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East, Richmond Hill, begs to announce to the public that he is now practising with H. Sanderson, of the same place, where they may be consulted person- ally or by letter, on all diseases of horses, cuttlc, 81.9. Alllorders from a. distance promptly at- tended to, and medicine sent to any part of the Province. Horses examined as to soundness, and also bought and sold on commission. Richmond Hill, Jam. 25, 1872. 507 . “Such a" regiment of debutantes are being marched into social gayoty this winter to strive in the warfare for belledom. Thirty already out and some fledglings waiting for a little later in the season. Four com- modoros’ daughters are already on the roaster, as well as several others whose fathers rank from admiral dewn. One of the four young ladies first mentioned is very accomplished and witty, although not a beauty. She plays on different musical instru- ments, and speaks Italian, German, and French with the ease of her motheritongue. Her mamma, how- ever, has lived, so many years amid the eflete civilization ofthe Continent that she cannot ,hecomeff .mflfis'tOmed' to the independence Of our‘republi can girl‘s. Her daughter is, therefore, always attended by an old and trusty man-servant, who, if she.:walks,'keeps at an orderly’s distanfcimfi'behind his young mistress, follovVing her as faithfully as her own shadow. The young gentlemen are beginning to protest, and declare the system of chaperonage as it already exists needs curtailed instead of augmented pow- er. Another debutante has very de- cided pretensions to beauty. Her'skin is of that olive clearness through which the blood delights to penetrate to the surface. He? eyes fire dark, luscious, and Wide-lidded. Her hair a golden brownâ€"a. ‘new departure’ for a brunetteâ€"and her teeth with- out‘ flaw.” Sold by Druggists generally. The Dominion “'orm Candy is the medicine 0 expel worms. 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MUSTARD, 747-tf “ One feels tho need ofa home on Christmas-eve, Mrs. Dunn,” he said, presently, breaking of the air of “Auld Lang Syne” suddenly. “Not but this chimney-corner is as much a home as I’ve ever known, and no bad substitute; yetâ€"perhaps it’s only a sentimentality, but when a man reaches my time of life it goes hard with him to remember that he has found,,as the poet says, his warmest welcome at an inn.” “ No doubt, no doubt I” sighed Mrs. Dunn, “It seems as if a boarding- house were only a way-station to something more permanent. That’s the way it used to seem to me When I was twenty-five. Do you know, I’ve got (a kind of dread Christmaseve as much I usedto love it; it’s a sort of landmark now'that shows how far we’ve wandered from the hopes and promises of youth. As you say, its a night when one needs a fireside, in its true sense, and love and friends, and all they expected to have when life' was young ;” and Mrs. Dunn’s voice trembled and broke, and Mr. Royburne drew out a chord that sounded like an “ amen.” “ You may laugh if you Will at an old woman like mo,’1 she said, when she had re- covered herself; “ but I had a blow in my young days that I’ve never get the better ofâ€"~a 'love affairâ€"" It was Christmaseven in Mrs. Dunn’s cozy parlor, the back-log blazed and snapped with a good will, as if it remembered the days when the sunshine crept into its heart; the candles burned with a clear radiance on the mantle. Outside, tho snow fell’and driftedagainst the pane, the wind Whistled loudly, as if to drown theChristmas bells, that now seemed far away, and anon rang out like ‘Dlarion calls. Mrs. Dunn herself eat before the high polished fender with her knittingâ€"a woman who had been pretty once, but no longer young now, with hair quite gray, and the traces of the tears_that time had dried ; upon her pale cheeks, enemight have‘ said, just as the showers of long-past ages have left their prints on the stifâ€" fened soil. Mrs. Dunn’s tears had, indeed, been shed long ago, but they burned yet so surely as the twilight of Christmas-eve fell about her. To- night her houseful of boarders had all betaken themselves their severalways â€"this one to spend the holiday with his partner‘s family, that one with his' mother in the country, the other with his sweetheart, till nobody Was left but Mr. Royburne, a man as gray and worn. as herself, who had only his violin with which to keep Christmas. He set now in the chimney-corner, drawing his bow across his violin, and bringing up long-past and half- forgotten scenes by the neeroma-ney of his chords and melodies. “ And every Christmaseytime the pain bites deeper, till it Seems as if I could not bear it,just as an old wound is said to throb and ache at figs anni- vors'a-ry.” Mr. Roybgirne tapped his, violin gently, as much as to say, “We know What that is,” but. he looked curiously at; his landlady." -Having lived. two years under her root, and found her cflicientin all the practical affairs of life, and always cheerful, it had'hardly occurred to him'that she had a. more tender or romantic side; lhoughhe knew her to be companionâ€" ablc and even sympathetic, and with something in her air, a tone in her voice, that brought up the‘ image ofa. fair woman he had loved-long ago. “ Yes ? Let those laugh who win. We alL keep a corner of our hearts where no one enters.” ‘ “ It. was when I Was barely twenty- fivof’ she continued. “ I oughtxo have outg'rbw‘n it by this. time, but I’m afraid I’m not strongvminded. There ! I shall bore you to death, Mr. Roy-, bui-neâ€"éthere are some folkswho have no mercy on a. listener; but} some- how I felt like talking zibpnt myself tonight.” " 3 s “And I feel like hearing: about yourself to-night. Pray go hr]; 8, love alfair’s like an air of Mozart, al- ways sweet to listen to.” " . “ Mine wasn’t sweet toAIive,~tKi'ougb, I romise you. You see I’d been left alone in the world, with a tirifle of money, not enough to keep m’e with- out work; that is to say, there was Aunt Huldah, rich and alive, but I’d Ring, bells, ring, with a merry din! . The mid year hm; gone with its care and sin ! Smiling and fair, at the eastern gates, Clad in tinted light, the new year. waits! Welcome him in with the ros ' band, Who Wait the wave of his bcc oning hand: Hope. with her wreaths of sweet spring flowm's,~ Joy for the summer’s «lowing hours, Plenty and peace for the fruitful fall, And love for all seasonsâ€"best ofnll. Ring merrily, hells Iâ€"o’er the blushing skies See the beautiful stator the new year rise! Ring the 01d year out with its sights and tears, Its wilghering heartaches and tiresome fears; Awny with its memories of doubt and wrong, Its cold deceits and its envyin a strong. All its pandering lures to the altering sense, All its rim‘ul Shams and cold pretense. We wii heap them together and bind them fast To the old man’s load as he toners past. The i118 that he brought he may take again ; Keep we the joys, let him bury the pain! Rin soft, oh hells, as he goes to rest Far 11 the fihadea of [he darkening West! Rlpg, hulls, ring, with your mellofidin. Rin‘g the old year out and the 'new car ln 1 Like the voices of birds from the o d gray spire, Let your silvery musicriae higher and higher; Floating abroad o‘er the hillside hare, In blllows of sound on the tremulous air, Let it rise and fall with the mful gale ; Tell over city and wood the tale; Say that to-night the old year dies; Bid the watchers look {it the eastern skies, For the beautiful halo that tells afar 0f the welcome rise of the new year‘s star ! MRS.‘ DUNN’S CHRISTMAS. Haw YEAR’S BELLS RICHMOND HLLL, ONTARIO, CANADA: FRIDAY," JANUARY 1, 1875. '“ He wasn’t one of my boarders, you know,” she continued, she con- tinued, “ but he was intimate with some of them, and as familiar in the house as need be, coming to dine and to lunch when it pleased him, till he knew the lay of the land as well as if it belonged to him. That was long before I knew that lie cared or even thought of me, for though my glass told me I wasn’t ill-lookingâ€"it has given over telling flattering tales nowadaysâ€"yet I’d never thought much about love and that sort of thing, being a practical. body, and too busy to meddle with things I wasn’t called on to worry about. He got into the way, when his friends were out, of knocking at the door of my private parlor, and dropping in till they come home, as a matter of con- venience, I naturally supposed, be- cause public parlors are dreary places to wait in at the best, and he was one of those men, I’d noticed, who love luxury and prettiness desperately. But one night when the moon was up, and the band was playing on the Mall ‘ The girl I left behind me,’ and I was leaning out of the window, after casting up my accounts for the day and giving orders for breakfast, watching the love-sick people stroll- ing about by twos and stopping to kiss each other in‘ the shadow of the elmsâ€"somebody tossed a handful of cinnamon roses up at my window. Of all the roses that Junve blows that little old-fashioned cinnamon rose is the most fra rant to me; and it was be, calling 0 me to come down and Walk; and I went down, too readily perhaps, and we walked through half a dozen tunesâ€"such tunes as seemed 1 like the music of the spheres with vaâ€"l riations. Sometimes when I have? been passing your room, Mr, Roy-i burne, you’ve drawn out a strain or two of those very airs on your violin, and it has seemed as if'I smelled rose leaves, and I‘ve had to sit down on the stairsto recover myself. However, when I reached home that night and locked up, I’d found out something I hadn’t known when I went outâ€"I had found out that I loved Jules Ad- derley, whether he had loved me or not. It was an embarrassing piece of news to me ; it was both pain and pleasure curiously twisted together.. It made me start at every step and and get nervous at every knock; and I began to look in the glass with more attention, and worry about {my face, and grow absent-minded about the bills and the housekeeping, till one night I met him on the stairs; he was going up and I was coming down, and we didn’t do either, andâ€" dear, dear; what an old fool I am l I can’t think 01 that time without tears â€"and the band outside in the moon- light playing ‘My love is like the red, red rose.’ And yet he couldn’t really have loved me, you know.” “You don’t know me,” said her listener, turning his back upon her to an ufl' the candles. “_ Yes. You have been therefi It’s thought a pretty place of hits The house 1 kept looked out on the Mall, Where young folks went walk- ing arm in arm in arm in the long summer evenings, and sometimes the band playedâ€"such tunes! They don’t seem like the same thing nowadays. ‘Oh, don’t you feel well to-night, Mr. ioyburne? ” she asked, picking up a stitch in her knitting. “ As usual, thank you, Mrs. Dunn.” “Things come on so suddenly at times,” she apologized. “I thought; you must be going to have an illturn just now. You looked quite ghastly, upon my word. Are you quite sure that you feel all right?” “ Oh yes, thanks. I’d been in the business over a year when he came across my path. [dare say it’s silly for me, with my gray hairs and crow’s feet, but sometimes of a spring morning, when I open my window and the fresh fragraneevsteals upon me, I find myself forgetting myyears and expecting him, just as I used to; and when I came to my senses pre- sently,«all the day seems vacant and dark, and I go about with weights-t0 my heels, and the spring sun .is be- hind a cloud. ,1 don’t suppose'you can understand such nonsense.” “ It was nothing, believe meâ€" nothing more than a twinge of rheu- matis‘m, that one may expect. at my age.” “ Oh i where was I ? You gave me such a sta'rt, I assure you.” “The young people were walking arm in arm on the Mall, and the band was playing,” giving me the cue. “Idon‘t know afiything of the kind," broke in Mr. Royburne, almost angrily; “I’m sure that he loved you.” ’ “I’d' like to think so,” she said, sm1lifig'to herself and looking into the fire; “ but you haven’t-heard all. We weren’t going to be married for a ybar or l0, beamso he was only I Iived id the Western part of the State, at Croftford." (. “ Croftf‘ord l” echoed Mr. Rayburne, stoopin‘g to pick up the bow hqhad let fall. » . no expectations from her, and would to. Heaven I had no realizations! Well, I wasn’t quick enough to teach, and had no knack for milinery or‘ mantua-making, and the hundred other em loyvments women turn their hands to now-a-days were unknown and untried by them then; so I put the little I had into a boarding-house. I didn’t live about here at that time â€"~y0u see, it’s an old craft; with meâ€" “ It was only a few Lie, '3 later when Langton, the assistant cashier, who boarded with me, came into my pri- vate parlor and said i. i wanted to speak with me confidentially about Jules. You can’t tell what a chill 11: gave me. I thought nothing but he had dropped deadâ€"and I’d rather it had been so ! It seems Jules had been using the bank’s money to speculate. He had lost, of course, and Langton had been the first to discover it, and he came to me, he said, in order that I might warn Jules that it couldn’t be kept long from the board of direct- ors, as they’d already got wind of something wrong, unless he could re- place the money immediately by beg- ging or borrowing. You may guess my feelings! 'I made no question but Jules had gone out of town with a View to raising the money some- how, too much ashamed to ask me for it and tell me his fault; but he had left no address, and all I could do was to wait his return in a fever of impatience: and it was Christmas week, too, when every body’s expect- ed to be cheerful, and there’s no end of work to be done. Some of my boarders had gone to keep the season among their friends, and there were a few left. who, like you and me, Mr. Royburne, had nowhere to go; and while we were sitting at tea on Christ- mas-eve it suddenly seemed to me as ifI heard somebody going overthe the front stairs, and the thought pas- sed through my mind, ‘Who can it be?’ and then I reflected, ‘Oh, it’s probably Nancy carrying up the clean clothes from the wash,’ and I rang the bell for Tildy, the table girl, to bring up the toast, and asked her, aside, Where Nancy was. r “ ‘In the kitchen, marm,’ said she, ‘a-folding off the clean clothes from the bars.’ “‘Yes, marm, aâ€"stoning the‘mis- ings.’ “ ‘And Bridget, is she there too ?’ I said. “ ‘ And isn’t. Mary’ (the chamber- mzu'd) ‘ helping her ?’I asked. “‘Not she,’said Tildy; ‘she’s shiv- ering out; abthe pump,.sure, a-blath- ering along of Barney.’ ‘_‘ I don’t know What possessed me. but I just asked Miss Grader to take my place at the urn, and I went up stairs alone. I’d left a light burning in my parlor, butthe hair of my flesh stood up when I saw it was burning in my bedroom instead, Wfihieh opened out of the parlor. However, after a little reflection, I considered that I might have been mistaken in my ab- sence of mind, and I stepped into the parlor, which was just light enough to show me my desk “3 h the lid up and the papers scattered about. I thought of my stockingr in a minute, and you could have knocked me down with a feather, though I’d taken the precaution to sew it into my mattress that very day. till I should get.ready to use it. I felt certain that whoever it was must be well acquainted With my ways, and had observed Where I put my keys. And who but one of the servants could that be? And 'ust as I was wondering if Tildy eoul be in *cashier in a bank at Ci-oftford, the Paetolus Bankâ€"4 hate the very-sound of it; the words burn my tongue- and his salary wasn’t big enough to please him; and then I was in no hurry. ' Invented to make-money my: self, and' life had grown so sweet, I was almost? afraid off-"my good {61-- tune; and perhaps 1 was just punish- ed for my want of faith in-God’s pro- vidence. Well; one dath had a great. surprise. Aunt Huldah-died, andl .went away to the funeral ; and when the lawyer read out the will, she had left me 'five thousand dofiarswin 'a' stocking l The night I reached home Jules came to welcome me, and I showed him the stocking and asked him to guess; and then I threw the whole, part of which was shining gold and siver, on the'table, and it ‘rung with a pleasant sound. But it seemed to me that Jules had some- ,thing on his mind that night, and 1 rallied him about it; but that made him put out. And then I put the money back into .the stocking and locked it into my desk, while he held the lamp; and I remember that when I opened the desk he caught sight of the daguei‘reotype I’d had taken to give him on Christmas, and begged it; and l wouldn’tlet him have it be- cause it wasn’t good, and I meant to sit, again, and after he had gone I put it into the fire and said nothing. But when he said good-night there was something odd about him; he looked at me odd and searehinglygv as ifhe’d like to see my thoughts themselves; and once or twice he began to speak, and broke off with a kiss, and finally he told me that I shouldn’t see him fer a few days, as he was going out of town on bank business.” Mrs. Dunn paused, and sighed profoundly; Mr. h’oyburne walked to the window, and shivered as he looked out on the wild night. conspiracy with the thief, 1 saw the door of the closet, that was ajar, trem- ble. Without a second thought I flew to it an.d_wrenched it open, endâ€"it was Jules Adderley who stepped out! We looked at each other a full min- ute in the half-light, but we never ex- changed a word. He had been too faint-hearted to confess his sin and ask my help, and craven enough to steal into my house for my money. Do you think I could forgive him? I just motionedtoWard the door, and his head fell upon his breast, and he walked slowly. down stairs; I follow. “ It never occurred to you, perhaps, that it may not have been the money â€"â€"~the stockingâ€"that he meant to rob you of ?” - “ What else could it have been, pray ? He knew the money was there, and he had urgent need of it. He did not know that I loved him well en- ough tooverlook his offense, and give him all I had for the asking. I would have followed him to the ends of the earth but for‘ that, for better or worse. N 0t that I cared a fig for the money â€"I could wish it had all been sunk in the Red Sea. before it fell to me. If it was not that why should he have blushed and hung his head, and left me Without a word in extenuation ?” “Was not the other fault grave enough to make a. man blush and hang his head before his SWeethem‘t? â€"enough to render him speechless? Ye gods! But the letter! Shall we hear it? Remember thisis the dawn- ing of peace and good will towards men I” ’ “I almost dread it,” she said, tak- ing the yellow letter from its hiding place. “It is like a resurrection of the past; it will all seem as if it hap- pened yesterday. There, do you read it for me; my eyes are full of tears; the lines run together.” And Mr. Royburne read: “ ‘ I can not hope dear Jennie, that you could forgive me; I saw that there was no mercy for me in your face last night when I had crept into your house, hoping to carry ofi your pic ture as a remembrance of all 1 had lost by my folly and sin, not daring to meet you face to face and hearyour upbraidings and see the contempt in your eyes, and beg you for that last favor.‘ ButI ask that you will not utterly despise me, that, you will think as kindly of me as you may, believing that my temptation was great, and my punishment almost more than I can bear; that like many a poor sinner, my intentions were better than my deed. Should you have one tender word for me, one _consoling thought to cheer my exile, write it to London, not to Jules Adâ€" derley, but.”’_~and here John Roy- burne paused and bent towards Mrs. Dunn, and took her hand in his, caressingly. “Do you follow me, Jennie? 'Not to Jules Adderley, but to John Royburne l’ Christ’s blessing on the newly born I” “ Do you know, I’ve been tempted to do that very thing. I’ve been fighting against it all yesterday,” she answered. “It is Christmaa day," said Mr. Royburne. “ You leave your story unfinished unless you read the letter of Jules. Why not celebrate the day thus, if I may be so bold ?" “Well, it was ten years later be- fore I married Mr. Dunnâ€"not; for love, of course; that was all over with me. But he wasgoing to the bad, and needed a. helping hand, and vow- ed that it would be the same thing as giving him over to damnation if 1 re- fused. But I was rightly served. He led me a hard life and spent my money, and here I am a widow, not so well off as I was at twentyâ€"five, with the world before me where to choose, and a beliefin happiness this side of heaven. Ah, we’ve let the fire get; low. I’m all of ashiver. How garrulous I've been i ‘SEVO us, it’s twelve o’clock !” ' And the Christmas stars shone in brightly, for the candles had burned out, and the two long-parted lovers kner together in the first hour of the Christmas-day ! His name was Charley and he lived in the peaceful town of Thompson. The dews of only five summers have moistened his curly looks, but his pluck was as great as though the winds of a hundred winters had Whistled through his branches. He was akleptoman’iac withal, and ap~ propriated a single-barrel shot gun, shot pouch, and powder flask, the one containing two pounds of shot, the other about one pOund of powder. He leaded his weapon with the en- tire contents of the flask and pouch, and then, in a. fit of emotional insan- ity, attempted to murder a pensive Sparrow as it sat on a bush. At the first fire the gun disappeared, and Charley was found minus a. hand, with twenty severe wounds on his head and neck. But his pluck was intact. ‘ He is getting well rapidly, and says he’ll. have “that sparrow fit.” “By‘ the next Week the affair was town talk, and every bod :knew that heshad deeamped. wI-Ie’, dropped a letter in the mail for me, to be sure, but I never-opened it. didn’t care to read his lame excuse: he couldn’t say anything I didn’tknow already. I didn’t want to keep alive any spark of regret or affection for him. I Want- ed to tread on it, as I would on a ser- pent that had stung me. But nature is sometimes stronger than resolve; I couldn’t bringjmyself to burn the letter. I’ve kept it with the seal un- broken, and I’ve written it in my will that it shall be buried with me. “I had meant all along to give him the .five thousand. With this and What I could have raised on my house We could have made good the bank’s rose, and he would only have forfeited his situation. ‘ ing, and out into the" wide lonely night. ‘The Christmas belligfwere just beginning to vibrate on the air as I closedthe doer upon him; and they found‘me at the foot; of the stairs in a dead faint. Daniel Mossart, a most ingenious mechanic, has just been sent to an in- sane assylum in Michigan. He had for some years been at work on a watch Which, without being larger than usual, was to show quarter secâ€" onds, minutes, hours, days of the week, days of the month,and months of the year, and every fifth time it was opened was to Wind itself. He had completed it, and had received a large offer from persons in Cincin- nati for the right to manufacture it. Recently he took it apart to fix, and being unable to put it together again, some part having, probably been lost, the intense mental application upon the difficulty deranged his mind. ARAB INGENUITY.-â€"“Mr. Klein, who rode his own mare, asked Daoud it he was quite sure she always got. her alâ€" lowance. ‘Oh yes l_’ he replied, ‘ the muleteers often steal from one another, and rob their friends’ horses, but [ can always find out if your mare has been cheated.’ ‘ How?’ ‘ I always put some pebbles in with the barley, seven or eight, and count exactly how many I put in. The mare never eats the pebbles, and if any one steals the bar~ ley he is sure to take two or three peb- bles with it. If I find the pebbles short in the morning I make hard words, and they cannet tell how I know, and so they let alone cheating her.’ ” i Those who have known anything of “ jour printers ” will recognize this pic- ture, delineated by a Kansas City news- paper : “ He was just in lromlndianâ€" apolis this time. Things are in a bad way thereâ€"half rats and half union men. When he struck Indianapolis he had wealthâ€"a cool hundred; but he set ’em up for the boys and got broke. Chicago was a good town, but there was a. fearful mob there ; he could not stand it. St. Louis ’bout played out, and there’s going to be a strike, so he hopped out. Bought a. half-fare ticket to Atchison, but the roaster that did the punchin’ wouldn’t have it. Believ- ed he’d skip to Kansas City and stir up the boyé, and then go over to the Pa- cific slope. ‘Suy, ain’t there a. freight West? Give us a chew tobacco. Well, so long, boys.’ And he was gone." Among the men who make. no noise in the world, yet handle many millions, and enjoy the confidence of the opulent of New York, is Mr. Dyke« man, stock and bond Clerk in the Comptrollerls office of the city of New York; Originally he was a Methodist clergyman. He was ap- pointed to his present position thirty years ago, and has continued in his responsible position through the var- ious administration during that per- iod. The other day “ Burleigh ” saw John Jacob Astor in the Comptrola ler’s officeâ€"a. modest, quiet, unas- suming man careful of his words as he is of his dollars; a, huge fellow over six feet in height; massive in size; red hair, heavy, phlegmatie, German in look; with a ponderous tread that made the chandeliers jinâ€" gle as he walked along; and withal a ecided stoop. He came in and did not even speak. He nodded “ How do you do ?" The clerk gave him a look of subdued recognition, darted 011' for a. big book, opened it, pointed his finger to the place of signature. The millionaire took the pen, placed his name where it ought to he, took the check, bowed, and passed out-â€" The only. wordhe uttered in the room was in reply to a Statement by a vis. itor,. “Very pleasant weather, Mr. Aster.” “ Very-”- He was in the Cityflallabout three minutes. The transaction involved millions. At a recent love-feast in the Metho- dist Church at Biddeford, Maine, two old mugs which were used by John Wesley in service in his church in England were upon the table. When Wesley’s old church was torn down a sister of Mr. J. Goldsborough, of Bid- deford, being in England at the time, procured these mugs irom among the ruins. They are white, with blue landscape ornamentation, and will hold about three half pints each. Elisha. Parker, of Parker, Pennsyl- vania, meant to have his own way of having his own way. Before passing away he made a will leaving $1000,- 000 to be divided between members of his household in a. certain ‘mannor, accompanied with a proviso that if any one of the children should “ grum- ble” tllereat, the portlon of that one should be distributed in equal shares among the others. Not a grief was heard. ' The New York Evéning Post thinks. that Horseback riding is all very wel’lL for those hardened to its use, but as for people who have to eat their din- ner off the mantlepiece after the ex- ercise, they will find it “ an unnatural motion” and “ exhausting to stamina and vitality. If there is anything that will recen- cile a. man to marriedlit‘e, it is the knowledge that steals over him like a dream, as he bursts a button off, that there is one at home who can repair the damage. The woman who hit her 10rd and master over the head with the family Bible, justified the act to the judge by saying she was overcoming evifl with good. ‘ His name was Wrath, and when he asked his girl to marry him she gave him a (soft answer, and the soft ansâ€" wer turned away Wrath. M. Teefv. Esq- Terms:w One Dollar per Annmn in Advanac. THE YORK HERALD ‘UBLISHED AT THE OFFICE Issued Weekly on Friday Morning Yawn: Sun, Rwrmoxn HnAL‘ Miscellaneous Items. ALEX. Sm'r'r, PROPRIETOR WHOLE NO. 857.