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S Brown, who killed his wife. at
Berea, Ohio, last week, has been indict-
ed for murder in the frst degree. There
seems to be little bit Of romance con-
nected with this Berea tragedy. It is
said that Brown made the acquaintance
through the medium of matrimonial
advertisement. They met, married, and
lived together for year or two, when
the wife found that be was not all her
fancy painted, and she left him. It is
said that she was Spiritualist, and had
no affinity for Brown after a few weeks
Of married life. While in Cincinnati,
Brown wrote her, and after his return
to Berea he also wrote her note. He
said he had no intention of killing her
at first, but such words were said at
their interview that he determined to
shoot her.
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Joining the MasOns.

Knobs has Joined the Masons, and
here is his experience in getting into a
Lodge:
must tell you of the perils and trials
1 had to undergo to become Mason
On the evening in question, | presented
myself at the door of the Lodge room
No. 36,666, sign of the skull and cross
bones. was conducted to an ante
room, where five or six melancholy
chaps, in sashes and embroidered nap
kins, were waiting TO receive me. On
my entrance they all got up and turned
back somersaults and then resumed their
seats. A big fat fellow who sat in the
middle and who seemed to be the pro-
prietor, then said: "Sinner from the
other world, ADVANCED / advanced :
will you give up everything to join
usY" "Not if l know it," l said there
are my wife and fourteen fine An
other party tod me to say yes" as it
was merely matter of form. So SAID
"Yes, / give up everything"
The fellows in the towels then groan-
ed and said: Ills we'll" Do you swear
never to reveal anything you see or hear
this evening to any human being, or to
your wife p / said, "Pon my word, |
will not" They then examined my
teeth and felt my tongue, then groaned
again. l said, If you don't feel well,
have got bottle here" The fat man
here took the bottle from me aud told
me to shut up. He then, in voice of
thunder, said, bring forth the goat"
Another fellow comes up with cloth
to blind me. NO you don't il you
mans buff HRt With hhHnge geat. til fde defe Tic
devil if you like, but don't go it blind.
Stand back or I'll knock you into smith
Green's" They were too much for me,
however, so had to submit to being
blindfolded. The goat was then led in,
and l could hear him making an awful
racket among the furniture. | began to
feel that l was urgently wanted at home,
but was in for it and could not help
myself.
Three or four fellows then seized me,
and with demoniacal laugh, pitched
me on the animals back, telling me at
the same time to look out for squalls =
| have been in many scrapes, Mr.. Edi-
tor, I've been in election fights, have
been pitched out of a four story window,
have gone down i'll railway collision,
but this little goat excursion was ahead
Of them all. The COMPOUNDED thing
must be all wings and horns, 1t bum
ped me against chairs and tables, and
the ceiling, but l hung on like Trojan
turned front somersaults and rolled
over, l thought it was all over will
me. was on the point Of giving up
when the bandage fell from my eyes ant
the goat bounded through the window
with yell like wild Indian giving NJ
the ghost. l was in lodge OF Masons
They were dancing war dance aroun'
a big skull, and playing leaptreg an
turning hand springs, and the big ia
fellow of the ante room xas standln
| on his head in the corner,
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Taking the Pool.

Good conduct at Sunday y-school seems
to be differently rewarded in different
localities. Ina certain Episcopal church
in San Francisco, for instance, each
scholar that is in his place before open
ing school receives ticket for Punctua,.
ity. Our correspondent having, as was
his habit, come early to school one Sun
day, observed class of six or seven
boys, aged from seven to twelve years,
all of respectable parentage, throwing
dice for who should win the whole lot
OF Punctuality tickets. He stood aghast
at such depravity, in such a place. on
such day-especially when one urchin
roared out: "Sixes! I've won; give us
the pool" !"-Harper's Magazine.
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egGeneral Quincy A. Gilmore has

EgGeneral Quincy A. Gilmore has
been ordered to Savannah to superin-
tend repairs upon Fort Pulaski Gen
eral Gilmore is the man Who bombarded
the fort, and almost destroyed it, on the
10Th and 11th of April, 1862. Tho
work was sixteen years in building; its
walls contained over 100000 bricks,
and it cost about sl,000,0O0. The Sa-
vannah News thinks il will be useless to
repair the fort. The missiles from the
rifled cannon of Gilmore crashed through
its walls, although seven and half feet
thick, with almost rs much ease as q ri
fc bullet could be shot through butter,
and the riacd gun of to-day is much
more powerful than those whose pene.
trative power created so much astonish.
ment in 1852"
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EEA New Orleans widow of a week
was wooed by an impulsive suitor, who,
after obtaining her consent to amarriage
in a fortnight, borrowed $40 and desert
ed her. She told her tale to the Recorder.
.,Wcllm exclaimed the official, "this is
little ahead of anything ever heard Of"
Yes. sir," replied the lady, "it does so
beat all not that care anything about
the money but Idon't like being fooled"
A young lady who affected a eisintiS-
nation To matrimony wrote upon . pane
Of glass some verses expressive Of her
determination never to enter into Z holy
state. A gentleman who doubted the
lsdy's resolve wrote underneath
The fair whose vow these scratchy lines betokcr,
Wrote them On glass chs knew it would be
T. broken.
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Your Committee respectfully recon-
mend that the Democratic County Com
mittees at once provide for the selection
of delegates who are certain to attend
the State Convention (which will renew
our pledges to the support of the ancient
Democratic faith and principles, and
make all preliminary arrangements for a
vigorous and determined campaign for
the State ticket which will be nominated.
We also urge the continuance of active
and energetic efforts to MAINTAIN, extend
and consolidate local Democratic organ
izations, with view to present the same
unwavering and solid front to the ene-
mics Of free government which has in the
past effected so much good and estab-
lished the renown of the Ohio Democ-
racy. LEVI DUNCAN,
Chairman Dem. State Cen. Com
H. S. PROPHET, Sec. Cen. Com,
E. F. BINGHAM,
Chairman State Ex. Com.
W. W. WEBB, Sec. State Elk. Com.
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EgAt recent meeting/of women in
Boston, the following pointed resolution
was adopted:
Resolred, That the white women and
girls who to-day give long and hard
days work for twenty-five cents in cur
rency are quite as much the object of
Christian and benovlent sympathy as
were the negro slave women of the
Southern rice swamps.
That's true, but the difficulty is in get
ting the modern philanthropists to see
the wrongs of white women. Black cas-
es are readily seen.
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NA short time since a four.year old

EEA short time since a four-yesr old
who was so small that he was obliged to.
stand several feet off from the teller's
desk, in order to be seen, presented .
check for sixty dollars. The money was
handed over-the boy being known
and our little friend departed. Some FIVE
minutes after he rushed into the bank,
looking the picture of fright and breath
less. Assoon as he recovered sufficient
ly he said: "M-m Mr., did you send for
me?' No, certainly not Why do you
ask? ?" "Am-man came up to m-mc in
the street and said you had paid me
to much, and he wanted to take it from
me-" 'Did you give it to him Z" ssNo.
sir. Taxed him did he catch weasel
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From the Tomahawk.
JOHN AND JONATHAN.

JoNATHAN-You have done that you should be
sorry for?
There is that grudge between us. I have
asked
For certain sums in gold whereof see
But little now-a-days,) now you are rizh,
And know wherein you've wronged me; there.
fore, John,
I ask for dollars
JOHN Rather ask for sensel
Go to; you're not in earnest, Jonathan.
JoNATHAN-I am
JOHN I say YOU are not. You initiate
Your Senatorial bellows with talk
So tall that the eye of Reason fails to reach
Its point among the clouds; so far your anger
Runs riot, in an empty waste of words,
Above the underworld of argument.
JoNATHAN-Ye stars and stripes! II I am
riled, I guess
There's cause, and cause enough,
JOHN You love me not;
And yet we should be brothers. Common
Is throbbing in our veins; of the same old block
We both are chips by science linked together
As fast as twins; and yet you take the measure
Of all my faults, to show me how I've lost
The figure of my honesty. Is this
Like Jonathan? would treat Jonathan so?
'Tis rash humor, OF dyspepsia born,
Makes you forgetful; but did not think
You could have been SO angry. Have you
not
Applied soft-solder to our differences?
And patted o the back, as though your anger
Came sparkling like Moselle at.good mems
feasts,
All creamy with the fzz of discomfort,
And straight was still again? 1 baro my
breast;
And yet for offered friendship you return
A bombshell of long figures; It's to strike
Below the waistcoat. Come; let US be friends,
As two such men should be.
JONATHAN On second thoughts,
Let's iquor--give it name-what shall it
be?
We must be friends Yes, sir, or all the
world
Would come to-ch, yes, John, brandy
smash
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Chicago and London.

The citizens Of Chicago are taking tho
preliminary measures to construct rail-
road, by means of which, it is asserted,
the passage between that city and Lon
don. England, can be made in eight days
and twenty hours. The railroad, is to
run on direct line along the south
shore of Lake Ontario, and thence by,
way Of Whitehall and Rutland due cast
to Portland, Me, over route recently
chartered by the states of Vermont, New
Hampshire and Maine, and from Port,
land ON to Newfoundland.
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Democratic State Convention.
Wednesday, July 7, 1869.

Rooms OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE)
CENTRAL AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
COLUMBUS, ONO, May Is, 1867
To the Democracy of Ohio:
The regular annual Convention of the
Democracy of Ohio will be held, in the
city of Columbus, on.
Wednesday, July I, 1869,
To nominate candidates for the following
offices, viz:
sGovernor,
Lieutenant Governor,
One Judge Of the Supreme Court,
Treasurer Of State,
Attorney General,
One Member Of the Board Of Pub
Tic Works.
The ratio of representation will be the
same as at previous Conventions, and as
follows: One delegate for each county !;
and an additional delegate for every five
hundred votes cast for Thomas Hubbard
for Secretary of State last year, and an
additional delegate for every fraction of
two hundred and fifty or more votes so
naaf
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E%Sumner's vanity will receive an
additional flip from the fact that silly
Englishman calls him "the Jupiter To-
mans eff the hour The London cor.
respondent of the New York Herald
says: He has sprung into a renown
that throws all our public men in the
shade, and people seem to think every
body is covering at his feet. "In sober
truth" adds the correspondent" Sumner
has distanced all his contemporaries,
and if he doesn't make himself Presi-
dent, he will become the biggest of bug
oboos
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"Jlm Waiieth.0

He lost his love, and this is the wall
he sends forth:
met her by the seller door
The look she Civ was cold and stern;
Her eyes looked pitchforks into mine
And mine looked poison in hern.
For we had loved in dase gone by:
Her daddy said that might take her;
But alas! for my dreme of welded bliss,
She got up and got with Dutch shoemaker
No more girls for me if I knows it
No more frauds me luv to dim;
In the words of the poet Not for Joseph"
And he might have added, Not for jim
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The ADVANTAGES OF BooKs.-Barth-
olin, the great philosopher, thus speaks
of the necessity for books as incentives
to mental and material progress: with
out books God is silent, justice dormant.
natural science at stand, philosophy
lame, letters dumb, and all things invol-
we'd in Cimmerlan darkness" Adds
Milton: "a good aook is the precious
fe-blood of a master spirit, embalmed
and treasured up on purpose, to a life
beyond life"
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At a recent "pauny reading in an
English town, the audience cried "en-
core" after particularly favorite pas
sage. An enthusiastic Liberal mistook
it for Gore" the name of the. Conser
gative NJ p, and forthwith commenced
to shout "Jebb. Jebb" the name of the
Liberal candidate.
The weeping vaults are the only last
ing weeping for our funerals.
A ferocious old woman barks from the
jaws # she wolf
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The KNOCK AT THE DcoR Charles
Lamb, the genial, thus alludes to that
familiar signal, the knock at the door ::
Not many sounds in life land include
all urban and all rural sounds) exceed
in interest knock at the door. 1t gives
a very echo to the throne where Hope
is seated. But its issues seldom answer
to this oracle within, it is so seldom
that just the person We want to see
comes -
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Miss Olive Logan, enormously
Judging that she had not already made
herself sufficiently ridiculous, prints in
the New York Sun silly creed in
which she says: 1.-The Boghole Busle
calls me ballet GIRL a country paper
calls me negress, and the New York
Mail pronounced me an Indian. They
are all wrong; I am japanese, and
was formerly clown to the King of the
Cannibal Islands" She dosn't seem to
have tempted the Kings appetite at all.
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From the Fun.]
A DIALOGUE.

Said Jonathan 10 John,
..Down your marrow. bone upon,
Confess that you've no honor and n honesty
no nonel
Yield your purse without-a fuss
And cede Canada to us
And II. think about forgiving you for all you
haven't donel'
Said John to Jonathan,
sIt never was my plan
To truckls to q braggart, or to tremble at
threat.
shan't give up my gold,
And Canada I'll hold,
And for what haven't done l never HAVE
asked pardon yeti"
Said Jonathan to John,
"You'n repent of this anon,
How dare you use such language to chap as
big as mei
For I'll whip you all, that's fiat
Knock you into cooked hat,
And my navy shall go forth and sweep your
Commerce from the seat
Said John to Jonathan,
Gall very we'll, my man,
But reflect before indulging in such mighty
threats as these,
That all your men of war
Were not sufficient for
The sweeping of the little Alabama from the
seas!"
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KANSAS CRY. Mo-, June 4.-The re-
port of the hanging of railroad men on
the Cherokee lands in Kansas is not con-
frmed, and is probably false. The set
tiers, however, lately received large sup
plies of powder and cartridges, and are
said to be preparing to resist any force
which may attempt to build a railroad
or protect it's worklnen. Several set
tiers have been driven out of the coun-
try by the league on account of their
lukewarmness, ard others have been
warned to leave within forty eight hours
under the penalty of hanging.
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Save Fifty Dollars.

kEY PERSON wishing to purchase one of
Grovesteen's Pisnds, advertised in this
pspsr, can save fifty dollars Of the price by
applying, to ths editor Of Dir psIer. June
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Teachers Notice.

fTNHE Board of Examiners will hold meet
ings for examination of Teachers, at
Woodsfsld, as follows.
Saturday, May Is, .
sE {" 29,
ss. June l9,
/" August Il,
Examinat ions to commence at s o'clock 4. N.
BY order of the Board.
mch2td. JAS. o. AMOS, Clerk.
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dered at first-then, with poorly sup,
pressed rage, he demanded:
| ''Villain how came you by that curl p
Glow came | Indeed, sir! l do not
know that am accountable to you for
having received love-token from a
young lady"
1t was too much With one blow
Richard struck him to the ground, and
rushed into the street.
Maddened with jealous rage, he hardly
breathed until he reached Mr.. Forestall's s
door. There Lillian met him.
Without giving her time to express
surprise, he exclaimed:
Lillian, for heavens sake, tell me how
Philip Warner came in possession OF
one of your curls p'
Zone of my curls! Are you mad,
Richard ?"
Lillian, warn you, do not trihe with
me. / have just left Philip Warner
He showed me curl, that as sure as you
live, came from your head. l struck
him to the ground, and came to you for
an explanation-for relief from the ago
ny that is killing me-"
"Richard,I know nothing of this more
than you do. You are need.essly excl
ted. See," she said, as she loosened the
comb from her luxuriant tresses and let
them fall over her shoulders, mo curl
has been cut from my head"
With an exclamation that was almost
a shrek, he cried:
"Oh, my God, Lillian, is it possible
that you are so false! Behold! you
convict yourself"
He touched her head, pointing to a
lock of hair from which curl had evi.
IDENTIFY been severed. There it was, short
and stiff.
Lillian put up her hand, and pale and
trembling, sank upon a sofa. With a
face paler even than her own, her lover
stood before her.
ooh, Lillian" said he, his voice trem-
bling from excess of emotion, may God
forgive you! FAREWELL
He was gone, and Mr.. Forestall, CON-
ing home from an evening lecture short
ly after, found Lillian lying insensible
upon the floor.
Weeks passed. With haggard face
and heavy heart, Richard Malcolm went
through the daily duties connected with
his business. He heard of Lilian's be
ing seriously il, ,and the pain at his heart
grew more severe.
One morning, about four weeks after
that terrible evening, he received a note,
requesting him TO come at once to No. Is
- street, on business of the utmost
importance. He FASTENED at once to the
house indicated, was ushered up stairs
into a room where lay sick man, whom,
at first, he did not recognize, but, as be
drew near the bed, he saw was Philip
Warner. Reaching out his hand, he
said, in feeble voice:
.Richard Malcolm, have done a great
wrong. Lillian Forestall is pure and true
as woman can be- l alone am guilty"
He then told of his wicked boast, Of
rushing to Mr. ForestalIs house, where
he saw Lillian sound asleep, with her
head resting on the. window-sill, as she
leaned it to listen to Richards departing
footsteps. One curl hung over the win
dow. Philip saw it, and, quick as fash,
took his knife and cut it of.
1T was damnable deed, Richard, but
1 repent sincerely. Please God, will
be a changed man when l regain my
health"
Muttering hasty assurances of for
giveness, Richard left. He lost no time
in seeking Lillian. Her pale face bore
traces of suffering. We will notattempt
to paint their reunion. There is to be a
wedding at Mr.. Forestalls soon.
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A tall young man, if be be rich, is q
May pole for the girls to dance around
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Il. P. HAaEn. q. E. NICHOLS
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Notice to Creditors.
IN E UITY-Kershaw.

W. W. Stokes VS.. 10. II. Stokes, admr.
ct al-BW
By decretal order passed in this caso,
on the 24th September, 1869, it was
Ordered, That all creditors having
claims against the estate of Jno. Stokes
deceased, should present the same be.
fore neon or before the first dav of
January, next, or be barred from any
benefit from the decree in this case.
JOHN KERSHAW,
.- Special Referee.
Nov. 4. ,9t
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FINAL NOTICE.

ALEX. L. MCDONALD, the old cx.
Judge of Probate. is very dcsirous 10
collect his out standing fees of office
1t is not altogether that he truly wants
them, but that he actually needs then.
lie has been waiting patiently with
people year after year. crop after crop
and with some on broken promises Until
he has ultimately come to the concln
sion that long continued and pr"tractcd
indulgence ceases to bearthe arp, ,llatioin
of being termed n virtue. Personally,
I vii be on DeKqlb Street until the
last of November next. All or any in
arrears with me fer lees can call and
settle their respective dn y by cash, or
if cash b" not Immediately at command,
10y giving negotiable note fer short
season. All my accounts not scttl"d
by the last Of November, I will place
them in the hands Of legal officials for
collection.
Oct. 7. I.
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THE
LANCASTER LEDGER.

The attention of the business men Of
Camden, is invited to this popular
weekly, as a most desirable advertising
medium.
Is circulated iu EVERY SECTION
of the County, and has a large subscrip'
tion list in upper Kershaw.
Contract advertising solicited. Terms
easy. Address.
D. J CARTER,
Editor and Proprietor.
Oct. %. tt.
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