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JACKSON c. H., OHIO THURSDAY APRIL g. 1868.

my lofty conceptions l could not
quite reconcile the fact of an intellectual
and capacious mind, one that could
grasp such original and romantic ideas
as are revealed in the works of George
Eliot, condescending TO take part in
the minute details Of domestic life, even
occasionally aiding in the performance
of some of what might be termed the
almost menial services Of household.
Yet all this Mr. Raven did Now that
he was one of the family he begged to
be permitted to tighten his good moth
er's housekeeping labors. He wished
Fanny to be cognizant of domestic
matters, to know how to cook and keep
house, no woman's education was com
plete without such knowledge. 1t was
there the German ladies surpassed us,
and though he hoped his dear Fanny's
position would place her above the
practical need of such requirements, yet
all knowledge was gain, and lady
could always better manage her house
hold if she knew how things ought to
be done. $50 far SO good; and as
wherever Fanny was she was the mag
net that attracted her lover, Mr.. Raven
soon became as much at home in the
kitchen as in the parlor, and knew
beforehand what was coming to table
He would even lend a hand in the
mandatory of the dishes or their
garnishment, and on more than one
occasion, when we had company to
lunch, and dinner was consequently
delayed because our maid Of -all-work
had not time to wash up the plates and
knives, our stock not being large, he
actually condescended to clean the latter;
or he would often assist to lay the cloth.
If Miss Green demonstrated he would
good-naturedly reply-''He felt such
pleasure in being useful" Often, too,
Mr.. Raven volunteered to 60 to market;
but early morning and after dark were
his favorite times for these expeditions.
Once again asked him if such com
monplace occupations did not interfere
with the chain of bis literary ideas, and
plan of plot; but only received for
reply: "Dear Miss Linley, only by
personal contact with human nature in
all its varied forms, can an author gain
experimental knowledge of life. You
often wonder, you say, how / portray
character. never lose an opportunity
of studying it; this morning even ]
secured sketch at Billingsgate, when
buying fish, which more than repaid
my journey there. Perhaps some day
you will recognize the description of
the fish we are to dine off in company
with its buyer and seller"
All this time my promised introduc-
ton to Sir Bulwer Lytton had never
come off. When ! had limited at the
promise, was on one occasion informed
that Sir Bulwer had recently lost near
relative. At another time he was in
disposed; but he, Mr.. Raven, had
mentioned me to him, and he was
quite interested in what he had heard
of me.
N ~
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To be Continued.
TFrom the Toledo Blade. |
n aSby.
The State Of Michigam-The Ex-
perIemce Of Mr.. Nasby therein,
and a Frightlill Dream that he
Dreamed.

The State Of Michigan-The Ex-
perIemce Of Mr.. Nasby therein,
and a FrightfIIl Dream that he
Dreamed.
LANSING. MIcH., March %.
Eff ther is a State in this Yoonyun en-
tirely worthy NV bein ranked with Mas
Enthusiastically worthy NV bein
considered scasely second in pint NV
Ham -ridiculin, Onesimus-d detyin and
Hagar-rejectin Ablishn in6delity, that
State is Michigan. Massachusetts is on
cry and Michigan is oneryer
and outsider. They hey colleges in ev-
cry other county-skool houses, gorjus
and costly in every town, and eff that
amt enough, they hev crooel, tyran-
ikle, barbarous law forbiddin the sale
NV sustenance! In the larger towns
where one kin, without material danger,
git suthin sustainin, municiple law steps
in and compels the dispensers thereof
to close at II P. M. In this town,
from whence | write, / gathered to-
gether few NV the faithful, and wuz a
confrmin nv EN- in the faith, when, ez
the clock struck eleven, the landlord
put out the lites and us together stimuli
taneous. Kin sich things be, and over
come us like a summer cloud? They
kin! Nv course there can't be no whole
hearted Dimocrisy in that State. They
don't hev time to get fully Dimocratic
Eleven o'clock The Dimocrisy Nv
Michigan is eleveno'clock Dimocrisy,
They don't live out half ther days.
They fall short Nv the troo slater Nv
full grown specimens just an hour. The
only good and troo ones | hev seen,
were few farmers and sich, who car
ried it home in Aug. But, alas! ez
they never pay rent, they don't stay
long enough in one place to make ther-
selves felt. They materially drift back
to Southern Illinoy, where fine tooth
combs is unknown-where the wicked
Geese from trOublin, and the weary are
at rest. But we hev enuff Nv that kind
here.
Ez l retired to my couch last mite, !
was filled with sadnis The eleckshun
occurs in week or two, and the Ablish-
nists perpose to vote to tear down the
few remainin land marks. and give votes
to the disgustln niggers in that State.
Contemplatin the gulf to wich Michi-
gan is approachin-with my sole filed
with forebodins, fell into troubled
sleep, and sleepin dreemed.
/ Methawt / wuz in Liberia, that coun-
try across the waters settled by civilized
niggers, ] wuz somewot surprised at
wot met my gaze. Niggers to the rite
NV me-niggers to the left Nv me--nig-
gers in front Nv me--rode the six hun
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THE SUICIDAL CAT.

There was q man named Furgusou,
He lived on Market street,
He had a speckled Thomas cat
That couldn't well be beat;
He'd catch more rats and mice and sich,
Than forty cats could eat
This cat would come into the room
And climb upon cheer
And there he'd sit and lick hisself
And purr so awful queer
That Furguson would veil at him;
But still he'd purr-severe.
And then he'd climb the moonlit fence,
And loaf around and yowl,
And spit, and claw another cat
Alongside of the jowl;
And then they both would shake their tails
And jump around and howl.
oh this cat of Furgusons
Was fearful then to see
He'd yell precisely like be was
In awful agony;
You'd think fTst-class stomach-aChe,
Had struck some small baby.
And all the mothers In the street,
Walked by the herrid din,
Would rise right up and search their babes
To find some worrying pin
And still this vigorous cat would keep
A hollerin like sin.
And as for Mr.. Furguson,
Twas more than he could bear.
And so he hurled his boOt-jack out,
Right through the midnight air.
But this vociferous Thomas cat
Not one cent did he care
For still he yowled and kept his fur
A standin' up on end,
And his old spine doublin' up
As far as it would bend.
As If his hopes of happiness
Did on his lungs depend.
But while curvln' of his spine.
And waitin' to attack
A cat upon the other fence,
There came an awful crack;
And this here speckled Thomas cat
Was busted in the back.
When Furguson came down next day,
There lay his old feline,
And not life was left in him,
Although he had had niue.
''All this here comes, y said Furguson,
'0l curvin' Of his spine"
MORAL
Now all you men whose tender hearts
This painful tale does rack,
just take this moral to yourselves,
All Of you, white and black;
Don't ever go, like this here cat,
TO gettin' up your back :
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from the St. james Magazine.
NOTES
FROM AN OLD MAIDS DIARY,

PARr I.-CoNTINUED. I.


Never, apparently, was any one more
surprised or indignant than Mr.. Raven.
"He could not" he said, "account for
it; he had heard nothing Of them. ="
And then it came out that though he
had been on the most friendly terms
with them, he had only made their ac-
quaintance that season; but never hav-
ing any cause Of distrust, he had taken
it for granted they were people of good
fortune. "But what is to be done, Mr..
Raven7" asked poor Mrs. Green. II
need not tell you / cannot afford to lose
the money" mo, indeed, Mrs. Greeni
and you cannot, for moment, sup
pose | shall permit you to be the suf-
ferer Since Captain and Mrs. Bedford
came to you through my introduction,
you must allow me to take the debt
upon myself, and will adjustit at once" "
So saying, he opened his purse. "How
unfortunate.I" he saidi 81 have but a
single five-pouud note. Will you let
me leave that as first installment? l
really feel so annoyed. / hope the
subject will never be mentioned again.
for though ! can hardly think but that
you will hear soon, yet any one who
could call himself gentleman, and be
able to treat a lady in such fashion,
can be no longer an acquaintance of
mine,2s
Mrs. Green's admiration of Mr.. Ra-
ven's generosity was unbounded. Be.
fore leaving at night he requested a
few minutes conversation alone with
Mrs. Green. The interview lasted but
a quarter of an hour. We heard the
hall-door shut, and then Mrs. Green
returned, her face radiant. There never
was such charming, delightful, gen.
tlemanly fellow as Mr.. Raven! indie
pendently of taking upon himself the
Bedford's debt, he had just requested
the privilege of occupying their vacant
room, on very remunerative terms
''The fact" she said, "was, that he had
confded 10 her that he wanted to be,
for a time, ncog. He was about to
complete a new work, from some notes
he had had entrusted to him, and be
must 90 where his friends could not
intrude on him at all hours of the day.
He had never felt so at home with any
family. Miss Green's sound good sense,
Miss Linley's latent literary talents,
Mrs. Green's motherly kindness, had
all so won on him, that if he could only
persuade the latter to take pity on him,
and let him be as a son of the family, he
should consider himself a most fortunate
man"
We all went to bed that night elated
at the idea of Mr.. Ravens intentions
each, perhaps, in her heart of hearts
Hattering herself that there might bt
some attraction in herself At any
rate, his well-adjusted fattery had taken
the effect it often does, and is intended
to do, on the female mind, and we were
all prepared to make ourselves asagree'
able as possible to the newcomer. The
next day brought cab containing Mr.
Raven and his portmanteau, and HI
stepped into bis place, coming among
us as though he were indeed son o
the house; sitting at the bottom Of thu
table at meals, and taking upon himsel
all the little table arrangements which
generally devolve on the master of th'
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WHOLE NO. 1890.

sbreekt l. Forchoonitly | did not fur
ther commit myself The shoutin and
the sense Nv chokin awoke me. / wuz
not in Afrika, ! he'd not been beaten
and pummeled, and rolled in the gutter
and hung, but thank the Lord, ! WIZ in
Amerika, the land Nv the free, where,
when such things is done the white men
do EN- themselves, wich is more COM
Portable.
But wat a friteful dreemi Wat a
misforchoon it must be to be nv another
race when that race aint in a majority.
l RELY sympathize with the niggers in
this country.
PETRotErM Y, Nasty. p. M.
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Sweet Potato

2 L A N II s ]
EARLY Tomato and Cabbage
II Plants, cultivated and for sale by A. l..
WOOD, Webster, o., and furnished from LIST of
NAV to 1st of July, 1868.
YELLOW NANsEMOND SWEET POTATO
PLANTS will be put at the following prices,
packed nicely In damp moss, and delivered at
Express office here 600 for 80; 1000 for 90, g.,
1900 for sl1; 5000 for $13; 10000 for s25.
Also, The Kentucky Earb Red, similar in size,
shape and habits to the Nansemond. l can re-
commend IL for general cultivation as strictly
prime Same price as yellow Nansemond.
TOMATO PLANTS, of very best standard va
rietics, 80 cts. per doz. so per 100. Very
extra sized large Plants, where they have been
cultivated with much space, will be furnished
in limited quantities at 80 Cents per Doz., or
EARLY CABBAGE PLANTs.-EARLY YoRK,
0he earliest Variety,) WINNIGsTADT, (wo weeks
later, and twice as large heads,) 81 per 100 =
81, 90 per l. 600. Late Cabbage do. furnished
from goth May 10 July, at less figures than early,
at market prices.
DIRECTIONS FOR ORDERING.--If you or
der from me, you may rely on receiving good
plants, put up In damp moss, so as to carry 5000
m lies Ii necessary, and arrive in good condition.
In ordering please give plain directions for ship
ment. and post office address Money may be
sent by mall at nv risk in amounts of sc and
under Larger amounts by Express, addressed
to Webster Portsmouth Branch of NJ. q. =. Rail-
road or, If parties wish, will COD. COLLECT
on delivery Of plants,) which is very good way
to do business.
Persons should bear in mind that the larger
the order the cheaper the plants, and less freight
per 1000. Each neighborhood should join to-
gother, and make up club for TO thousand,
and by SO doing get them fresh and cheap We
have two daily Express Trains each way, and
will do business with promptness and despatch.
ANY person Is authorized TO act as agent. Lei
your orders come in soon. Post Office Address,
49n.srgn A. L. WOOD
Iron Furnace, Scioto Co., Ohio.
Apr. 2, '6s-h
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Townshin Diractorv.

The following are the names of the Justices of
the Peace in the several townships in jackson
county, with the date when the commission of
nnch eYnires.
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PriYnte Smoking.

The Round Table has the following:
"The street is not a private smoking
room. One man has no more right to
void his tobacco smoke into the face of
another than be has to void his saliva.
If he has; why, in the name of sense3
Because the smoke is the less disagree
able7 That is a matter for individual
preference; and beside, man has no
right to do the least disagreeable thing.
Why may not a man appear on Broad
way with long stick strapped hori-
zontaIly across his back, or with an
open package of asafetida in bis poek-
ct, or earring pole-cat in his arms,
or with his clothes dripping with kero-
sene oil, or with rattlesnake coiled
around his neck, with as much right as
he may smoke there? Because it Is
not customary to carry asafptida in the
pocket-nobody thinks about it if it
only were the custom we should hear a
fearful cry from the smokers themselves.
If a man treads upon anothers foot, he
apologies; but he will carelessly void Of
fensive smoke into his very throat, and
never think Chat he does anything rep
rehensible. II man dislikes smoking,
he can keep out ofthe street. But the
right of the tebacco-hater in the street is
equal to that Of the tobacco lover to re-
frain from smoking in public places is
not granting concession, butnOt to re-
frain is violating right. Upon actual
right, without reference to the sanction
Of custom, man would be perfectly
iustifable in resenting the smoking Of
tobacco near him as personal affront.
EEHiram Smith, an eccentric bach
elor at Chester, Mass, is having his Sc
pulchre hewn in a large rock in that
town. He pays man $500 to do the
work, and by the stipulation the cave
is to be seven feet long, four wide and
four deep, and after his coffin is put in,
the aperture will be sealed up with q
marble slab and cement.
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EersaGz Gossip.

"A female dantist is the last Partisan
novelty.
-Elihu Burritt is to edit new London
magazine, called FSreside Words.
--Le Nord says Col Kelly, the Fenian,
has taken refuge in Belgium.
Mount Cook, on the west coast of New
Zealand, is IL, 1862 feet high.
Members of the Quebec Provisional
Legislature have salary of $4,000.
The profits of the Paris Exposition
have gradually simmered down to $780,
600.
The Prince of Wales has subscribed
$500 to the fund for the wounded Garibal-
dians.
Sensation novels are undermining
English morality. So say the neWspa-
pers.
souls, witt the suburbs of St. Denis and
Coeaux.
"A female mesmerizer in England has
been detected in using chlorofo TN on her
Subjects"
--Adelina Patti is to be marie u to the
Marquis de Croix, an cIflcer of the French
Imperial household.
-Vesuvlus summit was seen covered
with snow the other morning, W bile the
hot lava plcwed it in all directions.
Paris has las, 900 shade trees. When
in full foliage they cover nearly sttve n and
half per cent of the entire area of the
city.
Tho widelyknown DR.. James q anil
ton, pastor of Scotch Pr.sbyt ,rial
church IN London. and celebra led au, hor
is dead.
In drawing off the water from tn
lake in the Regents Park, London, re
Gently, the bodies OF three little childn u
were found.
"A LADY has recently died at Bristol.
England, who, during lie of "a years,
had never tasted animal food, aud enjoy
good health all the time.
"A French company is extracting
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PROGRESS OF LocGmati0n.

When in 1e43 (says the London Era'',-
Sner), the Duke of Wellington dispatched
Mr. Hudson to Rome to inform Sir Robert
Peel that he had been called upon by King
William ~. to form ministry, 1T was
thought marvel that the messenger was
able 10 complete his journey on the twelfth
day after that on which he had LETT Lon
don. BouId on an anomalous mission, a
Mr.. Hudson of the present day would give
but a poor account of his journey II he
said that he was occupied upon it even a
fourth of that time. By the old roads the
distance was little under one thousand
three hundred miles. BY railway, the DIS
lance over Mont Gents passage of the
Alps is one thousand three hundred and
fifty-five miles. In 1S43 the cost of Mr..
Hudson's Journey was about e2oO. Had
he occupied eighteen days instead OF
twelve, travelled by the ordinary postal
conveYances of the period, he would have
paid about e30. The lrst-class fare be-
tween London and Rome now does not
exceed 913.
The traveller who leaves London on any
morning. let us say on Monday, at half
past seven O'Clock, can reach Turin, seven
hundred and ninety-nine miles, including
q sea passage of twenty-five miles and nifty
five of ordinary road conveyance, acrossthe
MO0t Gems, aS bU6 Cu1lACS u tAC AI0oAhO
are striking the quarter before twelve on
Tuesday night. When the Mont Gents
Railway is open, the saving In the passage
across the mountain will enable him &c
push on to Florence the same night, but
until then he must repose at Turin until a
quarter before eight the following morn
ing Resuming his journey, he will be in
the capital of Italy, three hundred and
twecty-three miles further south, at eight
that evening, and he can start an hour
afterwards for the Eternal City. The dis
lance from Florence to Rome, two hundred
and thirty-three miles, can be accomplished
in nine hours and twenty minutes, in
which are included frontier uisG both OF
luggage and of passport After break
of four hours he may start again for Naples,
one hundred and sixty-three miles further
than Rome and fifteen hundred and eight
cen from London, and here be arrives st
$50 D. M on Thursday evening, three days
and eleven hours from the time re left
home. When the Mont Gems Railway is
completed, the time will be shortened by
nearly twelve hours.
! In 1S4s the MoNe Poste journey from
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From the Atlantic Monthly for January,
IN THE TWILIGHT.
BIZ !. b. LOWELL.

Mem say the cullen Instrument
That from the Masters bow.
J Feels music's sonl through every fbre sent,
Whispers the ravished strings
More than he knew OK meant.
Old summers In its memory glow;
The secrets of the wind it sings;
It hears the April-loosencd springs,
And mixes with Its mood
All it learned when 1t stood
In the murmurouS pine-wood
Long agoi
The magical moonlight then
STEPPED every bow and cone;
The roar of the bark In the glen
Came dim from the distance blown;
The wind through its gloom sang low,
And it swayed 70 snd fro, ot
Full OF dreams, % it stood
In the wonderful wood
Long agol - -+s-
o, my life have we not had seasons
That only said live and rejoicei
That asked not for causes and reasons,
But made us all feeling and voice.
When we went with the winds In their blow
Ing,
When nature and we were peers.
And our days seemed to share in the flowing
OF the lnexhaustble years.
Have we not from the earth-drawn jniees
Too fne for earth'e sordid uses:
Have heard, have Iseen
All feel and know!
Doth my heart Overween!
Or could 1t have been
Long dRoI
Sometimes breath floats by me. -.
An odor from dreamland sent.
That makes the ghost seem nigh me
or a splendor that came and went
OF life lived somewhere, know not
In what divine sphere
OF memories that stay not and 90 not,
Like music heard once by an ear
That cannot forget or reclaim it
something SO shy 1t would shame 1t
To make it a show
4 something too vague, could name it,
For others to know;
As II had lived 1t or dreamed It,
As If had acted or echsmed IL
Long agol
And yet, could live 1t forever,
This life that stirs in my oraiE.
Gould be both maiden and lover,
Moon and tide, bee and clover,
As seem to have been, once again,
Could but speak 1t and show 1t,
This pleasure more sharp than pain.
That battles and lures me so,
The world should not lack poet
Such as we had
In the ages glad
Long agoi
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I The new bridge over the Kankakee
river on the Chicago & St. Louis Railroad,
just completed at Wilmington, is $40 feet
Tin five spans) long. 1t is entirely of iron
and of the patent of s. s. Post, its earliest
introduction in the west. Before the work
was accepted by the railroad company it
underwent many very severe tests. One
span was loaded with railroad iron, one
ton to the foot. Two fifty ton engines of a
ton to the foot were placed on each span
consecutively, and afterwards run over
the brilge at thirty miles an hour. The
detection In each case was measured with
the most delicate instruments. and amount
ed to only f1ve-sixteenths of an inch.