iTgEu.

STAR OF THE CAPE.

VOL. V.

CAPE MAY CITY, N. J., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1873.

NOJ 48.

toraiMMart'qMiM i . „ d«r what U* qaiok aeuM told him, tho ■ deadlj^poril ol tha Uttie one. Bat he The Indian wea drawing awer: thp Wy atep he waa inaraaaing tha dlatanoe, ward and downward. fh/'parraU aaw in hi" hideonaly patnl the fell pnrpoae that' a d actor. “ God aid me I" Branaon muttered, aa be rata ad bia rifle, glancinir throngh the aishta, and touched the trigger. Tha Indian atartad riolently at abet. He waa bit, bnt not badly, i with a yell of darUiah triumph ^oo Fow by a conple of inch) aaid a low, calm roioe at the aettl elbow. Branaon atartad aa though he hinraelf bad baeat ahot. Where waa th’ from? Who waa be? Neilb him approach. Bnt there tor oxpliaetione. “

A SHOT FOB A LIFE.

open either beak bold, ragged cliffs, that lift fbidr summits Ore hundred and a thousand feet, aa the case may be, above the stream, there lived in early timea a aetiler by the name of Bnfuf Branaon, who, with hie wiieSmd little child, a charming young girl ‘ eomo right or nine years of age, ooc pied the rnde cabin at the beae of t! preeipioe a little bock from tho river. ' Although greatly expoaed to dang! the fed taws at that time being re plentiful throughout the region, L. managed to live qnietly for several ^e Indiana frequently vieited the rude home of the hunter, and being always welcomed end provided with puch food ae waa in tha larder, they maintained a Iriendly attitude. Especially wan they fond of the child, iiaggie, and more than one fierce warrior bad boon seen Bitting on tha grass in front of tbs cabin, listening to the childish prattle of the little one, or else engaged In making her some toy or plaything

height, whoee fine, at! fully displayed by' bia closely fitting bnekakln garments, stepped quickly forward a few paces, and firmly planted hie left foot in advance, threw np an unusually long rifle, ss though pr

iag to fire.

For God’s sake, stranger, be

fnl of my child 1" cried Branson, while

In thia ^ „ passed, and Rufus Branaon came to feel ae eeenre aa though ha waa within the walla of a frontier fort One evening Branaon and hia wife were seated near ' the doorway, when auddenlyra shadow fall aeroea the throabold, and the next moment a tall savage, whose reeling eiep andlrioodahot eyes told that be waa them. His first demand waa for fire water, which was, of oourae, refused,

e n °wKto

a, and although he dreaded y, yet he aaw be would be rompeUe^ o take prompt steps to — vent the *— *•--

m wilPTbSw of hit flat, and I quietly diannned and bound him where he lay. After a few momenta of furious ravings and futile efforts to free himself, the savage rolled over and sank into a drunken sleep. He did not awake until the next morning, bnt before be did so the settler had^quirtly remm '

2£“:

sharp click! d , “ 5 '- -k, told that the oritual By this time the Indian had nearly reached the aummit of the steep. That' as upon a broad ledge of rook he paused for a moment Thia opportunity waa seized by the unknown. Although tho savage had taken the precaution to hold the child up in bout of him aa a covering nearly the whale ef his r chest, but leaving his head unL tho stranger did not hesitate jug the shot. me second, aa it gained its potbe rifle wavered, end then ina vice. With clasped hands and staring eyes the parents watched the stetuo-liko form upon which BO much

depended.

Suddenly a sharp report rang out; the white smoke drifted away, and aa the virion become clearer, th

savage loose his hold upon

reel wildly an instant, and t * * — **— rooks. It may bo imj father was not long in reaching the place where hia ohild lay,

was in its mother's anna. Tell us who you are, tha!

iwwhat name to mingle pray eta,’* exclaimed the mother, es the

stranger prepared to depart.

“ Hy name is Daniel Boone," he aaid

and vastly. improved E

id many a di*

. a Orieto ety’e spent money lavishly „ht that he must poea<

millions, and tha Don tacitly allowed thia idea to exert what influence it might, until an episode of one of his dashing

suspicion of hia native high degree. Amongst the guests on the in question was a gentleman

■seen there before and .

to regard hia bost^with peculiar

flushed with wine, this

The dispatch from Omaha giving paronlara of the prairie fire at Wilbur, a the South Platte division of the Imaha end Southwestern Railroad, tailed to convey an idea ofjhe terribly angenm^poei^ n

sewage, on awakening, rose slowly to hia net, felt hia wrists, ae though the thongs bad left a feeling there, took np iirsMk - b< " Wbat5o you th the wife, taming to frighten sd look. " Pshaw I Don't trouble your about the drunken brute I" ansthe settler, lightly; but aa he ti avrajr sad stepped into the yard he "Lika It? Well; not much. The fallow tanai be watched. I waa in hope* that ha would not have remember " but that lump where my flat landed enough, if nothing else, to recall iHj * “ ■ er not tar from the houae-owight ' - re lurking in IhTbnahes, sj ■ when he adindiSnuiaou

flumes and burned, six of them to J Tho school house was situated i direot line of the fire, but the pi tion bad been takao to have the ground Lately surrounding it ploughed is prairie grass for what had been id a safe distance from it out he ground. The flames, as stated, approached the school with bightful rapidity, and the children looking out Upon the vast field of flame end smoke became wild - fear end unmanageable.

a Retailed But aa the

in the belief that they ware raving themselves from destruction by so doing, ran out through the grass toward their homes. Before reaching points of gaiety tan of them certainly, end it la now t - u * eleven, were caught by the ad-

lames, in which three or four wn to be almost instantly death, three more ao aerio—

1^ burned that they i-nunot recover, ■

imed for life. A tragically : addition to the tha terrible ao

bnralng children was the appearance of the mother of one of the vietiras makingber way franl|cally through

ing and aaviag'her child. 'She late, however, “* *~*~

realize her poei

In the winter of 1K0 thera'i New Orleans from Havana a Spaniard about thirty years old. Instead of going to a hotel hia first burineaa upon landing waa to inquire in passably good English, at various stores and houaea near the wharf, for information of garret story to rent, aa no other shod, would suit Us particular need, and he wished to secure such a one immediately. ’ The stranger paid hia small rent In advance and did not choose to give any name, fitted hia trunk into * Ms garret ^windows in place of oote for tire pigeons, which wen ently seen to fly in and outof it ing established itspigeonry.the sti seemingly adopted e reserved, on ful life in hia lonely lodgings, buying cheap meals for himself end hie leathered charges at the market, and assuming n poverty of English words, by wUeh all ovarturea for familiar oonverAU that could be learned of UahSlts that when

in he

Near the close of the second year — was absent from his garret several weeks, end then reappeared in a gorgeous carriage, with Uveriee, to carry off hia trunk of pigeons and return thither no more. Obviously some greet change had oome over the apirit of hia life, for in a few weeks more he

occupying coatly

m garret, anc er obaervera wl

lonely to my sru business and give no heed to the performances of the others. When stare were on the stage I watched them closely to learn

work. Thna it came about that little idea how Meg Merriliea waac ed or played, and never having ral ed the part, was entirely ignorant of the bnainees. While I was conning — lines, and walking back and forth hind the eocnee, waiting for the enrtain to rise on tho play, tho manager came to me again in great diatreaa. • I have forgotten to provide'e ringer in the pert of the yonng Gypsy,' he exclaimed. What shall we do r ‘I don't know, I m sure,' replied L But, after thinking .ug a moment, I added, “Perhaps, when I oome to thpplaoe, loan manage to introduce the song myself. I will try,’ and thus relieved, tho manager left ms “ In much trepidation I listened at _. the wings trying to oatoh some inspiration from the progress of the play, whan I overheard the closing words in the dialogue between Hstteralck and the Gjjjsy—jnat preceding theap- — i of he?'Oh, she dotes.’ To which

a stately mansion on Royal street

j, in 1856, he gave some of the

finest social entertainments

immediately sprang^ before the ed and discovered me ho gave an *

which I

Mr. Braham

ont the evening,

m be bed ones m

exclamation of surprise and declared emphatically to these near him that be

had finally recognised i Don Joae Castillo e

foreigner to wl

ticket in the Hutuub iusku/ wuium uau ultimately dawn a heavy capital prize. The foreigner had heard of hie purchase of the ticket and came to him to buy, which be had aescandal at once, detracted from” the present patrician pretenaioni of the splendid Cuban, i its rapid circulation in society led thaeUmtationofnaa ' of the Don's flat ye alone, however, mig Castillo greatly ha equal to report. But he waa not a milllonalre. Hia costly style in Royal street waa really exhansting hia gold at fearful rate, end just aa the jere concluding that, whatever history and practices, hia final . — r—|—jp-M*, the fine house, furui_j, and horses went into the hands of the sheriff! With the crash he disappeared abruptly from high Ufa, leaving hia lata fair weather friends to solve

eared me somewhat, and I the part, giving it in all important particulars the interpretation and action

’ retained. Iiaw

^ I wee continually surprising him, but whether pleasant* or not I oould not tell. Aa we had n rehearsed together, and I was coni qnently ignorant of the stage bnaines . I had to trust whoUjy to my intuitions,

rleparplcrity.

“.when I came to the cradle am which I managed to bring in auoce fully, Braham fairly glared at me laxcmsut. My nerves were sorely led, bnt I punred out my whole heart the song, end aa I gradually drew ar and bent down over Braham,

iwlyjitopping my hand

memory that the trutl

une out. Of a really re speetable though not wealthy '-_ulj c Cuba, be had been infatuated with th. lottery business of Havana from the dawn of his maubood^ aid, aftor^dr - „ fcHawing [ idea: He would go to New Oceans, where many tickets were regularly bought, and take thither a brood of eerrier pigeons. After the birds were duly domesticated sad familiarized, an "—*■—'* —re to him by each

SetawLmtiS

drawings of the lottery took place, the numbers of the tickets drawing prizes for New Orleans should be rent *- which would —*— *'

One day after reheanal the loading lady of the theetoo waa suddenly seized with indisposition. In the dilemma that areas the manager begged Mias Cushman to go on and read the part of Meg Merriliea that evening. Mias Cushman obligingly consented, bnt with no intention of reading the pert. She took the lines to her room and bad them at her tongne's end by nighttaU. But to nee her own words, as v« retaember 1 “I bad never paid any enneider-

kas been Droved moat emphatically true in the experience of the present year. The large shrinkage that occurred in June and July baa not and cannot be 1 from, no matter how good the be all tha fall. Upon visiting Hon. Hams Lewis of

early in September, e good opportunity was offered for noting the effect of full feeding all the milking season to ^reL. is om of those dairymen who believe that grass is the cheapest and best food for producing milk, and that it pays to give milk cows all they can consume of it at all times. In acco.dance with this belief he baa fed his cows all summer, with one tittle exception. Becoming alarmed in June about hia supply of srinter feed, he dut end stored in hia I the fint growth of orehard grass had been designed for early aoil-

ut atUl powerful < ■ptionof the chan " I immediately

ra rolling c new I had mi

P " After the play was over, and I had

affright, feeling —— e for my inadequate acting. to tha door I framed in words

ing, 1 Mias Push man, 1 have on thank yon for e genuine gratiflu.,,, If you had played Meg Merriliea Loudon aa you have played it herenight, your fortune would be made.' “And were you not immediately pro-

•• Oh, no, certainly not. I had bnt me my duty in the place where I — . it, and I continued two years loz aa walking lady at the Park thea_ with a salary of $20 a week, and only iwo-thirds of that when tha bnaineaa

o CRT.

the street pedestrians are few and far between. A lady is rarely met, and when met is ^almost invariably clad in

, , — than carrying pass angora, and so the K ' ‘ 1 — dimed mules dash along at a . rata.' The hearse, with its nodding plumee, snowy white or raven blank, is “-e moat familiar vehicle on the of Memphis. One would think .«that it waa never ont of right. It is fast losing its ghastly appearance, — familiar have wo become with its Icons form. Bnt it no longer moves with the atetely funeral solemnity wl ’ ' 1 hmreeterixed it. ' orteble, the hones _. _ 1 spruce, and show their keepthe vehicle moves off to the house of death with the speed of a sporting fonr-in-hand dashing along Harlem Bead to the Jerome Perk raees. city schools are all closed. The fy ham of happy children'a voices is d, and from the pUy-gronnd there r no joyous ahonta or ringing ter, but a solemn aUonee reigns

ter to the rick, or e lawyer to draft the lest will and testament of the dying ; or the sounds of the wheels of a vehicle here end there, harrying off wit' pie on the same mission; or the thy step of oome thief prowling ’ "uses ; or of some solitary policeon hia beat, watching for the thief. ?aa. tight, which in * ohs«ri°R effect, onh make latum of the

growth of hair has also been reoom- »- liable to take sold that Walter Savage

A French ManhaL izaine it describe . . t aa neither large Sort. The bust and htaau gre large—heavy. The hair is chart, white, and Bare on the crown. The eyebrows are black, thick, and well marked; these, with absorbing eyes, constitute the principal relief to a faoe a.. 1_ iiourt heavy, , . d hanging, sensual lips. The mustache and imperial are thin, ooarse, and black. The arms are abort, end their extremities are brought together aeroea the abdomen from time to time, in a manner that is thing but distinguished. Hiastouti borders upon obesity. The gen-

d, Ealf natural

hie activity is

bia blood tbgn hia brain. A pc the time ho is occupied in twisting

mustache, but tho greater part ho ia juiet end attentive. For e Marahal_of

r milk in tho bitter . Though another fleld of on in readineaa, and the on afterward folly supplied by soiling with grass what they tailed to geTby grazing, yet be aays he baa found it impossible to restore that loss ‘ feeding, and that his * irinhMo through all July and August, ard, of eonse, will carry it'to the end of tho milking period. He now looks back upon the short pinch as an error whiohs lie cannot afford to repeat. ThelMUe failure was ' ' enough to w . is the feedafterward tho flow 3-Hiead that he Six of them are two-year-old beifera, two are farrow cows and two being dried off, end were" ban the heifers. These 10 ,. ng 12 pounds a day, and the other 24 head wore averaging 24 pounds a day, the dairy giving nearly 700 pounds a day. This preduet mokes a strong contrast with the messes of the surrounding dairies, and affords an inatreotive lesson, to all who have occasion, to profit by it. The difference, which amonuta to over a pound of cheese daily, ia doe only to feeding folly and evenly, and with nothing but grass. Mr. L.’a herd ie composed of natives, with a sprinkling of short-horn grades, end ere not different from the

feeding taliowed th ifniafal, L . „ Dairymen* Auomation

to tho 1’rieil, d'Aumale, whom

„ . flattering idee of a

prince.

irat days of the trial of tha Mar-

_re occupied with the reading of the report of Gen. de Riviere touching the conduct of Baza in e. It began before the opening of hostilities, jmd goes down to the time when the Army of the Rhine waa trauaformed into the Army of the Moselle. Thia ia called a report, it ia really an accusation, ia very vulnInous, and might be called the historv Metz. In it the services of Bazsine o enumerated at length; he entered o army at 20 ns a simple soldier; in 24 years was sob-lieutenant; passed his ”'o in the fleld and was wounded in Al-

ers, the Crimea, and Italy.

The cbargain the complaint are verr condemn to death any officer, no mi'

r what hia antooede - ‘

presents a striking ident of the C '

distinguished

' The

A Legal (JuesUon. We clip the following from the Pittaburg Late Adviser, aa “ L - -* *-

a certain amount of m a certificate of depoai payable on return of thi nth 6 per eent. interest."

- presented i

At midnight, on the 5th of November, in the year of grace one thonsand lix hundred and five, Guido Fawkes, 'gentleman," was discovered, “ booted rod spurred," in the vicinity wf 8L Stephen's Chapel, having on hia person

iri Bank, reerived the amount in icy and indoraadtho certificate,

rok held tbe certificate aa

!und without pr

qljtif

subsequent to the euspension of the firm alluded to. Wee the bank, in order to hold the indorser responsible,' obliged to present the cetoiflcate at once,

or was it optional with the bank ? Theqoestior—*■—*-

, .ihethcr the bank should

have, at once, presented the certificate

of deposit in ordr~ t '“ l * “ ‘

Itatai ef latervet-

dark lantern ; " and purposing, by means of gunpowder, to blow up, says King James. •• tfle whole nobility, the moat part of the knight^ and gentry," besides “ the whole judges of the land.

plus fled ingloricoaly before the yellow A monsaterv of the Benedictine Order bee been estaiiliabed at Oreeton, Union

Co.. lews.

Rhode Island has more wealth m proportion to her population Al

in the Cnfon.

A map named Gin, -in Indiana, h « petitionil to have hia name changed, because ho cannot persuade any damsel

Fawkes has forfeited his gentility, and to aooept hie present one. become e proverb of wickednees. In . When your pocket-book gets empty, boyhood, we looked upon Guido ; and everybody knows it, you can put Fawkes, gentleman, as one a little ■ all your mends into it ana it will not lower than ftp devil', he had four ' " bulge ou *' —*“

A lady

vested ippeara

hold the indt The matoljneetiuu

that is, whether hia signature amounted to an indorsement with all its eonse-1 sition.

assignment of his right to tho money was the patriot deposited. !This ia answered by finding I ities of an lain whether a sertifleato of deposit ia nego-! bestow npon I liable or not. This has been decided wagon ’ ’

' legatii ' ~ • ■ •

appendages, and Guido Faw

f Shepley dockyard tc

ie horizon about tho ah It is now definitely a.

D svlvonia, in ! bonfire worthy of the c

•atterson vs. Poindexter G W. A 8. 227 I might bo kindled from the public puree 1 Dn

' ' ' Dulles, I —that tho effigy of the arch-fiend Guy tnb0 *-

>!ir:.-.i :r. mi:

W. AS. 353). In that raise n eertifi- might bo consumed in afire three times | Tho pilgrimage mania has beonraging ite of deposit woo issued by the Mia-' hotter than tho fire of a furnace. Such I badly in France. It ie stated that fifty sainni Union Hank of Jackson Mias.. ! fierce liberality was not lost upon the thousand pilgrims hove passed through ad read as follows : ! townj. people ;their«dor in thVBurn- * * “ * CS -

enbscribed hia plank or log ; an!f[

s, tho 5th of No-

Military Code.

is 202 i

s, which might sc

a Dnmi

rtford

ists still li

week in the iusouc

lid lady

thrilling story

Ig. took place one daydaat .— »t Taunton,

Providence, went itatot&SS confined there for insanity from tho effects of a wound received daring the shown into tho reception room, and ane or two patients and tho son were bronght into tho same room, whoa tho attendant went out and locked tho door.

led to bo in tho roam at

A Tough OM SoMler.

tries Cortwite, of Plattaburg, N. Y., an invalid pensioner since 1840, for “-'Tea of a leg at the sortie at Fort while serving in the Fourth Regipf Rifles, under General Brown, probably seen more distinguished service than any man among us. He was born at Belle Isle, on the coast of France, in t£o Province of Bretagne, about thirty mil os from tho City of L’Orient, about the year 1770, if his memory of hia age is correct, before the close of the American Revolution. At the early age of fourteen, he enlisted in the French service, joining the regiment known as “ Le Chasseurs de la West," and waa in the army under Napoleon Bonaparte, who was then, or ~ after, made Pint Consul of the oh Empire, He served in the war between Franoe, Portugal, and England, in the early pert of the present century. He also served on board the French ship “ Pinion," in the battle of Trafalgar, on the 21st of October, 1805, when Lard Nelson was killed on board tho 'English flag-ship, the “ Victory." In 1808, Mr. Oorwlte waa taken prisoner n a battle at or near Cadiz, Spain, in he Peninsular War, by the Britiah loops, end soon alter that he enlisted

Tears. From there he was osnt to Qoebee, Canada, and about September, 1818, ho deserted from the British service at Chambly and came out to Burlington, end there, on tbe 9th of September, 18U, enlisted in the United "‘Ues Dragoons. Captain Hall's eompa- . He served in nearly all the batUee the Northern frontier, until he lest

jtboti,

s the roles

of he

Ensbaud, but fc

iot be discharged on that day. This ras a great disappointment to the wife, she told him, vms terrible. He raged rod-tore round tho room in perfect fnry, •hen the eon of the old lady from Provdenoo, who had been quiet up to thin ime, became alarmed and attacked tho infuriated husband. A deadly struggle ensued; and the feelings of the ladies, * in tho room with two infuriated oentons. and unable to escape,

ined. After a severe

gu

toked him till

and, after a severe struggle, sn seeded in making the husband looi his hold. Fortunately the attenda:

Platttburg Sentinel,

Danbury Notes. We destroy ell rejected oommunioatioua. We contemplate erecting a building to put them in, but mtil then ~e are obliged to destroy them to make

disease inherited at hia birth, lei housewife can now be ling acmes the yard to the

next honse with a bowl in her bend. Pretty soon she skims back again with - very gratified expression on Tier faoe. . 'he woman in the next house wasn't a^le to see bow it could have jelled ao. Hukxt.—We do not know how many Sundays after your marria^ it will be

neoeeaaryto lo to end from e

ns with your wi We believe or

^ liahad

is a Tiirv good

id*tEe tact has communicated itself to ie schools. It takes a pretty goodzed alate pencil to secure the core of i average apple, we ere told. Just aftar darx these evenings a atontoking and highiy-rsspoctaWo woman may be seen appakribg at one end of a bridge with a large, carefully-wrapped bundle in her arms, and at tbe onnosite end witbont it. And the n

which tine tl

from use ia accounted for in this manr. B the section of a pearl ia exined it will be found that it ia farmed layer* of eells, the centre being —lilar to the pith of wood, which, if kept in contact with the akin, absorbs jura paarla in e similar manner by bemg absorbed. Paarla eat in half tors

tnssel the husband

forehead

frightful gash,

. . 'A

ipiously, and

•a. though re the uisa

posited in this bank, payl mon Ills from 1st of May, 1839, ro per cent, interest till due. per

The indorsemc York, Esq., or on Cbief-Jnstioe (

: wea: Pay Ed wan r a B. Patteraon i a Yorkz.

liable.'

Bobby in bi

minds, f apillar' of flre^Fo! before tho day, tho coming anniversary busied the Uionghts of boyish execuotism in the appointment of their Guy —in the grotesque iniquity of his face, chair. To beg clothes from 'ifoor to

» tETfcit of ‘ A r ugnst on thi

ly that peddlers o soiling bits of have been taken

a dnnceon ' In Bom

The Chicago TVi

licity, Lt the fuiflll-

al dn

would i

ength 1

habit of Sot

iloso^her might have it of the bloodthirsty

might have recognized the

was a special agreement to pay the dethe ccrtiflouto and the depositor's or-

der."

The oontenta of tbe certificate in tins

case not being given full, wo have the villainous radian,'the discarded quoted literally the one upon which waistcoat of Smaiigrog, the ho; the alraTedeoisiou^iaJniud.Jrat believe Uandlord of a tittle homo for aaili certificate with 6 per cent, interest,'’ ! T j], biaonit contractor to hia Majesty'

indorser i

“ payable on return of th with 6 per cent, interest, iot mneb. if any, differom hem : and in that case tl not liable, but tho bank hi B question m»j possibly no io in other localities, we mi this country. In Misoissipp

of a promissory note—a direct at; qualified promise to pay.

I i fleet; while for tho b< ' I like effigy, Guy Faa l ' hibitod, and aiterwar.

nr of the fiendburned. in the

it there ia any falling off in the murder industry. Last Tuesday's record waa four homicides in Illinois alone, end fourteen iu the whole

country.

Pariah Feeling.—A melting sermon being preached in a country church, all wept except one man, wbb being asked why he did not weep ea well aa the rest —" Oh 1" replied he, “ I belong to anA Western paper avers that, to all inula eggs are tho beat stimulants r failing strength. Ho adduces tho ._J0 of a dying colt that waa almost initantly revived by having two fresh igga administered to it. Tho students of Brown University iiavo done a good tiling. They havow uttered a protest against hazing as h barbarity, and voted that tho students h hate and ooata and carry

they please.

inounced on the authority lent physician " that it ie 1 healthy tori'"

• Bine Town watohmi

1 Pork Prospects.

mrrespopden

Corn at

Chi< publishes a

.ataUL . .. gnrd to the number of 1 their present condition, probable time of marketing, end the condition of tho corn crop. Of 97 points in Illinois 68 report a less nnmbor of hogs than last "7 about the same number, and 12 Tbe corn crop ia universally reported short in Illinois from one-third to one-half. Of 58 places in Iowa 27 ' fewer hogs than last year, 20 he same, and eleven more. The condition of the corn crop they report ebont tbe same es in Hlinoia. Of twon- ■ in Indiana, eleven report seven ebont tho seme nnmtheyReport better in several places, hut generally abort. In Missouri twelve points report fewer bogs, eight about

i,” aays the Anoka

I, “a well-dressed ample, in the prime of life, stopped al i hotel in a neighboring town, and, ndingrfor a justice ol the peace, tunned that functionary that they wish- ! to be married. The jnstise aaid, -til right,' and inquired their names. After being told, it struck him that he

kef ore. Upon icijnirm married previously, from your former bus[r. Justice. *Yee,* she o e bill.' Thia being ceremony was performpie were declared 'man ley were ebont departwho had never eeen a

ing, the Jnstioe, •

' kiU ol divorce,' .uuu.. desire to behold the docui

-port abort one-third to 1 the beet showing,

__ hrifF 0h& _ _

four points reporting an incr number of'hogs, 15 about Dumber and 8 a decrease. 7 ‘ the corn crop shows it equal to that laat year. Except in Illinois the eontion ef the hogs appear to be about e same aa at tho same time laat year, bnt many pednta in Hlinoia report them

[e curiosity. He, therefore, said to ie lady: ‘Have you tho bill with to?' 'Oh. yea,' she replied. 'Have to any objeotion to allowing me to see .je bill?’ aaid our friend. 'Nona whatever,' she replied, stepping to the door, and calling to a little boy some •hreeor four years of age, she aaid: Here Bill, come here quick ; hero ia s gentleman that wishes to see yon.' Tho

gentleman wilted."

Agricultural Report tar October, The October report of the statistician of the Department of Agricnltnro in- ' "ea a digest of returns from tho itics producing a large proportion 10 oom crop of the United States, not the final report nijon the quantity,, compared with last year's crop,bnt the last report of the Beacon npon -

Labor In the OM WerM. No wonder there*ii e presume gration of the working i rope to this country, if - picture of foreign pxfooe of labor' correct. Bays a recent writer on too statistics of this subject: “Sixty oenta is a good day's wages In tiie Tyrol silk region and in Italy they often do not get more. than tan oenta. In tho country in Germany ten oenta ia the common pay. Women there i get but five oenta. In Sweden often work from 4 o'clock in the till 9 in the evening, end do n in Bea tor five cento. The profits of the poor who keep petty shops, cell frinketa in **“ ■'—\ or apt ee ratlera, do not lore than three or four per —-berm in Berlin, since the railing of their prices, get five oenta for hair cutting ami two and a half oenta for sharing. Servants at hotels get from $8 to 18 per month. Servantgirls in private tamilies often get bnt $10 a year. Bomctimee these classes get work at any price. The iliable sights of Berlin and other ___ jities ere ol men hue ting employment. They will sometimes beset stnngere that they may get little chores

^“Som^days sine

land’/aaked' epliod, 'I h Atiafaetory, tl

crop. The average is

.... per cent, below e normal crop. The October average laat year waa 108. 8 per cent above. The crop of laat year was estimated at 1,092,000,000 bushels, In view of the decrease of 4 per eent. in

the indicated reduction ia above 23

« sent., or 250,000,000 bushels. The only States returning the average condition ere Georgia, Florida, Arkansas, oi-'i'-nua and Oregon. The other ev-

are as follows: Maine, 85; New •hire, 99; New York, 89; New 99; Pennsylvania, 98; Dek76; Maryland, 91; Virginia, 99;

—, r _, , -..West Virginta, 90; Kentucky, I' Michigan. 88; Indium, 84; zuinoia, oi; Wisocrnain, 88; -Minnesota. 97; Iowa, 81; Missouri, 76; Kansas, 60; Nebraska, 77. Squire Richards. A man seventy-six years old, fsmilii ly known in'Memphis aa “Squire Richards,” one of the moat effiei—‘ -* the workers who waited npon tl time of yellow fever, has fallen a victim to it himself. The Memphis Appeal ■ays: From the first of the fever ho went about doing good, and till the pastfewdays might have been met with moving through the infected district as vigorously aa hia condition would admit, visiting first one qnd then another of his friends.

OM, ar MM

so crippled Sa to he compelled itohea, lie yet managed to go .i-tb stricken with the and console them,

good, faithful

neighbor and citizen, ha would gpot, though ha might hare found good excuse in hia extreme old age and gsther1 —Infirmities, leave the people be had red ao well in the dire extremity of e

• effigy, or tho lump t-licately expressed.

-ee .t Shepard.

ias boon reported in Minnesota. Wheat mying was generally resumed throngh•ut the State, bnt at prices which will .jot bring luge receipts. The farmers generally prefer to hold for higher

Bud thing when they wont to tho polls ie lost election day. By tho side of ich ballot-box there was placeda char-y-box for .the aid of the yellow fever ifferera in Memphis. The retnrns are it jot all in. Light native wines will soon bo manuictured in such largo quantities in thia rontry that tho alleged results of their se in diminishing the consumption of irouger liquors ohou’-’ - * e made apparent, i:

A singular death, through gas poiat g, has occurred at Wellington Oi ge. A lad of fourteen, named 01 ford, slept in a room aaid to have be feetiy ventilated. In'tlio moi „ e room waa found full of gal, a

the boy waa dead in bed.

paten something which disagrees with its stotpach > perhaps it is thirsty, tor little babies are often thirsty, and will drink a teaspoonful of cold water with

baby's w 'Udi nt,

a tho other day., _ mrk around her little ankle, JO explained her fretfnlness.

a baby

rela—If hap-

pily one ia there—or its •— ’

is pinned too tightly. I ki . who has cried a great deal , birth. I think the chief it is because he has always

en dressed too tightly. The dher said to me one ofternoon, when I child was so cross she hardly knew ..at to do,, “ Fve a great mind to undress him and put on his night-gown ;

Iways real good then." So ah« id ho commenced to be good al Mothers should search for all

possible causee when their babies gel sretfot _ They should not be too ready to attribute their erring to nervous temperament Or to hunger, for it is

likely to be caused by tbe prick pin or an over-fed stomach than

Sepulchral Sympathy.

nadian paper notes that l

is related of tho led Kings-

loat an arm recently by -

lachine in Adelaide. It ay ubsequently to the amputi

, and tbe limb having been bnried, s complained that his band was eramp-

ig him extreme pain, a

tention, 1 quest for _ —• raised 1

the hand fo gether. Dm fug the hi '

s paid h

ed. No; to the:

e boy atiU

agony, end afterwards declared - * felt relieved of tho sensation ol from which ho appeared to a: acutely. Tho circnmstaneo if In... - the Sinthroy Dispatch, ia certainly a enriona one; not more ao, however, thkn

High Prices. High prions atlll rule the hour. icst the only thing that remain! tlonary kro the subscription* ti newspapers. Everything else stays where it waa at the close of “ —* or two hundi opera; three dollars to see Sal villi, ten dollars for' a hat or a pair of bo* 1$150 far a lady's dress; four to fire r^_ . >—. . viola beef,-—

high aa if

had grown soar

dry, and the fields

crops. OI ooarse Iok with everything else,

' lees every tiling, ipcra^thatsre at

ttaemseto, than they, got fifteen yens ago, though tbe ooat of the white pa-

haa nearly donbledT-

rt tho fire aa heretofore.

ie before 8

in riao'atFl'and

in amatenr one, when * ZPi-Vlow militia, a

epeuatel, findin on, actually

Them

d in Ireland wi lieutenant in the Wicklow militia, a " ’ ' ’ "ipemstal.find-

Idfitaf £_ — ■honlder with a drum-curd.

The Portsmouth Chronicle says Take ten oenta and go to any leather dealer and ret a pound or ao of shoe pegs, and boil them well in molasses, and let them stand nntil cold, and they •e just as good as barberries—in fact

} one can toll the difference."

A lawyer of note in the civil eonrte as recently murdered at Ghazeepore, i India. He wee found dead in hia ed with bia head severed from hia body. Tha murder waa committed by two servants in revenge for t beating with a shoe which ona of them hrd re-

ceived.

An oM atory will be recalled at the present time, of the witty man who was —>'-» i_*_ eon rt for contempt and who .he charge es follows: “ Your Honor, I here never shown any contempt for this ooart; on the contrary, I have always carefully concealed my feelings." Foot bond forgers nrresled in New York are said to be implicated in some of tho greatest forgeries on record. Their operations were about aa extenaive aa those of the Bank of England forgers. Tho extent of their swindles, will, it ia rumored, reach nearly two millions. Tho revocation of the charter of the Boston Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry is justified by the Massachusetts Plovffhman, which claims that it made a clear atatement ol the purpurea of the order more than two years ago, and that the objeota of the Boston Grange were wholly foreign to them. A yonng lady in Lancaster, Pa, haa tho initiala Y.' M. C. A. engraved on one corner of her visiting cards which she hands to certain gentlemen visitors. At first they suppose that she belongs to tho Yonng Men's Christian Association, but it is i not long before they rightly construe the letters to mean “Tourney

Court of Iowa has decided that a person ol color ia entitled to the same rights and privileges while traveling on a steamboat aa a white person, and oanba required to accept inferior aoimodationa.

ho das hoi—HI gmi gai gai gai gai gai gal gai gai gai gai gai gua gai—Coricor dzio dxio pi Any of our readers wishing to emulate the sweet songstress of thenighl need only to practice hia A Good advertisement is the beet of

its the merchant in hia shop, tho lolar ftt hia study, the lawyer in his lee, the lady at Ur breakfast Mde; 0 can be in atbouiandplaceaatHAc, 1 speaks to thousands of people iry morning and evening, saying to ih ooe the beta thing in the beat mu-