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VOL. VI.

CAPE MAY CITY, K. J., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2S. 1874.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

Uol fcml»~.ln IbeCoontjr ot Cmpt Umr

Attorney end C OH»IUTCe t P. B.—<>glcretCepe l.lend dl B. r. jbaipGLAaa, ATTOR NKY AT LAW AMO MASTER IN CHAMCKRT. Mo. M Perry Btreet, Cepe May CHy

a. «o. A Huehaa alreel.

, DR- J. F. LEAMIMG, DENTIST.

MASTER IN CHANCERY, Conveyancing, Deads, Bonds, Mori SAgM.

“ Ton'll ty, eir 7"

Himon Clayton looked over the ' 1 the neirepepor be vie reading, e hie boneekeeper weiting (or

" Why to-day t" be eeid, in s early me, ee il annoyed mi the interruption. Why to-day, more than any other

it» Do I ever bare company 1"

" Bat it is Thanksgiving Day, air, id moat (oiks have tbelr kin amend

"!?!!! r!5d?,r*a“

I®’?

nUIn

bam no kin I There is m >n thia day or any other.’

BUSIAKSS CARDS. UA9MEN * PArrrinowE,

7) ord Mms tx an rut ><ka tkkj linrxK- fuhxbihixu itjoits, tc. Tln-Rooflng a Specialty. Manalon «.■ Cape May niy, A. H. BKIBXET dk BRO.,

id IS Federal Rtreet,

e master of the bonae and the old •oaekeeper onoo more, bat it ooald 4 quite shat from bis ears the maror of the good woman, as aha left the

on Clayton was roused from thought by a knock at the door, and ’ alter to hi a " Come in," a lad enoarryine a letter. It waa a briel aenroely more than a note, rend-

Dua Bikos : I am dying,. and may eall yon ao now, will yon five helping hand to my son who will b *“-* “ir I have

_ though he UMtaaaod devotion: lorn and hindnetn lavished npon He had heard ol Laura Clayton as o( thoea dear (rienda who trv to Diaon all bappineaa by antieipaaiona '■fSlrib-.*. n ri. M, aids of yonr nnele by never eontradiet1 — him," thia friend had told him; "be awfnlly fond of fab daughter, bat ... never forgave her for ma— 1 — against his wilL" " I thought his children an a," was the reply. Not at alL Mm. Cameron li ttle room in Pearl street, and ing machine fer'a living. B

searing for. rolling in wraith." Pearl street J' a Bhe makSe n

- impolae of youth, he had pro ached the enbjeet with hia adopted ancle, bat he was ae sternly - n ' that he never dared apeak ' the disobedient dam when hie twenty-6. day came, Simon Clayton led the young -an one morning to hia library. "Cyrai,” he said, ••you areal — «y, and you have a right to know what ■e my intentions regarding you. is course of the neat year you trill Imitted to the bar, and I shall ma ^ m the agent of my property. 1 gether wo will go over all my invr . —., w jjj be able to relie burden of earn, aa well „ learn where yonr own property will one day lie. Por to-day I make my will, and you will be my sole heir. Not a word! Your mother gave you to met Be ini' loving son, Cyrus, it ia all I Your daughter "

word of her ! She died to fourteen yean ago." Jhe tone aras so stern, Cyrus could only bow hia head In alienee, and regia. ter a vow in hia heart that his life toward hl(

y one, sih

write. We have wordly wealth to asm per’a grave, and send I bnt by our eld love, Bi . you to help him to obtain i

left this worlcf ) my husband In

iSTE’ffin

x-8 BOOTS, aiionia caitkrx.

L tts ploy men t. I have been a true wile and a good mother, aa far aa I oenld, Simon, yet on my deathbed I know that my —ly love waa given to yon when they Tied na, and will be yours 11 we meet

another world. Mnoira.” There waa deep alienee in the room Simon Clayton read the letter, and > waa forced to wait many mlnntea fore hia voloe would obey him to k : “ Your mother la deed T" “ She died in the trammer, air." " Why have you waited ao long to

It aeema a sudden adoption when told in the. limits of mystery, bnt, in *-101, il waa no oeprioe that influenced non Clayton in nis raaqlvo. During idied Oyrt aeratlny

Ha found in hia eloeeat atudy of the

CONTRACTORS A BUILDERS, , ’ Cape May City, M.J.

WASHINGTON HOTEL!

BOLTON’S H0TF.L, Tlarriebatn!, Pa.

• HoHakin’s ATLAN TIC HOTEL,

MEDICINES. KEARNEY'S FLIHD EXTRACT BUCHU

m^teaveling money I

I guest for the present, and I will see

at I oan do for you.”

Aa Simon Clayton spoke, be roeohed ut hia hand and touched e bell upon lie I ibis near him. Hia honaekeeper ■■ You see I have company, Mrs. Qrey." he said, and the honaekeeper wondered at the change In hia face and voice, lacking all severity, yet " You will have a room made c

' • ' Mr. Ford."

oman eourtealed and waa gone, ion questioned hie young guest. Hia eyes were misty more than once 1 the straightforward story of privathe boy told, hia evident devotion ia mother, who had been widowed n hu waa a baby. It waa not difflcull to see that the boy, ground doart by poverty, had yet a (waving for ednealion, and bad profited by all hia mother * *• Hia very touch upon

e eomfert-

they rested upon tfa case, *-’* * v - *~

than a) Grey o

Clayton ares planning True Tiiankagirlng

lagiving fare the kind-

itvss face opposite to him, and knew Minnte'a ohild looked up to him to " ' IMore a week had passed entered aa a student in one colleges, living with Wanes "You had better eall

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Cmoroals; aurltlty, aw

All Otmpbunti Inciintto Aaaalss. Keanwv'fi Extract Buchu ’-.tgsxsggz&r

r, and if the people

KEARNErSHT. BUCHU

! very ut-

, rritfewA kindly-hearted hoping

oomfort in the lad, the arrival of thia handsome boy. Four years glided by uneventfully A happily. The stern rad man seeded to renew hia youth in hia intareoume with the son Minnie had sent to him, the talented scholar who ana miming college honors, and who kspt himself

SKfeiT” 1 *

The fatherly love that Simon Clayton had thought buried in the gravae of

company by giving him free pennisaioa to extend the board tali tieaof hie home to Us fallow atadesta, and the boy'a earn refined instincts ted him to seek only the association of jnnttemea. ■ love of sstiianla being diaomerwd, became the possessor of a 6ns horse. > ana enoouraged to join a boat elub, d Simon himself accompanied him to oh plaoae of amnaemeniea hedoairod to vialt Yet suddenly lifted from poverty to rtabee, from bitter selfoenial to an indulgence of eaary wish.

Mrs. Grey met him at the door ari frightened fees. There h sudden change for the arm ainoe he bad left, and Simon Clayt aras sinking fast. Horrvinr to t room, Cyrus found ths n

forgive Cyrus did sot speak. Literally ha could not. All that those few gasping arords implied proceed npon hia brain

arfaioh he had virtually controlled for a few abort weeks would be all his earn. He could provide handsomely for the aridow —' ' ’

surely better fitted U itate than a weak wonts Simon Clayton did Di lone* that fell upon tl yrua wrestled with the

is heart. He

s aras abort for prayer and on for eternity, ao the silenoe

Ford's 1 " Uncle Simon,” he cried, “I bring Laura to you, if you ariah."

_ servility. respectful gratitude

.avoring nor cringing, and npright integrity, and a dose attention to the studies that were no child's task for country-bred brains, all Wakened the respect of the old man. Hia love aras easily won. Minnie's eon, lookuto hia face arith Minnie’s great, tr ayes, moved hia hsart to affeebelonf the first hour of intercourse >ver; and, onoe given, the affeonever wavered, growing stronger with evary day’s intercourse, till the gnaarieg pain for hia own boys gone was lost in the love for the son sent to

comfort his old age.

Thanksgiving came again—the fourth linoe Cyrus Ford came to Clayton— tnd arith il earns a sorrow. For the

itire sixty yean of fau life, bat in won tod exposure bad brought

attack of fever that, setting its

fangs deepin the strong frame, brought it vary nigh the grave. Owns had been aratehing all night when Thanksgiving Day dawned, clear and bright, though "ret fall of anow lay upon the

. The invalid, turning ro . the pillow, spoke of sot

finished business hia illness f Uyed, and seemed to have hia intellect clearer than It had been before during " 1 ariah yon aronld call upon Hoekins this morning, Gyrus," he said. “ I ‘ "dm to understand about the lease se Grand street stores, before the

j too near for that. It seemed nothing strange to him that hia strong

lying ariah should be answered.

‘■You can find berf Bring her tnickly, Oyrns, or yon trill be too late. Jut before you go, give mo my deck,

tnd send Mrs. Grey to me." •’ Shall I open your deck ?"

" Yea ; I only arant my trill. She ia my only child, Cryua," he said, ptoad- " And if thia is destroyed she will have her rightful inheritance," said Cyrus. " Shall I lay it hero on the

coals •"

send at

__ . i hake the

r _» ready T"

" All ready, air. But are you trail

—*- * ‘o leave you?"

sf to be out in the crisp, the long confinement in i snd Cyrus felt lighl.certainty that hia friend waa belter. Barely this attention to ras a good symptom, and the certainly gone. Mrs. Grey was a good nurse, and there was no especial hurry; so, after settlin burineae with Hoskins, Cyrus

eloesd, andthi . in their beet attire going to family gatherings. Gyrus was thinking of the day four yean ago, whan he name friendless and loo sly to the great when, lust before him, a girl hurt peat with a large bundle slipped i__ the frosea pavement, and fell heavily the ground. In a moment Gyrus bending over her, helping her to ; but her ankle was sprained, and •he would have fallen again but for hia

; _.. look of pate upon her faee. ut try,"she answered, stooping e the kg bundle. " Lean Upon me," he laid, taking the burden from her. " You eannot," be •aid, »• the effort to pet the injured foot down brought an ashy paleness *- her very lips. '■ I will eall a cab." " No, no I I have no money 1" Again the deathly pallor gathered shock and Ups, till Oyrua lifted 1 gently into the eab that came at I

Directing tho cabman, Cyras into the osb, with a fau almost as was the°nme his friJri had numti as the address of Simon Olay the fau, pate and thin, was yet that a child of not more titan thirteen ant rs. When the eab stopped befo toll, narrow tenement bouse, tl rag man lifted hia charge In fa mg arms, and, bidding hu bold fs the big bundle, oarrTed her to t! m to which she directed him. of'*££23*2, riwsa

"Tee. t

t it, Oyrua, ar

So, while the flame! curled over the er that would have made him masof nearly a million dollars, Oyrua

Ford staited to bring Laura Cameron

her father, and sent ilia lawyer to

dying man. But few words suffloed to exk*in bis errand. Dollie waa carefully carried to the ea»y carriage in waiting and after a long drive the ■lately bouse was reached when twilight

‘tling over the groat city. aa thoroughly in keeping with teste inatinete of Oyrua Ford'a

.or that he sent Laura alone to

her father, while he earned Dollie

ipon a soil. The grave, pale ehild ooked earnestly in hia face. “ De you live here with my grandatherr abe asked. "I have lived here for four years. I ate my first meal here on Thanksgiving make a little holiday, too; bnt I waa not paid for the work 1 took home, and I hurt my foot. I waa not In a very thankful frame of mind before I met you, and you wore so kind and ao gec- " I hope this will be the first of many thankful days for you,” he answered, mother will not leave her '

could look

upon her faee.

" Yon willtrnsl evcijUiingto Oyrns,

Faithful t

how all my property Oyrua, you will be fall

child f"

"Gbd deal with meat I am faithful i your trust." waa the rotemn reply. Before midnight, surrounded 1

those be loved, Simon "" three days k.—

a over, did

l ed " by i diad.

n heir to half of

.£i£[oM2^Xj . as a wedding in the house where Bii Clayton had neat so many lonely di and the bridagroom waa the rii ’ wyes, Oyraa Ford, who wr*

Howard ! I didn't teint she would be ‘Itf'dLr," interrupted Mrs. Phil“brlcae you " see if your story a

"I win saplate it. In the s " I anppoae ao. I got it from Phi to, and she ia a groat Men lith'a." "Anddues she show her frismdahip by telling take of Iter T In the next idan tiior-r- — » r. ilUndt"

An Imwlnuu to O F. A. Doekray, the Ai

19th of Angus!, at Puerto Prinetee. Again I attempted to send off some totters, when an order came for my immediate removal to Havana. Was five days only in the ' Presidio.' Enough time to amuse the offteteb at the^i-

snd hammered after they ware put on ; .. * v.:_ n p between the oonnacted with the rings. At the waist it was held by a leather strap around the body. Add to thia a sort of Siamese arrangement in the shape of another iron chain which hitched me to another fellow, from hip o hip. Then, to fill the measure of □salt, my hair was cropped and face dean shaved. I have heard of embalmng the human body after the fashion if Flu mail's undertakers soma thousrada of ages ago, but next to being ■waddled in linen^and yum, or Mxt te ro^Sineifby one log^nlyT

>d to bis feet, and in very dangersee. like mine, ho is pinned to another fellow’e hip, and one ia bound to serve the other in every movement he makes. What a luxury in thia oonn-

mannikine—150—stretched ont with "eet toward each other, and a or corporal walking guard in sage between. All tbe legs are ed, and tbe jingling of eo many ' re days I spent in T . and a eouple teroof to eoXthe rations. from NneviUe to framework waa removed. the rivet heads cut after patient pounding, and I felt like a balloon with all tbe sand bags chucked out, ready to spring up to any unknown height from the relief of the weight. I was in Havana but one night, when tho ConsulGeneral came and said I waa to go to next day in the regular mail *, and so I did. A* we passed More at sundown on Sunday, the 80th o( August, the Moro Castle, from New ' Tort!, steamed in. My God 1 I believe would have risked a jump if she had been going the other way. I never appreciated before to what extent one's -ffeotion for a flag—for any symbol— ay bo warmed and kindled. Sept 16, — 7 a. M., the steamer made entrance of Santander. Wo passed through dark, narrow, gloomy streets, with great stone buildings fonr, five and six stories high, under a low stone archway, np a dark, rickety, rotten a lair way, smelling of age, decay, vermin, cobwebs, and tbe gasses of a urinal pervading tbe whole prison. I was put in the third a to it—alone in my room—all around Carlist prisoners. From the window I could look down into a small courtyard ■grated windows ol a Tsvel of tho yard. I felt muchly like Mark Twain's Arabian ■teed—felt aa if I would like to lean np ist something and think, lut barring all farther narrative, our Miniiter at Madrid promptly responded to my telegram, and on Sunday the Secretary of Legation spent

of October, 1863, tbe al of Williamsburg. W. Diaosway, waa shot bv a soldier named James Boyle, . a he bad ordered under arrest far disorderly conduct. The murderer torn immediately seised, ironed, and, pending hia trial, confined in Fort Ma-

ths headquarters of the Onion . less. The regular troops, it waa said, *■'-* been sent to the front, and only

is all right, aa required to bs

been made a values of bi occasional ooutrorersire have arisen o the subject, in whiqh the utn varsity of opinion h“ '

and beef ard mutton. Again, i ' authority says that fish, wel , with oil or fat of some kind, o Mired with butter when brought U

nutrition is oo: eernsd." Another writer toys that fit M food ia only fit for children and il

"women «

the two extremes. Many people fol

In Scotland, live largely upon fish. that country, the fishermen tUemseb

considerable portion, and, aa

fiMnnaiw era strung and healthy; and the wivse, who undertake a portion of tbe men's work, are still .stronger and healthier. In Portugal, fish fned in oil forma a very large pr " *

the food'of the population

diet ia supplemented by e little ‘ although the peasantry

var partake ol flash mset, yet they are a hardy, vigorous, and brave people. Let it be remembered that fish is a tl social ty of life In France and Spain, and aa regards the latter ooantry, a constant organisation is at work in oar own islands to supply it with many kinds of eured fish. A lingo portion of the pilehards taken on the ooaet of Corn wall, aa well ae many hun-

A Poachers Fight. On Oct. M the keepers anfiw upon Foxloy, tU estate of tfa Mr. Davenport, Dear Hereford, —. land, met aa armed band ol pouehom Hut M they were leering the preserve* with their booty of haras tndrdisasaata, Freese, the head keeper, eeUed npon .. . atehd and deliver np ...... keepers. Tbe latter then closed, npon white the poachers pointed lowfing pieces at the breasts of their opponents. Prases being "determined, il possible, effect a capture, closed upon them, it he waa shot in the alfaow, and saber keeper received a charge in the ices. Fresco, being armed, therenpon otic the bead tbe ptwabsr who fired _• flmt gun, and be M oued by his comrades frt_, A regular fight snened, durix^ wl

drawn together for that purpose. A brigade of infantry, three batteries of artillery and fonr regiments of cavalry ■mpriaed the expedition. They were oved oantionsly, and rendesvonsed in the woods on the road leading from Yorktown to Williamsburg. Then they pushed on, s general older having " en reed to ths troops informing theta at they were to more on to Riebmond. There were the strongest reasons for believing that by being oantioua, bold ’ expeditious, tbe oaralry could ’ Richmond, liberate the' prisoners nod in Libby and Qastle Thunder, capture President DariA and tho bffiof hu government. Miss the treasdeetroy the vast depots of sup- , burn tho bridges across the ss, and otherwise’ weaken the deja of tbe city. Certain oflioers and squadrons were assigned to perform —tain portions of the work ef destruc- ), and Capitol square designated aa general rendeirous, when the work uld hare been thoroughly aooom- . died. On tho 2d or 3d of February, the murderer Boyle, whose trial had been for some reason delayed, escaped in the night from his prison at Fort Magruder, through the connivance of one of bis guards. Search was immediately made in all directions, and every ;he expedition was pushing on to the point of its destination. To divert the enemy’s attention General Sedgwick’s corps had been thrown aoross tbe Bapidan and had engaged a large portion of Leo's army, ana tbe " raiders" were unmolested. At daylight on the morning of tho 7th ef February tho infantry reached Baltimore Cross Hoads, where they made however, the extreme cavalry advance ' ' • • - "joni Bridge, within Richmond. It was intensely di ' '

there, and

wring thi_ ippod ol its planking it .. wait nntil daylight. The strictest orders were issned again lighting fires or making nnneoesoary noise, and pickets were thrown out in all direotiona. The condition of tbe bridge sagacious offioen no expedition bod been discovered, in which event surprise — 'mposeible and suoccia doubtful. army reeled on their onus as patiently aa possible", waiting and watching-for tire first shimmering of down, full of confidence and hope, "ut, alas !,by tbe dim light of the long line of .shadowy figures filing )wu the road, on tho opposite bank of io stream, and taking poaitien to op>so tho psasago of the bridge. An d earthwork, which had been thrown up by MoClelian during his Riebmond —mpaign of the year previous, soon ielded them from view, and, as no emy could be seen through the mists which hung over the little valley, when ">o balance of the army same up the •ported discovery of the picketa waa

mforron Mr. A.'a own words, “This ia just ray lock." In fact, aa fast •• his tools grow old from too much exposure to the weather and lack of suitable care, it is just his luck to have them breaking when he Is ia a hurry. This by no means uncommon Occident furnishes a respite for the horses, and a journey to Mr. A.’e fePaasing farmer B.V well fenced and highly cultivated farm, he obeerred several young men also engaged in ■preparing the soil and sowing grain, but in quite s different style. One is driving a well-kept.**'— •- •' -

"iridgo had been

freqnc:

airth Mr. B. wan

... a cultivator wbe: it as good." The eulti

THE UNITED STATES AMY. General Sherman has submitted his annual report to the Baaretary of War. It ia dated St. Louia, Mo., and abowa tho strength of the army according to the latest returns received up to October 15, 1874. The total number of enlisted men at that date was 26.441. By the first of Ja^rur? he has no doubt the army will be reduced to 25,000, the number ordered ly Congress. He says "that"thia ljm>» rorees the oompaniea to so small a cUnd-jd that tbe eMdcncy of tbe eerrioe is greatly impaired the by. It ia utterly impossible to m> tun the companies at remote etetii up to the very small legal standard^

What ia it that goes u ova the hill, and yet ridesmaid ding in Covington, Ky., ’ mother of the bride. The "bead! lady, which wi lion out Wert Many storie cruelty of Lattxn, who

KSv fathers a

ago to learn trades.

by band, as their there did before

’s boys left him years lea. ft waa easier for Hindoo to pass the lines of

denoe in the agricultural lore of the part, or pass the boundary lines that separated their condition from that of tbe more fortunate sons of Mr. B.— boundary lines that hedged them in, warping their very eoula, until they were driven in diegiut from a vocation they should have learned to love. The substantial fence that separates Mr. A.’s farm from that of Mr. B.’a ia second only to tho ntrong lino of eontrart that separates them to thoir'farthoreet extent. On tho one hand, a farm well laid out and convenient in all ita arrangements ; a farm well tilled and anaceptible of tbe highest cultivation. On the other baud, a farm that waa never permanently laid out, but ia laid out anew, you after year, to suit

the spioe of ly to look at ro ia ao much

j ko him feel quite spicy. The variety in tho shapes of his different fields ia eimply astonishing. Hia fields are regular and

angular, .triangular, and

quadrangular.

Referring to tho Military Division ol the Missouri, commanded "by Lieuten-ant-General Sheridan, he states what be baa done in fighting the Indiana, and adds : " Geaeral Sheridan country near Fort Sill, giving bis personal attention io the subject, and I have no doubt bafore the winter ia over these Indiana will learn a lesson which will enablo tbe eiril agents to bring them within the sphere ol hnmanisa Uon, if not of civilisation." Referring to the Black Hills expedition under Colonel Custer, he says: “ The reoonnoissanoe was suooeeaful; the country of the Black Hills was found to be qiuch better than was expected, with plenty of good timber, snd considerable good soil at high altitndea, and an abnndant supply of good " ie gold was f—’

bo given^b^an cx i pedilion snob aa^lhal

tennine its quantity." General Sheridan ag

the establishment of a large military

-*iy Me

traveler likens Santa Fe, New o, as seen from tbs approaebrooo orth, to an immense brickyard, all ready for the burning, one aotitary red 5-story sdobe bnfldicgs. he old man will insist on taking a smoke after going to bed at night, the met the noose ia insured for twice value the more complacent will be

e Black Hills country. -* tome length th- T -

i» department.

of Colonel

expected

Miles, Lieutenant-Colonel Davidson, .Lieutenant-Colonel Snell, and ” Price, ho says it ia hoped *' ‘ ’*

boat resnlte which could will bo accomplished, and

settle tbe Indian question for e far as the Kiowas, Comanche Cheyennes in the Hontbwert si corned. General Sheridan adds . " I respectfully differ with General Pope ee to tho chief osuses of thi ■**-" •"■nblee, and attribute it — —

-ith which the tribes here . In all their raids into

put three ysei ' e furnished thr

; which to mi

devoi

ao poor thst they do not psy for even bis poor cultivation. " Bessons are gettiu' awful onaartin," lys Mr. A. ; in foot, seasons do ot seem to be u good for Mr. A.'a nee be began selling his hay and iptead of feeding it on tbe farm, practical (?) t farmer. Men

it searoely bad

when a puff of i observed beyond the followed J -'-

jrun and

a, instantly

wild shriek of a shell. ' destroyed in ea inrprieing Rieam«w4 ■ anlt, the expeditio

eonditien of the aamBi? and ol operations of hia effloe aa tho redemption agenoy of the United Btatee, Gen. Spinner devotee oonrlderaMo attention to tho interchangeability of United States notes and bonds. He a, for the most part, to his views

heartened, .retnrued leisurely to Willis msbars. For a long time it waa a matter ol profound wonder how the secret ol the expedition was carried to Ricbmohd. " of high rank were suspected, and I than one staff officer was dropped ths rolls beeanM of a suspicion that be might have imparted the information ao valuable. At last, howthe fseta came out; and heroin really carious pert of this chapter on the history of oar late war. Boyle, the escaped mnrderer^had obtained bis liberty just. Aa the expedition wu collecting. From the guard who connived at hia eaoape he had learned the

hurried forward io dent By aueh a singular s ..aa Rich mend saved. Boyle enlisted in the Southern serrioe, but of his snhwwiuent life nothing is known. It is possible that be yet lives, and may learn from this paper tl" jury be inflicted npon the oount

What He Was After. A remarkable case wu brought - ates fa I

charged with begging, rounding oboumalarMa — the defendant waa no ordinary vagrar Papers found npon himlhowedthat.

the oo!

. ^ id oqrveeponded wii Belgian and Dutoh Government . Ihadaddreseed a tong statement to Qaeen Viotoria, who, through P‘Thomu Biddulph. expresaed her grat that ahe oonld not personally terfere, and advised the man to cons—

’.73?*.

_ —Recently a telegraph clerk in Fraaoe refused to transmit a message " - words: "Third Epistle of

me 18 and 14,” under the law

aids the tnnsmiaeion ol diapetohes not written fa plain language. Reference te tile text indicates that the dispatch WM merely an eoonumy of wdsT The tort fa aa '"

give half a. crop ai di ia thst those atoi nt letting alone.

ever raaly did bi farmin'." M:

is eye or

■ede interchangeable for uIslanding five and air -

srehanges, might,

wldcThf ane of throe low rate convertible I IA practically the same I

by him last year. He oo

the greatest objection to ol naively metallic currency is ita want of elutioity. This defect be bdievra can be corrected by the adoption of fatorolmageable bond. He belie that for this proposed bond a rate -. interest no higher than 8 68-100 should be charged, snd that such a rate would be high enough to absorb tl * Of dreulation when i

lerefanTof the bonds

legal-tender

_ the business sight require m

ct interest of or day for the use of 8100 he considers would be popular with the

t of the,*

.'“/a

pursuit when they returned with their soalne and plunder. There is no doubt that the advanoe of settlers and tbe operations of I isod surveying parties in the Territory and Kansu, and al buffalo bnntera at Adobe Walla,

[Other with the families of the owner rnd reasonably think that these peopl o mnoh exposed and baring anon val >ble interests, are desirous of prove jig Indian wan. There wu a tic possibly when tbe population of the I diau frontier may have been doeiro" of Indian troubles, bnt that hu ceased long ago. It wu when tbe country be. . ... ... -i river and the Rocky barren desert, while now it ia the grazing ground for tbe ■took consumed by the population of our Eutern cities. This outbreak doea " " " to mou being o " " — * *

us of bad white

Jhieky to the Im . — traders. It ia the result of the reeUroa ■tore of the Indian, who hu no proeaton out "anna, and naturally seeks ir war and plunder when tbe grazing its high enough to feed biz ponies “ Affairs on the Bio Grande line, i peeially on the upper Bio Grande, hu become almost entiraly settled since

Rota, fa Mexico,

. . , of the Fourth avalry. It hu resulted fa the return * any ol the Kickapoo Indiana to reservation in the Indian Terri- . snd the most friendly action an ths part of the Mexican sutboriUro to - vent Indian raids in the fntnre. isidenble annoyance hu been given ibe southern line ol tbe Rio Grande Mexican cattle thieves, but even le raids have recently aubeided to a

itrovertibllUy

and six per cent, boo"** *—

the low rate convertible bonda. the country

But it will be 'an inaignifloai ipariaon to the wealth wbie to that individual who di sthod by whioh a baby oa

girl th his shell when be hu outgi : " What do you do when yi —crown your clothes? You them aside, don't you?” "Ol replied the little one; " we let

Eng!4nf*The

keeper in poor oh hu already four children to pro' * ' though naturally confused, ae !ul." the Amoor river plan of performing eu, They give tho culprit Chinese brandy unconscious jmd then is he ia, ol course, i earth, and so it ia a merdfnl plan. A St. Louis woman, separated from her husband, recently sent him a long list of propositions, npon hia acceptance of which she would live with him again. Woman-Uko ahe indicated the only real cause of difference fa a postscript, u follows: •' Your mother must leave

and seriously threatened by n

CC.'

nuoui ineir own age, who ». r attending the achocl or leu

i a good-natured pig. hey eat are constant)

knocking their .moms ag pig I MU to my neighbi know better than te buy

Children are very apt to think a great deal moro of an illustration than of tbe truth it wm intended to illustrate. A eacber ones endeavored to illustrate faith thus: " ChUdren, il I should tell you that one day I uw a monkey oUmbing a liberty-pole, would you bolieve itr "Yes, sir,” unanimously. "Well, that ia faith ; yon believe me because I say it, and you feel sure that I would not tell aa untruth." The next day the quertian waa aaked of the same children. " What is faith ?" "A monkey olimbing a liberty-polo," answered a quick little boy. Some time ago a large number of bones died fa Nordhelm, Germany, s inflammation of tbe inteetiues, true rouse not at first being known, teat it WM assigned to the bey, in

call* were fonnd. They belonged to - uus oearua fiouiHiu to whioh lies Bring on dry Irnlt and fa also belong. In times of horse disease it might, therefore, be proper mioroeoopirolly examine bay and •iraw, ainoe even tho best fodder, if stored in a damp plane, ia very likely te be infested by these and other parasites. —.fournal of Applied Chemletry.

he oooaiden would : materially reducing the interel pubbe debt, and making it entirely payable fa national currency to tk--saple, and not In gold to foreigners."

What They Win Hold.

A quarter-inch rod of the best steel 111 curtain 9,000 pounds before break_ig; soft steel, 7,000 pounds; iron wire, 6 *00; iron 4,000: inferior Ur iron 2.000; (tart iron, 1,000 to 8,000; cooper wire, 3,000 ; silver, 2,000 ; gold, 2,600; tfa. 3,000; omI sfap, 160; oast lead, 60; milted load, 200. Of wood, box and locust the same size will hold 1.200 pounds; - •

*~1; beech, o

cedar, white

... jisafari and poplar, 400. Wood which Leery weight (or a mb break with two-thirds'

oak, pilch maple, 640 ; will bear a

How to Get A Wife.

A California correspondent of Ibe New York Times shows bow John Chinaman manages the matrimonial lottery: A Chinaman in want of a wife senpea together his wages and Mnda the amount home, generally to hia father or mother, with the order for a wife, and they go into the market and make the beat bargain they oan, according te the money to be invested. Bometimea the amount ia small, and a really firstclass article eannot be had lor the sum, but the old woman generally does her beat and ships over the woman signed to her son, who meets her • steamer with his bill of lading, pays freight and chargee, and tokos his Pr ifany of your readers want to know the price of the real naefnl wife ol thia sort, of reliable color, warranted to

waahf Mondays)^ OMnllv ^— ..

rtno course of time toe purchase sr-

: * -ed, and Bam brought her down for

Vf inspection. She was as ngly s Chj- " Bam, not handsome, eh ?" Bam says.

■* Not handsome mnoh ; handsome gal cost heap meeey, and all time kick np —bobbery." Bom had the correct ids* ol it, and wm wisely content with a plain article, that wae moat likely to stay with him. Sam informed me that

the original dost, with freight A charges, WM *300—all it waa worth,

I am a judge of that spooisa of goodi, ,

gained from a mild experience.

acting

... rotor wflf brorabout two and a half tons; but fa praotioe it ia nst safe to subject it to a strain of • at one ton. Half an r Ibe strength will be

A Singular Retard;. An exchange gives t

Owning A Home, The strength ol the American repub- - •« the universal desire to own a a. It is molding all the people, e and foreign born, into one

the Irish peasant m .

a «... j,, i,ia own country, any oo.

ut It fa here the goal of hi

hopes and desires Education cornea . it is something the need of which te not

felt until the adorn thought of. The d —-Oder which oni an American "I

by nature adapted tc rhieh is railing ua in importance to the sale of nations. It fa the link wbiob onnecte tbe man with government; it _dda to nia interest in the making and execution of laws, and identifies him with the ttsaaro amt-customs of tbe leople. It is us - element which giver Iwitsertend unity and power, and thi

nation whose people peeacM this as a common sentiment oan kmc its liberty.

The Norwich Bulletin relates a oarias etory of the defrauding of tbe Nor--ioh and New York line of boats by a skillful swindler. While tbs Church Congress was in aeMion in New York. who looked every inch an Episclergyman, called at the New York office ol the Norwich line and wanted to make arrangements for the transportation of six- hundred Episcopal clergymen and laymen, belonging in New England, to Boston. There enanad a suitable amount ol diieaesioii and of telegraphing to tbe railroad men in Norwich, and at length a bargain wm struck far carrying the six hundred at |3 per "man, tho agent to receive BO —te per ticket as hia commission, ianting to 8800. He then paid for tickets with a cheek for 81,800. ledWza.JE.,Dodge, and they paid boat to^aave, but not the 900. Not of tbegfWrtaix hundred were forth.ing, and The ideas dawned with tBng rapidity fa ok»e anooroaion E lbe minds of the steamboat off! The check was found to be a ternary, but the tavfwrlreaMlarss sap sit