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NO. 19.

bowed three gichs, “I heve Ml t . mggarf. .If the eheep c*n grow wool in mile, why not wool in ymm u well I While net ore ie eboht it, why oan’t ehe iprend hereelf Orer e trifle more groan(1? Think whet en edreutege it wotQA be to here iheep with yem on them, eU in nicely tied henke. " Aboa pnt hie finger to bin temple ee though be wee eitting for' hie pbjtogreph, end thoaght for e mrmeni. “Toung men, efter eerefnl coneider. i end met are fldiberetion, I here neet^Oo to'th *® oonil , r ®- ^ny ehe^eheH rtow fine yern of mehy One week alter the deto of the leet jtorriew Aboa wee eroaeed from hie elnlnbere in the morning by rociferoag'

The DUmU Harder.

ruel end revolting eenu The victim of thie c

Mre. Hirabeth Hedgee,

Enreke, whuee hue bond, David .. Hedgee, wee killed in thet neighborhood ego by r “

“u^bed been attacked'end de-

ed by the boon, atartling!' -

E DI8C05TESTED FEASANT. Awey back in the the flood, wt then he ie nc

VI

iehed in Bneeei comity. New Je No megicUn of hie dey enjoyed et or more wide-epreed reputetion

did Abon ben Adhem. From the froren

North, even beyond —*- came to him for oonne

wire from the sonny South end bonntlleee West. And no worthy applicant

it ewer withont receiving r*-‘

--. . - for. True, ho wesbeeiege. .“^••d beete,” but ee he never gave i

filing to anyone bat edrioe, they »ery UtUe the better of him.

One bright morning in leafy Jnne. Abon wee iilting in front of hie tent, muring, ee wee hie wont, upon the —

tebility of hnmen affaire. He wee * >, with hie

end ^he an offlexily in little

STS.*..?

Myttjy aad eoald have

" rred the simple

bloated enetocrat amfp

iW like life," he said to himself. _ 1 the .oonatently eaoending

— Jlfe." Thoolond so of solidity at the

f solidity at the taginning, re neap it we find we ‘here mr hands. There ire strong or, and the elementa etaorb

a Hfo5 to be ever thuet It dram whiehoen only be eolved by the end men of the eeleetielmlBStreU. I give it np. How now f Who ere yon, and wbab wAntA.I ,l.n~ _1,1. _. an

him till he atood in front of him. “Artthou Abon tan AdhemT in-

I would let loose my boll . bnt for the feet that I him bnt two weeks, end alee I

-- - ,— kilhUft insi eolidtora. Were yon emissioneir, whoee duty it was to ceil e einfnl worid to repentance, end should yon- be as pereieient in that celling ee yon are at worrying mo, the enemy of mankind wotild throw np the eponge'end.howl in VriJA' Once for ^ , “ Mighty Abon, I bow in till dost bofore thee. All things, ere ee easy to thee as turning jack from the bottom of. the peck wee to me in my nnregon--deye. Ton ordered my sheep to yam ; they do it, end good yern But why should we stop et yern? 12 they con grow yern why not grow cloth? Ahl then would it be good inT should hero but to strip it off it, end sew it into garments, nk how much' labor it would ege-me. Mighty Abon, grant me bn 'Be it so," replied Abon, “bnt l '" Come here agaii

of my ward, end

__ — —ee weeks oft Go

thy ways—olothitis, Gitr

And Abon shat down the window end returned to his slumbers happy in the tthonght that he woe rid of that nnieanoe •orever.. Bnt he wee mistaken, . Jnat a week from that date lho,.you4g men tamed np again, with a bout of braes,

1 check unblushing. Mighty Atan—

. shoe brush hurled with terrific

— — developed while searching the deed Women's clothing.In order to verify the suspicion thet the mnrder tad'been committed for the sake of robbery, her clothing was ex •mined with a view of discovering whether ev large sum of money which

Mrs. Hedgee was known with her hod been ebstr

were no traces of thie money, and whst was more, a letter wee found upon pinned to her underclothing in si meaner ee to indicate thet it bed placed there for concealment. letter, which bed neither address, fft^iKnature, contained remarkable

" Enensy mate the bend thet w crown," rone the old saying, el

English cousins, with -ore lireneo then ' wobjeote ie King Herod's

lTtng ; trying to make i* — royal family. Hears •re-- High Chnreh pool

—_-ih the family jnet now. The Dnke of Edinburgh's egnerty and

angry Dnke <

Aden tii riod a Jewess,

Dnke ia ebont t

daughter, who, of o the Greek Chnreh. ‘

— Church. The DukeAnS*I of Wales voted for the bill Iod-

ising marriage

— Then thn Prinoce go to night after night in Lent, i Quocn does not scruple to hold

ladies who cry out about having onrt in winter weather with and oho old era. They tare to take

meat of pecnlier nature, end bed mi to nay about Abraham's taring l

'ban one wife, r train of am discovery ol

D - - A carriage, with the windows np, is not a very a place, and all the roughs and ragamnffina assemble to peep through the windows and criticiM the appearance of the ••qualify," in very free and easy language. “Oh, myf hero's a skinny one I" or, ••Lor’ I ata'sfet enough for a flrat prise !" is about the pleasantest remark nib poor, shivering, red- * devotees of royalty are likely to concerning thcmsolvca. After an hoar or so spent in thia ehecrfnl and exhilirating manner, the ladies who are going to pay their respects to their sovereign are ushered into a large and by no

warmly-ventaated room i Hero theif is more w

Thrilling Incidents ef the AtlanUc BisA little fellow, the

of the poor little fellow went tothr •toutast heart. He had leaped upon the tadk of one of the me- = : •

•Wf himsalf; bnt in

everybody was intent upon saving

momaelvsa few paid attention to the wails of the boy, and the man npon —hose back ho was clinging, as if for

ire life, made several lacffectnul'atmpts to stake the boy off The cries - the boy at last attracted the captain,

who, perceiving the tonocions manner ih which he was strargling for life, called out to the men who were sur-

ding the linos'that led to the rock safety, to endeavor, if possible, to the boy, and We poor little fellow - immediately passed over the heads

of the struggling mass of beings and

placed in the boat. Men who were ex-1 Uie trap. • erting themselves to save their own and ed his gui other lives wept almost for joy ss they in the ope saw the breve little lad lately landed on ; Probably

•bore. I present.

Mr. Foxlcy, the chief engineer, who located by remained on the rock for several hours did not sti assisting the passengers b> land from | rive movei

the chip, says it was extremely ing to tahold the aofferinga of

sSSSSSvf paid thepenolty of hie crime on the gillowa. He held interviews with roport-

' almg a curious i Suntji-rubbed and 'person, pro-

of the y. Bo

erbton-oil

pox ernptiona, and oomplained of pains m his back and bead. The jail phyviotan. Dr. Pope, and anotlier'phyaiclau. pononneed it a case of snVll-pox. and Smith was removed to the drnptive disspital, from which he e«aped n ira after his arrival, and was rod at an expense to file jailer of 800. Smith wrote a statement, appeared in the Louisville papers, paid Dr. Pope *72 for furnishing • croton-oil and Bending him to the pest-house. He eoid that he know

One BroA, of Big Meadows, in Nevada, is what they call out there a “gamey man.” Brown has alternated between wealth and bankruptcy at least a dosen times sinoe bis earning'into Nevada aa a mining pioneer, about as many Tears ago, and la now pro*peeling for ms thirteenth fortune, after losing the twelfth in his usual huppv style. To

exgein^-™ - 1 — 1 —-— -

, The amount of misapplied talents engaged on inventions that osnnbvar be * li fe prolific

hieh is well worth invesextrect from the Patent nt of some of these, that'

produced

ttaoriT P erh T' E 1 ' 7 " 1 ' r '"" * up * h ‘ ar

known | A gentleman applied for a patent

iw-poker than any other man of heating eanajs by steam, so that b

ing could go on in winter ss well a summer. The officer decided that invention was worthy of protection,

gave him hie patent

A nothcr ap^lird for a combination

of perpetual revenue to as many friendly

itlemon u can get at him with pack's carda, the steady demand *

id as steady distribution of th< letter are at once comprehensible. Hii

'.'viu-lTs: s Gonld ai d eveiy oe iciety, thronj

STAR OF THE CAPE

Items of Interest,

ontrired

- .oo ingeniously cthat, when the clock struck, the bottom

of the bed dropped out Hi

claimed

drably awake Speaking lave come from Missouri vho asked for s patent con -annon and plough. For tl , m filed three applications, making tin

of the plough hollow

mm tv lurtu two cannons. These were bo kept loaded till the ‘guerrillas wore after hint; the CS’I'II'’', w—* ro ro,

fired, the guerrillas

r theyil

■ He wagon, at one sitting iiTtho I roL.Lb.T* P^filfing ove^c^Td ,“ rt ou, h mreu'^ ^ I ^te, too. must have , ensued in six SnntT'n. tady 1 S^rfoifyro min^M^-- ^ i ?

at down at the end of twenty ] worth ^“0,000 in the Mon'

icions was evoked

. . — this letter. The attention of the community was turned the direction of the family of the

in the Qnaen arrives, and there 1 rush through the velvet barricre leading to the throne-room ; young and old, admirals and debutantes, captains

insane, frothed aftiic- mouth, an pled off the rock into the water, ware drowned, while others were

chilled and exhausted with the cold that! dered m they laid down and died. They would ! in a cart * • ‘ ibnoetof help-j scene.

onteznmu lode, , trunk

iserving pokery | unguarding

id perish. Some

ing themselves,

after they tad been token to the main 1 coherently!

land. All-the pasaengera speak in the “ highest terms of the gallant conduct ol

11 professorships to his own extreme .... C erishment, In short, by a career of

evolence of this fashion Mr. Brown , i„w, „„c, „ ua 1 disposed of nearly $280,000 before fi- I safely boosed. • nally settling down to the I . -

• pbmtyof a fermei - In this latter

i made with triple sides, : d down. Doing duty all day ling cloth en, when night

no cabin near, the

Liberality oomrista less in givingqirotaely than in giving jadicionsiy. The inhabitants of Salamanca have expelled the Jesuits from that city. "Tie only i.food that is always cheap abundant, is food far laughter, bill to abolish the grand jury system has passed the Illinois Senate. Two parties have gone to law in the Sioux City Courts over a basket of The gold fish caught in the Potomac -• •*-— * fountains at the

law Zealand,

Waste

-ate of wealth may occasionally bo ivod; westo of health, seldom ;

e good i

wall elevated

and the benighted

asked for a patent for the in-

ition of steam by

for which he has not real The French Committee *on Capiti tiona has decided to proceed with trial of Marshal Bazaino by conrt-n

Calmly dodging the missile tho young

an resumed:

’■Mighty Abon-

“ Young man,” said Abon, impressively, '• you hava no sense of delioaay

-not a sense. . I presume that during ly natural life I stall see you onoe a , . When'my last moment cornea— Aarael is waving his black pinions

and calculating mentally how my e will pan out, I suppose I shall be ed to life for a moment by, the fsw...... words, ‘Mighty Abon.’ Three times tare I.given yon what yon desired, but you are here again. Well, say it, and be quick about It," "Mighty Abou, at thy bidding my _ jrinoea, which I imported from Veiqont, have yielded, first, rolls tin yarn, then cloth. So far, ao good. Bi the same power that made them do ih ojn makafliem do more. Why atop at doth ? Why, O Abou, should they not "What I” shrieked Abou, bewildered

Taking Abou by the button-hole that •••might noteaoapehim, he fixed him » his eye and proceeded :• ‘ Why should they not aa well Hirer reviv.mMU clothing, with mi AmrSean ’catch in the vest-pocket, with a pocket-

“thybudn.

."Bahold in me one who ia dieutiafied with his lot," replied Uio intelligent and ingenuona youth. aCVPLSAZ S'X young man did not want to borrow money. “Ion oaa see such in any grocery. One wants riches, another fame; eome ohaao- one fleeting shadow, soma . another; but discontent ia the aoooropenying fiend of all. We hie us to Wall street and invest in Harlem. Harlem goes dowa—we lose and curse our fate it gore up-T J double our money, am we repine tnatwe did not go inlb oU and treble it. But what wouldat thou « wtai?" WoBl,Wb * Predd « n ‘- P 0 *! w^ tot born in a log cabin, I did not mufortuue to be born in a good houae, of narenl* tmMm Sm.

-— r by Brimallsh !—" ' ‘ A-my, augrateful dog, and let ma «o thy face no more r shrieked the

e l giantod thy a •, knowing faUwwUlhant to this. I yielded to Uiy imporas relelT and entirely for the pnrof teaching thee a lesaon—one very young man most learn beee “.^bappy. Nature, wretch-

'dock with tar jaco serstohed" and bloody, for which she accounted, on being questioned, by aaying that she lied fallen on the sidewalk and had so

injured hereelf.

Mrs. Hedges was known to have tad “boat (ISO upon tar person, and that ‘ ‘ ‘ “ a store where she hod collected urn inorey.to attend an evening meeting. A boy testified that he saw near the school-house two women ia angry dispute, sad afterwards heard loud cries

n to the past

'• life at Big S ^ ittendrd him. liowfnlcd I reached the 0 waters Sat

pleasant hours in teaching | the eternal fires of earth. He aet forth'

more accompliahed in the i undoubtedly trne.

me. With Whom the hospita-, It must have been a rolntiveof

The following sentence of only 81 letters contains “11 the letters in Tho alphabet:—"John quickly extemporized

Ive tow bags." A lafe number c

dumber of fiBfiiicago Tritnmo ined m»re reading matter and ad- — entente thsn'any paper ever issued

i tta-Dnitcd stita*.

The Alignsta Journal predicts that

in will be tli

■■■■mPMuguHpp , aa it assigned a probable motive — the oommiaaion of the murder. Workman ia a tall, slander person, with a large month, dark ayes, and strongly marked fnature*, not especially prepossessing and not,absolutely ngly. Betas \ food reputation in .the place I a Ugh rank for ability in the otraren, and smoo the discovery of all there facta the opinion has been formed in Eureka that sis conduct was more due to weakness than to natural depravity. His salary ia about $1,000 a year, with which he has been obliged to provide for a family of six children, “ »' -■ - boy of mMr - -TC- B.eUUfUi mother s breast. For one in his poai-

ori—_—-. denied, however, intimaev existed between him deeefiwd. Mr*. Workman wa ned bnt tad to tell her story Leenfsin ting Stella, and finally broke down altogetiier, her statemenU being

to the efbot that be began oomepondIng with the deceased abont two months ago. The'letters written by the two are In the hands of the Ooroner. Hialettere, which are penned in a juvenile •ortof etyia.ihqwtiiat hewaa ^•PIT'

in his marital relation. Mra Hedgre' rephre are eonehed in an enoouragini, tmie, bidding him not ty despond but to

wheat mipht ”

lie Norval—on the i my father fed his flocks, •» died

her gifts. Nature provides corn—it ia *"■ " *- oonvert that corn into whisky,

>ther product') na go to Hustiun

“ Suppoae, G miserable -latl tad given you ally would yon have bad to would you tare done it

of strangi twren the hnatair'iid^rifotStlfa! Workman ahonld go to Mra. Hedgea with a latter from Workman requiting Mra. Hedgre ‘to give up hi# lettera. i#letter wee given toHra. Hedgee by •- Workman after tEB church servi0 ire Saturday afternoon. A farther

n! tbe filr, h

growing there. A tulle veil, covered —•s pearl beads, was rather a novelty, colored ribbons round the neck i a bow in front and diamonds in sonter, were much worn. One. lady a ribbon collar at the throat trimwith lam quite ia the Louie XIY.

style; indeed, the belles of the drawing-room .looked mor pictures of our ancestor* More false hair seemed ti more ooetly lace, and tho

‘li£r*tho tan ever.

would be really difficult to attempt

brought up in a great plait at the eide, which was filled out with blue tulle and

bows of ribbon, and bad a very novel effect; a black corded silk train, with

deep bias folds of bine silk, with it, —•—

Hon. R B. Roosevelt, ex-Memtar of Oongrere for the Fonrih District of New York, delivered a lecture in that oify a few day* ago. Mr. Roosevelt Said tire subject of “hia lecture, “ Oon-

— Oongrere of 'file Share familiar with tile tricks and

hefds

much counterfeit currency ■— ...

lation, they would probably tell you ten per cent.; but I tell you, aa an on-

a — that they have admit! '

oro ia twenty-five per

quarter of the whom amount of tamps current in this country which are fraudulent. Do you know, mr, that the postal currency ia renewed six times ayear? That ia the case, and see the poadbilitiea of its increased duplication and counterfeiting. We could tatter ■* * to pay fifty per oent premium e gold than have to deal with a of paper which ia beyond tbe den1, to a great extent, of tho Govern, mont officials. The duplication of the United States bonds' will some daylbe found such an alarming matter thu it will bring tbe whole country to its feet. That crime began in the Treaenry aiftar back re Chase's tinjt John Covode and others in OongreSJTqade strenuous effort* to expose it, bnt gme not nllow-

titlo to a single the whole of the

will be

• , f “* l of planting the , depot, where it ie collected by brokers,

first year will $2,000 and wl

•pare knows too much to invest it land the title to which-isto bo aoqui five years afterward. Ittoosta only

rhile hi

SjlSiifS

onoe see that should he

JUW be obliged at least for lavei

valilhtion. If the law 1 feted him a whole section of fin. — ’ r J? ach plauting, and then, if theState Temtoiy agreed to exempt the wl ’ im taxation Tor ten years,.there mi

There

very particular in tho soloc-

n of high-sounding and felicitous

1 ?r chops,

an acquires erly'sought

tipn of lugh-aoundmg and feliei tiUee fsz^oir several rmreols or ch arid very oftena particnlarchopAeqt it:Mi a fame as to be eagerly'aoi

at Mac

m years, there might ent indt:cement to a forest treee, since

' "Ac official who at that time was connected with tho printing, tad in some ot a grip upon the Secretary, and not be hedged f-—*-

Q such planting, w of thia matter e tho profeaebd , The object lof

waa, oonfeasedlv, to get

. on the great plains of the rior, hot here trees will not grow without irrigation, and to get ont an irrigating canal to water any Government land now anbjoot to entry, and where are wanted, will cost from $1,000 to

S recently oeffo—-

(luring ii a —- gad people.

to the Millville aed, while o<

— .. telegrapn eperstoi „ 8tatioB,jon the line of tho Po Bylvania Central Railroad, waa placed

-* fl.*. might

August last.

$5,000, so that Uie i

ing 40 acres to fore will not be far., from $4,000 tho first

in the plains

and, if an .enterprising man will this investment, and, in addition, hia land, re he moat, at tbe coat

of $1,000 area, i xToTnogEiMr

night, aft

atad and asleep lor same t awakened bv a great bent, i discovered tbs bed and the

m enveloped in m tho bed, dra

state will not full far all . , 000. Of this stun abont $35,000,000

ipeculators and first

1, dragging one of her sis- „ and made her way through

imoke and flames aa best she could,

g $295,000,000 to

•lie readied tl younger sister fainted - terror, and she waa unnb

The pistol os a plaything for pretty prattlers in tho nursery 1ms caused another surgical case in Trenton, O*--, whore a little boy, aged eleven, alfopA his cousin, aged six, with whom hejtas ' "playing robber," with a navy rewilvex considerately left where the slnhlreu could amuse themselves with it.

telling sto-

re the pitiless tongues of flame is **ie dry timbers of the house an impassable barrier to h< torn. The three children were hr almost to a cinder, scarcely enough of bodies remaining to identify them the rest of the debris.

I abont a Lowe/Tgirl wh<

—iaaa tWo years ago with $5ou in Her pocket and now owns a farm and otiisr property which she could sell for $50,000, but tbeyrey nothing about the rich * r whom she must have married leen the death of in the mean-

* a common thing in our cities t protect the bends of draft horses with bonnet or ousbion to keep off the bias of tho 'sun. But a Dublin projecto. pniprees to extend a similar protection

— Jitizen of Boston last November placed $1,000 in tbs hands of the Chief of Police, to be loaned to working girls having persons dependent npon them

swinging it above her head. engineer saw the signal in time to avoid a fearful dl caster. -The engine ran igainst tbe tree, however, with sufficient fore®, to diaoonneet a heavy branch, V ■: ■ : : ;

security but the word of tho .tit required. About flftv gills have thus far been aided in this way

' ©m thcjfund.

A table compiled at Washington from

Inches a£ive him, the frame being st ported either by attachment to tho hi

jbls compiled at’Washington iron

I the forthcoming oenans report on mine

'**•*1 the productive, mineral

- wealth of Pennsylvania ia' nearly equal ■ fo that of all the other States and Ter-

Jotod the injuries that resulted

death. The passenger

grateful for their eeeepa that

led lately made to reward her;

firmly declined to accept anything for having done her. duty.

' *• •— -• rwld

Upon this frame he stretches a aheet.of > canvass, oflod olotii or. sheet rubber, J which forms a complete pent house to c

18 worth of minerals msns year, and all country produced