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Year: 1873

Dust before his death, Commodore Maury,
speaking in reference to the fual removal of his
remains from Lexington, expressed the wish
that it should take place in May, when the
flowers covered the earth, and the laurels of
the famous Goshen Pass (which be admired so
muchl are in full bloom. In the following lines,
copied from the New York Euening Post, the
wish Of the distinguished dead is given in al
most bis very words.


Through the Pass.
Year: 1873

night before the battle, and killed some of oul
beeves. Their loss, think, is very great.


Late IN the evening, they called to our men
that tomorrow they would have 1000 men for
them to fight on, for they had l 100 as we'll as
them. They damned our people often for SIS
of BIS. why don't you whistle now2''
(deriding the ffe) and made very merry about
a treaty.


Colonel Lewis was shot in clear ground as he
had not taken tree, speaking to his men to
come on. He turned and handed his gun to a
man, and retired to camp, telling the men as
ne passed along, Il an wounded, but go you
and be brave


Colonel Field was killed behind great tree,
looking for an Indian that was talking to amuse
him, whilst some others were above him on his
right hand, among some logs, who shot him
dead.


Colonel Fleming was shot with three balls
two In his left arm, and one in his left breast
10 a piece of clear ground. Speaking to his
division with great cooluess and deliberation, he
turned round and stopped slowly back, and told
them not to mind hin, bat go up and fight
foor C0lone! Lewis, soon after he reached the
camp, died ; and fear poor Fleming will.
hope and tear for him many times in ye day.
his loss here IS lrreparable, if Col. Stevens
don't come down with medicines Col. Lewis
wrote his Lordship, who informed him be would
have 'all reouisites.'' He now begged for
medicines end a surgeon. We have Watkins
hare.


I wish you would write P. Henry, if you can
have the opportunity, something ab0ul Sc bat
tie, as | want my dear wife to know that am
WELL God bless you and yours.


L am your well-Wisher,
Year: 1873

THIS delightful watering place will be open
Il for the reception of visitors on the FIkST
DAY OF JUNE NEXT.


Extensive additions of new furniture have
been added, and the proprietors are making
every arrangement for the comfort and con-
venience of visitors.


This is the most beautiful and extensively
improved OF all the numerous watering places
In the mountains of Virginia All the usual
appliances for the comfort and amusement Of
the guests are provided, and EXPRESS, TICKET,
PosT and TELEGRAPH OFFICES are found here
Year: 1873

lean territory, and there is no reason to
doubt that the recent visit of the secre-
tlry of war to Texas had for its main
object the Arrangement and authorize
ton of this plan for putting a stop to
Indian depredatiOns on the Mexican
frontier.
Year: 1873

CONCORD, May 29.-An elaborate
opinion, signed by all the judges of the
supreme court, was to-day sent to Gov
ernor Straw, to the effect that when a
town clerks record and return of the
votes for representative in congress is
according to the moderator's count and
declaration, the governor and council
are not authorized to require the clerk
to amend his record and correct an error
in the count. This opinion of the judges
will elect Austin F. Pike, of Franklin,
to congress from the second district.
Year: 1873

Story has just completed his small
statue of Beethoven. The power,
simplicity, and grandeur of this little
statue are remarkable. The great com.
poser stands dressed in a single dress
ing-gown, has his arms folded, and is
in deep meditation. 1t is so simple, so
natural The lines of the drapery,
the pose of the body, the expression of
the head and face, the calm folding of
the arms, are each and all full of con-
centratiOn and artistic feeling. The
whole conception makes you feel that
the great composer is listening to that
with in which is much more pro-
found, much richer than all his poor
ears lost of earthly hearing. The life
size bust Of Beethoven, which Story
modelled last Spring, is going into mar
BILE. Never did our great sculptor do
q more mastery piece of work than
this face and head. The fond or study
was a mask from life, which he owns
The face is tingling with vitality. There
is deafness IN the expression, but an
inner life is also disclosed. The fea-
lures, muscles, nerves seemed quiver-
ing with deep emotion. There is suf-
fe1ing expressed, but nothing humilia-
ting. The lion name of hair turns
back from the noble brow, and gives
elevation to the solemn agitation of the
face. There is not spot on the face
that is not full of the cunningest mod
cling; and the deep tragedy of feeling
the great deaf artist suffered seems to
course like troubled torrent over the
surface of the marble. You feel awed
as you look at it.
Year: 1873

A curious discovery has just been
made by Paris s0vaaat, though there
is some doubt as to the benefit which
either humanity or the crustaceous
fish operated upon will derive from it.
M. Chautram has long been engaged
in studying the natur.l history and
physiology Of the crawfish, and from a
paper just read before the Academy of
Sciences it seems that this careful OBJ
server has found out that when young
crawfish are deprived of their eyes, new
ones will grow in the interval between
the shedding of two shells, and this in
a perfect normal fashion. But when
adults are operated upon the regenera-
tion of the eye is slower and more ir.
regular, and not only is the organ gem
orally deformed, bud two eyes often
take the place of one.
Year: 1873

A CALIFORNIA blacksmith, who made
bet Of $50 that he could and would eat
nine dozen eggs in one hour, broke
down on the eighth dozen at the end
of forty five minutes. He was taken
up in an unconscious condition, and at
latest adyices his situation was eriti-
CAL
Year: 1873

A correspondent of the London
Times gives the following account of an
execution at Yeddo in Japan:


The culprits were eight in number,
one being a woman. They were
all beheaded with sword The opera
tion was performed with wonderful dex-
terity and GOODNESS, and not one of them.
even the woman, showed tbs slightest
symptoms Of fear. There was space
Of ground roped off; inside were three
holes dug in the ground, with little
mound behind each, on which was spread
a mat for the criminal to kneel on. On
one side Of the enclosure were two JAP
anese officials, in chairs, to see the thing
properly conducted. I had place d.
rectly in front Of the mounds, at about
six feet distance. The criminals were
placed in a row, on one side of the en-
closure, blindfolded with pieces of paper
( they use paper for everything there


What struck me most was the horrid
GOODNESS Of the executioners assistant, a
good looking lad about IS years old ;
he went up to each poor wretch in his
turn, gave him a tap on the shoulder,
led him up to the mound, and made him
kneel on the mat; he then stripped his
shoulders, made him stretch out his neck.
and said, {" that will do, and in flash
the mans head was in the hole in front
Of him, and his bleeding neck was, as it
were, staring me in the face The as
sistant, still with the same pleasant smile,
picked the head up, threw some water
over the face to wash off the blood and
mud, and presented it to the Japanese
officials, who nodded and signed to go on
with the next; the assistant then gave
the corpse blow between the shoulders
to expel the blood, and finally threw the
carcass aside like a log Of wood: he
then repeated the pleasant programme
with the next.


L never thought mans head could
come off so easily; it was like chopping
cabbage, only accompanied with pecu-
liar and most horrid sound-that Of cut
ting meat in fact. There was dense
crowd Of Japanese present, including
many women, and even children these
people never ceased to eat, smoke and
chatter the whole time, making remarks
on the performance, and even occasionally
laug ching, just as if it were a theatre.
The .executioner poured water on his
sword between each decapitation, as one
vets knife in order to cut India rubber.
Year: 1873

had fallen-but I did not afterwards
have strength to do anything but what
was wrong, and to fall still deeper
shame land such woman would you
have for your wife ~


Anna rushed up from her seat
wringing her hands. Her lofty curls
strai ghtened and fell in ringlets down
on her shoulders at the sweat of agony
which flowed down her forehead. On
each cheek burned a red spot; but the
rest Of the face was white as chalk


"But the revenge came !" continued
Anna; the punishment came !-mur-
der suicide "a mother who must
live separate from her child FINALLY a
woman, who does not even dare to be
happy at the heart of an honorable man
it is too much too much oh -"
1t was too much for the pitiful wo-
man. The red spots on her cheeks dis
appeared. A stream of blood colored
her pale lips The tall, slender woman
reeled, and when jaeger carried the
senseless girl out Of the garden, he felt
how she grew sitter and sitter in his
arms.


The following day jaeger was sitting
in room Of house on distant street
on Sodermalm Around him On the
floor was running two year old boy,
beautiful as a cherub, lively as a spring
brook dancing among the spring flowers.
jaeger called the boy and put him on
his knee


" Look at me, little Adolph :" he
asked the boy.


The boy looked up with his big eyes.
at the same time pulling Jager's hair
hard enough for one 50 small.


The forehead and the nose," Jager
said to himself, how they resemble
him, the class mate, the friend-the
frivalous-the unfortunate the mouth
and the chin, they belong to her--the
angel up there but from whom have
your eyes-these speaking, bold, eyes
-ha it is his, the Iron-Carrier's II
know them we'll SO I embrace them
in you, my child, my three dearest
memories we shall never be separate
from each other !"


The child smiled at him.


jaeger felt his breast to be filed by
unspeakably delightful feelings.


It could not be otherwise, because
the smiles of angels melted together in
that Of the child.


70 be continued
Year: 1873

II God made you half a fool, it is
better that you should seem to be
half fool than that you should make
believe that you are wise. All sorts
of animals are willing to seem what
they are. An ass is always willing
to be thought an ass; and he honors
God in it. An owl is always willing
to be thought an owl; and he fulf1s
the function given to him, even if h
does look wiser than he is. And a
man should be willing to be just what
God made him. Not that he should
not desire to increase, to augment,
his talents; not that he should not
put his money out at interest; but a
man who is ignorant, had better ad-
nit himself to be ignorant. A man
who is not genius had better not
think himself to be a genius. A man
who is poor had better think he is
poor A man that is unskilled had
better admit that he is unskilled.
Whatever you are, while you strive
for greater excellence, stand on that
which is true and great, and do not
make yourself out to be more than
you are. Do not attempt to put on
guise and pretense, in vain hope of
winning praise.-[Beecher.
Year: 1873

The determination on the part OF


our grocers, to sell goods for cash


only, after the 10th of this month,


has given rise to considerable discus


sion in the community-some taking


one side of the question and some


the other. There cannot be doubt


that the cash system, if it could be


introduced, would work to the ad-


vantage of both seller and buyer.


Our grocers are terribly crippled in


their business by their inability to
collect what is due them. Their long
standing accounts are numerous.


Many persons come in and buy goods
month after month, and sometimes
year after year, have them charged,
and never say word about paying
for them. Their accounts thus run
up to large amounts before they are
aware of it, and when bill is pre-
sented, they are not only surprised
that it is so large, but they have not
the wherewith to pay it. The result
is that our grocers are obliged to do
without their money. There is not
a grocer in the place who has not
hundreds, and some of them thous
ands, of dollars thus outstanding,
which he greatly needs just now to
enable him to replenish his stock and
pay his own debts. 1t is to put
stop to these long standing accounts,
to get what is actually due them, to
guard against loss and to put them
selves in shape to do business as it
ought to be done, that our grocers
have adopted the cash system. Such
system, every one knows, will work
to their advantage.


But it will work to the advantage
of the buyer as well. Let US see
how.


1. The buyer will not purchase as
much under the cash system. When
a man buys goods on credit, he inva-
riably is more extravagant than when

he pays cash. 1t is easy to go to
store and buy things, when one has
them charged. Besides, a thousand
little things are bought under such
circumstances that would not be
bought if he had to pay cash. Thus
it is seen that the cash system leads
a person to be more saving of his
money, and will enable him to lay up
mora than he would under the credit
system.


2. One always gets goods cheaper
when he pays the cash. A grocer, or
any other business man, who sells on
credit, must charge per cent. on his
goods, over and above living rates,
sufficient to pay fair interest on the
money he has standing out and to
cover all bad debts. These two items
foot up large amount in every gro
Gerry in town-and the buyer has to
pay them. But under the cash sys-
tenn these two items are cancelled, and
consequently the price of goods is
lower to that extent. The advantage
in this is all on the side of buyer
When he pays cash, he has nothing
to pay, except what the goods are
worth and fair per cent. Of profit to
the seller for his trouble in handling
them.


Our advice to every one, whether
he sells or buys, is to do cash busi-
ness as far as it is possible. He will
find it greatly to his advantage in the
long run Exchange.
Year: 1873

When a baby comes into the house
hold, it is only little shapeless, red
faced thing, with tiny double fists
that move themselves about at moth
ing, and an appetite disproportion-
ally large in comparison with its
other qualities.


Yes, it comes as a sort ofa mon
arch-that helpless little handful, and
it begins to reign forthwith.


Its voice-not exactly the voice of
a turtle, either-being heard in the
land, all other sounds are forgotten.


1t matters not who has no dinnerr
SO that he has his, nor who is tired
SO that he enjoys himself. Ordinary
occupations cease, and the group
gathers about the cradle to see him
put his fists in his mouth. A small
fringe of hair on the back of his head,
is more beautiful in the eyes of the
household, than the floating locks of
any golden blonde on earth; and
while some adult is quietly advised
to have his aching wisdom tooth
pulled out and not bother any more
about it, the family rush pell-men to
the cradle side, to see what won
derful thing-baby's first tooth peep
ing through its gums.


King Baby, do you know any
thing about all this? If you did.
you might look forward very sadly.
In after life there will be. no such
alteration of you. Words of wisdom
will fall unnotieed from your lips
then, though when you have learned
to say ''blal bla!' the household now
goes into ecstacies. -..


Your little natural kicks and wrig-
giles that are so charming, are moth
ing to the hard work you will do
without ''thank-you" from any one.
Your sleeping, eating and smiling will
interest no one but yourself when
you are man. It is well that you
do not know it. But now you are a
king, and, in truth, a home is made
happy by such a little monarch.
Reign on. 1 am one ofyour subjects,
and I pity any one so stern and cold
that ne does not bow little before
the great Grand Llama, the Babe of
the House. MARY KYLE DALLAS.
Year: 1873

Why do people not go to church
more? One thinks it is this, and an


other thinks it is that. You can


open a church in a hovel, and let a
voice go forth that has the power Of
touching men, and you will find it
crowded and thronged You do not
want the cobs that used to have corn.


That which man wants is sappy food,
refreshing food. Men are willing to
be dealt with, to have their sins
flashed in their faces, willing to have
their conscience aroused, but do not
want to be handled. Shey want a
preacher that takes hold of them in
some way, and if he can do more
than that; if he can give to them
that which every man needs
some men have aspirations, and some
more indulgent in superficial thought
and if he can give him strength to
bear his burden. Men that are sore
in life; men who are in sorrow; wo-
men who don't know how to bring
up their children, and who are con-
tinually having more and more added
to their flock; people who want to
know where the next hod of coal is
coming from; people who are afraid
of the Sheriff; men who are pricked
with the ten thousand nettles of hu-
man life-they come to church and
hear long discussion on the fall of
Adam. Well, that is not importune,
but still they'res so fiat themselves
that they feel as ii they would like to
know something that deadens the
struggle that is going on within them;
a minister who brings God down to
the side of men, not as an everlasting
condemner, but one who brings God
down as a present help in the time
of trouble Henry Ward Beecher.
Year: 1873

This beautiful extract from DIR


Hollands new book, "Arthur Bonni


CASTLE" will be read with deep and


tender interest by many whose ex-


perience it truthfully portrays;


"I stand in q darkened room before


little casket that holds the silent


form of my first born. My arm is


around the wife and the mother, who


weeps over the lost treasure, and can


not, till tears have their way, be COM


forted. 1 had not thought that my


child could die-that n'y child could


die. 1 knew that other children had


died, but I felt safe We lay the lit


tie fellow close by his grand father
at last; we strew his grave with flow
ers, and then return to our sadden-
ed home with hearts united in sorrow
as they had never been united in JOY,
and with sympathies forever opened
toward all who are called to a kindred
grief. / wonder where he is to-day,
in what mature angelhood he stands,
how he will look when I meet him,
how he will make himself known to
me,who has been his teacher! He was
like me; will his grandfather know
him? I never can cease thinking of
him as cared for and led by the same
hand to which my own youthful fin
gers clung, and as hearing from the
fond lips of my own father the story
of his eventful life. 1 feel how Won
derful has been the ministry of my
children-how much more I have
learned from them than they
ever learned from mellow by hold
ing my own strong life in sweet sub
ordination to their helplessness, they
have taught me patience, self-sacrifce,
self-control, truthfulness, faith, sim
plicity, and purity.


"Ah! this taking to ones arms a
little group of souls, fresh from the
hand of God, and living with them in
loving companionship through all
their stainless years, is, or ought to
be, like living in heaven, for of such
is the heavenly kingdom. To no one
of these am I more indebted, than to
the boy who went away from me be-
fore the world had touched him with
a stain. The key that shut him in
the tomb was the only key that could
unlock my heart, and let in among
its sympathies the world of sorrow
ing men and women who mourn
because their little ones are not.


"'The little graves-alas! how many
they are! The mourners above them,
how vast the multitude Brothers,
sisters, I am one with you, 1 trust
with you, I belong to you.-Those
waxen, folded hands; that still breast
so often pressed warm to our own;
those sleep-bound eyes which have
been so full of love and life; that
sweet, unmoving, alabaster face;-ahl
we have all looked upon them, and
they have made us one, and made us
better. There is no fountain which
the angel of healing troubles with his
restless and ife-giving wings so con-
stantly as the fountain of tears; and
only those too lame and bruised to
bathe, miss the blessed influence.
Year: 1873

A full set of false teeth were pick
ed up in q Fifth avenue stage the
other day by country member,
who offered the corpus deljeti to ev-
cry lady passenger in turn. They all
disavowed them, and one was so in
dignant that she could not be indue-
ed to open her rigid lips in response
to the inquiries of Rustieus. She
left the stage at the next crossing.
Year: 1873

At mission Sunday-school, not long
since, little boy in the infant class was
seen crying bitterly. The teacher upon
inquiry, learned that he had lost mother,
and she said, no one knew what loss it was
until they had lost mother, and that John
ny had good cause for crying. At this
moment little urchin jumped up and said,
''Oh, teacher, you just wait till he gets a
then you'll hear him cry.
Year: 1873

They tell me you are what the


world calls a firt; that all the little


attractions which nature has given


you have been subordinated to base


uses, and you have openly boasted of


the conquests you have made through


the power of coquetry. Pause, I beg


of you; it is not yet too late; you can


not know whittier this tendency is


leading you, or you would never have


entered the path. There are many


reasons why you should pause. The


fact that you are SO debasing your


womanhood proves conclusively that


you could have never have known the


power of passion that has many


times made angels of demons. Oh!


you blush. tits well; it gives hopes


for the future; it tells that you are


not dead to reason and shame. Shall


l tell you why you are on the brink
of terrible danger? Does not your
own heart tell you that some time, as
there enters into the heart of every
man and every woman, sooner or
later, love stronger than death and
true as truth, so it must come to you,
and in your soul of souls you must
feel that the only man worthy of
the admiration and love of any woman
is one that would not for an in
slant trife with the affections of an
other? Do you think the true man
whom you could honor IS husband
would care to take to his embrace
wife whose lips had been sullied
by careless and promiscuous contact
with any who had chanced to be the
plaything of the hour? You may
plead, in extenuation of your fault, that
you were engaged to those whose ca
resses you permitted, but, in the sew
eral instances referred to, discovered
before it was too late that you had
mistaken passing fancy for q life
long affection. It is no excuse at all. |
Indeed, it proves you weaker than be-
fore. You have no right to promise
yourself in marriage to man whom
you are not sure you can love until
death. Then, when you so far forget
your womanly dignity as to snap at
any chance bait that may be offered,
to find out later that you are mistak-
en-, you must not wonder that your
name is banded carelessly about |
among your masculine acquaintances,
and the better kind of men begin to
shun you.


There is a difference, my young
friend, between prudishness and wo-
manly self respect, and you will al
ways find that any man, high or low,
pure in thought or thoroughly de-
based, will not forget the Difference
due to true woman. You ought to
know instinctively that familiarity is
no evidence of manly regard, and the
profered caress too often springs from
a motive so base that 1 need not
name it. Guard yourself, then, that,
when the time does come in which
you can truly say to any man, that he
is more to you than all else, you will
have no reluctance to lay before him
the history of your past life, unspot-
ted by the breath Of suspicion, un-
tarnished by practices not open to
the world; and, when the time does
come, as you would have true SYM
pathy and happiness in the future,
give each other your confidence re-
garding the past; let there be no
sealed pages, no forgotten details,
VIII ose ghostly presence will haunt
you ever after, and, if discovered,
cast shadow between you and him
who trusted you.
Year: 1873

A Chinaman came down one of the
main streets of Millerton, Cal, on
election day, in state of inebriation
and of joyful exaltation, and thus de-
livered himself: "Hoop la! me all
sAme Mclean man. Hair cut short
and drunk like HI Hoop la"