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W ( VI.!, AT THE
RAILROAD RESTAURANT.
■ 'Under the Crir Shed.)
ATLANTA, 0 A.
Where bijurnisqel all the di-lioaeies of the season
will in the host- of style und
as ohffljp anvlab'Cluncnt, in the city
' * 1 lieu ■ 11 f ■ i * - til i lOiu.} ot t he
da.yT-iAl.LAKI) a DURAND. unej.20
MRS. LYDIA E. PiNKHAM.
■i OF LYNN, MASS.
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DHeiivr.nr.it or
LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S
Vegetable compound.
ThnFoMUvpCnre
For all Female Complaints.
Thlspftparfitfon, ns it* name Hlprnifios, consists of
Vegetable* Proper ties that nre luu mlr < to tbe most del
icalo invalid. I pon one trial the meritn of this Com
pound will be >gnlz<xl| nSrelief is immediate j mid
s’ben It.’ « “l iptMtinm <1, in nhwty-uino ca s in a him
dml, A iKirnmnent euro is Directed,d» thousands will tes¬
tify. On nut of ft* proven merits. It in to-day ro
eonitmftiiled ami prt*Heribed by the beef pliysb l.tns in
the country.
It will euro entirely IJn* wotut form <-f falling
of tUej in ni<i, Lcucorrhft'a, Irregular and painful
MontitrUn lion, an Ovarian Troubles, Imlamnmtion and
(ie<jiiimt Ufecrafjjon, (’loodlngs, allIb-|)lacem<'ntH and tho con
plnnl wonknoss, and in especially ndapted to
thoClmn-e of T.lfc*. It will dis: olve mid rjcpoi tumoia
fcomtlif* Yitonuinan cnrly attiga of development. Tho
tondemb’ to cancerous humoi . I bore i< checked very
•peo<pf I y if.i use.
Iu f.. i it h i « proved to bo the pfrent.
ant 1 lu .t lvmody that ban ever boon discover
ad. It pc i meat! -< every portion oftho system, and give*
pew llffnml v It - -famine ,tmtuic.ey.<i«
vtnir for stimulants, null rciicvu* wenknosp
Hour, Ilintr, ITiN.-rrmw J’m-i ration,
Ventral I . ...... and ln.it
.
pt’stlofi. lu’vt fecliiijjj oi bearing down, causing pain
woffbt :> «| backache, i t< hhvetys jv . fitly curedf y
Its vi86.1 it will at u*ll 11 lacs, and uiulcr r.l ■.::iista*i
ues, act in harmony wilhfhe law that governs tho
fctnaib tystuin.
For K i*' 11 y L’umpJaliils of cither, sex tlilj compound
i* UDmi rpa: sod.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
I 1 1 U nt 2113 and Wystorn Avetiut*, I,y nil, >1 ;;;■ J
VrtoAuiO. Six bottles for $5.00. St nt I y notil l.t lb
Ot lorrapf l'lll.t, $1.00, tUoitt tho form of Lnzeugta, on root i',t
] bo*:, l'or either. Mrs. PIXKJ1AM
frotlj uv. ’ u»il l. ttursof Inquiry. Semi t vi*
pblet. bbl r.-.) ns Mention this paper.
X* )» should lie without LYDIA E. riNKHAM 1
WVSi; ] IA T.V-v cuta Cori;'£lj»ation, I»lilouauu»a,
the Li\ eclttit per Lujjt.
FOR SALK ItV
HI ST. U\m He LAMAR. Allanla.Ca,
JfM’nu'tlcnl Husband Hunting.
It i i. h , tod , , of ~ a Connecticut ,, .. . woman,
T ' "'I n Sll ° rt ^ Ug C ’
a ,1 „ 1 “ ^’Ungn,;. and i languish- ,
fet nl.out until she plainly some one asked her to
man y ajpun, anmnuiped that
\ ] baUd ’ t 6
i ready i to
X w r mrn-J 1 ■' “ a l ! l’’ r 10an *° 8> CO !UU T? at
51. , viobs, f for there was a mo wedd.ug the that widows very
Th' .v is notlmm ... rommit c about this .
swt ot mate i-maknig, but, on the other
and ardent that she could not have the
fx r'i".! r 8 ° r ? ’ ltl!0SS tm :
l , "'V‘, K l' aspned. the a mo , .\
wtoptod a method that enabled her to j
U»tpbrni.71™ ™u’7S; “I.ml”
rsLeysb ^ r,..... ?r°
s 1:1' o i::r:S
"ere available. Sentimentalists I
may MU eriugly say that the man married
for money, but will they mention any i
other when he man had who chance failed ? to The do likewise I
a widow and
■nil. Seu> 1 oi /. IB raid.
Degrees of Consideration,
Htl<c I “I believe you are connected with
churoh in Elm street, are you not,
IMr. Dickson?” said the customer.
I "No, sah, not all.”
I [African “What! are you not a member of the
church?”
I “Not dis year, sah!"
' « P? Jo u leave their communion,
Mr. Dickson, if I may be permitted to
’" k l
Veil. v „ T Ill , n tell .. you, sah. , said Ar Mr.
ivson, palm stropping his a concave razor on
»e I jined of hand, “it was jes like
- de church in good fait;
v’. i! 1 ^ th t 8tRte d
■ toll s^ldefus me ‘ Brudder yeah Dickson; and de church second people yeah, ,
uLffii i' .'Hsut mss 'oing not so gotxl, and I
the
| iw r w 1 L S0U- . Dis razor
r ' -you sah'>”*
No. the razor goes toierablv well ”
Well, sah, de third yeah I fell berrv
poor^; had sickness in mv family ; I
didn't give noffin’ for preachin’. Well,
sah, arter dat dey call me ‘dat old nig
ger Dickson,’ and I left ’em!” “
The Conyers Examiner
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NEWS GLEANINGS.
Eighty-five thousand tons of fertili
; zers were sold in North Carolina for the
I year 1881.
! Silk culture in Lcui.iana has of late
| become a thriving industry, &nd to-day
promises an abundant production.
In 1805 Florence, 8. C., contained only
- ten houses. It now has a population of
j over 2,0C0, und last year over 100 houses
were built.
More .. mone v 18 into the Texas
- commg
State Treasury from the sale of school
j ] an ds than from taxes and all other
sources.
A Florida paper says that vnstquanti
i i eK 0 f blind mosquitoes are caught in
tbe swamps of that State for fertilizing
purposes.
ever T da - v fro *» 100 ^ ^ per
h>ds pass through Chattanooga, going
West. There are from Western North
Carolina and Southeast Tennessee.
Owing to the crowded condition of
the Alabama State Asylum, Bulloch
countv is at the expense of earing forits
insane paupers at the County Poor-house.
The poor-house of Choctaw county,
Ala., has hut one inmate, the first for
heve voral ™ vears y * JTbpd8t oast '. 11 It is W art old 0,d nctrm n *&°
uoman whose age rs stated at “ 122 or
thereabouts.”
Atlanta Constitution: The silver vein
of Magruder mine grows richer with the
continual digging. The ore has assayed
us much ns f86 of silver to the ton, and
the lead in the ore is also in sufficient
quantity to be valuable.
Some hunters near Douglasville, Ga.,
last week, whfle fox-chasing, ran a
strange animal to its.deft, which proved
to he a wild dog. They found a mother
and four puppies, all of which got away
but one of the latter.
Within three months ground has been
surveyed or broken for three more blast
furnaces, and stee! and iron rolling-mill
a nail factory, and a dozen or more small¬
er establishments have been started, and
will soon be in full operation in Bir¬
mingham.
The. area of land which will be re¬
claimed iu Florida by the draining of
' Lake Okeechobee, work tho canals for
on
doing which has already been begun,- is
larger than the States-of New Jersey,
Connecticut, Dele-ware and Rhode Is¬
land. . . , . . . .'
Mr. W. D. Graydon, a farmer of But¬
ler county, Ala., made last season from
one acre of ground 330 gallons of molas¬
ses, besides putting some of the cane on
lhe market, saving 3,008 stalks for seed
and reserving about one thousand.stalks
for consumption by his family.
Charles ton'News and Courier: A Mrs:
Coker, with her three children, in an ax
cart, was going home from Perry, Ga.
The road they traveled passed through
very rank wire grass, which had been
set on fire. In trying to get out of the'
way the cart and oxen became fastened
among pine logs and the fire overtook
them. The cart was consumed with the
two children inside, and the oxen were
burned to death. Tire woman attempted
te escape with her infant, but her cloth
nx caught fire and she and the othei
child were so badly burned that they
have siuee died.
Rood EutLng mid Good Writing.
Iu okl monastic days good eating was
under a ban. It was imagined clear that tho
brain could best be kept and vigor¬
ous on a low diet.
Romantic young ladies in our time
love to think of their favorite authors as
ted on a divine ambrosia. It brings
thcm down to a commou l eve l to associ
ate them with roast beef and mutton.
Poor Charlotte Bronte was once disen
chaIlte d of her hero-worship. Thackeray /
wa3 her favolite autllo h^r in her lom y
home the imagination '
on moors, ^ in¬
vegted him wit]l aU idea j gra 8 .
On a visit to London she was lifted to
tlie summit XhereThaoke^y of happiness bv an invitation
a dinuer was to be
the She ’ introduced
oue of guests . W1VS
to tlie great | man. and sat next to him.
ltm , red-letter day in her life, and
meinory W as on the alert to retain all his
' 1
Thackeray, however, did little talking,
but much eating. He had recently re
wnered from a severe attack of typhoid
w1li( . 5l left him with a ravenous ap
»’ ,a * •^ he ;' i,, r , vf
.
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Sheep-Killing Dogs. i
To Cure
The question of how to protect sheep
tried the experiment of mixing in a few
goats with their sheep, and after the
day goats they and sheep had affiliated for a few
sheep-killers, s, procured some dogs, regular ;
and started them for the
back shorn of their conceit. They
seem to run against and goats iu the most
unexpected singular places, of the were thing struck and bv
the nature al
m ost drove into the ground bv by the force
of the remarks made the goats with
their heads, in the heat of the debate.
Mutton, which the dogs had always rc
garden as a delicacy, suddenly palled
lipou the taste and they felt coyed. No
doubt the goats, with customary polite
U0S3 > asked their guests to pass their
p \ late8 and have some of the mutton, mutton:
mt the dogB did not care for
Thev came out of the field limping on
three legs, and no word of encourage
ment from the farmer could induce them
t0 £° back ‘ Th6y tad bee ° broke of
sucklD ® egs& '
- » ■« ••• •
A y arrow-gcage road of three feet
costs in construction bvoad-guage. about five-eights
ns much as a
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Jay Gould owns $53,000,090 in
stocks.
./Esthetic Easter cards, it is said, will
be the rage.
Pittsburg has several colored police¬
men on the force.
Edison is recuperating in Florida and
giving electricity a rest.
When lunaoy is no longer an excuse
for crime, crime will perceptibly diminish.
Tramps may now be expected in the
role of “ Mississippi overflow sufferers.”
Victor Hcao is of opinion that if the
Czar wilt not spare the people, God will
not spare the Czar.
The woman who rode a bicycle COO
miles in six consecutive days, at St.
Louis, is a Canadian.
According to Cardinal Maimiing, it ia
an iudietable offense in England for a
man to propagate atheism.
The American Express Company, has
organized a money order system cheaper
than that of the postoflice.
A Russian traveler says that one
third of Asia and a considerable paH of
Europe still remain unexplored.
A Chicago Grand Jury last vjteek re¬
turned an indictment against a dead
man. Live criminals are scarce up
there.
The report of the Secretary of War
shows that our Indian wars in tine, last
ten years have cost $5,055,821 in actual
money.
Jctht what t’ne Mormons think of their
present, prospects we are not prepared to
say, but they evidently are not well
pleased.
Mr. Tourgee, the novelist, allows
himself to be called, iii his own paper,
Our Continent, “Hon.” Albion W.
Tourgee.
Congress should make a law es pecially
dapted to the punishment ot the inspired
crank element. The ueed of such a law
is daily increasing.
Mason’s sentence to eight years in the
Penitentiary forshooting at Guiteau was
certainly quite enough. Guiteau doubt¬
less approves the sentence.
The Mississippi House of Representa¬
tives has passed a bill preventing tbe
sale of tobacco to minors without an
order from their parents or guardians.
A bogus priest named DeRohan, ar¬
rested ia Chicago, and familiar with five
languages, has borne in liis brief exist¬
ence of thirty-one years, twenty-five
aliases.
It is reported that John Russell
Young, the newly appointed Minister to
China, will soon marry Miss Julia E.
Coleman, a niece of ex Governor Jewell,
of Connecticut.
Lieutenant Schwatka, of the Arctic
Expedition of 1879, speaking of the.
Jeannette’s crew, says there is no hope
for DeLong and party, ami little for
Chip’s boat’s crew.
Robert Bonner thinks the time will
come when two minutes will be very
ordinary time for a trotter. As Bonner
is opposed to betting, there is no chance
here to lay a wager.
The visit of General Sherman to the
West will probably result in the abandon¬
ment of several military forts in Texas,
and the establishment of posts at San
Antonio and Fort Bliss.
H allie Hutchinson, a little girl nine
years old, is probably the youngest'tele¬
graph operator in the world. She is
stationed at a town in Texas where she
lias entire charge of an office.
The indications are that Mason will
eventually be pardoned. Petitions ask¬
ing for liis pardon are flooding in to the
President from Legislatures, societies
and citizens iu great numbers.
This is the question which Mormons
ask our Congressmen: “How do you
know it’s bad to have a dozen wives?
You haven’t tried it.. We have.” That
may be regarded as a clincher.
• Archibald Forbes has discovered
that an American audience’s estimate on
a lecture is to be discovered, not from
the applause, but from the number of
people who sit till the lecture is ended.
J T slated that the Czar, having re
prisoners. *
‘ ~
The Sunday saloon question, just now.
is the topic of interest in Ohio—whether
it is better to go in by the front door or
a. WU- No salooaist «
ever known to keep both doors locked at
the same time,
The report that four towns were
destroved bv au earthquake in Costa
*
T> ^ . , ^er . information an
lca - says was
exaggeration, yet how great an exag
geration is not stated. Perhaps it was
al] exaggeration. eo
-
Four women in the vicinitv of Ricl>
mf>nd m ° Dd ’ Trd Tra “ flnd “ nd - a Meth mst preacher preactier
and two women at North Lewisburg,
Champaign County, Ohio, have gone
insane over religion the past two weeks
been placed in lunatic asylums.
-----
beautiful Mrs. Langtry wc-uld .
The
to come to this country but her
agent wants so much that she will prob
V>e denied the privilege. As a rule
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMSAT IT."
CONYERS, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 31 1882
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managers endeavor to make contracts
with a view to making something for
themselves.
Dr. Georoe H. L am.sox, of London,
tried for the murder of his brother-in
law, Percy Malcolm John, a mere boy,
that lie might come into possession of
his property, lias been found guilty and
sentenced to be hanged. The evidence
was circumstantial, but conclusive.
The outlook on the Lower Mississippi
is everything but promising. The whole
country is flooded, without any prospect
of the water receding at an early day.
Iu the vicinity of Helena, Arkansas, the
country for forty miles around, on either
side of the river, is like an ocean.
Ax item to sausage-eaters from the
Louisville Courier-Journal: “A man
whp detected a piece of bark in his
sausage visited the butcher sliop to
Anow what had become of the rest oi
the dog. The butcher was so affected
that he could give him ouly a part of the
tale.”
The Police Commissioners of Balti¬
more have dismissed a policeman f«,i
not arresting a woman who was assault
ing another with a horsewhip. As she
was his wife and the assaulted woman
his sweet-heart, he felt that he could not
interfere without great embarrassment.
The Commissioners relieved him ot all
further embarrassment by relieving him.
Half the silver dollars circulated in
Montana are alleged to be counterfeit!
made by the Chinese in San Francisco.
They are described as of exactly the
weight of the genuine ones, and OUD
thirty-second part of an inch larger iv
diameter. They contain only sixteen
cents’ worth of silver, which is all on
the surface.
Eighty-five houses iu South Bellile
iiem, Pennsylvania, are quarantined be¬
cause of smallpox, and the disease is re¬
ported on the increase. Why this dis¬
ease has become so alarming there it is
difficult to say. The town is high and
healthy, and is tbe home of the Mo¬
ravians, than whom no one could be
cleaner or more particular in neatness.
Mrs. Sarah E. How t e, the defaulting
Boston Bank President, who has been
sentenced to the House of Correction for
a term of three years, may well congrat
nlate hesself. She promised to pay hei
depositors an interest that amounted to
96 per cent., and in consequence failed
to return the principal, by which the de¬
positors lost something like $475,000.
The Milwaukee Sun suggests a plan
for * ‘ saving the country. ” It says : “Let
Northern people go South in the winter,
and Southern people go North in the
summer, and let the young of both sec :
tions fall in love with each other and do
a little marrying, and when Northern
and Southern grandmothers go traveling
back and forth to visit the babies that
will naturally come upon the scene, that
will naturally end all sectional feeling.”
The Paris Figaro says of Skobeleff:
“ This General has not changed during
the last four years. He is now thirty
seven, or thereabouts. He is very tall
—so tall that in a campaigning time
he can not stand upright in his tent. His
face is exceedingly intelligent, his eyes
blue aud keen and quick, his forehead
full, and his heard brightly blonde; at
tlie very first glance his jierson reveals
the energetic and loyal soldier, ready to
dare all and sacrifice everything.”
The Galveston iYews suggestively
says: “ When a President is shot, every¬
thing in the United States can be turned
topsey turvey, and the occupant of al¬
most every office, from Secretary of
State to the humblest tide waiter,
changed. Had MacLean succeeded in
his nefarious attempt on the life of the
Queen, hardly a particle of difference
would have occurred in the Government
of Eugland; not an office would have
changed from Prime Minister down to
letter carrier.”
The most dangerous element in this
country is the inspired crank. Henry
Remsbaw, the “embassador from
heaven sent by Guiteau to shoot Dr.
Gray ” of the Vale Lunatic Asylum, at
Utica, N. Y., when arrested, had upon
his person two navy revolvers, one single
barrel revolver, one repeater, one dirk,
cleaver, one bottle of chloroform and
thirty bundles of cartridges. As an
arsenal he was evidently prepared to do
some killing. Dr. Gray, fortunately,.
received only a flesh wound. Dr. Gray
was the chief medical expert of the
Government ia the Guiteau trial.
Squeaking Shoes.
A correspondent of the Country Gen
tlcmar gives the following remedies for
the above nuisance :
Not long ago I went to my shoestore
and asked if the squeaking could be pre
vented m my shoes I was told it could
be very easily, and it was done by open
mg the soles of my shoes at the shank,
pounng in powdered soapstone, taking
care to have the sole well-filled to the
toe, and then pegging or sewing them
up again My shoes shoemakers did not squeak
after that. A receipt to
prevent squeaking is to put a piece of
cloth (sheeting) between every two lay
ers.of leather on the sole. Last sum
mer ^ I ^o^hot purchased a pair d“r!^^ of fine hoot;, k
C r i
£• them , - the ,, direct - ; •, " of t.t .!
turned up to . rays .
sun and put on grease: as fast as it
dried up I applied more, until they
would take do more, and Our they hare ner
ex troubled me since. own plan is
to stand the shoes in a hollow pan ana
then pour in lukewarm water until the
soles are nearly immerseu. Keep the
water as nearly lukewarm as jx)asi ) e
S ^oes r F" whfie n tS;t” the X soles S? are Sm . mi top a mj.
They shonld not become wet inside.
A Tm^r^nt world without a Sabbath would be
like c a smile like a sum
-
d .
mer without flowers, and use a Lome- ..
stead without a garden.
A COAT TALE.
BT H. C. DODGE.
Old Tommy Taylor, tailor and
Old Retailer, doth retail
army coats and coats of alma,
And als so coatH ot male.
With c oat of paint he paints his coats
Of arms above liis door;
His motto is, -‘I se-,v the ta
Sew all my rip the mere.”
He'il press a suit and suit a press
Of business, while keeping
An a eye on those around him, and
An ii ron clothes a creeping.
He is au artist tailor and
His artist work, he’ll tell.
Is getting pay from cusLoiuers
Until he custom welL
When ere his sewli ras a lot
His owi owing was a littie.
And though ill tits he never got
He often got a fit ill.
He seldom toco Ills olothes, although
He’d often elo-e bis store,
And Then then close he’d his eye his clothes a while, !
eyes and snore. |
To thread a little needto ;
He would needle little thread;
When cutting dandy : s suit he‘d say,
“This scissor cut I dread/’
Iu winter he invests In vests ; !
In summer pants in pants;
In Bpring he sews some seedy, things;
In tail he rips, perchance.
!
He would make breeches of the piece
Which he was bound to keep,
But none oared for his little fleece i
Because his goods were sheep.
i
MARGARET OF ANJOU. j
The. Record of a Stormy i
From her cradle - to her Marga- ]
ret of Anjou—the last grave, ‘
of our Provencal
Queens—was the heroine of tempesiu- 1
ous misfortune and romance, and for
°°“ s i > ?f_ a ' :
m the terribly devastating War ottae
L glish Queen p0slt1011
censor t was one of ;
constant anxiety, danger and difficulty ; j
few brilliant gleams of royal splendor
“SSo overwhelming calamities. p^SiS^er |
The illustrious King Rene of Anjou,
rich in titles but not in wealth, was the
father of the peerless Margaret; while
her mot her, Isabella, was a direct descend¬
ant of lhe renowned Charlemagne, and
a Princess highly endowed with beauty,
eloquence, Margaret energy and virtue. Princess
was born 23rd of March, 1429,
at Pont-a-Mousson—her mother’s dower
palace, one of the grandest castles in
Lorraine. When but 2 years old the
ticeship baby Princess commenced her appren¬
to sorrow and adversity ; for at
this early age her father was taken captive
while engaged in a struggle respecting
her mother’s patrimony in Lorraine; and
the anxious and distraught Isabella,
while clasping Margaret to her breast,
gave vent to her grief in tears and low
murmurs of alarm.
Margaret was twice betrothed during
her infancy, firstly to the Count St. Pol,
secondly to the Count de Nevers; but
both these projected alliances fell
through. When a little over 14 years of
age her youthful attractions were the
theme of general admiration.
“The courts of France ahd Burgundy
rang with her charms,” the learned
chronicler, Barante, declared. “ Thera
was no Princess in Christendom more
accomplished than my Lady Margaret
of Anjou.”
The young bachelor King, Henry VI.
of England, having heard of her peer¬
less beauty and lofty spirit, sent a trusty
emissary to the Court of Lorraine to ob¬
tain a portrait of her. The gentleman
of Anjou intrusted with the duty of
monarch presenting the picture to the English
described in glowing terms the
many attractions of this incomparable
Princess, and his report was well sec¬
onded by the painting. Both Henry’s
great uncle, Cardinal Beaufort, and Mar¬
garet’s uncle, Charles VII. of France,
lent their influence in supporting Hen¬
ry’s choice. The Cardinal in alliance. particu¬
lar was very anxious for the
he He had clearly educated his royal nephew, Henry and
saw enough that was
lamentably deficient in aud, energy Margaret and de¬
cision of character ; as
possessed these requisites in a marked
degree, he hoped her influence in these
respects would prove beneficial for the
King. At the same time he also hoped
her youth and inexperience would ren¬
der her a valuable instrument in pro¬
moting his own political influence aud
power. people,” Duka
“The darling of the
Humphrey of Gloucester, uncle to the
young King, was opposed to this alli¬
ance with Margaret; the consequently Duke Car¬
dinal Beaufort and were at an
issue as to tlie choice of a consort for
their royal kinsman.
Henry himself, however, was deeply
enamored by her pictured charms. He
resolved to obtain Margaret at whatever
cost; and, as King Rene demanded the
cession of Maine ar.d Anjou as the price
of his daughter’s hand, Henry readily
agreed to the sacrifice, only too pleased
to secure this “dowerless bride whose
beauty ami merits were allowed to out¬
weigh all the riches in the world.”
The Duke of Suffolk, accompanied by
his Duchess and a brilliant train of the
nobility, was dispatched to France “to ■
espouse the Lady Margaret of Anjou, as
proxy for his sovereign.” Tlie festivi- i
ties, lasting eight days, were earned out [
with great magnificence !
At the close ot the festivities Margaret
took most affectionate leave of hei* par- 1
ents, kindred and friends; and the lively [
emotions called forth on her departure
for England in tlie charge of the Duke
and Duchess of Suffolk were eloquent of
the ]ove and admiration universally felt
for her .
jj or ] ari ding in England “The was heralded
py a terrific storm. cliffs of Al
bion were first visible to her amid flashes
0 £ lightning, and the shores resounded
™ ’ u,-, On ^ arriving hT£n at
t
f^x-^SKous^uIg ^ King 1
“ aer recoV reco ' ery er -' with wlUl the “ ie greatest
The beautiful Margaret, then in her
loth ,... suffered j- , from , poverty, I
year, even
b ,th m her own home and m that of
her adopted country. Miss Strickland
relates:
««Her bridal wardrobe was so scantily
f arms hed that King Henry was under
the necessity of supplying her with array
suitable to a Queen of England before
^ apoear in that character ”
_to Mat. oi.te national
t tS, d ^SmAthe chiefly the dis
tied state of tho countrr—added to
King Henry’s difficulties m raising the
necessary funds to meet the expenses
jjig marriage. “He was com
pelled to pawn nearly all his private
jewels and household plate, mauv of the
jewels bemg pledged to his great uncle,
the rich Cardinal Beaufort.”
On the 22d of April, 1445, the royal
nuptials were celebrated at Tiohfteld
wl ^ 1 & reft ^ splendor, and on the
ASth of May foliowing Margaret was
crowned at Westminster, when “ a
tournament was held which lasted three
days, the lists occupying the entire spac*
between the Palace Yard and the Sanct¬
uary.
. Humphrey, his Duke of Gloucester, find
nig with Margaret opposition to Henry’s marriage
bail been useless, was
one of the first to treat the voting
Queen with marked courtesy and friend¬
liness, Unfortunately, Margaret was
too inexperienced, and too much of a
spoiled beauty, to readily overlook his
previous slighting behavior. Her im
petuous temperament never allowed her
to acquire that command over her likes
and dislikes which' discretion impera
tively calls for ; a less clever or less
spirited woman would have iiad the tact
to try and conciliate her enemies ; Mar
garet her never succeeded iu doing tins, and
want of judgment in this respect
greatly added to the bitterness of the
struggles she had afterward to endure,
H'Cardinal Beaufort had not been so
intent . gaining
on his own ends he might
have striven, with some good effect, to
mitigate Margaret’s dislike for Glouees
ter, who was heir-presumptive to the
throne. The Cardinal’s influence over
the young Queen was considerable, and
it is much to be regretted that lie did
hot use it for her benefit.
Two years passed, and Margaret gave
ho sign of becoming a mother." During
tl,is ti “ e Gloucester’s political oppo
Duke Humphrey was arrested on a
charge after charge of of high high treason. tret Seventeen «, rawoiI days u»y»
liis arrest lie was found dead in liis
bed. There were no marks of violence
a Person, bat Queen Margaret’s
known known dislike dislike to to him, him, in in conjunction eon junction
WiUl tbe ill - COWCea,ed auiniosi ^ of his
opponents, led to suspicions of h : s hav¬
ing been unfairly dealt with, and a ru
mor soon Queen spread that the beautiful
young causing had, iu part, been the
moans of the death of the popu¬
lar favorite. There was nothing in the
evidence to support so serious a charge
against Margaret.
Hoon after Gloucester’s death. Cardi¬
nal Beaufort was called to his last ac¬
ferred count, her and Margaret naturally trans¬
confidence to her early and
trusted English friend, the Duke of Suf¬
folk. Among her most powerful and un
scrupulous Richard foes were the Duke of York. and
his Neville, Earl of Salisbury,
These son, Warwick, “the King-maker.”
influential nobles, aided by their
fall supporters, of Suffolk. ultimately effected the down¬
“He was sentenced to banishment,
but met his death on board a vessel, his
head and severed trunk being flung on
Dover sands, where liis chaplain found
them and gave them honorable burial.”
Iu the very brief intervals of peace
which allowed Margaret opportunities
of benefiting her subjects, we find she
endeavored to encourage the manufact¬
ure of silk and woolen goods; and
Queen’s College, Cambridge, owes its
foundation to her. From these tokens
we her are justified in concluding that, had
reign been less disturbed by “the
fatal evil of war,” she would have effect¬
ed yet more substantial good for her
people.
The Duke of Somerset succeeded Suf¬
folk as Prime Minister. This noble¬
man’s violent temper hastened the out¬
break of hostilities between the York
and Lancaster factions, and—as is so
well-known—the red rose became tho
badge of the Lancastrians, and the whito
rose that of the Yorkists. Margaret
henceforth forsook the pure daisy flower
and adopted the blood-red rose as her
emblem. No sooner had the rival houses
assumed their respective badges than
the Duke of York revealed.-his true
character of armed dictator to the
throne. The high-spirited Margaret
resented this conduct, and, aided by her
adviser, Somerset, she urged King
Henry to meet York in the field. But
Henry’s peace-loving nature shrank
from an appeal to arms, and for a time
open warfare was avoided by York be¬
ing induced to swear a solemn oath of
fealty.
Margaret had been married nine years
ere she gave birth to the long- wished-for
heto ’ Gloomy, indeed, were the cir
cumstauces wtiich heralded the birth of
the young Prince Edward. The En
glish arms had met with disasters in.
foreign fields prevailed ; discontent, home; clamorously and, it
expressed, at as
to crown her misfortunes, tho beautiful
distraught young Queen had just lost
her noble mother, and the mind of her
husband was overshadowed by a malady
which deprived lnm of old reason. Most
touching is it to read the chronicler’s
account of the endeavors that were made
to elicit from tie afflicted monarch some
ferventlT Srei ’ Lu First e,t.Ae "l,“ L)uk ( , of
v child
to the Kimr, but met with no response,
Then Queen Margaret herself took the
boy, and offered him with impassioned
tenderness to Ins father, at the same
time entreating the paternal blessing
and embrace. Just for an instant Hen
ry’s eyes rested on the babe, but not a
single spark of recognition was in the
abstracted glance.
Unhappy Queen and mother ' With
what indescribable grief must she have
borne this afflicting moment ! During
Henry s melancholy illness, Margaret
devoted herself to her beloved child, and
to the amelioration of her husband’s
pitiable " condition.
In the meantime her enemy, York,
was actively at work. He contrived to
depose upS himsriftl Somerset from p“ teclorate office and took
“?U1 e timet of Ki^g Em
gland, such the
might “^Vrnment be able to resume the reins of
or the infant Prince should
arrive at years of discretion. ”
Margaret’s position became more and
more cr itieaL She ® was surrounded by J
enemies who, as she knew full „ well, were
resolved on the deposition and destine
tion of her royal house. Calumnies,
many of them of the basest character,
were sown broadcast—calumnies not
only ^, reflecting but on her conduct as a
ueen ’ on lie f honor as a woman.
J2™J .
| !e -’ and it !t “ a y ^ easily (S’Jiff imagined that,
^ t thf Z5T sbameful doubt ? “tX cas *
Up ° a th9 le ^ tlmac ? of he? beautlfu
boy aroused in her the fiercest feelings
of anger and resentment. As Miss
Btricklapd graphically shows, from this
time Queen Margaret appears in a new
light. The imputations cast upon her,
the repeated attempts of the House of
York to exclude her sou from the suc¬
cession, “roused her passionate ma¬
ternal love and pride, and converted ail
the better feelings of her nature into
fierce and terrific impulses, till at length
the graceful attributes of mind and man¬
and ners by which the Queen, the beauty
the patroness of learning had been
distinguished, were forgotten in the am¬
azon and the avenger.”
With a husband wanting in resolution
and firmness, and whose mind was fre¬
guard quently whose afflicted, with a princely boy, to
interests the most constant
and anxious vigilance were requisite, the
Queen was imperatively called upon to
exercise to the full nil the courage,
promptitude and determination she pos¬
sessed.
The fluctuating fortunes of those long
continued deadly Wars of the Roses
aftord proof—if such be wanting—that
the influence of tho Queenly Margaret
of something above and beyond that
time, an when ordinary woman. Time after
might even a veteran commander
have reasonably concluded all
herents was lost, Margaret rallied fresh ad¬
to her standard. So long ns her
husband lived, so long as her princely
son was safe beside her, she never lost
heart, nor courage, nor energy.
From the terrible battle of Hexham
she, in mortal terror for her son’s life,
fled with him on foot through the neigh¬
boring baud forest, till they encountered a
of robbers who possessed them¬
selves of her jewels. While the men
were disputing over the booty, Mar¬
garet sped caught her son up in hoi arms and
on. She had not proceeded far
when she met one of the troop alone.
With her usual spirit aud self-possession
she stepped forward with her little son,
and, presenting him to the rubber, ex¬
claimed : “Here, King!”' my friend, save tho
son of your The man, struck
by her beauty and majesty, as well as
by the boy’s interesting and helpless ap¬
pearance, turned his threatened enmity
into friendliness, and he led them to a
cave where lie sheltered them for two
days. history
All readers of know how Mar¬
garet’s heroic struggles were finally
overcome in the last brave effort of the
Lancastrians at Tewksbury, that “fatal
field ” that witnessed the‘death of “the
The gallant, springing young Plautagenet.”
despair of Queen Margaret at this
overwhelming She disaster was lifelong.
was brought to London with the
youthful ill-fated widow of her beloved son, the
Anne of Warwick, to grace the
train of the victor. The same night the
Queen was imprisoned in tho Tower,
and to the loss of her son was added
that of her husband, who was murdered
at the same time by Richard, Duke of
Gloucester.
After a long and weary period, in
which she was conscious of desolation, nothing but
au awful sense of utter the
childless, widowed and dethroned Queen
was ransomed by her kind old father,
King llene, at the sacrifice of his inher¬
itance of Provence—of that Provence
which had once rung with joyful accla
matious at beautiful sight of the mother. lovely “Anjou’s Margaret
and her
lone matron ” had now drunk too deeply
of the cup of sorrow and bitterness to
take much interest in anything that life
could offer her. The agony aud fierce
agitations she had undergone turned
the whole mass of her blood, and every
trace of her once ravishing beauty dis
appeared. She made the most strenu
ous efforts to obtain the bodies of her
murdered husband and son. Even this
consolation was denied her; yet up to j j
tho last day of her life she employed England
some faithful ecclesiastics in
to perform at their humble graves the
S“ nCeatUHOrthC rePOSe ° f
The remainder of her life She was expired passed.
in the greatest seclusion.
at tbe Chateau of Damprierre, on the
25th of August, 1480, in her 51st year.
American Women and Family Duties,
A gentleman writes to the St. James
“
the Nineteenth Century, and your ar- I
ticle ‘ is the Family in Danger?’ are
calculated to give your readers an unfair
impress,on of American Women and
theirvevs of family duty. Mr. Cxoldwm
hLs mmS^ V X?^JhaUhe^oman!
sufirage movement about which I offer
no ooinion is in a small minority in the
United States; that it has there much
i f . 8s ho ja on the better classes than it has
here; that it has little hold at all on the
vast industrial and agricultural popula
Ron outside of .great cities ; and that the
Meas which, rightly or wiongly, lie at
tr tbute.y to it> leaders as to matrimony
and maternity aie wholly repugnant to
|be In tact, vast Ins majarity argument of Atnencan pointed to dangers women.
'* real ‘> r exaggeiatcd—in tlie luture, not
lo tlie Present state oi mbut.-, Phough •
my experience of America nas not been
«■>! Iiave socn enougl, of th« a»« as
® t,®. i m-.rl at.,
sJoj, . i . „ . n
., r , hesitariou.' rf>p j„ r/ u it], me wtUt,' T ’can ssv
xvithout that nowhere
f am ji J y pf,, m itssimp'e its’mernbers. honest affee
tionB the cohesion of the
senS g of duty ^bild of husband and wife
£ parfcIlt aDd be seen better devel
^ Ded tha in New Eneland And differs so
in othei parts of the States
from that in New England more in de
grees of education and refinement than
in essential habits and principles. Any
one acquainted with American society
knows, for instance, that young married
women live a much simpler, more whole
some life than they do in London draw
ing-rooms, and give more of their time
to home life, to their husbands and chil
and less to social engagements, statistic;
than they do in England. The.
<>t the writer in the Century may show
that the relaxation of the divorce law in
of the States has been unsatisfac
; tory as the leading to tie capricious for unsubstantial breaking
op o. marriage
rea8 on8 in certain classes of American
1 societv. The fact, however, remains that
the grosser scandals of married life
j which the Divorce Court too frequently
reveals m the higher circles of English
societv are strikinglv rare in families of
similar position in America.
! “I shall be glad to be permitted thus
to state what I think is the true state of
the many reader, who do
not know America themselves might be
“ ^‘he extrael and you, artkle to
hasty ^oufd and unjust generalizations which
have about as much solid founda
tion as similar generalizations suggested
j some years ago by the brilliant Iucubra
' tions of that industrious book-maker,
* the lata Mr. Hepworth Dixon,”
$1.50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 13 .
HUMORS OF THE DAY.
Does a man break into humor when
he cracks a joke ?
It is no longer a matter of pride to
have a high forehead. A oow kas that,
and she is very low-ly.
In union there is strength. “Poor
Tom’s a cold,” bat Tom and Jerry’s hot.
—Boston Commercial Bulletin .
The best description we have ever
heard of a slow man was that he was too
slow to get out of his own way .—Lowell
Courier.
When the washerwoman calls for a
young shirt man’s linen, does that make her
a caller ? Neekst. — Steubenville
Herald.
“Money makes my ma go,” said little
Skeesicks wheu his mother, armed with
a $20 greenback, left for a down-town
siiqppiug tour.
Enquires; Are plants in a sleeping
room unhealthyV Not necessarily. We’ve
seen in sleeping some very healthy plants growing
rooms. ,
“ Don’t you think that Miss Brown ia
a very sweet girl?" asked Henry. “Oh,
yes, very sweet,” replied Jane; “ that is
to say, she is well preserved. ”
“Are you dead, Tim?” said an Irish
father to ins sou, who had fallen down a
"eli. “Not dead, father, but spache-.
less," came up from the depths.
No woman e’er contented is,
No matter wiiat site's got;
lor w it on site builds a little ltousa
She always wants a lot.
— 4 /acien*<tG& Republican.
“It is poor taste to laugh at your own
jokes,” said Fcndergon; “something I.
never do, through 1 do say it.” “Does
anybody asked else over laugn at them?”
Fogg.
A Brooklyn man lias just found his
sister from whom he has been separated
fiity years. Mho was the cook in his
boarding style house, and he recognized the
of her hash.
“ Have you any faith in mince pie as
a cure for headache V” aSked one young
married ludy of another. ‘ ‘ Yesj ” vms
tiro reply, “-bring out your mince pie.
I get minoe-pio headaches regularly.”
\\ Hen Brown complained of a rush of
blood to the head Fogg endeavored to
ease his mind oy reminding him that
nature abhors a vacuum, aud Brcwns
Wood rushed to liis hqgd worse than
ever.
“Man and wife are all one, are they?”
said she. “Yes; what of it?” said he
auspiciously. said his “Why, in that case,”
tipsy lest wife, “I came home awfully
night anti feel terribly ashamed
ot myself this morning.” Ho nova said
a word.
Ar a young ladies’ seminary recently,
during the an examination in history, one of
“Mary, pupils was interrogated thus:
did Martin Luther die a natural
death V” “ No,’’ was the reply; “he was
excommunicated by a bull,’ —Harvard
Lampoon.
Little Edith was terribly sleepy the
other night. She began her customary
prayer upon retiring, l>nt when she got
as far as “Our Father,” her eyes closed
and her head tumbled on -to the pillow,
“I tan’t tay if.hj-night,” she said,* “I'm ‘ '
P>- Ho knows the yest of it ”
A lecturer was once in a dilemma
winch bo will ptY.bably never forget.
assertion, ’’ J 11 ®. * a ‘™o “Art about can, art never he venturetJphe improve
tulc that na
’ at Hioment some one
™ isant * i ence cried otttinagruff ’voici,
, an * e V ell, then, how do
thl . V ,^/ ” would ■ , y^u
ou Iook ^houtwig?”
T k '-^oky is a wondojful thing,” said
;, a e 5 \ ls ^ im WaRs.
r tlunk oi what fellow’s head
a can
-V? , ‘; -* 8 gigantic, sir gigautief”
—
Watts— 1 have often heard your friends
Jack.’'
k - j j , 1 l Veil, that r very
“ n good
a, ’° dollars 1 yeS
Last Wishes.
Some eccentric people trouble them
selves greatly concerning the disposition
of their bodies niter death. An English
® 100 ’ 000
HrSvr
she should die away fyom home, her re¬
bfmicWd ’
d wnv l b )(ls tr iiu to her na
t ive town/ “ Lot no mentiorq” she dates*
made of COI2t chafed cnt.s, as the conveyance fo/than
^ rirdinary not then package. be more
an A French traveler,
f ece ntly deceased, desired to be buried
^"4,“, ^^ had gOpe■ arotfhtl to'."- tho
feacc. ..lorwvnun, 1 ^^ 'w twenty-th^ an ^.? n
^ who, \ at the ^ age of J
had tLrrie< a giri eBire<!
k) be lnu q ed jn olfl ' p p p, |
aa c est >( . u He .
i ec t e d f or the purpose. In the Emitter of
too, all sorts of whimsical notionn
are c l ier islmd. One man wished to be
interred with the bad on which he had
boen lviug; auot her desired to bo buried
far fjL . om t p e p aim t 8 0 f man, where na
t(|m may npon ]jj B remaina/’
into ho5llir TOinto ^ ri “
. „
aU > but gives ins body to a gas company,
to be consumed to ashes in on© of their '
r ^ rt thaf^should the Rupentf.
tlon ™ the times prevent the fulfilment
*! ,°f 1S hfe remains be - < l ue ^ in his a city «ecutors cemetery, lpay “to place as
sist in poisoning the living in that nelgb
ri° , rno A P erson m &y approve
, of , cremation, but it is
a
e l! ard h e re iuires his reJatncs
^ approve v of , it a!sa , Ini casesi of this
Ca ™ X?
1 g d 11 h °* the
y tiers.
got
* “ rpa t ' 0, ‘ *isht>, jp Q
“ Did you have much luu U r. ?5on s
‘ Mose?” asked a gentleman ‘ -
Galveston fisherman.
j long “ Nebber jerk up seed comes de like. a live I f------- A T
i I Jerk agin, up comes A • J—
| trout; jerk agin up com 1 Y* j
pound sheephead. It neb
! one second.” fn0
“How did you catch W
without stopping to bait
' Come Mose f”
now,
1 “ Bait de hook? All dem 1
same hook. Dar was no "2
bait de hook. De six-pouncT an!P®, „
swallowed de five-pound trout,
peund t-’n-pound redtish, trout just jeafrliept jobbled de Si
and I on ontil
day was den about 1 hauled’em twenty fish on de hook,
and^ h f}~ ^ U3 eotched in and my put mean- on
m’T-Grtveston News.
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One * the largest machine belts rn
the world recently finished ’g’<md jp’
was 132 feet long and six