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-7 o o f DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF ORECON. vVOL. 11. OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1877. NO. 11 ET B" m li Will W H BZ. W Il"i jkl . iti n a tr . ifi t ifi g w . jfci6-:?.w V I 1 I MUL PI J I .""l in . I Sra in IMS - M . IFI I Elm A V- A o o I- iJ o o f I, O i f r THE ENTE RPRTSE. ALOCAL NEWSPAPER FOR TIIE Farmer, Business Man, and Family Circle. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. XT' RAMC fS . 3 I : rKOI'KIETOn AXD I'L'BLISUEK. OFFICIAL PAPER FOB CLACKAMAS COUNTY. OFFICE In ExTKuraisE Building, one door south of Masonic Building, Main street. Trrnin of MuIcrlptioi : Single copy, one year, in advance... Single copy, six months, in advance. .S3 . 1 Term of AlTtiwlnjj : Transient advertisement!?, including all legal notice, per square of twelve lines, one week $ For each subsequent insertion One column, one year Half " " Quarter " " Business Card, one square, one year... .20 00 GO 00 40 00 13 00 SOCIETY NOTICES. OREGON' No. O. F., meets every Thursday even I. I. ing, ai j o chick, iu me uau tfi-: lows' Hall. Main street. Members Vvv of the Order are invited to attend. ' 1 By order of . G. ii:i5i:ccA iix;iji:l: lodge, No. 2, I. O. O. F., meets on the Second and Fourth T ruesday jT'SjzL? evenings of each month o'clock, in the Odd Fellows' Hall Members of the Degree, are invited to attend MUL.TX03IAII LODGE, No. 1, A. F. & A. M., holds its, regular corn - Saturdays in each month, at 7 o'clock from the 201 li of September to the UOth ff March; and 7V o'clock from the 20th of March to the 20ih of September. Brethren in good standing are invited to at tend, iiv order of V . M. FALLS J:NCA3II3IENT, So. 4, I. O. O. F., meets at Odd Fellows' Hall on the First and Third Tuesday of each month. Patriarchs iu good stand ing are invited to attend. J. W. NORRIS, 1 Jx y s i c i it ii ji ii I Surgeon. OFFICE ANU KESIDE.VCE : On Fourth Street, at foot of Cliff Stairway. tf CHAS. KNIGHT, oaxbv, ... oici:;o, Physician and Druggist. 2FPrescriptions carefully filled at short notice. ja-if PAUL BOYCE, M. D., lhyiciaii and Surgeon, Okegon City, Oiieuox. Chronic Diseases and Diseases of Women and Children a specialty. Otliee hours day and uight; always ready when duty calls. Auir-3-", '70-tf DR. JOHN WELCH, DENTIST OFFICE IX (iiti caix city, onEcox. Highest cash price paid for County orders. JOHNSON & McGOWN, Attorneys aM Counselors at Law. OltKUO ( ity, oiii:;o!(. Will practice in all the Courts of the State. Special attention given to cases in the U. S. Land Ollice at Oregon City. 5aprlS72-tf L. T. BARIN, .ATTORNEY AT LAW, OHK(JO ( ITY Will practice iu all Stic. . oici:jo.v. the Courts of the Nov. 1, lS7o-tf oW. H. HIGHFIELD, Z2sta.Tolisl3.eca. since 'S, One door North of Pope's Hall, MUX .T., OltKCiOX, CITY OltKOOX. An assortment of watches. Jewelry, fciyaand Seth Thomas' Weight Clocks, all 5,jof which are warranted to be as repre sented. J'-jff Repairing done on short notice; and thankful for past patronage. 'Mh iil fr County OrdfW. JOHN M.BACON, 1E AI.EK IV jT Books, Stationery, PICTURE FRAMES. MOULDINGS AND MISCELLANEOUS GOODS. OllEGOV ClTT, OrEGO.V. IrAtthe Post Oflice, Main Street, east fide. novl-'75-tf IMPERIAL MILLS. JjaKocqiiP, Savier & Co., OREGON CITY. Keep constantly on hand for sale Flour, Middlings, Bran and Chicken Feed. Parties purchasing feed must furnish the sack. J. H. SHEPARD, Boot and Shoe Store, One door north of Ackerman Bros. t-i7Boots and Shoes made and repaired as ciieap as the cheapest. Nov. 1, 187"-tf MILLER, CHURCH & CO. "DAY; THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR At all times, at the OltKGOX CITY MILLS, And have on hand FEED and FLOUR to sell, at market rates. Parties desiring Feed must furnish sacks. novl J-tf TO FRUIT-GROWERS. HP HE ALDEN FRUIT PRESERVING J. Company of Oregon City will pay the HIGHEST MARKET PRICE For PLUMS, PEARS and APPLES. Mr. Thos. Charman is authorized to pur cnase lor the Company. L. D. C. LATOURETTE, Pres't iUOS. CHARMAN. Sec v. Oregon City, July 28, lSTo-tf ' OREGON CITY BREWERY. TIPWDV TTTTHf T1T1T T-TAVIXG purchaM-d the above rVfU irewerv. Wishes to inform tJi puunc that he is now prepared to manufac ture a No 1 quality of ?ood as can be obtained anywhere in tbe etate. Orders eollcited and promptly filled. Do .Your lest. The heart and mind of man and man Must differ, it is true, And so the deed our neighbor does Perchance Ave ne'er could do; And thus, iu climbing fortune's hight To reach the fame iu store, If people only do their best, The world will ask no more. Docs then the little humming bird Its tender song forsake, Because the nightingale's eweet voice May softer music make? Or does the tiny, twinkling 6tar, Which lends to earth its light, Repine because some kindred orb May chance to burn more bright? And so thro' life we find that some Are clad in praise und fame, "While others meekly plod along, With naught to gild their name. But when each life is recou'd up, It's doings counted o'er, If we can say, "1 did my best," Our God will atk no more. "The One Talent. In a napkin smooth and white, Hidden froiu all mortal sight, My one talent lies to-night. Mine to hoard, or mine to use, Mine to keep, or mine to lose; May I not do what I choose ? Ah! the gift was only lent, With the Gievr's known intent That it should be wisely spent. And I know he will demand Every farthing at my hand, "When I in His presence stand. What will be my grief and shame When I hear my humble name And cannot repay his claim! Some will double what they hold ; Others add to it tenfold, And pay back in shining gold. Lord, O teach me what to do! Make me faithful, make me true, And the sacred trust renew. Help me, ere too late it be, Something now to do for Thee Thou who hast done all for me! Observer. How Thomas Jefferson was Elected the First Time. The circumstauces of doubt and dis pute which overshadowed the fourth Presidential election in 1800 possess a decided interest pertinent to the present time. At that election where the struggle lay between John Adams and Tnomas Jefferson, the voting was so close that it was not known who would be President for nearly three mouths, or from the 1st f December, 1800, to the 17th ot Febru ary, 1SU1. At that time there was no provision, as at present, for the choosing ot Electors of President by popular ballot and by gen eral ticket throughout the States. Ou the contrary, there were three different modes of choosing Electors of President and Vice-President in practice: First, a choice by the Legislature; second, an election by the people by general ticket; and, third, an election by the people vot- ngin Congressional Districts. Tile third method was first adopted and then aban doned by Massachusetts aud Virginia, as the district system was fouud to be open to the objection of dividing the strength of the State, and neutralizing its vote by possible equal division between the candidates of opposing politics. In Mary land, where the district system still re mained in force, the popular vote by dis tricts had resulted in choosing four Fed eralists and four Republicans, and the same was the case in Vermout,whose two votes in the Electoral College were equally livided between Adams and Jellerson. The Republicans carried their Electoral ticket, by Legislative or popular vote, in Xew lork. Pennsylvania, and in all the States south of the Potomac. The Fed eralists carried for Adams four of the New England States, Vermont being di vided. It now began to appear that the result would hinge upon the vote of S.mtli Carolina, where the choice of Electors was by the Legislature. Many of the members of that body being of doubtful politics the result was extremely uncertain; and the vote of South Caro lina was canvassed with as eager interest by both parties as it has been during the past week. An attempt was made in that State to get up a trade or a compromise bv which the R-publicans ottered to sup nort the Federalist Pinckuey for the sec ond office provided their caudidate. Jef- ferson, should be voted tor by the eder- . . I. ' 1 l l 4 n.-v.-.. ii U.i tint, tt.s. . - - IStS lor Hie Ural. iVltCI UJUSUliauuu, Federalists rejected tins compromise, and resolved to stand by their own ticket This left them, however.in a hopeless mi noritv.and the Republicans in the Legisla- ture ctiose ineir uu iiicnuisnmu uum ni-nHna without dirhcultv. 11ns. as was ouicklv known, give a majority to Jefferson of eight electoral votes; provid ed all elected as Federalists or KepuD- lirans adhered strictly to their party affiliations. This, however, was tar irorn certain ; for the original intention of the framers of the Constitution, that the E'ectors should themselves have entire liberty of choice, was still of some weight in the public mind, thotigu weaseneu uy thp. stronir current of party feeling which hnd run high in the precedin vears. If half a dozen Electors should exercise their independent liberty o choice they might make an entirely new deal as to the orhces. A combination oe tween the Federalists aud a part of the Republicans might make Pinckney or Burr President, with Jefferson as V ice President, or, as was actu illy canvassed Pinckney and Burr might be dropped en tirelv, and the names of Jefferson and Adams substituted, -reversing, however, the positions they respectively held at th moment, of President and Vice-President During the summer preceding tin election the seat of Government had been removed from Philadelphia to Washing ton; and in this isolated and straggling village in the wilderness then contain ing less than five hundred inhabitants) the great question of a disputed Presi dential election was to be finally settled. Congress met in Washington for the first time on the 17th of November, 1800, nearly two weeks before the result of the election in the South Carolina Legislature had ben reached. It soon after became known that there was a tie in the Electo ral vote, Jefferson and Burr each having received 63 Electoral votes to Adam's 63 and Pinckney's G4. The disappointed Federalists, some of whose leaders cherished a virulent hatred for Mr. Jefferson, conceived the idea of making a combination to give the Presi dency to Burr, although he was the Re publican candidate for Vice-President. Burr was from the North, and could, it was thought, be won over by ties of grati tude, while Jefferson was from the South, and most unpopular in the New England States, where Federalism had its strong holds. Burr, however, notwithstanding his acts of periidy and ambition iu later years, does not appear to have gone into this scheme at the time. Even before the tie in the Presidential election was clearly known, Burr wrote a letter declining to enter into any competition with Jefferson for the first ollice. Alexander Hamilton, the great Federalist of New York, was himself emphatic in condemning any ar rangement which should prefer Burr above Jefferson. Much as he disliked the latter, he disliked Burr more. Hamilton wrote to Oliver "Walcott: "I trust New England will not so far lose its head as to fall into the snare. There is no doubt that, upon every pru dent and virtuous calculation, Jefferson is to be preferred. He is by far not so dangerous a man, and he has pretentions to character. Burr is bankrupt beyond redemption, except by the plunder of his country. If he can he will certainly dis turb our institutions to secure himself permanent power, aud with it wealth." Iu spite of these protests, however, a caucus of Federalist Congressmen de termined to attempt the election of Burr. Some of them hated Mr. Jefferson to such a degree as to advocate his defeat in the pending election in the Housed, where the Federalists clearly had it in their power to prevent an election. They were ready to do this even if the offices of President and Vice-President should be vacated be fore reaching an election. The num ber of Federalists, however, who were ready for anarchy, were small, aud Bayard, of Delaware, together vith the Maryland Federalists, who could at any time Sittle the contest by throwing their votes for Jefferson, came to a mutual understand ing that the attempt to exclude him from the Presidential chair should not be car ried beyond a certain point. Before proceeding to count the Electo ral votes ill joint convention, the House had passed resolutions first, that the House would proceed to ballot for Presi deut immediately after the counting of the vote; second, that the doors of the House should be closed during the balloting, ex cept to the Senate aud the President of the L niteJ States, tor whom seats were pro- ided ; third, that after commencing the balloting for President, the House should not adjourn until a choice was made; nd, lourth, that all questions which arose iter the balloting commenced should be decided bv the States without debate. On the second "Wednesday of February (1S01) the momentous issue was to be decided. 1 he whole country was on the tip-toe of expectation. The party ourmils were full of paragraphs and communications testifying to the public anxiety, and dealing in dire predictions as to the result. Meanwhile the balloting went on, last- ngfrom the 1 1th to the 17thof February, the House having got rid of its rule pro hibiting adjournments by taking renewed recesses wheu the members were wearied out. Two or three members who were II, were brought to the House ou their beds. During the protracted ballotings, the public mind was greatly agitated. It was declared that offers on both sides had been made to the doubtful members. Jefferson wrote to Monroe that the Feder alists were only prevented from passing a law to vest the Executive authority (in lefault of any election of President) in the Chief Justice, by threats on the Re publican side that certain States would then rise in arms and call a convention to frame a new Constitution. On the 12th of February a Washington correspondent wrote to the Aurora: 'We have had nineteen ballots, and the result is still eight States for Jeffer son, six for Burr, and two divided, name ly, Maryland and Vermont. "We are de termined neither to adjourn nor yield un til the 4th of March, unless a choice should sooner be made. Our session is de clared permanent, and our proceedings are in conclave. The Federalists voted closed doors, in 'order that they might screen themselves from the public eye." Auother letter to the Baltimore Ameri can has the following: "The proceedings of Congress these three days have exhibited the mysterious character of a Pontifical onclave, rather than the ouen and dignified features of the Legislature "fa free and Independent neonle. Contrary to all former us:ige, the votes of the several Srates were counted with closed doors. I most seriously be lieve that it is meant by the Federalists to dissolve the Government, and to ex cite Republicans to violence. Let notour fripndd bv any act whatever coun tenance any turbulence. The re sources of the people will triumph, and the authors of this agitation will oe con to an infamv which will haunt them to the crave. The correspondent of the Philadelphia a.izette. wrote on the third day: 'Balloting has been again postponed nno hour. When the hour expires an the members are c alled to proceed to it amin it is ludicrous to see some of them ruuuiu"' with anxiety from the committee room 4 with the r night caps on. A rep rt having been spread at "Wash ino-ton that the Pnil idelphU Republican had risen and seiz -d on the public arms, the Aurora, a Republican organ, de clared: "No ! Republicans will be the last to have recourse to arms, but should the day arrive which Jonathan Dayton proph esied, that the Constitution of the United States would be burnt at the point of the bayonet, we trust that every Republican would be emulous of dying in the last ditch." At Washington, a caucus of Federal members was called by Mr. Bayard, of Delaware, who was one . of the most in fluential spirits in that party, on the 16th of February. After a free conference, it was finally determined, though with great reluctance on the part of some malcon tents, that B irr had no fair chance of election, and that Jefferson must be chosen. Tne result, however, was not reached until Jeffjrson himself had been sounded as to his intentions in the event of his election. Mr. BayaM told the cau cus that Mr. Smith, of P r-'and, who was intimate with Jefferson, living in tiie same lodgings, and a member of the House, gave assurance that no serious change of policy would be attempted iu the event of Republican success. As to the offices, meritorious incumbents who were in subordinate places would not be removed merely on account of their po litical opinions. This, however, . was strenuously denied by the Jefferson party, who declared that no pledges were ever given by their chief. The next day after this caucus (Feb. 17th) the thirty-fifth ballot was taken, and resulted precisely like the preceding ones. After an hour's recess the thirty sixth ballot was taken, when it turned out that the Federalist member from Ver mont was absent ou the roll-call, while the Maryland Federalists voted blank. Tiiis gave two more States to Jefferson, the votes standing ten States for Mr. Jef ferson, namely : Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Ken tucky and Tennessee; f ur States for Mr. Burr, namely: New Hampshire, Massa chusetts, Connecticut and Riiode Island; two States voted in blank, namely, Dela ware aud S uth Carolina. The Speaker immediately declared Thomas Jeffjrson duly elected President in pursuance of the Constitution and Congress aud the whole country breathed, m ire freely, re lieved at length from their long and har rowing suspense. Capturing a Polar Bear. The skin of an immense polar bear was received by a gentleman in New London per barque Nile, from a friend on the barque Inabella, at Cumberland Inlet, with the following account of its exciting capture: "A party of men from the Isabella, including a number of Es quimaux auu mysuit, were walking on the ice a short distance from the ship, when, rounding a hummock, we unex pectedly discovered a short distance from us a large bear, quietly feeding. We would have returned to the ship without disturbing it, as we were armed with only one rille and a few spears carried by the natives, had not one of the several dogs that were with us auuouuced our presence with a loud bark. The bear, as soon as itsiw the intruders, begin to ad vance slowly toward us, but was met by the dogs, who attacked the animal vig orously, but with little effect. IIj shook them oil, and alter lnjuriug three ot them so badly that they had to be killed, lie continued to advance. We discharged the rifle and then fled to the ship, where we armed ourselves and came out to look for his lordship, who had disappeared be hind one of the numerous hummocks by which we were surrounded. We had searched for soma time, when, as one of the Esquimaux passed the corner of the hummock he came face to face with the infuriated animal. He gave a fenful cry just as the brute struck him with one of its immense paws. The rest of us heard the cry and rapidly 'surrounded the brute, which stood perfectly still over the body of the Esquimaux. We fired sixteen shots, twelve of which entered its body, before it received its death wound. The native was insensible when we picked him up aud b idly torn about the shoulder by the bear's claws, but was not seriously hurt. We took the body of the bear on a sledge totheship; itweighed l,575pounds and was ten feet one inch from nose to tail, and eight feet four inches around the thickest part of the body." Norwich Bulletin. Did Not Understand. A very anvisiug incident occurred on a Fort Wayne railroad train. Just be fore one of the accommodations pulled out trom the station a well-dressed, re spectable looking individual, slightly the worse tor a little "tarn," entered one of the cars and approached a lady who was occupying a part ot a seat, and sua : "Madam, n tin (hie) is seat taken f" The lady very pleasantly answered, "No sir." "Madam, may I si (hie) it down?" "Yes, sir, you may." The boozy individual took a seat and in a tew moments the train started, tie sat seemingly contented and happy for a few minutes. All at once he threw his arms about his fellow-traveller and kissed her vehemently several times. Several passengers in the crowded car at this became yieitly incensed. Tiie fellow kept up his loving method of pro ce lure and the lady appeared to be re sistin? him as best as she could. Final ly a number of the most determined o the passeugers made a .jimultaneou b lunce f r the boozy man. One indi vidual raised a window, and it looked as though the fellow was going to hunt terra Jirma, when he suddenly seemed to take in the situation. "What does yi (hic)you fellows want?" The only auswer was a more deter mined eff rt to life the speaker from his place. Then the other occupant of the seat turned and took part in the conver sation. "Gentlemen," said she, "this u my husband." "O " The man and his wife had entere l the car bel re any .t the other passenger and he had r ne out for refreshments When he returned. feelinr very humor ous, he addressed his partner in such tone that everybody could hear him, as though the was a stranger, and that is what fooled them. Children's Food. Milk, which has been already pre scribed as a chief constituent of all forms of diet from earliest infancy, is, scientifi cally speaking, animal food; but I now use these words iu their popular sense, as including the flesh of animals with its juices. Medical writers have, perhaps, differed more on the question of the right time for commencing the use of animal food than any other poiut with regard to the management of children. While one recommends that meat should be with held from children until seven or eight years old, another allows meat, gravy aud broth to be given as soon as any teeth have appeared. The variety of constitu tions demands that all strict rules should be sometimes modified. There can be no doubt that children will often thrive well on farinaceous diet, with milk, for a longer period than iscommonly supposed ; but when several teeth, including some of the grinders, have appeared iu both jaws, nature indicates that the time of feeding by suction is past, and that meat is now to be given with discretion. The system is now less sensitive, or less easily dis turbed by moderate changes of diet, and, therefore, we are less exclusive in diet ary rules, for the age under notice, and would allow more latitude to the judg ment of parents and others who have to cater for children. We would, however, caution them against an excessive use of meat, and especially against giving highly-seasoned animal food to children. Even now when several of the grinding teeth have appeared, and indeed for the first three or four years, meat should not be regarded as the chief or iudispensable article of diet, but rather as an addition, an assistance aud a stimulus. Light puddings, (especially such as are made partly of milk) should now be given as the first course of a dinner for children, aud should be followed by a little gravy, with a little masheJ, mealy potatoes. Broth or soup the latter neither too concentrated nor highly seasoued may now be given with some farinaceous food added, such as toast, rice, macaroni. Meat, either beef or mutton, but the lat ter more frequently may be next given, either roasted or boiled and finely minced. Simeness in cookery should be avoided. When meat is boiled, the liquor, which contains valuable salts, should be pre served for broth. Au egg, lightly boiled, may sometimes take the place of meat. Savory, or highly seasoned meats such as potted meats, sausages, aud stews made hot with spices should not be given to children. Such a diet would vitiate the taste, diminish the appetite, and teach a laid to refuse plain and wholesome food. While a child should not be compelled to eat what does not agree with its di- iestive power, he should be early taught ) take what is placed before him. Meat hould be well cooked, so as to be thor- nighly done, and yet to retain the nutri- lous juices. Excessively fat meat is gen erally disliked by children, ami should ot lie t-irceti upon them. Ou the other hand, the rejection of all fat is nothing more than a habit, which had its oiigiu n whim or faucy, and hasbeeu confirmed y yielding to it. liiis stiouiu oe cor- ected, and a moderate share of the fat of meat be taken. Of course it will be less required if new milk and butter are freely used in the dietary, tor these will supply fat. Other useful articles to supply this constituent of food are, dripping spread in toasted bread, and finely minced suet n making light puddings. Children who lislike the fat of beef or mutton will often eat bacon, which may therefore be iccasioually given with some advantage. n cases where the aversion to tbe tat ot meat is obstinate, while milk is readily aken, finely minced suet, boiled in milk, may be recommended. Wuat a Plant Did. A little plant was given to a sick girl, iu tryiug to take care of it the family made changes in their way of living. First they cleaned the window that more light might come n to its leaves; then when not too cold they would open the windows so that resh air might help the plant to grow. Next, the clean window made the rest of the room look so uutidy that they used to wash the floor and walls, and arrange he furniture more neatly. This led the father of the f unily to mend a brokea chair or two, which kept him home several evenings. After the work was done lie stayed home instead of spending his lei-ure at a tavern, and the money thus saved went to buy comforts for them all. And then, as the home grew attractive, the whole fam ily loved it and each other better thau ever before, and grew healthier and hap- ner with their flowers. Thus the little plant brought a real as well as a physical blessing. Oatmeal Mcsn Rolls. Take cold oatmeal mush, and work in lightly barely enough wheatmeal to make it into rolls Too much, kneading spoils it. Rollout with the hands on the moulding-board into a long rolldike a wooden rolling-pin. and about one inch and a half in diame ter; cutoff pi ces two inches long, :d bake on a grate in a quick oven twenty or twentv-nve minutes. liiese can be made very light, dry, and tender. They are also very sweet, and are great favor ites with those whose teeth have not been brought up on Graham flour and oatmeal Serve warm or cold. Economical iiite Socp. Take one pouud of loiu of veal, cut in small pieces, put it on to stew wita a quarter of pound t nee and a small quantity of onion in two quaits of new milk, till the rice is perfectly soft, adding a little white pepper ana saic to taste; then press it through a sieve to the thickness of rich cream, a ue soup must, oe warmed aain after straining, but not boiled, as that would curdle it. It more flavor is liked a little cut celery and a very small bit o lemon-peel, with a blade of mace, may be added. To Color 1 ellow. For two pound ot cloth take one ounce bichromate potash, one ounce sugar of lead, dip the cloth in the solution of lead first, then in potash dissolved in about one pint of uoiuug water. The Financial Prospect. This text teaches us notouly to look at signs but to draw conclusions from them, and it appears to us that the signs of the times indicate that the resumption of specie payments is near. The &igns to which we allude are: 1. The importation of gold from Eu rope, by our Government aad bankers. America is a gold producing country just as much iu a wheat or cotton producing couutry, and when not only all its own large gold product is kept at home, but actually supplementedwith more from abroad gold must soon become sufficient ly abundant to bring down the premium to par. 2. The second reason is greatly dimin ished imports. 3. Tne enormous yield of our silver mines is now being largely exported to China, going far to pay for our teas, without havintr to se:id ;old or other commodities to E irope to draw against fjr our Chinese supplies. 4. Oar excellent wheat crop U in de mand iu Earope and will consequently in cieisethe balance of trade in our favor aud bring more aud- m re gold. 5. Aud perhaps chiefly our 4) per cent, loan, princip il and interest payable in Kold, is likely to be ue irly all taken in Earope, not only paying oil" the six per cents, held there, out bringing g old from Europe to pay the six per cents, held there. All these causes, and they are very po tent ones, are operating at present along with the usual export of cotton, petro leum and provisions, aud the uausual iu crease of butter and cheese exports, to bring bills of exchange below par, and to reducethe pieiuium ougold to nothing. These re:isjus look to be as pluiu in die itions of a speedy return to specie payments, unless they be counteracted by adverse legislation, as the putting forth of leaves is of the approach of summer; and such a way of biiuging about specie payments would be the best of all, for it would involve no wraugliug over legisla tion, and it would occur iu the midst of general prosperity, abundance of tnouey, aud low rates of interest. N. Y. Wittiest . Thrice Harried and Thrice Divorce. Galesburo. III., Oct. 22. A. remark- ble case, in w hich the same parties have been three times married aud three times ivorced, occupied the Court ou yester- ay. I he complainant, Helen 3L. liaker, s twenty-eight years of age, fine-looking, ud the daughter ot the late Dr. Soauld- The defendant, Marion Teraloia Baker, is thirty-two, and connected with the best families in tuis city. The youug couple were first married in Kaoxviile, 111., November lo, looo, and supported on both sides by wealthy aud influential Irieuds, their prospector happiness made them tne envy of all. However, iu April, n 1SCSCJ, only six months after marriage, Ieleu filed a bill against leraloia, asking lor divorce ou the grounds ot extreme ruelty. Divorce was granted the June following, aud Helen rejoiced in her maiden name tor a few mouths oaly, wheu ou Jauuary 1st, 18G7, she aud Teral bia met by ch ince in Chicago, repeuted with tears aud were married the second time aud took up their residence in Gales- arg. A daughter was boru in March, 1SG3. On the 2A day of December, 1872, Mrs. Baker again filed a bill for divorce m grounds "tf desertion, asking for the ustody of her child. The decree was granted iu February, 1873, according to lie prayer ot the bill. Ou the 3d day of Decemoer following the same parties were agaiu married, as the coinplaiuaut tates, she hoping to speud the remainder t her days with the defendant, lue couple received congratulations aad pres ents from friends, wno trusted they would be able to keep all their goad luteutious. August 4, 18(6, Mrs. Baker again, tor third time, tited a bill for divorce ou grounds oi desertion ana cruelty, itic ecree was granted yesterday, aud the ustody of the daughter, some seveu years old, was given to the mother. ott- cago Times. tV Pathetic Inciuext. -A touching ncideut happened at the cemetery in this city, recently. A gentleman was walking long the aveuue, when he was approached y two little girls with bunches ot violets u their hand-, whosiid, "Please, sir, will ou snow us Mr. Alfred Y. Johusoa's 'rave?" While aiding their search, he asked why they desired to find that pir ticular place. "Last winter," was the re ply, "when it was cold and we were very pcor, we had a barrel of flour sent to us Irom money that he had left when he died I don t know what we should have done without it, and we want to put these flow ers on his grave." And with irrateful tears they laid on the mound their offer ing of simple wavside flowers. It was thedyiug tuought of a kiud-hearted man, this legacy to those in want; but how it will spring up along the future years iu blossoms sweeter than those in kindly gudeu flowers that will cause the giv er's memory to "smell sweet aud blossom in the dust." Aud what a beautiful thought that the kindlv. compassionate heart of one goae before can so reach out from its grave to relieve the sufferings of the living. Such a monument is better aud more enduring than marble. Belfast Journal. Some savant has made out the following physiological horoscope for the benefit of mankind in general: About the age o thirty -six the lean man usually becomes fatter aud the fat man leaner. Between the years of fortv-three and fifty his ap petite fails, his complexion fades, and his tongue is apt to be lurred upon the leat exertion of body or mind. At this period his muscles become flabby, his joints weak, his spirits droop, and his sleep is imperfect aud unrelreshiug. Alter tui- feriu!r under these complaints, a year, or perhaps two, he starts afresh, with re newed vigor, and goes on to bixty-two when a biuiiUr change takes place, but with aggravated symptom i. . Vheu these periods have been successively passed the gravity of incumbent years is more strongly marked, and he Legius to boast of his age. Disraeli has 825.000 a year, and he lives like a hermit. The Landlord's Christmas. BY NED BUNTLTNE. He was an old man. His hair and beard were as white as the snow which fell fast upon his shoulders on that evening before Christmas, in eighteen hundred and seventy-four, as he walked slowly past a long row of tenement houses, all his own, in the great Empire City of the Empire State.- The old man paused, for he saw two young sewing girls meet in front of one of the houses pale, fair young girls, but all too thinly clad for such weather. "Eat dinner with me to-morrow, Addie," said one, a slender girl, with a pinched face. "I've saved up enough money to have a real meat dinner, and a pie with it, too. - Do come." "Oh, how I would like to, Annie, but I can't!" said the other. "Mother is so sick, and our rent must be made up by Monday, and. I must work hard to do it. No Christinas for me, Annie." The old man heard the grief-born sigh which came with the words, and he passed on with his head bowed thoughtfully down. "Poor children of toil," he murmured. "There is no Christmas for you ho time to rejoice over the advent of Him who came to heal the sick, to comfort the sad hearted. What am doing, who must so soon be ushered into His presence? What am I doing to win a welcome there?" A sigh almost as heavy as that which he had just listened to broke from his-lips. He reached the corner and glanced back. In that tenement block over two thousand poor toilers lived. He knesv them all, for he. collected his own rents, and he knew how they lived. "They shall have a Christmas," he mut tered, almost fiercely, and he thrust his cane sharply against the icy pavement. "They shall have a Christmas, and one they will never forget." He hurried on, and at the next corner took a street car, which carried him to the front of his own residence a plain, old-fashioned brick house,in a down-town street. Eutering with a latch-key, he shook off the snow from his overcoat, hung it and his hat in the hall, and then entered a small but cozy sittiug-rooin, where a young man sat at a table with an account- book and paper blanks before him, while near his side sat a young girl, evidently his sister, knitting on a woolen stocking. "Dear Uncle, I am so glad you have got home. How it storms!" said the girl. "It snows pretty sharp, Puss," said the old man. "Bat it is not very cold for a Christmas Eve. How are you getting on with the reut-bills, nephew?" he asked of the youug man. They are nearly all made out for the quarter to come, sir," was the reply. "I suall finish before supper is ready." "Good! When y u have done that, mark every one paid in fall." "What, uacle, before they are paid? Some of the tenants may be short, or sick." "No matter do as I tell you. Mark each bid paid iu full, and be as quick as you can, for iifcer supper I want you to tike a meaioraudum-book, and go with Puss aud me. We are going out shop ping going to the grocers, dry-goodsmea and coal-dealers." Tne youug man looked puzzled, and even ruts laid down iier knitting, and akini' her old uncle's cold hand in her wn warm, soft palm, asked him if he id not feel well. "I never felt better, Puss; but to-mor row, it 1 live, 1 shall teel better than. I ave felt for years. Tell Hattie to get upper as soon as possible, and then be ready yourself to go oat with me." Christmas morning, 1874. The sun is butjust gilding the church spires, yet there is a stir in the frout of the row of tenement houses spoken of in the first part ot our sketch a stir that is strange aud unusual. Eveu though it is Christmas, coal carts are duuipiug tons of coal before every nouse uutcner and grocer wagons, too, are stopping every moment, and busy men are carrying in turkeys, joints of meat, and packages of tea, coffee, and sugar. Porters trom drv-roods hou.too. are carrying in buudles from warons bearing the names of prominent firms. Y hat doe it mean? This will tell: The old landlord, accompanied by his niece anl nephew, is going lroui room to room of each house in turu, aud to every tenant he hands, receipted, his bill for the next quarter's rent. To each he says: "A merry Christinas," aud the gifts are there to make that Christmas merry food, fuel, and clothing, needed, ah 1 so much, by those children of toil. "Heaveu bless our good landlord !" comes, tear-bedewed, from over two thou sand grateful lips. "Heaven bless our good landlord!" goes up toward neaven, Dome oy angel messengers on happy wings. "Heaven bless all good landlords" echoes the writer, and every reader, too, who leels that we can and ought to live for others as welt as for ourselves. As important discovery has been made at Pompeii. It consists of a number of objects of gold and silver, and close to them the carbonized skeletons of two men, who would seem to have been borne do wn in the storm of ashes while endeav oring to escape with their valuables or plunder. Among the things found are eight rings, six pieces of money, two pairs of ear-ring, ornamented with thir teen pairs of half globes, with little shells upou them, held together by chainwork, aud a necklace also of chain woik, all of gold; a silver ring, three hundred and thirty-two pieces of silver money, a casse role of the same material, broken in pieces, and three large bronze coins. Tiie tea plant was introduced into In di i forty years ago, and already about 2,000 acres are covered with it on the slopes of the Neilgherry Hills. The yield of the current year has been over 18,000,000 pounds, valued at $10,000,000. In Brazil d:amonds are found on moun tains 6,000 feet above the sea. That ii what makes them so high. H tt a 11! o i f l! r - m v 1- 1 COURTESY OF ICROTt'1' LIBRARY, T