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Editorial Miscellany. 



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.UlUMX is once more with us, the sweetest 

 as well as the saddest season of the year. 

 Insidiously it has crept from out summer's 

 more torrid glow. The flowers are fast 

 t tding, and trees are preparing for bleak 

 y NJ winds that make them sigh for the beauti- 

 ful robes they have shed. Jack Frost 

 has already in some localities kissed the 

 -^s^ ~ fic^hness from nature's cheek. The plen- 

 ^/^^''-O tifiil harvest that has been gainered the 

 •c ^'"/v^-c:^^-^'*^, past season will go far to conciliate us 

 ^^% "^ ^ ^ W^for the desecration of our flower beds 

 ^^" , ' p^ bv autumnal blasts. Contemporaneous 



U^ 'publications teem with glowing ac- 

 J^*--"^ counts from north, south, east and 

 ,^^T- west. We have grain enough for 

 ^^ /''' ' domestic consumption, and to spare 

 for the requirements of other nations who 

 C h's\e not been blessed with a similar abun- 

 dance. N'o more doleful faces about hard 

 times : by the way, it's high time the baker's attenuated skeleton of a 

 "loaf" became more plethoric iu its appearance. The butcher, too, can 

 afford to relent somewhat in his demands for choice cuts. Potatoes at 

 fifteen cents per bushel — good ones, too. Dost smile, reader? To be 

 sure you do. Providence has smiled since warm spring breezes erst oped 

 the violet's bud. Money is getting easy, but as yet it's a secret, and we 

 make the disclosure in confidence. Some alarm has been experienced 

 respecting the sugar crop. Thank Heaven \ sugar is not the staple of 

 life ; so we'll not fret about such a trifle. Now, good reader, if you 

 could just step into our Washington Market some morning before the 

 sun has chased the dew from the house tops, your vision would be 

 r'.'joiccd with views of peaches — and such peaches ! (we arc writing in 

 October) apparently emulous to rival pumpkins in size : really, peaches 

 have gotten quite beyond their limit. " Gentlemen, take your choice. 



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