, 1861-05-09
HOW I Shot inY tirst puck.

| color Of grey cat In cellar, Tim reused me
up, and we sailed forth. We marched ardently
along the shore, looking sharp through the reeds,
Tim constantly Whispering to me to "keeP my
Pecaliar light looked to be about fifteen feet long
On We strobe, my pulse going like volunteer
at Buena Vista. Suddenly says Tim, Z" "soft:"
| "Ah, there is chance, by Jovel Now, my
boy, all ready"
"IIa, chance, where, at whatf"
| lin put his fingers to his lips, and making me
crouch down, pointed through the reeds In q
minute, sure enough, ! saw duck gracefrlly
bobbing up and down, about ffty yards of or
less. became awfuly excited.
| let me shoot him, Tim."
Certainly, crack away"
| ] knelt down; my fingers trembled like those
Of surgeon in his first operation The duck
looked the size Of turkey gobbler to my dis
torted vision. It Was fearful moment, how.
ever. recovered myself by resolute effort,
brought the gdn up, took a long, murderOus
aim, my fingers pressed the trigger, whangl
beheld the sky, and fourteen hundred thousand
stars 2Crpendicularly before me. Upon examin-
alton, found this phenomenon was occasiOned
BY my horizontal position on my back, combnCd
with the conclusion Of the shot. .4...
"You've hit him I" cried Tim. Tics wound
ed. Quick, take my gun, while load yours"
| Hooked at my weapon. had fired both my
barrels at once looked at the duck he was
bobbing up and down violently. Considerably
bcwildered, |, however erseiHed Tins gun, resumed
my position, took another aim and fired. '.
:" The 9th r barrel quick or he's of" cried
Tim. f-.--.- = b .,,.- y. rp'. d, =
Bangi .....ls ......
"By George, you've missed him fie's--no
he can't iy-see him spin round. Here, give
him one more. Mind, aim carefully now"
| hon cat tbp paku NIL
thousand more planets than before. When |
arose, that diabolical duck was still there, SPIN
ming round more than ever before.
Tin" said !, that duck Is remarkably te-
nacious of life"
"Ye-yes The fact is, they are generally. es-
pecialy canvass-backs; they are 50 on ac-
count Of the thickness Of their skin" " Tiui,"
said I, :" LII take the skiif and shove out and
get him. Hes nearly gone, now" a.s.
| "Yes, Ill 60 back to the house and order
breakfast Our shots have spoiled further sport
this morning "l'll have everything ready by
the time You got back"
And without waiting for remonstrance, Tim
walked of.
l got in the skiff, showed out and reached the
duel, k,-whoa appeared, as / advanced, 10 have his
head entirely shot of, ff,--picked il upi and found
that it was decoyi Ny remarks to Tim, on
joining him at the hotel, have, upon reflection,
| CouCluueu W Oulll
Lewis Foot, Of Plainville, N. j., aged seventy.
two years; died on Monday, March llth, and on
the following day an immense bony excrescence,
extending from the back Of his right ear to his
right hip, was removed. It weighs fihy-two and
q half pounds, and is called degeneration of
the shoulder blade" 1t had been growing since
| 1856, and did not affect his general health very
seriously. Mr.. Foot was at the National Con-
veniion Of medical men at New Haven last year,
and the universal testimony was that nothing
like il had ever before been SEEN The size Of
this extraordinary excrescence Or tumor is such
that It nearly fills the half barrel in which it was
| put for preservation as q medical curiosity.
A great snow storm occurred lately in the
South, which appears to have extended through
Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabamat etc.I much 10 the delight OF Young
America" and the amazement OF the olGest in.
labitantn At Wilmington, N. c., and in South.
western Virginia, snow fell to the depth Of four
inches, while ut Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va, Il
had been showing thirty hours Not a few
people there look upon the storm as an extraor-
binary and unexpected "Northern invasion,
which the snow, however, under the genial in
Auences Of bright sun, rapidly "eyacuated.' =
Sleighs were out IN both Richmond and Peters
burg 'o' - f0i9 tGhsia Na5A y ' -
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| Several gentlemen were returning BY ears 10
PittsbuFg FROM the oil region One Of them had
asampleOf the oil bottled up in his pockets. The
bottle burst, causing q strong greasy scent 10
peryadO the air. A keen.n0sed speculStor, think
ing the smell proceeded from the Asurfsee indi-
cations" in the land through which they were
passing privately bribed tho conductor, had the
train stopped, and got off TO SECURE claims AAer
the train had disappeared around the curve, he
hia nd HAD IN E,nk II M thu
next stnton. % sl ll ~ .NF3
A spiritualist and mo 'ium recently underwent
test " prove the reality Of his dOctrines at a
police station, in Halifax; England lie was Sc
curey, as it was thought, bound with cords, and
then placed IN room by himself. Ia iorty-fve
minutes lie came forth unbound; but boy, se-
creted under bed, saw how II was done, and
50 did detective who peeped through window.
Whercupon the medium departed, somewhat
"down in the mouth" -. T.. z s....
In Blount county, Tenn, the Seccssionists had
a candidate for county delegate, but none for
; the Senatorial District Their candidate for the
county received just twenty votes; and what il
rather remarkable, Wendell Phillips, Of Mas.
sachusetts," received precisely the same number
Of votes for Senatorial delegate
The Tuscaloosa (Ala) Aioaitor demands that
tho Government formed by the Southern Con.
gross should be submitted to the people. II this
course is not taken, il threatens, come veal OF
woe, to attempt to fro the peoples heart, to cd
ucatc the peoples mind, to know their rights
and TO dare maintain them"
During the last year there have been shipped
frWn the European and New York Fur Agency,
at Evansville, Ind, l6G, 900 coon skins G0.OOO
Opossum skins, 5000 pounds Of deer skins, aud
large Quantities Of other descriptions of skins.
The bulk OF these skins are frOIn Southern In.
diana and Illinois.
The brutal punishment Of tying up men by the
wrists, or thunbs, and having them IN (hi( way