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The Exeter Times, 1877-9-13, Page 2TOM HATARD'S PROSE "-Lower the boat and let'-, was the order given by the the brig Levant, coasting on nhidnight :along the western slip • . X Tele incredulous sailor llesitet ed to obey. A second order, brutally made explicit, left him no choice. Into the boat the e:araged captain had flung rather than lifted a woman and child. "Virhatt do you say now ?" be asked, as the hastily lowered boat rocked gid- dily betwixt ilea and .deck. "Dal you relent you rash oath ?" "Never 1" answered firmly and fear- lessly a woman's carol voice, "I pre- fer this," "O'It law loose 1"cried the master to the subaltern, who of all his crew was morally as well as physically, his slave; while, heel with rage, leis face glared upon the woman one parting lock. The boat was out loose. The brig Ler,ttet veered on its tack; the boat, with a sheat burden, felt bepelesely tasteru ; the railing waves, the dark - nee% fell between. The woman, hardly more than n dile in yezrs.-•sixteen years she .tight have known at the most-remainedi passively observant, in etinetis eJy halg- ing her child to her breeet. She experi- eneed uo sensation of fear. One w:W ;mane h'id roveele;i to her the terrors of Life and obliterated forever the terrors of Deetlt, The beat Wedded Along u't uncout- lr. The sea ryas not runuiug high, the night air was mot chilly. The clouds, le eriug, closely agaiust the face of the waters, so as effectually to strut away all light from the sky, were sur- charged, it seamed, with gentlest titin. Death wife ineviteble, but it Was not the an wean cave. under the seaward gate of this tt.,V- ern in the clif lay a borseshae-shaped curvature of beach. Aud ou this beach Tone Hayward answering the 1, vague ,cry for help, Inaudible save to an °inward souse, whose "'aistence had forced itself into recognition for thefirat time in Ilia life, farad a girl in clothing drenched by brine, evidently a waif of the sea, aul just maker ing from a deathlike swoon -an exquisitely aweet- featured girl, whose relaxing grasp had loosened a dead baby from her breast. Three days after the unheralded event of a woman found half drowned upas the beach, and a dead child bur- led in the scuds by hands unfamiliar with such rites, the following letter by 8, yowls man spendiug this vii *atiou at E X Was dropped into the Northern post ; "5Iz DE%R Arcrere,-I promised to give you a detailed a0. otitlt of my un - ()reason of. X—. As awe are off at 9 L. M. en * boating exoursien to the trite of—, tu•d.ky Drove all my pie. catoria1 preparations yet to make, and .oust necessarily DO brief. "l.'estpauiog, then, a narration of wiuur incidents until we meet, 1 will describe to you merely the experience which, I am sure (cuusideriust the cap- ; tivatiug rereonuel of our .lost ---ir- resistible, I am told, to you nide), will iutereet you and your sist%t most - y evening at Tota lIttyward's cave. "Two or three fellows of Ilayward's set have indulged in the luxury of cave a down here ; and tits settiug up of the bee -facia; .averns has be n a rage this aieaa+rn. But nothing so far .compares aorase a sunburned moor, a devious seaward path, and, wn sharp -hewn steps in the =re& a door 'amenably iron, the "postern gate„ t accidentally n111o0104 a masonried pose betliug crags with vault known as Hay. To go down into the obliviau-bear• Lig ewbruce of the sea, to siva deep iuto the bo om of the never-ceaeiug sleep -what were the few pangs that EHE • TIMES - „ :?EISuti$EE 13, 1877. s►ni assie'ed somewhat by N —'3best,. I want you tomorrow to arrangeteem ital. musical perception, I was -your little,wardrobe-•-awkarday oh sell, convinced that the voice had the one , I fear it is, 1 am such a no ice ; and at rift in its divine lute of incipient •.f1cl . t noon -that le the time when e e are 'A fadedprima donna,' N said. A. I moat deserted here- I shall have a wbenale, I thought, whose intense pow.. carriage waiting for you at the brow of erof living iless atttlivsd her life. You a the Cliffe." know that t is said that no actress I Tire girl while lie was speaking had can adequately play the part of Shak- 'turned deadly pale; she leaned her speare'e heroines :until the bloom of 1 bead, with a sigh of pain, spinet hie youth is:past, and consequently the thrilling accord ,of material and ire - material is !oat. "."fit any rate, the song -like the 'one look of passion,' that Latoartine ' says 'sweeps the keys' of that charming 'in- atrumeut,' the face of youth• -.-swept the keys of our somewhat injured but not yet age -worn hearts. "But Auguate, my dear friend - since yow will only allow me to call you by thatname--1 frust conclude. Oen you see the rampant melee of van- dals who have just flocked into my not spacious room, you would know why. I will continue my cave story in my aevt-for there iia s anis. But if the fishing is good, we may relnain at the l when Hayward left tine a eve. Ile re - till fekturtlay ; so do uot be anal- t rued at eleven. He was priding put if you Wive no word till Mon. hillnself, as he descended tete elope, day's mail, Meanwhile accept, with that ira,pressible as he had been to the my rezuiuisoenee of the sweeter unteie I ever beard, the dearest idealization of frieu. dabip that so for has blessed the fond but frowned -oil heart of your faithful Onaflx.s." Not ono of Tom Ileywatd's Cahn- panions conjectured the refusal -made At the lash moment -to accompany the itching party pleuned by himself, Twilight el that memorable day fouud bilk at the new carefully kept locked gateway of his cave, exploring { est Ilio hea, the labels of wautfold paokasos depo�it He prided 1u-useaf upou the silence ed upon the braced paving -atm- that was to wreak upon !vim from that lug the postern gate. All aorta of the , hour forth the ce.tsrie, a skin of re - most efl'entivate dellceteiea them paek• Vet - Unlocking the gate, be gave the al - nal of retnra ; he entered the euabriu- ing space with the joyous pulse of ex- pectation. he silence at tirst did not shock hint. the entrance of the dimly illumined c.irridor opening from :the sea did not at once alarm. He warted for the treluulouls uplifting of that our. tale which bed uecome to ilia) delioi• only fuysterioue, like the veil of a bride. He waited, Gut she Darn° not. He taught her at last with the wild itn- pnleo of one stricken with the re. morse-liko dread of an inevitable fate. What storms swept through his breast as he tore each curtain from its place, as he stretched his groping band into each darkliug nielio, as he kuew stole by stop the growing knowledge that knee. `"I made a eotemu vow, said Hayward -- a resoluti m, I mean, to myself --that while you remained my guest in this cave I would not speak to you of anything that has bearings upon outside life. But to -morrow I shall be released. from this vs;allmtar$ restraint. I shall visit you to -morrow evening in the hoes° where I have ar- ranged et have you brought, mid then you wilt And how a blunt downright fellow like nyeelf is ready with good advice. And elways"-for she looked grief•etrinkeu beyond power of i,rorals to express. -""Always, forever ,our uo►x t s forever your friend." It was nine o'clock by his watch chorale of his guest --complete, ineem- parnble,this seemed to than lu fora: ante voice and mind-tind clearly tri Ice lied et en that gratitude in her Was he quick key of love, tho key that hire baud held -he had never, in tenderness for her isitlatien, e uuveyeal to her by word or look the pee:di nette thought winch assured Mill day and u'gt that this ,calf of the wild seta wa3 IRs w0nion among all women dc'et:ued to be nese''- ;ages held. The jovial cave had become a tender hospice. Tole Hay- ward was entertaiunlg a guest. As ho mauled up mentally the eanteuts of these ack !lie face -a frank kind ingulfiug ? \vats there anything to be a.selling---an lu[orludl h s nti►ttou to C---- mow particularly tnttllectuel, but ear feared after that i .111 terrible aspects and N—and myself, The approach, sentially minly face, wore an iufioitely of destruction had passed in the part. directly seaward from the road, and satisfied look. iug glare of one butane Puce. wild in the extreme, has been sumo. Ile found his guest iu the dimly "fy `b.aby, too 1" contentedly sigh- frit tt as +iitea by art. A tiled. exca• lighted interior reclining upon a couch: ed the girl, vation that leads by a fantastically but the moment that ho uttered the What was it, then, that :lace her lighted passage into a cavern some '; signal which in tae first onlotiun of suddenly start and gtlaita ? �othing thirty feet, I should think, above high. ! pleasure he forget, elle optima up to but a sensation of calci ag;aiust the water -mark, opening in a wide month; meet hint. pail: of :teealeft hand, that had loving. dltreetty upon the sea, and owing to a "No mare wilt! nights fur yon," he ]y lair& clorisit'ut beside the bubo'' foit, r PUY beneath it which forces the .'said, presently, ""if friends are till -- a aenaatiou of atraege cold, start- waves iu.to euriens. columns more vo- going away till the 0114 of tie weak, pug her users;, pieroieet the heart, ciftro�te. 'ilea t"11° 4i'Ig wililornea3," You Anil have your rent in peace. . from the little baby's foot, dashed wildly by ep tt r, and for several faithful wata}ituau hvill be a;tatloned By ane of those 1•iu,ular transitions fact tsiihlu filo rugged outran() 111.tdo just outbids your curtain a•, your feet. that only the most subtle analyaia of slippery with sea -weeds. Yes, truty, I Have*" come to stay --for mental Inechaeltnl CAR 111i15ij, a sod. "Our visit was on a tranqul'1 night ; good : are you glad ?' den change occurred rih the outcast but a measured booming sound, made c"t}h, YO glad 1" said the girl. "And girl, arousing h''r from her stupid ap' reseratut by some aaeouetia properties last night l del not die of fright." folly to edger lift, of the caverned arch, announced the "Why uot ?" aThe leed--where's the sand ?" her nearness of the •mighty deep.' We ""Beoanse as mask is being drawn ay. lips g;it+ped, while her eyes, grown scan became accustomed to the cease- er the cruel face. And it is your suddenly i°1 ease, peered through the 1053 roar, and settled ouraelves comfort- hand, my banefactor-can I over be glooming space. Surely they were ably to a game of whist. grateful to yon enough ?--that:- 'baa drifting tthoreward. Surely she a*iv "But I forgot. I must picture the dine this. I begin to see afar off - the looming of great reeks. Yes, and now the flashing of a light. They were borne iu bravely on the upboaring aurf, One great wave, and now another, friendly and gigantic, lifted the boat upon its shoulders and urged onward. 'Only the rooks were apposing hers. On eaell bar the bil- lows,broke with a shook. On these bars the boat was stricken plant: from Parisian taste ; the flowers, exotic plank ; but the girl, with a voice ren' 1 blossoms upheld against the cavern dered keen by the motherly pang at walla in carved easels or racks ; the In her breast, sent shriek and scream eiau rugs ; the oouehea quilted with through the night, with her eyes fixed cashmere shawls ; the southern book. on the light, crying, ""Help ! help ! Oases inlaid with hieroglyphics signifi- help 1°' east to the initiated, no doubt ; th.• Tom Hayward" one of the most bronzes Viand marbles gleaming from matter -of -la et men amour mortals, had myate:ioiu uitellea in the rock ; au al- -what be did not believe in at alt -••• eove for erefre hnients-but that I will s presentiment that night. He was leays to describe at leisure. Last sitting idly smoking a cigar in the sea- evening it ministered to masonline ward verandah of hla hotel with a few taste; but at times when ladies are in - lounging companions, who had been vited everything is made to "aauf er a petauaded to go to the theatre of an sea -change' --ices shaped and tinted adjacent town to see a star actress in like aliens, dishes and goblets (ouchols- a provincial cast :; and he bad been gioal from helix to uautiliu". IlasilJ ooneidering whether to accept "Opposite the refecto y is a veiled the proposition, .when a sudden ian- niche, and the white lase dropped to pulse, strong' enough to impel him the ground is so heavily embossed from hlanonohalant at.itude resolutely with gold, that although it looks trete to his feet,-struok him. with this clearly aparout, it is au absolute screen I expressed intent t emphasize this foot ou aoeount of an "Excuse me, ' for I must go down to episode of the evening, wlliou I may as cave. 1 have left P—'s tnanuscript well tell you at once, , and li~•-•-•-'s paoket of African rough uWe had played two or three games diamonds ,upon my escritoire shelf, of whist, regaled ourselves .vith Hey - and the postern gate unlocked, word's choice cigars and wine, and .Eve deelin :d the proposal- for the the evening was drawing to -a el se,. evening in town pe.ampto ily, and went toward' the elide. .'Confound my. Culpable inertia r' he muttered to (himself; it h33 bi•e.i these, iuoahoret.t v.tgaries of the brute. What in ids me tili&ak that Round one ii kthockialg at the soatate ,to•niglrt, kaockiug and crying 1 r bell• 2 . Net a.t i.eular. ilia •1)U, 9ertotnly s a&ta Arabia illuslou never. heard Ol, 1 slip lutea at oouiplaai't may exist, A fairVoU5 irritation of ttie tympanum this undoubtedly is. Tit* souoils were low, but so distinct. At any ,rate, 1'}n on the tro,ek, Walking et a brisk papa, 'pari tIiy might :lark against the elm of this to Alias. Ile wore invited down last Pee fie, , she had L.' gone back fi stark wre been f1 irn, that she was gone - "to the breast of the e crest she !tad to see that Life may be, mi' ether, awee what storms swept his breast, the wild- est leap and in est despairing wailing of the sea, that year by year dashed up beside the lonely cavern to teach it the woes of the vast abyss, were in coin: paricavern itself, and the simple black and oh, but veryfar off 1 ---that life ie Cif erod laon but a fairy ripple and a whisk. p Brod laugh. white of paper aud ink can hardly do may be, perhaps, sweet." B.vsry ]leant hides i+a own Avernus. this. The Interior i9 an apocalypse of " My dear child, said Hayward "de- But atrange it seems that a man like collar ; the draperies of Dopper-oolor'2d pend upon it, lite is a treat. The Tcut Hftyward, the jov al boon-oom- orieutally emtroidered in brilliant silks; past -our past, I mean -is simply the pictures ; the musical instruments set with gems -colored crystal, I pre- sume ; the lights arranged in tinted groups, like flower arraugemeuta in bad dream. Qonsider it so ; and now awake. Come and show me where 1 shall put some of these -things-whioh I found dropped down for you at my gate. In Ab, the strange, unworldlike, child- in the midst of some menial scene, like. devout happiness of that night 1 in the midst of music and of dance, Hayward actually beguiled his guest in-) there comes into hi% frank, bright eyes to the extravaganza of smiles, the un a dimming baent.minded glance. i panion of careless, fortunate young men, the bright -hearted favorite of the girls, the generous, the gay, the smil- ing honored guest at the feast of life, should have learned the fatal descent. kuown rarity of her young lips. Ta the yery sanctum of his gout one Had the whole aspect of her place of dear ra.nembrance drags; iram the NEW O .RPENTEi BHOP The nudergigned wenld beg leuire to acgnnint the Public thatthat they !tare opened out a CARPENTER tG JOINER SHOP On the .street leading to tl+s 1t C. church, nn,'1 that they are prepared to eoutraetfor till kinds O:1' BUILDING es 'MINIM WORK. Plane and speelfieatious fu- lied, and from their experience ,u tee nnsineas, they fee couti.lent of giving satisfaction to those who may favour thein with their patronage. Felt Roofing contracted for on Reason- able Terms. FUNSTON & IIILLIARP' By -i. aW Chapter 4, 1877 refuge been ;less strange, lea* unreal flower-r;trewn field of earth the beautia and like a dream ; h d her rescuer ful doomed Proserpine of his life. been lass off -hand. deb.anair, . and boy. ishly kind and goof ; less iuherestly chivalric. and so apart from any being :the haul known, , the mental shook which had left her nothing in life of hope, and the physioial• exhsustiou in- eident to the exeitomeut of the rough mode of her s.dvent to the cave, would not have been so readily counteracted. this place o' rant was to her a com- plete new world. Her experience was a relizatiou of '"an opening paradise," until memory should be re-established, and Life, that never loses itself in more than momentary dreams, should eatah up its lost links. Reaction came. One day when Hay- ward heti bean absent many hours, he returned with au expression something like. Dare, and "to have," he said, "a When from behind the embroidered our -reruns talk." taiu prose the music, with harp worn -l He bad thrown himself into an arm- chair with a weary air, and. his guest drew a ouslti +n near, and seated 'herself at bi-' fee'. It was the nearest attitude man of tis 'might have been see -i' with,, of affection she liad essamed; it.e- dro )ped earls, • leaning our ban Is pen- pressed gratitude, the trusting subsery lively upon our heads. 'Each thought ienoe ef'lher heart. of the wom.tu who loved flim best, "I will not aik you," he said -"you "Naves had I heard, my dear Au- kn'aw I have not ,asked you • far days-- guita, atoll a penetr cilias,, .haunting to tell me anything of -your history of v+usti. Neil, all oue irll•leorine and iu- the past, It is,enough for me..toltnrw 4is+tug demands upon. 1'1. tyward fitil"'d that this woman. here is you., , I trim to ferns hill to uplift the veil -awl re• yon perfectly, as you. •trust mi ; but I volt!. the fair .•.songstress, And for dile ean no longer shelter . you here..:d ren,soth, we all snrwi.ed : her'foree be- knew that this lreold be but ft brief' titre ward turned from the wed cense. lied her V. ied, and H•fyward would not: en for you from the f%rEt,; and I • have tvny of it high -road the: stretched:. over .ti>r wtirldi hive ticstrbycd the.suggect- been studiously malciog ara•syngornotits the bluff' a mile or eu beyond toe' b� ivo elfeut, Iudee 1, upou rt -'fie tion, for you euoh al nein-" for' the Ilreaent' panlm.mt, of tbo t weotest, most plaint- ive voice I nave .ever . heard. Tito ef• t't.ot was ; wvoIuutaarily every GREAT REDUCTION ---OF- RIC J9MEa MclOnisS HEN SA.LL. GALL -AND-- D'AMI .:O.D S.' B I: C E S' ,l BY -,LAW TO PROVIDE FOR DRAIXIN3 0834 TA.8 LOW LAND'S IX TUE T,owNlauIP OF 11,1Y. rrov:tioaally4.dopted t tli (lay of .Aughst,i67i, 'tx rifEKKEAS, a majority nh number et toe oeess a of pcoperty, es Shown by tate last rerreed Assessment Roll. to be rusi,tent 4:441i tau prul,crey lturrintitte* set torch, w l,o h,,,t;ia. fitted by t48,4ui1atus ie. hurt+;.etftaoued the Conn. e3a* ui titea:tnl .tuwaltsatllnt U.t}, plaaio; twat the low }acids nn at i whist-t'itc+, 1 a the last Cow cession, should be drained. And Si herec4.tnert- upot. cue said 4,701# 801 proctared uit ux.iulmnatiou to :t,l..l.Nle by Aa-1re.* ih.uy, b.•tnq a pel'eu:t cuita- putaut i4rsueb parpuse,ut tau suit k�sal.taes pre.;+»r.t to ue gratoad, atxi 2245 uatso prvVUU d 1uaS tiattt estittl4feaUt Cha 06th t.t bo lta 4,no by 0a°.t41.L chides.* ii". 51,1 u'1 Aft ira7er• basest to Lt. ut.ulu+•ytiituuftauruat laro,nultyno1,,' �+ltta;d icy nuch1104.41.11404.4 lrafu,lgo, state:tt; osuetu•yyay Jia can thu pru►rurttuu o. incubi wt+ioh*i* Lie opiutou wilt Lo dar.vo4 to amctugnruro ut such tiraauage, to uvory rune turd tutor purtiuu of lot, too nsneesaut utao fu o scut .tic mt'art Yui ;*e'r.o.i .►tn1; Ow ti ay in ro- 53'*' t meet+uf,at&dni tin sulci druivago buiuii iia Thattnu told tlxsisage is quite praetieablo as- eordiut; to tun 1+lana atruaur au !4. to the a tuutctputeouttctlut tile `,ruwnauilt of le;.y, ane t.iathiauetint.,tauf tit*, wtwk l+ruj,.oscd Hurk is x02 chi- .ud WYnereas, the 641+1 Council are of opinion that the drainage of cue locoIitiva det*rivi•d is desirable, be it titcrafote enacted by the aaid:tRun. Wiled Couarilofttru Township of .flay, ppurbua t 40 niepruvrbtuae ut un act vt the Legralaturb el (a:�taeru iutileath t your of nor Majesty's reign, t'uuptcrctsi. 1st ltat the sant plana and estilnat."a, as a401,1t4'41, aid 1330 said dram and the werkeco0ueo- ted thaerewithhemualeeud cuu:trnet:A in actor• dance therewith tad. Teat the dumb necessary to cornplctot110 rind works shall be ratted by a eta:vial tcx un the paf,dIruo av nyAstit0litbolbeuctltted, said tax to be raised bi„ 3301. `chatter the yea,pose of r'at'ing the GUM Of Three 2iuudted and kitty -Fire Ilollars, awing titoaiuouutehurged %gdfust the said lauds ao to Sol cpealtted as aforesaid. Other than roads nu. l0uging to the municipality, the fotlewiug apooinl rates over au•l aborealt taller rates ,haul ue as- aus5odaad'eviedin.the salmi unmoor sudat taw same Woo Ili brava aro tuvieduuuuthe uudorunne, tinned luta, and parte of Vita, lad.% tee lands so to be bouuhttu't a utoreraaid„nudshall herald. at the trots and an rho manner uudormeutitned. SCHEDULE. Drainage of Lanai in the Whigs of IDI:NBALL Townrhrpot Uuy, County of Huron. No. on holt. ALME8, 1 7 8 e 10 11 12 13 11 15 26 18 d ,,,One -Fifth t,ne-kiftll One -Fifth Outs -Fifth Oue•h•'Itait Due -Fifth ono -Fifth One -Fifth One -Fifth. Ono -filth one-fifth one-fifth One-fifth one-fifth 3 etre-attli 4 out -fifth 5 ouediftli one-fifth. one -'lith one-fifth auo-Rita one-fifth 50 ' one-fifth one-Ofth one-ttlth 52 one-fifth s one Ifth 64 One fifth 65 one-it th L7 one-fifth 58 cuedfiftk 63 one-fifth ea one-8ith one-fifth Gey ono-rifth 67 oho-fi th one-fifth 68 ono -fifth . 111 ono-ilfth 186 one-fifth 183 tune -fifth 184 one-fifth 13 one fifth 137 one-fifth 138 • one-fifth 139 ono 81th • 140 ons -fifth 141 one-fifth 113 10 square perches 133 10 ►quare perohes 114 10 square pinches 115 10 square ¢orches 129 , one-fifth 130 ono -fifth 191 ' one-fifth 0 4s 46 48 Total Value et int- provenient, — ¢ 88 fill 0 0e 1i ori 8 :AI a.N aeu 8.10 850 aro 8 50 300 8 00 860 �u 6 nil 6 eV 560 4 e 4 60 4b 4 t' 4511 450 4 50 4 60 6 *30 4 75. A Al 40000 31 325 25 3, 3 �6 a 8 Mt Et 50 85 d 8 533 47$i• 4 4a 4 56 s 0 3 tt ...6355 4th. For the purpose of paying the sum of Tlue Hundred and Fifty -Five Dollars. being the total amount assessed as aforesaid against the said lands of the said Village of Hensaal, a spools' rater of 81 cents in the dollar shall, over and above the other rates, be ievied, in the same manner and at the some tine as.taxesare levied upon the whole ratable property of the lands ao benefitted in the Village of Uenaell,for the year 1377. MAKE NOTICE that the faregoin 1 is a By -Law pr 'visionally adep1te.i by the Municipality of the Township of Hay, on the • Fourteenth Day of Augu2t,1827. Any person in- terested having any complaint to make in respect. of the 4613e8sment is required to give notice of each • complaint andthe cause and matter thereof to the undersigned Clerk of the Municipality en or, before the Twenty-fourth day of September,•1577,, aa,d euoh con plaint will bo investigated by a Court of lteyision to beheld not later than thirty days from the Thirtieth•uday of August1877, of which notice will be give Any person intending to apply to have the rd By -Law or any part thereof quasl:ud annet within ten days after the final passing thereof serve a notice in writing upon the Reeve n:u1 upon the Clerk of the nuuioipalityof his 1xio,'Igen tomaiko. each application 10* twat purpc BC Lc,one of Her' Majesty's Superior Courts. of Lawns Toronto dat- ing the larm next ensuing the flue tiiissirig of the. By -Law. SAMUEL • 1 ti , t l:ii Clerk. Hay, August14,1877. . MAKE NOTI OE . that the Court of, 1 Revision for the hearing of appears from assessments math rthe foregonig 1%y -Law will be hold at the Town H 111 in the Village of Zurich, in the Township of Hay, on Wedneadey,, the +Twenty -Sixth day. of Septembe •;1877, at L,o'cloe in the afternoon.. SAMUBh,Y'ia81 I*R, 4lerk,$ ,$ear, August 24, 1877, L