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STAR OP THE CAPE.

CAPE MAY CITY,

.thy study for say on«,

bat it seemed rsther odd to Hozfaed “ • du«K

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M of the peace, nor Hozford. d rnKan ambag the miner Pitre Gulch, stopped work, leeoe his pick, stared admiringly at the testacts, and wi>hed that nnoomfortatle oonaeqneneee might eternally inflict his immortal part if it wasn't the gameet fight he had erer witnaeaed. Hen who always left the store or the bar on the slightest indication of a difficulty now remained, while those to whom a fight was the most delightful of stimmlsnta crowded near with sagsa eyes. These geatlaman did not rmderstan d either of the ityateal, when he spot sdrieh they took no interest wbaterer ; bat Ibegr know e fighting eye when they sew it. end so exoited were they thet many large beta would have been made had those who dared to risk money felt eM eotfdeooe in their own kbUity to de£emh»wl*n the fight PorTiosftS?'and the B tatting tbaology. The disc ... nonnoad hi^lptcmtion of try^,^ ^ be was aonnd. Then Hoxford, with lot the ghost of a sneer, echoed the •dngia word aonnd I" at which the Sqalw, rightly eonsiderir " ” Ig: — ' he had stopped two or three serious

they do with him r’ im back here—thin! where be belongs," screamed F< /^^apayon're goin' in for mart. ... Afotf said the Bqnin. looking keenly yet bamoronaiy at Hoxford from be- — Me heary brows. M— '

- - pile, bunted in th helped himself ; put through a shi man when thapoor chap •tied •<» .eaea his last liquor (striotlj

^primanW^for jastioe, 'cordin'to »»5J ^thin^for hlT^^ • Brnme a eyas, aa well aa all ott -«fod thr^ the Sen who had him hr^tened to " hedge." His ooufounes (belly brightened si he “os “"Allege of a stale eew takes an exception “ e ’ole,' yon know," said b P'st ms on the jair that trim '' Jury that tries him I" echoed Briar, k ID oath which made the Squire shudder. "Ha's hen tried, Ae hen.

to the .I, . , continued the Squire, again stirring the fire, and eagerly scanning die prisoner's

to see what affect his words now's a good Urns to try . ain't likely to hare your — of your rep!ai££U

handy."

"Think ao, do yerf” growled the fieoner,trying to rest himself by throwg his bound hands over hia knees. Wish t would soften these infernal rips of bark around my wrists—I'd y it, mighty sudden." “ T wont do it," maid the Squire, with a glance of philoeophie satlafaction at the extempore handcuffs. “They're like a man's sins,—soft and easy st first, bnt hurt whan they get old, and commence to get a good tight

justice."

The collegian groaned and closed his eyas. Ha had bsen glad whan the appearance of Pete pot an end to the diaonaaisn daring the afternoon. *for he had grown wean of it. Now the idea of baring it retired was limply draad- *“* Happily, the prieoner oatne to hia o’yea—I see. 8'poae y« “•*-*-

ifthayhangm , .... ‘Tm afraid you will," said the So airs, with a dubious shake of the head. " An' that's whet you're prospectin’

■onnd my soul for, eh V

" Jee' ao,” said the Squire. Some ilka might say, 'Am I my brother's mperr I aey, ■ 1 am,' and '—“ ifdS™ me loose and let ... ■aid the prieoner, in e low, but rery * c tone. "It H takes rooddeelof i ta repent of ell Pre rot to be sorry ... If yon he yar brother’s keeper,

why don't yer giro his si It's all infernal noneem real brotheriy fadin', blood's rot, you'd Ut me ' keepin' me here to

ike. 1 ’

‘ Justice must be dc Squire. “ God is just; El you was my brother aooordin' flash. I'd do jest what I'm a doin tough as it would be. If pm neaibr to me, ef yon was myaon, I’d do

r, don't ys

or two. JoaBoe is fro said the old man, meddles with him until lie gets a trial; if they do, I may her to fire first shot.” • A thousand men like Briar, acknowledged ruler of Fill's Gulch though ne was, could not hare collected grace enough to habilitate aa ordinary church member; but the rowdy tnthusiastioally rRtssifSiF 5 * "AHright,Squire. Tonan'Hoxfor must guard him till then, though, t Ha’, cornin', too.'“ Again aQ syea ware turned towar the trail, and they saw, just crossing the hill, ■ nun wdklug with his head bowed, and his hands behind his back, while eloee behind him ware two men who had pistols in their hinds. The crowd gased earnestly and curiously, for the robber had not been one of the regular deni asm of the camp j and although his fame had spread up and down the creek, the only PitVe Gnlohitee who had seen him were lame Pete, whose aanls ha had stolen, and old Hills, whose flask he had snatched. The prisoner did not seem st all proud of hia reputation, for eren the most in-

Tbc Herelae af HempUs.

The Ohioago Tribune Bays: The heoiee of former days mast yield the aim to the simple devotion and glorias courage that prompt s young girl to S headlong into a loathsome pee which mskea strong meatromappals the derotion of the truest jomaahood. This is what Mattis Stephenson, an obscure country girl' Illinois, did. She had no special otto Memphis. Theta was no husband, nor sweetheart there to whom she was attracted* by selfish or personal afie ' She left home with only the gai

-pmhsps she tbongi

out the knowledge or consent i relatives; she paid her own paasi Memphis - the made no oatenl proffer of her serrioes; her only non was to serre the siek and sul of the stricken city; she visited i which terrified the strong hearts of those who had had time to beoome used '

•heeeeeptod nopay fori when the horrid disease b

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■ the aero of a young wife, • _ he dieeeee had precipitated pro-child-birth. Though such a Mattie Stephenson must have

strongest instincts of maternal

|^£jtib|raod a^follapprociatiqn ‘

lion, aha alone was I'rsvr enough, among all the womeu there to face the situation. No wonder the city of Memphis forgets the plague a moment to admire heroism like nenk* No wonder •a. XV a a i-i— —a **-, efty stole awn from their duties a brief

half-hour to do her reverence. The girl is described to have been—she

have bean—a shy and gentle creature, nnoansdons of the good she was doing. Here was a matiydom that the world t afford to forget, and when, here-

the names of Florence Nightin-

grie^GraeaDarting^and the others —

Ae Duty af the Hour. The peculiar duty of the press st tl moment, says the N. T. jAraforis support and advise the working pop latum. Whan the mill is dosed it idle to tell the operative, that work abundant. A severe winter is at he for the poor. The strictest economy .. necessary that all may lire. There most be no iaduigeoee in luxuries, bnt every dollar most be made to swell the stock

filed. The door with a dog to sail. . distinctly "Tell him I don't wai

here, fire miles distant. This Six times Buffer was interrupted — - -ho gun was loaded with iron j while taking tea by men with dogs to

sera peloid nails, bolte,and otherdebria j sell. Buffer was a man who would not .mioh veil sou

to entirely shatter the heavy door, ! must take it ont'manfnlly. The’ twenty- . .“f through which breach the yelling mob j third ajiplioant wna small boy. with

hurled themselves ; but the remaining 1 a girl in company, who bad a ragged, TjP*, ', , deputies bad retreated into the jail in , dirty poodle for »«ln Buffer Imneht wvmpe is

s rear, and again barricaded

vea in the iron cells. Atthem , the discharge of the cannon nearly | tbr 100 shots were fired from small arm's '

■ery direction, several balls peas-

_. close proximity to the boys guarding the county property with their fives. Now commenced another parley,

demanding that the jail door )d or they would murder the m, only one of whom urged a id even threatened to open : the revolver* of the other _ salutary effect upon hie The mob at] last gave -the

grade, sue, and color, and dogs of every J

| he

a mistake, and imperial palace, m ante-chamber, o the presence n he related the

What waa his astonishment what atrocity ! Ther ibt Niscioff(the commissary) is tx iok ! Count, take the horse before n oo late, and deliver my poor banker m bis alarm, and i 1 ‘ 1 “ “*

The Firing of Blchmond. lontradiotion of some published id, Va., at the time of senation by the Confederate troops, the 3d of April, 1865, the Richmond DUpatch publishes what it declarea to

the Department of mond and Henrico, received an unier ~ Lqe to prepare to burn all tobacco, and stores that could not be removed from Richmond. This order was simply a latter calling attention to an act of the Confederate States Congress directing sucli burning

itoniphed when, returning to ice of the Emjjh'es, to bear i, amid bnrsta of the kindest

Gray started for the in erics, and, aa cd him a lew dsys later, accompanied by Deputy United States Marshal Comstock, who had a warrant for the arrest of Kelsey, for making improper use of the mails. Gray instructed them to call at the St. James Hotel in Minneapolis, whore they would find him, bnt on reaching that place they fonnd that no anch hotel waa known there, and not until then was it discovered that Gray had deceived them. Banks re- , , . tile affair baa been regarded as one of the cleverest deceptions practiced on the detectives for some

understand th strange and incomprehen which I rained b!gl

rone and about Kelsev, which he was willing to 1 i ue ...ubo. ...... — ■n t hear f nrm l if t# i,,,,,!., , e , siKirtsmi'ii from Boston, with guns wns ■ arsrsia! : =Ji £ awssss^Jx lev. r for I ject. I e itireeted tnni to semi » per- , » .i,.hied m that vieinitv.

I StateT 1.

ipers. Banka j uiTe em ™ om - .ffered 81,000 [ In Allegheny city, a

Men of respectability ar

Ind tldevea."

Oiould Tbo 650 Bwedes at the c n. and j Sweden, in Maine, inclu

the ages

Inde Tl babies hment of the r 192 children and 20, and 80

Capt. Clark, o: ^jHanFroncioeo,^ inflicting crnel from New York,

to 826.0"

Of all parts of the body there is m one which ought to be oo carefully a tended to as the feet. Every person many other diaeesei which i from the same a- 5

feet. The feet a

from the “ wheel at the cistern" of the system, that the dronlation of t'

the truth of what wc have ate tod, la no pert of the body ao much trifled —the feet The young and wonld-

, bone-pinching boots, display neat feet, in tile fo

very wrong. In cold weather, boots of good, thick leather, both im aoles and uppers, and large enough to give free cuonlsthm to the blood in the feet, should be worn by all. They should be watertight and warm, but not air tight. It injures the feet to wear ai air-tight covering over them. Indii rubber shoes or boats should not be worn except in wet and slushy west) and then taken off aa soon aa the poanre to if is over. No pert of body should be allowed to bare a oover-

Co-o iterative Purchasing , m of co-operative purchase

Western 1 BUtesT Vhen*there were flv Granges in this county, says a lette from Winnebago Co., Wis.,—there ar now 18—arrangementa were made wit] the leading merchants in Oahkosh b sell to the Grangers at 10 per cent, ad place where they were bought. Tlii profit and the advantage of-a large cos! trade. The arrangement has been mo# satisfactory. On groceries and heavy articlea, on which there has alt *

bnt Utile profit, of coarse tl

baa been small: but on bata, ex,—,

clothes, ckithing. dry goods

. ind, ribbons and other millinery articles, books and stationery and all kinds of fancy articlea, tbo aa> ing baa been from 10 to 60 per cent, A new Granges have been formed, th of those who made the arrange- _ with the Patrons has inerea—’ the majority of the Granger* have always been in the habit of ha- _ accounts at the stores in this city now pay cash for everything they buy. T ~ the purchase of farm implem . m-. -“ta^ ^ridSbfo^fog

le by dealing directly, with

the manufacturers. I think it is

found guilty taatinl punish. m b^Tn 7mI2d

the Alsu son Methi

Church made a happy h his parishioners who pnt i coppers in the plate. Said b

i remind yon wt

r- tomplatod to have the Grange of )■ State unite in -purchasing with th

. _ that of Iowa—that is, that it shall be so ar^Granges of both Btatoa, with' the same manufacturers, and thus, by increasing the mae of their aggregate order*, get lower price*, than either could alone. A good many farmers aa yet hesitate about sending their money to the Stale agent when they wish to make a purchase, but they are gradually gaining confidence, and I think that 1 year the order* of the Grange of State directly, from the man of ac-

ta will be quite large.

octD Krep It.—John D. Oouse, --— was rent to the New York State Prison for two yean and a half for i txsslement, *— *-

employer* ot 000) of whit and receive-ii

but hudaelii . _ much money ao easily, and preo keep it and go to prison. Ho is to be clerk of the chaplain of the

had not been . mtion to place them in a an island in Platte rivasr.

payments.”

Hay fever now rages ao virulently In all parts of the country that it is proposed to hold a national oonventioi of tbo victima, with a- view of offering . largo reward to any doctor who will liscover a way of successfully treating this

troublesome disease.

Lloyd L. Clary, editor of the Cnm-

' ' ’ (Md.) Daily Times, was killed

M. Besley. He war conscious the bud. Bealey is in oaatody. The noting grew out of the poblication in -

tile Times of an article concerning Ees-

ilerk of the Court,

er landlord of Mias Mink, of the recent homicide trial

by John

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lars."

made of bone. le form of many-pointed tipped with many colors. A small star fastens in the lobe of the ear, and a larger one hangs underneath. They are very odd and very pretty. The first made were exhibited at the Vienna Ex-

position.

Bishop Holden (Episcopalian), of Moonaonee, Hudson Boy Territory, says hia diocese is fifteen times the size of England, and in the whole of i^thera

finally ordered the magistrate* to pro-

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There were present male representatives of five generations of one family at the recent christening of a little girl in Connecticut—the child, agafi three mouths; Us father, aged twenty-one year*; its grandfather, aged fortyeight ; Its great-grandfather, sgad eigh-ty-one, and its great-great-grandfather, aged ninety-five. In the town of Scarboro', Me., • man waa lately discovered who had starved one horse to death, and area using another so broken down and crippled the t

the old man's -son, who w about, could not read OT writs, osoaoae he had never been allowed to go to A five-year-oldmidget " brought to her mother, the other day, a couple of "ennning little black and white kittens," nicely cuddled up in her apron, that she had found "Tiindtko fence. ” Her mother was getting dinner, but wheat “ them kittens " ware stirred up ■ little it took the taste all out of the vietnala, sod there waa so dinnet in that bouse that day. The following ia -said to be a aure teet of a Horae's age:—" After a horse is nine years old a wrinkle comes over the eyelid, atthe upper oorner of the lower ltd, and every year thereafter ha has one well defined wifiklcd for each yei * a bona has three wrinkles he la twelve ' yaanolffi A/ to nine, and i