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X H E P0BI*ISHE1> E’rSRY WEDNESDAY. 0 . c . W M M E f f i ] i i T r ^ & S O N , EDITOBS AND FKOPRIEIOBS- T E R M S i B_K D kmookat will , adVance'$2 00 e out of the Coanty it wifi bo sent postage paid, for $160 in advance. So p..per will be sent out of tbo County unless paid for in advadoe. No paper discontifincd ualcsa all arrearages are paid, ez- copt at tbe option o f tbo publishers. EATES OP ABVERTISma: ' One suuare. one week.......™.—........ t l 00 One square, two weeks................... ...... . 1 50 One square, three weeks .......................... 2 00 One square, one month....;. _____ _ ____ 2 00 One square, two months............ _ ......... i 0 0 One square, three months...- .... ........... 5 00 One square, six months....... ....... .... 7 00 One square, one year...—....................... . 12 00 CrwEf JI^A liben ___ who advertise by amount than a saue ( 3 WHY THE DOS’S IfOSE IS ALWAYS COED. ‘‘W h a t m a k es th e dog’s n o se a lw a y s coldT” I’ll try to tell you, curls of gold, K you will good and quiet be. Ana come ana stana toy maijama’s knee: Well, years and years and years ago— How many I don’t really know— There came a rain on sea and shore Its like w as n e v e r seen before Or since. It fell unceasing down. Till au the world began to drown. But just before it ’g An old, old m a n —li _ Built him an ark, that he might save H is family from a w a tery gra And In It also he designed To shelter two of every kind Of beast. Well, dear, when; lsobsoure( ively march along In pairs; And then the .animnia began. The leopards, tigers, wolves and bears. The deer, the hippopotamuses, •nie rabbits, squirrels, elks, walrusses. The camels, goats, cats and donkeys, Tne tail giraffes, beavers, monkey^ Q’he rats, the big rhinoceroses, T h e d rom edaries a n d th e h o rses. The Sheep, the mice, the kangaroos. Hyenas, elephants, koodoos, And hundreds more—liwouid take all day,' My d e ar, so m a n y n a m e s to say— And at the very, very end Of the procession, by bis friend And master, faithful dog was seen, T h e livelong tim e h e ’d h e lping hceu To drive the crowd ot creatures In; And now w ith lond, e x u ltan t h a rk, . He gaily sprang aboard the Ark. Alas! so crowded was the space. He could not In it find a place; So, p a tien tly h e tu r n e d a b o u t— Stood half way in and half way out. And those e x trem e ly h e avy showTs Descended through nine hundred honrs. And more; and darling, at their close, 3Iost frozen was his honest nose; And never could It lose again The dampness of that dreadful rain;. And that Is whal^ my curls of gold, aoggles’ n o ses cold! B aldwins ’ M onthly . onsen wide world held no one i . tham her nandsoine farmer M adeaU th e dogg AN ISLAND OF FONTES. loreofYkginia, £rozu.zn ilidhe it xzve miles fro t maznland^ mall island known as Ohinco- an island possessed of peetdiari* :tion of and about five mil< lies a smi teagne—an island ties shared by no other porti eastern United States; for h( in an entirely untamed state, a In horses, or rather ponieSj as wild as the mustangs of Te: How the! the lere roams, breed of vague tra< tiers eame sr poDieSj as t >xas or the Pai 3 ponies first came*^x lofc known ei tion, for when Ida ^ ^ _ interview in the porch, by the light of a clear moon, that Balph, with wistful eamest- ers eame there, early in the eighteenth mtury, they found the animalB already roaming„ wile’ ’bout i a its piney meadows, e tradition received n om the Indians of the mainland was that a vessel loaded. witli noreojT, gaiiniTg: xcf xatff omieTtiUiza- bethan settlements of Virginia, was vnrecked upon the southern point of the island, where the horses escaped, while the whites were rescued by the thi ‘‘5»V band; Ei .your grandfather “will not let Mendi land, v^encG they found their way to of the early settlements. The \ ■ ” ’ their new Id, and, lips endured, into a peculiar breed of ponies. In 1670 the island was first prospeot- i m minor sections to various hers. At present it is greatly subdi vided, though one land-owner, Kendall ■ ' y name, holds over sii: hundred n d , and there ly less in ex- d’ester by acres of marsh a; ^ are other holdings scarcely tent. Among the earliest settlers wen the Thurstones, Taylors, and Mifflins the head of the last named family was * well-tn-own. Quaker, who, upon’ the In- troduction o | slayei^ tp tho island, re- enca to the town of Oamc „ lefore Chineoteagua \ rly settled, and even as late as 11 there were but twenty-six houses the; now, however, many strangers, tempi hy the excepMonaHy good fishing and pyster-dredging of the place, are poi ing in from the mahdand to settle the; T q hisr? psitQfS tl |0 pqnieg q.rc still a great, if not the' mam atfaaotion, and during the periods of “ penning ”—driv ing them into ‘corral-«-numeron 8 guests arrive daily from the coast.— ScTihriBT. •■OED SI” DN EDUCATION. T were talking abon n to school. Qld 0 “ Now, dese heah pub moughiy advancing tangs ef dey don’t cos’ to much.” “ Dey ain’t gwine ter cos* xiS to much.” ff Dey ain’t gwine ter cos’ us no mo’, ’kase de council gwine to aniio pp de cash de balance ob de yeah.” “ D afs all squar’, den ; but yer’s got ter be moighty ’tickler ’bout do Mne oh eddycashia dat yer children masticatea “ W eil, dar is tw o kine ob eddyC£ —dat what ’lustratea an* dat what ’ j How is dat ? ” Well, dar is tw a\ f ‘ I heahs yer, b ut I don’t ’zacMey on- lashin derstand de pint.’ “ Hit’s d n ’b( an’ larn ’bout ds hit’s p u t togedder, but ef ter de cab an’ tries to I lierbul to (chool : ralerode i n ^ e an’ how »ut ef yer climes rtth e critter. ’rong-trigg< lat’s de ’feokt ob dat ? W ’y , ef yer staid dar long ’nuff, yer’d lam how hit cum ’part, but d e bettin’ *ud ^ b e 'g do kuriner's findin’ all de paeces of ti eddycated nigger dat tried to naverga de mersheenl Pat’s eddyoashin dal ’Instratif, yer see?” “ I ketches de a r g ^ e n t.” “ How, den, ’spoam* dat yer don’t gxt on de i n ^ e an’ yer don't go ter skool. but gets er job on one ob dese farms ih. Yer’s wilrkin’ wid CHAN&EP» YET TRUE. “ They will make a fins lady of you, Jennie, and you will forget me.” sadness sfcraiglit to her pleading: dark eyes that went raight to her loving, tender heart. She was a little fairy-like girl, dainiy id pretty, though brought up on a “m, n, and a ’ ’ 'oo irough t 1 t allll a far and acenstomed t a a woma Work there, and when Balph Mo< wooed her, was the envy of half i young farmers there in his success. But pretty Jennie was not a farmer’s daugh ter, though her mother •was a daughter of honest Will Nelson, a sturdy country- . Pretty Susie Nelson had married a geuMeman, who was killed just two months after his wedding day, and while making a visit to Parmer Nelson’s. His widow had ki band's family, w»o, .jj ui» ..xu, xieu:- ess to two thousandpounds. Herparents kept her in her old home b u t she died wmle little Jennie was yet a mere baby. So the child had grown up with her grandparentd, the income of her father’s legacy giving Her a good education, at ths village Beminai'y, while i t enabled h e r to dress in a dainiy fasMon well suited to her pretty face and trim figure. \When Balph Mooro, who had been Jennie’s lover while she was a haby and he a sturdy urchin, declared his 1 < fe, 1 e dearer handsome far lover, need to delay the wedd; Iph was “well to patrimony .conld still sed to delay the wedding, for 3 “well to do,” and Jennie’s bo used for hex letter from A sister of ning very smoothly wh< Xiondon reached the farm. A sister of Wilfred Harmon’s, Hdrs. Stuart, sudden ly remembering the i— broth;ier% obfid, v spend a Winter in was satisfied to remsdn to tra^ ‘5h her existence of her iota to invite Jennie td' Lo: ^ “ rears with h aimt. if for two 10 loyal little the Eden would have refused after t sight of Balph^s rueful face, but oi allow her so to pleased that her sight of Balph’s rueful face, bu t her mdparents woxild not alio- side. They were ’ father’s relatives, at Should remei ‘ . advantages of education and. refinm for themselves, were doubly auziouB to lecure them for Jennie. So, after many and long discussions, it was finally de- 1 that Jenuie must accept Mrs, Stu dded that Jenuie mi art’s invitation. I t was at th e farm-house eames loke the thought uppermost in iSB, spoJ s heart; ‘They Will make a fine lady of you, inie, Md you will forget me. ” Jennie’s voice was veay tender and true as sheanswered: forget my promised hu«- He insists that you are to consider your self free.” “ My heart ’will be yours, Balph, though I should be away ten years. You may trust me. I shaU try to learn all I can while I am with my aunt; but there is no fear of my ever being a fine lady ; I shall come homo in a year or two and be your wife as I promised.” “ And in the meantime we are not even to correspond?” “ TVfv m-anrlfftthAi* d 06 B not think 1 st ” ispond i ndfathi it best^ But you can trust me, Tlalph.” He looked down into the soft, beseech ing eyes so earnest and true, and felt that he could trust her. Still, how many things besides want of faith might ...................... ,th( ■■hreatened ■ ’ Eph transient admiration, member when he had not Harmon. There might be women more more accomplished, but he wind( street. ’X*he fair, sweet' face, ennobled by the development of the mind, wa a . ■plexion beaimg'w&i' ’tbAmourning dress' relieved by soft lace at throat aud vmst^ H e r musinj entrance of h< Dum, an old gent irly fondness foj his young client “ I have come to bid. you good-by for few weeks. Miss Jennie,” he said, “ and ’ ' ’ ’ consideration of has all the eyes so he could things besides want of faith might come between them in the t separa tion ? And Balph Moore’s was not a conld not re loved-Jennie ___ j women m beautiful, mora accomplished, bu t knew that no woman could overfill h e b t as Jennie did. To lose her, a knowing his love Was returned, Wt * ofi^dmoBt ur too honorable lio attempt to mr snee a gixT so yotmg as Jennie to de- tho wishes of her guardians, and trusted her whilo his heart ached sore ly. It was a strange, new life upon which count^ maiden entered, lu LUoh that was delightful, Dii strange, new life up< the little coun t^ maiden entered, and phe met much 1 of all, a warm who, maldnguo allnsioi lect received Jennie niece, lavishing upon care of a fond relative, vsil to gratify every whim. \\ rith ampler; This opened :lie long. inarv education had started -without gralafylng. She had ^ love for study for ifsi own sake, bdt books we?e a lux ury inot easily procured in her xemote country home, To be able to pick and choose Sohi alarge collection was atreat indeed. Every sight active mind, a; was a new stirring of the and Mrs. Stnart, a woman intellect __ brilliant plishments, found am] 3 so delicately --------------- refinement brushed none of the simplic- ify from Jennie’s manm quiet by nature, she moved from rough or coarse manners as feom any affectation of fine-ladyism. The winter passed in a quiet round of pleasure, without any great ^ gayefy, though JSJrs. Stuart kepi Jennie’s time fully and pleasantly oecupied. She was introduced to a few intimats friends, and had some pleasant ©veninga, though it ymi understood that she was not yet “out.” In view of the Stuart provided he proposed trip, Mrs, I a Erenoh and German id for some hour y with her niece. I will not d „ . . ___ __ _ 3 trip, which extended over a period heah. Yer’s vsrurkin’ wid auudder nig- of four years, instead of two, and end- ger dot’s jess come outea-de skool-hous’. ed suddenly at last by an accident in Da boss say ter yer bo£® to go into do Italy, which resulted iU Mrs. Stuart’s barn an* get out ehell-co’n 'nuff ter feed fo’ty bosses for two days an’ or half. Now, what yer gwine ter do ? You dat’s bin fetch up on de farm jess goes out an’ shovels dat co’n inter sacks widout star bin’ yer wool de leas’ bit, but dat ud der nigger’ll take er peece ob ohawk an* figger ali Ober de side ob de bam ’fore he's satersfled—^an’ den’fl p a t dehosaes on ha’f rasions when he’s done.” “ Jess so.” “ Dat’s eddyeashitt .dat ’monsferates. an’ dere's no use ob book-larnin’ fer • rd a t don’t...., ’splane ’ ■ ’ •m ’ ' ’cei t ’ to hi how f • libbin’ in do good olo way. Dar’s too meiaw. 6 d ^ 0 atett niggers play in’ loftary er fimshm’ d t t 3 ^ |hf had traveled being about to ondon, she joined them and once more; home to the in heritance of her aunt's 1 to the house now ail her freedom of a wealthy woman. Young, beautiful, rich, she vms court* ed by many whoso love was an honor, but as yet she iraa Jenuie Harmon, with no M k in sooiefy of a husband. But the tender heart was doing sore battle dur ing that homeward trip, with the expand ed mind, the cultivated intellect. No changeoffortimenoadnarationof sQoie^ . , ispmsiK er of her girlhood. She would have de spised, herself if poverty or riches could have made any change in heart. But her selfhood had undergone eo great a change that she tirembled at the thought of meeting Balph, giving him the right to claim her promise. In the long years of absence she had been thrown into frequent intercourse with men of cultivation, men of art, of letters, who had taught her, unconscious ly, what were Ralph’s defioieneies. Even in her girlish days she had realized that the young farmer was ignorant of many stupes with which her seminary educa tion had made her familiar, but house hold cares promised to so her future life that she had heeded little of the mental pursuit of either. But Jennie Harmon, at twenty-two, realized sadly that she could not fit into the groove she had left at seventeen. It was with no feeling of contempt for her old pur suits that she looked upon them as dis tasteful, but Si . she had unfitted she been oblii would have but jbhged to work again, she cheerfully lifted the b u rden; ample fortune, servants for ctnne, sei of work, and a taste for arts, andd worksorks o££ charit’arity. with an ample every department c Hiorature, arts, an w o ch She Blirank from the prospects o f the work of a farm. Bat would Balph understand. this, or would he merely ficcufle her ol having become the fine lady he had dreaded? Jennie grew pale and preoccupied on that homeward trip, longing to have the momentous interview over, yet dreadinj the result. But upon one point her A PERIIiOUS ADVENTURE. BY A TEAVEIiEE. I visited Mount Hecia, in Iceland, just before its terrible eruption in 1845, and the following is a brief narration of ” fearful adventure which h appened to n upon that sublime and desolate elev As you push on, ascending summit after summit, on your way to the great and awful centre of all, you'find the danger, dreariness, and desolation grad ually increase to the n»ost terrible sub limity—^till at last, whei stand on the highest pi ing world of chaos, pray heaven, with an-icy -i<^ Oh, how shall I attempi uy mind the awful scenei promise, she would be his wife, and suit her life to his. If he had ^veu her faithful love in all these yeara of ab sence, she would not grieve the loving au Xjonuon, Jeunlo fOUhd many things demanding* her ind her proposed trip to her Arriving at Londonj iCre w ere: tention, i ►untry hor al weeks.- During this |ime om Mrs. Stuart’s intimate friends, who had been of the party, consented to share her home and be her companion in her busi ness duties. The affairs of her succession to her aunt’s property occupied Jennie many hours each day, and Mrs. Nichols super intended the arranging of the many works of art Jennie had brought from abroad, and the household dui * ~ the haunting fear of the loni the hanntmg fear of the long sea voyage was for a time swallowed up by a press of buisy care, and Jennie began to look ►n her meeting with Balph as some- ig in the vague future still. Perhaps .was married. -The idea did not give her the relief she had thought i t would, for, spite of all misgivings, there was no one just like Rdpb- It was nearly a month after Jennie’s atum and business cares were lessening, > that she knew she would soon be free gnrgle • “I SI slusion of these mort- Md understands your You must not gage tronfers, and nnd< wishes as well as I do, because he is quite young that ne competent. He is a self-educated , ___ , but he has studied intelligently, and industriously, and will yet make a good lawyer. I have taken him into partnership since my old partner died, because, in his two years study in my office, I learned to like and respect him. He is waiting in the library. May X in- oduce him ?” “ Certainly,” Jennie answered; “ you ight have been sure I would trust any le you recommended to me.’- In a few moments there waa a new ,.,ep in tli^ ? 0 0 Wi but the partner came to alone.' Jennie looked up, surprised that Mr. Hepburn was not with his pars- uer, and, looking up, mot a pair of bril liant dark eyes fixed upon her face. The lartner certainly looked very famii- Surely that handsome face had bent over her own, in times gone by. The same, yet not the same. The grace fpl, courtly manner, the air of refine ' ? ex- (der, ipe closer, 3, dureur Auve, AEtwumviugaJ Jeupie/’he slid benduiK Ms eyes full oj trusted you.” “ And I have boon true.” ^ That was all for many minutes, hand clasping hand, and full content^ i n ' each heart. Then Jennie asked: * ■ **imd are you Mr. Hepburn’s part- “ Yes, , darling. 1 could not restrest afteifter Jennie. I a inie. I knew too well k to the you left me, that you would not ci life unchanged, so J i meet the change ix 3 as weU, Jennie, home V' “O, Balph I was it indeed for love of me that you left home, farm, the life you loved, to study ih this great city?” “ Por love of you at first, dear, But on loved my studies and my profes- . for their own sake. I sold the farm, put the price into the purchase of my partnership. But it was not until Mm. Stuart died that I know Mr. Hop- burn Was her lawyer. He has been very kind to me, and I told him my love and ► before we came tell you what h ■e to day. said, Jeu- I have a high xeepect for his my hopi Shall I nie?” “ Yes; opinion!” “ He said that, if you had become a fine lady, he wotdd introduce a fine gen tleman. But we have not so changed as that, are we, Jennie?”• “ 1 don’t knot?. You are Balph still, ImS’certainly not'the Balph I left.” “ And you are Jennie still, but sweet er, lovelier than ever.” Hem J Bno' Tiardnu This : started i her chair. “ Mr. frier this is my , . seen for nearly five years.” So, all doubts dispelled, aU fears ra- mtfired, Jennie gladly welcomed Balph to the old place in her heart, knowing him stronger, wiser, and more learned than herself, but tender, loyal, and tme IV 5 in the old, days when rii© giTO Tt«uii4! tiYCi IfiiAnitlry ^ en you do fin^y joiat in this unliv- los,* you instinctively ^ an shudder shiv- sring through your miserable frame, to restore you to the life you seem to have left forever behind ■ ' ih allla e awful surrounded me whei mora than, four thonsaad. feet above th e ' level of tlie sea, on the highesti peak of the barren Hecia I » Six m ortal h o urs—three on horsehaok and three on foot—^had I been clamber ing upwan' ■ now, amor and swept , _________ of lava mountains, ice and snow—^the lava black as midnight, the sno-w of blinding whiteness—and not to all that region a tree, a bush, a shrub, a blade or even a solitary Hying thing, excepting myself and guide I Ear as the eye could reach, when the moving clouds permit ted me to see, was a succession of black, rugged hills, snow-crowned peaks, glist ening glaciers, and ioe-bonnd streams, into whose inanimate solitudes no hu man foot had ever penetrated—a world without plant o r life—the very desola tion of desolation—^filled with yawning chasms and dreadful abysses. ■Wrapping one of the blankets about me to protect mC from the freezing cold, and cautiously using my pointed stick to try every foot of ground before me, 1 now began to move about, over blocks, ^ d hqaps, and hills of lava, and across narrow chasms, and pitfalls, and patches of snow and ice, my faithful guide keeping near, and often warning me to be care ful of my steps. lu this manner 1 at length asoended a ridge of * eonsiderable elevation, stumbling my way to the top, and’now and then displacing fragments of lava that rolled crushing down beMnd me. As yet I had seen no signs of the month of the crater, -which- eighty years before had vomited forth its terrific and This new manifestation o f the of nature fairly startled me into for flight; t thepurpos a sort of ground, a under me, bej dreadful abyyss. and, on my heaveu for i it I had alxei powers ly turned for ig, heaving, and rolling ►gan to crumble off into the ► I was thrown down, hands and knees, prayinf* Was scrambhng oye save myself foom a fate, when two blocks, mWOK iiOAXiUlO xaw y VfUOU ] rolhng together, caught my feet andlej between them, and ■withoi' them. sn them, and ■without crashing held them as if in a vice. Then another crash and crumble, the lava slid away from behind me, and I was left upon the v e iy verge of the a-wful gulf, now .widened to some flfteen. or twenty feet, down -Which I looked -with horror-fitraiued eyes, only to see dark ness and death below, ana prCatho the almost suffocating vapors that rushed up from that seemingly bottomless pit. Oh, the horrors of that awful moment? what pen or tongue can portray them ? There, a helpless but conscious prisoner, suspended over the mouth of a blacky and heated abyss, to be hurried -down-* ward by the next great throe of trem bling nature! “ Help, help, help I—for the love of heaven, help !” I screamed, to wild, da- Ir. looked up to catch a glimpse of my ide; but he was gone, and I had rely on bnt the mercy of id I prayed as I never prayed •rgiveness of my sins, that lore had voi! ___ ____ desolating streams of melted black id; but ►wnwn intonto a gaud I bu t on reaching the summit of this ridge, 1 looked do i a sort of basin, open a t the lower side, and having some three o r four deep seams o r chasms ‘I suppose this is the original crater ?” lid, turning to the guide. * low was as pale death, and ©very feature expressed surprise allied to “ \What is the matter ?” I quickly de manded. “ Have you never seen this spot before ?” “ Ihave seen this place before, mas- r,” he xepHed, “ but never anything like this. \When I was hero l ^ t , there was no hollow here, but only a level plain of snow and ice.” “ Indeed!” exclaimed I, feeling strangely interested. ‘‘‘What, then, do you infer—that there is to be a &esh eruption ?” “ I fear so, master. \V^mt can have saused this change ? You see there is leat below, which has melted the thick ^ glaciei^ and onl-y a few streaks of ice now* remain above the upper part of the sides, -while all the center is gone.” “ AudthegK , -warmth, too,” I xejo: down and M d my hand upi “ Let us leave, master,” r< feUow, hurriedly, looking around wil an expression of alarm. “ IdonotH fce to remain h e re; we may be destroyed at any moment. Let ns hasten down and report what we have seen.” “ Nay,” said I, feeling sfarangely in terested and fascinated by the perilous novelty; “ I do not think there is any immediate danger, for the snow and ice, as is plain to be seen, have melted slow ly ; and before I go away, never to re turn, I should like to venture into -this ■ * ind look down, into one 0 £ thos© id has a slight feeling lotoed, jas I bent returned the, rith obasmfc'* might oc»t you your life,” “ At least, I will risk it, if you will agree to wait for me,” said I, fully de termined on the venture, even though I were to go without his consent. “ I w ill wait,” he answered; “ but, remember, master, you go down against toy advice.” ‘ ' The crater or holibw was about flfly feet in depth, with gently sloping sides; and using my pointed stick, with the greatest care, I forthwith begu^; the de scent, often ftOppillg to try the temper ature of the lava with my hand, .md finding it growing gradually warmer as I proceeded, though not sufficiently so to exoite any alarm. Di a short time I reached the bottom, and stood on the verge of one of the seams or chasms^ which opened far down into the heart of the mountain. I t was about four feet in width, zigzag in shape, and emitted strongly the peculiar odor before le^ A small^ trickling stream, *)ove, was running ly see that i t was lost in the deep darkness below, from which cam© up a kind of hissing, boil- ' imething ing, gurgling* sound, with Giving no heed to my guide’s Bolioitationg, I now resolved to Bound, if possible, the depth of the chasm before me, and then proceed to inspect the oth ers ; and for this purpose I broke off fr^m a larger one a small block, of lava, and, advancing to th© v ery edge of the chasm, dropped it down, ^ and lis tened to the hollow reverberations, as it went bounding from side to side, long after ii^was lost to the eye. The depth was BO immense that I heard it for more than a minute, m d then the sound soem- le out from distance, than of the stone having ed rather to cease because th the terrible; and as I drew with a shudder, a gust of hot, sulphur ous air rushed and roared upward, fol lowed by a steam-liks vapor, and a heavy, hoUow sound, as if a cannon had been discharged far down In the bowels of €Wth, spaii’. llo guide; nothing to heaven ; an( before, foru^forgivi they might notfolli It might be a seoon was no escape from a doom thi now makes me grow pale, and s when I think of it. Above me was a sisy—^beneath me, a black and abyss—around me, sickening Bumbhng am me that another atanymom; lelast of : FLOEBNCENIGHTlNgALE. One*‘of the brightest names in the list Of noble women is th a t o fH o ren c e Nightingale. The fair city of Florence was her birthplace; hence her beautiful name. Her early years were spent cMef- ly a t Lea Hurst, a house charmingly sit uated on rising ground in. one of the most lovely and extensive of the Derby shire valleys, and surrounded with hiUs and mountains, rocks and woods, and watered by the winding Derwent and its tributary streams. Her fathi her homes. Miss Nightingale was wel comed and beloved from childhood for the ever ready sympathy and help be stowed on the poor and affiicied. After visiting hospitals, schools and reforma-: -torieBrili' London, Scottartas -ana- continent, in 1851, she spent three months at Kaiserswerth, working day ■and night among the sick, andthorough- :ok, andthorough- ? required in the lany she w 3 S, hnt«he intry life in 1 well as f orti On her re- lile joon gave up order to de- She also took an active interest m rag ged schools and like institutions, until her healtibi drooped: Tinder her benevolent efforts, and she had to recruit at Em- bley. Then came a call wMeh awoke a went forth, in 1854, to tl ford Ttospeakable consola to our wounded soldiei day had itss o\wnpeculiar o mTolsion might occur ad aaotheY would be Home and friends I —gain, -- andnd myy tomb should never see a a m would be the volcanic Hecia! I strove, \with the madness of desperation, to dis engage my imprisoned limbs, bnt I might as well have attempted to move a mountain. There I was, fixed and fastened for the terrible death I waa awaiting. Oil, mercy! 'what a fate ! Suddenly I h e a r d a shout; and. look ing around I beheld, with ieelingB I can never describe, my faithful guide h asten ing down the xu u^ ^e ed d sides of the Crater ration, ing down the r sides of to my relief. He had .fled in the first alarming demonstr^ had nobly returned to save me. i ble. b y risking h is life for mine. *^I warned you, master,” he said, as he came np panting, his eyes half start ing from lus head, and h k whole counte nance expresstog commingled terror and ^^^*You d i d - y o u did r I \cried; “ b u t oh! forgive and save me!” “ YouAre already forgiven.. xaa^>sx.f^ You are already f perish -with you.” Instantly h© get toerork with his i itedted sticktick t(o ■ mbs, but poin s t break the lava aronnd myHmbs, but had scarcely made any ing down dull, hollow sound. I —I seized a h and o f the guid< ism with a J forward -w e both struggled hard, and the next moment we had both fallen, locked in each other’s the I staggered to my feet, -with a -wild cry of hope and fear, and, half s u p p o rt^ by my faithful companion, hurried up the sloping sides of the crater. As we reach ed the ridge above, the ground shook with a heav” — ^ ^ . back, I bel smoking pit. Stood, And -tb« more, I t iirned ^ o u n d a would let me. W b reached our horses 'An amusing incident occurred in the Senate over the appropriation for the Sohoolof M ines. Senator Seay h ad set his heart on securing an incj^®^® of $ 10 ,- 000 for that institution, and has been bending all his energies ^ to ilio accom-^ tn e m a ttorriJenatorl Young, Mayor, Parish, Wilson and oth ers q uietly slipped around the chamber and made arrangements with all the Sen ators to vote “ n o ” on the first vote tak en on Seay’s amendment to add $10,000 to the appropriation for his pet. Seay “ _ leoh in behalf of meat, and sat down to trem- 'ait the result. L favor of the amendment lator from Phelps will lator Phelan, who oc- blingly awai “ Those ii offered by tl say aye,” said Senaf enpied the chair. ■ “ Aye I” r a n g o u t Seay’s voice, solita ry and alone. “ ■Those who are opposed say no,” said the chair. “ No-o-ol” responded'the entire Sen ate in cjiorus, . . A deadly pallor overSpr^d Seay’s face as he sank back in his chair -with a -sad reoHzatioii that Ms cherished dream had r .nd -then, -without -waiting to see :e, I ti and fled over the rough imd £» fast as my bruised limbs lid let me^ \We reached our h( afsty, and, hurrytog down the ni' tain, gave the alarm to the villagers, joined us in onr fiight across the o img him as a man grateful for the em tion of his life m%ht besuppos- A few days later, when the long-aflsnfc thanking Heaven story of my v bnmingtomb. iva, I was & aWay >Hme and awful scene, en I was alive to tell the wonderful £ ruu a A DOW IN CODfiT. ^mmg lawyer wen he Justice’s Court ^ r e , ^ nnd d ^ i went over to a case in ere, a pi»sently ■ith the judge on a Honor decided againse tne iSLvry&r, tested that ail law was oul that every legtd angel in hesT veheno^tiy pro; ts u e b an i would! drawled the an’ p’r’apsye , . ____ ^ that way any how.” “ Do you mean to say, your Honor, that you will npt change your mind on that p o in t?” demanded M r. Bigedd, pale with rage, “ That’s about What it amounts to, young feller.” “ Then, may i t please thfi oomrfe, I beg tobe finedtondcdlars.” ’ “ m a t f o r ? ” “ For contempt, your honor, tor I have the greatest contempt fo r this leisuri’ tempt is mutusl,- an’ as I would lend you the coin to pay yet I guess we’ll let things stand . “ S i r ! ” cried Mr. Bigedd, ttoringing up and striking anattitnde. “ Sir! you are bnt a political accident, whilo I am A lawyer—-a lawyer, sir 1 and I shall re main a lawyer, forever. You’re & bilk, s i r i ” The Court was adjourned with a bang, told after an exciting session in the back yard, the judge* m m ly resumed his seat, and & . Bigedd returned to the city with M b hmid much inwMsed In to ’ practice, ____ _ ____ __ __ ____ -house in case of absence. After the bullet had been dug out of his attd the cow buried, he said he guessed that belter shoot with i s .ige* __ _ 9 East, to af- ion and help soldiers. There “ each p trial to one who taken such a load of responsibility in a n untried field and with a staff of her own sex all new to [it. She has fre- to stand twenty fresh detachments presence support, and spending hourp over the in dying of cholera or fever, Dideed, toe more awful ular case might be seen her slight over Mm, administering to means in herpow fulness was her great eharaoteristic, and won its way over every obstacle. Fearful were the scenes through which she passed, and wonderfully was she sustained. Miss Nightmgale’s work is hot yet ended, and the *nfluence' i of her wise plans for training nurses is extend- mg farther and farther. A SENAEFODIAL lOEF. The noes appear to have it saidBhe- '* Division! division!” cams up from all parts of the chamber. Those in favor of the amendment Will rise and stand imtil they are count- i,” said toe chair, and up stood ©very _ inator except Seay, who had not yet sufficiently recovered from his shook to ’ ■ “ ingh to rise to his feet. ) Senator from Phelps ►■ote ?” innocently inqn&ed the chair. ‘ \Why—why—of course I ^to'aye,' Mr. l^esident!” said Seay, in a b o r dered sort of way, as if he could scarce ly believe his Sepses at the sudden turn of affairs. “ The ayes have it, and the amend ment is adopted,” announced the chair. Never was there a more forcible illus- tiation of the d ^ k n e s s o f m idnight, a s it ‘Seay’s ment. features exhibited at this mo- The painful sadness of the mo- ' \ ■ ' - - wMch tor’s expense.- Sejpu&lican, _ \WOHENIHNDIA. I Lady Anna Gore-Langton, who has lacentiy returned from India, where she \has been residing with her brother, toe Duke of Buckingham and Ohandos, Gtovemor of Madras, recently delivered n interesting and instractive address n “The Socim Condition of \Women in iouthern India,” She said that Indian children were married a t eight years of age. Native fathers considered it a dis grace to have single girls in the family and endeavor to get them married in ‘ Idhood, but then they did not Mways goat once’to their husbands’ homes. Although but little money was expend ed in clothes or education, the marriages were very expensive,' as there was a great deal of feasting, and many families had been tor years impoverished by the expenses of marriages. Infanticide was notSOprev^entaswas the case a few years ago, and the Government had done ,1 great deal to put it down. Tho. mar- riageawere generally arranged by the bid women, who went from family to family to find suitable matches. The men in Didia were to a great extent their them and they were made as' miserable aspossifals. Nothing was more painful them the vacant, hopeless, melimeholy CEOWNS a KD SEAETS. A friend of mine who has \facilities for knowing what transpires in court circles, tells me .tost the Princess Louise (Mar chioness of Lome) is a firm believer in spiritualism, and that during the time when toe newspapers were full of sneering refei ness summom merons seances with him, and treated him -with all maimer of consideration. Apropos of Louise, the gossips have not yet done talMng of the curious fact that on the opening of Parflament the Princesses Louise and Beatrice both drove to ............................ . with the t^ueen; but of all the lords, knights and gentlemen who took part in toe pageant, there was no place, it seem ed, which the Marquis of Lome i htly -ocaeicq>y. CClte anbnMloas- po£ wMch he occupied as husband to the Queen’s daughter, but not the equal of his wife, must be galling to the proud young Scotch nobleman. Yet the Queen’s own marriage was in many points similar. Gxcluswi —tho Queen, in the early her wedded life, had one of those squab bles witli her husband, of tbs sortwhich Will come, about sometimes, even b0- loving married couples. ned and vexed, the Princr “ tired to his room and lockei The Queen took the matter a while, but after the lapse of an hour she went to his door and rapped. “ Albert,” said she,, “ come out.” “ No, I will not,” answered the Prince within. “ Come, go away ; leave me alone.” The royal temper waxed hot*at this. “ Sir,” she cried,, “ come out at once. The Queen, whose subject you are, com mands you!” He obeyc lence, “ Albert,” she said, “ speak to me.” “ Does.the Queen command it?” he asked. ‘No,” she answered, throwing hf arms about his neck, “ your wife be| Curtain.—OZive Logan in San Fran' Cisco Call, STEUCK A BONANZA. L Decatur street grocer took a sugar- cured ham from its yellow overcoat the other day, stuffed the canvass with saw dust and hung it temptingly before his door iis a sign. Yesterday short-legged Jim came along and seeing the decoy, remembered that the old ’omanwas out of concluded he’d appropriate term ed the “ b ig banana.” his chance he soou had toe yel under his a m making for horn “ QlekPimatu hvar’jai & prize. “Look hyar, nigiger, lb de L t o ' did yei’ f whar in toe name 31 fotch Tip wid all dat ob ham?” “As’ me no quisohnns an’- I ’H tell yer no lies,” said Jim evasively. _ “V^ell, it duz look sorter like ole times ter see so much meat as d isin d er house, Olar to grashus dat man Hhyes ain’t no slouch ob a presumdent—am he Jim ? ” “Shet yer fly trap, ole ’oman, wot de debbilyou know ’bout Hayes? Fotch me dem Soissors an le’s sample dis ham.” The scissors cut two or three stitches, and the saw-dust began to pour out.. There were two dark faces made darker by tho reve*lation, and it flashed through Jim’s mind that he hadn’t struck a bo nanza after all. “See hyar, Jim. ’pears ter me dat ef 1 couldn’t steal a shore nuff ham I wouldn’t steal a bag ob sawdus’ !” ’ Then. Jim wont do-vm town fully satis fied that “ all’s not gold that glitters,’* Sridges SmitFs paper. AN EXTEAOSDINAEY IHCIDEHL Jam es Hancock, foreman of i h e repair gang of the eiiy water works, Spring- Ld, had a narrow escape from a horri- > death at Ludlow recently. A twen- imCELIAHSOlJBIfBHSJ * —Telegraphy has been iniroducsd into toe school for tho blind, at Nash ville, as a study. —Norfolk, Va., claim* that in five years it has become the second cottea port in to© South. —Wat< the Coloi salt tor domestic use. —About toxeo million ^ n s were ship- -Water obtained by ariesuui wells on Colorado desert m found to bo too tor domestic use. —About toxeo million -v^rero ship ped foOm Japan i n 1875, almost all of which came to this countiy. —The population of Maine has de* creased ___________ G^a falling off is Imrgoly due tion to tho West. —Ouster’s-uuster’s nameame iss beiieing I eimgra* n i b co a large number of 'Western toT nties. Colorado h as just set i lonferred jwns and lo h as ju st set ap a rt a luster coiml^ —By a resolution of ihe Gity Connoil of Mobile, all cotton factories erected Tyithin the corporate limits wiU be re lieved from taSntion for ten years. - - “ MontpeKer,” the homestead of President Madison, near Lexington, Ta., has been sold to a land company, and is to be occupied by Germans. —Soup houses are growing in favor 1 over Germany, owing to the distress lused by business depression and tho resulting hard times among working people. —Three hundred girls were recently reported to have been sold as slave# in Cairo, and toe British Government has requested its representative in jEsrypt to inaas-e inqturles with a view to remon strance. —The Faculty of Dartmouth College aave decided that hereafter no student lhall have the benefit of a scholarship who will not pledge himseK to spend no money for Hquors, tobacco, billiards and dancing, —A country girl wrote to her lover ! “ Now, George, don’t you falo to be at ^ “ .......... there’s no such word as falo.” —^An amendment to the school law of Nevada provides that salaries of teachers hall be determinedL by the character pf service required, am shall there be discriminatioi by the_ c ______ id that in no district in toe mat- A teachers, iminals in France will risk of detection than ter of salary as against —^Bunaway orin now run greater risl ____ ___ T, owing to th’e new eleetricsd sketch- apparatus, by which portraits of toe Ueman or lady who may be wanted be telegraphically outlined in a few moments, throughout the country, from the head office in Paris. ---- -Mi!.jGariyb>-i» -rviy far from admitting that man’s prehistor- itors were monkeys. As the sage sea is authori^ for the statement that the inhabitants of the British Is- produotion oi mce b e ^ e e n toe cost of -----------------jotton fabrics. North and South, is from two to four cents on toe lound of raw material in favor of the South. In consequence, toe manufac tories of Georgia all prospered last yew and declared dividends, while a- large num ber a t tho North and East lost mon- ©y. husband (who is but i his wife (whe long walk, [Qployment, ighteen years only sever ble deal ty-four-inch reservoir to ^ time needed , , „ ;om the great igher Brook, htofor some epairs,pairs, andnd a*ci\'coffer-dam re a a having been built to shut off the wafer) Mr. Hancock crawled into the pipe at the reservoir, intending to go through, lat repairs were necessary. L mile, he md a section of the pipe having sunk into the quicksand, it wonld. foe impossi ble to crawl through, and he had no other alternativeiv thanh too backack out.ut. It intensely cold inside the pipe, and Egh, and he Imd e t a n t b o was intensely cold inside the pipe, and he soon became benumbed and so im- nounced in a feeble voice to the men at either eud, who were becoming extreme ly anxious. The coffer dam was leaking badly and the men had to work with all their might at the pumps lo prevent the water from drowning him, . Sawdust was dumped beMnd the dam, and of sand, were thrown in to stop toe After awhile Hancoefc became so much exhausted as to be unable to speak in answer to shouted inquires as to his pro- gress. Hour after hour passed, and a large number of persons gathered, ex pecting that the man would never be got out ffiive. Finffily, after an imprison ment of five and a half hours, he backed out alive, trem b ling a n d nearly d e a i — £{ew-TorIe Timss, THE TOBACCO FLANT. Tobacco is a native of America, Ao^ gg too manyany accounts,counts, it i irdin t m ac found by “the Spaniards in _ of Yucatan, ■who called it T o bhe ^ o , the name o f the counftry a the provfixo first ___________ t i in which i t w m oul- , however, assert that », wMch is This last - to to© origin of _ ________ this plant, that the aborigines or Tkdians of toe Garibbee Islands had a tub© or pipe which they termed “tabaco,” and in which they smoked this herb. The Spaniards on vMtieg ibis torrid dime, transferred the name of. the tuba or pipe to toe plant itself,'which has been de- noxnlnated ‘^labaco,” or, according to the orthographical corruption of the word, has been styled “ tobacco” ever since. The tobacco plant is classed With ^ the Mcotianagmm. This genus derived its name from Nicot, a French or Span ish botanist, who devoted his attention to the study of this specied of phmts the middle of the sixteenth boutbout toeoe yearear 1560.560. Thehe soon after century.entury, c or a t y 1 T leaves of this plant, upon being dried, and then mamuactured in various nmys. ngwal] r e a m e t t ^ ^ m o menta of a most to© end of to© discourse to© professor, addressing with a triumphant air his au dience, exclaims t “ I t seems to me that a d emonstration like that is worth some thing.” “ L et’s get eout,” says sm eco nomical backwoodsman to his sou; “ they air a gwine to take up a colleo- —Ohio has adopted a ^ ill making pri mary education compulsory; requiring rery child between eight and fourteen 3MS of to attend public school for Bight weeks in each school ye if eicep- I provisions. —^Thereis'in I lent—the most extensive of its kind in e world—wheretheimitationof pearls, diamonds, and precious stones general ly is carried on ’with all the ©Mil wMoh modem ingenuity renders possible. Tho which the whole a rt depends, too forests of Fontainebleau. False pearls are lined with wax and scides of too roach and dace, which have to be stripped from the fish while living tin order to retain the peculiar glistening line. The seitin] and the fafidon o — li. sad story is related of a lai and fonn dinner au from Ms ittonhole, wMoh she fastened to her ith a pin. As they went down to ►nfleman thought ha heard osoapm^ sand, upon v is found in t] —l i sad story is related of a lady at i party in London whose dress and fom were faultless. Just before ----- -- admirer offei ress with a pm. dinner, the gentleman thought h a noise as fchongh ivind were c from a bellows. The lady had soon lo her fair proportions, and the tightly-f ting dress was most baggy. It appears that the latest fashion for thin ladies’ tight lining and caused —The cM( ----- abrf, in toe ___ equator, is built on the summiit aused a grand coUapso. lage of the island of 3 4 - :h Pacific b^ond toe amm of a iing . almost, porpen- it of 800 feet. As- ior, toe traveller summit a mass of enormous rocki ing up like a gigantic tre th e dwellinj these tre« (path feom tho inter- ill find aons whichch grow f the extri kSBtand- E dreme s o^tle, amonj , in to© branches of which are bnilt. The stems of are perfectly straight anq a branch to a height Some of smooth, witoout a branch to varying from 60 to IGO feet, the houses are 1 2 0 feet above th the average height being 60. They are approached by a ladder of creepers, and sCcommodate-from ten to fifteen natives each, besides an ample store of stones, wMoh are fiiro'vm •with slings in case- of an attack. At the foot of each tree is another hut, toe every-day house, as it were, where the daytijtne is spent wheq no danger is apprehended. The natives are cannibals of the most zavenons k in^ T he M meationi OI’ B ieds .—Birdi mt- grate &om lack of food and not on a ^ count of the cold weather, for those wa ter birds wMch, like the gull, are able 5sh in cte 4xf caioh Sail _________________c teep-vraiaa^ '-with u _ through the whole winter. The lower lakes, Brie and Ontario, are so wid© and, deep that they usually freeze only around the shores and the gulls have plenty of open water in wMch they can fisL Sometimes, however, the winters are so very cold that these lakes ar© covered with ice as far as toe toe gnlls gather in g very cold that tot with ice as far as f toe gulls gather in g t ^ l numbers the open waters of toe Niagara Falla and live upon the fish found there. can reach, and.
