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â€"The farmer who owns a sugar orchard is Happiest when the trees yield the most freelv. â€"FIa.-change. Anybody maple leaf this who chooses. . â€"â€"A song for the summer season : “ Drink to me only with thin ioe.”â€"Hackensack Re- publican. Now that would be just tune iqe for anything I â€"When a paragrapher alludes to the burial of a person who died at the age of 100 years, In “ a century plant,” he should be severely list down upon. â€"-' ‘he ex-Queen of Naples goes daily to the Hippodrome at Paris, and is taking lessons in circus tricks on horseback, a servantthrowing balls at her, which she catches, going at full gallop and leaning back so that her head 31- most touches the horse's tail.The King stands watching her in mute admiration, and when the exercises are over he goes to Madeleine and prays. And so the wires were being laid, and Ever- ard stepped over and around them all uncon- sciously, and took the good the gods pro- vided for him, whether in the shape of Beat- rice, or Rosamond, or his father’s uniform kindness toward him ; and the September days went by, and October came, and found him a student at last in his father’s office, where he bent every energy to mas- tering the law and gaining his profes- sion. There were no more long rides with Beatrice, and his mustang chafed and fretted and grew unmanageable for want of exercise. There were no more strolls in the leafy woods with Bossie, who gathered the nuts, and ferns, and grasses alone, and rarely had Everard‘s society except at meal-time, when she managed to post him with regard to all the details of her quiet, everyâ€"day life. She was reading Chateaubriand‘s “ Atala” in French, and found it rather stupid; or she was learning a new piece of music she, knew he would like; or old Blue had six new kittens in his trunk up in the garret, and she wished him to goand see them. ' â€"The General Staff in Berlin has been making a careful investigation of the whole Mecklenhurg coast to ascertain its powers of defence in the event of a descent upon it by a hostile fleet. The most exposed point they have found to be the broad and deep bay of Wismar, which is one of the best harbors on the Baltic, and where large ships can come very nearly up to the town. It is expected that batteries, and more especially iron-clad towers. which could be quickly armed with very far-carrying guns, will shortly be erected on the so-called Wallfisch, a small island in the bay, from which the whole navigable water can easily be commanded. Everard was always interested in what in- terested Rosamond, and on no one did his glance rest so kindly as on thislittle old-fash- ioned girl, in whom there seemed to be no guile; but he had no leisure time to give her. It was his plan to get his profession as soon as possible, and then, taking Josephine, go to some new place in the far West, where he could grow up with the town, and perhaps be comparatively independent and happy. But his future had been ordered otherwise, and suddenly, without a note of warning, his house of cards came down, and buried him in its ruins. â€"-Tit for tat is something which very few people relish. We can asily excuse our. selves for cheating a neighbor. but for him to do the same thing to us is an act not to be extenuated or condemned. To have the measure out of which we sell taken as the measure out of which to sell to us is very hard to bear “ I have weighed the two pounds of butter you sent me this morning,” said an irate customer to a dealer in the above mentioned article, “ and am surprised to find that it is short weight just three ounces. If that is your way of dealing I must buy my butter somewhere else." The butter meyrchant looked up surprised. But, without declaring his innocence, replied, “ Well, that is very strange, because I put the two poun g“ of sugar I bought of you in the scales, and gave you the full weight in butter.” To do as you are done by and do as you would like to be done by seem to be very different things. â€"As an ( lor, Mr. Gladstone is almost unapproaehz 1e. As a writer he would be save for his name and reputation, unreadable. Some one asked Lord Beaconsfield eighteen months ago whether he read a certain article written by Mr. Gladstone and at the time en- gaging part1cular attention. “I looked through it, of course,” the Premier said, “but I cannot say I read it. I can listen with grat- ification to Mr. Gladstone’ longest speeches, but I cannot for the life of me read what he writes.” This was a criticism given under circumstances which precluded suspicion of personal or political animus. It was the verâ€" dict of a man of letters on the essay of an orator, and it would be difficult to question its justice. Mr. Gladstone’s literary style is as bad as it can be. His sentences are long, in- volved and wiry, and he is as difficult to read as he is agreeable to listen to. This was a great deal for Judge Forrest to say, but he felt very indulgent toward his son, who had graduated with so much honor, and who seemed to be wholly upright and steady; and in a fit of wonderful generosity he went so far as topreseat him with a fine mustang, as a fitting match to Beatrice’s flee riding-horse. This was just what Ever- ard wanted, and he and Miss Belknap rode miles and miles together over the fine roads and through the beautiful country in the vicinity of Bothsay. Rosamond some- times accompanied them, but she was not fond of riding, and old Bobtail, the gray mare, sent her up so high, and seemed so out of place beside Bee’s shining black ponv, and Everard’s whiteâ€"face mustang, that she preferred remaining at home ; and so the two were left to themselves,and people talked knowingly of what was sure to be, and hinted it to Rosamond, who never contradicted them, but by her manner gave credence to the story. She believed implicitly that Beatrice was coming to be mistress of the Forrest House, and was very happy in the prospect, for next to Mr. Everard she liked Bee Belknap better than any person in the world. Many were the castler , he built of the time when Everard should bi his bride home. Since Mrs. Forrest’s r 11 so many rooms had been shut up. and ti: , nouse had seemed so lonely and almost dreary, especially in the winter, but with Bee there all would be changed, and Rossie even indulged in thehope that possibly the furniture in her own little room might be replaced by better, or at least added to. The Judge, too, watched matters with an immense amount of satisfaction. Years ago he had settled it that Everard would marry Bee, and he was sure of it now. That girl with the yellow hair, as he always called Josephine to himself, was not anything to his son, as he had once feared she might be. Everard could never stoop to her ; Everard would marry Bee, and it might as well take place at once ; there was no need to wait, and just as soon as his son was established in the ofiice he meant to speak to him, and if it were not already settled it should be, and Christmas was the time fixed in his own mind as a fitting season for the bridal festivities. He would fill the house with guests all through the holidays, and when they were gone the young couple might journey as far as Washington,oreven Florida, if they liked. Then in the spring Bee could fit up the south side of the house as ex- pensively as she chose, and Bessie should have the large corner room next his own on the north side, thus leaving the newly married pair as much to themselves as pos- sible. who was very kind to him, and seemed trying to make amends for his former severity and harshness, had said he was not to enter the office to study till October. Looking in his boy‘s face, he had seen something which he mistook for weariness, and too close appli- cation to books, and he said, "You do not seem quite well. Your mother’s family were not strong ; so rest till October. Have a. good time with Rossie and Bee, and you will be better fitted to bone down to work when the time for it comes.” [CONTINUED FROM FIRST mam] [To BE CONTINUSDJ ” And now the uanadians have become seized with the exploded notion,”Mr. Willson further said, “that ‘protection to native in- dustry’ is the only panacea. In order to en- rich the country they propose to go on increas- ing taxation and the building of still more of these unproductive public works, which have so signallyfailed in keeping their own people from migrating by hundreds of thousands to the more fertile lands and the milder climate of the United States. They do not seem to take note of the fact that there are lands enough of this kind open. free to settlers, within the United States for a population twenty fold greater than that of the whole Dominion. How long the Cana- dians will go on in efforts to isolate them- selves from the American system to which the inexorable laws of nature and industry have 1 assigned them, itis impossible to conjecture. ‘ The Dominion Government was no doubt led into much of its extravagance by the paternal or maternal system of England which for a time endorsed Canadian securities. Getting 1cheap loans by so easy a method made Canada a perpetual borrower in the British market. Lately the British Government has refused to guarantee further loans. probably ‘feeling that the time is not far distant, when iit must foot the bills and now as soon as a session of Parliament is over the Canadian Premier and Minister of Finance pack their trunks and start for London on a begging ex- pedition. Indeed, they have appointed a resident Minister to the Court of St. James, whose chief duty it will be to promote Cana- dian loans. In view of the policy that the Dominion is pursuing in building so many unproductive railways many men predict a total collapse of Canadian creditâ€"public and privateâ€"general bankruptcy and a cry all over the Dominion for annexation. Mr. John Bright, in a letter to me last summerâ€"it was published in the Heraldâ€"expressed his opin- ion that the present Canadian policy must endanger British connection. A few annexa- tionists are said to rejoice at the prospect of realizing their hopes right speedily under the policy of Sir John Maodonald’s govern- moat." “ In order to meet the interest on the pub- lic debt of Canada," Mr. Willson went on to say, “the duty on foreign importations has gradually been raised from about two and a half per cent ad valorem on the principal commodities imported from foreign countries to thirty per cent. and- in some cases forty per cent. to say nothing of a large increase of loâ€" cal and internal taxes. Nevertheless, the Dominion Government grows year by year more reckless of expenditure. It completed a few years ago the Intercolonial Railway, connecting Quebec with Halifax. at an outlay of about $30,000,000, and the cost of operat- ing exceeds the gross receipts by 81,500,- 000 a year, and long ere this line, run- ning through a sparsely settled and very poor country, having small hope of ever paying the cost of operating,was com- pleted, the project of building a line 2,000 miles long through a country almost unin- habited to the Pacific settlement of Vancouv- er's Island, now called Victoria, was under- taken. 'I he debt of the Province was then about $150,000,000, and had risen to 9175.- 000,000 when the present Conservative Gov- ernment came into power about eighteen months ago. It now foots up $185,000,000, and it is now morally certain that, in order to proceed with the enlargement of the canals and the construction of the Pacific Railway, the outlay for the current year can hardly fall short of $25,000,000, and by the time the latter works are completed the debt will cer- tainly reach $300,000,000. Meantime there has been a large exodus of native Canadians to the United States, estimated at hundreds of thousands." “While the duty on all other importations of the cereals into the mother country,” Mr. Willson continued, “was regulated on what was called the sliding scale. which set the duties either high or low according to the home demand and price, all grains. flour, timber and other products of the forest trans- ported through Canada in British bottoms were admitted at a merely nominal specific duty. But hardly bad the Canadian canals begun operations before Sir Robert Peel passed his famous free trade law and took from them these most valuable privileges. The result was that an outlay of nearly $20,000,000 by the Canadian Government yielded hardly enough to keep the canals in repair and operaâ€" tion. The Welland was the only exception to this rule, and the exception was due to the circumstance that a large part of the Western trade was for a time prior to the enlargement of the Erie Canal diverted from Bufi'alo and the Erie Canal at that point to Os- wego, where the grain was transferred from lake vessels by elevators at small cost to the Oswego Canal. thus forming a connection with the navigable waters of athe Hudson at Albany instead of finding ocean navigation by way of Montreal. The effect of the free admission by Great Britain of Ameri- can and other breadstufis was ruinous to the Canadians’ hopes of‘diverting traffic between the Western States and Europe, and in 1849 an extensive feeling in favor of annexation to the United States was developed in many parts of the Province. To arrest this feeling the British Government promised to bring about reciprocal free trade between Canada and the United States, and the reciprocity treaty of 1854 was made. Meantime all Can- ada turned its attention to building railways, and while the Government of Great Britain was indorsing the public securities of Canada to enable the government to make canals Ca- nadian capitalists began to build an extensive system of railways, and thus the annexation sentiment was squelched.” WHAT WILL BEVIVE THE ANNEXATION FEELING. “ The efiort to get a large share of the grain trade of the growing Western States by means of canal navigation from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario and through short canals round the St. Lawrence rapids became a favorite policy of both Upper and Lower Canada long be- fore the MacKenzie rebellion of 1837, which led to the union of the two Provinces. Little attention was given to railways and legis- lation hinged mainly upon canal interests. Thus it happened that the Canadians ob- tained an act of the Imperial Government creating difierential duties in favor of all grain, flour, timber and other products of the forest Imported into Great Britain by way of the St. Lawrence.” The speaker, Mr. H. Bowlby Willson, once a barrister-at-law and subsequently founder of the Hamilton SPECTATOR, and originator of the policy that converted the high Tory party to liberal Conservatism, is a resident of this city. It was through his father’s in fluence and that of the late Marshal S. Bid- well (who recently died in this city); both members of the Legislature of Upper Canada, that the Provinces subscribed for $200,000 of the stock of the Welland Canal Company, organized by Mr. W. H. Merritt. Mr. Will~ son’s father was thereafter one of the direc- tors of the Canal Company until the union of Upper and Lower Canada and the pur- chase of the Canal by the Government. At that time the enlargement was undertaken. Mr. Willson is thoroughly familiar with the canal and railroad system of the Dominion. In answer to a question propounded by a Herald reporter he said: “ I have read with lively interest the Herald’s exhaustive articles on the Welland Canal improvement, and it seems to me that in so ably bringing Canada‘s canal and rail- way policy before the people of the United States the Herald sustains the great reputa- tion it enjoys at home and abroad.” CHAFF FOR THE YANKEES. An Elli-Canadian All-s His Views. REGIPRUBITY AND ANNEXATIUN. THE BIRTH OF ANNEXATION FEELING. “PROTECTING" TRADE our {New York Herald] â€"London Examiner: " There certainly exist differences in manners and customs be- tween English girls and their transatlantic cousins which appear to us strange and even objectionable. But in a few lines to deprive America of the whole romance of youth, the whole charm of maidenhood, is an incorrect u it in libellou.” ‘ â€"A large real estate owner in New Jersey was saying to a German brewer in New York that the farm is just the one he ought to buy, because it was expected that a railway would soon run right past the door. “Vich ou der road streets, eif you bleeze. it vill be passing dot my you vill dell me, I oxpose 2” “Why," said the dealer. “on your side if you want it.” “00nd dot depot, hey, it vill ko past ter door?" Yes. indeed, and all the acres around here will be out up into city lots and have streets through them." Is dot so? Vell, mister, I am looking for aplsizes abowet fife miles from a. railroat.” Provisions ol the Bill Introduced in Ilse United Stale: Senate. WASHINGTON. April 23.â€"The bill intro- duced in the Senate by Mr. Baldwin author- izing the construction of a bridge across the Detroit River provides that whenever author- ity is granted by the State of Michigan and Canada to any persons or corporation. they may construct a bridge under the following restrictions: It shall be located at or within one mile of the city of Detroit, and may be used for railroad and highway purposes. As a public highway it shall not interfere with the free navigation of the river beyond what is necessary to carry into full effect the rights and privileges granted in the bill, and the necessary detention of boats in passing the bridge is not to be construed as interfering with the navigation of the river, The bill provides that the structure shall have one or more pivot draws with spans not less than 200 feet in the clear on each side of the pivot pier. and that the span or spans outside the draws shall be at least 250 feet over the main chan- nel of the river. Also, that the bridge shall be at least twenty feet high above water mark. The owners of the bridge will be required to keep. at their expense. at the bridge during the season of navigation 8. suitable steam tug to assist, free of charge. vessels in passing the draws without unnecessary delay. All rail-y road companies desiring to use the bridgei shall be entitled to equal rights and privileges} in passing over it, and in the use of its tip ‘ preaches and machinery, upon reasonabl terms and conditions, which are to be pre“ scribed by the District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan. The bill invests the Secretary of War with authority to establish the necessary rules and regulations which are to govern the passage of vessels and the use of the bridge. i it. The right hand grasped a tomahawk. ‘ The hair was rumpled and matted. A large hole was found in the forehead over the right eye, which looked as if it had been made by a bullet. The theory advanced is that this was some chieftain who had fallen in battle with the early settlers, and his braves being worsted, were obliged to retreat. Not having time to carry his body off with them and not wishing the whites to fall heirs to it, they hastily dug a grave and here deposited the mortal remains of their beloved leader. Messrs. Hampton and Walker believed that they had a wonderful discovery. After view- ing the body to their hearts’ content they procured a vehicl and with the assistance of the derrick and two colored men deposited the body therein and conveyed it to the rail- road station and made arrangements for its transportation to this city. Mr. Walker yes- terday came to this city, visited Professor Baird at the Smithsonian Institution and made arrangements for the body to be de- posited at that institution temporarily. The great curiosity will be placed on exhibition and will remain there until the National Museum is ready foroccupation. It will then be transferred to that building and will occupy a conspicuous position. Messrs. Hampton and Walker have determined to become pub- lic benefactors, and will donate their curiosity to the government. It will beformally trans ferred to the authorities about the middle of the summer. The body weighs nearly two thousand pounds, and is in perfect form and. preservation, the feature of the face depicting the death agony. BRIDGING DETROIT RIVER. Strange Discovery in the Soil of Maryland â€"Is it Genuine or an April l-loax ? [From the Washington Republican, April 1.] Tuesday afternoon while Messrs. John L. Hampton and Samuel R. Walker were en- gaged in digging a trench on apiece of ground belonging to the latter about two hundred yards from the shell bank, on the Eastern branch, hack of Bladensburg, their imple- ments struck, as they thought, a very hard and substantial substance, and, concluding that it was only a huge stone, continued to remove the earth to pry the stone from its position. After working for some time they managed to clear away sufficient earth to per- mit a view of the huge mass. They were greatly astonished to find that it resembled in shape a human being and was very weighty. After many futile attempts to raise the mass they wisely concluded to rig a derrick. Mr. Walker sped away to his home and soon re- turned with the requisite apparatus, which they speedily put in working order. Placing strong ropes around each end of the body they began to haul away and when the object was brought out in full View their astonish- ment knew no bounds. So unexpected was the discovery that in their great excitemefi; they almost lost control of themselves and had the rope not been twisted around a tree to make the hauling easier, the suspended body would have been precipitated back into its former resting place and, no doubt, some of its portions would have been broken. The object which had thus excited these men al- most to frenzy was nothing more nor less than the body of a human being. The men placed it upon the ground close by and procuring some water from the branch, proceeded to wash off the dirt. Each douse of water revealed something more and more startling to their astonished eyes. At last the dirt was all off, and on close examination the body proved to be that of an Indian petrified~turned to stone. It measured slx feet three inches in length and was broad in proportion. The chest, arms and legs were magnificiently shaped and well preserved, and the head and rest were perfect. It had evidently lain upon its back. One leg was slightly drawn up and the left hand was clinched, but there was nothing in NEW roan THE Humorous. After suggesting a modification of the tariff laws of both the Dominion and the United States so that they may be reciprocal. Mr. Willson drew his conclusions. He said : “The Western:States are particularly in Cana- dian waterways and railways. The staple products of those States increase year by year with extraordinary rapidity, and, though the Canadian navigation is about one month shorter each year than that of the Erie Canal. the difierence with respect to time is more than offset by the larger class of ves~ sale, and these, too, propelled extensively by steam, that navigate the Canadian waterways. It would be taking a very narrow view of the question to say that New York would loose some of its trade under a commercial policy favoring the interests of the Western States. On the contrary it may more logically be argued that the competition of the Canadian route would prevent undue advantage being taken by great railway combinations to sus- tain exorbitant charges for transportation. New York would simply become to Canada under closer commercial relations what she is to all the Western and other Statesâ€"its chief financial and commercial metropolis. Perhaps when Congress is done for a brief season with the business of President making and pestilential party wrangling the Com- mittee on Ways and Means may turn its at- tention to these important questions. A “ PETBIFIED" INDIAN The railroad companies contended that Mr. Worthen was upon the platform when the collision occurred and could not recover damages, as the rule of the company pro- hibited any passenger from standing upon the platform. The main issue was upon this point, and the testimony was very eon- flioting, nine witnesses corroborating the ant-meat of Mr. Worth-11 while Particulars of the Hull! in which Mr. Worlher: [0! $45,000 Damages. (From the Portland, Me., Press.) The case of Charles H. Worthen against the Grand Trunk Railway Company, which resulted in a verdict of $45,000, Tuesday after- noon, in Boston, for the plaintifi'. was in many respects a remarkable trial. The plain- tifl’, in 1876, was a salesman in the employ of Field, Leiter dz 00., of Chicago, and the firm so appreciated his business qualities, that in the fall of that year he was to have been admitted as a partner in the concern. On the 22nd of July, 1876, Mr. Worthen left his home in New Hampshire for Chicago, and while travelling over the Grand Trunk Rail- way, met with the accident which caused the injury for which the suit was brought. On the morning of July 24th, the train in which he was a passenger, after leaving Milwaukee Junction. had a race with a train on ‘ the Michigan Southern Road, and for the five miles where the two roads run nearly parallel it was claimed a great rate of speed was attained. Just be- ;fore reaching Detroit Junction the engineer 1of the Grand Trunk train applied the \vaouum brake, but it refused to operate, and the train dashed through the depot and colli led with a local passenger train which was waiting the arrival of the express train. Mr. Worthen, at thetime the collision took place, claimed that he was inside the car getting his baggage ready preparatory to leaving the train, and that when the shock came he was thrown with great force through the open door of the train upon the platform, which overlapped the platform of the next car, and pinioned Mr. Worthen in such a manner that it required considerable cutting before he could be extricated. His left leg was so badly crushed as to require amputa- tion, and one of the grounds relied on for damages was that, in addition to the loss of his leg, Mr. Worthen was incapacitated from performing active duty, and was thus deprived of earning a livelihood, which, before the accident, was very promising. THE VERDICT AGAINST THE Gus-Ann TRUNK. --A sip of Punch: Sheâ€"“I do hope you’ll sing this afternoon. What is your voice ?” He (modestly)â€"“Oh, a kind of a sort of a baritone-tenor-bass, don’t you know; like Santley and Sims Reeves rolled into oneâ€"â€" only under better control! Those ‘profes- sional fellows, never know how to sing in a drawing-room." Sheâ€"”Indeed! No more do some amateurs. I'm told some dreadful creature was trying to sing Gounod's ‘Maid of Athens'last Tuesday afternoon at Mrs. Ponsonby Tomkyns's. Everybody was in ‘fits, it seems.” Heâ€""At Mrs. Ponsonby ‘Tomkyns’s ? Do you know you must make‘ some mistake; for, oddly enough, the only person who sang there last Tuesday afternoon was myself~and, by a strange coincidence, Gounod’s ‘Meid of Athens’ was the very song I sang.” She (blushing uncomfortably)â€" “Ah,it was somewhere else, thenâ€"or some other day." Heâ€"“No doubt. I wonder where, and when, and who it could have been 7" (Is wondering still.) â€"The Mapleson Company didr bad in Cincinnati on their last tour, and the Colonel forthwith jumped at the conclusion that the Plaster of Paris of America had no musical taste. Whereupon the Gazette complacently says : “Italian opera no longer suits our elevated taste. Some time ago the reporters were asking a conspicuous man for particu- lars for an obituary notice of his wife, and one of them asked him if she was a member of any church. Said he : “0, ho, ho ; we’ve got way beyond that.” So we may say of Her Majesty’s Italian Opera, we’ve got way beyond that. Music set to words, and scenes, and actions, is in reality only “pro- gramme music.” It is only a varying degree of the same kind of programme music that famous show piece of our grandmothersâ€"The Battle of Prague.” â€"â€"Sera Bernhardt has been a prominent subject in the foreign news of the week. Piqued at her failure in Augier’: new play, “L‘Aventuriere,” she sent in her resignation to the Theatre Francais. It is liable to cost her a pretty penny, however, as her relations as a societuire cannot be so easily dissolved, and she is threatened with a suit for breach of contract. According to one account, she has declared her resolution to devote herself to painting and sculpture, and to play no more, except to fulfil English engagements. Another story is that she has refused a very profitable engagement offered her by Lester Wallack, and intends to “star" the United States with a company of her own. Mean- while she is being liberally advertised what- ever may be her newest whim. -â€"Wieniawaki was a fellow passenger of mine to New York on board the “Cuba” more than seven years ago. He shared the cabin with the chief-engineer, a. Scotehman, of musical inclinations, whose great desire was to hear the famed violinist play. Wieniawski refused for a long time ; but one day we heard sounds issuing from the cabin, and the Scotchman emerging, after an interval, said, with a triumphant wink, “I got a scrape out of the beggar at 1ast.”â€"Lond0n World. â€"-This is the difference between London and New York, according to Olive Logan : “If you ask one of the actresses of the com- pany to go to take supper with you after the performance in New York, you take her to Delmonico’s and your bill is $50. In London you ask her to your lodgings and give her a bit of cold steak and send the slavey out for a. pot of beer and she is quite satisfied.” â€"Cleveland is to have a Musical Festival of her own on the 12th and 13th of May under the direction of Mr. Alfred Arthur, a prominent musician of that city and conduc- tor of the local choral society. Miss Cary, Mr. Whitney and Remenyi are announced as soloists. â€"Ja.me5x Payn, in an article on “ Sham Admiration in Literature" in the Nineteenth Century, tells ofa fashionable lady of his acquaintance who informed him that her daughters were going to the theatre that night to see Shakespeare’s “Turning of the Screw.” -â€" Mario. the great tenor, is still living in Rome, where he holds a. sinecure appointment with a salary of $2,000 per annum as over- seer of the Royal Museums. He is 79 years of age. -â€"â€"Jeflreys-Lewis’s matrimonial life is evi- dently not a happy one. The Clipper says the lady is confined to her room in San Fran- cisco “in consequence of (as alleged) a. severe beating received at the hands of her hus- band. " â€"The eccentricities of stage names are amusing. Besides Mlle. Albani, there is a Mlle. Nevada, and prima. donnas will proba- bly go on naming themselves like steamships. Just think how Mlle. Cityofkalamazoo would sound in Italian. â€"â€"Von Bulow is expected soon in England, where he is to give a series of five concerts. -â€"The “Damnation of Faust" is going the rounds of the musical world, and is now promised in London during the coming sum- mer. â€"Wambold, formerly of the San Francisco Minstrels, is quoted by the New Orleans Times as saying that he has lost all his voice and never expects to sing again. â€"Mary Anderson has cleared 840,000 this season. â€"â€"Booth closed his New York engagement Saturday evening. It has been, as a whole, the most successful he has ever played there. â€"The chorus at the Cincinnati May Festi- val will number 590 voices,divided as follows : Soprano, 221 ; contralto, 120 ; tenor, 92 ; bass, 157. MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. ELECTRICITY as a curative is admitted by the medical profession. It is no longer a doubt after the numerous cures that have been effected by the use of Edison's Electric Belts. ELECTRICITY and absorption. the two great remedial agents as combined in Edison’s llutrio Aimrbont Bolh. Bee punphlot. a “ rising artist ” at once if she would turn her attention to bread making. â€"Professor Balfour, the well known botan- ist, accompanied by Lieutenant Colburn. of the 6th regiment, was conveyed last month in the Seagull from Eden to Soootm. They are staying on the island, which is a rich field for botanical explorations, for two months. living in tents. which were pitched for them by the men of the Seagull. â€"â€"Many a young lady who aspires to fame via pgqcil, brush and canvass. would become (From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.) A strange case of heredltary blindness and the acquisition of sight after being (from birth) for thirty-six years in total darkness came under the notice of a reporter of this paper during a visit to the Missouri State In- stitute for the Education of the Blind. M. F. Wells is the man in whose life the happy change has been made by the removal of a cataract from one of his eyes. The operation was performed by Dr. Williams. The oper- ation differed in no respect from that usually performed in such cases. and the interesting circumstances alone center in the history of the disease. Mr. Wells said that he resided in Southwest Missouri, and gained his liveli- hood by preaching. He was connected with the Methodist Protestant church. He was born in North Carolinaâ€"born blind. His father and mother were blind and their parents were blind. He could not trace the disease further back in the family. He was 36 years of age, and had never until after the operation been able to see in any respect: His left eye is the one from which the cataract has been removed. Mr. Wells is under in- structions to be slow in exercising it. The right eye, upon which the cataract still re- mains, looked a whitish-brown color. Be- sides his parents and grandparents being blind, three of Mr. Wells’ children are blind, and are at present inmates of the educational establishment on Morgan street, and two have their sight. Dr. Williams is confident that the acquisition of sight will be complete although necessarily slow. When, however. the carriage was at the ,door, and the water-sprite's scanty toilet com- 1 plated in all respects but one, he seized brush 1 and pallette and addressed himself, seeming- ly in feverish haste, to his task, hurrying his wife of to the ball as soon as her mimic feet were ready, without giving her time to in spect them. On entering the galy lighted ballroom the lady cast a hurried glance at her husband’sartistic achievements. Her horror may be better imagined than described when she perceived that the pink silk tights in which her dainty feet were imprisoned had been admirably illuminated by his master- 1 hand with horrible representations of chil- blainsp bunions and inveterate coma, onlyl too true te nature. That night she danced i not, but set sadly in a corner, hiding her i traverstied feet under her chair as best she: might. I Thirty~six learn in Total Darkness, Then Restored to Sight. Among the strange freaks of the last Viennese Carnival has been the adoption by several of the Kaiser- stadi’s leading beauties of imitation feet and sandals, as accessories to mythologi- cal or classical costumes. Having procured flesh-colored maillots provided with thin soles, these ladies committed their delicate extrem- ities to the manipulation of skilled artists, who deftly painted thereupon counterfeit presentiments of toes, sandals and laces, all complete. It appears that the pretty Wife of an eminent Viennese historical painter had chosen the dress or undress of a water-sprite wherein to attend the “G’schnas Bell.’2 and solicited her talented husband’s aid to “make up” her feet in the manner above indicated. He consented ; but being of a jeaious disposi tion, prompting him to be chery of enhancing his wife’s natural charms by adventitious means, he put off the foot-painting operation until the last moment. NE‘V USE FOR DEUORA'I‘IhE AR'I‘ “ Twenty-eight years ago I had an opinion to advance on any subject. One night the mate of my bark said that we were running her ashore on Long Point. I stuck to it that it was only a fog bank. In fifteen minutes she was high and dry, and I was $18,000 out of pocket. Since then what I do know I keep to hedge on. and what I don’t know I keep locked up in my clam’shell until I can strike a rising market. ”â€"â€"Detroit Free Press. Ladies Who Had Their Feet Painted tor the. Viennese Carnival. “ You might, and you might not” When she had gone an acquaintance who had overheard the conversation asked the captain why he didn’t give direct answers. The old man drew himseif up an inch or two and replied : “ You have heard that the Daisy was lost, have you ‘2 ” “I shouldn’t like to say i had or hadn’t, but I pgoba‘ply haven’t.” “ Maybe so and maybe not. I wouldn’t like to give an opinion about that. Some sons go down with schooners and some don’t. " I “I’d hear b'y to-morrow if she had,wouldn’t 2),, “ Maybe there has. I know there has been one on land.” “ You see, I have a son on a schooner.” “ Yes, maybe you have.” “ And I‘m afraid he was out in the storm.” “ If you have a. son on a schooner, and the schooner was out in the storm, it is likely your son was out. too.” “Do you think there was any danger ? “ I can't really say.” " But it blew terribly hard.” “ Perhaps it did, madam ; but as I play checkers most of the time I can’t say how hard it blew.” “ If the schooner went down my son went down too, didn’t he.” it being contrary to the rules of practice in Massachusetts courts. The jury were out only an hour, and on the first ballot a. large part of the jury were in favor of giving Mr- Worthen more than was finally agrecd upon. It is probable that this verdict will stand, al- though a motion will undoubtedly be made to set it aside on the ground that the dam- ages were excessive. This is the largest verdict ever obtained in any Massachusetts court. A woman was yesterday looking around the ferry dock as in search of some one she knew, and she finally accosted an old lake captain with the query : "Sir, are you a sailor ? ” “ I have sailed,” he replied. " There has been a great gale on the lakes ‘2 ” on the other hand several witnesses testified that he was upon the platform. At the first trial, the jury found for the plaintiff in the sum of $13,000, but this verdict was set aside and another trial had last spring, which re- sultedin a. verdict of $26,000 for Mr. Worthen. The counsel for the Grand Trunk succeeded in getting a new trial on account of an erro- neous ruling of the presiding judge, and the case was the first on the list at the present term, commencing on Wednesda‘y7 of last week, and being concluded on Tuesday afterâ€" noon. Profiting by his previous experience, Gen. Butler avoided any exceptions, but Mr. Band, of this city, counsel for the defendant, desired to take a general exception to Judge Lord’s charge, but the same was not allowed, WOULDN’T COYIMI’I‘ llll'l HELF‘ THE BLIND MADE TO SEE. -â€"A Brooklyn jury decided on Saturday that “ no amount of money is equal to a. blasted hearth-stone ; still we agree to assess the damage at $2.600.” A great many men blunt heir hearth-stones for a grant dual 10l- â€"Theodore Tilton lectured in Keene, N. H., one night this week, and the hall was connected by telephone with a sick men’s room half a. mile distant. The experiment was entirely successful. Funeral netioe here- after. -â€"-Hemilten billiardists pay pretty clearly for their amusement. Forty cents an hour is the tariff here, while it is only from twenty to thirty cents an hour in Toronto. Fifteen cents a game for bowling is also too high. â€"The last descendant of Fernando Cottz. the Due de Monteieone, died the other day at Naples. His fortune, estimated at thirteen millions of francs, will give rise to litigation, as the Duke has left no direct heir. â€"â€"The father of Charley Ross still indulge! in the hope that he will some day find his son, and no night comes down that the lost boy’s mother does not listen for the voice she will never hear again. â€"Fireman Montgomery has resigned. The reason he gives is that he was being fined so often for neglecting his duty that there was danger of the city becoming his creditor te a considerable amount. â€"Colonel “Bob ” Ingersoll has met his match in Canada. He was challenged to a discussion by a ciergymzui» named Bray and promptly declinedâ€"evidently preferring to do his own braying. â€"0ue of the Saratoga hotels has engaged a famous ice cream man. The Boston Bulletin expects that now some rival will engage a. prime, donna and advertises, famous high scream woman. Guelph Herald : The Hamilton Times tells of “ an escaped insane man." The editorlal columns of the paper, however, show that the political writer has been captured, and Is at his post again. â€"â€"Detroit Free Press : Lady Dufierin may not be preparing to go on the stage, but that Russian bear story has a. suspicious look. It is far better than a. diamond robbery as an advertisement. ~Never be afraid of the man who chal- lenges you to fight a duel. He will feel all that you can feel, and more too. The man who rushes at you with a spade is the chap to look out for. â€"â€"â€"A New Orleans doctor says there is more real nutriment in one pound of sausage than in two pounds of the best beefsteak, and may be some fellows want to yell “Dog I” at that statement. â€"Cardinal Nina. has enjoined a. novean a Sant Andres della Valle to invoke that saint’s good ofiices against the sudden deaths which have become alarmingly frequent in tho Eter» no.1 City. 3 Nelson, who is a laborer, at present living ‘ l at Southampton, is married to the prisoner’s - daughter, and lived with his iather-in-law. ‘ In Janmry, 1874, the latter and Nelson went 3 to Cape Hurd for the purpose of burning ' wreckage which had drifted upon the beach, 5 for the sake of the wrought iron nails which it contained. Cape Hurd is about three miles distant from the place where the pris- oner lived. On the day they went to the beach, they both stayed out all night, shelter- ing themselves in a structure of boards which they erected, and protecting themselves from the coldness of the night by a fire which they kindled. While they were engaged in build- ing the fire three Indians came to where they were. One of them spoke to Nelson, and shook hands with him and the prisoner. While Nelson was speaking to the Indians, Davis took up his rifle, a double barrelled one, and sat down beside the fire The Indians withdrew a short distance and built a fire for themselves. Davis and Nelson then completed their camp and ate some ‘ lunch which they had brought with them. After the repast, Davis told Nelson that these Indians had stolen some lumber from him, and that his son was going to shoot them, but was deterred from doing so by Davis, who feared that the Indians would turn upon them and kill them all. He said further that he always intended to have satisfaction out , of them for stealing the lumber, and that he wouldn’t get a better chance than was pre- sented that night. There Would be no danger in der oying them, as he would tie up the se" 11.1 rudder, put the bodies in, and send ti. Mi adrift upon the lake. Until Davis drew his attention to it, Nelson had not noticed a boat drawn up upon the beach. He had not seen any boat with the Indians, as they had come to camp on foot. Davis tapped his rifle and remarked, “There’s the lady that is good for two of them, and we’re good for the other one with the axe.” Then he made threats against the lives of several others whom he mentioned,because they had offended him in various ways. He worked himself into such a passion that he trembled and foamed at the mouth. He remained this way for acouple of hours, when he said, “Are you going to help me kill these beggars ?" Nelson tried to persuade him not to carry out his design, but he took Nelson by the collar and dragged him out of the camp. Nelson tried to free him- self, but Davis threatened to hit him with the axe, and fearing that the threat would be car- ried into execution, he went along quietly. Nelson again tried to dissuade him from his purpose, but as he was speaking Davis raised his rifle and fired. Two Indians were lying sleeping by the fire, and as the rifle was dis- charged they threw up their hands and feet. The third one jumped up and was making towards the beat, when Davis fired the second barrel. The Indian did not fall until he reached the boat,when he leaned across its bow. Thenight was very dark, and as Davis ran towards the wounded man, with his gun clubbed, he fell, and dropping the rifle, could not recover it on account of the darkness. ‘ He got up, ran towards the fire, where there were two oars. He grasped one of the oars, 1 and going to the boat, he struck the Indian on the side of the head and felled him. Davis then carried the bodies to the beach and placed them in the boat. He then put a lot of stones in her and shoved her afloat. When she was well afloat he struck her side with an axe and shoved her as far on the water as he could. Nelson could hear the water gurgling in through the hole Davis had made 111 her. Then he came back and hunting up his rifle, loaded it, and asked if Nelson would ever tell on him. Not receiving any answer, he raised the gun, and pointing it at Nelson’ s head rrade him piomise that he would never ‘tell any one of the occurrence “If people didn’t know you were around here, I‘d shoot you too." Both men then returned to camp, and Davis again began frothing at the month. They went home in the morning, and Nelson lived with his father-in-law until the spring, when he was ordered out of doors. Nelson did not inform upon Davis until last winter. He says that a constable named Belrose who was concerned in a trial 1n which Davis was charged with making threats, came to him and told him if he did not tell all he knew about Davis he would be arrested. Nelson then laid the informa- tion belore a justice at Walkerton. M-Hmâ€"b-â€"__A_- At Osgoode Hall, on Friday, before Chief Justice Hagarty. application was made for bail in the case of Abraham Davis, who was indicted at the Walkerton Assizes for the murder of three Indians at Cape Hard. in the county of Bruce, January, 1874. His Lord- ship refused to interfere. without the consent of the Crown. The informant in the case is George Nelson. who is a. son-in-law of the prisoner. and the story he tells is a. most startling one. Condensed from the papers produced in court and stripped of its legal phraseology. the information is to the follow- ing effect 2 Startling Story ofAbI-ahanl Dnvia' Crime â€"Tl|ree Indians slaughtered in Cold Blood. THE BRUCE MURDER. COMIC BUDGET- â€"The editor of the La Plate. (La) Heme ress. having an addition to his family writes : “ The storm wind of the ‘Equinox’ of last Saturday morning left at our house a little cherub of the female persuasion, a kind of leap year tribute as it were. We bow gracefully to the dispensation. sharpen our lead pencil and call upon the delinquent wood nuburibu' to materiel!” at once." During the recent Liverpool election the doors of each polling-booth were made the scene of an attempt to work the ticket sys- temâ€"s. device to ascertain how the voters had polled. To this end a ticket was given to each elector, and this ticket he was expected to hand. on his return to the man at the door who represented the party for which he had voted. It so happened that a. costermonger’s donkey was gsyly decorated with Lord Rem~ say’s colors, With a plentiful bedizement of Home-Rule green. The man who stood senti- nel for Lord Ramsay’s party smiled approval, and mentally counted the coster as one more lfor his lordship. But judge of his surprise iand bepuzzlement when he beheld. with his I own eyes. the costcr return and put his ticket ‘in the hands of Mr. Whitley’s guardian of the gate. Sure that there was some mistake, he stepped forward to explain that he had given the ticket to the wrong man. ”No, I've not,” said the coster, “ I’ve voted for Whitley.” “ But your donkey’s in our colors.” “ Hum," replied the costar ; “he's an ass-I'm a Can- servative i" , At this season of the year gloomy reports ‘ and predictions in regard to the peach crop are always in order. Something or other is per- petually happening to mar the prospects of a ilarge crop. At one time the weather is too , cold or too wet, at another it is not cold or IWet enough. Atornado occasionally comes to ,the rescue, and, when everything else fails, ,the transportation lines have made a combin- ation which inevitably have the eflect of put- ting up prices. This year, according to the Delaware papers, we had too much frost in the beginning of the present month so that in Maryland,south of the Delaware line,where the trees were well advanced, the destruction is said to be very great. The Middletown region, in Delaware, which is the great peach producing district, is, however, expected to make up for whatever deficiencies may occur in other sections. There the trees have not home much fruit in two years, and, according to all peach precedents, they ought to yield abundantly this season. In the eastern shore counties the chances are said to be still good, so that, taking all things into consideration, there is not much reason to fear that we shall experience a dearth of the luscious fruit this summer. But the trouble is not yet over. There are hail storms and insects and un- heard of other calamities yet aheadâ€"New York Herald. â€"London Truth: “When a girl has re ceived the best education which schools can afford; when she has learned to sing, dance. embroider. knit ; when she has a pretty face, a taste for finery, and a desire to have a house of her own, she soon turns restless on finding that no eligible proposals are forth- coming for her hand. In the nature of things, it must needs be that the majority 01 girls in the middle class are condemned to remain single in their prime. Men cannot marry until their prospects are wall assured, and this happens to most men only when hey are bordering on thirty.” SONG. I ne’er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me ; I ne'er saw nectar on s. lip But where my own did hope to sip. Has the maid who seeks mg heart Cheeks of rose, untouched y m i‘ 1' 7," As red as a rose was my love last nightâ€" Yes, red as a rose was she : But toâ€"day my love'a us pale and white As the blossoms of the apple tree. Poor thing, she is pining for me I think, But the wicked neighbors say Her mother stole in, while my love was asleep, And stole her pink saucer away. â€"When cremation becomes fashionable the New Orleans Picayune looks forward to the time when a man can have his ancestors put up in cans and shipped to any part of the world. When that blessed time arrives we may expect to receive such letters as the fol- lowing: ” Dear E.â€"-â€"I have today (or- warded to you per express poor dear Uncle John and little Billy. If you can spare Aunt Jane and Cousin Sarah I would like to have them for awhile.” â€"'1‘he Newark Ledger reporter claims to have seen the recent duel near that town be- tween Dr. White and Mr. Adams, of Philadel- phia. According to that paper the pistols were loaded without balls, and when the principals fired the seconds hit each duelist with a hickory nut. This caused them to think they were shot and both tell senseless to the ground. It took a great deal of brandy and water to revive them, and when the Led- gcr reporter. who was located in an adjoining tree, laughed at the acare,he was invited down to ” take something.” â€"“ Emma.” said a bondholder whose purse held more than his head. “it is time for you to marry. Your mother and I have chosen neighbor Gun’s son. and the aflair progresses favorably.” “ But I don’t love him ; I don’t respect him, and I won’t marry him,” cried Emma. “ What bash." answered the enraged parent. “ So you, too, have got hold of those new notions. Just look at your mother and me. Did we ever respect each other, I should like to know; did we ever love each other ? And yet we’ve lived together for fifty years and I’m worth a. million.” Thy beauty set my soul aglow, I'd wed thee right or wrong ; Mun wants but little her below, But wants that little long. â€"In Behring Island the Swedish Arctic ex- plorers claim to have discovered the future dairy farm of the remote east, and any that anglers who have used up the European rivers may there find excellent sport. The rivers abound in trout and salmon too unac- customed to human enemies to be afraid of them And winter evens up the thing I By lingering in the lap of spring. â€"There is a. young lady in Keokuk. 1a.. who is six feet four inches tall, and she is en- gaged to he married. The man who won he: did it in these words : -â€"A Cleveland clergyman was deposed be- cause he made such a racket in preaching that the congregation couldn’t sleep. The Boston Post says when people Fit up six nights in a week to play keno they want a chance to sleep Sunday. â€"[Nsw York Tribune. â€"Religious tracts sent to a man with 12 cents postage due on them are not conducive either to religious thought, word or action. We have 111 our mind a. young men who was just wavering on the balance , the 12 cents decided him and he became a. howling heathen. â€"Alovely young lady I mourn in my rhymes; Shelves plansant, good-natured and civil Ion times. Her figure was good; she had very fine eyes, And her talk was a mixture or foolish and wine. Her adorers were many. and one of them said. " Shae waltzed rather well! it's a. pity she'fl ea .. â€"When the young and. tender school-girl isn't thinking, Isn't thinking 01 the time when she will be alloweni to vote, 'Lowed to vote, The chances are that she is coyly blinking, Coyl blinking, At some young man in a. me rs. overcoat, Overcoat. 77â€", ,‘_,___-- ., _-. I will ov’v’u the’celor true When yielding blushes aid their hue. Is her hand so soft and pure ? I must press it to be sure ; For 08.an be certain then Tillit, grateful, press again ? Must I with attentive eye Watch her heaving bosom sigh ‘I I will do so when I see The heaving bgsom sigp_for_me_. AN ELECTION INCIDENT. FIO’I‘IONABY FACTS. ~There never was so strange a year ; The seasons seem 9.11 out of gear : The summer took so much of full, We had no autumn days at all : The fall. in order to gm; 3 unre, 'goo‘k qll‘the winter it_di ‘d‘are ; PEACH PROSPECTS. â€"“Tiie Duemid‘ETM 3271;. Sheridan BED AND BLUE