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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. its in ism, ) By CHAS. W. HANCOCK, j" VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Semi-Weekly, One Year - - - 00 Wkei.y, One Year - - - - - 2.00 CgrI’AYABLE- IN AI)VANCK_£fcI All advertisements eminating from public llices will be charged for in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly of Georgia—73 cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and 33 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts df one hundred are considered one hundred words; each figure and initial, with date and signature, is counted as a word. The cash must accompany the copy of each advertisement, unless different arrange ments have been made. Advertising Kates. One Square first insertion, - - - -fl.oo Each subsequent insertion, - - - - 50 }-4?"TEN' Lines of Minion, type solid con stitute a square. All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. Advertisements not specifying the length of time for which they art: to bo inserted will bo continued until ordered out and charged for accordingly. Advertisements tooccupy fixed places will bo charged 25 per cent, above regular rates Notices in local column inserted for ten cent per line each insertion. Charles F. Crisp, •Ilf or net/ (8i SjUWi AMERICUS, GA. declGtf B. P. HOLLIS, •Ittornetf at Mmw % AMERICUS, GA. oilico, Forsyth Street, in National Hank building. dec2otf E. G SIMMONS, •It lorat tf at laiw, AMHUIOITS GA., Office in Hawkins’building, south side of Lamar Street, in the old office of Fort & Simmons. janGtf .r. a. ansley, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICITOR IX EQUITY, Office on l’uni.ic Square, Over Gyles' Clothing Store, Americus, Ga. After a brief respite 1 return again to the practice of law. As in the past it will be my earnest purpose to represent my clients faithfully and look to their interests. The commercial practice will receive close atten tion and remittances promptly made. The Equity practice, and cases involving titles of land and real estate are my favorites. Will practice in the Courts of Southwest Georgia, the Supremo Court and the United States Courts. Thankful to my friends for their patronage. Fees moderate. novlltf CARD. 1 offer my professional services again to the good ]>eople of Americus. After thirty years’ of medical service, 1 have found It difficult to withdraw entirely. Office next door to Dr. Eldridge’s drugstore, on the Square janmf It. CHI LACK, M. 1), Dr. J. A. FORT, Physician anj Surgeon, Offers his professional services to the people of Americus and vicinity. Office at Ur. Eldridge’s Drug Store. At night can he found at residence at the Taylor house, on Lamar street. Calls will receive prompt attention. may2G-t f Dr. DTP, HOLLOWAY, DentisT, Americus. - Georgia Treatssuccessfully all diseasesof the Den tal organs. Fills teeth by the Improved method, and inserts artificial teeth on the best material known to the profession. JjgrOFFIOE over Davenport and Son’s Drug Store. marllt J. B. C. Smith &^Sons, Americus, Ga. We are prepared to do any kind of work in the carpenter lino at short notice and on reasonable terms. Having had years of ex perience in the business, wo feel competent to give satisfaction. All orders for con tracts for building will receive prompt at tention. Jobbing promptly attended to. may2G-3m Iron Levers, Steel Hearings, Brans TARE BEAK. 0 - JONES, 111-: PAYS THE I UEHan . . H :• \ H*lUon trial. V’nrruuta & yetuu. All blzort aalow. HI Uk **or free book, ad,UcHB EJ / JONES OF BINGHAMTON, lIINWLUITOX, N. Y. Mrs. M.D. RAINES Is now opening her stock of Spring Millinery! She will have on exhibition in a few days a full line of HATS, BONNETS NECKWEAR, HAIRGOODS AND J/i IHL’L/M*: Those who wish to purchase MILLINEHT will do well to call and examine her goods, as they have been selected with great care, doefitf Rev. Father WIII ' EXPERIENCE The licv. Z. I*. "Wiltls, well-known missionary in New York, ami brother of the late eminent Judge Wilds, of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, writes as follows: “78 K. 5 1th St.. New York, .1 fat/ 10, lsß2. Messrs. J. C. Ayer & Cos., Gentlemen : Last winter 1 was troubled with a most uncomfortable itching humor aiVecting • more especially my limbs, which itched so intolerably at night, ami burned so intense ly, that 1 coulil scarcely boar any clothing over them. 1 was also a sullVrer from ii severe catarrh and catarrhal cough; my appetite was poor, and my system a good deal run down. Knowing the value of AykiUs Sarsaparilla, by observation of many other cases, and from personal use in former years. I began taking it for the above-named disorders. My appetite im proved almost, from the iirst dose. After a short time the fever and itching were allayed, and all signs of irritation of the skin disappeared. My catarrh'and cough were also cured by the same means, and my general health greatly improved, until it is now excellent. 1 fuel a hundred per cent stronger, and I attribute these results to the use of t.IJM Sarsaparilla, which I recommend with all e miidenee as the best Mood medicin > ever devised. I took it in small dos. s three times a day, and used, in all, less t!:an two bottles. 1 place these facts at your service, hoping their publication ma\* do good. Yours respectfully, Z. P. WiLDS.” The above instance is but one of the many constantly coming to our notice, which prove the perfect adaptability of Ayer’s Sarsa parilla t<> the cure of all diseases arising from impure or impoverished blood, and a xveakenod vitality. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla cleanses, enriches, an.! s; lengthens the blood, stimulates the action of the stomach and bowels, and thereby enables the system to resist and overcome Lie attacks of all Scrofti tans Disease.*, /iritjttions of the Skin , Ithcu m'it ism, Catarrh , (tnicril f)chi!iti/, and all dkiorders resulting from poor or corrupted blood anti a low stale of the system. PREPARED ItV Dr. J.C. Ayer & Cos., Lowell, Mass. Sold by all Ih'uggisls: price §l, six bottles for i?n. AYER’S CATHARTIC -- pills. Best Purgative Medicine cure Constipation. I ndigeslion, Headache, and all Bilious Disorders. Sold everywhere. Always reliable. fIOSIIp^ STOMACH Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, by increasing vital power, ami rendering the physical functions regular and active, keeps the sys tem in good working order, and protects it against disease. For constipation, dyspep sia and liver complaint nervousness, kidney and rheumatic ailments, it is invaluable, and it affords a sure defence against mala rial fevers, besides removing all traces of such disease from the system. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally. AYER’S Ague Cure I H WAIiItANTJCD to euro all cases of ma larial disease, such as Fever and Ague, Inter mittent or Chill Fever, Remittent Fever, Dumb Ague, Bilious Fever, and Liver Com plaint. lii case of failure, after duo trial dealers are authorized, by our circular of July Ist, 1882, to refund the money. br. J.C. Ayer&Co., Lowell, Mass. Sold by all 1 Irugglsts. FOXTTZ’S AND CATTLE POWDERS - ~ A SIS No Jior.su will die of Colto. Hots or Lung Fe ver. if Fout/.’s Powders arc used in time. Fout/.’s Powders will euro and prevent Hoc Ciiolkra. Fontz’s Powders will prevent Gapkh in Fowls. Foutz’s Powders will Increase the quantify of milk and cream twenty per cent., and make the butter firm and sweet. Foutz's Powders will cure or prevent almost every Disi ask to which Horses and Cattle are subject. Foutz's Powm ns will oivk Satisfaction. Sold everywhere. DAVID E. POUTZ, Proprietor, BALTIMORE, HID. Woof Wanted, BY THE Laurel Mills Manufacturing Company. in exchange for good honest jeans tweeds and linscys, we exchange our cloth to farm ers, wool-growers and merchantson favora ble terms, and will give you better value for your wool than you can get by selling for money. FOll 10 FOUNDS WASHED WOOL, We give 8 yards Doeskin Jeans. Wo give 10 yards School Boy Joans. Wo give 10% yards Tweeds. We give 12% yards plain or Check Linseys. Foil 10 FOUNDS WOOL IN TIIE DIRT, We give G yards Doeskin Jeans. We give 8 yards School Boy Jeans. AVe give 8% yards Tweeds. We give 10 yards plain or Check Linseys. We will manufacture your wool into jeans for 22% cents per yard, tweeds 15%, linseys 12%. Wo pay freight on all wool sent us. Send for circular and samples, and you will send your wool when you see our goods. Direct to Laurel Mills Manufacturing Cos., BOSWELL, COBB COUNTY, GAT aprll-sw&wly INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1883. XUS WRIAA.WS.O'OS. THE SQUIRE’S FUN. ]SY EISEN E. IlEXEOItl). Squire Doolittle was a farmer, fat and jolly, who liked fun, but always preferred it at someone clse’s expense. If lie could play a trick upon one of his sons, he enjoyed it hugely. Asa consequence, the boys did not iever eucc him very much, and were always trying some practical joke upon their father. Sometimes they succeeded,but not often. “I’m too old a lish to be caught by the pin hooks of boys,” lie would say, when some plan of theirs had miscar ried and the joke was turned upon themselves, much to his delight and their chagrin. “You’ve heard of wea sels, haven’t you? Yes. Well, wea sels, especially old weasels, never sleep.” “We must get a laugh against him in some way,” said Tom. “He’s too provoking! I’d give a dollar to trick him in such a way that he wouldn’t like to hear about it.” “So would I,” said John. “And I’d make it two,” said Robert. “But we’re hardly sharp enough. That’s the trouble.” It happened that the squire was in the haymow m the barn when this con versation took place, and the boys were sitting on some boxes on the barn floor, lie chuckled as ha listened, and a moment later called out from his lofty perch, “I’ll tell you what I’ll do, hoys. When you get a good joke on me, I’ll buy each one of yon a hat.” The boys looked foolish. But final ly, because they had nothing else to say, they' accepted the challenge, and in a half-hearted sort of a way, set their wits to work to earn the hats. In the squire’s flock of sheep was an old ram called David. The animal had a chronic spite against the whole human family, and never lost an oppor tunity of exhibiting it to any member of the family that crossed his path. If a stranger entered the yard or pasture .vheie David was, the poor man was fortunate if he was not knocked down as suddenly as if lie had been struck by lightning. The ram always at tacked Irom the rear. Tie would get, behind the object of his attack, curb bis neck, shut his eyes and charge! As may be imagined, tlie great horns of the animal, backed up by the mo mentum gathered by his charge, gave anything but a pleasant sensation when they came in contact with the legs of his unsuspecting victim. Generally a board was strapped to his horns, over his woolly face, to obstruct his range of vision and serve as a warning to strangers of his warlike propensities. But he often contrived to tear it from his head—and then alas for his unsus pecting victim. The boys enjoyed many an hour of fun with David. The sheep pasture came up to the barnyard on one side, and a creek ran along by both. Where the pasture came to tho creek there was a very high bank, and .his bank was steep. The Doolittle boys used to get upon a narrow rock that was just under the edge of the bank. Here, where they stood up, all their bodies above the waist could be seen above the level of the pasture. Placing them selves in this position, they would at tract the attention of old David by call ing and shaking their hats at him. He was always ready for battle. With lowered head, curbed neck and a snort of anger, he would rush at them with his eyes closed. Taking advantage of this peculiarity, the boys would drop down behind the bank, and David would go over them and into the water, with a plunge that would have done credit to a Newfoundland dog. Then he would get back to tho shore, look ing wrathful and sheepish; but lie could not be induced to renew tho attack again at that time. His memory, however, was poor, or his pugnacity was too strong for his discretion, for in an hour, it the boys came back and showed themselves above the bank, he was ready for an other charge. Perhaps the foolish ani mal thought that sometime he would be too quick for them. The squire had often watched this spoit, and laughed at David’s reck lessness and at his appearance as lie plunged into the water and came forth with wet wool and disgusted and wrath ful aspect. One day the squire was in the barn yard salting the cows. He had a half bushel measure in his hand, and as he looked over the fence into the sheep pas ture, and saw David watching him, he held up the measure and shook it at the old fellow. David gave a snort of defiiance, and began to curb bis neck and shake his head, as if challenging tho squire to combat. “I wonder if I couldn’t trick the old fellow in the same way that tho boys fool him?” thought the deacon. He looked about the yard, cautiously. His sons were not in sight, and ho conclu ded lie would have a laugh at David’s expense. Crawling through the fence he reached the rock on which the boys stood in their encounters with David. The ram had not seen him. When the squire raised himself cautiously and looked over the bank, David was watching the barnyard, and evidently wondering vvliat had become of the man who had just challenged him. “Hi, David!” cried the squire, hold ing the half bushel measure out before him as a target for the sheep to aim at. “Hi, David!” David “lii-ed” at once. He gave a , grand flourish as if to say. Look out 1 there!” then charged, i Unfortunately for tho squire, he was j so excited over the fun that he forgot i himself completely, and only thought j about the half bushel measure. Instead J of dropping out of the sheep’s way, he j swung the measure on one side, in his i excitement forgetting that David al ways shut his eyes when lie charged, and aimed for the object before him when he closed them. The consequence was that the ram did not follow the measme, but bolting straight for the place where ho last saw it, struck the poor squire square in tho stomach and ho and David went over the bank and into the creek as if shot out of a can non. “Wall, I snum!” sputtered the squire, as he made his way to the bank. “1 forgot all about dodging. I de b’leevc the old reprobate’s broke my stomach in, by the way it feels. You old rascal!” lie screamed to David, whose air was one of victory, as ho stood on the pasture side of the fence, making defiant motions with his head at the deacon who had clambered out of the water on the barnyard side; “I’d like to break your old neck! I shan’t get over this for a month, if I ever do. I wouldn’t have been so bruised for five dollars. I’m glad tho hoys didn’t see me.” He made his way up the bank and toward the barn, under cover of the fence. He didn’t want any one at the house to see him in his wet clothes. As he opened the barndoor, a broadside of laughter saluted his ears from tho hay mow in the end of the barn toward the creek. He knew then that boys’ hour of triumph had come. They had seen his discomfiture. “I say, father!” irreverantly called out Tom, in a voice choked with laugh ter. “You didn’t scooch quick enough. Next time you’ll know better how to do it.” “What became of the half-bnshel?” asked John, and Bob screamed “Hi, David!” in such a way that, notwith standing liis pain the squire was half inclined to laugh himself. “I—l acknowledge that David was too much for me that time,” said the squire, looking very red and foolish. “Laugh away, hoys, if it does yon any good.” “What’s the price of hats?” asks John. “Well, but the joke wasn’t yours,” said the tquire. “But I’ll tell yon what I’ll do. If you won’t say any thing about this foolish affair I’ll buy the hats, and give you a day’s fishing any time you want to take it.” “We agree! we agree!” cried the boys. But the story leaked out in some way, and the squire had to endure a great deal of sly laughter from his fun loving neighbors. But he never quite forgave old David, and although he did not say so. he had a feeling of un qualified satisfaction when he heard one day that the old sheep’s neck had been broken in a fight. A YORKSHIRE LEGEND. Some three hundred years ago a very old man kept a shop underneath tho Munster tower. His business was as poor as he was; lie had already five children, and one morning his wife gave birth to a sixth, a fine little girl. The poor old father sighed; betook the child in the shop, and laid it on the counter. Then he fairly broke down and sobbed over his now possession. Now the shop was an open one, and a knight who happened to bo riding by stopped his horse when he saw the pooi old man’s distress. “Alas,” said the father, “I have al ready five young ones, and know not how to find food for them, and so my wife has but now given mo another. I would that it had not conic info this suffering world.” “I will see what will happen toller,” the knight said, for he was a sorcerer, and he always carried his great Book of Fate in his saddle-bow. The poor man gazed at him as ho read. All at once ho saw the knight turn pale, his hair bristled on his head, but ho spoke with a smiling face to the distressed father. “Be consoled, friend. I have no daughter and if you will give me your unwelcomed infant I will adopt it and make it heir to my possessions.” Tho father’s delight was great; lie loaded the kniglit with thanks, and placed the baby in his arms. The knight spurred his horse and rode swiftly to the banks of the Ouse, at some dis tance from the city. Here he dismoun ted and thing the infant into the mid dle of the river, for he had read in the Book of Fate that this newly-born babe was destined to marry his only son. Then lie rode away rejoicing. But the river was more compassionate than the knight. It washed the baby ashore and a fisherman hearing its cries car ried it homo to his cottage. Fifteen years after, tho knight with many of his friends came riding along the hanks of tho Ouse, and stopped at the fisherman’s cottage to buy fish. A young girl camo to the door, and the knight and all his friends were startled by her wonderful beauty. Her man ner, too, was so sweet and gracious that as they went on their way they continued to praise and wonder at her loveliness, till the knight said with a laugh—“l will search my took anil see which of you is destined to he the fisher-maiden’s husband.” But his laughter ceased and his face grew white when lie read that tliis was the very maiden lie hail tiling into the stream long ago. He soon made an excuse to leave his friends, and going back to the cottage asked the fisherman if ho would allow his daughter to carry a message from him to his brother, a noble knight who lived at Scarborough. The fisherman consented, and then the -knight wrote a letter, and sealing it gave it to the girl. She put the let ter into her purse and started on her journey. When night fell she went to a littlo inn, where she aslod for a bed and slept soundly. Now it happened that a thief found his way into the inn that night, and prowling about he camo into the maiden’s room and saw her purse lying on the table. In it lie found the letter, which lie opened and read. It contained these words: “Dear Brother—Take the bearer and put her to death immediately.” The thief turned his lantern on to the face of the sleeper and seeing how young and beautiful ho felt compas sion. “She deserves a better fate,” he said, “and she shall have it.” Then he wrote a note in the handwriting of the knight; “Dear Brother—Take the bearer and marry her at once to my son.” He then sealed the letter and placed it in the girl’s ptinc instead of the other. Next morning the gill woke up ear ly and hurried on to Scarborough. The knight’s brother received her kindly; but when ho had read the letter lie embraced her, and went to seek his nephew, who happened to be on a visit to bis castle. As soon as tbe youth beheld the maiden ho became enamored of her, and desired to be wedded next day; and the marriage celebrated with much splendor, the bride looked more beautiful than ei er in her weildingSgar ments. After a day or two tho knight told his nephew that lie must go to York and seek the knight his father, and tell him lie had obeyed his commands. The young husband was unwilling to leave his wife; however, he departed with many promises of a speedy return. He had not been gone long when his father arrived—they missed each other on the road—-and when tho York knight learned what had happened he was almost mad with rage. He asked liis daughter-in-law to come with him outside of the castle; then seizing her by the hair dragged her to the sea-shore and drew his dagger. She fell on her knees. “Spare my life,” said she, “and toil me how I have angered you.” At this he told her history, and bade Her prepare for death; but at last her tears and entreaties so far softened him that ho sheathed his dagger, then pluck ing a gold ring from his finger, he flung it into tho sea. “Swear to me,” he said, “that you will not come into my sight nor that of my sou till that ring is on your fin ger and I will spare your life.” She swore, and then she lied in wild terror till she found herself in a strange place, obliged to beg for food. At last, after long wondering, she became to cook for a nobleman. One day as she looked out of a win dow at tho guests arriving for a ban quet, she saw her cruel enemy and his soil, her dearly loved husband. She drew back hastily and then she trem bled so she could hardly cook the din ner. Just before it w;is ready a fisher man came to the door. Ho had brought a splendid fish for sale, and she took it in and began to clean it. All at once she saw something glitter. She looked closer; it was the knights ring; then she ceased trembling, her fear turned to joy and she cooked the dinner to perfection. “Who is your cook, my lord?” asked the knight, who, notwithstanding liis cruelty, was extremely fond of good eating. “She is a strange girl, but she is fair to see,” his host answered; “she came begging to my door, and I took her in from charity;” then, turning to tho servants behind him: “Some of you hid the cook come up into the din ing hall.” The girl washed her face and smooth ed her hair, and then she put on her best clothes, and with the ring on her finger she entered the hall. The guests looked at her with won der, for she seemed to them “as fair as the moon, as lovely as the rose.” But the knight uttered a tierce yell and started from Ills seat. He drew his sword and made a rush at her, but she smiled and held up her hand, tin it he saw the ling which he had cast into the sea. lie saw, too, that her young husband stood beside her and clasped her in liis arms. Then the knight bent his head, for he saw that fate had been too strong lor him, and ho suffered her to dwell peacefully with her loving husband; and she be came famous throughout the country for her beauty, her courtesy and her goodness. All kidney and urinary com plaints, especially Bright’s disease, Diabetes and Liver troubles, Hop Bit ters will surely and lastingly cure. Cases exactly like your own have been cured in your own neighborhood, and you can find reliable proof at home of wliat Hop Bitters has and can do. “Look before you leap,” said the man who brushed a bent pin off the chair. Physicians use Shriner’s In dian Vermifuge in their practice and pronounce it a first class article. A trial will convince the most skeptical of its intrinsic merit. A Faulty Game a Ease Ball. Philadelphia Cor. N. Y. World. A remarkable game of base ball was played at the Pastime Park to-day be tween the Snorkys and the Hoppers. Every member of the Kuorkys’ Club had but one arm, and tho Hopper had each but one leg. The two nines were composed of young and active men, all of whom, with one exception, owed the loss of their limbs to railroad accidents. The one exception was William Young, a Suorkv, who lost one of his arms at Gettysburg. Both nines wore neat uniforms, the Suorkys having red and the Hoppers blue as their distinguishing colors. About 2,000 persons were in the grand stand, and they laughed and shouted and went wild over the game. When time was called Morris Hines, the pitcher of the Hoppers, went to the bat and dealt heavily with the very first ball that John Gormon, the one armed pitcher, hurled at him. He sent it between second base and left field, anil got two liases easily. Flick, the next batter, sent a fly to second base, which was muffed, and thus brought Hines home and got a base. The first inning resulted in three runs for the Hoppers. W hen the one-legged men took the field it was noticed that a judicious distribution of their forces had been made. The pitcher, Morris Hines, dis played a shapely wooden leg, such as were wont to he used by Hogging sail ors. The leg looked as though it weie full of life and movement. George Dowds, the catcher, had a leg of smaller dimensions, but was as quick on his feet and as handy with liis hands as any catcher. The first baseman, William Knnff, wore an aristocratic artificial limb, which made him look much like any other man, but all the rest had legs of plain democratic wood, fastened out wardly with straps in the good old fashioned way. 5\ iiliatn Stewart at light-field and Paul Launce at centre-field had each a wooden leg and a crutch. Their run ning after fly balls was something ex traordinary, especially when both got mixed up and fell on the ground un able to move, while the ball lay a few feet away. “Pick it up!” yelled tho captain. “Sock it to third,” cried out a score of voices, while the two players delib erately unstrapped their legs to get out of the tangle. By that time the base runner got home. One of the unfortu nates literally put his foot on his shoul der and went to a dry spot to draw on his leg. Both of these gentlemen were sue- ' cessful in batting, but lamentably lame in running, and the scores they ' made were tho product of shrewdness and persistence. One Stewart fell fiat on liis face just as he reached first base, owing to the ' slipping of his crutch, and Launce was ’ run out a second by tripping and fall- ' ing over liis crutch. When these players made a hit their opponents refrained front throwing the ball to the base, preferring the more , certain method of pursuing and over taking them before they could roach their bases. There were some funny incidents in • the fielding. Once when Flick first 1 base, and John Lilly, second base, were : running to catch a liy from Douds, they got under it together, and, both ; having only the leit arm, managed to drop it. I Meantime Flick, who was hopping ; from first to second at prodigious speed, ' suddenly stopped in liis onward career 1 and stretched out his hands appeal- 1 ingly “Go on! Run! Go for it. Scoot 1 for second,” the crowd yelled and shouted themselves hoarse. “Why don’t you go?” shouted the captain. 5 ou’ve got to go if you want to get it.” “I can’t,” shouted back the poor fellow. “My leg’s stuck in the ground.” Then the basemen fumbled around with tlieir left hands, got the ball, and put him out, after wieli they obligingly pulled his leg out of the mud and help ed him home. Then the game went on. The one-legged long fielders had an easy time of it, and leaned leisurely ' upon their supports and watched the game with a philosophic interest, but once in a while some lusty Snorky would send a sky-scraper out their way and "prompt them to jerky movements. It was curious then to see the speed they could make on the soft ground with their crutches, and the eagerness with which they ran toward the ap proaching ball. It must be said, how ever, that they invariably missed it, and that it pleasantly bounded past them, giving tho batter and his one armed comrades a chance to exhibit tlieir speed around tho bases. Tho one-armed men had all tho ad vantage in running, and it was to this that they owed the largeness of tlieir scores. They stole runs audaciously, taking the chances of the fielding by the one legged men. Now and then they were caught at this game, and once a well managed double-play sent two of them out and ended an inning. In the first inning two batters of the one-armed nine got tlieir bases on call ed balls and stole their way home, thanks to a series of accidents among the one-legged fellows. A hall that was thrown by tho catch er to the pitcher passed that agile ath- | FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. NO. 93. leto and rolled between the two fielders on crutches at left and center-field. They both grabbed for and missed it. By tie time it was sent home three runs had been scored by tlienim > ble one-armers, whose strength and agility seemed to he transferred to their legs, which fairly twinkled as they ran. In the third inning tho one-armed men got five runs on the slightest kind of hits and laughed as they swung around the diamond at the hasty scrambling for the ball among the one legged fielders. In the fourth inning they made sev en, and this left the game nineteen to thirteen in favor of the one-armed nine. It was then so dark that plav was suspended. The “Cripples,” as the nines are called, never played together before, and their success was so great thai it has been resolved to take them on a tour to New York, Chicago, St, Louis and other cities. NOAH’S ARK DISCOVERED. FINDING Ol' THE ANCIENT VESSEL IN A OLACIF.It ON MOUNT ARARAT. A Constantinople contemporary an nounces the discovery of Noah’s Ark. It appears that some Turkish Commis sioners appointed to investigate the question of avalanches on Mount Ara rat suddenly came upon a gigantic structure of very dark wood protruding from a glacier. They made inquiries of the inhabitants (<j. 1,725 in their report.) These liad seen it for six years, but had been afraid to approach it because a spirit of fierce aspect hail sew: looking out of the upper win dow. Turkish Commissioners, how ever. are bold men, not deterred by such trifles, and they determined to reach it. Situated as it was'among tho fastness of one of the glens of Mount Ararat, it was a work of enormous difficulty, and it was only after incredible hardships that they succeeded. The ark, one will be glad to hear, was in a good state ot preservation, although the an gles—observe, not the how or stern — had been a good deal broken in its de scent, They recognized it at once. There was an Englishman among them who had presumably read liis Bible, and he saw it was made of the ancient gopher wood of Scripture, which as every one knows, only grows on tho plains ol the Euphrates. Effecting an entrance into the structure, which was painted brown, they found that tho Admiralty requirement for the convey ance of horses had been carried oiit, and the interior was divided into parti tions fifteen feet high. Into three of these only could they get, the others being full of ice, and how far the ark extended into the glacier they could not tell. If, however, on being un covered it turns out to bo 30U cubits long it will go hard with disbelievers in the book of Genesis. “Needless to say,” says the Pall Mall Gazette, “an American was soon on the spot, and negotiations have been entered into with the local Pacha for its speedy transfer to the United States. A FATHER’S LONG VIGIL. WATCHING OVER THE DEAD BODY OF Ills DAUGHTER FOR NEARLY FIVE MONTHS. A few days ago the remains of Miss Annie Brewer were interred in a marble sarcophagus constructed in tho yard adjoining Her father’s house in East Hartford, Connecticut. The circum stances of this case is sad and peculiar. Miss Brewer was the IG-year-old daugh ter of Edward Brewer, a leading citi zen. She was the idol of her father, whose whole life seemed to he wrapped up in her. A week or two before Christmas she was then sick, and, af ter a short illness, died. On her deathbed she expressed a horror of be ing put into the ground, and her father promised that she should not be. In spite of the entreaties and persuasions of the friends and relatives, lie declin ed to allow the remains to be taken from the house. The corpse was dress ed for the grave and was enclosed in a handsome coffin, which was placed in the parlor. Every day an undertaker visited tho house, and did wliat was necessary to preserve the remains. Tho unhappy father refused to bo comforted. He sat by the coffin all day long, and it was with great difficulty that ho could be persuaded to snatch even a few moments for his meals. In the early evening lie retired to bed, but at about midnight arose again, dressed himself, and returned to his vigil, lie addressed to the inanimate form words of endearing affection, kissed the mar ble lips, and passed his hand across the brow. When day-light came he returned to his bed for a few hours, and then rose to go through the same pro gramme. Day and night trom the time of her death until about the mid dle of April, these strange actions were kept up. At about that time Mr. Brewer’s Health broke down, and Jhc agreed to the removal of tho remains to a vault to be constructed on liis own premises and easily accessible, so Unit he might still hold communion with his child. It is in this vault, just completed, that the girl’s long unbur ied remains were placed. The cere monies were simple and private. 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