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ABOUT WoMAN.-The parson says that
woman is always more restless under the
most favorable conditions, and that there
is NO state in which she is really happy
except that of change. suppose this is
the truth taught in what has been called
tho "Myth of the Garden" Woman is
perpetual revolution, and is that element
in the world which continually destroys
and re-creatss. She is the experimental
and tho suggester Of new combinations
She has NO belief in any law Of eternal fit
ness of things. She is never even content
ed with any arrangement other own house.
The only reason the mistress could give,
when she rearranged her apartment, for
hanging picture in what seemed tho most
inappropriate place, was that it had never
been there before. Woman has no respect
for tradition, and because thing is as it is,
is sufficient reason for changing it. When
she gets into law, as she has come into
literature, we shall gain something in the
destruction of all our vast and musty
libraries of precedents, which now fetter
our administration of individual Justice
1t is Mandeville's opinion that women are
not 30 sentimental az men, and are not so
easily touched with the unspoken poetry of
nature; being less poetical and having less
imagination, they are more fitted for prae-
tical affairs, and would make lsss failures in
business, ! have noticed the almost self
ISL passion for their flowers which old
gardeners have, and their reluctance to
mart with leaf or blossom from their
family. They love the flowers for them
selves. A woman raises flowers for their
use. She is destruction in conservatory.
She wants the flowers for her lover, for the
sick, for the poor, for the Lord on Easter
Day, for the ornamentation Of her house.
She delights in the 0oatiy pleasure OF sac
riRcing them. She never sees flower but
she has an intense but probably sinless
desire to pick it.-Seri6ner's Monthly.
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Vampire Bats.

Among the products of the country
around Para are vampire bats, which are
SO dangerous that the natives are obliged
to gaurd carefully against their intrusion
into their dwellings. A letter says that a
party recently had an unpleasant expert
ence with them. They were on an excur-
sion up the Amazon, and at night one of
them was bled so badly by vampire as to
awake in o state of exhaustion, with a
face like corpse. The foot of his ham,
NOOK and the floor beneath it were satur-
ated with blood. the flow of which was
checked with great difficulty. 1t is this
difficulty of stanching tho blood which
makes the vampire so dreaded, the quaint
ity which the creature requires to satisfy
his appetite being comparatively tritiing,
Some persons seem to be especially liable
to their attacks, while others can sleep in
a room infested by them nightly with i'm
punity. They only make their attacks in
darkness, and liaAs kept burning in a
sleeping-room is an etlectual safeguard.
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DESTRUCTION OF BIRDs.-One of the
most noticeable sights in the markets of
Paris for many years has been the great
number of stalls, devoted to the sale of
small birds-larks, finches, thrushes, spar
rows and even nightengales which are to
be seen trussed and ready for the spit
The consequence is now being felt. A
French paper notices the unusual devasta-
ton of the caterpillars and insects, which
not only destroy the leaves and fruit, but
bore into and destroy the trees. On the
other hand, in England, where small birds
are protected by law as we'll as public sem
timent, and sheltered and encouraged by
the continuous hedge rows, insects give
but very little trouble and occasion but few
complaints. 1t is to be hoped that a pub
lie sentiment will be fostered and encour-
aged in America in favor of the birds, and
that the constitutional privilege we, as well
as our boys, enjoy of bearing arms, will not
have as one of it's results the destruction
of all our small birds, or even of the larger
enes, such as crows, jays or owls,
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THERE'S DANGER IN THE TOWN.

There, Johh' hitch Dobbin to the post;
come he'~ me and sit down;
our motner Watts to talk to you before
My hairs are gray. l soon shall be at rest
Not long will mother ni,ot Won o,er ,ife,s
tempestuous waN
I've watched DER you I'm infancy, till
now you are man,
And have always loved 20. AZ a mother
only can;
At morning mi "a and d At ,ss evening prayed
To bless and guide my darling b. to the
bright home above.
A mothers eye is searching John-ol, ape
can't dim its sight,
When watching DER an only child, to seee
he does right;
And very lately have seen what has
aroused my fears,
And made my pillow hard at night, and
moistened it with tears.
I've seen a light within your eye, upon
your cheeks glow,
That told me you are in the road that leads
to shame and woe;
Oh! John, don't turn away your head ana
on my counsel frown,
Stay more upon the dear old farm-there's
danger in the town.
Remember what the poet says-long years
have proved it true
"That Satan finds some mischief still for
idle hands to do"
If you live on in idleness, with those who
love the bowl,
You'll dig YOURSELF drunkard's grave, and
wreck your reckless soul.
Your father, John, is growing old, his
days are nearly through;
Oh! he has labored very hard to save the
farm for you;
But it will 60 to ruin soon, and poverty
will frown
If you keep hitching Dobbin up to drive
into the town.
Your prospects for the future are very
bright, my son,
Not many have your start in life when
they are twenty-one,
Your star, that shines SO brightly now, in
darkness will decline,
If you forget your mothers words, and
tarry at the wine.
Turn back, my boy, in your youth, stay by
the dear old farm,
The Lord of Hosts will save you with his
powerful right arm,
Not long will mother pilot you DER life's
tempestuous wave,
Then light her path with your love down
to the silent grave.
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One John U. Andrews, a "Virginian,"
has lately risen into prominence as tho
Greeley leader in the Tenth Assembly Dis
trict of this City. There was one John
Urkhardt Andrews, also Virginian,"
who had a large share of public attention
on the Gath of May, 1864, because of his
arraignment before Justice Nelson, in the
United States Circuit Court, on charge
of conspiracy against the Government. It
was proven on the trial that this Andrews,
on the 18th of July, 1868, finding crowd
of some three thousand men OF Third ave.
nue. and Forty sixth-street engaged in
burning tho office of Provost Marshal,
got ON a shed and harangued them. At
that moment, the mob was not nerved for
the demoniac deeds it afterwards did, and
a resolute law-abiding man might have dis
suaded the crowd from further disorder
But this Andrews told the mob, in sub
stance, that what had been done was
worthy of praise, and that the United
States draft being illegal, as we'll as unjust,
the people should arm themselves to resist
it; they should seize the arsenals, destroy
the Provost MarshaPs offices, the Custom
house, the telegraph wires, and if they had
no one to lead them in this work he would
do it himself Thus melted to outrage.
the mob tore up the adjacent paling.
fences, and arming themselves with the
slaves, bore the orator off in triumph on
their shoulders to see them kill negroes
and burn orphans asylums in obedience to
his teachings. This Andrews was sent to
Sing Sing for his performance that day,
and we have asked the Tribune whether he
is the Greeley Andrews, but as yet that
organ, with but a single tune, has not
managed to grind out response. We
have reason to believe that the Greeley
leader and the convicted rioter are identic-
al, but we would like to learn what the
one tune organ knows about the subject.
New York Times.
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Rehabilitation Of Expenses.
WOODLAND CAMP Meeting

THE WOODLAND CAMP MEETING commences
August 2Oth, and will last ten days.
All persons in want Of Tents, will please give notice
to the Secretary before July 2Oth to insure their
getting them. The Committee will furnish nothing but
Canvas Tents.
PRICES OF TENTS:
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An Irish serv ant girl, having finished
her days work, including the washing"
obtained a half-hour's furlough "to see a
gentleman friend" The half extended to
the whole hour, when Bridget appeared
blushing and half smiling.
eff you PLACE ma'am, must leave you
to-day, for I am to be married, if you
Place, tonight, ma, am"
"Why, what does this mean, Bridget"
inquired her mistress. 81 never heard
you were engaged"
mo more was l, a'am; but a boy just
from the ould country wants me to have
him, and my cousin thinks had better,
and so towld him l would"
And she did.
Wonder if she belonged to Elktoas
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Trial and Execution of Mime. Rowland.

Upon the morning of her trial she dress
ed herself with unusual care. She wore a
dress of white muslin, trimmed with lace,
and fastened by black velvet girdle. Her
hair, parted SO as to show her low, broad
forehead, fell in ringlets on her shoulders.
She was unoommonly vivacious. Holding
the train of her dress in one hand as she
walked toward the prison door, she gave
the ether hand to the women crowding
around her, who covered it with kisses
She could not be certain of her return, and
so babe adieu, with counsels and gentle
admopitions to all. Fontenay, the old
jailor, as he turned the key, burst into
tears. She whispered to her nearest friend
in the prison, Courage" and passed out
of the gates. She was twice before the
Tribunal. The clear account of her exam
ination, protracted for nine hours, which
she wrote from memory on the eve of the
first day, corresponding almost word for
word with the official record, is marvel
of self-possession. The Attorney General,
angry that he could not einbarrass her,
said at last, "that with such babbler the
trial could never end" ~ pardon your
rudeness," she repliedi "yoa can condemn
me, but you cannot destroy my good con-
science, nor my conviction that the future
will Justify me, while it will cover you
with infamy." When she re-entered the
prison after the second day, her eyes were
red with weeping. In passing toward her
cell, she indicated, by an expressive sign,
that she was condemned to death. Her
spirits quickly returned, however, and she
sat conversing with her usual sprightliness
until her name was called. It was 4 P.
NJ, Nov. 10, 1893, when tho tambril, car
rying herself ana man named Lamarque,
former Director of Assignats, aged about
thirty-fve, left the Conciergerie and took
the usual route toward the place of execu-
ton. A crowd followed, shouting her
name. Lamargue excited her pity by his
unmanly fears, and true to her woman's
instincts, though he was entirely unknown
to her, she addressed him encouragingly.
Her manner during the ordeal of this ter
rible hour, while the mob were heaping
upon her scandaloIs o~trases, is one of the
brayest reaoliections of the Revolution
Tissot, writing his history at the age OF
sixty seven, ten years afterwards, describes
the scene as the most impressive he ever
witnessed. "Dressed in white, with rose
color trimmings, the day being bright and
warm, she sat undemonstrative as the cart
Jared slowly forward, the obscene shouts
producing no change in her manner. There
was high color in her face, adding greatly
to it's beauty" Arrived at the guillotine,
the vehicle was backed to the steps. eco
up first" she said to Lamarque, "you
have not the courage to see me die ~
"You Madame, are named first in the
warrant" replied Samson. "But you will
not contend precedence with women,
Monsieur" she rejoined, and her COM
panion assembled. Her turn came in a mo-
ment. As they bound her to the plank
catching sight of the great statue before
her, she exclaimed. go Liberty, how they
mock thee" and the Ak fell.
Englishaooman's Magazine.
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FERTHIZERS,

FERTHIZERS,
fcruvisP GpaRa,
Rhodes eupsr Phasphats,
Moro Phillips do,
Whsnps Raw Bone do,
Bsugh's d. do,
Tssker ClaFk's pure Bone Dust
and other Fertilizers For sale by
JOHN PARTRIDGE.
Sept l, 1865
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OUR TRAVELLING CORRESPONDENT
MT. UNION, July 9Th, 1879.

Mr.. EDIToR:-Imagining 1 see you sit.
ting cross.legged knocking 5 cts. worth Of
cool from palm leaf, Pm inclined to let
you sweat and laugh at your effort. While
your indicator stands above 900 ours is
steady at 6so to 700 in midday, down to
600 9 P. NJ How low ish dat, Ell? Yes,
if ysu can stand it, can. Stay, swelter,
sweat and wish you could be struck with
an iceberg. Pm up here and I'll not
come down till September. Pure water,
pure, cool, refreshing breezes, picturesque
scenery, ample shades, fine fishing, circuit
yellow legged chickens and other Injuries
abundant; Preachers plenty; sistern agree
a bic, &C., then suffocate no longer! come
up and the door will be opened lat the
Ntel So per day.
" describe nay present quarters at
ual Hotel: LIST. A sleeping room, in
Zoo, Nening folding DOORS into private
paa' V former 16 by %; full cottage
su', 0'.1eks 3-ply carpet, sun-hower
. Ivy. >. o;,. srlor where sit sports full
sun " oe1 >lnut; stand and tables mar
n MA .p pitcher a. Of which stands tray,
p'"'o1 s.a goblet; ice-water within
my REACH under feet is tapestry car
costly mirrors, in wa, .,... ~ fsont -
me is the door to the landau. all these
for So per day, where noN dor. enter ,sst
bid him welcome. Ths - "I:"..: 49,
describing so infinitely my ~. - ~;'
an idea of the style of first 80 800
found in Western Pennsylvania 90 49,.
those DESTROYS to fly the wrath o. =, C.,
may find haven of rest at smaa ~.
board $40 per wesk.) Here our cS,s
pondent inserts sumptuous bill of fax
Now to the crops. There is coolne>
between the weather and the corn; the LAT
ter stands still sallew and feeble, yer
small of its age. The oats shortened i
the thickening, and are still "Wearing c
the green" Of the wheat next write
The harvest is come and it is magnificent
the distance 1 mean between shocks;
blind man could safely rake the stubbl
with 9 foot head and seldom strike
shock, that wheat is so seldom itself, abou
three shocks to the square mile. TIL
grass -hoppers have struck for more wheat
Some indiscreet young hoppers ventures
over the mountain early and kirbed them
selves so badly trying to get sustenanc
that they must needs starve it out on thi
line; but veterans can't be fooled, the
know how to jump aud readily saw the.dis
lance in green's was too magnificent TO
their leverage. In short, the way tn
wheat shocks is truly shocking to all lover
of biscuit, short and flannel cakes, &c.
am as ever, happily cool, but respect
fully yours, PRETzEL.
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HORACE WALPOLE.

Walpole, in fact, represents common
creed among comfortable but clear headed
men of his time. 1t was the strange mix
ture of scepticism and conservatism which
is exemplif1ed in such men as Hume and
Gibbon. He was at heart a Voltarian, and,
like his teacher, COMPOUNDED all religious
and political beliefs under the name OF
superstition. Voltaire himself did not
anticipate the revolution to which he more
than any man, had contributed. Walpole,
with stronger personal reason than VOL
taire for disliking catastrophe, was as
furious as Burke when the volcano burst
forth. He was Republican so far as he
disbelieved in the divine rights of Kings.
and hated enthusiasm and loyalty general
". He wished the form to survive and the
spirit to disappear Things were rotten,
and he wished them to stay rotten. The
ideal to which he is constantly recurring
was the pleasant reign of his father, when
nobody made a fuss, or went to war, or
kept principles except for sale. He fore
saw, however, far better than most men
the coming crash, If political sagacity be
fairly tested by prophetic vision OF the
French Revolution, Walpole's name should
stand high. He visited Paris in 1865, and
remarks that laughing is out of fashion,
"Good folks, they have no time to laugh.
There is God and the King to be pulled
down first, and the men and women, one
and all, are devoutly employed in the
demolition. They think me quite profane
for having my belief left" Do you know,
he asks presently, who are philosophers
"In the first place, it comprehends almost
everybody, and in the next it means men
who, avoving war against Rapacy, aim
many Of them, at the destruction of regal
power. The philosophers" he goes on,
"are insupportable, superficial, overbear-
ing and fanatic. They preach necessarily,
and their avowed doctrine is atheism-you
could not believe how openly. Don't
wonder, therefore, if should return a
Jesuit. Voltaire himself does not satisfy
them. One Of their lady devotees said to
him, III est 6igot e'sst un dsiste ," French
politics, he processes few years afterward,
must end in despotism, civil war, or
assassination" and he remarks that the
aga will not, as he has always thought, be
an age Of abortion, but rather the age Of
seeds that arc to produce strange crops
hereafter" The next century, he says at
later period, twill probably exhibit very
new era, which the close of this has been.
and is, preparing" 1fthese sentences had
been uttered by Burk, they would have
been quoted as proofs of remarkable sagac-
ity. AS it is, We may surely call them stern
chances for a frivolous coxcomh.- GAe
GOrnAts.
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The Epitaph Writer.

Greeley has been great epitaph writer
in his day. His first efforts was this:
May it be written ON my grave that 1
III. gu
NEVER WAS A FOLLOWER
OF THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY,
LIVED AND DIED
IN NOTHING ITS DEBTOR.
In 1859 he thanked the Republican State
Committee for the faith they evinced in his
devotion to the Republican cause, and said:
81 trust that some friend may be able to
say with truth at my grave that my polit-
ical friends never were asked by me for any
favor and never required of me any honor
able service that 1 did not cheerfully rend-
En-" AS if recognizing to what depth he
has sunk and DESTROYS of Terminating his
record with his nominal retirement from
the Tribune he now asks only this:
HE WAS
A GOOD PRINTER.
A RESPECTABLE PUBLISHER
AND
AN HONEST EDITOR,
1t would have been well for his fame if
his epitaph could end there; but to it must
be added this:
IN AN EVIL HOUR
DEMOCRACY TEMPTED HIM.
AND HE
DIED ITS DEBTOR,
And this sums up all which once was
great!
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Expenses of Orphans Court.
Expenses Rssistrat ion,of Voters.
Expenses of the RQQI.

Alexander John mdse. pay T. Martin, $l0 90 |
Aims House. support of inmates 5000 90 |
Aims HOUSE, addition for colorsd inmates, 5000 90 |
Barrett Sarah K. a,dss. Hugh Steel, 1000 |
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-03

No laborers are to be had at Panama or As
pnwall the strike being universal.
Two more Spanish gunboats have been or
dercd to watch the Vrgiuius, and one American
vessel has been ordered to protect her.
Late Lima dates state that the American pho-
tographcr Richardson is still imprisoned for
caricaturing politicians.
The total net receipts Of cotton at all Ameri-
can ports since Sept. /, 1871, amount to ,0SlO
bales.
Gov Blake, of Indiana, has appointed Hon.
John IL. Farquhar, secretary Of state, to ill the
vacancy caused by the death of Col. Eddy.
Steamer Constitution, from Panama, is quar-
antined off San Francisco, with one smallpox
death on tine voyage
The Japanese embassy were banquetted at
Sacramento ON Thursday night, and left for the
east yesterday morning.
The committee appointed by the presbyteries
of Chicago TO receive donation for sufferers by
the FIRE has now ON deposit the sum of s34, 416.
This fund will be mainly deyOied to rebuilding
the burnt Presbyterian churches.
The Chicago relief and aid society issues a
card, announcing that its resources will meet
the wants of the present winter and make temp.
orary provisions for charitable institutions
whose support was cut off by the fire.
Several sailors Of the American gunboat Os-
spce were badly cut by the sabrcs Of the police
at Calao, while the latter were dispensing a
mob.
u pdldNlhJ M j lClltE SlulcS luhl u biphtu
rail caused II locomotive on the Attca road to
be thrown down an embankment, smashing ii
to pieces. The engineer was one-leggcd and the
fireman, seeing his danger, threw him bodily
lnlo snowdrlt and jumped after him, thus
saving both their lives. A passenger car at
lacuIu ran OF the track, but was stopped with.
An l.lmira letter states that the Lockhayen
rallGoad disaster ON Tuesday night was also
caused by broken rail. The train had itlst
crossed the creek when four cars were thrown
down an embankment to the edge of Tho creek
where they fortunately stopped. The cnrs nii
took lire from the stoves, twenty-seven passen.
geIs being burned and injured, several scrious.
w. Charles PATTERSON was the only one fatally
injured, his head and body beng terribly
burned.
Attic Thursday evenings session of the rcli.
gous convention several addresses were made,
and the following officers elected President,
Judge William Strong; Vice Presidents, Gov.
Washburn Of Massachusetts, Gov. Harvey of
Kansas, eX-Gov. 'McClurg of Missouri Lieut..
Gov. Cumback of Indiana, Judge Murray Of
New York supreme court, Chas. g. NaZro Of
Boston, Thomas w. Blcknell Of Rhode Island l.
S. Tobey of Boston, Bishops Easton, Cummings,
Morris, Simpson, Kerioot, Huntington, Scott
aud McIlvain, President Miner of Tufts college,
Mass Prof. Seeley OF Amherst, and Others
Secretary, Rev DR., McAlllster, Adjourned sine
die,
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-03
Our New England Dispatches.
A "EsespOmsibIe'' Clerk ABscOnds With
mia Employers Funds-FataI Result Of
Cruelty-EA arifOrd and Erie-Accidem-
tally Shot, etc.


Boston, Feb 2.-Albert b. Rogers, for many
years responsible clerk in the Western Union
telegraph office, has absconded with between
$4,000 and $4,000 OF the cOmpuny's money.
John Miller, first mate of ship Nonantum
was held for trial to-day in default of 81 900
charged with causing the death of seaman
named Ryan, who fell overheard and was drown
ed llom the effects of the mates cruel treatment
as alleged.
The case of the receiver of the Boston, Hart.
ford and Erie railroad against Henry N Farwell
to recover $4,000 worth of the bonds of the
Hartford, Providence and Fshkll railroad COM
pany, was heard before the full bench of the SUI
preme court, to-day, and decision was reserved.
George Blake, of East Pepperell, Mass aged
nineteen, accidentally shot himself dead yeSter.
day, while cunning.
In the case OF Glover, the Boylston bank rob
Der, the jury this evening rendered verdict Of
guilty.
RHODE ISLAND.
PROVIDENCE, Feb. 2.-The body of C. A..
Carr, alderman Of Newport, who has been miss
ing several weeks, was found on the shore in
that city, this afternoon.