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The Proposition.
by VIXEN.

by VIXEN
He asked me if I'd have him.
And plumply told him no!
He wanted why's and wherefores,
But would not please him 30.
A woman needn't-need she
Distress herself for life,
because some anxious fellow
Should chance to want Il wife!
He said was too fippant
For q woman Of my kind:
That he wasn't fond Of maspies,
And he liked an austere mind.
! said he needn't name it,
!, For l needed not-not I!
What sort an austere mind was,
But loved an oyster pie.
Tie laughed-then frowned upon me,
And said | was too curt:
That wit was more than slnartness
1 was just mite too pert
| said 1t was his dnllncss-
That my wit l,s could not see;
But perhaps I'd make him smart, If
He should ever marry me.
He said I'd better take linn;
That Id miss some other man,
And then I'll like to get him,
Then catch me il You can "
! said he need ut fear it;
There was q better match
To light bridal candle
When had one to "catch."
He said I'd better marry;
Life was not always May;
Aud | wasn't growing younger
And prettier every day.
But :: woman ought not-ouglit shcl
TO live Tic for life
Because the right ones" missing,
Or she can not be his wife!
........ ~. o. Rcpnbiican.
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THE ILLUSTRATED
CHRONOLOGICAL JOURNAL.
Volume Fil1y-Six

The Science Of Mind is the central
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PhrenOlOgy ia the dcmonstrable basis
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The Origin of Races, still earnest
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Soldiers Entitled to a Homestead Of l60
Acres.
The Best Locations for Colonies.

FREE HOMES FOR ALL, Millions Of acres
of choice Government Lands open for ensry
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Sectional maps. showing the land, also
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THE POETS CORNER,
Anthony and CLEOPATRA.

AM%mOMy s$4WA IAGDlSHtfSIa
] arm dying, Egypt dying,
Ebbs the crimson life tide fast,
And the dark Plutonian shadows
Gather on the evening blast
Let thine arms, o Queen, support me,
Hush thy sohs aud how thine ear,
Hearken to the great heart secrets,
Thou, and thou alone, must hear.
Though my Scared aud veteran legions
Bear their eagles high no more.
And my wrecked and scattered gallcys
Strew dark Actium's fatal shore.
Though 10 glittering guards surround me
Prompt to do their masters will,
| must perish like Roman,
Die the great Tgiumyir still.
Let not Cesars scryile mnions,
Mock the lion thus laid low;
TWAS no foeman's hand that slew him,
Twas his own that struck the blesy.
Hear, then, pillowed OH thy bosom,
Ere his star fades quite away,
Him who, drunk with thy carcsscs,
Madly throw Y world away
Should the base plebeian rabble
Dare assail my fame ut Rome,
Where the noble spouse Octavia,
Weeps within her widowed home;
Seek her, say her Gods have told me,
Affairs, augurs, eireling wings,
That her blood with mine colnmingled,
Yet shall mount the throne of kings.
And for thee, star-cyed Egyptian
Glorious Sorceress Of the Nile,
Light tho path to Stygian horrors,
With the Splendors of thy smile.
Give this Caesar crowns and arches,
Let his brow the laurel twine;
] can scorn the Senate's triumphs,
TriumphiRg in love like thine.
am dying, Egypt. dying
Hark the insulting fOeInan's cry
They are coming quick, my falchion
Let me front them ere die.
All no more amid the battle,
Shall my heart exulting swell,
Isis and Osiris guard thee,
Cleopatra Rome !-taIcwcll!
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PROSPECTUS OF TIE
NEW ORLEANS HERALD.

Published by the Herald Printing Company
Office, 100 Gravier Street.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-02-20
New Publications.


Geo. P. Rowell & Co., Of New York, have
Issued neat Gazetteer, describing briefly those
towns and cities in the United States and Cana
ds, in which newspapers are published. So far
rs we have examined. it appears to be entirely
accurate, and viii, no doubt, be convenient and
serviceable work.
-Eue1y Saturday has its customary well-select-
ed reprints from the English fortnightlies and
monthlies. The translation of Turgenief's 3
novel, " Dimitri Rovdine, continued, and Ten
nyson's annual laureate ode to the Queen is
also in the number.
The Printers Circular is full OF matter in
great variety which has immediate or remote
reference TO printing. The photography OF the
Bible in the United States is considered by Jessie
e. Ringwalt, and 70 Peculiarities Of Printers
are described by IN anonymous contributor.
Our Young Folks for March is replete with
attractive reading. O. D. Gardette tells mod
ern fairy story OF 1.-THE Ugly Old Toad /" Au-
Rustus Holmes sketches the boyhood and youth
of Abraham Lincoln, F. A. Eliot talks entertain
ingly and instruotiVely about electricity, Ami
Boynton Averil has lively account Of " Gus
sey's Counting" Mrs Diaz tells 1.-THE Story o
Florinda, p and there Ia poetry by ElizRbetl
Akers Allen, ]. 7. Trowbridge and Minnie B
6lade, besides an instalment of TrowbridgeI
serisl. The illustrations are numerous
---LitteEs Living Age reprints W. E. II. Lecky'
paper from MdcDsi3da's on e MIR. Froude,s Eng
lish in Ireland" gives also an article from
the British Quarterly on "The Emperor Alex
Ander and the Policy Of Russia" and make
other jucicious selections from the solid Eng
lish peIiodicals
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-02-20
Crime in New York.

Neither human life nor property can be any
safer than they are at present until it becomes
less safe to make depredations upon them. So
long AZ it is legal to sell unlimited rum, long
as theft and swindling and burglary and murder
go unpunished, so long as fragrant crime is sure
Of sympathy and determined effort to free those
who are guilty of it, 80 long as influential names
are easily procurable in the attempt to shield
the criminal from the legal consequence Of his
misdseds, 80 long will crime go unchecked. We
feed the flames OF anger and lust and malice
with poisoned liquors, and hold up our heads
in horror over the results. We keep men in pow
or who will not do their duty, and walk the
streets at night with bludgeons in one hand and
revolVers in our pockets. We shut up criminals,
and then submit to any mockery OF justice by
which they are released. And then, when the
crime and the criminal are too outrageous to
permit them to be ignored, we sign papers beg
ging for Communication OF punishment or for par
don.
Let it be understood, then, that every man,
high or low, who seeks for the release of the
criminal from the legal consequences OF his
crime unites himself to the dangerous classes,
and becomes an accomplce in their deeds.
CrfmS will cease, or greatly diminish, Just al
soon as official and popular Justice cuts off its
completely with it and 1t will not cease or di-
minish until that event occurs Crime thrives
because the officers of law do not do their duty
and because the popular voice does not demand
those safeguards OF social and political ordel
that are essential to it's maintenance. The ig
norant brute, maddened by alcohol and degraded
by the example OF those whom he helped tC
place in power, can be reached by no motive but
fear and 30 long as that motive does not OK
ist we may expect to see in every newspaper we
take up the record Of new crime, and to bow
our heads in shame for our city, the while We
examine anew the defences We have spread
around our goods land our hyes.-Dr. z. O.
Holland, IN iScT'tbner''s for March.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-02-20
Buried Alive.
A TERRI BILE ExpERrENcE-cAGED IN GEM


TERRI BILE RxpERIENcE-cAdED IN A CEMETERY
vAULE-THouaRTLEss TRICK OF soHooLBoYs.
The Pittsburg Mail says: Attached to a GER
tain Episcopal Church, not removed from the
East Park Allegheny, by any considerable dis
tance, is q mild hammered, respectable, but some
what auperstitious sexton. Beneath the church
or rather on one side Of it, are situated several
vaults, belonging to wealthy members OF the
congregation, in which are depositedathe dead
belonging to the several families. In one Of
these have been placed the encotfined remains
of three generations. In pursuance of his du-
ties, the sexton one day last week opened the
massive door leading to the home of the dead
referred to. taking with him q broom to sweep
up the floor and shovel with which to remove
any dirt might have accumulated. His descent
iuto the vault was noticed by a number Of
thoughtless schoolboys who were lettering in
the vicinity. The sexton left the key outside
the door. Quietly stealing their way to the por
tai, the lads, Inspired by the spirit Of mischief,
closed the massive door, and while the sexton
was engaged in his work, turned the key and he
was locked up--a living inmate Of the chArnel
house where the decaying anatomies Of genera
tons were deposited.
Having swept the floor Of the vault, the un-
suspecting official gathered a shovel full Of the
debris and with it stated to the door. 1t was
lockedl He WAS stunned by the discovery.
Shovel and it's contents fell from his hauds, and
with almost superhuman force he pushed
against the portal in his wild endeayors once
again TO reach the land Of the living. The bolt
refused 10 fall back, and in despair, fearing a
living DEATH he descended again and paced the
floor Of the vault. Every sound was to him
fraught with weird and ominous meaning. The
footsteps on the sidewalk above sounded like
the eohoing farewell TO present life, the whist
ling wind, as it moaned through the unclos.
cracks OF the door, seemed the message Of death
from . forgotten world his own footsteps
seemed to sound his own death-knell. He was
alone amid the rayages Of the dree monster,
desth-the coffin spoke Of ended ife-the flesh.
less frames, on which living creatures had
moved, were like spectres and as he gazed upon
the crumbling caskets he momentarily expected
that they would part and that bony fingers woul(
clutch him by the throat ind crush from him thu
last remnant Of sacred vitality.
A noise was heard 1t was the sound of q
shooting bolt, Once again the sexton assembled
the strong stairs, and as he did, the door hey
open and the softened moons ray fell upon hi
joyous eyes. With one bound he passed the
open portal and he was released from living
death.
For three hours he had been confined in tn
charnel house, One Of the boys had been pre-
sent when he was locked uo and informed hi
father OF the event and but for the candor O
the lad the sexton might have died in a liyin
tomb. The parent promptly proceeded to th
vanlt and unlocked the door. AS it was he wa
almost frozen, and for two days following b
incarceration he had to keep his bed.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-02-20
Gs.s-ss.sssae Prlsaser.

Jim q. out West, tells good yarn about "shell
bark lawyer" His client was up on two small
charges, frivolous charges. as shell bark desig-
ated them (forging q note Of hand and stealing
a horse). On running his eye over the jury he
vii fer continuance, setting forth the absence
Of principal witness. He reAdit in whisper
to the prisoner, who, shaking bis head said ;
i.Sauire, / can't swear TO that dokyment." why
'Kase hit haint true" Old shell inflated and ex-
ploded loud enough to be heard throughout the
room. HWhAt I forge note an steal horse, an
can't swear to lie! Hang such fools. And he
Immediately left the conscientious one to his
fate