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CAPE MAT CITY, N. J., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22. 1873.

NO. 46.

withont it, ha vosld >hc r_ ,i—. i..

, — —mlUw intha road, diore off rapidly toward* *■ Finally we Imre the finale of act flrat." remarkeil Henri. " re*,’’ responded the mnaino toying with the object of ao wk enaaion. which wae in reality at tr little intrimic nine, and in no way t upright

Stepping down the rapid rirer, Tothadsarand daaiUsraland; Dropping dem tha reO-bMan drer-

THE CORNELIAN CROSS.

^JganriYlatdoiio wai^a yoqn^F

neat little domioleand hErpretty

wife were aiteated in snberban ]

On* early twill^it in tha mon

Horemberof a certain year, aa b tend hi* home, hi* wife ran nnto twined her plump arm* around hi* Back, be*towing a foil-blown hi** upon hi* raspoMirc lip*, and immediately emlaimed "Oh, dear Henri 1 I had and) a »npri*e, anoh an odd rlritor, thia afternoon—a man with taoh an inexpliealda fancy that I hare bean waiting these two boors for your arriral, and (baatowtoj^ a playful cot tharenpon) “ And the aan hare anrired, Irena, my pel,. I suppose yoor metry tongue will rattle away aa merrily aa a newly wound wp music-box ; and, once atart•d, I rimU .

not bare an opportunity to in adgewiac until yon hare oompletely. But for thia rith the ’ inexplicable fancy.'

“ ofthedirine

taaayaut badin1 the pouting little woman, *-r small foot impatiently

fined' in beu&g and°‘ 3, ^ 0 ^~’

person with whom ha must doah’

“ Why with yon, dear?” " Because tha object h

tremely aolidtoua to poeecaa has a mrate no a* history known only to my*elf." "^nd that *■'-—

affords a key

seemingly insane offer

refer, I presume," said Henri. " is abaoni on a visit. Can I serve in anything? Will you not step air V Henri threw the door wide or

might eee tha room

that the

raoaut, and hi

. “ Ah I you are the husband .

lady,” remarked the stranger, ■ter peering in, walked In. ■■I have the honor. Pray be ae

m yonrboapitelity

after;

Iwill trespass np u. for a fow momen

No trespass, I assure yon. Solitude

i not the best of companions.”

Without removiug his hat thi ger took the proffered chair. ‘ tarry but a short time" I..

Probably your wife hi

of an offer she received a week * amall, fanciful cornelian or

na in her possession ?"

“ Yea,.lihe did mention the matter to

both wondered

informed you

■sire price *

“ Well," replied thw, atrangor, with a foread langh, the fancy cannot mailer to you ; and aa for the price, if you get it that ought to aatiafy you on that

_—. — . point. I am the man, and I renew the

five hundred offer.” .fh ,0 w a.™

ai^ Henri eyed the ^stranger ^ keenly.

■ere, but a few days previwly, Iting crime had been committed, my enrmieee are correct, this strange

e several time* the fire so rranee to compass its poei. Why? Simply because so tong

ment before him, and cost him the more irreparable sacrifloe of hia head." ••And you hare kept all thi myatery from me,” eomplained Irene.

—, —.— —, i plained I have, bnt will no longer. reirained from making you acquainted

SI’S, with that

Did he, utterly set of hia trenacre, go down upon

knees and beseech of Km to iy v Urn to some intensely rural retreat, there to subaiat upon moonshine and

UTllililtif ■nWi)Mfy"iill

Ida inexplicable fancy that yon be accompanied by •aeh little articles of available value aa thi* poor hotel might afford? Or, was he a wandering <T7 P«J lord, who predicted that yon were to.be the queen of all proud teFEris'S’ilrS-Si P«nd B and take an inexplicable fauey

faUv^htadfetyfaha

^Nor weary listening to yoora, my oharmlng sage,” laughed the volnable Henri, oaraaelng her soft, brown ' fmidly; jmoeea—trom this on I " WelL let all ear* listen. At about

three o'eloek thf

aiMag'latant n. poraibl* atitohos in tha bordarof your finest cambric, there came a sharp !— at the door. I hastened, opened and found myself face to Jam with _ man of middle eg*, who bowed politely

chanced Ip fall on thia little cornelian . —Thleh than, aa how, wu-lying on ]

nm. Ha atrwnmit . ——*

cialed with my finding of the trinket solely from a fear that the knowledge might oaoae yon to conceive a morbid dislike to it, and, as it ia really a pretty toy, I like to see yon wear it And now for the mystery. Do you remember the murder, six years ago, of a nobleman of the name of Comte do Bt. Armando, in the Bae de Germaine ?”

-xsiaonm.y, replied Irene. All Faria was thrilled with horror at the

station. That cross

murder, and hot three days

WttiSf532aas l s= worn by, the nnknowp assassin on tha fatal night in question; and, furthermore, Quit It was wrenched from its fastenings by the hand of the hapless "—hia dying aoraggle. Natan!-

ia day, in apite of the

poliae, and the incentive a tabu-

whole affair remains wrapped in impenetrable myrie^. AfWaFthemj^

etreble mystery. After all thea vaaling yeare, who shall aey tl coming together of su** ww ■ croo* u not the working of retribntive fate ? Too well does the man of inex-

gUoablataa^r know'' ‘

p.;

byIL^tooonidnothtfOThira!" C ° m ' andSSieriS^T 1 " 4 ym® name, age.

loam Tl«*e’’

i°rt, gaaed —rtmovirta 'from - har AhSnJring neck poeremed the chain by whiah it was anspendodnroed firat •• I can now view it with no interest bnt

that of honor i” and she threw it aerv-

onaly into berhusband'a tap.

■ “ Why, yon little fool r said Henri, in a jocose tone,, “are yon going to faint? Are you afraid ofit? Ittaiaat

know that nnnsnal o rences will act the 1 tala tosanntaing.”

"Of o

A New York party named Beynolda, who ha* been spending the summer

iL-

at Danbury, sq the AW* *i

the upper end of Deer Hl_ strolling for hia health, yesterday mi

when he observed ■ boy trying to

3 * kite from so apple trie, wl lodged. Aa Mr. Reynold* ca.

the string broke, leaving the kite up there. With the natural prompting of a humane heart, the gentleman gave hie

ooat in charge of the bey, jnd crawling

over the fence, wae

The boy felt pretty ‘ *■*- Uta, bm

e dried his teen, and scampered off ith it; nnpereeived by Mr. Reynolds,, trying to take an obstinate twig . t—hi. —v ■

e it, wl

denly snapped in two, and be fell some six fret, splitting one of hia pantaloon legs half way up, and running a twig into hia nose with anoh violence aa to make that organ blaed. Fortunately ho waa saved from farther mishap* by catching on a,strong limb. He stopped then to fee! of hia nose, and medi- ' i on thetaeoidait, when a rough voice n below demanded what he waa &- there, and looking down be saw

ill lobt**A?^he last attempt, the leaving Brooklyn at 9 a. U*.-. sixty miles an hour until 1 o'clock, ..when It ‘ *

from the boat to

We have met with a terrible mtaforie. In the mid*t of a terrible etonn rain we were trying to effect a dent, when we thought it was advi*athat we should all leap out. Donmyaelf leaped twenty feet at to the earth. Mr. Lunt, et quick enough, and y, clinging to the *ntall on fee farm of Mr. Oharles Lewis at North Canaan, Litchfield county, Oonn., at 1 dS r. 1L I waa driven over to the town of Canaan, and there, to my great surprise and joy, I found that Hr. Lunt waa all right It

hfork in hia hand and fire in hi* eve Reynold* explained about the kite. ■That won’t do,' 1 said the man. ’Tve bad too many apples hooked from that

now that I’ve got the thief,

ike him dance. ” And the man looked ferociously at Reynolds' fe-

* The unhappy Bey-

"<Vhat r

cilities for dam

It' n't

here.’" Reynolds looked

r of t

at boy F'

o boy

light Ho ebonted » times, bnt there a.. —deserted

stranger, with strong symptoms of aneasiness.. ■• People cannot balp thinking ; that's what breius were made for. But to the point: if yon still possess the cross, and will exchange it for the An offered, that tnm is yonre. Your

V./l. !

ir time, anf

—swing the coveted pocket »«d noting the eager the stranger's eyes as hia me fell upon it Deciding to throat the probe home at onoe, he deliberately

md horror spread

•VThiata very extraordinary,’

stolen my ooat and I most pursue him and reedVar it” said Beynolda, auddenly liecoming frantic over his loss, and preparing to descend. •• O, come down

and catch him,” said -

o, chewing his tc

fork ir

you* abraptneee, my friend—wa ’ ejaentated the

r a* to take in Qie

. .. ons of Hr. Reynold’a

body. That gentleman saw the preparation* in time to stop. “ Why, you wouldn't run that fork into mo, y— old idiot ? " •' Who are yon calling old idiot you miserable whipper-enap-per," shouted the old chan, aa ho in-

> way. "What do yon mi I remark?” ' Listen, and I will tell yon," replied ari, folly convinced that h* waa on — right track, aafata visitor indecisively aat down again. "Listen, and I will tell yon what I moan. Thia eroaa, for

cnap, aa no in-

the ‘foot of tho tree, and glared fiercely at his victim. *•— and rob me, yon villain,

them L, ...

“z

tree an' blawiheme in'yon, will I ? Yee, I'd run it into hundred of ye.” Mr. Reynolds

Panaing a Henri fixed hta burning eyM*"im*5ie atrengar'a. Speaking slowly and em phaoixing every word, be oontinaod " I found this arose on the 3d of Js. aiTjISIB, on the Rue de Germaine.'

ta of Qie above,

“o UateBing mai -'"-g change, and dreadfnl.

indeed, aa though he had heard tl

pronounced. The muecleeof hia face twitched oonvnisivoly, hia under-jaw fell, hia eyes rolled oonvnlaively in their rockets aa though foUowing the --aro—'--* x hoRidgob-

-•'.fii he said, despairing of reasoning tho owner of tho orchard. “I you to pay me five dollars, and get out of this orchard as fast aa your rascally lags can taka you.” Mr. Reynolds hesitated. It waa bad enough to lose a ooat- min hta pants and split hta nose to help an evil boy out of trouble, without being bombarded with epithets, and charged five dollars for the performanoe. He tl ought he would jump down bn the old man and crush him, bnt he looked at the fork and repented of tho design. Than he drew loQar bill and dropped it ly, and hnmiliaiingly slid down roc, reaching hia feet juat in time old. a kick toe irate man si— * -■

He wae helped ont of the the, fork handle, ~ ’ ’

•Martha hoM,

condition of nervona prostration that at firat threatened to remit seri-

ously. ...

I • tita

the balloon

Wo had about 13 into a st

himself near tho earth; a tree and fell down dies upon the rdbka en walked over to a at hand. Of oomse everything waa lost

very pleaaanl time of it np to 'cloek, when wo began to get

~ itchfield county.

into a valley, where all motio balloon was suspended,-and wi

1 —idea in s ’

boat, letting tl

- — r The balloon ght and shaken with violent

wind. DonsTdai

ttodo. Atflhit we thought we lit till the balloon came down, '—‘ - n * 1 '- ropes and drop " “

iray^howevor, fad inorea

m suoa vikSnc* that thia-seemed ... rly impracticable, and Lunt advised e valve should be opened. We were w suddenly shaken in a gust of wind

valley. The rain, y' ’ ’

ing in torrents, boa

is told that wild

thin ten miles i ‘

of Maryland, he ikely to be inerednlona. A visit I Ohincoteagne will enre hta akeptietae Wild ponies are abundant here, and hundred of them may be seen in a be bonr'a walk from ue Atlantic Hole lobody knows how they got here. Tl Ideal inhabitant remember* of hearing is grandfather say that they were on he island when hews* a boy. Probably hey were careering over the Bead hill* when the first settler crossed the round. There ta a tradition that some groat Virginia gentleman, of 900 year* ago, waa bringing over a pair of ponies from England, and that the ship which carried them ■waa wrecked off Aaaateague “ ’ the ponies were waahed aahore,

and were the progenitors of tbs litt animal* that now feed upon the mars]

■ of Chinootesgue.

In the last century they were com

thst the proprietors of the island e

y claim to t’ ■ ' '

. their taud*. When the her became the owner* of the roil they be-

K5 , i^r-“ T “

Miss Anna E. Dickinson opened oourpe of lecture* and readings with

new^ieoture^entitisd,^

‘■A thing very few people know how to Hve—not to exist merely, ‘ be alive. Character ta d~“—

people recognise thia fact rimn—In Hi ni i'll nil. 1-1 T 4

a destiny. Fow

id holea, and if chipped off, or driven in. — *•— : - 3i -idn*lity of the

a®

£*”

daughter

cultivated would t

have f-voIoeTwhio

rhieh should mechanic; y t each ta dtaoouraged from pnrauing the bent of natural genius, becanao suoli a oonne wonld ' ' "

God i

year, until forty yean eg

in the island that * nobody. Many we

- „ 'clothe talept tto little good ta done in ' because so few know w o bo done. There ta ao U

anse ao few people ki c for. Existing ta it we love the woi . take pains to learn

^ ^ ^ Mmy people think

, tint they don't oven

t tho

entered

down again, spinning over the trees, aero** a small toward a bonk at the bottom c

Donaldson said, •* To ready to jump ont,

at the aide of the boat.

and thought

placed himself

Lnnt had taken care of himself. When

we wore about twenty f earth, Donaldson and I ji

« ^ Wn were both very much

' bnt nothing seriona happened. _ -v- looking —

Donaldson, ■boulder as I write this, says I have iereatimated the distance wo jumped, Hid that it was thirty feet One thing ta, the ground was softened by the' pouring rain, and therefore a leap from a considerable height would bo attend-

found and those

it relate* hi*

Wo were attaokmf by i tre--u— squall of wind and rain at driven near the Berth with fright-

ful velocity. Everything w

overboard withbnt a*

dashed to the Ford sprang on

the air, b

e balloon shot

: whirled about in the nnor. I ebonted t ireotaons, but could aa left to my own rei

w boy, bnt neithc: icon otaeovered.

win ho recovered hta faculties, sprang

hissing between hta teeth, •• the teiiieg of that tale ta yi

"Children’s ear* should hover be oxed," to writes an eminent anrgeon in the Popular Science Monthly.

an >- -m. A_-w

Just es hia muscular head doeedoB- . rearively on Head’a throat, l —* 1 violently jerked backwards, si found himself in the tenseionB cl

of the two gendarmes.

"So ho l my fine fellow!" ejaculated “of the officers. "We are altogether

for the future

SSSTS polio* with the story,"in aU Us bearings,

perpetrate such ■ crime. Ton have doasbsd enough^ slrrody to tatn^you

Foiled villain glared suddenly ■e to the other, and made no alright, ” remarked tho office

—e Wore. ‘Take it eaayshow* yon to be a phOoaepber *ad

Though the statement will daubtleea

: yed by many ( ‘

Igbt of a self evAueu* propoamon, i may yet remain a fow parents and pedagogues to whom the reasons so abolition of this form of rebuke may be of intereat. We have write* Profeasor Hinton, thst tin ‘ 'ha ear la dosed bya thin peotally adapted to be infin-

5p

The W with awful foroe, and I could see noth ing, ao thick Waa the cloud. I eeizei tlievalrmoord end attempved to open it Could not open it. The cord becami entangled with the neck. Snddenl; tree tope abet np through the fog, am in an instant the balloon was whirllnj through the branches. I climbed on. of the boat to a place above the ring, and ia the balloon rushed into e thioke oT trees I swung myself ont and droppei among the branohea. The boat scraped over me and detached my hands, dropped to the earth, anrprtaed to f myaeif unhurt. I started to walk bi in the supposed right direction, I

tahindj inoludi

■all I

torment it. Everybody love in the miser holds it sa hi

- -- - - -i -uo have not raid, ‘ What a^a - . „ into herdn with- ,io with mvself? I hai

ont regard to ownership, and each herd time • I'm' bored with II

it—lf *" - particular^rauge. , lUmg'u.cy lovo beet. The

quarter of l*« island to anotiier, bnt I *«,, » 0 m^h't^^ear^^alid this does not often happen. There are hoars ore - - ■

■i. j shonld do^

ime* a herd will migrati

tr of tfre island to anotner, aes not often happen. There aoont thirty persons who own pom

all of whom, with two < tions, live on the island.

__ , , mired head, t a person ta considered well off if ho s his brand upon .twenty or thirty, oh herd is governed by s male—a

np to tho postticm of

by thrashing all his

driving them into th„ . where they were drowned. AU usurp were remorselessly expelled from I herd, end if they were not lulled tl 1 — bold bandits, and bang sbi

lee sa happened

their protectors. With „ i.j , n j became pros-

indod

orohs tiemaelvi...

day on the island is "penItbough of late it hae lost bolidsy attractions. For-

Tbe great ims^T’ita

..erly tbs \ congregated at the Atlantic Hotel to -Mist in Identifying the poniea, and is island beauties came because their itiers and mothers and brothers and

rere there.

On Cliinooteague'Island the si i front of the Atlsntio Hotel is

has been built on the chore of s—. . logs. Men and boys monnt tom ponies and start ont to bring in th herds. They gallop to the pastor grounds, end after mnch yelling, (a* riding, and some little swearing, the - anage to drive one of the herds dow the shore. Nearly all the booses o:

ray then

good time ; but very few people are in earnest even in having a good time. They ray they wonld liko to do certain things, bnt for what people wonld ray. They make slave* oi themselves for strangers, and forego tho pleasnra and profit of doing as they please in order to please other poojxle who donl care's Uiis' , Tioldin<r'"to the whtaf^othere

They

of living.” Mias Dickinson vid picture of the life of a lo lady, devoted to dress.

o few, she

irmon«y-|jct-

f£T» ' ir the

mtten .d snch a deed, provided the book c

io deed bo well done.

dividual the difference is that between n add boll Mira Dickinson oloscil i brilliant picture of a sunrise on

i* widths, representing

double rows of fine braid, they ooat $2. or else *2.25 for a doaen pieces, each containing six yards. Star braid is 82 for a piece containing twenty-f— yard*. Inoh-wkle braids are 35 o cents a yard. There are stylish durable trimming* for English wall jackets, polonaise*, water-proof*, ohUdren'a elothen. Yak laeea cost fx— 75 cent* to *1.23. for the trimming widths, which are fr— *— *- —

inches ; beaded yaks

a ' are newer, and worm iron

Worsted fringes cost *1.

thereabouts.

Silk trimmings for faiUea, velvet, and ibmere have many finelycut Jet b * tern&ingled, and also some bine i sds. Inch-wide galloon made lively of jet costs from 90 cents to *1.40 ithor pattern* partly Jet, with showing, cost from *1 to *1 Another novelty is tho f mirage re cord*, lady's finger. Price fr d. Han J

a *2.50 to

wrought in

ir braid

Iging tassels rich with let,

placed upright i polonaises ; they from *2.50 npwa:

-Jul/^croeh ted the baekof velvet m. without beads

idingly id they will rivsl

“a*?!?

width for trimming black silk di wraps. Those mode entirely 1 cut jet beads are *4 or *5 a yard.

With latticed cord heading thickly etrewc with jet and a jot bell hanging, they cost from *2.25 to *4.75 a yard.

An elegant fringe, i ' '

heading and taaacla _ , *8. Crimped tape fringe in with jet balls and taraols, is *4 new corled tape fringe, Uke i

shaving, ta *4 ; bnt with our —— * issels ever a regular sewing-silk fringe

is only *2.25.

Diamond-steel bnttons, cut in beau ful deaigna, coal *2.50 a doieu lot tin quartor-of-a-dollar silo, which ia mos used ; others of more elaborate cutting ' from *7 up to *21 a doten. The dark blue steel buttons for trim g dresses and wraps of granite one slate colors, blue and black, coat 82.71

n. The plain smoked

id pearl b ily 75 cent

«'be.u-

tliiok^ buttons arc ■re^blaok, with | e.en on imported

Hon She Takes the Train.

shall be there to see it; and remi louutain tops tho glory of the Lord ta

express wagon, uya an

form, to keep it from beh K 'eka np ber reticule, ueh-liasket, small pot

^huit in it, shawl, paper bag

ith a hooa

andy.

fered th

pen ta reached. Here a crowd oi men are standing, and they turn the head of theflying eolnmn into the square. Some of the ponies suspect treachery and nm into tho water, but the riders doah after thorn, and soon tho whole herd ta forced into the pen. The colta atiek close to their dams, and in aU the roaring and plunging about through the pen they never become separated. A stout man, with a long polo in hia hand, and a loopae]f°a the met" * ""'***

aa the ponies r

s Kips tl

Honesty Rewarded. A few days since a business Detroit lost hia pocket book, but

atom, several blocks distant, contained some reoeipta and othe.

pers of no value except to the firm, ho retraced hta -*— *

ler the eh

d probably ' 'or upon reaching tin

tin ” rushed mi will

gamin r a, " Mtatar, here

and then stood axpoct-

ont of sight

o support it

a. Clover, in an October magamn

the story of-a member of the Vil. ■elaer family who lately died, at

the age of 78, aa follovra:— ° id he waa niggardly a

declared he

a, and tor bearing and in-

air in front of it ? If

“«S,:

ofit? If anyone overstretch tile a

rions; tha

and genero— dulgmt to a fault Thai ha to unprovemeata or changes of kind, the dilapidated condition of which be lived, and the deeay-

g fences around, moat

«S*£

The little fellow plunges about and I “ shales hia head most fnrionsly, bnl all I , Tpr

to no purpose; the men benl' Llm ont JT'

and throw him down on hta right aide, i “Jv, All thia time the branding iron has be*" ““ “* 1 “'

heating at a fire near by, presided o\ by anndry urchins who take delight this part of the performance. The fl of the iron aometimee bean the init lettan of the owner's name, and eon times ft ta a simple monogram, inch a circle or square, to which the owe

lays claim. .

When the colt has been thrown a b brings an iron from the fire, and it

S by. agantli

iat he (the boy) know to v it. and why lie returned which the little follow (i

n inquired bow it hap-

x* than to bring tha hand suddenly „

and patient lietemer, and waa only too glad to detail twr subordinates to further ntehemr that promised to result

justice. Early in the m

ra your friend SsSTaMSiS i wovido na with a: Unluckily, we earn got to bring the p

■ early Hta,'dn« to the qppoMtion < I relatives to hta marriage with a young - girl in the humbler walks of Ufe, to ’ -*■— t— waa warmly attached, he lived

o the city on a visit to ac

d order may b it nn child shou!

— , orbed in troubled thought a few minutae, as though

that the wae not to retnra until be ea

parture came the arrival of two darmaa. who were forthwith aeorv— _ bar bnt recently vacated bedroom, thereafter to make their reutree in the

station at the window, and behind hta I UUnda become a silent and in-

an. In fact, we wore rather un n of having the plaaenre of yon: oomnany on your return.” "Sor will yon hare that pleasnra,' growled the hitherto quieaceht captive ‘' mly striking out with hta twt ■fid anna, upeoUicg the officers, mover the table on which stood

tahment until the parent or i hae stopped to reason—first child and then with himself.

t the sale of hta lenda, thareon of bn Hd Inga by the Unltod _ State* Government,

only burua through aearoaly soara tha akin. I year-old colt branded w — hta feet, and it did nol burning. ly the time the colta _ —o been branded the driven have driven another hud down to the shore. The first are allowed to ran back to their paeture grounds, while the next in r is driven into tho pen and the subjected to the marking process, dime* the oolta escape till they era two or oven three years old, and •*-— they are modi harder to handle.

formerly itaerty UUsTfrThtaattemi to’^ob^ poetmaater at River Bend, on tho Kansas Paoiflo Railway, '

sanal erected, at Watarvliot.

gar who enaaed from Albany on Greenbnah ferry-boat bronght the sfa ling report that it was in contemj

’ there moat bo

their own in regard to According to thi* law st 1 sail Alfrkt itnnM 1 —

ock by eitiier oar, bat be escaped unhurt. o perfect me t? JS*T~P-

HkMi be

! ««tb*nkaf theHudeoCHvertromthe • city of New York through Green bukh

le; for inatanee. whan thay found a suitable stand for awaah-bonse — there ta not the proper number m between it end the next-

dm was of c x Should c

extremely haxardet

likelyk^be g^dejf^» j dejg«ato

r.atora at nearly all timer *• > intention of the anthorit

V DO profit. ] direeton of tl

1 generally ec

M time of the St'l^rm*^ e'uc

J to fata knowtadge, be resolved J

„o. took pneeeaeion o' the building, and earried off the wounded bandit It is noweappceod that be ta oemoealod ■ theRod^momitaio*, and aahehoa

he sum fixed upon • ia three hundred . —®h waa offered to „ itKTui* t * company took hia land he ■

val- the place they wt

- shanty ia which they placed a door—no f window* or anything elae tw shneid

i uuwr.cx, ne* were, sue • of tha law ha* bacn oi

puehase *f a raOny ticket entitlea the pesaangar to a seat haa again been decase refused to give up hia ticket until ESS-SlSaSS v. re crowded, and that there waa no • latwhieh the conductor could Intro

_£S?S , ,

— after hta do- A gontlomi eeaae, they were notified by an officer daughter dipt -• (ms of the banka in Poughkeepsie a

it fifteen hundred dollar. lad been on deposit to hta credit ainee tho road was first surveyed, and waa then subject to their order. Thus, for that long

haaAehild? Ton oui’todor red

“Tea, I can, pa, b

aa beer that nmde your nosa red." And lbe man hoi fansfmea Umt r, I qnired him down town iffimsdiataly.

i waa to "go , replied that he

or by reading o: (I® waa a receipt,) * ■g it, " *-

(•nol— ,

started to walk away, bnt d by the gentleman, '

returned m

on honest boy. Ton have thia pooketbook which yon

■aac nsu ..ere, ta not worth a dollar. Still I recognise the fact that an honest boy ia the noblest work of God. Ton

should be rewarded, and yon '

(The boy pnt in a modest dtaelalmor.)

fail to reword yon handaoi

ente and r

imely. I ones itainingthirtv-

■treet-car. That night a man brought it to my atore, and I gave him the thir-ty-seven cent* for hie trouble. All the newspaper* I looked into the following —eek contained items to the effect that,

Mr. Jones, a poor but honest picked np in a streetcar on auc evening, a plethoric pooketbook.

Uinlrg, beeidoe valuable papers, oh. , drafts, eta, eta, a large aum of money. The address of a well-kr ‘

doing burin esa at Na —. — (giving my street and number)

j my street and number), wu ^ in the oapaciona pooketbook, Jones immediately took a ret

— -D restore the property to its ow.

Upon reaching the More he foci •-—‘inhia ‘ ' ~

private office, regaling >e-eral friends on importcigars, and wu rewarded

: jty by the merchant hand-

^^Hnga, whioh, as Us'i

ed to ten pent*, wonld leave hi

“ Now, my lad, yon (ain't play that

ma I'm not going to be called sad atingy again. I don't happen

to have any money with o

pooketbook doesn't contain It ia asking yon too much

you to drop & my Wore thi*

bnt ban cornea a friend wbc

tiara. Take it, my boy, end find a pooketbook oF min*

it for vanr honeatv ! ”

to request

'friend who will loan

to the height * ength of the shadow of the tree to its height. For instance, if the atiek ta lour feet above the ground, and its shadow ta rix feet m length, and the shadow af tho tree ta ninety feet, the height of the tree srill be sixty last bright of the stick, and divide by •Wow of the atieL

travels wither

, .-id extra vail aud chases hysterically after gine that goes by. nnd that it ta ber train. R„ .... as she presents herself st the

nr the impression

the handle door of the old dionsed tool-boose, id vain hopcs that the baggage-i

isks everybody in the depot and on the ilatform when the train will start and ■here it will stand, and, looking straight * ; “What time

m shy her trank into a car o smoking, instead of

laeUinalai ' '

jy iteelf in a large; strong,

ip by-_

with “ Bad order, sbo^is,"

chalked on the side, which she hi ego determined to be the baggsge-car, sa the only ufe one in sight. Altiiongh

to the end of her journey in an ij of apprehension that ehe has got he wrong train add will be landed

-. „ i, pnt in a close carriage, dragged, and murdered, and to every last male passenger who walks down the aisle she stands up and preseuta bet ticket, which she invariably carries in her hand. She finally roeognixes her waiting friends on the platform, leaves the ear in a burst of gratitude, and the train ta ten miles awsy before she remembers thst her reticule, fan, paraaoj, - lunch basket, verbena, shawl, candy (ambler, veil and bouquet are on the ear seat where she left them, or in tho depot at Peoria, for the life of

her she can t tall which.

^a.iOTVaew- ’■**•** ■»;—;

rippi until November, 1874. "Jay Oooke was only remotely oc

Bngsr Factory this year srill m

artfiOO,-

s undoubtedly

Forty Tear* ago there were tree mDee of railroad in th

rays report, will bo larger than s winter. They are aaeuming a weight dangerous to tho oom-

lot quite 5,000,000 bushels of grain the

was recently dug up at Miuerc Mo. It weigh* 00,000 pound* a worth almost *200,000.

3 tho death of member* elect.rince the imminent of 00ugross last march. ' tail is pendiog in Chicago to re-

, Tha land ta now woi

Riven ti

ibling debt of orth *80,000

cording to the tastes ol

"No.”

— one of hia, iso, for then I may have a chance to

at a bit in my month."

Alabama has 22 farmers granges ; Artnsas, 20 ; Georgia, 86 Louisiana, .. ; Mississippi, 202; North Carolina, 41; South Carolina, 133 ; Tennessee,

-- Texas, 3; Virginia, 8.

a yellow-fever speech to tho Mem- ‘ phis Board of Aldermen the other day. Mayor Busby made the startling re- *- •' Tee, gentlemen, wo are, to s iblo degree, guilty of murder." _ jeouri clergyman was lately called upon to marry fourteen couple in one day, and hta fees amounted to fifty pounds of driod apples and a dno bill for eighteen bushels of buckwheat. The Italian residents of Philadelphia ve determined to erect a monament Christopher Columbus. Tho statue will, Jt le proposed, be twelve feet high, and ooat, with the pedestal, *19,-

ma

lend, Ma,

y, Having a ids of ft, and ■

ly above the bill was written, "1 is stolen, it will be after it leas Kittery Po»t-offioo. ” Fifty yeare ago the following i tisement appeared ir * ru—

;wo wiU “ 8 " Cora only twenty-five cents a bush>1 in Chariton, Iowa, and thousands of bushels for sale, yet not a pound of meat to bs had in town,” waa the indignant expression of a disgusted for-

mer in that place the other day.

Special dispatches from St. Petersburg report that a rupture has occurred in the relatione between the govern-

Russis and Japan, growing question of the proprietor-

ship of a portion of Saghallen Island. A German servant girl in Baltimore, fourteen yeare old, on being delected

itesling, drank a tumbler fall of

iter containing taro drachms o. rosivo sublimate, and died after tqrriblo agony, lasting twenty-five bonis.

The executive i_- - tennlol Horticnltnral Society Philadelphia end adopted re* providing for the holding of an nal exhibition in 187* by the A( - under the

Pomological Society, under the superrtaion of committees of the latter. gentleman, who takf* a business

raked respecting a person of quite a , poetic temperament, replied : " Oh, he is one of those men who have soarings after tho infinite and divings after the ■'ithomable, bnt who never pay

Sand Baths,

therapeutist of London thinks ho

baa discovered an infallible

mely, the admintatra-

baths. He dab the advantage of this mode of

' constats eepeetaUy in the f*

is not (oppress perspiration like ot-wster bath, bnt rather increases - . Jd another advantage it possesses ta, that it does not interfere with the respiratiqn^of the nationt, es does the stsam-lirfh or Turkish bath. It ta aa

' tha* the body ean ondnre "

ha bate'

——highr- •—-JZSoan also be applied. It e ■-*—*- —* permits of easy mpplleatiou

to the wholo body. If thi*

remedy shall prove efficacious f— -- seriona an ailment it will indeed

Urge class of rafferora.

Snropua Con or BowxamiuLiaM.few nights sine* a sailor living in ease on Man joy, Maine, over whic passes a telegraph wire, dreamed th

lie wos on board ship, and that some i_

i-d taughtnlng. He got

thereof of the house.

S’

'indlng M oouU is called to a aUpmate who was aleep-

Hta cries awoke the msii ip and discovered the oth-

,—ions Position. Taking bold of his leg to prevent his falling, the j ibulist waa awakened, when.

thoBgbfritrebaw , , —*- oomAenoed hauling on tho wire. — a finally got down from hta dangerous position Without harm.

i supposed to be

a gems ca

vrination of th* jewelera ' lud to he worth ssoo.odo, -

ssggjjteasjjttia ssst.

js,®' ■ "

sued hta proclamation dr „ lief in the recent opinion of A

General Morris that, under the tution, no election can be held tin til

November, 1874. s' ~

State officen. sod a ialaturc will be el

ingreaamen, of th* Leg-

Now ta the time to guard against conflagration. The winter ooraee on apaoo, and stovea, grates, heaters and all other appliances for infosing -rhioh have been unused ainee

the beginning of the soon brongbt into serrlco.

ta better and cheap Whan i

The London Saturday Review Urns sums np its objection to Obas. Reade's last pnMuetiom “ A Simpleton "A novel ought to be a novel, and not lobe stuck all over with hints upon housekeeping, plans for killing abarka, suggoationa aa to oetrioh farming, and observations open tho geology of diamond-

public debt afaowa the month of September of *1,901 which makes the total rednotion

during 01,407,

L »?®. B88,68b,«u. tho at of com in the poesesaion of the ta given at *80,248.757, while

against this coin amounted a month ago to SSS.SOffrcc —s u •- *44,483,001

—river of stolen goods. She h»d been a Jowees, bnt a few days before her arreet aba .had been baptised a* a Catholic. Tha data of birth raua in

> date of hi

Therefore, the woman, when on trial, made tjie ingenious plea that ahe waa m infant not oome to tho yean of and oonld not be legally

to be a good one, end ao

Jb:

id aoqnitted her.

and said“ Allow n

Jar, and seeing me

you," and, taking np two twenty-five cent cigars, he presented the one and took th* other—aotoaHy paying half of the dollar I hod just giWhiS. for tSfc . cigala. “ Bean, 1 ’ I said, '• yon are m-