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ONLY A WH!)U.\,
BY HESTEB A. BENEDICT.
Only a woman, shriveled and old !
The play of the winds and the prey of the cold!
Cheeks that are shrunken,
Eyes that are sunken,
Lips that were never o’erbold ;
Only a woman, forsaken ana poor,
Asking an alms at the bronze church-door.
Hark to the organ ! roll upon roll
The waves of the music go over he- rou! i
Silks rustle past her
Thicker and faster;
The great bell ceases its toll,
lain would she enter, but not for the poor
Swingeth wide open (he bronze church-door.
Only a woman—waiting alone,
Icily cold on an ice-cold throne.
What do they care for her ?
Mumbling a prayer for her,
Giving not bread but a stone.
Tnder old laces their haughty hearts beat.
Mocking the wcee of their kin in the Bireet.
Only a woman ! In the old days
H'ipo earrolod to her her happiest lays ;
Somebody missed her,
Somebody kissed her,
Somebody crowned her with praise;
Sorai body faced up the baltles of life
Btrong for her sake who was mother, or wife.
Somebody lirs with a tress of her hair
Light on bis heart where the death-shadows are:
Someliody waits for her,
Opening the gates for her,
Giving delight for despair.
Only a woman—nevermore poor—
Dead in the snow at the bronze church-door!
THE GOBLIN TOWER.
“lam glad you h<vo come here,”
said the Marquis di Doltono to the
young knight, Gaston de Pontaille, as
they sat upon the terrace of Boltono
Castle. “I am glad you have come for
many reasons—especially because Ilove
the company of a young and valiant
soldier.”
Gaston bowed and a flush of pleasure
passed across his brow.
“ The robbers above here are very
bold, just now. They attacked you, I
believe.”
“ Three of the villains ventured to do
so, but I sent them away with more than
they expected.”
“A steel ransom. Ha ! Ha !”
“It is very strange that you are not
able to discover their retreat.”
“Very—very strange. My men have
sought in every direction.”
“The country is favorable to secresy,”
said Gaston, looking round.
It spread far away around the castle.
From the height upon which Boltono
stood, the wide plain and the surround
ing hills could be distinguished for a
great distance. Hills and crags were
near the castle, gullies and paths formed
by torrents Jay among them. A river
flowed through the plain, turbulent and
noisy.”
“ Yes, it is a good place for them,”
said the marquis, in reply to Gaston’s
exclamation.
“But yet I wonder at their hardi
hood.”
“ They rob almost every friend who
comes to visit me, unless I send my
soldiers to guard them,” said Boltono,
bitterly.
“ This should be stopped. I wonder
that they do not show themselves some
where. ”
“I have done all that man can do.
Let us forsake this subject for the pres
ent. See you yon tower ?”
“Yes. It is older than the rest of
your castle, is it not? I have been
much interested in it.”
“It is very old and is of Roman con
struction. YYe never use it.”
“ Never ! Why not?”
“ ’ I’is haunted.”
“ Haunted ? ” Gaston was surprised
at the seriousness of the marquis, and
out of respect to him he suppressed a
rising smile of contempt.
“Yes It has for many years gone
by the name of ‘the Goblin Tower.’”
“ Why so ? ”
“Because there are sights to be seen
there, and s’ounds to be heard, which
are not of this world. Shrieks are
heard at the dead of night, and lights
gleam from the turrets. All the peas
antry tremble, and the hearts of all
within the castle quake with fear.”
“But have you never entered to see
the cause of these things ? ”
“ God forbid that I should seek to
know aught of the doings of the pow
ers of darkness! ”
“They may be done by hands of
naan, noble marquis.”
“Impossible! Who would dare?”
“No great obstacle could prevent
them if no one ever ventured there !”
“ Men have gone there and never re
turned. In the life of my grandfather
there was a legend about it, and a say
ing than whenever the castle was freed
from the goblin within, there would be
no more robbers without.”
“ Wliat! have the robbers always
been here ? ”
“All 1 lie time that the tower was
haunted. ”
Gaston, was silent, and mused for a
time.
“ I will tell the story,” said the mar
quis, “it is not long. This tower was
built, as I have said, by the ancient
Romans, and has been in the posses
sion of many a baron. Once, about
two hundred years ago, our family
lived in .Florence, and a baron who was
related to us resided here. He was a
strange man, of dark thoughts and
gloomy aspect. That tower he made
his residence. At night lights gleamed
from it, and strange sounds were heard
tb.ere, like no sounds in the world. By
day vast clouds of smoke poured from
it, often concealing the tower from
view. No one knew what he did. No
one could imagine what were his occcu
pations. But he became very rich all
of a sudden, and built this adjoining
castle. The neighbors all believed
that, by the assistance of the evil one,
he had found ont the philosopher's
stone. Tiie i eople suffered very much
from him, and robbery was carried on
to an alarming extent in the neighbor
hood. Once they ventured to attack
the castle itself.
“At last there came a fearful time,
lne night was perfectly dark. Sudden
ly , some who were looking toward the
tower saw flame and sparks issue from
the windows of the upper rooms which
he occupied. Shrieks resounded from
"• people burst into his room ;
the baron was not to be seen. A bundle
of burnt flesh and clothes lay on the
1 or, with mysterious blackened frag
ments all around.
“My grandfather had a beautiful
daughter, whom he promised to the
man who would venture to searoh out
the cause of those fearful sounds and
appearances, which ever since the bar
on s time have been witnessed there.
Several undertook it, but no one has
seen them since ”
Gaston was not so much awed by the
legend as the marquis.
“They did well—these suitors—and
I would do the same for a similar
prize.”
“What! would yon venture there?”
“Noble sir, you have promised to
m e mejour son-in-law,” said Gaston
with Lis ingenious countenance covered
by a flash of pleasure and confusion,
“but I have done nothing to win the
lovely Alvira. Suffer me to win her in
this way.”
“ What 1” cried the marquis.
“ I am willing to enter that tower.”
“ No, no ; you are rash. This is not
bravery, it is rashness. You have done
enough, my dear Gaston, to win a dozen
Alviras.”
“ Bat let me also do this. Noble
marquis, I cannot -must not be refused.
Why need I fear? Are not friends all
around me?”
“ Your friends cannot preserve you
from the demons.”
“ Demons ! I fear them not. With
my trust in God and the holy saints,
how can the evil one injure me?”
“ I implore you not to think of this.”
“ No, no, permit me. Do not tell
Alvira. Promise me not to tell her. I
will free your house of demons and rob
bers or die. ”
The marquis gave a reluctant con
sent.
It was mid day, and Gaston walked
outside the castle. There was a deep
gorge in the hills behind, and the Ro
man tower rose above this, while the
other parts of the extensive castle lay
further from it. Gaston walkod to the
verge and looked down. The porter
had told him not to venture there—that
the people in the castle were afraid of
the goblins who dwell there. But Gas
ton despised the idle tale.
“ Goblins—ha ! ha ! What a strange
mind the marquis must have not to see
that these mysterious robbers are the
goblins and the makers of all this riot.
But I must desoend and examine here.”
He went down slowly and softly
among the bushes which grew thickly
enough to hide him from view. At
length he was suprised to see a beaten
path.
“Ha!” he cried, “this was never
made by goblins. I will follow and see
where it leads.”
He descended carefully, and watohed
the path to see that none were viewing
him. At last he was at the bottom of
the chasm. The path before him took
a sudden turn around a rock. Leaning
stealthly over this, he looked forward.
There was the base of the goblin tower,
which arose very far on high, from its
foundations at the bottom of the chasm.
There was a small aperture here, so hid
den by bushes that none but the sharp
est and most observant eye could have
detected it. He went nearer, and hear
ing nothing, he crawled close to it.
Looking in he saw steps which led up.
“ Now were this unused, the steps
would be covered with grass and mould,
but they are smooth and are used often.”
After a few minutes the young knight
departed by the same path, and soon
stood in safety upon the top of the
dtclivity, well satisfied with his expe
dition.
“ Weil, Gaston,” said the marquis,
at night, “are you still determined?”
“ I am, I ask only my arms. Can I
have the way shown me ?”
“ Once more, Gaston, let me implore
you not to go.”
“1 must go, noble marquis, for I
have said it.”
“ Retract your words.”
“ I cannot —I would not.”
“ Then I must part with you. I fear
I shall never see you again. I will ac
company you to the place.”
The two walked along a desolate hall
extending entirely through the castle.
The night was dark and the wind moan
ed as they went on. Doors baDged and
nones were heard through the house.
“ Those noises do not come from the
tower. They are made by the wind !
said Gaston.
“ Ah ! here we are I suppose.”
They paused before a massive oaken
door, which the marquis opened after
unlocking. The bolts sounded harsh
as they grate! back. They entered the
room. The light which the marquis
held was feeble, and illuminated it but
in part. The apartment was large, and
the walla were wainscoted with oak,
carved in the antique. Chairs of olden
form stood around, and a long table of
massive construction stood in the mid
dle.
“ I will go into your closet and watch
the room. I can be hidden there.”
“Do so. Do not expose yourself.
Do you want the light ?”
“No—Oh ! no. I will be better in the
dark.”
He opened the door of an old closet.
It was empty. Theie was an opening
in it, through which any one within
conli look out into the room. Here
Gaston eutered. The marquis departed,
locking the door carefully. Gaston
drew his sword, and, holding it in his
hand, prepared to watch.
An old chair stood here in one corner;
upon this he seated himself and waited.
The hours passed tediously away, yet
he sat in patient silence listening to
every sound. And these were of many
kinds, which came to his sharpened
ears. Low moanings sounded without,
the doors, loosened by age, rattled on
their hinges, the heavy, dusty drapery
shook and fluttered.
There was a faiut light in the room.
As Gaston looked throngh, there seemed
to come a brighter light. He was sure
of it. A strange thrill shot through
him as the room began to grow visible,
illuminated by some unseen power.
Footsteps—low, muffled footsteps,
sounded without—beneath, whisperings
and exclamations were heard by his ex
cited ear i. His heart beat quick—he
held his sword more firmly.
“ The hour is coming—the time—the
scene is at hand. Now shall we see
whether Gaston de Pontaille will die.”
He leaned forward more earnestly.
At the extremity of the read he heard
whisperings murmnrings footsteps,
but Le could not look there. The light
grewbrighter. Some form approached.
Gaston iooked out.
It was a tall figure dressed in black,
and through two holes in the wall which
covered its head, the eyes gleamed with
intense brightness. He came to the
table and eat down. It was dressed in
the same manner. Two others came
in, and the four sat down at the table.
“ Wine,” said the first, in a deep
harsh voice.
One arose and brought a number of
bett'es. Then each one, lifting his
vail, drank in silence. Gaston watched
in suspense.
“ Comrades,” said the first one, “the
bishop has much gold. To morrow the
marquis shall give more.”
A low murmur of applause went
round.
“ He would have been unmolested
had he refrained from molesting us.”
“Ha! ha!” said another, in a dis
cordant voice. “He thought not ef
“ Tbe Golden Tower.”
“ What will he not pay for her ran
som ?”
Gaston started.
“ And the young knight—would he
not give his foul to purchase her ?”
“ Margo,” said the leader, “ bring
her along.”
Margo departed, and the others be-
gan to divest themselves of their man
tles. Each one, taking off his black
robe, disclosed the well-armed figure of
a sturdy soldier.
“1 heard footsteps here this night,”
said one. “May there not be a true
goblin—”
“Fool!” cried the leader, savagely.
“ You are a novice. A goblin! We
are the goblins of the tower, Antonio.
Ha ! What breath is that ?”
“ I said so!” cried the other.
The three started at a rattling sound
ed in the room. They looked at each
other and turned pale. The entrance
of their comrade put an end to their
terror.
“ Bring her along,” cried the leader.
Gaston could see nothing, but he
heard a low moan as though from a fe
male, and the tone struck a chill to his
inmost soul.
“ Good e’en, my pretty maid,” said
the leader. “Bring her nearer, good
Margo, let her be seated.”
There was a slight struggle and Mar
go brought forward the prisoner.
Gaston started—his frame shook in fren
zied rage. It was Alvira! He re
strained himself.
“Who aro you, and why dare yen thus
treat the daughter of Boltono?”
“Because we love the smiles of
lovely women. Was it not rash in you
to walk alone on the terrace at such a
time? Could we—the goblins of the
tower—resist the temptation !”
“ What will you do with rae ?”
“You shall cheer us in our lonelv
tower.”
“O, God !” she cried, wringing her
hands in agony.
“No lamentation !” cried the leader.
“Come, we wish you to be gay ; cheer
up.”
Alvira wept in despair.
“Weep not! Why should you?
Come, let me have a kiss!”
He rose up and reached out his hand.
Alvira shrunk back. He stepped for
ward. The others looked on in hideous
glee—'they saw not the armed figure
with uplifted sword.
“ Come, one kiss—”
“ Villain !” cried Gaston, in a voice
of thunder. Alvira saw him—all saw
him, as with a bound he sprang forward
and buried his sword in the robber
chieftain’s heart.
“ Die !” cried the infuriated knight,
and turning upon the nearest, with a
blow he severed his head from his body.
The others rose and grasped their dag
gers. Gaston strack at the nearest and
his weapon was dashed from his hand,
while the owner was dashed to the
ground. Margo, the fourth, fell upon
his knees. With a strong hand Gaston
bound him, and taking his rescued love
in his arms, he bore her forth along the
hall, to the great hall of the ca9tle.
The noise had roused the marquis, and
the inmates of Boltono soon knew all
that had happened.
A week after, the nuptials of Gaston
and Alvira were celebrated, and the
body of Margo hung in chains from the
summit of the “Goblin Tower.”
The Sad Story of a Life.
The Unfortunate Wife of Maximilian,
Once Kmptror of Mexico,
The Belgian papers announce that
the death of the unhappy Carlotte, the
wife of Maximilian, once emperor of
Mexico, is daily expected. During the
last years of her eventful life the som
ber darkness of mental night has rested
upon her, and even the consolation of
forgetting in insanity her misfortunes
has been denied her. The light of this
world’s pleasures, though not the gloom
of its pains, long since went out for
her, and that she should not follow her
brave and unfortunate husband to the
grave may be regarded as the only hap
piness which the future had in store for
her, and as a grateful relief to the royal
hearts who have watched over her deso
late years with constant and loving ten
derness. The daughter of Leopold 1.,
of Belgium, the wisest aud shrewdest
sovereign of his time, blessed with
beauty and a superior mind, graced with
the accomplishments of courts and the
polish of letters, it was Carlotta’s des
tiny to be united at a very early age to
the most amiable and able of the Aus
trian archdukes. Maximilian was dis
tinguished for his virtues, his courage,
bis courtly bearing and the liberal tone
of his thoughts and feelings. At the
time of the marriage no more brilliaut
prospect than the luxurious life of an
emperor’s brother and sister opened be
fore them. Maximilian thought of no
loftier destiny than to form one of the
princely galaxy around Francis Joseph’s
throne, to govern a Slavic or Croat prov
ince, perhaps lend his sword to the glory
of Austria, or to spend happy summer
months with his lovely bride at his cas
tle of Miramar, on the Adriatic. No
graver danger than that of a European
war or local insurrection threatened
to interrupt a tranquil and contented
life.
Tlie ambitions projeots of Napoleon
suddenly intruded upon the even teDor
of this calm existence. The oonquest
of Mexico by Bazaine and the necessity
of finding a wearer of royal blood for
the new imperial crown, caused Lonis
to cast his eyes over Europe for the
available candidate, and he fixed upou
Maximilian as the prince best fitted for
his purpose. The Archduchess Sophia
urged him to decline the bauble. Car
lotta, with all tue enthusiasm of youth
and ambition, begged him to accept it.
To her Maximilian unfortunately
yielded; he went to Mexico, accom
panied by his dauntless and exulting
wife, and bravely nerved himself to
meet the perils of his new position.
These perils were not fanciful; the long
conflict between the virtually usurping
emperor and the persistent Juarez is
well known. Its tragic termination, in
which the gallant Austrian went calmly
to the fate of Charles of England and
Louis of France is one c f the most
thrilling episodes iu history. Carlotta
stood staunchly by her husband from
first to last. When his cause waned
and bid ere long to be desperate, this
heroic woman hastened to Europe, felt
at Napoleon’s feet, and begged him to
go to the rescue. StuDg by the retusal
of the one who had lured Maximilian
across the ocean, the unfortunate
princess broke into wild imprecations.
From St. Cloud she hastened to Rome,
only to learn at the Vatican that it was
hopeless. Desperate with disappoint
ment, Carlotta wandered over Europe,
pleading with Francis Joseph at Vi
enna, mourning with her brother in
Brussels. Then the bright though
weary intellect began to fade. She
sank into alternate idiocy and madness;
and while in this diseased fancy she
was fighting the battle over and over
again in the quiet retirement of
Lacken. Maximilian was shot at Qner
etaro.
“J. Gray —Pack with my box five
dozen quills.” There is nothing re
markable about this sentence, only that
it is nearly as short as one can be con
tracted, and yet contains all the letters
f the alphabet.
CARTERS YILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL S. 1575.
■HE THREE FISHKRS.
Three fishers went sa'ling out into the west,
Oat into the west as the sun went down;
Each thought on the woman who loved him best,
And the children stood watching them out of the
town;
For men must work and women mustweep,
And there’s little to earn, and many to keep,
Though the harbor bar be moaning.
Three wives sat up in the light-house tower,
And they trimmed the lamps as the sun went
down ;
They looked at the squall, and they looked at the
shower,
ight-rack came rolling up ragged and
brown!
But men must work and women must weep,
Though storms be sudden and waters deep.
And the harbor bar be moaning.
Three corpses lay out on the shining sands,
In the morning gleam as the sun went down,
And the women are weeping and wringing their
hands
For those who will never come back to the town;
For men must work and women must weep,
And the sooner it’s over the sooner we sleep—
And good-bye to the bar aud its moaning.
The Governor anti the Grizzly.
A correspondent of the San Francisco
Alta writes as follows of the new gov
ernor of California :
Governor Pacheco has, among his ac
complishments—and they are many—
one possessed, we believe, by no other
governor in the United States. He can
iasso and get away with a wild grizzly
bear, and we saw him do it in May,
1852, on the Rancho de los Osos (Bear
Ranch), in San I uis Obispo, then the
residence of Governor Pacheco’s mother.
Away up in the mountains, among the
wild oats, the grizzlies take their morn
ing naps, after their nightly prowling
about in search of any stray calf, pig,
or other small game. Early one morn
ing the enormous print of a grizzly’s
foot was seen in the earth, close by the
dwelling of the governor’s mother, and
in a few minutes Romualdo and two or
three others were in the saddle and off
for the mountains. When the tall, wild
oats, half-way up the mountain, were
reached, the party had not ridden more
than two minutes among the tall, dry
wisps, when the horses suddenly started,
snorting loudly, and instantly a huge
grizzly stood erect, with a terrific pres
ence, high above the dry wild oats. He
looked just like a gigantic negro, with
shaggy, fur overcoat, his eyes gleaming
fiercely, his cruel teeth and red mouth
unpleasantly conspicuous. Each man
and every horse for the instant seemed
petrified—as if, while every nerve and
every muscle and every sense was at
its utmost tension, they had suddenly
looked upon the Medusa. In a sec
ond’s time Pacheco spurred forward,
swinging his lasso. The bear corn
men ceu sparling warily, and few pro
fessional boxers can fend off as these
creatures will. But Pacheco’s lasso
shot; like an arrow and clasped about the
huge fore-foot, when the horse (who
saw every movement, and was as wide
awake as Pacheco) sprang the other
way, and, the lasso beiDg fast to the
pommel, the bear was instantly thrown
to the ground, when two other men,
quick as lightning, had thrown their
lassos and caught the hind fact: then
another rider caught the loose lore
foot, and the four horses took their
positions like cavalry animals trained
by some noiseless signal, and slowly
marched down the mountain’s side, two
horses in the van and two in the rear,
dragging Ursa Major quietly down the
grassy descent, the rear horses keeping
just taut-line eDOUgh to prevent the
bear from getting any use of his terri
ble hind claws. Nahl has painted some
of these California lassoing scenes that
have been as near justice to such excit
ing tableaux as could be done by the
painter’s art, but nothing could portray
the intensity of excitement and action
brought forth at such a moment. Pach
eco was, at that time, twenty-one years
old. and the handsomest man we ever
looked upon.
I guess the panther in the wilderness
was not more fair than he.
When he first realized the sudden
pretnnee of the terrible enemy and
stood erect in his stirrups, his face
gleaming with the glory of youth, fear
lessness, and excitement—his great
black eyes sparkling, his white teeth
tightly pressed upon his Dether lips,
perfectly still for a second, he was the
most glorious object in nature. In no
longer time than the sight of this could
be just taken in he sprang forward, his
long, dark hair tossed wildly for a mo
ment, and then he had captured the
bear, as related.
The captors slowly took their prisoner
down to the house, where a long, heavy
piece of timber lay upon the grass.
Fastening the bear’s hind-feet to the
timber with the strong lasso, and the
fort-feet to a strong, deep-driven stake,
they stepped away to a respectful dis
tance, their eyes upon the ferocious
creature and their hands upon their
saddle-pommels. We walked up close
to the bear to take a careful look at
him. All cried out “ Cuiado !” “ Take
care. ”
“ Why, he’s all secure,” we said.
“ Yes, but look out.”
“ You don’t think he could get loose?”
“ Perhaps not, but you’d better keep
away 1”
And we did.
Tire bear lay with his head between
his huge paws, covering his eyes, save
occasionally when he could furtively
lift his ryes, like a sulky child, to look
at his captors : then covering his eyes
again, remain a moment and steal an
other look. Soon he gave heavy sighs,
and someone said, “He is dying.”
We expressed surprise to learn that
the bear was wounded.
“ He is not wounded,” they replied,
“but his heart breaks—he dies of
rage.” And in a few moments he had
breathed his last, and was dragged
away some distanoe from the house and
left.
Pacheco pointed to the sky. We
'ooked and saw a hundred carrion
crows, whose watchful eyes had seen
the feast long before it was halfway
down the mountain Bide ; and before
we were a hundred yards from the dead
bear its body was completely hidden by
the Sible, flapping wings of the hungry
undertakers.
The Wrasses.
Dr. Bacbelder, of Central New York,
talks thus of the different grasses with
which he has been experimenting:
Perennial rye-grass he considers of no
value for hay or pasture, as it. will not
endure the winters, but Italian rye
grass, he says, is hardly anywhere in
New York, and is one of the most val
uable grasses known, either to cut for
soiling or for hay. In vigor it is like
orchard-grass, but is finer in texture,
and is of the “cut and come again”
kind, often produoiDg two crops of hay
in a season, and then a rich aftermath.
Meadow fescue he finds to be one of
the most vigorous, adapted to either
meadow or pasture. It equals timothy
in the same time. It is a good grass
to grow with timothy. Sweet vernal
grass ought to be grown in the meadow
to give fragrance to the other hay.
Cattle devour it with great eagerness.
Orchard grass alone, or with the medinm
clover, is valuable, but then it ripens
too soon for timothy. If cut just be
fore the flower-scape opens, it makes a
valuable hay, but if left till it ripens it
is no better than rye straw. Timothy,
Italian rye grass, meadow fescue, red
top, meadow-oat grass and red clover
ripen well enough to make good hay,
and are well adapted to the climate,
which is the great consideration. The
proportion he gives of each is as fol
lows : Timothy, ten pouuds; Italian
rye, live pounds; meadow-oat grass,
two pounds ; red clover, eight pounds
For pasture he thinks June and orchard
grass the best. The doctor thinks the
Alfalfa will prove valuable in the west
and south-west.
A Plot for a Playwright.
We remember a tradition of the
Mae-a-Cheek valley that would be well
to commence with. After the fight,
and destruction of the Indian towns in
that locality, one of the volunteers,
wandering in the woods, saw the head of
an Indian peering a him from behind
} rock, and without a whereas of any
length and a resolution quite as brief,
brought bis gun to his shoulder and
fired a shot that tumbled over the in
quisitive aboriginal. To the hunter’s
horror he found the victim of the fe
male sex, with a papoose strapped to
her back. He removed the babe, and
he and his companion buried the
mother. He carried the infant over a
hundred miles to his log cabin, on the
banks of the Ohio, and adopted the
boy. He grew to manhood, a shy, wild
fellow, with no taste for civilized pur
suits, and a love for the woods.
The situation was not pleasant, for
the youthful Lo was expected to work
for his living, and the labor was of the
hardest. To make matters worse, he
had the misfortune to fall in love with
his patron’s daughter, a beautiful girl
with no end of suitors, and as ah In
dian in those days was regarded as a
liitle better than a negro now, his love
making did not prosper. His love was
soon plighted to another, and as the
wedding day drew near the young In
dian disappeared. The marriage came
off with its usual merry-making, that
consisted of rifle-shooting, races, and
wrestling during the day, and dancing
and drinking at night.
The married couple had retired to
the bridal-chamber, that made one end
of the double log cabin, and the merry
making continued all night. The next
morning the two so lately united for
life were called to breakfast. They did
not respond, for the very good reason
that both were dead, being found mur
dered on their bridal couch.
All knew who the avenger was ; but
to leave no doubt upon that head a
wampum be.t, worked by the poor girl
years before, was found upon the floor
at her feet. But he was never heard of
after. He seemed to vanish into night
and memory. The poor father, recog
nizing the hand of retribution, took to
UGU HU OUU^ICOO,
He is remembered as a member of the
committee of ways and means, and
accumulated quite a property out of
subsidies and Indian contracts. He is
spoken of to this day by an aged, red
nosed, life insurance agent as that
“ bloody old Brown who was a Jackson
man with a bad breath and a worse
temper.”— Washington Capital.
An Important Treaty Kali fled.
In accordance with a joint resolution
of congress, approved Jane 17, 1874,
and due notice given to the government
of Belgium, through the United States
ministtr at Brussels, on the Ist of July,
1874, the treaty of commerce and nav
igation which was concluded between
the United States and the king of the
Belgians in 1858 will terminate on the
first of July next. In the place of it
the president sent to the senate yester
day, and that body ratified to-day, a
new treaty, signed at Washington on
rhe Bth inst., by Secretary Fish and the
Belgian Minister, M. Delfasse. A ma
jority of the articles of the treaty relat
ing t<> commerce are copie i verbatim
from the treaty of 1858 Article four
of the old treaty, exempting steam ves
sels of both countries from tonnage,
anchorage, buoys and light-house du
ties, is omiittd from the new.
A provision lias been added to the
most favored nation article, giving
either of the high constructing parties
the right to terminate the article and
obligation at any time by giving one
year’s notice. The following new arti
cle, in regard to trade marks, has also
been added, aud is of especial interest
to American merchants and manufac
turers :
Article 15. The high contracting par
ties, desiring to secure complete and
efficient protection to the manufactur
ing industry of the respective citizens,
agree that any counterfeiting in one of
the two couutiies of the trade marks
affiixed in the other on merchandise to
show its origin and quality shall be
strictly prohibited, and shall give
ground for an action of damages in
favor of the injured party, to be pros
ecuted in the courts of the country iu
which the counterfeiting shall be proved.
The trade marks in which citizens of
one of the two countries may wish to
secure the right of property in the
other must be lodged, to wit: The
marks of citizens of the United States
at Brussels, iu tbe office of the clerk
of tbe tribunal of commerce, and the
marks of Belgian citizens, at tbe patent
office at Washington. It is understosd
that if a trade mark has become public
property in the country of its origin, it
shall be equally free to all in the other
country.
The most.favored article of the treaty
called forth a little discussion, but the
treaty was ratified without any real op
position.
Appropriations Made by Congress.
—The following are the totals of the
appropriation bills passed by the last
c;ingress for the next fiscial yeßr, taken
from the official copies of the laws.
They are absolutely exact:
Post Office $ 37,524,361
Pensions 30,000,000
Sundry civil expenses 26,622,682
Army 27,933,860
Legislative, executive and judicial. 18,886,228
Rivers and harbors 6,662,078
Naval 17,001,306
Indian , 5,074,554
C insular and diplomatic 1,374,985
Fortifications 850,000
Military Academy 374,740
Total for 1875-76 $172,294,766
Deficiency for 1874 and former years. 3,009,468
Total $165,304,265
Total for 1874-75 177,118,719
Total for 1873 74 201,389,186
Reduction this vear, about 2.000.000
At the trial of one Putoam, at Vir
ginia City, for leading an idle, dissolute
lie, District Attorney Cambell defined
a bummer as “aggregated, concatena
ted, conglomerated, segregated, con
taminated, d—d loafer.” This decided
tl.e jar? at once, and they found Put
nam guilty.
FACTS FROM ALL SOURCE*.
According to the agricultural re
turns of 1874, there has been an increase
instead of decrease in the stock of
horses in Great Britain. The total
number of horses is 367,000. The in
crease during the past five years is 66,-
000. The excess in 1874 over the num
ber returned for 1873 is 35,000. These
figures plainly demonstrate that the
scarcity of equine stock so loudly com
plained of is mainly owing to the greaser
demand.
The Fultz wheat t rown the past sea
son upon the experimental farm of the
Pennsylvania agricultural college, at
West Grove, Chester county, Pa., has
yielded at the rate of forty-two bushels
to the acre. The next highest products
were the Britts ny and red wheat, 37 44
60 bushels ; Rough and Ready, 34 52-
80, and White Chaff Mediterranean, 34
40 60 bushels.
The Alabama agricultural college and
a committee of cotton planters have
established an experimental station,
near Wheeler’* station, in the northern
part of the state. Eleven acres are to
be divided into plats of one eighth of
an acre each, on which experiments are
to be tried with thirty different kinds or
qualities of manure, and then repeated
on subsoiled land.
A Michigan man has raised five lem
ons on a tree which he keeps in a hot
house. It took four tons of coal, and
he sold the lemons for twenty cents.
He is going to enlarge his building so
as to raise oranges and bananas.
South Amebica is the paradise of
thistles. They are large enough to af
ford shade for cattle, and are sufficient
ly tall to afford protection to highway
men, who with their horses hide behind
them.
Empty oyster and fruit cans are not
of much value, but if the cap to them
be melted off, and the cans otherwise
uninjured they may be put to use. It
is a good plan to fill them with lard for
summer use.
The Kansas City Price Current al
ready has information that 99,500 head
of Texas cattle are to be driven to that
place this season, and thinks the total
drive will equal that of 1874.
The Wisconsin granges already have
established 41 co-operative associations
for selling goods, and manufacturing,
and 29 insurance companies ; all flour
ishing, and representing capital to the
amount of $4,000,000.
In England the small farmers are
forming clubs for the purchase of short
horned bulls to improve their stock.
Their example might profitably be fol
lowed in this country.
MOISTURE AT WILL.
M. Parar is said to be the discoverer
of a way of doing without rain, if neces
sary. He knew that the air is full of
moisture, and he knew that chloride of
calcium would attract and condense it
for caltnring purposes. He has applied
this chloride on sand hills and road
grass,jm aU sortslof J&ils.
it may be applied in such proportions
as will produce the irrigation of land
more cheaply and efficiently than by
means of canals or other methods of
securing artificial irrigation. One of
Mr. Parar’s applications will produce
and retain abundant moisture for three
days, when the same amount of water
introduced by the present method will
evaporate in an hour. He believes that
his preparation will not only produce
two blades of grass to grow where but
one now grows, but that it will render
possible fields, meadows, and prosperi
ty, where now there is nothing but sand
and desert waste.
CHARCOAL KILN.
To a correspondent who asked for in
formation about building a kiln for
charcoal-burning, The New York Times
replies : Pale or soft brick will not
answer for charcoal kiln. Only well
burned hard brick can be used, as the
wear and tear is considerable. The
common shape of these kilns is conical,
or that of an old fashioned bee-hive, or
as nearly as possible the shape of an
ordinary “charcoal-pit." It is most
economical to make them of large size,
abo it twenty-four feet in diameter and
the same in height. The walls are a
brick and a half thick for ten feet up,
and a brick thick for the remainder.
Such a kiln will cost SI,OOO, with the
iron doors and bauds to strengthen it,
and wilt hold forty cords oI wood,
yielding about 1,600 bushels of coal at
each burning. Charcoal is worth twen
ty five cents a bushel in New York.
SUGAR BEETS.
A correspondent of The Indiana Farm
er writes: “I have raised sugar beets
on a small scale for several years, with
very satisfactory results, as they are
eaten in the winter by almost all kinds
of stock with great avidity, and are an
excellent substitute for grass, prevent
ing costiveness, and keeping up a good
appetite. They are rich in saccharine
matter, and economical food, as they
produce enormous crops on suitable
land, when well cultivated. The most
suitable land for them is a rich, loamy
soil, somewhat clayey, either naturally
dry or well-drained. They should be
drilled in rows, three feet apart, in soil
finely pulverized. They should be
drilled four or five inches apart in the
rows, and when well started, thinned
out to ten inches apart. Cultivate thor
oughly three or four times with a one
horse cultivator, after which, pull out
by hand any weeds that may remain or
that may start after the cultivation is
done. If the season is favojable you
will get from 600 to 800 bushels per
acre.
CONCERNING CROCKERY.
When buying crockery, it is poor
economy to buy an inferior article be
cause it can be purchased at one-third
le is price. A first-class article of porce
lain will out-wear many inferior pieces,
aid still preserve its freshness. It
never absorbs stale odors, no matter
how many times heated. It does not
crackle bv usage, thus marring its
beauty. Neither is it as liable to break
when used harshly. Too hot water
poured over dishes, when cleaning
them, is a very injurious practice.
Dishes should be washed in suds, and
if rinsed, the rinsing should never be
too hot to bear the hand. Hard-boil
ing wat r poured from the tea-kettle
over dirty dishes is a slovenly practice,
which will eoon tell its tale in cabalistic
characters all over the face of the
crockery.
PATCHING BOYS’ CLOTHES.
A motherly woman writing in the
Curistiau Monitor, declares that she
fully agrees with any thoughtful woman
who spares her boys the humiliation of
wearing great round or triangular
patches, when her own skill and a gen
erous supply of pieces make the re
seated pants look almost as well as new
ones. May they hold her in grateful
rememb ranee, long after they shall
have outlived the era of torn trousers.
She suggests that when pants need re
pairing over the knee, it is a good way
to rip Hie seems each side of the worn
part, cut it out and insert anew piece,
pressing it nicely before closing the
side seam again. Neither boy nor man
need be ashamed to wear garments
neatly patched if it be necessary, and
every girl should be taught that mend
ing well is an essential part of domes
tic economy.
WASHING HOUSE PLANTS.
The following is from that excellent
English journal, Land and Water :
Have a large pail or tnb filled with
warm soap-suds; then spreading the
finger and the palm of the left hand
over the soil in the pot, turn the
branches topsy-turvy into the warm
soap-suds, swing the plant briskly in
the water till every leaf has become
completely saturated, then put it
through a pail of clean water and rub
each leaf with the thumb and finger :
give it a good shake and when dry re
turn it to its place in tb>‘ window. The
leaves of a plant are its lungs, each
leaf being furnished with hundreds of
minute pores, whence the plants breathe
in carbon and exhale oxygen. The
perspiration of plants is said to be
seventeen times that of the human
body. Many plants never bloom on
account of the accumulation of dust
upon their leaves. A plant too large to
be laid down in a tub as above de
scribed may be syringed, and each leaf
rubbed olean with the finger and thumb,
which are better for this purpose than
a brush or cloth.
EULOGY OF THE TOAD.
The editor of The American London
writes thus of a creature not famed
for its beauty: The toad—although
universally despised and upbraided for
his ugliness—is yet a useful, good
natured, quiet fellow, who reoognizes
his friends and those who aie kind to
him. We have some half dozen of
them in oar small garden, and among
them one old patriarch who, when we
are digging or hoeing, will sit winking
and blinking at us with his pretty eyes,
and often compel us to lift or drive him
aside to get him out of harm’s way.
He will stay by us for hours, evidently
feeling that he need fear no hurt. Like
the sparrow, the toad has been consid
ered a nuisance, and in some sections
exterminated; but the exterminators
have been only too glad, afterward, to
get him back by the expenditure of
large sums of money. So useful are
toads in gardens that they are sold in
Franoe by the dozen, for the purpose
of stocking gardens to free them from
many injurious insects. The toad lives
almost entirely on winged insects, and
never does harm to the plant.
Norway.
In its general aspect Norway presents
the most unpromising conformation of
surface for farming operations that can
well be conceived. Mountain ranges,
with plateaus whose altitude precludes
cultivation, and from which rise moun
tains that reach an elevation of eight
thousand feet above the sea, prevail
cept in the south the mountain-tops are
covered wit* snow for the greater part,
if not all the year; their slopes, when
not absolutely inaccessible, are far too
rocky and abrupt for farming settle
ments. The deeper valleys that inter
sect these mountain ranges, and which
ramify with the contortions of the hills,
are channels up which the sea sends its
tides; above the level of these fjords
are other water-worn valleys, whioh
convey the overflow of the mountain
lakes, subsided by countless streams
that in varying volume leap from the
hills as waterfalls, or rush foaming
down the mountain side—the impervi
ous primitive or metamorphoric rocks
that are characteristic of the country
not permitting the absorption of the
melting snows or the summer’s rains.
There exists, therefore a very extensive
superficial area that presents physical
as well as climatic difficulties of a char
acter not to be surmounted by the most
enterprising cultivators. With few ex
ceptions the homestead of the Norsk
farmer is built on the lower slopes of
the hills, where, in fact, the wash of
the rocky surfaces, in broken stone and
silty soil, has accumulated to a suffi
cient depth for the operation of the
plow; or on the embanked levels of
loamy soil, the deposits left by ancient
rivers, cr when rich lacustrine alluvium
is met with or where moraines are
spread out at the embouchure of gla
cier grooved and expansive valleys,
forming suitable sites of scattered ham
lets and little farms.
Spelling-Matches.
The latest mania which has seized
upon Young America is that of spelling
mat ches. They have spiead as rapidly
as the epizootic did. It is an old custom
which had fallen into disuse, but has
been revived with a rapidity which is
truly astonishing. Commencing in New
England, only a few weeks ago, they
have quickly spread to the west, the
last place to be attacked being Nebraska.
The object of these [matches is a very
excellent one, the proceeds and rewards
being given to the poor. They are in
nocent in character, not liable to lead
people into temptation, and are cheap
and tranquilizing. They do not excite
the passions, keep people out very late
at nights, or distract their attention
from business. In these respects they
are much to be preferred to church
lotteries, religious refiles, Jarley wax-
works, and other similar modes of
spreading the gospel into heathen lands
Some of the facts connected with these
matches are very peculiar. Although
nearly all women are accustomed to
have had spells at times, they almost
invariably come off victorious in these
matches, and put down the tyrant ma*
without any difficulty. Men of literary
pretensions have been floored with
“flaccid,” flageolet,” “ballast,” “bal
ance,” privilege,” “capillary,” “co
lossal,” “correlate,” “appall,” and
even little monosyllabic words, nurled
at them by the gentler sex.
“ Here are the rules given lor recog
nizing a person’s character from his
manner of laughing. There are as
many kinds of laughter as there are
vowels. People who laugh in A are
frank, variable lovers of noise and
bustle. Laughter in E belongs to
phlegmatic and melancholy people. O
indicates generosity of feeling and bold
ness of movement; be your gnaru if it
belongs to woman. 1. I, I, is the
laughter of children and artless people;
it denotes a kind, devoted nature, but
timid and irresolute. Avoid ns you
would the plague, those who laugh in
U ; they are misers, hypocrites, misan
thropes ; pleasure has no charm for
them.”
An Oregon paper makes the predic
tion that in twenty years the export of
pranes from that state will be greater
in value than the export of wheat.
Those Pacific coast croakers had better
wait and see how many sorts of ioot
rot, sun-scald, and insect enemies at
tack their trees during the next few
years. * -
VOL. 16—NO. 15.
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
The Ohio senate has passed a bill
fixing the compensation of members of
tho legislature at SSOO per annum.
For generations past, French has
been the diplomatic language of Europe.
On the close of the Franoo-Prussian
war, Berlin wrote a diplomatic note in
German, of the deepest Russian blue,
to St. Petersburg ; the latter replied in
good Russian, sixteen quarters black.
The exchange of correspondence stopped
then and there in those two languages,
uid French was resumed.
Young fellow, if you have been
burning up another man’s fuel and
coal oil all winter, without yet arriving
at a definite understanding with his
girl, you may expect to be chalked down
:18 a light and pithless fraud, and may
look to have the scathing finger of
scorn and the blacn muzzle of a bull
dog pointed at you if you attempt to
fake up your swing on the gate where
vou left off last fall.
At last here is anew fancy in the
prestidigitation line. He borrowed a
bonnet from a lady in theandience, and
ns he was about to return it it caught
firo in the gas, and he had to stamp on
it with both feet to extinguish the
flame. Misery of the lady !It was her
best bonnet. Then he fired a pistol, and
a bonnet just like it fell from the chan
delier in the middle of the theatre.
Talking of the tight skirts which are
now in fashion, a lady who was born in
the last century said the other day :
‘“You call those tight skirts! You
should have seen Madame Tallien then
when she walked in the Tuileries with
a dress of an almost transparent text
ure, worn over a pair of silk tights !
You have not come to that.” “ No,”
answered another lady, “and I hope
v e never shall. ”
Talmage is back in his favorite role
again. In his last Christian at Work,
he offers a last word of gratuitous
advice to theatrical people : “If you
will only stoop down and look through
the cracks in the floor of the stage, ”
he says, “ you will see fire and smell
smoke. Better fly for your life. It is
hard work getting to heaven from the
American theater. You will have to
spring seventy-five feet at the first
jump !”
A clergyman, at a recent teachers’
meeting in Ohio, said that teachers are
too often selected in the wrong way.
“ Examiners make an intellectual re
quirement in straight-jacket style, and
pay no attention whatever to the par
ticular natural, innate adaptedness of
the teacher for the f rofession, at and thus
men and women are found at the head
ol our schools who are no more able +<*
develop the huntf ti mind than a Mococ
is to draw a pi< ture of the heavenly
Jerusalem with .•harcoah”
Horrible Death from the Bite of a
Tarantula.
Mrs. Jervis, the wife of a farmer
living near Sacramento, died a few
duys ago in this city, from the bite of a
tarantula. The case is singular, and is
another instance of the deadly attri
butes of this insect, not uncommon in
many portions of California. Borne
six months ago, Mrs. Jervis, then liv
irg on her husband's farm, had occa
sion to strike a light, and going to a
closet felt about for a match. While so
doing she found something in a piece
of writing paper which she thought
might be a bunch of matches, and took
hold of it. As she did she felt a sharp
pain like the prick of a needle or pin,
aad found something attached to her
fore-fiDger. She screamed with terror,
her husband rose, lit a candle, and to
his horror found that she was bitten by
a tarantula—whose poison is deadly
unless the wound be immediately cau
terized. He told his wife that she had
only one chance of her life, to have the
injured part cut out. She consented,
and getting his razor, he cut a piece
oue inch square out of her finger. The
unfortunate woman stood the operation
heroically, but its effects were not such
as were desired. She lingered for six
months in continual agony, her blood
liberally drying up, till she was re
duced to an absolute skeleton. Three
months before her death her entire
right side became paralyzed; yet,
strange to say, the hand had a tendency
to crawl, and tho fingers incesrautly
moved like the legs of a spider. Tins
feeling she said she could not control,
and it presents one of the strongest
phases of this disease, though a Hsnal
accompaniment, so averred, of poison
ing by insects of the spider kind.—
San Francisco Post.
Xew Treatment of Cancer.
Anew and wonderful application of
alcohol has recently been made in the
treatment of tumors and cancer.
Schwalbe, of Weinheim, has reported
100 cases of various forms of indolent
glandnlar swellings treated successfully
by the subcutaneous injection of the
tincture of iodine. Latterly he has
used injections of simple alcohol in
fifty similar cases, and lias found the
results equally favorable and the time
required for a cure no greater, and he
therefore concludes that the alcohol is
the essential remedial agent. He ex
plains its curative action as follows :
It establishes a state of chronic inflam
mation in the connective tissue, caus
ing it to contract by degrees, and thus
pressure is brought upon the vessels
ar,d the lymphatics are obliterated.
These effects, and the consequent hard
ening of the connective tissue, he pro
proposes to utilize in the treatment of
other tumors, and reports the cure of
;atty tumors by the use of such injec
tions, to which some ether was added
n order to dissolve the fat. He finds,
however, the most importdut applica
tion of his plan in the treatnunt of
cancer by preventing its ext: t sion to
the neighboring tissues and lymphatic
glands. The turner is first to be ieo
lated, as it weie, by causing the con
nective tissue on all" sides of it to be
come shriveled Then the contractive
connective tissue, approaching the
growth itself, presses upon it, cuts off
its blood supply, and so causes it to
disappear by atrophy. Lymphatic
glands which are already affected are to
be similarly treated. Schwalbe, with
Dr. Hasse, claims to have cured three
cases of cancer of the breast in this
way.
Value of the Leaves. —An intelli
gent lady stripped her grape-vines of a
portion of their leaves, in order to let
in the sun and ripen the fruit; but, to
her surprise, where the leaves n mained
as nature had disposed them, the grapes
were the earliest, and every way the
best. This led her to investigate the
matter, when she was deli edited to learn
that the leaves wei 3 not only the' 'pro
tectors, but the caterers of the fruit,
constantly elaborating and supplying it
with the pabulum it required to bring
it to perfection.