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* vmn v &&ixtmftixth fms, c. , • .. „ .• m i i 4 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY l -AT- FICANKLIN COUNTY, N. T. TEBMS-Sl.OO fEB. TEAS, •TniCTLY IN ADVANCE. All lsUsrs sua eommonlcaUsai should *• ad* dicstsd to 1.1 ROWELL, Edltjr and Publisher,, Devoted to Local News t and Home Interests. VOL. I. ST. REGIS FALLS, NY Y.; SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1887. NO. 16. 1 HOME. ., Rome's not merely four square walls, Though with pictures hung and gilded; Home is where affection calls, Filled withshriuee tho heart hath bnildedl Home! go watch,tho faithful dove- Bailing 'neath the heaven nl>ove us; Home is where thero'sono to love! Home is where thero's oho to love us. Home's not merely roof and room; 1 It needs something to endear it. Home is where the hoart can bloom, * Where there's sotnVkrad lip to cheer it I What is home.with none to ineoti None to welcome, none to greet us I Home is sweet, and only sweet£ •Where thero's one wo love to meet usr* TRAILING ARBUTUS. any BY 1T/E. H. RAYMOND. \Hurry . up, .Trixic, dear, and finish your sweeping! Kate Merrill has just run over to cay that we are all to go \a-Mayingthis afternoon.\ 1 'Oh, that's lovely!\ answered a girl- ish voice from the top stair. \But I didn't know tficro were flowers out yet.\ \Well there are, then. Tom Taylor's been for a ride over 'Break Neck,' and reports there are quantifies.\ \Did ho bring you any?'' «. \Not one. Tie said if arbutus was Worth having, it was worth going after; and it is he who in getting up the imrty.\ Down came Trixic, dusting each stair, as she did so, and looking as pretty in her white mob mp^ as ever she aid in a new spring hat. Beatrice Morgan was certainly a charm- ing girl. One couldn't define her beauty —maybe she had none. Still the dark «yes were bright with intelligence, aud the saucy little nose had a piquant pret- tiness of its own. The skin at least was perfect; and if the hair did have to be crimped to mako those becoming little waves, why, so did that of many another. Some critics found fault with the mouth. It was rather large and decided; but it Certainly was very womanly as well, and the tender lips mi ted over a perfect set of teeth. ^ Audcu to this a trim little figure, whose tenderness still held a sug- gestion of hidden strength, and Trixic veriticd old Dr. Taylor's opinion: \Just a bonnic, wholesome, lovable girl.\ Thatigood physician would very glad- ly have seen her tho wife of his boy Tom ; but unfortunately, tho young man had formed a preference of his own, not con- sonant with his father's choice. There were a good many pretty girls in Glchham, as there arc in every place, if one has the eyes to look for them. They gathered at Kate Merrill's home that bright spring afternoon, aud tilled the old farm-wagon to overflowing with their exuberant lilo. , \Every lassie had her laddie. 11 Tom Taylor.drove with laughing Kato beside him. A brace of jolly spirits they. There were Lucy Mills and Bob Mitchell, Anna Turner and William Pomfrct; lastly Trixie Morgan and Beubcu Reeve. The road was good to the foot of the mountain. There the steady old team was fastened, and the'real fun began. . Who .docs not remember just such a jaunt! The warm spring sunshine; the delight over discovered treasures; an cx». hilarating sense of the bursting, throb^ bing life all around! By-and-by, Beatrice, who had been foremost in the search.grew tired and sat 'down to rest on a great boulder. Beuben had wandered a little away in search of water, for tho trip had made them all athirst. Ashe returned, with his tin cup filled, his face suddenly blanched under its tan. Trixie, the girl he loved aboyo every- thing on earth, sat gazing dreamily out over the valley beneath her, and only a few feet from, her, ready to spring, was a huge rattlesnake. The unusual warmth|| of the sun had drawn it from its lair, and some unknown disturbance hu(f roused, its anger; may be Trixie's little boot-heel had unknowingly bruised it. On the instant eurao tho ominous sound of tho rattles,and the hoarse cry: \Don't irlovc for jour life!\ And tho girl awoke from her revcrio to KCO Reuben beating and threshing to its death tho reptile whose fangs had just now threatened her own life. With a sickening shudder she closed her eyes, and opened them only when a low \Thank God!\ reached her 'ear. She put out her hand, and Reuben took it, each face still nalo with the fright. In such a moment uisguisesdrop. All the love which he had felt, but for his poverty's sake kept hidden beneath his own breast, shone in the young man's eves, aud before their earnest gaze Beat- rice dropped her own. A delicate color crept into the pale ckeck, and two great tears welled out from the drooping lids. There was no need for words. In their f reat thankfulness, heart spoke to heart, 'he white hand,still clinging tremblingly to his own, was reverently lifted to the lover's lips; and this was their unspoken betrothal. Presently, as they strolled slowly down the mountain sido toward their waiting friends, Reuben broke the silence. \Darling will you give me a spray from your basket?\ * Beatrice gathered a few flowers,, the rosiest AnA sweetest of her store, and gave the posy Id her lover. In that simple act she felt that she had also given her pledge to trust and wait. With a tacit understanding neither mentioned the episode through which they had passed, but it required an elTort to join in the mirth of their comrades. \Why Trixie Morgan, what a lot of flowers you havof\ cried Lucy, running 'to meet them. \Reuben must have helped you to advantage!\ Xi \le did, dear,\ Answered the girl, casting a grateful look at hordeliverer, ''•Well, you must bo awfully tired, to make you both looksosolemn; and,Trix, you arc as white at if you'd seen a ghost.\ Bcatrico shivered; and Kutc's curiosity was also aroused. \Reuben Reeve,\ she demanded, with tragic fierceness, \what have you been doing or saying to that girl up there? If you've been reciting any of that horrid poetry or those blood-curdling stories you write, you shall never go Maying with us again.\ \I deny the charge, Miss Merrill. Miss Beatrice will bear me out in the asser- tion that I havo not spoken above a dozen sentences since wo all separated. But, look at'your empty basket! Tou are the one who wastes time in talking, that if evident.\ , Tho laugh wai against the accuser now. for Heiihofi, assuming her own ia- quisltorial air, arraigned her escort* v , \Tom Taylor, give an account of your- self. What kind of a knight errant nrc you, to let the basket of your lady fair return so empty of the spoils!\ \Wall Pet as soon till you now uevtr that I did talk, and to some purpose. This little girl hero has just promised to climb another hill with me—tho long one of life. Jolly good times wo mean to have, too, spoils or no spoils to show for it, when tho journey's aonc.\ It was a frank announcement, and love had made tho lighthcartcd fellow for the onco a bit poetical. They were all old friends and school- fellows, and well know that Tom's suit had long Uccn repulsed by blue-eyed Kate, because tho aid doctor had been opposed. Tom's mother had been a trifle frivolous; enough to make her studious husband's lifo a burden to him. It was in memory of this, and because ho feared Kate Merrill was another of the samo sort, that he objected. But all those young people knew better, and that un- der a laughing manner lay a true and ' faithful heart. go it was with wsjrm congratulations they gathered around the open-hearted young couple, and in the midst of much harmless hilarity tho homeward ride was taken. ' Alas, for the \shadow and shine\ of lifo I • Bpatrfce Morgan had no mother, and her old fathor was an invalid. Spring wild-flowers had scarcely given place to the Juno roses when Mr. Morgan sickened and died. Tho day of his funeral was the one fixed for Tom and Kate's wed- ding; and instead of acting the pleasant part of bridesmaid for her friend, poor Trix knelt sobbing by her father's grave. Chaugo followed change. It was im- possible for a young girl to live alone. The Morgans were well connected, and an aunt just goin£ abroad insisted upon tak- ing Beatrice with her. Reuben had tried to be of use in this time of trouble, but officious relatives, who had heard tho vil- lage rumors, aud who thought tho match with a poor man unsuitable for their niece, snubbed him so politely, yet de- cidedly, that ho refrained from otiering more. He sought an interview with the girl ho loved. She, knowing nothing of tho insult which had been ollcrcd him, and hurt, on her side, by his apparent wantof sympathy, received him coldly. In tho abandon of her grief, her aching heart bad longed for the solace of his love, lie had failed her I and she re- called, with burning check, how easily she ha4 given / herself to one who cared so little! The pain ana constraint of both sides were unbearable, and the meeting was brief. But Reuben was not tho man to submit-tamely to injustice. 4l Bcatricc,j ho said, at parting, \you are dearer to pno than lifo or honor, or anything tho|world holds good. On that May nlternoan upon the mountain, I be- lived that you loved me. Some reptile has come between us. When I have con- quered and killed it, I shall ask you to redeem your ftledgc. Till then, fare- well.\ Ho was gone; and Trixie Morgan lay dowtt that night with a greater sense of desolation than before; yet with arc* newed belief in the truth of her lover, which she resolved should find an answer* ing truth in her. , * 1 • ' Years passed, and the simple Glcnharq girl had changed much. With native tact she had readily adapted herself to her new surroundings; nad enjoyed, with heartiness, the \goods the gods gave her,\ yet kept throughout it all her own strong, individuality. Somp advantageous oilers had been made her*, and her aunt, who had daugh- ters of her own, began to be anxious that her attractive niece should .\settle. 1 ' ' This worldly-wise; woman wholly dis- approved of the severe course of art study to which Beatrice had applied herself; und quite failed to understand the severe indifference [with which she dismissed a wealthy suit or, or the feverish anxiety with which the awaited the reception <ff her first picture at the Salon. I During ths first monthrof their Hie in Europe, a few letters had come for Trix, directed in a masculine hand; but with tho same motherly care she exercised over the lore affairs of her own girls, Mrs. Morgar, had retained the missives in her own po& icssion. Her conscience was satisfied—fo • it was of the good-natured, obliging soi t—that' they were not de- stroyed, only kept back for a time. Fo the poor girl never knew that Reuben had written; and he, receiving no replies, accepted the fact that his darling wished to ignore him. He gavo himself, almost fiercely, to hard work,'and gained a steadily advancing position on a leading daily* journal. In hin leisure hours ho wrote magaziiio articles; and just now had published his first' book. The vol- ume proved $ success, and with the pro- ceeds of its sale ho determined to go abroad. *.v„ Ho said to his friends that he \needed rest, and tho education of a foreign tour.\ Tp his heart, that he needed, and would find, Beatrice. But beforo he went ho would run down to Glcnham, say good-bye to old com- { mnions, and see that the dear, white laired mother had everything provided for her comfort. Xmong other places, he dropped in ai Tom Taylor's and. found Kato down on tho floor, playing! with her twin boys. She had grown stput in t)tc years that had com* and gone since her May-day betrothal, and anxiety about her precious, colicky \babica had brought a few puckers to the sunny face. But Kate Taylor's heart was quite as warm as Kate Merrill's had been; and in tho plonitudo of her young motherhood she longed i to take care of and be £ ood to everybody. She had a vivid remembrance of the old days, when Trix and she, Tom and Reuben? had all been young lovers to- gether and she could not bear that this other pair should missithe sweet com- pleteness of her own life. She was ready with a bit of news for Mr. Reuben—she hoped it would be good news. \The Morgans liaVc come back, I hear. They are probably in Boston now, and wo Jiopo to see Beatrice very soon.\ Her visitor's surprise was as manifest as his eagerness to hear more, \Yes and they say Trix has become a fine artist. There was always more in her than tho rest of us girls.\ \Isshe married?\ Reuben tried to be quit 5 cool, but for the lifo of him couldn't h In blurting out his uppermost anxiety in his own fash- ion. •' ,• • ' , \Oh no; I have a letbr, which, may- bb you'll liko to hear;\ and sho read: \HeAn KATE: Will you » glad to bear wo are coming homei,.-. \My cox Joe hasberome engaged In a man- ner highly satisfaotority to Aunt Maria, and wt» are coming to) America for the wedding. Louis*, you know, married an Englishman, and will tarry abroad, to eat roast beef at her leisure. \But Jot'sJty*<M is a cultured Bostonian, and onry tus/afred surroundings of the mod- am so 4 what I ma up as a out-and anu onry ine rapred surroundings of th< ern Athens are'fitted for their nuptials \tton't mind ray nonsense, dear. I i gls/lto be eoming that I [don't know * l 2 THE ' ^dirondaxfc 2J*ws >, • \ ALL KINDS OF JOB PRINTING sucn AS Card*, Letter-Head*, $ Kote-Head*, Bill-Head; Statements, Envelope*, Handbill*, Poster*, 6c., NEATLY AND PROMPTLY EXECUTED AT THE LOWEST LIVIHG PEICE8 FOR CASH. Ws solicit tat pstfoaaft of tfct public ant strive to 1 merit the Mint. you be dried old maid, the black sheep of her flock; so, after the funs of the wedding is all over, I'm going to find somje respectable, motherly body, anu come down to my father's house at Qlenham to live and Work and be content. You have no sister: so just think how handy I will be in cane of the measles, or such! \I wonder do you ever go a-Maying now! Maybe I'll be home in time^ for the arbutus; and if so, I'll shoulder one of your fat babies, and you the other, and we'll nave a long, de- lightful day on the mountains. TRIX.\ On the 15th 1 and this was the 3d ol May. Even now Beatrice Morgan must be in America, only an. hour or two dis- tant from him. . Thackeray says that \all good women aro matchmakers.\ Kate was a good woman, and she certainly fell a pleasant sense of satisfaction watching her guest's faco while sho refolded her fetter. I How the stern lines had faded out ol it> and how much liko the old-time Reu- ben ho began to look! \Well I find I must shorten my call,\ said the young man, springing up. \Thank you for reading the letter; and say\ good-by to Tom for me.\ \What! going so soon? Surely will stay for supper. Tom will awfully disappointed to miss you.\ \I'm sorrv, out—polling out his watch —\I find I have just time to catch the evening train, after seeing mother again. Good-by. And up the village street Sped Reuben, his feet winged With the energy of hope. The 0:15 train was late that night,and tho impatient traveler was compelled to rest and reflect. \A needle in a haymow.\ Boston was a good-sized place, he remembered, and where among its crooked streets dwelt his darling that night? With the daylight, \hotel registers!\ was the bright thought which came to him. As he hoped, tne name of the Mor- gan partv were found at a prominent \house;\ but to his disgust, he learned also that they had left after a brief stay. \Where did they goT \Well really,\ tho politely non-com- mittal clerk informed him, \he couldn't say, you know. Some private house* he believed, but\—eying our hero's anxious faco suspiciously—\really he couldn't say, you know.\ Another idea struck the baffled search- er. The Spring Exhibition of Water Colors was in progrcsrat the Art Club- house, and thither, sooner or later, an art- ist would be sure to find her way. Ho bonght the morning paper, and hurried to Newbury street. It was very early, himself the first visitor. So he tried to pass the time in reading. In- stead, he did the most unromantic thing possible—went sound asleep. A wakeful night, after a hurried jouraey, had wearied him greatly; the quictuyle of the deserted gallery was irresistible, and Dame Nature placidly poked Bliss Ro- mance into her pocket for a bit. After a refreshing nap, Reuben awoke to find the| rooms quite full of people. A little ashamed of his \forgctfulness he rose and sauntered about the gallery. Presently, something arrested him. It was a delicate, subtly sweet odor, which in a flash carried him back to old Break Neck ajnd a May-day, years rone b r. He looked around now, eagerly. A lady in a dark blue traveling -drcs.s stood before one of the pictures, but not looking at itj On the contrary, she was holding to her face, and as nearly hid- ing, in a little caressing motion of de- light, a bunch of trailing arbutus. Despite its distinguished and foreign air, there was something very familiar about the trim figure; and the half-hidden pro- file was, could be, only that of Beatrice. His heart gave a great bound and in an instant he was at the lady's side. The brown eyes looked up at him in glad amaze. How lovely she had grown 1 \Beatrice darling, I was crossing the ocean to find you. The old serpent of my poverty is dend; let all the doubts and misunderstandings of these years die with it. If -I was afraid to make my meaning plain before, I am not now. Here I ask you, dear love of my whole life, will you be my wife?\ Once more tl e soft eyes filled with happy tears, an< vailed themselves be- fore his passionate glance; once more a white hand held out to him a bunch of their own sacred, dainty flowers. Ho took them both, the liana and the 1 blos- soms, with tender revenge, and will keep them to the end.— Frank Leslie's. HARPER'S FERRY. A. SKETCH OF ITS SOMKWHAT EVENTFUL HISTORY. Some Impressions of a Recent Visit —Ruin* or tho Government Building — Magnificent Scenery—War, Etc. A two hours' ride from Washington on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will take one to Harper's Ferry. \This village of 2,000 inhabitants is situated like a nest among branches—the branches being the lofty mountains surrounding it. To the north arc the Maryland Heights, which rise in successive plateaus to an altitude of 1,300 feet above tho surrounding country, and 2,000 feet above tho level of the sea. To the east arc the Loudoun X The town n. Many of ( Ill-Tempered Monkeys. The Brazilian Mycaics monkey, or red howler, defends itself bar nri'eans of its ap- palling voice, writes FeDrx Oswald. At the mere sight of a jaguar a Mycetcs as- sembly will set up a general whoop, rais- ing their voices to a deafening uproar, till the enemy prefers to retreat. Somo of the old howlers are then apt to pursue him for a quarter of a milo, breaking out into fresh execrations whenever they catch sight of hiXspeckled hide. It takes hours to calm their excitement and in moonlight, when every bush seems to hide a lurking foe, they often make a night of it, and keep up a far-sounding roar, renewed at the rustling of every twig. The East African baboon often falls a victim to his passionate temper. If the Arabs wish to catch a rock baboon with- out bringing on a conflict with a whole troop of nisfis^y relatives, they have only to insult the desired specimen by hitting him with a stone. Ten to one tho en- rfged four-hander'will rush down from tho rocks and charge the offenders on their own vantage- ground, when they can easily capture him by a stunning blow or by means of a net. I hare>a Chacma baboon who flies into a pass On at tho slightest provocation. If she sees anybody eat or drink sho usually stretches out her hand for a share, and if her wish is not instantly gratified she grabs the iron bars of her cago and makes it rock about the floor like a shin in a storm. Once she managed to bend two of those bars out of shape and • es- cape through the gap. But we caught her again by getting a boy to shake his fist at her., She had taken refuge in a Jrcc in front of the house, but in the ex- , Juue g, citcment at the offered insult she leaped p L., Q f upon the roof of the veranda and cha9«d*LJp|j{ the culprit from room to room into a ? ;airet, where we succeeded in recaptur- ng her. , RUINS OF fnK CONFEDERATE ARMORY. Heights. They are not so high as the Maryland Heights, but the sides arc more brccipitods and> being out of the way of travel, are densely wooded And difficult of ascent; To the south are Bolivar Heights, on the extreme slope of which is situated Harper's Ferry. Between Maryland Heights and Loudoun Heights is a magnificent gorge where unite tho Potomac and Shenandoah rivers. The Potomac has brought its waters from the Allcghcnies, while the Shenandoah has Many a tributary frdnl the Bluo Ridge. A striking contrast is noticed between the waters of these two rivers. That of the Shenandoah is clear, sparkling and transparent, while that of the Potomac is muddy and Jurbid. In the town on \Cemetery Hill,\ be- hind tho Catholic church is situated \Jefferson's Rock.*\ On thisrdck Thomas Jefferson is said to have written a fine description of the grand scene which lies outstretched before one as he sits there. Until recently it was composed of several huge masses of Mon; piled on one an- other, the upper one l csting on a ticklish founelation. To present the overthrow of the top stoncL it has been supported on pillars. This stone is rather of a soft character and has been chiseled and cut by persons anxious to have their flames go down to posterity. Tho wonderful beau- ties of the gorge above mentioned can be seen from this rock and Jefferson declared \the passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge one of the most .stupendous scenes in nature, and well worth a voyage across the Atlantic to see.\ At the base of Maryland Heights runs the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and by Us $jde is the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. At the Union of the rivers the railroad crosses by a remarkable bridge to Harper's Ferry. A Visitor should never fail to notice from Jefferson's Rock the sparkling of the Shenandoah by moonlight as it ripples 'over its pebbly bed at the base of Lou- doun Heights. This placo was named after Robert Harper. He was born in Oxford, Eng- land, about 1703. In 1747, in his travels from Frederick, Md.,.to Antietam, ho was induced to go, by a German named Hoffman, a shorter cut by way ef \The Hole.\ He bought out tho only squatter, named Peter Stevens, for fifty British guineas, and then obtained a patent from Lord Fairfax, on whose estate Stevens had Squatted. Tne name was changed from \Tho Hole\ to Harper's Ferry. Mr. Harper lived until 1775 in the Stevens cabin situated on Shenandoah Street. In 1704 this place was chosen as the site of a National Armory. For this purpose Congress bought 125 acres from the ncirs of Mr. Harper. This tract is contained In a triangle formed by the two rivers, and n line running from the Potomac to the Shenandoah along Union street. Another purchase was made of 810 acres, which tract is what is now known as the village of Bolivar. Tho Government commenced the erection of shops, and in 1796, a Mr. Perkins, an English Moravian, was appointed to su- perintend the works. The capacity of the. Harper's Ferry Armory was from 1,500 to 2,000 guns a month. At that time the guns manufac- tured there wore considered the best in the world. Until just beforo the civil JEFFRRSON'B ROCK. Contraction and Expansion. When a man stays at home and hears women talk On dresses and bonnets and bliss, When he gets into bed amPthinJcs what he's heard. His head seems to feel just like this: But when he goes out and gets home quite late, And brings horns soma other man's tile, The thing fs reversed, and he finds later on That his head feels exactly this sty ft: O -Ntu>Yori8 an. war tho history a|nd lifo of this town was tho manufactura of arms at the armory. April 17, 1*801, i^ is said that Lieutenant Jones, \acting on orders from Washing ton city, or under direction from Captain Kingsbury, who had been sent from the Capital the day before to tako charge of tho armory, had set fire to the Govern- ment buildings and, with his men, re- treated toward the North. The citizens extinguished the fire in the shops and saved them and the machinery. The ar- senal, however, was totally consumed with about 15,o0u .>...i',v,.> ui arms there stored.\ The Confederates, June 14, 1861, burned the main armory buildings Juue 28, 1861, somo Baltimorcans and n the Second Mississippi Regiment ycd with fire the njflc factory. Thus nothing was left of all the armory works but tho engino house and} the building near tho railroad track, known as John Brown's Fort. It is now a weird-looking locality, ruins, weeds and debris being in abund- ance. \During the winter, 1868-0, a bill was introduced into Congress and passed, providing for the sale of the Government property at Harper's Ferry. On the 80th of November and the 1st of December, 1860, therefore, it was put up at public auction, and tho armory grounds and tho site of tho riflo factory were purchased by F. C. Adams, of Washington, D. C, for the sum of $200,000, with one and two yeurs time for payment.\ It turned out, later on, that this purchase was made for speculation, but nothing ever came from it. With the destruction of the armory and its accessories departed the lifo and bustle from ; Harper's FerrvJ has diminished in populatio its inhabitants have gone where work can be found, a large number have followed the Govtrnment works to Springfield, Mass. On September 80 and October 1, 1870, occurred a most disastrous and devasta- ting flood at Harper's Ferry. There had been a severe drought previous to this date, and on September 80 the Shenan- doah began to rise very rapidly. At one time it is said that the river rose at the rate of six feet in four minutes. It de- stroyed the most flourishing part of the town. Virginius island, situated in the middle of the Shenandoah river, was swept bate, and many of its inhabitants were carried down the, river. Every house, except one on the south side of the street, from the market house to tho island\of Virginius was cither destroyed or injured. Some seventy houses in all were either totally destroyed or rendered uninhabitable. Forty-two lives were lost. October 17, 1859, occurred an event which has given her notoriety, however-- the John Brown raid. Its object was the freedom of |hc slaves. The leader Was John Brown a native of Connecticut. He hud taken a very prominent part in the Struggle in Kansas for the admission of that State as a non-slavery State; he watt fanatical in the extreme. He was assisted by his sons and some twenty others, four of whom Were nggrocs. The only one ofthc party now living is Owen Brown. Only six of the party es- caped alive. The party went into Har- per's Ferry at midnight of the 10th of October, captured the town and took possession of the armory with a view of arming the slaves. By morning the in- habitants armed themselves, having been warned of the v raid and its object. Gradually Brown's men were driven into the armory and from there into the en- gine house, the prisoners being taken with them. This was held all day. The next day earlv a body of marines under the command of Colonel Robert E. Lee, and Lieutenant J. E. B. Stuart stormed the fort with heavy sledge hammers. A battering ram was hlrtdc of a Jong laddcf and an entrance thus forced. Soon Browh and his survivors were brought forth. He was tried before a Virginia court, convicted and was hanged at Charleston, W. Va., December 2, 1859. • In the upper portion of the town, situ- ated on Camp Hill, is Stover College, with its academic and normal depart- ments. This is an institution for the education of the colored youth. John 4^\V^ 1 %^\ *» JOHN BROWN'S FORT i \ Stover, of Sanford, Me., in 1867 gave $10,000 to found such an institution, provided that the friends of the colored people in the Free Baptist denomination would raise an equal amount previous to January, 1868. It was done. The nor- mal School was opened in 1867. Stover College was chartered by the Legislature of West Virginia March 8, 1868. There are now three buildings connected with it. . Myrtle Hall, Lincoln Hall and An- thony Memorial Hall. The last named builaing contains a library, chapel, lec- ture-room, printing office, recitation- rooms, etc., During the absence of the pupils in the summer these buildings are occupied by boarders, many going from Washington. ^ The town experienced many vicissi- tudes during the war, being first in the hands of the Confederates, thjen the Fed- erals took possession only to be driven out by the enemy, and then a now turn of the wheel brought another change. It is a singular fact that the first man killed by John Brown's party was a negro, and that the first who lost his life at Harper's Ferry, at the hands of the Union army,'was a warm friend of tho Government. . An idea may be formed of the war experiences of Harper's Ferry frbm the fact that the railroad bridge at the place wasudestroyed and rebuilt nine times from Jifne, 1861, to the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox.— Phila- delphia Call, J w i Conetrlctor's Fat4. This rash snake swallowed the little boy and his balloon '- . f And was very much astonished at thf result.— Judje. . It is growing fashionable for superin- tendents of almshouses, in Michigan, to insure the lives of paupers under their charge, and there is a marked increase la tho death rate at such institutions. Judge Orr, of Kankakee, HI., has a goat which runs his lawn mower, The Two Headed Cow. .We present a sketch from life of the two headed cow that has been exhibited in this city and elsewhere with one of the i leading circuses. The animal, ex- cept as regard it* cranial peculiarity, is of normal appearance. It is well kept, and has a well developed body. The left head, the one nearest the front of tho picture, is, as rogards its external func- tion, inferior to the other. It eats and drinks with Qie right hand mouth, having full command of its jaw. The jaw of the other head has hardly- any power of mo- tion, as it is, embedded In the neck. It has three gooa eyes, and but for an acci- dent, when the vehicle containing it was upset by an elephant, would possess four. Tne same occurrence broke one of its Central horns. Although the left head is comparatively passive, yet under certain circumstances, as when the animal is eat- ing, the mouth belonging to that head emits saliva. Although it cannot eat, this mouth can \water as the epicures say. In the center or the forehead of the right head is a deep depression that does not appear in the left head. This would seem to indicate a deficiency in development of the brain on that side; But naturally all speculation on the Inner structure cannot well pass the limits of conjecture until a post mortem examina- tion can be had. The bony front in the region of the bases of the horns is con- tinuous apparently for both sides.— Sci- entific American. ' ''Joys of Pisciculture. A farmer in the western part of this county built n dam across a creek flow- ing through his land, and made a lake of a piece of lrjw ground. One day last fall, while skirting this lake, he came across a man who was seated on a log, with thri' fish, lines out, and he hailed him with: \Hello stranger, what are you doing?\ \Fishing was the brusque reply. \What for?\ « \For fish.\ \Get any bites?\ -\Nota one.\ \Do you know that this lake belongs to me?\ ' , \Yes.\ |. | \And did anybody tell you that I went to Detroit and bought twenty-four bull- heads, and that all out one* died on the way up here?\ \Yes.\ sf' ''.. \Then you know that there is only one solitary fish in this pond?\ \I do, mister, ana I'm going to have him before night if the pond does'nt freeze over and cyclones keep away.— De- troit Fret\PreH* A Fonrth of July Demand* S 1H520 SMART BOY (whose father is a printer) —\Say paw, if you want to make a for- tune, get up a boy's calendar, with sev- enteen Fourth of Julys every year. And make one this week while you're about it, please.\— Chicago Herald. \ In the Wrong Place. CUSTOMER FROM TEXAS—\I've busted my head-gear, young feller, what's th' tax on that one up there?\ CLERK—\That ain't a hat. That's a bath-tub.\ CUSTOMER—\You don't say so! Now I look at it, though, I sec the brim is a little narrcr fcr the size of the head-hole.\ —Tid-Bits. Too Full for Utterance. A clerk in a banking-house celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of his con- nection with the firm. Schmul, the principal, hands him in the morning a closed envelope, inscribed: \In memory of this eventful day.\ r The clerk grate- fully receives the envelope without open- ing, but oh a gracious hint from the head of the firm, he breaks the cover and finds —the photo of his master. \Well what do you think of itP in- quired Schmul, with a grim. \It's just like you,\ waa the reply. —•Fliegende Blatter. \ 1 Sworn Oft*. Young Poet (to friend)—\Well Char- ley, rve sworn off.\ Friend (enthusiastically)—\I'm heart- ily glad of it, old boy; and all of your friends will feel the same way. Let's go and have a drink.\ Young Poet—\Didn't I. just tell you that I had sworn off drinking?\ Friend (disappointed)—\You didn't say you had sworn off drinking. I sup- posed that you had sworn off writing poetry.\—Ac*. TEMPERANCE. ! Corn-Whisky. Old Farmer Bently strode tbroqgh his field Right early one clear spring morn, Deep wrath in his look, As his hard fists he shook, For the crows had been pulling his corn- Had been pulling his sprouting corn. He pondered and pondered on ways and means Of thwarting his wily foe; Then suddenly rose, . As one who knows Just the very best way to go— The very best way to go. Next day as the birds swarmed over his field The farmer laughed in his glee; \That grain scattered round Ho thick on the ground Will teach you a lesson,\ said he— ' f \A lesssOn will teach you,\ said he. . The crows crammed astd gorged themselves, cawing for joy, Till \corned\ in more senses than one. And doleful their plight And crooked their flight When the farmer came out with his gun- Came out with his well-loaded gun. The slaughter was great bui the birds that escaped* Came no more to that old farmer's call; The crow is no dunoe. He gets drunk but once, Do we know more and get drunk at all ?—• Know more and get drunk at all f Christian Responsibility. 1 Archdeacon Farrar, in a late sermon preached in Westminster Abbey upon ^'Christian Responsibility.\ said: \The aggregate of those who. on any single day, waste their laeans, rob ttmr families, and destroy themselves in our thousands of gin-shops is far vaster than the number of those who come to worship §od in His house. Can we wonder if on every side the Stygian pool of lust and drink plaster its banks with mud? We send our bishops to be martyred in Central Africa; but there is work which every one of us ought to be doing at our very doors. You have a fellowship, every one of (jou, m this solidarity of evil. You cannot wipe off from your souls as with a wet cloth, as though it Was no concern of yours, the stains left by the sins of others. From earh one of you radiates invisibly an interminable network, of which the implicate I conse- quences, if summed together, aro in- calculable. But if it be so in evil, if it be some cherish hatreded of yours which shall strike a murderous blow In an- other century, in another hemisphere, it may be; if some inner vilenass of yours may be tho ruin of souls yet unborn; if your idle words, if your unhallowed deeds may develop qnite naturally into consequences at which'now you would shudder, so is it also, thank Ood! with any good you,do; it may put on white robes and go forth as an angel to bless the world. Oh! if we could all, every one of us, b3 made to feel how awful is our common responsibil- ity for the general evil, how urgent is our in- dividual duty to labor fdk the common good, we should see in a regenerated world the ful- filment of the olden prj^hecy; God would pour out His Spirit upon all flesh 3 our sons and daughters should prophesy, ous old men should see visions, and our young nren should dream dreams, and in London and in Eng- land, and in all the world, there should be de- liverance, as the Lord hath said.\ t Somo Work Done by, Whisky. I got off a West bound H*aln and wended my way through the streets of a pretty town in Northern Ohio. As I passed a saloon the .door flew open with a bang and a slam, and the keeper roughly pushed a poor drunken man into the street and curse i him with fiendish anger. The reeling man turned and said: \What's the matter with vou f I fell to musing. No doubt that red-faced villain had helped to bring his victim to the de- graded condition in which I saw him. Then when money was gone, when he couid get nothing'more, when his bags were full of the gold taken from suffering wife and children, then he could kick him into the street I reached the hotel and entered. A lady lay on the sofa weeping bitterly; young peo- ple stood about her wiping her red eyes and trying to comfort her. 1 listened and heard from One and another a sad story. Her hand- some young son, only eighteen years old, had just been convicted of manslaughter. He had been a respectable member of society until recently, when he was one day induced to take whisky, became intoxicated and upon provocation drew out a jackknife and stabbed one of his associates. The sad trial followed. His family was poor, and the homestead had to go to pay the expenses of the trial, and then came the verdict of man- slaughter and a term in the penitentiary. Only eighteen and his life ruined! He must go down among those .hardened criminals, into the darkness and shame. His dear ones are forever disgraced, and all on account of whisky. This is a true account and I felt it ought to be published.— Lizzie Hanley, in Union Signal. Two Opinions of Whisky. \*\ COL. BOB INOEltSOkL'S OPHCIOW. I send you some of the most wonderful whisky that ever drove (the skeleton from the feast or painted landscapes in the brain of man. It is the mingled souls of wheat and corn. In it you will find the sunshine aad shadow that chased each other over billowy fields, tne breath of June, the carol of the lark, the dews of night, the wealth of rammer and au- tumn's rich content, all golden with im- { nisoned light. Drink t, and you will hear the voice of men and maidens singing the \Harvest Home,\ mingled with the laughter of children. Drink it, and you will feel within your blood the startled dawns, the dreamy tawny dusks of many perfect days. For forty years this liquid joy has been within the happy staves of oak, longing to touch ther lips of man. • PROHIBrtlONIST'B OPiWIOWj I send you somVof the most wondorfoJ whisky (hat evet tilled with snakes the\ boots of men, or' painted towns in a cardinal red. it has the mingled souls of corn and strychnine. In it you will find the moonshine that made the Marshal chase the shadows over West- ern hills, the breath of flame, the whistle of police, the hood- lum wagon and thirty days in prison for thinking you could fight. Drink it, and you will hear the voice of comrade < singing \When John- ny Comes Marching Home,\ mingled with the laughter of the boys. Drink it, and you will feel within your head a sense of swelling — the boozy bliss of many high old sprees. For sixty days this liquid fire has been within the meek and mild-eyed demi- john, longing to scorch the throat of man. —&t Lout* GUobe-DemocraU , The Ram seller's Work. I have a loathing, I have a thorough dis- gust for the gew-gawB of rum-bought wealth. When I get into the horse-cars and smell the foul stench of liquor, when I go into the street-car and find the same, I see behind roe that brown stone mansion in our Neck, built of rum. and behind that again 1 see the pallid faces, shivering forms and fluttering rags of a numberless host And I would have one of the daughters of the owner of that mansion stand by the door and watch her father's victims as they march into the dock of the police court every day. I would take another child, and the police would lead her through all the dark alleys and passages where tne broken-hearted mothers, and children with- out parents or food, attest to the manner in which her parent made his money. Intem- perance cannot be cured by legislation or by sermons. The rumseller is the root of the evil, and until it is made a crime to sell in- toxicating beverages, intemperance will con- tinue to exist— Wendell Phillips. Culinary Temperance. The kitchen is often the stronghold of the drink habit in this country, from tho fact that a great many of our inherited and imported receipts give flavorings of wine or brandy, to say nothing of rum, gin, or whisky. These are often carelessly copied, even by our re- ligious papers, and as carelessly practiced by religious people. If they have their atten- tion called to the matter, they may say that the heat drives away the alcohol, and noth- ing but the taste remains, never seeming to think of the absurdity of supposing we could taste the stuff if ft was not there. But this taste itself is the very thing to be feared— whether it creates in children a familiarity with the liquors used, and thus makes them in after years a i**ey to the drink habit; or whether it re-awakens in the reformed man the appetite, whiah has dons him so much mischief, and which has been with so much difficulty subdued.— JvUla Oolman. NEW HAVEN MONUMENT. Imposing Ceremonies nt the Dedi- cation of a tioltlinrs' Memorial. More than 100,000 strangers, not including the military,, navy, war veterans, and In- vited guests wore in New Haven, Conn., on Friday, to witness the exercises ot the dedi- cation of the Soldiers' and Sailor?' Monu- ment at East Rock Park. It wastbegrcntest holiday New Haven has ever known. Bus/' ness was almost entirely suspended. All ,th© pibiie buildings were profusely decorated with flags and minting, and HO were thousands of private dwellings, not only along the line of march, but in localities far distant from where any of the imposing ceremonies took . place. . Opening exercises commenced Thursday night with a reception to (tens. Sherman, Sheridan, Terry, Sohotield, Sickle*, and other soldiers by the'local (i. A. R. ports. The re- ception was attended by thousands ot people. During the evening there was a lirilliant py- rotechnic display in East Rock Park. The parade was the finest ever given iff New Haven by far. and many say it was the best ever seen'in New England. More than ten thousand men were in line, commanded by Brevet-Brigadier General Edwin 8. Greeley, United States Volunteers, Tenth Connecticut Volunteers. After a march of five mile* the procession reached the Rock, where it was grafted with a salute by the artillery. The exercises at the Rock included an opening address by Presi- dent Timothy Dwight,-.of Yale, who jprs- sided: invocation ny the Rev. Dr. Bar- wood, rector of Trinity diurch: an oration by the R>v. Newman Smyth.pastor of Centre Church; short addresses from General Samuel E. Merwin.Town Agent Reynolds,and Mayor York. National airs were sung by the Memo- rial Guard and a large cjhoruK. The monument was eratcted by the town and city of New Haven in honor of he* heroes of the Revolutionary war, the Mexican war, the War of 1812, and the civil war. The height of East Rock, where the monument stands, is 405 feet, and the height of the monu- ment 110 feet, making a total elevation of 52ft feet above the sea level *On the corners of the pedestal are bronzed figures at Prosperity, History, Viqtory and Patriotism, nine feet in height, and the shaft is capped with a bronze figure of the Angel of Peace, eleven feet high. Between the statues and on each face of the masonry are bas rehofs commemorating the fo\u* great American wars. The monument t» of UallrwaU gratiits, and cost $50/iO0. - MUSICAL\AND DRAMATIC, j THEODORE TBOUAS will conduct the aaxt biennial festival in Cincinnati. MR. JAMES BARTON KEY has formed a business connection with Mrs. James Brown Potter, and will be her personal repieasata- tive in this country next season. ANTON RUBINSTEIN has collected 60,000 rubles toward realising his plan Ot founding a national Russian opera at St. Petersburg. to be connected with a -new conservatory of musical instruction. IT is remarkable how firmly the American* are \fixing\ themselves on the London stage. There are in London American managers, American actors and actne*se*.and American plays, and the cry i$, 4 *Sitiil they come.\ JAPANESE native music is now to r*> Europeanized. A conservatoire will sbortty be organized at Tokio, on the model of tbe» Viennese Conservatoire, where Japanese mu- sicians will be trained on the most approved system of Western musical study. A \LONDON correspondent says that Amelia Groll. the German-American girl at Cleveland, made a successful debut as Mar- guerite in \Faust\ She is said to have a full soprano voice of pleasant quality, an ex- cellent stage presence and youth and beauty. § JOHN S, CLARKE.tbe distinguished comsdian, is probably the largest owner of theatrical property in the world, being the soleproprie- tor of the Walnut Street Theatre. Philadel- phia, which is the oldest theatre in this county; the Opera House, Broad street, in the same city, and the Strand, London. WHEN Edwin Booth's company disbanded for the season several of the ladies cried and the men looked mournful. Last season Mr. Booth's company was the most agreeable on the road; and not a single niisunderstandtng occurred during the entli-e tour. Mr. Booth rewarded the stage hands liberally. ADELINA PATTI appeared before a London audience recently in Albert Hall. The programme was of unusual excellence and strength. Patti was most enthusiastically received. She was recalled again and again. Trebelli was received with equal favor. The violin performance of Nettie Carpenter, brought down a storm of applause. Mr. Sou SMITH RUSBELU the comedian, who has especially distinguished himself in Yankee \character\ parte, is to leave tho stage after one more season. He has already removed from Boston to Minneapolis, where he is going into trade, and is accompanied by his father in-law. Mr. William T. Adams, who is known to boys as \Oliver Optic* THE; SUMMER RES0ETS. \ A NEW hotel is building at Bar Harbor, Maine's great resort. MANY Philadelphians jare in the Catekills this summer. SARATOGA is attracting a great many Bos- ton people this season. THE season at Long Branch promises to be a busier one than ever. CAMPING out is the fashion at the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence. THE hotels at the Isle of Shoals are looking forward to a very busy season. f THE hotels at Nantasket Beach and 8wamp- scott, Mass., are all open for the season. NEW mineral springs are still being discov- ered at Saratoga every little while. SOME of the Atlantic City hotels cover as much ground as a New York \block.\ MANY visitors from the North are expect- ed at the various summer resorts in the South. CRESSON, Pennsylvania, boasts of one of the few absolutely* pura water springs in ex- istence. , BLACK ROCK, near Bridgeport, Conn., is a favorite half-way house for yachtsmen on on their way east. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, Bar Harborites hop?, will spend a good part of the summer at Mount Desert WATKIN'R GLEN, (New York), is already well into what promises to be the most suc- cessful season it has ever had. CoorERwrowN, N. Y., mourns the loss of some of it* most prominent cottagers, who have decided to viwt Europe this summer in' stead of Otsego Lake. CLARENDON SPRINGS). Vermont, is one of the oldest summer resorts in the country. As far back as 1776 people Used to resort there to drink the waters. THIS promises to be si great mountain sea- son, ana the White Mountains will be more than ever a summer recreation ground for people/from all over the country. THE Luray cavern*. Virginia, have banh improved sufficiently by plank and cement walks, stairways, bridges and railings to make every part of them easily accessible without Retracting from their natural grandeur. „ THE numfcfr of entirely new houses that have been erased in Newport since last sea- son is quite smsil compared to some former years, but there have txvn immense sums of money expended on alterations and improve-. ments. > EIGHT pin manufactories in New England produce annually 2.00 »,000 packs of pins. Each pack contains .\. pins, which makes a total yearly production of «,7*),nno,000 pins. These pins are usually put up in large cases, each case containing 572,000 pins. FREDERICK BCVK,V Cincinnati, has a vary intelligent black-and-lfcn terrier that has but two legs, having been born with none in front The other day MM gave birth to three pups, one being perfect, one having three legs, and the third, like tho mother, having but two. THE Minister of Spain in % Washington has informed the Secretaryajf State that foreign ers visiting Cuba who remain beyond one month must provide themselves with pass- ports, , \
