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INSURANCE COMPANY os t 8 dian’s, with a slight inclination to wave, was braided behind in imitation of her Cc t [ t n OR, THE LONG MOSS SPRING. \§ of sun-eyed peacock’s feathers, with tre- mendous flourishes, would purposely hit | q her lofty turban, but she never swerved | 4) none of the winning charms that distin-| from her majestic course, satisfying her guished her several years before, while the | @'gnity by giving them a rebuking roll of soft glow of health now added to its attrac- ed the graceful outlines of her figure, and affection had decorated her hair, gave even @ juvenile loveliness to her appearance, | !! congenial to the young maiden who was bending over her. lost none of their pensive loveliness of ex. pression, nor had her pure white cheek won one tint of rose from the fragrant and elevated atmosphere she breathed; but the bright hue of her lips redeemed her face from the idea of pallidness, and there were moments when those drooping eyes, tion, and a rosy shadow flit over the lilies of her cheeks. removed from Mrs. Bellamy, sat a young mulatto girl, who from her singular beauty and docility was the pet of the household. Her hair, long, black and shiny as an In, mistress; her eyes were soft and bright as a gazelle’s, and beneath her ciear, dark tinge. as alabaster, glittered when she smiled, and her walk had the springy yet flowing grace of the leopard’s, the name of the beautiful mulatto, was mistress of the needle, and had been brought up in the house under the affec- dialect. derly as if no dusky tint shaded the ruby of her cheek; and had Mrs. Bellamy been F an angel of light, Cora could not have| fire to all around him. had in this world. Pray forgive poor Han, ‘Push on,’ they would exclaim, ‘ don’t] nibal, mistress—he never did so no more— you see the General cotton balls would fly thick snow-flakes, and the huge baskets heave | 4} worshipped her with more entire devo- tion. exclatmed Katy, appealing to Cora to ad- mire the starry blossoms that gleamed on her work with a bright smile. Bellamy, ‘and I know you are making me | & look too girlish,’ putting her hand to her head. ascending the stairs; there was a light bound over the threshold, and a youth of of the room. hand, while he pushed back with the other the fair brown-curls from his moist brow, he cried— Katy! badge of merit, and I come to lay it at the feet of my benefactors.’ one knee with sportive grace before Mrs. Bellamy, he took from his neck a blue ribs bon, from which was suspended a golden medal, and laid it on her lap. gazing with pride and delight upon the noble-looking boy who thus vindicated her early prophecy. ‘I knew you could not fail; this is only a foretaste of the honors which await you in a larger sphere.’ sake. I only cared to obtain this because I thought it would gratify you. shall I do with it? 1 should despise myself tricked out with blue ribbons and trinkets. Katy must wear it till [return from cols lege, and let it be in her eyes an emblem of ambition. she should excel.’ POETRY. PANSY. What blossom have you brought to day, Beside my pillow, dear, to lay ? Come, let me see my prize, A velvet pansy, large and fair, With petals yellow as your hair, And purple as your eyes, i I think I know the very spot, Whefe, bordered with torget-me-nort, | This lovily blossom grew ; | We kvew that pansy bed of old, A sweet switt story there was told, Between black eyes and blue. [t seems but yesterday we stood, Kach veto each God's greatest good, Beneath the morning sky ! We stood as lovers stand to part, (But hand from hand, not heart from heart )y With lingering good-bye. Upon your snow-white dress you wore, nae blossom, plucked an hour before While still the dew was wet - A purple pansy, fair as this, 1 took it with your first shy kiss; i have that blossom yet. We thought our fate was hard that day, But, darliog, we have learned to s.y, “Whater is, is best.” That far-off parting which is o'er, Foretold one longer, ou betore, A waiting which we rest. We wait as friends and lovers do, Each reading true heart through aod through Vatil that parting come. Then it you speak I shall not hear, I shall not feel your presence near, Nor answer. Death is dumb. You may bring pansies, too, that day, To spread above the senseless clay, Butnone so sweet as this: And never one like that dear flower, You gave me in Jove’s dawning hour, With your shy clinging kiss. wants of her children, as she always called There was a pes | |; All the Year Round. LITERATUAE. ee Be ee eee MARCUS t WARLAND ; t CHAPTER 1V.—Continued. The sweet fact of Mrs. Bellamy had lost ion. A dress of thin white muslin softens | 2 Katy’s violet eyes had uddenly lifted, would flash with gay emo- On a low chair, a little heek the red blood flowed with a vermeil Her teeth, white and transparent Cora, for such was ionate and watchful eye of her mistress, Ter language in consequence of this was ree from the peculiarities of the African Mrs. Bellamy loved Cora as ten» | ™ ‘Can anything look sweeter than that?’ h he dark satin of her mistress’ hair. * Mistress looks sweet, let her wear what he will,’ replied Cora, looking up from said Mrs. ‘You are both flatterers,’ ‘Oh, please, don’t!’ cried both voices | * please don’t spoil it!’ At this moment a rapid step was heard ixteen summers leaped into the centre Waving his straw hat in one ‘Victory, dear Mrs, Bellamy! Victory, I've won the prize, the golden Then bending ‘Well done Marcus,’ said Mrs. Bellamy, ‘I hope so, madam ; [ hope so for your What It is in the forza of a harp, Mrs. Bellamy, you see, strung with twisted threads of gold. It will remind Katy of her music, and how anxious you are that Marcus passed the azure band round the fair neck of Katy, who felt proud of wears ing the badge of her brother’s excellence. It was a prize awarded by a committee of gentlemen for the best essay on a given subject written by the pupils of a high school at which he had graduated. He could have entered college two years pre» vious, but Mr. Bellamy thought him too young to be exposed to the temptations of such a life, and preferred that he should enter in advance, and thus shorten the time of his collegiate studies. [He was to depart in a few weeks for the most distins guished university of the South, and should he bear away the first honors, Mr. Bellamy to reward him by sending him afterward to one of the literary institutions lof the North. Burning with desire to } . . . the distinction he had just won seemed | only an earnest of bis future suceess. | ° } seemed added to his frame. of intemperance. duties to his benefactor with unerring fidels them, and ‘ole master.’ her large eyeballs. chair, and a tall, handsome mulatto man, he flowers with which youthful taste and | With an apron of snowy whiteness reaching | ), to his knees, and a waiter under his arm, | know when you wer smiles. * ’ sullen mood, and neither persuasion nor resistaace of duty. that a spirit like his would spurn at dele~ | , fluence in recalling him to dovty and obe- | , dience. disappointed love, and maddened by the sion. ing slave. Mr. Bellamy was about to leave the room bellion to his much-enduring master. passage, that she might learn the cause. sions. me the lamp and key, and I pledge my word, that Hannibal shall return to his als prove himself worthy of this munificence, Marcus looked forward 40 his departure with the eager anticipatioas of youth, and When supper was announced, Warland Mr. came in with Bellamy, and took his seat at the table by the side of his child. ren, While there was no apparent change in the person of the latter, he looked great» ly altered, and the burden of many years His hair was almost white, proof of the terrible warfare he had sustained with his bosom foe; his complexion was very pale, and his upright form bent from its perpendicular line; but his eye was clear, and the throne of an uns clouded intellect, Though its light was ofttimes darkened by the shadow of mem- ory, never since his dwelling with Mr. Bellamy had it been quenched in the night We had performed his ity and marked success, and it was now as Aunt culiar delicacy of kindness in Mrs. Bellamy’s smile: ‘J can't put on airs and make bes iia siatenias ee a ‘ anci¢ ne regime, —_ knew she would be | and taking a seat on a wooden bench ; ‘you happy in proportion as she thought herseif} ought to have more sense than to loose all useful, and she had no desire to wean | y a nete a 7 } Be all Marcus or Katy frem their allegiance to | who loved another before she knew you had Sometimes | one thought of her. heir true and faithful nurse, he littie ebony images that stood on each | y ide of the table waving beautiful brushes | 4) The beautiful mulatto irl had the post of honor at her mistress’ eld the same position at the right hand } jy of his master, Many a brilliant eye beam | master and myself, and bronght you back and glittering smile were exchanged across | ty health and the table by this distinguished pair. Cora was the belle of the plantation, and there were others besides King the hand-| )o¢ wish your master to sell you ?” some mulatto who contended for her There was one negro, of Cimmer- | tress.’ ian blackness, of the name of Hannibal, who was a formidable rival to the gallant | y King ; not that Cora regarded him with a| p favoring eye, but he possessed great mus- | plantation to be disturbed by one, of whom cular power, and his temper when roused | }, was fierce as the goaded lion’s. lamy had more trouble with him than any} master, and promise hereafter to curb your other slave on the plantation, but he was | repel passions, proving yourself worthy of at the same time one of his most valuable | ), men. and honored his title by exercising author- | ; ity over his younger and weaker brethren. | gio) 9 He was attached to his master, and when Mr. fle was nicknamed the General, o counter feelings opposed his sense of ter,’ said the repentant negro; ‘let him obligation to him, he would work with an) punish me any way he please—only let me 1 ngly g enthusiasm that communicated like wild- | stay—best master and mistress nigger ever | CURt :—“And a sight awe inspiring beyond expression it was to behold them ; not only were the rumblings terrific and the reports | h of the frequent explosions ahead ?’ as northern igh with their downy burdens, dut lately Hannibal had been in a dark } ) Mr. Bellamy, believing ated authority, told Warland that when- nd he usually sueceeded by personal ins Now smarting from the pangs of | g triumphant happiness of his rival, he broke | and was about to drop the muslin curtains out in open mutiny, and was placed, by | over the open windows, that the night-air the orders of his master, in solitary con-| might come in mellow through its folds, fiement, till he had leisure to reflect on | she heard the strain of a violin directiy be- the best course to pursue with the offend- | neath. Bending out, she discerned distinct- was over! ly, by the sparkling starlight, the tall, dark form of Lanvnibal, thus exercisinga mins. anxious to perform his disagreeable task, | trel power, in the solemn stillness of the fearful that he might be compelled to have | eyening. He was the Orpheus of Hickory recourse to the dreaded alternative of sells Hill, who, if he did not move the stones ing him, and filling with anguish a mother’s | and trees, set all the black feet quivering heart. Hannibal was the only son of a0 | whenever his magic bow touched the re- aged mother, who was now trembling in| sounding strings. That he had come this her cabin for the consequences of his re- night, beneath her window, to wake the tunes of his beloved instrument, was a Mrs, Bellamy, who noted the clouded | touching proof that the evil spirit had in- brow of her husband, followed him into the | geed departed from him ; and as she listen~ ed to the low, plaintive melody, so difterent ‘Let me go to him, my husband,’ said | ¢,.5.4 pis usual brisk, enlivening measures, she; ‘1 think I have more influence over him than any one else, and I know so well the cause of his present wayward humor. If love has subverted empires razed cities to their foundations, and shaken the boast- ed reason of the white man, we ought to make great allowance for its influence on less enlightened minds and stronger pas~ As soon as supper You are weary, I see you are; give legiance on the morrow, like a true and vas liant soldier-’ ‘Isabel, this will never do, It is a shame to impose such a task on you. Indeed I cannot allow it.’ ‘ But you must, Mr. Bellamy. When did you ever refuse any request of mine? A woman knows so much better where the keys of the human heart are placed than man. Hannibal has a heart, as his passio- nate love for Cora but too plainly shows.’ Gently but irresistibly she drew the lamp and key from her husband’s hand and glid- ed on to the solitary room, where the Ge-~ eral was awaiting the threatened visit of his master, arming herself with strength to withstand both the voice of reason and the menaces of violated authority. The key turned—a bright light flashed into. the apartment, and instead of the kind but se- vere countenance he expected to behold, Look me in the face,and tell me, if you can, that your master has ever been unjust or unkind to you.’ kind, as long as there is one that treats me like: a dog. an honored friend and faithful coadjutor, everybody. even asa beloved brother, that he remains | kill me for it.’ ed in the household of the planter. Milly came in her ancient costume of the] Hannibal. white turban and stiff white apron, and | another better than you. steod with folded hands behind her mas | it, ter’s chair till the customary blessing con-| attention, and tried hard to win her, before secrated the board; then with an elevated | you ever said a word about loving her. If brow and aristocratic mien, she carried her | you had spoken first very likely she would gilded waiter back and forth to supply the | have liked you best.’ pattern; you disturb the peace of your in- mistress.’ ened, and his head began t» droop towards his breast, ave always tried to make you happy. You They | then, and said you never would forget it as were betrothed in marriage, and the com- long as you lived. You said it was not the ing Christmas was appointed. for their | medicine or the watching you thanked us nuptials, The coquettish Cora denied the | for for that might have been for our own truth of this fact, and declared it was only interests, but for the tears we shed when a false report, and that there was nothing | we thought you were dying; that proved in the world in it; but when her mistress | we cared tor you, for your own sake. Don’t told her what a beautiful wedding-dress y she was going to give her, and whata fine supper too, she hung her head and laughed, and said, ‘she shouldn't wonder if she did | ,, get married.’ ou remember it ?’ every word I say be true.’ his midnight cheeks. ou have to-day, he is resolved to do it. e has the power to rid himself. Bel- | jast wppeal. is confidence and esteem ? or will you be banished from the home where you have so ong been sheltered in kindness and aftec~ And the never.’ way to the sitting-room, and opened the coercion had any effect on his obstinate door, beckoned her husband to approach. down like a shower of hale far away from producing a facture of the jaw at that point , This is in the northern and | and ploughing its way back to where it was extracted. destroyed and his left torn from the socket, ; . _. 2 | 80 that in case of ultimate recovery he will ever symptoms ef rebellion appeared in the | jim to your mercy, firmly believing this | “mong the mountain groups of Dyngjufjoil | be totally blind. The piece which tore out Carthaginian general to refer him to him, | wil] be his last offence.’ anxious for your forgiveness. reneral she returned to her adopted chil- a tear glistened in her mild eyes. another Cora for him. of feeling and passion in him than in the handsomest, smiling King. But sheis not the first woman who has been charmed by a showery exterior, nor will she be the last.’ wounded heart of Hannibal breathed its sorrow and remorse, in the sweet complain- ing notes of his viol, whiie the midnight stars gleamed with lonely lustre on his brow. the sweet face and white-robed form of his She stood alone before the tall, powerful negro, over whose raven features passion had, if al sible, spread a dark hue. mistress beamed upon his gaze. * {Tannibal,’ ssid she, bending on him her serene and serious eyes, ‘1 am very sorry to | see you here in disgrace. What have you been doing to deserve this punishment ?” ‘ Nothing mistress, just nothing at all.’ * Was it your master, or Mr. Warland who | had you confined here ?” { ‘Twas Master. ! tell you what, mistress, if it had been anybody but master, Id a killed him faust.’ ‘You don’t mean to tell me, Hannibal, that your master confined you for nothing, You must not say that a second time. ‘It makes no difference, mistress, who is It turns my heart black to I can’t help what ! do, if they ‘If you mean Cora you are very wrong, She is not to blame if she loves She cannot help Besides, King paid her a great deal of i ‘I don’t know what to say to please the idies,’ said the African chief, with a grim I may not give you courage strong, giving this office to Milly, for her own sers] jjeye ['m a gentleman, like that yellow boy ts ea aan, suas -tennaae : sunse : ‘ ; ti ’ any : ing and shaki $ ‘his was s ee lite long, vants were trained to wait upon her table, | they think such a ’Donis—all on ’em.’ ng and sha ~ of the earths. This was 80 | at ouce I hoped to do. idk hie ta te ee : : : great that the inhabitants quit their houses, | w: But, love, be fearless, faithful, brave; ind did its honors with more dexterity, ‘Now, Hannibal, I want you to listen to Then f th : } ‘re | ™ The pansies on my quiet grave th: ! : ste hoe i cae . 2en from the mountains three great fire les, J ian one belonging like Aunt Milly to the @,” sai ady setting 7 hk : May bring heart’s-ease for you. LON FIN LUE illy me,’ said the lady setting down her lamp of . . a our dignity of character fora young girl, You make yourself ery unhappy, you set a bad example to d e p ie other negroes, who look up to you asa ulgent master, and you fill with anguish 1e heart of your mistress.’ ‘IT never thought of giving pain to you, The toi.e of his voice was soft. d ‘I have always treated you kindly. I fi e sick last winter, and id up so long, how we wached over you, strength You blessed us w ‘Yes —that I do, mistress— that I do— Hlis lips began quiver, and tears chased each other down ~ ‘I see you are sorry Hannibal, You do ‘The Lord have merey on me !—no, mis- ‘ Well, if you ever trouble him again, as e will not allow the peace of the whole bi Ga Cc his isa Will you follow me to your ‘Take me to master—take me to mass :—) Yrs. Bellamy lifted the lamp and left | © 1¢ room, beckoning him to follow Look. ing back with an angelic smile upon the crumble down. forth boulders of various sizes, the greatest lack shadow rolling beliind, she led the Oo ‘Ihave brought you a patient,’ said she | the crater. one sincerely convinced of his error, and | © I commend | ! Leaving her husband with the subdued ren, rejoicing in the success of her mis- ‘ hat night, when she retired to bed, I ] ‘ Poor Hannibal,’ said she, ‘I wish I had There is more depth Long after she had sunk to rest, the To be continued. Every week—we might perhaps more correctly say every day—brings to our knowledge some crime more or less horris ble. Before one has had time to realize the horror of one atrocity, another is re~ ported which outweighs its predecessor in brutality and lawlessness. Our special despatch to-night from Ottawa reports a startling and horrible affair at Rodney, in Elgin County, Canada West. A man who degrades the name of ‘ father’ committed an outrage on his two young daughters, and threatened to kill them if they made it known. They gave intormation to the authorities, however, and now an investi-~ gation must follow, Such fiendish work calla for justice of the strictest kind, and let us hope the matter will not be minced. Let justice be done, and speedily. The extending nearly to the point where I[ce- | ; land touches the Aretic circle cludes the great area of the Vatna Jokull, | York, contains as follows : which has a true glacier system, terminat ing on the north in the famous Odaharhann, a lava desert that is utterly barren and waterless, means 2 mountain covered perpetually with ice and snow, while a fjall is one from which the ice and snow mostly disappears in| about Napoleon, summer, Jokull, and it was the eruption of this | * which caused so much mischief in the last century, though scarcely equalling the } out of line, and the problem was how to The first | replace it. symptoms were manifested in 1783, accords | fon werk: expanded a small fraction of an damage done this spouts broke out. tincily seen thirty miles, and were united in immense quantities. The ground, already covered with hot ashes which had destroyed the farms and pasture grounds, melted the snow at once and pro- this melted snow whole scene was changed. and in its place there was people lost their lives. lried up and the filling up of Lakes caused an overflow which was very near as destruc» | advertisement may be like a gentle touch tive as the lava flood itself. of Skaptar, which did so much damage, was local compared to the present one, which embraces more than and has been raging with greater or less violence since last Christmas Day, when the first shocks were felt. the Zhjodolfv, which gives minute deserip~ | ey tions of several of the eruptions, for they | son, a gentleman well known in Gold Hill, had ignited a blast in the 1,000 foot Jevel of the mine, and as usual retired to a safe istance to wait the explosion. He remain- da much longer time than is usually are indeed numerous, extending through, probably, at least 26) miles, from an ac-} 4 count therein published we hear that ex- | » tensive pasture fields are overflowed, still | taker for it to go off’; greater tracts covered witha-hes, and three | ©4¥8¢, probably a defective fuse, it did not do £0, he cautiously approached it to see what was the matter, ROARING AND THUNDERING, it just as it exploded, receiving terrible and large craters are incessantly ful as if, at any moment, everything must 100d of Myvatn ; occur and in chronicling them from time to time, as information could be obtained through the slow mention of pony travel, which is! was alive and conscious at noon to-day. the only means of communication between He fully realized the terrible nature of his ne place snd another, the picture of | injuries, and suffering and destruction is perfectly ap- paling papers says:—“It was grand as it was] poorer chance to recover. to the roaring of it as it traversed the spot where once their was a fair and friendly loving hands.—Gold Mili” News, Aug. 19. to have been from Norway, and whois one of the most learned Ice. ‘ THE EXAMINER. (ND, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 1875. ICELAND, LETTER FROM DR. 1. 1. HAYES, EXPLAINING THB CONSEQUENCES OF THE RECENT ERUPTIONS— ONE-THIRD OF THE ISLAND RENDELED UN- INHABITABLE, Dr. I. I. Hayes writes to the New York Heraid as follows:—The London papers have for some time had items of informa- tion concerning the volcanic eruptions in Iceland during the present year, | ut, until your publication of yesterday, nothing seems to have been detinitely known here with respect to this remarkable occurrence, The region covered has not !een greatly disturbed since 1783. It em' races almost the whole of the eastern and couthern parts of the Island, beginning in this latter direction in the neighborhood of Hecla, and i Jokull in the Icelandic, simply SKANTAR JOKULL s the south-western portion of the Vatna summer. in These could be diss th su t the top by a great cloud. Great quantis | th riven over the country, verything and destroying both life and to roperty. A substance like pitch also fell | », oS uced great floods, and, worse than all, } y jled the air withsteam. One of the re- But very quickly this Lava broke out B A FLOOD OF FIRE hich spread in every direction, Twenty-one villages twenty-four ® r to This eruption | of 2 & A THIRD OF THE WHOLE IsLAND, offer can fail of reaping a rich harvest by At Reykjavik, the upital, there is published a paper called pe o quote from ar exceedingly graphic ac~ | Pe su tremendous: ut the quaking of the earth was so fright- 8 em. The larger craters shot Se f which were forty-five seconds in falling T astern part of the island, in the neighbor- but further to the south, hi OTHER ERUPTIONS, al Speaking of a lava stream, the! y 1;0rrible to behold the rush and to listen w andscape.”’ The greatest suffering seems THE FALL OF ASHES and while the destruction of Professor Eirikr Magnusson, who accompanied me to Iceland last year, landic scholars, in a letter to the London Times says that “many of the sufferers have been prevailed upon to cleanse the manured homefields from the ashes, even where the reward of the toil would be only the saving of one cow alive for the winter, rather than to move bodily away and falla helpless wandering prey on the already heavily taxed neighbors.” - > + ae ++ We are sorry to notice that the famous publishing house of Lee & Shephard, and the branch house in New York of Lee, Shephard & Dillingham, have been com- pelled to suspend, This was one of the most enterprising, upright and extensive publishing houses nm the Eastern States. The liabilities are stated at from $350,000 to $1,000,000, ‘ihe trustee says that the firms will be able to pay fifty cents on the dollar. The firm’s first heavy blow was re- ceived in the great Boston fire, when it lost at least £100,000 thus curtailing its opera. tions. Then fully halt that amount was lost by a subsequent fire in another part of Boston. These losses, followed by a dull. ness in trade, bore the firm down, and, after a severe struggle to maintain their position, they were compelled to take the steps now announced. The Atlantic and Pacific and Western country must haye the benetit of the pro- tection the law affords them. nnn to haye consolida This in.} Publishing Co., 41 way. : repeated, and the desired place was reach- ‘ the forehead at eye, breaking the former and producing a fracture of the latter, that of itself would appear sufficient to produce death, le is a man about is at your service.’ Hugh, answered, ‘We want to go alone.’ ed to lend the boat. companied by her friend (whose name we have been unable to learn) proceeded to the beach and got intothe boat, Oneof the men pushed it off, but the moment it floated, two of the men jumped in, ladies said ‘they wished to go alone,’ and made a request to have the ‘boat landed. One of the men replied that they would row the boat for them, which they pros ceeded to do. passed slowly around the point in front of the Park, when they immediately steered NO. 37. ay ra HISUELLANEOUS, The Jacques Cartier Bank of Montreal? will resume with an addition of $1,000,900 preferential stock to the capital. Chicago is about to establish a system of floating hospitals to cure diseases by means of pure air of the rivers and lakes, There was quite a heavy frost in various localities in Illinois and Jowa last Sunday night. ed. Poiatoes and corn were more or less Most of the small vines were kill- njured, The liabilities of the Bank of California are estimated at $14,000,000, and the avail. able assets at $7,000,000. The Merchants’ Exchange Bank, it is expected, will resume business this morning, but the National Gold Bank will not do any business for a few days, The funeral of President lalston was very largely attended. ‘ The London Qua lerly Review for S875 just issued by the Leonard jarclay Street, July, Seott New {. The First Stewart in England— Von Ranke, Pattison, Spedding, Gardiner, IT. Jamaica, IIT. Virgil in the Middle Ages IV. Balloons and Voyages in the Air. V. The ‘ Theatre Francais.’ Vi. Faleonry in the British Isles. Vi. Memoirs of Count de Segur—More VIII, tennyson’s Queen Mary. IX. Church Law and Church Prospects. How tHe Scn Morep a Bripcr. ~During he recent building of a bridge in Holland, ne of the traverses, 460 feet long, was mis» placed on the supports. It is an inch Experiments proved that the ch to every degree of heat received. ‘t as noticed that the night and day temper- ures differed by about 25 degrees and it as thought that this might be made to ove the bridge. !n the morning one end the picces were bolted down securely and e other end left free. In the heat of the n the iron expanded. and towards night e bolied end was loosened. The contrac- ties of brimstone, pumice stones, and ashes | #0" then dragged the whole mass the other were thrown up with great force ind noise, and. the wind being very high, these were | ed. For two days this experiment was The contraction and expansion of iron overwhelming | bars by tire heat has frequently been used move heavy weights over short distances. roken walls and strained roofs and arches ave been brought into place by simply then there was a] heating iron rods till they expanded, then great fall of rain, hail and snow, alternately. | taking the slack by screws and nuts, allow- ing contraction by cold to pull the wall or roof into place. SensisLe Wo ps anour Apvertisinc. —The following is from the financial article of the ew Orleans Picayune : ‘“* The people who sit nervously in count~ sults was to swell the Skaptar River from | inghouses, or behind their goods, waiting for customers to take them by storm, and aking no efforts to let the world know the a -_ bargains they have to offer, will find the from the mountain in prodigious streams, | season very unpropitious, Many of those and in a few hours the river was dried up, | Who have spent large sums in hiring drum~ mers and paying for other well-known ap- pliances of trade, have effected large sales, but swallowed up too large a share of the over: | receipts in such enormous attendant ex - whelming the country through a vast area. | penses. This fiery stream continued to flow from June 12 to August 13. were overwhelmed, The best remuneration has been found by :hose who have returned to more legitimate old fashioned methods of push- ing their >usiness. others } because we are interested in this line of ex- were partially destroyed, and thousands of | penditure, but, as our best advice to all who Eleven rivers were | Wish to be enterprising and to secure a largs We say it not simply custom, there is nothing now so etlective this end as judicious advertising. A little the whip to poor Debbin’s horse, ‘a merey brown away ;’ but « liberal outlay is almost ertain to bring in a large return, and this will last even beyond the current season. We do not believe that any one who has valuable service or desirable preperty to continuous advertising on a large seale.”’ Another of those frightful accidents that seem inevitable, even when men are ex rienced and cautious miners recently oc- rred in the Belcher mine. Wm. Hende:- but, as through some He got close up to rhaps fatal injuries. His body from the Waist up was fairly riddled with small frag. ments of iock, He was taken to the rface as soon as possible and conveyed to is residence a short distance below the Belcher hoisting works, Drs, Hall and Fal- mer were sent for, and did all in their power to relieve the sufferings of the in- ured man. arge as an ordinary hen’s egg from his left rm, near the shoulder, and another almost They removed a piece as large from his right jaw near the ear iis latter piece struck him on the chin, His right eye was completely s lett eye hit the bridge of the nose and the inner corner of the He seemed resigned to his fate. sixty years of age, and though of a naturally robust constitution, ili on account of his years, have all the He has a large family of estimable children, some of tliem grown up, and will therefore be cared for ith the skill that can only be rendered by Attempt to Kidnap Two Ladies.—One Lady Jumps into the River —Last Friday the members of the St. Jean Baptist So- which was driven by the wind even as far as ata Ogdensburg, had a pic nic party at eo Ob. : the afternoon two ladies were swinging in human life does not seem to have been | the grove, when one expressed a desire to so great as might have been expected, | have a boat ride. The conversation being the complete obliteration of the pasture lands in many places appear to have been Lawrence Park, Brockville. Jn overheard by Thomas Murphy, William Gieason, James Cronan and John Moffat, : all of Brockville one of the party remark- productive of the greater misery and want, | ed, ‘we have a boat on the beach, which owing to the starvation of the cows, sheep and ponies. The lady, Maggie Mc. All right,’ replied the man who had offer- ‘iss Meffugh, ac- The In a few minutes they or the islands, rowing very rapidly. The ladies became alarmed, remonstrated and screamed for help. in a small boat, went to their resene, row- ing up near the boat in which they were seated, boat, when immediately the other boat, containing Miss McHugh, made off in the direction of the lighthouse, followed bya boat containing two men who had left at the Park. Miss McHugh began screaming for help, when one of the roughs put his hand over her mouth, ing the other lady returned to the Park as quickly as possible, the facts were made known, and half a dozen boats were at once in pursuit. boat containing Miss Mcllugh approached an island, when the heroic girl jumped into the river, where the water was about five feet in depth, remaining in this position until reached by her friends, the two A youth, who was out One of the ladies jumped into his The boat contain. In the meantime the boats containing the roughs, proceeded tos wards the American shore, and, we are sorry to say, escaped, inate AP pnecragersetaag aR SFT . < G el ted ee iin: i ig pain ie ‘eal we