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A. A. MACDONALD, Postmaster.

1874.

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EXAMINER

OE r POETRY. ORMSKIRK.

Away from the noise of the city,

I wander through meadows green;

The fitful sun is shining But dimly across the scene;

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Until as it nears its setting It pierces through clouds that lower, And the gray old town is transfigured, And the church with its spire and tower.

A moment the glory Lingers— Then goes as a tale that is told; And the Wheatsheaf Inn I enter From the outer darkness and cold.

And while I sit through the evening By the warmth of the glowing fire,

The hostess tells me the story— The tradition of tower and spire.

‘* Here once there dwelt two sisters, Unmarried and growing old,

Who would not leave to a stranger To inherit their lands and gold.

** So they built a church with their riches, But whether that church should be Adorned with a tower or spire Was where they could not agree.

** So each one did as pleased her; (Their name they say was Orm;) And the tower and spire together Are standing through time and storm.”

I sit by the flre and ponder How centuries long hav¢ flown While the quarrel of those old spinsters Is fixed in enduring stone.

|} And I think of the many builders,

Each one with his private plan, Who have toiled through the weary ages, On the temple which Christ began.

But I know that the great Designer, Will harmonise all at length, The Catholic spire of beauty, The Protestant tower of strength.

And when shall shine forth the glory Of Christ, the Unsetting Sun,

We shall see the temple transfigured, And know that our work is one.

One Lord hath given His cildren One Faith on His name to call,

| One Baptism into His kingdom,

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| when Katharine was permitted to take res',

| the same state.

One Church for the prayers of all.

Commission Merchant and | Though each from his neighbor differs

Anda tower bya steeple stands, We have all together been builders Of a house not made with hands.

—Seribner’s Monthly. LITERATURE. ——S |? eS RE YES ES SS RE ee,

KATHARINE.

-_ -_

EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1874.

therefore, to her in the tone which, musical as it was, few ever dared to disobey, he said—

‘ Miss Nugent isengaged now ; when she is at leisure she will let you know.’

The girl strred wonderingly, and, seeme! about to remonstrate, but the calm, stead- fast glance of the quiet eye bent full upon her silenced her, and she left the room without a word,

‘What is the matter?’ said Maurice, go~ ing up to Kate the momert the door closed. Who is this person who wishes to see you? Is it any one whom I can see for you?’

‘No, no! ob, no, no!’ ericd Kate nete vously,

‘Why not? Ifit isa man of busines, I can see h'm, and settle it as well as yor, who are certainly rot fit to be tormented with any such thing now ; and if it is @ visi- tor, lat me ring the b+}), and say, ‘ Not at home,’

‘He says be must see me!’ fal'e ed Kate, in a vwice trembling with fear:

‘Must! There shall be no must where you say nay,’ answered Maurice sternly.

* But what ean 1 do?’

‘ Depute me to act for you. Teli what the man wante—pray do not tremble s.—and what you choose to say, ad it shall be ssi?. No man ia England sha!) enter your presence, or force you to in in- terview agaiust your will, wvile Lom hore to p:otect you.’

The tone in which thess words were spoken thrilled to Katharine’s heart, giving ber a new, happy feeling of security, and she looked up to express it, when tte pass sionats glance which met hers, cast her eyes instantly to the ground, end covered her face and neck with blushes.

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A glowing smile parted the young man’s lips, as he saw Kate’s besutiful ey:s sink beneath his glance, but instantly controlling it, he said, in a quiet voics—

‘Well, Miss Nugeut, shall [ see this man, orshall I risg and sand him away?’

‘Neither, ne:ther!’ replied Kate, again looking upin alarm. ‘I dare not,’

‘Dare not—why? Has be any claim upon you ?’

‘No, none! None bat what hae been cancelled, had it been ten times as great.’

‘Then send him away; do not let his insolenc? annoy you, but send him away ot once.’

And ashe spoke, he raised his land to

A TALE OF WOMAN'S

CHAPTER VIILII.—Continued. During the next week, to the surpriso of | the medical men, Mr. Grove continued in|

He seldom slept—never if |

TRIALS.

| he could avoid it—and would scarcely suffer |

Katharine to leave his sight, until the poor girl, worn out with anxiety, pity and fatigue, would bave sunk but for the interposition of | Mr. Du Val, who bad obtained « strange | influence over th» patient, and whore long | and constant visits were the only seasons |

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ALMANAC FOR DECEMBER, 1874. BUSINESS CARDS. MOON'S CHANGES. a ee : . on New Moon, Sth Day, 7h. 54m., p.m., N. W., WILLIAM DODD, below oe — ‘i. First Quar., 16th Day, th. 12m.,a.m., N, b., pl below horizon. AUCTIONEER Fall Moon, 22d Day, 2h. 44m., a.m., S.W. QUEEN SQUARE, Last Qaar., 30th Day, 10h., 25m.,a.m.,W- | CHARLOTTETOWN. P. E. ISLAND _ p.| iia SUN MOON HIGH DAY'S yy _ rise | sets| SCtS [water ‘otha! 4 A ‘ ' " H Mi MA * eee i M PLEASANTLY SITUATED ON cae 7 “g 10 ; : = ' = North Side King’s Square, 2}Wednsd‘y 30 iv 5 5 i $Thursday | 31) 9 2 5 6 58 8 | St John, - - - New Brunswick. 4 Friday 32 9 224 7 4 27 | § Saturday 33 9 243; 8 39 36 J H. RUSSEL, PROPRIETOR. ‘monday | 35| ¢ 340 948, 33 WILLIAM JAMS —HENEY 7 Monday 35 ge 3 40; 9 4 33 , Tuesday 36 gs 4 22; 10 26 $2 } eee of toe 1 + 3i| AUCTIONEER, GENERAL BROKER, OThursdsy 33 4s 6 16 IL 44 30 ~ Seamer | Sol os 7 Stim °0| AND COMMISSION AGENT, 12 Saturday 40 g 841) 0 24 238 DEALER IN CHOICE Sunda q| 955 1 & 97 a oe Weunity dz 8 2111, 148 26] FAMILY GROCERIES, TOBACCO & FANCY GOODS, is sesar = 5M o* . = a PRINCE ST., COR. OF DORCITESTER, C ay 3 | O 2: oe 40 a> i: Teureday | 43 9 143) 4 33 25'Charlottetown, - - - P. &, Island. Wsucray az 3 49 72 x! FM. CAMPBELL. 19 Saturday 5 ee 2 a i aiid, | at ett 8s) 6 General Merchant 22 emer 4 : > = 2 a tr COMMISSION AGENT, suThereday’ 47, 12) 10 15 11 30 5I\4 UCZ7ZIOVEER & BROKER 23 Friday 43| 13/10 424 14 25 ii: seen SeSaturday | 48| 13 i 8) 055, | 25 TRINITY CORNER, GEORGETOWN, P, 6.1. 37 Sunday 48, 14:11 27) 1 35 26 AGENT FOR THE uda ‘ 11 42) 214 61 MMondey | 43 15 tras zs; 27| Standard Life Insurance Co. SO Wedn'sd'y 49 17 All) & 46 28 Sept. 1, 1873. ly $1 Thursday 7 494 17, 1 29) 443: & 2 — “ - Ma - i —_——— ee c St- Lawrence Marine ILnsur- - BUSINESS CARDS. — ance Oo. of P. E, Island.

PPP PL LLL LOLA LALO A AANA on

A. D. SHIRREFF, | Anctionzer, Commissio: Merchant, BROKER

AND GENERAL AGENT. CHATHAM, - NEW BRUNSWICK

CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED.

Aug. 3, 1874.—4m

CARVELL BROTHERS, AUCTIONEERS, Commission Merchants,

AND

GEWERAL AGERTS.

BANK BUILDING, QUEEN STREET Charlottetown. P. E. Island

_ JAMES BRENAN, House, Sign, and Carriage Painter,

Paper Hanger & Glazier SOURIS WEST.

Orders will receive prompt attention.

July 7, 1873. dy

«H.R. MUHLIGS’

Kitchen & Galley,

Furnishing Depot.

INSURANCE COMPA

Boarp or Directors: ARCHIBALD KENNEDY, Esq., President JouN F. Robertson, Esq.

ARTEMAS Lorp, Esq.

Ratpu B. Prake, Esq.

P W. Hyspman, Esq.

THOMAS Morris, Esq.

W. D. Stewart, Esq. Risks taken daily at theiroflice, Exchange

Building. FREDERICK W. HYNDMAN,

Ch’town, March 16, 1874.—ly Secretary

CARRIAGE FACTORY.

T HE Subscribers having taken the Factory

formerly occupied Ly Proup & Mac- CouBRAY, are prepared to conduct the busi- ness of CARRIAGE BUILDING in all its departments.

Carriages and Sleighs made to order. Repairs done with neatness and despatch. All orders filled when promised. YOUNKER, OFFER & CO. Oct. 19, 1874-——tf

THE LIVERPOOL & LONDON AND CLOBE ]

FIRE AND LIFE.

| Invested Funds, Ist Jan'y., 1874, $21,628,356

ALSO, DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF | Deposited with Receiver Gener- ' al of Canada, 162,800

Ship W ork, | Other Investments in Dominion CUPPERS and Water Closet, Pipes, | of Canada, 367,091

Lead, Figures, Deep-sea and Jiand- Leads, Lead Cisterns made, avd Water | Closets fitted up at the shortest notice.

CREIGHTON STREET.

OPPOSITE UNION LIOUSE, | PICTOU, N. &. Ch’town, June 1, 1874.—ly

VULCAN FOUNDRY

GEORGETOWN. STOVES, wholesale and retail. WINDLASS

aod MACHINERY CASTINGS in general al-| Ways on hand, or supplied at the shortest notice. ! oan I

< an Paid FOR ALL KINDS of OLD § SCRAP LRON. J. A. RUTHERFORD & Co,

June 2, 1873.—-1 y Georgetown

HERMANS & SON.

Bell-Hangers, Gan and ‘Tin-suiths

QUEEN STREET,

OPPOSITE WATSON’S DRUG STORE, EG to return their thanks to the general public for the liberal patronage extend- to them since their eommencement in and ask for a continuance of the same. They keep constantly on hand :—

A MEAT ASSORTMENT OF

TNWARE, KITCHEN UTENSILS ke. &e. &e. All orders in the above business will be os punctually attended to. ‘ing lately made large purchases lu the Cheapest Markets, intended for House Builders, such as

Gas Fitting, Water Closets. Bell iting, &e., Ke.,

We are prepared to sell therm at Rates as 48 Can be had in the city, and will fit Up ina good workmanlike style. alt %& generous public we would say, that . Orders in this branch of our business will attended to with despatch. A lot of

First-class WATER COOLERS er's Crystal Blue

FAIR RATES. Prompt & Liberal Settlemenis.

Insurance against Fire effected upon Pri- vate Residences, Household Furniture and Farm Properties, for

One, Three or more years, At Reduced Rates,

| Office—Great George Street, Charlotte [town, F. E. 1.

kK. R. FITZGERALD, Agent

Wa. DUNLOP, Special Agent

| Ch’town, July 27, 1874.—6m

FIRE AND MARINE

INSURANCE. IMPERIAL Fire [nsuranee Company

OF LONDON.

Subscribed and Invested Capital £1,965,000 Sterling.

MONTREAL

Marine Assurancé Commpany.

Capital and Cash Assets over $1,000,000

The above OFFICES being of UNDOUBT- ED STANDING, guarantee perfect security and prompt payment of losses.

FENTON T. NEWBERY, Agent for Prince Edward Island Ch’ town, Jan. 20, 1874. ly

Manhood Restored. A victim of youthful imprudence, causing premature decay, nervous debility. ete., having tried in vain every known remedy, has found a simple self-cure which he will send free to his fellow sufferers. Address J. H. REEVES, 78 Nassu street, New York.

pent. a #0ld cheaper than ever. [

. ll, 1871.)

octé 6m

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| the descendant of a long descended race ;

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for, with the waywarduess of disease, Mr. | Grove had taken 60 greata dislike to hia son | that, except durisg the interva!s of sleep, when he watched him unseen, Edward dared not enter the room.

With Mrs. Grove and Jane, to whom for

| Katharine’s sake, he was attentive and cours

teous, Mr. Du Va) was an especial favorite ; and attributing his visits solely to Jane’s fascination, her mother gave him a pressing | and general invitation to the house, of | which he eagerly availed himeelf—not, hows | ever, for the purpose Mrs. Grove hoped, but for the opportunities it gave bim of sees ing Katharine.

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Meanwhile, the object of his care, inno- | cent and inexperienced as a child, remained wholly unconecious of her power, although she soon learned to look to him for aid or advice in all her difficulties and trials. And it would have been strange indeed if she had done otherwise, for Maurice Da Val bad, more than most men, the difficult art of winniag confidence. He was very handsome, the tall, dark, manly beauty of the Norman, About his very step and voice was that in< expressible something, which, once heard, is never forgotton, and whieh, although it on'y belongs to the aristocrat, is not always possessed even by bim. His manners had the high-bred eave of one who felt himself

his liberality was almost reckless; and the | presents he lavished upon Mrs. Grove and Jane, and at last upon the patient, were of daily oceurrerce. At first the gifts were offered shyly, and with graceful apologies, being confined to such things as appeared needful; but at last, when he saw how eagerly everything was grasped, how little delicacy the recipients felt, he gave his pre- sents asa matter of course, buying thus the right to visit, unchecked, the house where Katharine lived. To her, bowever, he never offered a fruit or flower; and while Jane gloried in the smart, expensive articles she threw out such broad, coarse hints to obtain, and thought them proofs of the giver’s admiration,,Kate unconsciously bluske ed with pleasure, to feel that she had been treated with so much greater respect; for she thought, and thought rightly, that a man who, without any right or need to do so, makes costly presents to a woman, must have marvellous lit:le respect for her.

It was very remarkable, that in spite of all his civilities and kindnesses, neither Jane nor her mother detected the contempt which at last their visitor took so little pains to conceal, nor eaw, in their blind vanity and rapacity, that the presents he made were given less as presents than as purchases money for the rizht to come unquestioned to the house, and spend each day some brief, bright moments with Katherine. Strange ig was, too, that Edward’s eyes, sharpened by love, did not detect his rival; strange, also, was Katherine’s blindness; but stranger than all, was the evident satisfaction with which this state of things was regarded by Maurice.

Engrossed by attendance upon ber unele, Katharine bad nearly forgotten the trial, ani her ignorance of M’Evoy’s fate, when oxe day, upon Mr. Du Vai’s entrance: into the sitting-room, he found her standing by the table, pale as ashes, and trembling vios lently, while in ber hana she held a card, upon which her eyes were rire'ted. The servant was at the door, repeating, as he went in, ‘He eays he will see you, Miss!’

One glance at Katharine’s sgitated coun- t nance eatiefied Maurice that the person whose determination to see her was 60 strong. ly insisted upon, was an unwelcome visitor ; and another glance at the servant warned him, a’so, that she wae drawing strange im- ferences from the wavner with wh-ch her

the bell, bus before he could riag it, tie sers vant reappeared,

‘Mr. M’Evey says that he can’t wait no longer, Mi-s, and he must ¢e3 you at ouce.’

‘ Mies Nugent is engaged, as she was bes fore,’ replied Mr. Du Val; ‘but i om aé| leisure, and wi:h her permission J can sce | the man, if he wishes it. Go and tell him £0.’

A dead silence, broken osly to Kats by the loud frightesed beatiog of her beart, followed the girl's disappearance. In a few motments she returnad.

‘Mr. M’Evoy’s respects, Miss, and Le

| eays he’il call snother day, when you're at |

| liberty.’

message had been received, Speaking.

* Now, Miss Nugent, make msone promise,’ ssid Maurice, when they were again alona, —* never see thismap. Whatever claim he wiehss to persuade you that he has, he ie evidently prepared to eaforce by insolence and threats. He will uot meet me because be he dares not; but he wilt terrify you in- to sesing him if he can, and when he does, you will be no match for him. Promise, then, that you will not see him, or th.t, if he insists upon an interview, you will fix it for a time when I am here to protect you. LHe | is ® bad follow, I am certain, for although he | was acquitted of the robbery, there cannot be a shadow of doubt that he committed it.’

Kate nade no repiy, but Mr. Du Val, who |

had learned from Mrs, Grove and Jare all | they knew or conjectured about the bar slory and her obstinate silence, was prepired for | it. From Katbarine herself, at varous times, and by little and liitle, he bad beard all that she felt privileged to tell of Mary’s history and death, and many of the wantng links

way or vther, Mary, and not Kate, wes im- plicated.

out of which he could see no way. All that he eould glean of Mary’s habits, |

princip.es, and ideas, forbade the supposition |

| for the occupancy of the colony, can be in

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SSE LE TES AL 2 TERE SE OL LA LTE AL RET a Ye Te Fe as AER TD in — ee ‘a. YF 4 £ ie Th, Ve rceget =’ 5? vey AGRICULTURAL. WISCELLA NEOUS. HESCELLANEOUS. UAL ANEUAO ae, Lr ourene inter tt ai intie | atntversonpsisesesiions peed ligus sats RULES FOR THE CARE OP SHLEP. Che Archduke Charles Ferdinand of] Svppen Dearn in «4 Canriuace.—A New

A cireular issued by F. C.D. McKay, thie General Agent of the American Emigrant Company, gives the following :—

The company have already ten thousand sheep scattered among the farmers who purchased land of them, in flocks ranging in size from fifty to two hundred head

1. Keep sheep dry under foot with litter. This is even more necessary than roofing them Never let taem stand or lie in mud or snow,

2. Take up lamb rams early in the sum- mer, and keep thera up until December Ist following, when they may be turned out.

3. Drop or take out the lowest bars, thus saving broken limbs.

4. Count avery day.

5. Vegin graining with the greatest care, and use the smallest quantity at first.

6.1f a yew looses her lamb milk her daily, for a few days, and mix a little alum with her salt,

7. Let no hogs eat with the sheep, by any means. in the spring.

8. Give the lambs a little millfeed in time of weaning.

9. Never frighten sheep, if possible to avoid it.

10 Sow rye for weak ones in cold weather, if you can.

11, Separate all weak, or thin or sick, from tbose strong, .n the fall, and give them special care,

12. If any sheep is hurt, catch it at once and wash the wounds, and if it is fly time, apply spirits of turpentine daily, and al ways wash with something healing. Ifa limb is broken, bind it up with splinters tightly, loosening us the limb swelis.

13, Keep a number of good bells on the sheep.

14. Do not let the sheep spoil chaff or burrs.

15. Cut tag-locks in early sping.

16, For scours, give pulverized alum in

wheat bran. Prevent by taking great care in changing dry for green feed. I7. If one is Jame, examine the foot clean out between the hoofs, pare the hoofs if unsound, and apply tobacco with blue vitrol, boiled in a little water.

18. Shear at once any sheep commencing to shed its wool, unless the weather is too severe, and save carefully the pelt of any sheep that dies.

19. Have at least one good work by you for reference. ‘lis will be money in your pocket.

wool with

WINTERING BEES.

There are two evils, or dangers, to be guarded against in carrying bees safely through the winter season ; one is freezing, the other is starving. The danger of freez- ing is in some classes of hives more immi nent than others. 7A hive consisting of one box, perfectly close, except the bottom ens trance, filled with comb, with the side combs supplied with honey, and the centre with brood com», a considerable part of which is empty from the late hatchig of the brood, thus leaving the centre empty

Austria is dead. | Glasgow despatch to the Halifax Chronich says that on Friday last Wm. Merke!. of Wentworth Grant, did suddenly while sitt- | ing in his w gon in’ New Glasgow. He was a stout, active, hearty looking man, highs | ly respected, aged sixty-eight yeas. speedy | verdict of the coroner's jury was Shivan | visitation of God.” woe

3: . . ‘ _ }

Military operations in Spain have sus» | pended on account of the winter.

Prince Gortschakoff, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, is visiting at Berlin, Russia has sent orders for the completion of her fortreses on the

frontier.

Tuz Kineston Erection.—The election has been declared void. Sir John Mae- Donald is to pay all costs, but is not diss qualified for re-election.

The ‘ Died by

| Helcur or tne Human Sprcms.—M. Si]- | berman shows the average height of the male and female population of France, taken in acertain position which he names the * geometric’ is 1,600040 metres, or 2 metres ifin the same position the hands are comefortably extended over the head. Two individuals laid lengthwise, with fing- ers touching, would thus measure 4 metres, and this he terms the base of the harmonize proportions of the humanrace, Thus the harmonic base is four times 1 meter, just as the meridian is four times 10,000 GUO metres, and the relation of the two integers is as | to 10,000,000. From these consid- erations he draws proof of the equality of the sexes as they exhibit woman not asa complement to the male portion of the race, but constituting

The Chiliean Consulate at Morndloza, Ar- | gentine States, has been insulted, end the Consul himseif arrested, on account of that official's alleged sympathy with the insurg- ents.

The German Reichstag having come to | a conclusion with regard to standing orders | contrary to the views of the President, that ; officer immediately resigned the Presis dency.

The infantson of the Duke of Edinburgh was baptized at Buckingham Palace on Monday last. The Queen, the Empress of

Russia, the Prince and Prineess of Wales, } ~. se porenly oe hy tn Caapavitt Gnd ths thread elee Aleaie right half of the human family. M, Silber. were present. man arrives at the conclusion, as the result , | Of his various investigations and studies,

Meavy storms of rain have swept the | that the average height of the humen race

eastern part of Cuba, badly damaging the railroads. ‘The sugar cane all over the country is levelled. ‘The towns of Sanna and T'anamo, on the north coast, are flooded, catt’'e goods and houses swept away, and some loss of life reported.

Kingston, Jamacia,adyices of the 6th inst., state that there are sixteen small wrecks in Kingston harbor, and a few larger ones in Port Maril and St. Ann’s Bay. The towns of Portland, St. Mary’s and St. Ann’s have suffered severely, and all telegraph lines were blown down by the gale of the Ist inst.

Norewortuy. -In our shipping list this week every date begins with a steamer,both in the arrivals and clesrences—a circum- stance that has not before happened in our experience of Pictou shipping list. From Nov. 9ta to ISth twenty-three steamers arrived at and sailed from Pictou.—- Easfern Chronicle.

| has remained unchanged since the Chal- | dean epoch 4,000 years ago. Bexerit oF Narrow Gaver Ramways.— | Whatever railroad men maythink about the comparative advantages of the ordinary and | narrow gauge tracks exclusively for general business on great routes of travel there is no doubt that roads built on the narrow guage principle can be used to great protit in new and in mountainous regions where it would not pay to build roads on the old plan. The Nontery and Salinas City Rails road in California affords an excellent jl- lustration of this fact. The farmers along the line built the road themselves and put it in operation. They had previously made calculations from which they learned that the people who would be accommodated by it were paying $330,000 per annum for the transportation of their crops to tide water. They ascertained that for less than this sum they could build an narrow gauge road from Relies of the Prince Albert, the ship sent the Salinas plains to Montery, a distance of out by Lady Franklin, has just been brought | 184 miles; together with a wharf at Montery home by a whaling vessel from the Artic | 42d suitably warehouses. The result of regions. They included a record which their enterprise is that they get their grain was placed in a canister and left by Capt. | carried to tide water for $2.25 per ton in« Kennedy in August, 1852, stating that he | Stead of paying $5.50 as they had been had been in winter quarters since the pre- | doing, which isa saving to them of $195,- vious autumn, and that the ice had then | 0.0 the first year of the road’s existence. broken up and liberated his vessel. The experience of these Californian farm- Recar Covurrssy.—Edmund Yates’ paper, ers proves that under favorable conditions the London World, has taken to teaching | 2 24tTOw gauge road can be, and has been Queen Victoria good manners apropos of built and i ay for less money than Her Majesty's alleged inattention to the would have een paid by the people of the visiting Empress of Russia. The relations district through which it runs for freight between the Queenand her guest, are be: alone ina single _— ginning to excite unpleasant remarks and | ne vote in the city of New York returns and indeed the recent marriage is almost | ed Republican member to the assembly, univereally recognised asa most unfortun- | Which made a majority in the Legislature of ate mistake. The Empress had been in that state for Thomas Jetlerson, and gave London for several weeks, and nobody, | him the vote of New York, without which except the Duke of Edinburgh. has taken | he could not have beenelected. The whole any notice of her, yet this is her first visit | policy of the United States during the Jeff.

| but trifling danger from the cold, if left | upon its stand. But there are frequently | weak swarms, that have not secured suf. | ficient winter stores, that we desire to save, las there is darger of their starvation. | Others perhaps save so constructed their combs that they may not be able to change their position in the depth of winter, to re- | move from the emptied combs to those fil- led with honey, and so perish with abund- |ant stores in their hive, but out of their reach,

To guard against this last evil, Mr. Lang- stroth recommends the cutting ofa hole |

to England. erson and Madison administrations, a period of sixteen years, hung on that vote. One vote elected Marcus Moreton governor of Massachusetts,in an aggregate popular vote of nearly 100,000. One vote elected William Allen, in the Chillichote district, to Congress in 1834, and one vote subsequently made him United States Senator for six years afterwards. The following case of the kind is still more remarkable; In 1830, Dan Stone, of Cincinnati, was a candidate for the State Legislature. Walking up the Main Street on the morning of tie election, he overtook an acquaintance going to the polls,

An Englishman named George Worthy, who died last October at Mazatlan, Mexico, | where he kept a notorious den, confessed to the American Consul just before his death that he had committed fourteen murders. The first was that of the mate of the American ship Cultilator at Liver- | pool in 1854. The rest were committed in the United States and this country, four near Toronto, one at Oswego, three at Chicago two at New York and three at the South. He died from wounds received at

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| in wintering my bees in a cellar, where light | and frost were excluded, and should prefer

|a full supply of stores for winter. | few experiments [ have made, I have found

| access at all times, all had free upward ven- | tilation and any needed supply of feed, and | always come out strong in the spring. | | have found no trouble in feeding them in being supplied by her aunt and cousir, be} empty comb laid upon the bars, with the ‘hed arrived at the conclusion thet, in some | feed turned upon the comb.

about an inch in diameter in the centre of each comb, about one-third down from the top. In a note, he tells us of a process | adopted by Mr. ‘Vm. W. Cary. ‘He makes | n hole in the side of the hive (which, when | not in use, is covered with a button or plug) through which he slowly works an instru-

I have found a! round stick half or threesfourths of an inch

able for this purpose as the butter tryer, and the bees wil. clean oif the honey if left within their reach. [have succeeded best |

it to any way, in my knowledge, for weak | swarms especial y, and those that have not In the

no other way quite as satisfactory. With a feeder to which they could have

After a few |

times of feeding, they would come as |

i | readily and quietly as pigs to their feed, | But how to ascertain thie, end | without quarreling with each other or with make his conviction certiaty, wasadilliculty | their feeder.

The cellar should be dark. A candle will not disturb them when they | are to be fed. I have found “sugar,” or sugar from the bottom of a syrup barrel, or | a molasses hogshead, reduced by water boil

that she, or any ons favored by her, nad | ed and skimmed, either of them, to answer

been the robber; and yet the more he thought, the more he pondered upon Kate's

a valuable purpose for feeding the bees | have prepared for my own use a feeder, in which I can give nearly a quart of the

persevering refusal to dwell uron her cousi«’s | syrup at one time, and by placing it upon

last hours,—*he who so leved to make her | the frames or bars ofa hive it can be enter- | ed from between the bars, and serves for a

life and precepts at cther times the subjects of continual cenversation,—‘he more certain | Maurice felt thet the mystery wos persisted in for Mary's sake, and noi for Kate’e.

And to maks this clezr, Maurice Da Val, from whese purposes, right or wrong, no-

thing was ever allowed to turn him, watched |

and waited, treasuring up stray words and mortels of information, until he obtained sufficient to work upon; and then, withoat giving him the slizhtest clue to hs reason for wishing it, the young man went to a cele» brated criminal lawyer, and directed him to trace back fcr ten years ths career of James M‘Evoy, who had just been tried and acquit~ ted at the Uld Builey.

* Let me have al! the information it is pos» sible to gain, not only of the man’s own hiss tory, but of any unusual circumstances con- nected with any persons with whem be has been associated. I fancy that at one time he was in Scotlani; I wish to know where, and with whom, acd in what capacity be

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It will be an expensive investigation, of course ; but for that 1 am prepared, your costs excsed this chequs, let ms know; there is my address. something within a week, and if money is not spared, but applied liberal'y in propir quarters, there can be no doubt that | shall be gratified. Only tell your men, Mr, Col-

delay. business takes me to do, bat the celerity and perfectness with which it is done, that wil reconcile me to heavy payments.’

‘Thav'sa man of business,’ thought the

ing his client out, ‘and knows the worid, avd what is is that rules it. Ah, if people

their business well doue, they must pay weil. what a great deal less grumbling the e would

be. They pay an educated man like a shoe-—

black, and then wonder if he works like one, Here, Evans, he eaid loudly, ‘go d wa to Bow Street, and briog one of the runners here. The oldest and sharpest fellow you can get,—Southern, if he is the:e; a.d lose ro time.’

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There was a rumor in the city last night to the eflect that Mr. Letelher de St. Just | was about to retire from the Government to accept the office of Collector of Customs at Quebec, and that his place in the Cabi- net was to be filled by Mr. Cauchon. What- ever truth there may be in the former | statement, we cannot believe that Mr. Mac~ kenzie would so outrage public sentiment | as to offera seat in the Cabinet to Mr. Cau- | chon.

Mr. Sraxtey Hearp From,~—The New | York Herald has a despatch from London | dated November I6th, which states that advices have been received from Mr. H. M. Stanley, the J/7erald Commissioner in | Africa, from Zanzibar, dated October 19, | which states that he had surveyed the delta | of the Rufigi River, and had found two na- | vigable mouths and distinct channels into | the interior of Africa, The route of the slave | trade crosses this river. The result of the exploration suggests means of effectually | crushing the slave traflic, a steel gun and a few marines stationed | along the river would easly accomplish work. Mr. Stanley while ascending river gathered valuable information established a trading station for the

I shall hops to bear | change of goods and native produce, oil,

gums, and drugs.

Engilshmen, as a rule, donot we are afraid, take very kindly to education. they do not, at least, show that hungry

| craving for it which educational reformers ville, that I pay better for expedition than | hope they will eventually show. It will not be the length of time my | do they like being compelled to go to school

| yet compelled they will all eventually be. | | Tne lash has already been applied, with | judgment but with firmness ; and the re- |

suit is satisfactory, At recent meeting of the London School Board, Sir Charles Reed,