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Queen Viotorais Hallucination.

Whatever may be the truth in regard
to the report that Queen Victoria in
tends to abdicate the throne of England,
1t Is known that she has been labOrinp
for some years past under at least one
phase of mental infirmity. She has a
firm conviction that Prince Albert is
always present with her, and that she
can hold communion with him. Her
private rooms are arranged as they We're
when he was alive. His chair is placed
opposite to her own in the library, and
the books which he delighted to read to
her are arranged lovingly, in order, upon
the table. In some of her moods she
will converse with him for an hour to-
gether, conducting her own share of the
conversation aloud, and with the vigor
and interest of old times. He had
taught her by his example, the success
of his business senteTpTises-espe by
his management of the Duchy OF Corn
wall-to superintend as much as possible
of her private affairs herself; to reduce
all unnecessary expenditures, and 10
forbid eXtravagances. Hence, the
greatest simplicity is observed at the
Queens table, and she imagines that her
husband looks on well pleased. AT
times, when she is more than ordinary
depressed with a sense OF MS presence,
the Door, fond woman, Will OTueE Il klllle
and fork to be placed on the dinner-table
for him, and cause the attendants to
place every course before the empty
chair as if the master still occupied It,
Every morning a pair OF boots are
cleaned and set down against the door OF
the chamber which he once occupied
and at breakfast, when in Scotland, she
will often sit n long time in silence,
waiting for the Prince.
The Queens strong belief in the COM
munion of the living with the spirits OF
the dead, she received from Prince AL
bert himself, who was q sort of theOsO-
phist-a something between Jacob Beh-
men, the mystic, and j. q. Fitche,
/ the philosopher of transcendentalism.
Whatever may he thought of it rs a
theory of philosophical or religious be
lief by sober, common-sense people, 1t is
to Victoria a source of great consolation,
and she often talks with the Prince con-
cerning the state of the soul after death.
She has been gradually withdrawing
from public life for some years past, and
lives in a world of her own. Her harp
and her easel are both neglected, and
she neither sings, plays, nor paints, eX-
: cept at rare intervals, when she VIII
sweep her harp strings for lew mo-
ments in memory of some sweet German
air that her husband loved to sing OF
i, hear sung.
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WOMEN SHOULD REST.

Dear Mrs. D,milrdy:-The NEW
NORTHWEST of Sept. 18th has just ar
rived, and its genial face enlivens my
otherwise lonely cabin; therefore it is
always sure Of a warm welcome from
me. l sat down on the door step to find
what it had to tell me of the news Of the
outside world-hOw the Portlanders
were prospering and more especially to
learn of Miss Anthony's success in
converting the people from the errors
of their ways"
When, in looking over the column of
answers to correspondents, 1 saw your
answer and advice to NERVOUS Suf-
ferer," my eyes filled with tears as
read, and ! thought: How true! If
women could get such sensible advice
more often they might possibly in time
learn wisdom and save their valuable
lives for the benefit of their families.
There is more "saving truth conveyed
in those few lines, l dare affirm, than
was preached during that week from all
the pulpits i'm the city. Thousands of
women go down to their graves every
year, leaving oheir families Of children
to orphanage, because Hcy do not rest"
Women of Oregon, do you hear that?
Then | hope that those of you who are
mothers will take warning and rest
When you are weary and exhausted by
hard labor, and there seems to be no
end to things that are to be done, and
despair clutches ut your heart strings,
leave everything and take time to rest!
If possible take warm bath, sleep if
you can, shut your eyes at any rate and
pretend you are dead, which you soon
will be if you outrage nature much
longer.
I Many time, years ago, have worked
until l was utterly exhausted, trying to
get ahead or even with my work (and
with a baby six months old who really
needed the care of Il rested mother have |
| left everything to take care of itself, re-
| tired to my cool room and, tossing baby
OH the bed with something toamuse him
sulf with, bathed my weary head and
tried to sleep and forget for while that
there was such thing as work and
weary women in this world Then, af-
ter an hour of blessed rest, return to the
kitchen, where the dishes were yet un-
washed and the floor unswept; but the
demon had departed, and in a short time
everything was in a placid state, leav-
q
felt discouraged. Powerful medicines
are not needed and should not be resort
ed to when nature only wants a chance
to recuperate herself. | verify believ,
that there is not another as much over
worked and misused JcD,dic i'm thi
round world rs a married woman. Thi
is partly her fault, but, as she has II,
knowledge of natures requirements, sh
: sins through Ignorance.
Neither does 'the male know tina
he ought to Glove, cherish and protect;'
, or if he E7locS he does not care. Perhap
he thinks with King Henry VIII. Q
England, ''Wives can be had for tn
asking" We must all learn to tax
: care of our OrR health, and by dOini
y this and avoiding all unnecessary worl
A we may keep our tempers unruiiled an
: our health unimpaired, live To goo
old age, and our children and our chil
:. drens' children will rise UP and call Il
4 blessed. MRS. l.
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CHAPTER XVII.

CHATTER ANVIL.
The county records showed the mar
riage and divorce.
Nothing further remained but an inn |
perative necessity upon my part to rein
state myself in the favor of Mrs. Lewis
and prove to her that her suspicious were
baseless as a dream. For the idle clam
or Of the outside world 1 did not care a
fig.
"What is the world to me, that should
court its fulsome adulatiOn >" said to
my boys.
''The world is something to us, moth
err" was the children's sensible reply.
'It is your duty, for our sakes, to prove
that you are not what the people accuse
you of being"
''But, my dears, if 1 should undergo
the dreadful and disgusting ordeal of at
tempting TO prove my character ire
prOachable and should succeed (which
of course L should do, could not stop
the tongue of slander. The only way to
treat such stories, is to let them die a
natural death. But with Mrs Lewis
the case is different. She was my friend
in my afiliction and 1 must cling to her
now in hers"
But this was easier said than done.
Her pride and affections had been sorely
wounded. OF the fact that her mothers
betrayer was her fathers son, she was
happily ignorant. Nothing was in the
way Of our speedy reunion but this un-
fortunate estrangement, and was firm
in my resolve to overcome this one inn
pediment to my future happiness before
the nuptials should proceed.
William was naughty and determined
He had never spoken with the man VIII,
had blighted his childhood by the deel
wrong inflicted upon his elder sister
He did not know until he learned tn
truth from my lips that DR.. Armstron
had caused his release from prison
soon as he found that the real Offende
was his own unfortunate son. Thi
knowledge seemed to soften his dislike
and prevailed upon him to accompan
me to the Doctors handsome home.
There was look of Loneliness and deS
Olation around the place which L ha
never seen before. Mrs. Lewis, the sen
sible and charming widow, was nowher
to be seen. The Doctor was sitting i
one of the parlors in an untidy blouse
his shaggy face was livid and his has
gard eyes were bloodshot.
Hand in hand we stood before him
my betrothed and l.
'Dr. Armstrong" said /, solemnI,
"we have come to crave your blessin,
to forgive the past, to tender life-lon
friendship and to beg that you will he;
the estrangement between your daugl
ter and myself You know that a
guiltless. Will you make my troubl,
friend believe it?"
The Doctor tremblingly arose an
taking the hand of each of us in b
own, he asked forgiveness, if throul
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OCEAN DRIFT.-A bottle was recently
picked up on the south beach Of the
island of Key West, with Il memOran-
dunn enclosed, showing that it had been
thrown overheard from a Norwegian
brig at point six hundred miles to
the eastward of the Island of Martinique.
From an examination of the chart it
appears that this bottle, driven by the
currents known as the drift of Northeast
trade winds, must have passed into and
through the Caribbean Sea around the
Island of Cuba and into the Gulf of
Mexico to the beach at Key West. This
long course covers a distance of nearly
three thousand miles, and from the date
on the memorandum the rate of progress
of the bottle must have been over thir-
teen miles a day, it having been driven
along by the currents for two hundred
and eighteen days.
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\ CONICAL INCIDENT.-Rev. +. G.
Morris relates the following:-A parrot,
belonging to some friends Of mine, was
generally taken out of the room when
the family assembled for prayers, for
fear he might take it into his head to
Join irreverently in the responses. one
evening, however, his presence hap
pened to be unnoticed, and he was en-
tirely forgotten. For some time ne
maintained a decOrOus silence, but at
length, instead of "Amen," out he came
with "Cheer, boys, cheer" On this, the
butler was directed to remove him, and
had cot as far as the door with him,
when the bird, perhaps thinking that he
had committed himself, and had better
apologize, called out, sorry / spoke"
The Overpowering effect on the company
may be more easily imagined than des-
cribed.-NdtiOndL Baptist.
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In the office of the New York EUeniRg
Post Mr.. Bryant has Gt is said) hung up
a catalogue of words that no editor or
reporter is allowed to use. Among these
interdicted words are bogus, authOress,
poetess, eollided, debut, donate, dOna-
ton, lOafer, located, ovation, predicate,
progressing, pants, rOwdies, roughs,
secesh, Oeulate flor kiss, indorse Tor
approve), lady (fOr wife), jubilant lior
rejoicing), bagging (for capturlnggl'
loaned (fOr lent, posted for iniormeuJ'
realized (for obtained).
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\ Cincinnati paper says that in that
city dressmakers and seamstresses, who
comprise the greater number OF work
women, do not average more than SIX
dollars week for forty weeks in year.
The remainder of the time they are out
of work. At the large cloak, dressmak-
ing and ladies' suits establishments they
work by the piece. At these, for work
for which customers pay from five to
seventv-five dollars, the sewing woman
who does the work gets from one dollar
to ten. And in other business the shares
of the workwOmen are no larger.
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Miss Sarah E. Horner of Georgetown,
Mass, has been elected to profess92[aSiIidaP1 2a iia1
i'm the University of Florida, at tfsntv fsrifI
hassee. Miss Horner has for ,iom,IIsg twSIIag
Years wears been % an efficient and ID R22prre- RoPg5al
teacher in the public SCHOOL,, o. os 'Toe a mem
town, and recently has aetea teo a. .
Lor If tbe School Committee
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Grace Greenwood writes to the Chi
cago PeDubHcda, declaring that there is
neither truth nor fun in its persona" ,"
that she had boxed the ears of n carrier
of that journal for bringing the paper
late. She saucily adds that she has
always found newspaper carriers trust
worthy and obliging, and that if she
were in the boxing line she would not
direct her stinging blows against the
carriers ears; but against those of the
local editor, "preferring a good, large
mark" The Republican humbly pro-
poses, by way of amend, to send its fiery
untamed local up to Grace to be killed,
and offers to pay the funeral expenses.
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to the care of his uncle TeG 6e happened ar to
very PS9[iYSo PSS5YSou0G 0R' Shssrsapan aRs 6s 5ssd ss
the littie Ie,,o ,,oor The reply was Il e1-
lae, tne pos he lives TU with his uncle
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3 notice Of the terrible accident herein de-
scribed.l
..Our comrades have met, love,
The hall now is light,
And gay are it, thnOng, love,
eliminates tonight.
aOh. list 10 the musici
To such thrilling strains
The lifc-current dashes
Along those young veins,
"I long 10 be with them;
Come with me, sweet wife;
bright hour Of pleasure
VIII cheer your still life.
Wen ford the rough river,
And gentle and true
The steed now stands ready
For baby and you"
"'Tis not the rough river,
My husband, I fear;
No fiend lies concealed there
In waters 50 clear.
"The DEMON doth dwell in
The sparkling wine
Ohi shun the fair tempter,
Dear husband OF mine :"
Come, then, little guardian.
And make your heart light;
WOW will yield not
To Bacchus tonight"
Gay was the festival, but the young wife
Gazes hOpelessly, tearfully now
Into the future. All dark seems her life,
And cruel between love and duty the strife,
For her husband has broken his vow,
Gone is his manlincss, gone his pride:
Dimmed is the sOul-lighf of his dark eye;
Valnly he strives his dark error TO hide;
silently, ,homeward-bound, now they both ride
And the dark, roaring river IS nigh.
give me the babe wife, cannot trust you,"
Cries the husband, still fearless and gay;
And what though her checks wear the pale lily
hue,
And she pleads through hot tears in her soft
eyes Of blue,
Yet he bears her 10 scd burden away.
Bur few moments pass ere the home shore is
gained,
And the babe seems in danger no more
Bat 'he fond mother asks for her darling in
vain!
Alas, she has lallen, with but one cry Of pain,
And her joys and her sorrows are DER.
Twas but the babes wrapping the father had
pressed
As he passed the last wild, surging wave;
Yet no semblance Of fear pierced his wine be-
numbed breast
As the little one slipped from his strong arm TO
rest
From LIES ills In a watery grave.
WALLA WALLA, W. T.
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JUDITH REID;
A Plain Story of a Plain Woman.

[Entered, according TO the Act Of Congress, in
the year ls7l, by Mrs. A. J. Duniway, in the
Office Of the Librarian Of Congress at Washing
ton City.1
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Girls and women constitute one-han
of the depositors of the Boston saving
banks.
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gbe Aew e! !a8!ort5west.

\ Journal for the People.
Devoted to the Interests of Humanity.
Independent in Politics and Religion
Alive TO all Live Issues, and Thoroughly
Radical in Opposing and Exposing the Wrongs
OF the Masses
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Correspondents writing over assumed sigma
lures must make known their names TO the
Editor or no attention will be given 10 their
communications
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For the New Northwest
The Broken Vow.
BY JENNIE WILSON.

THE following lines were composed on seeing
q notice Of the terrible accident herein de-
scribed
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-06-19
:: MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, 1871.

ofhearing a sermon from Brigham, who is
described as good-looking, now of seventy
years, resembling Tom Benton, the Mis-
souri, Senator, in his latter days. Mr..
Brooks speaks ofhim as aman Of all sorts
of ability, whether as preacher, prophet,
governor, banker, farmer and railroad
builder, but it appears he is not much
longer to have undisputed religious do
minion. The Episcopalians have planted
church in his capital The Roman
Catholics are already there The Metho-
dists are about to invade Utah with one
of their prodigious camp-meetings, as
sembling Methodists there from the Mis-
souri,, at Omaha, to San Francisco, on
the Pacific. They threaten to capture
Brigham and his hosts. Brigham gener-
ously OF tauntingly offered them his
new tabernacle, holding 10000 people,
with its galleries, new, and the big organ,
perhaps the biggest in the world, to be
thrown in, for their great love feast; but
they declined the faint, or the taHnt,
and they turn up their tents, in the open
fields, under cloudless sky. The grass
hoppers, which have hitherto been
greater enemies of the Mormons than
the Gentiles, are being devoured by the
gulls, so that Utah is likely to be freed
from the pest.
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The organ.

Thomas j Bowditch, in a communica-
tion TO the Troy Times on organs, says:
"Durine Queen Elizabeth's reign the
Puritans made frequent demonstrations
of their hostility TO the celebration OF
religious rites with music or, as they
styled it, playing upon organs, Gu
rious singing. -,
HIn 1914, when some Of Cromwelrs
soldiers we're quartered in Westminster
Abbey. they put on surplices and ran up
and down the church; he that wore
bisbop's robes was the hare; the rest the
hounds. An ancient says: AT CHIC
hester cathedral they broke down the
organ. demolished the pipes with their
ncIeaxes, and scoiingly said; Hark A.!
how the organs go. In 1886, pamphlet
was extensively circulated entitled A
Request of al true Christians to the
House OF Parliament which among
other changes. prays that all churches
NAV he pst down, where the service OF
God is generally abused by piping with
Tho following are some Of the larg-
est organs in the world: The one at
Haarlem. in ST. Georges Hall, Liver
nal: The one in York Minsteri the one
= Freyburg, Switzerland-it has seven
tbonsssa eight hundred pipes, and wnsn
In fnll ulay. sbakes the walls and foun-
5at;on of The oi5 St Nicholas church
IN wbicb IL sisnds. The organ IN the
cstbedral At Ulm is ninety-tlree feet in
S;obt and twenty eight feet in breadth.
- s;xteau bellows. and the largest
nine are thirteen inches in diameter.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-06-19
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
A Michigan Farmer Attacked by an
Enraged Horse.


From the Detroit Free Press.l
From several farmers coming into
town, yesterday, from the township. OF
TAYLOR, our reporter learned the particu-
lars of very exciting affair which oc-
Cured in that township, about seventeen
miles from Detroit, on Sunday last. A
man named Pierce Andrews, who has
lately moved in from Washtenaw coun-
ty, and leased a farm, returned that
moriang with young horse which ne
had purchased at Wyandotte., In riding
the animal home Andrews had to give
him several whippings, and was once or
twice run away with, and thus when he
arrived home he was tired out, and the
horse was nervous and excited. There
being some goods packed away in the
stable, Andrews took the horse in on the
barn floor to tie him. While so doing
the animal bit him, and for this was
soundly belabored with the handle OF a
broken pitchfork. After being struck
several times he broke loose and ran at
Andrews and struck him down with
one of his fore feet. While in this
position, the farmer received bad
injury from being stepped on, but man.
aged to get mp and show fight, still
retaining possession Of his weapon:
The horse reared, kicked, and uttered
mad neghs, and in n moment struck
the man down again. Andrews fell so
close to q partition that the horse could
not get at him well, and here he kept
the beast at bay by pounding its legs
with the club.
The people at the house had heard the
sounds of the struggle, and hired man
and the family were soon around the
door. As the horse seemed to quiet down
n little. the man shouted to Andrews to
crawl carefully along to the door. This
the farmer started to do, but had not
crawled three feet when the horse
bounced upon him again, and this time
dislocated his shoulder by blow Of the
hoof. The horse then commenced plung-
ing and kicking at everything, Jumping
at Andrews whenever the farmer moved,
and in the emergency, seeing that he was
likely to be killed, he shouted for the
man to get the family out of the yard and
then open the door, supposing that the
animal would then 90 out This was
done. but the horse plunged out and in
again with such rapidity that the farmer
conld not escape, the animal making at
him every time he tried it. AS lastre-
sort, the hired man loaded an army mus
ket with fine shot, and gave the horse a
full charge in his shoulder at short range.
The beast went down, jumped up, made
a few circuits of the yard, and then leaped
the fence into the pasture and ran until
tired ont. Andrews was badly bruised
in many places, and had a shoulder dis,
located, as stated, and will be confined
70 the house for some time. The horse
received considerable injury from the
gunshot, but it is thought veterinary
surgeon can heal the wound
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-06-19

Mr.. James Brooks, of the New York
Express, who is making an overland
trip to the Pacific, and writing accounts
of scenes and incidents to his paper,
has, in the Express Of Friday, an inter
ssting description Of his visit to Utah,
and Of the saints and saintesses, with
whom he attended worship in the tenn
ple. The women, he says, are neither
pretty nor fashionable. Occasionally
there is seen a coquettish cap, nick
named a bonnet; silks, if not satins,
also intrude; but the great mass Of the
women bring their hats and robes from
their mothers and great grandmothers,
and the result is a head-gear representa-
tive of Swede, Of Scot, Of Celt, of Yam
kee, the patterns, perhaps, Of ten gener-
ations behind with scOots Of Quaker for
nation and umbrellas of Italian con-
eepGon. Ar. Brooks had the satisfaction
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-06-19
Exnor1s of Food.

The New York World states that the
exports of food from that city to Europe
since France and Germany began the
work of preparation for their late great
struggle have been on scale Of une-
qualled magnitude, and that paper adds
" 1t is already certain that the exports
Of our great staples of agricultural pro-
ducts-cotton, breadstuffs, provisions
and tobacco--whether in detail or in
the aggregate, whether in quantities or
in values-will for the current fiscal
year ending the first proximo greatly ex-
ceed those of any former year in the
history of our commerce. And as re-
spects food this large export has not
been attended with any remarkable ad-
vance in price. In fact the various de-
scriptions of cured meats are now
cheaper than at any previous period in
the past nine years. In the first five
months of the current calendar year
January, February, March, April and
May-we exported 1900 barrels of
pork, or more than double the quantity
exported in the corresponding gperiod
of last year; also, $4,000 barrels
and tierces of beef, an increase
of $4,000; 3S,0O0,OOO pounds OF ba-
con, an increase of 20,000,000, or
more than hundred per cent; 42,000,-
600 pounds of lard, or nearly hreefotd
the export of the first FIVE months of
1870. This increase is in the exports
from this port alone; from others the in
crease is in equal proportion. Can we
support this extraordinary demand upon
our production of animal food2 The
speculation in wheat, which set in about
the middle of last December, and which
was based upon the probable necessities
of France and Germany growing out of
the waste and destruction caused by the
late war; still continues but prices have
not been fully sustained The Cont
nent buys sparingly Crop accounts
are favorable to large yield. Stocks
are large at all points, and the supplies
coming forward to Western markets
have rarely been equaled in the month
of June, while the speculative prices and
the high profits check shipments, and
the exports are not now so large as a
year ago. Corn, which is relatively
cheap, is taken largely in the place Of
| wheat.