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"` ,t,..,„ 95 25 ..„ ...., 15 Lighth ...,„.„,,, ill „.., „ .... 5 (nes, $6,,, i ' Basines c r , six lines and under, $4; six to ton 1 .------r„-__,....._______.______:o f Stagss leave Exeter daily for Lucan and LelAini et 9 a, . eaN e London for E,xeter at ' at 4 a.1 ,; arriving in Taman at 0 a m • 1,1".„.; Lnean, t 5 p.m.; arriving M Exeter INN 7? 5 n.114; Stay leave Illxoter daily for Clinton, in' ton at arkiyin in Clinton at 10 am, Leavr' SM O. .; arliye in 1VN t 2 s. p.m Thur,ilay8„ Stlia leave Exeter on Tuesdt, a„iving in end 5 turdeys for St. Mary s et 6/ '' tit, At rs's at 2.55 p.ni,; arrive -a 'xe i.,l' :l'et-::,!'d west, LOILY0 J tor tit 6:90 time f r noon trains going .--.......1-________________/..senimieseeentexememis, ttsitwas Pirecloty. altrditnt DR. FlYND/i1AN EXETER MEM- ? BER College Surgeons, gilt/trio. ,11011E11 County AR Z7-7 217 to • / - . C. MOORE, M.D., C,M. v. GRADUATE of MoGill Univereity. Mon- treal, rhysteiem, surgeon, do, Office and residence-E.xeter. 01,t, Office hours -8 to 10 a.m.,and 7 to 10 p.m. WARDING- & HARDING, Barris- -A.A. tent, ttorneyst, Solieitors, Commisaioners B. U., etc, • OFFICE—IrtiTTON'S BLOCH, Water Street, St Mary's. 'knot E. HAM:111M E. tv. EIAINDINO "Iter, ESSRS. JONES & McDOUGALL, -1.V...11- Barristers, Attorneys -at -law, Solicitors in tlhaucery, Conveyancers, Commissioner': in Q,B., and Notariea Public, St, Marv's, GT110E-Hutton's Block, Water St.. St. Mary's, Ont. 1-1y. "1" _EON M. CLENCH, BARRISTER -ILI and Attornev-at-Law, Solicitor in Chancery And ineolveney and Letters Patent, home and for- eign, Plans and drawings executed, and specifica- tione drawn pursuant to rules of patent offices, on receiving inatructions Or production of model, Oreteu-Hutton's Block, Queen Street, St. Mary's, Ont. 1-1y. W MeDIARMID, B.A., BARRISTER., NOTART4CONVETANCER, T,EVAN, (INT. TOHN MACDONELL, ISSUER OF .1 Marriage Licenses. Exeter. Ont. 1-ly 11 C. BOULTON, • Preentszeitai Lund Surveyor, OPIMMIST A:g1) DIVOGGISIT. MrOne dooraouth of Mr, .7. Banton's. uctio-ltur5. irT B 11 J WN, Public Auctioneer, Lee • Wincheisea. Sales promptly attended to. T.„.eme retieunatde. Whiema1/2ea, 1, t 1.5, 1S73. y. sP.4 cis:iv/I iv, ViteENSED AUCTIONEER 1...4 For the County of Huron. On TO _ RESTENCE, - - EXETER, *ALEe PROMPTLY ATTENDED CHARGES MODERATE. ,. ''otel.s. lerAPLE LEAF HOTEL. LIMER- Trul.teatT4 tTillie s hbotelli)3es beralateilz b.uilt and darn comfort for ige 5terariVelagnant1.1):;InienljprUlioc: 'irst-class liquors at the bar. An attentive host- ler and good stabling. M. NEVILLE, Proprietor. at'e- Wagon and Carriage Making, Blacksmith - leg, dm., in connexion. Firetadass *work at Teodor- o*, prices. Call early and often. 11-1y. /VEEN'S 110LaIes LUCA.N. W. ." '445 BOWEY, Proprietor. This levet-class hotel has lately changed hands (from W. E. Wilkins to W. ilowoy), and is fitted with new furniture tbronghout, Free 'bus to and from the station Office for the neNr line of 'bueees to London. The bar ia replete with the choicest liquors and frag- rAnt liavanae. Four commercial sample room., Good stabling and attentive hostlers. , 32-ly - 1-4EVERE' HOUSE, .*LUCAN, A. -1.11) LEVITT, Proprietor. This Hole]. hoe rately . changed bands, andthe present yroprietor feels , satisfied insaying litipan givethe best of accoma I =dation to man audbeast. Choice Liquors and llargment Cigars at the bar. Attentive hostler 1 employed. 27-6m Ttl. LIMVILLE HOTEL, W. A 'e FAT, Proprietor. Every MOF- 1 paid to 1 attentive cigars to be i attention the travelling public, Good stabling and .ilostler. Best brands of liquors and had at the bar. OE NTRAL HOTEL, LUCAN, ROBT. kJ lifoLEAN, proprietor. 'bns ru ns in con- ] nexion With this hotel to and from all trains. The , ehoieeit liquors and cigars kept constantly at the 1 Oat; aloe eample rooms for Commercial Travel- ( Uri. Good stabling and attentive hostlers. 14-ly t i 14 OYAL HOTEL, LUCAN, J. W. j ..L.0 CARROL, proprietor. The beet attention raid to the travelling public. First-clase liquors and cigars at the bar. Good atabling mid attent,- i ire hostlerrq 'Cha gem modem a. 14-dy tamamagammmeme 1 Sir tr a• BISSETTS' , . Liveryand Sale Stables - , (In connection with the Central 1' 'I ' TR? gi," ^; ' :41 ' ... .4114 ' e 4 Of " ' ' .4 ,..r a r, . , 1 I t ,,,, 1 .i., . II , . .,, .,-- .._4,..,,,,AA5 —.-----,m, Ci.e,„00D HORSES AND CONtroRT- 'Lea aiis,a vehicles always on hand. arrangements made with coannercial All order': left at Dissett's Isinshop promptly attended to, . IL e..5 T. BISSETT, Zieter, Sem, 4, 1878, Rotel), „. Favorable travelere, 1 ( 1 1 1 I I i 1. , 1 t i 1 Nvill be 1, Prop. ( 2-1y. f 1-1 XETER .ILIJ 1 LIVERY' STABLES , c ..1, • e . .,, ... . , , -1 ii 4 - .1,, , 0. ernmeetion *Mx Drew' lintel), 1 , pi el'iri444"` i,8 'iPrOp ......... • cfoirted and fletit-elaSS conveyances etwayor n hand, Oommereial figs on a moment's notice, ' ED, Cillt,IS'OtIll. e ter,Sopt, 4,, 187t 1 4.0 W X. SINTET ,, 1 , Ogiteteleete t . i 1 st, , Onterle , tell ()tierce -es let 110 rp., Wiani,r4 i) and opprehite Wilk in'a Hotel, Exeter, V', liledleinek always 00 hand, Calls proton (tea to. • iteiseceotetegyea et to oleos soithateres. , . , . f 1 t ge. tit ttg 048 'f. tOtifiary ly sten 3 I V 01, ttg-°, Willte'S ItEttUEST. A Ol.'„e -- „enniasurk ev nr,ornsr] ._ (,, for mo, lite :Llyin,-, mother ''.1 weep, ,,, Sal ; , WO not mydricuds for 1110; But ;or wy bide When 1 am dead .rje,k,„1,t/tearc gow free. 11007e hale darling 'one zy An han here bolowl mut who guides the &oiling Son 7111 shield him from earth's woo. if`is vain to weep and mourn for me. , , Foi 1 in peace shall rest ; My body in the grave shall be, My spirit with tho blest; And Oh I if heavenly love approve My sptrit oft shall come And linger round the babe 1 love, Here in its earthly home. For him alone 1 wish to live, And train him up to God, But you will heavenly counsel give When l'in beneath the sod. 0111 tell my child of Jesus' lov,e, And teach Jahn how to pray, And turn the infant's thoughts above To realms. ol enalaate--- The babe was brought unto her breast - She pressed it tenderly, k His cheeks and brow her cold lips pressed, Then wept moat fervently. Oh I father shield my infant child, Reep it from evil free And safe to heaven my darling guide, To dwell in blisenvith me. 1 gazed upon that scene of love, 1 heard that mother's prayer, And felt that angels from above Were gently hovering tear, Once more a smile lit on her brow, Joy sparkled in her eye-. She faintly said "9.11. farewel now, 'Tis blessed thus to die." -SAntusi, Gr anton May 1 18:4 THE SNIPE. " What sort of a morning is it, Tim- othy ?" asked I, rubbing my eyes, as set bolt upright in the bed on the irup- tion of thatfrees Achates, some half hour befoce sunrise, int) my little dormitory ; " What sort of a mauling is it ?'' " A very bonny mornin', Measter Frank," responded he • " there was a. leetle tooch o' whaite /sleet about mid- uaigat, but sin't' moon set, there's been a soop o' warm ra-in, and it's dull noo, and saft Mike, evi' t'wittd sootherly- but it's boon' to be nooght at all, ayse warrant it. T' soon'll be oot enoo-see if he beaut-and t' suaipe '11 laie steans. Ayse awa noo and fetch t' hot water -t` veal cootlets is i' t' pann, and. John Van Dyne he's beeu a wa-aiting iver sin t't got leight." " That's not very long, then," ans- wered 1, springing out of bed, " at all events ; for it's as dark as pitch now ; bring me a candle; I can't shave by this ; there ! leave the door iuto the parlor open, aud tell John to come in and amuse Isle while I'm shaving. Is Mr..Archer ?" "Oop ? Weel Ay wot he is oop; ato awa wit' Menster Draa, an t'lancr goons doon to t' brigg ; to watch : t'°d(aocios ay, but Van Dyne says t' doocks^ has dean flayilig,." " Yes, yes,-they'se quite sartain," answered a merry voiee withruit, and in talked John, the best fowl -shot, the best nipe-marker, the best canoe paddler, nd the best fellow every way, in New ersey. How are you John ?-any birds on he Piece ?" "Nicely!" he answered, to my first tiery--e‘) nicely," -shaking me vrarrnly ey the hand, end, after a pause, added, 'I can't say as there be ; the Pieee is oo wet altogether." " Too wet, eh ? that's bad, John." " Lord, yes -too wet entirely; I was alf over it wi' the canoe last week, and idn't see -no not half a dozen, and hey was round the edges like, where asn't no good lying ; there was a heap ' yellow legs though, and a smart hence o' plover." " Oh, hang the plover, John ; but hall we find no snipe ?" "Not upon neither of the pieces, no ow -but there was heaps of them a yin' over all last night ; yes! yes ! I uess Archer and I can fix it so as We'll et a few -but, do tell, who's that darn at chap as I see goin' down-" He was interrupted by the distent eport of a heavy gun, followed almost pon the instant by a second. " Ding 1" he exelaimed, " but there's flight now, aren't there ? I guess ow, Mr. Forrester, I'd as well jist run emu with old Shot, leastwise he'll etch um, if so be they've fallen in the vater." "Do ! do 1" cried I, by all means, ohn ; and tell them to COMO back di- ectly ; for half the breakfast's on the able, and I'll be ready by the time/ hey're here," By the time I had got my jacket on, nd while I was in the act of pulling up y long fen boots before the cheerful Ire, I perceived by the clack of tougues vithout, that the sportsmen had re- tuned ; an 1 the next moment Harry ntered accompanied by fill TOM liS glory., with no less than two couple nd a half of nett most beeutiftil and elicate of wild -fowl, the green -winged "$'0b01.1y !" TOM ;..-..-Jtsobee.. ly 1° Just hear, now Harry,--$0bOrl34 I !just like its though lie 'leant a lied ills ',sitters and lied good bil(er bittol'8 ioo e, landlord, brine us in them cidgy sller "Not it op, upon lion 'rest replied "not a Lop this mording" "Who ? 011 ! oh ! that's the tette011 thou why you're so ternal cross. Her rtts-I hed only a entail teem' thyselfaateke drielo,Feneolc, rota you'll feet slick as Silk terights, I. tell you." 4.‘ yeu, no," said fetal: 'of yea!, outlets delicately: feiecl in better, with collepS 'Of lonn ieteespersed, for which iny worthy host ia j astly bretedaathank you..ne Inttereare good things in their . way, but not when breakfast treads' so close upen the heels of thatut''' I was soon joined at the table the fat man and. Archer, who were 'se bilk-. ly employed in stowing aWay what Sir Dugald Dalgetty terms. Provant, that, few Words pa,ssed bet**. us. At len,eth when, kid Hairy' , " are going to be here :two days-to.morrow, that is, and to- day-ewhat are we to beat, so as to get 'ground for two days ? Begin with the long meadow, I suppose, and beat the viles toward the Small piece home, and finish here before the door." " That's it, reckon," answered the jolly ;Dutchman, " yon klieliTs pret- ty nigh as well as I Can tell yen." • " Better, John, better, if I knew ex- actly how the ground was -but that will be the driest, won't it ?" " Sartain," replied the other, " but werget work enough without beating. the ground laereaways before the house; we'll keep that to begin upon teener-, row, and so follow up the big ineadot, and to Loises, and all along under -the widow Eulfords, if it holds dry to,day; and somehow I now kind o' guess it will. There'll be a heap o' birds there by to -morrow -they were a-flyin curi- ous, now, last hight, I tell you." " 'Well, then, let us be znoving. 'Where's the game -bag, Timothy ? Give it to John. Is the brandy bottle in it, and the luncheon, eh ?" Ay, ay. sou," answered Tim ; " t' brandy 's 1' big wicker bottle, wi' t' tin cup-amd soom pork and crack- ers t' game -bag -and a spare horn of powder, a pund 't. Here, task John Van Dyne, and mooch good. imey't do ye -and -hand a bit, man, here's t' dorble shot belt, sling it across your shoulder, it ud away wi' you." Everything being now prepared, and having ordered dinner to be in readi- ness at seven, we lighted our cigars and started; Harry, with the two setters trotting steadily at his heels, and. his gun on his shoulder, leading the way at a step that would have cleared. above five miles an hour, I following at my best pace, Tom Draw puffing and blow- iug like a grampus in shoal water, mid John Van Dyne bwinging along at a queer loping trot behissd me. We ems - sed the bridges ant -0U, ire" causeway by which we had arrivedthe previous day, and passed-threngh the toll -gate, and turning short to the right hand, follow- ed aenerrow sandy lane for some three- quarters of a mile, till turned off abrupt- ly in the left, °tossing arauchly stream - let by a small wooden bridge. Here. Harry /mused, flung the stump of his cheroot into the ditch, and dropping the butt of ids gun, began to load very quickly, I following his example with- out saying a word. " Here we are, Franki:',' Sitia he ; " this long strip of rushy fielas, ou both sides of the ditch, is what they call the long meadow, and rare sport have f had on it in my day, but I'm afraid. it's too wet now -we'll soon see, though," and he strode across the fence, anel waved the dogs off to the right and.lefa. " You ialee the right hand, Frank ; and Tom, keep you the ditch bank, all the way; the ground is firmest there ; we've got the wind in our fever ; a little far- ther off, Frank, they w.on't lie hard for an hour or two, at all events ; and I don t believe we shall find a bird. befoie we cross the next fence.," Heads up amdesterns down, off raced the fleet'setters, beating the meadows fairly from the right hand fenee to the ditch, crossing 'eaeh other mid course, and quartering the ground. superbly - but nothing rose before them, nor did their motions indicate the slightest taint,of scent upon the deWy heebage. The ground, howevee, contrary to Har- ry's expectations„ was in ptime order, t loose, loamy, moist black soil, with the young tender grass of spring shoeting up evert where, bright, 'Succulent 'and sweet ; tufts ef rusilea elte and a there, and patches -of:licow#flagesethe t reliques of the bygone' year4ffordiTs a I sure shelter.for the timid. wdders. • The day. Was cool and calm, with a soft mel- t low light -for the sun was curtanied, g though not hidden, by wavy folds of s ganze-like mist -and a delimons soft- f ness in the mild weeteit breeze, before which we were ,wendilUg our waya every one who 'would bag snipe must do, down wind. We crossed the second e fence ; the ground was barer, wetter, splashy in places, and much poached by the footsteps of the cattle, which had been pastared there litet autumn. See, the red. dog haS turned. ,off at a right angle from his course ; he lifts head high, straightens his neck ant snuffs tne eh', sleekening hie pace to a slow, gnarded trot, and waving his stern gently---Chese eeee him, pauses, almost backe " Look to; Frank ; there's a bird be- fore him I" Skeap skeap ! skeet) they jumped eighty yards off, at least, as wild. as hawks ; skitmning the sur- face of the meadow, and still by then Shrill squeak Calling up other birds to ein them, till eeven or eight were on the wing together, then eft they rose, clearly fUfilioal against the, sky, and tvheeled eilort edges:age ebove the F1,8 if lineertain whither they eliotthl fly, till et lehgth they 'remedied off strai,ght to the right hand, nod after a flight of' a full pitched suddenly and steeply down behind a clump of newly braiding birches, , " I knows where them ioltor's 1.)0, Mr. Arehet," exclaimed Van Dyne. "in heaven. 1 guesS thoy V0, - 81,)04140d MilStOr DraW ; lenatwieethey lew fat enough t0 be there, anyhow r' als"...7erteet_m___emitastereateetteeeteM".!TwrFtlttlefirt- FAXET'El3, ONTARIO, 'Irl;TURSIDAY, MAY 14 , 1E374. ..`•••eeev.eel.rt",..""`"'"'"'"wr"•"'"^""7,"."..."'wewm.. At No, no, Tom, they've not gone 50 -very fats" said Arcour, " ited there's no the afternoon waxep, warm,' they lay boat thee we excluteged glatoret; right well before the dogs, which, hav- eyes were gleaming with so;tistption large willow treee, whoch grew by the aitelt side liOt the least use -not tite least -potteelue after these Ifirds 110W, Said liarry. get ou to the ferther end of tne meadows, where the grass is long, end where they nutty lie some- thiug better ; and we'll beat back for theee birds in the afternoon, if Dau Phoebus will but deign to shitoe out!' On we went, therefore, 'limn Draw swearieg strange oaths at the bled*, and at myself and 1-Iarry for being eternal fools as to have brought loion sweating alto theiti istinkin inudeuoles; and I, to say the truths almost despairing of sue, ,eees, In half an hour's walltiuge did, however, reach some ground, which, • , at every step, the fat man flteuideeed -7-yielding far nf.ore shelter to the birds on, Iseephig, however, his gem ever in' as being meadow -land, not paiitural ; position, and his keen quiek eye etead- bareovered with coerse rushy tussocks ily fixed on the stanch setter. -seemed to proniise somethiug better good lying for them there, I shall be Mg learned the eonsegaeneee or miede- at the presneet .(ef tuitchiog ,e,tio en eittiefied if they all go that -way, To nu:a:tore behaved. with ell discretion. American°, With me it was different. 110 ho !" he interrupted himself, for Wee sleet well, teed the F,port waxed so wouldotothaveeaten hionifloetaal beep the dee:: lied both come to a dead point fast and furione, that all the shadee of friceseeeci at 1)elonoolieoe's With his anomie some tall dugs ; and Shot's e•vening fell, we had forgotten that 'our ugly countenatoce withitt ti' yard of my head cocked on one etch+, with his nose luncheen, saving the artocies of drams, serephe phie, the two halves 'of his pgillte.d. (lira% t ao wnwara, and his was still nuateted ; encl that, when WO head, flew apaat at hetet two: feet, and I b'row furro ,ved into a knotty frown, asembledatseven of thecloelc io Hardee gaVO him creclot of lutritte tke finest eat showed that the bird wale tunder his cozy parlor, allot shook out of bag end of dente' orgaus 1 ever very feet. " Como up, Tone ---come up, poettet our seompleineut of sixty-three His wits einpliatically all 01)011 001111 got a siiipe under lue very noS4. in reasonable e,ase to do good juetiee to knock some of the litre() teeth down his you oell sinner -don't you aee Sloot's well -grown and well -feel snipes, sve were ten:nice ; made a desperate effort to " Well 1 well I. I sees," answered TQ111 ; a right good sapper, capacious thro:tt witio tlieLlattt end of " I sees it, blast you but giyeeafellow nay gun a la taettee, but hit him en time, you'd best, in this eteroutl'' miry hisstomach a powerful blow. mudhole 1" and, sinking muldett deep His majoety careened a little to the rear, and with suap reeembling the closing of a huge bear trap, his jews canto toetether in a very vicious manner. A full' knowledge of the ntilitery 's`'8:Atilnit''';:tYtit-tget?a9gslalLit:119X-811*IO:tiftilleciwoingtni; right to deal another blow at Foie scaly head, but instead of coming up to the scratch like num , he went down to the bottom, not more than a fathom under water, aud plunged underneath my boat with the intention, as I sup- posed, of knocking me into smithereens with his tail, hoat and all, thereby get- ting me into the water, where the na- ture of the beast prefers to do its fight- ing, and where, of course, I would be completely helpless. As he disappear- ed beneath the surface I think I felt an icicle forming in the right aorta and am sure my hair was perfectly straight. In au instant the water on the other side of the boat parted over his snout while the end his death -dealing tail was still in sight on the oposite side. I knew that when it came in collision with the keel all was up with me. Full one half his length -twelve feet in all shot up out of the water like a rock- et, another snap of his jaws, a peculiar noise from his throat, but his tail did not perform the work alloted to it, nei- ther did I take passagS in the air as 1 expected to, but a stream of crimson spurted from a hole (Erectly back of his forearm, as he fell backwards stainin,g the water about him, and I knew the day was mine. I had hit him.the right place when I had shot at him on the bar, and the shot was fatal. He died beside my boat, with two paws sticking out of the water as if to beg for my mercy, and I felt better all over --Gil- roy Advocate (California.) "Are you :ready:new ? I'll finela," in tloe way of sport ; and before we had . , . 'exclaimed Harry, taking a ete. in ad- ,etete mitny yard* beyentlIchtetteet pace. , , . , - ete t a esese, \ranee ; :and instantly,sileepriengiAne ''a hiresseeesatteessel ago„oseesse.....assiestas bird, withs4tieeez'efastieteenf eVreseeeskeete, byrir ginek'sniip eliet of that Worthy .'on ithiroSt 'straight Mtn the .aii) over the whose temper, and ability to shoat,!the head of Tom, striving tie get the wind. firr-er ground and eesier walking had Bang 1 Draw's first barrel was dis- already begun to work a rairaide, charged, the enipe being et that ono- " Whe says 1 cant shoot :now, no meat scaece ten feet from the mozzle, more than a' five-year old, Cuss you 1" the whole load going like a bullet, of Ile shouted, dropping the .butt of his course harmlessly ; his seeendfollotved, gnu deliberately, when skean! skeap ! but, like the first, in vain ; for the bird, startled by the near reprrt, two more havieg fairly weathered loint, was flying snipe retie withiu five yards of him - eery fast, and twisting all the 'time, di- fluttered he was .aestaredly, andfully did rectly up wind. Then Harry's gun was 1 expeet to sue• a. Clear miss -but hp re - pitched up, end 'the trigger drawn al- frained, took time, cooked his gun coel- most before the butt was at the shottl.- ly, and letting the birds get twenty der. Down Nvent the bird ; slanting', yards atvey, dropped that to his right away six yards, ' though killed stone hand, killed clean With his eecond bar - dead, in the direction of his former rel, while Harry dotibled * the other flight. so, rapidly had he been going in his nem-I:stained Style, I not having as When the shot struck hina. yet got -a chance at any hied. : "Mark! mark!" I shouted, " Harry. "Down Charge," saidlierry ; 'aloes% Mark 1 mark 1 behind you 1" As throe Charge. 'Shot,: you eillain !"---her the . more birds took wing, before the red :last Med had fallen wiog-tipped only, dog, and. weee bearing off, too far from andwas noWmakingineffectualattempts me, to the right baud, like those which to rise, bouncing three nr four feet from had proceeded them. Ihad,when I cried. the grinand, with his netial pey, inal &l- ode& "mark,"' not an idea thathe could hng heek again only to repeat his ef- poseibly have killed one; for he hed al- fort within five minutes -tins proved ready turned quite round in his tracks, too =Oh, it seemed, fur the poor dog's to shoot the first bird, end the others endurance, so that, after riaing once or had risen wild in the first place, and twice uebasily, aud. sitting (Iowa again were now forty yards off at the least ; at his master's word, lie drew on. steacIL hut quick its thought lie wheeled again, ily, and began miffing tile running cocking his second barrel in the act of turd, regardlese of the seore whieh he turning, and sooner almost than 'could might have been well aware lie was imagine the possibility of his catching running up. against himself. During sight of them, a second auipe was fhit- this bueinees Cease 'had sat pretty (lei - tering down wing -tipped. et, though I observed a nervous tevitoll, " Beautiful, beautiful indeed!" I ing of ears, and. a lateut spark :in his cried, involuntarily ; " the quickest and keen black eye, -which 'led iiie to eepect mthaencyleaandealydouble-shot I have seen in acme mischief,. se that I kept my gun . . . n all ready for uninethate /tame ; and " It warn't so slow, nohow," replied Well it was:that I did so ;' for the next . Tom, somewhat crestfallen, as he re- mment be aash-eil filo Passillig 6,111A, loaded his huge demi-caunon. who was Pointing. steadily enough, and - " Slow ! you old heathen ! if, you picked up the bird, after a trifling Bea- ne tne result. of whieh was that a emz- could shoot better than it boy five years ,'' o: ! : . e , me more empe were flushed min bythe old. we should have had three birds -I - . ' se, , . . could have got two of those last just as ho,ise., . Without a moment s liesttatush well as 31)1, i.f you, had. knocked the i. let alive at them with both bareels. knockin the rieht hand snipe dowu first dowu like a ehristian sportsman,- a - g ° • , : , b. , . . .. Met look ! look at those birds," Hem :eun'tlY ; the len "Ill trit' n'v"' went on, poiuting towards' the billies,. 'the triesee r4itched up a few feet just ite I drew and the consequence was, 'which had gone off, and at whichhe : - . 1". ' . • , • . had been gazing :;all the time ; „cone as I fancied, 1 illISSOG DIM clean. found them, they're.going to drom 1" " There, there, you stoopid, blunder- ing, no-sich-thiuge--there, now who And so indeed theY were ; and for the talks first time in My ine 1 now beheld a of misSino.9 Dia was the nicest, speetaele, which Is had heard. of indeed, prettieSt,;:etteiest shot l' eYer did see ; but never had, helieved hilly, till my and yone-you shiftless niggeryou-tyou eyes noW witneeeed it. The two birds, talks to me of missing." " Shut up:, shut up, you most incor- Whieh had been fluehed, mounted up ! up 1 scaling theAlty in short small eh:- rigible old brute 1" ' responded Harry, cles, till they Weras quite as far from who had been : steadily employed in this dull earth, a8 the lark, when 0 at hizaimarlting the missed bird; as I deemed heaven's gate :he. eings"-and then ' Shut , up your stupid ja:W.. dropt plumb i.doWn, 'as it would seem, „ That snipe'ests dead as the old cow you aye us for supper the last night we fifty fei 1 in an ansiant, with a strange, 1 4. s NI. : I 4.1- I 4% drumming noise, which might be heard r'S.A.3.1)u 110 rr'11,14W.I.Cii., vuOttgal ii0/11 & differ - for a, mile or more. Then rip 'they ent cauee ; for the cow, ;fent Flyn says, eoered again, and again repeated their died of the Muerain 'or some other rot, maneeuVre ; while et each repetition.of ten disorder ; and that smelt winged the sound another and another bird fellow has got a very sufficient deee ef flew up from every part of the wide ,blue pill to accuent fin: his deceit:ie. So neadow, and joined those in mid ethet ; shut up, and keels still'While I take the tilt there Must have been, at tbe least change of these doge, or we shall have reckoehig, forty snipe soaring athi every bird we get near to -day fluShed: dramming within the compass of amile, II" i'llfjs"V°. Ha, Shot. Ha, Chase. rendering, the whole air vocal, with that Down, Clia-a-arge-savill you ? will you ? Down Chareci."' ' strange quiVeringlunne which hap been: , „, ated by some authors -and among And for about five minutes, 1W:thing st theee by the ingehious and observant *es heard upon the meadews, but the Gilbert ,White-te :be ventriloquous ; resounding Clang of the short heaVy dog -whip, the 'etified grunts of Shot, although it is 310W pretty generany- and probably with justice -conceded to and the vociferous yells of Chase, under be the effect of vibratoiy motion of traheenti.nerited and necessary' chastise - the quill feathers, set obliquely so as to make the air `whistle through them. "Down, Charge, now, will yon 2" he For above an hour did this wild work continued, as, pocketing his whip, he wip,ed his heated brow, picked uP his cohtinue ; not a bird descending from gun, and proceeded to bag his scattered game. "There, that job's done," he said, "end a job that I hate most con- foundedly it is -but it must be done now and then ; end the more severely, when necessary, the more mercifully." " Now that's what I doos call a right down lie," the fat man interposed. " You loves it, and you knows you do- yen loves to liels them poor (limb brutes, cause they can't lick back no- how. Von, Chase, darn you, quit moll fling that there snipe -quit Leine th- ing, say -else cut out the snoopin soul of you. S'o much for Toni Draw's lecture up- on cruelty to animals ---that's what 1. call rich, answered Harry. 13nt come, let its go on. I marked ,that bird to a slard, down ealong those darf roee- bU,Shee ; and, there we shall find, DE be bonnd on it, good shooting,' How very stupid of me not to think of that spot 1 You know, john, we always find bieds there, when they can't be found any where else. ' On we went, after re-invigotating a enp of monetam-dew, with spirits rale, eel at the tart spects of some sport at last, and as we bagged. the snipe which --Harry was right -had fallen killed quite dead, the son ceine mit broad, hot end full. The birds were lying thick nano/lost the stunted butthee and worm bebbling springs which covered, in this portion of the ground, soiee twenty acres mar:311 ef meadow ; and ee am aware that this will be With difficalty believed even the United Stetee. But I will not, oh that aceonist, feil to record so eine:flee ffict. Not a week before sew this myself, I WO told of the feet by a gellgotiali, since eh Aldermen of New Ybilev OA I nir) ts " bad eminence," but, on the c,on- vary, each one that ve flushed out of listance, for they' woUld not lie to the logs atedl, rising at once to join them. 'We have no chance," said Harry, "no hante at all ef doing anything, unless he day changes, am -141e sun gets out iot, winch I fear it won't. Look out, l'om, -watch that beggar to youf right here ; he has done, di'iimmipg, and is oing to light;" and with the word, heer,down he darted some ninety yards roisethe spot W1101a, we stood, till he vas,searce three feet riboyeethe marsh ; viten he wheeled off, and' skimmed the at, tittering a sharp harsh clatter, en- irely different, .1 he sp • 0 0 ft That's not so bad, Feank," ex- laitned Harry, depositing as he spoke, is heavy single -barrel in the chimney - miter, and throwing himself into an tin chair that's not so bad for ton inutee work, is it ?" " Better, a, blamed e'.glite" ellimed in orn, " than laying snoozing till the 51171 s high; but that'e the way with theee terms! drinkin' men, they doe4 keep right just , est long as they keep a h- im:tin ; bitt'when that's done with, voil I on't hear nothin' more them till rem, or aster, Case all eich drinkih' titters," ' " Thet'e a good one," finewered I; 'the &Mee one of you late ShartfOdy Or Or that Mattel*, trolled his hoe, to the est of my belief ; and then becauee you tatehle (int bed like Hottentote, and neh tett, grin in hated, with all the 5C, itimilated filth of tt day'e hard drive, nd a long night'e eweert, reeking nom) ou, yott abuse a Chile:then gintIemen )10 gAg tip soberly, and washes Lino - elf deeentlya-sfee idleness and what Pet 1" ard proce °ugh i ririg in any sound I ever ft 5.1lipe'S bill before, .0111,11er in the early r-liave heard it since, full nany a . The ery resetebled more h -dtelisting of' it hen, whiall hits just id an egg, than one any other sound can compa,re it to ; end consieted of a ()petition eome ten times in suceeesion f the syllable ke,le,so hard all to, 31111111g lett it was difiteult to believe it th,,e An Alligator Hunt. The placid waters of the harbor of . • oau Juan:de Nicaraptut inviting Pal3 1,0 a sienlbOver its sit& co to a long send - pit that put out from the most impor- tant riyee ofsCanteal 4teeirettesettheagale T.--:"(Ud- Sea c;f &esti water, take Nieara- gua, with the Atlantic Ocean, through the Carribean sea. The harbour here is commonly knoeen as Greytowu, the name given to it by the English at the them of the cession of the Mosquito kiugdom, but is properly San Juan del Norte. At all seasons of pleasant weather the numerous sand -bars in the harbour are the sunning places for multitudes of alligators. . At the time of which I write we had the wet season, during which heavy thunder showers and warm sunshine sueeeeded each other several timee dur- ing the same day so rapidly that with- in a few minutes from the time wIten not a. cloud can be seen a perfect torrent of raM conies from what appears a uni- versal obstruction of the sun. and not as in the temperate zone often seen coming from a separate thunder cloud. These sudden showers are often accom- pauied with the most terrific thunder, aud invariably come from the SOU 01 the Caribs. They are quickly over, and eucceeded. by the scorching of a tropical sun for a like space of time making parasols and paraguas requis'ite at all times from protecfion from both sun and raM. The grass -carpeted streets - for there are no waggons in use here to prevent its growth --look as bright after each ablution as an emerald, and so quickly does the soil -which is entirely beach -sand -absorb the water that scarcely a trace of the deluge exists five miuutes after. It was at •his season 1 took my repeatiug ride one forenoon, and. jumping into a ship s " dora," shoved off from shore in quest of game; and as I headed from the boca del Rio San Juan, and the bars where it emp- ties into the harbour, you can easily imagine the nature of the ga ine I sought to fall in with. A half-hour's skulking brought me in sight of the hunting ground, and soon after I could easily distinguish the monsters enjoying a sun -bath sprawling on every avail- able spot above water -mark- Ah, my boy ! do you hear that rumbling sound ? ominious roar of the approaching shower out on the eett told me I would aeon get a ducking, and if I got no game I certainly would reap a portion of fieherruan's luck out there. It came, and:passed over, and 1 stood up to dry, But where is my game ? Nowhere to be seen. The alligator's nature des- pises a ducking from a shower of raM, equally as much as a city belle, aud hence they always talt:e shelter by plunging underneath the water out of reach of the raindrops. With the re- appearance of Sol's genial rays, their flat heads and serrated aertebtee soon put in appearance at the surface of the water, and shortly theeseveral sand -bars were again colonised by the unprepos- sessing mammoth reptiles. Masking myself with a clump of brakes, 1 pushed toward the spot where the largest number had collected to bask in the SIM, and sin:ideally cc.ming out in view and easy range comoneeced a rapid fire into the group of mailed monsters, endeavoring to put a ball just behind the fore leg, as it Was ad- vancing ill the act of running into the water. Crack, crack, five times my rifle sent a leaden messenger of death after the hideous creatures, but I looked in vain' for the result I desired. My gun was emptied, my game had fled, un- harmed to all appearances, aud was disgusted at not getting one of the dear pets as a trophy of my hunting skill. True nty aim was leseened in its accur- acy by the tipping and swaying of the boat on the water but recently troubled with the storm, and not yet entirely quiet, yet I surely ought to have cap- tured one out of the lot. Contenting myself as well as I could with the satis- faction of having teen them an d given them a good big scare, I moved tn the sand -bar they he,c1 left and viewed,their tracks. These were all that gave me donee of their remit occupation, and as it would be some time ere they re- coveredfann the fright, decbined to go hoine and call :wain some fine morning. But a few Strokes had been given with my paddle in my homeward eourse, when my oar was attracted bY an un- ueual sound, as of comotion in the water ahead. Tnrning to see the elms°, my ee e fell Upon ti, sight that filled me with ewe and ,chilled my blond to ici- ness. Within twenty feet of the prow of my boat a huge alligator was lash- ing the *atter into sods with his power- ful tail, zed rearing half his body in the air, making directly for atle with ell possible speed. I will not 'attempt, to portray my enaotions al this, to me, apparently critatel attention, After- wards, whou safe from the limits, 1 thought of the concluSion the bear-linnt- er came to when the grrszly foreed him to shin a rough bark tree to eeeitpe warm embrace, it is fun to hunt a boar, but when a boar is hunting for MO it is quite, auother sort of reereation. To which eentiment thee expressed my full concurrence. Deeming myeelfcom- pletely at thee , moiety of the hideous. beast za:Ow olose beeide my boat, determined te dia as mane lie a owner - 011;# and, trembling ite 1 never aia baoro, nevitited tit? motet with Clubbed tem Escape Was ounpneeible, either by lend sir water ; eothing but a 'strife for life was left. A toennent mote Baron° Death in a Prairie Fire. A little boy, aged four years, by the name of Dahill Roy, whose pareets are living down in the Ciyleurn neighbor- hood, near the south line of Scott town- ship, and some five or six miles south- east of the city, was burred to death last Friday evening under the followingt most distressing turcumstanees : The little boy, in company with his older brother, was standing near a prairie which had been set out to back fire around some fencing, by Mr. Bryant, when suddenly the wind veered around. with a perfect evhirl and drove the flames into his face, setting almost his entire clothing, which was of cotton, on fire. At the same time the flames so strang- led hint that he reeled and fell directly into the blazing grass. The elder boy, with gnat coolness and presence of mind, dragged him out of the fire as soon as he possibly could, and took him to a ravine only a few yards off, and endeavored to extinguish the fire in his clothing by rolling him in the water. The clothing was of cotton, and so thoroughly and completely ablaze by the time he got him there, that he did not succeed in cloiug so until his entire apparel was oonsumed mid his skin burned to one complete blister. The poor little fellow sue:red the most in- tense pain for sonie two or three hours before death relMved lthn of his agony. Masked Burglars again. UNWIELING 'WITNESS TO THE ROBBERY 07 WILFORD SAVING RANH. SUSQUEHANNA DEPOT, A.pril 80.-A few nights ago James Aitkin, jeweller. entered his shop iu Now Milford, in this county, about 11 o'clock. His store is next door to the savings Bank, divided from it by a thin partitien. Filling his pipe he sat down by the stove and soon fell asleep. lie was awakened by a side door being forced opened with a craeh and two masked men stood • be - yon anything to do with tho Savings Bank 1" asked one of the men. "No 1" r plied the honest jeweller. Well we've come to rob the benk, and we'll give you $100 to assist us, if you won't give us away." Mr. Aitken' began to recover his com- posure. "I won't have anything to do with it. I'm an honest Dean, but if I wasn't I wouldn't come here t'o rob a ban k. "Well," said the masked men, draw- ing a revolver, "I'm a thief, and if you opee your head I'll blow it off." The burglars then -handcuffed Mr. Aitken, gagged him, and fastenednim in hie chair. Going out of the front Iof of the shop, they broke down the front door of the benk. They then earried Aitken into the bank, and sat Mon in a little room back of the safe, whet() he could see nll of their opera ions. Half of the room occupied by thejew- eller sltop is used by Robert Minturn t tailor shop. The burglare brought nto the bank front the tailor'e favetity 'offs :of cloth, which they spread to ound he safe, They then bored a hole in lac outer door of the safe and ble*, it wen with powder. The inside deor vas served in the same way. leach itee the Mee wee fired the two bierglaers oretetied mit doors to nevelt the reenit f the explosion, while the terrified Ait- cen sat within four feet of the'sate, tb‘leV11:(o'itillt"1);thdoier Was OPUM4 htly discloee Co the burglars a pile eenbacits, but Mit svidesknough to ierm i a of their tieing takeirrand ae they Vel'a preparing itriothor aherge, tliitil obber, whom Aitken had 1101 aeon' be - ore, hurried into the hank and excited. y teld his companione that they mug. turry eatity, 'The Wateher had team a tterance of eci small. a bird. But if I , vas terrorised et what I heard, what I as I, when I SaW the bird elight en i he top rail of a high snake fence mia ontinue there five or ten animates, When 1 t 1 1 dropped down into the long niarsh t rasa, Pointing toward the knot where i had anarked it, I wits nel \amebae,- '\. tealthily, when Archer said, " Yeti t ply try if,yon like, Imt I 'tem tell you 1 hitt yon Won't got near him 1" I per, o evered, however, and fancied I should I et, 'within losing shot, but Harry Wait 1 into rights for he roee e,gain ekeen 1 keep I end Went off wild as ever,, tow- 0 rieg as before„ atta droll:fining ' butfor i eliort titne, enly, when tired appal.- 1 ntly of the long flight he had already alter), 1)0 0,001)9d frOtri 111,4 eleVatiOn I10:W oehamed to say, (Witted it, Mi. r ith the eartie jarring ellatteas ,,,A,to elesel Samford. of lleseark, X.J,. wee I rtmd his fillgu bodY1V,118,r1t1'40A 11 1! 80 that i' lighted -this time to. my ttemitigated aloug With me, 'etl 11,en elertity to owl ,,,Iiiii,14 cookui:1(1)4;‘,,i1:700,0,,itigatt Inatvv °all 0:' 4011f 1111i 14 lyi 1 ,,„ ,, vonder-upon lhe torupost. ,sir • ot a, fact. - *ten ektorg'h 14'044 ge) tv lAis barn, io p14.; fr 4u hie eiiianu air3 buraqat'a Ivere roof eley,s, as they in V' 'trete1 their I 11 1 , lands thron a th *4) tett ea, .0 g. • ONO le off. 1.**,1613A/14141 OW' op el In -‘77' Asoor to wrench thinly and Intratut feectlee, Aitken suceeeded-ti. front the chain, and wrens,- las fZi'4 of it off. His feet were bouno solos could not etep lint two inchee 1140 but he Oat of the bank intethe middle of the road, \shire he itt some way got the gag out of his month and alarmed ituesel the blackeinsth. The burglars were traced to near Montrose. Aitken says that they were:very bold in their operations. Tliey broke in the bank door with a eledge hammer, anti the reporte of their blests in the safe were loud enough to hear halt a block !twits', A. piece of iron weighhig three potteds „was forced off the safe by one of the blasts. It wout whizzing Otte° by , Aitken's head ep through the chimney . eaking three-iuch studding and loosening the outside boartle. iu the jewelry store crashed to the floorsfrom titter shelves at every report. Through the tapettire* the safe door a boy teeny put hisehand through 4 awl took out $1,000e There was an' 014 ileenati::-*.i. sossgssala tea gaping wide i the --- ter, and his nometh was rosy whet) htial ebbedaway and left its crys- antrtr (e'vlind .. went humming humtning up aud down the sides it fleyel atilltioltihoroiltlei:oict,17 reed- ke the wil st notes it blew. 1 aeled it on tho 'window ere the blast wee' blowing fr e; and fancied that he pale mout sang the queerest strain I,/ to me. " They tell me puny con- querors! he Plague has slain his ten and Wt his hundred thousands of the very beta of men ; but 1," 'twits thus the berthe spoke -"but I have conquered mord than all your famous conquerors, sefeared ahdf arned of yore. Then come ye youths mod maidens, come drink from out my cup the beverage that dulls the brain and burns the spirit up ; that puts to death the conquerors that slay their scores beletv, for this has deluged millions with the lava tide of : woe. Though in tbetTend'tilil•rtrofesbtat' waves of blood may roll, yet while I killed the body I've harmed the very soul. The cho- lera, the sword, 'Such rum never wrought, and, in mirth eir malice, on the innocentliave brought. And still I breathe apon them; and tligy___ shrink before my brettth ; and year by year my thousands tread the the dismal road which leads to death. a' Good Diso The Hamilton Thnes of Saturday last say :-" Between three and four o'clock this morniu {Ulu small frame tenements Nos. 200 and 2(12, north side of King William street, between Ferguson ave. nue and Wellington street, were set on fire by some scoundrel or scoundrels as ons yet unknown, and half a dozen pees had a very morrow escape from being burned .to death, It seems that Henry A. Jackson, a colored man, who lives at No. 200, and works at the pork factory opposite, had, with his wife retired to bed about the usual time, ama shortly after three o'clock, while in sound slumber, was dieturbed by the quilts being suddenly pulled from the bed. This partially awakened him, and, looks ing out, he saw the dog iu the bed -room with his paws upon the bedside. Jack- son spoke teprovingly to the canine, and settled himself for another snooze, when he wasagain Alarmed by the faith- ful anintaI jumping upon his body and and biting him sharply in the fee°, barking loudly the while. This time he was thoroughly aroused, and, sith g up in the bed, discovered the house w iu flames over their heads. lle at mice aroused his wife, but before they had time to recover from their bewilder- ment, the stairway was on fire and es- cape seemed impossible. ln his free- zie, Jackson rushed through the fire and down the tottering stairway ; strange to say, he escaped tvith only some slight marks. His whielcors and hair were burned ; if he hail oh mote clothing it is thought he would have fared worse. Jackson, though the intervention of his dog, was the first to discovei the fire. When he escaped from the burning building, of course Ms first thought was about his wife, who had not ventured to paes through the flames as he had done. Ho stood upon the Sidewalk below, called loudly to hut to open the window, which She did: and jumped into his arms unhurt." A Sem: NOT A SALT.---Anlifilde shop- keepers should be canonized. Hero is an illustretion of the trials to which they are eonstanily stiejectob. One ihidsuinneer day a lady entered a btors thousar.d Miles off, and enquired for parcels, The obliging pro- prietor spread nut before her samples of a large al1(1 Varied stock, "Have you any of this shade it size larger," totid the lady. The size latger seas pro. (laced. "1 think roue of the whole, 1 prefer- the size smaller." 'floe Siff0 swelter was presented. , "Have yoW 14;rilbs,' (1): itgi ti;°t1111111tyldi 80gfil lari erooked ?" The Altatlif ch • crooked handle enrollee/ 1,44tave y i' i any with the crooked handl net te t so hettey ?" said the lady, id ata, na tinueol her enquiree forsealry ettojeitefe able size, snede and weizra posaipte in-. the lino of parasole, After tterirly ten hour had beei ookisioned, tlie fait eholn per gatherod up leer handkerchief Mit more (1 •for the door ,,Can't 1*ell Ott it Datile01 r hogaired the ea proprietor. "0 deka, ed(" I'`, OP' , May, " I. treat meralt, leoptintig,it deS., t ani going ifito bat:Me:col and )1aVe ono for flak.