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iff T ft It If ill M W: It Published by J. H. & G. G. Myrover, Corner Anderson and Old Streets, Fayetteville, N. C. VOL. 8 NO. 11. THTTRSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1875. WHOLE NO114. ti3rti Carolina Gazette. j. jr. a. myuovek, 3u.l3lis2a.ors. TEH MS OF SUBSCHli'TlOX U.!i v-r (iu mlraucr), Si it tiwiii It-- " Tinoo " " -: . 2 50 . . . 1 5:5 CLl'Il HATES: 10 c ii! (i;nt toouriadlre) with an extra copy. $33 20 aJ .. - .. .... ... 10 01) 41) " "'."-. " " 75 04 r0 .. . ;' " ' an .1 a premium f a line chromo, valu f'i.l 90 00 I 100 ifnri Ciiit t-iiia!,Hri'..i with ii nxtia copy . aiij a iiroaiiu.n of a rine riirmuo, value i'tJ 1.".0 00 A. I ''.". OF A it I 'Ell T1SISG : O-if ia.ira (.I linos soli'l uun;i;uvil u iiiiu-rtiuu ? 1 00 .. ' two ' l r.u one month tlireo 5 II!) i. ' tvyrlv. " l."00 in.' i ailviTtiitMiifiit.f clmru'''! in proportion to ft;-. - ;". : u m;u'n prr ccui. more iiihu ,.lv. :iil'-Ilt.S. Home Circle. il;'.fa:;ii th'e Sacred Refuse uf Our Life." P!H0 TO'MR'S STORY V-i-"Yu are a pair of precious young fools, ";u:J that's tin-.-1 test I can find to say about voti!" su.il Aunt ( J'eorgc. j , " II i r name was Miss Ueorgiana Anderson; .i,it tii!.' swret abbreviation, 'tyj v-orgie,' ' was mvcr used to her; as soon mijglit one think 1,1' venturing on f.imiiiarities with a bishop! Lu'ivhodv called her 'Aunt G-.-orge;' ;iinl, ;;s : i;- walked w ith a measured tread, like a gn 'U.t'IuT, t lit,' n. ane w asu't at all inap prop; iale. She was Li..U's Aiil.t ( Jeorge, not liiiae. Msc. had' brought. Lizzie t j in her queer. : ' . i , i 1 t fashion, iu -ver uiviny her a kiss. . ; a cafoss, or an emh-arh.-ir woii!, amlyit luiUlifia i.iad to her in her own rtuti- ml way. ' l vi-lt 1 etiul-1 ileoilie Lizzie A mlcrsmi to yoii as shcrcally was. A tilth',, (iu.ip-li-i, !.li;v-evcl t.i'-;.tuiv, with hn, sh:.uV I l.S aiiil a suy .. .... . I . . . ".111." .. t hilu; a whose voive was low ami sA'.-cs, an.l'vxho i..ov 1 about noiselessly, j .. m ,-..r si.rin"- v. ;m.l rnsi ia" the How- And .:dv einiitt en, too;,th;;t wis what j aui'avated her Aunt (ie age the utost ul a'.h "I wasn't -married until 1 was "five stml thirtv!" saiil Aunt (ieorire: "but von vonnj; peopie can't be cohtcui.eii without lushii. I lie oii.'!! into the vortex.. It would bedif-J l'erent d you were rich; hut dear u . ! ' and the rubbed her nose perplexedly; ".1 oe otiiii: jf but a poi v piano-tuner,- ami you 1 aveii a solitary liennv of our Own. Ijz- 1 - .ie.' "We shall be very . economic 1, Aimt ( i crtix'c, sunt Lizzie, c.ieei ut :y. ml you'll have to be.'' lt ioincd the old lady, grimly. It is my iideution to be perfectly.' frank .it!i the reai.er, ami 1 snail not uisinse f tl.e fact fliat. 1 had,, in or eoiifidcntial 'i;'.l.s, .".s'lied. Lizzie if she tliouglit Aunt- i ; . i.i.-e rVould da anvlhiny fur u jec;;iiia- lily." ' -v ; "Oh, dear, no!" she answered, shaking her curls in a decided fashion; "She always i .:M me to exoeet ijottoiig inna ne:;. asm j lot u hi'si.ies, Joe. .she tins rettUv nothing to 'i'iu re was no way of getting over these two facts, taken either together or t-epnr--j atcly. I There's one comfort, Lizzie," said I, j Mouilv; "we are young and strong and 1 rave-hearted, and w e'li ask no aid ufany- body.'' "Of course we w on't, Joe," xtid Lizzie, ! her blue eyes -sparkling like dew-wet vio lets at sunrise. , " I did wish, once, or twice, that mv husi ness had been something more lucrative than piano tuning; but it was what I hadfi been brought up to, and 1 had a pretty' good run of custom on the whole; and, as Lizzie said, "A little will go a great way hen you are careful ol it." "You'll si c, J.",," she blithely ' added, 'that I sh::!! t:iake a splendid house-Leep- ' . , - ' We had jast seventy-Kve dollars to far-i.;sh-.oif- little seetuidjlonr with; but I can -ui "e you our two rooms looked verv eo zy, with the red and green carpet and neat stained furniture. Lizzie! said it looked ex- actly like a duties house far "v i'oag: tuid nc - wasn't "Such a pair of fools;!" .re-iterated Aunt George, "lu an exceeding prophetic, mood: "but there's one comfort it won't last very b'slLT." "AYhv shouldn't it, Aunt George?''1 ask- eu l.v.zie, coloring ami spilling in Ler cap tivating wav. "Humph!"' said Auut (leorge; "if von ir , . to Mat, why don't the sun-shine last forev . -. - 1 v "So it might, if there were no clouds," answered Lizzie, sofilv. "Ah, child!" sighed Aunt George; "von - -ire 'young now, so enjoy it as much as Volt - can. We can't be young twice, lucre's he So we were married quietly, as became our humble estate and moderate expecta tions, and went to spend a few days in the country, where I had a sister living cm a - breezy, old-fashioned -farm. ) -you sup - pose Lizzi and I. . wilKvvex --forget those days, 'even if we live as long asMethusa h? . j- ' It was a .November evening when we eame to the "disdl's house," where! the red merino draperies glowed warm in the rud dy light of the lire, and the tin l&ttle was singing out its homely lay of welcome. "Lizzie," said I softly, "''are vou glad to come Jiome?'' - ' - And she answered, more with her eves than "Q! so verVj ytry jria.l for "we are going to be happy llert.. I know it as well as if I saw the years before me on a V-ap. - Our first year was very blissful, especi ally after the baby came, to mp.lie i.onr lives musical with Lis little cooing voice. But after that the hard times came. Not that we repined; Lizzie and I were hrave to endure whatever we could bear togeth er; yet it went to ray heart to see her et tirnr ale atx thin, through sitting' njj late to sew and earn a little extra money be cause my business wati dull. And then the bills besjan to accumulate, and tho rent got behind. "This won't do Jo," said Lizzie, grave lv; "w must do without meat." "That is nothing," said I, la-;ighin:r. al tlioiurh" I felt little incliucl to mii th; "hut we cannot very well do without a roof o ver our heads." "Don't fret, Joe," said my cheery little, wife; "we'll not want; something will hap pen." "Jbrt what can happen, Lizzie? The days of tnir teles are over; there no Elijahs and ravens in these times." ''Yes, there tire, Joe," she said, cheerfully, "althouirh we don't always know it at the time.- There is an order for you to tune a piano no iu South street. Isn't that a rtt i & veil? And she held the little strip of paper with the order triumphantly lefiore my eyes. When 1 returned home front South street Lizzie met me at the door with humid eyes and a very anxious,-troubled face. " "What is the lhattcv?" I. cried anxious ly; "Lizzie not the baby? Nothing has happened to him!" "No, he is quite well, and fast asleep, like a little white lamb. li:it Aunt George ijt "Auut ( JT'orire! v '"Yes; she died thio morning, and I could not be sent for in time to receive her last breath. Oil. .Joe. she was vcrv. verv kind to me." . Are we men natiirslly. so selfish, or was I. hauled and driven bv want, an exeept- riun to the ordiuarv rule? For I eonfes that as Lizzie stood there, looking tearfully up int; my face, the first thought that hollow ed the entrance of this unexpected news to mv brain' was: Would Auut George leave us am ihiii I supposed Lizzie was her sole living relation, and surely, in all these ve.us, tiiouifli her tuoouio was smaii, sue tnast have saVed something.. Bat 1 an thankiid to remember that I never told Liz::ie what was in my mi ml. "She was very old, ('.ear," I said, striv ing to comfort mv srieved wife; "three- s.'c-ie and test. It is tl laanity. and yon know it is the allotted age of hit- sue hud grow n very feeble." V'e went to Aunt George's funeral, and the will was read a verv brief document in which she bequeathed her simple -house- hold furniture 'to a nephew iu Wisconsin, and "to Jlizahetii wife of Joseph Allen, as a token ofuifectioiiate remcmbraxic , her piano." ,1 turn less, jangling instrument, half a ceuturv old. with carved spindle legs, or- - uaments or miaiu orass, ana Keys as y.ci- low as Aunt George's own complexion And that- was the end of ail my expecta tions of a:i inheritance from Lizzie's ,i.uut George. The old piano was duly carted home the iiext day. If it had been a fashionable instrument of modem make, we could nev er Lttve gotten it up the narrow, staircase; but it looked quite friendly and home-like opposite the fire-place, its lank proportions covered by a faded green cloth, j I shrank LaeV with a grimace as Lizzie touched the keys so as to tnaSe the baby Iuiigh. - ' "Of course it's out of tuiie, J.w," fc said, merrilv, "but vou'll hoou set that all right; and 1 shall rub upiuv practice again in jm time. Tt happened to be a very dull time just - then: so I had nothing .else to do but to take Lizzies ad vice; and in half an hoar had the old instrument nearly dissected. much to the baby's edification, as he sat gravely on the floor, rn the midst of the interior developments of the old piano. And now comes the most marvelous part' of the story. All piano tuners know that when you take aw ay the -front piece above the key board there is a hollow place of considera ble extent, i;i any instrument of -ordinary size. And as 1 stopped to blow the dust aw ay fpen this place I saw :t bundle or a roll of bank notes fastened round with a J yellow slij) of paper, on which was w ritten: "cor n:v meee Lizzie. 'Lizzie!'' I cried, bretdhlessly, -"Lizzie! and she was.at mv fide in an instaut. . And, if you will believe me, there werJ 85,000, the accujmirlated savings of Aunt George's frugal1 life; and this was what she laid uiea-nt by giving lifr piano to us. That $5,000 was the starting point of the snug little fortune we have since scrap ed together; and if Aunt George could know how much her bequest has done for ns, I think it would do her kindly heart good. All is Not Lost. When Jeremy Tay lor had lost all, he 'could still write thus: "I have fallen into the hands of publi cans and sequestrators, and they have taken all. from me; what now? Let me look about ,me. They- have lett me the sun and moon, a loving wife and many friends to pity me, and some to relieve me; and I can still discourse; and, unless I list, they have not taken away my merry counten ance and my cheerful spirit and a good conscience; and they have still left ine the providence of God, and all the promises of the Gospel, and my religion, and my hopes of Heaven, and my charity to them, too and still I sleep and digest, I eat and drink, I read and meditate and he who hath so many causes of joy, ami great, is very much in love with sorrow and pee vishness, who: leaves all these pleasures, and chooses to sit clown opon his little handful of thorns. (From the Syracuse Xews.J A SINGULAR STORY. A Brother Just Escapes Marrying his sister. The strange incidents. related in the fol fowing sketch are vouched for as strictly true by a gentlemau who arrived at New York on the steamship Ilotterdara, of tho Rotterdam' and Antwerp line, on Wednes da v of last week: The vessel left Rotterdam Aug. 7lh, and among the passengers in the cabin were a man apparently thirty-five years of age, named James N. Van Seller, and a youug lady, apparently fifteen years youn ger, named Maria Renter. From the time of leaving port the two mentioned attract ed much attention, the man for his grace ful bearing and handsome looks, and the young lady7 for her beauty, of such a type that the gentlemen, in talking about her, styled Ler "the Madonna. - The ship had not skimmed over the dark blue waters more than two days, when the conduct of tho two excited the curiosity, of tho passengers to a fetill great er degree. They sat separate at the table, and never while at meals evinced by look or word that they were ever acquainted. But in the morning, even before the sun had reared its crest out of the bosom of the ocean, and long after he had sunk be neath the waves, the objects of so much curiosity could be seen engaged in conver sation in such a manner as left no doubt of their being man and wife, or lovers shortly to be married. But why the ne cessity of acting so strangely toward each other when in company? Tho female oc cupants of the cabin were no nettles, and determined to solve, the mystery. Ru mors prejudicial to the fame of "the Madon na" were whispered from ear to ear, and thev soon reached the ears; cf the young man. lie was indignant, but spared the young lady the recital, and, in order to save them from future annoyance, he told the writer's informant that he was engaged toJ;e mar ried, and that his intended bride thought "there would be something so romantic about a marriage in mid-ocean that he ac ccd d to her wish. Their acting as they did in the cabin was so that when the time'arri red for their marriage, they all, as his intended s;d; might enjoy a gen uine surprise. The sixth day out fiom port was set down as the time for the. auspicious event, and the ladies in the cabin were wild with excitement, On the evening preceding the marriage, as the sun was dipping its lower edge in the western horizon, thp passengcrs on deck were startled by a ioud shriek from the after part of the hui ricane deck, rushed to the spot from v. hence the sound proceeded, and saw Miss Renter stretched on the Hour, w hile at a tdiort dis tance her lover leaned against ihe gunwale, his face ashy pale, while upon its every lineament was depicted an agony that a man can feel but once in lfc's lifetime. What dire discovery led to such a subli mation of sorrow? What upas tree, with its malignant breath, had poisoned the ilt- tnosphero of love that they but a lew brief moments before had breathed? There stood the groom of to-morrow, speechless and motionless, and the. head of his inten ded bride,' instead of being nestled in his inns, lay where it had fallen uuon the deck. 'I- Lite .passengers, oti seeing tho sad an:! strange sight, were amazed, and wonder ed that her love, whose agony was so ap parent,' did not approach the prostrate form. But the reason would be made ap parent soon enough, aud " their hearts w ould bleed for a grief that had no hop.-, for a blank despair that can never this side of eternity bo irradiated with one gleam of sunshine. The young lady was at once removed to her cabin, and was attended by the ship surgeon, 'but it was long l efore she was restored to consciousness. Her intended husband was finally induced to enter the cabin, but his presence brought on a par oxysm of weeping which THREATENED THE YOUNG LADY'S LIFE, and he at once withdrew. A few days after the strange events related had occurred, Mr. Van Seller, with ranch hesitancy,. re- hited to the wri'er's informant circumstan ces which fully explained the cause of the preceding events. When a boy of ten, he ran away from his parents, who were residing' in the city of Amsterdam, aud found, employment as a cabin boy on a ship bound for Java. For five years he sailed to different parts of the world, an J had accumulated a con siderable sum of money. He concluded, finally, to visit-hhs parents; but on arriv ing at Amsterdam he heard that his father was dead, and that Lis mother had again married and removed to a different part of the country. On hearing this, he decided at once to ship again, and since then has sailed all over the world. Ten years ago he engaged in business in a Western town, and beeamo rich. " Two months ago ho visited Europe, and in the city of Rotter dam met with Miss Reuter, who had been engaged as governess. A mutual feeling of respect ended in love, and his proposal of marriage w as accepted. She said her parents were dead, and she had no one to consult in relation to any step she took in life.'. lie desired the marriage "to take place before leaving, but, providentially, the romantic girl wished it to be at sea, which delay, grievous as the results wre, save! them from a fate much worse than death. Ou the evening previous to the'r intended marriage Miss Reuter spoke of her mother as having once lived in Am sterdam, and that she had been married twice. This fell upon his ear as- the knell of fate, the name of his father, the circum stances of her half-brother running away to sea when he was ten years of age, his reported death by drowning on rh? roast of France, and the strange coincidence of his and her lost brother's name being the same. Xot noticing tho intense agony depicted on his lace, she drew forth a lock et, and their mother's portrait was display ed before them. With a voice sounding as if from the grave, he grasped Ler by the ami' and said: '"Mv God, von are mv sister, my own mothers daughter!" . She gave one wild, incredulous look into his face, and then fell fainting upon the deck. The voyage was a long one, occupy ing nineteen davs, and I.eiore its terrain a tion the young lady was able .to go on the deck. She was, however, but a shadow of her former self, and her restless, vacant look showed that her mind did not pass through the featful ordeal unscathed. Together thev concluded it was better to place the ocean between them, and in a few days the unfortunate lady will return to her native Holland Her brother has made her a liberal allowance, which will always keep her in easy circumstances, and however bitterly they may regret their unlucky fate, thev cannot but be thankful that their brief acquaintance end ed as it did. Bismarck. Several of the deputies have attacked more or less boldly the pol icy of the Government. While they speak, Prince Bismarck sits paring his nails, only now and then raising his head and fixing a glance upon the orator who has made 'a statement which excites him. At last he is roused by M. Tissot, w ho is attracted by the figure of the Chancellor, of whom he says: "I direct my lorgnette upon him, but I very soon feel an arui laid' up mv shoul der, which drags tire violently backward. 'It is forbidden to hfrgncr the Chancellor,' cries a rough voice. ' I begin to explain that the barrels of my double glasses are not charged, but a neighbor w hispers in ray ear 'policeman and I put both my tongue aiui lorgnette in my pocket." M. do Bismarck here, as elsewhere, draws all attention. life eloquence, w hich lie 'ham mers like the iron on an anvil, emits flights cf sparks. At first his language is em barrassed he finds the words with diffi culty. But little by little he warms, the volcano lightens, it vomits blocks of stones. The man is not an orator, as orators go. Thia i not an eagle who soars ou victori ous wingSj'not a lion who roars in 'shaking his inane, and in striking the earth with his tail." There is no inspiration in that bosom of iron; there is only a w ill at w ill which moves the mountains. A wild boar tracked to his lair ami making a rush up on the dogs such is 3. de Bismarck, or ator. One might fancy he saw a German postilion wearing the Imots of Louis IX., and w ielding the whip with which that absolute- monarch reasoned iu his Parliament. He holds his anger under foyernnient,.ajid mingles malice and invective with cajoler ies anil puns. Bismarck falls upon the I" I tramoutaucs. His violent attacks and threatening gestures excite one of those tempests which he loves. The protests and hisses of the Gentre mingle with the plaudits of the Right and the Left. Divi ded into two camps, the Deputies provoke and insult each other. The President in vain rings his bell. Dominating the mc let, Lis face -sweating-great drops, his eyes flaming, M. dc Bissnarck 'Mets fall from his lip;' a smile superbiy insolent and disdain fill. He fee's, as they all feel, that ail these Leads are for him but so many balls which he can knock one against theother, just as it pleases him. Lc Blonde. ' A Peuflc-t Flirt. For flirting com mend us to tho belie of a country village a New Englaud country village in par tioular. What with some beauty, a trifle of accomplishments,- a great deal of seiiti ment and plenty- of novel reading, she is furnished out for the professioirof flirting. Her thirst for adulation is as insatiable as her capacity for humbugging herself and others is boundless. It is not' unusual for tlds sort of girl, to be engaged to two or three men at once, nor for her to become an old maid alter all, because she cannot determine- among the number of those who are perishing for love of her who it is she loves most. We have known one of those town lints to destroy tho whole peace of uiind of several young linen within two years, one of them ,a clergyman of fair tal- cuts, who was, notwithstanding, fool en- ougl to want to marry her, knowing all a- bout, it; and because at, the last she would not, have him, ho gave up his profession ami left the country. ' ' 1 s Model HuSbaxds. Hero is indeed, in oiie respect, the "promised land" for the women, for more devoted husbands women never had (writes a correspondent from Greece). A Greek-man is only content when' be can lavish upon Lis wife all the luxuries in the way of dress the female heart can desire. He is only happy when, in company with his wife in the house, in the street, or on tho promenade, she is the best dressed of all the fair. With the Greek husband there is no grumbling con sent to bestow upon you enongh to buy a pair of boots, while he spends ten times that amount with his friends in champagne suppers; no long-drawn visage as he doles out a pitiful sum while delivering a lecture as to female estrayagauce. Not a bit of it. On the contrary, the Greek husband does not lead his wife th rough by-streets, for fear of silk meicers, when she wishes to go out for a little walk; he leads her past the most fashionable shops, and olwerves with the eye of a critic all the new styles, and is really, ladies really and truly willing to spend his money for his own wife. E ven for fear she should not be considered as lovely as some one else, lie goes to a perfumer's and bnys cold cream, rice pow- ders, delicate pink for cheeks, &c, &c. Beauty is worse" than widc it intosi cates lKitlj the holJvr and th beholder. THROWING THE SHOE. Very few, probably, of the thousands who throw shoes after bridal parties as they are leaving home know anything of tho origin of tho custom. Like a great ma jority of such usages, its origin is ancient, and can be traced to Bible times. It was then the custom for tho brother -of a child less man to marry his widow, or at least he had tho refusal of her. If he chose to reject her, the ceremony was public, and consisted in her loosing his shoe from his foot, (Deuteronomy sxv. 5-10) and spitting iu his face, nis giving up the shoe was a symbol of his abandoning all dominion o ver her, and the latter part of the ceremo ny was an assertion of her independence. There was an affair of this kind between Ruth and Boaz. In some parts of the East it was a custom to carry a slipper be fore a newly married couple as a token of the brides subjection. - The custom as it exists with us is very old iu England and Scotland. The usual saying is that it is thrown for luck, and that is the idea in I this country, but originally it meant a re nunciation or authority by tho parents over the bride. It was formerly a custom among the Germans for the bride, w hen she was con ducted to her chamber, to take off her shoe and throw it among the guests. Whoev er got 't in the struggle to obtain it re garded it as an omen that he or she would be happily married. When the Emperor Vladimir proposed marriage to the daugh ter of Ragnald, she rejected him, saviug, "I w ill not take off my shoo to tho son of a slave.'7 Luther being at a wedding told the bride that he had placed the hiisbtmd's shoo at the head of the bed as a sign that he was to henceforth govern. Train, in his history of the "Isle of Mann," says: "on the bridegroom leaving his house it was customary to throw an old shoe after him, and in like manner to throw an old shoe after the bride on leaving her Lome to pro ceed to church, iu order to secure good luck to each respectively; and if bv strat agem either of the bride's shoes could be taken otl bv the spectators, on her way from church, it had to be ransomed bv the bridegroom." In Kent, England, after the couple have star.ed on the:r tour, the siugie ladies are drawn up in one row and the bachelors in another; an old shoe is then thrown as far as possible, and the ladies run for it, the successful one being supposeu to be the first . who will get married. She then throws the shoe at the gentlemen, and the one w ho is hit by it is deemed to be the first male who will enter into wedlock. Generally it is considered that tho older the shoo is the better. iH A MORMON BALL. The correspondent of the Sacramento Ijition savs: Saturday ,was a holiday of the Mormons. At night it ciosed with a grand ball. How odd it sounds to hear a ball announ ced in church; how-strangj to see a ball opened with prayer! What dancers these Mormons are! There was a perfect jam and crush. The sexes were about evenly represented. The women were plainly clad not a low-necked dress in the room, not a trailing dress to be seen: and, though tho dancing was mnscularly vigorous, and of the prancing style, with lateral, vertical and all other motions, not one among all tho women present display ed an ankle, nor 'could the most curious catch more thau a glimpse of that part of female anatomy. In dress, at least, the Mormon women are modest and severe. But for the men what shall I sav? Thev came, totally indifferent to personal ap pearance. A goodly portion were in work ing clothes, many were in their shirt sleeves, few had dressed their hair, scarce ly one had put on a clean shirt, scores wore no collars, and uot a few were filthily dir ty, while th'e women cn masse were clean, heat and tidy; not a few being tastefully arrayedj.in white. The dancing w as about four parts of quadrilles to one part of round dances. In the cotillions no man's arm en circled a woman's waist. In wahzing there was no hugging. All the dancing was hard work; the women rolled into it till their faces w ere purple; the men danced as if doing it for dear life; not a bit-of minc ing about it; ah, no! the way tlure racked heels, sprung into the air, pirotiqnetted and broke-down, would have sent Billy Etmr- son and his like mad with envy. I was introduced to three ladies of like na hie, and, like a blundering Gentile, took them for sisters or some such, when they were only wives of one man; I looked with sub lime admiration upon one woman who had eleven husbands by aid of the Mormon di vorce code; I put my foot into it up to the hip in comparing two ladies, in conversa tion with a man, who quietly closed the audience by remarking they were both his wives. I made np wy minl to dance a Mormon quadrille; but discovered it requir ed the ear of experience to their calling, the feet of the Chamois, the strength of Hercules, the agility of Mercury, and the bottom of Pegasus, r I left in disgrace after mixing a set np terribly by my blunders, and after, from lack of speed and wind, spoiling the fuu of six Mormons and one Gentile for that dance. - t A French officer, w ho fought in the Cri mea, related how an English battalion of infantry destroyed two Russian regiments. The Russians fired incessantly and did not lose a foot of ground; but they w ere exeit ed and aimed badly. On the contrary, the English infantry avoided undue haste, took steady aim, and missed scarcely a single shot. The human being is ten times strong er when his pulse continues calm, and when Lis judgment remains free. ,X False Adage. When poverty in ters the door, love(t) goes out at the wLvhr.r. A strange story A detachment of is reported from Spain Alfousist soldiers recently discovered in a secluded part of a mountain chain a cav ern w hich was inhabited by robbers, who had taken advantage of the civil war in order to ply their criminal avocation. An alcove was attached to this subterraneous dwelling, the door of which the soldiers broke open. They were astonished to find the apartment deceutly furnished, and provided with books, flowers, and even a piano. In an easy chair sat a venerable old man. The soldiers interrogated' him, but obtained only incoherent replies. It has since been ascertained, from the confes sion ofonj)f the robbers, that the old man wag the cashier of a banking firru at liur- gos: that they had broken into the bank, stolen the safe, and taken the cashier with them, in hopes that ho would assist them to open the safe. During their retreat, which was marked by many adventures, the intrepid old man succeeded in evading the vigilance of his guardiaus for a short time, secreting the safe in a place where he would be able to recover it afterwards When the booty was missed, and the rob bers failed to induce the cashier to reveal the place where it was concealed, they re vived the proceedings cf the famous "chauf feurs" bv roasting the feet of their victim in order to extort a confession. But the inflicted tortures had a different effect. The man went deranged; and it was with the object of restoring him to reason that the robbers bestowed the utmost attention on him, in hopes that when ho recovered his reason ho would reveal to tliem the place where the safe was concealed. Female Life in Havaxa. Gre scarcity of women at Havana. There are at least three times more males than fe males. Hardly any other women than ne groes are to be seen about. Ladies with out anv pretensions to youth and beauty would sooner die than venture out unpro tected.' eveu for their' earl v mass: and so uncommon is tue sigut ot decent women . t - . i ' N unattended in the streets that foreign la dies, unacquainted w ith the custom, and sauntering from shop to shop, become the objects of a curiosity frequently degenerat ing into impertinence. The cause of this is that,' besides the priestsawl soldiers and sailors, the crowds of Spanish immigrants are attracted there by the high wages, and do uot of course take their families. .A rnong tho upper class an exclusive male society is cultivated. The charms of cafe and club life, such charms as they are, wean the Havana husbands from homes w here real feminine accomplishments are as unknown as hearth-rugs and fire irons. The Golden Rule. A few days ago a gentleman of New York city, savs the Tribune, received by mail a cheek for five hundred dollars, lie deposited it in his bank, and went down into the street, there to be met by a rumor that sent him back in haste. Just twenty-five minutes had e lapsed. The teller's little door was shut. The money Was gone. Had it been, sto- !en? jWas tho banker a swindler! Xo, he had failed. . About tho same time a merchant receiv ed a large quantity of goods one day near the close of business hours. He made some commonplace excuse for not making immediate payment, and promised to send a check the next morning. The first an- nouncement of the morning was that he had failed and was a bankrupt. lie had the goods, but the real owner was with out his check. Was the merchant a thief! Oujht he to have gone to jail? Not at all. He had only suspended. He was unable to meet his obligations. Two young men were recently brought into one of our police courts ou a charge of stealing shoes from a store. They wore decent in appearance, and it was belie v'd by some that they had been driven to crime bv want. Had thev failed, or had thev suspended? Or was it because they were unable to meet their obligations? Not at all. They were thieves common thieves very common thieves. They were sent to the penitentiary for two months. A Sharp Legislator. A member of the last Ohio Assembly did this: He bar gained fo,r board at tho United States Ho tel at Columbus, and arranged that he was to pay fifty cents a meal, and, .whenever he was absent a meal, he was to be credit ed with that amount. He then hunted up some cousin in the vicinity, an old school mate, a man who had once courted his (the member's) wife, and several other relations, aud sponged his living olFthem the larger part of tho session. When he settled up with the hotel the day of adjournment, the landlord was astonished to find that he owed Lis' boarder S75, the amount credited him for absence at meals, over that charg ed for presence at meals. It was a cst ern Reserve man did it. Correspondence. tFOK TIIB GAZETTE. MISISCEN'CES OF EUROPEAN TRAVEL; Messus. Editors: The soil of Tusca ny is" more or less clay, which I was sur prised to see, for I thought that it was al luvial. Being clay, it produces wheat, rye, barley and buckwheat; and, of the veg etables, cabbages (much larger thau any I have ever seea in this country), artichokes. i turnips (small one-), cauliflower (very flue), ana all other vegetables that we have in the Southern States except ochra, cucum bers, tomatoes and egg-plant?. Years a- ro, wime ou a visit to' -Saratoga, a lady from Savannah, Ga., who sometimes spent her winters in Edinburgh, Scotland, told lnle ou a visit to Saratoga, a lady t told me that cucum tiers, were very scarce in Scotland, and that in buying them the purr rhwr fthsys chose these that were larg A Carlist Stoky. est and so old that thev were vellow. 1 soon saw, after my arrival in France, why this was tho case, for tho only way in which the people used them was to make picklea and to fry them. I never saw anv cucum bers anv where on the Contineut but in France. Two other vegetables the green pepper and vegetable-egg are rarely ev er seen anywhere in Europe except Paris. The sweet potato is brought iroin Aincn. It is a curious thing to a stranger to see the way in which the" Italian prepares his fertilizer: he has a vat built of brick, teu, twenty or thirty feet square according to his need and lined with mortar. Into this vat the crude, fresh article is put, and water poured upon it todissolve.it. Board are then placed over the vat, to prevent, if possible, -" the ammonia from escaping. When the manure is well dissolved, the farmer, with buckets having very long han dles, dips it out and scatters it broad-cast over his land, which produces vegetables that I have never seen equalled anywhere in America. In Italy, as in Germany, no .person is allowed to turn out his cattle and other stock to destroy Lis neighbors farm. (When will the people of the South learn to be like the rest of the world in this re spect?) But it seems to me that this is an unnecessary precaution in Italy, for it is about the only couutry w here I saw sub stantial stone fences, which remind one very much of those to be seen in Western North "Carolina. There are in Italy many little farms embraced in one iuclosjure. I took great pleasure in passing.throngh the markets in Florence, early in the morn ing, aid asking questions. The principal market street in New Town is narrow and crooked, and the houses tire small and "g ly7: There is no market-ho use, and the venders have no other protection than lit tle shelters built in frout of the houses, and which answer for what the Down Easter calls a "stoop," but which the rest of the world calls a "piazza." In this market id to be found all the fine vegetables spokeu of above. The beef is not as rino as that found in the New York market, but it is good; pork is seldom seen, and the mutton is poor. The mutton is injured very much on account of the butcher not skinning it immediately after it is butchered: instead of this, irsperson buys a quarter in mark et, it is skinned on the spot, and the re maining quarters arc left in the hide. With all their care, the w ool will touch the mut ton, which makes even the flesh of the larnb taste as strong a io oldest sheep. Thd chickens are uot so Irue as those we havo in our markets, but are)oor, .and many of them are of a bluish cohfr. . It is tho cus tom in France and Italy foithe restaurants to expose in their show windows whatever they intend, to have served doling that day. j In looking in at these wTudow s,.m Florence, I "noticed that the chicken look ed plump and altogether differentfrom what they did in market, but I also notic ed that they had a nrmsed appearance which I mistrusted, and, sure enough ear ly one morning, I saw the keeper of one of these restaurants take a round stick which he" kept concealed tinder a towel, and beat down the hips and breast bone of a chicken, w hich gave it a fat, plump ap pearance. This was a droll trick in trade. All through the market there are plates of chicken livers ami other giblets, w hich are sold at high prices; and also plates of chick- en combs, that are sold at high prices to make pies. The -comb pies I did not in dulge in, ft;r I thought 1 could very easi ly pass them by, as I had indulged in but termilk soup, -sausages out of lights, and other dainties, in Germany. But (to change the snbjeet;very abrnpt ly) I had liked to have forgotten to tell yon that Harriet Beecher Stowe sister of the renowned Beecher who has been figur ing so gallantly in onr civil courts was in Florence for onlyr a day or two. She was too keen for the beggars and other poor creatures in distress, for shs went out in a rather close carriage, and only passed through the fashionable streets, where she cpuld not be shocked at the sights of,. wretchedness, and the horses went at full' . speed, in order that beggars might have no opportunity to test her liberality. v But I lived in hopes that the condition of tho wretched Italians would bring forthja sec ond "Uncle" Tom's Cabin," and l even entertained this hope after my arrival in Paris, and. the great attempt was made on the life of Napoleon III, when three per sons vera killed and sixty odd wounded. The day before tho execution of Perry and Osini, Napoleon received a lettei from them, in which they begged his forgiveness, and at the sametime implored him to free their dear country from the German yoke. Al though he and the Empress had had such a' narrow escape, it was said that as he lead the letter ho wept and vowe1 that Italy should be free, aud iu twelve months Italv was free. But what of Beechor's sister all this time! Why, she was as dumb as an oys ter: and simply because the Italians wero not black ! - Now, lis I am about to take my leave of Italy, that I may not be accused of preju dice in giving my .opinion - of the Italians, I will quote from one of many authors (ami that one a German) on the 'subject. Af ter many compliments on these people rel ative to the arts and sciences, language and society, he Bays: "Here the arts and . sciences first revived, and here commenced the regeneration of Europe. The most cel ebrated names in Italian literatnre and art are of Florentine origin. Refinement, genif us and taste rendered the age of Lorenzo tie Medici one of the most brilliant in his tory, and took root so deeply as to be still conspicuous in the city w here , lie ruled. The language of even the lower people is pure and graceful, and full of delicacy and expression. (Generally speaking, the peo-. pie are lively, polite, social, devout, and," " like others, fond of the theatre, but in in dustry and dexterity surpassing the tnci; Af thr.m VoV'AGEDIi. 1'i II1VU
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