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W&'S Wk:' fr - ! i - : ' wis WW ' ' J '''Jvi-t' BE STJEEj YOXJ AEE EIGHT ; TELElsr GO :--TJ Crockett; VOL. 6i. TARBORO', N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1883. NO. 17 1 l Jl t I PROFCSSlOXAl, CARDS. R. H. T. BASS ' . f I OfTec lii professional Bcrvices to the cAi . fezns of Tarboro and Ticinity. ' j Offlce in T. A. McNalr'i drug store on Vain Street. ' : .:; v,i.; pRANK NASH, ' j J , TARBORO N. C. , i ' Practices in all the Coutts, State and Fed-H erai. '- - 1 oioo -i J. J. HAUTE. B. CJ SHARPE- Martin & SharpeU Attorneys,-at - JLa.-vf , j - TAHBOBO, .If. C. f '! j' ii : i f raetioe i the Courts, State andiederaL Aets-5-821y i ! J ' ,' ; . : - '.1 '- H. A. GiixiAii. ' Donnell GnxiAM ILL,IAM A SOW, . , Lttomoys-at-Iia'wrV i ! TARBOKO', N. C. : f ! VTill practice in the Counties of Edgecombe, j HaUfax and Pitt, and In th ConrU -of Jhe 'First Judicial District, and .in the Circuit jlnd ' Snpreme Courts at Raleigh.- janl8-iy.ji ) : ' J D OSSEY BATTLE, i a.VLrnvj at. juaw . i LiRB0RO' ROCKY MOUNT, I.4 Ci ; F radices is the Courts cf Edeecombe Hih. PiU, Wilson nd Halifax counties Alo in ttc Federal and Supieue Court? i tSP" Cllections a specialty. . 'j J Offish, for, the present, in front roor ol nudge Howard's, la office, next doo to ew 6ire S. S. Nash A CoM on Main, St.. Dea. lolSSl. , ' " M x 1 i ? Geo. P. Hart. B,.JL f, Cooy. H ART & COOLEY;; ; kwttoin.eys - at Itiyr9 EsclTlOMtuiilMTilleJ.CJ . Practice in State and Federal Courts. ml6m QEORGE HOWARD, " ' 1l Attorney aid Counselor at Law i: j"r TATtBOaC K. O. ; ' ; jt t'racico in all the Courts, Stata oi je lerai. . bo.5-1V. MLBRIBSEES&SONli Attorney s-at-La w f :; : TARBORO', 5. C.' ' ' Practice in all Courts.' Prompt attention to easiness. R. I. N. CARR, . ' t Surgeon Dentist; ' iiUtDUAU) xf v r r, Office hours, lrem f a. m. Jtill ia. and from 3 to 6 p. mv V -. ' !; ? I E2?"Next door to Tarboro House, of er Lanier & Royster'a.- i f .it-, j- w - . - -,.'M, n g . THOS. H. BATTiiSjl. .Jllornct - at -JLfUCi ; TAEBOEO, H". C, ri I f J Office next to Philips & Staton's Law office. Will practice in the Federal and' State Courts. . Refers by express permission to Judge Ruf fin. of the Supreme Court; Citizens National Bank, ef Raleigh ; Battle, Bunn & Co., Jor f lk ; Jno. Arlington & Sons, PetertburgJ . m -i r-x -r- r-. w s' IUL-OUI , . 1 MRS. J. GJ CHARLES haying taken ;th Bank building, on the Corner of Trade and Pitt streets, is now prepared to take boarders. arboro', N. C, January 11th, 188& ' j ; J. L. SAVAGE, , mi mmmm tip Corxeb GuAjfrrLLE fc St. Asdbew Stbekts, TARBORO'. N.rJCV. f, 'j These Stables are the largest' in the 8tte. and have a capacity of Holding' ten-car-loads i ef stock. Give him a call. i i i ,janl8y i Geo. Howard prest. Wm. M. Ptppsa, 7(o Pres K. -Weidell, Cashier, yi . "is Fozs!:c3 InsurazcQ I . hMn$ Co. (IAMIS6 DKPARTMEST.J Bank open from ...... .9 A. JL'to 3 P, M. Discount Day, THX7nDAi. j I ' - '' ' ' i '. ; : , ' ; Dzeeotobb : f 7 i 'I; Dr. J. H. Baker, Geo. Howard. H. L. Staton. Jrv, . W.; M. Pippen, xl. Moms. De. 18-ly. "-t ; ' 'I:- joUx ii. mxoxj "f ar- rie old stand of f.ulin :; Bros., L wbue lie blows bis norn n always pre ured to sesve you with the j purest 4 1 VE VIE and the best flavored CIGARS Sj" GiTe ajiia a call. U J. R. biXON.H - Opposite Court Hoese'. , Tarhoro, Dec. 15, tf. .- , - i' i i -1 Rocky Mount Hills ARE in full-and successful operation, and are 'prepared to fill all orders for fcheet , in;rs, Yarus and Cotton Rope, at lowest prices, i Orders addressed to Rorff Mount -Jills, Rocky Mount, N. C, will be promptly attend ed to. , . JAMES S, BATTLE . : . Sec'y and Treasurer. April ii, I07i-tl. . -i; GREGORY HOUSE, The Gregory Hotel, known as Bryan? House, in full operation, doing good businessj'wul be sold on favorable terms. l'-. tf-'P j " Gno: HOWABD. Notice. ft. Ifaring qualified as Executor of the ? estate of C. H. Dozier on the "13th day; f fch, 188.J, notice is hereby given' to all persons In-: Ucbted to the estate of the said C. H. Dozifcr, to make immediate payment; and alL persons haying claims against said estate will present them for payment to me or to II. i L. fitaton, Jr on or before the 1st day of April, 1884 or thi notice will be plead in bar of their-recov-cry. N. J. PITTMAN, ExV. March S3 4t . , JBy IL.X; Staton, Jb. EEF STEAK II ; AND SAUSAGE. - O IL ROAYE. Ss SON BtillTend the boviae 11a and swine. For the American noodle, undersold.; Steak,.: Fresh tliev cannot lit Pork. Baubaye ai d every thing of ; th kind, public, for past patronage, 'Wwayon, hand. Thanking thei thvy sre still R. II. KOWE & 80T. ButcheJ for the Town of Tarbqro. mm rARIU:Rf MOBT8 n tout own twn. TrCoand $5 . rtr tt.11.1 a.. Tt. e, Ada BBS 0 XI U1 e mod, II ne Lather Sheldon; DE&LK IN BUILDERS HARDWARE, ' PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, ! . And Bnildintr Material of every description SOS. 16 W. SIDE VARKET 8QUARE A 49 ROANOAKE AVE., ! s NORFOLK, VA Novemberl882. 18,1-y. II Furniture ! ::. , Undertalong ! - ' ii. . ; 'i B. C. Carlile, Main St., just - above Pamlico Banking Co. HAS ON HAND NEW, FRESH STOCK OF Bouffht for Cash. " . f t ii t . : which he offers at moderate prices. - . - - ' I ' t: j - ' ' COFFINS, CASKETS AID t tX DERTAR1NG GEIVERAXlY. : JC Patronage solicited. 1 i B. C. CAELlli. ' . I ;. , ; ii t Tarboro, Fb. 26, 1882: ' ! . LAGER BEER I i -MGERlBEER! The Mot Refreshing Bev erage Known.' T BEER BOTTLERS, The Trade Supplied at our Establishment, Xext Door to Court House.! Orders by mail, from any part of th State, promptly attended to. . WiU. have; a sapply Beer ' in season. J ; . : Tarbore, N. C. April 13, 1883. ' !of ''Buck :i Furniuire DoctorsKecoiei It G OPPE HEI W ii R SON GROCERIES ILIQUORS S w S o a -2 o 5 :" M 2. W .... y o 2 - " 8 S m Z o J... n co, ui co s .... Alto fine lime of Family Groceries. Having opened a Grocery and Bar, next door to R. C. Brown & Co's, we invite all our friends to give us a liberal shaqe of their pat ronage, we win try ana pieaee. i PARKER 4 DAWSON. Tarboro', N. C, Jany 18, 831y ij i A. Williamson, MANUFACTURER 0,F -b ine W W" C J Hand Made :AND DEALER IS: Saddles, Bridles, 'Robes, Whips, llaltgrs, Jslankets, &c. jKTOPPOSITE COUBT-nOUSE,- rr.!. Kxno-rif nnt. Mr H. Ai Rizwilie mail' nf acturing and reparing I will be under his charge. Any one wanting a fine hand-made harness will do well to give me a call, i SINGLE HARNE8S i . i, 915 and np. DOUBLE HARNESS, ..... .L .... ..f35 and np. Machine Harness at all prices- janwy THE BLATCHLEY pumpi BUY THE BEST. BLATCHLEVS TRIPLE ENAMEL PORCELAIN-LINED j- . ( OB '-' v ' i - SEAMLESS TUSK p TV not be srtmed into Iwnrtnor infM-pwir Ooada. h th. hast 808 MARKET STi PW.d Write to me for anas el nearest Agent. Practical LifelfraViiWM: e . Olaar tjwk mmtt Madiac aad IUastraUaaa AENTS WAMTElk dVTft eie jper liaath. Irut Tarn. sddnM J. C. McCUKDV i Pailauslshw. Fa 1 mm THE- xrEDGECOMBEzz PATENTED 1879. WILL PLANT on Seed It is Very Durable.; A 11 wearina imrts beina made of iron; hopper galvanized to pre vent rust, and axle made of wrought iron. I Is Very Strong. Levelet. Ovener and C over er all being fastened directly to beam, no strain can come on the bodyof ine rianier. . . j Is Easily Adjusted. i The Leveler, Opcjier and Cover- en can be set for any devth: auan- tity of seed to be sowed can be reg ulated by. the thumb screws under the bottom. . i v? The smallest auantitv of seed desired, can be sowed; it can be run as near the end of the rows and as near stumps as the. plow can go. j I I llANTJPACTUEim BY THE r TARBORO, N.C. Aprils At NOTICE. By Wirtne of the power and authority contained in an Act of the General Assem bly of North. Carolina, ratified March 12th, 1883, entitlea an Act to amend an Act enti tled "An Act to prevent live stock from ruining at large in certain parts of Nash county, ratified March 9th, 1881. We, the undersigned, reoce Commissioner, Having completed the fence around the boundary of the territory hereinafter described in the manner prescribed by. said act of As sembly hereby notify all persons not to per mit his or her live stock to run at large on and after the 16th jiay of May, 1883, within the boundary embraced in the following described territory, lying in Edgecombe county; to wit; ; ! i Beginning at John H. !-Hrri-' wtern boundary to W. D. Harrison's lan I, thei.ee with W. D. Harrison's western bonndary to Sip Edward's line, thence with the eastern boundary,! and with Q. W. Ward's line to E. J. tfraswell s, bo as to lake in G. W. Ward's, and leave oat E. J. SraswelL and 8ip' Edward's, and with the said Ward's line to cross the county road, leading from Whitaker's Mill to Battleboro, thence ap said oooniy road to B M Whitaker's line, thence with R M Whitaker's and J L Ward's line tr J I Ward's outside fence, thence across J L Ward's and Q i W Ward's lands near Swift Creek to Mrs JE Harper's land, thence south with ber una to te coanty road, east to J B FhUip's land, the ace north with the said Philip'tand to bis fence near Swift Creek, thence down the oree across the lands of J B Philips, JIM NeaL J H Jordan, T P BraswelL 0 A Taylor, T A Marriott, W C Welle, Carter Pope and T B Wells to the Wilmington & Weldon Bail Road, said line last above mentioned to be located betwean the arable -and pasture lands on said Swift Creek, thence across the Wilmington A Weldon Railroad to the east ern boundary of the said Railroad, thence with the j, Wilmington t Weldon Railroad bounds to the corporate limns of the town of Whitaker, thence with the eastern line of said town (or across the uninhabited por tion thereof, if it shall be so agreed by the Board of Commissioners of said townl to the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad bounds north of paid town, thence with said Bait road to Fishing Creek.; thence down said creek to Tar rivt, to the boundary of the territory described in the act to which this is amendatory, thence with the line of said territory to the beginning ; this description embraces a part of the counties of Nasb and Edgecombe. ! B. H. SPEIGHT, Chm'n, . i ' MAC H. WEATHEBSBEE, J. O. BRYAN, Fence Commissioners April 6, 1883.-4L The Bad and Worthless are never imitated or cotjbtekfeited. This is is especially true of a family medicine, and it is positive proof that the remedy imitates is of the hiarhest value. I Aa soon as it had been tested and proved by the whole World that Hop Hitters was the purest, best and most val uable family medic'ne on earth, many imita- l-tions sprang np ana oegan to steal me noacea wmctt the press ana ine people ei me country had expressed the menu oi n. ana in ev ery way trying to induce suffering invalids to use their stuff instead, expecting to make money on the credit and good name of H. B. Many others started nostrums put up in similar style toIL B., with variously devised names in which the word "Hop" or "Hops" were used in a way ta induce people to believe they were the same as Hop Bitters. All such pretended remedies, or cures, no matter what their style or name is, and especiully those -with the word "Hop"1 or "Haps" in their name or in any way con nected with them or their name, are imitations or counterfeits. Beware of them. Touch none of them... Use nothing but genuine Hop. .Bit ters, with a bunch or cluster of green Hops oh the white label. Trust nothing else. Druggists and dealers are warned against dealing In im itations or counterfeits. i i april51883 Planter if "' . . i Cott OABBTS . t prophMctTci ' v-HiUID5ilU'fi,: A HooaehoM 'Article for TJniTersal Fr Sesrlet mnA Eradicates: x Typhoid Fevers, Diphtheria, Sail- -vatioa, TJleented 8ore Throat, Small rox, Measles, and 11ALABJJL all Contagiosa Disoaaea. . Parmw wmitinr ' the Side should me it freeir.- $cariet Fevar has nercr been known te ipiwl where the Fluid was ' used. Yellow Fever has beam cured with it after black vomit had taken place. The want i oi uipntaeri yield to it. ,t ; - ,i . FeveredandSlckPer. 8HAIX-FOX ! and- t PxTTTJro of Small Pox PBETKHTKD . , -. A atemher of aty fitai- fly was . taken with Small -po. I used the Fluid.'; the patient was not delirious, was not pitted, and was about the house agaia ta three weeks, and no others had it. J. W. Pabjc. - - sons refreshed '.-and Bed Sores preveafc. ed , by bthing1with Darbyi Fluid, t Imp up Air - aiade harialess and puriacd. For Sore Throat it u a sure cure. in Contaeioa destroyed. For - Frosted ' Feet, Chilblains, Pllas, Cha&ngs, etc.; Rhanmatiam cared. ; Soft White Complex ions secured by ita-ose. Ship Fover yrereated. To puriTy the Breath Cleanse the Teeth, it caa't be surpassed, . Catarrh .leUaTed sad cured. ' i t KiripTas cureT ' " rtnmsKli.w iliailialljr Bears iiaialil. i ' PysMiter aaiad. .' Wonada healed rapidly. aa-urTylcnB6j, Aa Antidote forAaiasl f or . Vegetable Poisons, ; Stiags.etc' - i I asedihe Flaiddariac ear present affliction with Scariet Fever with de cided advantage. I It is indispensable to the sick- Philadelphia. : Dilitlieria ' The phvsicians here ase Darbys Fluid very aaccassrullyiatha treat ment of Diphtheria. ! A. STOULajrwKBCK i Uasaaaoore.Aia. Tetter dried up. it vnoiera preveatsd.: Ulcers pBtiaad and healed. In eases of Death it should be used about , the corpse .k will, prevent any aapleas-' ant snteu. I The amin eat Thy- -. ieianvdr.MABIOH SIMS, X. D., Mew York, says: "I am convinced Prof. Darby Prophylactic Fluid is a valuable disinfectant, Toonu wa F. roan. Syria, Abu VanderbUt TJnlveraitr, Kaehvffle; Tenh. I testify to the mos excellent qualities of Prof. Darby! Prophylactic Fluid. As a disiiucetant and : detergent it is both theoretically and practically superior to any preparation with which I am ac quainted. N. T. LurrON, Prof. Chemistry, parbya Fluid la Recommended by! ; Hon. AuxAiroas: H. Stbphkhs, of Georgia Rev. Chaa Fj Deems, D.D., Church of the Strangers, N. Y.; ! , . Jos.ICirrB,Columbia,Praf.,Unversty,S.C. Rev. A. J. BaTTta, Prof., Mercer University; Key. Gao. F. Pibkcb, Bishop M. I. Church, INDISPENSABLE TO EVERY HOKE. Perfectly harmless.' Used internally or ! externally for Man or Beast. I The Fluid has been thoroughly tested, and we have abundant evidence that it has done everything here claimed. For fuller rnfbrmation get of your Druggist a pamphlet or send to the preprictom, J. H. ZEIUN CO., I Manufacturing Chemists, jPHILADttPHIA. AT LAST. After Ijansr avd ATearr Waltlnc Re.' v in in Dreagai'W i aMC was ... , Nsedlt.- . f -"j- I "Well, Pat," said an Orange country Physi- lan v a complaining insn patient, some years eo. "for that pain In your chest Yo Ler go home and pnt on a mastard plaster. I can't think this minute of anytbinz better. And by the way.? added the doctor turnl'nsr to a mena, -i really wish somebody would invent t real good plaster something actually help- Til lor such a case as fat's. Mavbe thev will. wnen it is too late lor me to use it." 1 When BENSON'S CAPCINE POROTTS PT.AS- TER waa placed on the market about ten years o ine aocTor s nope was realized. .Because the rare medicinal virtues inherent in it. its rapid action and snre results, the Cancine is fast displacing the slow-acting plasters of for mer aays. ior ail airections to which a plaster is ever applicable. Price 25 cent..l In the middle of the genuine iscnt the word CAP- U11M1& BeaDury! & Johnson, Chemists, New A Leading Lon- dan Pbyairlam establiKbea affica in N. T. tor tlio cure of i Epilaptic Fits Baa. BbB bkV From Am. J. of Med Dr. Ab. Meaperele flate of London1) who makes a specialty of Epilepsy, has without donbt treated and cured more cases than any other living physician. His success has sim ply been astonishing ; we have heard of cases of over 39 year's standing, sccessfully ; cured by him. He has published a work on this disease, which he sends with a large; bottle of his wonderful cure free to any P. O. address. We advise anyone wishing cure to address r. Ab. Mxskbkle, No. 96 John St., N. York. time, KaMt Plaster, BUILDING LIME, AGRICULTURAL i LI HIS, CARBONATE OF LIME, KAINIT, LAND PLASTER, ! AND MARL, AC, &C. GOOD FERTILIZERS. Akd Yert Cheap. Send for Circular. FEENCH BE03., Soca7 Point, XT. C lFairto use AIiABAfSTINE for renovating T ' mmt . z . . yonr tv atus sou .viiiujfJ. ii is rspiaiy superseamg an otner a misn. f or anravoiiv lty, beauty and economy, it is without an e- qual, and can be applied by anyone. U not for sale in your neighborhood, send to 8EE IjV UKOS., 8a nurung BUp, New Xork. America .head! tORO5 ypoq FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING DEALERS. ASK TOR ITT BUT IT!! TRY IT!!1 New Book "Life on the Mississippi," fs proving the GRANDEST SUCCESS of the TwairiVserles. I A genuine bonanza to BOOK AGENTS. l"br terms and territory, ; address Douglas Bros., Philadelphia, Pa. Dr- Strona's Pills I The Oil. V7eU-Triei, Wonderfnl. Health renewing semeaies. i AtrAnflr'at Sanative Pilla for the llv- Ifr. A speedy cure for r Liver Complaint, Bg - ulating the bowels, purifying the blood, clean- sing rrom maianai. taint; a peneci cure ior Sick Headache, Constipation, and Disppsia. Sold bv leading drnsrrnsts. ! -I , . i Strong's Pectoral Pills insure hearty appetite, good digestion, regularity of the bow els: A sure remedy for Colds and Rheumatism. A precious boon to. delicate females,: soothing and bracing the nervous system, and giving vicor and health in every fibre of the body. , For circulars and almanacs, with full par ticulars, address tsox ftou, .new lork uity. TrhITOBE. No publicity ? residents of JLranv State. -. Desertion.. Non-Snpport. i Ad- j vice and applications for stamp,! W. H. LEE, Attorney, 23U Broadway, Mew lorkUlty, JN. Scarlet Fover ' i Cured. . mm ii i fi n tin m TWAIN'S Thtjesday,?. , -.AwurL 19, 1883. THE BELLE OF THE 1UEERY It vras not one of ' tow commoa bakeries. It was a very genteeLfcake ry, indeed, with a solid plate-glass window, and "Parties and Weddings Supplied" gilded in sprawling letters across tna froEt The floor was, of chequered marble, and the walls were frescoed with peacock feathers and halfAjpen fansj1 An-f", Mrs. -1 Biggs knew nothing at all about "the busl-nessj'-ljuteame in.an.dlduf a pri vate door,- and -Miss Edelgitha, her daughter, was taking lessons on the piano, and in artasene work, and read D'leraeh's novels. ' I As for Mr. Biggs himself, he was invisible half the day in j the subtec ranian region, whence hBwpnld oe-! casionally emerge with a very - red face, and hair and whiskers powwed with flout ' V ;: "U v-: 5 '.! I Theyiin't notEin' like the mister's eye, Mr. xiiggs would observe with a noble disregard of grammar, which was peculiarly aggravating to Edel githa, his daughter.-; j; j -, Then there was Mary "roily, as Mr. Biggs called her. Mary Biggs had come to visit Edelitha, and be educated wither, when the : sudden death' oi her father left her unprovid ed for, and all but friandless. : . ; "She's most educated, ain't e V said Mr. jBigge. "Deril 'put her through and make a teacher - of her eb, wile t" i Pray, Mr. Biggs, don t go to put ting such nonsence into the child's head!" said Mrs. Biggs. "It's a deal too expensive, and it will be three years at least before she will be quali fied to teach. ; And we can't board and clothe her all that time. : Let her go down .into the bakery- and help you. You were complaing only yesterday of being short of hands." , "JtJut its most a j pity, ain t it ? said Mr. Biggs, who was a kind-heart ed soul, "Such a bright, smart lit tle creetur as Polly is." "Pshaw 1 said Mrs. Biggs. f'You want bright, smart creatures, don't you f ' I ' ! M But I somehow , calculated to give Polly the samV advantages as Edelgitha,". urged the baker, wrig gling like an uneasy eeL , M "Then you calculated entirely with out yon host," wserved Mrs. Bigo, tartly. "We are not Rothschilds, and Signor Caracoli charges' eighty dollars a quarter ; and 1 ve spoken to a French mam'sello about daily lessoris in conversation at a dollar a-piece. Besides "Mary was tell- mg me, only yesterday, inatrsne pined for something to do. he has always been used to such ' an active life.". T So Mary in her black calico dress, with the mist of tears still heavv on her eyelids, went down into the work rooms, to help her uncle. ! . one was a Dns. emciens gin, woo had "what Uncle J3iggs callad "a level busines,s head." She was a good ac countant, and kept the books below stairs : and once in awhile she amused herself without making up a pile of dainty, snow white meringues, or a batch of old-fashioned dougnnuts,ior $he store. It was lonely down there, to be sure, among the busy workmen, and she sighed at times when i she heard her Cousin Edelgitha ' practic ' ing the scales. . ; - "It is very ungratef nl of me,", i she said to herself. "I ought to be glad and thankful to help good Uncle Biggs." ! . . I And it never occured either to Mary or her uncle that if she hadn't been so very much prettier than Edel githa she never would have been ban ished to the basement of the bakery. Edeleritha must marry rich,'! said Mrs. Biggs. "We have prepared her to adorn any station ; and Mr. Lilburne, certainly was very attentive when he met her at the private j view of the picture gallery. I really think he likes Edelgitha. "He's a queer old fish !" said the baker, meditatively. i 1 i H But he s rich," said Mrs.' Btggs.; "Well, then, let's ask him to ' supf per, and leave mm ana iiiaeigitna alone together afterward?'' suggested Mr. Biggs. "That is, it she liKes him." . ' ' .- Eiggs, don't 'be a goose !' said the lady, irritably. "You haven't a soul above one of your own neur bar rels no nor you won't never have.' ' So Mr. Biggs retired, and 'gave his whole attention to the checking off of a load of St Louis flour, which wasbeingf delivered at the alley-door. - jaary xsiggs nact come up into me Btorerto whisper'one of her . uncle's messages to tna styiisu young wo man behind the counter, when a ser vant girl hurried in and emptied about a peck of I little, flat, brown cakes on the glass top of the show case. . ! ; "Mr.Lilburne's compliments, miss," said'she ; "and they're trash ! ! "What " said the ahopwOman. "Mr. Lilburne's cbmpliments ; and they're trash !" .repeated j the maid. "He said they wasn't ginger-snaps at all ; they was only lard And molas ses. He wanted the kind his mother used, to bake, of Saturday; mornings. 1 The veryifirst one he tasted he threw J aj n - v; -,i i "."-" ' . - ., , 1 veu, a remtsrattu uie Dutujiwuujau, tossing her head,"if our ginger-snaps don't suit the 5 gentleman, then it s impossible tq suit Mm. : That'a allJ" - , "He's been sick,, yon know," k said the maid-servant, apologetically. "And.he's just getting : better , and his appetite's dreadful uncertain, and Mrs. Pugsley my missus she thought she was sure to tempt him with these 'ere. , , 'Ginger snaps! 1' said he.-4 Just what I've hfena-longin for. My mother used kOobake l-'em for mei, when-1 wa s . .chiId.'-TYes, Mrs. Pugsley.l: said: he,!; y6linay ofder' t$r for toy bBaiimVa.. a mild sigh umiBsua mhtJha' knowa they ' wouldn't : 'suit Nothin auitar "when a genleman's ' just off f i sick bed-? J.-'n' ;''.'.v : f.it tl4 s '"Is it'Mr. ; ;Lilburne.'" saidj Mary. "Oh, I ' remember him '.'He.came here once, and wient-,tp aleep, while Edelgi&a was singing'f'Oh, Summer IfightlMiliked hiuuw He lmflWit;4 about calves' and chicken, and. $Tan berry swamps and' lobbinaVnests Dpen he lik ginger-snaps 1 I'll make some for him I know.; an old-fash- iqned Come receipt jthafc LM JilJ$g&& J here to morrow, my good girl?! to he maid, "and I'll have some rea dy for you. Poor Mt Iilbnnrl Tm. sorry he's sickl? j -.' . i '. f f &ruiq ct Ine smart shopwoman stared . As superciliously as Ldszt or Chopin ' might have done if a village bugler had volunteered to them the first principles of music. ! i j j j ' ' Alsountry-girl, like that, expect to compete with "Biggs's Celebrated Bakery i" WelL! really, the shop woman did' t know what the world was coming to-i, I . ' : But little roily hurried down fstairs again to where Mr. Biggs, all pow dered with, flour, was laying down the law to some of his satellites, i "uinger, my dear" said he "And flour ? What you like what you like ! I was telling you, Johnson, a barrel of prime flour has to be Ru mored. You can't drive it. Flour is flour, and rdust ! be handled!. accor dingly.", v . r Mr. Leonidai Lilburne, stalk un easily about his sick room,and anathe matizing the sluggish current of the hours, was secretly making up his mind to get married. ,, "After a man has once been sick in a hoarding-house," he said toim self,, "he's a fool if he don't look around for a home of his own. I am forty next month. It's high " time I wasv tninking of settling in life Eh, who's there" . r ' "It's me, . sir, please !" said Mrs. Pugsley "with some ginger-snaps." "Pshaw 1" said Mr. .Lilbttrne. "Fling 'em out of the window! Give 'em t the dogs ! I don't want ' any more of your'city humbugs !" "But please, J sir; these are quite different!" Mrs. "Pugsley coaxed "made by a young woman from, the country, as worksin' Mr. Biggs bakery. And I was to ask. would you be so very good as only to taste 'em?" ' . "Ob, yes, Til taste them!" ! said Mr.-Lilburne, sarcastically. "It's no trouble to poison myself, just to oblige people!' And Mrs. Pugsley, entering" with an apprehensive air, put the plate of round, golden cakelets on the table. ; "I really think, sir," said she, "if ypu would only taste, them " j "Hum ! ha!" said Mr. Lilburne. "These are quite a different article ? These are the kind my old mother used to turn out ! They're ambrosia they're food for the gods 1 Who made them, I say ?" "I I don't know, sir, I'm sure," Baid Mrs. Pugsley, rather discom fited by this direct addtess. "Some yonng person in Mr. Biggs' bakery." Order a rriage?'' said Mr. Lilburne "and bring me my sable-trimed over coat at once?? Til go and see that young ?oman. ; I don't believe there is another person on the American continent that can make ginger snaps like these, now that my poor old mother is hurried 1 , " i ' . Mary ! Biggs came, laugning,. up from the subterranean deeps of Biggs bakery. ! " ' '' . : ' '; "Oh, yes, Mr. Lilbmne," said she, "I made the snaps ? Don t you re- fliftmhir1 tba EdAlmtha'fl ennmn V "But" what are you doing down here? demanded Mr. Lulbume. in amazement. ' ; - - ''Earning my own living," . Polly promptly answered. "And they to!d me yeu did t like the store snaps, so I baked sqme after my grandmother s old receint." ' ' " s h MrSLalburne looked at roily with the respect due to a maker of incom- parable&fnnffer-snaps, mingled with chivalrous pity for a desolate maiden, "Miss Pollv," said he "that was what they called you,-wasn't it ? "Yes,"said Polly,"that's my hame." I ought to warn you that I'm; going to be a little abrupt," said he : "but I should like to marry yotL'' "Oh, dear?" said Mr. Lilburne. "Think of it, that's all Think of it for a week, and then let me know your final decision. I'm noti exactly what the world calls a gay young lover, but I can give you a good home and an honest, loving heart. Your uncle can tell you all about Leonidas Lilburne. There, I won't, tease you any longer.- Just take. my proposal into consideration, thats all. So he went away, : and Mary, in her oerDlexity, went in among the flour barrels, and took counsel with Uncle Biggs. "Uncle." said she, "what anrklto do?" : .- .': "My dear, said the good man, stroking her bead with floury, yet not unkindly, bands, "what .do you Ibink ? Could you learn to like him? "I think so." confessed Mary, with downcast eyes. He spoke eo pleas antly to me,and he has honest brown eyes. "Then I recommend you to say ves ." said TJncle BisffS. "Lilburne is a rood. -warm, hearted.. feOow, if little eccentuTmd his wife; will be a lucky woman." i - And he thought, of Edelgitha and sirrhed. : ! . "V '.' ..- rU ,A week subsequentlyMr. Lilburne gave his landlady warning. . "I hoDe I haven t failed . to suit you, sir, said sbe plaintively. ' - : i li isn't that, Mrsi Pugsley,n:Baid he. - "But Pin going to be married." "I'm sure, air, I congratulate you," said Mrs. Pngsley, faintly v 1 1 i 1 VYoa may well do so.ma'am," taid Mr. Xflburne, "She's as " lovely as Vjenus, as domestic as Dorcas, and she makes ginger-snaps such.-as my poor mother f once ; did ? f Yes, s Mrs. Pugsley, I feel that I have 'gained a prke";'.-' v j,f :,: v.- r( i2h Bolly Biggs' ginger-sjiaps won the' tyeasuri which (Miss (- Edelgi tja dirillaand'rench "conversatwn hid been pbwefless to reach. i $1 really can't see hat . Mr. lil burne saw to fancy in mi Cousin J?oIy, H said shjvith roitefuiars. 4 And Mrs. Biggs eould not enligh ten her 0,rave. laughter. Helm Forrest PICK'S SON SHINES. . .. . . ...it... Hit An OrasgemanJ Say, will you do me a favor, ask ed the bad boy pf the grocery man, as he sat down on the box and put Lis wet boots on the stove. t "Well,1 said the groceryidan, hesitatingly, with a feeling that he was liable to be Bold. "If :you will help me to catch the villian who hangs up those disreputable signs in front of my store, I will, iWhat is it?" . ! T want you to. lick "this etamp and put it on this letter. It's to my girl and I want to fool her,'' and the boy handed over the letter and stamp, and while the grbceryman was licking it and putting it on, the boy filled his pockets with dried peaches out of a box. "There, that's a small job," said the grecery man as he pressed the stamp on the letter with his thumb and handed it back, "But how are you going to fool her ?" "lhat s just business, saidr the boy, as he held the letter to his nose and smelled of the stamp. "That will make her tired. "Sou see, every time she gets a letter - from, me she kisses the stamp, because she thinks I licked it. When she kisses this stamp and gets the fumes of plug tobacco, and stale beer, and hmberg cheese, and mouldy potatoes, it will knock-her down, and then she ' will ask me what ailed the stamp, and I will tell her I got you to lick it, and then it will make her sick, and her parents will stop trading here. 0, it will paralize her. Do you know you smell like a glue factory. Gosh, I can smell you all over the store. Don't you smell anything that smells spoiled?"; The grocery man thought he -did smell someting that was rancid, and he looked around the stove and fin ally kicked the boy's boot off .the stove and said, "It s your boots burning.' h Gracious, open the door, It smells like a hot box on a ca boose. Whew! And there comes two of my best lady customers. The ladies came, in and held their handkerchiefs to their noses, and as they were tradisg the boy .said as though continuing the conversation. Yes, pa says that last oleomar garine I got here is nothing but axle-grease in a different kind of a pack age.! The only way you ! tell axle grease from oleomargarine is in spreading it on pancakes. Pa says axle grease will spread, but your al- eged butter just rolls right up and acts like lip salve, or ointment, and is only fit to use on a sore. " At this point -the ladies went out of the store in disgust, without buy ing any tning, and the grocery man took a dried codfish by the tail . and went up to the boy and took him by the neck. "Golblast you, I have a notion to kill you. You have driv en away more custom from this store than your neck is worth. Now yougit,"; and he struck the boy across the back with the codfish. , i "That's just the way with you all,' Bays the boy," as he put his sleeve up to his eyes and pretended to cry, "when a fellow is up m the world, there is nothing too good for him, but when he gets down, you maul ; him with a codfish. Since pa drove me out of the nouse, and told me to go shirk for my living, I havn t had a kind word from anybody. My chum's dog won t even follow me, and when a fellow gets so low dowr that a dog goes Daacon mm mere is notmng left for him to do but loaf around a grocery, or sit on a iury, and I am too young to sit on a jury, though know more than some of the beats that lay around the courts to get on a jury. 1 am going to - arown my self, and my death will be laid to you. They will find evidence of cod fish' on ray clothes, and yon wil be arrested for driving me to a suicide's grve. Good-bye. I forgive you, and the boy started for the door. "Hold on here, says the grocery man, feeling that, he had been too harsh," "Come back here and have some maple sugar, vvnat did your pa drive you away from home for? "(J, it was on account oi bt. rat- rick's Day," said the bad boy as he bit off half a psund of maple sugar, and dried his tears, "xou see pa never sees ma buy a new silk hand kerchief, but he wants iL 'Totber day ma bought one of these orange colored handkerchiefs, and pa imme diately had a sore throat and he wanted to wear it, aoeVma let him put it on. I thought I would break him of taking evary tbipg nice that ma got, so when he WP&t down town with the orange handkerchief on his neck, I told some of the St. Patrick boys in the Third Ward, who bad green ribbons on, that the old duffer that was putting on style was an or aage man, and he Baid he could whit any St Patricks Day man in town. The fellars laid for pa, and when he came along one of them threw a barre T7 at pa, and another pulled the yellow handkerchief off his neck and they all yelled ."Hang him," and one grab bed a rope that was on the sidewalk where they were moving a building, and pa got up and dusted. You'd a i dide to see pa run.( He met a police man and said mor'n a hundred men had tried to murder him, and they had mauled him and stoled his yellow handkerchief. The policeman j told pa that his life was not 6afe, and he better go home and lock himself in. . and did, and I was telling ma about hbw I got the boys to scare pa, and he heard it, 'and he told me that 'set tled it ' He. Baid I had caused him 6 run more foot races than anv champion pedestrian, and;' had .made hialifeunbarableand how I 'must' go it alone. Now I want you to send a couple of pounds of crackers over to the house, and haye ypu tell the hired girl that I have gone . down', to -the river to drown myself, and she will tell ma, and ma will tell pa, and pretty soon you -will see a bald-headed pussy man whooping it up toward the river with a rope. They may think, at times, that I am a little tough, but when it comes, to parting forever, the weaken.'' Well, the teacher at school says you are a hardened infidel," said the grocery man, as he charged the crackers to the boy s pa. "He says he had to turn you out to keep you front ruining the morals of the other scholars. r How was that? v'1t waa about speaking a piece. When I asked him what I should - . speak, he told i me to learn some ; '. Boeech of some e-reat man. some law- - yer oraitatesman, so I learned one of " Bob Ingersoll s speeches. Well, you'd a dide to see the teacher and the school committee, when I started in on Bob Ingersoll s lecture, the one that was in the ! papers when Bob was here. Yon see I thought if a newspaper that all the pious folks takes in their families, could publish Ingersoll's speech, it wouldn't do any hurt for a poor little boy, who A ain't knee high to a giraffe, to speak' it in school, but they made me dry up. . The teacher is a republikic, and when Ingersoll was speaking around . ' here "on politix the time of the elec- . ion, the teacher said Bob was the smartest man this ceuntry ever pro- - duced. I heard him say that in a corcus, - -when he went bumming around the ward . settin em up nights, specting to be superinten dent of schools. : He said Bob' In- Lgersoll, just took the cake, and '-I-. think it was darn mean in hrfco go- back on Bob and me too, just catiee there was no 'lection. The school committee made the teacher stop me, and they asked me if I didn't know any other piece to speak, and I told . them I knew one of Beecher's, and . they let me go ahead, but it was one of Beecher's new ones where he said he didn't believe in hell, and afore I . got warmed np they said that was enough of that, land I . had to wind up on "Mary had- a little Lam." None of them didn't kick on Mary's Lam, and I went through it, and they let me go home. That s about the safest thing a boy can speak in school, now days, "Mary had a Lii tle Lam' or "Twinkle. Twinkle Lit tle Star. Chat s about up to the average intelleck of the committee. But if a boy tries to branch out as a statesman, they choke lihi off. Well, lam going down to the river, and I will leave my coat and hap by . the wood yard, and get behind the wood, and you steer pa down j,here and " you will see some tall weeping over them clothes, and maybe pa will jump in after me, andxUien I will' come out from behind theKQQd and throw in a board for him r tdwwim ashore on. Give my pocket comb to my chum," and the boy jwent 'out and hungup a sign in front of the grocery, as follows ; "Pop corn that the cat has slept in, cheap for pop corn balls ifor sociables.' Peck's Sun. . " . K'-.-v. ,: ; -. P. O. Cats. Many people will be surprised to learn, that the Post Of fice Department has on its pay roll about one thousand cats i which are . , i .. i. . i . i i i reguiariy m ii employ turouguoui, the country, and aire paid for their sarvices with food and shelter. These estimable creatures make themselves very useful by keeping rats and mice out of the mail matter. Their num ber and the cost of their maintenance are strictly accounted for, and when any one of them declares a dividend that fact is duly reported and provi sion is made for the newcomersJ I v : TKe Sentinel. The plumbers' pipes' are lai for a big spee next summer, j Coffins on the instalment plan are the lates. A boy of twelve years whp dosen't know more 'concerning I the world ly side of the world than his grand father did at thirty. -A young man who isn't trying to devise more whereby he may earn a livelihood without wearing corns on his hands or soiling his clothes. A five hundred dollar monu mentover the grave of a country editor who has devoted his whole life tot serve the public and help to build up every public enterprise started on foot in the county. ' : ?- .' A man who deesn't think that he could go to the legislature and re verse our code of laws soj that every body would be pleased, the burden of taxes lemoved and everybody star ted.on the road to prosperity. A farmer who owes the reutoval of the mortgage from bis frm to th'e fact that he visited the nearest village every day and idled away his time discussing the wrongs inflicted upon. labor by capital. ;- f il i I - 4- 4 I 1 : -I-t