The Stanstead journal, 24 mai 1883, jeudi 24 mai 1883

[" LYell knows line of XS Day Booka, which we » Commer.pers, both velopos, in uff Papen, wholesaly ock of Cap half-ptot gross, Card Call tor fothg and goog [G, generally iefactoraly \"oafey to à to \"ING etter Head rs kept on ip as good shea.ow as the arash; os pts, naoy, su are of Sandel 8.e noticed sh has the st infuer- red in the « notice Huetrated t $3.20 .est \u2018paper yéntions, eriments | in\u2019 say 10 cents rs of Be ew York.seed the ) in the same 8 and.nery ad nd work of 4 moderste p, ke.pe of the dounenced 1845.Vol.; - Stanstead Journal.L.R.ROBINSON, Publisher, Journal busiding, Rock Island, (Stanstead Terms: One year (ulvance payment) If paid in xix months, Atthe end of the year, | Bulseribers 1 the United States will all ten cents for postage.Job Printing Of all descriptions done at moderate prices Advertising tates: 1 week (12 lines) each continuance, J Half-quure 1 week (6 lines) 7 6 euch continuance, f'ransient advertising charged by the line, 10 cents for first insertion und 2 cents per line each subsequent insertion.One square (12 lines) one year, Bpecial yeur.0 addition! to regular prices.¢ able advertisements received and nothin L Square \u201c Cuts aml electrotypes 25 per cent put legitimate business advertising solicited.Business Garde, JU, MEBRY, B.U.Le U, H, ST, PIERRE.MERRY & St, PIERRE, Advocatos.Ottice\u2014Second Dour South Registry Office, Child St, Conticook, P.Q.Special attention paid to collections.30y1l TU ES MAZURETTE, NOTARY PUBLIC, STANSTEAL PLAIN.Dr, J.BARTON.Practical & Consulting Veterinary Surgeon (Senior Partner in the late firm of Bar ton Bros., M.R.C.V.8.L., England.) 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HE subscribe ia better then ever pre- A pared (0 please all who call on him for Photograpbs, Tintypes, Frames, &c Copying as usual, Ww.K.WREST.Derby Line, Nov.3, 1880.17 $1.00 1.25 1.50 $1.00 20 10 => = rates to business advertisers by the No objection- Prices reason- XXXVIEL\u2014No.25, THE FLANEUR.[ love all rights of earth and skies, From flowers that glow to stare that shine; The comet und the peuny show, All curious things, alive, below, Hold each in turn my wandering eyes ; | cluim the Christian Pagan®s line, Hwmanl nihil ,\u2014even so,\u2014 Aud is not huruan life divine ?When suft the western breezes blow, Aud strolling youths meet sauntering maids, I love to watch the stirring trades Beneath the Vallambrosa shades Our much-enduring elms bestow ; The vender and his rhetoric flow, That lambert stream of liquid lies ; The bait he dangles from Lis live, The gndgeon and his gold-washed prize.1 halt before the blazoned sign That bids me linger to admire The drama time ean never tire, The little hero of the hunch, Witls iron arn, and soul of fire Aud will that works his tierce dewire,\u2014 Untamed, unseared, unconguered Punch ! My caru pleasing torture finds In tones the withered sibyl grinds,\u2014 The dame sans merci\u2019s broken strain, Whom I erewhile, perchance, have known, When Orleans filled the Bourbon thrune, 1 A siren singing by the Seine.But most I love the tube that spies The orbs celestial in their march, That shows the comet as it whisks Its tail across the planets disks, As if to blind their bloodshot eyes ; Or wheels so close against the sun We tremble at the thought of risks Our little spinning ball may run, To pop like corn that children parch, From swimmer something overdone, And roll, a cinder, through the skies, \u2014{ Oliver Wendell Holmes, 11 May Atlantic \u2014\u2014\u2014-\u2014\u2014 A HERO OF THE FLOODS.Nowhere throughout the overflowed river bottoms of the West did the devastating floods of 1881 come upon the peeplo with such calamitous swiftness, or cover tho country to such depths, as in the valley of the far reaching and snow fed Missouri, Long and bitterly remembered by hundreds, whose homes were swopl away with scarce a moment's warning, will bo the icy overflow of that calamitous season.From all its numerens tributuries, from, the trickling rills of the snow- capped mountain to the broad und sluggish river Platte, the bands of iev, suddenly loosed, lot forth watery torrents to swell the mightier river til] it poured down to the Mississippi with a destructive haste that Lad nover been witnessed beforo.Many a tired farmor who wont to his rest after a hard duy\u2019s work, and dreumed for u time, perchance, of growing crops and abundant harvest as the result of his lubors, arose to find bis farm a walery waste, the angry river already at his very door, and bis live stock wading and swimming distractedly about amid floating masses of ice, brushwood, and the debris of other inundated farms ubove, In vain Lie sought to save his horses, his cattle, or his household goods; it was often ail ho could do tosavo bis wifo und little ones.Upon à broud and well cultivated faim où the Nebraska side oftho Missouri, there lived a fumily named Wilson, in a frumo house that stood in a grovo of large but scuttored trees ncar the bank of the stream, Cultivated fields and well fenced stock pastures extended back across the intervales.The soil was dak and extremely fertile, the land lying but littlo above high water murk, on which account the spring freshots always caused Mr, Wilson considerable uneusi- ness.\u2018The oldest settlers thereabouts, however, had never known this traet to bo entirely covered ; und this, with Mr.Wilson's own experience, hud, as the years wont by, considerably lessen ed his first misgivings.Therefere tha grest flood of 1881 found Mr.Wilson wholly unprepared, and, at the Lime of ils coming, both be and his wile wore abront from home.They had telt a little roluctant about lonviug home, ns the river was swollen nearly to the high water mark, but urgent business compelled them to vide to the nearest railroad town some thirteen miles aways, from which they intended to voturn on the day following.Mrs.Wilson carried her youngest child, and there remined ut home, Henry, a lad of fifteen, und two little daughters aged ten and six years, with the hired man, Rudelph.Rudolph had relatives living two or throo milos buck from the river, and whon tho chores were dono at night he lolft the house, telling Henry that he was going over Lo soo his \u201cfolks.\u201d and would be back at 10 o'clock.The boy aud sinters had been loft alone of un evening before, They were not nfraid, and went to bod by 9 o'clock to \"loup soundly, as such children will.When tho boy awoke in the morning, he found tho sun peoping in at | his window, and leaping out of bed, \"| ho culled (0 Rudolph, as his futher was in tho habit of deung.But Rudolph did not answer.«Rude must bs up sud dujng the chores,\u201d thought llonry; and then, speuking aloud, he suid, \u201cWhat a tre- mondous roaring the river makes this morning.IL sounds ns if it was all around us.\u201d \u201cGoodness! | b'livvo it is\u201d he ad- dod after listening a moment; and then he ran to the window to look, Stautor hearts than this might bave quuailed ut thereeno which mel hiv oyun.Evorywhore was water\u2014a tur- bil, black, tumultuous tloed\u2014darhing 47 = Zl up against the trunks of the great trees, flooding the stock yurd fence compleloly out of sight.Logs, boards, und great cold looking cakes of white ico, oven the bodics ef deud cattle, were swept furiously on.The heads \u2014only the heuds and horns\u2014of some of their uwn cattle could be seen here und there, us the creatures swam to und fro, \u2019 Looking down in frightened awe from the open window, the lud saw that the delving, guttering current had already attacked the foundation of the house, which stood considerably higlior thuna the cattle yards, and that the doorsteps below were under water.Aa the danger of the situation dawned upon him, the lud's terror grew.Again and again he shouted to Rudolph; bul there was no response suve tho rush and roar of the river.Then he run te the room of little Jeunie and Izah, who bad already been awakened by bis shout.With fright ened sobs the children clung to their brother, scarcely daring to look out upon the fearful scene about them.\u201cWhere iw Rudolph?Where is Rudolph 7\u201d they sobbed.Honey soothed thom as best he could and leaving them at the heud of the stairway, ho went below to see how high the water had risen.To bis increased alarm he found that the kitchon floor was already cov- ored, and the muddy water was pouring in through tho cracks about the door, It was rising fast,\u2014had risen even since he looked upon it.Then for a few moments the boy's courage almost deserted him; ho trembled violently, and the tears came into bis eyes.\u201cO futher! mother why ain't yeu hore 7 ho cried out, Then the crash of a huge ice cake against the door aroused him, Young as he was, he realized that the house must soon be swept away if the water continued (o rive, and almost fiercely wiping away his tears, he tried to think of some means by which be might save his little sisters and himself.Through the kitchen window he saw tho trunk of the great elm beneath which steod the grindstone, only a few feet from the broad doorstep,\u2014a linge troe, four or five feet in diame ter.The waters wore dashing against its massive trunk; that at least somed proof against their utmost strength.\u201cThe old elin! The eld elm!\u201d lhe cried.\u201cIf we could only get up among the big limbs!\u201d And then he formed his heroic plan, and proceeded to put it into exocution.The elm had great outstretching branches, one of the largest of which extended aeross tho kitchen roof, which was nearly flat and cusy of access from u window in the second story of tho house.Henry had often climbed out there and mounted the branch, from which be could uscend nearly to the wop of the tree,\u2014a dizzy height, bow- ever, which he seldom attempted, \u201cThe flood caa't dig the old elm out,\u201d he thought.\u201cIt's stood there too long.\" But little Izah and Jennie! he feared for them.It was as much as ho him- solf dared to do (0 climb the tree, and he feared the little girls weuld grow dizzy and full into the rushing waters beneath.The bravo boy thought of all this, and solved the problem in a m nner that speaks well both for bis courage and his invention.Wading through the water on the kitchon floor ho reached the wosdshed und there procured his mother's clothes line, also u coil of larger rope and un old door, besides a number of loose boards which stopd in a corner, Carrying these up stuirs, where the little girls stowd crying and calling for \u201cpup and muoma,\u201d he put them out on the kitehen roof, \u201cStep crying, girls,\u201d he exclaimed, cheerily ; \u201cstop crying.Pa and ma will be hore ag soon us thoy cun gel a boat, and I'll take cure of you till they come.Wo're guing to get up in the big elm and Luild us à house up there and take up victuals, The wator will never take that old tree away, and we can live up there just like squir- vols.\u201d The cnorgotie lad now sped about the house to eomplete his preparations for thoir strauge change of abode, Even littlo Jennio, the youngest sicler, caught something of his courage; and both girls ran about, helping in what evur way they could.Some loaves of bicad, a bnokot of doughnuts, together with dried beof, a smoked ham and sovoral woolen blank- ots were laid oul on the kitchen reof, Thon Henry bound the clothesline about his waist and climbed on the great branch, and honce up the large limbs above, ta a height of some 20 fout above the rushing waters.Solocting à spot whore two limbs branched oft puraliol with each other, he now lowered one end of his rope to hin gisters for the old door and boards, Butore climbing up he pad instructed them what to do and how to do il; and in a very short timo the beurds, the door, and uther oils of rope were tuuled up opp after, anothor and ne curly fustoned.no ROCK ISLAND.(STA NST EAD) P.Tho door und boards were then pluced on the parallel branches und tied with the rope, and in this manner a small floor or platform, six er eight feet square, wus luid, large cnougd for ull three Lo sit or lie on.It did not tuke long now to draw up the feod and blankets, but there still lemained for the lad the hurder and more perilous task of hoisting up the little giris to bis wiry platform, Heo had reserved the longest strongest rope for this purpose, and looping it in the middle over the limb und lotting the two ends fall to the roof, he descended und tied un end tirmly beneath the arms of buth and Jennie in turn, To climb back to the old position was but the work of a moment, Then came tho real work.lzuh wus a plump little girl, and Jennie wus still heavier, though not so old.They were frightened, and screamed considerably but be hauled them safely ou to the platform., Menuwhile the wild rushiug waters were steadily rising, and now nearly reached the kitchen windowsill, Still lurger cakes of ice weie driving ponderously wmenyg the trees; oceasivnal- ly one ground against the elm, giving it a heuvy, jurving bump, or struck the walls of the house with a force that made the timbers crack.The litle girls trembled with fear, and now thut excitement of climbing into the tree was over, despair again seized upon them.In vain Henry tried to quiet their fears, Great sobs would well up in spite of their childish efforts to be brave.It wus in tuth an appallisg situa- tien.Fuster poured the ever-rising flood ; and now the ico cakes and great drift logs were smushing in the lower windows.Nothing was lett of the stock yards, shed, and barn; but here and there somo of the wretched cattle still kept their heads above water; and moro disheartening lan anything else were Lhe poor creatures mournful lowings.There wus no hope for them.Their drowning was but a question of un hour or (wo; every thing was going down boneath tho black, rolling current, And well might the children feel thunkful if even the great elm withstoad the battering of the poudereus ico cakes which came grinding in among the scatlored trees of the grove, Heury's heart almost failed him.It required the best efforts to keep from breaking completely down, und giving way to his fright and grief.But mastering these terrors at length, he earnestly set to work to inuko everything secure, He folt, too, that he ought to save the bedding and the most valuable of the household furniture, for he saw that it might Le bung upon the limbs of the elm, if only he dared descend after it into the shattered and rocking buikling.But the creaking and groaning of the timbers commingling with the hourse gurglings of the walter, appalled him.The house scemed on the point of being swept away, and sadly he watched it houve amd sway ay each fresh, houvy mass of ice came plunging against it: Fouving to trust hix little sisters up ou the {rail platform unsupported, ho tied them securely to the limbs above, leaving the ropes slack enough to allow of their meving nbout.Once for u moment he almo-t made them smile by calling them his \u201clittle ponies pick- sted out to grass.\u201d ilo triel te tell them stories, and kept courage in their little hearts by tho assurnnce that \u201cpa, and ma\u201d would soon come and take: them away in a big boat, Then the hours wore on.The house stood still, but the waters crept higher till at neon the river run nearly even with the top of the windows, Still the old tree gave no evidence of.yiold- ing und at length the punus of hungor making themselves felt, they ate a] henrty meul in apite of Lidir strange and almost desparute situation./ The attornoon pussei.Once they thought they heal distant ehouts ; but the tops ol the trees preventod thom trom looking off clearly.Night diow wed still the house stood, wonde fuily, at it seemed wo Henry, und Izub Ax night closed darkly in, the little girls cricd themselves 1 sleep, pillowing their howd in the lad's lap; and thua thraugh all that long night, nev- once closing his own eyes in sleep, he sat and held them, Not long after dark.Henry bourd a torriffio crash.and indistinotly saw the house melt away amidst the mad wators beneath him.When ut last the day dawned, there was not n familiar landmark to be seen save the trees and many of the smallest of these had been broken down by tho masses of ico.[Lt wie a bitter awakening for little Izah aud Jennie; and it was long before Henry could again accustom them to the terri blo drea:iness of their sitaation, But help came shortly after day- broak.Even before the pangs of hun.wer had brought them to think of brenkfust, cheery voices were heard shouting from the river above.The platform, through the leafless branch- os.It vas u strange sight, and one Chat would buvo inspired fear in less rosolute heurts to ultompt their rescue.The young, unxivus fuces anxiously looked out ever the dreary wutors, and watched with hopo und delight tho efforts making to save them.It wus un hour they wouid never forget, Cold und hungry, but safo and happy, the gallant boy and his little churges were tuken ubourd u bout manned by the fuithful Rudolph and several other young men, who had worked with energy, but in vain, on uccount of the flauting ice, to reach them the day before, Mr.aud Mrs, Wilson were delayed longer thun they had expected ; and not returning tll evening of thut duy, they learned nothing of the dungor to which the children had beon exposed till after they had seen them safe ul the house of a kind neighbor, mm The Marriage Vow.Lord Avonmore is doad.As the Ion.William Charles Yelverton, Major in tho Royal Artillery, the late Lord Avoumore wus better known, [tis just twenty-two yeurs since he wus sued by n nominal plaintitf who sought to establish the validity of a secret marriage celobrated between him and Mins Teresa Longworth, en the 156th of August.1857, in the little Catholic church of Warrenport, near Rostrevor, in the County Down, by a certain Fathor Mooney.Has the memory of that tamous trial whoily passed away ?Has the world forgotten how the de- fendunt steod in the witnoss-box at Dobliv, an Irish Dundreary, with flowing beurd and whiskers of reddish tint, in manner shuflling and sly, in aspect unpleasant, dubious, disagreeble?Has the image of the plaintiff been obliterated, with her dellcate, oval face and amburn hair, beautifully symmetrical in feature and in figuro ?Nothing could surpass the cynical frankness of Major Yelverton's forced confession.He admitted that, from the beginning, his love was founnded on dishonor.When he first met Toresa in the convent ut Galatea, where she was wearing the robes of a sister of mercy, when she was attending the sick und dying soldiers of the Crimea, he formed the design of accemplishing her ruin.\u201cDo you think it a laudable thing to seduce a woman ?\u201d asked tbe counsel.\u201cUpnn my honor, I do net.\u201d \u201cUpon yonr honor!\u201d cried Sergeant Sullivan, with a sneer.\u201cUpon your oath, sir.I do not want your notions of honor.\u201d His plans, however, were on this occasion frustrated, and he was driven into the Scotch marriage, which he afterward claimed to be fraudulent.He swore that his purpose had been accomplished in Edinburgh.But Miss Longworth indignantly denied his statoment.\u201c0 Carlo mio,\u201d she Wrole, \u201cto suspect me of such a thing! 1 whose life is ebbing away for you; I who have sacrificed all but God for you.\" \u201cYou sce this letter,\u201d said the counsel in court.\u201cIs the last passage trae?\u201d There wus no answer.\u201cRoad the letter,\u201d continued the lawyer.\u201cHave you come to the passage \u2018I who have sacrificed all but God for you?1 ask ifitis woe?\u201d \u201cIt in an exug- gerated expression,\u201d fultered the defon- dunt at last.\u201cIs it rue?\u201d porsisted Sergeant Sullivan, \u201cIt is true,\u201d replied Yelverton in despair.And the spectators burst into an universal hiss.5 Finding Teresa importunate, the Major determined to put her off with an Irish marriage, kuowing that tho union of Protestant and Catholic was void.\u201cIt was Lo be what we called,\u201d he said, \u201cher consgcionce-saving cerc- mony.\u201d Tho couplo went to the altar ; they kuelt down sido by side; the priest stood before them.\u201cDid you take her for bolter or worse?\" \u201cI don\u2019t recol- lest.\u201d \u201cln sickness and in health ?\u201d «[ don't recollect.\u201d \u201cDid you take her lor your wedded wife?\" \u201c3 imething | of that sort; 1 recollect hor taking me for her wodded husband, at any rate.\u201d \u201cDid yuu mean it to be a mere mock- ory?\" \u201cNo.lL meant tn sustain and protect ber to the onl ol hor days.\u201d That was all that could be drawn fiom him on the subject.In ten months more ho had married another wife.Being in dread that she would appear te forbid the bunns, be had sent his brother us his agent to her.He proposed to ship hot off to New Zealand.He told ber that rhe might cuplivate somo other rich man.His brother conveyed his message and, in the following yoar, died.\u201cDid your bruther tell you before he div,\u201d usked tho counsel, \u201cthat he rogreted this act of his life?\u201d \u201cHe did not tell me,\u201d roplied Yelverton, candid for once; \u201cbut I duresny he eid it.\u201d \u201cSw,\u201d rejoined the Seigeant, \u201che wished to spare you.Toat is why he did not tell you.\u201d Su Yelverton was mar ried again, and ou the night before he performed this now ceremony he road the love letters which Toiesa lind sent bim.\u201cCaro mio Carlo,\u201d sho hud writ ten, \u201cthink at least of the happiness ueighbors had espied them on their Q.THURSDAY.MAY 24, 1883.0 unbounded.Is there uny joy in the world to be compared to reciprocated love?low everything on earth became indifferent but our two selves, You suid I was the dosrest small Teresa that over lived, and I thought there was not in the world another Carlo like moine.\u201d The evidence wus concluded.The counsel for the plaintiff uddressod the jury, \u2018To you.\u201d suid he, \u201cI commit this great cuuse.[um no longer able to address you.Would to God [ hud talents or physical energy to enlist them longer on the part of this injured woman, She finds an udvocate in you; she finds it in the respected Judge on the bench; she finds il ju every heart that beats within this court, and in every honest mun throughout the country.\u201d After tho Chief Justice's charge, the jury quickly gave their verdict.\u201cllow, say you gentlemen ?\u201d asked the Judge; \u201cwas thero a Scotch marriage?\" \u201cYes, my lord,\u201d replied the foreman.\u201cAud was thercan Irish marriago ?\" \u201cYes wy lord.\u201d \u201cThen you find the defordant wus a Roman Catholic twelve months before 2\u201d \u201cSo wo beliove, my lord.\u201d Botore the fore.mun utiered the lust word the whole court burst into cheers.Hats and handkerchiefs were waved.Ludies clapped their hands and wopt for joy, The fees beibg handed to the jury the foreman gave then buck, saying that penny in this caso.Then came the ovation in the streets.Over fifty thousand people, frantic with delight, rushed to the Four Courts to congratulate the plantiff.Meu shook bands with poople they did not know su greal was the entheusiusm.llan- dreds fought for the honor of drawing Mis.Yelverton's carriage to the Gres ham Hotel.The steps of Nelson's Pillar wero crowded with spectators.No carriages but one was allowed (0 puss along the triamphal way.And this one carriage, containing the heroine of the day, rattled along the street amiud such shouting and cheor- ing us rarely before hud been hourd in Dublin, \u201cMy uoble-hourted friends,\u201d said Mrs.Yelverton, coming forward on the baleony of Lhe betel, \u201cyou have made me this day au Lrishwoman ; by the verdiot that Iam the wife of an Irishman.1 glory to belong to such a nation.You will live in my heart forever, as | have lived in your hearts today.\u201d That was tho apogee of her life.Thenceforward nothing but serrew und beartburning was in store for her.Appealed from the peopls to the bench, from the bench to the Liouse vf Lords, the suit was constantly denied.She lestured here und in England, but with litilo.success.For nearly ten yours she fought her case, and was beaten at overy point, Major Yelverton being shielded by technicalities of tho marriage law.He disappeared from his haunts and it was not till long alter succeeding to his futher\u2019s title that ho ventured to settle in obscurity in Ireland.Teresa went to the Cape, where she wrote tor the coloninl newspupers.Hor henrt had been braken, her life wasted, by her \u201cCaro mie Carlo,\u201d who to day lies dead.\u2014 The Hour.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Tue Heroic Switcs TexvER.\u2014The following incident related in a European paper as having lately occur red in Prussia: A switch tender had Just taken his place te change the track, in order Lo tutu a train, which was in sight, 50 us to provent a collision with a train fram the opposite direction.At this critical moment, on turning his head, ho discovered his little boy playing on the (rack of the advancing engine.lle might spring to his rescue and remove him sufely, but then he would not have time to turn the switch, and hundreds of lives night be lost by his neglect.In an instant his resolution was tuken.\u201cLie down!\" he shouted to bis bay, and the child happily uecustiomed 10 obodicuce, promptly threw himself on the ground, aud the whole tiuin thundered over bit, the passengous little drouming how much their rafety had cost that father.The trembling man ln but à mungled corpso, bul ne words can expross his joy ut sooing bis child alive aud unharmod.The next day the king, baving hourd of Lire eircumstances, vent for the man and presonted him the medal ot honor for his heroism, - About the time that Daniel Drew begun his Wall street curcer, he was ap in tho country ono time Lo Visit sou friends, and two furmers called upon him lo decide à case.One had sold the othor five bushels of whout, aud proposed to mexsure it ina ball bushel, and sweop the top with a stick.The othor ehjectod, and Unele Duviel wus asked to decide.\u201cWell, legully spoaking, a bushel ie only a basbel,\u201d ho answered.\u201cAnd cat the measure be swopt off ?\u201d \u201c1 think it can.\u201d \u201cWith what?\u201d \u201cWell, if I was soiling what I should probably asc would be the haif head of a flour barrel.\u201d Goutlemen, thut is a point J cannot none of their number would receive a | rushed forward, fearing 10 find nothing |' NE now decide on,\u201d sighed the old man.\u201cIf | wus seiling to 4 widow ora preacher I am certain that I would sweep the measure with the straight edge, but if | was selling toa man who pastures his cows in tho roud and his pig» in his neighbor's corn, 1am afraid I should ure the circular sido and sooep a little to bost.\u201d \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 How HE Was CoNVINCED.\u2014Tho editor of a Nebraska country paper was lrying to induce a merchant to advertise.The merchant couldn\u2019.vee it; advertising was à kind of a fraud, people didn't pay any \"tention to it; if be wun convinced advertising was a good thing, he would go nto it heavy.The editor grimly remarked that he gussed he'd tix him, The merchuut suid that would bo ail right, and the editor went to his office with tire in his eyo.The paper was just going to press, and he had it stopped, and put in three lines suying that (bo merchant had received à large box of gurden seeds for gratulious distribution to grasshopper sufferers.Soven hundred wen called on the merchant before noon the next day, and he rushed over to the printiog office and hud sume posters truck off scrrecling the mistake, ut the same time ordering a double column udver- tisoment for a year.A Lover's CATECHISM.\u2014A young man of this village who peascascs a lurge shave of presumption, has been paying closo attention to a very protty girl, who has given bim uo evidence of ber feelings concerning bim until vary recently.\u2018The denounment wus brought about in this way: Io had decided to make ber a formal offer of hand and heart\u2014all he was worth some lover-like demoustrations, the young ludy 60 far being coolly indifferent in her manner to him, He attributed this Lo muidenly reserve, for it never vccurred to bim that she was net in love with him.le cautiously prefaced his declaration with a few Questions.Did she love him well enough te live in a cottage with him ?Was she u goed cook und botile washer?Did she think it a wife's duty 10 muke home happy?Would she eonsult his tastes and wishes eoncerning hor ussociates and pursuits in life?Was she econo mical ?Could she make her ewn clothes, etc.?The youug lady said that before she answered his questions that she would ussure him of some negative virtues she possessed.She never drank, smoked or chewed ; never owed a bill to her laundry or tailor; nover stuid out ull night playing billiards; never lounged on the streut corner und ogled giddy girls; nover stood in with the boys for cigars and wine suppeis.\u201cNow,\u201d said she, rising indignantly, \u201cI um assured by those who know that you do all those things.Itis absurd for you to expect all the virtues in me while you do not pnases them yourself.1 can never be your wii,\u201d und she bowed him out and loft him standing on the cold dour step, a nadder if not a wiser man.THERE'S WHERE Hz liap Hxe\u2014 \u201cTwu hundred dollars for making a plain dress 27 he yelled, as he saw the bill=\u201cI'll never puy it!\" \u201cYou have Leon very stingy With me for the lust year,\u201d she replied.\u201cYou aro extravagunt I\u201d \u201cNe moro than you are!\u201d \u201c1'll never pay this bill\u201d \u201cYou must 1\u201d \u201cNever !\u201d \u201cThen Uil pawn my diamonds and pay it myself I\u201d \u201cHa I\u201d \u201cYes, ha I\u201d He goes out chuckling.Ho knows hor to he a woman of her word, and he is wondering how she will fuel as the pawubrcker politely hunds them Lack, with the observation : \u201cWo never advance money on the paste article I\"\u2014[ Wall Streot Nowa.Mrs.Rabbit was talking about the loss of lite at the late flat-house fire.J think,\" suid she, \u201cevery one ought to koep u rope in his sleeping-room, with which to make his csoupe in caso the\u2019 flames cut off the stuirway.\u201d \u201cAnd in what way would you, for instance,\u201d hemmed in your bedroom by fire, of course,\u201d all after me vo.we have known Logether-\u2014so entire, so \u201cWhich edge of it?\u201d \u2014und thon hoped to be indulged ing asked Pensill, \u2018supposing you were mako uzo of the rope?\u201d \u201cWhat & silly question I\u201d repliod Mrs.Rabbit, with a mild giggle.\u201cWhy, I'd tie one ond to the bedstoad aud tho other around my waist, and jump out of the window, A pructienl suggestion: Suid a self- satistied young man: \u201cReally, 1 don\u2019t know whav 1 shall do, with the gitls A fellow can't be ub solutely rude to them, you know.even if thoy da follow hima up and con stantly force opportunilies to propose, you know.I really can't marry thein ali, you know, and what 1 can do, old boy?\u201d \u201cKany cnough; skip out lo Utah and telegraph for tho whole pung,\" anewered his practical filead.WHOLE NUMBER 1949.QUIPS AND QUIRKS.Why is a deacon like a bat band ?Bocause ho passes round the hat.Unlesa the Russian police keep their eyes open, the ceronaiion of the Czar will be a bung-up uffair.if an ides strikes you forcibly rub arnica on the bruised part, and you may never be affected in like manner ngain.Mrs.Partington, deur old ludy, nays that thore are very few pecple nowadays who suffer from \u201csuggestion of Lhe brain.\u201d \u201cThe demand for spring poetry in light,\u201d remarked the editor us he toush- wi u inutch tox pile of \u201cwords that burn.\u201d \u201cWhat is the worst thing about rich- en 1\" usked a teucher.\u201cTheir scarcity,\u201d replied a boy, and he was immediately awarded a prize.A Georgia physician who hus won a great roputation for quick cures, has a vary simple remedy for most diseases.He tells the patient that a circus is coming to town in four days und the sick man is generally able to be out by that time.\u2014[ Boston Pest, Gentleman to Waiter: \u201cBring me some grammalical aud typographieul orrors\u201d Wuitor (looking puzzled at first, but recovering in un moment his usunl serenity): \u201cWe are just out of them, sir.\u201d Gentleman : \u201cThen what do you mean by keeping them on your bill of fare 2°\u2019 ; Two dudes had duished their choco, lutein the Cale Brauwswiok, New York, when one of them hus ahiressed the waiter: \u201cWaitah! howh much is aw the bill?\" \u201cFifty cents, sir.\u201d \u201cYaws, yaws; but the amwount ?\u201d \u201cWhy, fifly cents, I said.\u201d \u201cYuws, but don\u2019t yeu see, the amwount in shillings 7\u201d i One of eur American missionaries in Armonia Lud a lot ef Moody and Sank- ey bymn-books come through tho mails, but the cugle eyed inspector of the Turkish post-office decided that \u201cHold the Fort\u201d was intended to en- eourage rebellion und oxpurgated that inoffensive iyric from every copy.A roed-headed clergyman named Salter, was ordained not long ago in the Episcopal church.The bishop was amazed and annoyed to find that the candidate appeared with jot-black hair, and rebuked him sharply for dyeing his bair.When the young mun excused himself with the plea that there was nothing uncat onival in coloring his hair black, the bishop silenced bim with a crushing reply: \u201cThe Psalter must be read in the churches.\u201d It must have been the same bishop who weul into a ritualistic church, and sniffed about to smell the incense, and askod : \u201cWhy is this thus?\u201d Green apples will soon be here; but, in the woauntime, the small boy can continue to play with tae toy pistol.À bread fumine is (breniened in Vienna.\u2018Fhis comes of the scutlering the Vienna bukories all over the iu- habitable globe.A pint of whiskey put in a fruit-cake will keep it for six months, aud the same amount pat in 4 man will keep bin down-iown till 2 in the mornis g.\u2014[Lexas Sittings.\u201cPrisoner, why did you kill your wife?\u201d \u201cBecause lle with hor hud become unbearable,\u201d \u201cYou should have separated from her\u201d \u201c1 bad promised that I would never desert her while she lived.\u201d \u201c1 have a very doar lover, 17 years old.What shall I send him fora birthday present ?\u201d (Luey.) Send him u moustache cup, dear.Consult tho advertising colums of some college paper, if you can not uffurd à new one.AL breaklust the othor morning a New York dude declined a piece of shad.He bad been told that fish food made brain, and he didn't want lo unfit himsolf for tho position ho oceu- pied in socioty.\u2014[ Norristown Horald Caught up with him: \u201cBat my doa friend, why did you not roarry you busband 10 years ago ?\u201d \u201cAh, at that time he was tco old for mo.\u201d\u2014[Flig- endo Blattor, Guibollard hus read in u journal scientific, that we were coming to construct at the Estrauger u Leiescope re- approaching the moun at 32 lengues of our globe.*\u2018Tho imprudents?\u201d he cries himself with torror; \u201cthey will su much du that they will make ber fall upon we!\u201d Jupiter having creutod the mesqui- to, the Ben and all the vile ordws of entozos and the opizea, puused for a momont in perplexity.Now, what in thunder shall 1 make for them to prey upon ?he asked himself musingly.Suddenly u thought etruck him.He made man! \u201cOh, yes,\u201d wnid Mr.Dude, speaking of Miss Frizslo, \u201cshe\u2019s not a bud sert of girl, you know, and awfully stylish, too; but she'a not of our set, for, don't you know, hor tuther used to be ln trade\u2014was a dry gods merchant.\u201d Lapy Bravririsns.\u2014Ladies, you cannot make tair skin, roay cheeks and sparkling eyes with ail the cosmetics of France, or beautifiers of the world, while in pooc health aud nothing will give you such rich blocd, gd health, strength and beauty as Hop itters.À trial is vertain proof. ard de 0 1 Fhe Stanstead Jonrual, UURSDAY, MAY 24, 1883.Dauiel Curley, toe second man convicted of participation in the Pbœnix Purk wurders, was exccuted at Kil- mainham juil on Friday.Like Bra dey, he declined to make any declaru- tion in regard to his connection with that crime.\u2014\u2014 A fire at Nashua on Saturday destroyed preperty vulued at $30,000, and the shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad on the Hackensack Meadows, N.J., were burned, together with a lot of new pussenger cars, locomotives and other valuable property.Loss estimated ut $400,000.Five bundred men wero ctuployed who are temporarily thrown out ot work.+0 me A flood in Daketa did great dumage to settlements on the White Wood River, on Suturday, from rain and melting snow.Loss roughly estimated at 8G00,000.Several lives were lost.ee À fire at Newport, Vt, on Saturday, destroyed two railroad woodsheds and 1200 cords of wood, three carloads of lumber aud cars were nearly destroyed.The new steum mill was saved by the exertions of the firemen and citizens.Tho fire was set by the incendi- ury locomotive of a pussiog train.Lous $8000.\u2014- Forest fives were prevailing on Saturday in Massachusetts, Now Hump- shire and Vermont, all supposed to have originated from the locomotives passing through them.\u2014_ - \u2014 A fire on the Wells River & Montpelier roud, burned over an extousive forest in Groten, burning lumber and a steam mill, Loss estimsted at $150, 000.Forest fires were also devustu- ting the bills west of Luke Champlain on Sunday.The Marquis of Lansdowne will succeed the Muquis of Lorne us Governor General of Cunada.\u2014\u2014_.À snow storm prevailed in Ohio, Michigan, and about the Lakes on Menday nigbt with heavy winis en the lakes.\u201cGo Wost, young man,\" if you want « more variable climate tban ours.