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Newspaper Page TextTHE CEDARTOWN RECORD. W. S. D. WIKLE & CO,, Proprietors, CEDARTO WN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY i. 1S75. VOLUME I. NUMBER 29. LATE NEWS SUMMARY. WEST. Witbiu the past twelve months Illi- "oja railroiuU hsvo killed 227 portion* nml maimed 401. The boiler in a saw mill at Green Day, Wisconsin, exploded Mou.Ut, killing flfloeu men ami wounding twelve other*. Eight warriors, thirty-nine squaws and pappoofto*. and sixty-two ponies, Iwlong- ing to tho Modicum Water hand of t’hoy- •tines, surrendared unconditionally at Chey enne agency on the 20th itiel. Two white women are now with Ktone Calf, who is said to have two hundred lodges on tho Staked Plain*. Tw«, messengers have arrived, inking for (marc. Word has boon sent hint that ho can sarrnnder unconditionally, and a demand was made for the white women. EAST. Tho will of tho Into Mayor IlaYo- ycr. of New York, has boon probated. His properly is valued at from *3,000,000 to #5,- York. F.r the Arm bold ; ending l>oce rd fmti atal c i 30 t< A now civil suit has boon oommeuctMl against Wm. M. Tweed, in which Edward Mai liner Is Joined as defendant, on behalf of tho dly, to recover from both *550,000,alleged to have been fraudulently charged by Marti* nor for supplies to tho street department and fraudulently certified to by Tweed as Deputy Street cotnmiiiaioner foy paymout. There are thirty-one bills of Marrinor'a alleged in the complaint, to be in this category. The large, now dam just completed for Hayden, (lore A Co/a brass works, at Hayden* villa*, Mas*., burst atiout 11 o'clock on the 10th, and a large body of water, ooverod with lilies tide) opt dm bannel, through the villago imilar to lho flood of May last. The cottor •ill Just lxdow tho village held tho wn'.u ml ice. which has probably prevented nnj acriflco of life at Lcmds, with* which plaet atloi hundred ehlldrc toil factors of Memphis, diod Iasi week of lie disease. Henry Washington, cousin of (loot Washington, died at Hlirovcporl, La., on l IHtli Inst., aged «0 years. Vuulix Flournoy, ngod is, oommitt ■uldde at Greenwood, Ala., on the 18th |m by shooting hlmaolf. Cause - a love affair, quarrel at Cholttoa stockyuri Mempbii •iday night, Mai iuIihI Di llict B Hoott, both colon d. An incendiary llrout Clarendon, Ark., early Thursday morning, destroyed property to tho amount of #50,000. ,T. II. liars, n curtman, was stahhed and killed in Memphis, last wook, by a negro engaged in Um same eocupatlon. Tho mur* Daniel Flaherty, an employe of tho Morelia nlantiy killed I machinery, a | Best, the r master at Lam vionaly killed . Mompl.i, io k hy tho hr i who murdered the post- the ownership of land. The murderer is II at largo. Robert Bonner has purchased of B. sian which led to the arrest i , several af whom made full i Potty was arrested a* aocessoi of cotton boing found in his stor •ond in #800 to answer before tho MISCELLANEOUS. Tho bullion product of Nevada alone for 1875 is estimated at *00,000.000. The father of Oharlca Boas oflora five thousand dollars reward for tho rotum of Ids stolon boy, and proralaoa to ask no questions. It iB reported that tho Mormons in the United Stales propose to found colonies in Mexico, with the lntontion of emigrating on masse from Utah. Tho unit of Josephine Mansfield against the estate of tho late James Fisk, Jr., to recover tho valno of two promlsory notes, with interest, amounting altogether to #23,- 000, has resulted in favor of tho plaintiff. Lieut. Frodonck Collins, command ing tho United Htatcs aurvojing oxpedith State. Washington to I Ho will • mail steamer in January for to proceed in the United uidigua to Atrato. FROM WASHINGTON. Secretary Delano hoa written a letter to the son clary of war. In which ho snvs the lUaok hills country is secured by treaty to tho Iudiai • is little pr in whisky, i of tho to i»d I rc|H' 1 tlm ro REIGN. A fire ut Take!, .Inpau, last week, do* troyed about one thousand houses. Tho Von Arnim trial linn eloHod, and . Jo.,1*1 ollioi inland of the ins lerr l'entel, tv i at Paris, has be Netherlands at \ m explosion «•< S'orth HtalT. a killed. Tlilrto* i d in Bugual Hall l.rtg Gustavo. All tho powers having invitation to tho liitoraatloni ulod with tho Ui Tho (Jrnnd Duke Nicholas, h •rand Duko Uonstantinu, and uopl tnneror. has twen declared Insane i •opted tho inter tho u.ship of his a as associated with the diaim row moutha ago. A desperate buttle wax fo •piialmonto, Vcnexuala, Imlwoei nirnt troop* under (leu: Mar,pi, A collision occfnrrod mile* north of Grenada, on tho Missis*!/ pi Central, between freiglit traftis Nos. H and 9. Jas. VelnnUno, engineer, was instantly killed. Doth engines and a number of cars were de molished. A. W. Hodges, postmaster at Lancas ter. Ky . was shot and killod in his office last woek by Kbeucr.er IJest. Tho two men were brothere-iu-law, Hodge* having married two of n**t'a sieten*. Family tronblos probably cause,I Uie tragedy. At New Orleafis, on the 2fith inst., a quarrel torik place l>etween ox-Gov. War- mouth and Mr. Ilyorly. proprietor of the Bul- lotin. The latter struck tho former with a cane, wher*nj»»n Warmonth siabtssl Isynilv Dycrly expired. A collision occnrrcd last week on tho Hast Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia railroad, two miles east of Carter's depot. Term., kill ing two men, named Croueo and Win. Wyatt and injuring flv. udod. Both side Alfonso, prince of Austria, replying o the address of tho German Grandees, says: ford shire, England. Tin A London lotte hip Basilisk, has J. say* her majesty' THE VOYAGE. A TRUE WIFE. AN BPItODE OF IjIPK AT nOMHUItC Tho Lutiieran cemetery of llomburg von tier llohq has no special nttrnc for a stranger, unless it bo the pro fusion of flowers which spring up round the graves. Roses red, white, nml yol low, dahliss, geraniums, pnnnicH, sweet- william, nml a legion of wild tlowera, sceni to tnock with their gayoty and and shadows of the grave stones. Many til tho monuments stand iu a small plot of their own, fenced in by a miniature pal isade, and laid out in flower-beds and tiny paths, a space being left for a seat under a trellised canopy. Them) gar dens are more generally left to the bounty of nature than to the care of man, but occasionally may be seen n omber figure stooping over a flower bed, or trimming tho hordcra of some loved iuoloHuro. T was strolling, one Juno evening, amid the tombs and rotes, when 1 saw the seat in one of the little gardens oc cupied by a man clad in deep mourn ing. An Englishman certainly, from his appearance, 1 at once judged him to he, beforo I Imd heard the voice of a little brown-eyed, ruddy child, who was toddling about the paths, and stooping over the flowers. Not far from the spot stood a man-servant, hidden by the ar bor from tho view of the visitors to the grave. Thoooeupant of tho sent, who was a young man of neat, sohlier-liko oppciirnuce, »•« gaetng vaoautly >i|>on the little girl, who was engaged in till ing a wire basket with flowers, Picked with no small amount of difiiotilty. When filled, this wim carried to her father (for so I naturally gnesssd him to he), duly arranged by him, and then laid as an «• tiering at tho foot of tho bright green mound. Thin done, the child, clambering up fo her father's side of the seat, asked him solemnly : Will mother like to smell them, father?” I am sure she will, darling,” woh tho reply, l wan all this time concealed behind a adjoining monument, whence 1 atchod every movement of the monrn- m who had *io attracted my attention, 'rosoutly, the man-rorviiut, coming for- ard, intimated that it was getting late, nd, with an air of authority, mingled with respect, opened the small gate of the inolosttre for hi* master to puss out. latter, kneeling fur n moment, with his forehead resting upon the cross which sprung from some ivy-clad rook- rk at the head of the grave, kissed ) name inscribed, and, followed by i daughter, who insisted upon shut- f the gate herself with great careful- is, took tho path to the ontranoo of ) cemetery. As soon as they wore °'d sight, I hurried to the spot, which had nltcady awakened in me a strong feeling of ’ curiosity, and jrend these ords inscribed in gilt character on a ess of white marble : Heir ralml in Gull, Louise Margur< l Mur 'd), ‘Ion 22 Align. On the l ..-i. Iu> dearly I * of tho c otMartyn uihod, id the with their oontoiit* went burned. Tho sheriff of Claiborne oounty, Ten- i* Iiatcly. Both ;i:Ubl od Moi t Gladst nd Mo „ Marty . n Her Britannic Majesty's -- tii Hussars. Born ... August, IHi'J. Diod 3 May, 1870. , _ After gazing sadly atthoso words, and noting much that. I hove described, I bent my way homeward, in a saddened state of fooling. It woh easy enough to read a tale of sorrow in what I had seeti; but there was something more to be read between the lines,* 1 felt sure. Tho expression of tho widower's fnoe, and the authori tative manner of the servant, couhl not but mean something. However, I soon afterword entered tho gardens of the Kiulmns, and mingled with tho crowd of promonaders. My friend, Dr. Fichte, had asked mo to sup with him, that evening; lie would bo sure to kin something about the Mnrtyns, if liter*- was anything worth telling, so that I did not fail to avail myself of his invi tution. After our pleasant little meal, when the doctor had pulled down from tho wall a china pipe, with a stem an long uh himself, and i hod filled my own pipe with caporal, I told hiui what I kcli. A report comes from Veraaillos, Ky., of a serious affray at that place botwoon white mon and nenroo*. It appoara that a party of Isiys engaged with a party of nsgTOoa in throw ing firo-crarkern at each other. The s|>ort WM hilarious and not baraiful, until a horso- firo-cracker* thrown by tho nogroiM by firing Ids revolver at them. Tbs negro** returned Uie fire, shooting into tlio party of white men. and at ones a fnmlada oominencod, resulting in tho killing of two negroo* outright, and the wounding of others, and the, perhaps, mortal Tho l’ooiflo Mail company’s steam iliip Japan, from Han Francisco and Yoko hama. was burned ThnmUy last when sixt miles out from Yokohama. Tho Japan lot Han Francisco Nov. 11, arriving at Yokohnm Dec. 10, and sailed tlionco on tho 12lh fo Hong Kong, with three cabin passenger* an 421 Chine**! n tl.o steerago. Tho stenm-r lei Han Francisco with 937 tons of freight an #375,000 in treasure- Tho captain and i i the . of 1 Tho ! ' refuge into a ho which ship Japa following M. Tindt-1 “ Ah ! thorn’s a sad story about them, my friend, almost too sad for a lumpy meeting like the present; but you shall hear it. It was in 1809, somewhat early in tho season, that an English gentle , mimed Martyn, culled upon mo advice. He was a strong-looking of athletic build, and had one o r regular English faces, oxpressiv ioolnees and resolve. From his af peuruncc, I should have said that thor was not u healthier man in Hamburg ; nor was it easy for me, after a pi examination, to discover his ail But I need not tell you, that it is tho physician’s duty to devote his 'maginary 1-1 r hundred Chine *day night, tho fir« I* od, and ) negroes, finding t Jail. Last week Wm. Kingsbury, Jordan Joey, Wm. Hatfield. Usury Wood, Couey Young ami Vincent Petty, all colored, were arriwted at Weat^oint, Miss., on a charge of systematic robbery of freight cars on .the Mo- bilo and Ohio railroa<L All of them are prom inent colored men. Petty was county treasurer and Juey an alderman. Their mole of opera tion was for on© or two of the gang to forco an entrance into tho cars while stopping at West point, and t-o shut themselves in tho car unti the train had gotton under way, then to throw off cotton, merchandise, etc., which was gath ered by the others and taken to Juey's or Petty's store, where the marks were destroyed and the goods or cotton sold. They have boon operating for a long time, and it is supposed thrir robberiea amount to thousands of dol lars. On being arrested, Kingsbury made a» nobly,” listc with t interested : r to dein Kong. After two hour* spout in fruitless ef forts to got tho fire under control, the captain decided to abandon the vessel. On Friday rooming all h*nds wero transferred U. bout*. They remained ats.ut the vessel noon of that day, when all proceeded Hwattaow. The mails were not saved. Bhrkp’s Heabts Roasted.—Having washed tho hearts, htuff each with an onion parboiled au«l then minced tine, two tablespoonfnlfl of bread-cronihu, half a teospoonfnl of olionped or dried sago, arul sufficient black popper and milt to season highly. Press tho stuff ing well into the hearts, and, if neces sary, fasten a little muslin over the top to keep it in. While roasting baste frequently. They may also be baked, bat care most l>e tukon not to let them get dry. Any heart that may be left is excellent hashed. “ Heaven ble^p yon,” said John Henry, “ it wub the prettiest fight v ever saw. ttho punched away at the ivory keys like mad, and tho piano forte „. ... ffering. Without en tering into any technical detuiln, it will bo enough for mo to say that my patient dr*cril>ed himself »ih suffering from gen eral debility and lack of energy. He said he woh always losing ground, that luck woh against him, and that there must be Home one thing radically wrong in bin constitution, which prevented his playing a sncoeHHful part in tho world. He had tried u!l north of systems, aH he called them, but they had failed miser ably, and lie was now a broken-down man. Ho assured mo that ho had no ital cause of anxiety, that ho woh perfectly happy in his domestic rela tions, and that he was not in any degree hypochondriacal. I proscribed for him a coarse of Lathing, early hours, and regulur exercise, and, on his taking leave, begged for my wifo U> bo allowed to make tho acquaintance of Mrs. Mar tyn. This request, you must under stand, I made from a defliro to have a few words’ conversation with my pa tient’s wife regarding his cose. But as he grew fidgety and nervotm on my making tho proposal, I bade him good bye witli the hope of sooing him again in my odn house. His manner huxl tended to confirm my rising apprehea siou that my patient’s disease was nol of such a nature a* wo can minister nml, a'ter a s com! prolonged visit fn him, I felt the absolute necessity of putting myself into personal communi cation with 1uh wife, 1 had already made her noqunntanoo in tho garde ami had been struck by her singular grace and Had beauty of expression, called at their lodgiugn, one day, aft< my aftoruoou’s work, nml was ushcrod at once into a small room nt tho top of tho house, which was in Dorothoon- strasso, n street nol much frequented, uh you know, by your oonutryinen. T found Martyn nml Iiis wifo m ated oppo site to eaon other nt a small table, on which was placed an oval board covered with green cloth, and marked with the elan of a rou-ot-noir Ublo, Opposite Airs. Martyu, who was noting oh crou pier, was placed tho iuveutaire of tin bank, constating of rouleaux of gold nml silver, two small boxes with com pnrtmouts for various pieces of niouev the tulou of white marble for tho taill of six pnoks of cards to stand on, nut tho baskot into which tho used card wero thrown. Mnrtyn's back was turned toward mo na 1 eniered tho room ; his wife faced me, so that 1 caught at one her glaneo of anguiHh and anxiety, r« voiding in n moment the nature of he huHhaml'H ailment, which I had sm peeled to be beyond my powor to ourt " 'MoHsionrs, faitea lo Jou,’ called out the poor wifo. " 'Come, doctor, try your luck,’ orit tho poor madman, ns ho placed foi gold pleoos on tho rod. 'Our minium: ih 2 florins, and I never go higher than 10U.’ “ I put a couple of florins on tho rod. Mrs. Martyn called out: *Lo jou eat fait, riou no va plusdenlt out iu two IoIh tho roquisito number of cards; ami saying: 'Kongo peril - eouleur gngne,’ sweeps off her husband's gold and my florins, and takes some fresh cards from tho talon for tho noxt deal. “ Bowing to tho poor croupier, wIioho sad, scriotiH fnoe told plainly ononglt what it oost her to keep her poor lum- baud thus amused, I said adieu to my patient, front whom, however, I had no Hiuall diflleulty in gidting away. " ' My dear doctor,’ ho said, ‘if you will put down your hat, have a gins* of iced water by your Bido, and follow my play ateadily, your fortune in tnado. Tho bank has only an advantagn of i per cent., which in double the chance of the public tables hero.’ Then ad dressing bin wife : ‘ Pardon, monsieur, voiih k-vouh bion mo changer unto note do trmilocimi gulden?” * " However, I pleaded stress of work; promised to return before long, and have Homo steady play; and hurried out; my heart wrung with the sound of ' MesHienrs, fallen lo jou,’ uh I wont down tho stair-oase. " Iu tho evening of the snmo day I received a note from Mrs. Martyn, in which she told me that she would eill on mo between 7 ami K o’clock, the next morning. At tho appointed time, after my hint patient Imd h-ft me, 1 found tho young lady awaiting our interview. But before I go on any further, you rnunt know what mIio wan like, Hho wan tall nml Hlim, loo tall for beauty, though her natural grace and case re- moved any awkwardness that excessive bight might have given her figure. head and features were rather small, and the natural color of her face then pale— miiHt have boon freali nml oroughly English. Tier soft brown hair was tied behind into ono thick plait, which fell below her shoulders. Ah hIio swept Into this room through the folding doors, my great pity for her wm for the moment lost in admiration of her beauty. Kinking down on tho sofa, aim burst into an agony <*f tears, Forgive mo, doctor ; f cannot restrain myself before you, for I know that yon fool for mo. 1 wan unwilling to take up your time, but knowing that •uld wish to he informed of nil rotimstancoa attending my hiis- hnnd’s illness, I have drawn up an ao- crw^fctffAtAhr tfanon iod' to it. When have rend it, I will commit you again.’ Hhe then left mo the narrative, which I will now ask you to road, be fore I oomplote tlm tale.” Tim doctor noon afterward left me abBi '/ e<l in tho carefully written manu script, which ran iih follows : " My dear husband lmd not a fault, us I thought, when f married him. Ac complished, good-humored, hamlsorao, every ouo loved him, and our first venr'n married life wan unolondod by a npeok of trouble. Wo had spent our winter’s leave of absence in Germany, my husband having shod to collect information about tlm Prussian military system, with tho vie' • of writing on the subject. Wo stopped here on our re turn, and one day, by way of amuse ment, going up to the roulette-table in the kursaal, my husband put a nnpo- on on No. 10, wioli was then the num er of my years. Round went tie . mlette, tho ivory ball rattled, fell into No. 19, and niy husband took tip oloons besides tho one lie had staked, Pleased, as ho could not help being, his face woro an expression ol something almost liko shame, uh Ik walked out of the rooms. " * J don’t feel as if I hod eonm hy this money honestly,’ ho said; ‘what shall I do with it?” “ Amid various projects, he decided to give a grand treat to tlm men of his ,r«i* p, and relieve tho families in the ri " imont that stood in need of help. Kid news awaited uh on our arrival m England. Owing to tho failure of an assurance company, my ffttlmr-in-law, who held- v largo number of shares in it was d« i,ril "cd of all bin fortune, and it’seemodHf must dopend upon his frii-nds for tlm very means of subsist- My husband effected an ex change to » regiment in India, and we were spending tho last anxious weeks iu my old home. He had left ine for a f„w days to go to town on business, and T was ongerly looking out for a letter from him during this our first separa tion, when at lust curno tho wished for envelope, with a foreign head on it, and stamped with the post mark, Hamburg v d II. Fortunately I was alone as I read, almost terrified, that iny husband had gone to llomburg, with a view of winning a handsome sum of money with which to buy an annuity for Ins father. The huccohh of bin first venture in gam ing 35 napoleons hod in a sons© demor alised him. no bad now plunged into gambling; commencing to play with great luck, find winning £500 on tho first evening. This was almost, doubled, tlm next iluv. If', dntf.rmluoi] to loiv.i whim ho hi.-I won £1600, hut on tho third doy ho loft riff piny with a lu.a of £200, and on tho fourth, tho whole of tho rest of his winnings wero gone, to gether with the £100 ho had taken out to play with. Tho anxiety I felt to bo with my husband, when I read this ter rible letter, prevented my yielding to anything liko useless grief; I got ready mv traveling things tolling my p wanted to reach London by midday. Fortunately, on that very morning, a half-yearly div idend of tuonoy of my own had her n for warded to mo in tlio onotomnry way ; I oashod this nt our banker's, and after passing n tfrotchod afternoon in Lon don, of course all alone, I loft by the mail train for Brussels. 1 must toll yon that, wanting to rent somewhere, I hml wandered into our academy exhibi tion of pictures, and had there been a first, staggered, and thou fascinated, by a largo painting of n rouge-et-uoir table, snrroundod by every representative of gambling life.* Long did I staud lean ing on tho mil before the picture, ruml- ing tlio history of every group, and finding my own portrait in a young wifo endeavoring to drag her husband from tho ncontk In twenty-four hours after 1 had left London, na quickly an the let ters travel, I was with my dear husband in Louhieu-strnBBO. Oh, how pale and wan he looked ! But the happincsH 1 felt nt o«*Vi more being at bin side to comfort him makes me look back to that meeting with more joy than sorrow, lb kisnod me so tenderly, asked how on little Edith was, and then, pulling i chair to the table, rested Ids head on his hand, and remained silent for it minute or two. “ ‘ O, Louise,' ho said, * I have ruined you ;’ and then ho broke down oom nlotely. When 1 lmd had Home tea, I told him cheerfully wo must then talk of luminous. I lmd brought £(!() in £10 uotos, which would pay any little hills ho owed, and txko uh home. But my huHlmud would not speak, Hitting mo- tionloHH, with his faun buried iu his ImndH. At hml, as I feared, onmo out worse news. lie owed £150 to a banker iu llomburg, nod bad bound liinmoK to make over tlio proceeds of his commis sion, whenever he Hliould sell out, to an English money-louder, who lmd ad vanced him a largo num at about 70 per cent interest. 1 would nflt show my lmshatid what T felt on heariug thin ; and hard as tho struggle was, I tried to talk lightly of Iii'h Iokh. Wo must stay at. llomburg until more of my dividends were sent to me. then hasten home, and hurry out to India, where wo could live on Cyril’s pay, and perhaps scud some of it to hi* father. My himhaml got more cheerful as tho evening wore on ; and ns we walked through the Kohlosa garden into tho cemetery, he said : Well, 1 shan’t have to lhi here after all, iOuiao, having nliot myself through do- pair.’ Tired out tm I was, I went to ml very early, nml was noon asleep, when 1 was awakened by tho notao of groping about Hour the dremt- i ug-table. “It is I, dear; don't be alarmed,’ il Cyril, as I asked in terror who wan re. ‘ I am only looking for my eignr-eaae.’ frightened ftH I wna, and his voice trembled na he answered Tho next morning, when I had ion to open mv purse ; all my notes gone, and there was nothing in it but some hits of tobacco-loaf stick ing to it, as though il Imd boon carried in the pocket with looso cigars. Tlio i ho had not boon out of my politics- n till I Imd put it on tho droflAlng* table at night. Oh tho and misery of tho thought which flashed up >i» me ! God forgive mo if I wronged him for low not what he wan doing. That •y must have followed t he way of ast. Cyril must leave her at onoo. I would not stay for the remainder of the money I exmetod. That morning, we had ongnged horses for a ride to Kaalhurg, and 1 would urgo upon my hnitlmnd the nceossity of his going away in tho afternoon. We had hardly left the town when occurred tho accident which doprived my donrost husband ol Ilia renson. My horse allied across the •ad at one of the little milk-carta ui'ftwn hy dogs, and (flipped quietly down into a ditch at the road side, al lowing me to step oil' without naoruLoii. (Jyril sprang off his horse, and runhc.d 111) to./insist inn whnn.mv animal, in hiu hand on the forehead as he had stooped town to raise mo. From that moment he lay without sense or feeling for five days, with a great starred wound on bin f..rehead, like the break which a atone makes io glass. Nothing but a slow, labored breathing, and the irregular lients of LIh pulse, showed that ho still lived, for his eyos. though opon, were quite insermiblo to the light. An oper ation of raising the depressed pnrta of the hone to their proper level had boon ssfully performed, and tho symp- generally soomed favorable to Lin .. .,w,ery. It was not until ho was tin- rnintnkably out of all danger, that T thought of a consequence more terrible than death, and almost hoped that he might be taken from me if lie wna not to he restored whole. But it was not to he. 11 is memory and reason were gone, and the doctors would not deceive rno, they s lid, with tlio hope of a euro. We /e nt for our child, of course, and aro Htaying hero fora time, ns my poor hus band in amused by the people and inunic, and we have Home very |pnd friends here. Tho history of that toy rongo-ct-noir table ia this : One day, during a quiet timo, I ventured to take Cyril into the gaming-room. I had thought, poor fellow, that his mind was too much of a blank to have been af fected by tho flight of tho play, but ho became so excited ami anxious to »*“ continually looking on, that it judged advisable to withdraw him tiroly from the rooms. I contrived a miniature table for him at homo, where we play with counterfeit napo leons. lie is under the. delusion thnt he ia always losing money, and had often talked of going to consult n doc tor on the subject, but had promised not to do this without tolling mo. “f hnvo now told you our story, which will, perhaps, help to guide you though her life might not he the blank it had threatened to he, filled up an now was by care for her husband, n affection for her child. Tho hope, t was ever present with her that tuo great trouble might puss away, and that thin was to bo but a imd chapter in the sh of their lives. But with the tq>riug came more sorrow. April has beet usually cold, when a short sumnii great heat set in for a wook. One Mrs. Martyn called to ask my m respecting her little girl, who had eanght a cold, and was otherwise ailing, frmr having sat out too Inti' in the gnrdoua, T lotnrncd with her to Dorotboons!rosso, and found the child at niggling foi breath, and showing all tho aymptonu of n Bovoro attack of diphtheria. Onpt. Martyn was committed to the charge of some friends, but bin wifo, I need senroe- ly tell you, ootlld not bo porsuadod to leave her ehlld’a aide. Tho next day the little suft’erer was worse, and gave aucli manifest iflgtia of ainking, thnt it seemed unneeonsarv to prepare her mother for tho end. For three days she had boon by her oliild’n side, giving it ammonia every second hour, fumiga ting the room, mid changing the linen, Hhe would do everything herself, from a feeling, uh she told mo, thnt no one would so faithfully carryout my injunc tions. On the fourth day, when 1 knew that the erinia must come, the child be gan to mend, and, in a few hour#, I wan able to gla hlen the mother by telling her thnt all immediate danger was over. I urged upon her the advisability (f now leaving tho patient to professional care, as the fear of contagion still ex isted. But she would not move from tho house ; and an the child Blowly ad vanced toward recovery, so she began to sicken from tlio aame deadly disease. In three dnyn all wits over, lr r powers of resisting the complaint bring ex hausted by her previous labors. 1 fol lowed her to the grave where sho now lie*-, and have taught her hunbnnd and child to lake a pride iu adorning it. lie is happily saved from tho real eon soiouvnesH of his lose. We see much of the misery and vice here, but also some- thing of tlio beauty of guodnoss. I have done.” Our pipes had long since gone out, while I listened to thin sad story. I could not trust myself to revisit the comet cry. I was lit llomburg iu tho following year, uml soon found myHClf at tlio grave which had ho fuseinated mo tho previous year. Another oross, exactly similar to the old one, Htooil at the head of a very fresh mound, with an iiiHcrip- tiou recording that Cyril Martyn also hero rents in ponne. Little Edith was waiting iu ohnrgo of tho Fichtes to ho aent to her mother’ll relations in Eng land, -■(,'/mmhcr'n.Journal. lloal Old G rails Land. Twenty or thirty yearn in permanent sod constitute real old grasa land, though if well managed and properly grnttud. it will imurovo up to fifty years, uml then never retrograde unless abused in some way or other. Now, if thegrenter part ol the land which in natural for grans and adaptod for per petually laying in grasa for grntting and mowing wun allowed timo to beeoino or taldinhed in thick-nct old sod, nml tho finer utid most fattening horhngo en couraged by judiciously grntting with mixed stoeli, a good proportion boing nlioop, tliero might lie lino districts pro ducing hoof and mutton, butter and •1, with lino horses also, and with comparatively little mo of the plow, u and lean arable soil being required tlio iiouth was approached, because the winters would be short and the fod dering nml housing of ntonk of little moment in comparison. J tint an the turnip liunhnudry in England wan tlio salvation of tho light soil, and tho hill and downs of England, and the muirs, etc., of Hootlnud, at tho sanio time ron- ivatitig nil the good, dry and woll- o' --* -- )~~• ‘-T i— Biiitablo for permanently remaining snored from tho plow, may bo the sav ing of h. rioulturo in A m or ion ; for the fact of about, two-thirds or tliroo- fourtlia of every farm being in pasture uml meadow, or in grass alternating in pnstnro and mondow, would bo an aastatanco to tho arable portion, and every farmer adopting thin system, be cause grans land when onoo thoroughly established, can bo munagod so an to enable the f/fcmor to support a groat quantity of animals which, with produce from thO noil plowed, will give straw, ito,, which, in conjunction with better food, inorouHOB tho manure heap. But hitherto tho grood of gaining a good ooru crop by plotting tinder the nod bus caused tlio having any established pas- or mowings to be out of the quoH- nud then the unaccountable fear tiiat shoop may injure the best herbage! lias brought about u running out of tho very grasses tho sheep would have caused to tlourish. In Illinois, tho grn«m land that Iiiih remained unculti vated for twenty or thirty years has booomo bo Bitporior to tlio now’y hud* down fields in timothy and clover, that double tlio Htock can bo supported upon it; uml, what i« proof beyond doubt is, that when routed, double the money o in readily paid for tho “old gross land.” Lot any diHintorefltod per son think on thin, and it will show what a vast advantage would bo gained by tlio whole community if, huv, half the laud now said to barely pay for ocoitpa- •Otild bo let lie in grrom till it would carry double the stock and bo rtb double wliat it is now to rent.— Cor. Rural. WlilUII will, JWJ.I1WJ..., '• r in treating your patient. You will, l know, purdou mo if I have wearied Tho forogoing narrative had ho pressed me, that tlio only words I dressed to Dr. Fichte, iw ho ro-ontc the room, were : “And the sequel, (loo ter? Wliat befell thin treasure of a woman ?" “I wan naturally anxious,” said my friend, “that the Martynfl should It Homlmrg without delay, thoir so jo here being as bad for tlie husband i condition as it was painful to tho wife. Hut there wero difllanltien attending this stop. Mrs. Martyn, though she would have braved most things on the poor fellow’s behalf, seemed to shrink most sensitively froYn the idea of m ing thoir relations in England. Ho in good bodily health, sho won greatly comforted by the society of some kind friends, and they woro able to live bore more economically than they could have done in England ; so that itwaedooidod that they should pass, at all events, tho ensuing winter in llomburg. Wo Hnw n good deal of them during those mouths. qniot and tractable; ond honr, and Edwin {Booth's Lons. Napoleon culminated at forty-flvo when hia progress was cheeked by Wa terloo. Booth ban anticipated that ago, and has reached mill at forty. Holdout have any of the nous of genius traveled with equal rapidity tho road to misfor tune. Churchill was, an Byron said, “the comet of a ncason," but this was a figure of speech. What Churchill wna in Ihe literature of a past century, Booth has been iu the drama of the present ago, Ohm chill culminated and diod at thirty-three. Booth was just that age when lie reached the highest position, and had he died at that time, liis genius would not have been ob scured by thoniiaery which Iiiih recently fallen on him, At tho age of thirty- three Booth had no equal in tho mntio world. As a performer ho chanted the public, aud criticism only became eloquent iu its praise. For one hundred mtaaoHsivo niglitaho appeared iu thin pity as Hamlet, liin fee being $9,000 a week, mid when the role was concluded ond tho full century wits completed, a gold medal was presented amid the npplauHO of a crowded house. Booth was then considered worth a hall million ; now he ia a bankrupt, liis beautiful seat at Long Branch has gone tho general wreck ; ho him iinpovc r- ished liin friends ; his theater is out of lift hnnds ; nml nil that i'h left i'h tho portion roaoivod with bin wife and tho •arnings of bmt. yoar’s itineracy. The scone of Ilia ruin ia corner of Sixth nvouuo and Twonty-third street. a theatre of ouortnouH size, and ta built without regard to oust, ami, being )f Concord granite, forma an imposing feature in our aroliiteaturc. It was built with a purpose of exhibiting tho host of •Shakespnir’K dramas, and this was done with ml the enthusiasm and genins of the great tragedian. Notwithstanding the artistic show and tho talent dis played, the scheme was a failure, and tho theatre has of late been devoted to -drama and farce. “Rip Van Win- survives “Hamlet." This fnto baa followed almost all attempts lo restore tho drama to olasuic dignity, and Booth might have learned from the past, wore it not impossible for nil entiimiiast to learn by ought save bin own oxperionoo. Even Garrick roforrod to it in ono of his prologue//, nnd tho lesson limit taught a century ago has been recently •pealed with improsHive force : Iftorml toShukoHp.mro was tlm spot designed To plnroo tlm lxmrL uml linrmoniKu I lie miml; I iu willing wo id In j h uml 11 millets liming forci nt oltttugo tlio llbblo i'cuiio, - V..H I III U Martyn ..... his wife would brighten up ,>)!.< nt homn Hint Cyril him romping will, thoir chil. immediately on pram- | ly oxcitod over a gamo of Jjuokgom • ah sho ild, or oai tng ^toeM,°raUowhouMtottno to • with my wife, It noomod, indood, « IIihiiop Olakkw’h rosy probabilities : Tlio Hnoakor • said that no man can judge of the age he liven in. The gen eration of to-day wun drifting with the vo world. It wuh an ago of transition, and, the speaker hoped, from to a higher plane. J t was prob able that there would bo greater luxury in the » ear future for the race tlmn was ever before known, and the hours of lalmr would be decreased with tlm ap plication of steam machinery. Alan would l/o freed from all servile labor ; society would not bo nocesHurily cor rupt be,coil so it became rich ; the suintH wero not all poor by any means, uml leisure did not of necessity imply indo lence. There wero great tbiukers to day aa well an in former times, the only difference being thut they were now more numerous than ever, and conse quently Ions noticed. Ah science rone in its grandeur mon would rcooguizo the God who created tho eternal, and a spirit of true rovoroneo would bo thus —planted.” ’ Johnny saved himself trouble but lost murks in his definition exercise. Ho got bravely through “presbyter, which ho found, by looking it out, to bo one who bad bod tho laying on of hands by tho presbytery. Ilio nox*. word wuh “dissenter/’ and in an evil moment Johnny, without turning a leaf in his dictionary, wrote “one who lias hud till* dysentery."-llroolilyn Arym, ir Ih'iit gicnl ruling j When tho theatre won finished, Booth found himself in debt a lmlf million. h> noiiBoUB lie endeavored to lump up the Hliakespenriau drumaH, and ho prodtiood name of them with a gran deur of style which Inn never boon equaled in England or America. It cost fifty tlionimnd dollars to get up King John, and an umuh more for Hamlet, o wonder the theatre failed. After tlio failure, the proporty wont under the care of the tragedian'll hrotli- ', Junius Brill iui Booth, who in much morn of a bnuil'OHH man. Ho is by pro fession an aetor, but. is so imlifi.'erent in histrionic genius that ho in content to vo iui a manager, in which depart- ut ho linn Imd groat sucoons. Ho now owns ono-half t)f tho Boston theatre, which in a valuable proporty. Under his advice the theatre constructed by liis brother was loused to Jurrett A I'almor, who hnvo plenty of capital, nblo to pay a rout, of $1,000 per Booth wont starring through tho country, nnd lmd brilliant miiooohh, but it wun evident that he did not like thin system. It wan hardly tlio thing for one who hml held so brilliant a po sition, aud then lie could not adapt himself to tho inoonvouionolos of small theaters. When last noanon olosed ho returned to bin residence, aud tlioro he has romalnpdf declining all efforts to oity, in a small stream oallod Goscob river, which in oronsod by a railway bridge. Hero in a lino mansion, built by the Into Charles M. Barms, author of tho Black Crook. Burma died iu a very shocking nmnnor. It is well known that sinoo tho Norwalk calamity Oon- nootiout required railway trains to halt before crossing a bridge. Barran wan the lmbit of using this halt as an op portunity for (flighting from tho train, which, if ouo m careful, can easily bo done with nafoty. Ono evening, how over, ho wan ongnged in conversation when tho train reached tho bridge, uud lost hiu best opportunity, but boing in tent on getting off, ho slopped whilo tho train woh in motion, littlo thinking thut the bridge had no Hour. The ro- suit wan that ho foil between tlio tracks i distance of twenty feet, reaching a rooky bottom. Thus died the autlr ~ v)f tho “Black Crook," leaving au t tate worth $100,000. Ho imd uo wifo or children, and it went to a pair of brothers, neither of whom ho bad iu many yearn and for whom he c but little. Tlio Burma mansion ptirohnHcd by Booth. As hut wifo (for merly Miss MoVickor, of Chicago) has a wealthy father, there could bo no diflleulty in obtaining a homo, and there the tragedian remains. It wus supposed that bo would take a starring tour thin winter or appear on tho boards of the metropolis, but tho public has been disappointed. Ho could fill tho largest of our lionsos with au admiring audi ence, and liin neglect to improve such au opportunity in a matter of surprise to those who do not understand tlio reason. I cannot with propriety speak on thin point, except to repeat a hint that Booth's troubles have impaired bis FACTS AND FANCIES. —Talking politics is a hnninens not profitable enough to support a family. —When a man arrivos nt a conclusion it is timo to stop. —Most any weather in ooldor than blazes. —Head of tho firm—“Want a holi day? Why, you’ve just boon at homo ill for a month I” —L. E. Parsons has boon nominated United Stfttoff District Judge of Ala bama, vicn Richard Bustuud resigned. —When tho new Pullman palace cattle corn are running the pampered pig will take hiH mealn cn route. —Tho Colorado potato-bug ia do- nouneing Inmsolf for want of energy. Maine's potato crop moasurcs over 3,- 000,000 busbolH. —When a man cannot drivo well ho nmltOH up tho dofioienoy of oduoation in Mult roepect by Hovoroly pounding his animal/). “I am very happy,” said a French mother. “ I have a con-in-law whom everybody discusses, and a daughter whom no one lullui about,” —Will Ihe youug-meu of America permit, a red headed Eiujlislimnn to win the hand of Quocu Emma of tho Band wioli Islands? - -A Chicago preacher has looked him self up in the fourth story, nnd draws Iii'h meals up by a bad-oord. He Hays they enu’t get up no slanders about him. —A hue array of fatted oalvcB will bo ono of the fontures of tlio grand specta cular drama entitlod “Tho Prodigal Hon,” at tho Bouton theatre noxt week, - Just think, if you swear off lining tobacco and wearing olothos after tho first of January you can save $T> a wook at least, and $5 per week for 1,000 years ia $2(50,000! —Until very reoontly tho Mexican navy Iiiih constated of u few fishing nohoonorn. Now they hnvo nddod n sitio wheel ferryboat with a cannon ou it, and feel Male. —According to tho American Regis ter, tlio actual number of American ro«- idents in Paris in Iohh than 5,000, al though it. iH often that /hey number 10,(MO and 15,000. —“ Pop,” asked Artaxorxes, “ why in juntico blindfolded?” “That sho may bo spared tho speotaolo of tlio wiokou wayn of the lawyers,” sadly rojoiuod Mr. Marrowfat. 115,023 noldiors* widows in the United Htuten who receive ponaious from tlio government. Btrango, strange, that young men continue to marry girls without a edit. Skeptical poraousdidn’t mnko much headway in tho oarlydays of Now Eng land. “ No ono not a church member nuld bold oflioo, or bo ovou n corporal ii tho army.’’ —Tho law ta a good deal liko a oroBH- .•yed woman with a pair of right aud left boots. Half the timo you can’t bot which leg tho right boot will go, nnd i money enough to keep yon iu tooth- piokfl. *** Tho Georgia nogro has no moro faith in banks, lie lays his money out in store clothes and linir oil, and tho nows bank suspension causes him to ex claim : “ Bust away wid yo, bat yon can’t hurt doso lavender pants.” —A millionnro iu Han Franoisoo linn a largo eollootiou of paintings ouo entitled “Tho Despair of Hamnsou,” for which ho ban refused $5,000, though it wuh exoontod nomo years ngo.by an impeounious minor for $5. —The aoadomy of noionoe of Iloiton will award in 1870 one hundred dollars for the boat work on “The advantages that might bo obtained in preserving and improving cider by moans of«hout- ing proooBHon applied to wines.” Thoro in a proponition before tho Urn motion to takh tifd BufijoW^mo tsoff-* Hidoratiou tho votowan—ufllrmauve, 48; negative, 10. —Tho Now Zealand government ban sont special ngonts over to Englauu for tho purpose of ooUcotinff a quantity of nmull birds of various kinds, and a col ony of bumblo been for introduction into that country. —Tho aoadomy of soionoo, arts and BolloH-lottres, of Oaon, offers the Ban- vage prizoof eight hundred dollars, iu 1870, to tho best work on “The rolo or economy of leaves in tho growth of plants.” —When tho liard-llstod taxpayers of flruun Huy mo on offico-lioUkr oorry homo .1 onn of oyotoro oftonor than tw.co nor wook thoy gathor togotlior and <lo- olaro that “mithiu’a wrong, sir—too much stylo." —When tho mayor of Now Orleans hcoots around at night ami finds n po liceman asleep oh a doorstop ho drags tlio said offoer into tho stroet and breaks tlio bridge of liis nose and pays him oil in scrip worth sevoutcou cents on tno dollar. —Tho boars and wolves in northern Wisconsin, which get nothing to oat from November to May but Indians who hap pen to dio in the woods from dolirinm tremens, are getting so thin that o re spectable shadow will scaro ouo of thorn to death. —When the Wostoliostor woman do- teots her husband “walking crooked down the road she doesn’t get mad about it, but thoughtfully obHorvos to her corn- pinion, “ Jane, I shouldn't wonder if it watt an earthquake that makes John walk thut way.” mind, and there is danger of his sliar- __a Missourian who attended P rft y er ' ing the fate of Hamlet. Every ono will m0 eting withhtaduughter hope that this be not the c/wo, but .«« nml remark: I wunt to nothing short of his reappearance on the stage will abate tlio suspicion thnt bin retirement is duo to suoli a cause. The public now calls for Booth.—JV. ). Letter. —Two idiotic burlesques of “ Ham- lot” httvo boon brought out in London. Ono is a revival of an old piece,by Poole, in which tho prince is mado to dance, an Irish jig, present a pair of garters to Ophelia, nnd fight a boxing match with Lrotes, whilo tho ghost drinks the porter out of a pewter pot. In the other almost the only joke is mukiug Hie ghost BUnkcspcuro himself. Tho tittle of tho piece is “ Hamlet, the Hysterical; u Delirium iu Hpusms.” Madame Umtori is among tho Mer mans now, gradually traveling toward New York, being engaged to follow Mrs. Rousby ut the Lyceum. Hhe 1ms finally secured tho upper hand of the English language, for, if we aro to credit rumor, hIio recently rang her boll at the hotel and ordered ns foi lows: “ Va- ter, you will bring up mo a beef of steak, and boiled fried potatoes with c nnd it is not necessary for uiilk, a can out him.” U) riHO up aud remark: "I want I he good and go to lleavim, but those fiiUorn don’t atop wiuking at Mary thoro will ho a good ueul of prauomg around hero tho fuat thing thoy know I —Will'll a woman won’t marry a man or himaolf alono, but wauta him to ast- tlo ton or fifteen thousand dollar, on her, and inaiata on having tho papers drawn up by lawyer*, oocing doyes won’t have any buamoas around that house. -Corpulent old Indy-" I gotUd ltte a tioket for tlio train. I ^ ok,n ^ J^ (who thinks ho will make a joko) -Yea; will you go in the paaaonge. •rain or cattlo tram V La, 'y—. '\"{l if you aro a apocimou of what I “hall experience in tho paaaenger train, give mo a t iokot for tlio oattlo train. _jfa-iy youra ago Tanno Spear, a Chi cago ow^lor, had a dlahonert clerk, who invested Ida atoulicg. id ody lota. The clerk’s crime was di«x,y 0 od bnt m the meantime ho had sold to E.B. Haddock Iladdoek has boon °^?Sv?bJidee. tho property uud pay $12,000 bostues,