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BY D.JB. FREEMAN.
“THAT MINISTER.”
BY MISS R. HUDSON.
“I'm suro l don’t see the necessity of
your making such a fuss ! Iu my young
days girls didn’t use to fly into a passion
just because they were advised to marry
the one, among their many beaux, who
Was best off in the world 1 You’re per
fectly ridiculous,Kitty;” and Mrs. Dun
ham, a sharpfaced widow of forty years,
knitted away, indignantly.
Her daughter Kitty, with a flush of
vexation on her cheeks, and an unmis*
takable pout on her lips, went on seW
Irtg in silence. A silenco that aggrava
ted the mother into further speech.
“Most girls would be glad lo marry
Mr. Staunton, a likely young ma* and
a minister, too. It’s so respectable to
be a minister’s wife !”
“Is it 7 Well, mother, suppose I wait
till lie asks me to marry him. He hasn’t
yet, you know,” put in Kitty, with a
toss of the brown curls that had fallen
over her eyes.
“Humph ! It’s easy enough to seo
Which way the wind blows. lie’ll ask
you, fast euough, and, Kitty, 1 do hope
you won’t be such a goose as to refuse
him. A girl in your circumstances
too—”
Kitty dropped the stockirfg she was
darning, for the mist of tears in her
eyes made it impossible for her to seo
a thread, and answered spiritedly :
“I don’t care what my circumstances
are. I should be just such a goose ! I
can’t bear Mr. Staunton, you know I
can’t 1 I’d rather take in washing than
marry him
Mrs. Dunham looked in despairing
deprocation, from the tearful face to the
docorous picture of Kitty’s dead fath
er, hung upon the wall, and back again.
“Kitty, you’re positively wicked.—
There never was a better young man.
A real Christian ; (and getting such a
salary) 7”
“1 never did like ministers !” sobbed
Kitty, “never! and the girls have
plagued me about this one until I just
hate the sight of him, I can’t help
it,” she went on more boldly ; “and as
for my marrying him, why, ho isn’t the
only matt itt the world I”
“lie’s the only man likely to propose
to you, except that good-for-nothing
Mr. Sidney, who spends cfciy cent ho
earns on drejs. Now, whether you like
iVor not, Kitty, you can and must be
civil to Mr. Staunton. lie’s coming
here to tea to-morrow evening.”
Kitty’s cyos flushed.
'■‘Coming here to tea ! and on Thanks#
giving evening ! Why, Sophia aud the
children a r o coming, and I meant to
have such a good time ! Now that
stupid minister will spoil it all.” And
Kitty dropped her work basket with a
crash, and leaving the contents scatter
ed on the carpet, ran out of the room.
Thanksgiving morning dawned cold
and clear. A light snow that had fall
en during the night, lay over the
ground Kitty Dunham lifted her gray
skirts daintily as she tripped to church
with the cherry ribbons on her bonnet
fluttering gayly in the sunshine. Kitty
had somewhat regained 1 he? good temp*
r, and even managed to smile as she
bowed to Mr. Staunton in the church
porch. It must be confessed, however,
that she did not once glance toward the
minister during service, but sat study
ing the carpet beside her feet, wonder
ing if Mr. Sydney was in his pew, and
wondering still more what! had kept her
mother at home; for Mrs. Dunham
had, for the first time within Kitty’s re
membrance, stayed from church on
Thanksgiving day. The minister, in
deed, was not attractive to contemplate,
lie was a tali thin young mau, awkward
of motion, with a pale face, painfully
light hair, and rather pathetic blue eyes
hidden behind glasses ; yet the lank
figure always gained a certain dignity
in the pulpit, and the voice that talked
this morning of the goodness of God
was rather sweet than otherwise.
At home, Mrs. Dunham and her
daughter Sophia were deep in the mys
teries of cookery. Doth flew about en
ergetically, casting anxious glances at
the clojk. As tho last stroke of twelve
reverberated through the kitchen, Mrs.
Duuharn came up the cellar stairs with
the key of the further cellar in her
hand.
“Thero, Sophia ! Now just wash up
a little, or she may suspect something
It makes a good deal of cooking to have
Thanksgiving and a surprise party come
together ; but I be’ieve the last thing’s
done and safe out of sight. Now don’t
you allow those children of yours to lot
the cat out of the bag. Bertha never
would forgive me if Kitty should find
out before they come !”
Kitty’s demeanor during the Thanks-
giving dinner aud the afternoon that
followed was quite as usual, bhe frol°
toked with the children, gossiped with
Sophia, and was her own merry self,
tiii twilight foil and tho minister rung
at the door ; then Kitty retired into a
corner, and scarcely uttered a word.—
Mr. Staunton, noticing this, perhaps,
appeared) eioeedingly unoomfortable in
spite of the kindly efforts of the elder
ladies to put him at ease. lie had a
painful propensity to blush and stam
mer, and he did not get on well with
children* When supper was over aud
they came back from the parlor, Kitty
suppressed a yawn, aud prepared to
settle into silence again; but, provo
kingly, both her mother and Sophia
had disappeared and left her guest on
her hands. Resolved not to talk, Kitty
took refuge behind throe albums and a
portfobg of engravings, with wli oh she
kept the ©igistor, busy; SJ-e v,.uJ pa-
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(Coll)oun Sitncs.
tently going over tho list of photor
graphed relatives, when a loud ring at
the door caused the hearer to drop his
lapful of books aud the speaker to rise
in relieved fashion. Kitty opened the
outor door and exclaimed aloud. The
steps were crowded with people, the
sidewalk was full, and shadowy detach
ments were in the street. The merry
voice of a wrapped-up figure, foremost
among the throng, inquired it Miss
Kitty Dunham were at home.
Kitty stood confounded a moment,
then, laughing in her gleeful girlish
way, threw the door wide open and wel
comed her unexpected guests heartily.
Iu five minutes the parlor was full, and
Sophia, and Mrs. Dunham, and Mr.
Siaunton were the centre of a group of
talkers
A gay evening followed. No nee<|
to describe it, for who has not attended
old-fashioned surprise parties 7 Kitty,
of oourse,~was queen of the occasion,
and a very uncomfortable queen she
was. As if by common consent, “that
hateful minister”—Kitty was growing
to consider him more and more hateful
—was constantly thrust upon her ; and
the meaning smiles and double entendres
she had to encounter from her girl
friends, made her downright angry.—
In dances, she was beset by sly allu
sions. In games, all his forfeits, and
they were numerous, had to be paid
with her. Kitty never knew how
many yards of tape she was obliged to
measure with the minister that evening,
or how many times she went to Rome
with him. Tho only comfort was that
he seemed to dislike it because she did,
and would come up to her in such a
deprecating way that she was ashamed
to be ungracious; but his hopeless and
awkward blunders —lor the minister
was anything but at his ease in society
—a'ways aggravated her so that she
lost all patience. Once, for instance,
while “picking cherries,” he stepped
nervously backward, floundered off the.
ottoman and nearly pulled her with
bim ; again, in “going to Romo,” he
bumped heads with the lady be was
about to kiss; and Kitty could have
borne it better if she had not seen Mr.
Sidney’s satirical smile. Mr. Sidney,
who had hardly spoken ’to her during
the evening, but had been Bertha Riv
er’s most devoted companion. It was
hard, The young hostess would have
given much to have sent her guests
away, and to have iudulgod in a good
cry.
Her trials wore not yet over. In the
little lull that always follows supper,
Bertha Rivers arrested the general at
tention by exclaiming :
“Is there any ono here who doesn’t
know the game of ‘Post-Office V ”
Fivo or six persons of both sexes,
professed ignorance; among others,
Kitty aud tho minister. Bertha’s eyes
sparkled.
“Why, let’s play it ! It’s great fun.
I’ll constitute myself doorkeeper.”
The motion was seconded, silence at
tained, and Walter Danvers, a good
natured and nonplussed youth, was vo
ted first post-master.
Walter and Bertha disappeared in
the hall, whenoo Bertha presently re
turned, announcing that there was a
letter for Miss Kitty Dunham. That
young lady proceeded to the hall. As
she entered it a r ms were thrown around
her, and she received a hearty kiss
“If this is the game,” laughed WaL
ter, “1 rather like it!”
Kitty scolded a little, settled her ruU
fled attire, and then inquired :
“Well, what now 7 Is this the end
of the game 7”
“Nonsense. You’re postmistress, vice
Walter, removed. Walter, go back to
the parlor. Nnvv, Kitty, whom havo
you a letter for 7”
Kitty, to get out of the difficulty ea
sily, named a youthful cousin of hers.
Bertha remonstrated.
“He’s too young. You’re ttying a
trick. I’ll fix you, Miss Kitty !” And
the merry girl ran back to the parlor.
Kitty heard her say —heard her only
too plainly through the half-shut door :
“Kitty has a letter for Mr. Staun
ton.”
The laugh that followed set the blood
tingling in Kitty’s veins. She had
reached the end of her endurance.—
Looking desperately about for some way
of escape, she chose the nearest door,
a.d rushed into the spare bedroom,
which had been given the gentlemen
for a dressing-room. In her head'ong
progress she came violently in contact
with Mr. Sidney, who stood before the
little old-fashioned glass that hung
above the bureau, pulling the bow of
his neck-ribbon straight.
“O !” was the simultaneous exclama
tion, supplemented on the gentleman’s
side by :
“Why, Miss Kitty! what’s the mat
ter 7”
“N-nothing,” stammered Kitty, scar
let with mortification, “only we were
playing posUoffico, and Bertha to
plague me, I suppose —has just told
Mr. Staunton that I had a letter for
him. I ran in here to get rid of” —
Kitty was going to say “him,” but subs
stituted “it.”
The listener realized the situation,
and stopped Kitty as she was aboat to
dive behind a pyramid of cloaks, with
an inelegant but excited :
“Hold on ! I’ll fix him !”
In another moment Mr. Sidney had
extinguished the hallolamp. In anoth
er pulled a sheet from the spare
room bed, and thrown it over him. He
had just time to turn out the kerosene
lamp on the mantle-shelf, to hush Kit
tv s stifled laugh, and to glide out into
the dark hall, beforo the parlor door
opened, lettiug out a gush of voices
aud laughter, uud tbeu closed behind,
the minister, who evidently supposed
the darkness to be a trick of the game,
and stood perfectly still in a patch of
moonlight. The white figure advanced.
Mr. Staunton caught sight of it. and
retreated up the entry ; for, poor ner
vous youth that he was, his cheeks
still hot with the bashful agony of the
evening, he dreaded this embodiment of
a new practical joke. Kitty watched,
momently expecting that Bertha would
appear. She did not. The two figures
came slowly toward tho door behind
which Kitty stood, one retreating, One
advancing. As they approached, Kit
ty threw tho door half open, and noise
lessly retreated in her turn.
Now, Mrs. Dunham’s house being an
old-fashioned one, had as many old
houses do have, somg*roomsiower than
others. - Th e spare bedroom was nt least
three feet lower than the hall, and three
or four uarrow steps led dowu to it.—
Mr. Sidney and Kitty never thought of
these steps, and Mr. Staunton had no
knowledge of them; so it happened,
that, when tho latter, with ono hand
raised to ward off white figure fol
lowing, attempted to step within Urn
dark dressing.ipom, he lost his balance
and fell sidefaiee, striking heavffy
against the bureau!* I
Tho people poured out of the parlor,
alarmed by Kitty’s scream. The min
ister lay on the floor, motionless and
white, the two discovered culprits bend
ing over him. Kitty cast one glance
at Mr. Sidney, which said plainly as
words, “Get a doctor !” He was gone
in a moment, and without answering
a single one of the que dons dinned
into her cars, Kitty watched the gen
tlemen raise the inanimate figure and
lay it on the bed.
The doctor anived miraculously soon.
Knots of curious people waited in hall
and parlor. Kitty, in the doorway, sii
lently her hands, fearing the
minister was dead. When the doctor
at last sent them all away, stating, with
professional brevity, that it “wasn’t so
bkd ds it might be/’ she drew a long
breath of relief.
“lie’s got a bad blow on the head,
and has broken his arm.”
Poor Kitty! as if that were not bad
enough ! No murderer could have felt
more guilty than the young girl, as she
hurried here aud there for bandages and
restoratives.
Energetic Mrs. Dunham would have
been in her element if the condition of
the patient had not been alarming.—
When ho was brought out ot his heavy
stupor, he became delirious, and for
days continued so. There was no
thought of removing him to his lodg
ings. If Mrs. Dunham ever wearied
of tending him, Kitty did not. Night
and day she was with him until the
crisis was past, alleviating his suffering
if she could, or sitting silent and pale,
listening while he ;onstantly called her
name in lus delirium He talked of
her so constantly, in fact, that Mrs. D
turned everybody out of the house
except the doctor.
What Kitty felt, us she heard over
and over again the unconscious telling
of the minister’s love for her, cannot be
told ; but when Mr. Staunton was him
self agaij—his old quiet patient self—
with a certain spirituality of expression
in tho blue eyes that told how near he
had been to the other world—Kitty was
changed. The gay girl had grown so
ber, and thoughtful, and self forgetful.
She would sit for hours in the sick
room, for Mr. Staunton’s lack of
strength was almost pitiable, reading to
him, and attending to his slightest want
with unvarying kindness. It would
have been hard to be unkind to,him,
indeed, for his gentleness, thankfulness
and patient endurance sometimes
brought the tears into his nurse’s eyes.
Kitty then heard the story of his
life ; heard that h the only son of a
widowed and poor woman, toiled for a
collegiate education, while his mother
sacrificed the best yea s of her life to
aid him in the struggle; and when, at
last, he was independent and compara
tively wealthy, ready to repay his debt
of kindness, his mother died. Watch
ing tho blue eyes of tho narrator fill
with tears, Kitty’s own were suffused.
A month’s nursing and anxiety paled
Kitty’s cheeks. One day, as she was
making some slight purchases at Mr.
Sidney’s dry goods establishment, that
young man, who had been confounded
by her qudden coldness toward him, ex
claimed :
“Why, Miss Kitty, you’re positively
growing haggard ! That vampire of a
minister annoys you still, I see, and you
feel obliged to take care of him because
you partly caused his accident. I think
you’ve fully discharged your obligation
by all these weeks of nursing. It’s too
bad, that, disliking him as you do, you
should have him quartered ou you so
long !”
Mr. Sidney was checked by the utter
absenco of assent in the face on the
other side cf the counter, and by the
frigid tones that said :
“I told you five yards of ribbon, Mr.
Sidney. You are cutting six.”
It was ®nly three days after that the
minister went back to his lodgings with
his health scarcely restored, but unable
to reconcile prolonged idleness with his
conscience. Went, leaving gratitude and
regard, and as many substantial tokens
of both as would be received. Weut
without expressing any bve except as
his eyes told it.
Perhaps Kitty was disappointed.—
Perhaps she missed him as she sat alone
that night, but there were no evidences
of it.' The months went on, and Kitty
did not get back her roses. People won
dered at her sudden sobriety and less
vigorous health. Others, noting her
sedulous atteudauoe at church, believed.
CALHOUN, GA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 4. 1877.
she Was experiencing a change of heart.
Spring came, and the influence of the
languid days made her more listless still.
Her mother was really alarmed about
her, but to any suggestions of change
Kitty offered quiet and effectual oppo
sition. Mr. Staunton went and came,
like a quiet earnest friend, and Mrs.
Dunham gradually resigned the hope
of his being anything more.
One warm evening in May, Mr.
Staunton waited for Kitty after even
ing lecture, and asked the privilege of
walking home with her. She assented
—with how different feelings from those
of old I—and they spaced si wly up the
moonlighted street.* Blossoms scented
the air, and odors were wafted from
wayside gardens. The two young per-
Borw, yielding to fc ty influence of the
ime, were very silent for a while ; then
Mr. Staunton said :
“Miss Kitty ” —he always called her
Miss Kitty— : “l have something to tell
you.”
Kitty’s hand trembled as it lay on
his arm, but her voice was steady as
she nskeebr .
“What 7” r - rm
“I can’t help feeing as if you were
interested in uiy plaias,” he said, halt
apologetically, “sine* you were so kind
to me—kmder tharrunv woman except
my mother has everhieen ; so I wanted
to tell you, first of any, that I am going
away. I have had a oall from a city
congregation, and lain going to accept
it.”
There wa* not a word of answer. —
The houses, the moonlight, the shadows
wore whirling before Kitty’s eves. If
Mr. Staunton had net held her she
wou’d have fallen.
“You are ill !” he cried in alarm.
But Kitty had regained her senses,
and vnswered with a voice only a shade
fainter than usual ;
“Yes, a little. I have not been well
for a long time.; but It is over now.”
She was conscious of a half-wish that
life were over, too; and a sudden pity
for herself brought quick tears to her
eyes. She could not* control tho flood
of emotion that was coming over her.
She knew she could not, and with a
last effort of pride she stopped before
Sophia’s house.
“I want to go in here a minute.”
“Give me a few moments !” be said,
p'eadingly.* “I must tell you what I
feel. I cannot go—why, Miss Kitty,
you aro crying!”
Two hours later, Mrs. Dunham, doz
ing in her rocking-chair, was waked up
by Kilty and the minister, who stood
smilingly, side by side, before her.—
Mrs. Dunham stared at either and at
both, and finally opened her lips.
“Well, I declaro! Kitty Dunham,
you dou’t mean to say you’re going to
marry That minister V ”
An Efficient Remedy.
“That’s your bill, sir,” said the gro
cer, smiling pleasantly.
“I tell you it can’t be,” persisted the
Division-street man, beginning to look
scared. “Why, here’s fifty-six dozen
clothes-pins in a two months’ bill.—
What on earth do you lake me fur?—a
four-story laundry 7”
“But it’s your bill: Your wile* can
explain it to you; she ordered them.”
“My wife 7” gasped the debtor.
“Yes, sir.”
The unfortunate man clutched the
bill, ja aimed it into his pocket, and
hurried straight home. He bolted into
the house without any abatement of
speed, and,flinging the . paper on the
table before his - wife, knocked his hat
on the back of his head, and said :
“Martha Ann Johnson, what, does
! this mean 7 There is just fifty-six
dozen clothes-pins in Benson’s bill for
the past two months, and he says you or
dered every blessed one of them.”
“And so I did,” said she, demurely.
“IVhat ! Fifty-six dozen clothes-pins
in two months?” and he shot down in
to a chair as if a treigh-t car had fallen
on top of him. “Fifty six dozen
‘clothes.-pins in two months 7” he
howled.- “Will a free country stand i
that 7”
“I tell you, Reuben Wheeler John*
son, you needn’t sta e at me that way,
nor go calling on tho country to help
you. I ordered those clothes-pins my- :
self, and I havo burnt every one of
them in that there stove, just becuuse
you were too all-fired lazy to cut a
stick of wood; and 1 declare* before
I’ll be bothered jawing and fighting to
get you to cut .rood, I’!l burn up every
cloth.es pin in the land, and you shall
pay for them, if you have to sell the
shirt on your back—so now !” and Mrs.
(Johnson, with a face like scarlet,
snatched up the broom and commenced
sweeping the carpet as if every flake
of dust Were a red-hot coal-, while the
unhappy Mr. Johnson hastened to the
store and paid the bill. And before
dark that night, he bad half a cord
of wood sawed, split, and piled up ready
for use.
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than the Family Machine.
The “Domestic” Paper Fashions are unex
celled for elegance and perfection of
fit. Send live cents for an illustrated
catalogue.
The “Domestic Monthly,” a Fashion and
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knon lodged authority, $1.50 a year
and a Premium Specimen Copy, 1;>
cents. Agents wanted. Most liberal
terms. Address,
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NEW YORK and CHICAGO.
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PRICE-LIST
OF
Sasli* Doors Blinds,
SASH.
Check Hail,, or Lip Sash 8-light Windows,
Wide Bar, Glazed.
Size of Window. Ptr Window.
Size of Glass. Thitknefis. ft. in ft. in. W'eijhti Price. ;
12x14 1 in., 2 6$ x 5 2 24} $1 75 ,
12x10 “ 2 sj> x 5 10 20}' 200
12x18 “ 251 x 5 G 29 225 -
12x20 “ 2ofx 7 2 82 210
Plain Rail 12-light Windows, Glazed.
Bxlo 1 3-10 in., 2 4x3 9} 15} 75
10x12 “ 210 x 4 0 24 120
10x14 “ 2 10 x 5 2 251 1 35
10x10 “ 210 x 510 27} 1 00 j
10*18 •* 210 x;6 Gt 20}2 00
Check Rail, or Lip Satdr, Wiudows,
Glazed. *
10xi4 1 3-8 in., 2 10}x 5 2 ; 1 55
10x10 “ 2 it)}* 510 31} 100
10x18 “ 2 lOfci 0 0 34 2‘ 20
10x20 “ 2H9}jc72 37} 2‘70
PI aim Rail, IG-light Windows, Glazed'. t
Bxlo 1 3-16.i0r., 2 4x 4 8 22 100
fQ-sU? “ 210 x 5 6 27 160
Plain Rail, 18-light Windows, Glazed. >
Bxlo 1 3-10 in., 2 4x 5 7 26 135
10x12 “ 2 10x 0 0 30 190
BLINBS.
Outside Blinds, Rolling Slats, Wide Bar,
8-light Windows.
Ptrfttir. i
W-tight. Pi>o ■.
12x14 1 3-10 inch. 20 1 40
12x10 “ 22 1 GO
12x18 “ 24 1 70
12x20 “ 20 j 00
Outside Blinds, Rolling ailadtst 12-light
Windows.
BxTO I 3 s -fa- iwcli. 15 100
10x42 “ * 20 1 25
1014 22} 1 40
10xl(> 24 150
10s2& “ 26} 1 70
10x20* " 29 190
QwteWie Blinds, Rolling SI U#, 15-light Wiu
dows.
Bxlo 1 8-1 G inch, 15 125
10x12 “ 22 150
BOOKS .
O. G. Four Panel doors, Raised Faucis,
both sides.
2 6xo 6 1 3-16 inches 29 1 30
2 Bxo 8 “ 33' 140
2 10x6 10 “ 35 1 55
3 x 7 “ 37 175
2 Bxo 8 13 8 inches *39 T 50
2 Gx6 6 “ 35 P4O
2 10x6 10 “ 40 1 60
3 x 7 “ 48 1 80'
3 x 7 “ rais’dimd’g 1-side 47 3’35
3 x 7 6 “ “ 21side 50 3 50
2’ xO 4 1 inch 20 150
2 4xo 0 “ 21 120
Prices for all other sizes furnished l
promptly. Above are pric*-s Free on board
Cars. M. A, GEE & CO.,
Opposite A. & C. R. R. Depot, Chattan
ooga, Tennessee. iunolO-'Jm
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VOL. VII. —NO 48
ESTABLISHED 1865.
GILMORE \ CO.,
Attorneys ;it Law,
Successors to Chipman, Hosmer 4 Cos.,
629 F. ST., WASHINGTON. *. U.
American ami Foreign I atenlN*.
Pften s procured in ull No
runs is AitVANCR. No charge miens the
patent is granted. No feeafor n aking pre
liminary examinations. No additional tees 0
for obtaining and conducting . rtlmarin**.
Special attention givan to
cases before the Patent Office, kxte n sis
before Congress, Infringement suits i n lif
fereni States, and all litigation appertain
ing to inventions or patents. Send stamp
for'pamphlet of sixty pages.
United Spates Courts and Depart
ments,
Claims prosecuted in iliu Supreme Court
of the United States, Court of HninTie,
Court of Commission* rs of Alabama Claims.
Southern Claims Commission, and nil class-'
es of war claims before tho Executive De
partments.
Arrears of Pay and Bounty.
Officers, soldiers, and sailors of the Into*'
war or their heirs, aro in many cases cn~~
titled to money from the Government, >f
which they have no knowledge. Write full
history of serice, and slate amount of pay
and bounty received. Enclose stamp, ami
a fall replv, after examination, will- Sv
given you Lee.
Pension*.
All officers, -soldiers, and sailors wound
ed ruptured, tv injured in the late War,.-
however slightly, ■ obtain a pen*iou‘>
many now receiving pensiohs are enh'fi'wi
to an increase. Stud stamp and informa
tion will be furnished free.
United States General Land Officer
Contested land ca4es, privatO land claims,>
ining pre-eni} tlon and homestead ca.es,
rosecuted before th<* General Laud Offioe
nd Department of the Interior.-
Old Bounty LavioW^rarrrffe.
The last report of the Commissioner off
the General Land Office' shows 2,807,600
of Bounty LnirtT WaTfrints omtstanding.—
These werf issued under and sf 1855 and
prior acts. We pay cash theni 1 . Send*
by registered letter: Where assignr cut*-
are imperfect wC giro instructions to per
fect them. 1
j Each department of our business-ig cxrr*-
ducted in a separate bureau;- jlmhot the*
charge of experienced'iiwyers and clerks..
By reason of error ot fraud many attor
!ney.^afe-suspended from, jpcactice
|Hie Pension and of.Wi*-offices each year.—
Claimant whose attorneys liave been tli u *
will be gratuitously furnished*
jwith fulliuntiormtitton and .ropei papers on
, application' to ’ll 1 !*.
I As we charge uo fees unless successful
stamps for return should be stn’S
us.
i Liberal arrangements made with attor
neys in all branches of■ bttsln*esft#
Address GILMORE & CO/,
F. 0. Box 44, WusJuvgtou, l>. (f.
WakßiwPrbfc, lj. G.’, aWw*• 24, 1870:
j I take pleasure in expressing my vrrtirha
.confidunce in the respomibtUy and fidrhtt/
of the Law, Patent and Collection House
(Gilmore &' Cos., of this cifyi
, GBDRGE.HI ri: WHITE.
(Cashier of (he Fatior ol 4 Metropolitan Bank h
dech-tf. *
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IF YOU would enjoy the
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IIIk l\ \II you w 'ouldb'espeedily,cheap.
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Doha! add Blbod Disorders
if yoU have
Scrofula, Dyspepsia, Bron
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Dysentery, Pile*, Neuralgia.
Paralysis, of tfe*
Kidneys, Genitals or Skin,
Chill aid Fever, or other
Malarial Affections; if yoo
would be purified from all
Poisons whether from Drng*
rmirwr i >P ' 8e; if J ou * oaW
TlllJflijSlt ? aVC Health and
I' I I &Jfl‘’H*|Long Life go to the Hygien
ic Institute,and use Nat-ura’a
Great RMtecdie.,th Turkish
Lath, the “ Rater-cure Pro
cesses.” t’m “ Movemeol
jCiire,” iflectrioity and other
Hygienic agerts. Nucooes
is wonderful—curing all cu
rable oases. Bf not able to
a&d'tiute beard, send f,>f
hccouti* of your case. and.
get directions for treatment'
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iivni i
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Lie Form, Adopted to Universal Cm.
A'NY ARTTP7P47 FWR POUND
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WIND AND WATER PROOF
g.irmeiUs a specialty. Our Cloth surface*
oat combines- two garments in out. For
stormy woatbwc. it is Perfect Water Proof.
and in d.?v weutrher, a
NEAT and TIDY OVERCOAT
By a peculiar process-, titw rabbsr is put
between the tveo dfetlesurfaces, which pre
vents Knelling or sticking, even in the hottest
climates. Thoy are made in three colors -m
Blue, Black and Brown.
Aid Light. Portable,! Stronr
and Durable.
We are now offering-them at the
ly low price of $lO each; Sent post-paid •
any address upon* receipt ofi price.
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