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W. F. SMITH, Publisher. VOLUME VIII. NEWS GLEftNINGS. North Carolina has 96 counties. Ihe school fund of Kentucky is sl.- 600,000. Key West, Fla., shipped 900,000 cigars Jast week. Apricots sell in Lake City, Fla., at $8 (per bushel. Pensacola, Florida, is to have anew hotel, cost SIOO,OOO. Wilmington, North Carolina, has a population of 17,506. North Carolina has a commissioner o immigration in England. New Orleans is to have a school for the training of women nurses. North Carolina has 221 Masonic lodges at work with a membership of 8,199. Six hundred thousand oranges will be shipped from Enterprise, Florida, this fall. Monticello, Fla., has shipped this sea son 503 barrels and 29 crates of Irish potatoes. A green turtle, weighing over 400 pounds, has been captured off the Flor ida coast. One hundred children work in the Maysville, Ky., cotton mills for 75 cents to-$1.25 a week each. The Association of Atlanta Preachers have signed a respectful protest against the issuing of Sunday papers. Mr. Matthew Berry, near Ramer, Montgomery county, Ala., is sending to the high school his eight children. Nine spongers came into Key West, Fla., last week, after a nine weeks cruise, and sold their sponge for $2,511. The Adventists of Granbury, Texas, have erected a large tabernacle for the purpose of expounding their doctrines. Six thousand cans of oysters were re cently sent North in one shipment by the canning establishment at Newbern, North Carolina. One hundred and two thousand, eight hundred and thirty-five pouudsof straw berries have been shipped from Chatta nooga this season. A correspondent of the Atlanta Con stitution says Savannah is the modern Sodom and has four hundred bar-rooms, or one to every twelve adults. Such a severe storm prevailed in Lee and Sumter counties, Georgia, that in one place, for nearly a mile, you could walk on the trees that had been blown down. In Harris county, Ga., dinner-horns are said to have gone out of fashion. Provisions are so scarce that when a horn sounds all the neighborhood re spond to the call. Charles Johnson, of New Orleans, the convicted ship-burner, says that a num ber of business men, cotton brokers chiefly, were “interested” with him in his business—the ship-burning business. A number of young men from Greene county, Ga., started down the river in a canoe about six months ago to try the novel business of trapping beavers. The voyage was very dangerous, but success ful, and each man's skins netted him S7OO. Two little boys, Clarence Gross and Willie Dominy, were wrestling in Dub lin. Ga., and fell on their sides. Willie got up, leaving Clarence on the ground. The by-st&nders noticed that he did not stir, and approaching they found he was dead. J. W. Slaughter, near Georgia, was having a well dug on his place, and when about t wentv foet deep a well-preserved oak leaf was found firm ly imbedded in the chalk. When about fifty feet deep a live snake of the black species was found. “The Atlantic and Gulf Coats Canal and Okeechobee Land Company” is the dignified title of the organization which proposes to reclaim the Florida Ever glades. The company will have a cap ital of and will build a canal to drain Lake Okeechobee, east and west, and also a canal 300 miles long along Hie east coast of Florida. Colon ists from Europe are to be settled on the lands. Sugar and indigo are to be grown on the reclaimed lands. The company held a meeting at Philadelphia last week. A couple of young men went out fish ing, and, on returning, were going past a farm house and felt hungry. They yeUed to the fanner’s daughters: ‘‘Girl*, have you any buttermilk ? ” The reply was gently wafted back to taeir ears: “Yea, but we keep it for our oiivei," Tie boys calculated that had buttaatt away—tad tfcty jHiiMfe fjfeotpi J^gns* A Ludicrous Elopement. It’s hard for a "eoUutry jake” to con vey to his Susan Jane the exact situation when first the arrow is lodged in his heart. The attitudes and awkward com binations of personal presentation are painful to an outsider, to say nothing of what Acisuffers. See him cross his first one on top and then the other, and then see him shoot them out in front, and run his hands in his pockets; then he draw's in his feet, doubles them under the chair, pulls his hands out of his pockets and drops them down by his side, stretches, yawns, blushes, aiid almost dies trying to say it. Poor fellow', it is martyrdom while it lasts, and when he does “get his mouth off,” it’s like put ting a beggar on horse back; he just canters off to paradise with a happy-go lucky indifference that is enviable, bar ring an obstruction on the track, and then over on his head he tumbles, when cruel parents intervene and refuse to ratify. A ludicrous case of this sort of agony occurred near the place of my nativity about twenty-five years ago, in which I had my sympathies so roused that I w'as moved to lend the hero some assistance. His name was Joe, and his girl’s, Mar tha Jane, to whom he had surrendered his entire heart, stock, lock and barrel— without reservation of any kind, which she gushingly reciprocated by adding her entire stock in trade in the partner ship proposed. But the old folks de murred—refused to ratify—threatened a war of extermination—banished J<Je, and belied Martha Jane, besides several other threatened acts of dire hostility. In fact, Joe and Martha Jane had the biggest spider put in their dumpling ever known sirice Adam’s and Eve’s apple scrape. Their hearts all but “busted”—but they didn’t. The parties were neighbors—lived in sight of each other—Joe on the hill and Martha Jane in the bottom. When Martha Jane came forth to nourish her young fowls with a preparation of ground corn and water, she would cast her loving eyes upward and rest them on Joe, who would from above look down affectionately on his Martha Jane, and they would sigh and swallow great liunks of grief as big as apple dumplings. Joe was so badly off that I was sorry for him,* and when he called upon me to assist ljim, I proceeded at once to the prospective mother-in-law (more or less) with my eloquence, “from whom I proceeded from whence”—not running, but my time was good. I reported pro gress, and begged to be excused. Joe got worse and worse; threatened to commit—well, to steal something, and did make divers efforts to steal his girl, twit the old folks slept on their arms. Joe was getting terribly bad off; he said he must have her; that I must steal her for him. I tried to prevail on him to bide his time; but, no, have her he must, and I must do the job for him; he knew I could do it if I would, and he wanted it done right off. When I found Joe couldn’t wait, I con sented to try my hand. I was about Martha’s age, and the thought occurred to me that I would dress in woman’s clothes and let Joe steal *me, and see if it would “sorter” cool his ardor. I con fided my plan to some of the boys, and they approved it and promised their as sistance. We concluded that w* would let the old man, Martiia Jane’s father, into the secret, and arrange for him to pursue us writli his hounds, of which he had about a dozen, when we made the attempt. The old man entered into the affair eagerly, for he despised Joe. After we had fixed all the preliminaries of time, place and manner of proceeding, we adjourned to meet the next Sunday night and have the chase. We met ac cording to adjournment at the time agreed, and a womau hitched me up in some of her gear, with a parcel of things tied round my waist—l don’t know what they all were, but I .know the outside was calico, and it was in two pieces; one was the tail, which was tied on first, and the oilier was a sort of jacket with sleeves to it, of some dark sort of stuff. These, with a white suu-bonuet, and a blue veil, and some cotton stuffed in judiciously to give me a gushing make-up, having been provided as indespensable to my toilette , I was ready and willing to be Joe s for a time. , i When we arrived near Martha Jane s house, the old man was waiting for us. We arranged that after we had got about a quarter of a mile off, one of our partv, (who remained behind for the purpose) should notify Joe that we had Martha Jane, and when Joe came tearing by the house, the old man was *© give him a salute from bis old double-barrelled shot gun. Very soon here came Joe full tilt down the hill towards the creek. Bang went the venerable shot-gun, and away want Jo#, and soon earn# the old man on BeToted to laduitrial litor<st, the Diffn>in of Truth, the Establishment of Jostiee, and the Preservation of aretple’i CoTerameat. ■OXOSTLLABLE FORM. Think not Mist stiyßgth lifts in the big, round word, Or that the brief and plain must needs be weak. r< L* hom c * n this be true, who once has heard The cry for help, the tongue lhat all men speak, Wh* wont, or woe, or fear in at the throat, no that etch word gasped outjs like a shriek l weed front the sore heart, or strange, wild note nr • OTU * fay or fiend ? There is a strength Which dies If stretched too far or spun too fine, Which has mere height than breadth, more depth and length. I>et but this force of thought and speech be mine, And * ,e ™ at wil * ma y tak * the ®k, fat phrase, W hieh glows and burna not, though it gleam and shine; Light, but not heat—a flash without a blaze. Nor i it mere strength that the short word boasts It serves of more than fight or storm to tell— The roar of waves that dash on rock-bound coasts, The crash of tall trees when the wild wiuds swell, The roar of guns, the groans of men that die fOn blood-stained fields. It has a voice as well or them that far-off on their sick beds lie, For them that weep, for them that mourn the dead, For them that laugh, and dance, and clasp the hand j To joy’s quick step, as well as grid's low tread. The sweet, plain words we learnt at first keep time, And though the theme be sad, or gay, or grand, With each, with all, these may be made to chime, In thought, or speiich, or song, or prose, or rhyme. INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA. his sway-back horse, w'ith his hounds and shot-gun, and accompanied by his son. MitchellviHe was the objective point of the expedition, and it was about five miles off. The boys got Joe’s arms from him to protect his girl, and prevailed on him to rush ahead, pay the toll-gate fees, proceed on to MitchellviHe and have the license ready, so as to lia.e no delay. Accordingly, Joe went off at. , lope, paid the toll for us, and gave strict orders not to let Martha Jones’ father through; but when the old man came to the gate lie just jumped his old sway-back over it, and on he came, his hounds in full cry. The way he “got up and got” along that pike was a scene not to be forgotten. The fuss he made aroused everybody en route. Our crow'd consisted of five, besides Joe, and we arrived at MitchellviHe about 10 p. m. Joe was there, and as soon as I had dismounted, he was at my side and led me up to the door and rattled it so that the startled Justice opened it at once, but, upon seeing, as he supposed, a female, closed it to arrange his toilet. Meantime, the old man and liis hounds could be heard nearing rapidly. I w his pered to Joe I wanted to retire around the corner of the house to arrange my dress, and lie said, excitedly, “Bein a hurry, the old man will soon be here.” I did make haste, for no sooner had I got around the corner than I darted through a gate, ran down the side of a fence, crept through an opening into a back yard, and hid behind an asli-hopper. When the Justice had got clothes on, he opened the door to tell us. to come in, but, of course, I w asn’t there, and Joe was running frantically round the bouse looking for his-girl, while the old man and his dogs were coming nearer every minute. The Justice came out and Joe yelled for his Martha Jane, but she came not. Then the Justice called out; “Don N be alarmed, madam, come in; you shan’t be hurt,” and essayed to assist Joe tc find her. By this time the old man, liis son ami the hounds had charged into town and were almost at the door. According tc previous arrangement a sham row at once began between our boys and the pursu ers, and so well was the thing done that the citizens (for every man, woman and child in the village was up) pitched in to prevent what they thought would be a sanguinary affray. The burly Justice, seeing the turn af fairs seemed to be taking, and excited beyond measure, mounted the horse block and commanded the peace so vo ciferously as almost to be heard in the adjoining counties of this State and Kentucky. This restored quiet, our boys professing to be law-abiding citi zens. The old man also simmered down, though he insisted that lie had the right to be a little out of humor at the boys for robbing him of his gal, and kept lin gering round and “cussin’ ” a little on the outside. After the row had been squelched, the women of the village organized a search for the lost maiden, with a view of shielding her from the wrath of the irate old man. It w r as not long before I was discov ered by one of them, and she, with another, made a dash at mo. I scuttled off as fast as I could, but I hung my boot in my lawn calico and made a per fect “shuckin” of it in my haste. It tore nearly off at the waist and split in two, and by the time I got to the next fence I had a trail two yards long. I had great trouble in climbing that fence (I can’t see liow a woman can climb a fence, no way); in fact, I half climbed and half rolled over, burst the strings round my waist, ran out of all the balance of my lower female harness, threw my bonnet back on my head, raised the yell, and almost ran over some more women who were looking for me, and I heard one of them say,| as I passed—“Lordy, Kate, what teas that ?” I didn’t stop to ex plain, but made good my escape. Joe was not to be thus outdone. He persevered, and in a short time succeeded in gettiug away with the right Martha Jane, and the two were made one. But Mrs. Joe would never speak to me after wards, for the reason, I suppose, that I came so nigh beating her out of a hus band. It was the nearest I ever came to being married, and though Joe—doubtless in stigated by his wife—gave me a terrible thrashing some eighteen months after the escapade, I never recall it without a hearty laugh. The Postal Card Fiend. “There is anew kind of fiend in exis enee,” said a post-office detective recent lv to your correspondent ; “the postal card fiend, who came into existence with that species of epistolary effusion. The nuisance is a much greater one than yon can imagine. No one who is not con nected with the service can imagine the number of scurrilous cards sent out. Ladies come to us—some of them be longing to the first families in our city— who are almost heartbroken over the open missives they have received. They do not want to expose the matter—often it is the result of some family feud—and so all we can do is to stop the cards here, while the villain is allowed to go free. ” I have heard of a case lately where a young wife was assailed in reputation by a former lover—rejected, of course—who kept just within the boundary of the law. The insinuating language was sufficiently veiled to keep the young husband un easv, while it ate deep into the young bride’s heart It will kill her, as she is dying slowly of the inward wound. Of course ten years in prison would be light punishment for such a fiend, but these people always calculate upon an nnwill ingness to prosecute on account of fears of publicity*— V, Y, Cor, SOUTHERN TOWNS. The 91tiwhroom Flare* Developed SI nee the War-Iron Manufactures. IGath’s Southern Letter.J The average Southern town which has grown up since the war, surrounding a railroad station, consists of two to five drinking saloon, a few stores and a series of cabins or shanties of planks or logs, set hither and thither, without much reference to a town in the future. Through a long range of country there are no fences on the side of the railroad track. The trains aro kept constantly whistling to avoid running over cattle or mules. This is the case within sight of Montgomery, Ala., where there are some 16,000 inhabitants. Occasionally one finds a steam saw-mill put up since the war in the midst of the wood, sawing out lumber. The rivers are full, almost to the level of the landscape, in high water, and they are principally efficient as to flooding the surrounding bottoms and creating new soil for agriculture. Alto gether the most hopeful country in the South, for various occupations, is dong the mountain lines of Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia, where I saw a number of iron furnaces, and in two or three cases cotton mills, built by'-Northern capital in n perfect manner. One of the furnaces which gives the name to the railroad station was called “Stonewall,” after Stonewall Jackson. The next was called “Tecumseh,” after Gen. William Te eumseh Sherman, and is operated by ex- Sena tor Warner, of Alabama, who w'as on Gen. Sherman’s staff. Warner got into the train at his station and talked to me as far as Rome, Ga., and said to me: “There are just four towns in the South which are picking up rapidly—Chat tanooga, Rome, Atlanta and Birming ham, Ala. My biother-in-law, Justice Woods, of the Supreme Court, is inter ested with me in the Tecumseh fui’iiace. We worked along for some years during hard times without mudi returns, but we are now making money, and so are the furnaces generally in this section, of which there are a dozen or more. All of them are charcoal furnaces, and two of these are said to be the largest charcoal furnaces in the world. We have orders for iron a long way ahead. The ad vantages of making iron here are cheap ness of materials and of labor. ” He said that they paid about one dol lar a day for labor, and paid about forty or fifty cents for cut wood per cord. I also understood him to say that the ma terial entering into a ton of iron procured on his land cost only about sixty-five cents. I presume he meant without la bor. This was disputed by Mr. Folger, who thought Warner must have had said six dollars and a half, but I am pretty sure lie said sixty-five cents. Warner said that the present Governor of Ala bama W'as a pretty fair man, and that, while tlie State was not improping much, industry would soon startup. A bank had just burst at Rome, Ga., and Sena tor Warner was just going up to see what had become of SB,OOO of his furnace money deposited there. Throughout the South there is a rising opposition to any more State banks, and a general op position to my further noise about what is caUed ‘ ‘States’ right. ” I have shown you in another communication liow the exasperation against “States’ rights,” so called, has broken out among the most dogmatic soldiers of the rebellion, who want a better living for their families and less political theory. She Was a*Washing. They had an assault and battery case on trial in Justice alley, says M. Quad, and one of the witnesses for the plaintiff was a colored woman. After the usual questions had been asked she was told to tell the jury what she knew about the case. She settled back and began : “ Well, I was a-washin’ out my clothes vhen ” “Never mind the washing/’ said the lawyer. “But it wps Monday.” “ Can’t help that.” “ But I always wash on Mondays.” “ Never mind that. Tell the jury what jou know about this affair.” “Well, I was a-sudin’ an' ?.-sudin’ my clothes when I seed ” “Can’t you let that washing alone? We all know that you were washing.” ‘ ‘ Yes, sah. I had fo’ten shirts, free wblecloths, twenty-four collahs and twelve towels in tlie wash, an’ I was a riusin’ an’ a-rinsin’ when de ole man he “Say, Mary, won't you tell the jury what you saw? ” “Yes, sah; 1 was a-wringin’ an’ a wringin’, an’ I had my sleeves rolled up “.Mary, I wash you’d hang that wash ing up to dry.” “Yes, sah. De next fing arterwring i* out de clothes is to hang ’em out, an’ I was a hangin’ when ” “I guess you can be excused,” said die lawyer. “Shoo, now! Jist hold on till I git lat washin’ in an’ part of de shirts ironed an’ I’ll tell yon jist how dat fight began in* de name of de party who was kii* xked ober de ash-heap an’ fmw de alley fence! Doan’ git a poo’ woman v;w off down yere an’ den refuse to let h<4 aim her witness fees.” Opium Smoking. >an Francisco is not of the opinion tfyt the article in the new Chinese treaty prohibiting citizens of either country from importing opium here, and vessels lying the flag of either nation from worrying it, ‘will destroy the trade in this article. Opium smoking, on the Pacific toast, is not confined to Hie Chinese, for American youths have acquired the nabit Says one of the importers : ‘ ‘The Chinese will gat it, if it i* ea *®6 top ot he earth*” ' * Beggiag is New York. A New York correspondent of the Bos ton Transcript writes; Among other kinds of business which are flourishing in New York just now is that of begging. The mendicant is seen everywhere. Chancellor Crosby, in an address the other evening said that after a month’s experience in personally investigating cases in which he had been applied to for help, he had found all beggars to be frauds. He believed, too, that all the beggars he had known for thirty years past had been foreigners, or the children •f foreigners. This is a sweeping as sertion but it is pretty near the truth. Begging is made a regular occupation to a much greater extent than is generally known. Yet there are cases that appeal so strongly to your sympathy that you can hardly pass them by. I found one the other evening. I had crossed the ferry to Brooklyn about dark, when a little girl asked me for a penny to buy bread for her sick mother. She was bare-footed and shivering in her thin clothes, and seemed to be a deserving object of char ity. But I thought I would investigate a little. So I insisted on her taking me to see her sick mother. Very reluctantly she led me to a comfortably furnished apartment in a neighboring street, where I found the sick mother to be a robust Irish woman who was bustling about preparing supper for the family. There were ornaments on the mantel and pictures on the wall, and an ample supply of cold meat, bread, and tea on the table. I used some vigorous lan guage appropriate to the occasion, when the woman said she had sent the child to beg in the streets, but her reply was characteristic of the class to which she belonged: “Share, and what harm is there in the child’s earning a few pennies at tlie ferry ?” Plans of Polygamy. Some idea of the avowed designs of the Mormon Government may be formed from the following public statements* by their Bishop, Lunt: “Our Church lifts been organized onlv fifty years, and yet behold its wealtL and power! This is our year of jubilee. We look forward with perfect confidence to the day when we w ill hold the reins of the United States Government. That is our present temporal aim; after that we expect to control this continent. We do not care for the territorial officials sent out to govern us. They arc nobodies here. We do not recognize them. Nor do we fear any practical interference by Congress. To-day we hold the balance of political power in Idaho; we rule in Utah absolutely; and in a very short time we will hold the balance of power in Arizona and Wyom ing. A few months ago President Snow, of St. George, set out with a band of priests for an extensive tour through Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Mon tana, Idaho and Arizona to proselyte. We also expect to send missionaries to some parts of Nevada, and we design to plant colonies in Washington Terri tory. In the past six months we have sent more than 3,000 of our people down through the Sevier Valley to settle in Arizona, and tlio movement still pro gresses. All this will help to build up for us a political power that the dema gogues will be forced to recognize. Out vote is solid, aud will always remain so. It will be thrown where the most good will be accomplished for the Church. Then, in some great political crisis, the two great political parties will bid our support. Utah will then be admitted a? a polygamous State, and the other Terri tones we have peacefully subjugated will be admitted also. We will then hold the balance of power, and will dic tate. In time our principles, which are of sacred origin, will spread throughout the United States. We will possess the ability to turn the political scale in any particular community we desire. Our ;>eople are obedient. You can imagine the results which wisdom may bring about with the assistance of‘a church organization like ours. It is the com pletest one the w r orld has ever seen. ” Decline of the Italian Race. One of the reasons for the deformed, .rickety, dirty, wretched, thievish inhab itants* of Italy is the total absence of proper sanitary arrangements in Italian towns and villages, from the palace to the hovel and room tenement Italy— the land of Bunshine, art and song—is a land of filth and vermin. There are marble palaces, art galleries and bine skies, but neither sewers, drains nor ade quate scavenging. Hence strangers who ire tempted to visit the world-renowned 3ities pay a fearful penalty in risks from fever and certainty of mosquito stings, as also of punishment from other do mestic torments. There is not one Italian city properly sewered, drained and scavenged. The best hotels use cesspools, out of which pass foul gases and putrid fluids to contaminate both air and water. Ironclads with 100-ton guns, Royal Cuirassiers, Royal Carabinieri, customs officers, excisemen, police, municipal guards and Jesuits will avail Italy noth ing in removing the fearful canses of disease and human distortion. When will statesmen learn that the greatness and strength of a nation are not alone in magnificent cities, palaces, ironclads and standing armies, bat in the health, comfort and content of the people ? The further lesson also requires to be learned, namely, that, where the mass of the peo ple are allowed to grovel in filth and misery, there can be no true security for property. A whiff of grape-shot will not cure such disease. Hi who can plant courage fa § htwaag ttatetatatpbyitoUn. ' SUBSCRIPTION-*51.60. NUMBER 44. INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS. Young men maybe too fresh, but eggs —never. We have no objection to a man’s bor rowing trouble} but we want him to keep it to himself after he has borrowed it. Buffalo Courier. “Women are either thinking about nothing or else thinking about something else.” This passes for wisdom because it was said by Dumas. Since 18(16 nine thousand divorces have been granted in Italy, Milan being set down for no less than three thousand. Since 1870 Rome has had six hundred. An exchaugo remarks that gout, w hich is becoming quite fashionable, will never affect the editorial profession, as cracker and beer luuehes never produce so high toned a disease. When Philadelphians see a man with a black eye, bloody nose, and generally larrupped appearance, they point to him and whisper: “He’s a statesman.”—' Boston Post A church never splits on account of its numerical strength. It is only w hen two deacons can’t decide which one is to boss the sexton that need is found for another building and minister. —Detroit Free. Press. According to Professor Swing, “the coming man will be temperate, chaste, merciful, just, generous, charitable, large hearted, sweet-tempered, Christian, a good neighbor and faithful citizen.” What a nice time the comingw’omau will have. A writer iu the London Truth says that the “fifteen puzzle” was worked out in Hutton's “Recreations in Mathemati cal Science” more tlifln fifty years ago. The Hindoos, Chinese, and Egytiaus were familiar with the puzzle, the square of sixteen being consecrated to Jupiter. A man is either a fool or a physician at forty, and when he is the latter there is no physician — in this country at least —who can teach him anything. Ho knows somebody’s domestic medicine by heart, and imagines he is suffering from every disease known to the books. In a medical point of view it is occasionally not a bad thing to be a fool. When a Chinaman dies on the home w-ard passage from San Francisco to China, his remains are embalmed by liis companions, in a simple but effective method. A gash is cut in his neck, and an artery opeped, and about two gallons of arsenical solution injected into the veins by means of a hand pump. The artery is then tied up and the bod}' placed in a box. The following figures have been pub lished, giving, it is said, the exact num ber and nationality of soldiers who were engaged on the Union side in the “late unpleasantness Per cent. Native Americans 1,523,300 75.43 German 53.500 M(i Irish 144,200 714 British American 53,500 2.4< Other foreigners 48,400 2.33 English 45,500 2.23 Foreigners unknown 26,500 1.33 Total number 2,018,200 A young Italian painter, Signor Carlo, in Paris, has been astonishing a select circle of spectators with some wonderful performances in the way of rapid execu tion. A member of the company chooses a subject, and without a mo ment’s reflection, the painter proceeds to depict it on a largo canvas, six feet by three. In four or five minutes the pic ture is finished and replete with details. Of course, being produced at such a rate, the work leaves much to be desired; but as an instance of lightning speed, combined with a harmonious ensemble , it is simply marvelous. A Pleasing Incident. There is a lady living in a little four room cottage iu the environs of Boston, whose name is well known to literary people. She depends wholly upon lior own exertions for the support of herself and children, and does all her own house work, yet her cottage is the focus of the best society of the locality. A gentle man calling tnere recently was received at the door by a daughter of the lady, who told him her mother was too busy to be called, but that he could see her in the kitchen if he pleased; and he fol lowed her to that room. The lady greeted him without the least embarrass ment, though she had on a big apron and her sleeves were pinned back to her shoulders. She was cutting a pumpkin into strips for pies; and there sat a ven erable gentleman gravely paring the strips to the accompaniment of brilliant conversation. I was asked to guess who the gentleman was, and, after severa fruitless attempts, was told that it was the poet Longfellow. While the pump kin-paring was a success, another dis tinguished poet called, and he also in sisted upon being impressed into the service. It was a dreary day outside, and no one cared to leave the pleasant cottage, so they all stayed to lunch, one of the pies forming the piece de resist ance of the occasion. Speaking of this incident afterward the lady said: “My friends are kind enough to come and see me, though they know I cannot leave my work to entertain them. Visiting and work must proceed together, and when I set my callers at "work with me we are sure to have an agreeable time.”—-Lip rnneott. A cumou* use was made of the mar riage ceremony in Cincinnati the other day. A young girl having put her in fant to death was, at the suggestion of her lawyer, married to her lover, who ■was the only witness against her. The twa being married the State was prived of lie only evident