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Middletown transcript., 1875-10-09
How an American Lady Enter
tanned a Queen.

Our fashionable readers will remem.
ber the beautiful Mrs. Hicks, whose
wealth and attl actions caused SO much
gossip at the national capital one win
ter. Well, this lady is to-day a dis.
tinguished feature in the fashionable
world Of London, and is followed, fiat
tered, sought and sped in a way to
startle one. for it is seldom an Ameri-
can lady, however accomplished. rich
and beautiful, wins such success. Il
happened in this way; Mrs. Hicks ar
rived in London few days in advance
of the Queen of the Netherlands. She
took for herself all the best rooms, did
Mrs. Hicks. of the Clarridge Hotel, the
aristocratic resort of this great social
CENTRE. Shortly after the Government
notified the landlord that these same
apartments had been selected for the
Queen. The landlord informed Mrs.
Hicks that he must have the rooms for
royalty. Mrs. Hicks firmly but res
pectfully declined. She had engaged
the rooms she was in them they made
her castle, and as an American woman
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she, too, was a sovereign. The vexed
landlord was disturbed, he was excited.
He would have torn his hair had he
possessed any. As he was quite bald
he appealed to the Government. Mrs.
Hicks appealed to our Minister, her
cousin. The vexed question became
question of State, and no end of diplo-
matic correspondence passed before q
compromise was effected. 1t was ar
ranged at last that the Queen should
occupy the rooms as the guest Of Mrs.
Hicks. The Queen did SO and was de-
lighted with. our fair countrywoman.
Mrs. Hicks. received her guest; was
invited to court and court balls with
her royal visitor and now she is dined
and wined and entertained in q way to
endanger her constitution and many a
male member of the nobility with an
income and acres somewhat embarrass-
ed looks longingly at the beautiful, ae-
complished, and wealthy American
widow.
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A DISTRESSED FARMER.-A western
paper tells atstory of a distressed agri-
culturist: Ia farmer dropped in here
on "Wednesday last, to pay his rent,
putting on long face to correspond
with the times. On entering the house,
he told the landlord that times being
so hard, he could not raise all the
money, and dashed bundle of green
backs on the table,. There said be,
that's all l can pay The money was
taken up and counted by Mr.. ;,
the landlord. who said-'Why, this is
twice as much sgou owe. Dang me.
Give it to me again, said the farmer.
II am dashed if I amt took it out of
the wrong pocket!'
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They have disappeared and no one car
tell where they have gone. They Ger
tainly we're not killed in the war. fo'
they were non-combatants. Perhap'
their accustomed grub failed them, and
| they died Of starvation and broker
hearts -"fracted and corroborate. at
sPisteln said of Falstaff"
Such characters are the products Of .
plethora Of prosperity, of the "csnkel
of long peace In times Of difficulty
and poverty there is no place for them,
War and trouble eradicate eccentricities,
smooth down sinuosities, and reduce
people to common level. Those who
cannot undergo the process Of assimila.
ton pass out Of sight and die off.
There is no room for them.
The time may, come-we hope it will
when some Of those characters may
reappear. They break the monotony
of life, and some Of them are not only
embellishments to society, but supports
to it.
One character. higher than all the
rest, stands out from the canvas
character quite common q half century
ago, rare just anterior to the war. and
now extinct of the real old Vir-
ginian, the cock Of the walk in bis
neighborhood, whose virtues were in
tegrity. hard-heartedness, and love Of
State, and whose characteristic embel-
lishments we're a ruf1ed shirt, gold
headed cane, . blue coat with brass
buttons, and buff waistcoat. Those
respectable and influential old codgers
we're autocrats. They we're generally
magistrates, frequently members Of "ths
Assembly," and were authority in all
neighborhood and county matters. They
had true grit, and would have died be-
fore they would have surrendered their
.srights in the Territories. They be-
1ieved in the resolutions of $780,"
drank the best brandies and wines, and
''chawed" excellent tobacco, Their
prejudices and opinions were immov-
able, and their self-reliance and self
respect we're such that they would
scarcely have deferred to kings. As
politicians. they were as bitter as SCOT.
Some were Wings and some Democrats.
The former read the Richmond Whty as
they did their Bible. and believed every
word it contained. The latter swore
by the Richmond Enquirer as the great
sheet anchor Of the country. Those
good. brave. d-headsd, hospitable
old gentlemen have become extinct,
like the mastodon and the dsdo. n
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A., T. Stewards Ten Thousand
Dollar Carpet.

Among the many treasures owned by
the merchant prince" is a magnificent
carpet, which was once intended to
grace the halls Of royalty, having been
manufactured for the Emperor Napo-
leon. Its size is about forty feet
square. The centre piece is the most
prominent object, occupying nearly one
half of the whole area, represents q
beautiful. oval-shaped picture set in a
gold frame. and suitably hung, would
at distance be easily mistaken for an
elegant painting .sseasisa esis4
This picture shows the harbor, castle
and surrounding country Of Marseilles.
France. In the foreground one is
charmed by the blue water and the
stately ships at anchor; further back
the harbor and ancient castle, rising
grandly in its magnificent wilderness
against the green foliage enveloping the
base Of the mountains which form the
background, and lift their hoary heads
into a bluesky faxed with Ifeecy clouds.
Napoleon's coat of arms sqrmounts the
picture, and Latin motto, wrought in
gold on blue ribbon-like ground, lies
half unrolled at the base. lr
Immediately surrounding the lovely
picture. in bed Of rich brown. is a
garland Of beautiful flowers, much larger
than natural size, but so brilliant and 90
delicately,r and accurately represented
that it seems as if one might stoop and
lift the petals one from another. Out
sideeof this garland. and serving as
border to the carpet, is q wreath formed
of overlapping oak leaves and acorns.
also in natural colors, their various
shades of green and brown blending in
exquisite beauty. r,fs. a~
'Itais quite impossible to give IN idea
Of this wonderful fabric, which was
made With the needles Of poor women.
who wrought tin sections and set il
together, after the manner Of the cameps
hair shawls. Its texture is as delicate
as a silken robe, and no painter could
portray color or detail with greater
skill. It actually cost $40. 900 to make
it. Mr.. Stewart saw it at the Paris
Exposition and purchased it as novel;
ty to exhibit to friends who visit his
"up.town" store. # 3t!1
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A Plea for Religious federation.

The following is characteristic in:
cident in the life of Deacon Bolles, who
was an eminent type Of the age in
which he lived, for personal and pri.
vate worth, both as a man and Chris.
tian:
When the Bsptists Of Hartford began
to hold public services an over-zealous
member Of DR.. Strong's society called
upon him and asked him if be knew
that John Bollss had started IN opposi.
ton meeting.
"No," said he, when, where }"
sWhy, at the Court house."
Oh, yes. ! know it," the Doctor
-careleasly replied; ''but it's not an op-
position meeting. They are Baptists,
to be sure. but they preach the same
doctrine that / do. You bad better 60
and hear them"
"No," said the man, II am Presby-
terian." 'Sasal's' Yea se -
$50 am l." said DR.. Strong, "but
that need not prevent us from wishing
them well. You had better CO.
"No, " said the man with energy, Il
shan't go near them. DR.. Strong, amt
you going to do something about it p
"What ?"
"Stop'it, can't you?"
my friend" said the Doctor, Sc
riously. HJohn Bollss is good man,
and will surely go to Heaven. If you
and get there We shall meet him, and
we had better, therefore, cultivate a
pleasant acquaintance with him here.
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EoofsrRrAE STATUE OF LEE
The Governor, heads Of departments /,
and other officers and employees ef Tie
State at the capitol, have signed paper
dressing the auditor To- retain one days
pay Of theirs during the monthSof o.
,tober. 70 be appropriated to fund for
erecting, an equestrian statue Of Lee.
It is proposed to circulate like paper
among officers and employees Of the
city government. With proper efforts
during tho next four or Eve weeks il is
not doubted that at least $50. 900 in
cash can be raised. The Ladies' Lee
Memorial Association have already in
their treasury about $12, ,000.-Rich.
nsond Va. Di.patsh.
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IT = ~ -
! Some One to Love. =

Perhaps one Of the most positive
proofs u, have Of the soups independ-
snes of the body. is our great need OF
love and something Glove. ssWere We
mere animals. creatures to perish after
. few brief years Of life in this werld,
that which contents the brute would
also content us. To cat and sleep we'll,
to have an easy time Of it. would be
enough. As it is. We may have al
these things. and health to enjoy them,
and yet be utterly wretched. Neither
can mental food satisfy rs. 'tSone one
to love-" is our hearts cry. a.a q
When the atmosphere Of tenderness
is about rs, We rejoice = when people
are harsh and unkind., We suffer. e We
begin life wishing 70 love everybody,
and believe that they love ". Exper-
,ience hatdans. .us.s Our dear ones grow
fewer; !; but as long % reason lasts We
must love some one; ws must 1t least
imagine that some one loves u. The
parents, sisters and brothers, thatsdsar-
eat friend whom We promise to love and
cherish until death parts us, these come
into our lives and fill them mp. After
wards come the little children ffail,
helpless babies who reed our care so
much, and our friends to whom We are
not kim, jet who grow dear to us.
Some have many loved ones, and
some, bat one. Heaven help those who
have meme. though they are generally
to blame for their empty -he.rtednsss !;
for kindness will win love. They are
always wretohed. and they ofte. show
their craving for somsthinslto lave by
cherishing some dumb ianimal--s dog.
. kitten. a parrot Perhaps on which
they lavish caressss which, il better
spent would have bound some human
heart to theirs. Pride. or morbid sem,
sitiveness, and these pets Of theirs ell
the aching void . little. ;.;., b :
Some one to love! It is the cry Of the
human soul, the note 70 which every
heart responds; the bond which win
bring us al togetheria that other world,'
where mourners shall be- comforted and
Love shall reign forever.
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A Romantic Story.

In the old days, when the Indian'
and the white men were engaged in ,
constant warfare, the central region o
New York witnessed such scenes as nov
only the extreme West ever beholds
there occurred, a. all readers of history
will remember, terrible massacre q
Syracuse. The settlers there were sur.
prised in their sleep BY band Of saw
ages who completely overwhelmed them,
killed the men and carried many Of the
younger women away with them as cap
tives. Among those thus reserved fol
fate far worse than death was bean
tiful girl named Cathleen, the afianced
bride of the famous hunter Ensinore
This man. Scotch by birth, had lived
for years on the frontier and was re-
nowned alike for his skill in the chase
and prowess in battle with the Indians.
He was away on . hunting expedition
when the massacre took place, and
'resching home q few days afterward
found only ruin and despair where he
had thought to hold a wedding feast.
Learning the fate of his bride he LOST
no time in attempting to rescue her.
and following the trail Of her captors,
be at last discovered that they were
encamped on q cliff overhanging Owascc
lake. Disgusting himself as an Indian,
Ensinore, at tho risk Of bis own life.
made his way among the Iroquois. who
we're resting after, their victorious expe-
dition. He represented himself as be-
longing to tribe Of Southern indians
and soon. had the freedom Of the camp.
In this way he succeeded in seeing
Cathleen, who he, learned was to BE-
welded to one Of the chiefs. Of course
the lovers we're not long in planningan
escape, and one stormy night Ensinore
contrived to release Cathleen from the
wigwam where she was held prisoner
and the two started to quit the camp.
They were discovered, however, before
they had gone far, and there was
nothing for it but to yield or to fight.
Resolved to sell his life and his bride
dearly, Ensinore held a brief. fierce
battle with the savages who first assail-
ed him. He succeeded in driving them
back for a few moments and then he
and Cathleen ran to the edge Of the
cliff, and preferring death together to
the fate that awaited them if they we're
captured, hand in hand they leaped the
precipice. 1t was fearful plunge. but
fortune was with them s. they fell into
the water unhurt, and swimming to
Ensinore's boat, which was moored
below, they made good their escape,
favored by the darkness and the storm.
1t is in the memory Of the bold hunter
aud his brave bride that this pretty
village on the cliff bears the name Of
Ensinore.
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CHURCHES.

FoRrsr PResBYr.RIAN.-Rev John Patton,
ID. ID. Pastor. Divine service every Sunday
at 10. 30 a. m. and TOO p. m. Sunday School
at ga. m. Lecture on Wednesdays at 80 P.
n. Sunday School in the Chapel at Arm
strong,s every Sunday at 2.30 p m
Sr. AxNEs PROTESTANT EPIscoPAL.-K
VIM. G. Butler, Rector. Service on sundays
at 10. 90 a. m. and 800 p. m. Sunday Scnooi
at 900 a. m. Lecture on Fridays at P. %.
HcygoD1sr EpIscopAL,-Rev. L. G. Matlack,
n. D. Pastor. Service every Sunday at 1000
a. "a. anas7 !O0ip. M. Sunday School at $50
.. m. and 2.3o p. m. Prayer Meeting on
Thursdays At 7.30 p. m.
Cosossn bMsrHoDwr.-Rsv. N. Norris
Pastor. Service every other Sunday, at 1870
q. M; 3 and 3 p. M, Sunday School every
Sunday at p. n.
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Extinct Characters.

The Richmond Wing. in describing
some Of the peculiarites which Virginia
has lost, says:
Before the war Virginia was famous
for a great number Of marked and
queer characters. They abounded
throughout the State. Every city,
every town, every county. and every
neil shborhoodf had them. They we're
worthy to adorn. and illustrate comic
almanacs. Not only we're they queer
in their dispositions, manners notions.
and talk, but they were queer in ap-
.pearance. LEccentricity was expressed
on every part Of them. Many Of them
had such faces as are seen on old-fash-
ioned door-knockers or umbrella-han-
dies. If the whole number could have
been taken 10 a group, they would have
formed collection thst would have
been the wonder of the world. Some
had hooked noses, hollow cheeks, sharp
eyes. and pointed obins. Some had
noses like Bardolph, and mouths that
could take in . whole dish at mouth
fol if it was to their taste, just like the
old Virginia country fire-places, that
could take inis half.eord of wood, at .
time - Some were 50 fat that they
might have sat for pictures Of Falstaff.
They ''larded the lean earth as they
walked" However variant in appear
ance, nearly all Of them had two things
in common-the love Of liquor and the
love Of country. Weput liquor first.
because the inspirations of patriotism
were generally the results Of liquor.
The writer has before him as he writes
the picture of seven such characters
that be once saw at a ish-fry-all liv-
ing within 4 range Olive miles. They
were indeed q strange lot.I Some of
them had considerable property; others
had none. but lived upon their friends.
When they tired Of one house they
would 60 to another, and they went to
no houses that did not furnish good
grub and plenty Of liquor.
But there were queer characters Of a
different sort. who cared nothing for
high living who had some pet
theory that they were everlastingly
preaching up. Then there were the
news-mongers, who would 60 to the
country store, gather up all the news Of
the neighborhood, and start off to give
it circulation. There were men who
did nothing but fish all day along !;
others whospentrtheir time in hunting
squirrels and other varmints. There
were people who went through . range
of counties mending clocks. Who
aboundsd IN gossip. The peddlers
were universally distrusted. but as uni
versally welcomed. for they had the
very articles that we're needed in every
household, and that could not tabe pro-
cured at the neighboring store. Every
neighborhood had its pet beggar, as
we'll established as was Edie Ochiltree,
"the Kings bedesman.' s5
4 Nearly all these odd characters have
disappeared. In those good old times
of which We speak almost everybody
was well of. and society could afford to
maintain ssmalf army Of these queer
people. Who afforded general amuse-
ment. They we're like strolling play
ers. going from place to place, and
welcomed wherever they vent.
Where are they now 2 II is the
rarest thing to see one nowadays.
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BJJfLDING AND LOAN.

MrDDrrrowN B. 4 l.. ASSOCIATION. Samuel
Pennington, Pres; A. q. Cox, Secretary. Meets
4 on the lirst Thursday Of every month at
o'clock, p.msf &g. sl.csAI3
MUTUAL LOAN ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLsTowN.
Jas. H. Scowdrick, Pres; A. 9. Cox, Sec
retary. Meets on the third Tuesday Of every
month at 8 o'clock, pm. .gssa aaaf
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)HoNEsrY.-A sick man noticed bis
little daughter looking eagerly at, some
fruit at his bedside.
"You would not take them away
from your poor sick papa, would you n
be asked.
She replied. hesitatingly. "No. !
would not.'n Taeni she eoloFed and
added: "But, papa, l tell you . story
when l say So" s
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A youth. who desired to know how
to become rich, sent shilling imam
sweri to an advertisement, and received
the following valuable recipe: I'm
crease your receipts, and decrease your
expenditures. Work eighteen hours q
day, and live on hash and oatmeal
Cruel
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Obituaries.

/
child walking with his, sister through
a church-y yard, wished to know where
all the naughty people were buried;
and who, later in life, wrote the truism
that if one-half of our departed ones
could come out Of their graves and read
their epitaphs, they would not recog-
nize themselves.
| am forcibly reminded of this when
| walk through q cemetery, or read one
of those obituaries which SO few read
and still fewer believe. When / see it
stated in the Spread Eagle Gazette that
the demise of Mrs. Brown is public
calamity-that she was the paragon Of
her sex, the amiability of whose dispo-
sition endeared her to every one who
came within her charming influence II
straightway remember-I was her nearest
neighbor, you know-that from morn
till dewy eve her voice. pitched in the
shrillest tenor, was borne to me by the
gentle breezes in beration of her SER
wants or children, and often Of poor
Brown himself. Nor do l forget the
gush of fearful confidence. induced by
too much Tom and Jerry, in which
that individual told me as I led him an
unwilling captive towards his Lares and
Peuates, that she was the one great
torment of his life
When Mrs. Jinks read in that same
obituary that Mrs. Brown had left
disconsolate husband and six interesting
children to mourn her untimely loss,
her nose took sudden elevation, and
she immediately said to her daughter:
"Very disconsolate indeed! Gallant
ing Susan Briggs home from meeting
before his wife's tracks were cold,
laughing and 'bowing; and if those
children are interesting. everybody
else's are angels I do not see why
those newspaper folks cannot tell the
truth"
And just there Mrs. Jinks struck the
question centrally. Not that | would
have the newspaper folks lay bare
the representative Mrs. Browns consti-
tutional peculiarities. for when it comes
to that, who shall throw the FIRST stone?
But it is this inflated style Of obituary,
this use Of hyperbolical language, 1
protest against. The time-honored
motto, MI nisi de nrortuas bonxn, is
but the exponent-of feeling which has
its root in Christian charity sort Of
chiyalrous sentiment which would seek
to protect those who cannot protect
themselves; very good in its place,
very proper, yet, like everything else.
liable to abuse / would simply ask
that most photographic friend of the
afflicted family, who writes an obituary
voluntarily or does SO because be is
asked, after he has said all his own
kindly feelings prompt, not to plunge
into exaggerations to please the family.
1 trust, when I have shua1ed off this
mortal coil, that whatever virtues may
have set forth in my daily walk and
conversation, may be kept for discus
sion among those who love me, and not
held up for the admiration Of an incred-
ulous public, the sole effect of which
will be to cause every sin Of omission or
commission of which have been guilty
during my whole life to be thoroughly
aired by my enemies, and the obituary
itself to be read by my friends with .
tacit ignoring Of its exaggerations, and
a look which, being interpreted means,
81 know better, but I won't say So
poor thing!"
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Selett, oBatrn.
The, Song Of the Camp.
BY BAYARD TAYLOR.

This poem is founded on well-known
incident in the Crimean war.
.eGive MS a song" !" the soldiers cried,
The outer trenches guarding,
When the heated guns of the camp allied
Grew weary of bombarding.
The dark Redan, in silent scoff,
Lay, grim, and threatening, under;
And the tAwny mouth of the Malakof
3 No longer belched it's thunder.
There was pause. The guardsman said,
1--WE storm the forts Tomorrow;
Sing while we may, another day
Will bring enough of sorrow"
They lay along the battery's side,
Below the smoking cannon
Brave hearts from Severn and from Clyde,
And from the banks of Shannon.
They sang Of love, and not Of fame
Forgot was Britain's glory;
Each recalled different name,
But all sung "Annie Laurie" E
. Voice after voice caught up the song,
Until it's tender passion
Rose, like an anthem, rich and strong
Their battle eve confession.
Dear girl; her name he dared not speak;
Yet, as the song grew louder,
Something upon the soldiers cheek r
Washed off the stains of powder.
Beyond the darkening ocean burned
The bloody sunsets embers, be-
While the Crimean valleys learned
How English love remembers.
And once again fire of hell
- Rained on the Russian quarters,
With stream of shot and burst of shell
And believing of the mortars.
An Irish Nora's eyes are dim,
For singer dumb and CORY;
And an English Nary mourns for him
1 I Who sang Of Annie Laurie"
All ! soldiers, to your honored rest
Your truth and valor bearing;
The bravest are the tenderest-
The loving are the daring
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The Inman Line Steamship, City Of
Berlin. arrived at Sandy Hook at $50
Am, on Saturday. making the pas
sage in seven days. eighteen hours
and two minutes. actual time, from
Queenstown, being the fastest passage
ever made across the Atlantic, either
eastward or westward. 3a-1-eS
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PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY.

PEACH BLossox GRANGE; No. 8. Meets every
Tuesday evening at ! o'clock; Grange Room
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A poet in CodeyviIle. Kansas. has
produced the following statistical verse !:
"Should millions into millions multi
piled be, with ten million times ten
million more, 'tueald scarcely express
. millioneth Of the grasshoppers that
eross our door. )
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MASONIC.

I ApoNrRAM CHAPTER No. 5, R. A. N. Meets
in Masonic Hall on the second and fourth FRI
DAYS OF every month at 8 o'clock, p n. q
UxIoN Lopez No. 8, A. F. A. M. Meets on
the first and third Tuesdays Of every month
at O. clock, .. N. Masonic Hall.
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!. L could write down twenty cases
wherein l wished God had done other
wise than be did, but which now see,
had I had my own will, would have led
to- extensive mischief. The life Of .
Christian is life Of perodoxes. Cecil.
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/ II.IO.aOgF.

Coon SAnARrrAx LoDsE, No Q. Meets every
Thursday evening ats o'clock. Lodge Room
ia Cochran Hall, No. 2, Cochran Square.