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he said pattlng the horses neck. Eve
are both of us inclined to be a little
fapciful to-day. If were at all sub
ject to weakness Of nerve, he added,
mentally, II should say that the demon
lac bawls of yonder ranting old wo-
man had unsettled me.
He rode on, and soon reached Holy
head Hall. At the moment in which he
checked his steed at the stone portico
with its solid fight Of hewn steps, the
sun broke out brilliantly once more.
"A good omen," he said, gayly to
himself.
But the pale, frightened face of Aga
tha Holyhead at the door told another
tale.
..Such storm ' she painted, ''such a
fearful storm p
..Has it been so bad? But what
does little rain amount to? he cried,
hinging his reins to an advancing SER
want.
But the lightning has struck down
in the woods by the grotto-and-we
can't anywhere find Antoinette? q
"Agatha, reasoned Mrs. Holyhead,
s.do not be so foolish. Probably your
cousin has been out for walk-one Of
her sketching expeditions, most likely
and has taken shelter in one of the cot
tages down there.
But at that instant an afrighted gar
dener came rushing up the steps.
..Ma'am if you please, Miss Duper-
que is sitting in the summer house. and
she won't answer me !"
Almost before minute had elapsed
Clarence Carlyon had made his way
through the dripping shrubberies to the
summer house, one-half of whose vine
festooned sides was torn away by the
blasting finger of the lightning. 1t was
as the man said. Antoinette Dupergue
sat on the rustic seat, all in white, with
long stalk of lilies in her hand, quite
dead.
Struck by lightning gasped hel
terrified aunt, as she pointed to the sin
gle spot, scarcely larger than pins
head, on the girls temple.
She sat there almost as if she hat
fallen asleep among the honeysuckl
trails, SO pure and peaceful was he
face; the very lilies were not disturbe'
in their whiteness-bu she was dead
thrust ont of life by the scnrehins tAnnl
of Heavens FIRE! Clarence Carlyon
standing there bowed down by tn
weight and suddenness of his awfu
: afAiction, remembered poor Bridget Bry
ans words:
"Ride on, but Heavens curses wi
follow you'll. You are riding straight
its vengeance / can see it though 70
: cannot p
The prophecy had come trne.
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FREDERICK AND ALICE.
BIZ SIR WALTER SCOTT.
fI801.1

ll80l.l
Frederick leaves the land of France,
Homeward hastes his steps to measure,
Careless casts the parting glance
On the scene of former pleasure
Joying in his prancing steed,
Keen to prove his untried blade,
Hopes gay dreams the soldier lead
Over mountain, moor and glade.
Helpless, ruined left forlorn,
Lovely Alice wept alone;
Mourned DER loves fond contract torn,
Hope, and peace, and honor flown.
Mark her breasts convulsive throbs
See, the tear of anguish flows!
Mingling soon with bursting sobs,
Loud the laugh of frenzy rose.
Wild she cursed, and wild she prayed;
Seven long days and nights are DER;
Death in pity brought his aid,
AS the village bell struck four.
Far from her, and far from France,
Faithless Frederick onward rides;
Marking, biithe, the mornings glance
Mantling DER the mountains sides.
Heard We not the boding sound,
As the tongue of yonder tower
Slowly, to the hills around,
Told the fourth, the fated hour
Starts the steed and snuffs the air,
Yet no cause of dread appears
Bristles high the riders hair,
Struck with strange mysterious fears.
Desperate, as his terrors rise,
In the steed the spur he hides;
From himself in vain he flies;
Anxious, restless, on he rides.
Seven long days and seven long nights,
Wild he wandered, woe the whilei
Ceaseless care, and causeless fright,
Urge his footsteps many mile.
Dark the seventh sad night descends;
Rivers swell and rain-streams pour;
While the deafening thunder lends
All the terrors of its roar
Weary, wet, and spent with toll,
Where his head shall Frederick hide
Where, but in yon ruined aisle,
By the lightnings flash deserted.
To the portal. dank and low,
Fast his steed the wanderer bound
Down ruined staircase slow,
Next his darkling way he wound.
Long drear vaults before him lie
Glimmering lights are seen to glide
blessed Mary. hear my cry
Deign a sinners steps to guide y
Often lost their quivering beam,
Still the lights move slow before,
Till they rest their ghastly gleani
Right against an iron door,
laundering voices from within,
Mixed with pearls of laughter, rose;
AS they fell a solemn strain
Lent its wild and wondrous close I!
Midst the din he seemed to hear
Voice of friends by death removed -
Well he knew that solemn air,
Twas the lay that Alice loved.
Hark for now the solemn knell
Four times to the still night broke;
Four times, at its deadened swell,
Echoes from the ruins spoke.
As the heightened Changers die,
Slowly opes the iron doorl
Straight a banquet met his eye,
But funerals form it wore
Collins for the seats extend;
All with black the board was spread;
Girt by parent, brother, friend,
Long since numbered with the dead!
Alice, in her grave-clothes bound,
CHASTITY smiling points a seat;
All arose, with laundering sound
All the expected stranger greet.
High their meagre arms they wave,
Wild their notes of welcome swell -
Welcome, traitor, to the grave
PeTjured, bid the light farewell p
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During the war a letter written by a
rebel soldier to his sweetheart was cap.
tured, wherein the writer said We will
lick the yanks twomorrer if goddlemity
spares our life.
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An old bachelor said ..there's a darn
ed sight more jewelry worn nowadays
than wnen | was young. But there's
one piece that [ always admired that
don't see now" "What is that !? "ask-
ed young lady "a thimble,' was
the reply. He was regarded with con-
tempt and scsrn by every lady in the
room the rest of the evening.
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A female student at Colby University,
Maine, took the second prize for excel
lerce in defamation. [Of course.
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A Pella man has nursed to vigorous
growth of 80 mullen plants, under the
that tbsy wsre@ tubacSo.
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in these young female Maniacs they
can hardly feel pride in thus having
their folly broughtto their minds. Wag-
ner evidently felt that the conditions
were lot favorable for his receiving calls
at his cell from the young ladies in ques-
tion, and that common courtesy required
that he should allow them an opportuni-
ty of seeing him by travelling around
the country and exhibiting himself.
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ter remains a mystery.-lNasch. Union.
The letters of the murdered Mansfield
Tracy Walworth to his wife are really
remarkable productions. we harbor no
desire to treat the memory of cruelty
butchered man in manner that in any
wise savors oflevity, but it is impossible
not to laugh upon reading these blood
thirsty and highly meludramatic epistles.
They are in the true Bombastes Furioso
vein, and one more worthy the pen Of an
Ancient Pistol than that of an educated
man of the world. Blasphemy and bru-
tality emanate from every line of them,
They below for gore, revenge and retri-
button in style that would do credit
to pirate of the yellow-covered-f fiction
school. He seems to have become SO
permeated by the sentiments peculiar to
the outlaw heroes he was so fond of
drawing as to believe that their manner
of expressing themselves was the practice
of everyday life. Rinaldo Rinaldini
was fool to him, and he could have
taught Don Alphonso, the Buecaneer,
the very rudiments of the art of invec-
tive. He wanted to spatter out his wife's
brains, to disembowel his sons and to
take vengence upon the body of his dead
and buried father. We have not been
unaccustomed to this sort of blood and
thunder in high pressure romances and
demoniacal dramas, but we have never
met with them before in real life. Never
theless, we do not concede that such ev-
licences of diseased mind and an en-
ragged nature can possibly justify a son
in imbruing his hands in his fathers
blood. The outrageousiy overweight and
ridiculously absurd tone of the letters
themselves should have protected theil
unhappy writer from all consequence
of his rawlings. He had threatened tot
often to be considered dangerous; if only
through the application of the old axiom
that barking dog never bites.
/ A young and fashionably attired lady
in a Boston street-car was overheard t
say, few days ago, that on recen
visit to New York. she went to the Tomb
to see Stokes She further vouchstatet
the information, in tones loud enough t
edify all the people in the car, that
when reproved by her husband for sucl
conduct, she had informed him that sb
"would rather see Stokes than any othe
living man." There seems to be no plac
in New York more attractive to Gel
tain class of romantic young ladies thar
the "Murderers' row" In the Tombs
Even young school girls, supposed b
their parents and guardians to be deepl
engrossed in the mysteries of geometr
or the beauties of botany, manage to fin
time on their way to and from schoc
to .'calp' at the abode of thieves an
murderers and gaze through the iro
bars upon the well-clad and well-fe
forms of assassins And this sort {
morbid sentimentality is not confined t
the great metropolis. Yesterday morn
ing, Wagner, who stands convicted {
one of the most barbarous and cowardl
crimes On record. was returned to hi
cell in the Jail at Alfred, Ne. His ez
planation of the motive that led to hi
escape was that he wished to see som
d of the pretty girls with whom he firte
in court IF any sense of shame is is,
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A COMPETENT WITNESS
Look-tell US William, who made you 2"
William who was considered fool,
screwed up his face, and looked thought
full, and somewhat bewlldered.
"Moses, s'pose =
..That will do,' said counselor Gray,
addressing the court. "The witness
says he supposes Moses made him; that
is an intelligent answer, more than |
thought him capable of giving, for it
shows that he has some faint idea of
scripture. | submit that it is not sufi-
cient to entitle him to be sworn as wit
ness giving evidence.
"Mr. Judge" said the fool, ..may
ak the lawyer question ?"
Certainly" said the Judge.
"Well, then, Mr.. Lawyer, who dye
s'spose made you?'
Aaron, | s'pose. said counselor
Gaey, initiating the witness.
After the mirth had somewhat subsid-
ed, the witness drawled out
"Wall, meow we do read in the book
! that Aaron once made a calf, but who
thought the darned critter got in here =
The Judge ordered the man to be
sworn.
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L1FE,s BETTER MOMENTS.

Life has it's moments
Of beauty and bloom;
But they hang like sweet roses
On the edge of the tomb.
Blessings they bring us,
As lovely brief,
They meet us when happy,
And leave us in grief
HUes of the morning,
Tinging the sky;
Come ON the sunbeamS,
And of with them fly; fa
Shadows of evening
Hang soft on the shore,
Darkness inwarps them
We see them no more
So life's better moments
In brilliance appear,
Dawning in beauty,
Our journey to cheer;
Round us they linger,
Like shadows of even.
Would that we like them,
Might melt into heaven.
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A MYSTERY OF THE MANCHESTER PosT
OFFIcE.-Many strange facts come to light
and many romances and tragedies are
family shadowed forth under the obser-
vation Of the post-ofice officers. Mon
day, Postmaster Stevens was kind
enough to show us a letter dropped in the
letter-box at our post Office and address
ed to ''Dr.-Manchester, N. H." (We do
not think ourselves justified in giving
the name.) The strange part of it is that,
regularly, every two weeks for the past
six years, letter has been received at
our post-ofice bearing the same address,
written, evidently. by the same hand.
The caligraphy is good, and is evident
ly that of a lady. The name is entered
on the list. time after time, and no one
has ever claimed one of them. After
lying at our Office the time specified by
| law, the letters are sent, one after the
other, to the dead letter Office at Wash
ington. So it goes on year after year.
On one occasion one of the letters was
returned to this city from the dead letter
Office, because it contained some triAe
of lace, which the department was desir-
Gus should be returned to the writer.
The letter was signed simply "Emeline. y
This name was entered on the list, but
no one ever claimed the letter or the
bits of lace. Another strange feature
of this is that the oldest inhabitant
has never heard of any man of the name
the letters bear, and so the whole mat
ter remains mystery.-lNamch. Union.
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o, who can hold fire in his hand
By thinking on a frosty Caucasus
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare Imagination of feast ?
Or wallow naked in December snow,
By thinking on fantastic Summers heat.
o. no the apprehension of the good
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.
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Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious Jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt
Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good i'll everything.
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The prophecy had come trne.


A DRUNKARD's WARNING-A young
man entered the bar-room of village
tavern, and called for a drink. mo"
said the landlord, ''you have had too
much already. You have had delirium
tremens once, and [ cannot sell you any
more" He stepped aside to make room
for couple of young men who had just
entered, and the landlord waited upon
them very politely. The other had
stood by silent and sullen, and when
they had finished he walked up to the
landlord, and thus addressed him: "Six
years ago, at their age, stood where
those young men now are, / was man
with fair prospects. Now, at the age of
twenty eight. ] am wreck, body and
mind. You led me to drink. In this
room formed the habit that has been
my ruin. Now sell me few glasses
more, and your work will be done! |
shall soon be out of the way; there is
no hope for me. But they can be saw
ed; they may be men again. Do sell it
to me, and let me die. and the world
will be rid of me; but for Heaven S
sake sell no more to them !" The land
lord listened, pale and trembling. Set
ting down his decanter, he exclaimed,
"God helping me, that is the last drop
l will ever sell to any one!'' And he
kept his word.
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8. STANF0RD.

TIME SAME OLD CHAP AS EVER always on
Il Hand at his Post of Trade where Every man
Loves to Trade for Goods in his ne such as HARNESS
and Tinware Livery Stable and Groceries Vctuases
at his House, and Clipper scythes with other Eatables
and good place for travellers horses at his barn.
Irasburgh, VT 2-24
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Cra@tordsuiue, May 80.
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IRASBURGH.

DRoPRIEToR IRAsBURGH HOUSE, Irasburgh,
i VT good Livery in connection with the
House. Stage leaves for Barton Landing Depot twice
Ia day. 2-24o
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w. L.. RUSSELL,
DEALER IN DRUGS, Medicines, Dye stuffs Sta
IL tioneTy, Blank Books, Candies Cigars, Tobacco,
Toilet Soap, Fancy Articles, and all the Popular Patent
Medicines, Irasburgh, Vt. Also Pure Wines and Lilo.
uors for Medical and Mechanical purposes. 2-24o
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OAINTER. Painting, Glazing, Graining. White
washing and Paper Hanging. All work done in
best style and satisfaction guaranteed Saws filed
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E.G. STEVENS,
\ URGEON DENTIST. At Little's Hotel in Barton
b Village every Wednesday. Barton Landing, vt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-11-12

NETTING OF TIE MISREPRESENTATION or THE
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
The Directors of the New-YOrk Bridge Com
p,ny held meeting al their office III Brooklyn yester
day afternoon. There were present the President T.
Robinson, Controller Schroeder, Auditor shaurman'
Mayor Powell, and Messrs. McCue, Kingsley sTanahan,
Murphy Van Anden. Prentice. and Wheeler The Treas
urer's report, giving statement OF receipts aud ex-
penditures to Nov. 1, 1873, was read, showing a
balance on hand OF ssis2I 81. distributed as fol-
lows: In the Atlantic state Bank, s2692 p; IN the
Long Island Bank s.l51 % petty cash, ST7 81 New
York City per cent bonds $4,000 The reports Oh the
Finance Committee Oct and Nov testifying 20
the OF the books and vouchers. were read
Both Of these reports were signed by Messrs Schroeder
and Wheeler OF the Committee and in that Of Oct they
comp OF the absence Of the other three members
and asked that their places might be ed by those who
would attend their duty The three members referred
to are Controller Green. w. H. Vanderbilt, and exCly
Treasurer 5prague. Letters were read from samuel
McLane aud VIM. w. Goodrich, rendering their res!gna
ton Directors. Mr. Schroeder then said that
he thought 1t would be well to have an
estimate Of the cost OF the right of way and the
structure OF the approaches 70 the bridge particularly
on the NewYork side Senator Murphy tnougn. al ISL
mind. There great misconceptions AS 10 tue cost
Of the bridge. He had made an estimate nseL, Win
great deal OF care, and thought SOOV9 more wOulu
complete IL, making s19,0J,0O0 In all Judge meCue
thought that they should nrst adopt plan for me
bridge and Senator Murphy OF the opinion tnat a
strip OF land the width OF the bridge would Dc suolen
Mr. Kingsley said 1t had been suggested by people
owning property along the line tnAt enough
land be taken to make an avenue on each
side Of the bridge They would expect to pay an assess
ment for the benefit. He thought these people shod
be consulted. After some further discussion IL was
moved that the Executive Committee report upon this
subject at the next meeting, and tho motion was
adopted The matter OF the delpqueDt stockholders
was brought up and il stated that notices had been
served on Hugh Smith and VIM. NJ Tweed' Dut they nau
made no response sgeeny was abroad, though ex
pected home every day. COnnolys Thereabout could
NOT be cd Nnf "a
to reduce the Commttee on Finance from i've ~ three
men
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-11-12
TIP GORDON MURDER TRIAL.

BELFAST, Me-, Nov. 1.-THE Gordon murder
trial was resumed this afternoon. Eden A. Ward. a
hired man and inmate Of the house where the murder
took place testified that the prisoner retired alone early
in the evening before the deed was committed at about
O'Clock witness awakened by the cries OF children.
and discovered that the house IRE; he alarmed
The ne,phborhood and the flames we're exlinguished
Without much damage; bloody axe was found at the
entrnnce OF the room where the victims slept When
the prisoner was first ~ the street he requested
wltaess 10 assist in clearing the house' and few
articles were removed the mingled bodies we're then
discovered by Witness and dragged out OF the burning
bed the prisoner assisted Ia pumping water and upon
inqUrng for his brother and wie aus wefd that tney
we're burninr mn: he appeared excited. and acted
strangely Under objection witness teSiied tnat dog
which belonged ~ the murdered man. ana ~hcn -
aecustoned 10 bArk al strangers made hes3. After
ctosSeKauiastOn vi tho Eitn>Ss. ms S'JFs ah'Hh'1
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A CUFRRY-sT. HOMICIDE.

Coroner Young held an official investIga-
ton yesterday, in the of Michael Calyey VINO WI"
stabbed fatally IN the breast while standing in Cherry
st ON the night OF Oct 49, by James Cahi Mary Cal
vey of No At Gold ST. Brooklyn. sister Of the deceased
testified that he left home at o'clock on the evening
he stabbed TO bring groceries from se"loA'
he was quiet peaceabe man, who never lost any ume
from his work he was entirely sober when he LEFT home
Eliza Murphy Of No. 10 Hamlton-st depoSed to meet
ing the deceased in the liquor shop of Branngan AZ No
81 Cherryst between and o'clock on the ngh' OIL the
crime deceased was going CUT OF the saloon Win her
when they met the prisoner standing outside CaVey
said That's the man who struck me" upon which me
prisoner who was slightly drunk drew KNIFE inu
rshed after the deceased chasing him TO the middle OF
the street and stabbing him in the breast ,,, =.
John Cain Of No l39 Thrdst., BROOKLYN testineL tnd
coming out OF the shop he saw Cah! at Ire aoor
witness asked him II any had struck hin ana ANN
said Yes that man ia there struck me pointing 70
Cavey and I'm going 10 cut him when ne Comes ou,i
and Can showed an open pocket knife eencheh IN MS
hand touching its point the breast OF thc wtnss-
The jury promptly found verdict that cale
10 ms death at the hands Of Cah ana the AFTER was
committed 10 the Fombs to await the hCbiOh "a e"o
Grand Jury, the Coroner refusing TO receive pau
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ton District OF the WITH Assembly District notice OF
protest entered behalf of Charles Riley candi-
date for Assembyman. Incomplete returns in two OF
the districts in this Assembly District were referred to
the inspectors, who were sent for.
Supervisors Vance, Flanagan, Monheiner. Morris and
Reilly we're appointed the Committee on Protests.
motion to appoint a committee OF three, the men,
bers OF which should supervise the correction OF returns
by inspectors was lost and referring this duty 10
the Committee on Protests was carried.
protest from Timothy J. Domaine. inspector in the
With Election District OF the lid Assembly District,
was received against the returns of that district He
alleges that they unfairly canvassed. and not in
accordance with the election law that ballots were
swept from the table, and called that were not
printed written or pasted the same He protested
at the tme and before the conclusion OF the canvass
was removed from the polls by officer. The matter
was referred TO the Committee.
BY resolution IL was agreed that the Board will to-day
canvass the returns from the ld Yth YIth XIYh, and
XVIII Assembly Districts.
The In two three of the districts OF the I'D
Assembly District were found Incomplete so beyond
the LIST Assembly District the Official count cannot be
given. This was as follows:
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