Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1874, Page 3

J | “Steady, m: ‘Why, what is it?” cried I> flor she wa abe back in the lane, and behar- | ing in y Way hike a lunatic. [ afcut as she had not felt since she was broken | in; and then, without a word of warning, she reared entirely upright; took me at a disadvan- sent me sprawling into the dftch; then ‘and galloped back toward Biagly with- HY MARIAN DOUGLAS. ser, love; the fire barns low; | time ruddy cheer I miss; | no glow, Though cold without the wind goes by. Ab Lonce had felt, had} out me evens ne dark = theses cules I was none the worse for the fall, only shaken so T pic stambled a little, and astonished a great de My br er with the thought » iret myself, and then my hat, } Up Gret myeelf, ri T bare no power to earn it now! k thine eyes have caught, | on to find the heath gate. hand apon on thy brow; = it, when the moon came smillingly along trom gh want and care under a cloud, and the whole leve! waste ot thee can share! heath was made visible ina moment. But the fight of the heath, in all its barren ugliness, wis are blac ‘was not what struck me with such a chill, and art es prick and my throat grow apo- plectic ver gaye @ second glance in that tasted poverty. direction, ror there, close to me, on tue oppo- mfort goca, rite side of the closed gate, stood my brother ts the po © tried and true, when night wears by, And we bel etal bliss A gia new morning light our eky, "Twill be lite’s sweetest thought that I Have known thee in a time like this! [Marper's Bazar Solomon. [ could not have mistaken him if there had been only the very faintest glimmer of light. There he was, in his long coat and his light bat, with his arms folded on the top bar of tie gate, the brown book under one of them as ususl, and bis eyes fixed steadily on me. ~ Sclomon,” 1 said, growing very cold and uncomtortabie under his gaze, “‘its getting man knows nw mpEreIe chilly tor you to be out A MIDNIGHT MEETING. He dit zn answer that, and so presently [ — went cheerfully on: “I've been—you remember BY MARY CECIE HAY, IN THE “ARGOSY where I said I was going—! stopped again here, I did not want to contess where I had been if he did not know, and I did not want to tell another tal-ehood if he did know. So! putit to himin that way intending to be guided by his answer. It wasso longin coming that [took heart of grace to try another tack. ‘Where have you been, Sol?” plomon a littl I always did think my brother hard upon me, though I confess no reason for it. Mine were not e see, for mine were not the wayso j bis the paths of peace. that | was not born a par- could I help f ke Solomon? Everybody isn’t born & | “Another pause, and then he answered in his parson, indeed, I don't tind that, as a rale, it | oid siow way rans mi » families; andeven if it did, you | ‘Ive been at home expecting you, Ja could'nt expect that tworuch parsons as Solomon | waiting for you until 1 co; could be born and reared in the bosom of one | "jm sorry for that.” 1 Le mestead cheerier to hear him speak. ‘d A long while ago, when we were boys tozether have been so late only I had to go round by Blag in tight bine jackets, with gilt buttons and yon business. I daresay you notice I’m com- vil I used to try with all my nd when we were always echoed verbatim him make,o that [ might i said, long ing from there now. Lonly went on business, sab He made another pause before he answered, and though {tt was a trick of Solomon's and al- ways had been. Ifelt myself growing uncom- fortably cold. Why shouid he not have stayed at home, as parsons shouldon Sanday nights? el in society remark I bea ‘ame. 5 grad wing steps grew tedious, so I chose aw ia great deal against this way, but somehow I lounged easily into ow difficult it was to be alway slomon. ny particularly jovial evening at the rire’s or athlo Fleming's at Blagly (the Squire bred the best fighting cocks in tae coun- try except Jo's and Jo's whisky was the primest that ever escaped duty), you may guess that my heart didn't bound with joy at the sight of Solo- mon’s long figure and long face; still, on ordi- nary occasions, Solomon and I were good friends, and | looked forward to the day when he should convert me to his own ways, aud we fo! my heat when Solomon asked me quietly, and without turning turning his steady gave from my face, ‘How much of that filthy fucre have you won, Jacob?” “Wh— wh: I stammered—and then you might have knocked me down with the very lest of the feathers in Jo's winning bird- “Wh—whet, Solomon‘ He repeated the query “How much of that ti Jaco *Yeu—you have been dreamin Unlinking his long flogers, w slowly and steadily. thy lucre have you won, Solomon.” h had been should read the book of sermons along by turns | 4), together on the gate, he stretched one through our old age. Sat then [knew there | funitowmd me. “Five notes,” he said, still was plenty of time for that. with the unmoved gaze. ‘Five worthless, ill- Weil, we had marked the fight of the season, | Yon notes.” and I backed Jo's bird heavily. Dhe little affair | “Y"cigsped my breast-pocket anxiously, «1 was to come off on Sunday afternoon, and for | jaye q little money here, Sel,” I said as ‘alcily as ali the week before we were so excited (Joand | {“conid, “a few pounds, more or less; aud 1 I and our chums,and the Sy“ireand his chums.) want to buytyou a new umbrella, yoursis getting that we spent every evening together, discuss shapby. I'lfgo into town tomorrow and choose ing our birde and our bets; not to meution the | Shem dispatching of a good deal of the Squire’~ home T tried to get up alittle cheerfulness over it, brewed, ani of my old port, and of Jo's Scotch. ut Solomon’s gaze dampened it all out of me You see we didn’t read eh in those days and besides he bad not taken back his long, as you do now, and so spent more time over | hungry, oatstretched hand. those lighter duties. We didn’t talk very mach | "“Tfig notes,” he said again; “five worthless, either—one of Solomen’ssermons livided among — 44} won notes, Jacob!” i have lasted k; but we “uieven if I had the notes, Sol,” I began trem- meals BeCesy bling like aleaf in a storm, “even if I had din the mor ng » paying the for J wouldn’t for where I was going st in Sqr . Wha Solomon inthe ver vays knew it was al them—ha! ha! what an absurd idea!—what ould you want with them? And—and,” | ded, clutching desperately at a straw of cour- «(what right have you to them here is no right in the que and his face grew longer a ‘said Solo- n 1 longer. “Tt aid 1, pretty hough | was trembling like any num- . of course, you're joking for a joke, isn’t it?” Come ts rather along home with m +1 am not going your way now,” be answered to-night’ lasked trying finish up the scene of ngtural tones. *To-night? Itis midnight now.” God biess my soul, is it real 5 ed, not so much surprised as ridiculously tla ried and nervous under brother's intent gaze. ha * 1 ex: nt when he ek Oken Solomon had shivered as the words passed my = lips, and for the first time looked away i t “Good-night,” he said, in his slow, absent f Jo's: and [ may as we! Selomon a taresay he didn’t mean any er all. He always king our sports, and of and then [ think he s, which he often did add to his good-byes he spoke so low that I scarcely heard, and f gry with him, too, that I didn’t even dded three her had whims fo parang Earcuthicnpse Firion ea moodily acrss: the heath. Atl Ty cad feraiven: Geloenen by Xin title ke haa benign etfect of Jo's punch had evoparated ieuet eran Gad GakaGA ae. Ger the azure of the sport had been swept seed, sad leaiy said, oaslehty, “Zoe echill blast; the only definite idea were rather hard upou usa ar anueaee, esed me was the determination not to y brother Solomen a new umbrella 1 always carried my own key, and forbade the servants to it up for me, 80 you may guess I was surprised to tind my groom watching tor me at the gate. “Walking, sir?” he exclaimed meeting me with a harried step and worried face. «1 hoped you'd ride Lome that you might be the quicker ‘at the parsonage. They've sent for you twenty times at Ir ir, Mr. Solomon—”* “1 know,” I interrupted; “Mr. Solomon is ing. I've just methim. I’il go and tell them so, for I"ji be bound the parish is all up in arms.”” | All the parish was up in arms, and had all | gathered aythe parsonage, as it seemed to m=; but—strangest ef all—Slomon was there too, lying on Mis narrow-bed opposite the open win dow, with the equare of moonlit sky before his closed ever. ‘They tell me something about a swoon or some such womanish trick; and it may be true and it may not. At any rate I remember nothing after the first few sentences they uttered. Solomon had been ailing for some time—so the words went—and had felt worse than usual thai ; ia his slow way te g001. Ja : Sole ly P most unfortunate injairy removed his umbrelia to bis left ht. “thing as sharp!y ch in shaving, so I put it that way, that I kuped so, but could not say that 1 was quite sure. I am sorry that are not sare Jacob, ike very much to see you at I dont feel very well to-day +0 will you come in now and stay with me.” I wish I coula, Sol,” said I as jauntily as possible, “but the fact'is I've promised an old triend at Luckheaton” (Luckheaton lay in the direction exactly opposite to Blagly) ‘to go over and havea quietchat with him. He is not able preaching in the evening, and afterwards had tolled up to my house to see if J was at home, to go about much himself.” ‘ e . All night he had ‘suppose § as shaking hands in bis | 4nd then toiled batk again. A ordinary manner, bat his long finger seemed to beenexpecting me,and had kept listening for my step again and again to see if | had return- ed, Just once he had risen cxeitedly in bed, then his strength had failed; and those who were listening heard him bid huis brother good- night, with the whiepered prayer ‘(God bless = Then he had lain quietly back with his fading eyes upon Se of heaven beyond the tactice window, died quietly at mid- D it. nother cock-figh{” No, I never saw another cock-fight. Don’task me any more. It’s tiye apd thirty yearsago—iet it rest. —0e- THEY HAVE A WOMAN IN TOLEDO, it is said, who cannotspeak without riyming. In all her conversation about the house, even in her or- ders to her servant-girls, she uses poetry as the vebicle of her orders. The rhyming mania seized her after a severe fit of sickness, and now she cannot get rid of it. The effect of this, when she is attending to the ordinary duties of her household, must often be remarkable. It is, we suppose, something like this:— It would give me, Matilaa, enormous relief, it ag ~ a those potatoes and beans with the ef. Or this— Mary Jane, go right up stairs and sweep and make my bed, And do it quickly, too, d’you hear! or else I'l! punch yer head. Or this— You, -lohnny! if yon tear your pants, ea flog you till I make you dance! | Or this— Alphonso, you are eating now your fifteenth buckwheat cake! The next thing you'll be howling with a fright- Tul stomach-ache. ia = your bustle on and get your woolen me to bave tied themselves about mine to hold me back. “You want a new umbrella, Sol,’ neatly preparing the way for the gift I had in store for him; and, as { thought, turning the conversation with consummate tact “Do I,” asked Solomon, looking down u; the machine 4s if be had never seeu it befor his life. “We both of us want a good many new things, Jacob; new habits, new aims, new. Ab! yes, indeed io,"’ aighed I, cheerfully, as I feli the grip of his fingers relaxing. «Yi are looking all right, I'm glad to see. Don’t | jo and fancy yourself atling, Sol, it’s a woman- sb trick, and not at ali like you. No, | am not fancifal,” he said, tucking his book tenderly under his long arm. ' “Good-by, then, Jacob; I shall you again some time remarked I, , that query at the end, bat I yes to him just asif i bad known. Let me see—where was I? Well, Solomon and i parted very good friends. He looked back at me me with & mile as ! waited; and afterward | looked back at him—with a imile too, for at the moment I turne: of hisold pear tree ways wore at the back of bis head kept it: aud he walked on to the parsonage door without an idea that his | head was bare. I hurried on cheerfully then, Popa 2 pretty Iwassafe. Solomon would be in hts study al! the atternoon, and in his pul- it most of the evening. Then he would drink and sleep the sleep of a morning. with bis lattice window ; d & Sjuare Of the night sky exac’ ly before his eyes. “My sleep is calm," he used to say, “if my | Yast look has been on heave And calm I believe it alw: was, though his bed was narrow and «hort, and he—though nar- Tow too, was long never could be induced to spend on himself any money which he could spare to give away, atid so he persisted in use- ing still the bed he bad bad as a bey. As for mine, I had been glad enough to discard it for a bette ' ‘Well, we had rare sport on that Sunday after- | noon, and our bird came off the winner, though the Squire’s was as piucky a little cock as ever got beaten. There he lay when the tussle was 5 And come with me to Furguson’s to make a little call; 2 you may wea: Bat for gracious sake, Louisa, take a comb and frizz yor If she was the versed with a lovely squaw. Lord Oornwallis help the Jovellest of ber sex, rest! er, with his comb up and his mouth a little | Her knapsack di somewhat from oes, as if he wae only taking in breath for a | SS a aeeheiaen freeb at le ad Toasted - mother grew uj ccna 2 beau, and he'll have bow betore Jo gave us @ supper after the fight; then we SS - dispatched a bottle of tapiece over settlin: brew of J ; anch, and thi . Was one of As it was Sunday we determined to separate | in time; so when it got toward 11, we set out, while Jo stood in his lighted doorwa heuting hearty good-nights after us. [ had ted to make an appointment with him tor the next day, that we might conclude the bar- gain for the colt, so i was @ little bebind the | ot tarting. Take care of yourself.”’ called Jo, ‘you have the most money and thet tte go. Mind the notes. Five twenties. and I've copied the numbers that 7 . Pell the Squire you in the dark.” ‘gave Breer, Saree Rg when I = touc! my cket- hd ¥ poe pte nm Dai jnire, — } ae jaren't | as there Was amoon behind the loads ee | as if, with many, the Sabbath were the grand I was riding a favorite little mare, who knew | occasion for display, and the church the place every step of the stables for self-exbibition. 11 between or Jo's, #0 I just rode peaceably in the dark, recalling the ilavor of Jo's whisky, and singing | Seetae verses of a cong the 5 noel With five nds your standing wages, con, beans, salt2beeien Battermilk and satan Soonat’’ Snddenly the mare roused me from My melodious drea: tainly at the end of ine ly this lane a It makes no difference, my child, what bonnet | ‘Tue Lovatiest or Her Sex.—I also con- | | ubat + | twelve ignorant, stupid, or crotchety | box to ditfer from the bench; a jury darin, | assert an opinion of their own, being liable to But the icy chill turned all at oaee to a clam- | were treated higher, 1 they CURIOSITIES OF JURY TRIALS. From Chambers’ Journal.} may be, as an iy me ‘ificent of Institutions; bat ite cence ig hot a little tarnished at times, when, as may happen by Kuglish | men The last are, perbaps, the ether in the box. | most greg since, heedlessot their oaths, tuey will tarn gs the clean contrary way, rather than run counter to what they dignity as conscientious scruples. Thanks to a straxge craze for non-conviction, that has for some time Past possested the people of a certain historical town, “Not guilty” has become the stereotyped verdict of its juries, and justice has been again and sgain, as it were, checkmated through her own badly disposed pawns. Not that Warwick jurors are the capable of setting evidence on one side. Worcestershire jary acquitted a man in the face of overwhelm’ oy Hwee merely be- cause he happened to be defended by the son of @ local magnate; the foreman of the precious twelve actually believing they bad done some- thing meritor tous, exultingly saluting the squire @ day or two aiterward. When a Welsh jury thought it right to acquit a prisoner, despite an empLatically unfavorable summing up, Baron Bramwell told them be hoped they had recon- ciled their consciences to their verdict, but by what process they had done it he declared be wee utterly unable to guess. Wast w baron have said to the twelve obstinate back- woodsmen, who, sitting upon the body of an Indian, undeniabty dove to death by the ran- dom shooting of the guardian ot a potato plot, made things pleasant all round by pronoancing the unlucky savage had been worried to death by a dog; and that not satisfying the unreason- able coroner altered their verdict to, ‘Killed by falling over a clift;’” sion spite of all remonstrance! jurymen ignore evidence i this way, the nerally err on the side of mercy; unlike the jury @f old, who found the man guilty of murder against whom there was not @ tittle of evidence, and when challenged by the judge, replied through their foreman, that | havin an atrocious crime had been committed, for | which somebody ought to be punished, and they did not see why it sheuld not be the man before them, as well 4s another! Once vpon a time, it was dangerous for the to tlud themselves thrown upon the tender mercies of the Star-chamber. Instances, indeed, are not wanting of the judge takingtupon himself to ish jurymen for not following bis direction. n, the Quaker, was instrumental ot treeing them of this terror. When be and Mead were | brought before the lord mayor and the recorder, charged with preaching in Gracechurch street, | the jury were thrice sent back .to reconsider their verdict, and shape it to the desired pat- tern. The last time they were locked up for the night, but the morning found them of the same mind; and ‘Not guilt, ~ was still thelr award. am sorry,” said the irate recorder—I am sorry you have fol- lowed en and opinions rather than the good advice that was given you. [ pray that my life may be kept out of your hands! ut for this the court fines you forty marks a ma nd commands imprisonment till paid.” The 480 marks not being fortucoming, the twelve really good men and trae were consigned to durance vile in Newgate. A writ of habeas cor- pus soon opened the geese doors; and the case was referred toafull bench of twelve judges, who pronounced the fiving and imprisonment to be contrary to law. The jurymen subseqaent- ly obtained exemplary daniages for false impris- onment, and the freedom of the box was tri umpbantly established. fodern jurors are rot overpaid for their labor and lors of time; in the seventeenth cen- tury, they were not paid at all when trying civil suits, but it was customary for the winner to give them a dinner for graticude’s sake. In Criminal cases, involving no capital charge, i was the curlous, and not very comprehensible: rule, to pay them only when they acquitted accused; but this rule was violated on on special occasion, Sir Thomas Smith record: in the prosecution for the Popish pilot i Uharles L.'s reign, the jury had more, 4 toner than it they acquitted him.” John Ince writing to the Archbishop of Canterbury anen| the jurymen locked up until they dec upor the guiltiness or non-guiltiness of the seven bishops, says; ‘*We bave watched the jury care fully all night. attend stair-head. They have, night without jire and’ candle, save only some basins of water aud towels this morning abou 4. The office servants, and others hired ficers, have, and shail con but must be supplied with fresh eve our guard, if need be. * : y beg fur acandle to light their pipes, but are denied. In case a verdict pass fur us, tue present consideration will be, how shall the jury be treated. The course fs usually, each man #o inany guineas, and a common dinner for them all. The quantum is at your Grace’s and my Lord’s desire. Hut it seems to my poor under. standing, that the dinner might be spared, lest our wateliful enemies should interpret it against us. It may be ordered thus: to each man guineas for his trouble, and each man a guinea over ins desire. N.B—There must be 150 or 200 guineas provided.’ This system of payments by results sinacks somewhat of bribery, bat was calculated to preventa jury yielding to tempta- tion, as the twelve Sudbury men did, who, tind ing they could only agree in being very broke open the door of their room, and quietly went to their homes. A wise Indian judge made it a rule never t give any reason for bis judgments; consequent ly noone ever thought oi appealing against them. It is as well that juries do from sion what the judge did trom choice, for the Home Secretary would have a pretty time of it if the rule were reversed. A good story is told of how a Devonshire jury came to acquit a doc- tor who had accidentally killed an old woman by mixing her medicine a trifle too carelessly. Assoon as they were comfortably settled in their retiring room the foreman told them they | must settle as quickly as possible, whether or day, | and lonely and restless. Still he had insisted on | | planation set his wonder at reat. ‘Well, sqair | said he, BE ge see, every of them vere fell not they would hang the doctor, that they might get home to supper in good time, and that the quickest way of dispatching the business wonld be for him ‘to take the opinion each in turn, and let the most votes decide the matter. Upon this point, at any rate, the jury were unanimous, and the foreman proceeded to put the question. ‘ne said he did not care which way it went—hanging the doctor would neither harm him nor do him any ; another, that the doctor had lately saved the lives of two of his children mortal bad with the amall-pox, while be had only killed an old woman who could not bave lived much longer anyhow; it was two lives against one, and he wouldn’t hang the man, not he. Others were for a conviction on grounds equally ridiculous. Fortunately for the poor doctor, all at length agreed f & Y@r- dict of not guilty. Many a verdict is, we may be sure, only that of amsjority, acquiesced in by dissentients anxious to be a troublesome discussion, and sensible evough to prevent their foreman &nnouncing, as the foreman of a Limerick jury did ,that,they were ‘unanimous—nine to three,” in finding the prisoner not galt . Of course, the “unanimous” ‘ty had to retire again, and of course, returned the same verdict, and the accused was discharged. Being grateful for his escape, he promised, as he was leaving the court, thatit would be his last as well as his first offense, oblivious to the fact that the jury had decided he had done nothing at all. Phy- sical arguments have been used by a majority when more legitimate ones failed. A juryman once asked a judge whether his ot in judgment from his eleven brethren ge hs ing knocked down with a chair. In the case of another jury, one, at dispersal, was heard to sey to another: + aly I threatened to kick him he'd neveragreed.” In America they would appear to have a gentler method of insuring Perey oe ‘When Abraham Lincoln bad to de- fend « tellow charged with stealing half-a-dozen prime hogs, the case against his client was so clearly proved that he told him as much. Not at alldiscomfitted, the accused said: ‘‘Never mind about that; just abuse the witnesses, and spread yourself on general principles, and it beall right,” Sure enough, it was so; to Lin- coln’s astonishment, the jur; ee in @ ver- dic of not guilty. Cengratu’ is client on the result, he could not kelp eying the affair was his understanding. The rogue’s ex- lows had a pieceof them hogs.” Indeed, according to the jatest advices from the States, a verdict cannot be upset by reason of its In a libel case ye the a idence, that one of the j accepting @ bribe, and that the foreman had Deen in constant communication with outside receiv: E § | & mystical one. taken the watch or not. An Irish j mended a man to mercy on the grounds that he had norecoliection of the transaction; bot of all edd names tor lenity, commend us to that of the Devonshire foreman, who upon being asked why aiconvicted person was recommended to mercy, replied ecause it Is an aggravated case, my lord!” We suppose it was because it was an aggravated case that a Swiss jury foand ex- in a couple of ruffians poor shoemaker whe objected to g the boots off his feet. A Welsh jury were not content with performing their own functions, bat usurped the judge's prerog- ative. Having to decide as to the guilt or inno- cence of a man charged with uttering a fi note, the sapient men of Cardigan said back the the note, and think he onght to ps + Death money, ind have three menths for it by small-pev, accelerated by neglect of vaccin- | ation,” was not bad for @ coroner's jury; but much better was the ridcr te a verdict ip a case of accidental poisoning with carbolic acid:— “The jury is of opimon that the public should be warned of the dangerous nature of this dia- bolie acid.” When the jury in an infamous Irish murder case were locked up for the night, it was dis- covered that there were thirteen of them, the odd man being a sociable fellow who had vol- unteered his assistance, just to have the pleas- ure of dining with the real jurymen, At an- otber trial, just as the case was drawing to its end, somebody called attention to the fact that one of the jurors had vanished; he was found sitting unconcernedly in the bods of the court, walked out of the jury-box without any idea that he was doing wrong, quite unaware of the responsibility attached to the! part for which he was cast. THE KING OF ASHANTEE The laws of Ashantee alfow the king thirt three hundred and thirty-turee wives, which number is carefully kept up, to enable bim to present women to those who distingu’sh them- selves, but never exceeded, being in their eyes Many of these reside in @ secluded part of the king’s croom, or country residence, at Barramang; & greater number in @ croom at the back of the palace, immediately and the remainder in two streets Many, probably, the king has be streets as weil as the croom are inhabited by them enclusively, and never cached but by the "s- messengers, king's cir female relatives, who only commu- ewith them at the entrances, which are teach end with bamboo doors, where there is always a guard. If the king consaws or marries an infant the breast, which is not untrequent, she is thenceforth confined to the house, and rigorously secluded from the sight of any but the female part of her family. ‘The king bas seldom more than six wives resi- dent with him in thepalace. on the occasion of signing the treaty, about three hundred were assembled, and none but the kings chamber- lain, and the deputies of the parts of the gov- | ernment, were allowed to be present. They were addressed through their own linguist, a very decrepit old man, Many of them were very handsome, and their figures exquisite. When they go out, which is seldom, they are encircled and preceded by troops of small boys with thongs of whips of elevhant’s hide, who lash every one severely who does not quit ‘their path for another, or jump into the bush with his hands before his eyes; and sometimes the offenders are heavily fined besides. ‘The scramb- ling their approach occasioned in the more pub- lic parts ot the city was very diverting—cap- tains, caboceers, Slaves, and children, tumbling one over another. 1 was told what it cost the king daily to eupport them, but it has escaped 1 to li as daintiy as hin if. f eunuch, an immense crea- beara mes2ge to the king when in the seraglio of the pala It has been mentioned betore, that the king’ sisters are not only countenan in intrigue with any handsome snbject, but they are a lowed to choose one eminent! however ferior otherwise usband, who is pre his good fortune bride dies before the hu be orginally elevate himself on the oc le child dies, It he led that ne is to be must attend them w a male child is born er does it homage, and acknowledges his vassalage in the most ab- ject manner. The Vcras are distinguished by a large circle of gold suspenaed from the neck; many of them nsidered erever they go; and when he | ate favorite slaves, many commoners who bave | royal messengers and others ot the suite ha ngty, | ompai- | distinguished themselves, and who are glad to stake their lives on the king’s, to be kept free from palavers and supported’ by bis bounty, which they are entirely; some few are relatives and menof rank. Allof the two former classes, excepting only the two or three individuals known to have been intrusted with the king's state secrets, are sacrificed on his tomb. been described in the sometimes ted in the p , but they have a tree reat at the table of -y subject. ‘The king has a troop ef email boys who carr: the fetich bows and arrows, and are licens: plunderers; they are so sly and{nimble that st is very diverting to watch them in the market place, which they infest every morning. What- ever they cin carry off is fair game, and can- not be required or recovered; but the loser, if them before they arrive at the palace, may beat them us severely as he pleases short of mortal injury; however, they bear it as obdurately as young Spartans. ‘Sometimes one party trips up a person with aload of provis- ions, while anotber scrambles them up. The anxious alarm of the market people, sitting with sticks in their hands, and the comic archness of these boys threading the crowd in all directions, is indescribable. Some of the earliest European travelers in Abyssinia met with a similar troop of royal plunderers, and I believe suffered from then. Our property was always respected by them, but they used to entertain themselves with mimicking cur com- mon expressions and our actions, which they did inimitably. While sketching, they buzzed about me like morquitoes. The Ashantees are without exception the most surprising mimics | have ever heard. I have known a captain, rocessions; they are | called Adeo Quamina, repeat a sentence after | bad finished it, of at least a dozen words, which he knew nothing about, and had not heard before. The king has a sort of buffoon, whose movements were as irresistibly comic as those of Grimaldi. The king appeared to have nearly a hundred negroes of diflerent colors, through the shades of req and pink to white; they were cgilected for state, but were generally diseased and emaciated; the: if goin blinked in the light, as if it was ment. About twenty pots of white soup and twenty pots of black (made with palm-nuts) are cooked daily atthe palace (besides those for the con- sumption of the bousehold,) tor visitors of con- sefjuence, and aperiguin of gold is given daily to Yokokroko, the chamberlain, for pale wine. ‘This would have appeared to be a large sum, bad I not witnessed the vast consumption and waste of it, for the rigor of an Ashantee being estimated by the measurement of the draught he can dripk oft, nearly half is spilt over his beard, which it is his greatest pride and luxury to draw through his fingers when it is wet. The rr 4 was very proud of the gp ae or hisbeard. A large quantity palm-wine is dashed to the retinues of all the captains at- tending in the course of the day; much Is ex- nded in the almost(laily ceremony of drinking tin state in the market-place, and our party was always well provided for {n the course of not their ele- theevening. The palm-wine at the palace was | seldom good, but a zest was excited by the ex- | quisite polish of the plate in which it was served. Bowdich's Mission to Ashantec. Tools for the Farm. = A correspondent of the Farmers’ Union writes:—There is no better way for a farmer to invest a few dollars than by buying a few tools for the farm. Much time and expense can be saved BAR corgi | broken farming tools yours self, inst of carrying them to a carpenter and paying a high price for a job, which per- haps you could have done as well if not better yourself, and at a cost of less than one quarter the price paid for the work. There are many days of leirure in the early part of the winter, that you can devote to the over-hauling and re- youin of the Ppoaing. mg to be used early in 1g, and have ae prime yr wi ring wor! . Supposin: P Naa as ae ae ate hand Ie; — of rowing it away, e head or if you have an old handle ainener aera reeks Fitch fork wendiee aS, Soe ‘8 whole w fork the next time you go to town, but buy ‘and put the old tine i = ern ea mie oot Wi = eft as his ex 3 We | fiud the prisoner guilty of teliing stortes abont | to shed their skins, and thelr eyes | f you | LINCOLN’S BIRTHPLACE. | NEW _ PUBLICATIONS. RAILROADS. Sliehed ‘Thomas Linkhern’s Ab- EW ALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. es 2d BOOKS AND OHIO RAILROAD. rupt Courtship of Widow Johuson— N | B = The Historical Old House—Captain at On,and afer December ¥5th, 187%, tratze leave Mayeraft's M 4 | RASEINGTON CITT as follows, v A correspondent of the Louisville Commer- WARREN CHOATE & CO.'5. | polmere ong Ses Rotem | Clal, writing from Elizabethtown, Ky., ander | Nancy, by the author of “Bed as a Rose t+ ‘Om. Bap. via ‘poittan Ratiroad, date of December 30, sends the following state- | She" a" - $100 daily oosasonseeeeen ment of Captain Haycraft, detailing many | Golden Gr L. Farseon 3" | Boston, New York and Phila, Bixp unpublished incidents in the life of Eincois, | gael dy ibs Moon. Sales Verge” 280 ore apd Way, Pointe | and exploding the story of Mr. Lincoln’ rola pany. ‘Bianchard Jer | ~ | gitimacy : Twelve Miles from s Lemon. a. | © Twas born in this town 14th August, 1795, and | Nueiah tone Book Philip a is | have a good memory of persons and things ag | Around the World in Bighty Days. Jules | they existed in ** days of auld lang syne.” | . Verne........ 250 1 KNEW THOMAS LINCOLN | Petcpicgraghy, Joke Scesrt Mill 2% | well. He was universally called Linkhorn—1 | Zb* Fortran. AG) Roddie, 1% | | Suppose through ignorance of his real name. | ‘The Star of our Lord. Franci- W.Opbam 173 * Some time in the year 1806, or about that time, | Farm Ballads, new edi Will Caricton. 250 | Boston, New Work and Pir vreee Conquest of Mexice. W. Ht he was married to Mits'Nancy Hanks, a} Prescott. New | when married and before that time he lived in | _ snd revised elition. | Elizabethtown. In the year 1507 his first child | Schem’s Statistical Tables... a.) | (a daughter) was born. Atlavtic, London Illustrated, and Reimulis Per ABBABAM'S BIRTHPLACE. fumed Almanace for 1874 Sometime between 1507 and 1809 he left town | FOR INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL .M.. and 3:30 and & SUNDAY TRALW ~Enty Aad Polate—At® A.M, and Bait 4d and 743 or Bal Without stope—At > 5@ and 9.00 in x PULLMAN PARLOR OARS § 8.00, 9:40 A. M. 3:3 Fe re" with his wite and child, and settled neat Bat- iiesel z ] LEAVE BAL falo, Larne county, about four miles trom Pedy tony merge de a, Exodus, Smiths 4258-49. Hodgenviile, then in Harden county. It Smiths Bible Dictiouaty. Whedon's, Ci 3.30.44 was then called Hodgen’s Mill, aid is Speaker's Commentaries. now in Larue county, at which place WARREN CHOATE & CO., Abraham Lincoln, late President, was born. But to put the whole matter at rest, I quote from A LATTBR WKIZTEN BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN TO MYSELF, nog in my possession, dated Springtield, Ill., NAW BOOKSTOKE, VERNON BOW, jant-tr__ Oonmmr Pa. a. and Ors Sr. T° SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS ; OL NCHESTER VIA May 2s, 1860; **Lu the main you are right about c my history. My father was Thomas Lincoln, Alli the sidetothe Sindy ofthe Uniform Lessoms are-t5 a M. dal ie and Mrs. Sallie Johnson was his second wife M. BALLANTYNE’s, FoR THE VALLE IRGINEA VIA ME You are mistaken about my mother. Her name 1 STRKET TROPOLITAN BRANCE was Nancy Hanks, Iwas not born in Eliza- | Jacebus’ Notes on Exodus : 2100 | ght S18 A. . dslly, except andes, arriving at dethtown, but my inother’s first child, daugh- Murphy's Commentary on Bxodus 225 Hercieonbars at 4 F.M., and Sieunton eeriy the ter, two yearsolder than myself, and long since The Lessou Compend for 174 ; oo sane ere8 FOR ELLICOTT'S MILLS. dead, was. 1 was born February 12, 199. near 4. Brogae, cod oll the standard AIG 43.4 M., aod 5:30 and 34 Po where Hodgenville now is, then in Hardin Sished at pul ay School ParD «= FOB PITTSBURG LITAN ROAD county. Ido not think lever saw you, thoagh — —— AND CONN Bou I know very well who you are—su well that i YY ASHINGTON INSIDE AND OUTSIDE. Leave Washington at 8:15 A. Mf recognized your bandwriting on opening your Yeroq By GEO; ALERED Towserxy sod ge through sithout change letter before I saw the signature. My recvilec- ML MGENTS SOR ALL SUBSTHIP. | Terouhes uname tion is that TION BOO, STATIONERY CHRKONG REN. HELM was fret Clerk, that vou succeeded him. that k Thomas and Wilson Fairleigh graduate oa 5 y in the same office, and that your handwritin Re eee ieee web ese towmns. were all very similar. Am I right? My fatuer 1016 Pennsylvania avenue. = has been dead near ten years, but my step- mother, Mrs. Jolinson, is still living.”’ NEW BOOKS. RICTURE FRAMES, BOOK BINDING > P.M. daily. FOR ANNAPOLIS. M. and 4.45 P. M., but not on Bon FOR NORFOLK ut_not on Sande, KOOKS AXD INTEBMEDI- ti P.M, be FOR POLNT oF ATE POINT: . oP THE SECOND WIFE OF THC Antobiography of Jobn Stuart Mill, 8 vo.....93 a ar6élda was originally Mise Sallie Bush, daugliter of | Cgeevesu’s Anatomy of Domestionied Animals, ||| Baterning, Christopher and Hannah Bush, was raised im Lace by cicra | a 1% Mand 9.19 P. Hardin county, bait @ mile from Elizabethtown Normandy Picturesque by Henry Ei 15) ©. Express trains 3. She was married to Daniel Johnson on the 13th South Sea Tayis by Charles Warren Stoddard... 180 , Gils, stop at Polnt of Books. day of March, 1s6, and lived in Elizabethtown, Becept Music and Musicians by Leuate Mos- Thronvgh tickets to the West can be hed st the where Johnson died early in April, 1s14,0f what cheles, 13 mo. i namie . 200 Washington Station Ticket Office et all hours of the was then called cold plague. Psat byte bed The Atmonpuore ty Canmtie Phanenatign i I ec aa sea es teat side several nights during his illness, and one The : Adi SM asec gers hasing tickets st th | Morning on retoruing home, which was the ath Tren ET: oy | cee ee ee aes te eve ae of April, I found snow on the ground four nov’ called for and checked at thetr residence, taken inches deep and the peach trees in bloom, which | | attracted my attention and caused me to note‘ )EOBET OF SUCCESS IN the time. The widow, Mrs. Johnson, continued — catie, to live in Elizabethtown until tue 2d of Decem- | ber, 1819. Thomas Lincoln MOVED WITH HIS FAMILY TO INDIANA. I do not _know the time of his removal, bat before 1516 he lost his tiret wife there, and on the Ist day of December of that year he re turned to this place and inquired for the resi- dente of the * jo the b por Mew York, Philadelphtes aud sdvert out of “Throngh Line. 1 a GEO. 8. KOONTZ, Gen ‘Ast - Washington. ‘TBROCGH LINE BETWEEN WASHING- TON, PHILADELPHIA & NEW YORK. y Traine between W ast. \ now ron as follows, vir WALL STREET. . Boston see Dd G SON B oreaas,. Bo: md Jol rinter: 1012 Penney! Iania Avenue, south sid Fs FOR NEW YORK, wichout chaner of cars. WIDOW JORNSON. novB-ly Fine Work a Specialty. naay. She lived near the Clerk’s office. I was Clerk, WNINGS rooand $00 a Sanday, at 8-00. Ml ana and informed him how to tind her. He was not FOR PRILADELPRIA slow to present himself before her, when the following courtship occurred:—He said to Mrs. Johnson, barns daily vec 200, 3:30 aud 9:0 ON SUNDAY. Leave tor New York at 9.00 P.M and Philadet- obis at 5.30 and 9.00 P.M Throngh tickets to Phtiatelphia, New Boston can be bad at the St ‘Olice at all hoare im the Gay; also, at the Company * Gitice, 459 Penn syivanta svenue Passengers pure’ ‘an the FOB PUBLIO BUIBDINGS, 7 PRIVATE BESIDENGES SS TENTS FOR SALE OB RE! Decorations farnished for B: By . HOGA 713 MAREET SPAC Between 7th aud Sh streets. it for the ont naman MILDEW. NiNG MATRA EL. ange tr WNINGS, 4, | FOB PRIVATE RESIDENCES, HOTELE, PUBLIO BUILDINGS, MANUFACTURED &Y M. G, COPELAND, 643 LOUISIANA AVES Fp et 800 A.M. and “LAM A LONE VAN and you are a lone woman. I have knowed vou from a girl, and you've knowed me {rom a boy, and I have come all the way frem Indiana to ask you if you will MARRY ME RIG as I baye no time to lose.’ plied “Tommy Lincoln, | have NO ONJECTION to marrying you, but {cannot do it right o for Lowe several littie debts which mi paid.” ‘The gallant old gevtiem said, “Give me alist of the debts was furnished and the de ing. The next morni d the license, and the rk or chets at the Avenue office © theit baggage called for deure, taken to the depot, which she re To Jvertisoment for ure, Aanap se West Hos. B SBARP Low COLE 0B KOON BALTIMORE & POTOMAC RAILROAD. Derot convex 6TH anv BSrReets BW . Master of Transportation ral Tickst Agent Z, Ageut at Washington, ame ; ‘ ig bay ar RuIKI 2 — MEETING TENTS sod FLAGS = eels After December 7th, 1873, trate will ran as follows: vundied up and started for home, where the r — . . > ' 1 much to the comfort of the e PLUMBING AND GAS-FITTING. wmage LEAT e ven Tasine anne ae nd took great interest in the train i by Balt and Neh 6.13 r ing and education of her step-son, ADF deriring to have their Plambing and Qes. oo Monday ew THOMAS LINCOLN u m York ®&2. ma, shoul isa: a avenue, Ospitol Hill, ted. WM. BOTHWELL Express,daily,ex. Bun. ti ay 2:30 sm daily Bccom was a bale, hearty-looking man of medium height, heavy and square built, rather c.amsy in his gait, had « kind looking face, was a mod erately good house carpenter—some of bis work TURTON. seat ~ epee | ‘een et ng to this day in the neigh borboo. EAT Baig 1 2 literate, and was regarded as a yery C45 PENTER, BUILDER, 1:13 p. m., New Vork & nest man. AND Exp.,daily,ex. Sunday NANCY HANES CONT &RA0T: 3.23 paltimore Exprom, > ther low-set, heavy built woman, with Orders for House Cerpouterings Jobbing, or Ooms | 3 Gully, ex. Sandi di rtunities for Tector's Af Eee attended to, sewed SE, peo arning was eer i 8 considered | 2825 1y ith street, below Mat. nortnweet | Accommoda MBiNG, GAS-FITTING AND &® B AGE Sitended to, on remronable terme, oy ange BulEN, Practical Plamber, street, class or ex. Sunday Mrs. Johnson, . 309 Lotisians avenue, bear 6th rt . FORMERLY SALLIE Besidence, 429 3d street northeast, ream daily Ex was a tall, slender built woman, quite goo 2ANES68) BEY 3d street northeast, Specialty, TIS veins leaving Washington ei 8:36 ©. looking, and was taken in those days to be quite agracetul, gay lady; was very neat, | 3:60 p m., Connect at Bowte wit! i leaving Bowie st 10 9. m bud 3:1 arriving st Marlboro’ at 11:10 s. m., m. P trains leaving Washington at $03 end #15 a. m and 3.6) p. m. connect at Odenton with trains for mnapolis. “ial ue arriving @t Washington at 10:39 e.m. ,ormnect at Bowie with trains leay- and 9:30 p.m. at Ticket Office street and Pennsylvania street and Pornaylvae agence called for and C4BEETS CLEANED AT THE STEAM OAR PET BEATING WORKS, 490 Maino avenue bet. 44, and 6th sts (Cnr pets celled for and return free of extra charge. RENZO RICK. apli-ly STEAMER LINES. ieee tone af RONIDENOE” BOSTON AND DENCE ‘The fine Iron Steamer LADY OF THE LAKE resumed her regular trips to will leave her w. foot, f 6th strest, every MONDAY and and was thought to have beeu a good match tor Thomas Lincoln. THE HOUSE in which Thomas Lincoln lived in this place stood on the bank of an old mill race, was built of rough logs slightly hewn, and was about 14 After it was abandoned by him it was moved below the bridge and made a slaugh- ter house; in course of time it was removed still lower down the creck, and again used for the seme purpose, and afterwards it was re- northwerl corner of 18th | Sreune, northwest co: nor 6: ia avenue, can have their check hotels and residenoes to all potuts North checked at moved back to very near the spot it originally THURSDAY, at2 p. m.,touching at princi and West. Through tickets to Ciucinnats, Golam occupied on the bauk of the mill races afew | Uadings, couuecting ai Norfolk with Biocmotin st | bus, Endianapolise Louisvilic, 8. Louis, Mew Or logs added, 1 then used as a stable.’ After «ihe M. and M. line for Boston and idence. Ohtcago. Gmabe, Ban Francisco, Abraham Lincoln's election to the Presideacy Fteight shunld be “care of Lady of the ¥) ‘west, and south L. DUBARRY, General Ba E. 8. YOUNG, Gen’l Pass'r Agent. ENT BALTINORE Se HILADELPHIA. . NEW YORK tele | 45D ALL Py In TH EN omer SEW > add. take, via Norfolk.” Branch ticket office at * Exp: Uftire, 603 Pennsylvania — | B. FITZHUGH, DORSEY CLAY) mié-tr Plant's Store, corner M=zBcHanr’s LINE OF STEAMSHIPS WASHINGTON AND NEWYORK. the house sutiercd many aséwults of the saw anil axe, and portions of it was earcied to New York as relics. ° APSENCE OF A CERTIFICATE ACCOUNTED FOR. Such is the statement furnished me by Cap- tain Hayeraft. In addition | asked him how about the record of 1homas Lincola’s marriage to Nancy Hanks. He repli could never ied. —e_ i find any record of the marriage, but laccounted _ Hereafter the fine Bteamships B.0.KNIGHTans 1//KOUG BETWEEN W, ; for the al'sence of it from the fact that no re- JOHN GIBSON will wake rerniar seek BAND Naw yoRRUNGTON cord was Kept in those days, the clerks depend- | itipe between, NEW YUL ALE WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARs. ing on the ministers to return the license, and GE OpeaPoW f SHINO TO The équipment on 2" Hine if Rew and of the me they were often men who were very illite from Pik peat rh sheaaot aod Tingroved nate im 5 Pee one CARS ON DAY TRAIN AN PA EBPING ~~ afr Titans oT ‘ate, and perhaps never knew that they should be returned. And again, if returned, they were liable to be misplaced, as they were generally kept in a bread or some like vessel for cou- | Fenuence; and, again possible for them to ha: improperly, without the co; it, when there were about 150 | On THBEE TRAINS D. will be run over ‘snd arri , vCEXOEEE, sUmDAY) depot of corner of 6th and | hére at that thine,” : | wae SLIME, eave Washington $03 a, m.¢aily, | eases (CUNARD LIN | “Kicave Bultiniore ot 9:15 a, m. daily, oxcept San- | We have received from & Wanington corres- — Wyth the view of Eber the ehances of cout ““Veave iadelphi: daily, | Pondent, a very interesting ‘commenication som, the Steamers of this will, nenceforth, | excepe Bussey Sa ee | about the persimmon, which was brought to ‘Arrive at Bow York at 4:29 p.m. daily, except take @ specified for all seasons of the year. the notice of our 80 prominently in our onthe Gatward Pasage from jueenstown to New | last. Our pages at present are so largely occu- ¥° $5 boston, crcemian a of Bid Uy oe mare Brey mation hod PAC; Gn he Hopewnrd Ea, crowng the Meriien jcularly in the cultural department, that _ ‘Lat., or nothing | we are compelied to omit the article until our | Tee e Mkzct none to Re nortbof @. jyld-tn | THE BRITISH AND NORTH AMERIOAN next issue, bap ip hn a Bas = RovaL sr ver, give the fol im, ton of it, whic! ‘EAMS) tS x BETWEEN NEW YORK AND LIVERPOOL, ane ne, AT CORK HARBOR. bi may be made available at the present time, to ‘ot 5:35 p. mi. daily, except Ban- ‘Los’ ve West Philadelphia at 6:08 p m. dally, ex- S . *Kerive at Hew York st 10:10 p. m. daily, except IGHT EXPRESS, leave Washington at 9:08 in } posed who have the fruit already on their ‘arme:— | The persummon isa fruit, which, when ripe, Calabria... Wed, J: can be dried by spreading out on a board in the shade, and when dried put away for use, bein, Wed, Jan, 21 | Oly ma} 1B. careful not to let them get too close and inildow, | 23°8..4, Wedegan- 3 | M fas: Lime, leave New it can also be dried and put away like raisins; Ana following W Arrive at Washington at in fact, some varieties dry themselves on the ay = | tree, when they can i ig up ia boxes, and kept ap indefinite period. The pulp cau be im the seeds, spread upon earthen leave New York at | Separated fro dishes, and dried like peac' 1. 3 Batzs oF agra omen 880, 9100, end 9100 leather. A syrup to can be made from the fruit, equal in davor to pA f00d molasses. ‘The fruit isalsoasedin making | SeSrB,tickets, on favorable | a very fine Lerr, superior to that called lager, Steerage tickets from and many other drinks sold under the name of _ and all | beer. When distilled, it will also yield an enor- bills of mou CS. As the season is now at | hand for manufactar: up this fruit, we will | herewith furnish the nal recipe for beer, as ablished in the first volume of the American ‘armer for the year 1519, April 16th, page 22:— | “Prrsiumon BupE.—The following receipt for a very pleasant bevet is batim, as it was furnished’ ¢ j NEW EXPRESS LINE VIA CANAL, | friend. Mr. Jefferson's receip H wigtiaet | PAIAREERa ARERR Gather the persimmons perfectly BIA Va. WASH. 1D. 0. Ys. tree from xy, eee, ia them ran enoug! make th them so that the cake | orth W barren t, bat not burnt, | ar he ctl throu, use; but if you keep into it, and you |