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CLINTON, ONTARIO, 00TOB4R I, 1874.
E: 1101,1VIE8 & SON, Proprietors.
THE
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the Post Office, Clinton, Ont.
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Advertisements of Strayed, Lost, Found,
&c., not exeeetling 10 lines, first month, $1 ;
after first month, 50 cents each month.
Advertisements of Farms and Real Estate
for sale, not exceeding 10 lines, first month,
$ I ; not exceeding 15 lines, first month, $1.50;
tlIZ' each subsequent month, 50 and 75 cents.
Advertisements without specific directions
will be inserted till forbid, and charged ac-
cordingly.
Advertisements measured by a scale of
solid Nonpareil.
E. .1IC)1.1‘1 ES & SON.
Royal Canadian Bank.
CAPITAL, $2,000,000.
CLINTON AGENCY.
Jt t !list from Four to Five per cent allowed
on Deposits.
M. LOU(IH, Agent.
Clinton, Oct. 20, 1873. 1-y
J. LE.4C CPA/JURE,
CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST,
HAS OPENED OUT
IN
Mr. J. MeGarva's Store,
Where he will keep on hand a good selec-
tion of general drugs.
Also an assortment of
Lazarus & Morris' Celebrated
Perfected Spectacles,
Which he is selling off at
ace COST I? ItICES!
clietoe, Oct. 22, 1873.
Clinton Marble Works,
HURON STREET.
MONUMENTS, HEADSTONES,
And work of all kinds in American and Foreign Marble,
designed turd executed in the best style, and at reaBon-
able prices.
Mantles of Various Colored Marble Sup-
plied on Short Notice.
GRANITE MONUMENTS AND HEADSTONES
IMPORTED TO ORDER.
1.3 A call respectfully solicited.
W. U. COOPER, 311.
19
Clinton, Jan. 14, 1874.
Wgston. Calaida Pormalleilt Btellli
AND
SAVINGS SOCIETY.
LOANS MONEY
oaf Tag
Securfty of Farm Property,
AT
TI po-vc.rims-r 1R—A_TIES
FOR PERIOD) VARYING
From Two to Twenty Years.
For further particular', apply to
CHAS. RIDOUT.
CLINTON.
WALTER S. LEE,
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DB. AXPLETON.—OFFICE AND RESIDENCE—
The House lately oecupied by Mr. Tame Fair, op.
posite the Wesleyan Church, Rattenbary Street, Clinton.
Clinton, Nov. 1, 1873. 8-ly
I-AMES STEWART, M. 11., C. M., GRADUATE OF
V MoGill Univereity, Montreal; Physician, Surgeon and
Aceoucheur. Residence—IlnuonrrELD.
January 4,1871. 28 '
JJ18. REEVE, Physiolan, Surgeon, eto., Coroner for
County of Huron. Residence and Wilco—Corner of
Albert and Mill Streets, Clinton.
August 9041869. • 7-tf
R.13TAN1U8Y, GRADUATE OF THE MEDICAL
Departmenk o Victoria Univorelty, Toronto, for-
merly of the Hospital,' and Diapensariee, New York,
Coroner for the County of Huron, HAYFIELD, Out.
July 22, 1874. 81
NMUNRO, M. D., PHYSICIAN, SURGEON, AC.
• couonsun,-Grativate of the Medical Department
of Vietoria University ; formerly of the. Hospitala of Now
York and London, Eng.; visited also the Hospitals in
Parte, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Residence—Brimfield.
January 18, 1674.
I)R. WORTHINGTON, PHYSICIAN, SURGEON,
Accoucheur, Licentiate of the College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Lower Canada, and Provincial Licenti-
ate and Coronor for the County of Huron. Oilice—Tho
building lately °templed by Mr. Thwaites, Huron street.
Itesidence next to Central School.
Clinton, Jun. 10, 19. 27.1y,
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otel qarbo.
OlicrentoC.ANOA,Dt Th,(1
above Hotel is now ihvroughly renovated and furnished
throughout, and affords good aecoMmodation for travel-
lers. First -Wass liquors and cigars in the bur. Large
stabling and attentive hustlers. 18
I
y Y AL HOTEL, CLINTON.7T110S. l'• TTS,
vitamin. The above Hotel is fitted up in good idyll:
and affords every a eemignodatioo fur tim,couvenience and
uoinfort of travellers and the publie
Is supplied with guud Winos, Liquors and choice Cigars.
Good stabling and attentive hostlere.
Clinton, May 7, 1874.
T3RINCE OF WALES HOTEL, W. J. McCUTCHEON
.1 Proprietor.. The lipase haying been.newlylitted up
the subscriber can offer the best acconnuodation to travel
lers. The Bar supplied with find -class Liquors. (loud
tabling attached. The atop leavue the Iluuse every day
or Wingliain,
Clinton, Dec.19, 1870, 26
'THE RATTENBURY HOUSE—I. RATTENBURY,
Jr., Proprietur.—One door south of the Poi t Office,
Victoria Street, Clinton. The fittings and furnishings
of this house are all ROW, and everything le provided to
meet the Irlyhes and wauts of the travelling public, aful
Be feels confident, from long experiene, of being able
to wake comfortn55,•a1l who may fury ling With the:r
company. GoOd Stabling and attentive hustlers.
Clinton, June 2, 1874.
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OtorellanefTs
tubs.
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MONEY TO LEND, IN LARGE OR SMALL SUMS.
Mortgages Bought. C. RiDoDY.
Clinton, Sept. 18t, 1870. 12-11
MONEY TO LEND, IN LARGE OR SMALL SUMS,
on good mortgage security, at moderate rates of
Int west. H. HALE,
Clinton, August 9111, 1869. 7-tf
D. IlICKINSON, LICENSED AUCTIONEER
.L./ for the Village of Clinton. Sales promptly
attended to on reasonable terms.
Clinton, March 24, 1874. 22
I AMES HOWSON, CLINTON-- LICENSED AUC-
TIONEER for the County of Huron, is prepared to
attend to Bales of Farm Stock and Real Estate at rea-
sonable rates.
Clinton, Nov. 18,1873. 5
CHARLES ILA.MILTtiN, Burn!, LICENSED AUC-
TIONEER fur the County of litiron. Sales Of Farm
Stock, Real Estate, &c., attended to at reasonable
rat°1Hy.
Bth, May 6, 1871. 20.
11ALCOMSON, BARRISTER, ATTORNEY-AT-
I:I. LAW, Solicitor .in Chancery, and Conveyancer,
Office—Market Square.
MONEY TO LEND ON REAL ESTATE.
Clinton, April 22, 1874. 17-ly
rBIDDLECOMBE, H U RON
• opposite the Commercial Hotel,
begs respectfully to inform hie friends
and the public generally, that he keep.
eonatanily on hand a large and well assorted stook of
Clocks, Watches and Jewellery, which he will sell at mo-
derate prices. RED/JILIN° of every description promptly
executed at reasonable rates, 13 The celebrated Russell
Watch kept constantly in stook.
Clinton, Nov. 8111, 1869. 20-ly
rylEETEI EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN.
-a- C. CARTWRIGHT Stugeon Den-
tist, extracts Teeth without Pain by the nue
of the Nitrous -Oxide Gas. OFFICE: Over the "Beacon"
Store, Stratford..
Attendance to Goderich, at Albion Hotel, the first
Tuesday and Wedhuaday of each month ; in Clinton, at
the Commercial Hotel, on the following Thursday and
Friday. The remainder of the time in his Stratford office.
Parties requiring new teeth are requested to call, if at
Goderich and Clinton, on the first days of attendante.
Over 54,000 patients have had teeth extracted by the
use of the Gas, at Dr. Coulton', offices, New York.
Stratford, Feb. 4t11, 140. 7
HIan — CLINTDS pourry
High School le open to pupils of both sexes,
from all parte of the County and Province on equal
tenn. oInstruction le given in all the higher liranchea of
a Commercial, Engliah, and Classical Education, and in
the French and German languages. Students are pre-
pared for the Universities, the learned professions, and
niercantile pumice. Special attention le paid to the
studies requisite for Conxraon School Teachers. Tuition
FMB, $2 per -quarterly term . fite4ente from a distance
cau obtain board in the village At very modhrate rates.
The Summer Term will commence on Monday,19th Ang.,
1872, Further information' will be giver on application
(per,wrialir or by letter) to any member of the Board of
Trustees, viz; irlefitus. H. Hale, 11. Coats, A. S. Maher,
J. Reeve, LID„ Rec. L', 114cQualg, and A. Worthington,
M D., or to the Head Mesta, kir, lames Turnbull, D. A.
18.Ieas•
CAMERON s& GORMAYLLY/
-DARRISTEss AND SatoITORS IN CHANCERY,
Goderieb.
M. C. CAMERON. J. .1. GORMALLY.
$4,000 to. Lend
IN COOD.MORTGAGE SECURITY, IN.SUMS TO
l_f Nun, borrowerK. Pi ivato }tondo. Costs moderate.
Mortgagee purchased.
12. 1LA.LE.
Clinton, March 24, 1874. 22-3m*
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Marriage Licenses
ISSUED BY AUTHORITY AT THE RESIDENCE
of the late Mr. Thwaitex (former issuer of Marriage
Licenses) Huron Street, by Miss Louisa Van Egrnond.
'Clinton, March 11, 1874. 30.3m•
- — -4'
Canada Company Lands.
A LIST OF LANDS IN HURON FOR SALE BY
the Canada Company may bo soon at tho oilloo of
the undersigned, • •
If, 'TULE.
Clinton, Jan. 17, 1871.
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MAPS COUNT or MAN.
Who shall jtiege a man from nianterce.
Who shall lcuoW him by hie dress,
Paupers may be lit for princes,. • •
Princes lit for 'ocauettang less.
Crimpled shirts..and dirty pniket
May be clothed the golden ore
Of the deepest thought and feeling,
Satin vests could de ao more,
Tfiere era springs Of crystal nectar
Ever welling out of atone,
There are purple buds and golden
Hidden; ornahea and overgrown ;
God who coentii by souls, net drefises,
Loves and prospers you and me,
While he values thrones the bigbeat
But as pebbles in the sea.
Mau, upraised above his.fellcivs,
Oft forgets his fellows then •
Masters, rulers: lords remember
That your meanest kings aro tuen ;
Men by lP
abor men by feeling,
Men by thought -and men by fame,
Claiming equal rights to sunshine
In a man's enobling name.
There are foam embroidered oceans ;
There are.little weed-cdad rills ;
There are fe41e, ineh-high aplings ;
There aro 'cedars on the hills ;
Ood, who counts by souls, notstations,
Loves andprospers you and Inc ;
For to him all Vain diatipioiuo
Are aa'pebbles in the sea.
Toiling halide aloiao are builders "
Of a nation's wealth and fame;
'Pitied-I:tailless' is pensioned,
Fed and fattened on the manic
By the sweat of ethers' foreheads,
Living only to 1:spice ;
While tho poor man's outraged fraodwn
-------Nainly-difted up its voice.
Truth and justice are eternal,
Born with leveliness and light ;
Secret? wrongs shall never prosper
While there is a sunny right ;
God whose world -heard voice is singing
Boundless love to yon and me,
Sinks oppression with its tftlio,
As the pebbles of,the sea.
GEO. B. 11 ARItiS4 CO.,
LAND OFF LCI.E,
LONDON, ONTARIO,
Purchasers obtained for farms arid other raid estate.
10 , Apply by lettor or personally.
CLINTON LODGE, NO.. 88,1. 0. 0. F.
'MIS LODGE HOLDS ITS MEETINGS EVERY
-L TUESDAY evening, at Eight O'elook, in the
Hall known as core's Bali, fluron Street. Visiting
brethren cordially invited.
ROST. WISEMAN, Secretary.
canton, Fobroary 7, 1879. • 88.11
MONEY' MONEY!
T 'HAVE MONEY TO—LEND /17 LA:110E OR
1. small stuns, belonging to private parties, interest
payable yearly; °bargee modeolie and terms easy; I
also buy mortgagee end invest money. Partionlarsmade
known on application at my office, in the Market
Building.
CHARLES A. MATT,
Attorney -at -Lem
Clinton, Oet. 22, 1878. 1
0. L. No. 710
Tire struggle for Wealth. .
No one can settle down in^ a Euro-
pean city or village for a month, and
observe the laboring • classless without
noticing a great difference between-thehe
aspirations, ambitions and habits, and
those of corresponding Classes in this
country. He may see great poverty in
a continental town, and men and we -
men laboring severslY arIcl fari TrIthlri-
ly, and a hopeless gap -exieting between
classes; he may see the poor virtually
the slaves Of the rich; but he will wlt-
nese a measure of contentment and '
daily participation_ in -humble pleasures
-
to which his eyes have been strangers at
home. There is a sad side to this plea:
sant picture. Much Of this apparent
contentment and enjoyment undoubted-
ly come from the hopelessness of the
struggle fornnything better. An irn-
paisable gulf exists between them and
the educated ded aristocratic classes -e -a
gulf which they have recognized from
their birth; and having repoguized this,
they have recognized their own limita-
tions, and adapted themselves them_
Seeing juet -what they can do and Gan-
net do they very rationally undertake
to get out of life just what their condi-
tion renders attainable. There -is no
faroff,'crowhing goodfor them to aim
at, so they try to get what they can on
the way. They make such of--fitte
days, and social gatherings, and music,
and do what they can to sweeten their
daily toil, 'whiell-they know must be
continued while the power to- labor lasts.
In America it is very different. A
humble backwoodsman sits hi the Pre-
sidential Chair, or (lid sit there but re-
cently ; a tailor takes the highest honors
of the nation a canal driver becomes a
.powerfol millionarie ; a- humble olerk
grows into a merchan t prince, absorbing
the labor and aupplying the wants of
tens of thousands'. • In city, State and
national 'politics, hundreds and enter
prise, and self-celture, and self-aseertion
havo raised themselves from the hum.
blest positions to influence at place.
There is no impassable gulf between the
low and the high. Every man holds.
.the ballot, and therefore, every man ia
11 person of political power and impor-
tance. The way of business enterprise
are _many, and ,the rewards of success
are munificent. Not a year, nor indeed
a month, passes by that does not illus-
trate the preparative, page with which
poor men win wealth op aequire power.
The consequence -Is that all but the
wholly brutal are atter somegreat good
that lies beyond their years of toil. The
European egpeota always to be a tenant;
the American intends beforn he dies to
own the house be lives in, If city
prices forbid this, he goes ao the sub-
urbs fdr his home.' The European
knows that life and labor tiro cheap, and
that Ire cannot !repo td win by them the
wealth which will relize•for him tliff,
dream of future' ea' ; the American
finds his labor dear, and iterowards com-
paratively bountiful, so that his dream
of wealth is a rational one. He, there-
fore, denies himself, works 'early and
late, and bends his energies, and directs
those of hie famitseilito-nrofitable -chan-
nels, all for the great good that beckons
him on from the far-off, golden future.
The typical American never lives in
the present. If he iniulges in a recrea-
tion, it is purely for health's sake, and
at long. intervals, or in great dttlOfgtfi-
cies, He does not waste money on
pleasure, and -does rietapprovo of those
who do so. He lives in a baistantifever
of hope.and expectation, orgy° •ys seur
with hope deferred cr blank,dpappeint-
ment, Out of it all grows tile -Woralrip.
of wealth arid that dentaralication.w-hiolt
resurta in unorupulousnese concerning•
the methods acquirerneet.•L 8o America
presents the anomaly of a !shoeing elass
with unprecedented prosperity and pri.-
,vilegee, and unexampled discontent and
discomfort,. .
Meets regularly at their
Ilan, nearly oppoelte Enos's
Huron Street, on the
second Monday of frfory
month, fit hilt.post Sem
o'olook p. m. Re Visiting
STA Ootalollp 11,
*Wt. &LOU
erti"
alliousend social pleaeores, to.relinquioh
all ainusements that have orcest-littaah-
ed to them, for'wealth which may or
may not come when the family life is
broken np,,forever—surely this is neither
sound enterprisenor wise ecenorny. 'WO
-woophot have the Arnerican laborer,
farmer and mechanic become improvi-
dent. but cve-yould•very much like to
eee them happier than they are by re-
sort. to the daily social oujoyments which
are always ready to their hand, "Nature
is strong in, the young,. and they will
have seal:0y 6id play of Borne sor t. At;
should remain strong in the oia; and
doesrernehi in tkem, until it is 'expel.
led by the absorbing and subordinating
passion for gain. Something of the Old
World fondness for play, and artily or
weekly.ltaialgence 111 it,. should become
hatitnal among mg, Workers. - Toil
would be Sweeter if there were a ;eward
at the end of 11.; work woad be gentler
when USt)a as a means for Secnrilig a
pleasure which stands Closer tliTtn itn
old ago of ease; character would be.
softeraudriulier:uid
when acquired among genial, everyday
lhordinating rorifs
for wealth, carried on with feinfolSstrugt
41es and constant self -denials Ina -'03 us
-
petty; irritable and hard. !When the
whole. American peeple .have learned
that 11 dollar's worth of pure pleasure is
worth more then" it dollar'S weak of
aiivtluing else under the sun; that work-
.
ingis not living; but dilly the mime by
which we Will a_livIngl that money • is
'good for nothing -except for What it
brings of comfort and culture; and that
we live not in the future,' hut the pre-
sent, they will be hen& People --hap-
pier and better -than they have • been.
" The morrow shall take thought for
the tltiflee of itself," may not be: an. -tie-
cepted maxim impolitical econolny, but
it was uttered by -the wisest being that
ever lived io.the world, .whoSe. missionit WAS 'to make men both good and hap:,
pp---=.7Jr. G. Rolland ; Scribner's .fert
August.
' Battle Between_Oxen,_
The Augusta (Me.) Armin/ has the
fol lowing .wecouut ofa,protradted battle
between twe oken in that state:" Mr
Corydon -Chadwick and Mr Sullivan
Erskine have a pasture in common .,at
South China, which theillSo for the
pasturage Cif cstlice They have the
present ses,soirtarl several yokes of cat-
tle in the pasture. Mr' Chadwick and
Mr Erskine have each an Mt with
looped--orggooked horn,- the- right home
of one and the left of the other having
that e :rune r '.:formation. The oxen
were turned loostinte the common park
turage, and -it was between them on
that spot that the pitched battle cif
which we ere abeet to speak took place.
.1.0or several clays these cattle had bon_
_missing ; when the other eifile came
the3e were not among' the number.
How many days they had been, missing
More search was iastituted is. not defi-
nitely known., but becoming alarmed,,
the ownere Went in quest, of thorn,
domirig to, an opening in the woods,
covering an arca of about half an acre,
Mr -Chadwick,- who went in iiearcb,
came upon ,a sicicening_eipeetacte. The
looped limos:of the mon were -olaeped,
and the exhausted animas united com-
pactly stood face to face. waiting for
death, having apparentlY given up the
struggle. It is supposed that while
they were engaged in play their home
bepame entangled -I failing to dteeonnect
theoiselvee It Oral° fEiruzgle of tieye-
ral clays took` place. Theepen soil Was
literally torn -up as though it'hard been
ploughed with a subsoil plough. When
they wore turned into the :paeture they
were large fat, eeven-feeb oxen'but
now they become so emaciated and
famished that a r person could almeat
clasp them round With his arum'. They
were perfectly docile ,when forma, but
Mr Chadwick could not untie the kriot.
The bort sof 'each was sunk .itito' the
other's head, and it was only by calling
help and sawing the horns off, that a
separation could be effected. There
were festering gores where the horns
went in. Thus a mortal eontlieb,
ing eight days, htid been going en be
tween these exert, whohi that time had
not partaken of any sustetiance, and
perhapshad not boon able to lie down.,
Their jawe bad to be _pried open, and
gruel Administered to theft. Theiv
heads had been united seVolosely that
their &tree Were bare to the bone: It
is possible the animals may live."
There is surely something better than
this. There is something better that e
life-long saeritice of content and erijoy-
ment for a possible Wealth, whieli, how-
ever, may never be Required, and Whioli
has not the power, when. Wofl, to yield
its holder the boon which he expects it
to purchase-. To withhold from the
frugal wife the gown Whieh She desires
to doily her the jouinoy whieh would do
00 b1114111 to break up the Monotony of
tit toibil 1 MAU tkttbe hit
itititi it ilittilitit0ftht tat &Italy lilt jtohintitlit ht
Tire Doings et
Naturalists have not left os entirely
witheut anocdotespf froggy. Dr. Boots
had a 'frog which dornesticeted itself in
the kitchen. ' Every evening, when the
eervante Walt to Slipper, 11e. peeped one
of' his hole, as if ter roommate, juitueir
out it-all-tiecrited-eriglite baskeden the
warm bright hearth, and,there remained
till the family went to—bed, .4. friend-
ship sprang up between -froggy and an
old cat who shared the I:eside with hint
and was solictous not to incommode his
strange companion, .lvritor in the
:Zootogietriayethat otioneroceasiorthe- saw
seeeral frogs gather round a window,
crawl nu the sun -blind, and peep into
-the item, each in his turn. At the
time he did not understand what it
reetitite but on the following r,nornitti
he found _a frog whioh had accidentally
been imprisoned between the window
aod the blind. Tha' episode became
clear enough ;, tlie frogs had at-orlon:Ay
elambelfed up to see a eornrade who was
in tiotthlO, and were no doubt aorrY at
being unable to extricate
VI St Petersburg, Russia,- recently,
Sergeant de Nine Murdered a phyeicien
and his cook on' account of jealousy,
the ofileer Wog In love with the latter.
Re remairtedin the rooin Where be had
committed tiso mime, and holding a
knife to his breast /Awl for five hem
threatening to kill himself, rather than
be awreeted, • lie was drenched
Water and blinded with,e
Frogs.
• . .„,
. titeeP your own veusso,,,,
• Nothing Can ba more injnrieue'
your peace of mind them_ to, have too
many confiderito. You. live in abject
slavery every day, aa yen are constantly
fearing that some -tined' your numerous
eonfideutil will reveal a secret you would
not Irate,%all,hody. know for all the
werld. We knowln many cases it does
the heart.good to open the door to it
seeming sympathetic visitor ; but, alms'
there is .more morning than reality in
this world of ours. .•• .
Yon' will sit down and tell Orme ono
of you acquaintances all your troubles,
real and imaginary, and say to them',
" Now, you are the only one in Whom
I have any confidence'and I trust you
will not -"speak 9f this to any one else."
Wel), they promise to keep still, and at
the Same time perhaps, they are in
earnest ; but by and by some one steps
in, and an irresistible &Sire takes.poss-
eSeien of them to retail all they know
of your hiatory, and a little.added on to
the -fect--1
know, to their friends. Net meaning
any real harm to you, probably by so
eing, ut 1 oes ern good to talk
it over with some one ylse" whom you
warred di* against. ,
They in turn tell_ thisr-ftierid not to
say a. weird about it, which is envoi- tho
hardest things to do. Yet they.promise
hut are sure to break Unit promise as
soon, as they have a favorable' opportue
nits'. Thus .your -cherished secrets are
known to the community at -large,
, While you go on in blissful ignorance,
thinking that your good friend Mri:
Jones alone knows about year heart's
sorrows. , Friends, if anyof you went a
secret kept, keep it yourselves. Yon
arothe safeetpersen to trust itwitli.
ilia**,
An Embarrassed Thief.
:;• A -very comical conclusion -to a' very'
ordinary theft took place in Paris recent-
ly. A sneak -thief entered agentleman's
apertment_by ineand of faille keys, and
proceeded to ransack' drawers and closets
in search of valuables. To his disgust
he found neither jeweles; moneinar any
portable valuables, im he finally -conclud-
ed to treat himself to -a new suit of
elothes, 'Accordingly. halelec ted a nice
outfit, including shirts, stockings and
underwear, laid them out on the bed,
and proceeded to remove his own gar-
ments. Just as -he -got' to the critical
-point when his own clothes were off sod
tlie lie* ones were noS 017, he heard
sonsuone:orimi-_-the outer...deer of the.
apartment. He scrambled under the
bed in all heat°, and white lying perdu
there he heard.the new -comer .prowling
'found the room, opening- drawers,
and finally heard him depart, He then
crept out ; but what was his bovror to
• ad...that t glees:ma individual hadbeen
a hief, and thatnot only the
clothes' he had been about to put on
were gone, but also his own clothes as
well. Whilst he was in the midst of -a
search for some ethei, garment, he WWI
again disturbed by thaepening of a door
and this time lie poppedinto the closet.
This arrival proved to be the owner of
apartment, who, finding hie fernitera in
disorder and hie \veering apparel gone,
proceeded -in search of •the malefactor,
and soon discovered the poor, shivering
criminal in the closet._ He. summoned
the police and .gave him into custody,
and the unfortunate. fellow was convey:.
ed to the station:home, wrapped in
blanket, and piteously declared that he
had stolen nothing,—.that on the,,motra-
ry he had Veen robbed, -basely robted Or
all his clothing.
• Birth -Place of Columbus.
Tradition makes Cogoleto, it small
towt a few miles from Genoa, the birth-
pliee of Columbus, and there is an in-
scription Whioh. marks the house of his
reputed birth.---It-may be true, and it
raay.,,be false—for, in this land of tradi-
tion und-soperstitioo, it is easy to fabri-
cate A tradition as 'en,inscription, and
credulity is ready to believe that it is as
old as Adam. 'Tho house et hisjather
wao in the goburbs of Genoa, as Is
shown by the deed.- Ile, himself, says
he was born in Genon, an expression.
which may well mean the territory,
and not tha city, or Genoa. There is;
therefore, some color for the tradition
and it Is not wceth while to dig deeper
to find doubtse. Ile :Ysfas a aiiguriati,
eild nothing could more likely to sliarti-
en bie coi•iosity and suggest a ,lite of
adventure than to look out from these)
rocky highlands upon the Mediterranean
washing the.field at its base, and cover:.
ed With the little, hilt daring and enter-
prising, corsairs of the LeVant, the Gre-
cian Archipelago, and the African Coot-.
Ilow time sets things eight Brought
home in elerinS; robbed in his lifetime
Oriirracars, and his profits, and the
-ham rat- anotherliverr-trnhitt di -neve -re
ies, ti 10011:88 written his name " with
iron. 'arid lead in the rock forever,"
His jealous and triumphant enemies, as
well RS his royal patrons and enternris.-
ing followers in the path of, discovery
•ars remembered / but when we call
them ' rap friire -the—land of -Shadows,
there is always in the midst of them,
and hefora-them, the great _Oertoese
with a eery about him, is the light of
which .they shins with it pale ray. So
it wili ho fe,ravO.
King er the Pante Players.
There was published in the Inter,
Ocean of Saturday last an article (flipped
from a western paper headed " Rob-,
beta of the Bail," which discoursed in
very good style upon the monte gamb-'
•tere who "work" along the Pacific rail -
W1178. • One of the parties mentioneaia
it was 'William Jones, of Omaha, a man
who lurk acquired an ahnost national
reputation as "Canada Bill.", Ho is
known a.nong his class Monte
King," and io.doubtless the mast skill.
full and successful Shark in the 'West.
Several years ago, before the 'Union
Pacific was constructed, -Jones turned
thehigliest trielt on recorcl.-7efor $38,000.
It was upon a 1Wiesissippi river steam,
.hoat, and it* :•victim *as 18 wealthy
plaiater,.Who was so blindly confident
of his ability to win, or se desperately
bent on making -good his Toss, that he
imaiiidiately bet and staked the balance
of his Parton(' -(etime $80;000) on, MI -
oilier throw., when Bill was.placed une-
der arrest Of course,' had they' net,
been interrupted, lie would hair° lost
'the money. •
--Joetie 18 11 Power in the city 1:6 has
mado his heme ; °woe three hotels and:
a number dr saloons, and'employs thirty
to kitty men OS decoys or "coppers."
His operations are bold; and alinest,in-
veriebly specessful... Only onee'in his
life, so far AS it is lcricrivii, aid he -safer
worsting,
and that was at thb kande of.
alt Iowa farmer, \vhci deluded hiri irite
paying for a Waggendoad, Of cheese os,.
.cley.iir Coancil Bluffs.' Tits .aremir
that cheese, still clings to him, and ie
the one sore' also 111 ,bis inemory nO men
C1811 totioh-withotit-rofilifig his teMper.-
The Omaha Heiyild about two years 11 go
inaugurated a war against the gfiliblees
and attacked, jones its the lutistpronii-
nent-figere among the,m. • His misdeeds.
were se raked- and paraded under
scareheirds"-iliat'the half -reluctant au=
theritieirrivere obliged to look after him.'
The sheriff, after a, tedious season of
unsuccessful watching, caught him ,one
afternoon. in the very act of 'fleecing a
countryman, and took him into custody,
•Ott-of-defenee, to the popular feeling ho
was orderedto goal for twentydayS,
By a conVenient technicality his' cent-.
sel procured his release on the thirteenth
days. He instantly departed for the fur-
therwest. (
. In just exactly one weelc: horeturned ;
and Meeting the City , editor • of the .
Herald on Fainhajn-street, - took-- him.
into a bar -room,, and exhibited -a-:•roll
ote--raoneYe--"-There'e---..-just $1 -2;000 -
there," said he. '."-rr :made it Since
gat -Ont..- Takuerinthine ?" The next
morning lie had straggled into a faro
bank -and lost„ every cent of 'it. : 'The
stories that are told of his'. shrewdeese
and folly (for he ill a men of weakness)
would make a very amusing book. His
_dlitienitrendt.a.lwaya of the clodhopper
sort. Occasionally he..slitiars men 'who
free) their palling -and 'experience one
would naturally supposteloo Sharp for
any such foolishness. 'Who eff5r -editor
of the New York Ileraldlost his inalsy,
his luggage, and WS- Wife's jeivelery to
.1110, while stopping over at Omaha on
a thip acrosiahe continent: Onanother
ooeasicin a Boston detective,_of-c_onsiders,
'able renown, took a walk with him,
and left his watch and. wallet. _There
is nothingat all in hie appearaitie to
indicatrthe reigtio. Pall; stoepshefilder-
ed,. angular .and awkward, with weak
'oyes, and idiotic half smite, a piping
voice; and a plainsman's dialect, he is a
picturciof unsephistication„and_thereln
lies haif of succetei:-
-• •
rraxer Before Battle.
Ite Went on, When every other would
have, Oren hp ih de4air. He gave a
New Wald tcethe Kingdoms of Castile
and Aragon. But Cestile, and Aragon
and all the progeny of their descendant
ecorononwealthe, are dwindling and fad.
leg away, and R race, never akin to the
old Ligurian—a the world -seeking
Geneese"...-.1e front year to year, devot.
ing the New World to the great com-
monwealth of freedom and mutuality.
Passenger rates to Liverpool from
New 'York have. been reduced to 12
and $154 and it it reported the finttaid
Line Will Spend halt a *Mien of dame
dot any other lino, 'on the Natoli
'The Ainerioan line tetttioti to
rneRwihip 0)11.
'Whether it be One or net that. the
Welsh are a quarrelsome People'cannot
nriderfake to say ; the following71anglre`
able anecdote, bowever, would seem in
seine measurb to countenance the con-
clusion (and Shakespeare, wtObeheve,
ahnost invariably represents his Welsh
characters as toucIty..to....a degree) that
there is modicum qf truth, in the
charge, lint te'the etcify. A Scotch
peddler, without the remotest intettiOn
on hie part of getting into a quarrel or
fight with any man, had put up (with
his plioic). for the night, at a country,
ale-heese bordering on Wales, where, as
the facts ,Nicitild have it, he foetid a
motly assemblage in the kitchen of the
hien; of not the most desirable individu-
'
als• and, among the test, a Welshman,
whoee ajm, from the very firet, it seem -
cd to.. be to get Inte hot water -with,poor
Sawney. , The latter, sagaciously appre-. James Hunting as an exampleof a
whaleman's endurance. Hie boat was
iipset and rolled over. hitt by a large
sperm -whale. 'Wheb he rose to the sur-
face he was entangled in the line, and
struggled hard to free himself, but be-
lie could succeed'he was jerked out of
the sight ot hife.horrified shipmates. A
bight of line yet attached to.the.. whale
Was around lis ankle. Drawing himself
inarez the ilkeetingAnimeL he a
sheath knife and managed to Out the
cord. When he again came to the sur-
face a boat rescued and conveyed him
to the ship. His ankle was broken) and
Novelties in Planers. • /eat
'A ()Ferman paper publishes a curious
account by Herr von Fries, an .A.ustriau
employed in the Chinese CUStOraiii
vice, ofan oilicial Clilneso banquet ut
which he was present) The guests, lie
says, having ell assembled in the outer
court -yard of the house, the doors were
thrown open by two, polies, whe ad=
Mitted them ,into a second court -yard.
Here they were received by a flourish
of truraPetEt. 001)20 dial:30111AM Chinese
music, and the:firing of mortars. They
then proceeded tci the third court -yard,
where the master'of the house received
them and showed them into the dining
rem, which is only divided from court-
ybrd by a glass partition. in the mid-
dle of the room was a 'ergo round tablel-
and against the walls wero theirswith
a small table between each to put tea -
elms on, tea being_served, immediately
before dinner. The wane were covered
with Chinese pictures; and numberless
lamps and lanterns hung fromethe cell-
tng. After a short convetsatiOn in the
Chinese languagerthe table Was: laid in
the preseoceof the gnests. When all
was ready, the host asked each guest
to come to the table, pointing diir his
Beat, and handing hina with many'
compliments a get of red lacquered ellen-
eticks. When this Ceremony was conn,
pleted the company sat down to dinner,.
Rice Wine wag fleet brought up, together
with hem, eggs, and'various cold vege-
tales. The next course consisted of
bird's nest soup, and thirty-four dishes
followed, among which were sharks'
fins; a soup made of diminutive, snai(s]
the'size of smalLheans,,which came
froin Lake Tabu, a ragout of duelcs' ton-
gues; fishes' brains; withhroWo' sante,
a most disgusting dish to a European
palate)' and 'puddings baked in oil.
Roast pork and ducks wereetlse served;
these were eatable; and the fish was par:
ticularly well. cooked, but Herr- Von
Fries came to the conclusion that the
simpletit European disl,i was preferable
to. the Most elaborate Chinese, curisine,
and he says that sifter dinner he`felb as
if he had eaten boiled gutta peroha.
The_best part of the entertainment was
adish of-e=excelleiat fruit. , Champagne
was served towardst-hetlie dm -
ter. This is the only wine drafik by
the Chinese, and:Only the wealthy •can -1
afford to buy• it, as a case costs from ten
to fifteen Mexical ducats. Cigars were
battled- round after the soup, and
the custom to go away directly after;
.dinner. It is also remarkable that at a
banquet of this kind the host only ,tip
-
pears in official costume, the guests be-
ing all in mufti: • ' •
Sheekt
A wedding, with A tragic termination,
ocnarrekatAllowaystown, N. .T.,,a few
evenings Roc:: It seems .that a young -
man by the name *of Kirk—married a
daughter of rsaanNieholas, of Alloways-
town of N. j., and the. twain;prepared
-to celebrate.. the *marriage festivities.
On the day following (Sunday) lie ad -4 th
'
4 -Liverpool. merehant has betin Ail-
ed $1,100 and mulcted in costs alio, for
sellti'lg some hams that weirs not sound.
Suchds;tho 'faith of Plymouth Choral
in the'+irtiispf Mr. 'Beecher that it in,
-prepeoed to raise his salary to $90,000-
ita a compensation for his trials.
Peansylya,nian het"6,0,00 that he
could eat fifty quarts . ,peanuts itt
twentyfive,houro, Re get away with
forty, and then the undertaker got away
with him, •
An Irish- paper --Says that 'trying •to -
get up, business without 'advertising is
like winking at a. pretty girl through t •
a pair Of green goggles—yon may 'know
what yen are doing, but nobody else
The Chicago PublieLthrry, founded
just after the great Are, has now 'nearly. •
_forty thousand, books.' It is-'supperted
by a tax one fourth of a mill, which
already gives an income•of $65,000
The following concise eaul. cornprs--
hensive note ° was sent to an lffinoisc
merchant by a neighboring farmer the
other day : " Send me a trace. chain
and two hinges—jane boa a, baby last
Hight—also, two" padlocks." .
In the tiveenty-fipo years -4849-74
there Nvere 262,563 Oew houses built in
London, and 6,578 new streets and 7-1 '
scuitues woe Thimed Te length of
these new streets aud squares exceeded
1,158 miles
' , • Ite•
"Well, friend Jim, bow do you_malte,
it down South I" "First rate --made
plenty of money." - "What did you de •
with it 1", " Laid it out la houses and '
lots." "Where "7" "Every place 'I'
have . been where there was any."
"What kind of houses and lots'!" "Cof-
.
fee houses and lots of whisky.
"May Heaven's angels whisper gold-
en words as they kiss your darling
eheeks," wrote a La °roes° Man to his
Beaty only last Spring, and now he ,
-only hopes -that the angels may soon
whieper to him how his breaeh-of-pro-
miee_suit is coming out, its his lawyer is
doubtful. •
•
•
The Milford (Deli) News tells this :—
The proprietors Of the Haven Woollen
Mills 'says 'that during one day this -
summer, when the atmosphere was clear
and when -we had been without rain
sons° time, the water in their pondieern-
.61 to lift out of the pond so- that thn
water line settled more t1)a1tf0obes• •
low its.usual-mark They ere—positive-
that it did not pass through- the dam,
and consider it was taken rip in evapora-
tion." . • •• '
,,terobie Calnpbell, a city officer of E di
burgh, of noted celebrity, had the rids-
fOrtune to loose his mother ; and, in or-
der to gratify her -last wish.,..,he had her
toco4ypyed to e Highlands in a
bearse for interment: Ho. retevned ib•
was rumored, with hearse fell. of smuggl-
• ed whiskey. Ackiend orie der, beast
to tease him on . the subject.- • " Wow, -
mon," replied Archie, "there's nae harm
'
dressed two letters—one to done. I only carried awe; the body, his father .
."
and one to his wife. /t the letter to his and brought back the spedrit
father heenolosea a sort of xnemorand- A "veteran. student_of human no,tui -e• "
-
um of` Ins -accounts, debtor mid creditor, says If onewants a 'flirt; take
with a request for their • Jigecly adjust- brunette, if one wantg. a cook, take a,
ment. To his wife in the second -he ex. blond;. if one wants a wife . take
pressed, the warmest conjugal affection,. neither." Something in the grey parth-''
and left her in the littriduorthe Diet3r, ment line woeld suit him. On the
who, he averred, w.a.9....b.stier able to
protect 21er than he. He also absolved
tier' from all.preVieus vows Enid advised
her to a esiond Marriage if desirable.'
At ehouthaltpast three o'clock, p. m.,
he stepped into an adjoiningshedi and,
placing a pistol clOse to• his breait, flred
and died almost,instaritly. An ingteet
held developed the facts aabe stated.
Dangerist wintleinen.
In the pretty; cemetery at Sag Harbor
Long Island, there is a marble monu-
ment heroine a touching reeord. It Is
in the ,form ot't 04 broken ship's mast, with
an unstranded hawser, twisted around
'the felt, and engraved upon it are the
"talues'Of six captains' of whale ships be-
longing to the town, till of them under
thiety years of age, who died 'within ten
years of each other, in actual encounter
with the monsters. of the debp. An
old wheleinarr. who had escaped doath
several tines used to declare that he
only lived "on borrowed time, it monu-
moat of God's infinitemercy." Wo may
CaPtairi
elating the true cho.racter of his tormen-
tor:, and-deternained.to get rid ef him
in the quietest way pOssible, told 'Mei
that he 'did not want to fight.' This
only- molted to a still higher pita the
bravado' of the Welshman, and he told
the scotch/flan that he Would 'make him
fight,' 'Well,' says Sawney, 'if 1 must
fight; let Ma- sky mf:privera before j
fight, which tire Welshman eirine_p_Cl,
the Sdotehrean fell noon his knees; im-
ploring his Maker texe,pardon hint --f.
the (1(26 then her had already killed, and
for the'one that was about to die.' The
Seatehmair slowly rose from his kneesirs:the- presence of hie men he set it him.
-but not before the Velshinan had -made 'self,' ana then resnmea Iris usual duties;
Captain Dayis IlteritiOna eperna.
whale which ...first wrecked two boats
and afterward tharged at the ship, tear.
lng away the•ent.water and the copper
eheatirig sirdend the kow. Several har-
poons, lances, and boiab-lances were flea
a precipitate retreat from theroom,
The Cleveland says that at
the la,te Dress Reform Convention at
Plainesville; Mrs Vibbert came to the
front.And.said that she stood there,
-radical for dress and a 'Sinner before
Goa, io for, AVe years ago, I gave up
my short dress to keep peace with My.
friends, and from that clay I -hive not
dared to pray."
There recently died. in Belgium a lady
of fortune, t19,1flea Mine. Monseur, who
llad
It'aingelar .inania" for the hoarding
of artieleirbtstrese. , After her death an
examination of lierl..tfreas revealed at
ttnilittai gad of things.'"Thetti were
motuiteins of dress goods unetit, afia
bearing the tattdesmaree price labels, be-
aidebundreds,of bonnets, ar.essei made
up, cloaks, shawls, and various spec&
menatit the reodistis'is art. it it ballot.
• ,d tbitt tht tale of the homittithitioti of
gloat itill WON 42,01000;
into him without effect During the
Su
night he remained on the rface hi the
Ceinity of the wrecl 1 boiti, and wail
frequently, heard fighting the fragments.On the following day thirty-one bomb.
lancee more each eontaining halfa pound
of gunpowder, were exploded..in him be.
fore he yielded. The monster produesd
115 barrels of oil,half or it head-matier)
the value of whieh will be explained
anon, Pinta* whales are &ten more
darigorotts than sperm. They are 0O044
ainnally 1'20 feet 'long, and extremely
swift and powerrol in their motion. But
their blubber -1e thin and the whaleborie
soma, and they ate lionsidered 1os wt.
Weide than °that of the spool ,_411..we
11, Mato ,14 "fol w 43610114
Ooktbis
other hand a worthy old lady offers the
following acliiice to girls :—Whenever te
a fellow pops the question, don't blush
and ',Blare a your 'feet; That -ilirOve'- -
in the face, and eaininenee -talking abont
your arm around his nock, look him full
the furniture." . '
A buxom, middle-aged., country wo-
man- Wentinto astor on Hanover
Street,. Boston, the other day, and de-
positing $4 nn the...counter, remarked_
to a clerk, "There, fourteen years ago,
'twill be fifteen this fall, I bought some -
thine next door anil 'gave trim a 1101
bill, but 'they couldn't give ma_ohange,
so they sett a boy into the shop and -he ,
hroughiPma back the change ler $5. T
toolcit ; but.tain't no Wit), I ain't going
to keep it any -longer, six thord it 14 all •
back again." After this singular con-
fession the woman hastily loft the store,
and the clerk, who was spell-1)9ml with
astonishment, did not recent, hit pro.
1001100 of mind in tire° to make any 41.1
iltiltiati of his Strange visitor,
, •
Bonny,Kate adviirtieee in the A
sea 0' liamPion for heehushancla wh
plainly -not ' a-Petrnehio. - 0. Lost -at
ed or Stolen-7AIi individual whom 1,
in air urgent moment -of legellileiS, Wail
thoughtless eiongli lef Adept at my bu
itnidvilatiar:itikaa gkoati;kienngoulha,' frohi6it
ever, to come it W7ble
some good:loohing girl oat
sheltev of her umbrella... A
the -name of 3im. - Wes last s
company of tulle. Harrill, wa
his arm around her'Weist, loo
like a fool, if, possible, them
body who will catch 'tilPs.
and bring hitu baelc.se
tells:144m. itio1,7140n 444,111.Y
nangd:rhweoroillftelesva: Tbfhoeetl:lo46Setohrotheago,f4
°int. 11.,onaditona. vuarel.::iihritstatth` Miti
tiji
soas, god °pots Ilig hoitTily;
att.,
and a nonatant strain of Aug',
puregoiper truth, tAtal 064044o
to the. Oonteienee, pare- out,ss,,se I
as water frost th 1t
Ilia notee
woiild-
the beet .afitu
how-
has tits vt
torquer
and point. 44
tierfol,
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