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“> s4 . 1 ae eo } ij ; pe \ it ii } i i ° \' sUSIN ESS GSRDS. PORTRY. | he reached the ground just qs the ladder, | er of your life and mine, and her’s too, . ORPEG'PUSH (F Yi, ed &5 ba PARRA RA Rae summer een | that had tottered at every step, slipped and ' We should all have been burnt to cinders | ; ete ee. MAacKENZIE & STUMBLES WOODS IN WINTER. | fell, and he found himself in the grasp of now, if it bad not been for Hannibal. He m9 ope Wg oO RAVE Leen saken 5 " A IG , bala ane | Warland, who was calling in frantic accents scaled the walls—he snatched you from the | aialidn pat “ty ee ee cr BY Atctiouecrs, Commission Merchants, | “xsi turstineiaaarceiencieg chit | for his daughter. | Katy slept im s room | ames—be showed me the way of escape. | <'sson of having purchased the votes WV iilisanna Bu. Cou f<rnr, te f PRBEth peleusn fect 1 teead the hind me S| back of Mrs. Bellamy’s farther removed | Again he perilled his life for that poor, Pia - hee oo ae rag ee ( . CER \ pau Phat overbrows the lonely vate. from the fire , her father in the room below. | shrieking girl, who was about to leap jrom aia ee ae em sre a ome ne OFFICE: WENERAL AGENTS, Over the bare upland, and away } In ra seers fears . a cao oe Bells | i rage — behin re erfere NEF listened nk se os : memorable n A le TF op SS . niles Vhrough the long reach of desert woods, | My had torgotten poor Katy, and now he re | Isabel, in the hands of God, he has been our one , vorner Bucen and Sing Streets. a7 Nai ih Nide Queen Squar ©.) The embrac ing sunbeams chastely play, | peated her sian in sda of despair. At} preserver. [ow shall we thank him? how Big Push parm ne MS—Per Annum, Postage prepa Charlottetown, - - P. E. Island. Aud gladden those deep solitusles. | that moment a piercing shriek from the | shall we reward him? ee . om egghead ee ’ - ? October 18, 1875.—ly Where, twisted round the barren oak, | window they had just quitted cut them! ‘Ino wantthanks, 1| no want anything. . = Tae _ hl oS : : he summer vine in beauty clung, through the heart, for there she stood, | 1 too happy already. My heart ’most ready — _ ae — a ve CLUB RATES: W ILLIAM DODD, Oe reese ae wrens, stnaiahiie out her dices, and they could wie to al i Ilannibal, drawing the back Te aeen — Hon. John Simp Commission Merchant and eicak : he ere " = the hot flames behind, ready to leap upon | of his hand over his brimming eyes. aa vs there ae nen a i ere an _ r Ss | year AUCTIONEER ee Se ye springs | her. The paralyzed hands of the father * Hannibal,’ said his mistress, leaning fors hata i ce ae he ‘age _——- S94, « & 6.0@ QUEEN SQUARE Shrilly the skater’s iron rings, tied in vain to lift the heavy ladder, but | ward and extending her hand eagerly to- | - ee ; wenn ernee's opps atggpe em ‘s And voices fill the woodland side. swift as lightning Hannibal sprang into the | wards him, ‘Hannibal,come nearme?’ | * so Commens te:vote for fis friends is a 4 00 CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND. | Aide? BW ‘Chdnwell fredn the tate sedan: midst, and adding his mighty strength, lift-| The tall slave approached his still res as oe tm - m made in the A : : i CARVELL BROS., ‘ When birds sang out their mellow lay, ed it as if it were a feather’s weight, threw | clining mistress. He could not reach the {°°°™ Manner. fe " ~ Se sae . sae Soy ve / nd wines were vend woods were green | it against the wall, and vaulting upon it, | hand she held towards him without kneel- matter into the oomrs Of lew and he con-| : AUCTIONEERS. er ee es instantaneously on the topmost round. | ing, and with a sudden genufleetion, he en -_ a bare newspaper denial, : a ie . os But still, wiid musie iis abroad, Katy threw herself into his arms with a wild | bent over her, while her pale fingers. tried | ee a autpentionted by his signature 3 taaaane Com MuSsion Merchants, Pia gd salparaend lauianaae appeal to the mercy of heaven. Poor Milly | to clasp his hard and jetty hand. | wetete denial cnlbed ni . re-alGrmation of = ci ie - AND | Amid the vocal reeds pipe loud. who always slept in the same room with ‘God bless you Hannibal,’ she cried in a | +, ee ee eee 7 ’ : ans tee = : GENERAL AGENTS. | Chill dteoend wiaty windel my ‘ear Katy, but who had remained that night in voice half choked with emotion, ‘and he Pine hy ewer peeret . P*. Pe: asa 23 SSeS ie Has grown familiar with your song: the cabin of Hannibal’s mother, who was | Will bless you. He will bless you in heaven. een ee ee ref Plt! & Lower Queen St. Charlotetown, P, E.I, | I hear it in the opening year,— suffering from the rheumatism, was perfect- | But, what shall we do for you on earth ? | changye should be mate the suopg oF in: 7135322 Tints mee * = ee { listen, and It cheers me long; ly frantic during her darling’s danger. She Ask anything of us—anything left us to be- vestigation, - indeed they must be made 2 S21 oe A agen a " < F. Mi. CAMPBELL, LITERATURE rolled on the ground, screaming and biting | Stow. Freedom shali be yours, Hannibal, i, denen et eae , See my ~2 General Merchant) the earth, in the impotence of despair, The | from this moment. 1 know your master’s | «64 towards the present Ministry... of | . s tm <2 oo bs =| <0 COMMISSION AGENT MARCUS WARI {ND negroes were rushing to and fro, doing all aoe as wellas my own, I speak for him ne 8 P rie : era = = : : Ries j ; , | v Us AMLAL ‘ they could to save their master’s property | too. pinion ‘ nat there isas much need for the | (SSeensesess |S 2 AUCTIONEER & BROKER) oR, TNE LONG MOSS SPRING | And check the progress of the fumes. ‘They | ‘Yes!’ repeated Mr, Bellamy with | Pooueution | Ot aap, Spee, SS See eee Se | 7] TRINITY CORNER, GEORGETOWR, P, BL. | alias St had always been accustomed to follow the | Warmth, + your heart does apeak for me, {AMES Lon LION SONA 2 = Hs =2> > er 8 te be | = 4 AGENT FOR THE CHAPTER VILI.—Continued leading of Hannibal, and that he should annphel, you are: free--your smnther tee, dhinic the public fonds Yah tunel slaSicoseua a 1 in a a z Katy was the darling of all the negroes, | bave the glorious privilege of rescuing his | wish [ had a greater boon te bestow, and a P h a “s ihe S. | ine tein @atinio@ o> we) abel Standard Life Ensurance 0, | from the Carthiginian General down to the | mistress and Katy from deith, seemed as itshould be yours. Gat 7S BTS Seren G Renee tn Cur Cour eton be Pants os ree et rn nat 2 | Sept. 1, 1873. ly ‘smallest child that rolled under the hick. | Datural as to see him at the head of the| he negro bowed his head on his breast | bY the recollection of a ny e Bese otise areas | = a ° ————= | ory’s shade. This night she seemed ani- | field, the first to plant and the first to reap. ont wept sloud. The gentle Katy sobbed mer rt ee 7a _ Siseloeseneul «% HASZARD BROS., | mated with unwonted hilarity, for her mood | ‘ Look a there,’ cried the black angel of | ¥/th bim. Spey ngent the etantinn selloving | : PP SesRKHeios| = J id — = . | was usually quiet and serene. She dancs preservation, pointing to the window above, = or I had something to give you Hans en of Cm Monteneid over. S$ 3 Pees (0 HEUSSION Merchaiits & Auctioneers, led from cabin to cabin, regardless of the | While, he bore Katy, who still clung tremb- | "!baly’ said she, ‘ but I will love you as long | 't Panomembmed that 64s gaptioman SSRESEREL EP FORWARDING, MANUFACTURER dust that sprinkled her white muslin robes ; | ling to his neck, toward the spot where he as I live.’ ether through were a : [SSustGseadea bo ; FORWARDIN ’ NUFACTURE , | and picturesque did those white cabins look, had left his mistress, ‘see him coming? ‘Don't talk so to Hannibal, mistress. insepene % a Se ae Pane at al . eden d S 2+ Beeicel s AND ‘in the mellew lustre that now bathed them, | Run rway back, every one of you—way off ; Please, master; please, Miss Katy, don’t, and incorruptible honesty, gave oer tain in- a: ($8 + eee g- | Cieneral A gents, The whitewashed walls, in the illusion of | he fall, he kill you dead as stone. Master, He can't stand it, He = want freedom. Oe ” ph ra an avon . PSRSSSEGSSE US QA WATER STREET moonlight, had the smoothness and rich, | come away ; don’t you see him——’ He stay with‘you all, all his bern days; and iT 9 a - , _ eae eevenesy wee euyeor . ~ é : - L:KET, | ness of marble ; and the dark figures group- The fire was, iudeed, now rolling in red- when he die he want you to bury him along ment party, his remarks indicating (though | PReSHeSeic us| 5 Opposite Merchants Bank, | ed about their steps might have passed for | dening volumes through every window of side of Cora, where he lay you down this such was not his intention) that the con. | ca night. Ob! mistress, when 1 see you put tending parties in Parliament had made

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Other Investments in Dominion of Canada,

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} : P. E. J, | antique statues of bronze, or monuments of | Egyptian art.

| scruples against dancing.

__ {thing going to happen E. I. | broke up in mistress’s room to-day, nobody

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| sleep of Mr. Bellamy, began to change into

| of that wilderness, weighed upon his ears, | when the darkness was suddenly illuminat-

| awake; but the same dull, roaring sound

|

| blazing eyes were glaring through the win- dow, blazing tongues were curling and hiss-

‘What make Miss Katy so gay this night ?’ said Aunt Milly, who had some religious ‘She piert as a Somehow, or other! think some- Looking- glass

kitten,

know how. “l'was a sperrit sure enough, anda warning. If we had an intarpeter like Nabenezzar, who told about the hand that figured on the wall, we'd know what it do mean,’

‘Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof, Aunt Milly,’ cried Katy, Waltzing round her tallturban. ‘I suspect the spirit had a dusting brush in its hand, and was looks ing at itself too hard when the glass shiver- ed, But hark! there’s a breeze rustling among the leaves, and there is a cloud floate ing below the moon. Wewill surely have rain to-morrow.’

The breeze which blew from the north raised such a cloud of dust, that Katy was glad to escape into the shelter of the house, and when the family retired to their slum-

the house, and howling tompestuously with in. ‘The north wall of the building began to rock, and lean, and part, and then fall with a terrible crash, The imprisoned flames leaped up to the very heavens, and went roaring above the old hickories, whose scorched and blackened trunks looked like gloomy pillars ta a vast dome of tire, Nos thing was now to be§done but to gaze on the ruin, so awfully grand, while the element that was working such destruction was cloth- ing it in such dread magnificence. ‘The cabins on the south side of the house shars ed in the conflagration ; those on the north, the direction from which the wind blew, escaped. ‘Ihe fire had evidently commences ed in the northern wing of the building, and had gained the mastery of it before it was (liscovered. The wings were of wood, not brick, like the main body of the house, and being dry from a long exposure to un- mitigated sunshine, kindled like a light wood knot.

Hannibal had selected a strange place to bear his insensible mistress ; but he be-

yonr hands im the live blaze to save poor | Cora, I vow ‘fore my heavenly Master I'd | die for you and master jist for that, Don't | send me away. | work for you as long as | | live.’

A slight shriek from Mrs, Bellamy start- led them all. ‘My hand is covered with blood,’ she cried holding out her dripping fingers. ‘ Hannibal, it is yours.’

‘Me’ mistress, Sure enough,’ cried the negro, holding out his right arm, from which the blood was now perceptibly Howing trom the shoulder to the hand, ‘I no know no. thing ’bout it ‘fore.’

It was evident that he had received a severe wound on the shoulder, probably froma piece of falling timber, but in the excitement of the scene wae unconscious of | the injury.

‘ Your mother’s cabin still stands,’ said Mrs. Bellamy, ‘and it is so far from the flames we can venture there the back way. Let us all go there, and we can dress Han- nibal’s wound. Poor fellow! to think he never knew it.’

lieved, if the flames should cover every inch

bers, they looked forward to a renovating shower. No one but Aunt Milly had a pre- | sentiment of evil, though it was brooding |

| darkly and luridly over the fated mansion, |

All slept deeply, securely, lulled by the murmurs of the rising wind. But the deep | ile dreamed that he was in a trackless wilderness, in the midst | of midnight darkness, and that a heavy, | roaring round, as of wild beasts in the heart

ed by a thousand blazing eyes, gleaming through the shadows, making a living and terrible conflagration. With a convulsive start, he shook off the nightmare under which he was gasping, and sprung up. He was

was in his ears, He was awake; but the

ing abroad; and mingling with the roar were the cries, shouts, and shrieks of sud- denly- awakened voices, while one loud as a trumpet and deep as a drum, peeled high above the rest, ‘ Master— master -— fire !— tire !~-wake up, master— wake—’

Mrs, Bellamy started from the bed with a scraem of horror. The voice of Hannis bal seemed rolling and echoing all round the room,

“Isabel | Isabel!’ exclaimed Mr. Bel- lamy, who had thrown his dressing-gown round him, and rushed toward the windows to ascertain the extent of the calamity. ‘The flames are upon us? My God! how shall | save you? The staircase, it must be on fire !’

Seizing her hand and throwing one arm round her, for she was paralyzed with terror, he opened tha door that led toward the stairs, when the hot scorching air drove him backward. The flames that were 10.ur.ng down below came rushing and leaping up» ward, licking the banisters with their long red tongues, then darting them forward, | like fiery serpents, whose huge convulsions | were rolling and doubling bebind. The | floor quaked beneath their feet the glass shook, the walls vibrated. Mrs. Bellamy fell heavily on the arm of her husband, She had fainted.

‘ Power of mercy !’ gasped Mr. Bellamy dragging her toward the open window, where the flames glared Juridly on her pals lid face; ‘ I can’t save her, She’s lost. We are both lost, Poor Isabel’ ‘Then with a sudden energy he lifted his voice,

erying out, ‘A ladder! for the love of Heaven, a ladder !

Before the words had left his lips, a heavy sound, as of a falling body against the wall was followed by an apparition, that, seen at the open window, on the background of fire so tall, so black, so powerful, with blazing eyes and gleaming teeth, it looked like an archangel of darkness, coming on pinions of flame. ‘ Mistress ! mistress |’ it exclaim-~ ed; ‘Hannibal come to save mistress, or die too !’

The faithful slave beheld the death-like face of his mistress drooping back from the arms of his master, and springing in thro’

of Hickory Hill beside, it would leave un- |

toched and unscathed the grave of Cora. | He believed that the angels guarded it ; he | had seen them himself, with the eye ot | superstition, flitting round it, and spread. | ing out their white wings voer the face of | the monument, with a soft rustling sound, 't might have been the monument itself, that, gleaming white in the moonlight, Hannibal mistook for spreading wings. It might have buen the sighing of the willow. | boughs, and the long grass in the night- | breeze, that he mistook for the feathery | motion of an angelic plume ; but his own | belief was imovable as a rock, and when he | laid his mistress by the grave of the poor | mulatto she had endeayoured to save from | ‘the same destroying element from which | he had just rescued her,he thought no harm | could reach her there? Gently laying her | down, 89 that her head rested on the green

mound, he ran for water to revive her, when

the shrieks of Katy and the frantic cries of

her father again directed him to the burn.

ing building. A negro woman, who was

hurrying about the cabins like a distracted

creature, throwing teacups and saucers to

the ground, and hugging pillows carefully

in her arms, caught a glimpse of the white

robed, prostrate figure stretched upon the

grave, and screaming out, ‘A sperrit!

sperrit !’ came very near rushing into the

flames, to escape the spectre her own ima-~

gination had raised. It was her wild out-

cry, and the horritied glances she rolled over her shoulder towards the spot, thet led Mr.

Bellamy to know where his wife was borne,

and he could not wonder at the terrors of the superstitious negro, when he looked

upon her face, as cloudless as the stone near which she rested, and her long loose wrapper lying around her, like the folds of a winding-sheet. Raising her in his arms, he was bearing her from the melancholy spot, when he met Hannibal with the res~ cued Katy, whom he was bringing also un- der the outspread wings of Cora’s guardian angels,

‘No, master—please, master, don’t take mistress 'way; no fire come here; no no- thing to hurt. I bring water, I bring blan- kets; she nowhere else to go.’

‘ Alas, alss !’ exclaimed Mr, Bellamy, ‘ it is too true. We have no shelter left, The cabins still standing would not be a safe place of retreat.’

Katy, whose sense, instead of forsaking, her, had become intensified by the agony of fear, assisted Mr. Bellamy in the restor- ation of her benefactress. ‘The water which Hannibal brought, and with which they copiously bathed her tace and hands, soon recalled her to recollection and to a know- ledge of the calamity that had befallen

them.

‘God be praised,’ were the first words,

seeing her husband on one side and Katy

her feet, intercepted the blaze of her dwell-

on the other, while Hannibal standing at

ing. ‘ My husband is spared--my own lear

Grateful that any shelter remained to } which they could turn, the houseless mas- ter and mistress of that late noble mansion | sought the dwelling of the aged siave, who, | forgetting her rheumatic pains in thej| horrors of the night, had been hobbling | about trying to help the others. There |

Mrs. Bellamy bound up Hannibal’s bleeding | arm; then, overcome with fatigue and the! angnish of her feelings, sank down upon | the bed of his mother. Desolate was the dawning of the morns | ing, ‘The rain, so long invoked as a blessy | ing, began to descend on the smouldering | ruins, making the blackness of ashes still blacker, and the thick gloom still more } gloomy. ‘The negroes crowded together in | the remaining cabins, weary from the exer tions and sad from their loss; leaning on their elbows, and gazing vacantly on the blackened walls and the fallen ruins. King, who had laboured faithfully for his mastery during the fire and saved a valuable cabinet | of papers at imminent risk, who had seen | his own nice cabin burnt to ashes, aat | mournfully by his coal-black Pinkey, who | was 30bbing over her misfortunes. He was | terribly reminded of the fate of poor Cora, | whom he had once so deyotedly loved, and | lived over the scene of his ill-starred bridal night. A Cvnan Prisoner’s Escare,—A soreet.| Meetinae ON THE Steps or a New JERsRY Raitway Station.—n Tuesday afternoon | while Ignatz Martinez, a salesman for a New | York firm, was stauding on the platform of the railway station at Waverly, a seedy, worn-out tramp came plodding along and sat down on the steps. While in this posi- tion he was approached by another traveller, who accosted him but the other answered in Spanish. As Mr. Martinez is a native of Cuba, and speaks Spanish fluently, his at- tention was attracted to the stranger, and they soon entered into aconvenaition. A few minutes later the by-standers witnessed the spectacle of a welledressed Spanish gentioman and the {ilthy-looking tramp embracing and kissing each other with an energy that betrayed close relationship ; for in this poor, forlorn looking wretch, Mr. Martinez recognized a brother whom he had net seen or heard of. since the proclama~ tion of treedom by the Cubans at Yara in 1869. After their demonstrations had sub~ sided, they entered the light wagon of Mr. Martinez, and visited this city, and the transformation from the beggar to the fine looking man, that afterwards took place im one of our clothing houses was complete The lost brother proved to be an escaped political prisoner trom the Spanish blood~ hounds of the Isle of Pines. He is about twenty-eight years of age, and was cap-

very strenuous and corrupt efforts to obtain the mastery.’ ‘ur contemporary says that the “matter and manner the velation made by him give color to the

at re

| charges now brought against Mr. Simpson,

and add force to the suggestion that a ful investigation is very available in the ph! interest, — Hr, Reporte ner + ce A STRANGB STORY The Court Journe? recently contained strange story—stranger than many that are

found in the pages of a modern nove! anil what is stranger still, perfectly true. wealthy officer who was about to start for |

India, went to. first.elass west-end estab lishment to purchase his outfit. As he leaving, the proprietor approached him and | asked him politely if he had obtained all ; that he required. * Well, not quite all,’ he | replied, ‘ there is still something that ! quire, but it is not in your line.’ what is it, sir?’ merchant, ‘perhaps we can obtain it fo

was

res j

‘Pray rejoined the obsequieur

you,’ ‘I think not,’ said the officer, ‘what 1 want is a wife.” ‘Step this, way sir’ quiet ly responded his interlocutor, and th

tonished military man followed. He went

through strange labyrinths,and up and dow stairs innumerable. # the proj

tor communicated these facts - About 1

or four months prior, a beautiful, high!y- educated girl, of an excellent family, who had Jost her parents, applied to him fo:

employment. Ile had, atter listening to her story, though she was a novice to business, been touched hy her friet

less situation and employed her. He had not been disappointed. He had

found her a worthy and exemplary girl. ‘Fhe captain was piqued. He saw and ad.

mired. lle bought of her and introduced himself. He came oiten, bought more, and upon enquiry, found all particulars to have been truthfully stated. (n her side,

his manners and appearance pleased thie girl, and when he told her the story of how his last want had been mentioned to the proprietor of the establishment, promptly met, it ended with a hearty laugh

Within three days they were married, and | she is on her way to India! no romance, but a fact which we can vouch

for.

and

inally, this is |

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LIVELY TIMES ANLAD.,

A despatch to the Hera/d states that at Tom White’s dinner, Sir John A. Mac Donald spoke for four hours. His will be looked for with great interest both both by friends and opponents. chserver and actor in Dominion politics writes us:—‘' | think we are going to have lively times in the political Grits are evidently losing ground, while the Opposition is gaining strengh as as courage. ! look forward to ia Parliyment this session about to assume a fighting attitude and until the next general election, politics promise to be an exciting game = I'he Government is not managing afhiirs very wisely in the Maritime Provinces, and ¢ Nova Scotian representation in the Cabinet is a farce. Neither of our men has hack- bone in him; and neither would throw up his office for the sake of his province no matter how unjustly treated.’—Her f’-- porter.

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tured by the Catalonian regiment, under command of that Spanish cut throat Valdez. near Buyamo, during the raid of Gen. Gomez, the patriot leader, made in the vicinity of that city in June of this year. le among others was sentenced to be shot, but Gen. Gomez sent word to the Spanish commander that if he put his threat into execution he would retaliate by hanging three Spaniards for every Cuban. This bad the desired effect, and Martinez and seventeen others were chained to

gether and driven into Havana, more than twenty ——, barefooted and nearly famished. They remained confined in the Morro dungeons until the first of October, whey they, together with more than three bundred others, were shipped to the Spanish penal colony at the Isle of Pines, They were not permitted to communicate with their friends previous to their depart- ure, and were treated like dogs on the

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| the window, he caught her like an infant,

in his strong arms,

Hannibal, who had begun to fear that it was only the dead body of his mistress he | had borne into that sacred inclosure,so long and deep was her insensibility, clapped his | and disappeared, shouts | hands joyfully together, and the big drops master; come long, | came splashing down his cheeks, all glisten-

"passage, no water being given them at ‘times, and they were almost famished,

Arrived at this desolate and barren Isle, ' which constitutes a part of the Little | Bahamas, they were destined to receive still more brutal treatment from the officers of the garrison, the major portion of whom are wretches of the worst type. Young

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MARRIED IN THE SNow.— A writer story of a runaway couple who react parson’s house in the dead of night the snow lay on the ground and the wint winds howled an anthem for the wedding mareh, They succeeded in arousing th parson, who had been snugly tucked in ii warm bed for several hours. I'he good mar reluctantly raised the window and asked “who was there?” With chattering teeth the would-be bridegroom announced ins errand, Not even the piety of the purson prevented his uttering a few impatient | growls at this unseasonable interruption of his dreams. He did not tarry to put on | ihe wedding or any other garments, but in thundering tones ordered the shivering couple to stand well off in the moonlight and clasp hands. Then he demanded their names. ‘John Williams,’ he said | ‘do vou swear in ihe presence of (od, as }yourw.. amswer in the day of judgement, | that you will take Eliza Catherine to he | your own, your true and only wife nd | that you will freeze to her so long you both | shall live?’ The promise was given, | the (oid was growing 50 intense lady was spared the question that had been | given to and answerd by the man

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| ing, ‘ Coming along, ‘fore he burn up !’

| Mr. Bellamy looked out, and

| Hanibal leaping from round to roun ‘ladder he had placed against the wall, the | | white night~dress of his mistress waving

and fluttering against his black figure, the

‘flames reflecting on both ® supernatural

glare: Low he followed he knew not, but

| ing with perspiration. beheld |

air, ‘Ah,I remember now,

burning staircase.’ (No, Isabel; that passage would

‘ Who saved me ?’ she cried, sitting up, dof the , and looking round her with a bewildered It was you, | my husband. You carned me down the |

have been our grave. There stands the preserve Paper,

| Martinez reports that there were fully) pronounce you man and wile, and the | eighteen hundred prisoners confined there , biggest fools | have ever met,’ concluded when he and his companions reached this 611s brief and ai-sufficient ceremony | he veritable Golgotha, and when he lett they | tanging of the closing window intimated were dying off at the rate of ten a day.| tothe loving pair that they hed nothing How he esca was a matter, for pruden- | more to expect from that quarter, and they tial reasons, be declined to reveal—suffiy | soon disappeared, wondering at the strange~ cient to say that he reached Key West in a ness of tie situation, and doubtful if they fishing boat and made his way here,—N, ¥. | were as much married as they might have | been under more favourable circumstances.

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e f'treatic” "3 : ne ee en ij i t amt soltest Ww ion tlie i ders of a ef I mad Aware t i T t i? { ss \ ten 7t} t ne vigment \ of the i t ‘ N F — J writer we wrens i i cieun na ft perfec t i i toy road e} net of time vhen i i” place 7 ‘Horses | rain m, and shee} MUS? SaVe t i practica na ihiin | farmer } ecently nd the remark has in it great deal of truth and ag t deal wisdom Hloue- ever much we may pr the horse for 1 vVaiurdvie services t6 man, sensibie per= sons must admit that the breeding of horses has in t few past year ime ad indue propo ne which have not brought | corresponding | thie aversge ne it east. Now hee! husbanary ‘prontabi tO alred i rere are no losses and few risks t met with in tae business Barly mobs, iat wether, WOO nd pe ways bring good prices and iy market side-, sheep bring up the condition of the farm, and as the old adage has it, tarn the earth to gold wherever the tprints are found. Nothing so good to counteract the etfects of too much hors 3 a course o! sheep husbandry, well selected and jndici« ously followed. Weare not sure but ovr practical friend was more than halt mght when he said sheep were to be the salvr- tion of our farming on a safe basis; and it more could reanze and follow it, we very believe a larger s} Liars ng would be the resu Forty Boenets or Waeat ! Acre.—A writer in the * Practical Farmer,’ tells how he gets big crops of wheat; — * For the past l five ye ! have averaged forty bushels per acre Of Wheat of the finest quality, Always being oversweight. 1 think | am still gains ng every year, and attribute this to the

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sheep. My rotation is corn, barley with clover; third year clover, and fourth year clover ploughed down for wheat. 1 have never missed a crop of clover by seeding it Wilh bariey it gives the grass seeds chance which ado not i raise fall crops of barley which do not at all interfere with the grass, but I think bariey rather helps by the phat hading After the harley is cut the clov makes astonishing yrowtli me super late pasture. Wingy 1 vaAni we Om iit 1 pasture if lown pret y clo My soil is clay loam. i; lough dewn the rank clover about nine leep, give it one harrowing, then io my manure and spread, This plough dows hallow, | consider it im- port nt to yay tl iereill rnear the sur- | face for the the wheat plant. | use the drill, putting in one bushel and one peck to ever had wheat hurt by reegng hi VA j i " CRROW ANTI Dias I \ correspondent to the Ts Omit t, Wri les fhe dead furrow 3 such a nuisance when hay yor harvesting with our mach Ss, that Ute 10% Is al- ten asked, bh we may get rd of them? |] should say the best way t iot them is not to have them ai i tii nad vers practicable in out my man farming land to three lots tor a three years cours t ! each iot 160 by ve rods, and piough ne net Piant ifew tr nye ti nt t the field fo land mratk furna t furrow to these, one year ploughing the whole eld ; hack tu V he ni the next time piough. ng the whe back furrow land, and t j round the } iePaini, thr { never crossing 4 iead round the held nth mi ! when i vet tothe CK \ t VY ti Heid 3} i i” VW i ‘ ie { I ! ‘ eaci lot con e house ind } ‘ nego c ‘ti vest if ? pythn : bi hack ind leave t 1] ne cessary | » pro hi tt { in mn 1 nds, void making abrupt back furro ind dead furrows in t Wii I m the pe rhvery hallow, y three i nes deep, f the first! it, bacKk-! ! git to iay out the iand anda! ‘ i ‘ pont each OL me to ther i lie} yauye th ] ito ‘ aqeeper eac hout unthli y L@i prope lepth Vv Wish to plou, Lhe eid en, as you hea the place for the dead furrow vs erse th order and plough sh er each bout making the thin you dna the first ne. I} finishes jand mucl better, for the last furrow slice being thin. ner and turning into tie ieper one ol the prevous bo monike 1 » very flat, ana i@aves a yhit Wepre i aead .urrow, iy, 1f 0 Was not tur wouid leave S or |] Incies ’ ine juida i iw Ma adray down and half i w,and in ths way, too, it Ww De riy lieve ve the pack Tl LLL LS a a, AS We have rece a j for (ictober, from th Leonard Scott, Puls lishing Uo., 41 Darelay ew York, The igllowing ‘ wm the content 1. ‘The Financia! Grievance of Jrelaad Ihis article briefly discusses the financia relations of (sreat Britain and Lreland, from the date of the Union, end maintains that