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STAR OP THE CAPE.

STA.R OF THECAPE

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CAFE MAY CITY, N. J., WEDNESDAY; APBIL 9, 1873.

NO. 17.

“— ~~ wH»Hll fri .noi. ‘

EACH TO HIS OW5. " You're tn odd (ueatun, Vtij Dir!" "Am I, Bertha? Tbmt i» quite »di»tioetion, I un aureJ" •'A distinction, doTouedlit? Well, deliver me from ench dietiuction. Iti» well onooeli for men to be odd—nobody tbinW enything of tbei • but, for women “Wan. Berthe, deer, I enppoee'I be that naughty creature—an odd bud, kinoe you Mgr aq ; but^pray enlighten me ea to the ground* for your aasertion. In wbet reepeet do yon obualder me oddr \ “ Oh, in ererythiiur, of course—dreie, beheTior, opinions—1 don't know whet not. Here yon ere, for inetenoe, this b^ore mth'f m«t puSd on your faoe.^end eewmg^ea though you haye not seen you look opt at the dirty,

‘ Well, Berthe, that is seriou*. I really thought I was aa sympathetic aa " OCwell—ysa j I don't deny that you are eympathotiojn ona se— *— beggar, or other poor wreteh, l your eympalhie* weU enough. But that la not what I mean. Here I hare bribe livelong morning, eaten np with . nutandmadwith disappointment, trying to read this atnpid novel, and forced to look incessantly out of the window at the forlorn drip, dripping of the And yon don’t care abont it at all, .... ait there perfectly placid and aatiafled, aa thongfa the principal object forwhich yon earns into the world would- be so oomplished when that drees was done.'

Hair laughed.

"DearBertha," aha added, "I bo Have making that long speech has done yon good. But really, my cousin, yon shodd have mentioned it before. I had no idea that yon were in such a desperate ease. What ean your great

disappointment be aboutr

‘■Aaif yon did not know, HftyI I suppose yon are not aware, then, that we an to go to the bof masons, at Hire. Nerton's, on Tuesday next. It would

be quite eaoaiata ' oddities to hereto

" There, thou, I — . remembered it quite well, Bertha; and I igthr" 1, ^ masked ball wh ou take so lit . . . s .= '-T it. If it had

9 could have |

a Utile foundation i lal display, proud of 1 thinking, of earnest men whoee every, day thoughts are far beyond their level. Yet she was never happy, never aetlefled Thothing-l the eared forraoatwi ’ upon by him with cool.

she na* orally had, that: ‘Tally been ehangini

time grednally k w _ neas, and acqniring a eertain tinge of

gdod-Batured *— 1

ing, piqued her ; ai Srt’ihe"

she sought fre«mM»sLre*S What ttoubtoi

her most wsa (list she him jealons. He must . . ing, -she thought, not to earn, when she "ted to *•-* — *- —, as he of him in kind—was .... , and supremely cold to all the feminine

not Of

grove the a! “ He is extremely oool, I think," she said to herself. “He thinks the loaa of eonaequenoe* ^WeU/Lrwu'find tiLtl consider it of consequence. I hare no desire for ' lore In a cottage,’ and if. he is eo very in different he will not be Ijkely t So Bertha turned her foil artillery npon Mr - *— —*—*—

Oresveahad become d in Mary Day.

... not been in.town long, Mias Day, I believe, ” was his initiatory “ No, not long,” said Mary ; “ bat so many delights have crowded themselves into the Short space of my visit, that I fuel aa though it had been quite

1 You must hare a rare jeyment,” said Auguste.

generate days ladies and, alas I gentlemen, also, are sadly given over to ennui. It is quite refreshing to. meet one to .whom it seems to be a etrangei ”

Mary laughed.

“I really don’t know what t !eana by experience I” she si .Dalthy candor. *T ean sn what it is to be sad, or weary,

bled, to be rare, though my ow been hitherto quite a happy one: but that little French word, that ta in everybody's month here, I nave never been

able to translate.'

" ' to be envied,’' aaid

u hoar that, Bertha

i a martyr to the dia- ,

caae.ia question?’’

-TaygE&sft her attempts to faacinate Mcrtou. "Mary is always ambitious to be ranked witn the smiling philosophers. I .Brisk it must be a great bore to be always happy —‘ ererythitag I A little misery, now

ion. adds seat to life.”

t least,” said Auguste, “that dory view of the subject;' ' Day would prefer unelon

happiness to consolation. So should I, though truly I faar tbs! I for one do not

deserve the fanner.”

To feel one’s unwortninesa is the step to sard "becoming worthy,” Mary: "so tkard is great hope W

I must beg pardon of you

the epithets I applied to yi__ juat now. They do not fitjon if Bertha has rejected you. But/Imuat beg to -eyidently ou^etpiqnc. I hold the affec " is too aaered, Mr. OraVca, to be banI deserve all this, no doubt, Mias

Day, for Wy indecent haste; —> quite’mistaken, notwithata . not love Bertha—hare not i for;* long time, but felt bourn

faith with her, not knowing that she

ceased to lore me. But I do

k that ahe over loved me. <Her id mine are wide aa the wiles ‘

, and it is better that the bond between na la broken. In fact, she has S engaged herself to Merton, who

more oo-fcer level than I. I

urge yon anymore, Mary," he

continued, except lor thiepne promise —that you will try t * 1 — T

have oflVred you m

^ She did not answer; the was looking He took her hand, this time retaining

“A

“ Mary," aaid he, his voice 'i know how good you mil fresh, e To win a love longer than Jacob Bachel—for it would be the crown m [lory of my life. May I try for it»" She looked up. " I am no coquette," the aaid, ai__ her doTk trees were full of tenderness. " It would noi be hud' for me to lore Thencforth they were plighted lover*.

miles above the valley*, when one said

wasn't thinking of that,” tinned the first; “ I am. troubled i

our course. If we oould leave the Pleiades a little mqye to the right,

about her stteaeiiva to me but fear beauty—and to love a woman only for mere physical beauty is what I am iutwpable of. “Mary," talring her band, “it iaell over between me and Bertha; and it is true I hare seen but little ef you, bat I hare seen enough to know that I love K t Can yon try to roeiproeaie my ing, and make me happy by helping

me to lie betUr?"

Mjuj feed dropped hi* hand, angrily. •What'’ said ahe, "is this the faith Tm hare pledged my oonain? No spender yon Sm disgusted with yourself and wiib •>! the world, if you are a nun of •o little constancy and principle aa

that!"

"Mary—Miss Day—yon mil stand me. It is not I who have Bertha over. I thought ahe mm told yon what she had done. 8b note of dismiaonl yesterday. Par- -- T -*-’-*^ot mean to hart yon; I bad of Bertha aa your nk better of her than I . _ er you areinot a rejected lover of hers." - “But ‘to be dff with’uhe old love and on with the nei' * '' - ‘

cording to my

things. I must beg

Buns, “t! ton field* the greater are the profits." Prof. Boaooe found from his investigation in spectrum analysis of the Beaa—A .1--. —v_ (be blot ' '

e of red, giving a very faint sj n, if'*ny. about four mini

the EmM. the blast ii

flashing through the spectrum of the sodium Use may bd noticed. In about

and the soliptic, we should find it

planet they had jost invented, brought out their most powerful telescopes and resolved it into independent cowa— whom they proceeded to slaughter in detail, by discharging ai them the instruments of - smaller caliber. There

swair. They straightway, launched themselves for a cruise—returning immediately to the land, ae if they had forgotten their ship's papers. When callow youth exhibite an ee- —*—* give it to him hem.

^P.I,U.t.aJ j n MisAigm, formally opsasd amscl great festivity. It will have (whenintoUranaingorder) 125 looms, with 5,000 spindlea and 60 A mixture of tour parts borax and three parts magnesium sulphate is stated to be aa useful aa tungstate of aoda for rendering fabrics fire-proof, but it would be well to tent it before abeojutely relying on it. British workmens _ now so eareleas about regnlar worh that

iron. It donaists

sing an oxide of iron msdt

m "l" , ttery ore worth abbot IS 25 pel

ad of sand, ht structural

mill furnace. ibe profits at Manboron

jbaerve that "the day

very far off when it wih pecomo m, beat and most economicalip"(&aw n the immense coal seams of Picton Dumberland River in Nova Scotia." Birmingham, Eng., advices state that "several steel manufacturers, partly ing to brisk demand, and partly on want of the increiised coat of fuel i raw material, have found it advisable to

raise prices If

oHo

le prices fO per

eenh The America

lOOIooms and 3,024 spindlea, d 830,353. equivalent a the capital stock. A it is alto said, running 500 ago a dividend of

.lightly . lhat n* first spectrum is an excswdingly simple -re, but the last is complex, containing many aa 33 lines. The lines disappear _ the inverse order of their appearance, and whan the. green band becomes invisible, the blast should be abut off and

Raman re In Beal life. A letter from Banduaky, Ohio, to the leveland Jlerald relates the following; A young lady, residing in the country, enjoys a Urge dreie at aoqnaint—ea, and is poaaeased of enough of things of this world to be decidedly good catoh" for any young

Rumor had her engaged ion of a wealthy fanner. At this pdint the hero of our sketch appears on the scene of action from the Fatherland. him to Thu" house 1 oTonr fair damsel and " are he gets employment. Soaroely a onth from tha old country, our mode farming was now to him. But dili_jnt appHcation soon made him profldent in hia occupation, and right faithfully did he serve hla employer for About- the time

being wholly ’-tvs another, end turned sticks pro-

two stories, the upper

-* i pots piled one ao-

ly, witn their opei In the intersticoi

jeet and the rude structure i

dove oote, the stick* being restrog S ' s for the birds. Thousands of

ore thus bouaed—not for their

flesh, feathers, or aggx, bnt exclusively for their dropping*. Frequent scraping of the pota furnishes the best quality, and under the roost* the next beet. Fellah women are the prindpel mansgera. The manure is gathered in small bags which are carried to the river, —here there is alwiys a ready Aartet ith passing boatmpn. >■ So precious is it as s manure, a vary : ..ttle being nuffldimt; no one could - think of raising rich luscious melons ’■ it oould not be had. In allthe esaen>1 propertiea of a powerful fertiliser, rivals P&nvlacgnano. ThU is wh j years before theukrisrisn era its reputation all oydr the land of Canaan was quite aa hqRi^» i K in Egypt- There is _ sate in thoseAlot regions. Seeds with dovre' dnag and Water there germinate, bud and blossom almost like the rod of Aaron. Probably, therefore, the dqsadfnl sufferings for food in ‘ ’—, the reason why a quart of

ore brought five piece* of adldollar and thirty-two cents)

me with it vegetables oould be quiekly grown, to meet the urgent de-

mands of a alar-ring multitude.

distributed among places prerionkly

'Seven^iighths of tne whole, r, is held in the Lower District, ind railway companies are ing their storage and carrying caity v rapidly aa possible, fsnt rta W far behind the in<— o of yield. The riilwaya •e uway from the Lower District

more tfirnn 0,000 barrels per day. ’ *

the 300,000 barrels r' '— *“•-

Pittabvg, Cot leas th have been removed

hood of Parkav’s Landing,

faotories at Pittabnrs have 200.000 barrels tankage, to be completed with all wed,- A large proportion of the wooden tankage now existiag has been put up during If -

Djion the advent of i in the middle of Ha.

be certain to contract, i

will thus be loot. Soon the result of stiffening the market (hardly of raising it), for those whose oil thall be in right tanks. Aa against the enormous yield and stock given in the’

foregoing—which is approximately correct in all reopeota—the home and foreign demand does not exceed 14,000 barrel* of refined oil per day, (~ ■’— 1 17.000 of erode—leaving a daily:

of stock of 10,000 baraU.

A Safe Test for deal OIL

A correspondent writes; The moat effective way to stop tils solo of dangerona oils and burning flnWs which are eo' destructive to life and property is to educate the people. The test Brae eimnlo that it la in the power of every one. It baa: often been published, yet there ~ onaands of people Who have not

it. Ton win benefit thTpHople, ceding it often. ^ \ ^

— test is aa follows: Poor a small quantity of the oil out upon a aaeiper the fire touches it. let tne oil be return-

ed to the vender aa unsafe.

Good, safe oil wiU not flaah, but burn slowly when the lightefijnatch ia dropped into it, and the fire is extinguished aa aoOn aa the mqteh is removed. If th^pcople will anbjeet their oil to this tost and nse only that which atands it,

wiU be

of violenee. We shall do

much more-tor the safety inanity by Gaining an atsi— .

force, and dragging to light . . forgotten nnMnished'Orimes wliich a repro«h to the administratioi chief cities, than be * hundred sick-

exhibitions like_t^*t of Fridsy at

Ac Adrinee

_ _ OmattAa naal Ssa^£j of perk. _ ana advanced to 84 _— from US to 818.25 per bar-

William Young A Co., of S r—-*- -"‘*-

t,

who had sold heavily for future delivery, being unable to secure the necessary cmsUtity to fill their contracts, found themselves "corner^," ai " — - i» been re by heavy purchases of

40,000 bbla. of

this year.

Between 80,000 and 40 set year’s production are fork for the aooeunt of ’

. — Young & Oo.,

looking for higher prieeel

. liny it wsa. expected that this yaarwoold witness a great-increase is — 3 -ction over that of last year. Reshowed that these expectation! lot unfounded, for it is estimated Ai ere ia an. increase of between

600,000 and 750,000 hogs

ing of last year.

Bnt beyond this the t •- detiers was at fault, fo

rmy foo,

larger and wealthier counti.. _ —le caused large quantities of pork to eon verted into bacon and shipped foreign consumption, and so, not only stripped this market of the netaol

-ase of pork and bacon, bnt deprivof a "*1^ quantity which waa reman. Young 4 Co., an cl ^th sir agents almost oil the pork in the pork cen-

tra*, and it is expected ihat the community will soon be treated to an exhibition of that peculiar art known as 1 ’twisting the bears. ” Opinions -differ la to the extent of the "short" interest.

others holding'an opposite vims?*’

It is generally conceded in the greater

itundly advanced

—. of demand over supply, whatever “short” interest __ T __ ... in the market would be ns by the “bnlla” to advance the prieo tbc highest possible figure. One broker, who is acknowledged a «n authority, stated that he believed "atreet" interest waybout

scarcity of park foreign demand.

’ He sail os owing tc snpply thi York is thi he^co untry

difference being for oosi oi transporu lion here), it only roles from 81 to $1.! higher. In Cincinnati the quotatio

tor pork i*S15.25 per bb).

‘-Ttber dealer stated that theopm. if the old world were hard preeaed my food at oheap prices audYoiind this their best purchasing plaoejT-4'- F-

1 book of Kings, 6th

“And there was a great famine in. amaria. and behold they besieged it nta an ass’ head waa sold for four lore pieces of silver and the fonrtb art of a o»bjut dove's dung for five

ieceaof silver."

It has been a question what peculiar properties that last mentioned material posaeased-to have been eo highly prixed atlhat remote period in history. A cab was a Jewish dry measure equal i one quart and five^sirths of a pint. Through the extended.valley of tho Nile, aa far aa tha firet cataract, immense numbers of rough shabby towers, prim eipally made of muddura stalks, sboifnd *- villages. Thqy -*

rics, the 1

Within twelve years, says the New Toik Nirn, the petroleum trade has own from a beginning that waa next nothing until is tho value of .it*

_irhs it tanka seoond only to - JUOdr-*'-- “^--2—

&e er

e extent of a prodnetive proeeea winch

"lokeii^ h

-sn. after shooting

it is imposoibie'to'eramine^ it woldd be IbiDuelfmortally behind one ear, ooald

^no^ one connroted with the trade, chant, or broker, who would be wilting to deny that at proaent the yield of all ia very much in axeeas of the demand. The result of this state of things is that the surplus of production which is now

i to rage in tanks or left to run in rreek or tile Allegheny river. The-writer has recently made i >f inspection of **- 1 — 1 — 1 —

the erti doer with ealntory fear,: respiintoNs rslirem of Brooklyn was mm dered in his own house, tmdra dr

■ot of great atrodt^ 1 ^ that Mr. Ooodnch

face, and hang •*’*. The i

up the bloody doth os absence of bus watch a-

of the Manchester

from Merthyr Tyd-

vil, Wales, give# s sorrowful ao

the sufferings ’endured by the —- of the "strikers." The writer say* toe otter destitution which exists in the district extending from Merthyr Ttdvil to the confines of Monmouthshire ia in-

dOeeribable, and he dtos [ I made recently a series of S

visit* to a number of house* in the poorer distriots of Merthyr—wretched home* they were, *11 of them. There is about a mile from Merthyr a suburb oatied, by those who ean pronounce it, Oaepantywyti, lying in a damp hollow by the

aide of the river Toff, and dose to works ef Oyfarthfa, which since : riots of 1831, have never ceased to « clangor of bustling industry, * *1— wit), the ruddy bl*t_ —

i. The people here are

innocent o broekleta

bo proved that 'fm had them abont hia person whan he last entered the house ; but of this, though it seems to be token for granted, there is, thus far, no erfThe sudden taking off of a man who is not known to have had any enimieo, and in a honso which, though it might

tion are tho most I tempted a bnrglar on acoonntnf obtainable i lto isolation, could hardly have offered present production of erode oil ** promise of much plundra is nstur-

i£ to the hitherto uneq untied ’ mveeted with a very peeubsr inter- — -- j.iimmi.«fllMi—s-n-la.mini, f *■!.!!*!*>#—.« ®! aggregate of production is proper]v dia- ; °t our potio® system, not only to track fnb^d as fplto^T tLo footprint, of . enminol who h«

as» i on .« ««neof In.

■fe.

all Cyfarthfs i

place, all np i_ of steps leading to the high foot-peths, with rnceed roods like mountain^p-'*-D —om aide to side in xi obnrsee^and panaing here and the: ISrathyr street*. The sir is close

the odora exhaled from i

£ P S3.X!

v^i^.

11 enme, but even to discover the mouvre '; of an assassination which at firet glance seemed not difficult to unriddle. Dr. 1 BurdeU was a weti-knqwn citizen. He « killed in his own house ins fre-

. ’ yields Uje largest quantity ; and i saj there that tho-greatost difficulty ia ' the irienoed in obtaining tanh 1 '—

st therefore be stored, ; ssa

?! roadway. Hi* body

boon afterward.

persona—perhaps we shon persons—usd their theory failed ao- , eras killed killed him. Mr. Nathan

found a few we should

inrder ; but the polie tnally to discover why hi who killed him. Mr.

pipe and tank e i^ato^storage ci Tolsto “go and o

.' though the strange cl i' initroment ^rifA-^hici

oilmen express iL In addition t re-named storing spsoe- there amount of private tank room.

lately accurate figures of this pri- i

storage space it is imposaib!- •- ’ give, since none of the proetucen dressed on the subject were sbl lame tho capacity ; but 1,200,000 els is an ample allowance for it. irganixalion companies’ tonka are i

run. But their tankage has been filled

or some time, and tho producer * " tower District ore all making sti

(Torts to obtain more wooden tankage

... ; and

^ iharacter of^the

i anpenetrnted story. A man ally oqnfcaeed

10 dingy windowa. j

notice that the broken stone floor has n carpet, and ia foil of holea; that tumed-up box does duty as a table, an that a three-legged stool and on sra

chair.are the ciib

expiring

e grate, in which lit

T^e armchair is drawn

' ’ h lingers the

_ iginauyoonld very small wood fire,

A woman sits in the oh—, gazing moodily, fixedly, into the dull red of tho alow-burning wood—* thin, pinched, seantl'y-olad woman, whose ragged cotton dress is os frenzy and dirty as the little woolen shawl which is drawn over her head to protect her neck from the draft that comes through the broken window pane at the baa. At her breast ia a two-montij babyborn a child of sorrow only a day rtwo before the striks began, and bal

as thin and pinched as „„ nurse. There is d littlo girl of ton

after tlie murder of j twelve kneeling before tho fire, a

-o Joyce children—the whole com- j shivering, as she tries to toast a slice .. J *- a- ; -mit of him; ; bread, which 1 learn has been begged

r have been of a neighbor, and is the only food in

Until

instock w

onths 500,000

trade against tho evil effects of abnormal ipeoulation. Under the average coalitions of the past, one tank, of almost 100 barrels’ space was considered enough 0 meet the requirements of one well; int tho recent vast increase of prodnoion, combined with the great look of adequate transportation facitilios has augmented the number of well tanka to between three and thirteen per welk There is no immediate prospectyof a decrease in the yield; for'there are at least 350 new wells in process of drilling that are being completed at the rate of two or throe per week. A large number of these new wells are in the Lower District, whence, jt derived the largest quantity and best quality of petroleum ; so that the percentage of "dry holes" among them is likgly to be ,-ery small. It is- the almost universal jelief that next month's report will show 1 yield of more than 27,KK> bs '

lay.

In addition to tbs present daily yield, the stock of crude oil now tanked at the oil regions and in Pittsburg is 1,350,000 barrels. Of this total of stodk, Pittsburg has 225,000 barrels! The real is

• “ Tiooiny

ofltiod

but he probably would never have been I of a neighbor, and is the only i detected but for his voluntary avowals, the house. A young, man sits — .— Some years ago a young girl was found ; other side of the Bf6 upon another box murdered in her bed-room in Now-Or- i —not the table.' He lakAodger j out leans. Tell-tale footmarks showed that ’ of work, of course. He ia kmokir ~ a woman had sealed a fence and entered . mark that ; ho ean buy tpbaoeo, by the window. A handkerchief mark* i the woman has to beg bread. Soon cd with initials was found on the floor, after I enter he resents my appearance. There the police were utterly at fault, j on the scene by shambling out. It is and to this day the mystery remains j very little the woman will s Unsolved. ‘We might'cite a score of | To all my questions she rt other memorable instances of murder ! short answers aa I admit my intrusion that have never been explained, such oa j deserved. Bnt a chance remark ’ the killing of Mr. Embury several years i the baby opened tho mother’s r Fishkill, and the assaiuiination ! “ John,' ine told me—John wa — iti on the outokirt* of Brooklyn, i husband—was a " bailer." He did not 1 not at hand while we write the want to strike, but was obliged to tun police statistics of tho past twelve j out with the others: " And there’i months; but we find that a very few i lots, you see tike him, only tho collieri E ars ago, when our system waa about; waa strike, and then the puddlera ant e name that it ia now, abont one-half i bailers and laborers and all, was bavi the perpetratora of unmistakable homi-I to otrike, too.” So ran tho pigeor cides were not arrested and abont four- ; English of this poor Welshwoman— fifths were not convicted. I thi* wretched wife—a slattern ’’ The conclusion from this is first thst j but on innocent sufferer our detective system is wretchedly in- calamitous strife now raging, efficient, enfl secondly that tho discovery House after house in those dreary of secret crime is quite as muoh the ; streets I visited, and found almost fruit of accident os b? diligence. Unless i sad a state of things—cupboards ba tho murderer has left behind him in the ! as old Mother Hubbard's, and hungry hurry of his flight some tell-tale imple- I children crying for food. In one desoment, or has beesseen by some chance ! late home Urere were two children passer, or has u&trared himself, ea 1 lying on aMeath-bed, and their mother criminal* are providentially apt to do ] aaid they were "a-dying of the strike." by some extraordinary caMjcssneas, the j In some coses the men hod been able chance* ere that murder Ifiti not out, j to earn a little money by working as until that last day when all the hidden [ laborers on Mr. Crawahay a

ine or two instances, and th

■ollicrs, they had secured employment n the Aberdaro pits; and at one bouse : colled, and found the wife we* now

i weekly post office order from nd, who, with a few of hia ad-

venturous comrade*,-hod found work at ~~ irough. That completed my

!, and I returned dispirited

r&

in a load voice, that her dal be givan up. But the titll piteously, and twining her the neck of the lady, b Judge to let her remain in

of her kind benefactors. "Oh, J udge, ’ .•aid the little ohe, '"It'a dreadful home; mother used to send me out along tha dockx, and when I didn't bring home money enough she used to tick me. When this kind lady piekad me up on the .docks I wee ae black aa your ooat. Judge, and I had only a few rag* on me. Pray don't let me go home

again, Judge ; iFs dreadful."

The lady, wbo ls^a quiet^kind-look-ment aa to'her condition when she

Middlesborough. ^Thst completed

yto see

destitution.' The people te: " ’ ' rthe aonp kitchen*, . been started by Mr. Fothergill, M. P., the oVncr of Plymouth Works, and was confined to romen and children. In very few plaeee lid I find the men at borne, and when I aked for them I waa told that they

told aTpijmouth thatsomeo

older workmen intended to wait .

Mr. Fortbergill, who baa not yet been interviewed ; and I heard at Cyfartlifa " ‘ ' iceting of the Ironworkers was

Saturday, at which they rooolv-

id to their fellows the *c-

Justiee Cox said be would not take tho responsibility of removing .the child from her present custody, se it was obvious from the- conduct of the mother end her language to her daughter in eourt, it would be a unwiae proceeding. - He instructs lady to allow the mother to see the child, and told the child * mother that

Foe several yearn past efforts . been made, at each session of th* New i Jersey Legislature, to.procure the paai sage ot a law that would have the effect 1 ot raising the standard of education I among druggists throughout the^State,

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kle. ugly, wi . to deceive a poor husband and ardent lover I Mnst he forfeit his rights because he ia far a! with difficulties, care* . his Josephine, without Oa of her love, what remains him on earth 1 What ean he do a*-—Boasrox— tondaT : " I don’t contrary,! you. Ton are an ugly, stupid, ,Thussey. Ton never write to me, and rou do not love your husband. Ton •the delight your letters afford lo with youraelf all day 7 nt businese ia it that prevent* yon writing, to your fond lover f What affection stifle* and put* aside the love, the tender md constant love, you promised met Who o*n thi* new wonder bo—this new lover who absorbs all your time, tyrannises' over you- *— and prevents you from thinking husband ? Take care, Josephin "the door* cloaed,. . Bnt seriously, I;— dear love, at receiving no

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»S10,00tthaatire*dy been niaed laohnaett* baa 879 inhabitants to •very-BiQe t>f railway. The Oatiforoia wine crop of 1872 is nearly.* nritiian and a half of gallons. Page county, I*-, is going to try sn agricultural fair without bOtoe-racing. How to tarn people's head*—come into a oaneert late with creaking boots. bot Osahaza clhekers set bakery a few day* ago.

m gentleman keeps the small gox hospital liberally supplied with

playmate. to ride "in a New Tort street es

dayssjfo, for disorderly conduct .. _oiversal exhibition is to be. held in Japan, probably at Teddo, within— the next four year*. Japan ia getting along, evidently. The peaches in the Weal have suffered sri 1 severely from tile frost that only a alight crop insy be expected from Sixteen lawyers were brought before the Mayor of Montgomery, Ala., and eaoh fined 85 and oostf for practicing without alioense. A Georgian went to Augusta and sold $1,300 in gold at SI. Hi that he paid $1.50 for in 1866, and ha* been keeping ever since for a rise. An authority say* that Foator ia the first man executed whose neck was broken by'the "jert," whleh has taken the place of the old-fashioned "drop," Charleston, West V*., Mere «0,000 and exemption from taxatiefc, for ton years, to any company that will,establish a ear factory thdrt, to employ at least 100 men.

re full of executions, morden., roboriea and outrages. Tbs farmer* of Illinois and other Western States are bolding "anti-ex-tortion " Convention*. All county and town agricultural aoeietiee alp reqneat-

tihaa. (ioour|cli, oi oonin nrooaiyn, was found dead in s basement of one of his houses, with a pfhol-ahot through hia head. The body wa* discovered by

the neighbor-

_ _ ir not keeping

their smsll-pox within their own cor-

porate limits. Sick transit, 4o. Oscar Hewitt, of Knoxville,

[IL, agreed m ill John 0. F

0. Fremont waa elected Presi-

dent. An interviewer describes him aa

having hair enough to stuff s bed.

A Springfield brute put a cat on a bot stove, and the judge said he oould not issue a warrant for bis arrest, ms the laws for the prevention of cruelty to animals do not include injuries done to An Oregon youth is accused of dreos-ing-up a straw woman and giving it a sleigh-ride through tho town, after hia bashful approaches had been rebuffed

- genuine articles among hisinmal*

Kentucky baggage-smashers are in despair because the Legislature baa passed an act providing a penalty of from <20 to $500 ford*mage to baggage, whether it ia caused by personal spite by negligence. The number of persons ont of emoyment in Now Tort and Philadelphia i appalling. One insertion of a tittle' ■ - r— - -i—l. - — ;i—^

office, in the latter city, brought 985 applicants in a mingle day. A Baltimore girl ia going to marry the "Viscount de Montaban,' who baa jnat reached this country. We mean no disrespect to the Viscount de, etc., when, we ask if any Milwaukee or Chicago barber is missed from home. ffinneaoU farmer baa ju»t sold his of 160 acres, forty acres broken and fall-plowed, with a good frame--'able, and all hia farming inland utansils> for $100 cash

sheep-akin over

whiteman w' i song with hia face bl

•1 have been a person age popularly mown dp “Pot-pie Herbert." Hi* song .as entIUed tho "Bottleof PUttsburg/'

tag* of the Heatre of Albany.

The Cbmmeraial Nufferin, of Chicago, five* the number of bog* and cattle Jacked there thi* season aa 1,425,070, against 1,218,888 last tetaoa ; cattle. 18.755, against 18,080 last se '

relief mess port pr-’-"' “

- 14,001 tiei

id 88,885; other of lard, 196,054-

We are inclined to think that a small, popular work on the duties of juror*, which might be studied by .every eitisen, would -be of ooniidsrablo usefulness, especially in those States where the courts have set aside verdicts which bare been secured'by the jurors “drawing outa.” ' ' While a clergyman in wa* extolling the exoellc: on Sunday evening of la* known man suddenly a seat, walked to the — roll of greenback* After service* h* again w ijtj shook* “

, worq.

The Is teat dog story cornea from dsine. It relate* how, after a heavysnow fall, a young Belfast girl was. endeavorinff to moke, her way along the street to a house at which she wa* omkept ahead of her. breaking a path, until ha saw bar turn in atVr daatinatton, when with a satisfied weg of the toil he trotted back A Vermont dog*waa heart-broken ai the recant death of a bore* owned by itr master. He followed as ekicU*f3imier to * point on a mountain, two mile* from the stable, where the dead home waa dumped over a ledge, and tha laborer* left him gening down upon th* body of hia old companion and whin- ' Afterward they retorn4. -~-