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CAPE MAY CITY, N. J., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1875.

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THE DARK HOUE. A CHRISTMAS STORY. “I c*>-» *taodrt*nj loBRrr, Jan; 111 go out, u»l parbap* fiomo thing will If* A odd night, Robert-" Cold, jo*. Bat If* not maeh ooldat than in. It wonld bars boon li botUr for na U jon had marring John TrOBudn,* So aatd. bittolj.

"'n rw

in whan there la not a loaf of

.eho^aior joyapd^a <*il-

Itobart Brioo ohooC'bta head deapond- " Ycmiro ibre hopMfl An». Daj aftor daj I l*\T%h*«P fa ecatth oi omplojmonC t Ttkn failed at flftj Jmt then little Jiaa^rfai hwl baon

“ When will there be aome 1“ ‘‘Jimmy, 111 bring yon some bi lid tho father, hoaracty. And ho aeiteAhi* hot did wand door. Hla wife, aknaed, laid ban n hia aloorc. Bba mw tha look in

of (ha i

fas*»tft

Bobart Brlea waa a mechanic, i

KUIIU'IHUNT ISimyoifa .inw, "Heaxfn We* yon, air !

llty in meeting thorn. But in an evU hoar ho grow tired of f homo, and remored to tho oi

he mot with eery good a, > found the hahad toUee*

Ha aaw hia miaUka, but waa too proud to go back, although it waa hb wife* doahe (hey ahooW do an. But a time ol groat deproamon i and Wjth it a auaprnrion of li .elno. _. _ (arpriaii. Work o*aed for Robort Ilrioe If-ho had been

Imloly aaearal atori* hare been pah■bed relating to dolt, tho murderer of

Adam*. In Now York, and

and which baa atill atlaehod to it ght internal. The writer »yn : One day while in my office in New Tork atrnngcr called and aaked me to aoO iim one of my packing eaaea that atood nbndo near tha door. Noticing a large collection of aknlla in my office, he mid

thought entered hia mind. Ha bent quickly down and plated up the pockel- ■ ■ He fhlaed hb eyea to aae if the

lighted np hb heart for sninatant, but " n—for he waa not diaboneat—there in Mother thought, ^a^jnoney waa 1 But I cannot nee my wife and cjrii-. drtai atarre,” he thought again. “ If it wrong to keep the money, Godwin

tiling, worm than atarmtion. wife who raid thia juat before nL Go old bo meet her gaxe when be returned with food ao obtained f “I've hredhonaateofar,” he thooght; I won’t lain thief now.“ It waa with-an effort be came to thia itaeuion, farall tha wWla there waa be- * lb eyea that viaion of a cheerio* and be eonld hear Jimmy vainly lurking for food. It waa with an effort that lie atepned forward and plac'd hia hand on tha trn&camnn'a ahoulder, and extended the hand that held the pocketbook. I "Tfanhjon," *iff9r. Grimea, tnrntng roand ; ;.‘‘I hadn’f pefcefvad my mbch obliged to yon." nalbbe.” "aid Bobert, 1 '“"P; mid have been dinhoneet," nil Mr. Grim*, hb tone altering ■’"l^tft'iliwoald :''bi*«Uh*fake be boneat when one b pennileea, and hb

bat would like mo to give him aome proof of be -prinoiplea. He requeeted !m the leading trade of hb He took a Beat in the chair and I proceeded to examine hb head. Placing my finger* on hb head to determine the abe of hb organa, I porived a great difference in the relative heat of the different portion* of Ida So I abstractly remarked : “ I rou are trying to

. or parta of hb br aprang to hb feet and paced k looking at the floor and at era of my office, lie then stopped ly, and Inking up the eknll of

it like tho big end of an egg. he aaked

e what organ that was. I told him tho j Africa in the rame year was about auacter of tho man. He *80,000,000. Should tho whole or a at man acted from organbatioo, how greater portion of thia Rumba supply could ho bo hold reeponmlrle hereafter t bo eat off thb year, a will nocrmital* a I replied that malproportion waa on erfl mach Urger im|>ort«tion than formerly which poniahed others arid bronght pun-, fmc (hb aide of tho Atbutia. Yet even it upon themselves.' < if tho ogricuituro of Russia b in ua torrii led lo further conveiaatioo. He (,ln a condition ue reported, became quieter, rat down again, and I . follow that aha will entirely disappear proceeded toflnUh therxan inationof hb j from the grain markets as an exporting I told him he had a sanguineous, power during tho enrront season. Grain ament, with large, self, waa exported from Ireland, it will bo approbation, and de- remembered, even daring the height ol ch greatly dominated i th«dreadtul famine in 1847; and tho inlem and merrifufaraa, ternak communications of Russia arc

that should tiny one

offend hb pride, he wonld be apt, impulse of the moment, to strike mm a i lariy, irom w death blow. I advised him to tue his ; export grain large flrmnoaa to conquer hb passiu-i. j orn Europe ” dd me that all hb family iuberited ! prices to western and northern Russia, or trait* oi ohameter, and iliat hb —New foUTEbprat.

ter was O.L Coll, thi

1 feel grateful for it." “Xj foreman left me yesterday. *i plaeeat twanty-flv*

a -"I

mx/toX,

huahaod in tha i. which for a

aw days longer abe might call bet home.

w* a cheerful, ebatio *te]i, up two steps st s time. She esgsrly to the door. Yes, it waa

rith joy, miter

a basket full of

Here you got aoms bread, father!’

ul Jimasy, bopcCully.

Yes, Jimmy, some bread end meal from a cook’s shop; and here' ten and eager. There's s few c

ids shill be

e tragedy. A well

ead to end of the

Alexander II.

Europe. An article in tho ABegemeine

ZrihiOB rays :

•'From Orel to Kcim, from Tambow to Fodolak, comes np one univen from the rained pearanb and b

ported to bo amors i has been known in many yean. Tbs or failed not *

districts, la

or 1875 b d failure U it b Hid. has

prostration of nearly tbs w; growing region of Bosaia."

And if the a.

fast that tha failure of the conili ' been aooompanied by a failure o grass crop. The farmers having fodder as well as their grain crop dooad, are rolling their cattle at ra rates, and in a part of Podalb man patting their cattle ont to board fa for every bead retained two heed be retained by the landlord for

keeping.

It should be borne in mind, bow

tion or future prospect Should the report tu the fact will have grej

fanner b unwilling to go to the exponas far a single season. In anch instances, aa wall as those where the ice boose b batmt altogether, the following plan for toting ice without u ioe house wid

rove useful:

Tho flrat thing to be done b to select shady spat, on tho north aide, if possible, of a clomp of treea. Throw up a circular mound, some twelve inches in height and at least fifteen feet in diamond baring a trench around the eruio, two feet in width and eighteen win depth. In gathering the ice, i b no ceceaeity of cutting into uni-

at 845,900,-

s ‘ less districts, of southern Rasa

Brittany correspondent, tbit night next to the Count do Eergoorlaa al KSKlKSiS.V'S™. i

Halm, it never occurred , .. - _

mitted fa the

my office into the basement of the bnilding, and the affair paaaod out of my

' ' entirely.

on the trial waa puhlidi-d fa pamphlet form I bought it, tbinkiiig that, perhaps, the skull of the murderer

e into n

r, for

surprise when 1 fonml tliat the murderer , as the man who had callisl to purchn* box of me, unit whose head I ex .mined. Coll had a work on a ithrnotio printed y A llama, whom he promise*! to pay

a larger q

ty of ioe than the

bright sunlight, and juat a breath of wind stirred Heerie's golden curls, and he sweet red blood mantling to her

mere bundle of shawls, with a baby face peering out—set her sister Bern (Rosebud bar father bar), holding on with all the energy that lay inside of two blue mittbna, ' "

Fill uj

any kind of - frag-

i, transport them to'the mound, ump them on a platform made of a few planks. Ram the surface of the hard and firm, sorer with *w* dual, and then plane the first Uysr of lo email pieces, for which purpose tl: •u should bo provided with rroodc mallets. As each layer b put on tl stack, the ice should be thoroughly pounded belli above and at the aid aa to form a huge block of ioe shape of which will be slightly eon lying upon tho ice aud the othei ported on a wooden framework i eighteen inches outside the first c

ing.

.slanting direction,

it will be softy, wont it I” Yea, ami when papa comes home from church wn'U ask trim to dig a grave. Poor Robin t oh! oh'!'* At thb the Oder little hearts broke down again in piteous tears. Then ’they got the white box, and rapping up Robin in the pretty pink wadding, Ibcy laid him gently in, tucking tho wadding closely around him. leaving out only hb little frosen beak. Tbon they put the box on a smalt table' ' y the fire, with tho lid op, ao that labor might be said to be lying in When the grown folks returned they

Ua pi

r little

was a robin, pecking at the ps and haws." Cheerily dcb head, poured forth such a g that the bright frosty air alive and quivering with

“ Aud a fur tippet," said H ‘■How funny he'd look 1" And both tho little girls burst out bughiug.

a little a

promised to dig a grave aa soon as the knee ho told thorn the story of t and the Bean-stalk," which comforted them very much. ' • o'clock came, I am that Bessie and Ro.sebnd forgot Robin, sorrow, and everyparlor doors wsro suddenly slid back, aud there, sparkling with lights, and bending down with beauti*al presents, was tho Christmas tree I md ss they rushed in with shouts of ry, tingle, tingle goes the front door bell, aud in come aunts, uncles and 'ns, rosy with the cold, all Ungbtbaing, and wishing merry Christand making such a noise that tho windows ra tiled. What a .merry they had: Then all the aervauti for every one of them, boaidei and all the nnetes, aunts, and oouafas. iverytlnng bad been take

wonld like some coojjy crambo bettor than those hard red berries. Sit still, nose; i n do duck in a ruinate.'' And off she fled to the house. '* The baby," so they still called her, though she was

IW b placed, i three yoara old, rat aa quiet as a mouse,

' ght eyes watching the little bird.

igth ro

readily brought togetbei

the top, and securely fastened with sti when joined together by moans of sir

Finally he acemod to have falli

with her, as everybody else did, and

fford ample anpirort for tho aecond fairly hopped on the tip edge of tho sled.

- - -■ •• •—'ng hb pretty head, aa if lo ra -- r—. i , „ ,ow d 'y° ‘ lo ' Roeie, Tra

pun's penetrating to tho 'by.

B» this arr angemont I Rot "’hen Hoasio came rnnni body of air, which is out- ■ the cooky, Robin darted

effectual non-conductor

big as herself dasptru to have a quiet Mid Heerie retir ~ iplcndid now fsi ibsorbcd in reedi

:t happiness,

r little nouud « o'was fumbling JJreknob of tho door. Uessie hen nctmng, but horpapagot upand opened

n ( |b.

HeUco

money within a specified

Adams nailed to collect the money, bat |

Colt failed to aooomplbli what he prom- „„ . ^

- the difficulty between . rtBl ngohound

iteresting Inforr

with reapect to tho style of hound he oo ns id cred best adapted fur hb particu- " A big, bold, broken-haired hound is what I keep for tho work ; Mid occasionally I invigorate the raoo," said he, 11 with a drain of wolf blood." “ And how, pray,” I inquired, " do

you manage that t".

" Nothing b more rimplo. Tho dog and the wolf being mm genera they breed readily together; nor do* the law affecting mules affect tho hybrid race, na thaoflkpring of tho first croea reproduce their lliiaea with ihe same facility. I keep a dog-wolf brought up by hand ; and ha, suckled in infancy by a bound dam, lives in perfect concord with any bouhda I think fit to Inclose with him in

t^ro reconciles

ox, one being just ah il the other end reach! dosed space. Tile pipe opened or ntopped up, s

afterward self-esteem,

large aequiritiveneea, and fear or cautiousness—the vary opposite to that of Colt the murderer. Bach an organiaa-

Colt. Failing to pay hia

Colt apologised for being compelled t disappoint him. Adams, in reply, mad aome unoomplimentary remarks tin galled Colt to the very quick. Feeling M. —M. —i- „ i,.,^i,aa °

head and broke

hb aknO. Tbs body faU against the , folding door tliat separated Colt's ami Wheeler's offices. Colt,

Adams aright groan, atrai blow on the bead, breakii completely. AibusawMi

waa made at.or him. and Ida friends finally tncml him loOoU'a office. Upon

And do yon find the first cro*,"I asked, “ aa managi-able in chase as your

ordinary hounds I”

Far from it," he replied ; " in so ih that I only keep that produce to id from. They nsnally rau mute or

*11 bnimatot.,i

during the day or the oi

early morniug should bo taken logo of, because of tho waste which must naturally ensue from a rush of warm air at midday. That removed can be placed in a cedar, or even an onthouae and be enveloped in sawdust until required. Tho ice must be taken from tho top ; aud when tho flrat supply b obtained, a good quantity of dry sawdust should be placed over the crown. The principal points to avoid waste are to ventilate in the manner indicated, to avoid opening the tack more frequently than b rsally necessary, and to take the supply early iu the day, before the air Iras boeu

warmed by the sun.

a stud-hounds, and enter

la for i

inquiry at Wboole ■dripped by h

, The ct

uni 1 ' 1

advertised for

"d th box to a vessel bound foe tho Booth. The box was recovered, and the body in it identified as that of the ran Adams. Coil was tried, ooa-

' be banged.

in fortyo stables

ef George W. Jones at Deerfield go a "“la ahead of anything yet seen in tbs ipty. They are all Dor hams, greet Iowa ao large they can hardly move themselves, the .hoeveat yoke weighing 4.600 pounds,* the next 4,40.\ ' ‘

-hole averaging ‘

f like "

t a change of the in-1 l rendered needful by il d with li» moiatui

melted i

ire piping a few iuehl .

lid be fixed near tho . thickly just above the straw, - this opci 1 reaching into the in-! tak ‘ u Bf

• readily ippear

ne if yon can •" 1 frightened

ink, tho

(rage, he hopped up and cooky crumbs, as if b I anything so nice before in all

softly. "We’ll feed hi

•ry day. a we’ll put by-and-bye

the hi

build a nest in tho Ohristi tree, and vo there nice nnd warm

"Oh I oht oh I

> he n

"Dear lit

Robin, I love him so much !" Robin seemed to be delighted b last remark, for after be had i 1 tho crumbs he hopped twice round a sled chirping hb thanks. Bud:nly with a whir-r-r of hb wings ho ilariod ayay, and waa noon out of right " O—h, ho’a gone !" sighed 1 children, and thou ran into the 1

tho robil

A Legend of Servian Hospitality. The beepitality of tha Servian ia illm tratodby the following legend : Th day had just departed, and the moo: ebon# brightly over bare fields of snow when a stranger entered the hut of i poor Borvbn named Iragaro. •• You ar welcome,’’ arid Lagare, and tnruing to hb wife continued in a low tone; " Luibitga, make the fire blaze and gat tho supper ready." Luibitga replied ; "The forest b vast and the faggot barns cheerily on the hearth, but where b the supper; have we not fasted for two days t" “ Are you Borriana 1" mid the stranger, ■■ aud have nothing to giro your guest t" Poor Lagare opened one cupboard, then another, but both were empty; not a morsel of bread, not a fruit did Ibej obtain. Blramo aud eonfusion took possession of him. " Here ia food and fresh meal, too,” said the stranger, laying his hand on the golden

ruing, at peep of day, four ct wont pattaring up to tha . where two red stockings Banta Claus bad crammed top with goodies. There

big orange in tha top of each, end the legs were filled np with bJyinppics ‘ beautiful mottoes. Tuck-’ii In

ig the motto* waa a ali ’ hieb was written: "1 tree." Hhesie read th

with a cry of delight, and then bfah little gills whirled round togethei they tnrablod down in a-funny-looking

' ’’ heap on the carpet.

rasa bitter cold day; tha sky like lead; -the wind blew a-galep

aid Ural the children must So while the rest went hutch* Hoerio *nd:Roaie

he blMriug nursery fire and played "^ea party " with their apples and

that a B-irvian waa wanting in hoapitali-

- ty," cried Isigare, and, seizing Tanka,

al anpply hfing eiglity » h „ ^ bu lhrm , u u khe had merely r rattle, 900 or 700 sheep; and llM1 . Altor thi,

ll ® ^ nwfol deed ha awcooadamty, and Lni-

- * - • -h lie , bHg> (jji jo tbe ground with a loud cry.

_. -, . . - . . r i Who could -draoribe the supper of tha 1 The. rattle are sept in a sub-basement of Btnulgtrl Toward midnight Lagare 1 tha. train, which ha* to bo waU rentibted _, k6 to a^d hi- guest bending over him,

r.abeitwculdbewun.'^^j,,, joodtoo,,. "Biro.La-m-tomthiymbar o< , U.e Lord thy God, Srrrran

» ^ f "® P hoepWolity has been tried and not found

, kept on th. floor above Mr. Jonra pub ^ ^ j,

young man two dollars for Artificial grindstones are ' i Worms, Germany, of g: lass, and petroleum. Three ballots of twelve | Now Hampshire jury: 1. ' "GilU:" 8. ''aillty." Courtship b blisa,” raid young man. " Yea, aud mi nariod an old Iraehi

o boil

floor. Tlio gr

aufe fid! of

on—ball j .

Catching sight cf Hmrie il ip to her and faltered ont : " My rolun, my robin] \He I ont of tho box. Ob, c

» nursery m inis wonuaniu fore they reached tho door they him—" Chirp, chirp, chirrup ; ti r, twitter; chirrup." Ont bed, which, with the fire bronght him back to life, had

cheers, he chirruped while Heerio and Rosie

too, if they could, thqy were so glad. Then the company went down stair*. down and thanking God for saving Ihe '"To bird, wont quietly lo bed, but not

sleep until Robin had

night on lop of a picture frame, with I retty brown head under hbwing, cli

i hia little thankful heart.

Was not thb a happy ending

ter a protracted search, returned wiilittvanything. A swoct potato plantation "C erven hundred acres near Atlanta, Os.^ i cx peeled ko yield this year 40,000 bush Is * " t vegetable. fomb hunter* ray that griizly bears, when captured alive, though not minded, soon die of a broken heart, idnced by exoesrive rage. is object, rattier than how he loses it; m when wo faiUur^pride rupiiortaus; An exchange says thal, amid the gen-

• nineteen years old. >bi states that h* bos thirty eight Chrbtiun itely after irach ease.

in Cuba, and

eblam

til oidy uesi

mil il

proclrim i

Many a good-minded mother has 111 jntly warped hor sou's Character rgulng that gray patehea could ho irted into hb bbek pautrdooua with lo otuer boys being able to detect

111 with the following indorsement : Wm. 0. Graveling, BL Louis. Mo., th* last of 820.000." Thia teUs tho

whole story.

What arrangement* have you for extinguishing fires!" said Me. Timidity ic landlord of a hotel ont West where proposed to - spend tho night.

' There*!

>' in the year, ho n anything rigidly until eery day ia doomsday.

the “

dayl

t of the wit

r, though

Hessio'i

tU the brig

«r aU tha

right sweet spring-

The Petrified Forest in Nerada. From David Rideout,-who has bee ogaged in preparing a aection of petrified true for the Centennial exhibi- ' i, says a Nevada paper, we loam tho owing relative to the petrified forest he desert of northwestern Humboldt, tho plain, about thirty mUea west of

The oth-r day, when a Detroit grocer spell'd sugar "ah-n-g e-r," a frii’iid "That word bu’t apelled quite right." ' Ha! 1 SCO,’’ laughed the grooer, "one roidd think I hail no education." And to crossed il out and wrote a-h-U'g'O-r. A little girl in Washington cut her linger a few ilaya rinoo and her fond solher ordered John to run quickly and

“If or

e orders, " Iraro srord and f ixL” John obeyed ordera, an ia doctors called in course of A farmer in Beymohr, lud.,

curiosities over disoovered il petrified forest, in w

of many of Ui

changed into solid rook, ing. There arc no Uviug tat ion of any kind other than stunted nag" brash in tho vicinity. Some, of those ancient gianta of a forest flourished perhaps thousands ' ago, .when tho dimate of No' undoubtedly more favorable growth of luxuriant vegetatu present, rival In- abe California. Stnmfti, tt solid rock, stand in an upright position aith their roots imbedded in the soU, as wlran growing, meavuring from fifteen

to twenty-oix fast

covered 1 trees, while the wind rrated natnral shajia and at howled pfarffi 4(10 hqnae ~' angty moastor trying lo get, in. Presently Roaabod'a sharp bright eyas db- t covered a smalt dark, object (aider the cu>o-b “ ~rrqae bush. Her little asfisitrrv heart nccomplbhed by drilling all around the V . ■ 1 u - .. -I... : , I, ~.t—_ The

stopped by the body of a rat which had get in bnt had stuck fast. On breaking tha jng, he found four other 1 inside, all .alive. Tho latter had ientiy crawled iu. eaten tUl their M were stuffed out. aud then found miKMaiblo to crawl ont again. 'bo inhabitant* of Roaa, in Herefordre, England, having presented a mortal to the home secretary, pray- _• for the release of Emily Devils', aged thirteen years, who - - ’ ’ ■ if the place about a light's imprisonment, of that time tr ” ray, for stealing five apples, have been in-

' linratoin-

l oarley, and b either 0 “loadfag agrieulte are puraling them-

s htatoty ii

Oregon, killed a wBd p he found a pecultaru _ 1 planted il ; it multiplied wonderfully, ancLhe anbaequent-

weight Is three ton*. Stump from whielf It sras derived, ready to be loaded on a wagon. Hr. Rideout

springing from on ia very thin and con

nrs 214 criminals hs