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FARM AND MTLLSITE FOR SALE. rn. JAMES BRODERICK, of Kildare, Lot 3, offers for ‘ sale on reasonable terms, a FARM consisting of 50 acres, more than one half of which is in a high state of eulti- ‘wation, and the remainder covered with hard and soft wood, |This very eligible property bas a stream of water passing ‘through it, capable of driving a Grist and Siw Mill. For further particulars and ¢ 7 DERICK, at the Post Office, Lot 3. Kildare.

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Freehold Farm.

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apes SALE that valuable FREEHOLD FARM situated |

at Seven Mile Bay, Lot 27, tie property of the late Mr. John McDonald, together with the Buildings thereon. For jurther part culars please apply to the subseriber. RONALD McDONALD, Executor. Summerside, Jan’y 21, 1861 i

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For Sale or to Let, FEXUAT very conveniently situated BUSINESS STAND, fT onthe West side of Souris Harbor, adjoining the Bridge, and at present in the occupation of Mr. Neil McD nald, con- taining 24 acres of Land, together with the Dwelling Houses, Stores, Wharf, Fish Flakes, &e. &c. D. BLACKWOOD. Charlottetown, January 21, 1861. At FREEHOLD PROPERTY FOR SALE,

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JOUN CAMPBELL. Lot 16 June 19, 1850. tf.

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| Literatur

| Literature. — | Can you remember all there deaths ? asked Mary. ‘MAKE HOME BRIGHT AND PLEASANT, | ‘Remember them? Bless you, my dear, they've all been Pre ; : r . tommes**~* utouched and took within these five years!’

More than building’s showy mansion, | ; ‘ Touched and touk ! What do you mean, Charlotte ? More than dress or fine array, | said the young mistres-, opening her blue eyes.

More than domes or lotty steeples, | * Well, well, we'll sce!’ muttered the old woman. ‘ And More than station, power and sway— /so you'd like to die here too, would you, my lamb? She }

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\* Master’s mother—Miss May Cuallender—Colonel Dou! jton, all breathed their last on this very bed.’

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Make your home both neat and tasteful, }Went on, with a peculiar look, gazing at the pretty fragile ote - pes. te Hi fair, . | creature before her, from head to foot, as though mentally ere each herrt shail rest contented, | dressi r . 7 ressing her for the grave. Grateful fur each beauty there. j g e

More than lofty swelling tides, More than faushion’s luring glare,

More than Manimon’s gilded honors, tion to dismiss her follower, and, having done so, sat duwa at More than thoughts ean weli compare— | the great plate-glass window, which faced the west.

See that home is made attractive | «The view from hence was both fair and sed. First came By surrounding pure and bright ;

} Trees arranged with taste and order, Flowers with all their sweet delight. ee 5 - of it—some leafless elms and fig-trees, and a high wall

‘magnified to an immense size with sheaves and coils of ever- lasting ivy. Past this was a Roman Catholic cemetery, loug since filled, and abandoned asa place of interment. Over aud between three and four noble cypresses, that shaded the

Seck to make your home most lovely, Let it be a smiling spot,

W hef, in sweet contentment, resting, Care and sorrow are forgot :

Where the flowers and trees are waving, Birds wil)! sing their sweetest songs ;

Where the purest thoughts will linger ; Confidence and love belongs.

| Sprouting corn; then a range of blue hills, on the last of | Which lingered the westering sun.

* Half au hour later, Charles was returning home. When ‘within a few paces of Lis own door, a loud ringing shriek istruck him like astab! Ina moment, he was in the house, Or, if roaming, still wili cherish jand dashed into the room from the direction of which he had . Memories of that pleasant home. | fancied the ery proceeded. ee wan lendeaeealindae o<.. | * His wife was on the bed, frightfuly convulsed, Hephzibal:

. 7 ’ | ‘hs ‘ ; . : “OV j , Home. with pure and bright surroundings, and Charlotte beside her, She recovered instantly on see- Leaves its impresston the soul. |ing him, and a violent flood of tears completely restored ber | tranquility ; after which, being left alone with her busband, | Mary related as follows: (From Chambers’s Journal.) | *She had sat for some time at the window, watching the | veloping the quiet sceue, when, becoming sensible of a degree

THE HORROR IN THE HOUSE. ‘of lassitude, and a strange inert feeling not usual with her,

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‘Early in February, No 23. now in the full enjoyment | a haunted fame, opene! its doors to new tenants; ard |. ’ Ts ; : ‘into an uneasy sleep, Charles Annesley, a young man of twenty-five, with good. | : ; 7 : s arene aie Sie : ' ; e. | *She lay upon her right side. with her face to the wall— frank, intelligent features, and resolute bearing—one with | ; : 5 ;

: : fea on that side distant scarcely half a yard from the bed—and whom no ghost of any sense would for a moment dream of |

There each heart will rest contented, Seldom wishing far to roam ;

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contending —escorted his charming little wife across the first | : : = tg, peta 5 4 | Sc - L . ; ; and that there issued from it a skeleton, bearing in its hands threshold of which she was the declared mistress. { =e 4 : : : ©

r ac hit r dad sk aca - 4 ‘ Very much frightened she looked, the country belle, as r oe severed skull, and poiuted to the vacaut eye-holes, «gs ; aman ; | while the bead muttered : the magnificence of her dowain opened upon her! As for . " . | ‘See how they treat us yonder. Charles, he could hardly forbear a hearty laugh as they pass-

Here were b!ue diamonds

—s : *” once, my sister, that laughed and swam like yours. Come ed from room to room, firnished with eastern splendour, his : _ eee laughed and swam like yours. Come, . e a a ¢ $ cc are retty companion setting her little feet apologetically o j . ° ee | P 6 poe J on the} «The skull was thrust up into her very faze. She was

yielding rp, Chee * bamble white finger - cabinet, conscious of the earthy, fetid odour—her own face was drawn icouch, or picture, as if to ascertain that these objects were 7 on aie Weg ga gr at ok watetial, acd-0o faity ‘vision. as it aere more and more into the sister-skall, as though it ‘The young people brought but one servant, a eountrys \girl; and their entire resources, inclusive of a little dower of thirty pounds, hoarded for this darling by the thrifty schoolmaster, aunounted to only seventy-five-pounds. Charles, jindeed, who had a taste for, and already some proficiency in medical science, intended to turn this to account ; bat how the war was to be carried on until necessary livence was ob- .tuined, and patients came to be*kffled in sufficient uninbers io keep the sportsman alive, was ah entire enigma ‘ How, upon earth, Caarles, are we to keep ai! these lovely | things of your kind unele’s clean, with only Hephzibah @ asked Mary. * And, indeed, [ shall be half afraid as it is, ito trust them to her determined hands. And, O Charles, there's auother thing. I'm so ashamed of myself ?—I am [ ean’t—Oh! what have 1 been doinz ? Wasting my time with F.ench and singing, when 1 can’t even co—coo’ ‘co, my child ? said, Charles, laughing, and kissing off a tear—' why should you coo ?’ * Co—ook, Charles!’ sobbed the poor bride, ‘If I could {have done that --ani Hephzibah the housework i— ‘ebink Pl try,’

ate strugzie, she flung the speeire and the dream away.

peared to pas: away, it was but too evident to Annesley that ‘the health and spirits of his little wife had received a serious I } t

shock, iooked dry and teverisi —she began to complain of headache, anj started, when suldenly touched, or at the last unexpect- ed sund.

‘ One day, after making vain efforts to eat her breakfast, the poor li:tle thing leaned her head on his hands, and burst into tears. *O, Charies, my poor boy,’ she sobbed, * | fear .’m very, very ill.’

‘ Tae wistful, anxious look ia those blueeyes alarmed her husband far more than even her words. He laid her tender- ly on the sofa, sootking her to the utmost of bis power, and pot withoat bitter self-reproach for neglecting it so long, des- patched H-pbz.bab to reqaest Mr. Mawry’s immediate atten- dane>.

* The little doctor acknowledged that his new patient Jook- ei delicate in the extreme, and required every attention. atc ee es . ; ; The present attack was clearly nervous; 1e ended

‘Vou'll do no such thing!’ replied Charles, seriously °° Pre eee a wo enens and he endeavoured

bit need it to elicit from her whether she bad sustained any recent shock alernie.. You'll make a mess of it, burn your pretty ' ? rere . : e oralarm. Mary, however, was ashamed to confess her dream ; fingers, and soni Us both with all sorts of unearthly pre- | 13 a '

ages, . ih , eee aod Mr. Mawry cou'd di-cover nothing but that she was sub-

yarations! No,no! .°"fiesque ts very amusing in its way ; |. ¢ - if h —— ° cant saddles — tis Sitestad then, eee sudden and fearful spasm, which affected her whole at v i ares i C <j , EARR SERED A UREN Be Ny pe P head from the eves to the throat. In the latter organ, es- tom ofa fricandeau—is no fun ai ali! “We Must manage pecially, she suffzre] much pain ae servant ae ion sev -footea aan: | * Oo the point of leaving, Mawry turned round, and care- roo e agent, when consuited on the matter, 10: OT Lael wake 6 ake it for ors : » de ae bet cian ite Sasa | alean ae ite th ats coos ae tee Pa observed: ‘I take it for granted, my dear wadars, M : : uort, Be mga | that you have an excellent watcher io your busdand ; but | inform Mr. oe . ori that there existed an ute) 15 peed some care. Who may I ask, is your principal at- | countable prejudice agaiust the house, and that it was quite | agent ?” Mary smiled. + Who, for example, makes your ‘likely Charles might experience difficulties of a kind he did | ten ?? not expect in augmenting his establishment. These auguries) ~~ *,, oe taka vai : 1, were petteatly correct : Not © soul could be found in the! ,,,- 0° boasemald, Henbzibah, generally ; but sometimes old Sapa si aS ’ M: stheeked herself, ; : r =e Ch Mary checked terse.’ | Vicinity willing to take service at No. 23; and the young ” : , : ‘ I beg your pardon—zwiho ? couple, reluctant to incur the expense of sending to Londow | =| 5 ten sheutiintentnn neal eenmenees tetin, taken fale ‘for a domestic, sat down to their first meal a little depressed | in Siemenee Saleeaiee ean nat Soe ceten pesnen I haus in spirit—Charles, who had concealed from his wife the cause ~~ P ae

° ° . - : ’ we ; r not wish it to be known. |of the difficulty, secretly resolving to extract some further not inquired, ahe does .

‘ Now, whether or not there was something unusually re- | pulsive this day about the old woman, or whether she sim- | ply desired to be alone,Mary yielded to an irresistible inelina-_

|a slip of much neglected garden, a crowded batt!e-ground | of weeds and flowers —the weeds haying decidedly the best

| forgotten dead, might be scea the broad weald, green with |

| purpling clouds, and the sombre tints of evening calmly en- |

she moved to the low golden couch, and lyiog fairly down, feli |

\dreamed that,so lying, the wall before her opeued slowly, |

were becoming part of it—when, with a shrick and a desper- |

‘ Although, for the moment, the painful impression ap-

In a few days her rich colour was goue, her lips!

and, moreover, secing the cause of misunderstanding removed, | was ready enough to give indulgence to his returning kind- | ness towards his nephew, to whom he accordingly wrote, de- | Siring him to quit without delaythe scene of his bereavement, and resuine tie place he had formerly held is his uncle's home and affection.

* Charles refased.

‘ He considered that his uncle, in plicing them in a house under this notorious ban, had been actuated by less disinter- ested motives than he had imagined, aad had been even in

‘some degree instrumental in the fatal misfortune that had befallen him, Besides, he bad a duty to perform, to which

sessed—nay. if needful, life itself. He would fiad out the mystery of the hausted house, And no knight, in quest of the holy greal, ever started on the doubtful way with more resolved purpose than Charles, when, returning from his Mary’s funeral, be re-entered the desolate mansion.

‘Ile was alone, absolutely alone; for poor Hephzibah, though attached to her master, and pitying him with all her honest heart, had evineed such unmistakeable symptoms of aversion to sleept»g another night in the house, that Charles, unshaken in purpose, judged it best to dismiss her at once to her friends, Ss the door closed behind the sobbing [eph- zibah, and Charles was alone—absolutely alone.

_ ‘For hours he sat musirg by the melaucholy fire, undis- _turbed by a single sound. Evening at length approached, and still be sat, as though Memory bad chained bim hand and foot to the place whére he bad passed so many happy hours. Gradually he got into a train of reco!lection that conducted him through the entire history of his lost love, from the first chance meeting when he had stopped, a lost, _benighted hunter, to inquire the road, and Mary*s azure eyes glittered in the starlight, as if they belonged to it, while she stepped forward to his horse's side, and raised them in directing him. He had arrived at the evening when they had come, with their modest baggage and rustic henchwoman, io the magnificent house, had examined its alarming glories, had dined merrily, and were reclining in their deep velvet chairs, their laughing faces reflected grotesquely in the polished stove, up to the moment when old Charlotte, like au evil genius, appeared at the door.

‘At that moment a sound struck Charles's ear— it was like a distant footstep somewhere within the house. Tye door of the room in which he sat was wide open, aud pre- sently he was aware of a slow soit step ascending the stair,

‘To say that Charles’s heart did not accelerate its usual pac: by a pulse or two,would be to deny a feeling that might have so far assailed the most collected, An idea that the bold resolution he had formed was about to be met halfway, that the mysterious Horror of the House was actually ape | proaching bim in an incarnate shape, struck the listener with |an appaliing sense of being suddenlyealled upon to deal with what one cannot compreheud, Charles involuntarily griped the velvet arms of his chair, and half rising, slowly turned his face to the door, where the step bad baled.

* There stood old Charlotte !

* His fear melted into rage.

* Wretched old hag !—accursed murderess!’ he exclaimed, forgetting for the moment his own doubts of her guilt—

‘dare yu" ‘Charles Annesley,’ said the old woman, walking up to ‘him, ‘itis you who should not dure. I warned you—I warned your mother—I warred Mrs. Callender—I warned every oue of you, young and old, of the danger hidden in this fearful house. Yet I loved and served them all when they would Jet me, aud to do so ran the sawe risk with them, Mor reward, you put the wurderer’s mark on me. I am the devil’s mate, Moll Murder, the old poisoning witch. My life is mothing; they wight as well have hanged me. [ boped they would, for the Lord keeps justice for the innocent, aud He kuows that I never harmed a living creature. They were all touched and took, poor dears! but not by me. I | know You are come back to find out who killed your darling, and old Charlotte's come to help you,’ |. * Jour | _* Like enough in some things,’ said the old woman steadily. ‘You’ve nomore pleasure in life—no more have L. You've one object —mine’s the same, only my reagon’s the best.— Find out what you may, you cau’t bring back the dead. Bus { wear Cain's black braud, and that’s an ugly mask to die in; L wou’t, if L can help it.’

‘ Charles stood looking at her with amazement he did not care to hide; something in the woman’s altered manner im- pressed him favourably, despite himself, His thoughts held a rapid coancil: if the hag were guilty, and were really a

,prey to that fearful form of mauia which could alone account for such erucl crimes, he had no fear for himseif, and might even, by examination and analysis, obtain some clue to her

alleged practices. If she were innocerit, she might afford him important aid in its investigations, Some attendant be absolutely required. In fine, he acceded to her proposal,

,and directed her to take up her residence in the house as be«

| fore.

‘A feeling he could not well deGne determined Charles to sleep that night in the Angel-Chamber, It was there

thathis Mary had expericaced the first mysterious visitation

it was bis Sxed determination to devote every energy he pos-_

information from the eautious agent on the morrow * Old Charlotte !' ejaculated Mawry. — le — ani ” . | ‘Such is he e,’ replied Mary, suprised at Ais astovish- | —, j ; . ‘ . ‘Taey were sitting afier dianer, with recovered spirits, Such is her name,’ rep bee: there, on his bosom, breathed her last geutle sigh.

‘ » " .- ° + but in deep consultation, whea there camo a low knock at ment. ‘As he lay down, though with little hope of rest, he could

and presentation before the Court, and all intricate or im- |

properly kept accounts clearly and inteliigibly stated. Fees the door,

‘ Mawry, who had sat dowa again, got up with a face not resist utteringa ferveut prayer that the terrible influence

HE MAILS for New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Canada and the United States, will, aatil further notice, be made up at the Genera! Post Ofice, Charlottetown, every TUESDAY and FRIDAY,

Mails,----Winter Route.

at 7 o'clock, p. m , aod forwarded by Cape Tormeniice.

Mails m

ade wp for Newfoundiand every FRIDAY.

Mails for Raginod and Bermuda will be made up as follows:

Tuesday, January Ist

Friday «4th = Friday ** (ASth = Tuesday =“ 26¢b, said Estate are requested to make immediate payment to ‘ really in a difficulty, Charles, after a moment's dubious con- | Tuesisy “ 15h «Tuesday “ 26th Friday ‘* 29%b, ; RONALD McDON Aba. | templation of the old woman's squalid Gigure, gave utteranee Friday “ th Friday March Ist Tuescay, April 9th Sumnerside, Ist January, 1861. 3i ne saat bb ther tu ie Gita a é a oe Tuesday ee 29:h Tuesday “ 12th Friday “ 12th, pete o the assen Sa S Wiies clear eyes, and engaged the

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Tuesday, Feb. 12th

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VUbarlottetown, December 22, 1869.

Postage Stanps.

Friday, March 15th,

Postmaster General.

| proportionate to time and talent required. Address Accountant, care of SWABEY & ROBERTS. Great George Street Charlottetown. June 26, 1860. Isl ly. Administration Notice. At persons having any demands against the Estate of the b Jate Mr John McDonald, Farmer, of Lot 27, Sev™m Mile Bay, are requested to furnish the saue (duly attested) within

three months from this date; and any person indebted to the |

DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP,

HE PARTNERSHIP business hitherto carried on by the

Subscribers in Charlottetown, under the name and Firm of J Hl. TURNER & Co., as General Commission Merchants is this day DISSOLVED by mutual consent All debts due

HE PUBLIC ARE HEREBY INFORMED THAT | the said Pirm will be set led by J. UH. TURNER, who continues STAMPS for the pre-payment of Letters and Packets to be rent ¢}.. business on his own account.

by the post, will, on tae Istof JANUARY, 1861, be ready for cir-

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The design, cclour and value of ezc> <!=:* of Stamps ara as follows: |

The Queca’s Head, prufile, green, Dixpence. “ a7

The blue or red Stamps will be received for payment of half the sam

biue, Three pence.

o o Two- pence.

red,

it indicates, ifeut in two diagonally.

THOMAS. J. JOST. J H. TURNER.

Pictou, Nova Scotia, Dee. 8, 1860. lm Jan7

| NOTICE. — E Subscriber has been empowered by a power of Attorney | to evllect all debts due to Joun McPurs, formerly of

white as ashes,

might reveal itself to him; also—no matter with what peril

| *Bidden to enter, a dirty old woman made her appearance. Tt was no other than old Charlotte, who had come to offer ber valuable services in default of better.

‘ She loved the house,’ she said, ‘and all that was in it. Old as she looked, she could do as much as twenty—was a very good cook, and would work her fingers to the bone for ber dear little ladyship. As for wages, she dida’t want | none of them.’

‘ As these terms seemed reasonably eheap, and they were |

‘L—I have a word to say to Mr. Annesley,’ he said, and accompanied,—so that he might but analyze its fearful fea took a hasty leave. } F tures, and gauge its destroying power. | * Charles was reading medicine in the Angel-room. . | ‘His desire was fulfilled. It must have been about two

* Good heavens! sir,” exclaimed the littie doctor, bursting | %.Jock when Charles woke, with » start, under the impres« in, ‘do you know what you have got in your house ?” siun that a hand had been laid apon ais face. But suck a

‘ Horrid visions of his Mary in typbus fever—in small-pox hand! [1 could have belonged to no living human thing. —e lunatic—flashed like lightnig across Cuarles’s mind, Horrible as it seems, it was like that of a putrid corpse.

*What-—what !’ he gasped out. His mouth, his nose, his eyes, his throat, were choked and * Moll Marder !’ smarting with some affluvia, his pulse went irregulariy—his ‘ Moll what ? ; very soul sickened within bim.

‘ The old bag to whom the boys in the town have given Duikialée en 0 duties Cat Miele a that title, for her strange association with every death that siaseaitianal ata Aloe “oh atne Pox a = ee aoa has oceurred in this unhappy heuse since it became your ih the teed ie oF he an — moras et a : uncle's, The very worst suspicious cleave tober. For mer-_ aendah aa tee indies anon ony oun ne Slowly

rt. . 5 i M estey e@ i . i ote a " ‘Though the old woman's eyes glistened Iike those of a °¥'s Sake, Mr. Annesiey, got rid of this old wretch before 4 seiuctantly, as though bailed in its assault, the horrible iJ ; fear, whose presence he had almost felt, relaxed its hold,

famisbed wolf, at the mention of food, she paused at the door, |", in . oe and hobbling back, said in a Sort of hoarse whisper, * Please, | Charles stood aghast. * Is it-—-pomible thet’—— > <g;j and quitted him. Charles instinctively staggered forward ‘sir, and my lady, don’t say that you've taken old ‘Charlotte L know ust whos ic pogo; but dob, sis, dp i, grid as in pursuit, reached the window, and throwing it j eer ra T dall wae ‘the eager apothecary ; and Charles, infected with his earn- ~ P : ; . wing it up, gazed ‘into your service. shall never go abroad ; and nebody an RC ppc le a forth inte the calm cold night,

nie See Ore ' *‘ Whence, whence, O Horror ? he gasped.

wil! know if you don’t tell ‘em.’ 7 e nae : ‘ Charles smiled at the idea of the old crone fearing that) ‘ That night Charlotte was dismissed, this time taking her | « The next moment, with a countenance deadly white, be reclozed the window, and returned to his bed.

the dangerous reputation of the house might damage hers; pattens with her, as though her work were done, — but, unwilling to explain before his wife, hastliy gave the re-| ‘ Touched and took !’ was Charlotte's benediction, look-| + fy that instant the Horror, the Ghost had revealed itself ‘to bim, as he bad desired, 2

quired promis?,atd summoning Hephzibah, dismissed the new img back and shaking her finger as she passed the door.

sirange attendant, enjoining her in the first place to have recourse to soap and water, in the second, to eat a good sup-

These Stamps can be bad at the Genoral Post Ofice, Charlottetown, Souris, P. E. Isiand. Begs to notify ail persons indebted to cook,under that young lady’s charge, to the sphere of her and of ali Postmaaters on the Steed, lie’ a . | him to have their respective accounts settled on or before the future duties. cone me go: Dee = , Postmaster General. | bach inst., ar they will be sued after that date without | * Affairs for a few days went smoothly enough. Charles’ oan > distinction of persons, . d ree of st ‘ NOTICE. | ARCHIBALD McPILEE. ee out of his professional peofeot: while the have teide YE CO-PARTNERSHIP heretofore existi der the! J HEREBY notify that I have appointed Mr. Richard Hayes, [1198 08° es aa a te oe et ? —~PARTNERS " , Cae Caner Me of Souris, my Attorney to collect the above. _ busied herself perpetually in the direction of their economical | oom OE Ete tees & ee — everest? ; ARCHIBALD McPHEE, household, and was never tired of watching over the well | teria Firm wil be ected by auher ot the Pariere, | _Big Pond, Lot 5, Jancary 3, 1800 to posses the faculty of brightening op considerably at wl Dated this 18t day of December, 1860 NOTICE _to possess the faculty of brightening up considerably at will.

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a 2 pee LL persons having any claim against the late PETER ee oe es eee fees aLaatiee ae

JAM >» SASUN, i A O' Net, of Nail Pond, Lot 1, deceased, will please send | ~"” k ’ hei J proved to be a very eis oee Rk. R. HODGSON. ‘in the same, duly attested, within three moyths from this g00d cook, preparing ali their meals without assistance, and NOTICE, | date to the undersigned ; and all persons indebted to the suid Pera of ae a gh 9 os rary saclenpeanty re- SOMETIME ; : ‘g jute Pexer O' Nese, aro hereby required to make immediate freshments for the mistress she professed to adore. T Moevehant. eeerenee: syenias SWaee, © ety: payment to the undersigned. a | *Qne morning, Anvesley baving gone out alone, Mary—| C. E, GROVER, in and about King’s County. and by the og OE ag ERASER. area. |attended byold Charlotte,who was well acquainted with every | C. E. Grover duly assigned to me. All persons, therefore, _-*2!! Fond, Lot 1, Nov. 22, Ab0v. os ‘drawer, shelf, and cupboard in the place—made a regular iotebind in tie above matter, by Book Account, Note of Hand, | NEW ZEALAND progress of inspection throughout the house, ending, asit bap | adgments »r otherwise, are notified to pay the same to Mr. i , ’ _ pened, at the Angel-Chamber. eee and no other person. | EREE GRANTS OF GOVERNMENT LAND to all eligible + What a loveiy room!” exclaimed Mary, for the twentieth | ottevown, Feb. 4, 1861. 4w persons, who emigrate at their own cost—for the purpose time, as she entered ; and what a couch! When I die, J |

WM. B DEAN. i , ‘should like it to be on just such a bed as this,’ and she sat! ue Sabscriber begs NOTICE

lef settling in the Province ef Auckland. Every information | to acquaiut al) persons indebted Mie. ert oh slanttel te CHARLES BELL, ‘down upon it— with that sweet majestic face shiaing upon bim in bis late busigess that unless their respective Awounts ue. 7

I Emigrant Agent. ‘me.’ are - _ ons, they will be sued for the same without farther notice tf Pecan ‘ Everybody does die here,” said old Charlotte, cheerfully.

Feb. 4.

= “McKINKON. | City, Jane_12 1860,

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‘ Let_me pass quickly over these sad details. The young!" * But Charles would have further proof, atia~™!tDess too, wife was indeed doomed, Drooping gradually, like the pre- * The following morning, after pretending to eat some por- ceding victims, she slowly but certaiuly followed them to tion of the breakfast he found comfortably prepared for him the same bourne. in the library. Charles summoned old Charlotte to a cole

Annesley would have left the house, but nothing could ference. induce Mary to consent. His uncle would be vexed ; would =‘ She came, so changed, that her master oou!d scarcely re- think them careless, ungrateful—besides, they had no otner | cognize im the hale, respectable locking matron before him, home. Most of all, she caruestly desired, if die she must, the wretched old outeast of the previous day. Bat I have to breathe her last in the Angel-chamber, with those glorious said, that Charlotte had, in common with other humbie crea. eyes and protecting arms above her. tures I tave met with, a way of brightening and expanding

‘ She had her wish; and, ina few short weeks, the fourth under certain influences, which revealed qualities bitherto victim to the mystery of that house slept in the villege charch- wrapt in shade. ‘The troubles she had undergone, above all, yard, the fou! stigma under which she laboured, had had a puri-

‘The popular feeling sgainst old Charlotte had by this fying and vivifying effect, so apparent in her maungr and time attained such open expression, that it became absolutely ‘anguage, that Charles secretly congratulated himsel! on bis uecessary to investigate its grounds. She was accordingly | ally. given into custody, Some examinations took place; but) * He began by tracing as minutely as possible the history the doctor being compelled to certify to a case of natural of the later illness aud deaths, begioning with that of big death, and no direct incy!patory eyidence being adduced, mother,which event occurred during bis absence abroad. In the prisoner, on the very day of poor Mary's funeral, was re- | this he received most material assistance from Mr. Mawry, stored to liberty, and immediately disappeared. for whom he sent during the morning, and who, after over-

‘It was now imagined that the house would be finally coming his astonishment at fioding old Charlotte a member closed. The next-door neighbour on one side had already of the council,entered with all zeal into the enquiry. quitted; he on the other bad given notice. Mr. Archbold! ‘fhe result proved that the same extraordinary symptoms himself felt his mind infected by the preyailing superstition ; bad tees eyolved in every case—namely, Severe nervous,