SUN DANCK OF Till] SIOUX.
A GREAT RELIGIOUS CELEBRATION
BY AMERICAN INDIANS.
Ceremony Described in lite Uurcli
Oaatury- Ilarharoo* 111 ten of Cruelty and
Sal/ Torture—They Sometime* Lead to
Nainting and Prove the Warrior'* Nerve.
The March number of The Century
Magazine has an article by Lieut. Schwat
ka, describing the great sun dance held a
few years ago by Sioux Indians at the
Bpottcd Tail agency on Beaver creek,
Nebraska.
White men are rarely permitted to
view the ceremony, and it was only
through the influence of Spotted Tail,
the chief, and Standing Elk, the head
warrior, that Lieut. Schwatka was per
mitted to be present at this dance, the
eelebration of which occupied eight or
sine days.
111 the magazine the ceremony is fully
describcd. We quote from advance
sheets but two incidents of the dance.
The charge upon the sun pole, which
Mr. Frederic Remington has made the
subject of a spirited illustration, is de
scriiKMl as follows:
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WAVED HIS BI.ANKETKD AKM AlioVH HIM.
(After Frederic Hemitigton in the March Cen
tury. |
"Long before sunrise the eager partici
pants in the next great step were pre
paring themselves for the ordeal, and a
quarter of an hour beforo the sun roso
above the broken hills of white clay a
long line of naked young warriors, in
gorgeous war paint and feathers, with
rifles, bows and arrows, and war lances
in hand, faced the east and the sun pole,
which was from GOO to 000 yards away.
Ordinarily this group of warriors num
bers from GO to "00 men. An interpreter
near me estimated the line I beheld as
from 1,000 to 1,200 strong. Not far
away, on a high hill overlooking the bar
baric scene, was an old warrior, a niodi
oine man of the tribe, 1 think, whose
solemn duty it was to announce by a
shout that could be heard by every one
of the expectant throng the exact mo
ment when tho tip of the morning sun
appeared above the eastern hills.
"Perfect quiet rested upon the line of
young warriors and upon the great
throng of savage spectators that blacked
the green hills overlooking the arena.
Suddenly tho old warrior, who had been
kneeling on one knee, witli his extended
palm shading his scraggy eyebrows,
arose to his full height, and in a slow,
dignified manner waved his blanketed
arm above his head. The few warriors
who were still unmounted now jumped
hurriedly upon their ponies; the broken,
wavering line rapidly took on a more
regular appearance, and then the old
man, who had gathered himself for the
great effort, hurled forth a yell that
could be heard to the uttermost limits of
the great throng. The morning sun had
sent its commands to its warriors on
earth to charge.
"The shout from the hill was re-echoed
. b 7 the thousand men in the valley; it
was caught up by the spectators on the
hills as the long line of warriors hurled
theme Ives forward towards the sun
pole, the objective point of every armed
and naked savage in the yelling line. As
they converged towards it the slower
ponies dropped out and the weaker ones
were crushed to the rear. Nearer and
nearer they came, the long line becom
ing massed until it was but a surging
crowd of plunging horses and yelling,
gesticulating riders.
"When the leading warriors had
reached a point within a hundred yards
of the sun pole, a sharp report of rifles
60unded along the line, and a moment
later the rushing mass was a sheet of
flame, and the rattle of rifle shots was
like the rapid beat of a drum resounding
among the hills. Every shot, every ar
row and every lance was directed at the
pole, and bark and chips were flying
from its sides like shavings from the ro
tary bit of a planer. When every bullet
had been discharged, and every arrow
and lance had been hurled, the riders
crowded around the pole and shouted
as only excited savages can shout."
Several days following the consecra
tion of the sun pole were devoted to sun
worship, fasting, dancing and various
other rites. The final ordeal is thus de
scribed by Lieut. Schwatka:
"The row of dancers took their places
promptly at sunrise, but it was not be
fore 9 or 10 tiiat the tortures began.
"Then each of the young men pre
sented himself to a medicine man, who
took between his thumb and forefinger a
fold of the loose 6kin of the breast, about
half way between the nipple and the
collar bone, lifted it as Stigh as possible,
and then ran a very narrow bladed but
sharp knife through the skin underneath
the hand. In the aperture thus made,
and before the knife was withdrawn, a
stronger skewer of bone about the size
of a carpenter's pencil was inserted.
Then the knife blade was taken out, and
over the projections of this skewer, back
wards and forwards, alternately right
and left, was thrown a figure-of-eight
noose with a strong thong of dressed
skin. This was tied to a long skin rope
fastened, at its other extremity, to the
top of the sun pole in the center of the
arena. Both breasts are similarly punc
tured, the thongs from each converging
and joining the rope which hangs from
the pole. The whole object of the de
votee is to break loose from these fetters.
To liberate himself he must tear the
skewers through the skin, a horrible task
that even with the most resolute may re
quire many hours of torture. His first
attempts are very easy, and seem intended
to got him used to the horrible pain he
must yet endure In-fore he breaks loose
from the thongs.
"As he increases his efforts bis shouts
increase, huge drops of perspiration pour
down his greasy, painted skin and every
muscle stands out 011 his body in tor
tuous ridges, his swaying frame, as
he throws his whole weight wildly
against tiie fearful fetters, being con
vulsed with shudders. All the while the
beating of the tomtoms and the wild,
weird chanting of the singers near him
continue. The wonderful strength and
extensibility of the human skin is most
forcibly and fearfully displayed in the
strong struggles of the quivering victims.
1 have seen those bloody pieces of bone
stretched to such a length from thodevo
teo that his outstretched arms in front of
him would barely allow his fingers to
touch them.
"i know it is not pleasant to dwell
long upon this cruel spectacle. Gener
ally, in two or three hours the victim is
free, hut there are many cases where
double and even triple that time is re
quired.. Oftentimes there are half a
dozen swinging wildly from the (Kile,
running towards it and then moving
backwards with the swiftness of a war
horse and the fierceness of a lion in their
attempts to tear the accursed skewers
from their wounded flesh. Occasionally
some over ambitious youth will erect
four stakes within the arena, and fasten
ing skewers to both breasts and to both
shoulders will throw himself backwards
and forwards against the four ropes that
hold the skewers to the stakes.
"Paintings are not uncommon even
among these sturdy savages, hut no for
feit, opprobrium, censure cr loss of re
spect in any way seems to follow. The
victim is cut loose and placed on the
floor of some lodge near by and left in
charge of his nurses. The only attempt
I saw to break loose from double skewers
in front and behind terminated in this
manner. Whether the men ever after
wards enter the cruel contest after hav
ing thus failed Ido not know. It may
be possible that some exceedingly ambi
tious warrior may enter the lists year
after year to show his prowess, hut 1
understand that it is supposed to he done
hut once in a lifetime. It is not obliga
tory, and by far the greater number
grow up sensibly abstaining from such
savage luxuries. When the day is almost
over, and the solar deity is nearly down
in the west, the self tortured warriors
tile from the inclosed arena, one by one,
and jii-t outside the doors, deeply cov
ered with handsomely paiqted buffalo
robes, they kneel, and with arms crossed
over their bloody breasts and with bowed
heads face the setting sun, and rise only
when it has disappeared.
"Many other horrible variations have
been reported to me, such as tying a sad
dle or a buffalo's skull to the end of the
long rope fastened to tile skewer and
running over the prairie and through the
timber, the saddle or skull bounding
after the victim until lie liberates him
self; or, when fainting, to draw the tor
tured man clear of the ground by the
ropes until Ids weight overcame the
strength of tho distended skin. My in
formants told me that no two of the cer
emonies were alike, the self torture in
some form being the one common link
in all. The consecration of the sun pole,
much of tho dancing and singing, the
double efforts of ambitious youths and
other ceremonies might ho left out entire
ly or others substituted. I describe it
only as I saw it."
Salt Luke'K Firat Gentile Mityor.
Goergo 51. Scott goes into history as
the first Gentile or non-slonnon mayor
of Salt Lake City. Forty-two years ago
last July the city was founded, three
years later it was incorporated and early
■Mr ii in 1870 the non
'* ~g3|. Mormons made
j their first regu
&jjjM lar figlit—Jews,
Gentiles and
I J sfjjj apostate Mor
yLrf ukuis combining
JKw*)!({? in a ••Liberal
partv ,'" T , hiß
-41 carried Salt Lake
v / y-'i Provo and
- ; -'Z/ Ogden, yet their
total vote in the
OKOHGK M. SCOTT. tcrrit( , rv ig b „ ,
0,500, while that of the Mormons is 11,000.
even after all the "polygs" arc disfran
chised.
slr. Scott is a native of Clinton county,
N. Y.. 51 years old. He went to Califor
nia in 1853, and thence in 1871 to Utah,
where he has been active in business and
has prospered. There is great rejoicing
over this long deferred triumph, and
sanguino Gentiles think they see the over
throw of theocracy and redemption of
Utah now at hand.
He Has Two Sets of Yiewa.
At the meeting recently, in Paris, of
the French Society for the Study of Po
litical Economy 51. Leon Say was com
pelled to announce that he was unable to
learn the name of the author to whom
had been awarded the annual prize of
3,000 francs for an essay on political
economy. The successful writer, who de
clines to claim his honorarium, is said to
be a well known French statesman, who
remains in the background because his
views as presented to the society are at
variance with his public expressions.
An old w oman, for some time an inmate
of an English workhouse, and regarded
as a deserving object of charity, con
fessed the other day that she was the
owner of a house and had £2OO in a
Bavingshank. She is no longer a guest
of the British nation.
WHERE FLOWERS GROW.
ASTORIA, LONG ISLAND, A LAND OF
BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS.
Whnt Gih'N On In One of the (lrent tireen
houKVK Which Supply New York with
Flowem and Plant* —The Problems of
Foreleg anil II j brhli ration.
To one in search of poesy or anything
above the dull level of the cornmonplaco,
probably the hist spot which would sug
gest itself as likely to yield it would be
the typical, prosaic Long Island town.
Yet one of these, and one of the most
prosaic ut that, is—paradoxical as it may
appear--a veritable land of flowers. As
toria teems with lovely, though hidden
blooms.
If the flowers which the florist's jealous
care covers from the inclement weather
were left exposed, they would spread
over thousands of acres, and make of tlio
little town a garden of loveliness.
For eight months in the year the daily
supply <>f (lowers to this city amounts to
$15,000 worth, while on special occasions,
such as Easter and other holidays, the
amount is nearly doubled, and the greater
part of ibis supply comes from Long
Island.
The largest of the Astoria nurseries
stands just within the limits of the vil
lage. The wide expanse of turf around
it is dotted with no less than thirty-one
greenhouses, whose glistening roofs com
prise some 75,000 square feet of glass.
The hybridization of plants to form
new specimens is in no small measure
dependent on chance. The method em
ployed is in itself simple, and consists of
dusting the pollen from the bloom of one
plant upon the stigma of the other, the
result being a flower partaking of the
characters of both. The incidental cir
cunistanees, however, are almost impos
sible to regulate, save by seientilie ap
plication and the minutest care. The
selection of two plants which are liable
to join, is. in itself, a test of the floricult
urist's skill, and this being achieved, the
temperature must he regulated to the
convenience of the plants, and tie dry
ness or moisture of the atmosphere care
fully watched. Yet, in spite of all pre
cautions, and for no apparent reason, the
attempted hybridization is often a fail
ure. Some of the best discoveries ever
made in this branch of horticulture have
been brought about accidentally, the
beautiful chrysanthemum called Mrs.
Alphcus Hardy being the result of one of
these fortunate blunders.
FORCING BLOSSOMS ANI> FRUIT.
Another problem which has from time
immemorial busied the nurserymen is
the question of producing blooms or fruit
at state-1 periods by forcing, in defiance
of natural laws, and although this has
not yet been reduced to a certain law,
important improvements have beeu
made. A skillful gardener can, by the
regulation of heat, moisture an I ferti
lizers, considerably advance or retard
the production of any plant. In Japan,
where floriculture has attained to scien
tific heights as yet unknown in America,
the precise day can lie fixed for the blos
soming or fruition.
Only a vast experience cau foretell the
degree of heat necessary toaplant, aud in
all nurseries the greatest precautions are
utilized to insure success. In the nurser
ies referred to, more than 40,000 feet of
pipe are used for heating, while a wind
mil! pumps 20,000 gallons of water daily
for use in the hothouses. The regulation
of heat varies with the nature of the
plant. The difference of temperature be
tween individual hothouses is marked;
for, while in one there will ho 100 (legs,
or more of dry, parching heat, the next
will benlmostcold, andtheairof another
may be heavy with a moist heat which
turns it into a vapor bath.
The amount of forcing also varies with
different species of plants, some thriving
under it ami displaying marvelous beau
ties which they never attain in their
native sUil". while others, like the slen
der Dendtobium Thyrsifloruin, refuse to
depart from ordinary laws and die when
artificial means are applied. The plants
are wai nvd every day, and in some cases
twice or ! i nve times a day. This alone
take-. i , a considerable amount of the
workm - lime, but it is not the only
attention claimed by them. A daily
rou:n. bo made in each greenhouso
and r oil one of the growths investigat
ed, certain plants clipped or grafted and
weed - a i withered leaves removed from
all.
To the floriculturist flowers have no
romance. Their cultivation to him is a
mere matter of commercial value, and
the sigh; ifa llorist aud his apprentices
seizing delicate plants by the handful
and pulling them hither and thither al
ways iilis the layman with alarm.
A MILLION PLANTS UNDER GLASS.
Each of the spacious hothouses is de
voted to a single plant and its varieties,
and the whole number aggregates near
ly 1,000,000 plants. This lirm handles
more ferns than any house in the coun
try, and it sends out over 100,000 ferns
annually. All sorts and conditions of
ferns are represented, and from the well
known Adiantium, or maidenhair, to the
Dixona, or tree fern, which frequently
sells for §OO.
The other hothouses contain a pris
matic gradation of colors, from the pale
yellow of jonquils to the burning orange
of tile large amaryllis, and from the daz
zling white azalea to its richest deep red
shade. Ol' course, roses arc plentifully
represented; the well known La Prance
is here; also the majestic American
beauty, and the newer varieties which
have superseded these in popular favor,
as the Bride, Puritan, William Francis
Bennett and Mine. Holstie. The fashion
in roses, like every other, is subject to
fads, and their prices are greatly affected
in consequence. When a roso is "the
rage" the smallest plant, as it sprouts in
the tiny pots known as "thumb pots," is
worth "from §1 to §2; while later, when
its popularity is on the wane, the same
plant fetches barely live or ten cents.—
New York Commercial Advertiser.
In Germany the law makes servants
five a month's notice before leaving,
he mistresH must give similar notice be
fore a discharge.
ON METEORIC SHOWERS.
THEIR VISITS OF FREQUENT PERI
ODICAL OCCURRENCE.
IVculhiritleM cf the* Heavenly IHitplii)*.
New Feature* of the Sim llevealed to the
Astronomer* —A Talk Willi a Profeanor
on it Sky High Subject.
In answer to several questions regard
ing the frequency of meteoric showers
Professor Very said:
'•There are certain epochs in the year
when particular meteoric showers are
due. Assiduous observation has given a
list of nearly 100 such showers in the
course of a year, each of which may be
expected on a certain date from a certain
part of the heavens.
"particular showers have characteris
tic features; that is, some meteors are
very swift; others rather slow. Some
vanish and leave no trace, while others
are accompanied by tails and leave
streaks after the nucleus lias disap
peared. Few of these showers last more
than one or two days, though there are
some instances where it is suspected that
successive meteors belonging tothesaiue
group appear during several weeks. Cer
tain dates have been noticed to bo more
especially fireball epochs. That is, the
rare event of an exceptionally large and
brilliant meteor or fireball is more apt
to occur on certain dates.
"Jan. 25 is the date of the meteoric
shower characterized by the swiftness of
its components, which are usually at
tended by streaks. The radiant point of
this shower is in the constellation called
Berniee's Hair, a star cluster—one of the
morning constellations. As this meteor
is claimed to have been seen in the even
ing it is more likely to have been one of
theuuuliussifiedsporadic meteors. Infor
mation as to the position of motion, ap
parent brilliancy, color, timo of appear
ance and length of timo during which
the appearance lasted is likely to lie valu
able in the recovery of the principal
characteristics of an event which is neces
sarilv seen but by few."
"How Jo you account for these mete
oric showers coming at regular periods?"
was asked.
"All that we can say is tiiat the celes
tial spaces are thinly populated in every
direction with these scattered fragments,
which are veritable miniature planets
traveling in different orbits around the
sun in many instances, and serving as
messengers from one star to another in
others.
"The number of them is siuiply count
less. They make up ill number what
they lack in size, so that if wo could
gather together all the minute members
that go to make up a group it might
make a body of very respectable size, al
though the individual components arc so
small that they seldom escape complete
disintegration and dissolution in their
passage through the atmosphere."
"What produces the great light which
always follows the passage of a meteor?"
"The light which is seen while the pas
sage of a meteor through the air lasts
may be due partly to the combustion of
tho materials of the air of life, but it is
mainly an incandescence of the condens
ed atmosphere which accumulates in ad
vance of an object which is moving many
times I lie rapidity of a cannon ball
often, I may say, with many hundred
times the rapidity of a cannon ball. Un
der these conditions even the seemingly
flimsy resistance of the air becomes as
great as that of a solid body, producing
intense beat, and in the ease of a large
meteoric stone frequently resulting in
the fracture and demolition of tiie object.
"Colored meteors are sometimes seen
with a peculiar tint of the flame, being
due to the burning of some special ingre
dient of the meteor. We have yellow,
green and occasionally red meteors, hut
the majority are white like the majority
of the stars. It cannot he said that any
one part of the earth can be more affect
ed by these visitants than another. There
is, however, a diurnal periodicity, the
larger numbers being seen in the early
morning hours when that portion of the
heavens comes in view toward which the
the orbital motion of the earth is carry
ing us. We then see not merely the coin
paratively few meteors whose speed is
sufficient to enable them to overtake the
earth, hut that larger number composed
of all those which are gathered up in the
track of the advancing earth, whether
moving with against or athwart its
course."
"The appearance of the collected re
sults of the observation of the total eclipse
of Jan. 1, 1889, shows that this event has
added many interesting facts to the pre
vious knowledge of such occurrences.
A large and very perfect photograph of
the corona was obtained by Professor
William 11. Pickering, of Cambridge,
Maes., and one of a smaller size by Pro
fessor Barnard, of the Lick observatory.
"These show the sheaves of curling
fragments about the sun's poles in great
detail, indicating the composite nature
of many of the individual filaments, and
confirming the photographs taken at the
previous sun spot minimum of 1878,
thus rendering it almost certain that the
corona at this period assumes a symmet
rical form with regularly disposed fila
ments curving away on either side of the
sun's axis and broad equatorial wings of
less discriminated structure.
"All this is very different from what
is seen during an eclipse when the ac
tivity of the sun is in its height. At such
times the corona has a rudely quadrila
teral outline, with four wings projecting
.from regions approximately 40 degs.
nortli and south of the equator, and the
whole is made up of curved branching
and interlacing streamers extending to a
much greater distance from the body of
tho sun, and with the equatorial sheaves
less symmetrically disposed. In regard
to the extent of the corona, it is difficult
to compare successive eclipses observed
from different parts of the earth with
very varying atmospheric condition. A
small amount of haze will blot out much
of the fainter detail. The presence or
absence of some of these fainter features
may merely signify the presence or ab
sence of the con ion of their observa
tion, but tho variation of type is a thing
beyond question. We 6eem to have >i
connection indicated between tho broad
equatorial wings and the sun spot zones."
—Pittsburg Dispatch.
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'-7——-—-- room for Commer
" clal men.
O. P. LUTHER.
CATERER ANI, CONFECTIONER.
Wedding Parties, Receptions, Ice Cream de
livered ou short notice. Cyclorama building,
Allegheny, >a.
HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL.
M Landers, as Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh,
ffif , Hugos £ Uacke Building.
/4K Importer and manufacturer of Human
linlr (joods. Homo thing now, the Dlrcctolrc
the Mnrle Antoinette ave, made of nat
ural wo ha
/W\
DHBKNCK OF HEALTH-AN KRADICATOK OF
RHEUMATISM!
If this valuable meillelne Is taken according to
directions we will guarantee a sure euro for'
rheumatism, tolptd liver, gout alfectlon, bladder
and kidneys, ulcers, biliousness aud of costlve
ness. TKSTIMOSI.II.S-We have hundreds of tes
timonials from the best known people of Pitts
burgh and Allegheny City In regurd to enres
and the value of this wonderful compound, AS
A m oon PUKIFIKIt
It has no et|ual. price fi per bottle,- n bottles
for |5.
For sale by all Druggists, or
DANNEII MEDICINE CO.,
•ill! Pttlernl Street, Allegheny Oily.
OLD FASHIONED WHISKY
HOUSE.
N" rvt Dying. No e ompottn-
I Distiller and rwxilerln
Hi: KYE WHISKY.
YPxf/S .via sntli hueld street.
TA M. J. FRIDAY,
senior member late Schmidt & Friday.
Distiller & Jobber In
FINE WHISKIES,
I.l<il'OKS& CIO AIC-.
. '-yfjfo-i. ■*{g3&> BSI Smltblleld street.
- PI nslUTttiii, PA.
CHAMBERLAIN INSTITUTE.
AND——
EEMALECOLLEGE,
RANDOLPH, N. Y.
This is a school for both sexes, lias been es
tablished and well known for forty years. Is
well equipped with all the appliances of aiirst
class seminary. Location, twenty miles from
Chautauqua Lake. not. surpassed In beauty and
head hfulness by t nat of any of Iter school in the
country. Pre blent and Facttlly reside with the
students and give special care to their health,
manners and morals. The Music Departinent
is under the instruction of a graduate of the N.
Eng.conservatory. The. Commercial College Is
thorough and practical, spring Term opens
March is, iHtk). Address for Illustrated cats
logue, (free).
lIEV. .1, T. EDWARDS, I). D., Prest. •
THOS, E, POLLARD
IIIBTIM.KK, I.MPOUTER AM) .IOBBKU IN
Fine Hye Whiskies, Brandies, Gins, Hums.
Wines, ,ve„ Sc. (or. I'enn ami llili streets,
Pittsburgh, I'a. orders by mill will r.reive
prompt attention.
ALLEGHENY,
sth AVE. HOTEL.
MoKEEUPOHT, PA.
GEO. M. ..EPPIU, - - l'ro Hetor.
First class accomodations to Hie irvelln pub
lie. 'l enns $1.50 to $3.00 per day. Bar at I■ beil
"DfITT TDO w. c. Pemlleoetry, son s Co..
JjUlllLi U.O Manufacturers of
Boilers, cbtmneys ami Breeching. oittee ami
Works, Mulberry stree', Allegheny. pa.
11. GEKWIG .t SONS.
Manufacturers ami dealers in ItoPES.
TWINES, CORDAGE. Packing yarn.oakuiu and
Cotton waste. Manila, cotton and .lute
Hopes, Sash Cord. etc.
1801 and liioi) i'enn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.
THE CKANDALI,. T R AI'TOMATIC AND
TIIE SHORTHAND
fifajk TYPE WRITERS
I IIKH'I. IN VKNTIONS.
G. K. I.UWEH. No. 40 Fifth Avenue,
PITTSBURGH, --- - - PA.
ASK YOUR (JROCKR
—FOR—
HEJK/ID'S
KEYSTONECRACKERS,
CAKES AND CANDIES.
None in I lie Market Kijiial Them.
WAR flrst class Grocers have them In Stock.
The Assam Tea Co.,
I*os Liberty Ave., Pittsburgh,
Will send to your address-free of charge 011 all
orders amounting to $5 or more—and same to te
on approbation:
50c Tea at 88 cents.
350 coffee at 33 rents,
nob coffee at 36 cent s.
tw Send for our pilce list. We can furnish
you wlili any goods In our line you may desire
at reduced rates.
PIONKEK TWINE MILLS.
Flax, cotton. Sea island. Jute, and all kinds ot
sail and Broom sewing Mattress and
Spring Twines.
11. GEItWIG & SONS,
1301 and 1303 I'enn Ave., Pittsburgh, P-*
PARK INSTITUTE,
sot North Ave, Allegheny, Business Training,
slioithand and Typewriting, students admitted
at any time. Scud for prospectus.
L. LUDIIEN, A. M„ Principal.
NOTICE —The undersigned, hav
ing been appointed Administrator of the
estate of Mary connors, late of Mlilvlllc bor
ough Cambria county. Pa., deceased, all parties
Indebted to said estate are requested to make
immediate payment, and those having claims or
demands against 1 he said estate will present the
same for payment. JOHN DOWNS,
Administrator,
No. 333 Railroad street. cambrugia bor
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tonnfcoturrn!QcarUnolnltj<f warld. Liberal wdurypai- I. r< rmir
tenr Jlon<yaJin'irfs.for w*a-N.advertising,vie. I r t I
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