qt pui4 fur u Uceuae, to grunt iho |)^l»piet^f of jia U^itkuStAtk* Hotel tb.o p^vjio^o » of tfmptjjig vpjijig moil to Jo t| thank, and iij abnjjeqdoiiqe thereof tp lio<*u9o qi iuiinaJn v Whjit right Stuttj to tempt tho rhdng gciH-rutiop 5 to become druukurdB ? What tt^tno authorize anyone to »cll , or give ana n o or prusaic acid to one lie knowa'will be injured by the poisons ? if as tlio State the right to grant a license to do ho v; because it put* money in tliepublic purse? AVe punish the defaulter to the Government who has stolen or embezzled the public money of which lie was the custodian. Is it apy natter or more wicked to st^ai from^he Government thun for tho Government to rob the citizen of his health) his money, and his rcpututioU) by the license privilege which does all those und much more ? Hud the Government a right tlu'Qtigh its legalized emissaries to ruin this poor widow's son and brcuk her heart for the purpose of iltcieasing the public revenue ? Is the legal muxiin true ; "Actus legis nemiiii fucit injnruim".["TiiE,ACT or law i». ncwumrcitTTtJ SO <»NK,TT] V No, it is not true ; it is u specious lie, und will bo so long as the license law disgraces our statute book.

[CpXCLirOED NEXT WEEK.] The First Man . Some repairs were needed to tho ei • giue when the train reached Reno, and while most of the passengers were' tukjug a philosophical view of Hie delay and making themselves as comfortable as po»sil>le in the depot, in walked a native. lie wasn't a native Indiun, nor a native grizzly, hut a native Neva- * diap,,and he was rigged out in imperial style, lie wore a bearskin coat and cup, buckskin leggins and moccasins, and in liis belt was a big knife and two revolvers. Tliero was lightning in his eye, destruction in his walk, and as he sauntered up to tho red hot stove and scattered tobacco juice over it, a dozen passengers looked pale with fear. Among the traveler* was a cur-painter from Jersey City and after surveying the native for a moment, he coolly inquired : "Aren't you afraid prnTl fall down and liurtr yourself with those weapons?" "W — what !" gasped tho native in astonishment. "I suppose they sell such outfits ns you've got on at auction out here, don't they?" continued the painter. "W — what d'ye mean — who ur' ye ?" whispered tho native as ho walked "My name is Logwood," was the calm ; reply, "and I mean that, if I wore you, I'd crawl out of those old duds and put on some decent clothes." "Don't talk that way to me, or you won't live a minit I" exclaimed tho native as ho hopped around. "Why, you 1 homesick coyote, I'm Grizzly Dan, the ] heaviest Indian fighter in the world ! ' 1 was the first man to scout for Gen. Crook 1 I was tho first white man among the Modocs !" "1 don't believe it !" flatly replied the painter, "You look more (ike the first white man down to the dinner table 1" The native drew his knife, put it back i.^i..ii,nnniuti «•.... *«•»%, «...«, »»i«n cviu y said : "Stranger, will ye come over behitjd the ridge and shoot ami slash till this thing is settled 7" "You bet 1 will 1" replied tho man from Jersey, as he rose up. "Just pace right out and I'll follow!" livery man in the room jumped to his feel in wild excitement. The nn- ! live started for the hack door, hut when j he found the euv-pniiiter at his heels, J with a six barreled Colt in his hand, lie | halted and said : "Friend, come to think of it, i don't I won't to kill von and have your widow conic on mo for damages.*' "Go right ahead — I'm not a married man !" replied the painter. ••But you're got relatives, and I don't want no lmrarnts to bother mo Just a* spring is coming." "I'm an orphan, without a relative in the world 1" shouted the Jersey itc, "Well, tho law will make nte bury you, and it would he a week's work to dig a grave at this season of the vear. I think I'll break a rib or two for you, smash your nose, gouge out your left aye, ami let it go at that 1" "That suits me to a dot !".wiid the painter. "Gentlemen, pie use stand hack, and some of you shut the door to ! the Indies room I" "1 was the first man to attnok n grizzly hear with the bowie knife," remark- ! e I the native as he looked around, "1 I was tho first man to discover silver in 1 Nevada, I made tho first scout up Powder River, I was the first man to make j hunting-shirts out or the skins of Pawnee Indians. I don't want to hurt this man, n* he seems kinder sad and downhearted, but ho must apologize to me," "I'lvon't do it I" 'cried the painter. •Mentlhnif-n, I never fight without j taking off my coat, and 1 don't see any ' nail hole to hang It »»n," said the native, j

'•I'll hold Til hold it J"; shouted u dot on jrojeoH in Qhyifffif ; i "Ami unother thing," softly continued tin- native. "I never fight in a hot room, r used to do it yeanr ago, but I found It was running me .into, con* sumption. I always do my' fighting out . doors now," "I'll go out with you', yon old rabbit killer 1" exciuiujc.d tho painter, who hud his coat off, •That's ui-oiher deadly insult, to be wipyd out i n blood, und 1 see I must finish you. I novor fight arouud u depot, though. I go qut on tho prairie, where there hi a chance to throw toy' self." "Where's your prairie, lead the way I" howled the crowd. "It wouldn't do any gqod," replied j the native, as he leaned against the wall. "1 always bold , a $10 gold piece in my mouth when I fight, and [ haven't got olio to-day, -^ip fact. I'm dead broke." "Here's u gold pleco I" called a tall man, holding up the metal. "1'in a thousand times oblccgod," mournfully, replied the native, shaking j hi» lieud. "I never go iuto fight without putting red paint on my left ear for luck ; und I haven't any red paint by me, und there isn't a bit in Reno." "Arc — you — going — to — fight ?" demanded the ear-painter reaching out for the bear-skin cap. "I took a solemn oath when a boy never to fight without painting my left i ear," protested the Indian-killer. "You j wouldn't want me to go back on* my j solemn oath, would you I" "You're a cabbage, a squash, a pumpkin, dressed up in leggings!" contemptuously remarked the cmvjjuintcr, as he put on his coat. "Ye's he's a great coward," remarked several others as they turned away. "I'll give $10,000 for ten drops of red paint !" shrieked tho native. "Oh ! why Is it that 1 have no paint for my ear when here is such a chance to go in and kill I" A big blacksmith from Illinois took . him by the neck and run him out, -and lie' 'was seen no more for an hour. Just before the train started, and after all the passenger* had taken their scats, the "first man" was seen on the plat form. He had got another bowie-knife, and he had also put a tomahawk in his belt. There was red paint on his left ear, his eyes rolled, and, in a terrible voicS, he called out : "Where is tho man Logwood ! Let him come out and meet his doom I" "Is that yon ? Count me in !" roared

l the car^dainjcr..ji.s lm oiyuiftl a* witulnw lie rushed for the door, leaped down, and was pulling of his overcoat again, when the native began to retreat, calling out : "I'll get my hair cut and bo back here in seventeen seconds. 1 never fight with long hair. I promised my ! dying mother not to." When the train rolled away lie was . : seen flourishing his tomahawk around j his head in the wildest manner. — N. Y. Sl'N. ■ — ■ ■■ Premonitions of Autumn . . Tliero was no other sound except the ! song of the cricket, which is but an audible stillness; Tor though it ho very i loud, and hoard afar, yet in mind docs ! not mUKe lioiu or il us u- mnum, m» -t'li* 1 i tirely does it mingle and lose its individuality among the other characteristics of coming autumn. Alas for tho summer 1 Tho grass is still verdant on the bills and in the valleys, tho foliage i of the trees is as dense as over, nnd as ) green : the flowers are abundant along I tho margin of tho river, and on the I " ' hedge rows, und deep among the woods; . the days, too, are as fervid as tliey were , a month ago, nnd yet in every breath of wind nnd every beam of sunshine there is an autumnal influence. J know not ; how to describe it. Methinks there is a sort of coolness ntnid all the heat , and a mildness in the brightest of the sunI shine. A breeze cannot stir without j i thrilling me with the breath of autumn, and I behold its pensive glory in the far i golden gleams among tho shadows of the ' trees. The flowers, even the brightest ' of them — the golden rods and the gor- j geous cardinals — the most glorious flow- ! era of tho year — have this gentle sadness amid their pomp. Tensive autumn is expressed in the glow of every one of thom. I have felt this influence earlier in some years than in others. •Sometimes autumn may he perceived in the early clays of July. There is no other feeling like that caused by this laint, doubtful, yet real perception, or rather prophecy, of tho year's decay, so I deliriously swoet and sad at tin* same | | time. — -Nathaniel Hawthorne, Return of Partridges , ii i ■ i ■ ■■ ■ A number of persons who are dose oh- i servers of the habits of birds have care- , fully watched tho conduct of sparrows 1 which return every year to feed in tho haunts of settled localities, are now pay- , ing attention to the appearance of flocks j of pnrtridges which, are multiplying I very rapidly. As a rule, these birds seek their old feeding ground, ami domicile where they assume to have a i

pre-emptive right. Within a few day* two flocks of partridge# liave come to tho grounds btirronnding Dr. Porter's residence on Front-street, above Holly. These flocks number 20 and 12 reepeotivoly, and evidently corisciouu of icing oh ground where they liavo been accustomed to receiving regular con- ' I tribution* of food, it being the custom of the Doctor to feed the birds on his i premises regularly. Each flock occupies separate localitcs, and they never ep* ! crouch on one unother. They urppoach tho feeding ground separately, und meet ; in council in different parts of the J ground, t litis preserving their trilml re- j lations separate and distinct. Dr. Tor- ! tor has Served a notice on the gunners who prowl in his neighborhood that any infraction of the game laws Iry attacks on tho partridges will bo retaliated by tho infliction of all the penalties provided in the statute for such conduct.— HAURISIII/KC TKLKOUAI'U. » • • • A Woman's Ingenuity . A Dublin chambermaid is said to have got twelve commercial travellers j into eleven bedrooms, and yet to have gWcii each a separate room, llero we have th.e eleven separate bedroom* : iTiTiTr4iTrrr7T«m idhh "Now," says alio, "if two of you gentlemen will go into Nv>. 1 bedroom and wait a few minutes I'll find a spare room for you as soon as I have shown the others to their rooms." Well, now, | having thus bestowed two gentlemen in No. I, she puts the third in Nj.2, the j fourth in No. 3, the fifth in No. 4, the sixth in No. 5, the .sQventh in N >. 6, th * eighth in No. 7, tlu ninth in X ). 8, the tenth in No. 0, the eloventh in No. 10. .She then came back to No. 1, where you will renumber she had left tho twelfth gentleman alone with the first, and said, "I've accommodated all the rest ami have still a room to spare, so if one of you will step into No. 11 you will find it empty..v Tbu» the twelfth man got his bedroom. Of course there is a hole in the saucepan somewhere, hut we leave the reader to determine exactly where the fallacy Js, with just a warning to think twice before declaring as to which, if any, of the travellers was tho "odd man out." — Zanksvili.k j Col/ in Bit. - A A » 4 I

Trifles. — Longfellow is so good-natured that lie somet imes allows himself to be bored. He relates that a person who visited him recently — a regular talking-mn-eliine — exclaimed with impressive earnestness : "Sir, every night of my »•-*- I - — — «? .. . \ -J — In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. All the other passions do occasional good, wherever J prido - puts in its word, everything goes wrong, und what might be desirable to do quietly and innocently, it is -morally dangerous to do proudly. — Itrskin. — The London Bl'Jldkk recommends : to people who plant trees to mark the north side of each tree with chalk be- • • N I fore it is taken up, and replace it in its natural position. A larger proportion will then live, as, in ignoring this law ! of nature, transplanted trees will goner- : ally perish, i — file Bull was one of the strongest J men In the world. Many years ago ««« was on a M ississippi boat, -when two Western A nnks fancied .that thoy might while away the tedium of the voyI age by annoying him;* For some time | lie bore this patiently, but as his request j to ho left alone was not listened to, ho seized upon tho pair by tho necks, and after holding them over the water and knocking their heads together, rep] need them on the deck. After this display of strength ho was subjected to no further annoyance. EimbalL Prince i Co.,j Yineland, N. J., mantpacrrkrus of and l> balers in Building Lumber, 4 Doors, Sasli, Blinds, Mouldings, Nails, Rockland Lime, Cement, &e. ;0: Estimates and Designs Furnished. o E££s§^A11 orders will be promptly attend- « od to.-^E Scpt.lS.y

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^ — if j THE UNDERSIGNED WISHES TO INFORM HIS FRIENDS, AND THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL, j THAT HE IS PREPARED TO MAKE UP I. A DIES' COMBINGS INTO PUFFS, SWITCHES, F BUCKETS, ETC.. ETC.. AT GREATLY REDUCED R ATES. AND AT SHORT NOTICE, George W. Matthews, Barber, CAPE MAY COURT HOUSRN. J, mchlBlv,