Year: 1873

say. we cannot imagine any OF our young mon
beating retreat Like that


Extraordinary are the campanological experience,
in the home Of Frank Fleury in Springfield III.
One night his door bell rang but the servant found
nobody at the door, and the thing attributed TO
mischieyous boy, and very naturally, until the
bell sounded again, when watch being set IL was
found that the ringing had nothing TO do with ths
bell-puil. The wire was cut but that made no diff
ference, for the ringing went on. The bell stopped
as soon "a any one entered the room in which it was
hung. Then, to render the matter more mysterious
another bell, an old one, began to ring,
and 80 the two kept up the tintinnabua-
tiOn from o'clock in the evening until
about midnight. Upon watching tho bells. it was
discovered that the tongue began 10 osclate at first
slowly communicating the movement TO the other
part. There was young girl in the house-the
medium of course-who seemed to exercise an in
fuence over the bells. They rang when she entered
the room-they rang out loudest upon her leaving it.
There are more things in Heaven and Earth. &c.


Here is a curious story Of the old Slavery times,
which we pick up from Western Carolina news
paper In the gold mining regions of Burke County
lived an industrious, welltOdo free colored woman.
named Nancy Boyce. She was engaged to marry
lack. a slave, and in order to have everything
pleasant she put ler hand in her pocket and bought
him Of his master But she was shrewd enough to
take bill of sale Of him, fortunately, as it hap
pened for Jack turned out TO be utterly worthless.
and perfect sot. But little need was there for
Nancy to 90 to the Courts for relief by divorce She
knew better way than that. She owned her man,
and she simply sold him to a slaye-dealer who car
red him off to the far Southwest, so that the sharp
Nancy was never bothered by him again. Hus-
bands have been badly sold before, though not In
this particular way.


We shall tantalize all collectors Of relics when We
state that among the curiosies Of the Western Re
serve Historical Society at Cleveland Is the writing
desk of the late Right Honorable Edmund Burke.
There is given in The Clerednd Leader long account
of it, which we do not propose to reproduce. Ii
seems to have been and TO be still remarkable piece
of mahogany furniture, with no end Of pigeon-holes
and other conveniences dear to the man Of method.
When it is closed it has the appearance" as we are
told, "of little house with curved roof" And it
was upon this very desk. we suppose, that the Let
ter to Noble Lord" was written.


A sweet scene of domestic bliss, the only happi.
ness which has survived the fall of man, is do
scribed by the Miami (Ohio) newspaper as happen





cbus Still desirous of prolongng the couviyiaities,
he gave his children to drink of hard cider address
ing his wife at the same time in language Of the
most impassioned escrption-energetic but not
affectionate. Then the DeighbOrs came in. They
tied the bacchanal and laid him on the bed. Then
his wife lmore, probably in sorrow than in anger
chastised him with a whip-and served him right.


Two towns in Vermont have fallen out. to wit:
Remington and Ludlow The cheerful subject OF
dispute is which has the most fOrlorn, uncsredfor.
and dilapidated graveyard, or the least so-We DO
not precisely understand which. The Selectmen Of
both towns have long acted upon the rule OF making
no repairs "unless the occupants complaint and as
no doleful voice from the tombs has protested, the
rude forefathers of the hamlets' sleep IN shabbl-
ness-a neglect too common, we regret TO say IN
many rural districts where facilities for natural Or
nament are greatest.


1t is thought to be a very extraordinary thing that
Messrs. Cain and Ransier. colOred members OF Con-
gress from South Carolina, should have nominated
white boys VINO excelled in the competitive exami'
nation for West Point cadetships. IL is to be hoped
that the time will come when such a circumstance
will excite no attention. These Congressmen show
good sense if a sense Of justice be good and if all
their kind will be equally fair half the troubles u
not all of them, in South Carolina. will disappear
There must always be two parties to a Cancellation
The Rev Mr.. Ancient has a rival in pastoral deyp
tiOn i'll Tennessee-a clergyman who in the hrSs
place refuses to receive any pay from his congrega
ton. To support himself he teaches school and
cultivates his own farm. When his church needs
help he starts upon lecturing tour, aud thus raises
the needed money. This is highly honorable in the
clergyman but how about the congregational Nay
there not be such thing selfshy leaving pastor
TO bear more than his share of the burdenf


Is tobacco injurious This question, it is claimed
by the anti-tobacconists has been settled at Hart
ford, Conn., where a hOgshead of the weed rolled
from the dray and broke the teamsters leg. Bot we
think that this incident fixes nothing to smoking
masticatng or snufing. 1t simply gives rise to an'
other intricate question: which is'Will the coming
teamstcr cart tobacco' This is problem which We
shall not undertake TO solve.


It seems hardly necessary for US to say that
widows of the age of 93 however strong in their
general health, are not in a situation 10 make long
pedestrian excursions. Widow Polly Hollis Of Hol-
brook Mass and of the above age, walked from her
own home to the residence of her son. the other
day, and then died. II is so hard for some peoplen
feel or to admit that they are old


The death Of a venerable Canadian eliclts from
The British Standard the remark " Thus has passed
away from our midst one of the landmarks OF ths
country We do not remember to have seen moro
curious misuse Of two very much misused words