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•1 \Curfo-w Must not Edag To-Nififot.\ England's sun was setting o'er the lulls so far away, Filled the land with misty .beauty at the close of one sad day ; And the last rays kiss'd the forehead of a man and maiden fair,— He with step so slow and weary, she with sunny, floating hair; He with bowed head,sad and thoughtful. she, with lips so cold and white, Struggled to keep back the inurimir, \Curfew must not ring to-night.\ '•Sexton,''Bessie's white lips faltered, pointing to the prison old, With its walls so tall and gloomy, walls so dark and damp and cold, \I've a lover in that prison, doomed this very night t o die, At the ringing of the Curfew, and no earthly help is nigh- Cromwell wi-U ni-teome till sunset,\' and her face grew strangely white. As she spake in husky wliispers - \Curfew niiiot not ring to-night.\ \Bessie calm'y spoke the se>.u>n-^-every word I iierced her y< mng heart Like a thousand.gleaming arrows —.'fino a deadly poisoned dart : \Lon that gloomy shadowed tower ; —i i-r VOLUME XIY. Devoted to Literature, News of the Day, .and Local Affairs. MEXICO, N. Y.,THURSDAY, APRIL 8. 1875. i* o. long years I've rung the ( \uffew from the twilight hour : I have done mv duty ever, tried v> do it fust and right. Now I'm old. I will not mis few ring* to-night!\ it ; uirl, th- I'm- Wild her f-j'es, iwd pah- her feaf.Me.-, :• white her thoughtful brow, And within her heart's deep ei titer, ma.';. 1 .is.ihuiu-. o\v : Sheh.fi '.i.-tene.l whKe the jndg a tear nr .4gh. \At the ringing of the-Ctii-iV wood i>u'--t i/u.\ And her breath eame fast and faster eyes grew large and bright One low murni'tr, scarcely spok-en- iiiv.il m-t ring to-night I\ tern and Bessie ea 1, v. ithout IVil Under- pin! he 'i'urfew ivouutl she had received was a deep one. \Oh mother, do you suppose father'!! mvgiye'up drinking ?\' She asked, after a little silence. '-,1 don't know,\ Mrs l)eail answered, \I hope so. 1 have prayed for such a Messing more times than I can-'•Compre- hend, If God heard, he has not answer- Every evening ju»t at at -tin^t. it lias has told | K l iny prayer yet. He may in his own good time, I can only /n'w/ and ifrn/n'j and leave the rest to him.\ ri can't go to school week-days, nor to fchool Sundays,\ said Mary, sighing as no.'cl-iid of her age otrjlit to sigh, ''And the- children won't, play with me, 'cause father drinks. And you can't go to meet- ing., 'o-iuse \<m hain't clothes t o wear. it's too had, mother, isn't it <\ ' •-•It is:i sorrowful way of liviug,\ her mother answered, kissing hen \I do not care so mueh for myself, out fur you. T i hate to see tli'e years whieh should he the 11 hrighte-ft ones in yonr life, darkened and | made sorrowful. Oh, if he villi/ would; I leave oti'that awful hal.it .\ • The words held the pathos . and sub- j linrity of prayer. j ; \Wh-it makes ME. Strong sell lhjuor, I I wonder 1\ questioned Maiy, '/' *•! don't know,\ her mother answered. \•To make money, I suppose. I think iji- inan w-j-id can make money by selling that, to his fellow-man which will ruin his body and soul, must have a heart as hard as -any stone.\ \T wonder if anybody ever asked him to give Tip such wicked business ?' Mary ; asked, \Maybe he'd quit it if he only j knew what misery he was committing. : Do you suppose he would ?*' I . ''I'm afraid not,' answered Mrs* j Deane. I Mary sat and thought for a long time j after her mother left her. | Suddenly she seemed to make tip her mind as to the course she should pursue, and she got up and put on her bonnet, and started down the road without saying anything to her mother. Poor Mary ! Her home had not always been the urn happy one i t was them tjlie could re- member .the time when her father used to cotiie home from his day's work; sober ,; as any man. Then her mother would meet him at the gate with kisses, and h<- •i would take uphisehild and carry her to I the lions-.-, aii.d they wen-; all so 'happy. ! i--o hirpjii/ ..' ! Rut how ! i Sliesliwih'tered when she Uioimhi of it. She with light step bounded forward, sprang within the oldehiuvh doer, Left the old man eonung slowly, p;tths, he'il trod so oft before. Xut one moment paused the midden but with cheek and brow aglow, Staggered up the gloomy tO\viiy wheiv the bell .svvung to and fro : Then »he climbed the slimy ladder, dark, with- !. out one ray of light, l\p- still, her pale lips saving. \Curfew l ts'fdl not riiig. to-night \ She ha-s feaehed the topmost ladder. nVr her hangs the great dark bell, And the awful gloom beneath her, like the path- way down to hell ; See the ponderous tongue is swinging— 'tis the hour of -Curfew now,— And the sight has chilled her bosom, stopped her breath and paled her brow. Shall she let it ring? No, never! .her eyes fl.ish with sudden liyht, j And she springs and grasps it firmly --\i 'urfew- shaft not ring to-night !\ Out she swung, far out, the city seemed a tiny speck below ; There 'twixt. heaven and. earth suspended, aa, the bell swung to and fro ; And the half deaf «-::J«n ringing (vVars he had not Le.avt the belli, And he th.-.!ight the t\\ ili^'it ( '-:'-HW uv-ig >.-u,g •Bii-i-1's ftnu-vu'. knell ; Still the maiden, clinging :h;..!; . ; h> ek and bi'...\v L-I pule, and white. Stilled her frighten! d heart'., wild •Watll.^ - '•?'.(,/•.•'• i- .-•!.••.! ,•• i i u'.-l i-j-l it.ii t.'\ It w.'' - o'er 11-: e '• m d-h-n 'ti-pp: 1 V-t 1. 1,. .! i ::<. I'inidy •.•!<. tb.- .hr.np «\ •hv i y-.-i- ! ef- ;-. , IIum..u 1 • he ti Shi.-.dd :.e -. tt.-i.i-_r - 'H l-i_--Ttt thv .-,',;>• v.it'w i. with h'.id, ft v,.:i Te'.i tl.e ihj^4ri:i w!,y th..t . ::••• -• ''. I.; ,'tr -•waving, ia\d the ,i k Nov/, site had hardly clotlits enough to j said hot euomjh t o enable I fui Sunday. She used to befortt there was a saloon in the place, bivt now she doesn't. And the children won't play with me. They call me si drunkard's child, and shame- me. And we're real -unhappy sit home, mother and me. Father don't seem like same man he used to be, since he got t o drinking. He spends inost of his money here. Anil we ain't the only ones wh-j sutler so. It's all through the neighborhood, mother says. Ever so many men drink, who didn't before you came here. I thought I'd come down her0 and ask you to stop selling liquor. Maybe you never thought how much sot- row you were causing. Didn't any one eveir tell you .' Oh, I cry myself to sleep lots: of times, just because father drinks. I dpn't want to be a drunkard's child! It'fjthe worst thing in the world, I guess. If (father didn't drink so, I know we'd l>e |iappy again, just as. we used to be. Ah', Mr. Strong, if you was me, would you want to be made fun of, because your father drinked ? If your mother knew what you was doing, don't you thijnk -she'd feel sorry ? Please, please don't sell any more liquor. I'll pray for ; yqiu, every night, and so will mother, if you'll only let us \have father back, a sober mail. Won't you ?\' There -were tears in Mr. Strong's eyes ; her words, full of infinite pathos, struct? home, and the man's heart, which was not all bad, smote him, What would hi-mother say? She had been dead many years, but the memory of her was the teiiderest spot in his hwtlirt. If she had lived, ho might have been a differ- ent man. Since her death, he had been drifting hither and thither, and the good impulses of his nature had got choked with tares and brambles. <: CMldV' he said, with a voice that had a suspicious quiver in it, \you've given me the best temperance sermon I ever heard, anA^—You're converted me.' Not another drop of liquor shall be sold across my bar; I will close this place to-night. Wait!\' He went out and took down his sign. \There !\ he said, \you see I mean what I say. Go home, child, raid tell •that mother of y©'u s tliat she need fear nothing from me. 1 shall not stand be- tween your father and the sober life which was his in thedays when you were h-.ip.py . Don't forget to pray for hie. J aiti not iill bad yet, and suclii pi-avers as yoius may help me to be a better man.\ \T wish you'd let me kiss you, she .Lottoi'fresa, Louisiana. BALDWIN, La., Marc h .\> 1875. Mit. HCMPHIUXS :—The power of as- sociation must b e weak •within mo to- night, for wliile the rain, like a thousund tiny lingers, is tapping' against my win- dow for admission, and the i'r^ on the hearth crackles -delranee, my though is per- i-ist'.'iitly turn to hours spent in the cool hush of the forest. Best hours of niy life* in which I got very close t o the heart of Nature's Uod. I n this sanctu- ary of the unherse, how t|uiekly 'the smallest works fmin the\ High l'rie-t's hands brings man upon -his knees, uud carries from his heart to his Maker's the incense of awakened .gratitude and re^•- >.e.-sil<-, :;« the: iu-iT.'e-j grow in. the leaf axils instead of those of the branches. Tiie hive plant is another parasite. It is a vine ; in color and size around, like the grape -tendril. The foliage is i n compact clusters tlio size of an egg, ami resembles small, soft, greenish white ''ber- ries, whieh upon examination prOvo to be tiny leaves closely folded. There is a mystery about it to me for it seems to have no root, and attaches itself by twining. A small piece thrown upon any green shrub, or vine will live and liii-rl and climb until it reaches the height of it- support, unless frost-bitten. Another eniio.-ity is the wax tree. Those I saw were as large as iiiedintu- sized chewy trees. The leaves are dark v;i een, mti-row and pointed, and little over an inch in length. The berries are round, iard and gray, about the size and sug- 1 bidder.. •ei) li'-r W .... t., .<-.. ' ilia .t i ! , - nv ht lin': >; •tie, l-f-Tf ' >A..V i !,i-, j whisiiv i fi <•>.; i u •; ll' !' • f.'l'- hii.- S.'.ll.lc rob -eli.<»-i , iilul l.;f til lMO'iLl f efillld lio! go to Cbllt'cil f it hi•)• oiten (amo home the uc'i ; sh\ .could not bear t o t Heavy. The Indian CoihVe plant grows to the height of one and a half feet ; i t has leaves much like the locust leaf in form, but smaller, and a pretty lemon-eolorea flower. The beans form in poil-N and make a substitute for coffee. The house plant we call Jerusalem cherry tree, grows wild here. A friend brought in a bough loaded with:fruit the other day. The cypress vine, with it- blossoms of pink, white and scarlet, as delicate as snow-flake.'., can -hardly be called a forest vine 5 as many , sow the seed aiid train i t over trellis work, yet in the cane fields of Cote Blanch it grew in profusion. The Cherokee rose festoons every hedge in the spring, !alid both flower and vine are beautiful. '. Golden rod greets you, and asters in a variety of shades of purple, besides many other •pretty blossoms that, -being a poor bot- anist, I cannofjnaine. , The Virginia creeper is a surprise, then a delight, being so much like our English ivy that the smaller vines arc with difficulty distinguished from it. Tim ground holly is much like if. bin has yellow veins through the haves. Tliestj two vines make the prettiest n.if- ural arbors for you to stumble upon ;>i) 1 never tire of adtnii'ing, and we^woiem' through v»IrichyoiigHZedown ,< tli-.'!t.'.: c . ; onuades and corridors leafy.\ Of tiicmaf. other vines I will .mention Turt oiie,,and- it - name I cannot give. I found it in th\ [ hjve.\ fall, its scarlet and .grien leaves look in o If-.'b.-Mt down and eanoht her in his.; Up f'^'-'\'' the ino^ be.Ls, and a'-o in arms, and she kissed him. Suine warm •! shades .if yell-uv, which k-is-.-ed the g.n uu.l erencc. Louisiana is rich in wild tlow ci's, fra- grant woods and luxuriant vines. Of the common swain.]) or flag Ii-II« - ' festive of a small, sugar-coated pilL They there are tliree varieties, the white, brim , '.-row along the leaf-branches, in clusters and deep wine^colored ones. Tin-re is .; ters as large as the eiid of your thumb, another wild white lily so oddly pretty ' the eotmeeting stem. so short a s t o be that I can compare i t to no flower I over | liidden. The berries tire boiled aiid wax saw, and its fragrance is choice but rather I is taken from the infusion in the mun-ner A ou, and I like to kiss of beeswax making. During'the war, the Catholics burned candles made from this wax upon their altars-. It Ls gray, but I ain told that by a certain process it can be. cleansed and made into wax for {'ower-making. Th. re are many varieties of the cactu-s here, and its it grows out of doors and iii'uds no care it is not .prized, very highly. It reaches perfection farther South. 1 am teld that in Mexico the century plant grows-.so huge that people build houses of it, and make rails of the stalks. I have seen a house built of palmetto, so can easily believe the century plant is utilized. Red Cedar is plentiful, is a prettier evergreen than the common variety, and the wood has a strong fragrance. The uuuiiioiia wood is fragrant, and there are trees bearing buda which will perfume the wardrobe nicely. The Wood of the cypress is often beautifully grained, I think -these strong, ..rich odors are peculiar to tropical blossoms. There are so -tnunv, like the jessu}niuc and magno- lia, which, if in a clos\d. rooin, fill the air oppressively full of perfume* A sin- gl- blossom of r.ir ..iliia in a sleeping r >i!>.i is sicken i.e.-. ' U>--es often have an so leavj i • . '. • t •. iVime <'f I'lv o: utr.<iiwer some distance from • in delicacy. The is distinct !.e ...ties. I think ill ill. Ti w.H-.i teat :.,ed' I teais f«,il -itpon her fac ises of a better life. sivkvnin.y scent of ; Soiiie old topev.-> were horrified to miss. the sign from the place wlni-re they had times, would be spent at ' been in the. habit of imbibing, and still more horrified to find that closed forever, not iiiiL ou his breath. Alibis earnings, (•).!' ;t W(-'i k SOil-H he saloon iuilii' \village. There w.-i-s but one saloon in the phict neywere prom- re place was O'tr the • ..-.•w b •Lat.lw.? :.o i'r..lnv.-t-n : tilt-. \ M and ] 1, P---i tb.al was enough-to circulate a de.il : '•[ have been converted, mu-r.-v and heartache among the [ «'] } ulV( > concluded to charigi l;-:'it.h-'if>rl:.f<i-wl. Wire-M J'.bi;- ^.1 •• turiif.'.-il oil {l..>v,ii am-ii'4 Strong said. e ni y busi- iioss, ami have taken -down my 'guide v. i : was a. som< thin th:.it : i n-i pie •i-rv • _v.it out o.i' M.ght of home, | board/ \ from' the load, and knelt j. !\< some one liad characterizedhis sign stiiiic bu-slres and -prayed-. ' as a \^uide-boani to hell.\ little prayer, but it ha.1 ' to.'whin'' in it fbr till. .''\..--. r M'o-i'i :lli :;' t<> I.! mi! .11 •i>:. UD^'WOSSS. .is :;e try tsrd ,va'..l -.-d be 1,1 IJI., , t' l I, .id., ••pleas.- help j : ave my father '..nd I. < Mary's home is a happy ©ne now, for, with the temptation out of the way, John IVane has v'O'.-.'' back to-hi w.a_\s again. And a chillis ' work, nude sober God 1., ea:.. t U i ... ; ' 1. we s<>. •«• a; VOl t ri: .- jM'ts-dr.un!; \m > sa-\ s. 1 he .-[it ;ifc. l tw-elve ve-at-.s oi W e .aid* w.-m t p'-'i.V Wit'I . .-liiiil. \ our •>. \v d.tv, niv • i ;_'i:i\l <-t\ The one i I't'f • iht.l.er y father pei-ba};-. (Idle.—! il ,! : til' was a girl of a o rt th: smi^ ;vg\. A group <•.['thi'dreu had., gatheicd by the roadside t.» play. A small house stood near by. From this nous\ th«- ehild adJivs.icd wi rudely had seen them at their s}>ort. and had joined them, t o be repuUed by the words with whir-h I have be-.te. my story, Her eye : tilled with tears, and her cheeks ibt-he'l up with shame and v.o Hid- ed pride-. —J know my father drinks, but- I ain't to blame for that.\ she .-aid, -bitterly. \Well we won't, play with :ay,\ said the tirsfc speaker. cii'tnt-, dvailu Ills .' '1: ;'.;!(.<-d at s.\!:0(..l, ting and •:'rink in tr id nulke I .<>•..; -'• i.^'.-•••Li.ii;;-'.i.-e-i>;\ , Amen.\' ; \ :!.:-.• \( >' up and Went on u^ain. v ac-he.i'th-:' v-ii a.e, i tb M.. ; pes-.%•••..*. -lie niet was si lner-* wi'h 'vlmiH they had often had j ;-. »)-c«M-..i-(-ui'illy they got things | store on eredi't. Maiy rciufiu- at '.hi!--* v.ns something due him n't do it | wionght the change. a- calk d a : like ray-s-of luoonliyht. lis-leave; trefoil, set regularly Upon tie' sine. t.rawbef:v a.'nd i !e,::i i be Jiouev has. a much :-'i'onger taste thaii ours, and I beli-ve 1 C:'..!t disiiitgaish some iiow-er scent-;. M:ir-.-!l lOtll. \Ve_h.Ue Jiad loveiv ^•••a'-ia't''-in<-e iba int.,!.lie of F'-b. our V. it 'o v rues alio plants, atel oi one you most admire. i paid lain'ok: with a swollen wiist other v. kit a elotclie.i tace, was I I W •lug to tin; sNira ?\ he didn't ! von, auv- \ \vrii w-. girls [ \No '. no '\ cried t b in chorus, \There ! you heard that, didn't you ;'\ cried the girl t<j the child of a drinking father. \I hope your'ro satisfied now. Go along -with yui: we want in play, and we won't be bothered with yoii, so now. I' d 'be ashamed if I wtjr- you ! You're a urunk.ir.l's daughter '. SirMue '. Shame !\ She poiiited her finger in. der.sion and seorn at the iioo tber ebildreii, ..irl, ant',, parrotdike 1 nereo I Vet. \As-r ja.ked. • . I \Xo f.ir,\ she answered i \AH ri._uh.t,. then,\ he said . know but yon was down••after-something. \ l thought. I'd telly<-.u that T couldn't let j your folks have atiything more Until they | pay for what they have had, Your j fith-M- drinks up enough every day to pay ! me what he owes me.'\ ! Mary went on down the street until i she came t o a place where there was a naming sign hung out, on which was painted in gilt letters, \Saloon '.\ Here she stopped, while her heart beat like a scared bird's. This, then, was what some one who had a strong sense of the fitness of things had called \Strong's Hell.\ Here was j where death arid ruin to soul and body I were Sold over the bar at five and ten ! cents a glass. Mary went in. , A man was f-tand'mg behind the bar. : \Solo-Mon Smith, Jr.,. step up here.\ Hmit-Ii, a stupid-looking country boy advanced to the platform,.^ i-pp.'d on the step, stood up, find began : W.n-i. • Jeiwral - - \Slake your bow-, sir!\ interrupted Mr. Wliij;(;m. The boy stopped short, iiirade a jerking inclination, and went on : V/btai Cen, Jaeks.uii . Hiul.ibd the heights, rjlere liuraisetlliis feef.,as if climbing.. An.l.tiirethe starry bininer down, [•Snatching at the air.] lie eanjjht liirf fimt.-u-}i'>ii a.ntuii-p, And scraped bis fo.it from toe to crown. During tho delivery of the last lines lrc'put on a most painftrl express-ion of countenance, and scraped Iris hands over his whole person. \Well done, ' Solomon,\ said Mr. Whipem, \go o n with the next verse.\ •'Thar aint no next verse, sir; the moral comes next.\ \Well then, give us the moral, sir.\ As we rush upwai-d on oiir way, Quiek hastening oVr the sod, [Running from one side of the plat- form to the other. ] Sonie little trouble ..topa our way., And down we full, by G^-d I.\ with the .shupe u'. Ui but smooth and larger. I mention but few of the JH'IH)/ forest beauties, for i fear to tire you with my enthusiastic praise. But if : L could re- write all I have written while, here, with a pen dipped in boiled down; enthusiasm, I could no --move .than do justice to the field and wood flowers. O-ttr Japan lilies that we cultiv.-t' . o tenderly in pots, grow in girdcivs here, also many other plants,that at the 2voi:ih' require the care of the greenhouse. A stranger inn;-t u.->e caution while siar.'h^ ing the wood--, for there are many poison- ous vines aiid plants, att-l often just the for (\te ii-l for :in- otched face. F,, .'.i-b : Civil N O U best initial oi God: Around I lie. shrine of i'lshiou, in ou-r decorated homes, nr in the Joivst, which lieitii'-r mini's nrido or vus-loii 1 I touched. :, Look at that o'. | with vines. We arc too ape, if our fives are changed from 1\M phui-we olesiglieil. to bewail our fai-hu'es, and jioint out the jagged edge.-s of our broken ho.pe<, IUKI j hold up the wreck which we eousidei our life has become, for commiseration. I low much better t o cover i t with kinilly thoughts and deeds, with cheerful pa- tience. God will help you to make y >nr life inore beautiful with tiiel'oliage iVotti the root of divine love i n v.nir lit trt, .1.1! is ...j' '-ID''!' I ua iut.,1 s i-ii.it i : aiii, n-'-arly .are :> - ).Vea. L ..teL as isb •1\ Wlreu winter with. you. 1 ground a-s. ..te 1 n- long sf,i.,iiM to per Facts and Fancies. ^-T. Pot is a Maine editor, '—-Q-uarrel with dead men and you will not get hurt. —We cannot escape to-morrow b y sleep,,, nor eternity by death. --Everything has been said, but not done. _ —>The bored of education : children who hate school. —New Bedford has but one whaler; left—a schoolmaster. * —*The man who makes a sti'iking re- mark is too often apt to re-hifcerate it. - -A young man has sued his barber for cutting off his moustache, The barber says he didn't see it. •' — Mile. Venturoli, ten years, ago a famous dancer. Is a helpless and destitute paralytic in Philadelphia. — The woman who enacted the part Katie King in the -Holmes seances in Philadelphia is studying for the stagei —Samuel Williamson of Milwaukee imitated Weston's attempts to walk 500 miles in six days, and the imitation wa. «.o successful that he failed ridiculously. •*- Correctly is not a hard word, yet all the spelleljs that tire worsted in the .spelling matcnes fail because they cannot spell\ correctly. —An actor at a popular theatre was called••out three times one evening not long ago—twice by a sheriff and once by a tailor. -—At the end of an Indiana marriage ceremony recently the bride advanced gracefully to the clergyman and request- ed him to announce the nymn, \This is the way 1 long have sought.\ —A Maine woman was true to her lover, and married him after he came back from California, after an absence of twenty years. 1ST. 11;—He came, back rich. —.A young man charged with beinglazy was asked if he took it from his father. \I think not,\ was the reply. \Father's got till the laziness he ever'had.\ - —\See said a Sorrowing wife, \how peaceful the eat and dbg are/' c <Yes,\ said the petulant husband, \but just tie them together, and then-see how the fur will fly.\ • \What plan,\ said one actor to an- i my benefit f \Invite your creditors,'\ i was the sin-ly reply. | .—A aiilv.-aukee paper thinks \it is j simply absurd to talk about a woman be^ A tilanter who has lust returned ing ({ualitied to fill every position in life from .\Hexieo. says tit'.: cane grows much taller, and is its iarge again there as here, i •• -».•,.\ «>.-..- .^.... 0 and-is so full of white, ittice that the j a country grocery and lie about the num- that a man rills. For instance, what woman could loung e around the stove in Fields aw planted once in i ber of fish she caught last summer?' ten or lift een years, lie reports th\ country as al-ao-.-.t a paradise* -and abe-td of Louisiajia. i. ,1 ,1. penjng. .illil'ekbvrri' s itave «t ni-H It ;>t.i'ca:i.M ave. ..p'jiiel tin. campaign lire f..U. [irehcuded. 1 :->h >,tliKll'l' the ile.sil i. i Kit no it Fleas with vigor, iiiger is ap- iere mmi s jiriite or pas-ion tuts st 11!u ] I t'yit' IV > W it.1 •iiiv.-i speaS. ug o; a i few inoiueiiiiS ago. th.-iii f')und it wa > a aem'blo I a tiulpole in outiine .mar rela-t've,. according .t.*au aiv excellent. In soft. I hesi-vd tlie a.bniie t -,v!-i feet long, i * • and upon qut-stiou- \IUH.I cat,\ but re- mit wa i A old fisher- man. he boys tie-.si rope across the on-, on alter th : boats have passed for the Might., and fasten upon it a hell, and a .-.iniM': i.u'ik with tbKe barb-,, ibr ' the biiti'aio tis't- -a monster, but good eating. 'u'lr.'ii the hi 11 ling-s they, if not lazy, '.ui.r.i iVom tlieb' b-'iis and take in their •.•viA-x Fi.-hiog is l* e popular tntcrtaiu- ment now. T .atwft eurri-nis lirrii to-day. Its body was the si.-.e of u small duck, and its neck was on.: an. a half feet long, with i'. athers .standirife' out,, making it look mile or rati, r, like /•/,,'/,/,.<..,,,, the others fol- lowed } '•KiKVfae .;\ i graced child. Site covered her face and turiud and ran v never .stopping, u-n-til in<jtii''i'.s «ide. pie, aaii c-nes oi g in the ears, of •M-iami. the dis- wit'll her •i tl-.i_ reached her •f her little UHloS, way from them. she re •-•'••' i-obb-h i !•• \ :-he si iii. < •f|..iwn lle.t.-i .vu.iii'i bie.;k. \ V. i.a ;s the: matter with tuv gill\ Mis. Deane asked, tei:deil\. bhe was a p:tle,,snil-faced woman, with sorrow-haunt\d ey-s. A woman who, without being old in years, was old in sad experience of life. \I went out to phty with the girls, and they told me I was a drunkard's daughter, and wouldn't play with me,\ sobbed Maiy. hiding her' face in her mother's lap! \Poor child:' Mrs. Deane sighed heavily, but she did not weep. Bhe had found out, by hhter experi- ence, that tears were of but little avail. She stroked Mary's hair, and tried t o sooth her by kind words. But the A man w ith a not unhandsome face, but \•• , a v >• -r w. • - ,.,,,, „ i V i \bolomon saul u lnpem, as soon as one which lacked culture and refine- i , , , , v i .1- «n he had recovered his breath:, \did von ment. ... x , , ,.> ,. , T .,,. .j.. 1 , ». T . write that ; 'Are v on Mr, Strong f askerl Jiarv, . , T . „ ,. , , ... <-, \ • I \No. sir, whimpered the boy, Sun JonesTliar,\ wrote, it for UK tiiuidiv. '•i r et:, that's my name,\ lie answered phasatitlv. \What do vo.il want of Hit/' '• i'livt don't look like such a bad man a ; you ought to, t o sell Honor,\ she said, looking into his face. \W'hv had a lupior-dealef ought to look like a bad man'(\he asked. \Yes I think so,\ she said. \Only bad men sell liquor, and you don't look a vers* bad man. I ain't much afraid of you, and 1 thought I should be. Oh, Mr. Strong.!\ clasping her hands plead- ingly, and lifting a face full of beseeching to his, \I came down here to-day to ask you to give up selling liquor. You don't know what awful work you're doing. I guess you never thought of it. Did yon? I can't go t o school, because I can't' have clothes good enough to wear and I do so want to learn as other children do. I could if you wouldn't sell my father liquor; and mother could go to meeting every I .gave him two apples for it. \ \ exclaimed Mr. Whipen. \T thought Sam, Jones did it: he's at the bottom of (.>\r.i-y piece of mischief in the county : wait UH I keteli him.\— 8rf.r; t - crt't'fi/ (X. Y.) Xinr. —. ^—«rto£3«—«*,-*;aB= i —- ~ Z^d-if A girl screamed in a lecture au- dience in Lafayette, Oregon. Then all the other girls screamed. General con- sternation ensued, and a rush for the doors. People were bruised, clothes torn, and the. room at length was emptied. The first sereamer had sieen a rat. ^^\ A Maryland man whose wife dropped dead a wliile ago, had the funeral put off ohe Jay longer to get the balance o f Iris corn husked. M e said it wouldn't make any differ- ence, as she was .always, very good natur- ed. i,!.:tn you in your strength ever dreamed of its. being. Look at that vine, so slender; made to cling, yet growing straight upward. Ah.!: I see, above it is a btancl. which it will soon reach. ('annot you, at once, become i.s patient and sweet-hearted a s your neighbor: Well ! never niiud, hut grow up as fast as yoii can into true, right living., and who knows but 'God. v/Jien He sees yoii need it, will bend down to you the bran.di of human love, or improved health, or stimulate you t o take deeper draughts of his grace. On niy table lies a mistletoe bough, around which clings, for me, the savor of written romance. I fear |o describe it le : -.t some one say \I've s .-•en it and it is itn! like that,\ tw T said after readiiig •'('lih.tpiipiii'n\ -descripti-on: in iho. Syra- cuse Journal. Uesembainee.; aie efreri f.ir feu-hed, 3\et as 'assouiatiou is i- •• n.iititer of thein each must be '..:••• . • , uwu picture. Thinking that t •• !•• ;• . ij •a weight of sii]>erstition ami po '!:.• -l.-i- cies, the mistletoe must have .lii^n-i.y •among trees, I was dipapjiO'inli d t o iind- it on-lv a. p-vor litti-r p -r tsit •, d.-p- ivdent upon the wind-; and birds for a home, Tt is found only upovi th\ live oak and bitter pecan tii.e.s, it. g/ow.-, i;» clump.s--i.ts •brauihes averagitig iVom one to two feet in height-- and looks like roiind bunches of foliage in the tree top:-. Its leaves resemble tlie sweet clover in form,but are larger,aud thick and bright. It bears a white, waxy, glutinous berry, growing on stems like green currants. Birds eat them, and by carrying them to other branches and wiping their bills on the bark, leave little seeds to push down their roots into the sap of the treej and their green leaves upward into light and air. It is evergreen, and i n the winter •in the naked boughs of the pecan tree, has a pretty look j in the twilight bieezes.^ it calls to mind the nestling of a flock of strange little birds. I do not think it i s tco heavy for the body. It w:as a ' simg>i/.er,\ and is said to grow fat gnz- i ig.-ut the ST.I. it ui-ikes pie feel badly to me th.!' strings, of birds the boys bring I 1M, our robb.sattd blue hiys, and uiocking birds, tVc Soon, the South Will have lio •birds iinless this slaughter is. stopped. The.worms ravag-d badly in tile forest last fall, but lio one takes the hint. Did your \devil\ put my last letter in type i; He improved my sign as a n-i;/n r i nit not as acuriosity. The proprietor him- self Would not rccog.riix.-> it after your handling, it took me a long while to decipher the original. And you changed the date of iny vk-.it from 71 to 75, be- sides other mistakes. Sail news was Nelly Brew.stoa-'s death, to me. as she has been iny friend from •arlv childhood. Well do I rertietnber the two girls, who s at the .,)•,• i'iou.-e.. studied the :'•••.- f-anie sea:. :> •- • »big.girW of .::•,.. iu, bccatii .• tin : •i ri\<l thein aia-te an- Well. Ne Wi V.ll! il\( the id. old roil sehoo'l inie lessons, sat upon t ;.re-\v up into the -f.i.-l, who-must recite i'ti. i.-ily conipetitiou •:' !',.• ie.-s ambitious , \'.Inn 1 «£i.'t home clavs over again, ---A quack now traveling; in New England aims to proftt by arousing the religious superstition of his dupes, lie professes to b e a chosen emissary of God, commissioned to cure diseasesby baptism. Tiie astonishing part of the story is that he makes plenty of converts and money. - -A Chicago boy often yearssays that when his parents gets into a fight, and his mother calls for a flat iron, and Iris father yells for the stove handle, he is placed ill a most embarrassing position, as he is sure to get licked,, no matter whom lie uiinds. - This is the season of the year, says the Detroit Free Press, when the farmer tells his soil John that if he will sort over ten bushels of potatoes, feed the stock, repair that fence, and reshingle the corn crib, ho may have the rest of the day to-go rabbit hunting. —\Yes my son,\ said a father to his inquiring six year old, \God made all the cattle and horses in the world,\ There was a pause of some moments.; during which the youngster Was absorbed i n deep thought, when he finally replied : \He made the first ones, pa ; ^ but after that they made themselves, didn't they ¥> - -The duties of a Connecticut seliooL master i n Itldi, were a s follows: \To act as a court messenger, to serve sum- monses, to conduct services in the church, to lead the choir for Sundays, to ring the •bell for public worship, to dig the graves, to take charge of the school, and to per- form other occasional duties.\ - A lieutenant in the Russian navy publishes a device for quickly stopping holes made in ships by collisions, it coi> sists of a waterproof, pliable patch, with mechanism by which it may be readily adjusted on the outside of the leaking surface. The Russian men-of-war are being supplied with it. Published every \Thursday Moriiinbby. Henry Humphries, EDITOR AND PKOPRIETOK. TEEMS: SI. 50 per aanuiri, in advance; if not paid within three months, 82. J£t No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid iinless at the option of the publfeher. BATES OF AyVEETISHTG : lw. 2w. 3w. 3m. 6 in. 1 Inch, «0 75 $1 25 *1 50 $3 50 S<5 00 2inch«s, 125 2 00 3 00 5 25 9 00 \ column, 3 00 5 00 6 00 12 00 14 00 I column, 5 00 8 00 10 00 15 00 25 00 1 eolnmn, 8 00 12 00 14 00 20 00 40 00 iy. $10 00 15 00 20 00 40 00 75 00 tfW Job !E*rintingof all kinds attended to with promptness. tSt Correspondence must; be accompanied by a responsible name as a private guarantee of good: Taith. - - LAHD SU1VEY0E, PROF. J. H. COCAGHE, Box 47. MEXICO 4-<\AI>EM'Y. Reference, H. L. Cole, Esq. ~~ i JoSsT-C. TAYLOR; ^~'\ Druggist, No. 2, Webb Block, Main Street. R. L. ALFRED;\ ~' Dealer in Watches, Clocks, Spectacles, Jewelry, <fec., &c., Thomas' New Builditig, Main St, J. D. KAKTSON, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office over Stone, Robinson .& Co ! s Store, Main St. ~C.E. HEATONrMTiTr Physician and Surgeon. Office over Thomas' new Store. Special office day, Saturday after- noon of each week. Residence—^Pulaski St. HOLBHOOK'S Family Liniment, A Sure and Speedy Cure for Rheumatism,Neuralgia, Influenza, Asth- ma, Sore Throat, Toothache, Headache, Chilblains, Sprains, Cuts, Bruises, Bites or Stings of Insects, Sore- ness or Pains in the Limbs, Feet and Joints, Pleurisy or Pains Intke Side, or Pains of any Kind HOLBBOOK'S Famolj LINIMEKT Should be used internally for Coughs, Coldf, Bronchitis, Croup, Diptheria, Colic, Cramp:-, Asthma, Influenza, Soreness of Chest or Lung)?, Sore Throat, .Quinzy, Plurisy or Pains in 11 e Side^&c&c. Hofeook's Family Liniment Should be used externally for Rhenmatisi;, Sprains, Burns or Scalds, Bruises, Bites < v Stings of Insects, Chilblains, Cuts, Pains, n the Limbs, Feet audi Joints, Neuralgia, Tootl.- achej &c, &c,J Eolbrook's Family Liniment. Excels all other Remedies in the Cure of the Mlowhrg Diseases in/Horses and Cattle : Cut!-, Braises, Collar Boils, Calls of all lands, Spa\. ms, both blood and bone, Sprains, LamenesF, Caked Udder, Inflammation, and healing ff Sores and Wounds from any. cause. Bolbrook's Family Liniment Is a positive Specific and relieves local Pain . more pronjptly tlian any other Medicine in Uhe. Testimonials are being constantly received which place its powers in this respect beyond a doubt. «B\ Every Family should have a bottle of Hoi - brook's Fainily Liniment at hand, in case of sickness or accident. JSST Call on yotir Druggist and get a bottle of* 5 -» j!3°Holbrook's Family Liniment.*^! GIVE If A. TRIAL. Prepared Ly S. ill. HOLBEGOK, No. 1:0 North Water Street, <)gdensburg, to whom all orders shoidd be addressed. Duggists can be supplied by JOHN a TAYLOR, Mexico, K. Y. 14-ly CALDWELL'S \ JOHNSON, Office on Main Street, DR, (4EO; P. Physician and Surgeon. over Si Ai fuller's •Hardware Store, where he may be found, both day and night, when not on professional business. Office Jefferson St., opposite Post office,Mexico,\ N, Y. Residence corner of Main aiid Railroad streets. Chronic diseases made a specialty. All calls proDoptly attended. \ 25 JTA. RICKARDT - ^ _ \^ v ~ Dealer in ali kinds of Furnrfcure, South Jeffer4on Street., * a. \ J. N/F. HALL, t~ Berber and iHair Dresser^ Partietilai 1 attention paid to Shampooning, and the cutting of ladies and children's hair. Shop South end of Mayo's Hotel, -fhuroli street. Edward H, Wadswortb. General Insurance Agent, Office over Ooit & Castle's store, Mexico, N. Y. Mutual Life, of New York, Assets $65,000,000, tx— it —j i-„:,i„^t <i* xi —tf j r<„»,», v-..«<-«. . S200i000 Amazon (Fire) of Cincinnati, Assets S850i000, Oswego County Farmers, of Handy Creek, N. Y.„ Assets $106,000. DP, J. .MEAD, Surgeon Dentist. Office on Jefferson St, over the Post Oifice. All kinds of Denjtal work executed in the best manner and warranted. Teeth extracted with- out pain with Nitrous Oxide or Laughing Gas. Chioroforin or Ether given if preferred. DE7WA2JDBEW MLNl, SITRGEON^ Office, No. 213 West First Street, OSWEGO. Office hours, 9.00 to 10.30 a. m. And from 3.00 to 7.00 p ; m. An appointment'for liny other .hour can be se. cured by making the request by letter. 16 ii. W. LFT>INGTON & CO., Healers in Dry tJ'oodSj Croi-eriw, Boots and Shoes, Tfardware, l>rugs, Medicines, cti'., etc. Corner of Main and Railroad Sts.. Parish. \iDWIN BAKER, A-ttorney and Coumellor at Law. Putter Block. Main St. ~ v. a. LY'NOH, Atturney :uid Goims-ellor at Law, Liuldinglon nioclc,. MainStreet. Wanted in Thirty Days, AT cOABTHT'S O S W E G- WINE and IRON i FOR! THE CURE O Dyspesia, indigestion^ LIVER COMPLAINT, ifEEVOUS AIFE(ffl(m, GENERAL PROSTRATION. As a THEY HAVE NO RIVAL. t-abswlutsi'y p'lri'ies th. b',.y 1. It sp.-; lily cor- rects all morbid changes in \the blood. It })«•!•- fects digestion, feudering i t natural and' t'asy. - It banishes those clogs upon pleasure which produce gloom. It improves the appetite, arid removes all disagreeable feeling after eating. ' PRICE, ONE DOLLAR PER BOTTLE. *8 ti Fiir Coughs, Q+AiU, Croup, &e. oJiap An internal and external remedy* CALDWELL'S IJ i 1 Y Balm, l-'Oll 15KAV r TIFV-IS«J THE COMPLEZnNI K-EMOVINC X^xooli.iv/ij< Sana.-jp^voxrcj j Jo^rja.to'vti-sraj Eouglmess, laii, &c. The Lily Ealmwiii speeoily remove tV i!>i. ish, and impart softness, tran^pareiky, a, »I>M'S. . tinge and a pearl like lustre to the coinpitM\' It contains no poison. , It is the best and clu ^ est Toilet article ever offered to the public, i '• ' directions on the label of each bottle. Prici-. .' • cents per liottle, V«'. C. CALDWELL, Proprietor and Manufacturer, Medina, N. V For sale by JOHN O. TAYLOR, Dealer in Drugs Paints, O 4G-ly Main Street Me Dve.Sfcuff«, k> 5, T . Y. S.-vo \ our Eyes, ' •'«•-• Yeuf'Koriey, r vo Your Temper 1 .M-'ins-frystal Spcx:- •. •'•,-. Tin- riv-e Clear! 1 >r::.rit!IV.'fVctl Ave ml.'t':.in O'vj-slnlizpd f i r-.z. KJVI highly poT- i,h- I V:..1<- lh-\or.vi. they enaliKi the weaver to K.-e porfeetly at any distance. For sale by R. L. ALFRED, Mexico, N Y -., %J •ei' ^ irTig %* • -- !-. iy. _. to Gray H>;.:v ; • 4 .u Vitality and CQ-^ A -il ••*•.•>• -rhirli i s SALE L-'t us iind -poirtf-ft in tlie thottglit triiat :t ri. \'T she 1 '.'hti'i.' tfiti'.-i, anil find iv? ;. • • it ' -1 i l.ve.in.^e or' our .how (J..M1 I'.ill-; ciii'lv, tire i'li'--.-! HI\ lii'ir'.-; drt'^s oi't- • i.;' i!i. i-.it'ctiit ft.s and •. : d not t'Xtiil it St>- it ist with L, B. aiosa-Ek. sl.i' «' . i •'..H\ <• -l.'llh. .-,.>.•--.• tin;\>. in--nnty «>i- ill;- r-i-..- v.-c !i tn lmv«: it. a.j.i_->i'iiiji-t't.l' t , , , i li.(--..v.' i> time, ; v •«^*- ^Vm Egr 's-Dhl ymt ever see that .picture^ granclma. ]\ SIHICW! a young lady, as they took a view of the family Jvovtrait gal- lery^ '-Seo it ? Why, it's a portrait of myself when 1 was .seventeen !\•'.' \1 thought yoii had forgotten it, or you wouldn't always be leGturing u s girls ahout molesty in diess/ Grandma looked over her spectacles and dechired that the girls nowadays were very itn- l evtiaent to their elders. ~ fn• Wisconsin, nvory woman of the age of twenty-one yoars and upward may lie elected- to tho oflice of director, treasurer j and clerk of school districts; director and secretary of town boards, under the township system of school gov- ernment ) member of a Board of Educa- tion in cities, and county superintendent of schools. ^\Bub did you ever stop to think,\ said a Michigan avenue grocer yesterday as he nioasured out half a peck of pota- toes, \that these potatoes contain sugar, water and starch V \Noah I didn't/' replied the boy, \but I heard mother say that you put peas and beans in your cof- fee, aiid about a pint of water in about every quart of milk you sold.\ -—After leaving a Milwaukee street car, a citizen rail and overtook it again, and entering looked around on the floor and asked : \Did any one see a letter in a mourning envelope?\ All answered \No and he edntihtted: \Well< it's no great loss, though I'd like to be sure : whether it said iny brother William or my IJncle James was dead ?' Of China, G-lassWare/ SilverWare, ^CG., Oommeiicmg Dec- 1st, 1874, And Continuing Until the Stock shall be Sufficiently Reducod to Consolidate two Stores in one. The people of Mexico, and surrounding country aire especially invited to come and look over this Immense Stock, wliieh will be sold T 3T0 JAMES MCCARTHY. •Jefferson Block, 203 West First Street and 198 Water St. Oswego, November 24, 1874. Gyrus Whitney, ATTORNEY 4; COtJNSBLOR AT LAW Neal Block, (East end of Lower Bridge)* Oswe- go, J?, Y; Special attention paifl to epllectio&s, Foreclosure of Mortgages, Adjustments of Titles, Conyeyaueeing, Assign- inents, Batikniptey, \Stills , Settlement of EitftJieB, Railroad, Commercial aiid Marine Law t l :i (2 fov tin'* soon. onca-sigivi healthy, i efiectnal preserving hair. It restores fadel or gray Itair to its original color, with tin: .- <i ••'' freshness of youth. Thin in--i;ened, falling hair checked, • *: .(<•« often, though not always. • ! -_-. its us<>. Nothing can restore. »!nr whoro the follicles are «I - ...!-.i, or the glands atrophied an I ....\.I; but such as remain can !>•> IM 1<. this application, and stiinn -. ! into activity, so that a r -w • Wi h of hail* is produced.•tlnst.-atl fouling the hair with a pasty sedi- ii% it will keep it clean and vigorous. <vcasional use will prevent the }v.va •n tuniiiig gray or falling off, an-.i. -erjuetitly^ prevent baldness. Tlf4 , 'j-.ir-.uiou of Vitality it gives to tlie «-up nrivsts and prevents the forma- ti-m of daiultufF, which is often ss uti- .••leanly and olfensive. Free froiti thos-3 ii.']eh'ri,ous Substances which, inalio som« preparations dangerous and inj; - rious t o the hair, the Vigor can cvl? henefit but not harm it. If war' d UK-rely, for a HAIR DREBSI>. i, i -vhing else can be found so desk Omiainiug neither oil nor dye, i iill !• • in; lui >ii wlrite cambric, and ye» •? i 'ho hair, giving it a rich. ' / iila grateful perfume. ..red by Dr. J. 0. A^er & r >.. \•iafii and Aiwflytitcta Clienii.-i.--, LOWELL, aiASS, e. es its
