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Sl)C jTarmtr'g jHontljlg JHsttor. 



into the Duciiess's room, and, taking her in his 

 arms raised her to the sofa— a iiiaiiuvcere wliich 

 wai afurwarcls ascribed to the design of obta.a- 

 ing the means ol" explaining tlie hlood on his vest- 

 ments and person. The police and medical as- 

 sistance soon arrived, hut the hitter was too late 

 to be useful : the Duchess speedily expired, not 

 from any wound absolutely mortal, but trom haj- 

 inorhaf;«- 'I'lie magistrates came one by one, 

 includmg the Prociueur de Roi and the I'rocu- 

 reur General, and finally the Prefect of Police 

 and the Minister of the Interior. 



A considerable time elapsed, many inquiries 

 were raised, searches made in the garden and 

 through tne premises, belbre the slightest suspi- 

 cion tell on the Duke. According to some re- 

 ports, the impiiries addressed to the Duke were 

 not ol such a nature as to indicate the horrible sus- 

 picion entertained by the magistrates until the 

 day of the l!hh. Doubtless those functionaries 

 brooded on that suspicion long before they could 

 make up their minds to let it be perceived by 

 the Duke. At length, however, the question of 

 Procureur General assumed an unequivocal shape 

 and the Duke saw the point to which they were 

 addressed. He Is reported to have become as 

 pale as a corpse, and to have betrayed in his per- 

 son and manner the profound agitation which he 

 felt. He retired to his room, the authorities not 

 yet deciding to place him under arrest, or to 

 treat him in any respect as an accused person. 

 It was at this moment that he is supposed to 

 have swallowed a large dose of arsenic. 



The medical enquiries subsequently instituted 

 show that the etiects produced by this poison 

 are so nearly identical with those of cholera as 

 to be tiiidisiinguishable. In the hrst instance, 

 the medical men in attendance are admitted to 

 have been betrayed into an error by this circum- 

 stance, and to have ascribed the prostration, vom- 

 itings, and other symptoms exhibited by the 

 Duke, to cholera, brought on by the high state of 

 mental excitement consequent on the catastro- 

 phe. On the morning of the 21st, between four 

 and five o'clock, the l)iiku was removed to the 

 prison of llie Luxembourg, the evidence being 

 sufficient to establish a charge of murder against 

 him. The (Jhamher of Peers was constituted 

 into a court of justice by royal ordinance, and a 

 committee appointed by it proceeded on that 

 day to examine the Duke. 



Various reasons are given by medical men for 

 the slow and intermiltiiig eflfects of the poison ; 

 but the highest authorities in the faculty agree 

 that there is nothing exceptionable in the case, 

 and that the poison might reiuain in the system 

 several days wiihotit producing death. In fine, 

 the Duke bcrame gradually worse on the 22d 

 and 23d, antl on the morning of the 84th his ap- 

 proaching dissolulion became evident, the curate 

 of the parish was called in, and the last riti'S of 

 religion were administered, and, alter an agony 

 of fifty minutes, he died at 85 minutes past 4, on 

 the afteriiuoii i.f thf '2llii. 



Tlie po(iulace highly exasperated at the atroci- 

 ty of the deed, and believing in the possibility of 

 the victim being snatched from justice tluoiigli 

 the niHuence of his wealth and rank, crouded 

 around the prison in great miinbi.'rs, and the au- 

 thorities np|ireheiidi;il that iiis remnius might 

 even be violated. Afn r his body was cxamiiied 

 by anatomists employed for the purpose, the vi- 

 cera, bniin, and other necessary parts were taken 

 nway for analysis, it was determined to inter the 

 remains in the darkness and silence of niglil. 

 The keeper of the cenielery at Mi)nnt Parnassoe 

 situated in the vicinii} of llie Lux ■mboiirg, was 

 nccordingly, oidered to cause a grave to be dug 

 in a retired part of tliiit cemetery at midnight on 

 the ySih, the grave-diiigeri being ignorant for 

 whom it was imended, the secrrt being cnn- 

 fide't o:.ly to ihe kee[ier of the place, who w;is 

 an old rclired srdclier of the l''mpiie, long aciuis- 

 tomed to strict obedience to orders. iMcanwhilc, 

 a van, acfompai.icd hy a nionrniug coach, was 

 brought into ihe garilen of the Luxembourg hy 

 u gats reiiioie Ir.im the prison, soon alicr mid- 

 nigh*. 



The chancellor, the governer of the prison, the 

 commander of the Iroups, and the cninmissaiy 

 of police, were assembled in Ihe charuher of 

 death, and formally irleiilifi>:d the nMn::iiis, which 

 were lliciii wrapped in a shct't, and di'posilcd hy 

 the employers of the imdirlakcrs in a plain oaU 

 coffin, hearing no inscription, which v\as forth- 



with introduced into the van, and folloived to the 

 cemetery fy the lour individuals above named, 

 in the coach. It arrived at the grave before two 

 o'clock, where it was dejiosited without any re- 

 ligions cerrmony, and where it lies without any 

 mark to indicate the spot. 



Thus terminated the mortal career of the rep- 

 resentative ofa long line of ancestors, holding the 

 highest rank ami enjoying the greatest affluence; 

 and so far iiom this obscure burial, consecrated 

 by no religious observance, tollovved by no 

 mourner, and unattended by a single relation or 

 friend, being considered a disgrace or stigma, the 

 surviving liimily of the deceased consider them- 

 selves only too fortunate in having escaped the 

 terrible manifestations of public execrations 

 which would have followed this enormous crim- 

 inal had he ended his day, as he must otherwise 

 have done, on the public scaffold. 



Emibration. — Rev. Mr. Goodwin, in his ad- 

 dress l)etbre the Middlesex County (Ct.) Ag. So- 

 ciety, discusses the subject of emigration. He 

 thinks " there is no necessity, as many would 

 snjipose, of emigrating to the fertile regions of 

 the West. We love to hear," he continues, " of 

 the fruitful soil in that region, and from our in- 

 most hearts we thank God that such a goodly 

 land is given us ; but with all that may be said 

 in liivor of those rich and fertile prairies, we love 

 more than these, the hills and vailiesof our own 

 New England. True.the latter require more la- 

 bor at your hands. Year by year they must be 

 enriched by you, and that perhaps in no small 

 measure; but when this is done, they will cer- 

 tainly repay you. With less abundant crops, per- 

 haps, than those in distant sections of our land, 

 you are sure to realize a much more liberal price. 

 You have here, moreover, the .society that you 

 love, — you have those around you whom you 

 have known from childhood up, and whose char- 

 acters you respect and value. You have, too, 

 schools and churches established at your hands. 

 Besides, we believe it is a mistaken idea, that so 

 much is gained, in any respect, by those who, re- 

 linquishing their birth-places ami their friends, 

 secure in the thinly settled regions of the West, 

 the possession of lands on terms which seem so 

 low. I'here are various iirifirovemenls to l)e 

 made on those lands. These improvements de- 

 mand no little additional sacrifice of time, labor 

 and capital. We believe, if this were all con- 

 sidered, it would be liiuiid that in this state, and 

 various portions of New England, there could 

 be firms obtained, with every improvement in 

 the way of walls and buildings, as reasonable as, 

 in the end, will prove the lands 1 have referred 

 to." 



Water. 



Water has had many eulogists among temper- 

 ance reformers and others ; butfev\ have spoken 

 its praises more eloquently, says the Transcript, 

 than Mayor Uuincy in his address of Saturday, 

 on the corner stone of the Reservoir. He re- 

 marked : 



" 'I'he corner-stone is laid of churches of a 

 particular faith — of monuments of past events, 

 of general, but not universal interest — of hospi- 

 tals, of whose benefits a small number only will 

 parlake — of colleges, where the Ibrtunate few 

 alone derive immediate advantage. Rut this is of 

 universal interest — there is nothing sectarian, 

 notional, nothing exclusive about it. It is mon- 

 opolized by no party in politics, or sect in reli- 

 gion. It is an equal blessing to the high and low, 

 the rich and poor, the just and the unjust. It 

 will aid the poor woman, toiling for her childreo 

 at the wash tub — it will minister to the proudest 

 beauty in the luxury of her chamber — it wiU 

 cool the fevered brow of disease, and be a cor- 

 dial to the parclied lips of the intemperate — it 

 will promote moral as well as physical well 

 being; for cleanliness, according to Whitefield, 

 stands next unto godliness. Its treasures will 

 preserve onr habitations from fire — will impel 

 the giant strength of the steam engine — will ac- 

 company our navigators to the remotest clime — 

 will dedicate the infant at the altar— will give 

 beauty to the cheek of youth— strength to the 

 arm of manhood— comfort to the decline of 

 age. Nor will the blessings be confined to man 

 — nothing that enjoys animal or vegetable life 

 will exist on this peninsula for centuries with- 

 out sharing its benefits. The gift of water, to 

 cool earth's fever and to cleanse its siains, as_ 

 a blessing is second only to the revelation of 

 that living water ' of wliich if a man drink he 

 shall never thirst.'" 



Mental improvement of Farmers. — Profess- 

 or Meachain, in his address before the Addison 

 County (Vl.) Ag. Society, observes: — " In making 

 provision for your fiimily, you should provide 

 something to read, as well as sonieiliiiig to ea>. — 

 Yon have lulle reason for congratulation in im- 

 proving land and stock, if the mind about yoii is 

 g(/uig to waste. Eviry farmer has more time in 

 the year for gaining general knowledge than any 

 prolessional man in the active pinsuil of his (no- 

 fession. But it does not depend on time so much 

 as on inclination. Webster says that 'even in 

 matters of tasle and litep'.ture, the ailvamagos of 

 a man of leisure are apt to be over-nittd. If 

 ihcre exists adciiuate means of ednriition, and 

 ihe lo\e of learning bo excited, that love will 

 finil the way to the object of desire through the 

 crowd and pressure of the most busy society.' " 



Remeoy for Croup.— Seeing fieqiient reci|)es 

 in your valuable paper, for that liilid disease, the 

 Croup, for the sake of hnmanily, I will seiulyou 

 .■mother, which has stood tln^ test for many years 

 in our neigliborbood. It is simply molasses am 

 siileratus. Ft)ra child of fiveyears, we give hall 

 a teaspoonfnl of saleratns stirred in a tahl 

 spoonful of molasses; half the quantiiy to an 

 infant. You can increase or decrease the qiiaii- 

 lily according to the age of the child. One 

 thing especially has prompted me lo send this; 

 it was the reci>lleclion of the sidVerings of twiiol 

 my grand-clnldriMi many years ago, who died 

 with ihat aufnl disease. In families subject to 

 this comphiiiit, this simple remedy will prove a 

 blessing. — Phila. Cour. 



CuLTivATio.v OF ToBACCo. — The culture of 

 tobacco in the valley of the Connecticut, has, 

 within a few years, become an olyect of consid- 

 erable importance. The variety here produced 

 is known in the market as ' Connecticut Seed- 

 L«af,' and it usually brings double the price, or 

 more, of the tobacco grown in Virginia or Ken- 

 tucky. To give a profitable crop it requires 

 pretty rich land— though the sandy soil,-, manur- 

 ed at the rate often to twenty common two- 

 horse or ox loads per acre, produce well. With 

 good management the usual yield is from 1,500 

 to 2,000 pounds per acre, of marketable tobacco, 

 ami the average price may be said to be seven to 

 eight cents per (lound. 



Mr. Sargent, of Springfield, and Messrs. 

 Wells and Paoli Lathrop, of South Hadley, 

 are considerably engaged in the tobacco culture. 

 The former had seventeen acres the past season. 

 At the above rates of yield and price, which it 

 will probably equal, it will give an average re- 

 turn of $150 to $11)0 per acre. 



With the course that is here jiursued, tobacco 

 is by no means an injurious crop to the soil ; on 

 the contrary it is found to lie an ameliorating 

 one. The liberal manuring and clean cultiva- 

 tion which it is necessary to bestow on the to- 

 bacco, fits the soil a.lmiraiily tV)r other crops; and 

 it is found that wheat and other grain and grass 

 flourish belter where tobacco (uriiis a part of the 

 rotulion, than wlu're that plant is not cultivated. 

 Messrs. Lathrop inentioncil an insumce of their 

 bavin" put $'M worth of inannre on an acre and 

 a hundred rods of land, which they planled witli 

 tobacco. They got a ton of tobaico, which sold 

 for SbiO. Then sowed the land to wheat anil 

 got 30 bushels. 'I'ho next crop was hay, and 

 gave, at two cuttings, four limf.—. Ilhany Ciillivnt. 



Preventive of Smoke.— The Pittsburg Ga- 

 zette proclaims that a means fiir the prevention 

 of smoke in liictories, f<M- which rewards were 

 olTered, has been iliscovered, and is in successful 

 operalion. It says: "The experio.enl has prov- 

 ed completely successliil, and will save in this 

 one factory twenty-live bushels of coal per day. 

 While the 'chimneys of the neiglihoiing factories 

 were yesterday vmn ling forih clouds of black 

 smoke, that darkened the almospheie of one of 

 the finest Indian Summer days we have seen, the 

 smoke picvenlive in the coiton factory we have 

 named, consumed all the particles of smoke that 

 dropped almost like rain from other poims around 

 ns." 



