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CAPE MAY CITY. N. J.. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1874.

NO. 49.

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ATTORNEY AT LAW A! TER IH CHANCERY. *. <Ap. AUj CUT. J

WH. T. STEVES*, ER OF|DgKrW AND

c£SHm}a>

, DR.J. r. LEANING,

HENRY KWAIN, MASTER IN CHANCERT, -oDTAyAnelag, Deedi, Bondi, HoH-

BUSIWESS CARDS. HAYSEN A PETnBOVE,

J. II. BENEZtrr A BBO.,

THOBAN U. ROBS,

■08T MTSTKBIOl'S.

1 hutanod down ililra, -**- n*nnh which I ino my friend't bride. -V the do — ’ ‘—* and d . UDM neeecMry to the ii Coition hid «inf on, bnt Chirico opened the door for mo, ud I nw • Udy in lilio lilk ■id plenty of tioe Bitting near the win m. Bang Teryncor righted I i more, except tbit she hid ■ fin it ir bind, ind »«* trifling with it. "Come to, Richmond," uid Ohiriie. My dear Lottie, thii ii my old friend, Richmond Wilton. My wife.

ra itont and blonde. 1 aaw her She mw mine. For one momo_. __ itood perfectly eilent; then elie pnt mt her hand and I look it Neither of ei Mid a word, bnt if my face floih ta redly u ber'i did—and I think "l—ilia no wonder that Uharlee P.

What would ihe do ?" I aaked n . " Women are quicker than taei She did nothing ; oho merely girt -1 ley bow and turned away her he>—, id I, dropping her hand, retired to 'o other window, while Charle* itood between ni looking euipiciouily it t:

1 growing very pile.

You hire met Mn. Pell befo perhaps T” he inquired it lilt, tryi

Mcfdpfia

a with Troy A Robinaon. ship, br the way, I med

grandmother in Yirginia, another from my old friend Charlie Fell, who had ome month* before promiied to aak ■e to bit mother'! midenoe neir Uoe. on. Now my grandmother wm a rich roman who had been a beauty, ind me Tory mnob of the opinion that she would alwaya remain one. She had plenty of company, and her home wm

Indeed, ud I knew '

y pleaaut lodec o. Pell, though i i Tory formal, u J ‘•Tat parlor, w

aobtary con

If my grandmother inritad me, . onld excuse mytelf to Charlie ud go her, ud flirt with the girli ud p*— lilt, ud enjoy myaalf generally; 1 •he cheated me, M ehc lometii —d. why tku I'd eoeept the Pelle’ Titetlon. Charlie wm a pleaiut fel-

rs

mght no letter from , ■—rilee whom 1 bed enppoeed to be my ■ J . ■‘O.U, my apirite sank, ud 1 looked forward droenly to the botteit

* cheap country beardingir the elternetire of ataying it . Mia. Fergmon’i ud hearing —- Ae ■ be cut boirdere were enjoy-' in 5 1 afsrrta^ffrn , i-'£,d. however—indeed it wae the ti

id ualed 9ne tapped Inriomly at my

uuur, ua opening it, I fonna Charlie, who atrodo in ud looke"

altar him.

"Wo have been frienda fc yean, Richmond,'' be began,

have had great confidence in yon. Perhape yon can roetore it. Perhipi -tpiain the meaning of yonr

rmbirriMment i

wifa"

ISAAC H SBITn, ^ e --

as**

mBtree..^,. Swell U

CONTRACTORS A BUILDERS

HOTELS. WASHINGTON HOTEL!

MoMaTun's ATLANTiajIOTEL CAPE MAY, N. J., Irlreetly on the eMehore. Openelllb. yea No bar. JOHN McMATCttt, yeymih. UTS. , ITorn.tur.

MEDICINES.

KEARNEY'S FLITID EXTRACT BUCHU !■ theoaly remedy tor BRIGHT’S DISEASE, And e poetUvi nmedy (br Zi —1 All OmurUnU ImMnt It /Mm. Keamey’sExtractBuclm

KEARNETS EXT.BUCHU

eighth of July—tlieeerliMtpoet)

l brought

>n which I reoogniied my grudtr'e fine running hud; the other to, buiineM looking affair, bearing Charlie Pell’i wild aerawL Two invitation! it onee. I ohtiekied with delight, ud hiving horned np to my own hill bedroom quite forgetful of my breakfut, I loro open Ihe bine envelope, out of which tumbled something oriip ud green, which, on examination, proved to be a banknote for one hundred doUere, and whieh aeton-

“ P. 8. I will explain la — " Singular I - ’ I laid. And qnlta _ ible to ramat a real on for my grudnotber'i ringnlir ooodnet, I pocketed preaent ud opened the other note.

ee equally myiteriou:

Yon promiied to e^veoifion, ud^yon

Yon will be very muck inrpriaed by eomething rhioh I shill tell you when we meet. • 'Tonrs ever, Cnrll.as Pun." No me trying to solve thla problem either.'' I Mid to myeelL <'Well, I’ll go to Charlie. He eeemi to wut me. The hotel will be jollier thu the old

And thu I) -went down stain to breakfut, and Ate oold htah ud druk *-* —**— without oomplaiuk There kree days more of it, ud e month of lounging, lmobile, aad enjoyment. At leut I wm -ooag enongli to hope u. It WM night when I loft the tnin, nd, portmanteau in my hud, entered —. Juit at tha depot Hood a light caiNeae. •• Bbh., old fallow,” nriad a voice, T hurried forward to gmp Charlie •aid ha.

"Married I" lelmoetahouted. "Why, eee your ^hMrt,^CTmrUe^ eoeept ^

think they wanted me to nvo an. me an old baabalor; bnt at oiw-ud-k^Mtiling, ycijiaow^'^d'”il'l ird for than to be so implaeehle. ro^ ,oak,,ow -“ d ‘ ta “ E,,, ‘"Don't bring her to my banee,' iy» mamma—indeed she did; but r~c,i l £aiTii^r!Si'!!i forget one I adored, baeene u ' lady rod e little girl told me to do Ton'll usderetead tbit no one in , piece oonld, whea yon era introduced we axe. We sap in oar own UUle per-

And thu she fanned herself

It wm very uncomfortable. I* have alwaya hid a loll-Ule floe, ud I oonld Me that Charlie road e great deal in it He knew that I knew hii wife mooh better thu bar words admitted. In vain he strove to talk of indifferent subjects, ud to do the honors of the sap-per-table. It WM 1 very doll evening, ud I pleaded headache ud retired early. Before I slept e writer brought

me a little note. 7-

It was not aigned, bnt I knew thi barlie Pell'a wife bed written it. Go: of oonne I would go, ud U

oner Ibo belter. W

I Slept little that night At daybreak UOM, ud scribbled e brief farewell

Charlie. A telegram ’ plover, I stated, called m wishes, compliments I hr* ■--* -**

the nailI buck.

A GRATE SUBJECT. '*7>avsl* la BaaleaS.

The English fairly spread

in matters of woe. Their! mountains of gloom. The body is heavy, cumbersome and agonisingly black. They are not lighted off with sheets of glittering French pU silver ornaments. They have: » windows. On top are from six to eight throe-story plumes, presenting a fi of waving gloom. Among the pit are perched, quite frequently, the

bearers, dr eased in petrifying

with heavy buds of mourning soous

tie end etroaming down their The driver is similarly arrayed. 1 —‘ eeree there is one,

bSlT'withriB the

S* of woe. ud should eremiain e foothold, they wcnld be e is to the owner, ss they ere not re adapted to uy other bnt the at lugubrious work. They (hive^no

vebiclee, from bnt monrning in the tine, ud ee. Neither is foot in the city

crafty hack to

buck-board. None coaches are permitted

The

" ud”!

w Mon outer, one lent yon e not night. I demud e sight of it 1” What do« she My ?" leaked. She hM not been asked to My uythlng,'' said PriL “ IJaqye her to her “"ir"""”"'' • Really,'' I begu again. Yoa ire lequlcted with Mn. I Inlaid Charlie-^ Yon know something ibout her thl I do not.’’ “ II is nothing to her discredit,' said L " Believe me, yon had belter ' the matter rest A mere- *— 1 The note related to it?” i black in the faoe with rage. Well, in e meaiure." Show it t I eanl," i _ te explain. I must cot ahow a latter to uy one.” Charlie. " Charlie," said And I cut the little note hil wile had Titian toward him. HO'Seixcd it^rernaed it eagerly, "_lf yon have tbe least love for me, And he inatutly olntohed ■ rest. I went down. He set npon my ebeat

“I give yon n moment for oonfeerion," arid he. " Spank before yon Mm. Pell very well,” thu I de yon. We have fond of each other. She when wo parted »r dear Rich- SI ate, let msec * me. jibe's ray grnnumoinet Mn. Charlotte Richmond married her, wanTabet I -•tor her." Poor Charlie Pell stopped trying to ioka me ud got on at once. Yonr grandmother ?" he by. she's only 1 ’ People beoomo now her*** 1 ' 1 ’'** " Then Charlie

now that (olden hair-dye has ap«annoo er tliri*I , rirink Ahe^begins to believe that ihe ia not out of her 'toons

A aquaw sat down on the em ont of the poat-offloo in Austin.! id, norolling e bundle of oriioe, cooed the munfaotnre of e drees leas thu u bonr Ilia drsM wm flnl and psANag it on mat herald <M .. triumph or eS,

_svaleedo forbids pedestriania hardly believe it, eepeoially from ing the amount of woe iu tbe spp uee of the carriage, but the Lon funerals trip along throngh the crow thoroughfares at e smart trot, it

ghastly spectacle.

In the country the custom ia so what different. Processions of frie precede tbe hearse, the men wearing their hats. First came the doctor, and with him the apothecary u a aort of aooomplioc, I suspect; next came the undertaker, ud by bia ride was tbe draper who anld the material for the monrning garments ; next six poll-bearers (who do not bear the body, that being done [aged by tbe undertaker), cm friends of tbe deceased. Tbe haaree did not pass into the churchyard. The coffin wm removed at the gate, placed on a rack, covered with a black velvet pall, ud taken np on the shonldera of the hired beororn the service to the grave. The coffin WM plain, and of oak, which appears to be the national wood for every use bnt fuel There wu no rough box: rough boxes are rarely need here, ud some undertakers never heard of them. I wu asking one of those dismal people, the other day, the price of ooffine, ud be arid be oonld pnt me np e tidy article for fifty ahiltinga. I told him I gncased I’d writ until he got in bia spring styles. I'm sorry now I didn't take it, as it wu a marvelously cheap coffin at the prieo. All the hexes ere made after the chilling pattern of e century ago. The country undertakers are mostly joiner* ud builders, ud keep no stock on hud. Those who do, have a dreary The English undertaker hive sunk 'nto a distressing lethargy. He ian’t that sharp, nervous, 8tesWn i «& Ti ite*ty , ta>Es!6Ch l L" ’Ysu don't ue in tbe windows of tbe under, taking establishments here such alluring notices m “ closing ont cheep to make room for cow stock !" " Ooffina, oukota ud cabiueta below coat for the nckt thirty days I" “ The largest stock f ooffina fa town for the holiday trade I” Call ud examine before pnrehaaing

charge for showing Reformed Funeral

ion." It proposes to relievo tbe poor ud middle cleasor from the heavy expense which they are wader in interring their dead in the outride on: ..—I— a few yeara

AN ENGLISH CONVICT PRISON.

it. to |

work. Di-

tEk

at Chatham, where English criminals

vidod oil into woe , twenty tojthirty each, under charge of 'on with truncheon ud sword, wb mpported by one of theoivilgnsrd te prison, with loaded rifle an bayonet, these oonvieto were seal all over thereat area of St. Mary' Island. At intertill of half e mile o. *o, on wooden platforms some fifteen or twenty feet -In height, ud at every point of rentage ud rising ground -a>— - . convict-

patrolling,

The October returns of the D. Department of Agriculture show I the wheat crop is equal to or greater thu lost years in all of tbe States except Maryland, Virginia, Texas, Kr

ready to capture' o: attemptinr —*■

oonvieto t

i view of t

* phoot <

mu who, but a few mi

goads I"

ia obtained by e sort of e carryall, bto'Of ■noting twenty^ people, Wsya - for the body.^'rhiL I InMglna, would ire the appearance of n picnic, ud ■pert n bright ud cheerful aspect to e occasion. It ia called a "funeral

if prareila—Sheffield ud the

they have " mutea.” Tbaat ;

who carry staff*, ud lay nothinr.,

are paid for banging around, and, P

kind of labor. *X?ere^h temporary shed, shoemaker* were mi ing end mending shoe*. In the ne carpenters were at work, pluing, sa_ ing, polishing, udhimmering together. In tbe third shed were stone-masons ; jkamiths ; in the fifth,

potiahers. Hero we

plmcing"it inwMlbarrows, to ho taki off to the brick-shed by uother gang. There were the brickmakers shaping the brioka ont of tbe moist elay, stowing them in order on wooden tray*, to be preeently wheeled off to the brickkiln, to be baked ky brawny feiic with upturned sleeves and faces re ing with perspiration. Down, away the lower tiers of a dock which showed a high-water depth of forty-one feet, men in convict uniform - ’

chiseling and fashion ii

' ‘ bt

lorms, were pumng ud snorting uphill dragging after them hoary wagons loaded with black mud to be tossed ' "a barf

sr

re witcr-rido an

—aped in one direoid coke in uother, ud, ahovel-

vway lustily at both, though with . scions of painful consciousness of the disgrace attached to the labor, were men whom crime bad dragged down from responaiblo ud Incrative positions in mercantile life to tbe level of the hard-it-worked laborer. There wm a mu bom wo Mw in one of these gangs, no utter thu the worst convict u regards is penal condition, who had been found _ nifty, along with others, of thoao pgantic frond* on the Bus af Engand, which ao startled the commercial

t year ago. There ho worked, degrading convict dress, under

the eyes of stern taak-msatera, who' noted his every action ud look, ud guarded by sentries who were ready to ‘ ' ’ 1m down like a dog if be al-

to avail himself of uy chance bia liberty ; there was the * - '-w montha since, had

uu iu luxury, purchased by crime ! cost of his freedom, bnt whs, to a it now, would cheerfully have red awayevery’-nurythis world to oonseqcnoee Imp Oj'nhle tries of after snOoring ud disgrace, ud the — a stern exactor of the uttermost )g I If those tempted to orime

bnt get a glimpse of tho in-

( of the oonrid-pririoiiB, ud ms amptatiou, how foroibly^thev would

* and with what

. . in onality

__ Arkansas to 17 par Tennessee. In quantity Arkanento u increase of SO per cut.; 10 per out.; West Virginia, 23

per out.; Kentucky declines 6 percent. The crops of the«c States are a third greater than that of the oanaus year. North of the Ohio, Illinoia equals that of last year’s crop, while Wisconsin, on -wont of grasshopper*, falls 85 per - it. short, which reduces tho aggregate yield ol this neotion below last —T. Ohio increases her yield 16 per L, Michigan 22 por cent., Indiana 9 out. Ail ahow improved quality ■pt Wisconsin, which declines 23 par out The aggregate yield of ' States west of the Mississippi is ' iort of last year'a. M issoorl inert

' per cent, ud Nebraska '

wa 2 per out. ud Hues

- >o grasshoppers have to

The quefiyia todaw

except Minnt ‘

greatly increased afid ia fully 50 per mt above the oonsns year. California icreased her yield 10 per out. ud Oregon 21 par cent. Oregon equals the quality of Tut year'a erop. Oalifc- ’- tmnrovea hers by 3 por cent. The

yield will nearly, if n

City-

Imo water, and while wells were posaibility. The lady of the whore onr well belonged went mmmon windlass and rope. BehMio, the lady lot tho bucket go

by tho run, and the instut it (truck the water, out dropped tho whole bottom .of the well. Every drop of

instantly disappeared, * '

strength and a ten er recollects wi

is they would r

British Parliament, looked np to and mght after, ud mixing in tbe boat ondon society, who is now glad to earn what alight indulgence a convictail allows, u u infirmary servant attending on oonvieto. For tbe burglar garrotor penal sarvitode most be — 1 enough w all oontcienoe, bnt for tbe well nurtured ud educated woeful wrctchedneu it must entri

If stringent re rder oonld ins'

their nightly undisturbed. To blow a horn

apatorns edy's goo ii Londo:

naelvaa t. of rinmberlng

- . _ . it of doors, after nine oek at night, entailed Imprisonment the offuder, ud uy mu so lost to cney as to beat his wife or servant, sing thereby'a sudden outcry in the I of the night, wu liable to be fined id. for indulging in that amuse in unreasonable time. Deout

we expected to go to bed >, while ever- Mb ; sen wm roqulxad to bu .honse a Untarn " witli a a diiboneet ones being to

ides of hiring uy — —- cause of yonr death must be the vary height of felicity. ‘ ~ xiher future of English fuerala, not always aooeptoble one, la tbe ■** one attending to always possible

wear black. —— to borrow blank garments, e n or two beyond reaaoi neighbor to go to the buying a wardrobe for the o In onr ooisntry the funeral generally the third day of the death : bare dy Is frequently kept a week, ud mee right or ton days; seldom, if ever, leas than fireclays, unleaa in the tolh (taT'ftotUdto bll^the J alive for leak af time to pros dead. They think opr haste ia ir And I don't contradict them.

af the bystanders. A police offioer i that on the previous night, about tv ty minntoa to nine, ha WM on dut; tne lobby at Oovent Garden, when

prisoner's right hud east pocket had a hole throngh it whiah smalt rather of powder. An aaaiatut at Oovent Oarden Theatre arid ha heard the report, rvolver from him and gave him in large. No one wm hart, although the romenade wm crowded. Mr. Abrams, a tbe part of the defendut, arid that

Ms;

a oudle in it ”—

_ by implii

allowed to keep their doorways d his liability lhat way only lasted six to nine. After that hoai the streets were surrendered to dsrknaaa, with the natorri consequence of making London a somewhat unpleasant abiding-place for folks who had uything to lose, sinee their houses were in duger of being pi • • • - • -

hundred’

. long enongh, Klng Henry IIL, in 1253, ordered Ihe aatofallahmant' ’ ——* -1 -

damnified by a i be fully compensated by wl charged with the keeping of ordi “ * * whiah the robbery AU the Fear Round.

An editor, -being Import an ed lot theater tick eta by a well known deadhead, at lut gave him toe following

slaughter of the saris eld ud young for it ia at the breeding •aaaon, whei they lud to bread ud foe tar th young, that they arc attacked; ud ihoai&i the large med tbe but, M] are scared* ud thui gaoeathat laid the

TtWeole I* ,

equal to laat year'a crop. Tbe other States have Increased their yield. The New England Slates almost reached the splendil erop of the census year, ap‘—lag to 1,000,000 bushels.

a increased her yield 33 per le quality of the erop in these

Middle States'' ’’ Th '

larged and impr York reporting

Maryland falla 1 6 par out. below lut year ; but their

■ more thu made np by the Georgia showing an in-

if 21 per cent: The quality is iprovod. Of the Golf States, Alabama reports u ‘ *• —*

rippl declines 9 p percent. All thr States ahow u in

ir yield. Net

ncxMM of 16 pe b Atlantic Bute out. ud Virginii

a of 23 ud

de-

in quality AU-

7he Sqffcrinr In Nebraaka. General Briabla, in u address to (eoola of Oinetnaxti on tho suffc:

Nebraaka, arid

- — thousand people in part of tbe State ol Ne- — reduced to the vex breaks, nsnrily so . ear met with a ud lap in the loss by giaasboppera i he crops grown in the border oom I lately traveled over the devMtatedr

iiimucucs, i.toeper, noon, rurnsa, Franklin. Phelps; Howard, Greeley, Valley, Bnffalo ud Shsrmu oountiea. Fully onh-third of the people bad those, ud were clothed in re, Uuy were living on little pieces _ dock bread, watormelone, squashes, ind a few wore already suffering from hunger. There wu not over ton days' •npply for uything in the oonn"— Three conn lice had no meat, ud i if the inhabituto had not tasted

nri food for ail weeks.

" When houses burn food ia generilly at hand, ud tne people live — jomfort; but when crops fail, the feting ud death soon follow. — -• *—aes ud the ereeh of falling

wako the moat lively sympa-

re fortunate neighbors, ud they give liberally ; bnt in the Iom of —ipa tho bony hud of starvation mea silently to grasp the' vitals ud ing life from,the body. The people of Nebruka hare snfferod a worse dis-

‘' Frighten him," forsooth

>dod in it far bettor thu she expect- , ud at the aims time taught her titgirl a lesson ia falsehood, ud ris contempt for her mother, for the ex . Miion of that ehild'a month botok cned the feeling* of her heart. How longed to cry out to her, in Othello'

words:

California

; quite, eqnsl tho

jwn near Philadelphia, n led eome year* ago in V If! 0 Thu”—

oght q

o l>e a

it had

. --it exported largelv and « Inhaled liberally to the wuU-of t ifortnnato of other State*. Omaha E ve twenty thonuud dollars in euh to e Chicago sufferers after tho fire, which was more thu one dollar pi head for every mu. womu. ud ehil in the oily. The Nebraakius are no struggling man Tally to maintain the unfortnnato people, bnt they cannot d it unaided. There are ten thousan destitute to be fed from now until tt

To feed, clothe u

Of course she would have thought me _n escaped lunatio, so l foib— *—* ’ oonld not help my tipa wn _. scorn at the womu’s perfidy, ud 1 did h to tall her that if she disciplined —- children in that style she WM surely sowing “ the whirlwind to reap de-

lollan

le will re

we must therefore gi' { lut in the spring. 1 100.000 more. Theei frontiersmen, ud wo o terosted in the sett Weak" Louis Blob, a Frenchman, about 45 Anderson’s Ferry, with his face blown entirely away. Dr Maley tea tided : I was notified ol tho finding of tbe body ol tbe deceased. Found tbe divoaaed lying on his back with his entire face destroyed, tho resnlt of s shot fired into the month. Some distance from him 1 found tho barrel, six chamber*, of what is. termed a " popper-box ” researching the body I found the stock tmihaxurioh* ?s idat ne upiAnheu *Vbe barrel ud built a fire, of which there setting the barrel into the fire, held bia

horrified to

Brother* thirty fee

thoandie_... forming their flying leap, when on* of " , hanging head downward from the mtche* the other, who swings from ler tropese some distance oft By mistake, either in miscalculating istanoe or a deviation of the swing, l flung himself from the bar tbe failed to catch him, and he flew put ud fell with a heavy thud into tho drew circle. Two attendants who wore ing beneath endeavored to catch and in a measure broke tho ity of the fall. One of them, how- . received a powerful blow from tho falling man's foot, which caused tho --ii directly into a lady'a lap. The audience for a moment wore para lyxod with fear, every one expecting to ae& him fearfully mangled ud killed ; bnt, strange to My, h* appeared but slightly injured, and wm even foolhardy

blood curdling sight U

unless well, then

1 reaaing h id. " I ki

the matter now?” said the

husband.

“Matter?—matter enongh!” cried the wife. " Tho bottom has dropped

out of tho well I”

"Bottom dropped ont of tbe well!'' exclaimed the hnsbud, opening bis

the bottom has dropped ont m» -nn . —^laaia. astonished, when those men were patting the rim in that well I mw plainly ugh that it wonld be of no account.

-be oanae of the accident was simple enough. Tbe well bad bean dng in tbe line of a tunnel advancing from a distut point below. The miners working -~n the tunnel, all unconscious o* th ~ ireMuoe of tbe well, had drifted undi . — * -i-- gnat distuoe below i!

it all surprised, i

prea. it, at

bottom, j port, tbe t

ig without cord, but'

have fade:

the minere working in the tnnncl i about m much Mtonished at finda flood of water pouring in upon s and daylight opening above them

> lady at the other

dy n.

well, though they knew

" i diggere of the well having

Sighted

written request to the attaching parties that they wonld allow tbe'engine to be *—* * *“* — m to Rubricate "'Ir? trip - they arrived at a station, near wl than wm a well-known saloon. It proposed to step off for refreshments. Th* keeper agreed, th* flromu accompanying him. Meuwhile the keeper kept Ua eye on tbe locomotive, and •ariag tbs «n4i—av haeklng ud filling, ha tho tight all wu right. Suddenly ’■ ' Td the throttle wide.

tbe rule laid dowi gists, that aoloni to perform its fq

aassr

struggle having taken place ; no other mark* on hia body except those on Ua face, inflicted by the discharge of the revolver. There was aomo dirt on tho knees of his puts, showing that he had knelt over tho Are. I found a pocketbook containing aeventy-flve outs, and hia naturriiaation papers, showing that ho was made a citizen of the United States st Covington, Ky., in 1855. Was dressed well, ud appeared to be a mechanic, ud 45 yeara old. Paper* showed Um to be a Frenohmu. The snrronnding* do pot indicate fool

Marriage la Ihe Cherokee Country. John Arnold, a young Chlrekee, agreed to meet a young female Gticrokee at a certain poin i cn a certain day ud marry her. Arnold was there km time, but hia intend'*! lirii wae r- ‘ He bad eome to be married, ud eon not afford to Iom a wif* ud bia ill too. So he hunted np ailcihcr indi • ti-a by u,.

man appeared at the party lined that aba coaid no

x-irsi;

: possibly Intod, and

booM, bnt tbe minister thought it not yet too late to correct the crroi one had bean made. Mr*. Arnold consnlted, and aa her aoqnrintuee with her bnabud bad been very alight, aha agreed to give him np in favor of the prior clrimut. The good Indiu f with annulled tho marriage whit bad jost solemnized, ud immediately married Arnold to his first love. The father of the repudiated bride thought It might all be right ud regular under tbe Chriatiu di»p*nMtlon, bnt he occasion to advise the bridegroom to etay longer than a minute or ta the Cherokee nation.. Bo Arnold bia second wife left tbe houM of ft ing ud the presence of the holy ■ ud took ta tbe wilderness for ariai

The Effect of Llghtaing on Tre The theory that the splitting of ranks nf trees by lightning is th sudden evaporation • -a —“’-in them,'

on from l_,—

Osborn Reynolds, who anoeeedod in splitting amril sticks af wood by patting tbs electric spark throngh them,* af tor they had been impregnated with water. He also burst sin ill glias tube*, which were filled with water, although the time tnbae. when empty, allowed the oleetrie spi'.r to jump through them without inti.' least disturbing them. The moet striking experiment made by him wm upon s tube three-eighths ol u inch exterior ud ono-eightn interior dfsme-

ittamreofst to the squire

long ud bent st * right ugle. A very Urge eleotrio flssh being sent throngh th* tab* it WM split by the first discharge, ud the pieces throws to

pnlvarisad, aa though it had bean at by a hammer. Reynolds estimates ouai tbe preasnre mnsl have bean mom thai 1,000 atmospheres. A Bad Siowt.—Two Brooklyn (N. Y.l girls, belonging to reapooUble ud wealthy families, were stopped by a polioamu on Myrtle arena* one night ^‘LrArs.’rSk.'ti singing at the top of their vriees, “ We won't go bom* till morning,” They were promptly escorted horns, ud it WM discovered Util a bottle of wine they had token slyly from tits dinner the Sanaa of their disgraceful appearrsrsrisnsatwrS

ays a writer, I beard a mother My to If yon don't atop

yen’ll ace what Fll The child, a boy about two years old, looked^ hii ivtonishmant at the threat. The mother took > him up lab m though she wr-uld throw h._ when be a-ream* j in frantic terror and elnug to bar neck with such appalling ’ • that ska wm forced to hosh him

rhiU^e’ feluT"

tnm nitrons little girl i

chad the whole soene silently, bn with the deepest intereat, ud whe when her mother motioned to throi her little brother from the window, hu caught her arm in terror, now said : "Mamma, wonld you have throw)

Jamie ont ?''

T, child,” replied tbi aly wished, to frightei

ill asleep, wo: a psasibc. !

New Mexi they discovered • tooth brush ud s ■—**■- if hair oil in bia satohei. They Yank oonld eome around there patting on the sirs of a Napoleon Bona-

parte.

Sydney Smith said every public mu xould be provided with s footometor -that is, the acquaintance of three or iur regular fools, on whom bo oonld j hit measures ud jqdge of the effect ley were likely to prednoe on public Charlotte Onshman recoivsd >500 for rery performance during her farewell engagement in New York city. This •rtkre *3,500 ’ ’ ' ”

Fall from a Trapeze,

. -raiug recently the nnglnn* Hall, Portland, Maine, . • — —- ,, the For

- — - trapeze, s from the floor, down am

d foor childrenT When „ formed of tbe fact. Sam begu to prepare for s journey. " I ain't going to live in this town of Salisbury uy Mr*. Samnd, the mother of the James boys, the well-known Missouri banditti, is described m a tall, dignified lady of about 48 yearn, graceful m carriage ud goaturiud calm ud quiet in demeuor. Her husband wm a verr religious man, ud a graduate of The CbuHeruJoumal is strikingly omplimentary. It ray* that when "uderbilt travels his special train goes mile in something 1cm than a minute, n cane of a fata! accident he would oubUett like to have the world know hat he want to death a miunto ud a

91 loat a fox near to too station e Saint Anbiu, in France, ancT, they beat np toe neighborhood

(ing also/Next day it wm bat the fox bad leaped baggage car of a train just

snob a height, yet th

owa to Pennsylvania farmers tbs titT. absurd" to sow graM and turnips together. Years ago, ho declare*, it wm one of the oommoueit of practice*, ud though probably leas prevalent at pras-

n which none could withdraw their

m learned that his inimtircly slight, order

nnparativc and the pe

Drinking for toe Effects. e uything only the *»- B taste of it

wm' iut.' iflt i ho wonld never

the effe for tbe enec drink a drop of liq*

ooks, property and a respectable poaition in aooiety. Tbe only perceptible affects of bis potations then were tbe heightened color in hia cheek, increMcd brilliancy of tho eye* ud vineity in eonveraation. Ha was generous ud liberal with his money, too, ud bad a "boat of friends." Well, ho kept on drinking for the effects ud bo got them, a* every man will who kMpa long enough. Th* but time wo him ho wm that pitiful objeet, a u wreck. Ho WM standing, st • bar pleading for a drink on time, bis • • ling finger* being unable to find solitary nickle in toe pockets of bia ragged apparel. Be bad kept on gagging over hia whisky ud drinking fortheefieols until bo hadn't uy effects left, except those painfully apparent , poverty, diaaaM, privation ami ihed respectability. Verily, he got tho affeeta.

How to Trim Apron Fronts.

on* with three carved or hordes that give the effect of bord-

erer-skirts have throe row* of jet fringe headed by pMsementerie across the apron front, aad dividing it into three equal tier*. Plain Holered cam-al’s-hair aprons have throe biu buds ■ plaid curved acr ss them. Tall ladiea •re especially pleased with toil trimming. Short ladiea, ud particularly thou with very long wsista, tu* perpendicular rows of jet galloon on the to give the appearance of greater below the waist. Very stooder figures um the triple apron, which is three short aprous overlapping each other, edged with fringe, ud draped or featooned across the front breadths. — ' ' plan for those who are too

ster ‘ vet sowi

me Hovel snggeauoaB iui muji black silks are toe shirred band uu she wrists, the folded collar, the lapped sub breadths ud jet fringe

A War InddeaL

ler ia fond of tolling a strsn) oxparienoa of one of to* print** of h rtr— -tu WM s soldier, wl

soldier wall can b< ire bean in action, ni

fired inwnmily. Tl WM daring the perurunl . ipalgn—at Williamsburg, I think— m this soldier wm suddenly predr id into action. While loading ai ig in toe moat determined and ne

lut way, he met r which to not at all soldiers—he fired off vanning with his d dose of thr —'— 1

toe groaaad —.— by Ihe enemy, he found on* of tbe tot- — literally pinned to a Ire* -“ v -

ISdwfoi good res eon, toatgl wm Maaad by bin own tondn making anunamtton of Uan

a situation, aays, ■■ Work is not so mneh u objeet u good wsgee." What to toe difference between a spendthrift ud a ptilow ? One to hard

have gone out of fashion at the'^uth, ' ‘Ting been superseded by toe (toughm of toe muufeetorere. The mu who invented tboae bautifnl ooal-burning stove* with toe roaar_i '“ JPUs: ----- womu lifting cool-okhttlee higher thu bar head. Upon toe marriage of one of hot mpanion*, a little girl mbont eleven Voora of age of the some school, said to nor pa : "Why, don't you think .mails to married, and hasn't gone trough fractions yet I”

id UBed' him.

impossibility, i " a* good cro

good a* tbs* plan which has in some specta superseded it, of sowing among

A Big Lamp of Coal. A oonspicnouR article on exhibition , the fair, rays the Onmberland AW*, a mammoth lamp of coil, whieh eighs 8,420 poands net, or sixty ponnds more than a ton-and-a-half. It WM mined in the Bwuton mins, at Barton. Mr. McDonald had it placed on a ear ud amt to Cumberland. Tbe work of removing it from too ear, ud thence to the fair grounds, wm soooettfuL It was no easy job, bnt oat requiring great care ta gal itont safely, butwM accomplished. The coal ud wagon together weighed 4.196 ponnds. This lump, which was mined a half from toe opening of toe mine, perhaps one-fourth mile from the surface, wa* out to take toe premium

Would Women Vote.

a an error to suppose but fsw x wonld vote if tney oonld. We seta to the contrary in England, om th* batter clsasas, so called. It to said none bnt toe lowest order of woman would vote. Wa know better— th* high char so tar of tha woman earn- *' demanding the ballot relates the lion. A Loudon paper says : In __ _iunicip*l eledtlons, ont of every 1,000 womu who ujoy equal righto —-UU on tbe register, 510 went to ills, which to bnt 48 leas thu to*

ont of 27,949 womu registered, where occurred. 14,416 voted. Of i were 162,781 on toe registers 0 at toe polls. Making allowbe reloctonee ol old ■pinsUrto their habit* ud the mot* frequent illness ol their sax, it to muifeat thM womu do axaroua to* franchise at freely u mu. Suicides, :>&aBJ*U* excited general pity ud horror awhila ago when a drovi?him wild ud who killed himself, found to have had a fall array of

it the distreu ud Iom of aleep prosed a madness in which he killed ualf. Probably a vast majority of

could be similarly eeoonutod for npon physical grounds. .And when snob eaaao m these open op snob horrible ud distressing conditions it is no wonder that there an suicide* or sympathy for them.

sine*, in a 84. Lento court, Gcorgi Pepper pleaded guilty of robbery iu the Ont degree, ud wm sen ten cad to tu yeara' imprisonment in toe Pultantiary. On fiia night of Jueary 5 toot he met Mr. George J. Davit, u attorney of that city, ia theauboA*. ud (wesenting a pistol at his head, demanded hia money or hia hie in true highwayman stylo. Mr, Davis delivered np his gold wstah. *x*4h S8M); a gold chain, worth >60, mod >850 in money, with he mads off. Papptt, being con - ►striokon at hia crime, wut to Mr. Davis's oflasi nee ferns! th* orime, sis.cr-'sa.'sr" "■