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eapest Weekly AN N voiamirton (LY TIMES: : the lad Tidings! I PF SHOSH( NEES wey to Loan. ro TWE N FROM ONE cls! Bricks! MACHINE ML AL} PRE S JOHN W 1L8 oN % 7 he- Ontavig Reformer 4 : EVERY Pri RY MORNING. Hf WM. HR. CLIMIE, ~ MI ERE HA A, : ; 4 5 LATEST EOR UC CONTAINS THE } ovincial News, Local Intelli avin X4 Cammercial Matters, dvance $2.00 t paid til the contmued until all the optien of the / VOL. I. OSHAWA, ONTARIO F RIDAY, JULY 1871. NO. 13. Rg pape rs=without [responsible for the syle ymply with the rule d to the F w A | must be, ey may not be taken from WILLIAM DICKIE Sl STAPLE | | | $ to announce to his numerous customers that his stock of | ng & Timmer geotes IS NOW COMPLETE AND FANCY OF THE LATEST STYLES. IN GOODS Ww wgnee. Dress tation a the year Goods, Prints, Muslins, Hollands, &e. Grey Cottons very cheap 24 y'ds . 3 ~ > > MI 1.1.1 N | D) R Y. Borinets, Hats, Triminings: Flowers, Ribbons, Dress and Mourning Caps; White, Black and Colored Kid Gloves, T All ORI NG. ial attention to this department and Ready -made Clothing. Fashionable Cloths in market. Orders solicited. ATS AND CAP and Felt, in great variety; ( Gloves, Shirts, heavy family $2.50. Foe rtis ir be made. Parasols all styles and Ya BSINesS Aivertory, shades ; WL COBIRY, M.D. PL, PPR LES; SURGEON, A large stock of the best and most AND Oshawa. Nearly opposite Hobbs - 1tf A CCOUCHEUR, King Street, 1 Odie -H Panama, Straw ollars, Ties, Carpet-bags, Valises, Tganks: &e. AND SHOL more than usual at and is complete in every description o Suspenders, Umbrellas FRANCIS RAE, WD, h PVEIC) SY, SURGEON, wea en 130 OD Coroner Wshawa 2 > department is rec Women's King St I'his Men's civing and Children tion, < Boots, Shoes and Slippers, and Lage Boots, at %0¢, s. EASTWOOD, M.D, / {RADUATE OF THE UNIVERSITY 1 1 at present' at Hotel, : . 12 SEWING J. FERGESON, ole agent for ENTIATE YDERY \L SURGERY. ) r the f Messrs E000 pairs Women's Prunella, Congress worth $1.25. MACHINES. the Lockman; for Oshawa, East and West Whitby, WILLIAM DISPLAY Racks DICKIE. Oshawa 1-4 Simpson April 13, 1871. GRAND OCK. . KING STREET: © Medidines of a THAT 1 manner. THE TEMPLE of FASHION! 1 ed pure. A cM always on t Pro FETZMAU RICE. "late oF Her yeagoon Guards ans Horse Artil 1-1y FAREWELL & McGEE, JAR RISTERS, ATTORNEYS, SO 11 ITOR =, Conveyxancers and, Notaries 0 South-East Corner of King and 3 Just the place to buy the most desirable SPRING GOODS NOVELTIES IN N ught and R. McGEr IR ANE, L. L. B., IB." ATTORNEY-at:LAW, « ferv. Notary Pub Ke. + Janke fizclow = New I ' MILLINERY, MANTLES AND COSTUMES. JaMes MIR, : BAR | INT RR. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, neer ice "over arity, T-ly The only establishment in town where each of these departments is conducted by Ladies of TREMENDOUS BARGAINS! We offer 4 portion of a Bankrupt Stock of first-class ability. JONN Nell, \CCTIONEER. OSHA- T s On will he 1-2 RK. HOOVER, Marriage WHITEY License . "i E "parasols, Sewed Goods, Laces, Gloves and Hosiery, O=HAM AL LIVERY STABLE, WW THOMAS PROBRIETOR T ABOUT HALF THEIR USUAL re ( Hor 2 BOOTS AND SHOES. Another ¢onsi ich of those splendid Ladies" Boots, at £1.00 per pair, just to hand. ~ THE STAND, ¢3 PRICES. SERINY | Co, M AN UFACTURERS v Yo k Ma 2¢ REMEMBER g2% Teniple of Fashion, Comer of Kine and Simcoe Streets, Oshawa. 9 2-1 Oshawa, ; April 20, 1871. ROOM PAPER! ROOM PAPER, ROOM-PAPER. FPYHE ST RESP EC TFU LLY TO INFORM HIS Patron direct from England; the First Instal ment of his . Spring Stock of Paper-Hangings, To which he would call special attention The great superiority of English Paper over that of Canadian manufacture-is universally acknowledged. The bril'iancy and firmness of the colors and the extra width of the rolls ecombine to estab lish their preminence over all others. The subscriber being the only Importer of this class of Goods in Oshawa. is confide J t-that no other -- A ----------. ------------------ Memoriam. SUBSCRIBER and the Public BEGS enerally, th MOST at he has RSP House can 'offer Greater Inducements,. eithe s regards QUALITY OR PRICE. i Mn MENTS TABLETS. ETC : E HAS ALSO ON WELL a bos, Saline, FANCY GOODS, And Tops! {IN MARVLE Machine, he county. HAND A ASSORTED STOCK OF IMERIC. » \ND TCH ARERDEEN GRA 1. on sf tice Having been appointed sole agent for the Little Wanzer Sewing supply them on better terms than any other ler "in the Remember the stand, directly opposite Hindes' Hotel Oshawa. Oshawa, April 13th, STL. can & BOUNSALL, Bowmanti JAMES F. WILLOX NEW, BOOK, STATIONERY AND FANCY GOODS STORE! IN OSHAWA. subscriber most respectflly announces to the habitaiits of Oshawa and vicinity, oe ned out a Book, Statiohe ry and Fancy Goods Store, Iph Sewing In the Stand Lately Occupied by Mr. "RIGGS, as Tailoring Establishment, | THE OSBORN STREET, 1 ek-Stitch Sewing Machins! 'Where he will keep constantly\ on hand : assortment of 'Books, | \NADIAN Note and Letter Papers, Fancy Goods, &e. EWING MACHINES AMERICAN. SEWING MACHINE I'he that he has Co. Machine SIMCOE OSHAWA, a choice WE MONOGRAM PAPER on hand. PRAYER A nice lot of Not A choice assortinent of BIBLES, HYMN and 1 as the cheapest. r.CA A . School Books, Slates, Pens, Inks, &e. pestion, mate the Call and see my stock of ALBUMS. rmachine fered \ shafe of public patronage respect fully irk pera tion ism adaptaoility, BOOKS, cheap FTHROUGHOIL hese Machines They DS Nothine chaveed for showing goods, solicited. p Bi GEO. S. CLIMIE. Oshawa; April 20, 1571. INSURE YOUR LIFE, AND YOUR PROPERTY, IN The Osborn Sewing Mackine has no rival Machine cived daily from ed a : wonderful i= of domestic seving arsest overcoat THE \ COMMERCIAL UNION ENGLAND. hi 3 and readily whalf the pice ing a like raage being determined to f every family in he complete ASSURANCE ('o., of LONDON, FULLY SUBSCRIBED, £2500000 STERLING The Guelph Reversible Ihr ead Mai line CAPITAL full outfit guaranteed. Splendid viz 1pply to SEWING MACHINE GUELEH, CANADA. J. & A. SMITH, Agents for Oshawi, £12; Treade OFFERS SUPERIOR ADVAN. department. Rates low and terms | [rPHIS FIRST-CL ASS BRITISH COMPANY TAGES tothe Policy Holders, in both tite Life and Fire liberal, phere I ie one ELPH Coy : Montreal, ral Agen's for Canad , MORLAND, WATSON & CO. W, R. CLIMIE, Agent for Bowmanville. | tive nobility mitted with such proud stoicism. If | iad Poin. THE BOY A .D"THE BROUK | Down from yon distant mountain height | The brooklet flows through the village street A boy comes forth to wash his hands, | Washing, yes washing, there he stands | In the wgter cool and sweet. | * Brook, from what mountain dost thou come? O my brooklet cool agd sweet * I come from yon mouhtain high and ¢ Where lieth the new snow onthe old, And melt ¢ Sammer eat." "Brook to what river dost thou go? O my brooklet cool and "I goto the river there below Where in bunches the violets And sunand shadow meet." sweet grow, "Brook, to what garden dost thou go? O my Lrooklet cool and sweet I" | "1 go to that garden im the vale Where all night long Her love son-gong the nightingak doth repeat." "Brook, to what fountain dost thou go! O my brooklet cool and * I goto that fountain s thee she looks therein, I rise to méet her, and Kiss her chin, And my joy if then complete." sweet ! -- brink » othesto drink, at whos The maid that Jove And, whenever, $ elections, JOHN LYNCH'S DEBT. BY ALTON CLYDE. CHAPTER 1. The summer day had died in tranquil like the close of a Christian life, and the sweet lingering twilight with its dew-laden air and - sky of beauty, Was clo- sing in, soft pearly tints, with gleaming ripples of crimson gold, bright to-morrow. and giving promise of a Very deep and solemn was the hush that pervaded one of the beautiful the "City of evening drew: on, changing the sky tints to choly gray," and casting longer shadows on the outstrétched field of there giving deeper glooni to dark masses cemeteries of Brotherly Love," as tender, melan graves, here and of verduré, and throwing out in stronger There, headstones of the turf map d out the numerous relief the white gleams of marble plebeiag were few, on the side, where and only the rise green graves, a of .those un young man stood, beside one distinguished mounds, gazing down with head The band round his hat denoted mourning for bent and folded arms deep some near relative, as also did his well- brushed suit of black ful state It was in a care of preservation, but therel was about it a painful air of threadbaré™ re Yat, in spife of theg sigms,.though his - purse was but slenderly furnished, and he would spectability, that told its own story go heme to a poor lodging and frugal fare, John Lynch, clerk, could truly have written Gentleman against his for he honorable, lant, high-bred chivalry as belted knights of old. He stood there until the wh the merchant's name, of nature's and full of gal of the was one own large-sonled, any few stragoelers made the cemetery a pleasant evening walk had passed out, left alone, til it was tine for closing the and he was nearly He did not rouse himself un gates: then he stooped down. and slowly as oné imight bind a coronet on a beloved brow, placed a little bunch of foses on one of the lowly mounds; at the sam blades of the waving grass, and placing them carefully between the of his, glanced at their fra » time, plucking a few leaves pocket-book, murmured, as he the sweet flowers and inhaled grance so | would over him, myself, 1 monument '1 ¢anmot lay marble bring him these; and for not wish a fairer , nor sweeter I know he loved a resting-place epitaph. the under the willows in the churchyard of his will be a fit he added, touching the Poor old man ! country, and craved nativevvillage, so my roses and this," grass in his pocket-book, "is te--keep my that offering; purpose fresh and green it has faltered yet." not Thus contmuning with himself, he turn- ed away; and pausing once to cast a linger- look at the swiftly down the shaded walk, then passed ing, backward grave, went from the solemn hush, and the presence of those silent sleepers, into the noisy life of the crowded streets. CHAPTER 11. An hour latér, John Lynch was in his | where no loved face or kindly voice third-floor back room, furnished in the dingiest and shab- home, awaited him. It 'was a biest lodging-house style. There, after | | office-hours, he lived alone his life of pa- | tient, unsuspected struggle, with the whole 'current of his being' set to the fulfilment | of one purpose, which partook of his na- about There a purpose was strangely secretive was only one being in the world wliom he took into pretty Alice Leigh, promised wife; but even she did not know all the little life, the daily sacrifices and stern self-conquest all his*_ confidence, his secrets of his immer the voluntary privations to which he sib- | gen- tle Alice had known that it would have | taken all the relish from the rich viands | { on which she fed at her master's table. It was the first anniversary of his fath since he solitary the to which he had that day made a Ald John Lynch had died a and for er's death -- just twelve months stood, a mourner, at grave, pilgrimage. bankrupt, broken both in' spirit Jesidhes his busi- tunes. heavy losses in | ness, thers had been a constant drain upon him in the reckless extravagance of a fa- whom he had largely ad vanced money. The had drawn upon his father's purse until it could yield no further supplies. then, he had gone out to California, and nothing had been heard of him. The an- | grateful dese rtion was the final blow which ebighod down the old man. He Had al- ways been so fond of careless, handsome vorite son, to young man Since Ned, preferring him to his steady, reserv- deldeer brother, whose - sterling qualities | | est honor in | traits, conpled with a sensitive | earthly things were fading from him voice; "* | shall be renewed in me. eyes, { should nét trouble | other give me | which at that hour | the w which he | shone ont like triedgold in the time of ad- | verse fortune, John, the 4 emingly cold and Coal retiring vir- tues had never been Ptly--kine wn oor ap preciated, and who had' never given his | father an hour's trouble or concern his boyhood, it was to him that the old | since | man was glad to turn for comfort and sup- port, when all else had failed. The striet- | transactions had of his pecuniary life, been, through one marked | pride of | the was almost independence, that could wound. He [ that subject, and carried the same spirit to slightést touch | | morbid on | his grave. "Through all his sickness, when , the burden of his debts pressed heavily -- it was the theme of almost the last céomyer- sation which he held with his son. "1 can't help it, lad; I always tried to © pay to the uttermost farthing. It is my debt to Daniel Read that troubles me, the man who came forward when he knew that I was going down. He has made up his mind to lose the money, but * He shall not, father," interrupted the with a break in his name, and the debt young man, tender I bear your From this day 1 take if God health and strength, full." - An eager it on myself, and, gives me it shall be paid in gleam shot" from the fading 'My bey, do you promid® this!" "1 do, father; rest satisfied, and let the shadow pass--it belongs to this world, and There are those of you now, debts to think of earth." "God bless thee, good lad always: but given to Ned. God will reward thee ter than anything I could do; than thou chief care John! wast a my bet-+ orgive--for- , and, 'take my blessing for thyself and Alice." The young man was mueh: moved, but he said nothing, only passed round to the other side of the bed with the band, and opened it to read. Bible in his So closed the last compact between father and son. CHAPTER 110. Alice! 1 some serious talk this evening." ** Serious talk, John!" the fair peated, wistfully interrogative dark which had learned to_read so well. *Yes," brief very low and hurriedly, * Are you at leaknre, want to have girl re- with a glance at the she grave, face was his answer, spoken as if he conld not trust himself to say more. The g pression of irl's wistful look changed to an ex- anxicty as she said ' Miss Sarah goes to bed early to-night. I shall only have to take her glass' of negus and read prayers, then my time will but if I Thompson take my place. be my own; ask leave she will let She is so con- and 1 siderate and kind. go to her." Stay here, will John had not waited more thah a few minutes when Alice flitted backgto his side, ready dressed for a walk. He looked ten- derly down at the figure, slight and the fair, pure face which found such an appro- priate frame in the dainty straw bonnet, tied under her dimpled chin with its sim- She looked such a thing, the . pretty brown eyes, and ple white ribbon. sweet, lovable with childish droop in her shy, the half-¢onscious blush tinfing her cheek, as though she felt all the yearning love that was finding expression in his earnest gaze. + He conld have gathered her to his | e, and kiss- ed every bright ripple of the sunny hair that fell over her white brow. But hedid neither, only drew her arm silently within his, and asked briefly ¢ Where shall we walk!" . Under the trees round the heart in one passionate eml square, or anywhere that suits you, John." So they 'passed together through the | where wide entrance hall, their footsteps fell so noiselessly, and it seemed so natu- | ral to drop their voices, for even the sun- light seemed to come there subdued, as if which to suit the air of grave (uikt that per- | vaded region of soleihn respecta bility. A fewsminutes more, and the two quiet figures 'were pacing' round the. square, | nearly deserted. It | looked so refreshingly green, that still re- | treat in the heart of the great city, with waning sunlight filtering through the ving golden branches of the trees and weav network on the pavement at their feet. walked on with blind eyes, talking earnestly, with one tiny hand | and held he meant to keep it there forever. But John Lynch gathered in his clasp, as though Few nerving | up, by | his own voluntary act, the only bit of sun- | shine that had colorless life. the could have guessed that he himself for a was sacrifice. To give ever brightened his gray He had that day paid over first instalment of the debt to his | father's friend and creditor, Daniel Read; a little hoard, of which every coin was a silent register of heroic self-denial. "1 did not expect to hear this from you John Lynch, that you could bear to' give and divide our lives in the yearsto me up, come." Alice her gentle It was who spoke with a tremor in sand a childish They had come to voice arieved, quiver about her lips. a sudden halt the the young girl was leaning against the railing | They had noticed the movements of an elderly geptleman within wider trees, and for support. not the enclosure, the walks, ma pacing slowly up and down ight | excited He stopped when they stopped, and stood with and keeping those two in manner which might have suspicion that he was watching them. his back towards them, and his head bent forward as if absorbed in the. coritempla- | still enough to hear scraps of their talk if it had ple "him to Ifsten. But, natural'egotism of their species, the lovers tion of the flower-borders, yet near with the observed nothing but each other. Alice! that you can mistake my meaning!" * Divide our lives, is it possible John Lynch-spioke .with a ring of an-) | and showed it more | a sacrifice! { man walked lc isurely up the ste | had fixed, when he 1 guish in his voice; he was deeply moved, | he said, holding out the timid little hand, than was his wont. The strone man's heart 'was wrung. and p quivering in its finest fibres 'No, I will not belieye that doubt me; you, whom 1 love more than I can tell; for T am not a great talker as you dowry of five thousand dollars, payable on | know." He went on, and cxushing back with a strong effort the | feeling that would have choked his words, if he had let it have its way. " Alice, I have told you all; you know | my promise to the dead, and the to which my life must begiven, until John Lynch's debt "is paid. You that T am a poor man, and the money must Work -- months, per- | Know- ing this, can I with honor take you purpose know, also, own labor. it may take before it can be done. be coined out of my save --as I will, haps years] from your present home of luxury, and bind your lot to mine, with all its hard chances, uncertainties, and struggles! little girl whom I would shield of my life!" Here sudden tenderness. my , even at the cost his voice broke into "Can you not see that it is my love | which makes me shrink from making you You were not born to walk in rough places; will it not be better for your happiness to release you from vows that I have no right to'claim now!" "" Hush, cannot be taken from you" John! you 'have a right: that She was look- ing up to him, with het brown eyes: glis- | tening, and her cheeks flushed with bright "You will find that Tam not to be I will until I am gray and old; but I will not be She color. shaken off so easily. wait for' youn released, if you want it ever so much. laughed to keep back ler tears. " My little Alice, and will you never re- was | g mly, if you love me as you say, I shall expect to be always trusted and believed in." How finely the true gold of the woinan's heart came out from the loving test of If it had not heen for the the public circumstances! sake of appearance, and recollection that they the young man would have caught her to his were in a square, econtént of her more eloquent than walked back to the lived, and the great hall doo-had closed ontheslight figure, like has taken a new lease of life and hope. heart; as hé could not de that, he ed himself with a hand that words. pressure was, perhaps, Then they stately home where she when he went on his way one who CHAPTER IV. after John Lynch had disappeared, an elderly Not more than ten minutes aentle- of the house into which Alice had just passed, and let himself quietly in with his latch-key, staid old that his somewhat to the surprise of the servazit, who had an impression master was dining out and would turn till late. * Draw the blinds in the library, Thomp son, and light my reading lamp, and mark I am not to be disturbed for the not re- next hour unless I ring." He passed on, sure of prompt obedience the A few minutes later, the master of the mansion was pacing the floor of the library with his attitude of mental ab from well-trained servant. hands behind him; a fayorite his, in moments of profound straction. "Truly, this is a pretty discovery for on€evening; young John Lynch and my sister's companion engaged to each other. And then about this debt; which I had long since crossed from my mind.' Well, it is something unique and out'of the com- But to think that it might have been going on, and I should never have got to the kernel of the nut, if mon run of business. I had not chanced to play eavesdropper. A couple of young simpletons! wait till they shall but caution, for T doubt not that young fellow e gray and old! we see; has all the pride of the Lynches embodied in himself. Daniel' Réad, man of money, it is to be hoped that you if you are'a have a consciencet" ; Time passed, bringing no visible change. The banker, Daniel Read, kept to himself his discovery concerning the loversiand no apparent result followed his soliloguy Alice lived her own in the library. (quiet life in the orderly old house, every day | making herself more necessary to her in- valid mistress; and John Lynch worked steadily on the fulfilment of his plirpose. His heart when he found himself prepared to meet grew lighter in anticipation, the second payment of his debt. It wanted only a few days to the time he was startled by the rex | | ceipt of an anonymous" letter, addressed to him in an unknown hand, and enclosing bank-notes that the | amount due to Daniel Read. more than covered There was no writings only a slip of paper on which had been " From one who holds himself indebted to hastily scribbled in pencil John Lynch." This unexpected stroke of 'good. fortune $vas like the sudden uplifting. of a burden The 'many front his shoulders: Not young man was standing in Daniel Read's sequel may be guessed. hours later; the private office awaiting the receipt for the debt paid in full, the to the banker himself, a tall, old man; with a grave, lined face and clear, candid, gray eyes, that looked as if they could deception under any mask. He wrote out not to cashier, but détect the receipt, but kept hishand upon it, and said, looking attentively at the young | man-* John the end of the debt which you took "So you are' Lynch, and this 1s upon yourself to pay for your father;and with our this bit of business paper I suppose connection is toend. You expect nothing But a receipt for your money!" John Lynch was so thoroughly mystifie 1 that he only looked at him in blank perplexity, and said nothing. He the banke: or abruptly disappeared into an inner about his meaning, was still more bewildered. when room, and, after a few seconds, came out, loading ; Alice, " Here i is my receipt in another form,' you can | speaking rapidly, | that I shall be doing my poor sister | turn in robbing her of Alice." | banknotes--1 see it all now." | sions. ! mad: drunk | me, how they do change those trains! "Knowing your fégard for cach other, no matter how I came by the knowledge I prepared this surprise for you both, Alice Leigh being an orphan, 1 claim tobe her guardian, and give her to you, with 'a her wedding-day. My only repro; ch is, an ill sir!' " that "Oh, voice, * broke out John, in a choked anonymous letter-- those ** No matter what you see, young man, don't try to betray me into making confes- I shall say nothing, only that Tam indebted to John Lynch, father and son, for showing me that there is so much high honor and principle among men. The rest is soon told. Alice Leigh and John Lynch were married, the old banker giving away the bride, and his sis: ter, Migs Sarah, providing the wedding breakfast, though she did find it hard to reconcile herself to the loss of her te. good favor- In due time John Lynch was installed: in the banker's office in a sifuation of high 'trust; and thus the young couple were be- ginning the world with very fair prospects for the years to come. . It was the just re- cognition and reward which should always be the crown of noble, useful lives. -- er ---- Wyoming nurses calm {he rising vine. ation by singing: ** Nice little thal, get in a fury, cause mainina ' fone to | the jury." " Covrox says same of the fractional cu roney must be at a preminni;, for there is more than a hundred scents dn a dollars worthof it. $ A Wiscoxsin lover canght carryink ina." back log" could hot lift, and he marry in that family. Aw affected singer at "3 was told by a wag in the out from behind his nose his bride that hi concluded not to Dublin theatre gallery to" come and sing his like other people." "Tren soldiers must he an honest set, awful" dis "said an old lady, 'for not night seems to pass that soiic sentry is u relieved of his watch." Jones was so fond of contradiction that he wonld the and throw the the up window in middle of the night watchman who was calling the hour. contradict IT is estimated that young ladies are at present studying. Ww in this country. Probably over a THRE d Mes. ParmiNGroN thinks thatithe Pope ought to be very careful with hisiConsfite tion de Fide. She says that our Southern States experimented with "a Constitution dcfied, and got rather the worst of it. IT is rumored that Prince Arthur is to be made Duke of Ulster, and the ( ment y the introduce a Bill for purchase of a Royal seat in Ireland. overn- intends" before Parliament to the AN oratdr who had raised hits audience to a great height by his lofty soarings, e% heauti ful and expressive language" of the poet 2%; claimed, "I will now close in the forget his name-- and forget what he said; too." Here is the pithiest sermon ever preach ed: ** Our ingress in life is naked and bare; A SOLEMN WARNING. Foster's career affords a terrible com- mentary upon che growing tendency toim- | bibe intoxicating rinks. Having a wealthy and fond father, who was willing | and happy to furnish him capital, he could havelstarted outinlife far in advance of most young men, and pursued a career | of prominence But he and 'usefulness. | yielded to the allurements of the cup that | intoxicates and maddens, and to-day he | awaits in the prison cell the murderer's doom. In a communication made since his sentence, the condemned man says: "1 | had been drinking heavily can't excuse that. God knows 1 | I"'was stupid drunk and _T got into a drunken dif- ficulty with a stranfe man. thought, without any calculation, tmpulse of blind fury, I struck him the first thing that came to hand. hlow was never intended to kill Mr, nam. on an with That Put. It was struck with hardly any in- tention at all. © It was the work of a mad- man, not of a deliberate shurder. It was struck, with no recognized weapon, hut the thing hat hand." © These words coming from one /on the threshold of another world, furnish a warning to those who indulge vailing vice of drinking. The leads to inebriety, first came to most signal | in the pre- | social cup confirmed and briety to death. Could the young women of our land have ine- witnessed: the _ solemn court scene, when, as Foster received the dcath-sentence, hot tears rushed down his cheeks, and jurors, counsel, and specta- tors wept, they would use their influence in arresting the career of the tens of thou- | sands of young men who are now rushing headlong down the path of intemperance. : i Tan. -- Phorocrarns 18 PRINTER'S INK. The New-York Globe says it has received from the Rockwood Photo-Engraving Company, 840 Broadway, New York, some specimens of the new art of printing photographs with This re- | sult has long been<songht for by the most printer's ink on a printing press. prominent scientists, both in this country and Europe, and its accomplishment will tend to create a revolution in the art of | illustration. Here we have pictures both portraits and landscapes--with all the fidelity, delicacy and vigor of photo- graphy, with the absoluté permanancy of printer's ink. No longer; will the pictures of our friends fade from our sight and | leave no trace behind. The practical ap- and wonderful art | to be almost bewildering. Our magazines will come to us illustrated by photographic portraits of our distinguished scholars and statesmen, and our stories of | lications of the new seem | travel may be pietured to us by the ever | truth-telling camera, and at no increase of | The process introduced by. Mr. | Rockwood was invented in Copenhagen, and is of the simplest and most reliable | nature. Under ordinary photographic | negatives, prepared plates of glass, zinc, | and stone are exposed to the action of | cost. light, and from these. plates thousands of | picturés are printed all the facility of | the ordinary lithograph upon a press with ink. sitized plate is to transform it into a verit- | the parts exposed | to the action of light having an affinity for fatty or printer's ink, and the portion pro- The effect of the light upon the sen- able lithographic plate tected from light cejecting the ink and ab- sorbing water. So, passed over a plate ready for the press, fol- lowed by an ink-roller} and the paper.then placed on the press and run 'through the | rollers at the rate of about sixty or seven- ty an heur. The first picture published by the new process was an excellent of Henry Ward Beecher. likeness | r-- a -- - Fue latest style at dinner parties in New York is a fan placed at each lady's plate, on one side of which is printed the bill of fare, and the looking- glass, J on other .a Tue largest rope in the world has been completed in Birmingham, England, and is about six miles long, five and a quarter inches in circumference, and weighs ovér s1Xty tons. Tuar funny fellow Billings says: * Good whistlers are getting putty skarse ; seven- ty-five years ago they were plenty, but the hold oftis has tuke all the pucker out of this honest and chereful amusement." "Does the train thirty-five minutes past six, as usual! ask- ed an elderly lady of a railroad employee." "No; seven," desire tew git rich or tew start this evening at it eaves at twenty-five minutes to "Dear me, dear " was the reply. | our égress out of it we know not | *" when you find that love, | ness; Without any | : | think not," | "but we have some cold cabbage." | you s first a wet blanket is | jimini ! our progress in life is trouble and carc; where; do well but, shall there." doing well here, we AN intelligent gentleman from Germany, on his first visit to an American church, had a contribution box with a hole in the' top presented to him, and whispered to the collector: '1 don't get unt cant vote." mein, hapers) "Ir is a sad moment in life," said Cynic, glory, happi wood still," are, altogether, not worth a cigar." "It is a sadder moment replied hig friend, "when you find t the cigar itself is had." FIRST Youn Su dead?" Second young lady ** Yes, thing. She suffered terribly, And only think, beautiful silk dress her EADY "So noon aan pero she! that her, didn't she tonkd'nt wear mother gave and it was too short for her sister," A QUARREL on the Boulevards termina ted thus one day this week to the of the " M@nsicur, shall give me i tion." Reply (umidst PMNS ment spectators: you 'a peal of laughter:) ** Monsieur, I can not. I. am a member of the Society for Protéet ing Animals," A {RECENT tial stabbing San Franci cele affray in 0 was thus explained by one of the participants: "One man he hap got cousin, 'cousin hap muchee money; one man, all same to'white mang wantee cousin try killee he. No good, too many men try stoppee he, police die. He no die; he ocme, all gone," Ir is stated that the Orleanists intend in the event of a monarchical ma jority re sulting at the French elections, to move for the establishment of the constitution ! and then to offer the Crown to the Count de Chambord, or, should he refuse it, to the Count de Paris. - Here anniversaries: WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES, is lie classification of wedding First anniversary, iron; third, paper ; fifth," wooden ; tenth, fifteenth, crystal; twentieth, china; twenty- fifth, silver; thirtieth, cotton; thirty-fifth, second, pewter ; tin ; [ tinen: fortieth, woolen; - forty-fiith, silk; fiftieth, golden; seventy-fifth, diamond. A WAITER in a New Bedford saloon look- | ed in blank amazement when a party of | New Yorkers asked for a wine card, and | protested he knew not what they meant. | ¢ Welly" said one of the party, impatient- ly, '""have you any Dry Sillery!"". I replied the waiter, promptly, Tue persuasive and humbugging agents for selling lightning rads are equal to every demand. One old lady told an agent sho had no fear of lightning, 'but she had' al ways been afraid of thunder. "Just so," he replied, * ex detly. The square rods are lightning rods; and the rounds ones thunder rods." ., Of ve can meet your case course she is now *' protected." A sauoN-Kusrii of gues gitonab le hon esty went to a lawyer to constilt him about defamation The * has robbed he! replied the commencing "an action of against a fellow-townsman. ox scoundrel," said he fie recly, me of my character!" ** Ah! has are wre of that fact!" satchel gentleman, quickly, and in-a sar green castic tone; 'tif 80, for gheaven's sake let hin go, for it is the leckicst thing thet 'erer happened to gon!" , the founder Zoe howieo pathic sohool,' was one day consulted by a wealthy English lord. ed patiently to the statement which the He then took a ind held it under Well, you ; asked, in HanNeMAN, The doctor listen- patient made. to -him. small vial; opened it, the lord's nose. ** Smell! cured!" The lord " How much do 1 owe you! you are urprise, * Thousand The note and held "Smell! Well; franes," 'was the reply. Jord" im mediately pulled out a ban it under the doctor's nose. you are paid!" Tue other day pr' New looking little fellow very abruj tiy. Teacher, I ain t coming to school any more." ** Not school any more I" Why, what's the mat- ter; don't you like your teacher r * 0; dont 1! Youbet. But I'm going lack to the theatre I" * Back to the "Why yes, I act, I does." where!" "Yes I've been I'n an old hand atit. 'ork, o hs teacher, a sharp said coming to theatre !" "You act! orf the stage lots. I was an angek up to the *' Black. Crook, 2 and a bull frogdown to the ** W hiteFawn,' and I tell you what it is, teacher, I'd aheap site rather be a bull frog than an ange any day. himself that ' they will alk # become mothers-in-law 'one of these days. <3 1 rorogation of .