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"Maid Of Athens"

The Northport IN. Y. Advertiser con-
tains the following: Some three years
ago, while engaged upon q magazine ar
ticle, relative to the life and times OF
Byron, we observed in an English paper
brief paragraph, simply stating that
Thyrza Black was bed-ridden, and in a
state of destitution in the old city OF
Athens. Though constant reader Of
both foreign and American papers, we
failed to notice anything further rela-
tive to Mrs. Black, and the plausible
conclusion at which we arrived was, that
she had passed to that 'bourne from
which no Traveller e'er returns" Quite
recently, however, the subject recurred
to US, aud August /, 1875, we wrote a let
ter to the u. S. Consul at Athens, asking
several questions ana information rela-
tive to Mrs. Black, and last week We
were in receipt OF the appended oommu-
nication from Anthony Blartelaus, bear-
ing the desired intelligence:
ATHENS, Sept. 8, 1876. Dear Sir: !
received your kind note OF August ], by
which you desire ne to inform you
about Mrs. Black Ito whom the great
Lord Byron addressed that beautiful
little poem usually distinguished by the
"Maid or Athens") y whether or no she 10
alive. Alter having read your note ]
asked information about her; asking for
lher house because knew she
was alive. Indeed, found Tho house,
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WHY Franklin Used Simple Language,

Tradition has it that years ago, when
Benjamin Franklin was lad, he began
to study philosophy, and soon became
fond of applying technical terms to com
mon objects. One evening, when he
mentioned to his father that he had
swallowed some aeephalous mollusks,
the old man was much alarmed, aud
suddenly seizlng him called loudly for
help.
Mrs. Franklin came with warm water,
and the hired man rushed in with the
garden pump. They forced hall a gallon
down his throat, then held him by the
heels over the edge of the porch and
shook him, while the old man said: '"Il
we don't get them things out of Ben my
he will be pizened, sure" When they
were out, and Benjamin explained that
the articles alluded to were oysters, his
father iondled him for an hour with a
trunk strap for soaring the family. Ira
dltion adds that ever afterward Frank
lin's language was maryelously simple
and explicit.
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The Improved Poultry.

1t isnow pretty generally admitted by
most Western farmers that the improved
poultry pays as well in proportion as the
improved breeds of hogs and sheep-that
is, on general principles. Of course the
great mass of poultry is raised and sold
by the farmers. The car loads OF poultry
and eggs shipped from all over the West
come from the farmers, and since the in
PRODUCTION Of the improved breeds the
supply is rapidly increasing. No farmer
can longer afford to raise the common
chickens. Ii you can't have all full
bluods get a thoroughbred rooster, either
Cochin or Brahma, and you will be
80 Well pleased with the cross that you
will soon work into full bloods. They
mature quicker, grow larger, sell Tor
more money! lay more eggs, but require
little more care. With warm, clean,
comfortable quarters, a variety of feed,
not too much corn, eggs may be had all
winter as we'll as all summer.
Enterprising farmers who have not
already got the improved breeds OF
poultry ON their farms, should now pre-
pare suitable quarters for few OF these
popular and profitable pets for you will
be sure to get the poultry fever ii you
attend the fall fairs; but when you get
the improved breeds, don't try to get
fancy prices unless you propose going
regularly into it, and take five or ten
years to learn how to breed them sue
cesstully, and get a reputation as an ex-
perienced breeder. 1t will pay better
TO leave that alone to the professional
breeders, but as farmers, to- raise poultry
ard eggs to sell. But you don't like to
kill these fine chickens; only keep out
the best of them for breeding, and sell
them just as you did the others, and you
will find it will pay you one hundred per
cent. better, to raise the improved
breeds of poultry for market, than the
old barn-yard variety Western Agri-
cultuKisJ.
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Treatment Of Frdit.Trees.

A writer in the Farmers Home Jour
nal writes as follows on the manage.
ment Of fruit trees from planting till the
age for bearing fruit:
NV grating was commenced on stock,
but ON grating fifty 1 changed to root
and found this the best for both apples
and pears. After thorough cultivation
for one year transplanted to their per-
manent place, high, dry plat OF groahd
with stiff clay subsoil; cultivated the
first year in potatoes and melons. When
+ set out tree of any kind trim off all
the limbs and top it right where want
it to head.
The second year sowed wheat and
gave each tree a wheel-barrow load of
Well.rotted cow manure. The third year
| soWed oats. and clover; cut the clover
for ten feet around each tree and
mu,cned them with the green clover to
the depth of two feet in the fall. /
plowed the clover under each time,
blowing the rows in single lands, throw
ing the dirt to the trees; by that mode /
now have mound around each tree
and drain in the center. The fifth year
| planted it in potatoes and melons.
The sixth year planted corn in the
center of the rows, cultivating both
ways. Tho seventh, back to oats; the
eighth, back to potatoes and gardening
ninth, back to corn; tenth, back to oats
eleventh, in clover without any other
crop this summer, and sow to rye next,
and turn this under in May of the nexl
year. This was for apples and pears
cherries, peaches and piums and Other
fruit treat differently, not forgetting x
trim and shape the trees all the time.
Young beginners are.qufte apt to leave
too much growth at the start, and which
will have to come out at time that will
be u great drawback to the trees. lhav,
trimmed at all times OF the year, and fine
February and March the best. GO owe
twice a. year and take out all superiuoui
growth, aud there need be but littl
pruning the next year. Budding, o
grating, is simple operation, and ca
be perform by any one who will try
| Ana then, when your trees come int
bearing, you will not be disappointed, II
many can attest.
Alter your orchard comes into bea
ing you should use stable-ma
nure only about every six years; use(
| oitener it will produce too much growt
| OF wood, to the detriment of fruit.
In planting peaches, plums and apr
cots and ncctarines, ii you will sod tn
trees for one foot around the trunk, wit
bluegrass, aud not let it spread any fu
ther, you will not be troubled wit
worms, and then keep up a thoroug
cultivation Of the ground.
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which is in quarter Of the city OF
Athens not OF the most central. en-
tered her apartment and found an old
lady of about seVenty-tive years OF age,
in good health, and dressed in the old
Athenian costume, as she 10 naive OIL
Athens,
Together with her I found a young
lady OF about thirty-her daughter, not
yet married. She Is lovely, and OF ex-
Quisite manners. addressed myself 10
Mrs. Black, asking about her health.
She told me she was very well; that she
had lost her husband some years ago;
that she had lost two OF her sons, and
that she lives now with the only daugh-
tdr, who sat by me. Miss Black told me
that Lord Byron asked the hand of her
mother; but her parents did not agree
with her request, as her mother was then
aged than she was. After that refusal
Lord Byron wrote the poem "Maid OF
Athens"
/ have been moreover informed by
other persons that her late husband, Mr..
Black-who was in the service OF her
Britannia Majesty at Missolonghi (Con-
tinental Greece asked the hand OF the
Maid of Athens, after he had heard that
she was the subject of poem by Lord
Byron. Mrs. Black is tall old lady
with features inspiring reverence, and
showing that at a time past she was a
beautiful woman. She asked me differ
ent times what was the object of the
American gentleman who wished to
know about her. AS did not know the
why, could not give her satisfactory
answer. After an hours interview with
Mrs. and Miss Black, took leave and
departed. 1 have the honor to be, sir,
your most obedient servant.
ANTHONY MARTELAUS,
United States Consular Agent.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-26

BETTING on elections is penal offense
by the laws of Ohio, punishable by fine
and Imprisonment. Yet we see, as a
common occurrence about election times,
public announcements of bets having
been made, and of bets offered to all
takers, in violation of this well-known
law of the State. But who ever heard of
a Prosecuting Attorney, or OF any Grand
Jury taking notice of this criminal
offense? The commission of this crime
is open, frequent, and even boasted of;
yet the judiciary remain silent, if not
approving, in view of this malign and
mischievous practice. Everyone knows
that. betting on elections is sure way
to corrupt the elective franchise, and
render elections themselves but fraud
and sham. There is no otfepse that
more needs the attention of the officers
of the law than this. They can have no
difficulty in detecting and convicting
them. Their names are proclaimed in
the public journals. But then, they are
such extremely respectable namesl 10
punish such genteei criminals would be
dreadful Better arrest some dirty
loater for stealing a nap on this gam
bler's door-stepl
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-26

RA1LRoApING, like the present fashion
of feminine dress, has its drawbacks.
What was trumpeted and glorifed as
..push'' and ''enterprise," previous to
1878, has simmered down into chaneery
suits and foreclosures, with DEGREES for
sale Of stock and franchises, in 1875. The
United states have fully four thousand
milliops Of dollars Invested in railroads
and their equipment. We have now
about 1000 miles Of railroad in this
country; more than oge-half OF the rail-
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-26
Centennial Movements.

The current movements in connection
with the Centennial, of noticeable
character, include the arrival here of
large number of important representa-
tive citizens of Northwestern, Western
and Southern cities, who are to visit the
grounds as the guests Of the merchants
OF Philadelphia; the application of the
Russian Government tor space in the
Exposition Buildings, an event which
fully confirms the intelligence that the
Car has reconsidered his determna-
ton to discountenance any participation
by his subjects in the great demonstra-
tion of 1876, and the discovery that the
interest shown by agriculturists' in the
Centennial will require considerable
addition to the dimensions of the orig
inal plan Of the Agricultural Building.
All these events are important additions
TO the tokens of success, and they al
will render material assistance in
achieving it.-Phila. Record.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-26

THE telegraph brings us the sad an
nouncement Of the death of Rev. King
ston q. Goddard, formerly Rector OF
Christ Church in this city. DR.. Goddard
is we'll remembered here as most esti-
mabe Christian divine, and OF distin-
guished ability as a pulpit orator. His
death will be lamented by the communi-
ty as well as by the Church in which he
was so prominent minister.
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less documents; for all which the cost
falls upon the people, who, while they
are thoughtlessly swelling the demand
for the spurious folly, forget that they
are to be the paymasters.
l shall recur to this subject on a future
occasion. ' SIRIUS.
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GEORGIA FLORIDA $ss%5s + $ass;s sss: sss

should subscribe for the MORNING NEWS, pub
lished at Savannah, Ca; Daily, $40; Weekly,
50 per annum Advertisers desiring customers
in these States, should use its columns. 1t is
the best paper in the Southeast. Specimen
copies sent on receipt of cents. Address j.
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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-26

THE Charleston News and Courier, one
of the most influential party journals OF
the South, and a high-toned defender OF
the Democratic faith, in late issue,
gives the following plain family talk to
the Democratic brethren that dwell to-
gether in unity in New York: saying
The prospects OF Democratic victory
next year are far less bright than they
were mouth ago. And for this the Ma
tional Democracy. have 70 thank selfish
clique Of Journalists and omce-seckers,
who, fearing to commit the currency
question to the wisdom oil the National
Convention, made "rule or ruin' their
motto, and were ready, and are ready, to
sacrifice The South and West in order TO
fasten their grip on the throat of New
York State. This is or piece with New
York Democratic policy, as eXpoWnded
by Yammany Hall, Sd. Tiiden and Man
ton Marble. The Democracy of the South
and West must be pusillanimous indeed
if they submit any longer to their inso-
lent and unscrupu GUS dictat1on. What
they have done with reference to the cur
rency question they are as likely TO do
unto any other question that affects their
pride or baIks their ambition. In the
National Convention next year the lead
must be taken from them-Whether they
like it OF not, whether they go or remain
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-26

THE Brooklyn Union lifts up its voice
in lamentations, and exclaims; "Here is
a city of churches run By gin miilsp
Queer way to run churches. But just
like Brooklyn.
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way mileage OF the whole world, The
thing was vastly overdone by the-specn-
lating mania that received its quletus in
the panic of 1873.
Under this reaction the principal part
of railroad engineering, now done, is
done in the courts, and lawyers are chief
engineers. The U. s. District Court in
Iowa is to pronounce DEGREES of FORE
closure at the present term, with orders
for sale OF no less than five railroads in
that State, comprising not less than one
thousand miles of their railroad mileage.
In other States a similar process. OF
civil engineering is going on, greatly to
the imitation of lawyers incomes. Most
of these proceedings are instituted in
behalf OF the foreign holders of these
railroad bonds. Perhaps it is well-for
when railroad can not pay, from its in-
come, the interest on its bonds. it is time
that it's affairs should be wound up.
Bonds Of such corporations are seldom
put into foreclosure SO long as the inter-
est is duly paid.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-26

WE sigh on seeing the public an
nouncement that Joaquin Miller, "the
poet( y, has "sacrificed his long hair"
Poor 10. 1t was fearful sacrifcel His
hair was the only thing that gave him
distinction - and now he has parted
with that! tSic transit" &c.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-26

GEN. BUTLER has recently built three
solid granite houses in Washington,
near the Capitol, and has rented one Of
them to Senator Jones Of Nevada ior
S13. 900 a year, "spoons" included.
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DR.. HAYES says: "The North Pole is
within the reach of any nation'that will
think it worth while to spend money
enough to- get to it," But then, like the
Indians gun, the confounded thing will
cost more than 1t comes to. Better let it
stay where it is.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-26

This Is o dangerous season, and often
the fondest mothers care is no protec-
ton against Coughs and Colds and
Hoarseness. DR.. BULBS Cough Syrup
should therefore be kept in readiness.
Price, Is cents.
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n WILL be seen by our telegraphic dis.
patches just received that the Cuban
nence IN the East. The announcements
thus far are, to some extent, contra
dictory and ambiguous. There may
be such a thing contemplated
as the recognition OF Cuban belligerency,
in order to bring the civil strife in that
Island within The restraints of in.
ternational law. But that does not
by any means imply warlikc meas
ures on the part of our Govern
ment as toward Spain. Likewise, there
may be such a thing as stock7jobbint
sensations by telegraph, as to which the
public mind should give little heed.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-26

THE "SINGER' family 10 becoming
quite musical. The leader Of the choir,
the old Singer, was an old sinner. He
managed somehow to leave five wives,
twenty-five children and fifteen millions
of money. TO wife number five he de-
vised life estate in $4,000,00 OF estates
in England. To her six children he gave
s5, 800, 900, and only So, 900, 900 to the other
Singers. And now there is discord
among the surviving Singers about the
WIKI. And the lawyers are trying to
start q, new tune by breaking the will.
If they get control, it will need another
Singer to invent new sewing machine
wherewith to pay the lawyers.
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BALTIMORE AND OHIO, VIA PARKEhsBURG.
Depot, Pearl and Plum. Time, minutes fast,
Baltimore Tex SUM. 8:35A.M. 535A.M. 8aoA.M.
Baltimore, daily -. s :3OP.M. 2:30P.M. 6:00P.M.
Baltimore Eek daily IL :l0P.M 7:OQP.M. 10 :25P.M.
BALTIMORE AND OHIO, VIA COLUMBUS.
Depot, Kigoar and Front. Time. 7mlnutes fast.
Baltimore Ex daily. 7:i5A.M. 5I5A.M. 8:i0A.M.
Balhnore E1 ,....... 7:O5P.M. 6:50r.M. l025P,M.
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RAILROAD TIMETABLE,
ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN.

Depot, Fifth and Hoadv. Time, 7minutes fast.
Depart, Arrive, Arrive,
Cin'ti. Cin'ti. Dest'oR,
New York TX daily. 9:40A.M. 53OA.M, 7:3OP.M.
New York Ex daily. S:5QP.M. b:00P.M. 6:60A.M.
LOUISVILLE AND CINCINNATI sHoRT-LINE.
Depot, Front and kfgour. Time, minutes slow.
Louisville Ex daily 4:30A.M. 64OP.M. 9:OOA.M.
Louisville Eek SUM-. 3:0JP.M. l2:45r.M. 7:l5P.M.
Louisville (daily).... 7l5P.M. 5:35A.M. IL :40P M.
MARIETTA AND CINCiNNATI.
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RUPTURE---HOW CURED.

WRITES THE FOLLOWING INTERESTING PAR
TICULARS:
To the Editor OF the New York Sun:
SIR-For several years | was afflicted with
rupture and suffered from the use Of trusses.
Casually noticing in your paper a recommend-
alton OF DR.. Sherman OF your city, and about
the same time meeting Mr.. j. W. Ayres, of
Camden, N. j., who informed that he had been
a victim to rupture and was cured by DR.. Sher-
mans treatment felt animated aad went
| straightway to New York, consulted DR.. SheE-
man, and had him adapt his remedies to my
| case. 1t was to me happy occurrence, and
| shall ever feel grateful to you and Mr.. Ayres
| for having directed my attention to DIR. sher-
| man, as wei as to MIN for the safe and COM
! Portable manner In which he treated my case.
My mind was grsatly oppressed, and my future
was shadowed, as was trying various trusses
! for help with no osher result than vexation and
4 injury. But now being sound again, and real
| izing its felicity, feel 1t my imperative duty
| to add my testimony in favor of Dr. Sherman's
remedies, and TO recommend the rupturedst0 20
| TO him with the fullest confidence OF being BEN
Gifted.
GEO. T.. EAKINGs, 1921 Palmer t,
| Philadelphia, March "a, 1875.
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The above cut represents the Hon. Daniel s.
Dickinson, former Attorney General OF the
United States, as seen when attacked with
STRANGULATED RUPTURE:
MIR. Dickinson suffered intensely, notwith-
standing he had the best surgical aid. Every
thing was done that science could suggest, and
died in great anguish on the third day. This
is q fearful warning 20 those who are rlptured.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-10-28
FOREIGN Condensed.

Three quarters of the town Of Iqiuqe,
Peru, was destroyed by fire recently.
The Erie bondholders have appointed
a committee of Consultation to prepare
a scheme tor the reorganization Of the
Company, which they are to submit at a
future meeting.
Berlin, October 20 In the matter oi
Count Won Armin, the Supreme Court
has indorsed the verdict of the Hammer.
gerict. The Count is to pay costs.
Two hundred dwellings, a synagogue
and five schools in Widsy, Russian Po'
land, have been burned. Some persons
perished and three thousand are home
less.
The London EchO says large por-
ton of the bullion withdrawn from the
Bank of England yesterday will be sent
to Canada. Thirty-one thousand pounds
sterling were shipped for the United
States.
A boy of nine and girl of eleven,
halftimers at a mill at Euxton, near
Preston, England, quarrelled and fought,
and the girl received such injury that
she died directly afterward.
Baron Won Kalebstein and a number
of ex-officers of the Prussian army are
travelling through Georgia, prospecting
for location for large colony of Ger
man artisans.
France counts up 324 colleges, with
60, 500 pupils, besides 657 private and
27S ecclesiastical institutions, with an
aggregate of II, 900 students. Each bish-
op has at least one training school for
priests.
Nearly 6oo,o persons were employ
ed during last year about the coal, fire
clay, iron stone, and shale mines OF
Great Britain and Ireland, and four
ffths OF whom were occupied under
ground.