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CAPE MAT CITY, N. J., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1876.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

r»iy«t of MOrmotle* for AdverJUilion. 9.600 eopie*. PMMtd mtUr. Tm. Uperannum inadtonu.

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HOTELS. WASHINGTON HOTEL!

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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

W. F. HEDSTKOM, HOMEOPATHIC PHT8ICIA1T,

JOHIY B. ITOFFnAX. Attorney and Counsallor at Law Cap* May Ooan Boom, N. J. r.s^-omwatcap* Illand durtai Boan*

UEHBT mrAJB. MASTER IN CHANCERY, Conveyancing, Deeds. Bonds,If ortvtATcSri^

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TtlE DAILY STAR, MONTHS or JULY AND AU6C8T.

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OFFICE AXI> rACTORY, 228 Soutt Staid Stmt, . , PHILADELPHIA. FA.

THE MAN-EATER.

'Sony lor yon, Mr. Edwards, bnt re's no help for it," said the staff » in charge. "Hero is tho Uontcn-snt-goTemor's dispatch—road it, if yon

iplianoe with the deairo of the India office, to atop tho It i* ■ hard caac, 1 admit, bnt I ban no pay up year m the date of legal notice, and that : I, Raymond Edwards, was I surveyor employed in laying out the Ranee pore branch of the namarie and Mahdiar railway, and the sodden deeUatm ot my superior* came np with aU the startling snddenno death blow. Poor, and encumbered with h wife and a child, I oonid not hope aeoh the nearest presidency town, ib«y, on the meager traveling allowto which I waa cntiUed. Wo ~ lore lingered on. in our hired bon,

spurs of the

4. end yet perforce w* d residents of the unhealthy i of Chela Mahal, the primeval

_ . le wife and r into a dimrieii no unfavorable, n t the cold roasor. waa at an end, to UL " It hopes bad boon held out to

it Oodeynnggnr,

s of a far be

had n

e light c

*t, for

out-of-the-way drier Of western India Little Arthur waa well ee yet, bt richly hreta of a tropical summer coming on, and- •• NewSTbut not good, Edwards," said tho kind hearted doctor, *a he came in to pay his daily visit lo my ailing wife. " This poet brought me a letter from my brother at Jbansi. Qcncral Morris, your friend, yon know, Ima started, on sick leave, for England, n afraid your letter will Issve t< him to Cheltenham." his waa laid news, indeed. Me ■t elspoe brforo I could receive ply. Tlio good naBiraidoolor, and otbm- minor officials, wees needy i_™. end unable to lend mo the wherewithal Mb, another death I" reported J poliooman, lifting his hand, i aalnte, to his turban, as he pawed m daor. “Thia time, it wssadecent man

is to be raised, oor lord „ istratesays, to fifteen hundred ropcee; hot that any one h likely to venture in ipon that four fooled fiend. On Monday last bo killed the sixth iirrvman at Nanai .1*1"

he fox fat I wore, now, the scanty attire of ive of low rank, and had even I the precaution to daub my neck shoulders with the rod ochcrous tho river, lest my white skin should swaken doubts in the log brute. On landing, I made fast tho boat, and, selecting the nsrrowcet and

heavy hunting knife cocked and ready for aoh a case as this all depended onthejodioiooaemploymentof momenta. I had not proceeded far before I felt, ss by a carious sort of instinct, tl was not tho only oocnpant of .the gle. I could beer nothing. The velvet feet that regulated their pace by i were noiseless, nor wss there any IK of rustling, though the high grans, v — **- * 1 of * man's

' the left, I

yet I divined, sa plainly as if my vision had been preternatnrally sharpened, that I had boon both seen and scented,

s pursuing

parallel course to mine, watching m i if it bad been a rot in stealthy cha> ' a mouse. My heart throbbed wildl] H the memory of Ernestine's pallid oeand wistft! eyes arose to give range. It was too late now to flin ——" do or die. sml my train of reasoning lucid enough. I had only once before shared in hunting a tiger; but jt knew their habits by report, and was oaMful to keep moving St an even pace, knowing that to run " would be alike certain to prod)

n. probably to feed the goats

grass and boughs trembling under so me step forth I tangied vegetation, stood motionless, listening; for an instant, and then fcl forward on my bands sod knees npoi the turf. Quick as I waa. I wss bnt ftmt ii on. There was e low hoarse roar, am over my head lew, as if propelled by i catapult, a huge dark shape. The man eater had made his spring and miaee, bis stroke. Had I chose, having wol thia first point in tho game, to act i passive pert and play for safety, I couli probably have come Uninjured out of the affray. An nnwoonded tiger, and especially the cruel and cowardly brute that baa acquired a propersity for human flesh, is almost sore to slink off tbaahod after a failure so signal. This, lowever, was not in my plan ; and, before the baffled tiger could gather himself up, I ws* on my feet, and had fired hree shots at dose quarters. Bang! bang! bar

that haunted its of the village, carrying off boy, now a girl filling I water pitcher beside the tank,

took aim at the glittering eyes, I most ss I pull' d the trigger I was buried to the esrth with a violence that left me breathless and disxy on Uie ground, while soroas me lay the tiger.

month or two ago. Institute s char sod cheerful order, in the midst of which you can daily move; and learn b it- Use yourself tc the beautiful—

I Poll Jfall QaxetU says : Tho tea to which cattle are liable i fortunately as a rule baffle tho skill veterinary ecienoe, and for this real 'charbon," which, il u stated, has made

OUntane, county of Oork. ' " vseisure with striking rapidity, one of seven cows attacked the same day having died fa ire. With the view probably i iting the flesh of oven e di .esse, satisfactory. The geese voraciously devoured tho thus placed before them, s ban five minutes began to t, and then fell down dead.

The b

mblod tar in its color and oonsistenoy. The BL rctoraburg le London Standard says : The cattle plague has again appeared in neighborhood ol 8L Petersburg. Tho 'rat case waa reported from Tsi do e month ago, and on inquiry ram! that the Infected animal had been gorod by some peasant! proeoonted for infringing tho law by which the sals of rot tic is regulated. stringent meaa adopted to prevent tho

io places where dis-

jected to rigid inspection. A people in BL Petersburg keep and it is the custom to send ' morning to grate in tho nnigbborThia is no longer allowed. The are to be kept at homo, end si re to be enforced with their food, the elivnHnnes of tlio rhonscs, and The sale and slaughter of animals. Wilk -^i view lo aasii police to stop the evil the Iowa council ' ‘ ' t of 8,000 roubles fo f the cowhouse* of tb

Log Racing. the fonrth of July thousands 1 to the river bank, at Manistee, Mich., to boo a log ratio. The oontestrerta Pat Riley. Billy Williams, Jerry Barrett aid Hugh Finan. A log for each one was brought dosni river and planed in position near upper end of the pier. The contest being properly prepared with apikt the Holes of their boot*, and witt e id polos in their hands, mounted >gs ss they were turned looe allowed to float down stream will correuL The Aral aggressive movi imado by Billy Williams, who jumped m his log upon Riley's log, and ' i lo turn tho log rapidly by tho sol us feet, Biley seeing thal ho n

at neither waa throw from the log. Then Finan and Barrett had a lively tussle, which rend Barrett's defeat This left the between Williams and Finan, and the It waa not long waiting. Finan 1 cool and deliberate and took the defenaire while Williams look the The log began to spin 1 under the rapid action of Wilfeot and suddenly Finan drove his spiked boots into the log and slopped the spinning of the log sod threw Williams into the water. The spectators fairly yeUed '

Sereateen Year Locusts.

in eaatern New Tovk

thrown off crab fashion (the insect in finding egress through an opening in its own back), have been found adhering

it will be i part of your toilet to dreee your roon and its arrangements while yon dree yourself ; leaving the draperies you take off aa lightly and articAioslly hun n aa delicately folded, and placed, ae skirt* yon loop carefully to freer, or ribbon and taoe you put with a neatness about your throat Cherish every little thing that you hare about yon. Let it grow impossible '

ta ot tipsy a

that; the not knowing, except by fidgety experiment, what is harmony thc inUngiblo grace ot relation. ( get your knowledge beyond study, torn it into tact—which in literally having it at your fingers' ends, ne I you—and order will brrothe about

more (ban it ia in tbeworkilar system. It will | and with a continual

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cares that beloDg to yonr own am ritory of homo. Get together for use in these cases. Have yet wash cloths ami yonr sponges for bits of droning; yonr farniturn brush and yonr feath er daster, and yonr little broom and your whisk and pan; your bottle sweet oil and spirita of turpentine, i piece of flannel, to proue^vo the polish, or restore tho gloss, wherXdsrk wood grows dim or gets spotted. Find ont, by following yonr sorely growing

d nicenues, tbs beet

readiest ways of keeping all fresh about yon. Invent your oa they will come to yon. I sJ down rulea or a system for yon. When yon have made yourself wholly mistress of what you can horn and ' own apartment, so that it ia more natural for you to do it than to let

it alone—so that yoi

o yonr ■

a bsthir

The

icd hair-dressing—then you! enough to keep a whole house, so lor its cleanly ordering in concerned.—

fHehotas for A uguet.

The European drain Trade, c Mark Lane Exprete, in its I of the corn trade, soys; Wbe iose fairly, both for quantity ai

quantity. Tho plant ia now strong ai healthy. Tho probable yield will I something over 12,000,000 qnatUu

Barley ooniinnsa to look well. million of all other cereals is sat

factory. Oar market has been unalTc ed by tbs war in Turkey, no inti vontion by otUsr powers appenri probable. Trade baa been much c pressed owing to the enormous snppli arriving. .Nearly 176,000 quarters foreign wheat have arrived during the

t fortnight Pr'

shillings per quarter, and uuleos the weother or poll Urol inflneno ’ "ns, it appeare unlikely nalntain even the preerot depressed ■s. There is a large trade In " " this year, and the favor whi of grain hn found with the millers has canoed the consumption of Bu and American corn to fall off much might be imagined. It is nc likely that the future tango of prices 11 bo.lower than wo have been aeons nod to. The number of cargoes bl mat off tbs coast is flfty-eight Bui r sales have transpired. The position the market ia somewhat indefinite,

buyers are holding

ooncileJ to the low prioro. 'A decline of folly two shillings per quarter on floating cargoes haa. bowcvir. place daring the week. Moire hs with a limited inquiry. The quotations unaltered. Barley has beet steady.

After they bad been eared fat with alloviatirce, the oldest buy became onffidently oollooted to explain that his fstli-

rore found, and teat tbs current! 1 them away from land; that one night they reached an island where there woe light, and that tho father, is spite of hia feeble atate from hnngci and thirst, polled the oars until they reached the shore; that they rolled onl

ion Instated, and and relating hia situation, the barbarous " s fell an him with sUeka and.beat him to death. Ibsy then tntabled corpse into the boat and poshed it of tho children died from debiil- . d the They hoped to obtain from her the de-

Prrll ef a Scouting Party.

d Peak, from (

n Terry’s a.

pled by the Bionx after a ride of two three days, bearing letters to G, Crook with aoconuta of the late fight of Gen. Custer on the Little Big Hi They report the whole number of a ss 368 men end fourteen officers, sixty persona wounded. Gen. Crook here has received an addil iroee of 218 Shoshone scout it ia expected that a train soil arrive will then take an absence of tsrenty days in order to assist Geo. Terry should it be deemed practicable, " cw seems to be, when the oo loves forward. On July 6 a party of thirty men der Second LieuL F. W. Sibley, o d cavalry, went ont to study the movements of the Indiana, and after e and dangerous retreat of two daya reached camp on the ninth, having b m com passed by the enemy, and eec mg destruction after losing thirtylioroea and two mules. They reported having seen largo numbers of Sioux sear the source of the Little Big Horn. Prom on eminence at the base of the mountain they saw a largo band ot Indiana moving toward tho east, aa though ion attacking the romp at

While waiehin^ plains they were suddenly discovered, soon found it ne< flight, followed by the in Up the aide of the dashed with all their speed, and when passing through s ravine e volley of lead waa discharged a( " ‘ Moving onward or flea whistled above them through the i of tho trees, and destruction

eld, when ii wi

nemy, assembled iu greet numbers heights. Tho dismounted party ly stole through the ravine mad a rooky steeps, leaving their hor i for the ballets of the Indians. yy one they clambered ovt and up the ragged ascents i lostod, no til at last they passed beyond preaonoo of tbo hostile rod mei rly found their way into camp.

Primitive Warfare. The Montenegrin method of making nsr ia very primitive. A Bauman ~ ler, who visited their country itudied it, tells oa th ”

t off hie head.

impossible to t

When at the attack of Clobnck, a nma detachment of Russian troops wa obliged to retreat, on officer of otou make, and no longer young, fell on tb ground from exhaustion. A Monlont grin, perceiving it, ran immediately to I, and, baring drawn hia vat h that I should cut off your head. Bay a prayer, and make a sign of the proposition, mode an effort to ria rejoined his comrades with the friendly Mon ten* l 1 hey consider all those who havt ' e enemy as killed. They ' tho battle their wounded

their shonldere. breed, a cheese,

lie, a little brandy, on old gar ‘ a of sandals tnsdo of grins. On their march they do not seek any shelter from rein or cold. In rainy weather the Montenegrin wraps around hia head the nlroota (a shawl of coarse cloth), lire down on tho ground and, patting hia rifle under him, sleep* very comfortably. Three or four bonrs of quite sufficient for hi* rest, ion. It ia impossible to retain them in the reserve, and view of the enemy. Tho Uotioa of Montenegrins are confined to being

i a oover from the

Firing usually in a ground, they are while their rapid and destruction into the dosed regular army. They have beeidrera well practiced eye far judging of distance, and thoroughly understand bow to take

of ti

Of «

Another Dynamite Tl latest French journal discovery in Frenoe of a mi

•peoitil ho bethought himself of tooting a small piece of the pretended clay with fire. — ' J

of oar city exchanges, saya the Ohio tamer, objecte to naing ooba tor fuel They ore too volt

of the dim, John

in killing rota like a dog, and sloe ready at any time to match himself I fight with dogs. Word has been r BL Otairerille, Pa., after a terrible fight with a bulldog in that place. It are that Connolly, pa^ttally intoxicated, tered a saloon keptEyTSBeJF ay. While there he seised in his teeth the ear old hound which waa sleeping o floor, and, raising the dog deer o floor, shook il awhile, and then let the animal drop by biting tbo ear off. dog ran howling and bleeding ont of the room. Connolly chewed np the ea apat it out on the floor, with the re “I con chaw np any dog in thin

just like that."

Scon afterword be wont into Bryan Fogarty'* saloon. Fogarty owned lull blooded English bulldog. It was : offensive, and epent most ol its time _ the barroom. When Connolly entered tho place it was doling under a am" table. Connolly got on his hsiwta *, knoee and crawled under thbvdeblo, eeiaod one of the dug's rore in hia teeth, and dragged tho animal out into t r center of the room. The dog tried getaway, bnt Connolly hdd tight, at rising to hia feet ebook the dog until its weight tore the ear off. Tho bnlldog, thoroughly aroused, mode a savage dash for hia assailant Connolly dropped on his hands and knees and knocked the dog away with hia fist Tho dog rushed st him again and caught him by the forearm, lacerating it fearfully before Connolly ooald choke it loose. There were two mou in tbo place besides Fogarty, and they made a move to interlore. Fogarty exclaimed : “ Let him alone t Tho man's to blame, and I hope tho dog will kill him." After several attempta to fasten him*elf on Connolly, by which the latter was badly torn, the dog at last caught him in the left shoulder, and sank tooth to their fall length, crunching bones and securing a bold that C uoliy could not break. Connolly in ti soiled tho dog's foroahoulder in. month, and then for over s minnlo sides striking tho dog with bis fi They rolled around on the floor, and blood that flowed from their wounds mixed with the dnst and oover ed thorn with a reddish mud. Biok at lost of this brutish and disgraoefu! exhibition, the apootators tried to pull the dog sway. They twisted its legs, hammered it, poured hot water on it, but oil to-no purpose. It moiutained its hold, its eyes glaring in savage satisfaction. At length Fogarty drew his pistol, am! remarkiiig that it woe a shame to hsvi

ro by taking that .

placed it against the dog's side and shot through tho heart. Even then they

td to pry its jaws loose,

Oonnolly, although nearly exhausted id weak from loss of blood, had. not

Hia w

a pulpy m

nun places. The ig by the skin. His

ib and il, and

taken to bis quarters in the

where bo was hostler, leliriuu-, and on tho

third day after he was seized with convnliuons, in oue ol which he died.

riogo drew np in front of a hotel in Bochester, the Democrat Bays,fang from it alighted a lady evidently about thirty- *— ears of age, ot plroaant and prewing appearance, and a bright little girl of ten yrorm. They peseed into tho hotel and up into the parlor. No wee registered, bnt later, when the was rolled itpon to give the lady a room, he asked her name and was answered: "Mra. Fairbanks." It was the unhappy wile ot the man who, on the night ot July 6, took the life of officer

Haring been assigned a room and otherwise comfortably provided for, the entered a carriage, and, accompanied by her little daughter, proceeded to the jail to see herranfortnnate hdabaod for the first

placed the stamp of Osin upon his brow. The jailer, on hairing who hia visitor was, and what waa her errand, kindly consented lo her request and oondnotad Mrs. Fairbenka to her husband. He wss confined in a sell the door of which con.-ia tod of bon of iron. When be aew hia wife and ippraeohing the grate, Fairbanks completely down and wept end

leers endeavored vainly to kiss her hns-

time be persuaded to approach the door. Finally, however, aho yielded to hor leva for her lather, and, drawing cried ont in her childishness in a ner that brought quick

oentgrief: '■ Oh, pope, cant yon get oat of that piece 1 Can't we help yon, to getont of theref We most

or tho abort and painful interview

re driven beck to the bote apparently about thirty c thirty-five years of age, ia inclined t " ho* a look of opor

baeroJor. si

tioe ha* been di who tuffered capital punishment at Balonica were common malefactors, obnoxious to the Turkish populaoe, and aearoely worth tho rope with which they were hanged, and of the real ipstigatoni of the murders not one has been brought to trial, the government not daring to tonae the fury which would bo kindled among the Mohammedans, should It her' known that only one drop of precious Mussulman blood had been spilled to stone for the blood of the two Christian ■ victims. In Bulgaria, on the contrary, tbo wholesale, execution of men supposed to have been implicated in the abortive insurrection ia inceaaant. Twelve of the** wretches were hanged At Tatar Baxardik. Two of them were priests. With respect to the horrors ol which that onco flourishing province has been end is still tho theater, I beg to subjoin a letter written by a man on whoso thorough information, on whose impartiality, and even loyal attachment to the Ottoman government I .have cvi ry reason to rely.. I think it is of the highest unportanee that the facts should be strictly inquired into and mode manifest throughout all civilized countries: As a general rale the officers and soldier* of tbo regular army have behavrd very well. Chevkut Pasha is tiro most itriking exception.

anyol tl

acted hero-

ically. The government here has probibly not ordered any general massacre of unarmed villagers, bat it is directly ponaible for these outrages, became boa known of them and made no

dered the disarm!

000.

1 1.000 Bulgarian children token and sold aa slaves. They have been sold publicly in ino treets of Adrianople and Philipopolia. Horrible tortures of evory.deaeription isve been inflicted on thousands of « hoae not murdered. The outrages upon women have Been ray awe I over read of. These ontngtw are more terrible liecauso Ilulgsiou women have higher ideal of virile and chastity than those of any liber nationality iu the East If the rumen of England coaid kump all tho acta such a cry of indignalion would _;o up as woald rouse all Europe to actiou. Bulgarians are now in prison and are undergoing torture*.

e Middlr

formerly declared abolished in Turkey by the Saltan Abdul Medjid. Many thousand refugee* ore crowded I the larger towjw, where they Buffer all kinds of abase from the Turkish population, and are starving to drath ' rouse th* Bulgarians are not allowed

help them.

The Mohawk Disaster, ferring to the disaster in New York » by which tbs yacht Mohawk was xod and u number of Uvea were loot, World says : Since tho sudden sinking last year in the British elionnel, her Britannic majesty’s steam yacht, he pleasure schooner Mistletoe, there been no disaster of the kind so fitted wrest public attention and to tench sympathies, os that which cast Ha hi shadow upon our beautiful bay io could oak a more improaaive illusion of the irony of fate and the voniustruction of which ail that skill anggeat and wealth secure had ariahal to make her a luxurious g home for her owner, hia family equipped and adequately manned, ride* within easy reach of the shore. A company of summer guceta, gay with bright

go on board of her, ■ of friends sitting al■ost within the sound of their voices. They are all in the prime of life; their host also is young, wealthy, popular, energetic. Gray’s fine familiar linca, a thousand time* quoted, yet never by quotation to be emptied oPtfaeir pathos and their charm, might have been written expressly to describe the scene on which tho gazer* at the yacht dub house on Btaton Island looked while the Mohawk slipped sway from bar anchoragfl: " Za gallant trim Uia glided veeaal goes: Youth ou tbo prow sud pleasure at tho helm.* There ta a stir in the air, * sodden ost comes np ; and ore the startled loker Km can folly moke real to tliemfivea what baa happened, the gilded cooed going down before their eyes, ad it* owner floats to and fro a helpless arpee in hi* own onmptnotu robin I

.ott.—Transfer of beauty by simple vaccination ta the newest trick in France. Tho following advertisement orntly appeared in a Paris paper: Madame X. X. permits herself to nay

ready for the vaooinatiou of anybody o poaeeaa aU thcah menltone For term*, apply," etc. gon take me for twenty f" r lady, who looked much