Miscellaneous Extracts.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1819, 12 April 1886, Page 3

Miscellaneous Extracts.

THE "THREE At. RES AND A COW” DISAPPOINTMENT. A correspon Lnt, in sen ling to lire Hampshire Advertisers copy ot tne su;.j j.ned letters states that he nas seen the oncmals. which were sent to Mr Pearce and Mr Knapp srCo were active agents at Pawley f r H impas at the late election i r New forest D. vision at Hampshire. The subjoined letter wg-i sent to Mr Pearce —Mister Peace—Sir—We has w.ited a mouth sin Lection to bear from Mr Bompass about kow and dree akres of land but has heard nothing so I gics.you notis i shall claim dree akers round your chappel, 2 akers from wood at back side of Chappel, and one in front of vern and vuzen. 1 shall want Chappel for kow. you must get it ready, you can pitch it with the flat stones round Chappel, and make me a taht to clap in hay and vuzzen. You has 110 kow se I told W. Nap I must have hisn. Nap and you were hacung for Bumpass, and we looks to you to see us righted, if you dunt get this land and Cow we will never wote for a Raddikle agen. No not if 1 nose it.— Signed E. W—. ’ The following letter was sent to Mr W. Knapp Wiinmn Nap- 1 gies ye notis that 1 claims your cow.

TIMES REVENGES, In the year 11132 their lived in the ancient town of Canterbury (Conn) a young Quaker school mistress named Prudence Crandall. She was the proprietor and principal of a selectschool foryoung ladies. Sheadmitted to her school a nright young colored girl who was anxious to obtain an education in order that she might teach her own race. This act roused the town. It was an outrage that could not be tolerated. The first step was the withdrawal of every white child from the school. Then Miss Crandall changed her school to one for colored chil dren only. An indignation meeting was held •t which her frienls were not allowed to speak on her behalf. The young Quakeress true to her conviction of du,v, persevered in her plan, and her school rapidly filled up Then social prosecution and ostracism were resorted to, without avail. The indignant whiles then went to the State Legislature, and obtained the passage of a law making it a crime for any person to open a school for colored children without the consent of the select men of the town where the school was to ;be located. Under this law this brave hearted school mistress was tried, found guilty, refused bail, was sent to goal, and placed in the cell of a murderer. Her \ fnenda carried her case on appeal to a : higher court, and the bill of indictment ! was finally quashed on an informality. The I brave woman immediately re opened her i school. Her cowardly prosecu'ors then tried to burn her house down, and failing in that ! gathered in one night in September, 1534. i smashed her doors and windows, and made i her dwelling untenable Under the advice j of friends she discontinued her work at that I place. I

The newspapers have uncovered this ! history, and the fact that this brave woman i is still living in Kansas, eking out an 1 uncertain existence on a rented farm. The ' town of Cacterbuiy (Connecticut! is now awakened. The sons and daughters of her former pr. sectitr rs Law- i;r, ud in a petition to the Lego...lure, setting *orth that this woman standi, up. .a li.e i uu;i a-cor,ls as a convict for .he olitt.ee of t-ading L here 1 girls to read and write, and tiiat sb. has suffered outrage in prison and f ng <-rtv for a work of ben-v. lence in which, to their great honor, the Government of the State are now 1 engaged. Tho memorialists asked tnat tho rec.vrd of the Court be expunged ; that Miss Crandall be honored, and provided for in her o'd age by a pension of at least 400 dollars per annum, The people of Canterbury are doing their best for the immediate relief and honor of their former towswoman. Who will say that the mission of this woman's iife was in vain ? She has lived to be recognised, and her moral heroism is Dow vindicated. AN OLD SOLDIER. The Taranaki Herald is re-ponsible for the following ;—( tne of our country 5 noble defenders appeared at the review yesterday decorated with a si ver medal, and in one of the evolutions performed bv his comrades. The commanding officer noticing this, expressed his surprise to the man that he, an old array man, who had seen active service as evidenced by his medal, should have forgotten his drid. and was met with the reply that he had not'been in «ny army. " How, then do you come to wear a medal asked the officer ;•• Oh,” replied the private. “Our old siw won that medal at the Agricultural Show, and I dida t see wny I shouldn't wear it. ' HOP BITTERS. In a recent number of the Medical Bulletin the following statement occurs : The writer recently purchased samples of four of tlie most widely advertised Bitten in the market and the chemical analysis to which they were subjected showed that they contained about thirty per cent (the amount tbe government allows) of the most poiwv.m and adulterated alcohol, and that the residue consisted tof various foreign substanc.-s which were simply added as flavouring extracts to disguise the taste of the origin a compound. The value which such so ca.led Bitten are supposed to have is of a purely fictitious character. ’ THE TOOTH DRAWER. The extraordinary mode of advertising in San Francisco has often been touched upon by me (says Silver Pen in New Zealand Herald) but the strangest freak of all is that of a ‘ Tooth \ankee,' as he is callei in thr vernacular. A few weeks ago this it.nera;.: dent,at set up or rather, pitene 1 h:s tent, i n the old circa- ground The tent lar ■ enough thv.li 12 pc .pig, ud.o are admitted free There is ft enb-riainm-ut a concert, to beg,a v.ith. a ventr.ioq i;-.t and "’.her nov-.ltr.-s Then the ban 1 stn-e----up, an! the t-io’ii.iraw.iig commence-, I must inform y m that daring the day an etiMtm.iUi wag.* -n, 'ir.v.vn ov s.x ga.iv caparnonei horses, p irales the town. The bind is -eated therein, and placing every afternoon an! evening. Tv; w .gg n drawn into tbe tent the hj uses unyoked, and mansicur procc* Is to puli teeth, winch he does painU-vslv, Tne Lio.vis wh . alien 1 have 4, 5, and f, t-elh taken .. it at one t me withou- wtnctng I: he _.. , lo anvor.e 1, . p- . ; , r „ , I think he m ; ; , : ~r . tr.city ;at anv 1 ■ th>a • . . -,, ,;. :n . to annul pain At ....at t.,,. a r ,. an i- .ectnc Itgit’ n the . . . ..tre . • i:) , heal, in or f-r 1 - .1 ~vn t ;,- ' IM ~ ‘ he nev-’r ~ ; t ,th tnat , n, '\n:rs Ite r.t u < (!■ • m mev 1, be ; -’ 1 ' fc- d ■ 'Ta» Woadß.f.,; ~, . for iv-p,! ~;. w1.,.1. is -o etiicactoiis tbit hiv 5.1,'4 a;■ latto O~) dollars per dav. or over ( 120. His expenses are /20 a dav, and tho £io.j is c nr [o .nt. COLONIAL RIFf.E TEAM FOR ENGLAND Another effort, says the Melbourne Dat’v Telegraph, is about to be made to send an Australian team of Riflemen home to comK' te uU 006 " f ,he laurels be gained at ,A‘ » meeting of the Victorian Rifle Assoc'abon held at Port Phillip Club Hotel 00 the 17th ultimo, it was decided, on Ute motion of Major Wood*, to ask the Associations of New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland and Tasmania, to •scwtain if their Governments would be wiiliog to contribute towards sending a team Ot twelve men to England to take part in nfle matches to be held at Wimbleton in July not, and also to ask how many men •ach of the colonies would be prepared to •cad in conjunction with Victoria.