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ARCH’D. McNEILL,

Auctioncer, Accountant, AND GENERAL AGENT.

PPICE—Reading Room Building, up atairs

Jmivoameen| SOHN BEET

F, P. NORTON, | | |

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Commission Merchant,

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HAVING COMPLETED Auctioneer. GEORGETOWN - - - P. E. ISLAND

Getober 24, kod ly

DR. C. L. STRICKLAND, HIS IMPORTATIONS Surgeon Dentist, Great George Street, CHARLOTTETOWN. April 17, 1865.—lLy Fror THOMAS KELLY, Attorney and © Barrister-at- Law, | CONVEYANCER, &c.

OrFice—Queen Street, (over Welsh & Owen's ReStpence—North American Hote I.

Charlottetown, - - - - P. ELF. Novembet 6, 1865 — 51119,

ROBERT L WEATHERBE, | Barrister & Attorney -at- Lan, | Notary Public, Conveyancer, Xe. | Office over Merchants’ Exchange, | 156 Hollis Street, Uatifax, N. 3. i Sept 11. 1865 6m |

J s. CA RV MLL, Bell's AUCTIONEER, Commission Merchant,

the Season,

—_—-

would respectfully invite } INTENDING PURCHASERS

to call at

Clothing Store,

General Agent, |

BANK BUILDING, QUEEN STREET, | Charlotiretown, P. E I.

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Oe ee eee atc tastitiisineat tS JOHN BELL, | Nerehant "‘Cailor, | QUEEN STREET, CHARLOTTETOWN,

July 24, 1865, ly

QUEEN STREET, AND EXAMINE

i : aed aenadl ip e Sh rE ’ <rey +E

WILLIAM JAKEWAN, PoE STOCK, Biacksmith & Farrier,

Old Stand, near Temperance Hall, |

EH AS REMOVED ius business to. the | City avd can be comsa!ted at all honars | |

which comprises i SHORING onthe SE Itinproved | ciple

iF? All kiuds of Agricuttaral hapten are mt Eive

WANTED, a ;

ents pre shortest notice }

-son who has bad some expe

rienes in Horse Showing. Highest wages will be OR ade satan tees BY22R7 TOHVZLILY

‘J, B, BLAGK, M. D.,

Fhysician & Surgeon, Summerside, - -« < P. E. Island. < Sept 4, 1864 --éms

A CARD.

WILLIAM S. MACGOWAN,

Commission Merchant AND AUCTIONEER, SOURiS EAST. Souris, May 1, 1865. tf

HATS

AND

FUR & CLOTH CAPS,

N AILS for the neivhbouring Provinces | |

and the UNITED STATES, &¢, will anti

fart ier notice. be made ap and forwarded from the | General Poet Office, Charlottetown, every TUES y { : Div. THURSDAY aod SATURDAY evevine | eRGY-made Clothing, at & o clock, | e 5 : Mails for Great Britain, Newfoundland anid the | Wet Indies, will be nade ap every alternate | Tavurspar and Satugovay, #-.,.m, as follows » Cvereday, Dec. 28 Thursday, Feb'y 22°, Bn turday, a Saturday, 24 . . ° ’ Ti urslae, Jan 1.1866 Theccdee. March 8 | Gentlemen’s Farmiahing- Raads, Brcuredny, i3 Satarday, 10 | Tharaday, 23 Thursday, 22 | Sa'nrday, 27 Satnrday, 21 | Tinreday, Feb. 8 Thursday, April 5 Saturday, 10 Saturday, 7. | I. C. OWEN, Postmaster General. &e. &c. Ke. General Post Office, Dee. 25, 1865. ee “ NOTICE. | | LL persons having any Jegal demand. } against the Estate of the late Hoxonastr} Dovatn Beatos, of Souria, deceased. are reqnest } ae |

ed to present the same, duly attested, within three months from the date hereof; and all persons in- det ed to suid Eatate are required to make payment | fortiivwith tothe undersigned. Exeentrix of his Will OCLEMENTINA 8 BEATON, Executrix. ~} Souris. 8th Dee , 1865 tw Dee. 18. |

Executor’s Notice. A LL persons baving any demands against the Estate of the late PATRICK MURPHY, Jaor, af Covehead, Lot 44, Farmer, are requested to send in their acconnts, duly attested to; and all persons owing the said state are required to make

Imnediute payment to THOMAS TIANDRATIAN,

Acting forthe Executrix. Ch'town, Dee. 18, 1865 din

| Ifaving a Large Supply of Beavers, Whitney, |

Pilots and West of England CLOTHS, Doeskins, Tweeds,

Vestings, and

Cass.neres,

Wotice. "S‘UE public are hereby notified that the Basiness lavelv existing under the style and Fira of ROSS & RANKIN bas this day been dis- solved by mntual conseut. The business will in fatare be carried on, a8 usaal, by ALEXANDER ROSs, who will pay all debts due by late firm, and Whois entitled to receive all claims due said firm Imted at Charlottetown. this Lith day of De- cember, 1865. ALEX, ROSS, din GEOKGE RANKIN

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Tailors’ Trimmings

FO DISPOSE OF,

“a ee Ce ae + en a to receive the commands of Summerside Bank, re S it is imtended to open the SumwERsTDR Bank for the trananetion of business the firat week in Jannary next, parties who have not al- ready paid the last call of 30 percent. are requested to do so immediately.

J. R. GARDNER, President.

hia Friends and Customers, in Town and Country, for Garments in any

atyle of Pashiwn.

ss Dee 25, 1865. Bank of Prince Edward Istand. | T OTICE is hereby given ihat a Dividend

of Five Pouxns per centim on the Capital | Brock of the Bank of Prince Edward Island, for! the last balf year, hath been this day declared, and it payable to Stockholders forthwith, ou demand. Sy order, i ”" WM CUNDALEL, Cashier. |——— “t [Dee 13 |

Ch'town, Dee. i8, 1865.

‘ For Sale. | * TEXHE Northern Half of TOWN LOT No. 21, in the First Handred of Lots in the tity of Charlottetown, situate at tbe corner of "rivce “and King Streets, near the stenm Ferry Wharf, well adapted tor business purposes, or for a private resideuce. Apply to Dec. 18, 1865 JOSEPH BALL.

Dee 4, 1865.

UNION BANK, P. E. I.

T a Meeting of the Board of Directors, | z held this day,.it was. Resolced, that.a half- i

yearly Dividend be declared at the rate of (74 geven and one half per cent. for the six months ending 30th November,.and payable ov and after thia date, By order, } JAS. ANDERSON, Cashier.

Cltewn, Dee. Bad, Tah gaz isl | me

Vreecho!d Farm for Sale.

TEXSULERE will be sold by Private Bargain

99 acres of EXCELLENT LAND, situate on Mitchell Kiver, Lot 44; Six acres have been ple nghed last year. and ready for Crop For Title jand Terms apply to ANGUS McLEOD, Morell River, or WILLIAM SANDERSON, Esquire, Georgetown,

Morell River, Lot 52, Dec. 18, 1865.

LOST,

Union Bank Notice.

A PER the Iss DECEMBER next,

~™® theduys of DISCOUNTING ar this Bank will be WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY.

Notes for discount must be left’at the Bank

before one o'clock of these days. By onder, ;

JAMES ANDERSON, Cashier Ch’town, Nov. l4th, £865 in {Xov. 20,

“ : » ‘ f deoctanlagte is ce CY Queen Street, this day, a PURSE, SUPERIOR COLUMBUS FARM containing a sam of money. The finder will HORSE, aged 8 years, at a reasqnable price, be liberally rewarded by leaving it at Mr, Allan for cash or good seenrity. Apply ut this Office. MeDougall's, Queen Street, ur at this office. Ch'town, Dec. 18, 1305 rw tf | Ch‘town, Nov. 24, 1365.

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Leocarrenveas.wouderiuilly .

jupon duli readers ag daring conceptiving, | result is, that if one relatea a bit of real life, 1s) }

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} actual vecurrences are disbelieved because they can, to keep this astonishing narrative down to Se

| limits, the reader ought to make an effort.

| years ago—my school-eompanion ; and when we |

| rate 1@ gate at inetituti it was}. : : j : . | separated at the yates of that institution, it was | in roughly: wiping his readily stained fiugers

counties, at

LITERATURE,

in my mind, as we whirled along, that Tow Treddock’s handsomeyred face would be about

LE TT tin | ‘ ” . . a te oo : >. > Ser ' see on the p form. THE DEATH OF THE ‘YEAR. the first s ght I should Bee "i " platform. But cial 'a secoud disappointment awaited me, for on Hush—hush ! the year is dying— | atighting at the littl country station to whieh,

flack! through old forests dim, The wailing wiuds are sighing Their requiem over him— [n quiet, deep and holy, Ile sinks to his repose ; And langnidly and slowly His weary eyelids close.

Now some with tearfol saduess, The parting year review;

j While others hail with gladness

| The coming of the new.

In glad young hearts are welling

Fresh fountains of delight,

In many a festive dwelling

The Christmas fires are bright.

And stricken ones are weeping Beside the darkened hearth, O'er joved and lost one's sleeping Low in the tranquil earth, Strange—~strauge—what bitter blightings~ What deeds to startle thought— Wild, wonderful excitiugs

Que short, sad year hath wrought!

While we stir the dust of ages, Time's dreamy realuis explore— Shell out from mou)d'ring pages Their quaintly written iore- - 'Twere well to bind this lesson, For profit on the heart, ‘*Men ouly live to hasten, Like shadows to depart.”

OVER TUK WAY.

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Gone in her childlike purity

| Ont from the golden day ;

Fading away in the light so sweet,

Where the silver stars and the sunbeams meet,

Over the silent way.

Over the bosom tenderly

The pearl white hands are pressed ;

The lashes lie on her cheek so thin,—

Where the softest blush of the rose had been,— Shatting the blue of her eyes within,

The pure lids closed to rest

Over the sweet brow lovingly Twinet her sunny hair; She was so fragile, that love seut down, From his heavenly gems, that soft, bright crown, To shade her brow with Jts waves se brown, Lig!

glit as the dimpled air.

Gone to sleep with the tender smile

Froze on her silent lips By the farewell | Cold in the el

isp of the angel of death,

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Like the last fair bud of a faded wreath W hose bicom the white frost nips. | |

Robin,—hushed in your downy bed, Over the swinging bough — Do you miss her v« | When

ice from your glad duet,

the dew in the heart of the rose is set, Till its velvet lips with the essence wet,

In orient crimson glow?

Rosebud,—under your shady leaf Hid fromthe suuny day,— Do you miss the glance of the eye so bright, Whose blue was heaven to your timid sight? It is beaming now in a world ef lizht,

Over the starry way?

Hearts.—where the darling’s head hath lain, Held by love's shining ray .—

Do yoa know that the touel of her gentle hand Brigh.ens the harp in the unknown land,—- That she waits for us with the angel band, Over the sturry way? --- - +<4< ler ——a “BEWITCHED” FARM. |

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IN TWO CHAPTERS.

| CHAPTER .—THE MYSTERIOUS DEPREDATIONS Tf anybody should find the ineidents of the fol- | lowing story hard te Qelieve, I shall set the re- {proach down to the discredit of our modern

| novelists, who are fast educating the publie into | | | homely clothes, the very picture of a British agri- | and they were at length discovered lying scattered j culturist. At his side stood a rather short, and about in a hollow; and in this case, the aid of a | somewhat stout young lady, whom I instantly | butcher waa not required, for they bad all been

identified as Mre. Ellen Treddock; and around killed outright, each one by a blow of some blunt

| them in different attitudes of amazement, beat a | instrament delivered on the back part of the head.

| a foolish underrating of reality. They imagine

inferior in boldness and

spirit to actual evreuts; and still, by the euper-

stition surrounding printer Sos} pres impose them

The

jexceed the utmost of what the slow wits can imagine.

I will endeavor, as far as I honestly

the level of ordinary romance, but in many in-

| stances where it may necessarily rise above those

. nm "T Big Tom Treddock was—now, alas, too many | |

| with a wutual understanding that it was his | destiny tu enter the army, with a view to’ be- jcoming a field-marshal in an unusually short | period of time; but, strange fo say, be had, in-

isequently settled dowa in one of the eastern

a place called Red Hill Grange, land there betaken bimeelf to practising gentle- He had

often written me pressing invitations to visit him

| ; | stead, quietly married a second-cousin, and sub- | | | | man-farming on a rather large seale. | at his farm; and by way, I suppose, of special temptation, greatly occupied bis lively epistles | with exciting accounts of the plentifulness of | game, whieh I thought slightly inconsistent with | But | if he had become an enthusiast on the subject of

the other descriptions given of heavy erops.

artificial composts, and was recklessly sinking a mint of money in steain-plonghs, 1 kuew he weuld also retain a liking for seeing a partridge en the wing; 80, possibly, there was a chance of getting a shot or two after oll. Besides, 1 was a little curious to know how Treddock had settled down into married life. Ihad gone with him, in bygone yeara, to the dentist’s, and learned from his facial eontortions what it was to have teeth drawn:

| when shampooning was first introduced, I had | iwitnessed his heroic resignation in the awful | hands of the operator; I had, in a word, profited | by his example ina variety of ways, for he was 'two years my senior; why, then, should I not | behold what change the marital state had worked upon him? | tation, ‘saying he aight look out for me at the

I wrote, in answer, to his last invi-

| village railway station on the following Thursday, | by the $1.25 A. M. train. That letter was sevt | on the Monday preceding, which, of course, left plenty of time for a line frem him in reply. No note, however, came. But I did not attach much importance to that, for I knew that when he asked me to visit him he really meant it; and as he was net at alla formal kind of a persen, the idea of assenting to any proposed arrangement | might never have occurred to him. I also had a slight prior acquaintance with his wife, and I did ‘not think that any difficulty had arisen in that quarter. Thursday morning oceordingly found | me leaving town in an early train, booked for | Red Hill Station, indulging a pleasant copviction

iwhich farmers’ enemies generally try.

“ That isn’t from a stack, bless you. }

iss of her dewy breath, |

lit seemed, [ was the only passenger, T neither found wy friend nor any one representing him. “© yes,” said the dapper station-master, lower.

again get into motion; “be knew Mr, Treddock very well. Ll meant Mr. Treddock at the Grange, for they bad but one gentleman of that name; and be and all the rest about there wished there wee mere like him, At teasteverybody did, but some coufounded rascal who bad taken a apite against him for nothing; but it was to be hoped it would seen be found out who the villain was.”

I asked for an explanation—what this latter rather mysterious statement meant.

“For the last three or four days,’ answered my cempanien, carefully wrapping up @ signal. flag he held in his band, “all kind of damage has been done about the farm, and they can't find out who it isdoes it. They keep a good watch, but, it’s of no use; somehow, they can’t light on the rascal ‘* Very likely,” he added, “ that is the reason Mr. Treddock hasn't come down to the station Lo meet you, if he was expecting you.”

* No doubt, that was the reason,” I said; “and very sorry I was to hear it; for [ felt sure my friend bad done nothing to merit treatment of that kind.”

“Tt was quite the other way,” the station-mas- ter replied; and he went on to give Treddock a most eulogistic character a3 be walked along by my side, kindly insisting on accompany:ng me past a certain turn in the read, from whenee,) he said, I could see the stacks belonging to the By and by, they came inte view, and I protested against my com-

Grange on the crest of the hill.

panion going any further.

* T only hope the vicks won't be fired,” he re- marked, pointing in the direction of the white hillocks on the distant ridge, “ that is the dodge It's 80 easy; just a match struck and put into the straw ; land there isn’t overmuch water at the Grange 11 lowk for them the first thing every morning when T get up,” he said dolefully, taking a fresh stare from under his raised hand in the direction of the stacks.

“Why, there is smoke!" I eried, quite al- armed, a3 a thin spiral of vapour went up, the | hight sky behind showing it plainly.

It doseu’t

}goupin a carl hhe that; it ia a cloud and a

| blaze ia a milnnit, when the straw is once alight, I've seen it twice—once at Dim-

That smoke

| especially vats. mock’s, and then again at the Firs. is from one of the house-cuimneys, so you'll be sure not to miss the way. I have a luggage train due at 11 40, or I would have gone on as far as Mr. Treddock

world Lave come down but for some reason.”

the bridge, because 1 am sure

I and the gossiping station-master then parted, he assuring tae that my luggage should be brought up by the porter the minute that subordinate re- turned trom doing some previous errand ; and he added, that he huped the lad would bring back better news from the Grange. ‘This curious in- telligence naturally not a little excited me, aud { hurried along the path which led me through Well-cultivated ficlds for some three-quarters of a mile before I gained the top of the hill where the stacks stood in a cluster, as yet, [ could now see, The large, red-bricked, many-gabled house then came

quite intact from the ineendiary’sa torch.

in Sight just below me, and I had merely to cross a yard, skirted by the out-buildings, to gain it.

“Three more are killed, Nell, and the old ewe is one of them. John bas just carted ‘em up from the bottom meadow.” These were the first ominous words I heard on entering the yard, but angry as were the tones, I recognised in them my old friend's cheery voice.

Turning the angle of a barn, I came upon a

little group, the central figure of which was Tom

ing the telegraph sighal as the whizzing train |

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“ Just so; there is the point,” said Treddock ; “but we must laugh at. it, Net!

of it, reminded ber that she had not yet shown

anything that happens is @ joke;” and the big, | honest fellow pretended to laugh. “ We mustu’t : babies are always prodigies. | be in the blues, old chap, now you are come oy “Tt is very queer altogether,” said Treddock in and he slapped me on the shealder. “ You won't | 2 bellow whisper to me, a8 soon as we were left mind going in by the ehort way, through the | alone, and his face seemed to get qui‘e pallid as kitchen,” he said, making for the back-door. ihe spoke. “I don't like to bother you about if, “T know about it,” Lat length got out, in an-| now you have come down for 2 bit-of a run, bur swer to Mrs. Treddock’s long-ago question, as | I have done all I could to find it out, and I can't we entered the house.“ The man at the railway- hit on atrace, See "—and leaning baek in his station tuld me, so I understeod a great deal too | chair, be elevated his boots, directing attention to well why you Were net there to meet me. Have the strong soles— we have all got naiis driven you had amaccident with (he window?” Linvolun-/in that pattern, the girla as well aa the men tarily asked, for at the ead of the low, old-fashion- | and the lads, everybody but Nell. I had the vil-

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ed passage we had just entered from the kitchen, a large casement was partly hanging inwards, most of the panes in it shivered.

“Oh, it is only one of these jokes that some- body is playing ns. It smashed in juat after six this morning, before it was well light;" and Tred- dock sent flying some of the fragimeuts of glasa from underfoot with a kick, as be laughed again,

* But is it not shameful, when we have not in- jured a soul, and would not burt a hair of any- body's head?” asked his wife, who, womanlike, could not so easily do without sympathy.

“Would not I?) Only let me catch them, and they shall see! Vil have my joke then as they are | having theirs now ;" and Treddock, to relieve his | feelings, knocked open the door of the sitting- room, whith we had just reached, with a blow of his big fist. ’

I warned in tho course of the conversation which followed, that these outrageous annoyances began on the evening of the day on which Treddock sent me his last invitation, and they had continued The first ineident waa the finding of three or four geese in the yard dead, with their

) ever since.

heads wholly or partly severed, as if the necks

; had been cut by some jagged iastrument. On | the following afternoon, the fiae mastiff dog, kept

jin a kennel at the end of the huuse, was discover- ied lying at the full length of his chain, beaten and }

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lage shoemaker up on purpose the day before yesterday.”

“In order to kuow the footprints of those be- longing to the farm from othera?” [ asked, for I saw the rows of superflaons nails were arranged in a kind of diamond pattern.

“Yea, but I can’t find a’vingle footmark; it is that which staggers me. But Nell is coming back,” he said, as the maternal voice made itself heard in the distance, talking to baby in the eus- towary crowing dialect. “ Don't say anytiing about her. I try to make nothing of it when we ate talking, but I wish she and the child were at ber mother’s, T should pot eare much what came then ; it would find mea match for it.” Big Tom Treddock, I knew, was no coward, but the good soul was afraid of seme anysterious disaster in- volving his wife and ihe baby.

“T aim Very glad I am come down, Tom,” I has- tily answered, “ since it isjust possible I may help you. Two heads, they say, are better than ove; and I shall like the spert of hunting out this vil- lian better than even shooting partridges.”

“ Thank you, old fellow, wurmured Treddock, with flashiag eyes, leaning across the hearth, and | shaking my hand. “ But let it drop now; she is heve.”’

CHAPTER I1L.--THR MYSTERY EXPLAINED.

We all retired at an hour earlier than uenal,

; bruised to his fast gasp. He had been he ard | lsome time before to give two or three sharp, | Ven for the Grange, owing to our intended hunt- | whining barks; and in consequence of the af-| ing expedition in the morning, Treddock, upon | fair of the geese, a servant girl had looked out | *bewing me te my old-fashioned bedroom, piaced jirstantly. The girl did not, it appeared, then give , @ loaded carbine at my hed’s head, eaying, mildly Lang attention te the kenael; and it was not until | that it was charged only with duck-shot, and as |some half hour afterwards that a waggoner ob. | thry would be sure to scatter well, I need aot be served the poor dog stretched on the ground jalra:d of Jettwg fly with it, in case of any emer- | moaning and bleeding. The animal had to be| gency arising. He was himself provided in bis shot, to put him out of misery, and the supposition | chamber, he explained, with a double-barreled

was, that be received b’s injuries at the time be | gun, containing full charges of sparrow-shot ; but |} was heard to bark. It was to be expected (hat ja final allusion be made to the inexplicable ab- ; ; : .

jsecond such extraordinary occurrence, following | sence of footprints en all occasions, intimated

| 30 closely on the heels of the first, should arouse | the suspicions of the household ; and in consequence ot it, Treddock and a man-servaut sat up al! tha: night onthe hearth, in anticipation of thieves breaking intu the house, my triend reasoning that the getting rid of the watch-dog inust indicate an that kind. was made; the grey dawn found all safe, and the

intention of But no such attempt

master went te his bed. He was, however, awakened, in less than an hour, te receive the unpleasant news, that one of the cows was hope- leasly crippled in the home-field, having two of

its legs, a fore one and a hind one, both on the This affair could oily be set down along with the other previous

saine side, broken to splinters.

inexplicable events, for there was neither hole nor ditch in the croft into which it could have fallen; and, in addition to that, there were bruises oa the skin, showing that the injeries had been inflicted by blows received frem the outside. waa out of the question, and the cow had to be

Its recovery

slaughtered. marks, or for any other clue, and inquiries were alsv instituted at the adjoining farms, and down in

had been seen about the district. No information pointing to the offender, nur any selutiea at all of the mystery, was to be obtained.

Close search was made for foot-

the village, whether any suspicious characters

| About noon on the third day, five sheep were | Preddock , broad and burly looking in his plain, | missed from a Beck feeding in one of the meadowa,

ey ehouring wan, a bo , aud a servaut woman. | Somewhat eacher than this, on the day of my ar- | superiority to fiction becomes a drawback, and | . , : ?

They were ws! too intently gazing in one direction, | rival, three mere sheep (those I had seen under under 3 cart-shed, to Nuadies me; and as I ap- the shed) had been found in another field, having proached, unobserved, from behind, 1 sa. t! at | beentreated in exactly the same way ; and before they were, in wondering fasemation, contemplat- | thay. early assix o'clock the same morning, the ing the carcasses of three sheep lying in a row | whole househola‘vhad heen startled by the sudden swashing in of the window Thad noticed in “It's just the same soart o’ a biow, reight at ruins, f

under the shed. | the back o’ the neck, as t’ others gol,” said a | second labouring man, whom I now noticed | dignautly, as she and Tom finished their joint nar- standing beside the dead sheep, occupied just then lrative, the latter once more pretending to laugh “ We have been as kind to among the wool, after examining the carcasses in Seaeee body as it is possible to be.

the whole affair off. the region of the head, the highest wages; Mrs. Jenkins, who lives at * Ts more of this villainy going on?” Tenquired, | the Firs, says we give too much; and last Christ. | nearing the group.

“Ts it you? Lam ashamed nobody met you,” | the poor viliagers. were good Tow Treddock’s first words, gripping | is given away to anyhody who comes, and we my hand as in a vice, and awiling oddly through }

uever turned a beggar back, without either giving

that he had litle hope,sof the mystery veing sulved, even by means of these formidable pre-

parations. Ail these matters were so different

; ‘saddle, be pulled his borse round, and dashed

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We shan’t be ine the baby, At that mention, she instantly for- away at a gallop, ruined yet; and my old friend bere must think | got all the disastew, and hurried away to fetch |

“T won't g0; we must stop and mind the plees

the prodigy; he was their first child, and premier | ourselves,” I was intending te say, but on'y got | a word or twe of it out. The mare had dropped

her head, and gradually approached. her nese to the dead dog, and just at that moment ehe sud- denly leaped forward, nearly throwing me, for f had previously mounted. [n a sort of frightened rage, she began te beat the poor animal's remains with her fore feet, and I had great difficulty in keeping my seat.

“ She's ecared at it.” aaid the constable. “Take her away, or she'll throw you.”

“Come!” shonted Treddock’s angry voice ia the distance, “If you don't, I'll go myseli.”

“Tle won't come back, [am sure, now ss he's said that,” put in the ploughwan; and ecizing my rein, he struggled, at some rivk, to tarn the mare away, ber excitement still continuing. £ brought her to a stand-still some distance away, and beckened to the canstable, ‘

“Yon keep an eye on the men; that dog bas been killed since they began to come; fer I heard it when we were having breakfast," I whispered to him.

“T know, T know,” he vaguely answered, with what he no doubt meant for a eagacious wink; and as the mare agein darted forward tor the gate, I left him roiling his empty old dead about on his shoulders, as if wishful te intimate that he had theught of my bint houre before. I was soon in the lane alongside of Treddock, and I urged him to go back; but, upon that suggestion, he pushed on all the faster, and stubbornly refused te taik at all of this last affair, All that he would say was, that, on the following day, his wife and child should assuredly leave the Grange, until the matter was settled one way or other, adding, that he should never cease regretting haw ail ihe pleasure of my visit to him had been spoiled; a conclusion against whichel protested strongly, but, as I could easily see, ineffectually.

(Conclusion next week.) _

MISCELLANEOUS,

Sepa Water -rrs Ursrory.— We will von- ture to say that very few of our readers who frequent the soda tuuntains Know the manner in which the beverage is made, Soda water is simply pure water impregnated with car- bonie acid gas. [tis known by its agreeable, pungent taste, by its slightly exhilirating qualities, and its bubbling and eeintillation, Che water to be impregnated with gas ie placed ina strong vessel, usually made of iron or copper, called a fountain, The gas,

j alter being passed through the water to purify

it, is conducted to the fuuntam, and after sufficient agitation in contact with the gas, ata hig pressure, the water becomes impreg- nable and is then what is known a8 soda

from the expectations with which 1 had set out on ny journey, that they were considerably dis- turbing, and [I did not sleep well; more than

lighted chamber, fancying I heard an raised; but they were half dreamings of mine; and when at last I was effectually startled by the presence of Treddock’s white figure at the side of my bed, in the gray dawning, he informed me that all was well. thie happy prognostication was confirmed by the

On our going down staire,

peacefully dozing opposite each other, in the blinking light of a neglected night-lamp, the re- presentative of the terrors of the law eiill having hie staff in hand. So far as we could infer, the only alarm they had experienced was that they were then undergoing from our sudden entrance unexpectedly arousing them. A similarly satis- | factory report was received from the man in the | stable, and also from bis fellow in the eri | and a hasty survey of the premises shewed us that all wae really safe. The old constable

: once I started up, and stared about the mieon | alarm |}

sight of the old constable and the young wagygoner |

water, Tha first experiments were made by | Venal in Franee, 1750; and published in 1776: by Priestly, in 1798; and later by Bergman, Black, Van Helmot and others. Che irst manufactory in the world wae es- tablished at Geneva, by Goss, an apothecary of that city, whose annual sales amounted to | 40.000 bottles of ** Eau de Seits.”” fn i790, | tus partner, Mr. Paul, founded an establish. ment in Paris, where he compounded not only the principal mineral waters of Franee, but even those of foreign countries. From this time onward laboratories multiplied ail over Europe; and the manufacture of simple igruted water is now conducted on go large a scale in all civilized coufitries that a very large amount of mventive talent bas been em- ployed in improving the necessary apparatus, openancmnnagtinnininn:- sei

A Pracre or Rats.—Bremar hes lately been visited by an unlooked-for invasion of @ very annoying kind, as a colony or rather an army, of rats has recently migrated ine ihe mountain land, aud are hteraliy swarming in myriads over the length and breadth of the ds- trict, causing utter dismay to many. E homestead, farm-yard, and barn is ‘eianleg itl them, and the destruction done to property in

seeined disposed to take the whole of the credit |

stairs to hix wife. One by one, the servants made their appearanee, and sovon the house was all

The out-deor la- |

were ordered to be got ready. to hear the satisfactory intelligence that no fur- ther damage had been done.

quite entertained by the novelty of this early- worning picture of rural life. Treddock reav- lutely refused to don hie hunting-garb, because I too could not assume the scarlet; we must keep a bit in the rear of those in uniform, he said, that

“Isn't it wicked?” asked Mra. Treddock in- {* : Mra. TTeatdack’s pleasant voice from somewhere }at the top of the stairs wished us a good day's

jchamping their bits, and pawing.

| ‘ jinas I made twelve gallons of excellent soup for |

Nearly all the skimmed wilh | . slight fear I had that she was rather tuo freah for jepeakere and poets of tile countiy ; to treasure

| was all the difference it would make. At length,

we were told that the horses were ready, and

sport. Jt seemed baby haa heen wakeful during At the door we found the bércees My friend haa | a strong bright bay heree, just suited to his weight; | and the black mare allotted to me, barring a;

wy riding, looked in capital trim.

| many cases is tremendous.

ithe eatables, attacked the bed and cut u bourers began to arrive, and all seemed delighted | blar.kets and bedding piecemeal, At

Inside the house |

The shop-Feepers

of it to himself, at which Treddoc’ only laughed, | suifer most—whole webs of cloth ent thron gh aud then quite cheerfully coungeyed the sews up and throu th, and s:-eets and fruits di ‘z |at fabulous rates, One man living im a bothy, in the wilds of Glencallader has been actucily I ‘ junder the astir, Breakfast was hurried on, and the horse | The yorgsious wretches, having disposed of aif

necessity of leaving the domicile.

the nver & quantity of sheepskins were eaten, while to crown their savage ferocity, a few days 'a70 the farm manager at Allanvoich was beaten

| cau'd

and out was a scene of merry buetle, and [I waz! out of the stack-yaid and obliged to take

| shelter. ee ee ee Conrreet Spraxino —We advise all yoo

people to acquire, in early life, the habit = jusing good language both in speaking and | writing, and to abandon as early as possible ‘all use of slang words and phrases. Tie ‘longer they live the more difficult the ace quisition of suc language wiil be: and if the golden age of youth, the proper season for the acquisition of such language, be passed in abuse, the anfortaunste victim of neglected

Thomas gives | the _—? - the maternal eves neeuted to close | education is very probably doom d to talk again a little,

|slang for life. Money is not necessary to procure this education. Every one has it in hie power. Tle has merely to use the janguage which he reeads, instead of the slang which he heare; 10 Gem his teste from we bret

up choise phrases in | memory, and to

his anger and vexation. “Tam sorry you find us in thia state. You must forgive us, Mr. Neweome,” exclaimed his

him relief, or else putting them to a light job, if | they were young and strong,”

i finished thig statement with her handkerchief

The good lady

“ Flow is it the dog isn't barking? T have not | habituate himself to thei use— avoiding at heard him lately,” said Treddock, suddenly paus- ' the samo time that pedantie preerion and - | bombast which show rather the weakness of a