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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-04-10
A LOVES TEST.

From the Boston Transcript. as.4ss= |
I'VE are allowed by the publishers to
say that the following poem, from the
''Masque of Poets,' is from the hand Of
the late Bayard Taylor.
sat to. day beneath the pine
And saw the long lake shine.
Inc WIND was weary, and theday
Sank languidly away
Behind the forests purple rim;
The sun was fair to me, lived for himl
did not miss you. All was sweet,
Sky, earth and soul complete
In harmony, which could afford
NO more, nor spoil the chord.
Could be blest, and you afar,
Were other !, or you, than what we ares
The sifted silver of the night
Rained down strange delight:
The moons moist beam on meadows made
Pale bars athwarts the shade,
And murmurs crept from tree to tree,
Mysterious whispers-not from you to me!
stirred the embers, reused the brand
And unused: on either hand
The pedigree of human thought
Sang, censured, cheered or taught.
Pausing a. each Titanic line,
caught no echo from your soul to mine!
And last, when life recast its form
To passive rest and warm,
Ere the soft, lingering senses cease
In sleeps half-conscious peace.
The wish might have fashioned died
In dreams that never brought you to my
Farewell! my natures highest stress
Mine equal shall possess.
lis easier to renounce, or wait
Haply, the perfect fate
My GOODNESS is the naughty fire
That naught consumes except its full de.
sire!
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THE Ci0B-HOusk.
By KATE PUTNAM osGooD.

willy ind Charley, eight and ten,
Were under the porch in the noonday neat;
could hear and see the little men,
unseen, myself, in the window-seat.
Will On q dollhouse was hard at work.
with zeal that was funny enough to me,
Al eight one hardly has learned to shirk-
lnaf comes later, as you will see!
For Charley, by virtue OF ripper age,
Dld nothing but stand and criticise.
His hands in his pockets, stage by stage.
de Watched the towering castle rise.
and now, after all your FUSS" says he,
S'posing It tEumbles down again.
W." viii answers, as cool as could be,
"Of course should build it better them"
Charley shook sagely his curly head,
Opened his eyes Of dancing brown,
And then, for final poser said,
But s'posing it always kept tumbling
viii, however, was not Ct the stuff
Alta loss to be taken so;
why, then" he answered, ready enough,
II should keep on building It better, you
know"
And, seeieg the wise worlds hardest knot
Cut at stroke with such simple skill,
Older people than Charley, thought,
MIghtlearn a lesson of Master Will
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IN e.cuAMxER OVER THE GATE.

BY HENRY ". LONGFELLOW.
Is it so far from thee 49,.
Thou canst mo longer see -~-
In the chamber over the gate
The old man desolate,
Weeping and wailing sore
For his son, who is no more?
Oh Absalom, my son!
It is so long ago
That cry of human woe
From the walled city came,
Calling on his dear name,
That it has died away
In the distance of to-day?
Oh AbsalOm, my son!
There Is no far nor near,
There is neither there nor here,
There is neither soon nor late
In that chamber over the gate;
Nor any long ago
To that human cry Of woe
Oh Absalom,. my sou!
From the ages that are past
The voice comes like a blast,
Over seas that wreck and drown,
Over tumult of traffic and town;
> And for ages yet 20 be
Come the echoes back to me-
Oh Absalom, my son!
Somewhere at every hour
The Waterman on the tower
Looks forth, and sees the feet
Approach of the hurrying feet
OF messengers, that bear
The tidings of despair.
Oh Absalom, my son!
He goes forth from the door,
Who shall return no more.
With him our JOY departs;
The light goes out In our hearts;
In the chamber over the gate
We sit disconsolAte.
Oh Absalom, my son!
That tits common grief
Bringeth but slight relief;
Ours is the bitterest loss,
Ours is the heavier cross;
And forever the cry will be
Would to God I had died for thee,
Oh Absalom, my son!'
atlantic Monthly.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-04-10
SHOWER AND FLOWER.
nowN the little drops patter,

Down the little drops patter,
Making a musical clatter,
Out of the clouds they throng:
Freshness of heaven they scatter
Little dark rootlets among.
Coming to visit you, Posies!
Open your hearts to us, Roses!"
That is the Raindrops's song.
Upthe little seed rises:
Buds of all colors and sizes
Chamber up out of the ground.
Gently the blue sky surprises
The earth with that soft-rushing sound
"Welcome"-the brown bees are hum
ming:
Come! for we wait for your coming!
Whisper the wild flowers around.
'shower, it is pleasant to hear youv'-
Flower, it is sweet to be near you'll
This is the song everywhere.
Listen! the music will cheer you!
Raindrop and blossom so fair
Gladly our meeting together
Out in the beautiful weather.
Oh, the sweet song in the air!
Lslcy Laycona; St. Nicholasfor april
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A Russian Royal Wedding.

The recent marriage of the Grand
Duchess Anastasia-the daughter of the
emperor of Russia's brother, the Grand
Duke Michael Nicholaievitch, governor
general of the Caucasus-to Prince Fred.
eric of Mecklenburg- Schwerin, is de-
scribed as fellows:
A distinguis he'd company assembled in
the winter palace at 1890 o'clock, among
those present being the members of the
ecclesiastical synod, the superior clergy,
the council of the empire, senators, the
diplomatic body, the chief officers of the
army and navy, and representatives Of
the mercantile classes. The ladies ap-
peared in the Russian national costume,
and the gentlemen in full dress or uni
form.
The bride and bridegroom were IT,
ceived in the magnificent apartment
known as st. Georges hall, and conduct
ell to the chapel within the palace, where
they were met by the emperor and en-
press, whose appearance was salutcd by
lO1 guns from the fortress opposite the
imperial residence.
The Grand Duchess Anastasia wore
over her wedding costume superb GRIM
son velvet mantle lined with ermine, the
train being supported by four chamber
lains and the master of the ceremonies
attached to the household OF the Grand
Duke Michael
At the chapel Prince Frederick and
his future consort were received bv the
metropolitan of Novgorod and St. Peters,
burg and the members of the synod. and
the interior clergy carrying the cross and
the holy water.
The emperor led the bridegroom to
their respective positions, and the rings
having been brought to the altar before
hand, on gold plates, by masters of the
ceremonies, were placed on the fingers OF
the exalted couple by the imperial con-
fessor, while the crowns were held over
their heads by high dignitaries of state.
Upon the conclusion of the Greek cele-
bration, the grand duchess and Prince
Frederic returned thanks to the empress
and their parents, and after TIE Deum
han been sung and e salute of 101 guns
had been fired, received the congratula-
tions of the assembled guests.
Next came the marriage ceremony &C.
cortiing to the Lutheran rite: which was
performed tn the Alexander hall, after
which the bride and bridegroom were
conducted back tc the imperial apart
ments of the palace.
At o'clock a grand banquet was
given in the Nicholas hall, at which the
following toasts were proposed, each &C.
companied by salvos of artillery: ''The
Emperor and Empress,' "The Newly.
married Couple" "Tne Parents of the
Bridegroom ''The Parents of the
Bride" "The Imperial Family" ''The
Clergy" and ''All the Emperor's Faith.
full Subjects"
At 8: 80 o'clock grand ball took place
in St. Georges hall.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-04-10

Bouffant draperies, whether on the hips
or back, are placed higher and higher,
the fullness more often being placed just
below the waist line than lower down on
the skirt.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-04-10

During q dense fog Mississippi
steamboat took landing. A traveller,
anxious to 60 ahead, came to the unDer-
turbed manager Of the wheel. and asked
why they stopped. "Too much fog.
Can't see the river" Bu5 you can see
the stars overhead" EYES," replied the
urbane pilot; abut until the biler busts
We amt going that way" The passen.
ger went to bed.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-04-10

Franz List is among the most distin.
guished of musicians in the world. He uses
and prizes Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organ
and provinces it "mat hless." 'unrivaled,'
styling it ''this magnificent and to me sc
precious instrument" There could hardly be
higher prrise,or from more eminent authority
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-04-10
England Fifty Years Ago.

In those days there were no envelopes
for letters, and postage was calculated by
distance; 2 pence in the metropolitan
district, 10 pence to York, shilling and
2pence to Edinburgh, 2shillings to John
O. Groat's House, and something almost
prohibitive to the Continent of Europe
Franks were in great request, and men,
bers Of both houses Of Parliament were
daily if not hourly besieged by letter.
writers, to obtain the privilege of their
names on ito corners OF epistles. which
would not have been sent through the
post at all unless they could be sent
gratis. When Sir Rowland Hill proposed
his scheme of Uniform rate of postage,
he was considered daring revolution
ist, destined to ruin the country, even
when he fixed the rate temporarily at
pence. When, after quiet interval, to
accustom the panic-s stricken public to the
great change originally contemplated, the
rate was reduced to penny, elderly
people held up their hands in dismay and
predicted the collapse, not only Of the
Post Office, but of the Empire Of Great
Britain. When I was youth, women
wore pattens. Are such articles ever seen
in our day2 At that time it was consid-
cred vulgar for gentleman to wear a
cotton shirt or silk hat. The shirt of
fine linen and the hat of beaver were de
riqueur. Watches had double cases, be.
tween the outer and inner of which it
was the custom to insert what were
called Wallpapers, on which were print
ed or written texts from Scripture, moral
maxims, passages from the poets, or ten
der love illusions purporting to be origi
nal. Still more recently, and when in
nay prime, I remember that it was con.
sidered contra 6onos mores and all the
proprieties for lady to ride in a hand
some cab, or for gentleman to smoke
in lady's presence, and worse still, if
possible, for lady to be seen in the
streets with a gentleman who had pipe or
a cigar in his mouth, I remember-and
it is scarcely memory Of older date than
80 years-when gentleman in full dress
was not compelled by fashion to attire
himself like a clergyman or tavern
waiter; when the fashionable dress was q
blue coat and gilt buttons and colored
or embroidered vest and when bright
celors IN the waistcoat were not consid-
cred the exclusive right of the footman
or the costermonger. remember, too,
when ladies were not ashamed to be
economical in their attire, and did not
allow their silks or satins to trail on the
ground, but wore their "gowns," as they
were called, at length that just reached
the ankle, and allowed the dainty little
feet and portion of the leg to be seen.
This fashion pleased the gentlemen, and
did no harm to the ladies, conduced
greatly to comfort in walking, besides
saving q considerablesum in the dress
makers account-ANthe Year Round.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-04-10
Easter Music! BastrCarok! Easter Anthems!
Send for Iists

CANTATAH FOR SCHOOLS AND SEM.
1NAR1ES. Among maay good ones may be mon.
Charity, eco cents); GUARDIAN An1os, 60 cts.);
COrOnst iOD, 600 cents); Culprtt Fay ($1); and
Fairy Bridal, go cents).
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-04-10

RICHARDSON'S NEW METHOD FOR
THE PIAHOEORTE. $3.50: IL the most poDu-
lar proved positively by tho sale of hum
drsds Of Thousands Of copies Examine It. -, q
- - Any book mailed for rstau price. @@
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-04-10

The present number Of the WKEKLY MUSICAL REC
oRD II full Of Raster Maize. Send 6 cents for IT,
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-04-10

A Favorable Notoriety.-Thsg good repu
tation of "Bro,on's Bronchial 2roches' for the
relief Of Coughs, Colds, and Throat Diseases,
has given them favorable notoriety. Is cts.
box.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-04-10

Smoke Pogue's SITTING Bull Durham Tobacco
Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-04-10
SILKS.

Oe popular DRESS materials this season.
They are shown in variety of colors for
day and evening wear, and those in dark
shades, sprinkled with white "polka
dots" are very beautiful. They are Of
soft texture, drape .gracefuly, do not
'crumble" easily and are twenty-five
inches wide. The price is about 81 so
per yard. There is variety of shades in
blue, and the black, with white "polka
dot" combined with black velvet, forms a
stylish costume. Summer silks are
clouded over by china patterns, which
show among small broken checks and
Stripes. while others in small quiet
plaids are loosely woven. whence the
name, serge auardrlllee, which has been
applied to them. Pekin stripes are
shown in silks of one color. the satin and
silk stripe alternating. Guipure is a
name given class Of open-work fabrics
of silken texture. Effective silks either
white or in pale shades, are wrought in
jardiniere str: pes of medium width.
SHORT DRESSES IN ENGLAND.
English ladies are just beginning to
adopt the fashion that has been in vogue
in Paris for some tame, of wearing short
skirts for ballroom toilets. Now that
quadrilles, and all square dances, are
voted 'slow" and tabooed, nothing is
thought of but the valse, for which the
long.trained dresses are found extremely
inconyenient, both to the wearer and her
partners, especially the latter, who &C.
casionaily find themselves more mex
tricably attached to lady. than is at all
consistent with the trois temps. To
avoid these difficulties. many ladies have
cord from the end of the train, and q
loop through which the gentlemaus arm
goes, and by which he holds up this
troublesome appendage, but this at best,
Is clumsy expedient, and not elegant,
to say the least, while short costume,
just showing pretty foot beneath, is both
becoming and infinitely more convenient.
Can the hesitation of our fair friends
about adopting this fashion be caused by
the non-existence of the pretty foot3
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-04-10
THE BEST MUSHROOMS

THE CHURCH OFFERING, r Rzn 10
sor, l$138 4l2 per dozen) has the best arranged
and largest collection Of music for Ep.scoP, Il
Gh9lrs eyer published. syenites. 10 alo,is PATHS
variety of Anthems snd Chants for Christmas, EAs'
EEH. snd other Festtyall: Although prepared ex
Dor Of fine Anthems renders it of the best Anthem
books for all Choirs.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-04-10
The Cooperative
Newspapers.

by New YORK for Rising outside Of that
city goes to the co OPERATIVE NEWSPAPERS.
Full particulars about the Cooperat 40 NeTspaperc,
Together with Catalogues and advertising rates maBed
free on application to American Newspaper Union III
Snruc0 Street, New York. r.. g..
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CdhW
The Celebrated
"Matchless
Wood Tag Plug
T@-

lER PIONEER TOBACCO CoMPAY.
Vow York pnstnn and nica or
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-25
a Republican View OF Tennessee
Politics.
SpeciaI % the CIncinnati commcrclnl.

Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
WASHINGTON, November 23.-The
Tennessee Republicans, now in Wash.
ington, speak with a good deal of con-
idence of their ability to carry the
State next year, or at least will roll up
a larger straight Republican vote than
mas ever yet been brought out. They
report the Democracy split up and de.
moralized on the State debt issue.
while the Republicans are a unit in
favor of paying the debt. About
one-half of the Democrats are SUP.
porting John Savage for Governor. and
he represents the extreme re%pudiation
elements Of the party. A very large
per cent. of the Democrats will not
vote for a repudiator under any cir
cumstances. On the other hand, the
Republicans are in better condition
than at any time for ten years. They
are united upon all questions. There
is a strong feelingin favor of the nom
i%nation Of William Rule, of Knoxville.
as Republican candidate for Governor
upon a debt-paying platform. Mr..
Rule is the proprietor of the only
Republican daily paper south of the
Ohio, with one exception. He is a
native Tennesseean, and stands well.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-25
-, tR, SeN.l
Chaneery Sale Of Real Estate

In the 0haneery Court of Shelby county.
Smith. 10 a. u
RY virtue ofan integlOoatory decree for ,,ls
- entered IN the above cause on Tho al
SunJHi y JuiyS loFS NJ. 3. p, page IS, l will
sen az R19hc auction TO the highest bidder.
IN 'front.' Of the Clerk and Masters once
Tennessee, "0"pnis'
On Saturday, December 9. 1879.
within legal hours, the following described
ptCpsrty, situated in Shelby county, Temp,
Two certain parcels. or tracts of land, situ-
a,ted and being in the Seventh Civil District.
tract MOL beginning at a stake the'northwesf
corner OF Dock Carter's home tract, thenee
west 10 poles to a stake near a white oak:
hence south 30 poles and 20 links to the mid,
ale Of Fletcher creek, under the east side of n
bridge; thence in an sasterly direction win
me channel Of said creek to a stale. said
Dock CQrteg's southwest corners III said homo
tract tAence north with his west bounSaTv
line ~ poles 70 the begipning, eontaininS by
esllmatlohi % acres. Also tract No. 2, being
the west corner u S. A. Munson's, ain on The
north side N FLETCHER creek, beginning in &
A, MTls?p.s west line, in the center az the
mam bed Of said creek with sweet-gum Sointl
orsi tnence west 10 chains TO tho northwest
corner Of said Munson's tract, with mapis
polntersi thence east 5 CHAINS TO stake. with
swSet-gum aadyhhe 2ak pointers, the north.
east corner OF TIA part north Of said creeF.
thence sogtA aehaihs To- a stake; thence east
u. the Vent er Of FIetcher's creek: thanradovn
SSta creek to the beginning; contsjnins nine
@acres, more or less. INV
Terms pr sale-Vn a creait. Of six months.
purchaser TO execute aotq with good security.
Lien retainedi Resumption barred.
This NovemberT, 1879.
J. BLACK, Clerk and Master.
Y, u. BARrEAu, Solicitor. 20
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-25

The Northern Pacific Railroad Co.
have now 40 miles of completed road,
exclusive Of siding. By the summer
Of 1880 the eastern end of the road
will be completed to the Yellowstone
river, and work is being pushed at the
Pacific end. The total land grant to
the road was 1000, 009 acres, but the
company has only acquired, by actual
road construction, l0,579.200 acres
Of this vast area, in Minnesota, DaEo-
ia, Oregon and Washington Territory.
The length Of the road from Duluth
on Lake Superior, to Puget Sound, on
the Pacific, is l,775 miles.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-25
History OF a SYcnmore.

jackson (Tenn.l Tribune and SUM-
About fifty years ago Mrs. Elijah
Spencer rode home from old Bet6le-
hem church in McNairy county, a dis.
lance of some five or six miles, using
o sycamore switch to encourage her
ambliug palfry. On arriving at her
home, some two miles south of The
present towA of Henderson, in this
county, she stuck the switch in the
ground near whore she dismoanted.
The switch took root and grew. grow
ing so rapidly as to excite the iady's
attention and care. That switch is
now an immense tree, with a base of
twenty-seyen feet in --circumfer-
enoe and with branches ,hot
extend 100 feet from tin 10
Tip. Beneath It's shades the lovers Of
two generations have sat and dreamed
and around its roots the great. grand
children Of the venerable lady who
planted it have played and planned
L stands to-. day a link hetween a pen.
Grafton that is in the twilight Of lis
line, and a generation. yet vigorous
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-25

with life and hope, and a generation
still in the dawn Of its career, in the
infancy OF its experience and work.
The hand that planted it was but re-
Gently stilled in death, aud the
branches she watched and nursed into
proportions so splendid, sighed in the
gentle winds that bore away her last
faint breathings. 1t stands, also, a
majestic and beautiful monument to
the memory of its mistress, and so
long as its form is caressed by the sun
and winds o fheaven this story will be
told as a memorial Of the hand that
planted it.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-25
General Trade.

Business this forenoon was mainly
confined to a general order trade, but
few round lots Of produce Offering at
the landing, arrivals yesterday having
been light. The iobbing business is
heavy in all branches. Flouris steady.
Meal weak, meats strong, corn steady
and slightly lower and hay, bran and.
oats are steady. There has been a
rise of thirty inches in the Arkansas
river and prospects favorng better
water the packets from this port to
that stream are to resume operations
at once. White river has risen suf.
fciently to enable the packets to run
there again, and the St. Francis has
improved so that boats can run to the
cutoff, eighty miles up, while they
can now reach Mariana, on the
L'Anguille. The Ohio has deepened
TO four feet or more from Louisville
out, aud from st. Louis to Cairo there
is now a good stage with no lack Of
water between Cairo and New Orleans.
Our cotton receipts continue heavy,
the improved condition of the rivers
enabling steamers to carry full car
goes, while remunerative prices slim.
ulate planters to hasten the staple to
market. As was announced yesterday
our receipts for the previous forty
eight hours were the heaviest on
record, being l0,ll2 bales.
BAGGING--A arket steady on orders
FAX, l0c per yard; jute, 1l1Sc; tics,
- 25G2 so per bundles twine, l2c per
pound.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-25
Attachment Notice.

Before Thomas Fleming, j. P. for Shelby
county, Tenn John Shuttle VS.. Jas. Stokes.
i sued out under section 1856 of the Code of
Tennessee, and returned, "levied upon the
property of the defendant" and affidavit ay-
ing been made that defendant is indebted
to the plaintiff IN the sum Of 500, due
by account, and that the claim is Just,
and that the defendant is a nonresident
Of the State Of Tennessee; it is therefore or.
dered that said defendant make his personal
appearance before me on the a4th day of De-
cember, 1873, at my Office, No. SO Madison
street, Memphis, Tenn, and defend said
attachment suit within the time prescribed by
parte; and that a copy of this order he MI
lie Ledger. uo
This the 22d day of November, 1879.
W rs 81 ~ THOS. FLEMING I u