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M THE ADVERTISES. d. TK. FA1SBROKKK. T. C KACKBB. FAIRBBOTaER &. HACKER, PaMlaliera and Proprietors. Published Every Thursday Morning AT BROWTTVIIXE. ITEBKASKJl. THIt3I, IN ADVANCE: ffTopr. wtywr ,, St 30 (., . onT- xaonUw . 1 00 f ropy. tbr months SO & :So paperwn; fromtHflic nnlilpaid for. ESTABLISHED 1S56. BEOWNYILLE, NEBSASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1877. VOL. 22. NU- 6. yFFCIAL PAFEB OF TKE0SU3T1: It EaDINO MATTER ONEYERYPAt'E Oldest Paper in tie State . M fc rtIT " TMW-"WamjJLttgSB3 TH'A Af rM w r " .if4:15 AJJYjara'isjaL V y w tlrytwiufMt local wtty-Owy . Z ; " " - . - jjy n transient aSvestJacaKaSB'anat to yaSB ' ' fferta actvane- OEEHHAL DIEEOTOEY. District Officers. Tt rorxn J&4tR. . f . i . -at ith XPSVX'rt9 aOTKiRt HilAIAM H. HOCtt Mrtrlrt Clerk. . A.CB121 DopM? (Aerfc. County OSoors. ""kvh b. fumnt v li-ref r majokis OMWtr Jw4e -Oerfc and Htmntyr TrMMarrr . hUertff t'roer 11 lULXORK. IIKX rT.AsTJ&lfo- V KRttlUHT.. lAMKhM.HACKEK. UN If. SHOOK. VTHAX lUUOTSlS, V. XL PKERV, 1 -Qin"intnnprs City Officers. - TCW Kufrr 2tayir -I'uWtfo Jwdgp n lflrttrat "W T KUJEKt- .EO H. UL'OK COUXCIXJCEK. r.ITTAKP j iV. ) U A JI"IiKIN,' VKW'KK, T 1 KILL. I t VUMIART, ' TTea$orer Uumhtil .14 Ward 2adWard jfedW&rd PROFESSIONAL CARDS. CTULL & THOMAS. O ATTOIUiEYS AT L.AAV. t -re wver Theodore Hill Oa,'a etace, twt- :i.x. T. SCHICK. A-TTOILN'KY ATLAAV. Mij-S consulted Hi eOrnuui laiiag. M " - nt dw U Coanty C lrk Oflht, Cwirt i -ijs BalhSlnc.BrownrUK.Nebraafca. J. H. BROADY. Attorney and Counselor ai .uaiv, ti-,, 1Tfr-nu. Baat.BrownrllltXete. YYT T. ROGERS. V . A Attnrnrr and Counselor at laiv. WH I jrtf f!irnt attpnttoij to aT5elbine6 i . r-jctnobMcare. Offlc 1b Urn Roy baUding. ."r wiiTlIlf.yrti. 7B. H0LT.ADA Y', Jl PJiyjilclan, Snrceon, Obstetrician. .rdo6id In ISM. Iocatd In rwavtle 1S. r-"-iai OtBt1nn imld U bttdrsaiiddt!-afHH tt o-nn and rhlldrfn. Offlee.41 Main atregt. c aTosborx. O. ATTOIWEY AT LAW. i iti 'No. "I Matn .trt. KrimuTlU-. Neb. p AT. CLIXE, FASIIIONAI t-f-, fasiiionahtt: rfa Mi li00T A5D SII0E XAKEK Bl i rTOM WORK ir.ad" t ordr. and lite always t xtnu-A. K.pnunrtrtlTn4prompydo. -: t o- S7 Main strtret. Bcnrayillf .Nri. J W. IIDSON, uacics3iitii axd HOUSE SIIOEIt. T ork lcmf to erd- and sa.ttoBrt!na cHnraMI r 'rsf street. awa Xaln and Atlantic. Brovra G1VETHE OLD MAN A CHANCE FEDORAS. I'TAiri. IX- fLOUR,FEED,PRODUCE Canard F raits, (audita. Twfaacca. Ac. EIIOWVILLE. - - - XEBBASKA. Cfin7t paid for Butter JtJSggs TA1XOR, BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA. uttiis.or OHtUiiR and Makin. done to ..r.l. r on nlHWt notUsc aud at reasooiale j.rlc. H nd long experience and can warrant aaUsfactiop. ll at his ihop at T'hi.leno on Atlantic street. ix nnowxriLLE tjie LAST iriZEK OF EACH MOXTH. MATH TST7 ? x y. . JSJ c 31101V5VILLE, XEBICASltA,; iiiJlIlUUii Meat Market. BODY & BBO. ItUTCILVIlS, UROWATILLE. SHSBRASIiA. iood, Sxceet, Trcsli ISicat Alwas on hand, and satisfaction guar antivi t aTl eutotmTK. HAYS YOTJ SSSN iuBmBPim I Ilii MIjjI llilli Ha lng purchased the ' E JL. 1 I? EC . IV T " .LITERTAIDFEEDSTABLES I w1h to annrmnro that I am prepared to flo a nr!t class livci LuslnesK. JoftJi Borers. IfAGON glACKSMiTHHOP ONT DOOK WET OF COCHT HOrSE. TT7AG0N MAKING, Repairine:. Plows, and all work done in the best maaaeran-l ir, shrt notice. Satisfaction sniaraa. eed UivehimacaAl. f54-ly. Clocks, Watches, Jewelry JOSEPH SHUTZ, TTo. 59 Main Street Bro-wnville. r? Kwiw onstat'T- on handa1ar7KBd well g a?.orte!.x k: rs t."-. articles in his line 5rlfcg;Krp.t:nni; "r.'' .j. VTatcl.vs andJe-velry BatsdTi''Oi' h rtn ::cr. wtr-ii.sonablerale6. JLt WORK Tr--LJZIiLXTEI. B. B. COLHAPP, jXanalacturer of 59 Main Street, IJroviiTlIIe, Xcliraslta. Orders- From Keig'nboring Towns Solicited. Chea-p Guns for the People. DBbiHbtGBas.frflBiPto?58. Breach -awl- Ja-Mt I, ran, from ?S to Jtw- ainKte w mhiis. Sf mSii. j3s.W ma add i Breech era. IWVOivers, a, ana . jutwwera- ; w j-. 64 sent Ty Kipress C. O. B-. wt prtvilece to exaMtac Prtee bat free. AAtras.Cruattt ext ern !an Works, PiUaeureu, .Pen. ' '". "1V . " .".. MUhtMi UNCLE FRED EWS I ill it Jb A && a&S Q& & 4 ma "A &r A.. ZROZBISOUSn vi I r Egg fi -vj I 1 life -r eBbI -4 s; iv& i .8 .ira t & ' "-. rE-VLEP. isr I00TS AND SHOE custox woiiK TfA-nTi TO OJZDJZTl. Repairing Neatly Done. Srownuiilc, - Scbraslza. E. HXTDDABTS 3?eace and. Quiet r""-" -a Saloon and Billiard Hall ! THE BEST OF Brandies, Wines, Gins, Alcohols And "Wliijslsles. No. 49 3Ialn Street, Opposite Sherman House, Mro-vvnviHc, Nebraska. B.F.SOTJDEE, Maaofecturer and Dealer in CmJ ST --T&sT , U 01 UttUULLUf COLLARS, BRIDIiSS, ZIXK TABS, BRUSHES, BLASKETS 33 3 - - HoTdgs, &c. BR.OlVXyiL.L.1:, XEB1RASKA. Full stock rwulr made goods constantly on band Keeps a fu!Illne ol BBBUL USES ft CASKETS COXTiVnA OX 11 AN I. 5 llain Street, BROWN YILLE.SER. ORGANIZED, 1870. STATE BAHK f IE r lira AT SROWATILLE. CAPITAL, $100,000 Transacts a Kcneral b ' Drafts on all the pric' Kine business, sells IdUes of the TJINTTED STATES AB EUKOPE tar Special aeoommodations granted depositors. t STATS, COTJNTT & CIT SECTJEITIES, EiOTJGEtT AiXr SOLD. OFFICERS. W.H.KcCREERY, : : President. W.YI.HACKKEIT, : Vice President. H. E. GATES, : : : : : Cashier. DIRECTORS. X.. HOAPI.KY. J.T. HECKR, V'M.K IHWVEE. V. X-KACFFAtArs. w.w.uackma u v. lett. w.uuxccke:ry. Iboymybeer byJa&e. I don't. A. S. ILWTKiyS. TTS. P. BVTTTf ITgTrrTH-ng Sz, Sniitll, TONSOWAL AUTISTS, 1st door -R-est Frst National Bank. JBroidiviUc. - JYeltrtzsha. Shavinc. Shampooing, Hair CalUae, Jfcc, done tu the hlsbct styl of the nrt. TOOK PA1KONAOE SOOCSCESO. fc Bs c UAPHCW u J II Dili ii Ills 11 MUSH U SIM bft DIFP1DEYCE. "I'm artier axln Blddr dear' Aim! here be paused awhile To frlng his words the merest mlta Willi sometfeiK ot n smile. A smite thditonad Its Image In n face of froanteoos mold, -Whose liquid oyes were peeping : Prom a broidery of gold. "I've come to ax ye, Biddy dear. If" then be stepped a?alii. As If bis heart had oabWed o'er And overflowed his brain ; Ills lips were twitching nervonsly O'er what they had to tell. And timed their qnavGrs with the eyes That gentlyroae and fell. "I've come" and then he took her hands And heid thorn In bis own "To ax and then he watahed thebads That on her elieeks had blown ".Me party dear' and then he heard The throbolug of her heart. That told how love had entered In And elBimed its every part. "Och ! don't be tazin' me," saW she. With Jnst the faintest sigh, "I've slnse enough to see yoa've cgezc; But what's the rayson why?" "To ax" and once again the tongue Foreoore Its sweets to tell. "To Bji-r4fXrt. ZfmHiffan Mad cayptgs to tell " ' CHOKER'S EESHREEOTION. The only true ghost story I know, Is the story of Choker's ghost. That is a positive fact, well attested. All the neighbors know what happened. All the neighbors know how it began; and as it Is the story of Choker's ghost it could not have begun until Choker died. Old Choker he had been called for a good many years before he was actu ally old, I should suppose; but he was a very queer fellow, a man without relatives or friends, and who seemed to want none. He was a mysterious man, too. He had a wooden leg, and no one knew how he came by it. He had a black patch over one eye and no one could tell why he wore it. He had a rusty wig, and there was no man intimate enough to know whether he adopted it because he was bald or because he was gray. He bad ft deposit in the bank, and no one knewjiow he earned the mon ey. He came'a stranger to Grabtown, and bought a house and little farm there, giving his name as Guy Chok er. - siLiWHlJa.1Jb-irt about him, except that he had the best crops to be seen for miles around.i He never went to church, and never cheated a neighbor. Xo one knewanythingagainst him; as they knew nothing, they suspected a great deal ; and when at last he was found dead, one morning, all bottled up curiosity popped out as cham pagne does when it is uncorked. Everybody wanted to see him, where he lay. c. Everybody attended the inquest, and everybody went to the funeral. It wac decided tuat lie aieu or apo- plexy. There were no relatives to see him but there would probably be plenty left to pay for his funeral, so there was no difllculty about that. The clergyman said a doubtful sort of good word for him, and as he was dead, no one contradicted it. And Peggy Kinder, who said she wasn't afraid of anything, was put in to the house, to take care of it. She knew old Choker very well, having done washing for him for live years. That night the weather being chilly spring weather, she made up a good fire in the kitchen, and slept on an old lounge there. Once in the night she woke up, and thought she heard the clump, clump of a wooden leg overhead ; but though she felt a chill run up her back bone at the thought, she made up her mind that it was all nonsense, and went to sleep again. At six she was up, and had pat more coal on the fire, and wa3 filling the kettle, when positively no fancy about it this time she did hear that clump, clump, again, across the room upstairs, halfa dozen times,then down the stairs. The sound of Chokers wooden leg, and nothing else ; and as she turned about shaking and trembling, she saw Choker himself at the door, in his big flowered dressing gown, with the black patch over his eye, and the brown wig on. "Lord have mercy on us !" cried Peggy. Then, as Choker nodded cheerfully, and said : "Breakfast ready yet?" she grew bewildered. "I been having a horrid dream, sir," she ssid, getting away from the figure though, as she spoke; "and it's as natural as life. I dreamed that yon were dead, sir, but it was so natural that you skeer me." "Do I?" said old Choker. "Why bless ye, we must all die." "Yes, sir," said Peggy. "And all be buried, too," said Chroker. "I know that," said Peggy. "Only all of us won't stay buried," saidChoker, putting his finger to his nose. And at that Peggy never waited even for her bonnet, but bolted out of the house and came tumbling into her daughter's half an hourafter, shaking with fright, and vowing she had seen Choker's ghost. The daughter was nearly as much frightened as the mother, and the newsspread.bat nobody believed it. At last every one aaid it was redicu- lous, and that Peggy must have been drinking. She did drink more than was good for her now and then ; and at lastthe undertaker himself accompanied by the coroner the two men nervous on j the subject of ghosts, and besides, who had a thorough knowledge of Chok er's death and burial went to the house together.-accompanied by a train of admirers, who kept at a respectful distance, aa they knocked at the door. There was no answer to tho first knock, but having knocked again, clump, clump, came a wooden leg across the passage, and there in the door stood old Choker. Every one knew him. He wore his old -dressing gown, he had the black patch over his eye, his wig set a little on one side, as usual. "Walk in, walk in, gentlemen," he said. "I believe, Mr. Undertaker, I owe you a small bill. You are prompt in calling for ; but never mind, never mind. Let me see the bill's amount and I'll settle it ; if not to-day, some other day." The two men drew back. "I have no bill, sir," said the un dertaker ; "but hearing a report that that" "That Peggy has seen my ghost, I suppose." suid Choker. "Very well, I sir. draw vour own conclusions ; but you deserve to be paid, You buried me very respectably, indeed ; and your jury gave a correct verdict, Mr. Coroner. It was apoplexy. Ah, well don't go ; don't be in a hurry." But his visitors had retreated. "It's Choker," said the undertaker to the coroner ; "yet I burled him, and he was a dead man then.' "It'a Choker, but he was dead when I held an inquest over him," said the coroner. They hurried away, and the crowd hurried away, too. That day, the grave was examined. It was empty ; even Choker's coffin was gone. After that every one believed the story, but the clergyman and a scien tific gentleman. The former declared that it wa3 wicked to believe in ghosts ; the lat ter, that there was no such thing as ghosts. "Choker is not in the house at all," he said, "and his body is in the grave, but your imaginations have been so worked upon that you fancy you saw him in the house, and you believed Ut'J iSrfi - fessTfe - r! When a man is dead and buried, that's an end of him.'' "But go to the house, and see for yourself," said some one. "Alive or dead, Choker is there." "Sir," said the scientific gentleman, "neither alive or dead, can he be there. A body cannot burst its coffin lid. arise through the turf, and walk about the town as usual. Nor can a spirit exist without a body. If I should see Mr. Choker, I should not believe I saw him. My common sense tells vae that I cannot see him and I never al low my sense to contradict my com mon sense. The house is emp;y. There is no one there. It is all imag ination." However that may have been, every one else in Grabtown saw him, sooner or later. The'lamp burnt bright In his win dow at night. The garden prospered ander his ghostly tillage. He drew the money at the bank as usual. As a ghost, it seemed very proper that he should have no friends and no kindred. People avoided his house of nights, and boys ran scampering away when they saw him plodding along lonely lanes by moonlight, and old folks shook their heads, and said it was cu rious ; but there was Choker, a fact to every one but the scientific gentleman who, when he passed him muttered to himself, "Optical illusion ;" and whether he was a ghost, or aman en dowed with the power of defying death and the undertaker, no one felt prepared to say. He was known sometimes as "Chok er's ghost," and sometimes as "Chok er that came to," but no one doubted for a moment that somehow he was Choker and the very Choker tbey had seen dead, subjected to an inquest and buried ; and all went on for ten good years, and people had grown used to it, when one cold wintor morn ing a small note was brought to the doctor, bearing these words. "Come to me : I'm ill. Chokep.." "Don't go dear," said the doctor's wife. "I must," said the doctor and he went accordingly. He found the door of Choker's house open, and the popular ghost himself wrapped In a blanket by the fireside. "Come in," he said, gasping for breath ; "I wasn't sure you'd come. I've been feeling the inconvenience of being supernatural since I've been too ill to make myself a cup of tea. Just see what's the matter with me, will you ? I think ifs serious, what ever It is." The doctor did his best. His private opinion was that Chok er, whoever he might be, had not long to live. Whether he had ever been dead be foe or not he was certainly going to die now. "It's as I thought," said Choker, looking into the doctor's face. "I knew the malady was incurable, years ago. But the end is at hand now, eh?" "In the case of any other man, I should say yes," said the doctor ; "but I ezaraiasd yoc onee when yoe were certainly a dead man, and I cannot judge for you. I don't ask your ewati- I dence, Mr. Choker, but the aSkir fe a puzzle to me, 'though of ooceso I have never taken you for a ghost.' - "I think I'll confide in yon doctor," said Choker ; only you muet promise to keep my secret wbilel live. The night before you held the inquest on old Choker, I came Into GraWown. I had been.an.aotor once, thena sol dier; lostaleg, and came hme to starve to death, or beg. "The doer of this house sted open, and in It stood a man. I went to him. "Sir' said I, "they say that a fellow feeling makes us wonderful kind. You've ea wooden lag, and, perhaps know ltjsc'tjust the thing to stump over the eoontry at night with. "It was old Choker I spoke to, and what he said was " 'I deirH understand about your poetry or 3cripture, or whatever it is but I do know about wooden leg3. Come in. "I went in, and he gave me supper and a bed in the garret. We both saw that we looked considerable alike, and laughed at it. That night I slept in the garrst, and when I awoke in the morning, I found my host was dead, and the house full of neighbors. "I felt that as the death was sudden It might behest for me to keep out of sight. I was as sorry for it as a stran ger could be, but my being there might be considered very suspicious. I kep hidden up. in the garret, in a great lumber closet, ami heard poor Chok er's afialntjSiiked over, and learnt big habits. "Some of his ciothes were up in the garret,and an old wig, and one of the patches he had worn over his eye was there, too ; and there was an old dressing glass in the corner. I tried on the wig and the patch, and saw how like old Choker they made me look, only -I was not so brown. Then I took some walnuts that lay on the floor, and rubbed the juiee on my face. It increased the resemblance, so did whitening my eyebrows with & bit of chalk. And I sat down and looked at myself, and the plan that af terwards aarried out earae into my head. I would play Choker, as I knew I could. "I studied his voice and movements well, and as I told you, had once been an actor, and so I should step into a decent homi and comfortable means, y5nceql'frattrfag after hewas buried, I came out of the garret, and went to the grave-yard ; and, not to enter into details, you'll find Choker's coffin in the old vault beyond hi? grave. Then I went back, and tried the effect of my disguise on poor Peggy Kinder. It satisfied me. I haven't led a merry life, though I knew it would not be a long one. "But I've been very comfortable, and shan't die a dog's death out of doors, as I once expected. I've never been afraid that Choker really would haunt me, though I am a trifle super stitious, for I think he couldn't find mueh fault with me, as he had no re lations, never made a will, and couid take neither his bank book nor his house and farm into the other world with him. "And now you have had the story, and you have promised to keep the secret until the last. Yoc can see, now perhaps, that Choker and I were a good deal alike. I'm four inches tall er.than he was, for one thing, aad my' nose Is higher. But there's a good deal in make-up." These were almost -the last'jwords Choker's ghost ever spoke, for his end was very near, and it was not until "Death had taught him moca Than tats aetaneboly world doth know," that the doetor let Grabtown know the sequel of the ghost story. i - Ti'hjSke BlBshed. It is vary common here for men to rise early in the morning, and take a plunge in the turf before the feminine world is astir. It is pleasant to run into the embrace of the briny deep disencumbered of eloib.es, as I know by repeated experinees. It is one of my favorite entertainments at the sea side, and I consider it the only re munerative method of bathing for members of my sex. Men are not al ways invisible to womenkind, even before sunrise, as an incident of yes terday shows. Half-a-dozen men staying at the West End had left their beds soon af ter dawn, and were sporting In the surf in a state of nature, never sus pecting that they would be seen by any women. It seeraa, however, that a young ooupie, who were in love with one another when young folks get np very early, "it is a sure sign that they are smitten had risen about 4 o'clock, with the intention of taking a long stroll before breakfast, fancy ing they could not see enough of one another in any erdiaary day. They were walking slowly and sentiment ally along the bluff, not far from the hotel, when he perceived the men bathing. Passion could not extin guish his sense of humor, and so he said to his fair companion, with a show of indignation, directing his gaze toward the masculine plungers : It is a shame that women should expose themselves so in public.' Of oourselhis comrade, resenting the imputation upon her sex, replied with earnestness and intensity, 'They are not women l1 0, are n't they, iadeed ? i squired the wag. 'Well, I stipeae your erea are better than mine?' 1feEirdMsrsfcjg hfeJbfe lvzvamlFh3 IMm, ei rr?..? "m ""-Hua ii a iiwwMaMBMEajBBSMpasaraaur Jsp ately indicated ooasoiouenegs tratbe had fallen into the trap sc adroiiiy prepared for her. Ltmg Branch Cbr. Giobe Democrat. IiAIBIXG A CIHCUS. The Bftrfcy Wiw Stole Tweaty Head of Sells Bros. Circus Ktrses TakeH is. Last week Sells Brothers' circus per formed at Trenton, in Grundy county and during the sight, it is reported, twenty headof horses werestelen from their stables, including two spotted ponies. It seems incredible that the thieves couid have made any great headway with so large an amount of stock, and yet they succeeded la evad ing pursuit and keeping out of the reach of the officers of the law until ten o'elock yes terday morning, when they were overtaken between Indepen dence and Hickman's Mill, nea-rRhe-town, captured and returned to Inde pendence. They were ehiefty follow ed by reason of the spotted poniee, tel egrams describing them harefsg been sent to ail parts of the country. Wednesday night the horses were pastured near Independeeee, the thieves appearing to think tbey bad placed sufficient distance between themselves and the soeae of their ex ploit to relax their vigilance. We un derstand that one of the arrested p& tiea is Capt. David, a former Jaeksoo county man, who served during the war in Col. Penick's eoainiand. Katua dip 'Journal of Commerce. 'Open-lHtek SWrts a They were a sleepy lot on the 4 o' elock car going down Michigan Ave nue yesterday. The day was hmtr tbe dust thick, and oaly one maa, stud be beyond the prise of life, opeaed bis eyes as a wousian crowded iat with a long, paper box under ber arm. His eyes opened a little mere as she sat down near him, and, presently, tbey widened to their fullest fasten ms be read the label on the box : 'On doaen open-back shirts.' Ha ghuieed from the box to tbe female aud back, and groaned out : 'Land o' love ! but what will aome next?' She looked around at bisvaa if she feared that a ease of eiie wolA.oaae I next, and he brMttataaetiuauft' Htlift 'Well, I've wofh 'am fiera p"" "" I know they are bandy aa reliable. If my daughters want to -get halfa dosen apiece I shant cry over it.' 'Were you speaking to me?' she asked, otter seeing that no one else seemed interested. 'I sorter was, and sorter wasn't, be replied, as he worked a faint smile to his face. 'I was saying that it's won derful how much the inventive geni us of this country has done for us on the shirt question.' She hitched away a little. 'Twenty years ago. he mused, as he hitched after her, 'if any man bad told me that the dormant genius of this country would soon rouse up and invent a button-behind shirt, I'd have looked upon him as crazy. But dormant genius was all O.K. She roused, she invented, and I've got one of them very shirts on.' The look she gave hiei ought to have torn him all to pieces, but It iH n't. 'One year ego,' he caldly resumed, 'if anybody bad told me that tbe gen tler sex would soon demand opsa back shirts, I'd have gone a fishing and" never returned. But the epoch has hove In sight she's right here. I can recommend them as boss.' 'Who are you talking to, sir?' sbs demanded in an awful voted. 'To you, madam. I was say lag thai if I wear 'em there is so reason why you shouldn't,' 'I appeal to th&m passengers!' see excitedly exclaimed. 'So do I,' he answered. 'Everybody in this car, with a button-behind shirt en, will please stand up until I can count noses.' The old man stood up. He was ail alone.' He looked around ia a sorrow ful way, and said : 'The noses have it, and tbe resolu tion is laid on the table. However, I'll stick to mine, aad I don't believe this woman here will go back oa be: dosen till she has given 'eat a lair show. Which hide of the seek do they button on, madam? The yells that followed brought ia the driver. The old man was pointed out as a drunkard and a woman-la-sulter, and the driver was feeling for his neck, when the astonished men cried out: Who's drunk? Who's insulted anybody?1 'He kept talking about shirts V screamed the woman with the box. 'And you're got a box full !' shock ed tbe mas. I hain't, ne V She turned up tbe box and saw the label for tbe first time. She grew red, then white, and there was aa awful silenee. Hipping off the cover, she exhibited a belt of mosquito nes ting nestled away in tbe box. Nay, she held it up, and even shook it at the old man. He smiled softly, nod ded his head a dozen tieaes and bland ly said : 'Cerreet, madam I tumble to iL That doesn't look like a dosen buttoa behind shirts, aad I'm grieved if I of fended. 3ut it beek, saadsw, iocge that you ever saw se, sad wear say kfed yoe: : a Baisd to !' Iteftoat --SI a IgeESlls Aanrar. a. .aim run ; vy in j tscri tbe following extaet from Oai. Iragersoli'g reply to bis reviawves, de livered at tbe Grand Opera Hob in Skb Francteao. to an audience of $. 000 people. The extract k a eocapiete answer to tbe Rev. Mr. Welton's pa thetic appeal to tbe sceptics, whereto be purported to state tbe death-bed re pentance of Hume, Voltaire aad Paine: "ZSow the next erttie who assailed me was tbe Her. Mr. Kalloch. I am going to sbew you what I era with stand. I ana not going to mj a word about tbe reputation of this uasa, al though ha took aooM liberties wttb mine. Prolonged and thrice repeat ed applause. This genUemaa says negation is a poor thing to die by. I would just as lief die by that aa the oppostt. He spoke of tbe lass hours of Tom Paine nd Voltaire, aad tbe terrors of their death-beds; but tbe question arises: Is tbere a word of truth in all he said? I have observed that the murderer dies with emaee and firmness in many instances, but that don not make me think that it sanctified hie crime ; in met it makes no impression on use one way or the other. When tbe man through old age or infirmity approaches death, tbe intellectual faculties are dimtaad, his sense becomes less aad less, and ae he loses these he goes bask to hi old superstition. Old age brings back tbe memories of childhood. And the great bard gaveue eTen to tb corrupt, besotted FanttafT. who prattled of bab biiag brooks and green fie!, an in stance of tbe retracing steps taJten by the memory at the iat sep. It ba been said that tbe Bible was saseti fied by our mothers. Every supersti tion in tbe world, from tbe begin-niag of all time, hate bad such a sancliftca tion. The Turk dying on the Russian battlefield, pressing tbe Koran to his bosom, breathes hie last, thinking of the loving adjuration of his mother to guard it. Every superstition has been rendered sacred by the love of a moth er. I know what it has cost tbe no ble and tbe brave to throw to tbe winds these superstitions. Since tbe death of Voltaire, who was innocent of ail else than a desire to shake off the superstitions of the past, tbe curse of Rome has pursued hhn, and ignor ant Protestants have echoed that eutae. l i!Ma Voltaire, w benever 1 fnaWk oTSSaT I maniting; ta fcay adtb Tictac; shining upon bis brow. He wasoaec in the BastJIe; aad while tbere be changed his name from Francis Marie Aloyaiua to Voltaire, aad when tbe Bastile was torn down, 'Voltaire' wa the battle-cry of those who did it. He did more to bring about religions tol eration than any man In the galaxy of those who strove for the privilege of free thought. And be was always on tbe side of justice. He was full e4 faults and had many virtues. His doetrrnes bad never brought nnbap piness to any country. He died bb se renely as any one could ; speaking to big servant be said : 'Farewell, my faithful friend.' Could be have done a more noble set than to reeognhteJ him who bad served hlro faithfully ae a man ? What more could be wished ? And now let me say here, I will give $1,000 in gold coin to any eiergymaa whoeaa substantiate that the death of Voltaire was ao: as rrraeefel as the dawn. And of Tom Paine, whom they assert, died" In fear and agony, frightened by the clanking chains of devil!" in fact frightened to death by God I will give one thousand dollars likewise to any one who can substan tiate this absurd story, a tory without a worn 01 trutn in it. Ana let meesK who died in tbe most fear, the man who like the saint exclaims, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me !' or Voltaire, who peacefully and quietly bade his servant farewell? The question Is net, who died right bat who lived right. I look upon death as tbe most unimportant mom ent of life, and that not naif of the re sponsibility h attached to dying as to living property." A Fme TMstiasrioa. A young man whose attire was clean aad neat, and whose generalan peacanee was rather prepoansolng. stood before the bar of a police court. By bis tide stood a young man of about the same age, with a eneJ-fciesk fane aad wooly hair, and who was dressed with all thegorgsnnaaiiMi of a 'swell. 'What's jour name, white asked the court. rMcFinnhjaa, afar. 'And yours, my and brother?' 'Gwage Washin' Jones, sea.' 'What was the I Washington?1 Sah, I'll tell you da truf, sab. a coin' up as street, sen. night, when I met thle man aa I kino of Jostled agin lm, sab, mnf he tain round, ash, aad fetch me a dip on do Boae, sab ; den I calls an- nfflash and bad dat roan arrested, en' d&t's ail de trtff, sab.' How was It, McFianiganr Share, yer honor, and it was all the nayger's fault. I was a oacnln' down tbe avaie, qoiet as a lama, ear, sayia notbrn' to nobody, when Uuatffiaal- oeen oame foratnst me. aor. wad hie" elbow, and I an and hit 'im upon she spur of the monsint :$o,ssh, be hit moon denaee, sab.' On tbe nar a tbe raomint' Omde Seer aiad anfufeffaMtioa?.' K, wontaj&iN'niij w$tim,3m rt to hit a man. whether ft b on the spur of the moaesas oa th nose. George Washtrsnjla are rftschargeu.' JTc York VbvftL JksA Mr. Walters aaat bis wJn wacs-ES taeniae; ta Use sttjr fas at twiu bajsiau baggy from s trip in the- ssustfarj. About seven miles from town. Mane field Band, tbey thai was lying by tbe road, tbe great abre of which i their attention. After veptile, Mr. Walters be would turn bask aad. kill H. turned tbe team to a pains his pistol' sad fixed at it, bat effect. The horses not beiaar ased ta the report of firearms, grew aestles and hard to control, which aanasct tbe attention of Mr. Walters to be divert ed from the snake, which ran rapidly to the baggy, np the wheals. to tbe dashboard before tbe were aware of it. 1 be it was within a foot of the of the carriage, colled the lower past of his body, threw back his neck iaa. eraceful curve, threw back its I and was just in the est of its deadly fangs Into Mr. when he fired the second though missing, hair the efless "s cause the snake to lower ltsett eu the tongue of tbe carriage. Mr. Walters then fired wo more shots, one of which took effect and canssd the sep tiie to fall from the carriage to ase ground, aad Mr. Walters dlspsAaaast it with s stone. The reptile -ataa measured aad faurad to be ewer atk feet lone;, aad was thicker man's wrbrt. Iksttow fRx.) cisL Amiautl The bfteof a mad degtsfHuaofcly dreaded. If It oaonrs rub for tea see onds a pointed stick of the attrato of silver lam the wound. It asm as a caustic aad neutraliteea tbe aesssa. This is said to beau Infallible ruaadj. It should be dene at manifests the disease by a peculiar brilliancy and wil cf its eyes, and then it soon froChs at tbe mouth and aaaps at any object near it, has spasms shout the throat, and dreads fluid. It is ul mined at oe- -A, .thai jfa nand dog. and sbonaf be treated in the same way. ThohHeof an animal not mad ia often severe and dangerous. It la usually a laeerative wound a torn wound, that la longer in healing, more .dangerous than oth ers, and very apt to cause lockjaw. The nitrate of silver neutralises the poison ; even if the animal hi not rab id It bites and its seratehes produce bad wounds. A friend of years was bitten by bis own tngly for tbe fan of It ; but it east venerable man the paralysia oT the bitten hand ever after. If a chlH he e bitten, send far jour M. D.. who i treat. The scratches of an animal the same attention as do bites warm poultices, or very warm mentation in some form quiets, aad inclines tbe otherwise might atop at the sees of iiie disaster, to pass on in Its The "Holy War Kale Tbe proclamation of the Bkiek-nl-Islsm has fired the enthuufeani ufthe r Turks in a Banner never before I of in tbe annals of Ottoman By the lower class this declaratten that a "holy war' ia Inaugurated hi only regarded as another justified pre text for committing all sorb of oat rages and brutalities. Tbe obHgatlor: which the "holy war lays' ansa the Turks have just been declared an sal Iowa: 1. Tim 8ultan una plane binssantat the head of the faithful. 2. All faithful Mo4uunaredane whW hsva attained the age of thirteen yean, most gird the sword aatf Jean army. 3. Ail non-conrhaiants ash m the women, children and invalids do the work of those gone to meet the enemy, and or to support them. 4. Tbe cniuuisMdeThsBSBaf of tho faithful fa permitted to ennfiseatnssr the pubile weal all the net ores and domains, ev4n these of ft. In order to better uudeigu das reqniremenfa of mirrtsry wartrre, all commandments of tbe Koran hates- ferine; with the proper carrying; oat of the war mcasaits are temporarily ana aended. An a reward of their siiiflanir est ntithJal Tasks fighting in theenearjrs ensnrsry may retain aa tbeirown pisai erty anything and everytMasr that booses, women, etc. Those, aowoo ex, who fall in tbe ennrpaiga, aeon if daring their entire irfe-time they were rbe vilest of sinners, ent adise at ones. Tbe injunction fa this, that tho 'hasj once declared fa never to he ted until the sabfugatedor of Islam, j Iowa fa the iCa- lm imsefa TfeestatO raxtnat aid- sf that snent'" the