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fully corroborated by his (Sherm's) bar.
keeper, who had known the young man
for years.
While Mr.. Kelly was on the way from
the undertaken 's-where he ordered mag
nificent metallic casket-4to Sherm's, a
strange scene was being enacted at the lat
ter place. Crouched in corner, with
bristling hair and bloodless face, the bar
keeper who, before the Coroner so posi-
lively identified the body of his friend and
acquaintance, Kelly, with eyes distended
with horror, gazed in speechless agony at
the apparition before him-that of young
Kelly entering the door as last seen alive.
BY supreme effort the barkeeper recov-
cred himself sufficiently to dart out of the
room, leaving the ghostly visitant the sole
occupant. To Sherm the barkeeper i'm
parted the strange story but the latter had
courage enough to enter the bar-room, and
there beheld not the ghost of young Kelly,
but that youth himself, wearing a most
sheepish air, but making desperate effort
to look iaunty, in which, remembering
his board bill in arrears, he utterly failed.
AT this juncture Mr.. Kelly, Sr., ap-
peared, and not recognizing the youth be-
fore him as his lost son, was introduced.
The bliss that filed the fathers heart was
almost more than he could bear, and he
literally wept for joy. When he had
somewhat recovered his composure he be-
sought his wayward son to go home with
him to st. Louis to gladden. the hearts of
his mother, and brothers, and sisters, who
wept him as dead, but young Kelly was
bent upon remaining in Chicago. Instead
of investing in $3.50 coffin the father
paid the sons board bill and gave him
$50 in cash.
The mysterious feature of the affair is,
that the barkeeper, who had known young
Kelly for years, seeing him daily, was so
certain that the corpse at the Morgue was
that of Kelly, that even now it is impossi.
bic for him to convince himself that il
was otherwise, and even yet he quivers as
though before visitant of the spirit
world whenever in the presence of that
young man. Sherm, too, was equally GER
tain of the identity of the corpse at the
Morgue, as was Mr.. Kelly senior, the
points of resemblance in features, size,
color of hair and eyes, and even minute
particulars. The question now is, who
was the suicide thus identified as young
| Kelly's.-Chicdgo InteF-Ocedn,
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seemed no hope now, Death was before
and behind her, hemming her on both
sides.
The lion paused as she turned toward
him. lie uttered growl of triumph, and
crouched for the fatal spring.
The lady strained her child closer to
her breast To descend the dark depths
Of the chasm was preferable to being torn
by that savage monster. There was no
time to lose. In another moment the
tawny body must come swooping down
upon her.
But now a quick, wild thought--a
mothers nspiration-1ashed through her
mind. Under the armpits she clasped the
child with each hand, and raised it high
above her head, so that the bleeding
scratches on its white flesh were fully eX-
posed to the lions view.
That sight reused to the full the uncon-
trollable desires of the savage beast. With
a smothered roar he shot up from the rock,
his huge form cleaving the air with one
tremendous bound for the child.
That was what Mrs. Benton had waited
for BY elevating her child, she had com
PEELED the lion to take a lofty leap; and
now, with her little one, she quickly sank
fiat on the rock, thus eluding the monster,
which, uttering one long, wild, terrible
roar, was carried head foremost, out of
sight for evermore, into the frightful
depths of the chasm.
Nearly senseless from the fatigue and
excitement she had undergone, Mrs. Ben
ton was soon after conveyed to the ship
by her rejoicing friends, who next day
| left far behind them the place of that eX
citing scene of mothers peril and time
| iy stratagem.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-20

trinity on the sled, be tugging brayely at
the strap. II was eight miles TO the little
cabin, but love made the journey short.
There the wedding was to take place, a
clergyman having promised to be in
waiting TO make them man and wife.
Unfortunately the clergyman was not
there and Susie was frightened and
ashamed. She wanted to 60 home. But
Henry, grieved at her distrust and yet
secretly pleased with her modesty, pro-
posed that until clergyman could bo
found the cabin should be divided by a
partition wall into two cabins, OF which
one should belong TO her and one to him.
To this she agreed, and the young man
went eleven miles through the snow after
the boards for the wall, dragging them
home on the sled which had just carried a
more lovely burden.
When the parents found their runaway
Gretchen IL was under these circumstan-
ces-she was keeping house by herself;
he living like bachelor, and bearing
himself in every way with a chivalrous
courtesy worthy of Henry Esmond him
self. The father and mother, notwith-
standing their grief ana anger, were
touched by the unconventional honor and
purity of the young people, and then
wisely concluding that the match was
made in heaven, gave their heartiest as
sent tO IT,
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Glove is Enough"

The New York EUeniag Post is respon-
sible for the following pretty story:
1t is profitable sometimes to be senti-
mental. Let us to-day remember that it
is spring time, however gloomy the
weather may be, and recount simple
love story.
Last summer a German boy and girl,
Henry and Susie, living in Minnesota, fell
in love with one another. Her family,
at first indifferent, early in the winter put
themselves in opposition to the mach.
But this Romeo was no drawing.room
lover. Desperately in earnest himself,
and confident of the fidelity of his Juliet,
he bravely went TO work to make a home
for her He already owned quarter-sec-
tion of land. Taking his AK he went to
his "estate" and there cut down trees and
hewed out logs enough to make a cabin,
which he'put up without help and fur
nished in rude but comfortable fashion.
This done he asked Susie TO come and be
his wife. She consented Unfortunately,
the young man had not yet set up his
carriage, and, since il was asunbecoming for
a bride 10 go on foot ahand-sled drawn
by the bridegroom, was pressed into
the service of the pair.
Thus they went forth in secresy TO theg
new home in the woodland, she ridinir
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-20

Assuring myself that nothing had been
overcharged or omitted from the bill,
cheerfully paid it and then asked the
amount due for my room. My genial
host replied that the first hour had been
charged up at the rate of six dollars an
hour, but that now the room was worth
eight dollars per hour, and he thought
there would be no further advance in
prices until sundown. Settling for my ac-
commodations to date l left the house,
and am now soiourning at the Grand
Hotel de l. Europe-St. Joseph Strasse-a
smaller house than the Arch Duke Charles
Grand Hotel, and where the prices are yet
moderate.
Very many Americans are here, with
their families-men of wealth at home,
and who never travel without ample funds;
yet who, by the sudden and unexpected
rise in prices, have become, in vulgar
parlance, strapped" and are now fairly
suffering for the necessaries of life, await
ing the arrival of letters of credit from
home. One family, by the name of De
Slimmens, from New York, closely con-
nected with the Oldest Knickerbocker
families, and possessing millions, have ex-
cited much sympathy ffom their country
men by reason of their temporary power
ty. The family, in fact, are entirely broken
| up, and are living in suite of dry-goods
boxes and discarded beer-tubs in the out
skirts of the city, and do their own cook
| ing in cast-iron kettle over an outdoor
fire De Slimmens ekes out miserable
| existence by vanishing pretzels at the
Royal Pretzel factory, while his accom-
| plished wife is superintendent of the fla
v)ring department in a Limburger- cheese
mill. The two daughters, through the in
fluence of noble friends, have been APP
pointed to positions in the kaiser's house
| hold, where their duties consist in keep
ing the imperial cats from sleeping on the
bread when the latter is "rising" in the
imperial kitchen. A month, however,
will materially change the social condi.
ton of the De Slimmens, and | merely
mention this that my countrymen may
provide themselves against similar trou-
| bles.
In conclusion | would state that there
are places in the city and its envirOns
where moderately wealthy visitors can
live and not subject themselves to bank
ruptcy. For instance, good rooms just
vacated by death of cholera patients can
be had for dollar day, and many En-.
glish visitors are taking their chances in
these quarters. The cholera may prevent
many from coming here during the sum
mer months, but to those already on the
ground it is a welcome guest, as affording
the only means of liquidating their hotel
bills and getting out of the city VienhO
Cor. 50. Louis Democrat.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-20
Singular Wagers.

THE passion of man for games of hazard
is almost universal, and finds expression
in the most reckless, singular, comical,
and not unfrequently silly wagers. A story
is told of well-known sporting character
in New York who was very low with fe-
yer. The doctor was standing by his bed
side watching the hickering pulse, and
solemnly remarked to the weeping friends
that he would hardly live an hour, when
the dying man opened his eyes, the pas
sion of his life asserted itself even under
the shadows of death, and feebly whisper.
ed his challenge to the physician "I'll
bet you an even fifty that I'll live an hour
and a quarter"
Hardly less curious and better authenti.
Gated instances of singular wagers can be
given. In 1855 gentleman in New York
made bet of $4,000 against $25 that his
opponent could not throw three skies OF
dice twenty times in succession. He
threw them eleven times, and was offered
81 900 to withdraw, refused it, and missed
on the twelfth throw. About the yeaI
1720 Lord Mountfort and Sir John Bland
staked twenty guineas a side upon the
lives of two men then in public, life the
former backing Beau Nash to outlive Col.
ley Cibber, the comedian. The latter liv.
ed TO 1857 and Beau Nash till 1851. A
quarter of century before the principals
of the wager had each died by suicide; but
the stakes were paid over to the heirs OF
the winner.
About the year 1900, when internal ma
chimes, poisoned food, explosive grenades
and other assassination plots seemed to
render the death of Napoleon almost q
certainty, a party of English gentlemen
met at the house of Sir Mark Sykes, and
the conversation turned upon the probabil
tiles of his speedy death, which some Of
the company secuted as improbable. SiI
Mark, on the contrary, believed his early
death almost certain, and finally offered
if any one would give him one hundred
guineas to pay one guinea day as long
as Napoleon lived The Rev. b. Gilbert
accepted the offer, paid his hundred
guineas, and for three years received the
guinea day, as stipulated. But after thai
time the baronet grew tired of the in
cessant drain, and refused to longer pay
An action was brought to recover, when
the court decided that as the wager
created an undue interest in the preserva
tion of the life of a public enemy, and or
the other hand held out a strong induce
ment to plot his assassination, it was
against public morals and therefore il
legal.
Wagers have also proved fatal some
times to the unconscious subjects of them
Sir Thomas Hoste of Ashton, riding home
from the chase one day with some friends
began boasting of the punctuality of hi
| cook, and was so extravagant in ispraisI
that some one proposed to bet fifty pounds
that he would not have the meal ready t.
serve when they arrived. Sir Thomas
greedily took the bet but on arriving HON,
was chagrined to find that for the frs
time in his life the cook was behind tim,
with his dinner. The baronet was so en-
ragged by the jeers of his friends that h
made his way to the kitchen, seized tn
cleaver, which was lying upon the table
and with one blow killed his unhapp,
servant
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-20
THE NEW MORLn.

Gold closed in New York on the 18th at l171l
@ll716.
President Grant and his family and General
Babcock left Washington on the 9th for Long
Branch.
Wright, the Washington murderer, who was
to have been hanged ON Decoration Day, but
was respited out Of respect to its eommemora-
tive character, was executed ON the 9th.
Hon. John Printiss, the Oldest printer and
newspaper publisher in New England, and per-
haps in the United States, died at Keene, N,
H., on the 9th, in the Goth year OF his age. He
established the Mem H0n.pshiys Ssatinel in
l70o, and conducted II for forty-nine years
A report was sent from New York on the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-20

rier arising out Of the wonderful DEVELOP
ment Of our agricultural resources, oil
our water advantages, both rivers an
canals must be utilized to their highest capacity;
and Uur railroad facilities largely Increased; and
that the question Of supply and demand regulates
prices othet things being equal
ecmbly he reoucsted to pass law defining and lin
idng the power OF the Courts Of this state TO push
for contempt Of Court
Also, resolutions favoring temperance, the
public schools and the encouragement of agri'
culture and the mechanic arts, and eondemning
the salary grab and the new Postal law
The cholera was thought to be abating al
Memphis on the 18th. There were nineteen In
terments, against twentY.four the day before.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-20

1t is expensive to trife with life and
property on railroads in England. A re-
cent report made to the House of Lords
shows that, from 1867 to 1871, over eight
million dollars in gold was paid by rail
road companies for injuries inflicted on
passengers, and during the same period
$11 ,742,S $40 was paid for compensation on
account of property destroyed. The total
aggregate would be considerably in excess
of twenty million dollars in our currency,
This is large sum, and, added to the
amount of human suffering caused by
railway accident, ought to be sufficient TO
set directors and stockholders to thinking
about preventive measures. If itdoes not,
the law should be allowed to double the
amount of damages.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-20
Miscellaneous Reading.
TIE TWO TRAVELBRs AND THE
OYSTER.

Two TRAVELLERS. in times Of yorc,
Passed near the sea one day,
And saw by chance where on the shore
A stranded oyster lay.
To seize II one directly iran,
And all his muscles strained,
But past him pushed the other man,
And 80 the prize obtained.
"The Ash Is mine" the other criedi
II saw Il first, I'd swear"
"Before YOU saw, his friend replied,
~ smelt 1t lying there"
'sIhen with the smell remain content,
And Weld the taste 10 me.
Aud thus they wrangled as they went
Whose should the oyster be.
But mid their strife, at length they spied
A stranger drawing near,
OF aspect grave and dignihed
As Of a Judge severe
TO him the quarrel they referred,
Aud stated each his claim,
Which patiently enough was heard,
And then the Judgment came.
lie took the oyster in his hand,
And opened IL with care;
While both his face intently scanned
To read his purpose there.
Then much, ween, to their surprise,
Ere they had seen It well,
He ate the fish before their eyes,
And handed each shell.
"This judgment doth the court award"
lie said with accent gay,
"And bids you live in good accOrd;"
Then wished the pair good day.
by litigation dispute
Grows oft from bad to worse;
The gold il swallowed in the suit;
You gain an empty purse.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-20

"A CARLOAD of live fish, consigned To
the California Fish Commission at San
Francisco, to stock the streams in that
State, was wrecked in Elkhorn River,
twenty miles west of Omaha, and the en-.
tire car of forty thousand trout, Holsters,
eels, etc, emptied into the stream. 1t is
said TO be the best stocked stream in Ne
braska at present. The cause of the acci-
dent was the wash-out Of the bridge of the
Union Pacific Railway.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-20
Hotel Living at Vienna.

A FEW days since l applied for apart.
ments and board for the season at the
Grand Hotel, and was informed that |
could be accommodated, but that my bill
would be rendered every hour during the
day time, and three times during the
night, and that this was necessary in order
to enable the landlord to take advantage
of all "rushes," and raise his prices hour.
ly if he thought best. Though it was
somewhat annoying to accept these terms,
| was forced to do So and after placing
1900 in letters Of credit in the hands OF
the landlord, signed contract not to
climb out of my chamber window at night,
nor steal the soap or towels. This last
clause came near giving me offense, as
have heretofore confined my depredations
on landlords to destroying live stock in
hotels, but when the landlord showed me
where Bayard Taylor, Bull Run Russell,
and other newspaper correspondents So
journing here had given similar bonds
not to pilfer, | was satisfied, and was i'm
mediately shown in to dinner.
The table d'hote was firstclass, and as
| ran my eye down the bill of fare, that in
| expressible feeling of comfort came over
me that only hungry man knows when
the facilities for filling the aching void
| beneath his vest are near at hand.
AS is my usual custom, commenced
in the middle of the bill of fare and began
advancing simultaneously in each direc-
ton toward the extreme flanks, which
were guarded, as in America, by soups
and fruits. Hardly had commenced eat
ing my dinner however, when waiter
approached, and, slipping card in my
hand, placed his hand upon the back OF
my chair as if to draw it from beneath
me. l glanced at the card, which read as
| follows
| DEAR SR--Owing to fresh influx of foreign
guests and an vance in the price Of potatoes in Ire
| land the proprietor Of the Grand Hotel Is obliged
to announce that 80 per cent has been added to the
prices upon the bill Of fare since you commenced
| to eat Should you desire to complete your dinner
at the new schedule of prices, retain your seat and
wink at the waiter, who will notify the cashier. n
B.-American guests are informed that there Is NO
increase in the price of custard pie which will be
furnished at the old rate of one tbaler apiece ten
| kreutzers additional il the pie was baked in q
square tin and the guest has the corner section.
OF course l finished my dinner, after
which retired to my room to enjoy a
cigar, but hardly had the smoke of the
burning Havana curled above my head
when a rap sounded upon the door, fol
lowed by the horizontally elongated coun
tenance of the landlord, with the bill OF
my dinner, which was as follows: | give
- = H..
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-20

A DETROIT woman called upon cred
ulous familyin that city the other day, in
troduced herself and began conversa-
tion. Suddenly she fell out of her chair,
very sick and feeble, and family said that
she had no money and could not go to the
hospital, and they would have to keep her
through the run of the fever. They gave
her three dollars to crawl out and try to
reach the hospital, and she has new blue
aaoh
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-20
Advice to Travellers.

WALKING brings out the true character
of man. The devil never yet asked his
victims to take walk with him. You
will not be long in finding your compan-
ion out All disguises will fall away
from him. AS his pores open his charac-
ter is laid bare. His deepest and most
private self will come to the top. 1t mat
ters little whom you ride with, so he be
not pickpocket; for both of you will,
very likely, settle down closer and tirmer
in your reserve, shaken down like meas
ure OF corn by the jolting as the journey
proceeds. But walking is a more vital CO.
partnership; the relation is a closer and
sympathetic one, and you do not feel like
walking ten PAGES with stranger without
speaking to him.
Hence the fastidiousness of the protes-
sional walker in choosing or admitting a
companion, and hence the truth of re-
mark of Emerson, that you will generally
fare better to take your dog than to invite
your neighbor. Your cur-dog is true
pedestrian and your neighbor is very like
ly small politician. The dog enters
| thoroughly into the spirit of the enter
prise; he is not indifferent OF preoccupied +;
he is constantly shifting adventure, laps at
every spring, looks upon every field and
wood as a new world to be explored, is
ever on some fresh trail, knows something
important will happen a little further on,
gazes with the true wonder-seeing eyes,
whatever the spot or whatever the road, ,
! finds it good to be therein short, is just
that happy, delicious, exclusive vagabond
that touches one at so many points, and
whose human prototype in companion
robs miles and leagues of half their fatigue
June GdldrH
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-20

We imported from Great Britain, du.
ring the first two months of this year,
90, 1888 tons of railroad bars, while during
the same period last year we received
14l, ,56l tons. The great strike in South
Wales was the main cause of the falling
OFF in this years imports.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-20

1t will save young men and women de-
sirous of serving the Government, good
deal of needless expense to remember that
passing successful examination for an
office does not secure the appointment.
There are numerous candidates for all va
cancies; often eight or ten times as many
applicants as offices. While many are
excluded by the examination as incompe-
tent, there are still many more who are
Recently a lady was desired in the Post
office Department in Washington, and
forty young women appeared from differ
ent parts of the country, each one suppos-
ing, if she passed successfully, the place
was secure. But nearly all passed; hence,
all but one, even of the uccessfOl-thirty-
nine disappointed young women-paid car
fares, hack fares, hotel fares, and then re-
turned home, sad but wiser.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-20

To PREVENT illegal voting, the Consti-
tutional Convention Of Pennsylvania has
adopted provision which requires that
each ballot cast shall be numbered in the
order of its reception, and each voter, If
he pleases, may as an additional safe
guard write his name on the back Of the
hallOt
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-20

WITHIN week after the commission Of
his offense, a New York burglar, who was
caught by one of the ladies of a house he
had entered after he had fired two shots at
her, has been sentenced to thirty years.
imprisonment .as
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-06-20

LARGE crops are predicted for Kansas.
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SEE, in another column, the advertise
ment headed ~ pW help any man."