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6jje ©ajette, [ n n f i n j . PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, BY Baring trery facility. In Ptaaaaa, Tyy« aas «h«r material, and the experience ot auwy yaarr In the WORTMAN & PORTER, bualneM. we are prepend to execute, IX avrxxios CTT1.X, and with uuraxcH, every deecriptfoa at Job Office, No. 5 Custom-House Block. Work, (ucn ac TERMS: Catalogues, By-Laws, Town Reports, If paid strictly In advance—per annum, $2,00 Ciroulora, BUl-He&da, Blanks, If payment is delayed 0 months 2,25 It not paid till the close of the year, 2,50 ff~7 No paper will be discontinued until ALL AR CARDS, PROGRAMMES, LABELS RKAhAuEs are paid, unless at the option of the pub­ Uawd Ulllrn Shwp B ills, T M ura, Ae. lishers. 5 7 Single copies fire oents—for sale at the office Particular attention pud to and at the bookstores. iO All letters and communications must be ad­ V OL. 23. ROCKLAND, MAINE, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1868. N O . 18. PltlNTINO IN COLOKS dressed to the Publishers. E. E. WORTMAN, JOHN B. I*ORTER. nnoxxtxo. *•. The scholars heard the news with that found herself able to speak at all, ‘you Something like a year after the tiinej But I had made up my mind to buy From our European Cor^aAponAent. gnstine’s life; the “Extasy of St. Augus­ fortrg. kind of awe with which the young hear can’t be in earnest in,wishing to marry we last looked in upon Betsey, she one of these tickets ; so, though Mary SKETCHES OF ANTWERP. tine,” by Vandyke, is greatly timed; such things and an unusual silence pre­ me. Nobody ever saw anything in me might have been seen one pleasant sighed, she said no more. I invested, and “ The Martydom of St. Apoilonia,” morning in June, in her old place there T ra d itio n o f the o r ig in o f its H is­ vailed for a time, when it was observed to love belore; how can you ?’ ( on my way down-town, Monday morn­ by Jordeans, in which the saint is having SPRING. that Betsey Morse was weeping quietly ‘You undervalue yourself greatly, with her husband, the little Levi, and ing, and thought while I was about it I tory — Streeta— Boulevard* — Chujrehra-^ “ Nimiuni ne crede.” his two sisters ; Nathan, the trusty old­ Fainting*— Belica of tho old Inquieition— her tongue and teeth pulled out by the ex­ but profusely. Will Hopkins was the was his reply. might as well buy one for Mary, and The Brewer*’ H all— Legend*. first to notice it, and it turned the cur­ The remainder of their conversation est son, having charge of the baby in one for little Tom, too. I showed them ecutioners; a powerful but repulsive pic­ Spring is coming! It uncloaea ture. The interior of the Church of the Tiny leaves on all the roses! rent of his ideas. ‘Wa’ll, I wouldn t would, perhaps, not be interesting to the roomy family carriage without.— to her when I went home to dinner at [Concluded.] Snowdrop, hyacinth,*nnd crocus? general readers, but she was not hard There was quite a time shaking hands noon. lesuits, (destroyed by lightning with its An inquiring eve can focus 1 cry, Betsey,’ said he in a mocking voice ‘you’l spoil your pretty face, and that to be convinced of bis sincerity, and with her old schoolmates alter service, ‘Not lhree! O, Tom, how could contents, iu 1718. and used as an hospi­ Nature says that spring is coining CHURCHES and paintings. And the bees will soon be humming! would be such a pity.’ ‘I don t care, by the time they had reached the .site all glad to recognize her now, and a you ?’ and she looked really grieved ; tal for English soldiers after the battle of CARPETINGS In the church of “St Jacques ” may b< said Betsey, roused for once to defend of the old school-house, where she had great crowding round the carriage by while I, thinking it a pity it I must ac­ Waterloo, in 1815) well sustains the char­ Spring is coming! By degrees seen twenty-two magnificent chapels. In Rise the rows of early peas! herself, ‘he was good to me, any how.’ suffered martyrdom so many times in the yonng mothers to get a sight of the count for every penny I spent, assumed acter of Antwerp churches for magnifi­ Spring is coming sure and steady— baby. the dignified air which the occasion the sixteenth century each of these chap ‘Better dry up though,’ pursued her tor­ her childhood, she was engaged. The cence. Its stall and confessionals are of DIRECT FROM NEW YORK, Slugs and snails have come already 11 old structure had been removed and a Among them were Sarah Brewer, the seemed to demand, and the meal passed els belonged to some wealthy Antwerp Nature says that Spring’s approaching, mentor, ‘taint likely he’d ever looked carved oak, and are nearly equal to St. On the Winter’s steps encroaching! at you if he’d lived to get married. new building, of neat aud attractive cousiu of Mortimer Bliss, now the wife in silence. I went home at night to tumily. and there was a sharp rivalan Paul. The subject of the carved oak pul­ Betsey disdained to reply.—Pretty Ma­ appearance, erected in its stead. In of a wealthy farmer living a short dis­ find her sewing as usual. My con­ between these magnifleoes as to which Spring is coming! Elm and chestnut— pit is the “ Virgin and the Dragon. ” It .Horse, of course, and not the best nut— rie Blair, who sat not far off and who the new joy that filled Betsey’s heart, tance from the town, anil Maria Blair, science gave an uncomfortable twinge should have their respective chapel tin- O pening- tliis 3Z>ay, Put forth buds; and larches slender nas a splendid high altar with a grand smiled to encourage Will in his attacks she mentally compared the change in who bad been for many years the wife as she looked up pleasantly, and then most richly adorned and ornamented Wear a green that’s fresh and tender! of Will Hopkins, Esq., a lawyer and turned to the great basket of work. 11 painting by Schut, “ The Invocation of Nature says that Spring is nearing, on Betsey, did not dream that she was the place to the change that had begun l’he most remarkable of these chapels i, Soon the cuckoo you’ll he hearing? encouraging the very disposition which in her life. Her old solitary unloved politician in a small way, living in the she only had a sewing machine! Per­ the Virgin.” Here are two extremely fine that which belonged to the Rubens lami- would one day, when exercised towards life seemed passing away, and a new Centre. haps I should draw one; and I grew side chapels, all in marble, the walls of Spring is coming! From their sleeping ■y, and in which the ashes of the illus­ Bus’s the tulips now are peeping! herself, make her a pining, unhappy and brighter existence opened before The two old schoolmates were inti­ quite happy over the thought, imagin­ which are covered with sculptures and Birds are singing, blithely wringing, wife. her. She really began to think herself mate yet, and walked homeward to­ ing her surprise when I sent it home trious painter are deposited. The tomb Simonton Brothers. ’Mill the swinging branelies clinging I paintings; indeed, for richness’and varity Rockland, March 17,1808. 14t Nature says that Spring is near us— Had Betsey been of a sensitive na­ of some consequence in the world, af­ gether. unexpectedly. She would not think me of Rubens is covered by a slab of white •»f orntvraent ar<a t x . unwise then in having bought the tick­ That’s a prospect which could cheer us I ture, she would have been soured by ter all. The respect and confidence ‘Won’t you come in?’ asked Mrs. marble let into the pavement before The elegant facade of this church, de­ which her future husband showed her, Hopkins, pausing as she reached her ets. the altar. In 1793 every other torol Spring is coining! But how pleasing her experience at school; but nature, signed by Rubens, affords another of the Promises may end in freezing. in depriving Iter of her beauty, had inspired her with a new feeling—confi­ own door, ‘and wait until the children Little Tom interrupted my reverie in the church was broken open and pil­ nyriad proofs of the wonderful and most NEW TAILORING All the buds and blooms are lost, kindly seemed to withold the sensibility dence in herself. come home home from Sabbath school?’ with— ‘O, father! old Susan, who used laged by the revolutionary French, thb May or A|iril bringing frost, versatile genius of the prince of colorists, Nature cries that Spring is coming, that would otherwise have cost her much The time that intervened between the Mr. Wilson assented, nnd on entering to work for us, has been here to-day. tomb alone was spared. The altar piect She has burned her hand so she can't fhe Museum consists of three large But experience says she humming. suffering. She became a tolerable schol­ engagement aud the wedding wa9 a they were soon joined by the master. in this chapel, painted by Rnbens, is con­ —London Fun. ar, and although at the age of eighteen, season of quiet but intense happiness ‘IIow well Betsey Bronson does look,’ do anything.

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