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FEARLESSLY THE RIGHT DEFEND IMPARTIALLY THE WRONG CONDEMN. VOLUME I. POLKTON, ANSON CO., K C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1875. 43. ' ! NIDI BEll at Lact. n i Xo more beneath t-f e' daily cross To ben.l pritb falterui- btepa and blow ; Xomnm ia aU the heart desires TteUiteniot-a of lots to know ; rCojucrc to force a careless mirth lilSe struggling it the tear' repressed ; S"o laora to toil wit a fainting BtrengGi, Eofrly, calmly, laid to res! I WonzKil no more by .cruel tommies Xo mare rcnlex-j by honest Tloubt ; . No moro difcheartened by defeat Where life's bait efforts were pouroi out ; No more tlrcuja endless eeemiu- nights, t ati;j: aiul prayerless to repine I L'u'ro iMovI now ! A deep repose, rcrferf apJloDgdosired, i tline ! the eo vxtms r in tj:j:. I ..-.' J asws Jiluoy wai so handsome ! -He had fair, ire-rh complexion-' .straight iea tiiivs, ihscn hair, aud i liaughty expres s'on. lie w.v. the young aud prosperous propriuinr .jf a country hotel, where Miss liijaiiy W dour wei?t to recruit her health. Ljiiivwai a spoiled child; a petTfed beauty, an 'tre3. a Confirmed coquette, ana two-iiy year old, though her slight figure,, na,l small, eluidbh features, niidb hr look little more than sixteen. Eaiuy'3 principal cause of suffering "arose from her dark blue eyes, which threatened serious results to the vision,; R?movod from the fashionable life she had led from childhood, no acquaintances iu tht place, no one to admire her, no one to llirt with ; not allowed to read, write, sew, or use her eye 3 in any way ; no one to walk with save the ancient auiit, wiio was guide, philosopher, friend, and duenna, . poor little Emily found time hanging heavily on. her hands. "She wearied of the rolling hours," as Tc-imrsou hath it ; or, as sh le33 ele gantly expressed it, she was "regularly bored to death." She couldn't sing and play all day long, nor walk; from morn ing till night ; and sheTcouldn't endure Aunt Charlotte's elocutionary efforts to entertain her. ' One day tbey were sitting on '.the bal cony, the aunt poring over a dreary Txok, little Emily yawning "wearily irv re sponse, when all of a sudden a trim equipage dashed up to the door, and. James Rodney sprang to I the ground. He looked up a3 . Emily looked down, took off his hat, and bowed gracefully but coldly. Miss . Wilbur did the same, disdainfully. She was haughty and su percilious to him, because, mentally as well ps actually, she looked down upon him. : . ana yet wny snouia l r siiq inquir ed, aloud, in reply to her ; own train of thought. "Why should you what, dear?" said the mild aunt. Emily blushed, and bit her lip, in con fusion' at her inadvertence. " Nothing, auntie," she. laughed? inn reply; " I was only thinking." "Aloud? That's a very .bad sign. I'm afraid you're much worse, child. Hadn't you better take that last new medicine a little oftener ?" "He is certainly very handsome," continued Emily, musing. "Who? Doctor Wellache? I can't say I agree with you, dear,' unless it was a long time ago certainly years before he took 'to wearing that coffee-colored wig. - "Coffee-colored wig!" echoed Emily, and laughed out long and merrily. Mr. Rodney, who had been busying himself about the horses all this time, caught the silver-toned sound, - and looked up again, frowning deeply, saying to himself, " She is laughing at me at my country way, no doubt. Still, she might be more polite than - to laugh be fore my very, face.- How impertinent these fine young ladies from town are ! Thank heaven, I'm heart-whole ; but 'if ever I should marry, it shall be some un affected country lass," with none of your town airs and graces." - ' And, so thinking, Mr. Rodney disap peared under the balcony, aad was soon lost in hi3 multifarious duties of land 'lord. Still, he had time occasionally to .think of Miss Wilbur; and, whenever he did so, he got into a very bad humor, and slapped down whatever he happened to have in his hand with some muttered derogatory remark on that young lady, who never before had looked on mortal man but to charm his eyes and enslave his heart. I After hi exit, Miss Emily sat on the balcony, cogitating thus: j . "Ho is very " handsome ! It would help to pass the time. He's just as much of a gentleman in his manners as many a fashionable grandee. Besides, I can cut huu whenever I choose, just as that gen tleman did when somebody claimed ac quaintance with him on the score of hav ing met him at Bath. 'Ah, true 1 ' re plied the gentleman; 'and I should be very happy to meet you again at Bath!' I can do the same to Mr. James Rodney, and I'd like to serve him out for taking no more notice .of mo than if I were not" ' . A beauty, she meant; for flattered.' little Emily was accustomed to have people gaze after her in the streett and start with pleasant surprise when they first saw her; And to have been weeks in the same house, with a young and handsome man without his falling hope lessly in loVe with her, nor even to. have tacitly "expressed his acknowledgment of her cliarms by admiring, glances, cut her to the quick. She worked herself-into a passion. " The man's a fool ! a boor ! a coun try clown, for. all ho looks so distin guished ! I do believe he hasn't the sense to know when he 'gazes on beauty's brow.' He don't know enough to look upon a pretty woman when he sees her, and I have a great mind to " Well, whatever were the result of those cogitatiens, to tell the plain, unvarnished truth about Miss Wilbur, she resolutely threw herself in his way, and persistent ly made herself agreeable to him. She thought him very intelligent "for a country landlord," and superbly hand some. $ut wpy was it lie seemed to stand proof against her various fascina tions when so many of his betters had succumbed?. She was determined that he should giveup'his heart, and then she would nave her revenge. Revenge for what? Why, that he had not fallen, pierced by the arrows of the merciless little Cupid ' who perched himself on pretty Emily's ivory shoulder, and launched his cruel arrows in every di rection. 'j James jrtodney was one of those to whom the old proverb of " still waters running deep" would well apply. He had iar greater perceptive faculties and strength of character than Miss Wilbur dreamed of. She readily mistook his silence for impenetrable stupidity, whereas he had fathomed her transparent little plot3 to come across him, and had a3 resolutely made up his mind to appar ently resist her blandishments as she had that he should feel har power. At the same time, he had fallen in love with her almost as first sight, and the struggle was hard to keep to himself under the fire of-her bright and laugh ing eyes. Helmet her with unappre- ciative coldness, her playful badinago with indifference, her fravetv with si- lenco, and her soft, appealing glances with unauswering stolidity. These were tfcetics little Emily had nevor before encountered, and they wrought her up to .fever pitch. Vexed, irritated, annoyed, "her vanity wounded, she t nought of httle else than how to circumvent him. Sha dreamed of his straight nose by nisrht, and of his flaxen hair by day, and thought with delight of his delicate, aristocratic mustache ; then questioned herself as to the possi bility ox enduring love m a country hottdr awtiy from town and her grand friend ?, who would, no doubt, cut her az she had originally intended to .cut James Rodney. So greatly had her ideas changed since she first began to swing round the magic circle of flirtation, that she fired up at the thought of any one " looking down" on him. Love i3 an. edged tool, and not seldom cuts . both ways; and by little Eniily'c imaginings it will be Keen that she had been playing with fire and had signed her heart. - TheHtaith is, phe was now as infatu ated as James Rodney himself, only our town belle had not the self-restraint of our country landlord, nor his cool, self denying resolution. By the time the autumn had come "her soft eyes, her low replies," un consciously to herself had revealed to him the state of her feelings ; still, EgrJf, memoering ner original uisaain, ne od stinately refused to see her sufferings, or to confess himself in love with the metropolitan heiress. Moreover, it amused liim to reverse the usual order of tilings, and to compel her to do the wooing. She was almost crazed with doubt by this time. - ; As the guests began to leave, Rodney had more leisure, whioh he graciously devoted to Miss Wilbur, which she more graciously accepted, and the aunt most graciously permitted, reasoning, as her niece had done that it did not matter who they went about with in a country village, where no one knew them. Be sides, they could drop him whenever they liked, and it would be so dull with out him he was so pleasant, so kind what could they do without his thought ful attentions ? Above all, be never pre sumed on the acquaintance ; so what harm could come of it ? None did," until one day they went fishing. Aunt Charlotte had a headache and could not go, for which she never forgave herself for years after. She did not think that a climax must come to everything, and it would have come some other time to our lovers when she was absent. Emily had, perhaps; never heard fish- ing descnoea as "a Daii a& one ena oi the rod, and a fool at jthe other." Sit ting there, on the green banks of the. river-side, listening to the murmuring of the stream ; with the waving boughs of the autumnal trees overhead, and that dear, pensive Rodney beside her, all her " fancies turned to thoughts of love." At last, the enamored couple, each lighiing against the heart, got on that most dangerous subject, love ! Rodney, out of sheer fun and obstinate pursuance of his plan, in contradistinction of and in direct opposition to hers, determined to make her feel herself hopelogsly en tangled in the net she had spread for him. He declared deceitful pale-face ! that he had never been in love. "Never?" reiterated Emily, looking down. " Never !" emphatically repeated Rod- fcey,;, enjoying her disappointment, '1 V " You have !" rejoined httle' Emily, suddenly determining to carry the war right into the enemy's country. " I have not." '" No contradictions or untruths. You not only have been in love, but are now." "I'm not." "You are!" "With whom?" , . "With me !". .- '' . This was a flash of triumph, a3 if. she had surprised his secret, and nothing was left for the vanquished foe but to throw down his arms and beg forgiveness of the victor. Instead of which, James Rodney looked steadfastly into her flush ing face with a cold, sarcastic smile, and said, deliberately, "I have allowed you to think so, Mis3 Wilbur, but it is time to undeceive you. You thought to break a country heart for pastime ere you went: to town. But you failed completely, and the country heart ' not only openly rebukes you for your unhallowed spirit of coquetry, but turns the laugh on you. Little,' Emily rose up, flaming with mortification and indignation. Exposed found out trapped played with to be laughed at a town belle by a country gawk!. And she had loved the m fellow, too, thatfvvasthe worsfr-d4t! Slier ero, trembling with anger, and burning "with the ignominy .of defeat. . Rodney sat still, quietly sneering out wardly, but inwardly rejoicing' that he thus had power to move' the haughty beauty. At last she found voice enough to say, "Laugh at me ! Yeu ! Recall your words, or I'll throw myself into the river before your mocking face !" " Oh, no you won't," answered Rod ney, with a light 'laugh. "It's safe enough to threaten when you know I?m near enough to pull you out. I'd have to do that much for common politeness, but, mind you, not for love's sake. You're afraid to throw yourself in afraid of drowning." "Ami?" "Yes, I think so indeed I feel cer tain that you are. " "I'm not afraid." . "You are." . " You'll see, monster !" With that, poor jaded httle Emily, half distracted, suddenly ran to the bridge, a few steps distant. As she reached the middle of it, she cast a be seeching look at Rodney, a3 if imploring him to relent, and take back his cruel words before it was too late. He glanced up at her with a smile of doubt, and coolly threw his line far out into the stream. Maddened by hi3 indifference, Emily . leaped, forward over the bridge, and fell into the river exactly where his fish-hook was. . It got entangled in her dress, and dragged the rod out of his hand. Rodney, with one bound, plunged into the river, and soon brought to slfore the dripping- girl, rod, and line, and hook, and all. His next manly move ment was to take her in his arms, kiss ler, and wildly implore her forgiveness, while he carried her back to the hotel, where her aunt screamed madly that "her darling niece was dead!" and to ' bring that last, new medicine ! " . ' ; Emily lingered a long time on a sick bed; but never was there such a, heart broken, penitent lover as poor Rodney. At last he made his peace, for they had both suffered too much of a shock and a fright to tease each other any more, or to trifle with their hearts'. When the invalid grew convalescent, Rodney obtained her father's consent to their marriage by intimating that, though it would be unpleasant, it was still ble to do without his benediction. Years after, the "obdurate father" lost his wealth, and our country landlord be came one of the greatest hotel proprie tors in England; then, and not before, did he become reconciled to httle Em ily's choice. "Better late than never," tritely re marked Rodney, who also occasionally facetiously remarks that it does not fall to the lot of every man to catch a wife when he goes fishing. His Gold. A Dubuque man went abroad first burying his surplus wealth, six thousand dollars, in gold, in a field. On his return, the . place having been made a hog pasture, he was unable to find, by reason of much rooting,, the place of burial. Finally the hogs them selves found the treasure, and over to its overjoyed owner. roct?d it ;V : i" All About Utiles. Nellie, a mule owned by Lord Gifford in England, a few weeks ago fell in can terinsr across the field and broke her neckl This fact would not be worthy of X)rnment had not the hybrid had a his- torfk- Nellie was a hunting mule. "Standing over fifteen hands, gentle, untiring, and with a good mouth- a rarity in a mule there were few runs in which .she was Out she did not see the . end of; ,no fences . too cramp or big for hex,"' It' i3 seldom that a miile has speed enough to keepi up with the hounds, therefore Nellie was an exception among hybrids. - We are told, says Turf, .Field and Farm, that she was a, great favorite) in the parish," and that as no fence could keep her, she was allowed to crop where she pleased. She had reached an advanced age when - she - met her death by accident. ', To a Southern man there is nothing remarkable, in the per formances of Lord Gifford's mule. .When a mule takes it into his head to roam at will about the country, no ordinary fence will hold him, and heplears with ease inclosures which would stop the best hurdle horse that ever ran for a purse. Hence, iwhen on the Southern planta tions the mules are. turned out to graze, the most enterprising of the drove- are hobbled or yoked, to prevent them from leading the others into mischief . Saddle" mules are not uncommon in the 'South west, and occasionally command very high prices. We remember one about fifteen hands high, a mare mule, be longing!, to a wealthy Red river planter in Louisiana, who could pace her ten miles an hour with ease, and keep it up half a day, which was thought chesfp at twelve hundred dollars. For hunting in mountainjous districts no horse that .was foaled cam keep up with a good mule, nd we remember one in Rappahannock county, in Virginia, which was generally in the lead of a field of very bold riders. : The Vegetable Bitters JUan, Jtjsh Billings has this to say of the vegetable bitters man; 4. Whenever man-gita -dcnl trxolvo'-aml kan't think , ov nothin' to raze the wind with, and hiz unkle won't hay him boarding at "hiz housej enny longer, and hiz boots wants tapping the wust way, he. takes sum rubare root, a fu katnip blos soms and sum black cherry tree bark; and sokes them fourteen hours in cheap whisky and goes headlong into the life renovating tonik bizzness. , He plasters every fence, saw-mill log, stun wall and cbw's back from Portland, Me., to San Francisco, with red-yellow plakards, offering to heal the halt; make the blind talk "and deaf see, and renew the livers of all kreashun for one dollar and a quarter a bottle. j He takes rooms at some first-klass ho tel, drives four-in-hand and never is seen only on the jump. He iz az full ov bizness as the superin-- tendent ov a Sunda-skool on a piknik day; and kali on him when yu will to kollect yure little -bill. oy eight dollars, ho haz just left for Baltimore; "or won't be home from Nu Orleans until week after next. - I Theze men are not all ov them un- skrupulus; sum ov their kompounds are too simple to do enny hurt or good; and the wurst, pur haps, that can' be said ov them, iz, that. they knowingly practiss upon the kredulity ov human natur. The vegetabel bitters man iz akunning critter, full o v pomposity, frequently ackumulates & fortune, but he never kan entirely outlive a certain kind ov rubarb and katnip smell that scents his reputa- shun. ' V . ' . Tlie Next House. The World remarks that the Forty- fourth Congress will usher in a new era in the career of the republic. Though a Republican Senate and a Republican executive will' exist for two years after wards, the party, it says, will be render ed powerless for, further partisan action by the presence of a Democratic House of 'Representatives. The House will consist of 292 members. Of these 275 possi-Ohave alady been elected, and 17 remain to be elected during the year. Of those already elected 163 are Demo crats, 100 Republicans, 6 Independents, and there is one vacancy caused, by the death of Mr. Head, of Tennessee, Demo crat. The States yet for choose Repre sentatives are : New Hampshire (3), in March; Connecticut (4), in April; Cali fornia I (4), in September; and Missis sippi (6), in November. Conceding the Republicans five Representatives from Mississippi and two from the other States, the members to be elected this year will be, the editor says, Democrats, 10; Republicans, 7. The anti-Adminis tration majority in the next House of Representatives, therefere, will be not less than 78, and it may be 80. L He that abounds in excuses for un- warranted unkindnes3 " received, - robs 1 malice of its keen edge. COL.. LGfXG'S BATTLE. lf ith Tico Sleii He Fialtfa Ocer 400 anil Wins the Day. Thetory of Lieutenant-Colonel Long, an-'American ill the Egyptian service, and the1 light which won for him an eagle, is thus told: Lieutenant-Colonel 1 Long begins his report to General Gor don of the affair at , M'rooli, dated at Foweira, September 3," 1874, j by saying that on the - morning f the 17th of AugusJ he accomplished the navigation r of the Nile from UrondjDgani to Uganda ! (a navigation made for the first time), and that ho has "discovered an immense basin a lake the true source of the Nile (?), which delayed him and also pro longed hi3 route " I will give you the rsubstance of !hi3 report of " llaffaire t M'rooli." . - ' : ' ' At the debouching of this hitherto un- trayeled river, and near the mouth of the river . Kafon, and near M'rooli, he ex pected to be met by the ATtongolia (sheiks), who were ordered- by King, M'tesa to bring him supplies; His pro visions wer.e nearly exhausted, being re duced to three kilogrammes of farina.and three kilogrammes of beans. jOne of the M'tongolis had deserted hini at the be ginning ..of the journey. Toward noon he searched .the left bank, and fired his rifle two orJ three times, to fwarn of his approach the other M'tongoti, who, ac- to the agreement with M'tesa, ought to have met him there with sup plies. Judge of his astonishment, then, when- he saw push out from the tall grass that bordered the river a fleet of about thirty ' boats filled with Ivebai Regites to the number of 400L. 1 Shaking their lances, howling and yelling, and uttering frightful cries, they advanced upon him. There were in j his. party three combatants himself and the two soldiers; named Said and Abdel; the two servants and the three children were, of course, non-combatants. The colonel had a Reilly rifle; No. 8 elephant and the soldiers had Snyders. j The ,two caitoes were made fast together with strips of oth,. and then the pursued following, pressing hearer Turn calling out: . . .' ! ' ' " You can't escape ; you j die here." The colonel replied that it would be bet ter for them if they took themselves off. At noon the chief of the savages tried to turn their .right flank (if that is a naval expression), and to board the canoe. He had better minded the fire. A well-aimed shot from, the Reilly No. 8 struck the M'tohgoli chief in the breast, and he fell stone dead The : colonel tlien '. com manded a general fire from the whole artillery, and for ah hour, hei says, three rifle3 never did better work.1 At length the barbarians, .with terriblej loss, were beaten off , and. quitting their barks they j ran along the snore, attempting to ioa- ow the canoes by land. I The whole country seemed to Be up in arm3.; there was;a tremendous beating of! drums -and blowing: of horns. -'warning the assailed that they were not out of danger., The three men kept up a continujed and well directed hre upon the crowds clamoring along the banks, and the hot! shot at last; had the effect to scatter . the native.j, and. at set of sun they were . seen no more. -.. . '. -.. ; . - V - j Thus ended this lively .little battle; and without any injury to the httle company, except a blow on the noae- which the colonel received from a revolver in the inexperienced and nervous hand ' of ' a servant. Upon arriving at Foweira he learned from' direct sources that the M'tongolis lost eighty-two killed, includj ing two chiefs. We may well bdlieve that Lieut. Col. Long praises the courage land obedience . of Said and Abdel, and; recommends their promotion ' to the; jgrade of sergeant; and that the watchfu Khedivef has not delayed to promote the) lieutenant-colonel and decorate him with an order. ' A Narrow Escape. I In connection with GenJ Sheridan's present visit to New Orleans, the Gal veston (Texas) Mercury recalls .the fol lowing incident a3 occurring during the war : "The general had taken passage ion the Heroine, Oapt. Green to inspeci the lower forts, and night had set in bej fpre his task was completed. J The Httle craft was quietly working her way through the muddy river, and the gen eral, a3 was his habit, was sitting read ing on .the quarter deck, so . absorbed that he did not .pay much attention to a blank cannon shot fired across the bow of the boat ordering her to stop. Fol lowing it, however, came , a reminder from a shotted ' gun, when lone of the officers, rushing to the captain, asked him if knew he was passing Fort St. Philip. Of course the captain didn't; but Sheridan, overhearing the conversa tion, and taking in at a glance the peril ous situation, ordered him to! bring the boat to. She was at once boarded liy United State officers from the fort, who . informed the general that if she had coii-! was in the house. She attends doha tinued cn her course "they would hivjo i tipn3 regularly and does a good deal for been compelled to sink her. Tlte Unfortunate Clerks. I - ( j - - : The office of tl .6 Chief of the Bureau of Engraving! and Printing at Washing ton f wa3 earnest y; and vigorously be sieged, by a pjuml er of the discharged female employees, Itho morning after the j wholesale disdharte of the clerks. They jwere importunate to a degree that, waa distressing to the mcssengerflTho were obliged underj th ?ir directions to rcf uso them admittance i nto the sanctum of th chief, j notwitjhste riding: the fact that many told stories of suffering that were Ireally touching. One of them, a well preserved matron tol 1 how needful br salary j. was to ler arid her children. The messenger said,' 4 Madam I am sorry that I cannct listen th you;'but I really jtnust attend to the .wants of tho others who are hero." " Oh, sir," said (turning to a rep resentative of I thd fVtor, who was waiting to see the chief). H can't you do - nomo- thfng for me. I jm a woman ; you aro a man and car ta k to that doorkeeper better than I cau. Oh ! if you knew my troubles ; hew my little onos suf fered when I wa? out of this situation, and how I ha 1 to deprive them of little luxuries they so enjoyed when I was m, you w(jmld no:; refuse to try to get me in. A3k him, sn, for God's sake, to let mo in. 14 is bre4d a id life for mo !" ' Another one a young wonjan" held her breath almost M with anxiety when she asked the messenger to let ner in ; and when ehe. Iik& most of the rest, was refused entrancd Isha: took from lur pocket! a letter aid asked tho man to read it. Ho replied, with kindnesf, i" My dear miss, I cannot do bo; I haven't jthe time.".'; Then the young lady read it i aloud j to the)' by itanders, ami it : cm jveyed a story 'of s lffering. and privation that shamed the hearts of our l.-ginlntorM. She had to support her mother and two orphan children o ; her sister AH 'save j her were helpless and with the $o0 per month she had received, and tho hard work she had! performed aftor th i d.iy's labor t the treasury, she had kept them comfortably.. Bujt'liow could sho 'navo rnnVjfcrit.h tlU Inpl shft 1ia1, T-" Jv She had but littlq left, and soon it wduld. all be gone, j llr , soul was pravo ana willing, but theile ! was no wofk upon which to feed its willingness and cour age. She was soon broken in spirit, and craved pitifully the aid of all about her. She was soon; aftdrwafcli ' mad n glad 1 y the successful effjrt3 of a Virginia Con gressman who appeared with her card of restoration u hi3 hand and pho went on with & glad heart! and was followed with the sympathy of all who heard her story. What Jilt) lit Have Been " Yhat might iiavq ueen is toia in the following acdount of a thrilling oc- . currence on the ino of tho Marqiu tto, Houghton and Ontonagon railroad, iu the copper miinin 5 region, at the head of Lake Superior r j . Butt the princi al reason for. my wnt- inpr was to tell pu what hapitned to Johnny l Ie Wicd to run on thd Central, you: re mb?r): die was push ing oiie of .our big snow plows over the road with a;sixt4-ton engine, hucIi u wo have 1' to'u3bherf on account of heavy grades, and, had just stalled down a very long and heavy, grade near . " Mich igamee." Y!ou 1 now how they hive to run. Well, Joh i had just let lcroutfor wliat she was worth, when, 'on turning ft short curve, jha taw about a quarter of a mile ahead, a fo lr-horse team hitched to a sleigh thai wus caught in the track some aow. The tnen in charge seemingly made frantic tiiorts W get tho fleigh loose. but at lasl gave it up, and to'John ny's 1 surprise they all ran, off w lidrd as they could go icros3 tho fields. Jack threw her over as soon as th?y 'camo in sight, but tlie old thing was going -tx fast to alio w brakes to hold h. Then he opened his whistle, and " made her howL" 'Atjthatj tho horses began to get; restijre and scared, and at last gave a pluhgeall together that started the sleigh,. just in time for it w4nt by, jthe horses starting off on a run, but .were caiight by Jhe men in charge. As socn as Johnny stopped, ho wrfit in find onk if anv hurt had lecn. idone, and you may guess how he felt toIc-W onrWtvl . fh.lt till ftlflffll WaS loaded with eight hiwditjd pounds of nitroglycerine just from , the inagazino at Michigamee, enough to utart a young raHrpad in the" moon, if Jack had struck it. f SrccESs. An! old lady 111 Lockiort recently achieved eminence by carrying a quart of popped corn to a donation party, and eatihgt wo dozen fried oys ters a pound or; cracKers, tnrce bjiccs 01 fruit cake, half a, mince pie,: and some after which she was threatened with "spasms,!' and in the effort to pre vent it he sacrificed all the wine there j the church in that way.
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