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A LIS o ,
First and Last Gail.

10 acres Of Land 80 broke and fenced situated half
mile from the Depot at Wavery, (now called Leland ON
the Aurora Extension Railroad VIII be sold AZ bar
gain. Apply above. iu3ll II Z GEuNEY
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FIRST BOOK STORE.
ESTABLISHED n OTTAWA IN 1851. By
L " OR

THREE wears before R.THBUS L oRros heard OF,
i and they now FALSELY and Fo0LISIiLY claim 20
the only book in La Sale Co. Bus Il 90 keep
a took Of Drugs. Notions, and Music, acep
gOO5 Books, School Books, Blank BoOs Pap. S.atcn
cry &C. than they do and will sell them ctedper. II
nv old friends and the community will call Will
them with pleasure, and anything that have
not on hand will order COR them. Nariinger's Block
T. I.GaiGGS.
Y Ri do no; sell Wall Paper, Curtains Trashy
Agency Books or New YORK L.dgers. ial2i &. \. q.
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Horse Shooting and Jobbimg.

MY securities having taken short, ! am compell.d
WI to say those that me, either by note or &C
count. that immediate payment I, required.
ju THOMAS LAEKIS
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Bucna Vista Floral Gard ms.
" Oh Il 4 4

A: The residence Of W. N. ". tr.f,nan East Ottn,ea
Always for sale large supply of perpetual Roses and
ali other kinds of towering house plants Strawberry
mato, RI. barb, Cabbage, plants, &C. &C. in their
son, and Vegetables Of all kip~s. junI&
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W OF that have horses to be shod will find II TO your
interest to go to the Main Street -forse Shooting
shop where you get good OF Shoes for dollar
and quarter, and all kinds Of B!acksmthng done
prices to correspond with the hard times.
An experienced hand jn.t arrived Come and Judge
yourselves Satisfaction Warranted or no charge
Sign OF the Horse Shoe, Nam Street near iIo-.acN
Richardson's Warehouse. iu 3l-3m
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EARyAvy HOUSE.

Ia Snlle Street. OTTA VA, HLINOS
W3NIS House is situated within few rods OF the Rail-
J. road Depot which makes it convenient Tor the ira
Yelling public Good stab ing and YARD attached to the
Uouss Tor IN. of travellers, drivers and
farmers and am determined to shtsfy AL who may ia
vo. me with a call. lap4l Il. HOPPER, froprsefor.
Card.
YOrrCE il hereby given to all parties concerned, that
NJh.ye leased my Warehouse to Messrs. PAiRvrILD 4
Wun Who will continue to carry on the Grain Business
a. usual shall be in Europe the present summer and
r. .re .uthorjsed to agents in the settle
m.1t OF BOOK Accounts. Notes, and Grain Contracts.
and ali persons indebted TO requested to make
svment promptly as my business be settled With.
out delay. Jun lSI JOHN ARMOUR.
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NOTICE is h<reby given. all persons having claim.
~ against the estate OF benjamin Fleming that
will attend term OF the County Court Of Ia Salle
County to be held at Ottawa in said County Of La Sale
and State Of Illinois, the Sd Monday of September,
next, when and where all persons having claims agar
said estate notified 70 present the in wrtr
said Court for adj ustment.
iul3i p 5 IIOLLOWEIL, 7 ~.
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r r M O v A L!
NEW ARRANGEMENT.
NEW SADDLERY. HARDWARE. SHOE FINDING.
LEATHER STOREi

He subscriber has removed his Hide and Leather
] store TO Main Street, three doors of the Man.
sion House (Cushmans old STAN" where may be found
at all times good assortment of all Kinds of lie ather.
both French and American tanned together with ge
neral stock of Sadlery Hardw Shoe Finding, &c
Particular attention gwen, in buying Leather select
the best brands and from the best the
country Please call and examine my stock, think
it will be for your Interest to do
Thankful for the liberal favors thus far EXTENDED
TO me, still solicit a share Of public patronage.
n. b. The highest market price, in cash. paid for
Hides. Deer Skins, Pets, &c, &C.
junl9 JNO NJ. KING.
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SOfs(.c.

IL persons knowing themselves 10 be indebted to the
N firm Of THoENE ZIvsFRs either by book
account will call ard settle the by the fifteen day
of August. and save costs. iul2il A. NJ. NNAE IMAM
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Machine Oil.
ARD on. Sea Elephant oil. for oiling Thresling Ma
IL chimes. &C. Farmers and Machinists give a call.
N,ttiucer'. Block Tiul24I y GEIGGS
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MILWAUKEE, Lager Bccr.

Milwaukee Lager Beer.
YINiE hereby Informs the citizens OF Otta
Il and vicinity that he keeps on hand excellent
article of Lager Beer Bottled Lager Beer constantly
for sale. LOUIS GNAM, Columbus ~.
Opposite Brunker e iitclieirs Gun Shop, doer
South Of the Illinois Rirer House jull.-2me
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his beauty, follow the great liorse-tamer reluc
family into the ring. There was something pos
itively unearthly in the scream with which ht
saluted the company, and the fact of the barri
cades being only breast high set at least one per
son who was present about making nervous cal
cuations as to his probable stock of agility.
AS he lay upon the ground he kept up low
whining soliloquy, which person acquainted
with the Houynhmn language might, no Doubt
have translated, ut would give me intense graf
ification to devour this fellow where he stands
and to kick out the brains of these impertinent
lockers on Immediately afterward; but, unfortu
nately, there is no Justice for zebras' now-a-
DAYS; so have nothing for it but to lie quiet,
and behave myself hencetorth and forever like
civilized quadruped and gentleman" A
strong color of probability was given to this
translation by the subsequent conduct OF this
beautiful and now subdued demon. He retired
with dignity, rather sad than sulky in his de-
pertinent, gave only one flying scream as he
nip at the groom who held it open for him, and
subsequently permitted lady Of distinction,
who was present to stroke him down as he lay
exhausted after his recent exertioDs, or possibly
coming over his lesson against the next instruc-
ton day.
This terminated the days lecture Or lesson,
whichever it may be called. All present ex-
pressed themselves not only completely satisfied,
but profoundly impressed with the soundness
and novelty of Mr.. Rarey's system, and retired
with the most favorable "reminiscences of him
self, of his clear natural intelligence his obvious
earnestness and faith in his discovery, and Of
appreciation of the kindness, gentleness and for
bearance which he never failed to inculcate as
the great leading characteristics of his school.
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oold cards. coarsely written messages iroh iitVie
ones at home, whose hands were guided oy tne
mother or sister, so that the absent father, cousin
or brother, might have little letter, and innu-
nerable other affecting relics.
"Where do all these letters go when they
have been opened and examinedf Are they
burned?"
'No; tlst was formerly the custom, however.
We used to make great bonfires OF them, out
aside from the fact that bits of written papers
would always escape from the flames, thus de-
stroying all privacy in the letters, it was found
that many people made it business to seek
among the ashes fol the gold jewels, dollars, &c,
which often escapes our notice here, and got out
in the opened letters, So now they are all sent
to paper mill and manufactured as writing
paper"
We passed into another room where were
many mementos of the good old days before the
law of pre-paying postage went into enect.,
There were two or three huge stones which had
been sent for "a joke involving an immense a
mount of postage to be paid by some unfortu-
nate, who luckily never received the ponderous
package gigantic rag baby, said to have oeen
sent to some vinegar faced old maid-a neatly
manufactured night cap, which some indignant
old bachelor-name not recorded-retused, In
high dudgeon, to receive, and which consequent
ly found its way here, and daguerreotype OF
Young man, which had been cracked across the
nose and wrathfully sent back by some fair dam
sci with whom he had quarreled.
We asked the Postmaster General, to whom
we were introduced, how it happened that all
the employees in the dead letter office were
gray haired old men.
because they have more discretion and less
curiosity" he said, smiling. younger men
could not be depended upon; they would proba-
bly read the letters oftener."
'"And why do you not employ ladies2 | am
quite sure they could discharge the duties adml-
rably."
"indeed," said the Postmaster General, rais-
chievously, 81 am afraid their curiosity would be
so extreme that the department would fall into
nextricable confusion, to say nothing of the mum.
ber of secrets they would ferret out OF the dead
letters"
We were so indignant at this horrible and he
retical opinion, that we asked no further ques,-
tons, but took our leave, much gratitied with
our novel and interesting experience in the dead
letter office at Washington.
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| Miss thee Dear Sister.
| miss thee dear sister, thy image Is sun
The deepest imprest on my heart
And tho tablet so faithful in death must pe chill
| Ere line of that image depart.
rhO, wort torn from my side when treasured thet
most,
When my reason could measure thy worth
When knew but too well that the idol I'd lost.
Could be never replaced upon earth.
miss thee, dear sister, in circles ofjoy,
Where I've mingled with rapturous Zest;
For how slight is the touch that will serve to destroy
All the fairy web spun in my breast.
Some melody sweet may be floating around,
'Tis ballad learnt at thy knee;
Some strain may be played, and shrink from thu
sound
For my voice oft woke il for thee.
miss thee, dear sister, when my health has fled,
And sink in the languor of pain,
Where, where is the arm that pillowed my head
And the ear that once heard me complain?
Other hands may support, gentle accents may fall,
For the fond and the true are yet mine:
Pve blessing for each; am grateful to all,
But whose care can be soothing as thine?
miss thee dear sister; oh when do not?
Though know twas the wisdom of Heaven
That the deepest shade fell on my sunniest spot,
And such tie of devotion was riyen
For when thou vert with me my soul was below,
| was chained to the world l then trod;
My affections, my thoughts, were all earth-bound
but now
They have followed thy spirit to God. ]. F.
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S1NeuLAR.-A Paris letter in the Philadelphia

SISeuLAR.-A Paris letter in the Philadelphia
Bulletin has the following:
"a singular discovery has lately astonished
tho inhabitants of Versailles. For the last forty
wears a person known as Mademoiselle Savaltete
de Coulanges had inhabited that town, and pre-
vious to the year 1882, an upper room in the
chateau ITSELF by royal permission. at that
time Louis Philippe having had it fitted up for
the reception of the collections Of paintings and
statuary. Mile. de Couanges went to reside IN
the town. She lived chiefly on pension OF
1O0Of granted by Charles K, and on pecuniary
aid furnished by various noble families. This
was sufficient to have enabled her to live with
some comfort and at least with decency; but
this last point seemed matter OF Indifference TO
her. The lodgings she successfully occupied
we're like pig styes the den was worthy or the
inhabitant. The person who came durlDg the
dav tn minister to her few wants-for she had
crown old and infrln-was never allowed to
ston over the night with her. Some days ago,
on entering in the morning, the attendant found
the invalid kneeling against the bed, quite dead.
A secret kept for half century then came TO
light the supposed Mlle de Coulanges was
mani Papers found in the room and which GER
tain)y had been documents belonging to de.
moiselle Savalette de Coulanges, of noble ard
well known family, proved her age to be z
his countenance was that of one ten years older.
On examination, the letters I. +. were found
branded ON the shoulder How and when this
escaned convict had found means to take the
place. name and papers of Mile. de Ooulangea,
TO receive her pension and pecuniary assistance
from her relatives, is still unknown. 1t rs prob
ahle he murdered her and concealed the body
M hut how m he managed to carry on the cheat sc
long undetected, is most strange.
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For Tie Spectator.
To MISS S. L. H., of Greenville, Va.
'Tis true thou hast an air almost divine,
A grace that doth all others far outshine;
Aud yet I'd fain believe you will not prove
Too high even for mere earthly love.
Then say that you will deign to hear me now,
AS at your glowing shrine humbly bow.
Did Ipossess u sweet poetic muse,
Such as Homer or Virgil used,
In sweet symphonious lines then could trace
The charming beauties of thy smiling face,
Where majesty and softness mingled meet,
And show a soul at once sublime and sweet;
On fancy's FURNISHED wings I'd soar above,
And draw my raptures from the fount of love.
Oh! then in melting strains my thoughts I'd pour
Into the ears of her whom l adore. C***
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Advantages of Temperance.

Solomon tells MS that the glutton shall come
to poverty; and warns US to be not among riot
Gus eaters of flesh, and even bids US put knife
to our throats if we be men given to appetite
Is there no less desperate remedy2
Lord Byron once told q companion, that il
some demi-god would dictate to US just how
much he ought to eat, it would put IN end to
half the miseries of the race. -
Jonathan Edwards we see nothing in his dia'
ry: 81 find cannot be convinced, in the time
of eating, that to eat more would be to exceed
the bounds of temperance, though | have had
two years experience of the like, and yet three
minutes after have done, am convinced OF it.
But yet again l over-eat, thinking shall be
some what faint if leave off then; but when
have finished, am convinced again of excess,
and so it is from time to time. have observed
that more really seems to be truth, when it is
according to my inclination, than when other
wise."
Jefferson says, "No man ever repents eating
too little"
Sir Iseac Newton often dined on penny's
worth of bread.
Abernethy cured his indigestion and regained
bis flesh by "going into the country, where he
could get good milk and eggs, and living upon it
three times day, with no drink but ginger wa
ter. On this quantity Of food he regained his
flesh and uniformly got better. ,s
Marion and his men waxed strong and valiant
with no food but sweet potatoes, no drink but
water, and no shelter but the sky.
Besides brown bread, the Greek boatmen
subsist almost solely on their native fruits, figs,
grapes, and,rasins. They are most nimble ac
tive, graceful, cheerful, and even the n,erriest
people in the world"
Grant Thorburn attributes his cheerful old age
to the fact that he "never eats enough" and
of his countrynen are wearing out
their bodies, not so much by the excess of busi-
ness or the multiplicity of cares, as by the over
work they crowd upon them in digesting surplus
and unnecessary food"
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PRopRlEToRs AND EDITORS OF THE LONDON
T1MEs.-Mr. John Walter, NJ P. for the bor-
ough of Nottingham, is principal proprietor oi
the London Times newspaper, holding nineteen
shares out of the twenty-feur into which that
valuable publication is divided. The publisher
who is responsible for all libels, &C., has one
share; and Mrs. Garden, mother of Sir Robert
Garden, the present Lord Mayor Of London, has
three shares. 1t is estimated that each propre.
tory share is worth over $4,000 year, making
the agreeable sum of $24O, 900 to $260,OOO per
annum out of all the shares. Mr.. Walters indi
yidual receipts from this source may be averaged
at some 100000 year. Mr. Robert Lowe, NJ
P. for the borough of Kiddermirster, is the
eading political writer in the Times.
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HABITS OF GRAssHoPPERs.-A correspondent
of the Colorado (Texas) Citizen, writing from
Goliad. says of the grasshoppers: "Ihey have
an especial fondness for wheat and cotton out
don't take so kindly to corn. The only vegeta-
BILE they spare is the pumpkin. The most dead
ly poisons have had no effect upon them tunes
of sulphur they rather like than otherwise; mos
quito nets they devour greedily; clothes hung
out to dry they esteem rarity; blankets ana
gunny bags they don't appear to fancy; they
swim the broadest creeks in safety, sun them
selves awhile and then go on. The whole mass
appesr 10 start and move at the same time,
travel for an hour or two, devouring everything
in their way, and then suddenly cease, and not
move perhaps for week, during which time no
feeding is noticed-and, finally, they carefully
avoid the sea coast"
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THE LEEvEEs OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI
Next to the yellow fever, the crevasse is the most
dreaded enemy of the inhabitants who dwell on
the Lower Mississippi and the large streams
which empty into it. The region around the
mouth of the Mississippi, even for several hun.
dred miles above the Delta, proper, is half form.
ed country, discovered and settled by man be.
fore it had been turned out complete from ma.
ture's workshop. 1t is an alluvial region, de.
generating from q rich low bottom, in the vi.
cinity of the Red river mouth, into the mass oi
ooze, half water and half mud, which forms the
tongue stretching out into the Gulf.
The ground on which the city ofNew Orleans
stands is so thoroughly saturated with water
that hole dug few feet below the surface be.
comes filled by percolation in few hours
1t is impossible to dig graves. and all the GENE
teries at New Orleans are above the ground
the coins, instead of being deposited in the earth
are simply laid on it, and protected by vaults
Had the discovery of this continent been delay
ed few centuries, the region around and above
New Orleans would, by successive deposits from
the river. have acquired the elevation and con
sstency of completely formed land.
| AS it is. the magnificent sugar and cottor
plantations, which, with narrow front on tht
river. extend backward for miles, are severa
feet below the level of the river at high water
and require to be protected by artificial levees
running along both banks These levees, o
systems of levees, are built by the planters, eac
of whom constructs and repairs the portion il
front of his own estate. Their entire lengtl
is about 1900 miles, and their cost has bee
about six million dollars. The levee of one plan
ter in Mississippi was built at an expense Of 30,
600 dollars, and other plantations have bee
protected from the waves at even greater cost
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Judge P, of Indiana, has his eccentricties,
but an ADLER jurist can scarcely be found in the
West. A young windy lawyer was once making
plea in mansaughter case before the Judge.
The lawyer talked beautifully, but did not touch
the points in the case. AS he was about closing,
the Judge quietly demolished the lawyer, by
asking him which side he was retained on.
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PATS L1BERALTY.-WhenG George ". wen
to Ireland, one of the 'pisintry," delighted with
his affabity to the crowd on landing, said to the
toll keeper, as the king passed through: "Och
now /. and his majesty-God bless him-nevel
paid the turnpike an how's that?" "Oh, king
never does-we lets 'em go Free" was the an
swer "Then there's the dirty money for ye,
says Pat ut shall never be said that the kine
came here and found nobody to pay the turn
pike for him.
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Con IS TO BE FEARED.-A few years since, q
party were engaged in cutting timber on the
head waters of the Kennebeck River, in Maine.
The company who engage ia this adventurous
business usually consist of from ten to twenty
hardy. athletic men, who are sent OH, from mo-
yember to April, In the dense forrest, on some
of the tributaries of Mane's noble rivers, where
they erect their mammoth hre. $50, :,
One of the number, whom they call "cook,"
prepares their frugal meals; and after supper
when seated round their cheerful lire, their mer,
ry profanity often shows that "God Is not In all
their thoughts" :. s. 80,
Il is a vocation of some danger, especially to
those who are engaged in telling the stately pines
for in their downward fight, they often bend,
halfway to the earth, the small trees, in whose
tops some of the branches cling; then, in spring.
| ing back to their upright position, they throw
them with great force, and somtimes fatai 70 'ne
choppers.
In o-e of those half.civilized homes, on an e.
vening, when all was jollity and heaven'dely-
inc mirth, the conversation turned On the dan
ger to which we have alluded, and one OF the
men who feared not God, said, with an oath,
"God is Lot quick enough to kill me with q
treel"
The morning came and he went out with his
mate to fell trees. Their sturdy blows were
given one by one till the last that LAID prostrste
their first tree for the morning; but ere the ecno
Of its fall was heard, small branch, lodged IN
the top of slender spruce, was thrown with rs;
tai aim, as by the hand Of the Almighty: al and
striking the man on the head, without u'teliDs
q word or eroan. he passed into eternity.
God is to be fSarsdI Think not that bis an
GER burns only against the open and defiant
trausgressor. 1t is not only the overt acts o.
heart idolatries our contempt Of that law which
is holy, just and good our rejection Gl oa'iU,
blood; and all our unnumbered but by u.s., un,
noticed sins, must be answered for in that dread
bour when the heart and flesh shall fail all are
registered and will appear when ''the books shall
be- opened" To him who, in moment, isswept
away by the breath of Gods anger, and to MN III
who awaits the common summons Oh Us al, 'ne
rasn,t "a the same. If out of Christ "Except ye
repent, ye shall all likewise perish. ."1Episccps
f Rsc0rder. ar
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A Justice of the Peace, seeing parson on a
very stately horse, riding between London and
Hampstead, said to some gentlemen who were
with him, "Do you see what beautiful horse
that proud parson has got2 I'll banter him a
lttle.n doctor" said he, ''you don't follow
the example of your great Master, who was hum
by content to ride upon an ass" "Why, real
ly, sir" replied the parson, "the King has made
so many asses justices, that an honest clergyman
can hardly find one to ride, if he had mind to
II ~
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Coop REpLY.-A line in one Of Moore's songs
reads thus: sour couch shall be roses oespan-
gled with dew" To which sensible GIRL ac-
cording to Landor, replied: mTwouid give me
the rheumatic, and so 1t would you"
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Sidney Smith says that people often :, imag' a.:
inc themselves pious, when they are only .a oil
ious. Sidney ought to have known Tue olneI-
ence % between serious disposition and serious
indisposition. - .-.Ll n
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Some one says that "human heads are llke
hoesheads-the less they contain the Louder re- Re,
port they give Of themselves. The smaller sne
calibre Of the mind the greater the oore VI
neroetually open mouth"
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Addison was an elegant writer, but the fol-
lowing to an i'll favored lady, was decidedly
more unhandsome in him than the lady could
have been:
While in the dark on thy soft hand hung,
And heard the tempting syren in thy tongue, ;,
What flames, what darts, what anguish | endured!
But when the candle entered was cured.