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no: FI UK A\U THE IMUMXEK.
% l.luir Mtarjr of lit* War •» 1815-Twa
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Sninaov diflcrent accounts have ap
(wared irom time to time regarding ‘‘the
#fer and the drummer of Soituate,’'
that the public hesitate which to accept.
With a view of getting at the real facts,
and presenting the suhjeot in an authen
Uc light, your correspondent visited Miss
Abby Bates, the surviving sister to ob
tain her version of the incident. “Aunt
Abby, as she is familiarly called, lives
alone in a low, old fashioned house on a
blufl overlooking mo/wvsaan the ocean. Although AHVinnoh
nearly eighty-eight yeanof (*e, her
mmd is clearand her health goo4
Rebecca W. and Abby were bom in
Provincetown, Mass., and in 1803 the
family moved to Scituate Centre. Her
father was a ^faring man , The fishing
business was dull, and, having a family
of thirteen children to provide for, he
was obliged to seek other employment
Through the influence of Mr. Jesse
Dunbar the Captain was appointed
keeper of the lighthouse, wherein, De
cember, 1811, the family took up their
residenoe.
It was about the middle of the after
noon on a pleasant September’s day that
Rebecca's mother said to her: “Make a
fire and put the kettle on; father and the
boys will be at home soon.” The echo
of this command had scarcely died away
before the mother espied two barges
heading direotly for the light, Eaoh
barge was manned by about sixteen men
and carried ajorass oannon on its bow*
The guard were away. The excited
mother, throwing up her arms, ex¬
claimed: “Children, the redcoats are
ooming.” At a glance the girls compre¬
hended the situation. “Ip the north
room of the house,” said Aunt Abby,
“were kept the fife and drum belonging
to the guard.
“Up into the room rnshed Rebecca,
and, returning, handed me the dram,
saying, ‘You be the drummer and I’ll
be the fifer.’” Ensconced behind, the
light the American army of two began.
“Give 'em the roll call,” commanded
Becky. This being done, the strains of
“Hail Columbia” and “Yankee Doodle”
pealed forth on the air. The music was
«continued for some time, now in imita¬
tion of an army marching, now counter¬
marching, until at last it was observed
that the La Hogue displayed a flag on
the masthead as a signal for the men t.o
return. Peeping from behind the light
Rebecca saw that the barges were re¬
turning in obedience to the signal. With
joy beaming in her girlish eyes she said
to her sister, “Scare ’em; I told you so;
see, they are going back.” “As soon as
we saw them return,” said Aunt Abby,
“we stuck to playing ‘Yankee Doodle,’
because the British disliked that 1 tel]
you, sir, we ju t put in on that too.”
A Theatrical Party.
An engagement was entered into by
two ;Philadelphia swells to pool their
issues and give a theatre party. It was
agreed that one should get the seats and
provide for taking the party to and from
the theatre, and the other was to give
the supper. A com was tossed, and the
winner selected the theatre tickets as his
share. Thirty young people were invited,
aDd one of last season’s brides secured to
matronize tnem. The party, to their
amazement, were taken to the Arch
Street Opera House, where a company
is singing light operas, the price of ad
mission being a dime, and reserved cr
cbestra chairs tea cents extra. The
man who had ordered the supper was
hirious at first, but the rest took the
joke in the proper way, and soon he
joined in the laugh. The thirty-two
seals cost #8.40; oar fare #5.76; total.
#12.10. The supper end of the bil
amonnted , A to .lK.uM7,.. . rtia ,
Osn hundred families of Bnssiams,
Tub only international street car line
ii» tho worid is the oue connecting Paso
doi Norte. M x.. with El Paso, Texas.
JiOTES AND COMMENTS.
The matches consumed in the United
State, require wood to tbe annuel value
53 298 502 ; the railroads nee about
,
23 000,000 of wood for fuel and #2,000,
-)00 for tie* each year,
A g0UD siWor balustrade, wbioh had
stood jn one o{ (ho Mexlcttn churches
th# Ume of Oortel waa torn down
^ , and , aken t0 the mint , pro
da ^ <u thousand ,i] V er
,i () n ar8
, .. . .
8°“ P“*~
manufacture the 950,000 tons . of paper
of thc
■ flow of water
days' medium
ao "V ine , k e rirer river Thames would be
nee< * e< *»
Near Chickasawhatohee, Ga., says the
Savannah News, a line of earthworks
can still be seen whioh were thrown np
by Gen. Jackson (Old Hickory) as a
protection against Indians on his march
to Florida through that section in 1818
A Bloomington (III) youth of 15,
after a course of yellow-back literature,
wrote to a merchant that unless he im
mediately reoeived $100 he would burn
down the merchant’s store. He con
*fossed afterward that he adopted the
scheme from a novel,
Fbancis Murphy’s coat was stolen in
Pittsburgh a few days ago. The thief
pawne d it and sold the pawn ticket, the
buyer of whioh attended a Murphy
meeting an a took the pledge. Francis
M urphy then tied a blue ribbon in the
buttonhole of his own coat on another
man.
Alcoholic intemperance ia stated to
be increasing to an alarming extent
among the women of Australia. In dis¬
cussing the matter at a meeting of the
Melbourne Medical Society the physi¬
cians present concurred in attributing
the trouble to close confinement,
anxiety, and the fatigue arising from
overwork.
Mb. E. Matthews, of Jackson county,
GA., has a colored man. living on his
place who was left in the Cherokee Na¬
tion, in Twenty-nine-mile Stretch, sold
twice by John A. Murrell and shot at
three times by the Confederate soldiers.
He is now the father of 49 children and
is 90 years old. He can plow as much in
a day as any man.
* One of the oases recently reported
at a meeting of the Charity Organ¬
ization of Washington was that of a
professional beggar who has two dresses
—a begging dress and a society dress.
Her name appeared in the society col¬
umns of a city paper as receiving guests
daring the inauguration, and she was
found to be living handsomely out of
alms.
A serious epidemic of whooping
cough has run through the islands of the
Fiji group. The malady has carried off
all the very young native children, and
i e ft a decrease in the population of 3,000.
a. few years ago 30,000 persons in Fiji
died from an epidemic of measles. Since
then the local government have done
much to instruct the people in the laws
of health.
**j passed through a fanny town the
other day,” remarked a gentleman who
^ j as t home from the South. “It was a
pi ace called Fulton, on the Illinois Cen
t ral Railroad, and is built right over the
dividing line between Kentucky and
Tennessee. The main street of the town
& ^ dividing line. On the Kentucky
s jd e of the street local option is in strict
enforcement, but you may cross over to
the Tennessee side and find a dozen sa
loons in full blast.”
! _ „ , . ••Say.mgalafl.I«
: g ot / on yon old boy. Yon re
i «° fond of hoaamg other leUow. tome
bodv has hoaxed you finely this time.
| Yon thought there wm a unard Beal Mermaid
on hoarJ of one of the C steamers.
1 °° '““r “ r Wbole “ Pfi 8 " z\T d a
About It and, ha , .ia . there Am t Any
Mermaid on uuy of ’em l”
1 lit* Loss of Cattle.
Mr. Amos T. Atwater, Secretary of
the National Cattle Association, who
has lwen making a tour of Texas, esti¬
mates the loss of cattle there this season
at from three to live per cent The
closing of the old trail much north of will compel
the owners to throw thoir sur¬
plus stock on the market, which will
depress the price of beef. The Texan
rangers are overstocked. Last year at
this time ever 81,000,000 worth of con¬
tracts were held by Texan ranohmen,
but this year not a dollar, owing to
the closing of the trail. Mr. Atwater
thinks the day of free grazing in Texas
is about over. In the near future stook
raisers will have to pasture their herds
on their own lauds and cultivate ground
enough for fodder to carry their cattle
through the winter.
Besides The Astors, Kingslands, Goe
lets and other great landlords in New
York, there is a new generation of land¬
lords building np great estates. The
Germans are rapidly They accumulating much real
estate in that city. other own nation¬
mare property than any
ality. The noh German brewers are all
Isrge landowners. It is said that the
humblest German grooer will start in
bosines* with only a few dollars, yet In
six or seven years he will own a house
and lot,
_ t Wtoen Miss
Shk Owned Them.—
Elizabeth Porter was in England, asked her some if
years ago,, an Englishman Niagara Falls. To
she had ever seen
whioh the lady replied, “I own them;”
and the questioner was sufficiently over¬
come.'
• * * * Nervous debility, premature de¬
cline of power in either sex, speedily and per¬
stamps. manently Consultation cured. Large book, three letter
tree. World’s Dispen¬
sary Medical Association. Buffalo, N. Y.
A New York woman boasts of having
written “1,500 original conundrums.”
llartlioldi’a Statue of 4 *l.lt ert y hulighlening
thc Wot'iu'*
will be a reminder of personal liberty for
ages to come. On just as sure a foundation
has Dr. Pierce’s ‘‘Golden Modical Discovery”
been placed, and it will stand through the cy¬
cles of lime as a monument to the physical
emancipation have been of thousands, who by its use
relieved irom consumption, con¬
sumptive spitting night-sweats, bronchitis, coughs,
c-f blood, weak lungs, and other
throat And lung affections.
It ifi j said chat a kangaroo can outkick a
mule.
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For dyspepsia, indigestion, depression
of spirits and general debility in their various
forms, also as a preventive against fever and
ague and other intermittent fevers, the “Fer¬
ro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisava,” New York, made and
by Caswell, Hazard & Co.,
sold by all druggists, is the best tonic; and
for patients recovering from fever or other
sickness it has no equal.
The making of orange wine is proving a
successful business on the Pacific coast.
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the only PRACTICAL and RELI¬
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102 8. Division St.,
GANCEtf cniart wnt tree. AdtU*>‘s
A.>1.1 ION cV CO.s 317 Penn Ueadiug, Pa.
WITHOUT MONET!
out dclav. It will be rent to «ny addrres #3 J I
in thc world Free of Co -t . be it
rarefttll ., ntndy it welJ.ari l >i»u will irleatt
information that lttav pn»vc nior • valua*
bio than ail the wealth of the Rothrebbds
—more precious than all tho gen*# of fcu
rope'* rovaltv. Itn>ay toe* y«*>r A?Un»>*. Hj*t
RradfieJd Retrul'rCo . Uo* 'M. <* •
for U nk Moimor.
Mus. Lydia K. 1'ikkhaM: “AlsKifc tho first
of Neptcmbcr, 18*1, my wife wn* t ikon with
uterine licinoniinjjn. Thu best styptics tho
ph.VHicinn could prescribe did notebook it and
■be pfot more and mom <nfe»bM> Site wai
troubled with Prolapsus Uteri, Lou
onrrhett, mind moss of the limbs, sick,
ness of the stomach and loss of ap|»tit«.
I purchased a trial bottle of your vegetable
Compound. She said she could discover a
salutary effect from thc first done. Now sha
is comparatively free from the Prolapsus^
Stomach's sickness, Ac. The hemorrhage is
very mueh better anti iR less at the regular
periods. Her appetite is restored, and her
general health and strength are much im¬
proved. benefited We feel that we have been wonder :
in fully and our hearts are drawn out
gratitude sufferers, for the same and in sym{)athy
for other for whose sakes we allow
our names to be used.
“C W. Eaton. Thurston. N. Y."
This contains no
Ely’s Cream
when A'Kiled into thc
trils, will be absorbed,
effectually cleansing the
head of catarrhal f
causing It allays healthy inflammation,
tects the membrane
fresh colds,
heals thc sores and restores
the senses of taste
and hearing. It is
Not a Liquid or Snuff
A few implications thorough
lleve. A
ment will cure.
to use. Price fib cents
Sc,,,l
ELY BROTHERS, Druggists, Owego, N. Y.
RHEUMATISM
Cured. I will rend on* bottle of my infallible rhea
roatlc cure for fl.as. or two for $11.00, upon receipt a
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Hair. Mole#, Wart*. Freckles, Moth. Red
Nose, Acne, Bl’k Heads. Henrs. Woodbury, Pitting
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flob not a puffy, flabby skin, butpbmty bone and
in uncle, llic cnil- Jiky# it, and a# to nalurw’# »up
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thin/i*. and finds complete sathfaeiion in this, the
ls‘st substitute for the mother's milk. Do not let
vour children grow up weak and punv, when Ridge'*
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the sales of that ela
remedies, and has give*
almost universal san.iac*
tioii.
MURPHY BR(r.».,
Paris. Te*
Ohs,won the tavor f
the public and now ranks
r.mo the leading Med**
cine, of the oddotn.
A. L. SMITH.
Soldhv D.-uvgrst*. Bradford, Pa.
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valuable tic iv lnc-k. vraioh of
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neither tli« i>®sit*-* nor mow/ i to uuskc it worth*
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* tid »bould rend in
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