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tljwi «axla« buck »nfi loiurlt>7 mod,
_A l <**• T 1 * ■ ,4 'l> **oJdrr;
• nd 1 •!*«♦<* *»*« niwrn
Jiut over uiy ngt,f a tint infer.
I tinted abotil, and bade brr look-
*• TO 5 01 •"prratuiona-
w • Joked about that alilalofl look.
Uriah! bait, and ak «,K„V
jjj°k*d».hot, oh | I thought with rrao,
i right 1
And Uka tha r
And laaro III.
f*Vi.r« n Unman a
„ ''J** 1 tifokan mot,..
‘ h boraa bright how-, t
'* If hi ahn
and lonitly.
n moona," 1 told bar l
- *>rlfht how-, too, aaah moon,
Wlian otw my Hf hi ahonldfr.
M AlMl to trnat la aaoh oaw light,
A man ware nwonutruok auraly.
A l®"?* 1 /'latifhad on (right;
And than walkad onifeonirHy.
* B 2 , _* ■ p, * Nl ' n,oon b'wlda.
_ Tha old round out tha naw own
;*Mrbt, " Would ho)>a fulfill,,I ■i>l<fe,
Bjilia avary change,
Whal would aha aayf
And took bar band u
"Ah, lor* I” aha nlghM,
aho aay f M —I aakad li
LAFATErrK'S WATCII.
nma- llai lcTrnrWIiiK
r Malt a Cant Mr r.
Waahlufftou Oor, V. V. oiobr.
Many men hive tho foible of running
flrecl li enn lo rarth. Homo aro Jiihaoc
onpoataffo Ntacopa, Homo go for ol.l
, Qeorgo flelwyo wiw not liaiinv
18)«aa ko wilnoaaod overy oieouUon tliat
took plaoo. Your oorroopondont , ii foil
ing la to play imatour iloUwllvo. In
oonaoooonoo I bavo to rolalo tbo aiugti-
lar aovontnroo -thick follow, all of
whlok fbarring aomo fow okangoa of
“£• n»'«t loaallt,) » r0 alrlotlj tnVo.
lHtkJono laat, my voiigr-
laiW . d, i P no r < "'p Of Muaaokn
»tU. tatrodnood nlo tbo konao of rep-
rawnUtirca a joint roaolnllon fnuonl-
4h« »PI*>P r lallng KHHI for
}i'®,r r 5 h “° roaloratloo lo Uio
t '* M * r 1 nl " <<« la-fa.rotto of
tto watoh proaonloil to bim l.y Oonoral
Waaklngton. and loot by Oonoral I. if ay-
•tto during Ida laat rialtto tklaoounlry.
In oonneotion with tbo roaolnllon waa a
atatomenl that tbo watoh waa in ponnoe-
aion of John It. Ward, Ban., of Triad,
who had purchased it four years ago at
* pawnbroker a aalo in Lnuisvillo for
theaurnof $75 It bears tho inner Ip.
tion, O Washington to Gilbert Mot-
tiara do Lafayette, Lord Cornwallis’
S5£. J. *orkiown, October, J7,
1781. Tbo watoh ia of tbo shape known
a* bull a eye,” wliiob was tbo fashion*
•bio ono at that period, and in heavily
double*cased with gold of high purity*.
Tha exterior id ornamented with oliuisin
derioc*. in high relief; an armed and
1) el motetl warrior presents a crown to a
throned fomalo. The watch bears tho
I'™"*** roftkr,r * “ E * Halifax, Lon
don, 1700. “ According to the state
ment of General lingers, of Tennessee,
who waa oommnudor of tho body guard
of General Lafnyotto during his visit to
Nashville in 1B28, this watch wnsnlolon
from its owne r at that tlmo and its fate
waa unknown, although a large reward
waa offered for ita roturu, until it turned
up in tho way above described." This
statement was vouched for by Gongress-
msu Horace Maynard as being bistort*
colly true ; tbo gcnuiuenoaa of tbo relic
waa vouched for by treasury experts,
tho only doubt being created by the i n .
oorrrot spelling of Lafayette's pntro-
nymie " Motior"—doubt qniokly dis
pelled by Mom. O. P. Hoar and Gar
Hold, who said that Washington's ortho
graphy waa none of the best, and that
even Ben. Franklin used to spoil soap
“•opo."
I no sooner read the aooonnt of this
in the Congressional Record t han I was
aeleed with an irrosistiblo desire to dis
cover tha history of tlie watoh from the
timo it was stolen, fully persuaded that
qntto a roronnoo awaited me. After the
adjournment of congress I proceeded to
aoooompHah my purposo, Tho first
thing to do was to got temporary pos
session cf tho watch, which was in
the oustody of tho state department.
I found that it wonld require mo to get
through moro rod tape than I could nn
tangle in a year to roach it by regular
approkohea; and, ns I only wanted it
for a week, 4 determined to out the
Gordian knot. But it is a secret loo
dead to reveal oven to tho world how,
by au ingenious combination of Imgger
mugger, "influence," and trick, I at
last found tho venerable jewel in mv
bands. Venerablo, indeed ! It hail
rested in O. W.’s fob, ovor bin epigas
trium, In t hose sulphur-colored brooches
with all liis beloved seals dangling be
low it. It bad been preserved by La*
fayotto through all the trials and perils
of the Freuoli revolution. Even lhe
jailers of Olmntr. had aparod It—to he
oabbaged at lost bv a vulgar Nashville
thief! But waa it taken by any vulgar
thief? I was determined to aoitlo that
question at onoo.
But how? Tennessee had risen in 1825
in pursuit of the saorilegioua thief ami
failed to natch him. Howards had been
lavishly offered—all in rain. What could
au amateur detective do fifty years later?
It was easy to flud John B. Ward. Esq
of Texas ; and through him, tbo Tjouis-
ville pawnbroker; but bow much nearer
would that bring me to the thief of two
generations buck ? Not n atop. 1 knew
an old German witard in Baltimore with
a remarkably happy knack of revealing
the hiding-places of stolen goods for n
consideration. But here the goods were
in hand, and it was tbo thief 1 wanted ;
and it is part of the business of Undent*
of stolen goods to'give immunity to
thieves— an>» share tbo swag with them.
In short, tbo bnsinesn
three indicated (but vory faintly) a
slender faculty of thought-reading, by
aocming to anticipate in ontlinosomn of
my own haay conjectures in regard to
the theft, lint, beyond theso things,
and an oraonlar solemnity and infinity
of assurance common to all tho trade,
nono of them wont: and. after full trial,
I gave tip tho medium business in dis
gust. returned tbo watoh to t!)0 depart
ment, and sought another way of on-
tranoo into the aoorot.
I wrote to Mr. John R. Ward, of
Texas, for information in regard to the
pawnbroker at whose aalo ho had bought
the relie, and, pending tbo receipt of
tills, paid a brief visit to Nashville, and
examined tbo reoords, nownpaper files,
etc., contemporary with tho event. I
found a good many of the circumstances
sot forth in the proclamation of tho
mayor of Nanhville. offering a reward
for tho rooovory of the watch. G.*n.
Rogers, who oommanded the body
guard during tbo stay of tbo marquis,
was long dead, bat I looked into tbo
reoords to asoertain if there were not
so.xo survivois still of tbo rauk and
file. Tho watch had boon stolen from
Lafayette’s room at the United Htates
hotel at night, Tbo marquis hail re
turned from a visit to tho Hcrmitago to
attend a ball and renentinn given him
bv I bo oitieeus of Nashville, Late at
night ho had gone to bod, vory sleepy
and fatigued. His valot, Pouobon, who
undrosaed him, remembered distinctly
winding tho watch up and placing it in
a oaso inside the lid of one of tho* mar-
|tiis trnnka. In tbo morning, or rather
about n(Min, when tho marquis ro«o. the
watch wan gone. Ono window of the
room was partly open, anil it was c
Jeotnred that tho thief, who had hi
secreted either under tbo bod or in a
closet, had osoapod by that way. II
seemed certain that ho could not have
gone out by tbo oorrl ’or, for, besides
the foot that tho valet, Pottohon, slept
in the anto-room, thoro was a company
of tho guard of honor on duty at the
hotel that night and a platoon watching
the door of tho tnarquin' bodroorn all
night to protect him from nil inti union.
A Nashville paper of the mxt day,
speaking of the oiroumatanooa, nays :
Of course, when it ia known that
company of tho gunrd on duty last
night is composed of our first oitir.e
men of birth, fortune, ami honor,
suspicion can possibly Attach to them,
1 wo flies of the oompnny were on guard
all night in room 79, opposite tbo state
bod roorn, with their door open. Tin
worn never less than three of these gi
tleinnn doing sentiv duty at any tit
“jrljjf Hio night. We give tho names
of all of them, in Justine to tho entire
guard of honor, against whoso integrity
thoro liavo boon some ridiculous whis
pers. But theso must Ikj instantly dis
pelled when wo soy that these two flies
of men, who alone oould hove had
ooss to our venerated guest's room, that
night consisted of Col. Marlin Killin
ger, tho well-known Btone river planter,
who was sergeant on duty; Benjamin
Flornoy, Esq,, of the Columbia bar,
corporal of the guard ; Rnfns Garland,
of Ht, Mark's (Jimroll • Peter Maynard
(of River street), Hon. Phillip Sargent,
Judge Chandler, Chester H. Clarke,
AqnTIla Flint. Hpatohford Davis. Abner
Y. Orutohfiold, Joseph Moutunnri, Bush
rod Kennedy, Johannes Klein, John
Horn, jr., and Hynointho La Grosso,
privates. Huoh gentlemen are worthy
to ho a guard of honor oyon for tho von-
rrablo Miuquis do Lafayette, wlio, wi»
may soy incidentally, regrots as tnwoli
tho disgrace of Nashville ns the loss of
his treasured keepsake."
Of tlie fifteen persons enumerated, I
found thoro was not a single survivor,
and, though I heard a good many in
teresting aneodotes concerning nil of
them. 1 oould learn nothing (hat would
justify mo in directing particular in
quires into tho history of any
thorn,
Mr. Ward, of Texas, oourtoou
sworing my letter, anld ho oor
tell me tho pawnbroker's name from
ivluwo effects ho had bought tho watch ;
but tho auctioneers who ooudnotod the
sale were Benjamin W. Reynolds. Coo-
ley k Go., from whom I oould doubtless
obtain all tbo information neeesaary. I
posted at onoo to Yjouisville, ami saw
Messrs. Reynolds. They informed me
that tho sale tn qucation hail been made
by order of Isaac B tamp fly, a pawn
broker of Momiihis, to whom fbov gave
me a lotter. I went to Memphis and
sawntampflv, a Swiss Jew, with a shrewd
hut honest face. Ho ohji-otod at. first to
giving me any information, fearing It
might make oomplleations aud trouble,
but, when I explained my motives and
pressed him, said lie remembered tlie
transaction puifeotly woll, amt corro
borated it by taking down an old ledger
aud opening to a partieular page, where
bn showed mo the following entry :
“Juno 18, 1808,—Miss Matilda Gar
land, of Jackson, Madison oounty, do-
|W8ita a watch (here follows a dsHorip-
tion, ota, of the relic); $35 lent her on
it for six months. Memorandum—As
there are suspicious circumstances here
she gives me Rev. Mark Tweedy, 1>. I).,
and Major Bigleo as hor reforenoen I
Teaches school iu Jackson, aud want
vory little more than pay onr house-rent.
Wo sold off onr books and furniture
piooo by piooe, and I assure you wo wero
ns poor an pw pi© oould woll bo, to live.
At last, in 1808, wo liAd nothing left
bosidca tho school room furniture, two
ohairs, ono bed, and that secretary
there, which mamma would not part
with booms© it was papa's and bad
been grandpa's.
“ At laat, when wo wore half starved,
I persuaded hor to soli tho secrotary.
too, and I waa cleaning out tho old
papers from tho drawers, and brushing
tho dust and oobwebs out preparatory
to sending it to tbo auction room, when
this little soring hero," (sho had gone
to tho dusk to show me) “flow back,
thns opening this drawer and disclosing
tho old watch snugly nestled away
iijKin tho ootton ! I pounced upon ft
as a treasure sent from heaven, and
next day took it to Memphis and pawned
it to old Htampfly. The money gave ns
a little start, the school improved, aomo
money oamo in from other souroes, and
wo got along very well afterwards, until
Paul hero carao after mo and insisted
that I was not intended for a teacher.
An ogrogiona insult I"
“ But how did your grandfather oome
by tho watch, do you suppose?" I asked.
“ Was there nothing with it to show ?"
“ Nothing I Till yon told mo the
• note just now, I always imaginod*it was
a present. But bo sure thoro is nothing
criminal in grandpa’s oonnootion with
“ It i« possible," said Mr. Do Ijong,
“that Mr. Garland may have intended
to explain. Ho died very suddenly, of
an apoplexy."
“ Maybe bo did explain, and con
cealed liis statement, just as ho did the
watoh,” I said.
“ No." answered Mrs. Do Long, “after
I found tho watch I senrohed closely for
other secret drawers. Thorn aro none."
“ Let rno examine tbo secretary," I
suggtsted ; and I carefully and syste
matically inspected tho antiquated piece
of furniture.
Almost immediately I called attention
to tho fact thnt tho socrot drawer, in
which tho wulnli had been concealed,
had a false bottom, and this being easily
removed, wo found within a draft for
£150 on a London banking-house drawn
in favor of Ilufus Garland and—the bis
tory’of tbo stolen watch in Itev. Dr. Gar
land’s handwriting:
“ Nahiivxlt.b, Deo. 18, 1840.—This
linn been a vory sad day to me. This
forenoon came to me my old friend and
comrade, Benjamin Plnmoy. of Colum
bia, in great, distress of mind, and asked
me to look tbo doors and bear him make
a disgraceful confession. Then be laid
before my nstoninhed eyes the long
missing watch of Lafayette, the loss of
which oausod such exoitomont. ' I stole
It/ ho said : 4 1 stole it, Rufus and
hid his face from me, and wept soalding
tears. Presently, when I had comforted
him, and ho grew more oalm, he said :
4 The dootor tolls mo I hnvn not long to
live ; my heart is diseased. I desire
you te make restitution for mo. Hero
in all tho money neodod—tuko the so-
cursed wedge of Aohan from iny sight
—it Iiah tortured my whole life—restore
it to tho heirs—without exposing
have hod misery enough.’ And
ho bowed bln white head—that bead
honored—and wept. 4 How did this
happen, Benjamin ?’ I asked. Maid
ho: 4 That night, you remember, we
wero nil upon gunrd. You and tho rest
asleep, but Hpatoh Davis, L»
guard for a spell
again
now V" I asked. Htampfly wout to bis
desk and found a card. “ Hero sho iH ;
'Mrs. Paul Do Long, Grenada, Miss.’
Hho waa here not three months since on
a bridal tour. Como to redeem the
watch. Was much distressed that it
was sold. Asked me to hunt it up, ami
left that address in ease I should make
any discoveries concerning it."
I took the ours to Grenada, and had
uo trouble in flmllog Do Long, a young
and enterprising merchant. I obtained
very oom- J Rn introduction to bim and asked bim,
plicated, yet, an I promised to deal with !' 1h ? m,r wif « not a daughter of the
it, as pimple as oould be. In short, 1 | Bov. Rufus Garland, who was rector of
was persuaded that by resorting to the 1 Mark's church in Nashville about
processes of modern thnumaturgv, i • tho year 1825?" • 4 No," said ho ; "she
oould easily make n dark way plain. | » graud-dsughter." "Have you anv
Omne fanotum pro mtryien. I had ; objections tn my asking her a few ques*-
nover dealt in person with olairvovnnts. i Bona?" "None in tho world," ho said
tbo spiritistn, the mediums, but 1 bad I had explained briefly mv object’
read much of their wonders, and I wan ' “and 1 do not doubt but mv wife will
prepared to believe that all I had to do ! *>o glad to assist you iu anv way Uwt in
wsa to oonsult a genuine ola’rvoyant | h* her power,"
medium in a state of ©entasis to get a 1 found Mrs. Do Long u very charm-
dear and graphic retrovision over all ' "iR lady, with n handsome faoe and
the evonte whfoli I waa stroking te bring winning manners, frank, ingenuous
tonight, It was for this end th:.t 1 1 pleasing. As soon as t began to sneak
obtained temporary posseMion «f the the watoli she burst out: "Oh, have
w ^ ... ton found it ? I should so like to got it
HOW began a bootless perquisition I back again 1 I have heard recently that
among the 44 teat” mod (tuna, aa they call grandpa waa one of Lafayette's body
themselves, probably on the principle j guard, and probably he gave it to him.
of htcu4 a non tuomrto, because they R bihuus like sacrilege to part with snob
will not bear testing. Mr. Gregory, iii « relio, but we were no poor I oould not
his credulous book on "Animal Hague- think so; and then the uisoovei v seemed
tism,” relates that a ring was given to *o providential." I gave her hu account
one Alexis, a medium of this sort, when I of the rroent adventure of the watoh
he at onoe identified it as having be- aud added, "but probably von were
longed to Mary Queen of Boot* (whose j not swan* that it was stolen*from La-
Watery the medium won totally ignorant fa.rettc ?" 44 Stolen 1" sho cried, turning
of), and os having been given to Riezio, pula «*t the thought; "but how then did
whose murder was graphically describ- it oome into grandpa's posaession—aud
ed. This was precisely the sort of me- why did be retaiu it ?" " That remaiua
dium I was iu search of, but have not to be cxplaiued," said I, rather gravel v
fal fnniwl Tltla n-.a ma) /...I, ' .....I T ...» ) — It... • .. * *
Grosso and I
f two hours. We had all boon drink
ing heavily—poor Hpatoh and Hyacinth**
fell asleep on their post, and Iho devil
was in me. I wanted something that
liolonged to the marquis. I slolo into
his room, past old I’otiohon, who was
altering. H j tired and worn out the old
nmrquiH looked I I opened the trunk,
seeking a ribbon, a handkorohlof, or the
like. The first thing I saw was tlx*
wa'cli, and without thinking, I put it in
m.Y pocket, raised tho window gently,
nml crept like a thief as I was from tlx*
room. As 1 crossed the threshold I
heard tho old nmrquiH call out in his
sleep : 4 Arretez vows, monsieur I No
blesse oblige !' Htung to the quick I
turned lmok to restore tho watch, but
just then Pouobon roused, and I escap
ed. I have never known a Imppy min
ute since.' My poor friend ! I Oould
look in his haggard fooo, and believe
him. I told him, however, that 1 could
iiBeut to deal with this matter in
lentine way. There need bo no
imhlioity about it, bet iu oommuniivit-
ing with the marquis’ boirs I mu d give
his name and tlx* circumstances. 1I«
il and begged mo to defer the
disclosure until after his death. 4 It
will nut be long,’ he said, pathot-
ioally. To this 1 assented, and so lx*
left, after 1 Imd earnestly enjoined him
k comfort and peace of mind by
prostrating himself at tbo foot of that
throno where mercy, peace, oom fort are
refused to tho contrite and bum
ble petitioner. I have drawn this state-
up only as a guide for my heirs in
if my death happening boforo that
| of Flurnoy's."
| “ Dootor Garland died just ono week
boforo Major Flurnoy," said Mr. Do
Long, "and that explains all tee oonfu-
siou al>ont this matter."
Mrs. DeLong snul nothing, but wept
sympathetically.
“This dead draft must bo transmitted
to Major Flurnoy's heirs," added Do
Long.
How to Keep Snoot Potatoes.
Many people who have no potatoes
during tlx* winter, would have them if
they only knew how to keep them. They
have tried and failed, become disgtv ted
and abandoned the effort. A successful
potato-raiser and potato-keeper gave us
the following plan tho other day. It is
simple, inexpensive and, ho save, effec
tual :
Dig early in tlie morning and cont inue
until as many have been ting as can be
put away before night. Allow them to
dry iu the sun during the day. provided
the sun is not hot enough to burn them,
which very rarely is the ease at potato
digging time ; than, on a piece of ground
so high thnt it will not become wot dur
ing the wiuter, lny a thick coat of pine
or other dry straw and build a bank of
fifty or sixty bushels. Cover the bank
with seven or eight inches of straw aud
'at" for two or tlyo
ROYAL WRITlffOM.
Documentary’ Tribute* from Historical
44 Olivia" writes to tho Philadelphia
Pr* as from Washington : 44 Tho awful
arohives of tho government, which have
been banded down from the days of
Louis XVL te the present republican
dynjuity, aro being carefully laid out in
boxes aud bagH prior to their romoval
te tho grand mausoleum prepared for
thorn by the groat architect Mullett, of
publio building fafoe. A royal dust
ascends from tbo crumbling manuscripts
npon which kings, princes, and poten
tates have stamped tlioir haughty seals.
On a long, broad sheet of paper, tho
color of a dhty meerschaum, the ill-
fated husband of Mario Antoinette sign
ed bis naroo in a bold, ronnd, school
boy hand. Very procions to tho Amori-
can heart is this fast crnmbling bit of
nilkon tissue. Not because a royal band
has pressed it. It came to tho bare
footed boys of Volley Forgo, the first of
tbo great powers of the earth to recog
nize tbo ragged regimonta of the wilder
ness, accredit ing tho first foreign m nis-
tor te tho rennblic struggling for exist-
onoo in the far-off western world. Then
follow bis letters telling ns about tbo
births, marriages, and deaths in his own
family. Martyred Lonis G.ipet, whose
blood was necessary to oxpiato tho sins
of generations I This fast mouldering
paper will become a pinch of dost,; but
so long as kings and prinoes aro romom-
berod by tbo American poople, Louis
tho Sixteenth of Franoe will stand fore
most on the list. Tho head of Louis
has rolled fiom Iho block, and hero is a
paper signed by Hiezes, president of tho
national assembly. Only a fow words
—pass it by quickly, for the nyo has
caught sight of a paper signed by all
tbo members of tho so called committee
of publio safety. It bears tbo awful
autographs of Robespierre, Carnot, Ilu-
rero, aud all tho others. Tho faded ink
has a strong resemblance te the tracings
of blood. Is tho handwriting an index
of character? Robespierre writes in
flno cramped characters, bnt there is no
trembling of tho fingers that yielded
that pen. It in placed off to tho right
alono by itsolf, as if bin solitary nature
oolorod tho smallost actions of his life,
lo tho left, the clean open writing of
Carnot; and to judge from his signature
sir." exclaimed the indignant Brazilian
with great emphasis, 44 that little girl is
my wife, air." The captain oollapscd.
John Quincy Smith's Truo Love.
Monday afternoon a yonng man named
John Quincy Bmith. who works in a
carriage factory, called upon Jnstioo
Potter and asked his honor to appear
at a certain bonne on Macomb street at
a oertain hour that evening and weld
two fond hearts together. "Thocourt”
■•id he’d bo on time, and he was, but
ho found tho lover looking disconsolate
and tho bride's mother flushed and an-
oyed.
" Isn't this t
A Providential Man.—This title
now justly belongs to a physician who
has added te the list of medicines a new
remedy, which appears te include all
that is most valuable in the old pharma-
copmia, and Dot to inclnde any of the
drasbaoks with which so called specifics
of the faculty are ohargeable. The
providential man is Dr. Joseph Walker,
of California, whoso Vinegar Bitters
have achieved, in tho short apace of two
years, a degree of popularity never be
fore attained by any advertised prepara
tion in this country. Wo have too
much oonfldenco in tho shrewdness of
tho American people te suppose that
this sudden and surnasing celebrity ie
the outgrowth of a uelusion. Indeed,
wo have reason te know that it is found
ed on innumerable and woll authenti
cated cures of almost all tho bodily ills
that flesh is heir to. Not te tho leo^t
among the merits of the famous Tonic
and Restorative, is its entire freedom
from alcohol, as well as from all mineral
drugs. It is composed exclusively cf
rare vegetable extracts.
TriRItF
i»Io by all doalora.
Go lo lUveml*I« W»t«i
thing like leather shoe
Tiv tlmrr
through at the toes. Pc
MARKET REPORTS.
, WIO I tl * 1ft II «
, . :1 to judge fro—
ho must have been frank and fearless,
with u will moulded and tempered like
steel. In tho pictured flame of imagin
ation he stands superbly roynl as a man,
likoRaphael'sarUstiooreatiouHof Christ.
This is tbo handwriting of Burere. It is
flung upon tho paper with a lightning
da«h of the pen. It repr. scuts the high
est force below the infinite. Powoi ar
rogated aud subjugated from A'mighty
God. Blood I Blood I Blood I Stand
upon youi feet I In one sense you are
m the presence of Napoleon tho First.
This is a letter from tlie great emperor
—short, sharp, and direct to the point
uh one of his own musket balls. Instead
of writing bis nnino in the usual par
allel way, ho turns tho paper sideways
an 1 writes almost lengthwise tho one
single name "Napoleon," and his signa
ture is as hard to read as that of the Into
oj *'i»t «f Hi" «l>»™i i’„ B In that li
John W. Forney. Iho moat interesting Bonded •
tho place where I was te
come and unite two sympathetic souls?"
inquired Mr. Potter in an anxious voice,
thinking ho might havo made a mistake.
"Yon see, I’ll tell yon how it is,"
explained the old lady. 44 Betsy Jane’s
young and foolish, and she’s afraid some
ono will niHke fun of her if she gits
married I"
nis honor thonglit it was rather
straDge, and went off feeling about as
blue as tho lover felt. Wednesday „ uu.u.um ,.*«>
morning John Q'llnoy enUm.,1 J.mtio'o .nh . HH.VF.R TlWorrlilldr.n
alloy again te tell Mr. Potter that he
id oome up to tho house that even
ing, and that there wouldn't bo any
baoking out again.
"It’s dead auro, is it?" asked his
honor.
You can bet on it," replied John
Quincy—" bet a hundred te one."
His honor wns on hand again at tlie
appointed hour, and ho found tho lover
and the mother looking al>out as sad aa
before. Tho giil herself was oonoealed
behind the door, aud as soon an Potter
entered tho mother polled the door j hav--
baek so as to expose tho hider and ex- Sjttni
claimed;
" Now, then, judge, look ot her—look
at tho big booby, and see what a fool
'in is making of lieraelf 1"
Tho girl made a ak p and jumped
under the centre table, and from thence
shouted back :
4 1 liain't any moro of a fool than yon
i, and yon know it I"
‘Then why don’t you come out and
git married ?" aakod the parent.
“I)o you h'boho I want to bo rondo
fun of I" squeaked the daughter.
After awhile tho justice put in iiik
voice, telling the girl that it was tho lot
of woman to marry; tha* slic’d live a
happy life, and that it wouldn't take
two minutes to tie tho knot.
Betsy Jauo I " called tho
HAOON—<7i«*r I
WHXSXT—Onu
CAUTION.
On account of tbo popularity of the Wheeler
«fc Wil-on Hewing Machines, parties hare
largely been ongaged in purchasing old and
eeconil hand machines of that tnako, and im
posed upon tho publio by selling them as new
machinea. Tbo Wheeler A Wilson Company
tegs lo advise the | ublic that any ono desiring
to buy their second-hand machines c*n be
supplied by that Company direct, on bettor
terms than others can afford them, ami bo ae-
snrod of what they aio buying. Addrots
WHRELKH A WILSON MT'G CO..
CM broad say. New York.
DON’T BUY
Dr. 4. Walker’s California Yiu-
epar Hitters arn a purely Vegetable
prepara, ion, nindo chiefly from tho na
tive herbs found oil the lower ranges ot
tlie Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor
nio, the medicinal properties of which
racted therefrom without tlio
quest!
ost
lit
AND LOW RESERVOIR
ism
rs his health. Tl
1 purifier and a life
i perfect Renovator
t' tho system. Novi
Tht* properties of Dr. Walker's
i lovo I" pleaded John
mothc
“O imo, my owi
Quincy.
“Oome, my dear girl I” ad led the
justice, raising tho table-spread and ex
tending his band.
“ Oh, go awuy I" she sobbed, hands
over her face, “go awuy ami leave mo
hero to die I I can’t bear to think of
gittin’ jined and leavin’ mother I"
T.ioy coaxed ami pleaded ami scold-
<m1, but Betsy Jane was firm, and she
was still resting under tho table when
his honor left. John Quincy put on Ida
hut and walked down the stre t a piece,
•nil when Potter remarked that he
1 there wouldn't bo any mariy-
io tho young
Aj we have liOOOU REASONS why thty will
do yonr work
QUICK and EASY,
CHEAP and CLEAN.
jljThry ore Chfapwl to boy.
*"■ They nrr beat lo Die.
(f) rbejr iiDKf evenly and qniekly.
D fheir operation it perfect.
Tliry always have a good draft.
< fhry are made of the beat material
They road perfectly.
O TIiey require but little fuel.
They arr very low priced,
jjjlhry are rnily mnnaud.
The art suited U* all lorallUet.
LU Kvrry M<>' e nuarnnteed lo give lutivfac o pi Ala ha:
Sold by Excelsior Manufg Co
HT. LOUIS, r~
No Person ran fake the
according to directions, and t
unwell, provided their bones'
stroyea by mineral poison
e Hitters
‘main long
iro not do
or other
'(1 beyond
Hi lions. Heinllfenl and Infer*
infttent lovers, which aro so preva
lent in tho valleys of onr groat river*
throughout tho United States, especially
those of tho Mississippi, Ohio, M's^urf,
Illinois, Tennessee, Cumberland. Arkan-
llod, Colorado, Brazos. Rio Grando.
ie, Savannah, Ito-
Janies, and many others, with
list tributaries, throughout onr
wintry during tho Summer and
Tho
:1 olosc ^
iso of making a crop has
luood to a minimum. Wo
too largo a field nml travel
y acres to produce ten bales <
or a hundred bushels o
out too much for lal>or
tho result produced,
ighl
inedy must hr
otliods, labor saving iiuplc
yet found. This was not m.v fault aud I
either, for I have consulted all tho best sotious of
spiritistic »nd clairvoyant authorities iu M
this oily. Now York. Bjstou, aud Chi- an
eago. What I got wan mere emptiness, wife,
oouplod indeed with some apjwHrnuceof b
plausibility, such as might deceive n ‘t
oredulons or on inexpart person. All tory of the watch
the mediums gave me voluble descrip- connection with it."
1 her the aooonnt of the trail's-
f oougreaa in reference to it.
L*ng list cued very seriously,
L when 1 waa through, turutnl to Ins
w, Ti lie," said he, 44 regard-
'oqnoaoea we must see jus*ice
w olr. exactly the bis-
va you have any
done. Oil
but I
will," said Mrs. DeLong,
*ou must uot dream of such a thing
impeding grandpa ot wrongdoing.
tions of tho thief, which I took down
with great appearnuoo of earnestness
•nd satisfaction. The trouble was no
two descriptions tallied in any essential He .......
particular, and it was hardly posaibln lie died snddeulr
that this number of various individuals, ] jbmry and <to^k -all li
old aud young, male and female, rich to mv poor father, who
and poor, handsome and ugly, toll and Coin
short, fair and dark, hud conspired for who
the laroeuy of one poor watch. Some of j«n.
the clairvoyants vrho had rood the lo- aud poor mamma
days, takiug care to protect it agpfnst
ram. Then cover thoroughly with earth
sixteen <*r eighteen inches ihick, doing
work iu the cool af the morning,
re the sun baa warmed the earth or
the potatoes. Cover all over, excluding
all air. and shelter completely from
rain. The reason for ooveriug in the
cool of the morning is that the soil used
for covering is cool and will uot heat
the potatoes. And that the potatoes uot
being exposed to the sun are also cool,
aud being coolly covert d in this condi
tion will uot subsequently heat and rot,
having gone through a sweat before they
were eovored with earth. Our iuform-
aut told us that he had practiced tins
method for a number of years,
ways dag his potatoes when they *
fit, no matter how hot the weather,
had never lost a potato by nit. Ho ad
ded that all potato houses are humbugs.
—Aou/A* r;i fhrtncr.
better trained labor and loss of it.
Mow it Happened.
With that indescribable grace i
poetry of motion which only come
gentle birth, aristooratio training i
long familiarity with a yard-stick, hi
placed his eye glasses astride of his
nquilinn nose, twirled his cane nudtr
his nrm, tilted his bat to one side, amt
gracefully and lightly stepped right
out of tin* car. At first ho tried to
catch tho car by running after it back
ward. Then lx* sought to balance him
self on ouo foot, and tried to thtow his
hat over tho post offioe, while lx* hop
ped wildly down the grade. Then he
put both his foot upon h level with the 1 > I’
top of the departing car, broke his
oano and pounded tlu* firm, hard boul- *"
dors with his head and eye-glasses, and ,e * w
then ho tried to slido down the grade ' '
on his shoulder blades, with only par v
tial Bucoess, aud finally caught hold of SA
the track with his teeth and hands, to
keep himself from flvii g to pieces. The
four doctors who dressed the wounds of. Tf
tlu* young man whose back was full of
scrap iron and gravel, a d whoso claw. w ‘"'
hammer coat was split from tail to col 11*'’
lar, and covered with Vine-street mud *
and coal-tar, begged us uot te mention n*«i'.i
bis name, aud we won't.—Cincinna/f
Saturday Sight.
That Little Girl.
that «ver lived. J fro ^
1847, leaving his i iug the
Pa USB, rash youth, if you art* in the
habit of removing the postage stamp
your sweetheart's letter and p
.. -Jx© uuder side of the stamp to \ _
hau to leave— lnw under the rapturous delusion ‘that geu’ti
tlx* honeyed labials gave it adln siou to
*‘ elope—oh, pause, for Wbliams,
rristowu Herald, det-cted, ,q
The jovial captain of one of the
steamships now i u port tells a good
lativeto the May and December
I nl- : wsrrisgea so common in Brazil. A
ro ! Hrazilian geutlomau, sppa
i i fifty years of age, was a r
! tlu* vessel. He was aeoo
two gills, one about fifteen
younger. The gentlema:
sick in the cabin aud the girls were on
deck, whereupon the captain tried to
amuse them, took them on hia knees
and told thorn stories, while lie enjoyed
communication of the group ia win
announces his marriage with tho Arch-
duchess Mario Lonl-o of Austria. How
hard In* boars on tho pen, ami when ho
finishes ho nukes a stroko underneath
his name, ns though tho instrument in
Ids hand had sudden'y become a sword.
Now follows tho nows of tho birth of
tlx* king of Romo. This ia done after 1
tho form of all such royal Announce- 1>r ! >
monts. This autograph loses the fierce- j
ness of its predecessor. It seems to say „fii
* 1 ksvo a successor now ; there is noth- aim
ing moro to bo desired.' And boro is 10,1
one from tho kingly Joromo, otherwise
known as tho American Bonaparte. He
writes to us. but inukes not tho slightest
allusion to the beautiful M ns Patterson'; In ill
of Baltimore, no nays bo has asoeuded j —... ~
tho throne of Westphalia, and lie wants «! rt | V l " airkm i-H wIdiom charKo
Ids good friends iu the distant republic i ""mlGi
to know it."
Why Karmera are so Poor.
It is believed that soven-tentlis of the
planters and fanners of this oountrv,
north and south alike,“aro staggering
to tlioir fall under a load of debt mid
mortgage. What is tlx* matter ? Asa
clans, farmers aro not lazy. They are
seldom idle. They work as hard asanv-
body ought te wot k. They make, luk
ing ono yonr with another, wha. may bn
Considered, uuder tlx* present standard
of agriculture, fair otoimi, and they get,
as a rule, good prices for their surplus
products they put into tho market; still
they don't get rich—In fact, are pi tting
poorer and poorer every year. Why ia
it so ? To say nothing of a faulty system
of cropping—all ootton, all wheat, all
something else ; or of ere*,it, liens and
interest, tlx* reason which wo had in
mind with which to )>oint this paragraph
ia, that it oosta too much to make our
°rops. Wo grow poor, not so much be
cause our inoomes are so small, ns be- ‘
our outgoes are so large. There !
strict method in onr operations
STEINWAY
Grand, Sjaarc ant Upwright Pianos,
RUPTURES
jjosrnmi cored.
gend on tho watoh gave me fluent do
•oriptions of soenes in Lafayette’s life,
such as they hod read about. Two or
During the \* ar my i
donol in Cheatham’s
killed iu battle—at Atl
nd mole Idea
We removed to Jackson and tr
earn a living by tewing, but couldn i. ou penance ic
I started an infant school, but it did [ young dreams.
dins- of the Not
nd a—• ! the post-o
[ititle, | lady-love’s
• stamp to
1 Ho perish e*
tho other
npphirt
mohroan
last lelt
forever another of love'i
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