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CHKISTM * S VIOLETS.
Last night I found the violets
You sent me once across the sea;
From gardens that the winter frets.
In Summer lands they came to me.
Still fragrant of the English earth.
Still humid from the frozen dew.
To me they spoke of Christmas mirth,
They spoke of England, spoke of jou.
The flowers are scentless, black and sere,
The perfume long has passed away.
The sea whose tides arc year by year,
is set between ua, chill and gray.
Bnt voa have reached a windless age,
The haven of a happy clime;
Yon do not dread the winter’s rage.
Although we missed the Summer-time
And like the flower's breath over sea.
Across the gulf of time and pain.
To-night returns the memory
Of love that lived not all in vain.
— Andrew Lang, in Harper's.
ROAV IN THE HOUSE.
How the Statesmen Behaved In 1858.
The scrimmage in the House of Repre
sentatives early on Saturday morning,
Feb. 9,1358. says Ben: Perley Poore, was
an exciting affair as seen from the report
er’s gallery. It was inaugurated bjr
Keitt, of South Carolina, who rushed bel
-1 igerently at Grow, of Pennsylvania,
when he received—not from Grow, how
ever—a blow that knocked him down. A
dozen Southern men at- once left their
seats and rushed to the spot, while as
many anti-Laccmpton men came to the
rescue. Foremost came Mr. Potter, of
Wisconsin, a very athletic, compact man,
who bounded into the centre of the ex
cited group, striking right and left with
tremendous vigor. Washburne, of Illi
nois, and his brother, of Wisconsin, also
were prominent, and for a minute or two
it seemed as though we were to have a
Kilkenny fight on a magnificent scale.
Barksdale had nold ot Grow, when Pot
ter struck him a severe blow, supposing
that he was hurting that gentleman.
Barksdale, turning around and supposing
it was Elihu Washburne who struck him,
dropped Grow and struck out at the gen
tleman from Illinois. Cadwallader
Washburne, perceiving the attack upon
his brother, also made a dash at Mr.
Barksdale ancLseized him by the hair, ap
parently for the purpose of drawing him
‘•into chancery” and pummelling him to
greater satisfaction. Horrible to relate,
>Jr. Barksdale’s wig came off in Catlwal
lader’s left hand, and his right fist ex
pended itself with tremendous lorce
against the unresisting air. The ludic
rous incident unquestionably did much
towards restoring good nature subse
quently. and its effect was heightened not
a little bv the fact that in the excitement
of the occasion Barksdale restored his wig
wrong side foremost.
The Speaker yelled and rapped for or
der, without effect. The Sergeant-at-
Arms stalked to the scene of battle, mace
in band, but bis “American eagle” had no
more effect than the Speaker’s gavel.
Owen, Lovejoy and Lamar, of Mississip
pi, were pawing each other at one point—
each probably trying to persuade the oth
er to be still.’ Mr. Mott, the gray-haired
Quaker Representative trom Ohio, was
seen going here and there in the crowd.
Davis, of Mississippi, got a severe but ac
cidental blow from Mr. Glow, and various
gentlemen sustained slight bruises and
scratches. A Virginia Representative,
who thought Montgomery, of Pennsylva
nia, wag about to “pitch in,” laid his
hand upon his arm to restrain him, and
was peremptorily ordered to desi6t or te
knocked down. Mr. Covode, of Pennsyl
vania, caught up a heavy stone-ware
spittoon, with which to “brain” whoever
might seem to deserve it, but fortunately
_did not get far enough into the excited
CfC wr ! to find au appropriate subject for
his vengeance; anu over the hall every
body was excited for the time.
Fortunately, it did not last long, and no
weapons were openly displayed. When
order was restored, several gentlemen
were found to present an excessively
tumbled and disordered appearance, but
tliere remained little else to recall the ex
citement. Gentlemen of opposite parties
crossed over to each other to explain their
pacific dispositions, and that they got into
a fight where their only purpose’was to
prevent a fight. Mutual explantions and
a hearty laugh at the ludicrous points cf
the drama, were followed ty quiet and a
return to business.
A WEDDING IN NORWAY.
Peculiar Ceremonies Performed at the
Nuptials of the Northmen.
We had the good luck, says Cassell's
Magazine, to witness a village wedding,
when about fifty persons assembled, all
in holiday costume—the women in bright
colored petticoats and bodices, with
beautiful white chimisettes. They were
a very pleasant looking group—the men
strong, well-knit fellows, but all lair
skinned, w ith flaxen hair and kind blue
eyes. The bride was a demure young
woman, somewhat overweighted with
necklaces and bracelets (which we under
stood to be heirlooms), but more especi
ally by an immense gilt crown running
up’in tail points to a height of about eight
inches, and studded witn many colored
crystals. It is a most gorgeous head
dress, and belongs to the village.
Every village fs supposed to have one,
which is hired for the occasion by the
parents ot the bride. But, like the plain
ribbon or snood of the Scottish Highland
'maid, no Norwegian bride Is entitled to
wear this crown of honor unless her
character is above suspicion, and, this,
unhappily, is so very exceptional that the
hiring of the crown is now considered
almost invidious on the part of the few
who may certainly claim it; so the custom
is dying out, and we esteemed ourselves
fortunate in having witnessed a nuptial
ceremony in which this picturesque bri- '
dal decoration was worn.
There was no architectural beauty in
the very plain, barn-like church, which
had no" pretence at decoration. The
Lutheran service, which was conducted
in Norwegian, 6eemed to us like that of
the Scotch Presbyterian Church. All the
men sat on one side and the women on the
other, according to the usual custom.
The parson (whose garb is a black gown,
with a very large white fluted collar
encircling his throat like a Queen Eliza
beth ruff) performed the simple service,
in which a wedding-ring shaped like a
double heart did duty in place of our
plain circlet. He then ascended the nilpit
and delivered a very long exhortation.
There was one feature in the ceremony
in which we recognized a lingering trace
of pre-Christian days. The pulpit stands
in the centre of a large chancel, and, at a
pause In the set vice, all the wedding
party walked solemnly thrice round it, in
sidewise procession —a pretty survival of
old Norse paganism.
HE HAD A SMART WIFE,
And She Enticed a Snapping Bug from
Mis Ear In the Nick of Time.
Hornkllsvillk, N. Y., Nov. 26.
James Knowles, of Avoca, awoke a few
nights ago. He felt a violent thumping In
his right ear, lollowed by sharp twinges
of pain, as though the lining of his ear was
being seized and tore away. Almost
crazed, he woke up his wife and told her
something had crawled into his ear and
was eating its way through his head.
Mrs. Knowles lighted a lamp and fished
for the foreign occupant of her husband’s
ear with a hairpin and a knitting needle.
She was unable to draw it out. Mr.
Knowles then dressed himself to go to the
doctor’s. Then his wife happened to think
that certain insects were generally fascin
ated by a light, and she had her husband
wait until she tried an experiment. She
held the lamp close to his ear.
“If it’s a snapping bug,” she said, “or
a miller it will see the light and come out
to it.”
In less than a minute Mrs. Knowles
saw the head of a formidable looking bug
thrust out of her husband’s ear. The
head was quickly followed by a body half
an inch long. The bug crept out and Mrs.
Knowles knocked it on the floor. A
stream of blood followed the exit of the
bug from Mr. Knowles’ ear. Mrs.
Knowles stepped on the bug and killed it.
It was one of thoee big snapping bugs
that have their heads hung on hinges at
the middle of the back, and work them
up and down like pile drivers when on
duty. Thanks to his wife’s knowledge of
insect habits, Mr. Knowles was rescued
from the bug in time to prevent serious
consequences.
One Effect or Convalescence.
Xetc York Sun.
“Why are you so thoughtful ?” r sked a
wife of her convalescent husband. He
had been very sick, and for several days
his life WJ9 despaired of, but he was get
ting better very rapidly. “I am afrafd,”
he said in response to his wife’s question,
“that 1 may have commuted myself rather
oo strongly with the minister.”
MARK TWAIN IN A DILEMMA.
A Victim of a Joke He Thinks tke Fn
klndest Cut of All.
‘■Huckleberry Finn,” Mark Twain’s
new book, was completed last March, says
a Hartford letter, but owing to complica
tions and differences with his publishers,
it has not yet appeared, although it has
been extensively announced, a prospec
tus of the story sent out, and the opening
chapters recently published in the Cen
tury. When the book was finished last
month Mark Twain made a proposition in
regard to its publication to the American
Publishing Company, of this city, which
Eublished his “Innocents Abroad” and
is later works. From them the company,
which heretofore had been lut a small
concern, achieved a reputation and stand
ing equal to any of the older established
publishing houses of the country,
Mark Twain, on his side, obtained
royalties amounting in all to over
SPX),OOO. When “Huckleberry Finn,”
the sequel to “Tom Sawyer,”
was completed, Twain again made
a proposition to his publishers to produce
this new work. Negotiations were com
menced, but never completed. The par
ties could not agree to terms. Evidently
Mark Twain considered that he haul built
up the American Publishing Company,
while they seemed to think themselves
the founders of his fame and fortune. Lib
eral royalties were offered Twain by the
publishing company, but he refused to ac
cept them. The final offer was that the
profits should be divided, each of the par
ties to receive 50 per cent, ot the proceeds
from the sale of the new work. This
proposition was not satisfactory to the
author, who wanted GO per cent, of the
profits. This offer the company refused
to accept, and he determined on entering
anew business —combining that of the
publisherjwith that of author.
Mark Twain bad a nephew residing in
New York in whose business ability he
had great confidence. This man, whose
name is Charles L. Webster, is engaged
in the book publishing business at N0.058
Broadway. He entered into a partner
ship with his nephew to produce his new
work and supervise all the mechanical
details of its production. The copy was
all sent to him and by him given to the
printers. In order to properly embellish
the book the services of a leading metro
politan engraver were secured, and from
this comes all the trouble into which
Hartford’s popular author is now plunged.
The engravings, after having been cut on
the plates, were 6ent to the electrotyper.
One of the plates represented a man with
a downcast head, standing in the fore
ground of a particularly striking illustra
tion. In front of bim|.vas a raggedurchin
with a look of dismay overspreading his
countenance. In the background, and
standing behind the boy, was an attrac
tive looking young giilj whose face was
enlivened by a broad grin. Something
w hich the boy or man had said or doue
evidently amused her highly. The title of
the cut was, “In a Dilemma; What Shall
I Do?”
When the plate was sent to the electro
typer a wicked spirit must have possessed
him. The title was suggestive. A mere
stroke of the awl would suffice to give to
the cut an indecent character never in
tended bv the author or engraver. It
would make no difference in the surface
of the plate that would be visible to the
naked eye, but when printed would add to
the engraving a characteristic which
would be repudiated not only by the au
thor, but by all the respectable" people of
the country into whose bauds the volume
should fall. The work of the engraver
was successful. It passed the eye of the
inspector and was approved. A proof
was taken and submitted. If the altera
tion of the plate was manifested in the
proof it was evidently attributed to a de
tect in the press and paper, which would
be remedied when the volume was sent to
the press. Now the work was ready tor
printing.
In jsgging books to be sold by “sub
scription oniy ” the publishers first strike
Oil a large humbel* 6r prospectuses, which
are to be used by the agents when Solicit
ing subscribers to the work. Some 3,000
of the6e prospectuses, with the defective
cut, were presented and distributed to the
different agents throughout the country.
The entire work had passed the eyes ot
the various readers and inspectors and
the glaring indecency of the cut had not
been discovered. Throughout the country
were hundreds of agents displaying the
merits of the work and elaborating on the
artistic work of the engravings. It was
remarkable that while the defect was so
palpable, none of the agents noticed it, or
if he did, he failed to report it to the
publishers. Possibly they might have
considered the alteration "intentional, as
the title to the illustration was now
doubly suggestive.
At last came a letter from the Chciago
agent calling attention to the cut. Then
there was consternation in the office of
the publishers. Copies of the prospectus
were hauled from the shelf and critically
examined. Then for the first time it
dawned on the publishers that such an
illustration would condemn the work,
immediately all the agents were tele
graphed to and the prospectuses were
called In. The page containing the cut
was torn from the book, anew and per
fect illustration being substituted. Agents
were supplied with the improved volumes,
and are now happy in canvassing for a
work to which there can be no objection,
while they smile at the prospects of heavy
commissions. But the story leaked out.
Several opposition publishers got hold of
copies of the cut, however, and these now
adorn their respective offices.
DREAD AS A LUXURY.
The High Prices Which the Bakers De
mand and Why.
Xeic York Morning Journal.
“What’s the reason flour and bread are
still so high?”
“Well, 1 can’t tell you. They’re high
without any reason, anil there's no reason
why they should be 60 high.
“1 have just returned from a tour of the
Northwest,” continued the wheat opera
tor, “and made a minute inspection of the
celebrated Dalrymple wheat farm of 10,-
000 aeres in Fargo, Dakota, and know for
a fact that millions of bushels of wheat
have been sold this fall for less than the
cost of production. Why, you can’t give
it away in the market. It never was so
low in {he memory of living man, and yet
you tell me the poor are taxed as much
as ever for flour and bread. It’s a mon
strous shame and a gross injustice, but I
don’t pretend to tell the reason, for, as I
said, there is no reason tor such a state of
things, except the unaccountable su
pineness of those why pay the price
a9ked.”
“I like to see Mr. Kimball giving away
food to the poor, and his efforts to alle
viate suffering are deserving of all praise,”
said a well informed workman as the sub
ject was broached on a Fulton Ferry boat
last evening; “but 1 declare I think he
would be doing a greater work of mercy
if he would start a crusade to get the
bakers to lower their prices or make their
loaves bigger.”
“Well, suppose flour has gone down,”
said a baker, “do you suppose we're going
to lower our price so long as we have no
trouble in getting the prices we now ask ?
It ain’t reasonable to suppose so. I hope
you newspaper fellows aint agoing to
play the same trick on us here as was
played in England some time ago. Why,
the London papers showed up the takers
fearful. They said that though break
stuffs was low, bread was high; the
country papers followed suit, and Lord
bless you! the bakers had to give in. So
will we if it comes to the tug.”
A flour merchant who was asked' what
solution he would give for the high price'
of bread said:
“I see no just and fair way out of the
matter except the adoption of a uniform
price for a specified weight of bread. In
Paris I was surprised last summer to see
how admirably that system works there.
There the law compels all bakers to make
their loaves of a uniform weight, and the
people know what they are buying and
bow much a pound they are paying.”
“If I was to buy bakers’ bread for my
family of seven,” said a thrifty housewife
to the reporter, “it would be simple rob
bery. 1 can bake my own bread and have
a far better article than I get from the
baker, at about half the cost.”
“I’ve just paid my own and my wife’s
passage home to England,” said a brick
layer whom the reporter had occasion to
meet during the recent strikes.
“What’s that for ? Tired ol the coun
try?”
“Not a bit of it; but I’m tired of paying
two prices for almost anything a man
eats over here. I shan’t ha've much work
here till next spring, and I can save my
passage moving over and back and see
the old folks in the bargain by going home
tor the winter. I can live over there for
half what it costs me here.”.
HOKSFORD’S ACID PHOSPHATE.
Well Pleased.
Dr.C. Roberts, Winchester, 111., says:
“I have used it with entire satisfaction in
cases of debility from age or overwork,
and in inebriates and dyspeptics, and am
well pleased with its effects.”
THE SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1881.
THE TRAIN FEVER.
One of the Peculiar Diseases of Modern
Life.
Among the diseases of modern life, and
one to which Dr. Richardson has hitherto
paid hardly any attention, says the Lon
don Globe , is the train fever, an insidious
malady which if it is not altogether un
dermining the British constitution, helps
largely to make life more miserable to
many. Some people escape this disease
altogether, but they are the select few.
The majority suffer from it in ene way
or another, frequently without their
knowledge. This fever seizes some peo
ple every day as soon as their eyes are
opened. They have to beat the station at
9:59, say, and life is a zymotic ferment
till they get there. Every movement is
checked off by the watch. If the victim
is rather late in shaving, he has to make
up time over his hair-dressing; and
should th jre b? a debit balance at the hour
of breakfast, it has to be liquidated over
the coffee. Then comes the race for the
train. There are so many minutes allowed,
calculated to such a nicety that if the pa
tient hears the whistleol the approaching
train before he gets to the grocer’s shop,
or the elm tree in the lane, or some other
noted mark on his chart, he knows he
must ruu for it. And very often be has
to run, for sometimes it is a wet morning,
and he can not lay his hand on his um
brella; or his wile has some very import
ant commissions to give him, and can not
remember them “if she is hurried so,”
but will not let him go till she does; or
perhaps he must go back ever so many
yards to kiss the baby, who will cry all
day if it is done out of this mark ot re
spect. So by the time he has reached the
station the lever has done Its fell work for
the day, has upset his nerves and his
digestion, and 6et him gasping and pant
ing all the way up to town. To be sure,
he catches his train. Ot course he might
have caught his train quite easily if he
had got up in good time and thought
nothing about it; but the fever will not
allow a man to do that. It is astonishing
how men will go on day after day, year
after year, repeating this sad experience.
They can no more shake off the fever by
taking time by the torelock than they can
fly. It would be amusing, were it not
grievous, to stand outside a suburban
station and watch the race in for the
morning train. Up come the fever
sticken, with anxious countenances, some
running outright; some, whose dignity
will not allow them to run, walking
double pace with set teeth and firmly
clenched umbrellas and bags; all hurry
ing and all falling back halt exhausted
when they reach their carriage.
The lever, us it affects some ladies, is
really too awful to dwell upon. Many
ladies to whom railway traveling was a
youthful wonder, can not even now trust
Bradshaw, but are impelled to go to the
station to make personal inquiries as to
the times ot starting. The day before the
intended journey is generally dedicated
to this preliminary satisfaction cf the
fever. But there is no peace eitner to the
patients or to their households for hours
betore the time fixed. The fever always
impels them to the station a full half-hour
before it is necessary, and somtimes ac
tuates them to hook their umbrellas into
porters’ neckcloths, or to seize guards as
emotionally as if they were recognizing
in them long-lost 6ons. Upon other ladies,
however, the train lever has an opposite
effect. It fills them with a dull despair.
They know that they have always missed
the train they have fixed upon, and al
ways will. If the train they want to go
by starts at 9, and the next is 10:30, still
pursued by the relentless demon they will
stait for the 9, and of course miss it, aud
will sit m the waiting-room lor the next
hour and a half with lack-luster eye and
wan countcnace. It is their fate, they
know, and it is useless to struggle against
fate.
This lever plays many other fantastic
triek3. In its most acute stages It makes
its victim dread the very thought, of
traveling by train. Gentlemen residing a
UvvJ? wav nut of town have been actually
known, instead ot g<n><& borne to tea, as
is the dearest wish of their hcfll'tf, to put
off their return till 11 or even 12 o’clock
at night, all from sheer dread of this fear
ful disease. When they have at last ar
rived at home some of them are quite
exhausted, and others in a state of excite
ment bordering on the delirious, but all
incoherent. The agonized wives of their
bosoms have hardly known what to do
with them except to put them tenderly to
bed; and it is only the next morning, after
copious draughts of cold water to drown
the demon wilbin, that they are able to
explain to their partners the dreadful
feelings which the thought of setting foot
in a train causes them. Of course, it is a
great want of moral courage on their part
not to take that return journey early,
which they must take sooner or later; but
human nature is we&k, and naturally
puts off the disagreeable till the last mo
ment. Another curious effect of the train
frequently conies under the notice of
ticket inspectors, and occasionally of
police magistrates. It induces in certain
patients, all of undoubted respectability,
a remarkable absence of mind, so that
they are found to be traveling first-class
with third-class tickets, and sometimes
will even pass a barrier calling out “sea
son,” when they possess no season ticket
to warrant that familiarity.
THE ACTRESS’ BEAU IDEAL.
Strange Choice of the Charmers Who
Have Many to Chose From.
Actor Dixey and Manager Donnelly,
says the Buffalo Express, have had blows
over the question whether privileged es
corts should be afforded special facilities
lor admiring the burlesquers; the stage
doorkeeper at Niblo’s has been assaulted
because he shut out a ballet girl’s escort.
At the same time, the proof is easily with
in sight that these girls, as a rule, care
nothing for the fools beyond the good sup
pers and jewelry to be obtained lroni
them. I am assured by an expert that
the merest scenc-shil'ter is likelier to ret
at the heart of the ballet girl than is the
dangler in a swallow-tail coat. Here is an
illustration of the same principle higher
in iiramatic life.
You may have seen Annie Russell, the
slimmest, youngest and sweetest of fhe
“Hazel Kirkes.” it has possibly im
pressed you that the breath of old “Daddy
Dunstan’s” curses might blow her clear
off the stage, so ethereal is she. The idea
that 6he cats anything more wholesome
than rose leaves seems preposterous. A
story came to me that she was pining
away for hopeless love of an artist; that
in her own experience she was duplicat
ing the sorrows of the parentally oppressed
“Hazel;” that I could, if I wished, see the
sweetheart for whom she languished. I
embraced the opportunity. Romance is
all too scarce in this work-a-dav world of
ours. The artist, with a beauteous actress
for his chosen but forbidden wife, is not to
be neglected, for he is a rare object. My
conductor led me through the empty audi
torium and pointed up to the dim rear of
the stage.
“That’s the young man,” he said.
A figure set astride a suspended board.
His garments were smeared. On bis bead,
where long hair ought to have been, was
a close-cropped surface and a paper cap.
This artist was at work. He was swab
bing the ground color on a canvas scene
with a whitewash brush. lie was a scene
painter's apprentice.
A Confiding Tailor.
Merchant 1 raceler.
A couple of merchant travelers went
into a tailor shop on Vine street, where
they were both known, and called for the
proprietor.
“We’ve got a bet,” said the first one,
“as follows: We are to order two suits
of clothes, one apiece, and the man the
bet goes against is to pay the whole bill.”
“Avery nice plan, indeed,” smiled the
tailor, rubbing his hands and thinking of
his profits on two S6O suits.
“That’s what we thought, and now. if
you will trust us till the bet is decided,
you can take our measures at once.”
“Of course I will, boys, of course.
You’ve been too good customers of mine
not to do that. I’ll have them ready next
week.”
The boys left their measures, picked out
the goods, and started off.
“By the way, boys,” said the tailor at
parting, “would you mind telling me wha t
the bet is? I’ve got a number of suits
on my books on election bets, and I’m get
ting posted in politics. How is it, on
Cleveland or Blaine?”
“Neither.”
“No. Butler or St. John?”
“Neither.”
“Thunder! you ain’t betting on Belra
dear, are you ?”
“No.”
“You’ve agreed to trust us till the bet is
decided?”
“Of course.”
“Well, you see, I bet my friend here
that he’d pay for the clothes, and he bet I'd
pay for them.”
The bo9B yelled for the police, bat the
boys got away in ample time.
Drains may be thoroughly cleansed by
pouring carbolic acid into them.
A SLAUGHTER OF BIG FISH.
An Exciting Hunt With Harpoons,
Lances, Scythes and Knives—Massa
chusetts Bay Alive With Monster
Black Fish.
For three days, says a Provincetown,
Mass., special of Nov I”., the tip end of
Cape Cod and the waters hereabouts have
been the scene oi most sanguinary excite
ment and slaughter. Everybody big
enough to handle a weapon has been kill
ing monstrous prey. The unequal battle
began on Saturday afternoon, when the
whistle at Cook’s oil works on Long Point
blew a loud blast, which soon brought all
the men in town to the shore. The cry of
“Black fish!” greeted them, and then
evervone possessing water craft of any
description put off in the wake of the
courier boats which had brought the news
ashore.
A blackfish chase has become very rare
of late years, and tbe great fish were never
before known in such numbers in these
waters. Tbe fish is of the whale family,
from 10 to 20 feet long, and its oil is per
haps more valuable than that from any
other fish iu the sea. The school was about
two mil ;s off shore when sighted, and the
water was alive with the great creatures,
which were disporting themselves lazily
upon the suf. The first boats that arrived
soon changed the scene iato one ot ex
citement. ’Each boat was fastened by
lance or harpoon to a big blackfish. Then
the chase began.
AN EXCITING CHASE.
The moment blood was drawn the school
started toward the wounded. This fixed
the direction of the general flight, and
thousands of fins cut through the water
toward the bay. Every effort was made
to drive the fish into shoal water, where
they could be more easily killed, but they
avoided the shore and kept along the coast
toward Wellfleet. A small school was
driven close to the fish weirs on Beache’s
Point, but, owing to the rapid approach
of darkness, the excited fish managed to
elude their pursuers and escaped into
deep water. The chase was for the
time abandoned. Early on Sun,
day morning, however, the pursuing fleet
being reinforced by boats from Dennis,
Brewster and Wellfleet, the battle was re
newed. All day long the slaughter was
kept tip. More attention was given to
shaping the course ot the flight so if pos
sible to drive the fish into one of the small
bays on the coast than to the killing of
6inglefish. Owing to the presence of a
number of porpoises in the school this was
unsuccessful. The fish were wild and the
men determined, but the cha6e toward
maht was abandoned for a general slaugh
ter.
KILLED WITH CASE-KNIVES.
The boats dashed into their midst about
dark aud killed as many of the largest as
possible with case-knives. They suc
ceeded in capturing about GO. The re
mainder of the school succeeded in find
ing deep water, and were chased across
the bay by part of the fleet, assisted by
several mackerel fishermen, who had
joined in the pursuit. Early yesterday
morning the fish were driven between the
Headlands into Wellfleet harbor. Twenty
miles had thus been covered in the long
chase. The sight in the harbor at day
break was a wonderful one. Further than
the eye could reach the bay was literally
full ol fish. The great creatures, caught
in an immense trap, were in a frenzy of ex
citement, rushing zig-zag in all directions
and lashing the waters to a spray. Then
the great slaughter began in earnest.
Everyone that could get afloat, even those
on shore, took part. Vessels and boats of
all sizes, kinds and descriptions; men
and boys representing every trade and
profession, and every available thing that
could be used for killing, were there.
Men of experience used harpoons and
lances. Others used scythes, knives,
picks, daggers and axes. The shore was
lined with carriages, carts, men, women
and children. Every now and theu a
frantic fish, wounded and desperate, flung
itself upon the shore, only to be dis
patched by the women and’ children on
land. Nothing else was done on C’ape
Cod that day.
A GREAT SLAUGHTER.
The work continued until this after
noon, when it is supposed every fish was
captured. Every town, from Dennis to
Provincetown, was represented in the
slaughter. The number killed is variously
estimated at from 1,200 to 1,500. The pro
ceeds are to be divided into 500 shares. The
value will probabiy amount to $25,000.
The fish are to be sold at public auction
to-morrow. There were no serious acci
dents, so far as latest accounts show.
MUSIC OF BONNIE SCOTLAND.
The Effect it Has on the Ladies who
Wear the Plaid.
ScottLxh American.
“I'll tell you what,” said a Scotch fid
dler, “i’ll "ay you a bet of £6 that if a
party of Scotchmen can be got together,
i’ll make them shed tears one minute,
sing the next, and dance the third.”
“Done,” says an Exeter pvofessor,whose
name I do not give, “and if your music is
capable of that I will not only pay the £5
with pleasure, but will be convinced that
it is the most enlivening, pathetic and
best music in the world.”
The difficulty arose as to getting an op
portunity for a trial, but oeing informed
that a number of young Scotsmen were to
dine at a certain hotel on the anniversa
ry of Burns’ birthday, it was considered a
capital opportunity by the tiddler, for
these young men, being principally raw
boned, overgrown Scotch lads, who had
recently left their own country to carry
tea in the neighborhood, were the very
ones upon whom he was sure to make a
hit.
AH being now arranged, and the utmost
secrecy being agreed upon, the fiddler and
the professor got an invitation to the din
ner. There were twelve altogether who
sat down, and merry they soon became,
for the whisky toddy was not spared
when the memory of any of Scotia bards
was proposed, 'the fiddler was not long
in perceiving that he had gotanung a
musical set, and he awaited patiently un
til they were fit for anything. At length
he gave a wink to the professor, who at
once proposed that his friend should lavor
them with a Scotch tune on the violin.
“Capital! capital!” cried the whole
party.
The violin was brought, and all were in
breathless anxiety. The fiddler chose lor
his first tune, “Here's a Health to Them
That’s Awa’,” and played it in the most
solemn and pathetic manner.
“That’s a woful tune,” said a great
big, raw-boned youth to his next neighbor.
“It is that, Sandy. There’s mickle in
that tune, men. It reminds me o’ ane
that’s gane,” said Jamie, at the same time
giving a deep sigh and drawing his hand
over his long, gaunt face to hide the tears
which were trickling down his cheeks.
The fiddler with his keen eye soon
perceived that before he got through the
second part ol' the tune he would have
them all in the same mood. He therelore
threw his whole soul into the instrument,
played the tune as he had never done be
fore, and as the last four bars of the tune
died away like the distant echo there was
not a dry cheek among the company.
“Now is the time,” thought the fiddler,
and without stopping a moment he struck
up in a bold, vigorous style, “Willie
Brew’d a Peck o’ Maut.” In went the
handkerchiefs, away went the tears.
“Chorus!” cried the fiddler, and in an
instant all struck up:
For we arc nae foil, we’re liae that fou,
But just a Urapple in our e'e.
The cock may craw, the day mar daw'.
But aye we’ll taste the barley bree!
The song ended, up struck the fiddler in
his best style the reel ol “Jenny Dang the
W eaver.”"
“Scotland forever!” cried Jamie, and in
an instant tables, chairs and glasses were
scattered in all directions and the whole
party were dancing and jumping like
madmen.
His Wife Was Too Busy.
Arkansaw Traveler.
“Look here,” said a Judge to a juryman,
“I do not desire to wound your feelings,
but why don’t you put on a clean shirt?”
“Because my wile has been very busy
for several days and I have bad no one to
sew on buttons.”
“Hasn’t your wife bad time to sew on a
button?”
“No, sir.”
“What’s the matter, children sick?”
“No, sir; children somewhat dirty, but
in good health.”
“What is your wife doing that keeps her
so constantly employed ?”
“Well, you see, several days ago our
minister came around and said that by
such a time he had to have 200 pairs of
breeches to send to the heathen, and my
wife has been busy ever since. Just wait.
Judge, till she gets through and then I’ll
come around and dazzle this court with
the whitest shirt you ever seed.”
Burnett’s Cocoalne.
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Growth oi the Hair. It has been used in
thousands oi cases where the hair was
coming out, and has never failed to arrest
its decay.
Use Burnett’s Flavoring Extracts—the
best.
LIFE IN A MONASTERY.
A Monotnons Existence—The Dally Rou
tine.
A Monk’s day begins at 4:30 a. am.,
says the St. Louis Jlepvblican, and that
breakfast is a very light and hasty mat
ter, taken without formality somewhere
between 8 and 9, no one will be surprised
to hear that English stomachs are ready
for their principal meal at 12:30. Let us
go through a day: At 4:55 precisely—for
punctuality is a grea‘ matter—the big bell
begins tolling for matins. This is the mod
ern equivalent of what used to be called
the midnight office. In the thirteenth cen
tury the time was 2 a. m., now it is 5j in
some monasteries on the Continent it is 4.
But m those clays they went to bed at
sundown or soon after 6, while we mod
erns think 9 o’clock early. AVhen the
tower clock has ceased striking 5 all rise
at a signal given by the superior, from the
places where they have been kneeling and
waiting in the chancel, and the matin ser
vice begins. On ordinary days it lasts an
hour and a quarter, and lias not much
about it of ceremony or ritual that could
catch the eye of an onlooker. But ou fes
tivals it is an almost gay scene, and must
begin earlier on account of its greater pro
traetton. On 6ueh occasions a large num
ber are arrayed in alb and cope; the organ
accompanies the chant, and sometimes
the voices of boys mingle with the heavier
tones of the Monks. 'These little choris
ters are selected from the abbey school.
“Prime” is chanted at 7:30; the conventi
cal mass—that is, the public mass of the
day—is sung at 9 o’clock, and at this the
whole school assists. On festivals this is
the great celebration of the day, and is
more or less solemn in proportion to the
greatness of the feast; a sermon often ac
companies it. The next time that the com
munity are called to the church is for tbe
office of “none,” and after this, at 4:30,
comes tbe evening office, or verpers. This,
like the mass, is sung with organ accom
painment, and these two, with matins,
make up the more solemn of the daily ser
vices, at which all are more stringently
bound to be present. The office of “com
pline,” the closing prayer of the day, re
cited at 8:30, makes the sixth and lase
time that the Monks assembled in th
church. They spend at least three hours
aud a half every day in this choral duty—
on festivals much more; it is one of the
principal employments of monastic life.
The order of the day never varies, with
the s ngle exception that on Sundays and
very great festivals the high mass’takes
place~at 10 o’clock, for the convenience of
those “outsiders” who frequent the abbey
church, and who might think 9 o’clock
rather early. The remainder of the day
is tilled up in divers ways, in the dis
charge of the various occupations which
each has assigned to him. From the end
of compline till the end of prime of the
following morning is a time of the strict
est silence aud recollection; not a word
must be spoken for anything short ot the
gravest necessity, and no work or busi
ness is done. It’is the time for the nightly
rest, and for meditation and private
prayer. But when prime is finished the
active work of the day begins. Foremost
among this is the work of teaching; for
the Monks of these days still maintain
their ancient tradition of education, and
the school is an almost integral part of a
monastic establishment.
PREHISTORIC STATUES.
Interesting Discoveries in the South
Pacific.
Washington, Nov. 22.—An official
communication received at the Navy De
partment announces the discovery on Ea
panni or Easter Island, on the charts m
longitude 110 degrees west and latitude
27 degrees south, buried in the depths of
the vast wilderness of waters of the South
Pacific, of colossal statues and images
rudely carved in stone. This remarkable
find of arcbteological remains on a small
island hundreds of miles away from any
continent puzzles the learned scientists
of the Smithsonian Institution and the
National Museum. Prof. Baird says on
the subject: “In the present advanced
state of ethnological science these monu
ments are of the highest importance.
They will throw light on the somewhat
mysterious manner in which this isiand
received its population.”
The discoverers of these remarkable re
mains of a prehistoric and an advanced
people in a part of the world synonymous
with cannibalism and savage lile, were
the officers of the German gunboat Hyena,
while on a trip from Valparaiso to the
Samoan Islands. The commander of this
vessel, while thus cruising in the South
Pacific, subsequently received orders
from his government to visit Easter Island
and to secure these specimens. The ac
counts received by our government indi
cate that the vessel remained at the
island but a few days, but during that
time the German officers made a consider
able collection and copious notes. The
results of their preliminary labors have
been embraced in a pamphlet, which
is reported at the Smithsonian Institution
to contain a large amount of valuable in
formation. The German Government, it
is understood, arc making preparations to
send an expedition to Easter Island with
a corps of scientists and engineers to
sketch the island, survey the ground, and
to make plans and sections of the pre
historic buildings and ruins.
Our own government has also taken
steps to secure some of these valuable re
mains for its own large and valuable
ethnological collections representing the
prehistoric and known races ol this hem
isphere. Instructions have already been
sent to Admiral Upshur, in command of
the South Pacific squadron, to send one
of his vessels on a cruise in the direction
of Easter Island and to make such explo
rations, collections, and reports as he
may think important in the interests of
his government. It is understood that
the government of France is also turning
its attention to this island with a view to
the establishment of a protectorate.
It is reported in the accounts given by
the German vessel that the inland, which
is small, is st ewn with large stone ima
ges and sculptured tablets. The Smith
sonian has offered $1 each for prehistoric
skulls with the lower jaw. The few peo
ple, of Polynesian extraction, who inhabit
the island know nothing about the sculp
tured remains fouud, and even tradition
gives no account of a people living there
when their ancestors arrived.
POMPEII LIKE MODERN CITIES.
-Estliettc Tastes of the People of the
Ancient City.
A ll the Year Hound,,
Indeed, the whole Pompeian household
seemed pervaded by high art, from the
frescoes in the bedrooms to the crockery
in the kitchens and the statues in the
halt.
Nor .was art adapted only to the uses of
the rich. Even the butcher used a steel
yard with a handsome head of bronze to
serve by way of weight, and the vintner
poured his wine into a drinking-cup
adorned with a bas-relief of Bacchus.
Verily, there is nothing new under the
sun. The bread baked yesterday at
Naples is precisely the same shape as the
loaves lound at Pompeii which were put
into the oven two thousand years ago.
The coinage of that period differs little
from our own, except that it surpasses
ours in quality of workmanship. A gam
ing-table then was furnished with a pair
of dice, and a lady’s toilette-table with a
mirror and a rouge-pot. Small boys
scribbled on the walls, and played with
balls and knuckle-bone3 and whipping
tops and marbles in the streets of old
Pompeii, as they do in modern Paris,
Naples, London, or Berlin. The printing
press had not then been invented, it is
true, and newspapers were wanting for
the purpose ot advertisement. But
electors were appealed to very much as
they are now, as is proved by many mural
inscriptions in the place. By these they
were adjured to “Vote for Blobbius, the
True Friend of the People,” or to go and
hear Bugginsius, the famous platform
orator, who was noted fer his pluck in
pitching into the patricians, as speakers
may be rowadaj s who abuse the House ol'
Lords. Excepting books and news
papers, whose presence some may fancy
a not wholly uumixed blessing, there are
traces at Pompeii of all sorts of London
shop things and ways and means of liv
ing. There even are the pass-checks
which were current at the theatre, where
the people were assembled at the time ot
the eruption, and the figs and other fruit
which were prepared for their refreshment
upon that fatal altemoon. One other
exception, however, must he made.
Among the myriad of articles preserved
in the museum, I vainly strained my
eyes to see a classic corkscrew. But a
moment’s thought explained the absence
of this interesting instrument. There
were no corks used when Horace, that
delightful diner-out, begged his host to let
him taste that famous four-year-old Faler
nian, the savor of which still sweetly
lingered in his memory, while, to keep the
wintry cold out, a few more logs were
heaped upon the hospitable hearth.
The Metropolitan Underground Railway of
London runs 1,211 trains a day.
To the Public.
Have Not Taken tbe Monev.
I am frequently asked if I have settled with
the city. Desiring to answer that question in
a public way and at the same time correct an
impression that appears to exist with a few
persons that the corporation appealed the case
to the Supreme Court, I deem it proper to
say that I have not settled nor do I intend to
do so until every loss sustained by myself and
children are fully compensated for as far as a
money eii award can accomplish that result.
This must surely be the final conclusion of a
stupendous outrage that strikes directly at all
that is dear to every citizen of this communi
ty. The case was appealed to the court of
last resort in my behalf, and as certain as
night follows day the decision of that tribu
nal will be in my favor, and through which I
hope to have the principles of natural justice
applied to my case. The taxpayers of this
city are undivided in the opinion that the in
terest of all will be best served by observing
a due regard for and carefully protecting the
humblest citizen iu the exercise of just rights.
In niv troubles with the city authorities, to
mauyfor a long time incomprehensible, but
now uudertso- a by all classes, there is a deep
interest manifested, for thinking people who
have interests to protect feel reasonably
alarmed because there 4s no telling the time
when others may become victims to the same
influences that nave brought ruin upon me,
and which has swept away the property of
others who were powerless to protect their
rights. The constant assertions put forward
and impressed upon the minds or my friends
and the public that what I have been alter
was the money alleged to be in the treasury
of the city makes it incumbent upon me to
state that of all the petitions presented by me
and received as information by the present
Council, there is not one that does not con
tain earnest pleadings that an investigation
would be made as to how and in what man
ner a valuable property had been virtually
confiscated and my right to it
or control over it denied and
persisteut'y ignored. I submitted every
proposition calculated to accomplish this re
sult, but all to no purpose. I also suggested
that certain citizens, well-known, Capt. W.
W. Gordon, Capt. John Flannery, and Mr. J.
J. Dale, who were appointed to assi ss the
value of property iu the iate burned district,
would be selected to determine all matters at
issue between the city and myself. This prop
osition was not deemed worthy of a reply, or
even the consideration of being received, in
the usual manner, ior information. These
gentlemen, regarded as perfectly competent
to satisfactorily adjust matters involving
the rights of a large number of citizens, and
at the same time guard the city’s interests,
were not, it would appear, to be trusted to
do the right thing between the corporation
and myself, and for the reason that
it was not desirable that they
should become familiar with the
details of the crime of which I complain.
And prior to this effort I suggested the names
of a number of citizens who, by the rectitude
of their private lives, are worthy of respect,
and whose interest in the city’s welfare could
not be questioned, and of those mentioned 1
will name a few from copy of origiual com
munication now before me. The three gen
tlemen already alluded to, Mr. 'William Hun
ter, the proprietor of this paper, Col. John
Screven, Capt. L. J. Guilmartin. Mr. M.
Hamilton, either of the firm of Weed & Corn
well, Mr. A. J. Miller, and others unnecessary
to mention. My idea was that the city would
select any three of those named, and I would
be concluded bv their decision. These prop
ositions, so reasonable and based upon prin
ciples resorted to since time out of
mind by the nations of the earth in
tbe arbitrament of national disputes,
and recogn zed by corporate bodies and
private individuals iu the adjustment
of business complications, were not regarded
as of sufficient importance to merit the slight
est consideration. Such conduct can only be
attributed to a state of things to be deplored,
for it would be quite reasonable to suppose
that Council would be pleased to affora every
facility to the end that a rigid investigation
would lie made instead of preventing it, and
thereby become themselves liable to be re
garded as lit subjects for an investigation and
the unenviable criticism of their fellow citi
zens, who see through and fully comprehend
the peculiar methods employed in dealing
with the rights of those who, owing to supe
rior influences, become powerless to protect
their rights.
Upou tue con lusion of the case I could have
taken the amount of the judgment, about
SIO,OOO, and my counsel intimated to me that
if l could settle with the eity authorities, I
might take the fee allowed by’the jury, which
was a finding against the city. The sugges
tion of a settlement, I have reason to believe,
was made upon the idea that in view of all
the facts in the case, the corporation ought to
be more than anxious to add several thousand
dollars to the amountof the judgment, with a
vie\v to compromise. This proposition or sug
festion was intimated, I presume,
ecause of the long and bitter contest
through which I had passed, and
with the hope that a state of things which
would continue a severe strain upon my mind
might terminate and so relieve me from a
position most unenviable, and in which i have
been place i for nearly four years, during
which time my situation can only be likened,
and, in fact, but slightly comparable, to tbe
victim of the highwayman or midnight
assassin, for the result of such agencies of
destruction could be forgotten, but hot so the
conduct of the corportiou of this city.
As to taking the fee allowed my counsel, if
it was the entire amount of the judgment and
I did not possess a dollar, I would decline to
take all or any part of it, for it was but a
moderate compensation for the services ren
dered, aud if not for circumstances of which
I do not now care to speak double the amount
would have been allowed and also heavy dam
ages to vhich the jury that determined iny
case believed I had au undoubted right, but
that phase of the case being taken from their
consideration they could not carry out tlieir
desire in the matter of damages.
That there may he no misapprehension as
to my being in a position to take the amount
of the judgment if I desired to accept it, I
feel justified inciting the following undoubted
authority in proof of the fact and for the
benefit of one at least of the present Council,
who, in his great charity, said before the trial
that I could not receive it until I would fur
nish the bond required.
“Gentlemen of the Jury: In the opinion
of the court the trusteeship of Christopher
Murphy did not terminate with the death of
his wife or the sale of this property. He is.
therefore, still the trustee of nis children, and
as such trustee is entitled to receive and con
trol whatever maybe due this trust estate.
To this extent the decree of July 1, 1881, is
reviewab’e. A. P. Adams, Judge.
"July 15, mu."
The decision m the same court on July 1,
1881, it will be understood, was in substance
the same, but in different language:
"1 decide in this case that under the deed
from Banks, trustee, to Murphy, trustee, the
trusts are still executory. It does not make
any difference that the words in trust are not
repeated. VVm. B. Flemino, Judge.
“July 1, ISSI. ”
These conclusions of Judge Fleming are
written over his signature, and now in the
keeping of my counsel, and I may add here that
during the argument in the case before Judge
Fleming, if I am justified in honoring the pro
ceeding with that character, and while an
effort was being made to deprive me of rights
that were mine, the court stated in strong
language that I was the natural and legal
guardian of my children, and eutitled
to control their persons and property.
If this be to, how came the decree and through
whose aeeucy was it obtained? Echo answers,
“Mum is the'word.” But whatever may be the
character of the decree or through whatever
influences obtained,there is some facts in con
nectiou with it that must appear strange to
the average mind, and one of which is the
stubbornness with which the authorities of the
city declined and prevented the facte from
going before the court or coucede the right,
much more desirable of an investigation. Had
their conduct in this respect been different the
result just obtained could have been accom
plished in those long years at any time, and
an expense of 14,500 saved to the" tax-pa vers
of the city, 23,000 interest on money
alleged to be held in the Treasury, and $1,500
o .lintel fees, besides the cost of court of a seven
days trial, which cannot be less than $l5O. If I
have been powerless to get an explanation, is
it not due heavily burdened tax-payers that
they should be enlightened as to the cause for
this expense? $4,500 means money in these
times, and the people who have to pay it
should be informed as to the cause of their
doing so. Nothing could appear more reas
onable than that this should be done, and I
venture to predict that iu the near future this
very reasonable demand will be made by in
terested citizens, and it must be answered in
plain and unambiguous language.
But to return to the subject of the decree
so remarkable as a legal production: One of
the strangest circumstances connected with it
is its review on the plea that niv wife’s death
determined my right to regulate the affairs of
my children, which are now and must reinaiu
inseparable from those of my own, for in no
part of it is there to be found even a remote
reference to the effect that unfortunate oc
currence had on my trustee rights, and that
the sale of one’s property would disturb anv
existing rights except to the extent of its
indebtedness is an enigma hard to solve,
and a decree obtained on that idea
will be as difficult of satisfactory explanation
as its review on a subject upon which it is
silent. It is indeed difficult to be patient un
der a state of things I understand so well, and
Which is too clear to my mind (but what can
Ido about it?). It will be in order, however,
in the near future, that I should explain how
the decree was obtained, unless the authori
ties of the city open the Council doors and in
vestigate the‘:a:ts in the manner a'ready in
dicated. The person above ail others capable
Of giving the desired Information is at
present intimately connected with the af
fairs of the city, and in the same posi
tion held, when the grave mistake 1 am try
ing to touch lightly upon occurred, so that
it is unfair that certain influences in the pres
ent Council would be charging the late city
administration with all the responsibility of
the injustice done me. I ask but what I have
demanded in the past, that an investigation
be made. It is as well it shonld be done even
at this late day, than that it should be de
ferred to a time more distant. The truth and
all the burning facts in the case must be de
veloped, and that as surely as the seasons suc
ceed each other. Nothing shall deter me
from doing my whole duty: the interests of
those who are very near and dear to me de
mand it. I know, however, that all
I may say and whatever I can do will not re
store certain peculiar losses unexplainable,
and however painful to do so I must regard
what has taken place in that respect as an ac
complished tact, and submit to the inevitable
as best lean. If I alone were concerned it
might be easier to do so, bnt I feel too much
for those who hold a warm place in my heart
and who are now the suffering victims of a
wicked combination I could neither anticipate
or control. Very respectfully,
Chris. Murphy.
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Children’s Cloaks and Havelocks.
The most desirable styles, quality and colors were purchased by our Mr. LICIITENSTEI\
from a failing manufacturer at about one-third the cost, but he has over-stocked us; we have
enough of them for every child in the city. We are positively suffocated with them. We
must make room, and, therefore, we don’t mean to ask big prices, but work them off as
quickly as possible.
Ail Wool Medicated Scarlet Gents’ Undershirts at 15c.
If you think that they can’t be as good an those sold elsewhere at $1 50, all you have,j 0
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choicest UNDERWEAR. Laundried and Unlanndried WHITE and FANCY SHIRTS t,, •&.
found anywhere; also, COLLARS. CUFFS, TIES, SCARFS, HANDKERCHIEFS, WOOL
and COTTON SOCKS, Etc., at rock bottom prices. There are no fancy prices in our hot.-
DRESN GOODS,
Of all kinds, from the humblest to the very best and latest styles. Prices are marked
down so low that we fear to quote them, as yon could bardl; realize the possibility of our
selling such flue qualities at these ridiculous prices, therefore, we say, come and see our
goods before yon purchase elsewhere. Should you, however, desire to buy a BLACK or
COLORED SILK DRESS PATTERN and sou do not buy of our celebrated makes, von win
regret it. We will positively save you 83 per cent, and give you the best of goods. The same
wo insist is the case with our BLACK anu COLORED SILK VELVETS.
OTHER PEOPLE’S BARGAINS
Consist of a few leading articles, such as trash CALICO at trash CANTON
FLANNEL at 5c., trash DRESS GOODS at sc. We care not to go into particulars,not liking to
hurting anybody’s feelings by being personal in our remarks. Only this, we do say and mer.u
it, there is no bargain oflered in any Dry Goods store in this city whose prices we arc nut
only able but willing to duplicate, and
We Do Meet Them, Cost What May!
Remember, we will not and do not permit anybody to undersell us, and are prepare! to
give each of our patrons the best possible value.
FANCY GOODS AND NOTIONS.
We have them all at war low down prices. Come an'! try our KID CLOVES our
HOSIERY, our HANDKERCIIfEFS, our RIBBONS, our JERSEYS, our LACES.our EM
BROIDERIES, and more especially our CORSETS. This is one of our features; our .ire
positively superior.
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The cheapest FUR TRIMMINGS ever seen anywhere.
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The Ballot Box Decides!
THE LATEST RETURNS
FROM
THE ELECTION
Show that the people vote for fair and honest deal
ing as well as for good government, and also that all
flock to the place where there is only ONE
PRICE and all goods marked in PLAIN FIG
URES, thus insuring fail* dealing to one and all.
This is the plan that Shoes, Hats, Trunks, Satch
els, Valises and Umbrellas are sold at
COLLAT BROS’,
149 BROUGHTON STREET.
li MC GOOD US
You will very naturally want to buy them from a bouse where you can get the best
goods at the lowest prices, taking the quality into consideration, for it is a fact be
yond controversy that the best quality of gotuls is always the cheapest in the end.
This being so, you should
BUT THEM FROM
A firm whose reputation for selling good goods is well known all over the Slate,
and whose experience for the past twenty years enables, them to sell a neat fitting,
stylish, durable SOLID SHOE as low as inferior goods are offered by some houses.
We do not sell a shoddy article, but on the contrary, always endeavor to give our
customers the value of their money, by selling ONLY good honest goods. Therefore,
before making your purchases consult your own interests and go to
JOSEPH ROSENHEIM k CO.,
Whefe you will find a large assortment to select from, and as fine and good in quality
as can be found in any house in the South.
SOLE AGENTS ssiSiSf -
Akl MAV g Fine Philadelphia made Haml-sewed
Goodß. Also, for T. M. HARRIS & CO.’S Philadelphia made Fine Shoes for Mis® oß
and Children.
JOS. ROSENHEIM & CO.,
141 CONGRESS STREET.
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A. L. DESBOUILLONS, Jeweler,
SI HULL STREET.
' .dFN, A FINE LINE OF
WEDDING PRESENTS
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■ Solid Sterling Silverware
FRENCH CLOCKS
A LSO, a great variety SILVER-PLATED
A. WAKE of the best manufacturers at tse
! °NoveufeH r< in’ WATCHED and JEWBLKY
stock of OPTICAL GOODS in‘hi*
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" A BEAUTIFUL LINE OF
Cut Glass & Other Colope Bottles
—AT —
STRONG’S DRUC STORE,
Corner Bull and Perry street lane.
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BACON, JOHNSON & 00.,
Planning Mill, Lumber & Wood lord.
Large stock of
Dressed and Rough Lumber
At low prices.
A good lot of Wood just receive!.