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· I THE MERCHANT. AND, GENERAL ADVERTISER. Circula.tEis largely in the Townships of Darlington, Clarke and Ca.rtwrigh~. It. is a common platform open to the free discnss1on of all questions in .;.hich the general public a.re concerned. TERMS. WEST DURHAM Stea.m Jo'b Jilr1nting O!Rce KING STREET, BowMANVILLE. eventy-tlve . cents per annum,, in Advance. The 1Merchant' and Obser. ver,' $2·00. BATES OF AD'V l!.RTISING, AND GENERAL ADVERTISER. VOLUM:t<; YI. BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1875. NUMBER . Quarter do. · · J5 . . Transient advertisement1:'! 1 5 eta per hne :first 1n One column Half do. - · 45 per ai;;l(um. 25 ,, POSTERS, PAMPHLETS, CIRCULARS, BILL HEADS CHEQUES, NOTES, HANDBILLS, LABELS, CARD~, 'l'ICKETS, &c., &c., &c. ;xvr. ertion1 and 2c. per lin~, e4ch. Bub sequent one. EXECUTED IN FIRST CLASS STYLE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY! COME and SEE · Trains will leave Bowmanville Station, Bowmanville time, a.a follows :. GOING WEST. GOING EAST, HI L 'L 'S I Rxpress . . , .... 8;20 .a.m. Exp~··.:·.".. .'9 27 a.m. : Ji!Iixed ...· -..... 4:05 p.m. Mixed .. ., ... 2:30 p.m. I Looal.. ...... 7:55 P ,m. Ex.presa .... 9:00 p. m. I Express:··· .9.00 p.m. I ocal ~ 7·22 a..m. NEW ---:o:--- *This trn.i.n runs ovel'y morning of '\veek, excepted, '!'ho following trains now stop at Saxony for passengers :Local going west, due at . ._ ...... 7:30 a. m Mixed going. ea.at, due at ......... 3:40 p. m Mixed going west, due at .... .... . 2:55 -p. m Local going east, due at ......... 7:45 p. m Montreal time. ~f.ondays Fall &Winter Dry Goods A LARGE LOT OF . LADIES' and G·EN'I'S' .J:"tJ':RS Bowroanv1lle. Nov. lst, 1873 . VERY 0 . HEAP Prof. J. Ruse, RADUATE of.l3axter UnivCrsify of ?i:t:usic Friondah. ip, New York. 'rcncher of Pio.no and 0l'gan, cultivation o Voice, Singing, Thorough Basa, Harmony, Composition, ~o. . · 41-ly J)arlington, July 16th, 1874. G :a. PB.A.TB, TAILOR. ~ Gentlemen's & Boy's Garments M.AD.E IN THX 1'EWEST STYLES. Bowmanville, July, 27, 1869. it R LOSCOMBE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY, <f:c OFFICE -Over McOlung'a Store, same flat as J. M. 'nrimacomb'a Dental Roo~. Bowmanville, Oct. 27th, 1868. Ly MARRIAGE ISSUED BY LICENSES · ROBERT ARMOUR MARRIAGE LICENSES. R. JOHN H. EYNON, Lot 7, 6th Co~ . M Darlington, . ia . d uly authorized to issue Ma.mage L1c:.iensee. ~nea.t· Betl~esda ~hurch) Darlingtoo, Nov. 19, 1871. m8-tf. - MARRIAGE LiCENSES I SSU~D BY · JOHN J. WILLIAMS Cherrywood Po·st·office Pickering Ont vV. H. 'VILSON, BOWMANVILLE, / --o-- Genera.1 Agent for PIANOS, ORGANS, MELODIANS and SEWING ,WAG HINES NEW GOODS I ...... Raymond S ew.ing Machine A SPECIALITY. Instruction given, and Instrurne11:ts and l\fa chines guara.nteed. Bown1anville. June 18, 1874. Stock Fully Assorted. GOODS AT l{IGBT PRICES! A'l' AUCTION EERS'i Fo1· the Township of Darlington. H. T. PHILLIPS, HAMPTON. Pro1npt attention given to " sales, &o, on reasonable terms. J. & W. J McMurtry & Co. SIGN OF ~J.11-IE GOLDEN LION, . Sept. WJD.. .-Barton, ENNISKILLEN. Sales -promptly attended to on reasonable terms. :Robert Young, VFTERIKARY SU.l{GEON, Graduate of V the Ontario Veterinary College, By _appoint1ncnt V cterina.ry Surgeon to the West Durhn.m and Darlington Union Agricultural Societies. Agent for the Live Stock Branch of the . ~ Bflo.ver n.ncl Toronto I\futuaJ. Fire Insurance Co. Veterh1a.ry l\fedici.nes constantly on hand. Call~ from the c<inntry promptly attended to. Office ·:~One door east of lt .. l\faning'a F\unitui:e Wareroom. Residence over S. Burden's store, corner of King and ScuO'og Streets, Ilowmanvillle. 0 1nltf 25th, 1874. BOW:UA.NVILLE. · LUMBER. HE Subscriber respectfully requests all parties indebted to him for Lumber, to settle their a.ccountH without fw·ther delay. And he lumber that he is i;re~red to sup!Jly them at cash rates for Cash, Henceforth he intends to do a cash business. THOS. SMITH, T hereby informs builders, and others in want of Lot l 91 6 Con. Darlington. 1873. m8tf. LIME! LIME! Apply to F OR SALR in anyquantit)·, WILI.I.A.1£ SPEAR. Church Stt'eet, nearly opposite the Alma Hotel Bowman ville, .Juno 19th 187;{. tf ALLAN LINE STEAMSHIPS. Liverpool London, and Glasgow on. Tickets, or inf(Jrmation..i. apply to F . W. A. N .I!i~illS, Agent. Bo,v1nanville, ,Tune 9th, 1871. tf-30 NEW GOODS. l\fy New Goods lrn.ve W. S. BOYLE, M. D. of the Universities of 'l'rinity GltADUA'l'E College Toronto, and Victoria College, .o. Cobourg. Licentiate of the Colle'ge of Phys1c1 ans,:\nd Surgeons, of Ontario. · Office, King Street, one door -..~e e t- of l\{ r. Cornish's Jewelly Store, nowmanvillt.:. N~~ARLY ALL C()ME TO HAND AND and the a,qsc· .ment will be found To :Ma.sters of L. 0. L OERTIFICAES, Applications BLc\.NK &c., &c., can be procured at this office, at legula.r rates. Bowmanville, July 7th 1 1873. VEI-lY COMPLETE Fancy Goods,Berlin Wools,&c. Mrs. Mason, PRICES MODER4TE '!'hr, Public are solicited to call and see for themselves. Hampton. Sept. Begs to infortn q1c public, that she has J1;st roceived a. splendid new msortrnent of .E ancy Goods, Berlin '\.Vools, etc, which she v.rill sc11 at .as lo\v price as th1:1y ca.n be bought for elsewhere. .STA,ilPING done on SHORTEST NOTIOE vet. 8th,1874. i.swoa. HAMPTON, 18th 1872 H. ELLIOTT JUN bp in my care. I will olay here with her, and removed all discomforts from my journey, John Cain. tion returns, he found he had scooped 'em you can retura as quickly as possible. and arranged for all needful rest. as follows : llnnnah win come too.' It was early in the morning when. we HIS POLITIC.AL CAREER. Under the Snow. Opposing candidate........ 36.420 Hannah wasa family servant who had reached the city and drove across it to our John Cain.................... 31.480 John Cain was a quiet, 'UnobtrusiYe citibeen Suay;s nurse when a child. I engaged country home. But the carriage, inetead of zen.I He didn't long for fame and renown, DY F.IUS!J!l MICHA.KL~ a nurse recommended by Mrs. Gardiner,and stopping before our cottage gate, turned in and be didn't care two cente whether this 'They have buried my lovf'.r under the sno1v, with a heavy heart, set my face southward. tl1e gntcway of the opposite house, driving great and glorious country was ruled by a lEOLIAN HARPS. Ot1t under the r~in, the :Sleet and the enowi It is not necessary to enter into the detaila . Up the w'ide shaded avenue to where upon one-hor2e Republican;or n tlvo~horse Demollfr. Cain went out and sat down under 'J.lbc glittering ste.ra bi:le their faces bright. of my busiuess l\'orries. Foi a month I the por~h Susy was waiting, with our boy crat. &n apple 1ree in his back yard, and he gaTe Oh J 'tis a dnrk, cold and cheerless night, was detained, trying to get some return of in her arms. I could not nsk qneetions himself up to reilections, and so forth. And yet he lies out there undt:r t11e snow, HIS VIRTUES. . ) . the money we had inveeted, and failed ut· then ! It wao enough to fold my treasures Through the leafless branches sighed Mra. fh c. cold and pitiles~ sno'v. He had a pew in the ehurch, gave six· terly. Then,heart-siek, I started for home. in my arms in utter thankfulness. But Cain, and both sighs murmured gently in They 1la.ve buried n1y lovet' under the anow, In the great cities the yellow fever rage<l, when Susy led the way to the wide draw· teen ounces to the pound, and when a man his ear: Out under tbe rain, the sleet and the snow. looker! him square in the eye, Mr. Cain i John Cuin 'a an idiot.' Now the wind liinks down to a low moaning ond I avoided them in my route; but on ing-roow, furnished exactly as we had often never took'a. ha.ck seat. He 'wns home at a my way from Memphis, at a little place plann~d, I cried out in my a1nazement. My :$igb, -Detroit Free Press. .ren.sonable hour ia the evening, never took called Vaughn Station, I was taken ill. '!'hen howJa a.gain with a wild, shrieking cry, mother-in-law, leading me to a sofa, made part in the discussion, ' lager healthy 1' Oh ! this if:! horrib; t ; he thus to die ! Put off the train, bag and baggage, I wa· me sit down, saying : The · Greatness of London. and many n man wished that his life rolled AJtd lie in the churchyard under the r;;now, driven to a wretched little tavern, anJ. left 'You mu~t let me explain, I wanted to The cold a.nd pitiless snow. a. evenly and peacefully as John Cain's. on In Jew cities are there 1nore than half to die or recover as I sa\v fit. I huvc an prepare a plea.~ont surprise for your homca dozen rail W!lJ' stationa. In London there DOT 1 ALAS! 'J.1hey have buried my lover 110.dcr the sno·w, in.d istinct memory of a doctor feeling ri1Y, con1iog, nnd Susy hue arrangeP, everything are at least 150. Some of the rail ways Out under the rain, the al(·et, and the EillO'W, pulse, of a dreary certainty of filth and dis- form·~. You will accept this house from tLe tempter came. In an ev.il hour John .1\11d the wayworn traveller q1Uckens hii! pace, comfort all about me, and of burning thirst. never pass beyond its limite, and one of Cain allo. l \·ed the politicians to get after your loving mother, 'will you not 1 I have ·To be welcomed at homo by a smHing f~ce, Then followed agoni,ing dreams of de- won my laweuit. We never talked much him nutl surround him. '!'hey said he .was the1n, the Totteuharn and Hampstead, A merry voico, and n. '\·insome graco ; lirium, with pain in--every limb, rnckiilg &bout it, Susy nor I, because I scarcely the strongest man in the cou11ty ; that he 'Punch' says, 'No vne ever travels by, '\Vl1ile be lies there 'nea.th the freezing snoi\'1 headache, loneliness,madness . I. was fever- hoped to gain it. My husband left me two could scoop out of his boots any man set up as no · One kuo~·s where it begin.a or 1'he cold and pitileila: sno\v . it en.ls.' The Metropolitan racked with horribie fancie s, now· being h·rndred thousand dollars, bat bis relatives in opposition ; that his virtues were many where They have buried my lover under tho snow, and other intramurn.l railways run trains sawed apart by medical studento, now beset and his faults 00000 ; that i~ was his duty disputed thr. will. After nearly three years Out under the rain, the sleet, and the snow. by wild beasts rending me limb from limb, of litigation, the case baa ueen decided in to .:.ome out a.nd take a nomindtion in order every three or five 1ninutes, and convey And tbti ..:areleas \VOrld will etill onward go1 rou1 twenty to twenty-five millione of pas\Vbile talking and laughter unce&singly flow, now in a sen of fire, no~· in a desert,cra.ving in my favor. But Susy is my only child, th·t this p·ue and incorruptible form of Clapham is the great And mirth runs high, though all must know water, I could bear tinkling from a foun- and all I have is hers, so you must let me Governme~t be maintained pure ond incor- sengers annually. southwestern junction, and through it 700 That be lies out there under the enow, AU this and mueh more they tain near, but could not reach it, give you the house you like so mu~h for ruptible: The cold and pitilese snow. every day. Its platforms arc so trains pass told him, and J oLn O·in Then !n my delirium came some angel your home and hers.' numerous and its underground passages and ' They have buried my lover under the enow, who cooled my lips, put water to my bead, BECAME PUl'PED UP. 'I will, on one condition.' overground bridges so perplexing that to Out uD.der the rain, tbe sleet and the snow,. and let the air in upon my stifling agonies. ' What is that 1' It ·urprised blm some to think that he find the right train on changing is one of And I sit here by the blazing grate, I could not make my tongue utter the worde 'That you come and share it with us. had held hls peaceful way along for 40 odd Though the 'vorld is asleep, and the houri:i ""ax in my mind ; it wouid babble of ever7thing TLat there is no longer the width of a years, like a knot-hole In the barn door, those things' that no fellow can understand.' late, else, but chiefly of Susy, and the fear that great city. between you and your children, without anyone h·vlng disooverotl what a As n proof of the expensive nature of Lon· Wa.s it providence, or wa.s jt Fate, don traffic, it was supposed that when the su,y would come to take the horrible fever. for you m1.lsi never say again, inother, that heap of a fellow he was, but he concluded That la.id him out the.re undel' the enow, Metropolitan Rail way was opened, all the The cold and pitiless snow. And in my home there wae enacting a Susy is your only child.' · there was a new era in politics, and that it city to Paddingto:i omnibuses would barun scene I have heard described so often, I can '· But yo11 do not like · mother-in-law,' was all right. off the ground, but although it carried forty· put it here as i(I had eeen and heard all. 'I have had many likes and dislikes in TREY DAl!BOOZLED HIM. three milhons of passengers Inst year, it has Stwy lay white and weak in her own roon1, my life.' I replied , 'but never one so utThe politicians covered John Ouio with been found necessary to increase the numwith our firstborn in her arms, not too days terly unfounded and idiotic as that one soft soap. They told him that the canvass ber of omnibuses on the southern route, ond MY MOTHER·IN·LAW· old, when a telegram came to her. The whose basis existed only in rny imagfnation. shouldn't cost h!.n a red, and that he still · they yjeld one per cent more revenue thaa doctor al Vaughn Station had found my Do not punish me by refusing to come to coul<l rerire at eight o'cloek every evening before the opening of the rail\vny. "J.'ake my advice;' said Uncle Ierael to address in my note-hook, and telegraphed us.' Besides the rail ways there are some foutand rest assured that his interests would be me, wlien I told him pretty Susy Hoyt my condition. Susy's blue eyes pleaded more elpquently teen or fifteen thot1,;and tram-cars, omni· properly cared for. It wa· to be a still hunt had eoneented to be ruy wife-·' take my ·Oh,' sobbed Susy, 'he will die there oil than 1ny tongue, and the baby struck in ad Vice, and get us far from your mothcr·in- alone, an<l will never kn.o,v, mother, what ~:ith a inost 'caaxiog 'coo,' so !\{rs. Gardiner -a very quiet election, and be would hord- buses and cabs traversing the streets i there Jy know what was going on. John Cain are lines of omnibuses known only to the law as possible. I speak from experience.) you have done for him.' consented. W)lether she ever repented, I was an honest, unsuspectfng idiot, and he inhabitants of their own localities-such as Taking it :1p anJ down,I'vti bud~ fair tihnre r 1 He shall nofdie alone,' Mrs. Gardiner cannot say, but I do known that, fron1 that of matrimonial happiness, but the majority said, resolutely. 'He shall have a good day to thi>, we have had a happy united swallowed their words as the confiding fish those across the Isle of Dogs from Popular to Milwall i fronl London bridge, along absorbs the baited hook. of the d ifferences of opinion between your nurse and a loving one 8.a fa.st fl!3 steam can home, I do ~now that my own mother, Tooley ·tree\ to Dockbead, &c. The Lonount and myself I attribute to the inJ!uenee carry her. Eh, Hannah 1' THE PLOT THICKENS. had she lived after IJ)y babyhood, eould don 01ntiibus Oon1pany have 5153 omni .. 1 Yes~m;' aaid Iiannah. 1 You make your and interference of my mother·in-]a,v. By John Cain was nominated, and the band never have given me warmer affectio::i than buses, which caxry fifty 111illions of pas.aenthe way, who is Mrs. Hoyt 1 I don't re- mind easy, ma'am. I'll do iny duty,' With the my ..,.,.ife' mother heAtOl\'S upon me. I do came out ond serenaded him. member hearing you speak of her.' ' There is no train till night. Can we know t.hat there is no name more lo\·ed and band came several hundred electors, who gers anu un.11y. It is more dangerous to ·walk the streets 'She cea.sed to be Mrs. Hoyt wh 'n Susy pack a trunk of invalid· comforts,Hannah- reverenced in my home than that of Mrs. fi lied the Cain mansion to overJ!owing spit . of London than lo travel by railway or wa.s live years old,and becarn.e Mra, Gardin· l\'ine, jellies,. clean Jin.e n, bed·clothes, and Gardiner, in any capacity, \Vhcther aa tobacco all over the houee, ate and drank cross the Atlantic. Last year 125 persona er. Hoyt, as far as I can learn, left her fruits 1' Susy's mother, the children's gr&irrima, or all they could find, broke down the gate, were killed and 2513 injured by vehicles in notLing but Susy. Gardiner left her a law· : y cs'm, .aid Honnah, again. and went off with three cheers for John my mother-in law. the streets. · Supposing every individual Suit.' So while I tossed and burned, these two Ooin. man, "'oman and child n1ade one journey WANTING SUGAR, ' Ohl a \\·ido\V ngnin 7' raced ~bout the city gathering up comforta · Facts in Musical llistory. Before the canvass was ten days old, half on foot in London per diem, which is con'Yes; nnd, lTncle Israel, she is nOt one for me, till the trunk; stood pac;ed snU a dozen men calleu on Cain and gently hint- siderable above the average, the deaths, bit like the traditional mother-in-law. She ready, when the carriage came to bring m_y The London Musical World gi1·es the is a little morael of a blue·eseJ · wo1nan, as nurse to me, and Susy cried over her baby, following interesting paragraph· of muRical ed to him that he mu·t come down with would be one in eleven millions, while t he 'sugar.' He didn't even know what 'sugar' rail ways only kill nhout one in fifty n1illions gentle and sweet aa 8usy herself.' and sent me tetider messages. history. They wanted of passengers, and the Cunard Company 'They a.ll are. Butter would scarcely Froa1 some abyss of horror,aome horrible Scipione Bargoglia, a composer of the siJ<- was until they explain·d. melt in the n1onth of ]}lrt3, Bond brfore I rack of delirioua agony, I have a faivt 1nem- tecnth century, in his works on Music, used money to roise a pole, to buy beer, to get of Atlantic steamers, boast of never having lost a paBSenger. married her daughter, Jnlia, and-well.you ory of being recalled to a dim coniwiousnes! the word Concerto for the first time. slips printed. and to do fifty other things O~her iilstances of t11e immensity of the have beard her discourse.' of realities by a low, sweet voice, saying, Beyer, a Gern1an, invented at Paris a ne~v· with, all fo,r his particular benefit, an~ he population of London are that three quar· , Drink this I' I had. Cold chil1H of npprelJension crept had to hand out money, kind of piano-forte, wilh glass instead of ters of a million of business men ent.er the over 1ne as I iruagined 11.rs. Gardiner as~ Something cool anrl pleasantly bitter WO.!i strings,Frnnklin called it the 'Glass Chord.' THE COMBAT DEEPENS. city in the n1orning and leave in the even-. sail ing me in likefasbion. Upon thestrengtll put to my parched lips, and 0 ,rer every It was publicly exhibited at Palis in 1iR5. In the course of another week they drew ing for their suburban resitlencea. There of my Uncle's mother-in-law, I . 'vent at sense crept a torpor, a gen.tie soothing to John Christian Baab, culled Baeh of Mil· Cain out to moke a speech at a ward meet- are 10,000 policemen, as rr1any cub ddvere, once and secured a house at the very ex~ slumber, till all consciousness died in a ao, aft~rwards, Bach of London, was the ing. He tried to claw off, but they told tremity ofthc city suburbs-a gem ol a col. deep, profound sleep. I do not know how first con1poser who made use of cla.rio!letR him that the opposing candidate would run and the earne number of persons connected with the uost office, each of whom, with tage, with a whole city between ita white long I slept, but I awoke with every sense in our opera orchestra, being introduced in him out of sight if <lidn't come out, and their fatniiies, \vould wake ·a large to\\·n gate and my motber·in-la\v elect's .residence. clear, and the fever faneiea all gone. his first opera in Eng.land, 'Orione,' in he went out. When he got through speak. I saw her gentle lip quinr whe11 l told I looked about me. I was perfectly con· 1863, when he was er.gaged by Mattei to ing, the crowd drank at his expenae, and When London tnakes a holiday, there are her where ¥le were to live, and th_ ere was n scious that r baa lost 1ny reason in a bare, compose for the opera in London, at whieh Mr. Uain was astonished at the way tbe several places of reso1·t, s'Jch as the Crystal pititul tone in h er lo\v "oice when she said, desolate room, where the sun streamed 1n time he arrived in this country, and re· liq nor went do,vn, and more astonished at Paluce, the Zoologic<1l Gardens, Ke\v Gar' It is very fodrom here ;'but she made no through <lirty windowa,and the bareatneces- rnained almost constantly till his death, the way t.be bill footed up: He didn't reach dens, &c., which absorb from thirty to fifty thousand visitors each. The cost of gas for other ren1onstrance, and I hardened my ~ties of life around me were of the poorest home until midnight, and for the first time Hghtirlg is £2,500,000 annua.Hy ; the water which took place in the year 1782. heart and furnished it. Directly opposite description. I looked at tbe windows shaJohn Sebastian Bach's fatLer, John Am· in his life he wa.' going to bed with liis boo!B supply is one hundred milllons of gallons was a liandsome residence, with wide dek l)y dark green paper, and eoft muslin brosius, had a f\yin brother, John Christo- on His wifo wouldn't speak lo him, the In the year 1873 there were grounds, a lovely country tnane'iori within curtains i at the Jloor, scrubbed and eweet- pher, who was so very like him that even hired girl left the house to save · her char- per diem. eo..sy distance of my business, for which 1 s01.elling; at the bed linen, white, clean,nnd t-heir own wives could not distinguish them, acter, and John Cain wished that .the poli- 583 fires; and for tL e purpose of supplying infurruatiou on the paasiug events of the longed, but I waited for fortune 's wheel to cool; at a little t.a ble beside me with a sno.wy except by tLeir dress. These twine were, ticians Lad left him alone. day 314 doily and weekly newspapers are give a turn in my favor to purchase it. cloth, upon which Jay great white grapea, perhap~, in this respect, the n1ost remarkINC1EASE OF CURRENQY · required. After we were inarried and settled in our Juscious ora.uge!\, and tamarinds in goblet8 able ever known. They tenderly loved What London will eventually become it More men came and crooked their fingers cosy little· cottage, Susy and I would often of water. Then I feebly turned my head each other, and their voice, disposition and at him, and whispered' sugar.' They '"ant .. is idle to predict. 11 already stands iu four sit upon the porch and talk about the happi· to see, standing beside me, with anxious style of rr1u1;ic were a1ike.· If one was ill, ness of living in the hour:ie I coveted, and tenderness in her soft blue eyee, ruy moth- the other was so likewise; they died also ed money to buy eome doubtful votea, and counties, and is striding on ward to n fifth, to hire four-horse teams, and to mail his (Herts.) The probability is that by the end which was for sale, though rented and oecu- er-in-law. within a short time of each · other. They slips, and he had to come down. He hesi- of the century the population will exce cd pied. Sometinles Mrs. Gardiner '\'Ould , You rnuet not talk,' £.lie said very genwere, inJeed, a E1ubject of astonishment to tated about it, b11t they told him that the five millions, and will thus have quintupled come over to spend tbe day,and Susy would tly, her eoft little hand falling upon my all who knew them. opposing candidate felt sure of victory and itself in the century. Should it progress at tell her of our castles in the air, when my (orehead like a snow-flake, 'but try to keep John Bannister, leader of King Uharles' that acted as a spur. an equal rate in the next it will in the year cotton . s peculation made us rich. very quiet. Ali h well at home. I hear band of twenty.four violin:., .was the firet 2000 amount to the enormous aggregate of W:\.RM·HEARTED P', l UBNDS. I was doing a small business at _ that time, from Snsv every day. She is getting well English violinist of any ~ote. He was the y our son is in splendid health.' in a wholesale leather store, being junior fast, and . There was hardly a night that from four- t\\'·enty-ft,·e millions; and the question that first musician who established lucrative naturally arises is, how could such a. multipartner, but I had i11veeted every spare dol, My son !' concerts in London. These concerts were teen to two hundred and forty friends did tude be supplied with food 1 But the fact Jar I could cornmand, in joining a company ' N O\V I . have giTen you a splendid not call on Mr. Cain to inform him as to advertised. in the London Gaoette of the is that the more the population inc.reasee io buy some thousand acres of ~otton. in thought to dream upon, try to sleep again. time: and In No 742, December 30th, 1G72 the 'p,.;apects.' They drank up the currant the better tLey are led. In the Plantagen· Louisiana, growing. ·we felt certain of But first take a drink of beef tea. It should there is the following ad vertieement : wine Mrs. Cain had laid by for sickness, et days, when the population was not a realizing an itnn1ense fortune 'vhen our cot- taste of home, rdr I brought the condensell 'These are to giv:;. notice, that at Mr John emptied her preaerve jars, and there wasn't third of a million, famines were of' frequent ton \\'as ready to pick and put into market, beef in cans from your Uncle Israel1a store. Banaister'a house, nov.· c~lled the Music a morning that she couldn't sweep out forty occurrence, but no\\·, ..,vith the cemmand of and every letter from our agents in the south He eent the gropes and oranges, and a lot Schoo], over against the George '1,'averne, in _ or fifty cigar stubs ond a peck of mud. the pastures, the harvests and the fisheries gave ns new hope. So we furnished the of good things you shall have by-and-by. White Friars1 thi· present Monday, will be They all told Cain that he would beat the of the ·world, starvation becomes an almost ·But you!' I said, .wondering still, 'are house in imagination and loo.ked forward to musick performed by excellent 1nastera, be .. other man so far out of sight that it would impossible eventuality, even with twentyowning it one day. you not afraid of the fever 1' take a carrier pigeon to find him, and he ginniug precisely at the so.me hour.' fi;e millions of mouths to feed.-Fred.erick In all thio time I conld not truly find any · I have taken ·ll prudent precantiuns,' ArUalus, o.ccording to PanSanius, 'vae the couldn't very well refuse to go over to the Rois fa rhe London City Pross. reason to regret my connection \\·ith iny ,va.e the reply, f' and my fear ~·as not so inventor of the .flute, and of flute accompani· corner gr'occry and 'set 'em up' for the nlother-in-law. It IB true,she often aclvised strong as my love for my son. 1 boys. A Good Name. ment to the voice. me, hurting my marri~d dignity somewhat 'Thank you, -n1other,' I whispered, and THE CRISIS Arichon~as, a tn 11sician of ancient Greece, A good name, if any earthly thing, is by taking the g1ound that she who had I sow through my own misty eyes her lipa is said to have invented the trumpet finally came. . On the eve of the election worth seeking, is \vorth striving for. Yet to been my Susy's constant companion for quiver as I called her by that name for the Bernhard, n German organist in the year ]')ifr. Cain's frionds called for 'augar' again affect a bare na1ne, when ""e deserve either nineteen years, understood her disposit.ion first time. 1470, invented pedals for the or~an, at and he had to sugar 'em. A big erowd call- ill or nothing, is but a proud hypocrisy ; and p'eculiarities better than I, ' vrbo \\'OrCan I 1::ver tell how she nursed me Qack Venice. ed to warn him that h.e would certainly be and to be puffed up with the wrongful estishipped the ground upon which she trod,' to health, humoring all my sick fancies,yet Francesco Beverini,su pposed to be the first elected, and the saloon bill was $2~ more. mo.tion of others mistaking ou1· 'vortb, is an eel. But, honestly, I could never ·ay her guarding against all hnrllul indulgenciee ! dramatic con1poser, lived at Rotne o.bout the Thirteen or fourteeen men shook hands with idle and ridiculous pride. Thou art well advice was not good, and Susy was quite All the cheery letters Suey wrote she reud year 1480. him, and he bad to get up and declare that no desert. Wh;,t then 'I spoken of upon willing to admit I uriderstood her perfect!). to me, and oneweted for me, till my own Salvadore Appolloni, born at Venioe lo· he didn't favor \\'Oman's rights, and that he Thou hast deceived thy neighbors, they one So nearly o year glided by, and my blue- weak fingers eould guide a pencil. In her wards the close of the eighteenlh century, did ; that be was down on whisky, and yet another, and all of them have deceived eyed mother-in-law was just as lovatle and thoughtful affection ohe had packed ln the was, o.t an early period of life, nothing 1nore loved it as a beverage; that he wanted the thee; for thou made>t them think of thee gentle as before marriage, My heort smote wonderful trunk light reading to beguile ·than a barber aud a bad fitldler. He after· currency inJ!ated, and favored specie pay· otherwiae than thou art ; nnd they have me sornetirnes \vhen she spoke of the lone- the hours of convalescence. When I could wards became celebrated for the composition men!B ; th~t he favored the Civil Right's made thee think of thyself as thou art acliness of her home without Susy ; but I sit up, ehe exerted her ingenuity to keep of ' Barcaroles.' Bill, and yet he didn't and in Lis brief counted. The deceit came from thee, the It mp from being lonesome, and would talk thought of Uncle Israel and was firm. Arietoxenns, of Tarentum, a philosopher speech Mrs, Osin counted twenty-·even shame will end in thee. I will aecount no was in the year of 1867, when appalling unweariedly of that ·vonderful two day'· am! musician who Jived about 350 ye.rs be- straight lies, besides the evasions. Mr. Cain wrong greater than for a ruan,.to esteem and news reached the company of cotton specn- baby, with eyes blue as a patch of the sumfore Obrist, ia said to have written 453 vol- wanted to hold popular "iews, and he had report me above that I am; not rejoicing in lntprs, and we lookeJ each other blan:k ly in mer skies, and a mouth like a eleft roseumes en Li tied ' Harmordc Ele1nent.' There to be on all sides at once, that I nm well thought of, but in that 'l am the face. bud. su~y's lette'ra Vi·ere a great comfort, are unly now exl<mt three volumes, which a8 I am· esteemed. such ELECTION DAY· Insh:ad of the bales of cotton we had ex- and ans1vering them, giving 11umorous acis the oldest work work at present known. On the day of election they dragged him pected· corr1i11g to be coined into golil, w. e counts of our wl'etched accommodations, ocl:N'DE·PENDENOE.-1...et a child \\.'ait· very D'Avaux, a11 an1ateur violinist, of Paris, from poll to poll, stopping at all the sarecoi'ved news that our agents h9.d e1np!oy- cupied many hours. was the original inventor of the mctr~nome. loons on the way. iuuch nj)on himse1f; r~o not let him be wait. He had to make 256,ed inexperienced hands, had irritated the But the day came at last when the doc· He wrote, in 1784, a letter on a newly in· 000 promises, pull out his wallet until it ed upon baud.and-foot by servants; it \vill freedmen, who would have been · glad to tor eaid I might start for home without fear venteJ penduh11n to measure time and was as flat as a wafer, drink lager with make him a poor creature if you do. Be .. get the work, and ),ad so mismann.ged the of carrying the contagion with me. Oare. music-which takee a"Vo-·ay the merit of ori- some and cold water with others, and when sides, a child is neyer so happy as ,vhen he whole affair that our co tton was worthless. folly we destroyed every article that eould ginality from the metronome of Maelzel. night came he went home and hugged tlie waits upon hirnself, an<l when he ca9 · be There was no one to go but myself, and my endanger our . dear one9, and started for. A spirit of hired girl, called Mrs. · Cain his dear old useful to himself and others. home affairs held ma. Susy was not well, Memphis with the plenoiug certainty that, indepenUence should he instilled early into nnd I di<l not wish to leave her ; yet there 00 accident befalling, we could travel by A great <leal of time ia contracted in op· rhinoceros, and fell over the cradle and him-it will make bi1:1 a manly little fel· went to sleep with bis head under the n1ight yet be son1etb ing saved, if a con1pe- ea~y stagt::s and reach home before n1y boy- portunity, which is the flower of time. lo\v.-Dr. Ohavasse. stove. tent agent we11t at once to Loui~dana. completed the .sPcond n1ont.h of his little HO\V HE SCOOPED 'EM:. "\"\re wound our modeety, and make fuul While I hesitated and lamented, Mra. life, r If you would !3Coure ob~rlh.:nce, show af.. When Mr. Oaill arose in the moruing, fection. It is a povrer t~iat succeeds \\'hen The unwearied tendernees that ·had the clearness of our deservings, ·when of Gardiner carne to the res.c ue. and became sober enough to rcl\1 the elec· others fail. 'You niust go,' she said, ·and leave Susy brought me back fron1 the jaws of death ourselves we Publish thetu. POETRY. r. LITERATURE. / he 1· ,) l ·