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"A Western man has whitfield out clock
with his jack-knife.
,-Leporte Ind, has swede carpenter,
who claims to be first cousin TO Jenny Lind.
"A railroad with three-foot gauge is in
operation between Akron and Massllon, Ohio.
The bridal dress of the Princess Louise is to
be OF white ltish poplin, with veil and trim
mings of Honiton lace.
Advocates of woman suffrage are complain
ing that they now receive very little encourage
ment from New England.
During the past winter the range of the
thermometer has varied as much as ~ degrees
within twenty-four hours.
"A veteran wood-sawyer of Pittsfeld, named
Lysander Searles, siXty-siX years of age, last
week sawed over eleven cords of four feet wood
twice In two, in four days.
In order to avoid the objections made to
dancing by the churchmen in Virginia. the folks
there have taken to roller skating Through the
maZy.'
The returns of income made this year are
not to be published, and the officers admins
tering the law are required to keep them
secret.
-Delescluze, the editors n.cbief of the Paris
ReCetL who was imprisoned by order of the
Minister of Justice, in October last, says that he
was treated by his jailers more brutaIly than
during his repeated confnements uEder the
Second Empire.
old Cousin Montauban, Count de Palikao,
and Eugenie's Prime Minister after Ollivier's
resignation, is living in splendid style in Lon
don, where he has rented a very fine residence
on Bucklngham square. lie is reported to be
worth eight or ten million francs, the fruit of
his extortions during the long service in Africa
and principally during the expedition to China.
The activity which Henry Laube, the
German dramatist and theatrical manager con
stantly displays Is something extraordinary.
Not only is he busily engaged in Fastening the
preparations for the construction of his new
theatre in Vienna, but he is writing three or
four new plays, corresponding for a number of
journals, and has nearly completed an exten.
siVe new work on dramatic art
Frederick Gertstacker, the German traveller
and novelist, is in trouble. The English pub
lishers of Charles Rowcrofts' Australian novels.
some of which Gerst9cker has published In
German under his own name have threatened
to prosecute him for plagiarism. About twenty
five years ago Gerstecker published at Leipsic
q German translation of Lippard's Quaker
City" as his Own production.
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LIMITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE, BAL
~ TIMORE, MD.
FAYETTE STREET, NEAR CHARLES,
Third Story Union Bank Building,
MARCH l, 1871.
Proposals are invited for dredging in the channel
below Fort Carroll leading to this city, Proposals,
to be sealed and In duplicate, endorsed outside, and
accompanied by a copy of this advertisement, will
De received until noon OF 1st day of APRIL, 1871,
and will be opened in ten minutes thereafter, in the
presence OF such bidders as may wish to be present.
About $4,000 cubic yards, more or less, to be re-
moved. Length OF haul OF material averages about
two miles, The object s to attain depth Of ~ feet
at mean low water. The tide rises about one foot
and one half Proposals will state Kind OF machinery
to be used average quantity In cubic yards to be
removed daily; price per cubic yard, including
cavation, removal, and deposit. Material to be
measured in dumping scows.
The right to reject any bid is reserved.
Forms OF Proposals and any desired information
to be had on application at this office.
WILLIAM p. CRAIGHILL,
80 Major Of Engineers, U. S. A.
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PROPOSALS..

OFFICE OF PURCHAsING AND DEPOT COM
" MISSAkY, No. 20e 8. FOURTH Street.
Room No. sSnaH =
ST. LOUIS March 2, 1871.
SEALED PROPOSALS, in duplicate, will be re-
ceived at this office until ~ O'Clock NJ, MONDAY,
April 8, 1871 for furnishing the Subsistence Depart
ment L. S. Al
IS pounds mess pork.
10000 pounds of bacOn-clear sides.
1S1, 900 pound of double extra flour,
$4,000 pounds of hard bread.
1000 pounds OF corn meal-kiln dried,
$4,000 pounds OF beans-whte navy.
5000 pounds OF split peas.
9,5o0 pounds OF rlce-Carona.
600 pounds of hominy.
1900 pounds OF green Rio coffee.
1000 pounds OF Rio coffee-roasted.
0000 pounds Of brown sugar
1900 gallons OF whisky vinegar.
5000 pounds OF CAndles-adamantine
5000 pounds OF extra family soap.
31,500 POUNDS Of salt.
500 pounds of pepper-black.
$500 pounds OF hams-sugar-cure
1900 pounds of choice family -four.
$500 pounds of dried apples.
800 pounds OF dried peaches,
1900 pounds OF raisins.
175 gallons OF picked cucumbers.
80 gallons of picked onions.
375 gallons of sauerkTaut.
332 dozen cans Of milk.
5000 pounds OF lard.
1000 pounds of butter.
1000 pounds of cheese
Information to kind Of packages, condition,
ofnce. G.. b. PENROSE,
318t Captain, q. s., U. s. A.
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ID S o l. u T ION
III To Approve Contracts for the Erection of
School Buildings in the Tenth and Fourteenth
Wards, and of the Sureties Therefor.
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils
of the City of Philadelphia, That the con-
tract dated the tenth day of February, 1871, be-
tween the city of Philadelphia, of the one part
and Philip II. Somerset of the other part, for
the erection of school building for the price or
sum of nineteen thousand eight hundred and
forty-fve ($19, ,S45) dollars on the south side of
Tenth ward, be and the same is hereby approved,
and that John H. Miller is hereby approved as
snrety therefor.
And the contract dated the thirteenth day of
December, 1870, between the city of Philadel-
phia of the one part, and William Keas, of the
other part, for the erection of a school building
for the price or sum of twenty-five thousand
five hundred ($25, 5000 dollars, on the lot of
ground on the north side of Wood street, east
of Twelfth street, in the Fourteenth ward, be
and the same is hereby approved, and that
Samuel Bolton and Edward Hayes, the sureties
therefor, are hereby approved. And the Mayor
of the city of Philadelphia be and is hereby re
quested to affx the corporate seal of the said
city to said contracts.
HENRY HUM,
President of Common Council.
Attest
BENJAMIN II. HAINEs,
Clerk of Select Council.
SAMUEL w. CATTELL,
President of Select Council.
Approved this twenty seventh day of March,
Ammo Domini one thousand eight hundred
anu ''''''' 0'' W - DANIEL M. FOX,
2 301t Mayor of Philadelphia.
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RESOLUTION

TO PUBLISH LOAN BILL.
Resolved, That the Clerk of Common Coun-
Gil be authorized to publish in two daily news
papers of this city daily for four weeks the
ordinance presented to Common Council on
Thursday, March 16, 1871, entitled 'An ordi-
nance creating loan for the extension of the
Water Works" And the said Clerk, at the
stated meeting of Councils after said publica-
tioD, shall pretent to this Council one of each
of said newspapers for every day in which the
same shall have been made. 3 GIT
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In the course of the late war the
French often called their enemy by the
names of Goths and barbarians, and bystan-
ders have been SO far moved as from time to
time to agree with them. But it was re-
served for famous Professor of Berlin to fix
this title upon his countrymen as compll-
ment, and by way of strict historical parallel
made in cold blood. At the conclusion of
lecture on the Roman catacombs held on the
18th of January last, the historian Theodor
Mommsen described the siege of Rome by
the Gothic invaders, turning it, in the follow
ing manner, into figure of another siege:-
The Roman knows nothing of what is outside his
city walls, and despises it; for strangers, under the
disguise OF most ready courtesy, he has at bottom
nothing but contempt. The inroad OF
Alaric and his Goths had been wantonly brought
circumference OF the walls, all the twelve gates
beset; traffic was closed upon the Tiber the pres
sure OF famine commenced, they began to portion
out the bread per head, then to distribute half
tons at last one-third ratons only as the neces-
sity gradually became more terrible. Pestilence
and contagion began their fearful work in
much to bury the dead, for the cemeteries were
all in the occupation OF the enemy. The besieged
threatened sortie en- masse; the Goth laughed and
said, "Tbe thicker the grass the better cuts the
SICKLE" The Government resided far away in Ra-
venna it sent bodies OF troops to raise the SIEGE
but they never reached Rome and destroyed one
Dy one me COIN tried many ways of eXtortng q
peace; he demanded acquisitions in money and
grain, and the cession OF Venetia Norcum and Dali
malta. They offered him gold and silver ''as much
as he would but beyond that he could gain nothing.
The Emperor Honorius and all his officials swore
they would never make peace with Alarie but wage
eternal war against him, ETC.
The literary point made is good one, and
probably the historian was too much taken up
with the stiffneckedness of the Romans to
consider the merits of Alaric's enterprise.
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STATES ENGINEER OFFICE,

TINTED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE.
y THIRD STORY UNION BANK BUILDINGS,
Fayette Street, near Charles,
BALTIMORE, Nd, March 2S, ISL
PROPOSALS are invited for dredging channel
through Fredericksburg and Spottswood Bars in
the Rappahannock river, Proposals. to be sealed in
duplicate, endorsed outside and accompanied by a
copy Of this advertisement, will be received until
noon OF April 2s 1871, and will be opened In ten
inmates thereafter, in presence OF such bidders as
may wish to be present. Separate Proposals will be-
also received for removing one wreck in Fredercks.
burg bar.
The material is easily removed. The channel ia
not TO exceed 90 feet in width feet in depth at
mean low water. The locality is sheltered The
tide rises about two feet
Forms Of proposal and any desired information
to be had on application at this office.
The right to reject any bid is reserved.
VIM. z. CRAIGHILL,
9296t Major OF Engineers u 3. A.
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COMMON COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA

COMMON COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA.
~ CLERKS OFFICE,
PHILADELPHIA, March IL, 1871.
In accordance with Resolution adopted by
the Common Council of the city of Philadelphia
on Thursday, the sixteenth day of March, 1871,
the annexed bill, entitled, San ordinance
creating a loan for the extension of the
Water Works." is hereby published for public
information.
JOHN ECKSTEIN,
Clerk of Common Council.
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sSSsn OFFICE OF THE WESTMORELAND COAL
49, COMPANY, NO. 23O SOUTH THIRD STREET,
CORNER OF WILLINGS ALLEY.
PHILADELPHIA March 20, 1871.
The Annual Meeting Of the stockholders of the
Westmoreland Coal Company will be held at the
office OF the company on WEDNESDAY,, April s,
1S71 at IL O'Clock NJ, when an election will be held
for eleven Directors to serve during the ensuing
year. +. II. JACKSON,
3 20 lat Secretary.
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sPEOIAL NOTICES.
n REDEMPTION OF STATE BONDS.
STATE or CALIFORNIA, !
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
q n


STATE or CALIFORNIA, !
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SACRAMENTO, Feb. |, 1911.
Whereas there is on this day in the State Treasury
the sum Of two hundred and fifty thousand (s2500J0
dollars, which, under the provisions Of act OF the
Legislature OF said State entitled "An Act to pro-
vide for paying certain equitable claims against the
State Of California, and to contract funded debt
for that purpose" approved April 2s 1861; and also
under the provisions Of an act amendatory OF said
act, approved April 27 1860, is apart for the
demptlon of Civil Bonds Of said State issued under
the provisions of said first mentioned act notice is
hereby given that
SEALED PROPOSALS
for the surrender of said Bonds will be received at
this Department for the amount above specified,
until the
1OTF DAY OF APRIL, A. D. 1871,
at II O'Clock A NJ.
No bids will be entertained at more than par
value, and a responsible guarantee must accompany
each proposal, which must be marked 'Seaed Pro-
posals for the Redemption OF Civil Bonds Of lS5I.'
Said bonds must be surrendered within ten days
after the acceptance Of the proposals for their
demption. A. f. CORONEL,
214 cod t410 State Treasurer
sgs. REDEMPTION OF CIVIL BONDS OF
1s60
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
SACRAMENTO, February !, ISL
Whereas, There is on this day in the State Trea-
sury the sum of twentyeght thousand (s2S 000) dol
lars which, under the provisions Of an act Of the
Legislature Of said State entitled can act to pro-
vide for the paying certain equitable claims against
the State OF California and to contract funded
debt for that purpose" approved April 3d. 1s6O is
set apart for the redemption Of Civil Bonds of SAID
State issued under the provisions Of said act notice
is hereby given that
SEALED PROPOSALS
for the surrender OF said Bonds will be received at
this Department for the amount above specified
until the
10TH DAY OF APRIL, 1871,
at II O'Clock A. NJ.
No bid will be entertained at more than par value,
and responsible guarantee must accompany each
proposal, which must be indorsed "Sealed Proposals
for the surrender Of Civil Bonds Of 1s60."
Said bonds will be redeemed and interest paid in
gold and silver coin OF the United States and must
be surrendered within ten days after the acceptance
Of the proposal for their redemption.
A. f. CORONEL,
2 14eod t4 10 State Treasurer.
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TINTED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE

TINTED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE,
u THIRD STORY, UNION BANK BUILDING,
FAYETTE ST. NEAR CHARLES,
BALTIMORE, Md, March 81, 1911.
PROPOSALS are invited for Dredging Channel
at Cambridge, Maryland. Proposals to be sealed in
duplicate. endorsed outside and accompanied by
copy OF this advertisement, will be received until
noon OF April "a, 1871, and will be opened In ten
minutes thereafter, in presence OF such bidders as
may wish to be present.
The material Is easily removed The channel is
not 10 exceed one hundred feet in width or ten
feet in depth at mean low water The locality is
sheltered.
Forms OF proposal and any desired information to
be had on applica' ion at this office.
The right to reject any bid is reserved.
s2s Major OF Engineer u. s. Army.
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TINTED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE,
y THIRD STORY, UNION BANK BUILDING,
FAYETTE STREET NEAR CHARLES,
BALTIMORE, Md, March 20, ISL
PROPOSALS are invited for Dredging Channel
in Queenstown Creek, Maryland, from Chester
River to Queenstown. Proposals to be sealed, IN d-
plicate endorsed outside, and accompanied by
noon of April ~, 1871, and viii be opened in ten
minutes thereafter, in presence Of such bidders as
may be present.
The material is easily removed. The channel is
not to exceed one hundred feet in width or eight
feet in depth at mean low water. The locality is
sheltered.
Forms Of proposals and any desired information
to be had on application at this office.
The right to reject any bid Is reserved.
VIM. p. CRAIGHILL,
1856 Major of Engineers, U. s. Army.
TT S. sEN EER FICE,
u THIRD STORY UNION BANK BUILDING
FAYETTE ST., NEAR CHARLES,
BALTIMORE, Md March 49, 1ST1.)
PROPOSALS are invited for eXcavating channel
In the James river, at the Rockets, near Richmond,
Va.
Proposals, to be sealed in duplicate, endorsed on
outside and accompanied by a copy OF this adver-
tisemen, will be received until noon OF April 20,
1871, and will be opened in ten minutes thereafter,
in presence of such bidders may wish to be pre-.
sent.
The material to be removed is rock in beds and
boulders. The channel is not to exceed $50 feet in
width or IS feet in depth at mean high water The
locanty is sheltered. The tide rises about ~ feet.
be had on application at this office
The right to reject any bid is reserved.
VIM. p. CRAIGHILL,
329 Major OF Engineers u. s. A.
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DEPUTY QUARTERMASTER GENERALS
IL OFFICE.
PHILADELPHIA, March 16, 1871.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this
ONCE (where proper forms will be furnshed) until ~
O'Clock NJ. on FRIDAY, April 21, 1911, fer the de-
livery at the Schuylkill Arsenal, Philadelphia, of
$50 pairs Boots 600 pairs to be cable screwedl.
5000 Haversacks.
1000 yards Crimson Worsted Lace 4 inch.
All TO be or army standard, samples Of which can
be seen at this office.
STEWART VAN VLIET
Deputy Quartermaster- General,
SN BreVet Major General, q. S. All
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Il L.9W.rENS FIRST DIVORCE
(.fSE.
He Learns Wisdom from Pretty Woman

He Learns Wisdom from a Pretty Woman.
A day or two since, talented young
lawyer of the city, whose name is not
Smith, and whose briefs have been like
angels visits, was delighted by fndi &
in his Office richly dressed lady who
announced her desire to employ him
professionally. With beaming smile,
that could hardly be restrained from
bursting into a full blown laugh, the
young Blackstone handed the lady a
cushioned armchair, and assured her
that he was entirely and devotedly at
her service"
Seating herself in the proffered office
chair, the lady ungloved small white
hand, that literally glistened with dia
monds, and applied Suez-scented hand
kerchief to her lips, blushed and, cast
ing her eyes upon the floor, said
My business is very particular-it
is-pardon me, sir, but you will not be-
tray me !"
Betray youP Not for the world,
madam. You can confde in me with
the same reliance as in a priest at the
confessional"
The fact isl want-that is, have
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after CTS.
The .9dUentUres Of Mr.. Oiirer in Pur-
suit Of Tengence.

The .4dUentures Of Mr.. Ohrer ia Pur-
suit Of Iengence.
The fact that Mr.. Oliver lived in a
uniform row of houses in the Fourteenth
Ward was the reason why he was un-
fortunate One moonlight night last
week the noise made by the cats on the
roof was simply awful. Mr.. Oliver lay
in bed trying in vain to get to sleep,
grinding his teeth with rage, until at
last the uproar overhead became unen-
durable Mr.. Oliver crept out of bed
softly, so that his wife would not be
awakened. He put on his slippers,
seized a boot with each hand, and clad
in the snowy robes of night, he opened
the trap door and emerged upon the
roof There were thirty or forty cats
out there holding kind of general
synod in the cool of the evening, enjoy
ing the bracing air and singing glees.--
AS Mr.. Oliver advanced and flung a
boot at them. They then adjourned
suddenly to the next residence Mr.
Oliver projected another boot, and went
over after the first one. In this man.
ner the synod retreated and Oliver ad-
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vanced until the last row Of twenty
houses was reached, when the cats ar.
ranged themselves in a line along the
parapet, rufied up their fur, curved
their spines, and spat furiously at Oliver.
That bold warrior gathered up his boots
and determined to retreat. He walked
over q dozen houses and descended
through trap.door. He went down
stairs to his bedroom, and opened the
door. There was a man in the room in
the act of walking up and down with
baby. Before Oliver had recovered
from his amazement. the man flung the
baby on the bed, and selling revolver,
began firing rapidly at Oliver. 1t then
dawned upon Oliver that he had come
down the wrong trap-door. He pro-
ceeded up stairs again suddenly, the
man with the revolver practicing at him
in painful manner When Oliver
reached the door he shut the trap quick,
ly and stood upon it. The man fired
through the boards twice, and then
hooked the door upon the inside. A
moment after Oliver heard him spring
ing q watchmans rattle from the front
window. AS soon as the neighbors knew
there was man on the roof, they all
flew up stairs and fastened their trap.
doors, and Mrs. Oliver fastened hers,
with firm conviction that some pre-.
datory villain had entered while she
slept and stole her Oliver. When he
tried the door it was fast, and Mrs.
Oliver was screaming so fercely that he
could not make himself heard. By this
time the street was filled with police
men, all of whom were blazing away at
Oliver with their revolvers, while the
young men in the houses across the
street kept up steady fire with pistols,
shotguns and miscellaneous missiles -
Oliver, with every advantage of forming
an opinion, said that Gettysburg was a
mere skirmish to it. He hid behind the
chimney and lay up against the bricks
to keep himself warm, while the police
man stationed themselves all around the
square to capture him when he would
slide down one of the water spouts.-
But Oliver did not slide. He sat on,
on the roof all night, with the bitter all
circulating through his too triAing gar
ments, listening to the yowling cats anC
the occasional shouts from the pickle
line below, and thinking of the ole
Jews who used to pray from their house
tops, and wondering if Musselmen wer,
ever shot ut or bothered with cats anC
policemen when they practiced then
evening devotlons on their roofs. AnC
then he wondered how it would do t
take off his night-shirt and wave it ove
the edge as a flag of truce He con
cluded not to, because of the danger o
a bullet from some misguided policeman
not familiar with the rules of war. -
When daylight came, the neighbors raj
lied in crowd, armed with all kinds O
weapons, from howitzers down, ant
mounted to the roof. Oliver was taker
down and put to bed, and he now ha
more influenza for man of his size thar
any other citizen of the Fourteenth
Ward. He says he is going to NOV,
as soon as he gets we'll; he is going tc
move into house that is next to nobody
house that stands in the middle OF
prairie of some kind, and he intends t,
stencil his name in white on the trsv
door.
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