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XVIII.- -NUMBER 35. '
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iIicALARNEY, Proprietor.
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id to the cause of Republicanism, the m
a4turo t the advAncente l , , st of Education s
t p u r t i o e l l
p r i o e tt t e t r ‘ c v , i 3 l t i i nt -
endeavor
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i• fully Freialomizing our Country,
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tioapt that
work of mu
tisemonts inserted at thefollowlne . rate..
specialbar. ' mlnis are made, - A "square*
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tors or Exeoator's Notice.; 3OO
Editorial Notices per line-- ' 20
rodent advertisements must be paid in
o notice will be taken of adverti-ementa
ce, unless they are accompanied by. the
i ilsfactory reference. .
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rk, of all kinds, executed with neatness
(NESS NOMES:
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ceepted Ancient York Mastitis
ODGE, No. 34 . 2, F. A. M. Suited
a on tho 3d and 4th '"ed nes lays of each
, in the 3d Story of the t tirnsted Mick.
WM. StiEAR,
.IT. ELLISON, M. D.,
Piree and
EULA.LI .1
hiee , in!
'month. Rai l
OM. LA RBA
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;lA} YSICIA IC. Coudersport, Pa.,
I Ilk tnforma the citizens of the villawo and
,e *in promptly reKpond to all calk for
pi 'lvlces. Ottic, on First street, first duor
161dence. 1740
"DRACTI •
..1.:-.respectf
'vicinity that
!prof.ndon
sweatof,his
JOHN S. MANN,
i Y AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
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‘port 7 n..., w.ll ate end the several eourui
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-Cameron counties. An hrieniese en
e intro WIII receive prompt attendee,
1 street , in residence.
TroRN
Conde
ril'otter - an
trusted to t
&Mice on 21.11
%TED and LAILIZABEII,,, .
:YS AT LAW, C:iudereport, Penn'n.
end to all blkiness 'entrutaed to their
nritness, and ft.lelity. II ako attend
urts hi the adj..lniug iountles.
t4torey of the thakted Block.
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A TTORN
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sears with' pr 3
Cho several c
lathe second'
IS4LAC BENSON,
Y-AT-LAW, Courier-port, Pa., will
l o all btedneAs entrast,•d to him witt care
Ise, Attend- , G,u:ts of adjo:oinz eoun
ltiecondetreet„near the Allegany bridge
AairTToTt:
attend
an/ promptn
%fen. Oilicvol
F. W. KNOX,
•Y AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
[port, Va., w.ll attend the yowls at Pot
Ijoll - I , L! COII,II I,C.
TTORti
1-1 Cou
`er and then' ,
F!., D.V.ITTE:r., 31.. D., •
N and Sureenn woald respeefullY Int- .
elLiz-ms of Coudersport and vicMit.%
p-tred• an Odhie In the Coudeisport
Ii bet rotdy at ml times to make pro
. lie I:. a regular graduate of lIMILIM
,Lge of ISO. Jaa 1 at
EL ISDN A: TATII.IIP:4ON.
rform th•
at...he ha.
Hotel; and iv
fesalocal call
Medical Col
DEALER tai Progs, Medicines, 01Is,
Varnis.irs, :tad articies, Book
alt tlnds—Sc/ uol Hnd Missi-Ilaileoun,Stara.ner),lo:6,
Ake. •ra Maui lugs old Jewelry S•uire. Jan-1.'67.
LEE 31c.A.LARNEY,
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At TT 0R• El
Agent.
trated States
Bounty, Asry
I S-AT LAW, ll •antsenno, Penten.—
Ifor the Collection of Cl iinlncii t.st %ht.
nd :gate tiovernment-ou.rti as l'ensiult,
re of Plts,dtc-Addrets Box. 95, urri,borg
J. C. at'At..ocict
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14. W. 111cAL.CRNEYt
AL, ES LATE and 1N . :113R t.NCE AGENT.—
Land Boaght and Sold, raaea pant and, Title,.
igated. I
the
property agalnct fi re in tie-. bee'.
nits to he den retry, and Pereons itita , n-t Arc
In the , ravelere Laurance Company of [Lift.
Rucin es iranaacted pmmytly 17-29
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. 11. ARMSTRONG,
RE hiercoant, and Dt,tler in S , oree,
Sheet Iron-Ware, Main street, Conde!.
Tin and Sheet Iron Ware mid° to
ntyle, on Ate , rt notice.
ROW).
Tin an
Yen,. a
io good
P.l ,4 A. STEBBINS Co.,
IA - TS—Dealers in Dry Goods, Fancy
Is,tlroceries.Provision-,Fiour,Feed,Pork.
N I : 11811 , 11 y kept In a good rountry stoic
Lt,ind s^ld 17^_9
Goy
'anti overytti'
Prxxince
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lIL SIMMONS*
'T 'WELLSVILLE N. Y., Whole.
Ri.t.:.'ll4ealer in Dry Goo Is,Fancy and
lothin 7, Ladies D os bh.otle Groceries.
c, -t. lore sapplied in liberal term-
ERCIIA
a:de an
licapleGooda
'Fleur, Feed, 1
I ILAOL -- S. JONES,
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=-I)ealerts-i Drugs lifedicines,rninte,
Itncy Article: 9 :10c:wry, Dry Good*.
, Main St 'outh.rsport. Pa
In_ A .- MORAN
Oil,
Groceries,
D. E. OLMS ED.
"T—Dealer In Dry MIAs, Ready-made
g, Crockery,. Grocr lee. Flour, Fred,
Main,et r*.et, . u.lerßpo: t. Pa
ERCTIA..
Cl hl'
Prov6l I
COLLINS SMITH',
ITT Dexter in Dry Good Grocerie.,
Queontwan. Cutlery.
w,-nalty found in n country st e.
ETtolt
Provl s I
ang al/ G.. ie
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"DERSPORT I.IIOIEIRL..
MI LYE i,P.o rms , toh, Corner et Shi n
and emet.ta Chi ti de i !port Yoh e r C p n. in.
de is his° kepi in connection with t in
Stntzes to and from theltailroittia.
CO
C.VE
MIIE, and S
ALliiiery Stns
ViOtet-DM4I
er Journal Job-011icr,
Pot
"LT Ain NG
. J(YIVT
*a are now p
and witb tent
lately added a flue new assortment of
Pt to wir - alr,a , ly lame a.-.4.ortment
epared to do nil kinds of works cheaply
rr
;.:anneatne , a. ttrdcre Folict!ed.
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AN HOUSE.
Potter county, Pennsylvania.
1 LEWIS.' Proprietor. IN. inu
excellent lintel, the proprietor wishes
quaint:lnce of the traveling public and
iof giving 'satisfaction to all who ma)
r ..1> 12.66 a
Nil
110,11311T0N
LI taken .thi
o make the.
eelszontiden
al l on
. ARBL
E : WORK -
l onudintia - dnd Tomb-Stories
}duds, furnished on reasona
terms and Short notie. by
C. Brettxtle.
ideoca: F.ukaitt, 1.34 mils south 'of
U,leisport, Pa., on •th. Siontonaho..ing
i .your orders at the Pot (Mao, feTi
I DAN BAKER,
d Ay
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Road s or bear
ntt and W Art CLAIM AGF.NtY
yensioo. procar , d for Soldiers of vne present
sr who are lisable.d be reason of wounds t.-eelred
,ordlsea,,acon mated while In the service of toe United
Staten ; and p onions, bounty, and arrea , a of pay ob.
s tained for wid W 44 or heirs ()flame who hare died or
been killed • hile In sere ce. All lettern lf Inquiry
promptly min ere 4.:and on receipt by mail of a atate-
Moot of the c the of claimant, I will forward the le
eesnary pAp.- . for their &ell:aut.°. Feen in Pension
eases aan fixed .y law. Refers to Ilo,s. Isaac Benson,'
A. G. Olmatc John S. Mann, and
BAKE F. W. Knox,4:aq
R.,
rent, Coudersport, Pa.
Oiim Ag
JuneB 64
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• ! Itch ! Itch !
! SCRATCH! SCRATCH!
TON'S OINTMENT, •
SCRATC
TFIRIE
Will C
• Alen cores
BLAINS,
Price 511 cents
Ita cents to W
Wsabincton s
free of
ittee 1,1806,
re, the Itch I'l'4B. Hours!
SALT .REI SUM, ITU ER- 1 , OHO',
all" ERUPTION'S OF THE SEW.
F. , sale by all Arqtrszons. By arns.l . nz
ENS POITEIL Sole Attehtf, 170
110.41nn..8. will he forwaroud by
I.,ige,to any plirt of the 'United SlAtes.
p.uol.los wky lyr.
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A. :Woman's Complaint.
1"A" place for everything, and everything
in' its place." Yes, it is very easy to talk
ensY that we have not unfrequently
seea . words absorb. deed entirely. Mr.
Green 4notes.the old proverb at you, with
appalling distinctness when you have com
mitted the error of putting , his slippers un
(.lt. the wrong ( t urner of the sofa; but when
ydu . are turnins the whole 'house; upside
ddwii after the jook that he lost, - you
would hagine ;there ...wasn't such a thing
as a proverb in 'l.he created world!
Now, this is hardly even-handed justice.
Fair play is on y reasimahle, even if you
(h . ) happeki to be a woMan! Why should
Mi. Green thi , himself; privileged to grum
bl at thi, disorder of the room where you
hive amused children, cut down big
tr wsers into li4le ones, patched ; mended,
and darned all day long., and then look
surprised and Orsectited beeause you ob
i ject to his to , sing his newspaper int) (m 0
Corner, and his !hat into another, and his
bootjack into a ttird. No. it is NOT fair!
‘iyhere la a the for all things." That's
what Mr. Greentsays when-you hint that
You wou•d like a little relaxation in the
way of theater, operit,or cd i ncert—or when
You ask him, meekly, when.he is going to
put a drOP of oil on the creakirig, hinges of
the parlor door, or sharpen the dull 'carving.
knife. IS there/ Well, then, when is the
time coming for that jauntito the Catskills
that has been promised you ever since you
can remembo I When is the time coming
for the rea.lihg aloud of newspapers and in
teresting:extfracts from spicy books? When
is the time coming-for him to set plants
andlshrubs i the deserted garden, instead
sinoking an evening cigar On the fibnt
balcbny with his heels considerably higher
thail his head I
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"illis
,and satins put :out the kitchen
fire.? Mr. Green thit:ksyou can make he
~Id!.'gray poplin answer very well for a y ar
or t4o longer. It's old fdshioned and shah
11,., and Mr. Green won&rs "Why his wife
cantt. look A little m re lie other people."
It is it approi riate to we ron many • occa
,
sion'S.,and the itnpract tcab,le Geen "don't see
whijr you are not ready 0 go out with him
wh. be asks yo u.
d : Women never Ann
.re: r Ifsilkstand satins put out the 1
kititen. fire, what is the' relative effect of
broadcloth and cassimere, patent leather
boob; and diamond ri'ngs?
"Take care of the cents, and the dollars
will take care of themSelyes." "Be a little
moiih economical in your shopping, my
dea4 TA enty-twereents a yard for calico.
whelii I saw very decent on the Bowery
for ,eighteen. I call : TU4r extravarrant.
roes centS a yard is worth saving." And if
you iwere to try until doomsday,: you could
not persuade -my lord au rocot that twenty
tWoicent calico is actualy cheaper fur little
froc,p and sleeved aprons than the elegant
or .iele he saw on, the BoWdrv. But as for
• , I
em any thing e3se than the highest
d hats, or denyihg hiiriself two pair of
glove S per month--"My dear, you don't
Frstand -these things. . 1 1. man MUST go
,-
ildres.sed down: town I" ,
cant
ow, you see, yon at Say anything in
lefence, becaus., Mr. Green says "a con
..-
iouslwornan is like a continual drop-I
on very tainyklay;" You tin - only
yoUr mouth and crowd back the me-1
o usl an . sw
ers, and wish in your" secret
G t , uAt,a , l the prover -3 your husband
(so ready at his totigaes, Grid were net so
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f applicable to one si .le of the question
,At are all the antique old word desicca-,
ts g.on d for if they won't work both'
44 I You never) had a nice little plan
bUtiMr. Greer. Cut its tender head off
I one of these merciless packages of
tom?o and you are a'inot tempted to
t that poor liichnrillhad n ever been born,
that, Solomon bad died
_before be wept
the, proverbbuisriess.
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is hard to endure;; but then, il
, . .
\tllo .
..a consolation to be able:
il i l \ 'sles in print. I You wonder
;
II say when lie reads this a!
though, he !MI! never sus)
Ma
priei
kid I
well
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BE
yet,l
wit]
wls V
and
,t.
it's
your t sl
Green NN
Of couisy
is NE. i fife
such a r4rv . fa't
the pi ty
nal. •
never know diernsel
thful Inoking-gia.;s—
\*an. P ltrenologica
I Stran#e Story
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The Wairen, 0 , G',/tr>
b(ir 2,66, the followin.... ,
"Ed coloreo, convicted -
the laF!t term of the court, was
Nvi.ek to the Peoitenthiry, making
teem in that institution. He seewel
ail incorrigible.fellow, Ibut claims to
been more , sinded against than sMnin ,
qe claims to be the victim of a merciless
set of 'persecutOrs—an organized band of
thieves and counterfeiters. Our readers
will remember that we lately pub !she I
,
two instances MI which surgeons extracted
needles from Diiyls neck and breast. while
irtjail cr awaitin his trial. Fotir large hut
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ton needles were ent out of his peri-on, and
tile surgeons say he has a great many more
—perhaps fift.yitt different parts of:his
body. I I But, as the needles do nut seriously
affect Jim, except when they work to scone
e i s i pecially sensitive part, he does not like
to hat).- the sur g eons operate on him. We
-are resent on One occasion when he was
#e,iniea to the .ihr
001,DES.SPORT, POTTER COUNTY, PA., TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 26, 1867.
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belt' examned by a Curgeon, and it was
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easy to observe the lovtlity of needles' in
his; face and neck.l, When first asked how
they came to be in him, he obstinately re
'fused to tell; but taking sick, and thinkie_
perpaps, he had net long to live, he yield
ed to frequent persuasions to divUlgOhis
secret. under condition that it Should,tiot
beinade public until he was outof the way
of his persecutors. ! He claims that hislprio.
cipal business has been to ,discover the.
schemes and rascalities of certain parties,.
and then to blackmail them to' keep him
from diyulging. Some eight or ten years
Since the Treasurer's office in Ashtabula
county was robbed. Day. claims to have
bean made cognizant of the 'robbery
and employed to carry several thousand
dollars to certain parties, but instead of do
ing so he appropriated the money to his
own use. This so incensed his confederates
that they determined to 'punish him. He
wa.4 taken and-bound, and while in this
helpless condition; hot . needles were forced
into his flesh, - and he was forced to 'swear
eternal secrecfilunder a penalty of suffer
ing a like punishment if he did not keep
his promise. Two Years ago 1. 't summer
patty of counterfeiter 4 in this place, en
deavored to engage him to do s me work
al p
for ;them. (Day is a tolerable engraver.)
After. finding, out their plans he ;refused to I
do the work, but told them he wanted
several hundred dollars hush money. One
night he was decoyed into a place on Main
street, knocked down, manacled and carried
to a certain point on a back street, and put
to tortures that woo shame the cruelties
of the Spanish Inquisition One plan was
to tickle the soles ofhis feet until he would
faint- under the.excr elating agony After
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somewhat reviving, ed hot needles were
driVen in his body, ! c gs, arms and cheeks:
He says he knows the parties, but is afraid
to Make their name public. How much
triitb, there may be in his story we will not
pretend to Say. The fact that his body
is literally a needle cushion, leads to infer
ence that some forcible means • were proba-
I blyl used to place them there. I '
This strange story of cruelty and Wicked
ness is hard to believe as haying, occurred
in these days; yet there are certain eircum-'
stances that in some degree corroborate his
statements. IHad a sharp, I diScreet detect-,
ive obtained ;the confidenCe 'of Day, he!
miaht have iearned much that would have
aided. in unearthing' this gang of thieVes, l
and their nefarious schemes. We have isio l
doubt there are many men at large %vice
are quite as deserving. to say the least, lot,
Dec s fate as himself. Although' he lis
i
probably a thief himself, he is a sort of
lahnitclite among them. He says he met
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several members of the gang in the peniH
tOtiary, and ,that he was not free from,
tle-:r hate and persecutions even there, andl
that the prison keepers were at a loss to
know why he- was concerned in so many
quarrels. with the prisoners. He did not
dare tell them, because he did not suppose
he would he believed. He is more than
Ordinary sharp; has a good coMmon educn
tion, and read law for a while with John
M. Langston, of Oberlin. Ile is a good'
penman. and says counterfeiters used h:r.i.;
to imitate signatures to their bills. He I
learned the art Or engraving ;no doubt to.
Make his services more' valuable in thel
co ,11) terfe tin(/' business. IV hen arraigned 1
;before the Car for his late sentence, 1)4 1
!made a short speech in his defence, in Iwhich
some points were made with' considerable
ability. His att,irney, howeVer; did not
consider his case defendable, the proof of
his having col:united burdary being too
positive to be evaded. He goes to
. :the
penitentiary for three years,) but he. told
the jailor before he left here he did not ex
pect to live through-the term . . It is hard
to malize what there is in- life; to . render it
desirable to hirn. .
1-r all.
o tell
what
rticle
)ect it
Ab Amoroui Shoemaker Come to Grief.
.
We are laughing over an adventure in
to which an attsrous shbemakea fell, -He
was not content with the one wife he had
taken,. but he trust needs. go. poaching, on
his neighbor's groa:ids. His neighbor's
%Vire, annoyed by ;his declaratons, toll her
hash - and, The latter replied :'We will
punish hint" They put their lteads to
7ether to devise some suitable punishment,
The evening after his family c'saltation,
the amorous shoemaker(wto lied imme
diately opposite the house. pia r t., whose
wife he so loved) se' ing the husband ab
sent. called on the wife. He was in higher
spirits than ever; he bottg,lit an
Anil
nosegay, made end ly: of roses, Anil %Vas as
full of compliments * !he could be . . The
wife said to him, in reply to a question:
"My husband has gone to. St. Ger.nain to.
rcover a bebt.of softie 200 f." The shoe
ma.-er was 4elightepat the pr. - spect. of
spene'ng the,whole evening with her Two
hours i w; away in Most delightful conver
satioo. ',e pressed her to -j , ield: she re
fused. At t she > aid : "My 'greatest Ob
jtetion to :yon .- the horrible odor of leath 7
er, which all a •entakers have. Take a
bath in my husba d's, bathing ttilli -and
perhaps, after yon s I like otherpeople.
I: will not be so ohs ina . as you. say li . itin.
The Shoemaker h sitatei . 'He dr4led
fonl plly, but faint . hrt . ne er won"-iair
i
lady—he unders aid was -..n 'arthe
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110 P: S
larour-
,f a Convi
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fide, of Decent
trange story
burglary at
,takett last
MEI
qoipios of Irtio.baoloorvg,
flee Dissetriirptioq of ana trews.
bath: He bad not. been in it more than
five minutes when loud, quick knoCking
was heaid at the door. The wife scream.'
ed, Mon Dieu! There is my husband!
What will become of us?" The shoennaker
was frighrened out of his wits, his teeth,
chattered, his knees knocked tocrether, he
was utterly bewildered with tright. "Come
intotbis wardrobe, quick!" exclaimed the
wife He obeyed. instantly. The wife
Opened the door; the husband entered in
4' : Lowering. fury and violently threw his
capon the floor, exclaiming: “Acciirsed
trip! . ...I have not brought one cent back
with ma to pay the -note of 200 f. due to-
Morrow. never in life was in such I ad
hick as I mallow. Give me something to
eat! lam half dead with hunger and
thirst." The wife replied, in her softest,
4 -pt iTst tone, "Hem is some cold meat,
and wine; deai:7 The husband seiz-
I . two knives on the 'table and sharpened
u.in in such a manner as must have
m 1.. the rb , ior shneiw.ker"S• blood run cold
as he crouched in the wardrobe naked,
we'. ,Idverinlr with fear, and cold, 'nearer
lead than alive ''Wire,r . continued du;
iuNhand, "I must soli the wardrobe to-m'ir-
Ntv friend the
,allopmaker over the
way has long been wanting to.buy it. I'
will carry it to 'him to-morrow morning"'
As the husband spoke, he went up to the
wardrobe, and after rattling the .keys for
some titne,in which were new terrors to the
poor amorous shoeniaker, who, doubticas,
vowe I if he ever got out of this scrape, he
would let Other men's wives alone. After
supper husband and wife went to bed. The
next morning at nine o'clock the- husband
went out to get four porters. They took
the wardrobe and carried' it over to the
shoemaker's. The husband found the shoe
! maker'sj family in a, state of the greatest
calmer ation, The shoemaker could be
I found nowhere; the Warmest apprehensions
were entertained', of his fate; hie family
were in tears. The husband wit's tmat le
to retie .e their anxiety; he had neither
seen nor heard of his fiend. The shoe
inaker'slwife accepted the wardrobe.(which
she knew her husband had long desired to
purchase,) and when the house - painter gave
her thp key she opened the door to exam
ine the condition of her purchase. The
instant the 100 T opened a naked man with
hair on end, covered with red, bounding
forth, knocked down the wife. Her savants.
the terror of the porters and the appren
tieeß, were dreadful. Meanwhile, the naked
red man, evidently beside himself, ran wild
ly about the shop; his wife, porter and ap
prentices, flew at hint with whatever they
could lay hands on, and gave him such a
drubbing, Until he ,recovered his senses
sufficiently to discover himself. The house
painter had prepared the bath with alatge
quantity of glue, and had thickly "dusted"
the inside cf the wardrobe With powdered
chre, which had been transferred to the
poOr shoemaker's body during his night's
restlessness; while the glue, getting into
his . bait
. and drying made his hair seem to
stand on end, When the shoemaker's wife
round out all these things, she took a broom
stick and belabored her husband.thotongh
ly.! An immense crowd was assembled in
front Of their door** lived in the Rue
Antoine,) and the poor shoemaker has
become so ashamed, be has not since the
occurrence dared to show his face in the
street.—Paris L,tten.
Ar Intii3rtistik oi•MILWAL"KkE STAGE
STRUCIL—The Webb sisters recently ap
pi-•ared for • the first time in I :Griffith's
Gaunt" in MilWaukee. The red and yel
low posters on all the. blank walls annum)
ced that an inhabitant of the towo, who
had: neVer befere `appeared on, .any stage,
would lend them his assistance for that
night of ly. The excitement was great
in Milwankee. What inhabitant was
stage-struck? The theatre Was crammed
from top to bottom.l As the play weth
ou the,inhalitantMilwanliee who had
never appeared on any stage 1% as discovered
to be a pig!
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20 - Fred. Dow/las said; int the Equal
Right's Convention, that a few years ago
:he oWy luxury he enjoyed was a whole
seat in the ear. Even that luxury he
didn't have now: The other night he was
muffled in a blanket, when some,
hock , usited him fur half of his:seat. He
stud:'. out his head, and says he, "I'm a
digger." "I don't care who theklevil you
are I want a seat." The people are' con,
quering their prejudices. •
THE Bautr..—A Cbicaffo reporter, de
,
scribing .a masked ball, remarks; ; "If there
are prettier women than blondes, they are
brunettes. Cleopatra was a brunette.
Ber
enice was a brunette. Rachel was a brun
ette and so is Miss L. If one wants a flirt,
take a brunette ;if one wants a i ccolt, ta4
a blonde. If one wants a wife take neither."
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Iteif - The remOvalS from office since Jul
last are stated at 445, out of 2434 appoint
ments. The nominations sent to the Se:l l r
ate were 247, only five of which have been
:toted on. Of 197 removals in the Posit
Office Department, 120 were 'for political
reabous. •
Righ s 01 Ittarirleti Wowed
A case that has a dodble interest for i cine
class of travellers was tried in the Supreme
Court of New York city a few days ag o.
It grew out of an action brought by . a, Mrs.
Rawson against the Pennsylvania Railiload
Company, to recover the value of certain
baggage destroyed whilst in transit . dyer
the road of'that company. The meta,'
been once tried in au inferior Court, w ere
the jury rendered it verdict fur $3,0 . 4,1 10
diiinages, and it was taken up to the iSn
preme Court, on an appeal from that judge
ment. ; There Were two trunks .destr , yed
in September, 1884, containing clot ing,
h,ewelry and . other articles Crain - led to be
the full' valite of the sum given by" the
jury in their verdict.: An interesting -Ifea
tore of the case was, that- it not only invol•
ved the rightsof travellers on railroads in
this state, but it also involved the rights of
Married women. The defence seemed, to
he based Mainly on . two points: first that
the ticket giVen to this lady had pridted
on it . a -limitation which restricted l i the
passenger to 80 pounds of b ggage an i: of
a value not i exceeding $lOO, unless upon
notice giv-n and an extra amount paid for
the luggage at double first class freig its;
and second, that the property in the trunks
was the gift of the husband and remained
his property at
.common law; that he,
therefor,, should be plaintiff, and that Mrs.
Rawson,. his wife, had nostanding inicourt.
So far as the first point. is Concerned the
Supreme Court reaffirmed what we !have
frequently published .in these coluniris as
the)aw On the sulject i trainely, that 'a rail
way company account, bY• anynotice Placed
on a ticket or elsewhere, even where" such
notice is brorght . to the knowledge of those
%hose persons OrpropertiT it undertakes to
carry, avoid it responsibility as a coinnion
carrier 14 the 'safe conveyance of what is
entrirsted to it for transportation, or limits
its responsibilit- by any such notice. Pas
sengers may waive . their rights by positive
contracts for a valnable . consideraton, but
these rights canilot, be taken away by the
lucre printing of words upon
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MILLION DEATHS roost P.A.tklittt
EASTERN INDlA—t r uitler the abov'e start
ling heading the •Triend of India" of Nov.
29; has.the following, t
'Mr. T. Rayenshav, Conunissioner ot
Orissa, has sent the Begal G vernment a
report of the famine lin that Province
Never has so heart-rendiug ificture been
drawn, An official wtiose bias.; if it-exists,
must 1. al him 'to tone, down the !terrible
facts, - estimates the los3 of life front want
of food and its consequences at from 500,-
000, to 600,000. anti'] bi some places ht
three-fourths of the wh4le poptilati Thi;
among the four and A ball millions of
Orissa alone, where the official reports show
the deaths to be still going on at the rate
of 150 a day. •The mortality waS notless
severe, proportionately in the adjoining dis
trict of Midnepi.re, with its population of
'more than half a million of people, the
e.alamity was coMparatively Tight, but -tarn
me, disease and debility skept away thou
'sands. The same is true of IChota Nag.
pore. We !mire a reliable record of. the
deaths of paupers from•faminel-stricken die;
tricts in Calcutta. Add.to all these mor
tuity in the otherdistricts of'Tengal from'
Saugor Island to pai,rilt and t borders ot
Nepaul, and we have aiNicord t e
pf the loss of
:ife .Which exceeds; in Ilorrorl and extent
that of any one oflthe six great drouths of
India during the last century before
the destroying iongel takes itia final flight
the tale will bar-6 mounted p beyond a
million known A- I dß .
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. Some time Since it was announced that
a man at Titusville Pa., committed suicide
for the reason that he had discovered lie
was his own grandfather. Leaving a. dy
ing statement explaining the singular cir
cuinstance, we will not attempt to unravel
(Mt give hi& explanation of the mixed up
condition of his kinsfolk in his own words.
He says . : "I married tt widow who had: a',
grown-up dmighter. My father visited our
house very often, fell in love with my' step
daughter, and married .lier. •So my father
became my sonrin T law, and my step daugh
ter my mother, because she was my father's
wife, Some time afterwards my wife hail
a son; he was my father's brother-in laW
and my uncle, for he was ,the. brotlir of
my step-mother. ay father's wifeti...e.,
m - 7 step-daughter, also •liad ;a son; he was
of course, my brother, and in the meantime
my grand-child, for he was the son of Inv
daughter. -Ny wife was . iny. grandmother,
becauSe she was my mother's mother.
was my wife'shusband and grandchild at
the same time; and as the husband of a
person's grandmother is his grandfather, I
was my own grandfather." That this Was
a strange condition of thiiigs it must : be
confessed, but we can see no posiible fee
son why it should cause a man to commit'
suicide.; - , I
.iove is as necessary to a_ woman'r ,
= a fashionable bonnet to iher head.
we think, rather more so; fur noth
than a large measure of love will
her;—whereas the rece t faSbion
Ivn that she can be satisfied with a
butinet.
heart -
Indeed,
ing les
content
has she
very fit
TER I tt;IS.--$1.50 PER 4:airium.
E L counter
Dt Hays, in his new work, " The - open
I \ l d •
Polar Sea,"thus relates angerous
i•
eu
counter with an
,iceberg: , • L
" ' flying too little heed tom eutrentsoya
were eagerly watching the iTlication of the
wind which appeared at.. I.he south, 'and
hoping for a breeze, when it was discovered
that,the tide, bad changed and was stealth'
i'y setting us upon a nest of bergs which lay
to leewar7l. One of them . Was of that de ,
scrliktion known among thJ: crew by the
significant title of "okuch T me•not,7 and'
presented I that jagged, honley-combed'
pearance indicative of great age. They
are unpleasant neighbors. The least dis
turbance of their equilibrilim may cause
the whole mass to crumble Ito pieces, and
woe he unto the unlucky 'Vessel that ih
caught itt the dissolution:
such a trap it seeine , himwever, that.
we stood a fair chance of being ensnared.
The current was carrying us along at an
uncomfortably rapid rate. A boat teas
hovered as quickly as - possible' to run out
e•
a line to a berg which lay "T"iti.ded about
a liundreitlyanis frOt us. Wbile this was
being done, we grized the sine of a berg
which rose a hundred feet above our tote
masts, then slipped past another of smaller
dimensions. Be pushing against them with
our ice-poles we changed somewhat the
course of the. schooner; but when . war
thought. that we were steering clear of the
mass which we so much dreade t, an eddy
changed the direction of our drift, and cap
tied its almost broadside upon it.
'The schooner struck on the starboarl
luarier, and - the shock; . slight though
.was. tl.isengigeel some fragments of ice that
were large enough to have crushed the ves
sel had they,:struck her, and also Many lit
tle !mops which rattled . about us;Tbut for
tunatelyno person was hit. The 'quarter
deck' was quickly cleared, an all hands
crowdins forward anxiously watched the
boat. ihe berg now began to revolve, an , t
was settling slowly over us; tile little lumps
fell thicker and faster upon the after-deck,
and the forcastie was the only place where
there was the least chance of Safety,' •
"At length the berg itlidli Saved as front
destruction. An immense Mass broke off
frein that part I% hich was be. l teath the stir ,
face of the sea, and this a dozen times tar ,
[
,rer than the schooner,. came! rushing up
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within a few yards of us, sending a vtist
volume of foam and water flying from its
sides. ' This rupture arrested the revolution,
and the berg began to settle in the opposite
direction. And now ca ne another danger.
A long tougua was prot uding immediate
ly underneath the schner; , already the
,c.
keel was slipping and grinding upon it, and
it seemed prob7ible ;that we should be
knocked up in the air like a foot ball, or at
least capsized. The side of our enemy'
Soon leaned from us, • and we were in no
danger from the Worse than hailstone show-_
ers, which had driven us fOrward; so we -
s prang
sprang to the ice-poles and exerted our
strength in endeavoring to push the vessel
off. There were no idle hands:. Danger
respects not the dignity of the quarter-deckL -
"After - we had fatigued ourselves at this .
hard labor 'Without any useful result the
berg came again to our relief. A loud re , •
port first startled us; another and another
followed in quick succession, until the noise
g-ex* deafening and the whole air seeinkil
a reservoir of frightful sounds, Tfic.'oppos
ite side of the berg had split off, piece after
piece, tumbling - a vast volume of, ice ,into
the isea, and sending the berg revolving
back upon us. This time the movement
was k - liticker, fragments began again to fall,
and; already sufficiently startled by the
al:wining dissolution which had taken One /
were in momentary expectation il sreing
the ;whole side nearest to us-:blitak loose
and( crush bodily upon the schOotter, in
which event she would ineyitiay. be car ,
rierh ii.iwn beneath it, ai li,i ee f s tk ( 1, 3 ,,,,, e I
as al shepherd's hut ben'eath, an Alpine ay
alatiche. •
"liy this time, Dodge, Who 114 charge
of the boat ; " had succeeded in phkating a:1
ice-anchor, and attaching -his rime, and
aT'tea up with the weleople shits l'llaal,
ee l
in.' We -Mlled for our lives,. long and
-tea lily Seonds seemed tnilint .au I
tnin'utes' hours. At length ,we ,1 ) ,..gr in .'.. 1 „,
ituale 'off Slowly . and steadily I sank the
berg- behind us, Carrying away ithe . Mai.t
boon and grazing hard against the quarter.
Bo we were safe. Twenty varli away,
Audi the disruption wcarred which we lual
al •So much dreaded. The site{icarest 1 4
uiliow split off; and came plungikg wildly
down into the sea, sending over us a show.
er if spray, raising a swell whieh set us
rocking to and fro as if in a Er s a'e of wind,
anOeft. us •grinding in the debris of the
crumbling ruin. i
"IM. last we succeeded in e%tricating ogle
sel4s. and Were far enough away• to look
hack calmly upon theobject. of our trrr r
It was still rocking and rolling like a thil4
of hfe. . At each ' revolution fresh taa,..“.s .
were disengaged} and, as ita sides mine 'up
in long sweeps, great caSead -s tumbled and
leaped from them hiss:ng into the fontning
sea. After
. seyeral hours it s—tie.d down
intoiquietude, a mere fragment or its- for.
tnerlgreatness, while the pieces that wen!'
broken it floated quietly away ail tat CA
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