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Things quiet on the LsVse Yesterday
Departing and Arriving BORIs-


Departing and Arriving BORIa
Yesterdays boats: The Diurnsl, for
Parkersburg; the Telegram, for Glazing.
ton; the O'NeAl, for Steubenvillei the
Scotia, for Pittsburgh; aud the Fannie
Tatum for same port. The Carrier passed
down with q splendid trip for St. Louis.
The Barnard, Monitor and Jacob Heath
erinEton, with light tows, passed down.
No tows passed up.
NOTES.
Clever Tom Duff ia in town.
Things were extremely quiet on the
levee yesterday,
The Hudson left Cincinnati for Pitts.
buTRh last evening.
The Hornbrook's repairs are all com.
pIeted. She got up steam last night,
Remember the Andes excursion to
Cincinnati on the 24Ih Of this month.
Weather clear and warm. River marks
feet 10 inches and falling at 10 p. NJ, last
night.
The st, Lawrence will take the Chimes
OF Normandy excuFstonists to Steubenville
ON the 9th.
Captain 7. Il. Mong, OF the Iron Duke,
is in the city. The Captain always holds
a good hand.
"Oaptain James Seeds, the retired pilot,
is here on one Of his periodical visits to the
boys" says last nights Enquirer.
1t sootad Frank Booth to take down the
boat store stove yesterday, He expects to
be able to be out to-day Notwithstanding.
81 Higgs, the engineer on the Welcome,
got quite sick yesterday and had to go
home. Dan Dunbar, o capable man, took
his place,
Henry seauon was looking up business
for GrRy's Iron line, yesterday, and II
there 10 sufficient water on Monday he
will begin loading her.
The Carrier, for st, Louis, besides some
miscellaneous freight, took fifty tons Of
iron from the Etna mill, 1000 kegs oil
nails from the Belmont mill, 1900 kegs
from the La Belle, and 250 boxes OF glass
from the Bellaire works. She left last
evening,
The Nail City towboAt, on her way down
to-day with lot Of empty bsrges, swung
round and struck one OF the piera
OF the railroad bridge. Fortunately,
the men on the lower deck got the ropes
cut In time 10 let the bsrges p IS down on
one side Of the pier, and the boat on the
other, thus averting any great danger 10
either boat or barges From the appear.
anCes, we Judge that something got wrong
with the machinery Of the boat so that she
could not be- handled Bellaire Independ
ent.
PITTSBURGH, May ll.-River 5 feet s
inches and falling. Weather clear and
very warm.
CAIRO, May 1l.-River Al ieet, 2 inches
and falling. Thermometer 81. Arrived
Schenck, Cincinnati; Anderson, Nash
vlllei Belle Memphis, st. Louis,
LOUISVILLE, May ll.-River feet
inches In the canal and stationary; 7 feel
s inches In the chute and on the falls
Business dull. Weather clear and hot
John A. Wood and tow from New Orleans
The ]. D. Parker Is due up tonight.
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AEIaHRORHOOD HEWs.


The IDdepsHieai says that the B, 4 o,
train men claim that 1t sometimes takes
as much as half hour to get all the pigs
ont from under q train when about to
move out Of the yard. The city pets
think the cara make nice cool shade.
Our gardeners generally complain OF q
dull demand for their 'sass," Just now,
The new Bellaire 4 Southwestern car il
about finished, and the painters are put
ting their Anishlng touches on 1t. Il 10
ChEiatened "Woodaheld."
The hot sun, these days, shining on the
damp creek banks where they are satu.
rated with streams Of blood from the
slaughter houses, makes q slckening
smell that Is waited into the nostrils Of
those crossing the creek.
Rev. DR.. u, W. Taylor has been preach
ing ct the Second NJ. E, Church. He has
got 70 be quite iavorite here.
Fine gravel has been filled in between
the narrow gauge traCka and the tobacco
warehouse, raising the low ground there.
The Loan Exhibition will be open from
10 O'Clock in the morning to 10 o'clock Of
night, and this kept up for two weeks will
make quite demand on the time oil the
ladies and gentlemen in charge, The
Monument Association will be under Q
weight oil gratitude 10 those who thus
assist the work, and Tor the work that 10
now going on under such cheerful and
Bkillful hands.
The stockholdera Of the stEeetcaE com.
pAnY do not take much interest in the
matter Of electing officers. But 1t 10 not
much wonder. Why should they, when
oil they have 10 do 10 TO pocket their dlvi.
dends as turned over by Arthur MCClain
They know it's oil right,
Probably the new school house will be
built Of the corner Of Guernsey and Thirty
third streets.
Marion Huffman will not be able 10 enjoy
his seat on the cool steps % much 80 usual
this summer, He 10 drumming tsr his
cigar factory. And now he has Q sum;
mons TO act as grand juror oil the United
States District Court Of Columbus.
The Loan Exhibition has received
number Of large cases from Columbus, and
one from Wisconsin,
Limestone 10 being strung along the
streets above the creek, To be broken.
Jesse Fusner proposes to exhibit the
merits Of his patent coffee pot OF the Loan
by making the beverage and giving 1t
away to thirsty sightseers. X. q. +.
WELLAHURG.
Granville Parker, q prominent citizen Of
this place, and brother OF Dr., willard
Parker, OF New York city, died on Tuesday
evening,
The machinery for Samuel Georges sack
factory has arrived.
Messrs Robinson aud Jacob, Of the arm
Of Barclay, Jacob 4 Co., have disposed Of
their interest In the general merchandise
business to W. O. Barclay and Wheeler
Ohapline.
fuckers water mains are gradually ex'
tending through town,
DR.. Willard Parker, H., Of New York
city, has been In town Tor some days, being
called here by the sickness Of his uncle,
Granville Parker,
Business reported good. Everybody
busy. G, BIC.
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Secretary Of State stalnaker lssued a
certificate Of incorporation, yesterday, to
the Richmond, Toledo and Chicago Rail.
road Company, Tor the purpose Of con.
BtruclinE and maintaining a railway from q
poin. on the Ohio river, In the county Of
Mason, 10 be hereafter decided upon,
thence through the counties Of Mason,
Putnam, KSuawha, Fayette, Raleigh, Sum.
mers, Monroe, and possibly through The
county OF Boone 10 the Virginia State
limo, to follow the line Of the Great Ka.
nawha 10 point on the New river, be.
tween the Gauley river and the mouth oil
Mill Creek. The certificate shall be per.
pelual, and the capital stock $4,000. The
coSporatots are Jesse j. Bright ami D. H.
WiIlSrd, Point Pleasant; ]. l.. Mclean,
winfield, Puthtm county; Abraham Bur.
ton, Ohsfiedon,J. Eugene Daua, Maiden,
KanawhA county; D. F. Connell, Ports.
mouth, sCiota county, o. and MG'tie
Harvey, Fayette U, u,
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PERSONAL.
POInls AbOut People AZ Home and
Abroad.

EeAAtu Aoous &NePAe ~ A0lno ana
Abroad.
Mrs. Rev. W. B. Thompson will spend
the summer at Bethany,
Col. D. S. Thompson, OF Cameron, was
was in the city yesterday.
Col. P. L. Kimberly has returned from
bEiel trip through Kentucky.
Miss Cox, Of Cincinnati, is the guest Of
Mics Mary Lamb, on the South Side.
Mrs. Hugh Sterling and Mrs. VIM.
Bogga left on Monday for visit to Bur-
lington, Iowa.
Mrs, ChRs, KrAuae, on Sixteenth street,
has for guests number OF friends from
Milwaukee, Wis,
Mrs, Brooke Adams will leave in q day
or two for Lexington, KY, to spend sew.
eral weeks visiting.
Miss Julia Richardson, who has been
Waiting in this city for some weeks, has
returned home to Bethany.
b. s. Randolph andS. P. Kretzer, Of the
B. i o. civil engineer force, were in the
city Tor short time yesterday.
Isaac Y, Hamilton, one Of the most
prominent members Of the Washington
county bar, was In the city yesterday.
7. 7. CockAyne, who has been visiting
Mr.. Joseph Dlmmey at Pleasant Valley
for some days past, has returned home,
A. F. silVsus, Esq, an attorney oil
Greene county, Pa, and prominent ed.
uCalor OF Pennsylvania, called on US yes.
terday.
A recent copy Of the Central City, COL,
DSPalch speaks Of the dress Of Mrs, George
Barrett nee Miss Jennie Campbell, OF this
city, at . recent ball held In that city a
one OF the most elegant and beautiful Of
the evening.
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Tho following deeds in fee were admit.
tod to record in the Recorders Office
yesterday:
Deed made May 8, 1881, by the Nail
CITY Building Association, 10 Martha q
Anderson, vile Of ". II. Anderson, for A
purt Of lot 1880, on Chapllne street, fol
81 200.
man and wife, to John Frew, for part o.
lot 10 In Grnham's addition to the city, OF
Fourteenth street, for 81 600.
Deed made April I, 1881, by Hanniba
Forbes, trustee, to the Nail City Building
Association, for part Of lot 1870, on Chap
line BtTeet, for 81, $50,
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Mr.. G. ". Storm, Of Wheeling. W. Va
has landscape study in oil on exhibition
at Pape's, on Fourth street. The subject
ia Bennerhassot Island, In the Ohio,
taken from point some yards distant on
the West Virginia shore. The scene ID
realistically true, and the rounded banks
Of the historic island are brought plainly
TO view. There Is q soft, gentle tint TO the
sunset, noted for iLs rare beauty thefea.
bouts. The picture will remain In The
window for a few days.-En0uirr,
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Are YOU disturbed at night and broken
Of your rest by q sick child suffering and
CRYING with the exCFuciating pain oil cut
ting teeth2 II 60, go At once and get a
bottle Of Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
Ii will relieve the poor little sufferer i'm.
medialely-depsnd upon Il; there is
no mistake about II, There is not
4 mother on earth who has ever used II,
who will not tell you Of once that II will
regulate the bowels, and give rest 10 The
mother, and relief and hsalLh 10 the child,
operating like magic. II is perfectly safe
TO use In all cases, and pleasant 10 the taste,
and 10 the prescription Of one Of the oldest
and best female physicians and nurses In
the United States. Sold everywhere. 25
cents bottle. MwT4w
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Postal ORDERS.
Recent Regulations Affecting RusiHeSS
Men Particularly,

Recent Regulations Affecting R1SinesS
Men Particularly. ,
Among the recent orders OF the Post
office Department are the following, which
will be found Of interea. to many Wheel
ing merchants:
"Tags or labels attached 10 samples Of
merchandise may have the price and
width Of the goods printed thereon, either
by the original impression or by hand
stamp, filing In blanks left by the original
print This will not authorize such use Of
q hand stamp for any other purpose than
Gs description Of the thing attached. 1t
cannot be used to convey Information per.
sonal In nature, or disconnected from the
thing to which the matter 90 stamped 10
attached, except at rates for first class mat.
ter.
1.-THE width oil the article, OF which q
sample 10 given, may he stated In writing,
but when 90 written, the purpose oil lden'
LITIGATION being held TO have been RCoomp.
lished, as authorised by the statute, the
price Of the article Gannot be added either
In writing or In print, without changing
the classification Of the matter 10 letter
rates."
The following concerning the mailing
oil back numbers Of periodicals Is also USE
iul:
1.-THE regulation permitting back mum.
bers Of any publication Of the second
class oil mail matter 10 be sent In the mails
at the pound rate cannot be construed TO
include bound numbers. When back
numbers are bound into volumes they
must be treated 90 books, and prepayment
required as for third class matter"
We give also two other interesting new
rulingS;
Under the Postmaster GENERALS order
Of February 81, 1881, drawings, plans and
designs, which were formerly rated as
fourth. class matter, are now subject to
letter postage. Manuscript maps are also
subject to letter postage.
a price list with prices added in writing
10 subject 10 letter postage.
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rHB CHInES % HORl1AnDY,
A Local company or Faithful Students
10 Render this ChaFttInE OpeFA.

A Local Company or Faithful Students
10 Render this Charming opera.
For weeks past many Of the most prem.
inent Of wbseling's musicians, both pr.
vAte and professional, have been carefully
tehearsins their parts in the opera bearing
the above caption, and which IL 10 be
rendered In the 0pera House on Monday
and Tuesday evenings, the 2ad and 24th
Of this month.
On the 9Th the comp any 70 10 steuben.
vile on the steamer ST. Lawrence, when
the same performance will be given. Ex.
cufsion tickets for this trip will be sold,
and will doubtless attract many Wheeling
people, KtAmet's orchestra has been
secured for all the entertainments, and the
Indications point 10 the most successitl
and enjoyable literary entertainment ever
gotten up in this city,
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KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.


Annual COncIave nj rairmont YesteF-
day.
At the Grand Annual Conclave OF the
Knights Templar Of West Virginia held
at Fairmont yesterday the following
officers were elected:
Jesse +. Purnell, Benwood, Grand Com.
mander.
W. H. II. Flick, Martinsburg, u. GO.
OF. Scott, Patkersburg, Grand General.
issimo.
W. II. Riggs, .Mattinsburg, Grand
Captain General.
&. A. Gibbons, Fairmont, Grand Pre-.
late.
=. Rieigood, PatkersburV, Grand Senior
Warden.
j. 4. Miller, Wheeling, Grand Treas.
urer.
George F. Irvine, Wheeling, Grand Re.
corder.
A. ]. Stone, FAirmont, Grand Sword
bearer.
J.W. Kite, Grand stAndard.bearer.
". ". Van Wrinkle, Patkersbutg;
Grand Warden.
F. B. NicolS, FaiTnont; Grand Captain
The next annual Conclave will be held
on the second Wednesday Of May, 1882.
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~ felt as II could have kicked myself, "
was the remark a newspaper man made
after reading iaCstious article In the pa.
per when be found 1t was "only" a local
calling public attention TO Thomas' EClec-
trio Oil. He did not say go after using II
for 9 sprain and llslcc1tion, and discover.
Ing lts great value.
Sold by Lsughlin Bros. & Co., Whole.
sale Druggists, Wheeling.
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WBKRE iot twenty years a person had
no movement Of the bowels without med.
icine or mechanical means, a months use
Of Tufts Pills completely restored The
bowels 10 natural regularity. They are
composed Of innocent herbs and are inca.
pablo Of hurting the most delicate consti.
tuition, yet sure to cleanse the bowels and
blood oil all impurities.
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I Deem Il my Duty 10 Tell the World
what DR.. Swavne's Compound Syrup
Of Wild Cherry has done for me.
had a violent cough, night sweats,
sore throat great weakness. with se-
we're attacks Of hemorrhage, gave up
all hope OF recovery. lam now cured,
sound and hearty man.
EnwARn H. HANSON,
Engineer at sweeney's Pottery,
1884 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia.
Over twenty-five years have elapsed
and still remain a healthy man.
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~ WISH was dead, !" lie an expression
not tinitequehtly used by the dyepeptic
end sufferer from liver disease; the de.
pressed spirits uniting the mind for any.
thing, and almost driving him 10 despair
Be Of good cheer; there is life and health
left for you yet. Take Simmons Liver Reg.
tlatof. II regulates The liver, diBpelS de.
and restores health,
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Two dtay loads Of new style wall paper,
and bofdeis To match, and one load Of new
carpets, will be sold cheap for cash. Fifty
pieces new dress goods, at ten cents per
ward, Call soot, at John Roelnet's dry
goods, carpet and wall paper emporium,
Nos. 2Olg and 9O2t Main street, Centre
UhAaltb0
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Whether II Is better when you have met
with an aCCldent-'cut, burned, scalded,
or bruised yourself, " to send for a bottle
Of "Thomas' Eclectic OIL" or 10 use
some unknown remedy and be laid up for
q month, and lose your time, and have
doctors bill 10 pay in the bargain.
Sold by Laughlln Bros. 4 Co., Whole
sale Druggists, Wheeling.
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THE usual merchants lunch at tho Now
Mcclure House Sample Rooms daily.


Members Of the Masonic fraternity Of
this city to the number OF one hundred
and lihy will visit Wheeling on next Mon.
day evening at the invitation Of the West
Virginia Masons. They will leave the
Union Depot at 7:04 r. M, Monday, and
will return oil Tuesday at 4 80 A. NJ, on q
special train.--Pui,bLr0h Dtpdtch.
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.WlNE Of oAaDvl" for Ladies' only.
For sale by Logan & %.

CARBuScLEs, Felons, Bolls, Sores oiloDg
standing, such 40 Ulcers, Assesses, etc.
positively cured without the aid Of knife
or poultice, by using Mrs. Julye Myers
Drawing and Healing salve. Piles, salt
Rheum, Erysipelas, Soft and liberated
Oorns, Ohillblaine, etc. II has never failed
10 cure. For sale by Logan 4 %.
nav
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Sealed Proposals for Convict Labor
Excursion to Moundsville.
Esction OF OniCers-Ohildren's Home.
For Sale-Plants.
PhoLographs-Plummer's Gallery.
nted-MOulders.
parasols--Marshsll, Kennedy & 90.
Cheap Homes.
RelrIgerators-Nesbitt & Bro.
Wanted-Board and Furnished Room.
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A aoatsr was picked up Of Goodline's
landing, near sunHsh, early yesterday
morning, and AZ ibquest held on the shore
near by. There we're no clothes whatever
upon Il, and Il was horribly decomposed.
The body was supposed 10 be that Of q
woman,
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,WHHy HFH HUHtFIbB IFOW IOFuH.
Dry, parched, sore throat, losing flesh, bron.
chial and aSthmAto attacks. All these dan.
gerOus symptoms are entirely cured by "Dr.
6wayne'S Compound Syrup OF Wild Cherry
The first dose gives relief, and the worst
cough and sore lungs yield to its healing pro.
pertiesH Sold by ali druggists at % cents and
81. The large size Is the most economical.
MWFAW
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Az this time Of the year a good Turkish
bath will do more TO cleanse out your sys.
lem and put you In good order iot the
summer than ten dollars worth Of medi.
cine. The establishment 10 on the east
side oil Market street. below Fourteenth.
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THE Champion Bales Work, 25l Broad.
way, New Yofk-Ftank o. Herring, Eeq /,
reports The use oil 81, Jacobs Oil Tor stih'
nGos and soreness 81 the shoulder, With
most pleasing and etticaciou0 effects,
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YOU should SEQ The lightning cleanser for
cleaning silver. For sale by GRUB, tho
IeweIer.
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lust RECEIVED-FIVu thousand gallon
stuno ware at GEO. X. MOMECHEN'S,
No. 1864 Market ST.
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ASK your grocer for Morning Glory
Baking Powder. The most economical in
the n1RfkaL.
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nENTIsTRY.--TO THOSE THAT DE
dIKE 10 nave their natural teeth wO would ny
that We are now 6etHT prepared than ever eeiOIe %
snRbls GhsD to do 90. By the use Of an kLEofko
MAGNETIC PLUGGRR We can and are making peIteI
aud handslm5T Gold Flling1, Win more go vIi
Patients, thail have hOHOtOiOIO been made 10 thu
raty or elsewhere, without the aid Of the Electric
pluSsor. What We ray NO can prove ~ AcIuu
Naturalization. Call aud 500 FOL yourselves,
JAMES N, BURulBON 4 sQNI
IuI Nh. iiEN MATkht NJ. Whaling. W. Va
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ClRcuIr CouRr, No. l-judgt lloyd.
This court met at o.. N. yesterday, and
transacted the following business:
Brown vs.. Central Glass CompSny-sLlll
on trial
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WASHINGTON, b. O., May I'LL A. NJ
For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, slight.
ly wArmer and fair weather, south winds
and stationary barometer.
For the Lower Lakes, south winds,
slightly warmer weather and stationary
or higher barometer.
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FoR nice, light, white bread use Morn.
Ing Glory Baking Powder. II 10 pure and
u, FBESY,
Proprietor.
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FOR MUNICIPAL JUDGE.
BOLTON CALDWELL.
Qhe .QnteuiqeuHr.


ooies tsoS. 70 ana n YOurtoeulh street,
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The following shows the range oil the
thermometer, as observed at SChnepi's
drug store, Opera House corner:
1880 1881.
7AA.IlE.SF A.7F.H. IAN. l2N.SP. M7P.H
70 ~ al 70 66 50 %
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"BLAoK.pRAUeAT" cures costivs.
ness and SiCk.HeRdReh0.
For sale by Logan 4 Co.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-28
LANDoR AND MRS. LYNN LINTON.
A Letter 10 The AMen9um.


There few personal social honors which
have come to me during my lifetime for which l
care to claim public recognition But there is one
honor which | regard as the most precious in my
whole history, and the public recognition of which,
wneh occasion T oilers; clam as ny Tght ,o mean
Landor For the fourteen years of his acquaintance
| was his daughter" and he was my =" father"
He never wrote to mo aught else; never signed
himself in any other way. have packets of his
letters without even the well-known w. 5. l.. of
ordinary intimacy; but all are signed " Your
Daughter" When he died in Florence he be-
queathed to me a box of valuable old plctures;
which bcquest, however Mr. browning wrote to
me asking TO f0rcgo in favor of certain members
of the family who had borne the ex of HE last
illness. L need hardly say that | complied with
this request, and tat thus gave up what not
only of great intrinsic value but also of priceless
worth % me as the sealing sign of my dear old
father friends affection.
Two of the most beautiful of his sonnets-one.
perhaps, the most steal IF allwere addressed TO
me- he wrote under his own name in Fraser a crit.
cism on my book Amvmone" lie gave me, and l
still possess. the first edition of his q" Imaginary
Conversations" corrected. interviewed, annotated
by his own hand; for many years | twice a
year his guest at Bath, for month, or six weeks.
two months at time; and there are yet living
many friends who know how true and tender was
the friendship which began between when he
was an old man past seventy and young woman
many years under thirty. | was staying with him
when he wrote that gem of gems beginning,
strove with none for none was worth my strife y:
and l am that girlish friend" referred 60 by Mr..
Sidney Colyin in his " Life of Landor,'' just pub
lished. He brought the verses down TO breakfast.
and threw tAem across the table TO me. saying, See
what your old father wrote Last night Then he
took them mp and read them alond, as Mr.. Colvin
has related. | gave Mr. Colvin the auecdote; and
think am justified IN thus setting my own name
against ii, and IN demonstrating with the curiously
grudgng spirit which forboTe to give me an honor
To which am entitled, and which prize above all
Others | demonstrate. too, with the incorrect in
ference OF the phrase whom he at this time called
daughter" was his daugl ter then and his daugh-
ter to the last day Of his life-hs daughter in love-
obedience and devotion in my youth, as / am now
in my mature age i'll loyalty TO his memory and Ia
Jealous regard for the honor of his lustrous adop
ton. T.. Lynn LINTON.