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A Poetical Contrast.
The Dove and tbe Raven.
Few poems have been more widely read than
Poe’s ‘Raven,’ so peculiar in its style and gloomy
in its thought and conception. For long years
it has hung over the human heart with a dark,
despondent chilliness, and where sorrow and
loss and disappointment had found a lodgment
in a weak and sensitive nature, it has made the
gloom darker, the loss heavier and the disap*
ment still greater. Echoing through the sad
portals of bereaved and lonely hearts, the re
frain of 'Nevermore* has been the death knell
of hopes that might have been nursed into re*
newed life by a more cheerful faith and a bright
er and happier visitant from ‘Aiden.’
With this view of the matter in his mind, my
gifted friend. Rev. J. H. Martin, D. D., pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta, has
written a companion poem, 'The Dove,’ which
takes a more cheerful and soul-inspiring view
of the ‘dear departed.’ Instead of a dark
winged messenger ol sorrow and gloom, a bird
of brighter plumage and sweeter voice comes
back from 'Aiden' to the silent chamber of the
bereaved lover. To all Christian hearts that
look beyond mere literary excellence, this ten
der poem of faith and hope will prove most ac
ceptable. Its author has published a volume of
poems and many of his hymns and lyrics are
much admired for their purity of thought and
graeeful measure. 'The Dove’ is a production
that needs no commendation from my poor pen,
and I desire only to state that it comes before
the public at my earnest solicitation, and after
considerable hesitation on the part of the ac
complished author. I am sure that the joint
study and comparison of the two poems—aside
from their literary merits—will do your readers
good. It can but serve to encourage and
strengthen their faith and whisper comforting
words to their bereaved and stricken hearts.
Sidney Herbert in Free Press.
THE HOVE.
A COMPANION TO POES RAVEN.
By Rev. J. U. Martin, D. D.
Once upon a summer evening,
As 1 lay reposing, dreaming,
While the twinkling stars were beaming
And their light was faintly gleaming,
Through the window of my room,
Suddenly beside my pillow,
Like the murmur of a billow.
Or the sigh of weeping willow,
’Mid the shadow and the gloom,
There was heard a gentle sound,
Floating on the air around.
As an echo from above;
And I, waking, saw a dove
Perched upon the whitened bead
Of a statue near my bed.
And it seemed with soft, low cooing,
My lone heart to soothe with wooing,
Like an angel from the sky,
Ora spirit hovering nigh.
While I lay entranced aad dreaming,
Startled by the echo seeming
To be whispered from above,
In the starlight faintly gleaming,
With its form of beauty beaming,
1 beheld the snowy dove:
With a thrill of wonder, gazing
■On the visitor,amazing,
I demanded: “Who are you ?”
And the gentle bird of whiteness.
With its snowy robe of brightness,
Answered with a coo:
•“I am sent,” he said, “from Aiden,
By a fair and lovely maiden,
With a message unto thee;
I am come to soothe thy sorrow,
Bid tiiee from despair to borrow
Hope that thou her face shalt see;
For thy cherished one is living,
And her thoughts to thee is giving,
On a bright and distant shore;
And I come, her carrier dove.
With a message from thy love,
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By this joyful news excited,
Raptured, ravished and delighted,
I, the snowy bird addressing.
Asked, with earnest voice inquiring,
What my soul was most desiring.
That her name to me expressing,
He would set my heart at rest—
Still the tumult in my breast,
And assure me that my maiden.
In tiie distaut fields of Aiden
Waited for me on that shore—
Would be mine forevermore.
Then I spoke with greater fervor,
I, the maiden's ardent lover:
‘Roes my own departed live?
•'T<? the bird of whiteness listening
While my eager eyes were glistening,
For the answer he should give);
‘Tell me. O thou carrier dove.
Of my absent, cherished love.
Whom I knew in days of yore;
Has she passed the shining portal
Of the blessed land immortal,
Going through the golden door.
Hoes she move in light and splendor,
no the graces all attend her,
,9u that fair and distant shore?’
Words and tones andlooks revealing
All my depths of inward feeling,
Moved, affected by ray pleading,
And my anxious question heeding,
Thus 1 he dove, my soul discerning,
Answer made, these words returning:
‘In the distant fields of Aiden,.
On a bright, Klysiau shore.
Dwells a fair and lovely maiden,
And her name is Ellnoro;
’Mid tiie llowersabout her blooming,
’Mid theodors sweetperiuming
All the balmy air around,
She arrayed in robes of whiteness,
Walks an angel in her brightness,
With a wreath immortal crowned.
Then the bird, his wings unfolding,
Left me, as Hay beholding, .....
Filled with transport and delight,
■With a soft, sonorous coo,
Nodding, bidding me adieu.
Through the open window flew
Out into the gloomy night.
But the bright, enchanting vision
Of the distant fields Elysian,
And my cherished JElinore,
As a fair auu lovely maiden.
Dwelling in the land of Aiden,
Is my light forevermore.
There shall I, my loved one greetin ol
At our fut ure, early meeting,
On that distant, radiant shore,
With ecstatic joy and gladness.
Free from parting, pain andsadness,
Clasp again my Elmore,
Cull her mine forevermore!
Literary Ladies.
23Y THE ROVING PRINTER
Mrs. Mary
charming St.
Maples Dodge, editress of the
Xicholas, is a bright-eyed rosy
cheeked woman. From her face one would
think that she was a stranger to the corroding
influences of affliction. In luxurious furnish
ing her little office in Scribner’s building ex-
cefds any editorial office in the city of New York,
while in arrangement aud thoroughness of ap
pointment it is thought to be unequaled inthe
country. She iB a farmer’s daughter, her father
having been for many years editor of the 11 ork-
Alfss Alice C. Chase, late editress of the Eire-
sid? Visitor, at Chicago, 111.. *ias succeeded in
the whole range of journalism from writings
serial story to L editorial on
Hamer's Bazaar is edited by Miss Alary h.
^ albeit homely, is one of the most
Booth, who,
Homan nose, and tnrow* -hianoni
of the inevitopie ey y f hereditary
physician—Dr. Clarke d ohi i d ren.
"TKawtfSA-f <■-** *- -
in diet and presistenoe in exercise.
A Little Fun.
A note in a bank is like a rose, because it ma
tures by falling dew.
A photograph album is a thing for beaux to
study while the bell is fixing her back hair. ,
Tom Scott says railroad business will brighten
np in the fall, and the lay of the last riot is
heard.
The last Irish bull is: ‘If I lived with such a
disagreeable woman she should always be
alone.’
They are very partioul ar—they wouldn’t al
low a mail wagon to Btop opposite the Women’s
Hotel in New York.
A Washington paper says: ‘This office is
closed for repairs. The Hon. David Davis
dropped in on us yesterday.’
Mrs. Fortune of Halifax, has given birth to
twins—girls of coarse, ‘Miss Fortunes never
come singly.’
Dr. Le Moyne offers to cremate spring poets
at half price.—Puck. Editors can now utilize
their back yard burying grounds for agricul
tural purposes.
A woman can’t put on auy side-saddle style
when she goes in a swimming. She has either
got to kick out like a man or get drowned,
A New York woman’s hair turned gray at
Bight of a snake twenty-five inches long. Had
she seen the sea serpent she wonld probably have
become a mummy at once.
‘Trnth is not drowned by water nor destroyed
by fire,’ but we’ve seen men who’d stand up and
make kindling wood of her in order to beat a
street car conductor out of five cents.
Naturalists are always harping on the intelli
gence of bees, but the drove of mosquitoes
which waits at the key-hole until the family are
in bed are passed over as slightingly as you
please. This is rank favoritism.
Here is an extract from a little boy’s composi
tion: ‘When cats is a swearin’ andablasfemin’,
aud a tryin’ the gages of their bilers in the back
yard at nite it makes a fellow awful fraid, if he
isn’t sleeping with his big brother.’
The Pittsburgh Telegraph has a wonderful
story entitled, ‘Saved by a Mule.’ If the Editor
of the Telegram has been saving anybody’s life
why don’t he come right out and say so, and
not go at it in snch a round about manner.
Four boys, while whistling ‘Grandfather’s
Clock’ and ‘Whoa Emma,’ a few days ago, were
killed by lightning. (This is a falsehood—but
is it a sin to lie for a good, wholesome purpose ?
All of this paragraph outside of the parenthesis
should be read to the boys.)
Nearly every man in the crowd has had some
thing to say derogatory to the eagle on the new
dollar. We don’t mean to say anything harsh
against the legal-tender bird until we’ve seen
him. If our readers want to hear something
real funny on the subject, let them send us a
specimen. If we don’t make them roar we’ll
shut np shop.
•Yon wasn’t around where they dealt out hair,
was you ? ’ said a red-headed man to a bald-head
ed man in a railroad car. ‘Yes, I was there,’
said the man with a skating rink on the top of
his head: ‘I was there but they offered me a
handtul of red, aud I told them to throw it in
the coal-scuttle to kindle the fire with.’
The women of Cyprus, like all the Greek wo
men, chew great quantities of mastic, imported
by the island of Scio, and deem it graceful to
appear always masticating this gum, aud it will
soon be in order for a later Byron to remark:
‘Maid of Cypus, now we’ve come, Leave, oh,
leave off chewing-gum.
Onoe when the lltrald was urging Horace
Lotmlw'ut uio iicruia Bent lur yu6
of his editorial writers, and objected to his pre
fixing ‘Mr,’ to Greeley’s name. ‘You wouldn’t
speak of Mr. Socrates, would you ? Greeley's a
greater philosopher than Socrates ever was.
The abashed editor promised never to repeat the
offence.
To the fond mother who has several marriage
able daughters, and does her own laundry work,
the picnic season is a petrified fact, ihe music
which a rustling white skirt imparts to a Picnic
ground is altogether different from that which it
emits when on an ironing board, being some
what more melodious but not so great in volume
A young man applied at a newspaper office the
other day for a situation. ‘Have you ever had
any experience as an editor ? asked the news
paper man. ‘Well, no, not exactly,’ replied the
ambitious aspirant, oautiously: ‘but I’ve been
cowhided a number of times, have been married
- nuite a while, have worn borrowed clothes for
I three years, and never had a cent of money, so
II thought I might work in,’ Be was engaged,
I Mr BaciiK'bal— ‘Most convenient 1 I can con
verse’ with Mrs. B. just as if I was in my own
drawing-room. 1*11 tell her you are here,
(speaks through the telephone:) ‘Dawdlesis here
—just come from Paris—looking so well—desires
to be,’ etc., etc. Now you take it, and you’ll
bear her voice distinctly.’ Dawdles—‘Weally !
(Dawdle takes it.) The voice—‘For goodness
sake, dear don’t bring that insufferable nooule
home to dinner.’
A certain Sabbath-school superintendent was
in the habit of making collections in the juve
nile department of the school for missionary
purposes. He was not a little surprised one
day to find a counterfeit coin among the pen
nies, and on asking the class who put it there,
the youthful donor was pointed out to him by
one who saw him deposit it. ‘Did you not
know that this was good for nothing ! ’ inquir
ed the teacher. ‘Yes, sir, answered the boy.
‘Then why did you put it in the box? 1
didn’t s’pose,’ replied the boy. ‘that the little
heathens would know the differenc, so I thought
it would be just as good for them as a real one.
George Washington.—The true story of the
little hatchet: , . „,
•George did you chop down the cherry tree i
•What did you say ? ’
‘Did you cnop down the cherry tree t
•Ax me no questions and I’ll tell you no lies.
‘George, have you a hatchet ? ’
‘So’s a hen.’
•You chopped down that tree.
•Didn’t.’ ,
‘Young man commere, to me.
‘What do you want 'i ’
•To play hide and seek.’
So the old man went out to seek the hide.
The scene which ensued in the wood-shed
beggars description. It was touching in the
extreme.
Why He Changed.—A dilapidated individual
stood gazing at a huge pile of watermelons in
front of a Woodward avenue grocery until his
mouth watered, and he made bold to remark to
a man who was selecting one for dinner:
‘I wish I had five cents to get a small melon;
I haven’t tasted a melon for over two years.’
Tne gentleman promptly handed over a nickel
and went on with his selection. About the
time he had his melon picked out he saw the
vagrant coming out of a saloon near by, and he
called oat:
•I thought you wanted that money to buy a
melon.’ * lT
So I did,’ was the very courteous answer, i
told you I hadn’t tasted a melon fpi over two
vmk. and after reflecting a little I found I
The. Men.
A Chicago murderer shot his beautiful young
wife and then went to selling her photographs
while he was oat on bail.
The Marquis of Lorue parts his hair in the
middle and shaves clean. The Princess Lou
ise resembles the Queen and looks older than
her hnsband.
Edison was a few years ago a telegraph tramp.
To-day he is wearing, like, a green-bay horse, the
laurels of the grand prize awarded him by the
Paris Exposition, as the inventor of the great
est novelty of the age.
Culpepper Ya. News: There is a colored boy
livtog on the farm of Major ThrockmortoD, near
Cedar Mountain, about seven miles from Cul
pepper, whose skin is exactly like that of a
snake, the creases and diamond-shaped scales
being plainly discernible on all the unexposed
portions of the body.
John Nunn, a hay-carter, has just died in Es
sex, England, from hydrophobia. He was bit
ten in May, 1874, by the same dog that bit Mr.
Brown, a veterinary surgeon of Stamford Rivers,
whose case excited some interest about twelve
months ago, when bis death from hydropho
bia occurred three years after the bite.
The Boston Post addressed a poem to Ken
tucky, “the land of revolver and rifle,’the land
of rare beauty, where bright eyes are gleam
ing. And belles dress in colors that horses
would scare,” and the bard of the Courier Jour
nal retorts that he’d “rather live in old Ken-
tuck, And be a nigger’s brindle, Than to toil
for bread in Yankee land, Apprenticed to a
spindle.”
The late John Sasser, of Big Tree Creek, Ga.,
was a punctual man. He Bpent one evening
last week with his sweetheart, Miss Johnson,
with whom he made au appointment for 4 p. m.
next day. “Be there on time or I will kill
myself,” he said as they parted. She wasn’t
and when she did get to the trysting place
found him lying dead, with a rifle bullet
through his heart.
Worth, the Paris man milliner, is not a
Erenchman at all. but a Protestant Englishman
wish a Catholic and Parisau wife, and two sons
just out of College. His home is at Suresues, a
suburb of the gay capital, immediately under
the guns of its chief defence. Fort Mort Vale
rian, which the Germans failed to reduce in
1871. Here he he plays the genial host in an
elegant chateau, planted in the midst of exten
sive grounds, which are fenced ia by high buck
walls. One day aud night each year house and
grounds are thrown open to Worth’s employees,
the women appearing in dresses given them from
his store, and each trimmed according to the
great milliner’s directions.
The late Cardinal Franchi was a confirmed
smoker. Daring his visit to Cardinal Man
ning in London he would keep the dinner-
table in a roar, and after dinner coolly take
out his cigar case and offer cigars all around.
Now. smoking was particularly obnoxious to
the English Cardinal, but he bore the fumi
gation with exemplary patience. Patience,
however, has its limits, and the limit was
reached when the illustrious visitor from Rome
took to smoking in his bed-room. The Ital
ians have a custom of branding their cigars
with the names of popular Ministers of State;
and when Franchi was asked in Rome a few
months ago what he smoked, he replied with
ready wit, “Oh, I only smoke Italian Minis
ters—Cavours, Minghetis, etc.”
Yellow Fever.
years, and after reflecting
hadn’t tasted whisky for over three. Therefore,
I cave the whisky a show to catch up with tne
melon, and start off square. Nothing mean
abont me, Bir—good-bye! ’
Domestic Affairs*
uuy auu uu me cup wlthTIjU'ok sour cream; take
one cup sugar, one teaspoouful cream tartar,
one half teaspoon soda. AGATHA
Lemon OuMBLES—One egg, one teacupful
sugar half cup butter, three teaspoonfuls milk,
one of cream tartar, half teaspoonful soda, two
small lemons, juice of both and grated rind of
one. Mix rather stiff; roll and cut out with a
cake CUtter * H. C. M.
To Clean Lamp Chimneys—Hold them over
the lose of the teakettle when said kettle is
boiling furiously. One or two repetitions of
this process will make them beautituily cleai.
Of course they must be wiped upon a clean
cloth.
Grafting scions should be cut in the fall,
buried in the sand until spring, when the graft
may be inserted. Catawba grape is first-class
for table use. Any reliable nurseryman can
give you. the information you want in regard to
fruits, etc.
Nice Glossy StarcU—To three cups water
take three rounded teaspoonfuls ot starch, a
pinoh of salt and one teaspoouful of powdered
borax. Dissolve your borax in part of the water
then add starch and salt; dip your collars, cuffs
and bosoms into the starch. Your irons must
be good; rub them with beeswax, and I promise
you a stiff, glossy surface with never a failure.
Loaf Cake, with Fruit—Two large cups of
powdered sugar, one and a half cups of butter,
stir to a cream, five cups of flour, with three
teaspoonfuls of Dooley’s Yeast Powder, one cup
of sweet milk, half pound of raisins, two ounces >
of citron cut in small pieces, one grated nut
meg, one wineglass of wine, one of brandy,
eight eggs, add the flour with the milk, sugar
aud butter, the beaten yolks of the eggs, and
then the whites well beaten, then the wine, spice
and fruit; make this into two loaves; bake slowly
one hour.
Daring the winter season it will be found a
very good plan, twice or thrice a week, to drop
an even teaspoonful of common cayenne pepper
into, say two gallons of water given to the towls
for their daily drink. This is a grand tonic,
asd it works very kindly toward warming the
blood on chilly days. Another excellent pro
vision is to place at the bottom of the pail or
vessel containing their drink a bit of assafoet-
ida. This impregnates the fluid with its tonic
qualities, and it is very wholesome for fowls in
ttie wintry days. Fresh water should be given,
however, daily, and your birds should never be
without this, when in confinement especially;
for they imbibe a goo i deal if they have it
always at hand.
How TO BOIL meats—The way to cook salt
meats and vegetables is this: Having procured
salt pork or beef, put it on in cold water over a
slow fire: by the time it is cooked the salt is
nearly all out. All boiled salt meats are served
with vegetables, except corned beef, which is
sometimes served without. The ordinary cook,
while the meat is boiling, puts in the vegetables
all at one time, which ia a grave mistake.—Cab
bage should go in first and should cook the
whole of the last hour the meat is on. Twenty
minutes after the cabbage is put iu add the tur
nips and carrots, cooking them forty minutes,
aud in ten minutes more put in common sized
potatoes and parsnips.—In this way the peculi
ar flavor of eaeh vegetable is preserved as well
as its strength.—Fresh meat and vegetables
should be cooked separate. Unlike the salt
meat, fresh meat should not be put in until the
water is boiling, for now we want to close the
pores and preserve what is called the juice.
Joints, flank and leg of matton are the pieces
usually boiled. Delicate soup may be made
after taking the meat out, by adding rice, and
maccaroni to the broth, which is often igno
rantly thrown away.
Sanitary Measures for Atlanta.
Having given some attention to hygiene and
sanitary matters, I propose to offer some sug
gestions as to the improvements of the sanitary
condition of our city. But, before doing so,
let me say a few words with regard to the yellow
fever—the cause or occasion of this sanitary re
vival or excitement. If anything is established
in Medicine, the following are established
facts:
1. That continued high heat, (about 80 deg.
for one or two months) must precede an out
break of yellow fever.
2. This heat must be combined with an excess
of moisture or humidity in the air.
3. Proximity to the sea or a large river is nec
essary for its origin and propagation.
4. That filth and decomposing organic mat
ters have more to do with its origin and spread
than any single cause or combination of causes.
5. That the contagiousness of yellow fever is
positively disproved;- and that its infectiousness, or
communication from person to person through the
atmosphere is denied by the best medical authorities.
6. That the material cause of yellow fever is
never generated or multiplied in* the bodies of
those Having the disease; they may be taken
anywhere without fear of communicating it,
any more than well persons.
In view of these facts, we have no cause for
alarm on account of the appearance in the city
of a few, or even a large number of cases that
may have contracted the disease in other places.
But as filth of all kinds is detrimental to
health, a reproach to any city and a cause of va
rious epidemic and endemic diseases, I agree
fully with Dr. Logan, that this matter should
recieve the immediate and continued attention
of our city authorities. I agree with him also,
in the position that the natural conditions of
underground sewerage, or water-carriages for
the excrementitious matters of the city are want
ing in Atlanta; and that this system must be
supplemented by another, for the removal of the
filth beyond the city limits by means of carts,
or some kind of land carriage. But, I do not
coincide with him, in the view that the danger
from sewers arises from the diffusion of poison
ous matters through the soil. He is reported
as saying, ‘by absorption, infiltration and ex
halation the soil of all portions ot the city where
tney (the sewers) penetrate will become a per
fect hot bed of disease.’ In my view, the dan
ger is not to the soil, but to the atmosphere—
not from absorption and infiltration in the city,
but from exhalations Into the atmosphere and
especially at the initial and terminal points of
the sewers.
The absorption and infiltration could certain
ly be prevented by having well constructed
sewer pipes; and the impregnation of the soil
would be a small matter, even should it occur,
provided our citizens used city and not well
water.
But the trouble is in the atmosphere poison
ing—in the open eyes of sewers throughout the
city, in the immense volumes of gases diffusing
themselves from the termini of the sewers open
ing at every point of the compass; and in the
regurgitation of these gases into houses, having
sewer connections, unless something better
than the ‘traps’ now in use could be devised to
prevent this.
To sum np then: Yellow fever is not commu
nicable from person to person, and in this sense
is neither contagious or infectious; the combi
nation of causes neoessary for its origin and
propagation does not exist in Atlanta and there
fore we have no reason to be alarmed because
some come here with it; filth is a cause of vari-
ne 8 Removed 0 g£y d ogft d ?HK$f^i
means besides sewers, which, in the absence of
sufficient water to carry off this filth, will be the
greatest evil that could be inflicted on the city.
I will only add that all sanitary measures
should be executed by the city authorities. Lit-
tie need be expected from individuals in this
matter, when regularity, system and order are
essential to success. ~
Jxo. Stainback Wilson, Yl. D.
All The World Over.
TIIE WOMEN.
Shooting women from a cannon, is the new
attraction of a Paris circus. They are thrown
some thirty feet and land in a strong netting.
A Massachusetts woman ha3 pledged 25,000
for the endowment of a professorship in the the
ological department of Oberlin College.
A New York woman says: Were it not for the
self-sacrificing women of the land who marry
and support so many men,the number of tramps
would be largely inoreased.
The legislative assembly of Vancouver’s Is
land has modified the bill imposing a tax of fif
ty dollars on each Chinaman in the province,
reducing it to forty dollars. The anti-Chinese
element are rather disgusted at this evidence of
weakening at the outset.
Mr. Roberts, of Estell County, Ky., had a cow
that four months ago, just before calving, got
frightened by a monkey that an organ-grinder
was showing. The calf she soon after produced
is very small aud has a hump on its back, and
its movements, expression and formation of head
and face are those of a monkey.
A Mississippi judge was just saying, that no
one but a coward would carry a pistol, when
his own fell from his pocket and was discharged
aud the bullet hit a lawyer in the leg.
A man in N. I. committed suicide because
Bob Ingersoll, the anti-hell man, went to Eu
rope and he was left behind. ‘There’s no hope
for me, Ingersoll has gone to Europe,’ said Mr.
Trull. ‘I shall drift back now into believing
in hell.’ So he blew out his brains and went to
find ont how things were for himself.
A Precious Meteorite.—The San Bernardi
no (Cal.) Argus says: ‘While on the desert,
Mr. Sweet was the fortunate witness of the fall
of an aerolite. The rock contained mineral —
gold, silver and copper—and weighed abont 250
pounds.’
A Novel Mode of Discovering a Criminal.—
The magistrates of the village of Awa, Japan,
being unable to discover the author of a series
of mysterious crimes opened a poll, inviting
every citizen to name on his ballot the person
whom he thought guilty. One notorious ne’er-
do-well was elected as the culprit by a. g. m.,
and having confessed his crime was promptly
executed.
Mrs. McCheney, a Cleveland, Ohio, paralytic,
had one of her thigh bones snapped asunder
when about to sit down, and, as the doctor was
moving her to her bed after setting it, one of
her arms broke in two; when that was fixed au
ankle gave way,and the doctors despair of keep
ing the woman together.
The family of George Andrew, Creston, Iowa,
had a keg of nails in the house daring a thun
der storm last week, the lightning melted it,
tore a hole through the roof, stunned a child
and scorched the hair of Mrs. Andrew.
The man who believes in weather predictions
had better prepare to get himself inside of
about seventeen different undershirts. The
weakest and mildest prediction calls for weath
er which will freeze Lake Erie twenty feet deep.
Selina Wadge—the woman of Launceston who,
last July, murdered her little child by throwing
it into a well—was hung last week at Bodnim
jail. No spectators were admitted into the jail
yard. She sobbed violently as she walked from
the cell to the scaffold, and on ascending the
steps was heard to say: ‘Lord, deliver me from
this miserable world.’ Mar wood, the exeoution-
er, gave a drop of eight feet, and Wadge died
without a straggle, grasping a handkerchief
tightly in her hand. She had murdered her
child because her lover had promised to marry
her if she would get rid of the little one. Great
exertious were made to procure a reprieve,look
ing to a pardon for her, but it was refused and
very rightly, for surely the murder of a little
child by its mother is the blackest crime hu
manity can be guilty of.
Miss Jennie Quiilian,an amiable and univers
ally beloved lady of De Kilb county,met a sad
den death this week by being thrown from a
carriage. She f 11 to the ground with great
violence, frf'■ ’. >• s- .il aad c.»nsi..g
Awful Ocean Calamity.—London, oepieui-
ber 3.—The excursion steamer, Princess Alice,
returning from Gravesend this evening with
about 800 passengers, was run down off Barking
about eight o’clock by a screw_ steamer. It is
reported that between 400 and 500 persons were
drowned. The drowned included an extraordi
nary proportion ot women and children. Sev
eral survivors speak of having lost as many as
three, five and six ohiidren. The water was cov
ered with hundreds of shrieking people; near
ly all of the crew were drowned. All the police
of Woolwich Town and Arsenal were engaeed
last night labeling corpses, ohiefly women and
children, which completely hlied the board-
room at the Steam-boat Company s offices
Woolwitch.
■ Horrible Case of Murder and Suicide in
Westchester County.—New York, September 3.
—Westchester oountj furnishes its tragedy to
day. Isaac Robipson, a negro, living with his
wife and three children in a shanty, quarreled
with his wife last night. Ho had several times
aooused her of infidelity and latterly took to
drinking. He was drunk and quarrelsome jast
night, Early this morning he awoke and renew
ed his censures, finally, becoming thoroughly
A wonlan Of Steele Ootiiityi Minnesota, had
her husband and son hilled by lightning five ,, „
years ago. She married again and her second . enrft „ ed fc e ordered ihe little children to run
lord was killed by lightning a day or two ago. j ou j. doorS) a8 he was going to kill their mother.
A New York dressmaker employs three men ; j u their 61ff ht he then tod^ razor, and despite
cutters, goes to Paris for styles every season,
owns a house for which she paid^ $35,000, aud
keeps her carriages and horses. She has made
her way entirely herself.
the woman’s desperate resistance, cut her throat.
She expired immediately, bathing her two-year-
old child in a pool of blood. The man then
thrust the older children out doors, got his shot
Said he: ‘Matilda, you are my dearest duck.’ gun, placed the muzzle to his head, and pulled
Said she: ‘Augustus you are trying to stuff me.' i ;he trig.-er with his foot,blowing out his brains.
She was too sage for him. j The children ran shrieking to the nearest neigh-
Mrs. Cline of Dexter, Texas, was a bride of a bor’s and told what they had seen. y
month. One night last week two men cr-_i • io i
the window of the room where she slept an t di
cing the mnzzle of a shot gun against her hus
band’s bead blew it off. His young wim sj- .-ang
up to find her husband a bloody corp. t and by
the light of the moon saw Lucius N r; 1. *■ ager,
a former suiter, with another assa .*» running
off.
Mrs. William Glassford lives during tbe win
ter with her second husband ju *e Illinois
shore of the Mississippi opposit t uarleston,
Iowa. She spends the summer with tier divor
ced husband, Mr. Wily,at Charleston. Both men
are aware of all the circumstances.
A Parisian milliner has devised for an Eng
lish ladv, an original costume of fine sheeting,
the tunic turned up with linen canvas embroid
ered with cocks and hens in red crewel wools;
the waistcoat studded with birds of a feather
or rather of a red crewel wool embroidery sim
ilar to what is seen on Russian towels; red fou
lard necktie; tusoan straw hat a la creole', cambric
handkerchief worked with red cooks and hens,
and red silk stockings.
After the campaign of 1812 Napoleon gave the
hat he had worn to Evrard, his valet, in whose
family it has ever since remained, with docu
ments attesting the genuineness of the relic. In
1852 at the sale of the estate, one of the heirs
bought it in for $700. That was at tne time ol
coup d'etat. Just now imperial stock is down,
and the hat has just been sold to Aruiftad Du-
maresoue, a painter of battle scenes of the Fust
Empire, for S35.
P T Barnum says: ‘I tell you as a showman,
you can’t make animals drink whisky. They
know better.’ The showman is mistaken. We
onoe heard a woman call out of a second story
window to an object that for nearly an hour had
been trying in vain to unlock the front door.
'Drunk again, you old hog, are you ! And if t
hog isn’t an animal, what is it?
It is better to have loved and to have buBted
up somewhere daring' the correspondence than
1 never to have loved at all.
. tound playing with the dead body of its
mother wheu the officers arrived at the sicken
ing scene. Robinson was considered a good
and steady farm hand and did well until his do
mestic difficulties begun.
TUG XEWCUKIST.
London, August 24.—The Roman correspond
ent of the Times gives the following account of
the Grosseto fanatic and the circumstances of
his death: The Lazzaretti affair has turned pub
lic attention for a time completely away from
European politics. On the hill near Grosseto, a
little town off from the railway between Leghorn
and Civita Vecchia, a semi-political and religious
sect has established itself under David the Saint,
(as Lazzaretti wa3 called,) who declared himselt
to be Christ cone again. He had chosen twelve
apostles and surrounded himself with a large
number of proselytes, who required the surren
der of all property for common benefit and tha
labor of all alike for the society, the latter
undertaking to maintain them and their families
and educate their children. Their creed is an
extended paraphrase of the Nioene creed, with
some alteration in a Protestant sense.
The other tenets are of a socialistic character.
On the morning of the 8th instant the prophet,
at the head between 2,000 and 3,000 followers,
started for the village of Arcidosso. His purpose
is not known, bnt it is said it was not peaceful.
A hundred believers, dressed in white tunics,
like ancient Jewish priests, led the column.
At their head walked David the Saint, attired
in a half regale and half pontifical costume, with
a dead ewe ou his head and an iron-studded
club in his hand. The prooession sang a hymn,
with the retrain, * Long live God and the Chns-
tain republic,’ ‘Praise be to Christ,come seoond
time on earth.’ The mob was met half way by
a delegate of polioe accompanied by nine
Carabineers, who invited them to dispers/
Upon this David oried: ‘ 1 am the King! a’
ordered his followers to disarm the soldr
As he spoke a discharge of firearms was t
upon the polioe and a shower of stones for
The procession was finally broken *
among the dead was the New Christ.