir." "That was right. Though this boy is the youngest among you," x continued, "you learn from his own lips words of good counsel, which I hope you will profit by." 1 lifted him up on the seat beside me, and smoothed his auburn ring - lets. "Now, Johnny, I want you to tell these wicked boys why you didn't go fishing with then! last Knni!:iv. Sneak uo loud now. It ! was because it was very wicked, . and you would rather go to Sunday i school, wasn't it ?" "No. sir : it was 'cos 1 couiun t find no worms for bait." Who's Contented. An eccentric, wealthy gentleman stuck up a board in a field on his estate upon which was painted the following: "I will give this field to any man who is contented." He soon had an applicant. "Well, sir, are you a contented man?" "Yes, sir; very." "Then what do you want with my field?" The applicant did not stop to reply. The most potent, permanent, penetrating influence for good is a holy, consistent Christ-like life. "I.!..-. nvnrt nn l fill IK W'llPll r(fwi Sermons can only do good when heard, and not always then ; but purity and goodness anil grace exemplified, accomplish much by tneir presence. A lady in St. Louis has made a decided 'improvement on the ordin ary breach of promise suits. Her complaint not only embraced the false lover in its charge, but the . . , ..,! i;'- r.,ti,ni gentleman she wanted lor a fat er- in-law also. He had objected to the Sroposed match, and thereby in uenced his son to break it up. "I'll trouble you for some more bread landlord. I always eat a good deal of bread with my meat." "Landlord "So I see, sir!" And a good, deal of meat with your bread." i. A gentleman who was on his death-bed, surrounded by a conclave I of physicians, appealed to them in piteous tones, "My dear sirs, what ever you do, please let me die a natural death.1' k People who are always on tenter hooks, straining after admiration of- effect, had they the beauty of seraphs and tongues of arch-angels, must inevitably become nuisances. Madame de Sevigne. A lady asked a sailor, whom she met, why a ship was called "she. Tne tar replied that it was "because the rigging cost more than the hull." . A fool of the deepest dye An old man with magnificent white hair &nty beard who dyes them a muddy black. Eve had some advantages that no other married woman ever enjoyed, chief, among which was that her husband could never lacerate her heart by telling "how his mother used to cook." ' ' " Why Is your milk so warm this TnoVning, my lad?" said a customer to the milk-boy. "I'm sure I can't tell," was the simple reply, "unless Its cause they put' hot .water in n Andersonville Prison. A correspondent of the Macon Telegraph writing about Anderson ville the great military cemetery of the worlds. says: ' "The cemetery contains forty acres which, with about 1,000 acres contiguous, is in the hands of the Government by right of confisca tion though there is litigation pending between the former owner, one Mr. Dikes, and the United States Government as to the right j of property. There are 13,710 graves of Federal prisoners ; also, the graves of G pris oners hung by their comrades for crimes committed among them selves. There was there a prisoner by the name of Ocwalter, who conceived a plan of preserving tho identity of the aeceased, lor. winch the general Government has comensated htm in the sum of $20,000. The plan was ingenious, inasmuch as it points out the great mass with . certainty there being comparatively few whose names are unknown. .The graves are in a row side by side, three inches apart and fourteen inches wide; hence they are packed away very closely, there being G,000 of these prisoners buried on a less area than two acres of ground. The Yankees came down in numerous hands To divide out our Southern lands: But this is the only spot These poor prisoners ever got. The plank headboards are soon to be displaced with marble slabs, for which, with a brick wall around this and other cemeteries, the gov ern ment has appropriated $1 ,000,000. There are (J4 Georgia State re serves buried in the cemetery and the government has provided for their graves as for the prisoners, and also included them in the ap propriation for marble slabs. There is a branch runningthrough the stockade, but the prisoners, de siring cooler water, dug 240 wells from 40 to 60 feet deep, but without avail. There is a spring in the stockade that was said to have ap peared in the prisoners' time of greatest need ; hence, it is called Providence Spring. Many are said to have been killed contending over this spring. Female Society. What is it that makes all those men who associate habitually with women superior to others who do not? What makes that woman so accustomed and at ease in the so ciety of men superior to her sex in general ? Solely because they are in the habit of free, graceful, con tinued conversations with the other sex.. Women in this way lose their frivolity, their faculties awaken, their delicacies and peculiarities un fold ail their beauty and captiva tion in the spirit of intellectual ri valry. And the men lose their pej dantic, rude, declamatory, or sul len manner. The coin of the un derstanding and the heart changes continually. Their asperities are rubbed off, their better materials polished and brightened, and their into finer workmanship by the lin gers of women than it ever could be by those of men. The iron and steel ot' their characters are hidden, like the character and armor of a giant, by studs and knots of good and pre cious stones, when they are not wanted in actual warfare. A correspondent of the London Sun gives this as his recipe for promoting health : "Do not expect, 1 . 1 f 1 . A, sir. some wonueriui announcement, i some fascinating mystery ! No. It : is sjmpiy the plain little practice of ieaving your bedroom window a j jitte openatthe top while sleeping, I hotn Wjnter and summer. I do not ! come before vou as a theorist or an inexperienced teacher, in thus call ing loudly upon every family to adopt this healthful practice. I am the father of ten children, all in pure health, and have (thank God) never lost one, although their natural con stitutions were not robust. But in addition to the salutary effect of the practice in my own family, where ever I have advised others to try its effects, it has invariably been found to be both pleasant and ben eficial." In a country church a collection was taken up for a party who had lost his house and property by a tire.- f The fact that an agent of one of the fire ofhees was seen to put a note into the box, led to great hopes on the part of the sufferer and his friends. But on examining the con tents of the box, afterwards, it was found that the note contained only these admonitory words: "Let them insure, as they wish to be saved." A good many collections for poor widows with small chil dren mierht be made unnecessa ry, by carrying just such a piece of advice into execution through the medium of life insurance. Marivaux, a celebrated French writer of romances who flourished in the first half of the last century, having one day met with a sturdy beggar who asked charity of him he replied, " My good friend, strong and stout as you are, it is a shame that you do not go to work." "Ah, master," said the beggar, " if you did but know how lazy I am." " Well," replied Marivaux, " I see thou art an houest fellow ; here is half a crown for you." A young lady once observed, " When I go to the theatre, J am very careless of my dress, as the audience are too attentive to the play to observe my wardrobe ; but when I go to church I am very par ticular in my outward appearance, as most people go there to see how their neighbors dress and deport themselves.". The fastest trains on American railways are slow in comparison with those of England. A London paper says that an express train on the Bristol and Exeter aud Great Western railway now runs from Exeter to Paddington, a distance of 194 miles, in four hours and a quar ter, including stoppages of fifteen minutes. On other roads trains run with almost equal speed. ,siJThe troubles of life are like the sticks in a bundle of faggots. It is easy to take one at a time ; but we choose to increase our trouble by carrying yesterday's stick overagaiu to-day, and adding to-morrow's burden toour load before we are re quired to bear it. John Xewton. No Christian is ever entitled to pronounce upon his i t ative superi ority in holiness over his brother. Grant that my brother is unhappi ly a very imperfect Christian, my heart responds sadly, " So am I." I cannot tell which of us has fewest excuses for his guilt. 1 do not know ray brother's temerament, circumstances, or the d ,, oe of his light. Somelhingaboutwot. . dounces. NO. 11. The Griefs of Childhood. The different ages of life suggest many tender musings to George Elliot u ' li sh is wont to trails late into i' r. -i n - language. Here is some siu;e ui.-cour.s on the griefs of childhood : These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet uot wings to fly beyond the day and weeks, ami the space from summer to summer seems measureless. "Ah, my child, you will have real troubles to fret about by and by," is the consolation we have almost all of iis had ad ministered to us in our childhood, and have reated to other children tdm we have laeii iTowimr im. - We have all of us. sobbed so pite- I . i ? i.l.i .1 ousiy, siauuing witi, tiny oare legs aoove our little socks, when we I lost sight of our mother or nursoin some strange place; but' we can rfo longer recall the poignancy of that moment and weep over it, as we do over the -remembered sufferings of five or ten years ago. Every one of those keen moments has left its trace, and lives in us still, but such traces have blended themselves ir recoverably with the firmer texiure of our youth aud manhood ; and so it comes that we can look on at the troubles of our children with a smi ling disbelief in the reality of their pain. Is there any one who can recover the experience of his childhood, not merely with a memory of what he did and what happened to him, of what he liked ami disliked when he was in frock and trousers, but ! with an intimate penetration, a re- j vived consciousness of what he h it then when it was so long from one midsummer to another? when he ; felt when his school-fellows shut I! him out of their game because he j would pitch the ball wrong out of mere wilfulness: or in a rainy day iu the holiday, when he didn't1 know how to amuse himself, and . fell from idleness into mischief from ; mischief into defiance, and from defiance into sulk mess; or when his i mother absolutely refused to let j him have a tailed coat, that "half," i although every other loy of his age ; had gone into tails already? Sureiy i if we could recall that early bitter- j ness, and the dim guesses, the j strangely perspectively conception j of life that gave the bitterness its intensity, we should not pooh pooh , the griefs of our children. 'Child-' hood has no forebodings; but then, : it is soothed by some memories of ' outlived sorrow. Mr. ," said Mrs. with au air of triumph, "don't you think marriage is a means of grace?" "Well, yes," growled ; "1 sup pose anything is a means of grace j that breaks down pride and leads i to repentance." A gentleman speaking of the happiness of the married state be fore his daughter, despairingly said: "She who marries does well, but she who does not marry does better." "Well, then," said the young ladv, "1 will do well: let A brutal old bache or declares that pretty women kiss one another on coming into a room because it is a graceful custom; they do the same on going' away because they are delighted to lose sight of one another. If infidelity, indifference, skepti cism sweep secretly the breadth and depth of Christendom, 'tis but the binding spell of these supersti tions about the name of One whom the love and admiration of ail good men hold precious, and will not let perish from love and remembrance. Alcott. A JOKK WITH A MOKAb. A pullet, finding a nice egg, sal on it. The old hen came along after three weeks, and found her egg spoilt. Said she to the pullet. " O my daughter, who did this ?" Tlie pul let replied, " Mother, I rannot tell a lie; did it with my little hatch it ."' England consumes about 120 quarts of beer per annum to each head of her population, B.-lgium G4, Germany 48, Austria 20, France 18, Switzerland 10 . and Munich, Bavaria, 230 qqarts. A gentleman lying in b d one morning was informed that he'd better get up quick, us breakfast was just coming up. "Let it come!" he exclaimed, defiantly; "it will find me ready to meet it!" "The British Empire, sir," ex claimed an orator, "is one on which the sun never sets." "And one," replied an auditor, "in which the tax-gatherer never goes to bed." "I feel a severe pain," said a no ble patient to Mr.- Abemethy, "when I move my right arm so." "Then," replied Mr. A., "why does your lordship move it so V1 "What is your consolation in life and death ? asked a Sunday school superintendent of a young lady in the the Bible class, who blushed and said, "I'd rather, be excused from speaking his name." t A lady in Fond du Lac slipped on the ice and broke her legend the first remark she made alter the ac cident was: "I wonder if Harry will marry me nov ?' How char acteristic of a woman ! A good conscience is better than two witnesses it will consume your grief as the sun dissolves ice. It is a spring, when you are thirsty a staff when you are weary . screen when the sun burns a pillow in death. "Oh, grandma,"cried a mischiev ous little urchin, "I cheated the hens so nicely just now. I threw them your gold U-ads, and they thought they were corn, and ate them up as fast as they could !" A current maxim in Arabian lit erature says that "Paradise is as much for him who has rightly used the pen, as for him who has fallen by the sword." Some persons can neither stir hand nor foot without making it clear they are thinking of them selves, and laying little traps for approbation. , A German physician declares that unmarried women live much longer than married women. Student. "Professor, can you see anything in my eye? It feels veryi sore V' Professor. "I see a very batL pupil, sir.',' ". . China is rapidly, undergoing the process of' civilization. Boer made at Shanghai '' THE 'WEEKIjY El.'; Itatea of Advert Kiiicr. 1 111 'Z ih'm.;:? iii'm. i mVi 12 n 1 Squ'el 3 00 $ : 7 oo' Jio oi.ni l.) r on; ; m 12 ik: in (ni i. 4 ii do 7 Hj 1a (Ml it 411 4't 1 0 .Vi 1 0 (Ml 15 Kl! 17 tx; JS (Ml I .0 (Mj 10 4M.M1H iHtl 32 (K) H'ol'u.' 12 (Ml( IS 00 o , ;;. i do ; :.' 00: &,,i0 ao 00 I ! i 150 ooj 40 00 ro 00 . (H S( so (i,.i;o J:v transient advertising onk noLui; liej.oiiarofortbeiirtiiii(l vitrx ci:n i' for each subsequent insertion. , 15c Social. Men isolate themselves from society, n -d have no near and :; family lies, are the most nixon . fhrtab!' of -human bciags. lino : ays, "Happiness is twin-!nVii:': nut the phrase, though preliy ;n d poetic, hMs not go far enough. We are gregarious, and not intended to march t hr ugh I i feel ! her 1 n si ng!e or double flivThe man who cares wr nobody, and for.whom lr-lcly cares, has nothing, to live for that wjll pay for the keeping of o il sit.d body together. You mnt have a hap ot embers to have allowing fife. Scatter them amut ,nlm v i will l come dim and cold. So to .hive a brisk. 'vigorous life, vou i niust have a group of lives, to' ke. w 1 . U ..-. ... .. ; eiw.-n ouier warm, as it ford' each mutuaU cneounicviiwr t -and confidence and &uport. If you wish to liyftjhe life of man and not oT a fungus', be soeial, be brotherly, be charitable, be sympa thetic, and labor earnestly lortfe good of your kind. I believe, -ir," said an editor tli. augiy : other visitor to a bland day, "I bHK've, sir, that vou con duct the Journal?' Tne repiy was a nod of usscnt.' "I am .Mr. Moore, banker in (naming a neighboring lovvnj aun you had ihe audacity "to stale in your last issue that 1 had comm... ted suicide in a fit of I cm po ran sanity." ry i. The editor was piix.!-d, out u dismayed. "We had tho paragraph from om ; local reporu i- in your '-town, am! I have always found him reliable a:.: accurate." - The banker became more nng: y. ! I "Well, sir, you see that 1 am' alive. Of course who will j ubii l a contradiction and apoiog.v wi vo:,. ; next number?" "lam afraid, my dear sir, tha j this would violate our invariable ruio which is, never in admit tl;..; we have made a mis-tatemeht. I 1 ft . L t . ltut, as you appear greatly anuoyi i by Hit? paragraph, 1 am 'willing ' stale in to-morrow's paper that'll. i rope broke, and that you au.; i'oi tui. ately alive. 'More than this canm be done our rule is newr to n tract." A Remarkable Mine. An coath English paper s.ivs li;; mine, near Camhnrih'. :;. ; Cornwall, is in every way a i. ; markable exploration. The mil i ! has been in constant work for tuoi j than two hundred year.-, llein first worked as a tin mine the. u oi J. j ings iu the deeper levels weivevon I tually suspended, because 'the tir - ners came to the yeiiows (yelnA. copper ore, atthat tinio of sin : i value). The copper ore was .subse quently worked at a very lar,. profit. As tiie mine increas d i depth the copper disappeared, a: the main l(i again produced li From this,' during the past ye. tin ore has been sold to tlie val of S','20il, and profit made to t . amount of 27,otS. The ;d'.eiv..- tn, otn v. ' v.rid 11k o t,"n j nntiin, wiiffto, inw-r. fnl(ivfry in Dolcoath, has been observed .also j in other deep mines, deserve .ho careful attention of men of s-eieiru." A Sham Exposed. A great deal is said about yotu.g men "who are not abloto marry n account of the extravagan.-e of wo men," when these very young men often spend as much on their own superfluities, if not their vices, its would support a reasonable wife. They pass by the industrious self denying young girl, who pluekily resolves uot to let an already over tasked lather or brother support her, and pay court to some be llounced uiifi jewelled pink and white doll, una then wnine that they "can't marry her because sho is so extravagant." That's the whole truth about it; and when young men, f.Ci) and' acknowledge it iu a manly manner, it will bo time enough to listen to them on the marriage question. Press On! The mystery of Napoleon's oa was this. Under idl. difficulties discouragements, to "press on !" solves the problem of all heroes ; is tho rule by which to judge o; . wonderful successes and tiii'.nijM marches to fortune and genius. " should be the motto of all. "PY; , on," never despair, never bed. couraged; however .stormy t. heavens, or dark the way, or gr the difficulties, or repeated the i.. ures, "press on!" If fortune pro false with thee to-day; do th prove true for this to-morrow, i. the folly of yesterday make th' wise to-day. If thy afi'ections ha been poured out like water in t desert, sit not down and peri-n thirst, but "pre.-s on" a bean'... oasis is before they and thfu in.i ; reach it if thou wilt. "Robby, what .does vn;:r fali r do for living?''- "He's a philanthropist, ir." "A w hat?" "A phi-lan-thro pi-:, sir: ho lects money for Central Annv and builds houses out o' Ihe, ceeds." "NeVer," saysa henpetu'-ied n... ,, "marry a woman worth more tl. n thou art. When I married u . wife I was worth fifty cents, . .' hstte was worth Hixtyptwoivnt.s ; . - u when arTy diuvrcncp has oeeurr l between us she throws up In I shilling." . .. ... Lord Bacon, beautifully siid, f a inan be racious to stranger -, t i shows that he is a citizen of ilv world, and his heart is ho island, c6t olf f.'om other islands, but a con tinent lhat joins them." , . -t A discontented Vicks'ntrg editor, inliescribiug the funeral ot an Odd Fellow says : "The profession was nearly two miles long, and s i was the prayer of tho chaplain of t!ie lodge."" 'About the year 1785 the Legisla ture of Pennsylvania passed a reso lution that no -member . thereof should come to the house ban-foot, or eat his bread and cheese on the steps." . A traveler coming up to an inn uoor, saiu : ' "I'rai. friend, are vou tho master of thts house ?" I i''Yes, sir," answered Boniface, ,"my wifo has been dead the thrte .icecks.1 A dailv tniDcr recently con tain ctl ehtklvertlsement for a lost "largo fjlack silk umbrella, belonging to ft young gentltni tn with a curio'i-g car fed wooden html. A little girl sent out to htin.t came "back 'unsuccessful, and cu -IjihVfheV! that "there w e re lots of hens fctamling around doing nothing.'' r
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