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The Cxamiuer Is PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY BY WALTER ©. GRANT,

OFFICE, HILLSBOROUGH STREET, NEAR KING'S SQUARE.

TERMS, advaace.

-<- We have appointed the following Gen- Agents for the

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tlemen to Act as « Examiner,” vit :--

William Beariste, Eeq-. 2 summerside, Owen O'Neill, Bsq. Mr. Joseph Sharpe Linkletter Road, Richard Reid, Eaq., Alberton, Mr. William Callaghan, Mi:uinegash,

* Lawrence Hogan, Hope River, Nicholas Conroy, Eeq., Tignish,

Skinner’s Pond, Egmont Bay, Wellington, Misecouche, Princetown,

Mr. Johu Doyle,

Joseph Arsenault, Bsq., Mr. J. H FitzGerald,

Qaecsime Gaudet, Esq ,

Mr. Joho Breen,

Thomas Laughlia, Eaq., Lot 16, Mr. Bennet McLellan, Indian River, M. McKinnon, sen., Esq., Lot 14, Michae! Kilbride, Esq., Lot Il,

South West,

West Point, Campbelton, Lot 4, Crapaud,

Mr. Peter Hughes,

» Patrick McLellan, « Thomas O'Connor, * John Keily, flon. A. A. McDonald, Mr. Geo. A. Hughes,

George Forbes,

Joha McDougall, Esq., Mr. Johu French,

* James O'Brien, Wo. P. Lewis, Mr. Donald McDonald,

Georgetown,

Orwe'l,

Sturgevn, Montague, Cardigan Bridge, Little Pend, Let 56,

“ Peter Sinnott, Morell, r. Melutyre, Sours, ie ney, Fert Augustus, Captain John McIntyte, Fairfield, . Patrick Griffin, Esq., St. Andrew's, Mr. Ronald MacDonald ror (Garabelia,) Pisquid,

Anthony McCormack, Bisq., St Peter's Bay, Mr. Simeon Bulger, Sei

Joseph McAulay, Eaq., ack Bush,

oh ceceash, tims. Esq., Red Point, Let 46 Dugald McDougall, Bsq., Dundas,

Rollo Bay, Goose River, Bay Fortune.

Lawrence Peters, Esq Mr. Angus McDonald, J C. Underhay, Esq.,

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GEORGE DV. WRIGHT,

WHOLEZSAL® AND RETAIL DEALER IN

CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES,

DUNNS BLOCK,

QUEEN STREET, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. June 28, 1868.

R, REDDIN,

Attoruen and Barrister -at-Law CONVEYANCER, &c.

Office: -- Great George Street, Charlottetown. (Near the Cutholse Cathedral.) September 3, 1866. tf

A. McNEILL, Reading Room Propietor, COMMISSION MELZEMARE AND AUCTIONEER, Charlo ttetown, -

May 31,1869. tf

NOTICE. ae Business hitherto conducted in my own name wi! henceforth be continued ander the firm and style of

HIGG & HURT. Mr. R. N. HUKT having this day been ad

mitted a partner. B. WILSON HIGGS.

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_ October 4th, 1869.

Direct from Bordeaux, via Halifay,

7 Subscriber has just received fromBordeaux, via Halifax,— 50 exses Cognac BRANDY,

50 5 bhds Bargtady RED WINE, 5 “ Good Graves White WINE, 5 * Pure White Wine VINEGAR. All of which are offered for sale at ext-emely low Ales

OWEN CONNOLLY.

Commission Merchant, GENERAL AGENT,

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AUCTIONEER U Street, pe ee P.E.I.

Charlottetown, - - -

N. B.—Orders from abroad, and the country, Will receive prompt «ttention.

April 26.1869.

MAKE YOUR OWN YEAST

HOICE NEW HOPSfor ‘amily ase, in QUARTER, HALF and POUND APERS. For sale by “ 4 W. R. WATSON, y Drag Store, Victoria Building, Ca'town Sept: mber ia, 136d, {

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Marine and Fire Insurance

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Deposited at Ottawa

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G P. RIDOUT, Esquire, PETER PATERSON T. W. BIRCHALL, Esquire,

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BRITISH AMERICA ASSURANCE COMPANY, MARINE,

HEAD OFFICE--Corner of Church & Court Streets, Toronto.

- - ° $500,000 . - - $50,000 - - - Governor, ~ - Dep’y Gov., - - Manager.

IMPEBIAL FIRE THSURANCE COMPLAY OF LONDON |

Subscribed and Invested Capiial, £1,965,000.

OFFICES---1 Old Broad Street, and 15 Pall Mall.

$105,000 deposited at Ottawa for the Protection of Policy holders, in conformity with the New Canadian logurance Law.

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Hanover Fire Insurance

Paid Up Capital, - Surplus, - - - .

Total Assets, Ist July, 1869,

Company of New York-

$490, 00 319,006

$719,000

| MARINE RISKS taken on HULLS, CARGOES and FREIGETS at moderate rates con-

et with the hazard.

FIRE INSURANUE effected on every description of Property. All Policies issued immediately on application, withoui reference to the Head Offices. For further particulars, rates and conditions, apply to

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| Ch'town, Sept 13, 1869.

Kenton 'T. Newbery.

General Agent, (Next door to the Telegraph Offixe. | ey —- |

NEW YORK LIFE ANSURAVCE COMPANT:

TWLNTY-FIVS YLZABZ EXPERIRNCE.

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Strictly Mutual and charges only Cost of Insurance.

NON-FORFESITURE SYSTEM OF INSURANCE ORIGINATED Pict and Rosin, BY THIS COMPANY.

2 Ifyou want a Life Policy, c0083 Bxperience, Abicity& Success,

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Policies issuedjduring the jyear, MORRIS WM. H.

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$12 000,000 |

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9,105, insnring[$30.765 947,00 | FRANKLIN, President.

BEERS, Vice+Presi lent & Actuary,

HENRY A HARVIE, | Geueral Agent for P. KE Isia

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PHILLIPS & LEWIS, Carpenters (Builders,

HILLSBOROUGH PALK, CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. L.,

flave constavtly on hand a large stock of Warren's Improved Fire and Waterpr. of

FELT, COMPOSITION, AND GRAVEL,

and, from a long experience in the use of this

material, ean guarantee the laying of the sume

iu the most satisfactory and workmanlike manner. Angust 2, 1869,

AMERICAN

SISTER SALOON.

Queen Street,

Opposite W. R. Watson’s Drug Store

Best of Lignos Always on hand.

BENJAMIN PETTIGREW, PROPRIETOR,

Charlottetown, ...+.+00++ P. E. Island NB-*.—Famihes snpplied with Fresh OYSTERS Aug 2, 1869. 3m

9,000.

NINE THOUSAND

ROOM PAPER! RGOM PAPER.

J UST RECEIVED at HARVIE&’S BOOKSTORE, QUEEN STREET—

Nine Thousand Rolls ROOM PAPER,

3d Roll, upwards. — pes “A ARVIE,

Rey 6, OD sx REUBEN TUPLIN, COMMISSION MERCHANT:

AUCTION EER.

AND GENERAL AGENT. Margate, onte® - P. KE. Island. REFERENCES :

Hon. D. Brenax, Charlottetown,

R T. Hotmax, Summerside. April 22, 1869. 6m

FRANGIS 8. LONGWORTH,

BARRISTER AT LAW, NOTARY PUBLIC, &e.,; OFFICE : 4 doors south of Bank of P. E. i., GREAT GEORGE STREET Charlottetown, P. EB. Island.

Kerosene. 3 BARRELS BEST AMEKICAN OIL, for gps CARVELL BROS. Nov. 1, 186. lm

A. HERMANS,

Bell- Hanger, Gun and Tin-Smith,

Dorchesier Street, (Next to Reading Room Building.) EGS to return his thanks to the general public for the liberal patronage extended t» him since his commencement in business, a dasks for a contiuuance of the same. He k eps constanty on hand

A meat Assortment of

TINWARE, KITCHEN UTENSILS,

&c., &c., &e. ALL ORDERS in the above BUSINESS

will be punctually attended to.

Having lately made large purchases in the Cheapest Markets, intended for Louse Builders, such as

Gas Filling, Water CI sets, Beli Fittings, &c.. &c.,

Iam prepared to SELL THEM at RATES AS LOW AS CAN BE HAD IN THE CITY, and will Ft them up in a good workmanlike style

To a generous public, | would say, that all orders in THIS BRANCH OF MY BUSI NESS will be attended to with Despatch

aoe of First Class WATLR COOLERS on hand. ;

SAYERS’ CRYSTAL BLUE, Sold Cheaper than ever.

JUST RECEIVED,

Cheap for Cash, HEARTZ & SON

AVE JUST RECEIVED per Steamer from Britain,a LARGE ASSORTMENT ofig

D y Goods, &ec, &e.

And afurther supply expected in a few days by midsummer vessels. The above Goods, along with stock on hand, tho subscribers offer to their customers

VERY LOW,

hey wish vo make quick sales of the same, ee to prepare oan for FAL importations. . Intending purchasers will please calland examine for themselves.

HEARTZ & SON,

Angst 3, 1868.

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OOD TEA, SUGAR, MOLASSES an G other GROCERIES, together with *. " at the WEST END STORE, Rochford Square. June 28, 1969.

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| and WALTER BURKE, Manager for Dominion of Canada, | FORKS, &e.. &e. Blank Forms, Tables of Rates Reports and all information can be had at the effice of

1sGD SPRING STOCK

HARDWARE.

City Hardware Store.

Just received, per Steamer from BOSTON Ship Undine, from LIVERPOOL, and Amphion from LONDON, the best and most suitable

STOCK OF HARDWARE

ever :mported into Charlottetown, consisting ip part of:

NAIL. PAINT BRUSIIES.

433 bags assorted fine'A choice lot of Paint, American Cut Nails, Graining, Tar and

Cut and Wro’t Spikes, Whitewash Brushes,

Brads and Finishing Blacking, Scrubbing, and Nails, . : Horse Brushes. Wro't Nails, all sizes, [gyoemakers’?. Ink and Boct Nails, in copper,| Outfits zine and iron, Whips ' Horseshoe Nuils, | Pairtanks? anti, Side

Copper Barrs and a Rivets, s : , Wood Screws, {to 4in, (Wire Cloth, all sizes, Brass Hinges & Serews ‘Fence, Well and Mud Digger Chain, PAINT. \Hemp & Manilla Rope, \Best quality American Mackerel and Cod Line

4 tons Paint, G Li Hook and Fishing G

Best No. 1 London White, ear,

Red Lead, Black Paint,/Silver Table Bells, Green Paint, Hand Bells and Gongs, Venetian, Ked & Blue; AmericanPatent Roller

Paint, Bushes,

Orange Crome Paint, Bra-s and Enameled Stew Barnt Terra Sienna do., Pans,

Emerald Green, Egg Beaters, Uitramarine Blue, Clotbes Wringers, Putent Dryers, Flour Sifters,

Red Ochre, Wire Sieves, Extract Logwood, Wire Dish Covers, Umber, mixed and un Blacksmiths’

Anvils,

mixed, Vices, Hammers and Drop Black, Bellows, Metallic Paint, Blister Steel, Glue, Carriage Mountings, in Paris Whiting, Axles and Serew Bolts, ebaliag. Malleable Castings,

Hub Bands, in Silver and OIL. Brass.

|Dash Centres, &., ¢.,

21 casks Oil, in Boiled) faylor & Bros. celebrated

and raw Linseed, Circular, Crossent Olive Oil, ext-a, Hand and Tenon, Pa* Machinery do., el, Keyhole, an Mila-l al Ou, Saws, Large assortment Cod and W bale Oil, Files, of every descrip- Tarpentine, tion, Biack and Brown Japan, |Locks, Hinges and Walnut Stain, Serews, of wll kinds, Copper Paint, 'Few Boxes 1x Tin Plate,

Mander s Fine Mahogany ar Tin and opelter, Varnish, Brad’s celebrated Ben-h,

Cape) Oak do., Narrow and Broad Pale Carriage do, Axes,

Quick gold size, jAdges, Shingle Kovtting Composition, | &, dc,

frou}

100 Boxes Glass, Carpenters’, Joiners’ and

7x9 to 36x42, Patty, 2 tons Zine, kinds, 100 rolls Tarred Paper, |Pannner gtove Polish. Bushes.

Wh.els

Twenty-foarth Annual Report, January Ist, 1869. | A few Double Barrle GUNS, a very superior - article; Revolvers and Breech Loaders. Amumu- |

INCOME FOR THE YEAR. ...+4.2+000-++5 Shiite Poodle pis 2 bee +2 $4,698,280.20 | nition of every description. “TOTAL CASH ASSESTS......--- EASA 9 rman qanth sovyorsoeersah SEdmNAND OOF ch peee ie ns anni eal

| DIVISIBLE SUBPLUS. ...-.-..:. Se ehe Var by 60. eden. canetone iia eal ilesaiiniin dike aa 1,689 282.17 | FORK, SHOVELS SPADES and HOES Garden

Tools of every description, Hay FORK3 SCYTUES, NEATHS, KAKES.

CurLeny.—lIvory Handled Table, Carving and Dessert KNIVES; Elliot's eclebrated RAZORS, Pocket, Praning and Sportmens’ KNIVES Hutton’s Famed British PLATE ‘nu Table. Dessert

TEA SPOONS, TABLE end DESSERT

The above is bet a smali portion of the largest stock of Ilardware ever imported into Charlotte town, all of which bas been parchased for CASH.

on the very best terms, and we feel satisfied that we can please the public in price and quality. Please callaud examine before purchasing else-

where. 4 ; BOURKE, GILLAN & Co., Sueccessore to H. E. STARBIRD, & CO. June 28, 19860

NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS. NEW GOODS.

—AT—

ROBERT YOURG’S * Centre of Attraction.”

New Bonnets, New Hats,

New Ribbons, New Flowers,

New Feathers, New Mantles,

New Mantle Velvet, New Velveteens, New Silks, New Irish Poplins,

New Press Stuffs. New F. Merinoes; New “hirts, New Shirtings,

New Fiannels, New Wool Shirts, New Wool Shirting, &e., &c.,

TO BESOLD CHEAP. North Side Queen Ch’town, Oet. 7, 1869.

NEW GOODS. — NEW GOODS.

JUST RECEIVEDAT JOSEPH A. MeDONALD’S Queen Street,

ER STEAMERS *« ORLENTAL” & “ ALHAMBRA,”

4 Cases Hats and Caps, New Style, CHEAP FOR CASH. Per “ City of Quebec,” from Montreal,

3 Cases Boots, Shoes and Rubbers,

CHEAP FOR CASH. Per ‘* St, Lawrence,”

1 Case Ready-Made Clothing, (Fashionable Make.)

CHEAP FOR CASH, + Ch’town, Oct, 4, 1869.

CLOUDS, CLOUDS, CLOUDS. Ladies’ Clouds I

N IMMENS E VARITY. CHEAPER THAN EVER,

AT ROBERT YOUNG'S, THE “CENTRE OF ATTRACTION,” North Side Queen Square. Ch’town, Oct. 18, 1869.

TRON!

ust RECEIVED per shin Dexcan from LIVERPOOL—

10 Tens Best Refined IRON. For Sale Low. GEORGE HOWAT.

Squares tf

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\c rapaud, May 17.

Scales, from 8s. to 120s. |

SQUIRE HEATHCOTE'S HEIR

BY MARY KYLE DALLAS.

A richre man than Anthony Heathcote,

| Justice of the peace, in one of the brightest |

spots of merry England, years and years ago,

| could not be found—a haler or a more res- |

|pected man. His broad acres swept east and | west and north wnd south. His tenants were \lecion. His great, solid mansion, built in | the days of Queen Elizabeth, was a fortress | without and a palace within ; and his wife was as loviug and ea fair a lady as you could have found in any mansion in the ‘and.

Men envied him, and that his life must be

so loaded some with good gifts while others struggled under heavy loads of poverty and misfortune, which bore them at last down to the very grave; and * asrich and as hapyy as Squire Heathecote’ grew to be a proverb.

Yet all this while Squire Heathcote was very miserable. He envied the poorest hind on his estate: the most oppressed laborer in avy part of England; a cottager; a miner, a slave—black or white ; in fact, at whose

ears had wrung the sweet word ‘ father.’ For twenty years he had been married to that gentle, blue-eyed lady, and yet there was no cradle-siecper under that great roof. The gem of all gems, the pearl of greatest price,

though to deny him aught were a fau't in his maker

When farmer tenants came up to the Hall to pay their rents, with hulking sons boaside 'them in the wagon, he would look at the | clowns with envy, and mutter:

‘They have sons—why not [?’

When r‘ding past the curate’s little house he saw his troupe of children at the door. | He would think :

¢ Ah, he has hard work, tll be bound, to fill the dozen mouths and cover the dozen backs and my lands must go lo strangers for want of one child—only one.’

And when at County bail, or rout or race, he saw the lovely daughters of his neighbors in their floating robes, and glistening jewels, he would grind his teeth and feel most of al! that he bad becn wronged and forgotten. Yet, as a poor man hides his envy of his neigh bor’s house and lands and ccstly raiment and nourishing fare, so Squire Heathcote hid his heart from everyone more blest, and led his wife a wretched life of it in private.

Many a day the blue eyes shed floods of tears, and the poor bosom at which no babe had ever nestled threbbed woefully because | of her husbands d'scontent, and she who }was tho gayest girl in Devonshire |grew sad and pale with the daily endurance 'ot coldness and reproach. Once, even, he | had said ; | «Had I wed Anne Clyde, I might have

|eock take her and choose you.’

| And then the poor lady thought ber heart | was broken: So it went on for years. But at jast, one me:iry Christmas time, joy-bella were wrung, and there were exen roasted whole, and barrels of ale broached, and the | Pearants far and wide feasted, and prayers | cffered up at the church, ani rejoie ng every |where, for Squire Heetbeote’s heir was born

strong man wept and uttered thanksgiving. | Elizabeth Heathcote gave pratses also for

| for by her own; and all the old-time tender-

lover once more, 22 in the courting time he lheld ber hand in his and kissed it, and whispered that the fairast lady in the land | was his Elizabeth ; and her cheek bloomed ‘again, aed her heart leapt, and she was doubly paid for all her trouble, paid in her

born.

man-child God had given her.

On the same day, when the joy-bells rung for the Squire’s hair, a woman held her first- born to her breast in « low hut beside tho road—a child that was no joy, but a woe to her. She bad been a poor servant maid, and was in years a very girl herself, and leaving that etill country place to earn her bread in London, had come to bitter grief. She had been woed and won by a wortblese scamp, who soon left her in want and with- out friends. What could the poor soul do but creep back to Devonshire, and lay her

thors kiss her little boy, whose instinctive love for her seemed almost a blessing

Old Granoy Grant, bearing the bells ring peeped from the door and saw the people on their way, in their holiday clothes, to the merrymaking; and as they passed she heard the whispers about poor Jean,

And with ali the Christmas bonfires, there was neither candle nor fire in Granny Grant's wretch. d hut thas bitter week through, nor a kind neighbor's face, nor a doe from Charity’s purse—nothing but hunger and eold.

But at the Squire’s the hearth shone, and and wax tapers g'immered and that was a great day when Madame Elizabeth went in the gilded coach to the church for the christ- ening, and the boy was called by a long string of sounding names, and godmothers promised to care fur him, and godfathere made their vows, and there was silver mugs and costly robes given, and a grand dinner with toasts and speeches, and more wine than gentlemen and ladies of to-day could driuk and be quite sober,

The Sqaire was jocund, and brought blashes to his lady's cheek by many pruises, and she looked almcstas pretty as on the day, twenty long years before, when he put the wedding ring upon her finger. Yet gossips whispered that the young heir was a delicate child, scarcely likely to live long, and one old creature said *

‘There's death in the bab:’s face. I've seen too many die, both old and young, not io know’

She would not have dared to say that to the Squire. In his hearing she ouly wh sper ed :

‘He's a bonny boy. God bless him.’

Doubtiess the Squire Wouid have been well pleased to stay at home dandling his babe, and talking to madame Elizabeth of what should happen when that ehild was a man But buainess called him from green Devon- shire to London for awhile, and he went, kissing wife and habe, with tears in bis eyes, and promising to be back as soon as Jumber- ing old couches and lazy post horses could bring him.

A week aft rthe Squire's departure, the purse and madame Elizabeth seemed one day troubled and anxious. Servanss vowed that their mistress subbed the night through ; but that it might have been thy banshee’ giving warning of ill to the Squire's house bold.

And down a green lane by the water side

were being swang low, and there was talk of two white figures that had been seen flitting through the shadows, and how Jack Plough- man, jogging from the tavern, heard sume one weeping and another say: :

‘Take beart, take heart, the babe’s in Heaven new.’

Neighbors said that it was the wrath of some poor soul that could not rest in the old ebureh yaid.

without a cloud, and wondered why Heaven |

hearthstone children had played; in whose |

was held back from him, and he chafed as!

busband's love and the smile cf her fair firs -|

Eve was not happicr in Paradise with the

weary Lead in her grandmother's hut, and |

As for the predictions of the squire’s child | . being bard to raise, they came to naught. babe a grave in tha green lane, and prayed

Soon it was the villiage wonder how it throve- {t was lustier than any for miles, and a great armful for the nurss how. The equire's own son—they always were a hearty race.

At lest the Squire came back, and happy enough he seemed to ba at homes once more, and glad that bis boy was so bright and full of life and Madam Elizabeth wept more than there seemed any need for when he greeted her ; bat tears of joy hurt nobody, and never will,

The Squire had been home three days, when ne Sabbath eve at sunset,there came a crowd of villagers up the road, ali talking together, jall indignant and exe:sed, and doffing their doffing their hats and scraping, made up to ha!l door and asked to see the Squire.

‘ There’s been ill-doings in the place |Squire’ saidone. ‘ A wanch hag killed ber |babe. We found its bones just now in the lane. Dick Hatman’s dog was at ’em’’

And then the women cried,

‘Do justice to her, Squire. and she deserves no better.’

And while they were crying, Macem Eliz. beth came out and stood with her boy in ber arms amonrgss hm. She was pale ani | trembling.

‘ Who is the woman,’ she asked.

‘ Jean Grant,’ said the foremost.’

‘We marked her tramping away without the child, and thought ill, and see, we're right.’

‘ You're not sure of that,’ sad the Squire’s wife,

But they were all honest women in the place, but miserable Jean—and said so. | Then the Squire stood broud and blaff on the porch, like old King [Hal,

‘She who would kill her child deserves hanging, and hanging she shall get,’ he said, * as sure Os I'm a Justice uf the Peace.’

And the women cried, ‘Squires a juat /man,’ and the men cast ap their caps.

Bat ween they were gone, and the Squire, |and his wife were alone together, Elizebetn | | went on her knees, and said. | *For my sake, and for the boy’s, let the j}woman go, and if she bas sinued, that sin | will be her sorrow.’ | But the Squire said :

: Sweetheart, it is too grave a crime to go |} enpunished, even for thy pleasure.’

And still she kuelt and said :

* Husband, let God punish, and he will leave us Our happiness.’

A:d the Squire stooped down, and lifted | her to his heart and said ;

‘ My sweetheart, thou are so good thyeelf, | [ {ar thou wouldst not even hate the wicked. | lt is my duty to seek the woman out.’ | So after some search, those who were sent | found Jean Grant at a farmersat eervice and | brought her back to Devonshire, aud there | tried her for her life. | She stood broken-hearted and shame-strick- len before her accusers, her pretty face faded and thin; but she denied the babe’s death

It’s hanging

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of | called some fine lad son; but | let John Mur. | with every oath she knew how to utter.

‘ I loved the wee thing,’ she said. I nover jharmel it, But Iwas poor. So when they came to me seeking it, [ sold it. They gave

'me money, and I could win my bread, once rid of it.

| Then ehe went on totell how one night ‘when her ul, ,ranny had gone te the curate’s 'to beg for meal—for all their food was gone, ‘and they had no money a tail lady, in hood

Axcé | anto him—a bdright-eyed boy, over whom the | and whimple and veil, eame in like a ghost,

jand said : | *Your child is only a burdea to you—sell

Coopers’ Tools of alt! the boy, whose life had well nigh been paid | him to me.’

| And how she wept and eaid ‘ No,’ and

and ness came back, and the Spire was his wife's the lady went upon her <nees, and begged

‘and prayed; and at last she said ‘ Yes,” and opened her arms, aud the lady put go'd into | her hands, and took her babe. And to this | she swore a thousand times.

' No one believed her, not even when she | gaid aloud :

‘I pray that lady, if she hears me, to gave |@ poor girl's Jife.’

Granvy Grant could only say that Jean jhad money—nothing more. And there were | the babe’s bones, bearing witness against its |eruel mother, in the sight of all.

So she was tried and condemned to death | And not a woman pitied her save the Squire's ‘lady. Sh» strove for her pardon as though it | hyd been her ova, ard said strange things \that were thought little of then, but were | remembered afterward | All in vain. One bright May morning jthey led Jean Grant to her death fiom the | ceils of the grear biack prison. | Ler face was fair to look upon as she sat

upon the cart lumbering toward the gibbet, | which stood upon a high hill, that the world might sce her shameful end. The chaplain | had been praying with her, and she had be- | gun to think of that strange journey over the mystic river to & world ali light.

And the worn hearted serving-maid had hope of pardon there and of jastice, ae queens tave had when done to death upon the block. |A little prayer book was in her hands; and though ste could not read, she kept i: close

against her breast for the sake of the good words within its covers

So the procession came to the hill’s foot ;

and there were clergymen to pray for the de-

| parting soul, and the rabble to hoot her, and the Justice of the Peace and all his men, and then there was a pause, and a silence blank as though the Judgment trump had just sounded.

For at the foot of the hill there came to- ward them, from a place where they had hiddea two long hours, the Squires lady-wife and her stately nurse, with the bab» in her ‘arms, and barred tie way to the scaffold. | *Stop,’ said the lady, * Oh, my husband, oh! men and women, sinners all like thie poor soul—have mercy. Let Jean Grant go free, forI believe ber innocent, as she has taken oath she is. Oh, my husband, before all these people I kneel to you for grace.’

She Squire came down to his lady, and strove to lead ber away.

‘Its is impossible, eweetheart,’ he said. * Go bome, take comfort in your babe, and forget so great a sinner.’

Bat madam Elizabeth never stirred. She looked into ber busband’s face sadly.

‘| wished to spare you,’ she said, * but I cannot.’

Then, with tears streaming down her checks, she took the babe from its nurse’s arms, and held it aloit.

‘ Jean Grant is innucent,’ she said ; * for look ye ail who hear me~this isher child, not mine.”

* Elizabeth,thou art mad,’ said the Squire.

The lady bowed her head, but her voice came clear and plain to all :

‘ For yeare I longed for a babe, and none eame—for years my husband frowned on me becauee no child called him father. At Sast, at Christmas tide, our boy was givea to us I was happy. I was beloved again, and moet of all, the cloud passed from my husband s brow, the sorrow of his life was gone, and | the Gause.

But listen still : One night I awoke to find

that night lights glimmered as though lanterus my child dying. Ere the dawn it breathed |

‘its last 1 mourned, but I dared not think of | what its father’s face would be wher I told | the tale.

| * So, in my grief and terror came a fancy '—a wicked thcught—a temptation of the Evil ene.

/ ‘IL sought Jean Grant, and bought her babe of her, not for the joy of mine—tor my heart would still be sore—bat for the sake of my husband, and to keez his love.

* Then we—this nurse and [—made my

over it, and thought our secret safe. It broke tay heart, but I thought to give my husband joy.

* And now, to my shame, I am ‘orced to tell this before so many, that onc may be saved who else would be wrongfully done te death by my act. I, a gentiewoman and an honored wife—.’

There she broke domn, sobbing, and gave a ery ° and stretched her arms heaven and ered :

‘Oh, my babe—my babe—m darling babe, that God has taken.’ , F

So the tale was ended, and Jeah Grant saved from that dark and shameful death, And those who knew the Squire looked to see him spurn bis wife from him. B t when the Rr lady would have shrunk away, the

uire put bis arm about her.

‘Thy husband forgives thee, Bess,’ he said, ‘ God pity us both for we have erred greatly.’

Then he eaid to the people :

‘ You rang the beils when be was born to me-— toll them now, tor my boy ie dead.’

f= bending down his head wept in sight ofal, vJeun Grant, and Jean Grant's boy, dvelt with the old grandmother ina cot hard by the hall, and never wanted food or raiment.

And two yoars after joy-bells again, and the Squire looked upon the face of another son, fair as the first had been. But | years after, when sons and daughters bad grown to maturity within the ball, Squire Heatheote and his Bess went often hand in hand together to the church,end kneeling by & tiny marble slab, epoke of their and fancied how be would.have stood, tall, strong and fair, among his brothers,

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EPITAPH ON MR. MILES.

This tombstone is a milestone—Hah! how eo? Because beneath lies Miles—who's Miles belovg A little man he was, a dwarf in size,

But now stretebed out, at least Miles long he

lies.

His grave, though small, contains a espace so wide,

It a Miles in breadth, and Miles in length be~ side,

A Long Island doctor having retarned @ coat to his tailor, which he declared would not fit, was met by the latter ata funeral « few aays after, and was thus addressed: ‘Ab, doctor, you are a happy man.’ * Why 80?’ roplied the other. * Why, you never have any of your bad work returned on your hands,’ directing bis customer's at tention at the same time to the grave.

Stump Oratore.—There is much originality and qvaintness of expression in the follow- ing extract from a stump speech of @ candi- date for the Legislature in one of the West- ern States: ‘Born,’ said he, ‘in @ cane- break, cradled in a sap-treugh, my seal for independence bas grown to ma‘urity, with- out being choked by the weeds of education.’ vieetouciiene Jobveon could scarcely eqeal that.

Proportions.—An Irish Presbyterian cler gy™an once broke off the th of his dis course, and thus addressed his congregation : —‘ My dear brethren, let me here tell that | om now just half through with my ser- mon, but as I perceive your impatience, I will say that the remaining balf is not more than @ quarter as lopg 48 that you bave

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A Mild-Tempered woman is as a balram that heals matrimonial sorrows.

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriag- and half shut aherwahde ,

Ar eye cf the master sees more than four eyes of the eervanis.

Experience ie the father, and mother of wisdom.

Falsehoods are Pindar’s razors, made to sell. Truth a damascus blade, made to shave —and nothing shaves so keenly.

A Uackney-Coachman hes constantly eaure +2 -cmplain of the hardness of hia lot, for at ibe best of times his business is at a stand.

If idleness be the roet of all evil, then is matrimony good for something, for it sete many @ poor woman to work.

John B. Gough, saya: Cork screws hare sunk more people than cork jickets will ever save.

A Rich Philadelphia contractor, in s ee- vere fit of the gout, told his physician he suffered the pains of the dam The dos- tor couly avewered, ‘ What, already!’

He who imegines that he can do without the world, is much d ceived—but he who fancies that the world cannot do withcut him, is still more deceived.

Censure implies superiority, praise proves it: those who censure wish = en others with themselves ; those who praise, feel them- selves abuve it.

A Student of medicine from Boston, whi'e attending lectures in London, observed that the King’s Evil had been little known in the United States since the Revolution.

Bonnets worn at a theatre, when they tercept the view of the stage, give offence to those that are prevented by from seeing, and who uften declare such nets should be cap-siged.

An hypochondriac will sometimes up to his immagination the most frightful forms. To indulge such » melancholy pensity, may be said, im one sense, to the spirits.

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Cross Examination—A young lady nad heen severely interrogated at court an ill-tempered counsel, o ing the witness-box, that she never fully understood what was meant by examination.

An editor having, in a dense crowd, cidentally stepped on the toe of the one him, asaed pardon for his carelessness. ‘ matter, sir,’ was the good-natured reply, ‘ it is only an error of the press.’

Fine sense and exalted sense are not so useful as common sense, men of wit to one man of sense : will carry nothing about bim bat will be every day at love for want of ready change.

Why iea lover like a knocker? Because be is bound to adore (a door.)