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MARRIAGE

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Marriage, being aware OF PhySIeSi TsIEiaauhR
organic debility, detormlIes, speedily ~
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J., may rehqiouRly conade In bis bono D,
tlem9n, and confidently rely upon hi III \. -
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-02-26

X Fine SINGLE HARNESS from S2s
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The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-02-26
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Catarrh, Consumption, and
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lmmedat relief and o permanent cure guarsn
teed in ever case. Particulars sent free. Addre.s
CLINTON N MEDICAL INSTITUTE, LAT East 1sta
Street. New York.
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CHAPTER Xxx.

Two months elapsed, and was still an in
valid. The shock my nerves sustained that
night proved to be more serious than We at
first suspected. I think it was as much my
mind as my body which was affected could
not divest myself of the idea that, perhaps, |
had committed murder. The man who was
shot was evidently badly hurt; and though 1
could not blame myself for what had done,
l knew if heard of his death, I should never
forgive myself: My intention, in firing the
gun, was only to alarm them; and l was as
much surprised as they must have been at the
result of my first experience with fire arms.
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S.. O.. THURSDAY, JUNE 90, 1873.

behavior you ever saw in your life, on this
occasion, his was the most odd and the more
he fretted and fumed, the more I laughed.
Then we got to quarreling, and that just end
ed the whole affair. But it was the piece OF
blue ribbon that started US. J should have
been old Mrs. Iverson,' now, if it had not
been for that"
81 don't think either of you could have
loved each other much, aunty, if you let such
little thing as that break off your engage
ment."
"That's the truth! No better sign in the
world that ours was not true love. 1t takes
more than piece of blue ribbon to end that,
Matte. But am too old to be sitting up at
this time of night, talking about love. Good
night, child. hope you may have pleasant
Dreams"
could not sleep after aunt Patsy left me.
Her remark about true love had set me to
thinking. Was the love that could last un-
changed in intensity, through years Of separa-
ton, the "true love?" I believed it was.
Since had been for months on a bed Of sick
ness, with opportunity to think over my past,
life seemed to have another meaning. l be-
lieve that We are often the creators of our un-
happiness.
It was the want of perfect trust and conf
dence in his love, that had made me send him
from me. How much better it would have
been had 1 acted as my heart prompted. Is
it for our good or otherwise, that there is no
recalling the past? If I could only have
lived over those few, short, happy years again,
1 would not have been lying there, unloved
and uncared for. could not say that, but
there was an aching void in my heart which
nothing but his presence could ell.
had not heard from Owen Morris since l
sent him my mothers will, and this anxiety
the fear that my letter might not have reached
him-was added to the many already had.
was still awake when Mary and Nellie
returned. heard them step softly by my
door, so as not to disturb me, and I heard
their smothered laughter at a speech from
Nellie, and then-all was still again, and l
was soon the only watcher in the old Elm
wood house.
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thought you had joined the sisterhood, too;
but suppose you had not the moral courage
to endure being called an old Maid.'"
81 must say, Miss Patsy, your reason for
my committing matrimony is not very Aatter-
ing. Doyou mean to insinuate the little blind
god had nothing to do with my selecting Mr..
Howard p
"Perhaps he had; but love and marriage
are not now, what they we're in my day. l
hope you may be as happy as you expect"
"And as I cannot be present at the cere-
mony," said l, "you must now accept my con-
graduation for Mr.. Howard and yourself. l
hope you may both be very happy"
"Thank you, Matte; but must 60, as
have several other visits to make" And thus
Henrietta Lewis took leave of the Elmwood
house her plans for creating mischief frus'
trated-at least for the present.
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posite President Washington, she being the
handsomest matron in the assembly and next
to him, on the right, he placed Miss Claudia
Smith, belle of the period, whose wit and
sociable qualities were greatly admired, thus
iudiciously enhancing all the pleasures OF the
entertainment. Gen. Washington, at night,
opened the ball with this lady, Miss Smith,
dancing minuet with her.
The statehouse in Charleston having been
burnt, the Legislature, in the spring OF l7o6,
met in the hall of the custom house, which
was plainly fitted up in haste for the occasion.
The question of removing the seat OF govern
ment to central position in the State was
there discussed, and Columbia was finally de-
termined on, A contention arose among the
many who owned land in the interior, each
insisting that his land was the best situated
for the purpose In the discussion persona!
dispute arose between General Sumter and
Commodore Gillon. Without a message or
preconcert each came, the next morning, into
the house, armed with small sword. This
was observed by the other members. Here
we're two game cocks, gated and pitted; had
either of them crowed, the other would proba-
bly have struck, and bloodshed ensued. One
of the members, said to be Edward Rutledge,
brought the occurrence to the notice of the
house in soothing address, and compliment
ed the established reputation of those two
gentlemen for patriotism and valor; showed
them that no imputation could tarnish their
characters, and that hasty expressions in de-
bate should not be considered serious by two
such gentlemen. He hoped the house would
interpose and reconcile the differences between
them. The speaker first addressed the parties
and then the house the dispute was settled.
"a, In 1887, Commodore Gillon became Wild
over, Mrs. Gillon having died at their country
seat on Ashley river. After this he sold the
place and settled on Congaree river, naming
his new residence Gilfon's Retreat He en-
bellished it with his usual taste and elegance,
and formed several beautiful avenues, radia-
ting from the front of his hospitable mansion.
In 1889, he married Miss Ann Purcell,
daughter of Rev. DR.. Henry Purcell, rector of
St. Michael's Church, in Charleston. He con.
tiDued to live at this delightful establishment
in his usual expensive style, and wasstiil con-
sidered very rich man. Here he had fam
lily of three children-a son named after him,
and two daughters. Here, also, he died in
1874, in the fifty y.third year of his age; short
ly after which his widow, finding his estate
embarrassed, gave up the property and re.
moved to Charleston She subsequently re-
moved to Connecticnty and died in 1874, in
Titchfeld .., .itR7,,s-u;.s,g.r' ~.
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SEWING ON BUTTONS.

1t is bad enough, says the Danbury Ne,us,
to see bachelor sew on q button, but he Is
the embodiment Of grace alongside of a mar.
ried man. Necessity has compelled expert
ence in the case of the former, but the latter
has always depended upon some one else for
this service, and fortunately for the sake of
society, it is rarely he is obliged to resort to
the needle himself Sometimes the patient
wife scalds her right hand, or runs silver un-
der the nail of the index finger of that hand,
and it is then that the man clutches the nee
die around the neck, and forgetting to tie
knot in the thread commences to put on the
button. It is always in the morning, and
from FIVE to twenty minutes after. he is expec.
ted to be down street. He lays the button
exactly on the site of its predecessor, and
pushes the needle through the eye, and care
fully draws the thread after, leaving about
three inches of it sticking up for lee way. He
says to himself, "Well, if women don't have
the easiest time I ever did see." Then he
comes back the other way, and gets the nee
die through the cloth well enough, and lays
himself out to find the eye, but in spite of a
great deal of patient jabbing, the needle point
persists in bucking against the solid parts of
that button, and finally, when he loses pa
tience, his finger catches the thread, and that
three inches he had left to hold the button
slips through the eye in twinkling, and the
button rolls leisurely across the floor.
He picks it up without single remark, out
of respect for his children, and makes another
attempt to fasten it. This time, when coming
back with the needle, he keeps both the thread
and the button from slipping by covering
them with his thumb, and it is out Of regard
for that part of him that he feels around for
the eye in very careful and judicious man.
ner, but eventually losing his philosophy, as
the search becomes more and more hopeless,
he falls jabbing about in a loose and savage
manner, and it is just then the needle finds
the opening, and comes UP through the but
ton and part way through his thumb with
celerity that no human ingenuity can guard
against. Then he lays down the things, with
few familiar quotations, and presses the in
jured hand between his knees, and then holds
it under the other arm, and finally jams it in
to his mouth, and all the while he prances
about the floor and calls upon heaven and
earth to witness that there has never been
anything like it since the world vas created,
and howls and whistles. After awhile he
calms down, and puts on his pants, and fas-
tens them together with stick, and goes to
his business changed man.
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Written for the Yorkvillc Enquirer.
A.PARTING.
BY NELLY MARSHALL McAFEE.

BY NELLY MARSHALL McAFEE.
And didst thou mean those cruel words
That letter bore to me?-
That this dear love We treasured so
"Must be a Memory ?'-
That thro' the weary lapse Of life
Thro' long and dreary years
It's grave alone shall be my own, ...
Kept green by constant tears?
And are we bound to rend the ties
That link us heart to heart,
And turning from each cherished face
To always walk apart?
Are our two lives but parallels
That cannot, must not, meet?
And is the thorny path alone
Now opened for our feet?
And wilt thou close thy heart and home
Against thy love forever?
And, seeking foreign seas and strands,
Strive every link to sever?
All! canst thou hope thus to destroy
A love not of this earth?-
A love that in Gods courts above
Alone could claim birth?
o dearest, fondest, truest, best,
Thou canst not exile me!
Thou canst not bid my heart forget,
Nor make "Love"-"Memory!'
For there are hours, and there are days,
That "were not born to die ~
Low, tender words and winsome ways,
Whose sounds must live for aye!
And tho while shines the monday sun,
The phantoms disappear,
When fall the shades of gloomy night,
To both they will be near!
And tho we laugh and careless seem,
When daylight round us beams,
Doubt not our hearts will be avenged,
When we are bound in dreams: -
But if this parting is decreed,
And we no more may meet,
Thy life from mine is henceforth freed
My misery g complete!
But in thy going, may God bless
That life forever more,
And crown it with pure happiness
That mine can know no more!
And so, farewell, Beloved one,
For aye-and aye-and aye!
Though meeting not on earth again
Let years 60 slow or fly
There comes time, happy time,
To ALTO you-to me
When we can meet, no more to part,
Thro' all Eternity!
Hd,rodS6urg, KY, 1873.
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A MONTANA Posi- OFFIcE.-A special
agent of the post Office department is reported
to have had an amusing experience while
making his official visit of inspection at Iron
Rod Going into the post Office, be found the
room divided into three different sections
first saloon, next the post Office, and the last
faro bank. The mail bag was brought in.
A rough-looking customer opened it, and
emptied the contents on the floor. The entire
crowd got,down on their hands and knees,
and commenced overhauling the letters,
among which several were registered, and &C.
lected such as they wanted. After they were
through, the remaining letters were shoveled
into candle box and placed on the bar. The
special agent thinking the Office needed little
regulating, asked the bartender, who had re-
ceived and distributed the mail, if he was the
post master. He answered, mo" "Are you
the assistant postmaster" "No." "Where
is the postmaster "Out mining" "Where
is the assistant postmaster ?" "Gone to Hell's
Canon, and, by thunder, Bill Jones has got to
run this post Office next week it's his turn"
The Government official then asked who he
was, and demanded the keys of the Office.
The bartender coolly took the candle box
from the bar, put it on the floor and gave it
a kick, sending it out Of the door, saying:
"There is your post Office, and now git" The
agent says: knowing the customs of the
country, l lost no time in following this ad-
vice, and got" That office was discontinued.
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TINE FOR PRuN1NG.-In 1866 I had a
young orchard that began to prune in Feb
ruary, and continued at intervals until Au-
gust, and those pruned in June did better,
healed over sooner, than any pruned either
before or after that period. In 1871 I began
to renovate an orchard ten years old, that had
been trained according to the absurd fashion
of low heads which prevailed at that time: 1t
took great deal of cutting and trimming,
but was determined, and persevered; the re-
suit was thatevery wound made in June-the
time, the work was done-began at once to
heal over, and by the time growth stopped in
the fall every place where branch had been
cut off had beautiful ring of new bark and
wood, of from one-third to one-half inch in
width all around it, and still they are doing
well-Cor. Gardeners Monthly.
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Written for the Yorkville Enquirer.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-09-18

SERIOUS ACcIDENT.-The inmates
of Mrs. rroxler's lodging house, on
Commercial street, were suddenly
aroused before daylight last Monday
morning by the report of a fre-arm
discharged in one of the sleeping
apartments of the house. and the
alarm was augmented by the discov-
cry that ledger named Allender
had been struck in the back of the
neck and severely wounded. 1t was
found that G. F. Grafton, the occu-
pant of the room adjoining that of
the wounded man, had been attempt
ing to crafty a morbid curiosity re-
gsrding the intricate construction of
. big pistol-or mountain howitzer
that had lately come into his pos
session, by pulling back the hammer
and squirting down the touch-hole.
Whilst thus laudably engaged in the
pursuit of knowledge the ordnance
was discharged, the ball passing
through the partition which devides
the rooms. striking Allender, as
stated, just missing the jugular vein.
The wounded man was carried to the
County Hospital and has received
every attention from DIR. Meigs,
County Physician.-Eko Mdepen-
dent Sep. 10.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-09-18

THE QUAKERIsM of the City OF
Brotherly Love in asserting itself
again, after a long season of semi
worldIiness and relapse into the
ways of the profane. No more may
the soft-eyed youth from classic
Italia's dreamy shores thrum the
sweaty tambourine nor jerk the soul
of ready made music from the bowels
of the Darrell organ. Severity and
the rebuking head shake of a voice
less religion have prevailed against
these troubadors, and silence reigns
in the solemn streets of the repurifed
city. "Orders" says the telegraph,
''have been issued commanding Do
lice to arrest as Migrants all boys
found in the streets playing on mu-
steal instruments" Philadelphia, it
Is painfully evident, hath nc car for
music.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-09-18

GEoRGIANA SYPHERs. q woman of
the town, testified as follows in the
trial of Nc Kinney for the murder
of Morgan Courtney at Phoebe. We
quote from the Record:
I knew Morgan Courtney and the
defendant. 1 had a conversation
with the defendant about Mr.. Court
ney while the latter was living. On
the evening of the shooting at about
half-past seven o'clock, I had very
little conversation with Mr.. McKin-
ney 1 also saw him in the morning.
1 had promised to go to Mr.. McKin-
ney's room in the evening ; he asked
me why I didn't come, and said it
was because l was afraid of Mr.. Court
ney. As l arose to leave the room, I
think well know-tho remark he
made was that he would win .,,v
i''''''' WI" VIZ. ...e white headed son of a
b-worse than ever had his, before
1 would be with him again. 1 had
heard defendant speak of Mr.. Court
ney several times before that he al
ways spoke of him as of one he dis
liked very much. He (defendant)
had before given me evidence of his
dislike by words. He said he hated
him because other people feared
him. This was possibly six weeks
before the difficulty. l saw that pis-
tol, or one like it, that night in the
hands of the defendant.
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TIE DYING STATEMENT Of Morgan
Courtney who was shot to death by one
Mckinney. now on trial for his life at
Phoebe, was submitted in evidence and
reads as follows. We quote from the
Record of the 18th:
/ think l am going to die. I was
walking down the street and Mckinney
shot me in the back / started to run in
order to get in place to defend myself,
bat he shot me SO fast that l could not
do any thing but run. l did not shoot
Mckinney at all. did not get my p;s-
toll out until he fred six shoots. Frank
Cleveland gave Mckinney pistol.
Georgia Syphers told me that yesterday.
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SETTLED.-Frank Tagliabue, Sup
erintendent of the Kentucky mine at
Pioch, passed through Eureka last
evening for San Francisco. He in
formed us that in compliance with
Geographic instructions from head
quarters he had suspended opera
tons on the Kentucky and paid of
all the men employed. This he as
sured us might be accepted as pref
tv GOOD indication of q settlement
between the Raymond & Ely and
Keutuckv.-Eurcka Sentinel Sept. Il.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-09-18
THE HAVANA FIRE.

OF the distressful confiagratior
which lately took place in the CITY
of Havana the telegraph furnishes
the following sad particulars:
| A letter from Havana, giving an &C
count of the great fire there. says
Tacon market, on the Plaza del Va
por, was an extensive building OF
masonry, forming a square of about
| 500 feet front on each side and two
stories in heigth, built in 1887 for
the general purposes of q market.
The immense court was filled with
booths, wooden sheds and other bull
dings, occupied by hu.ters and
butchers, while the lower floors of
the four sides of the building COM
prised a variety OF shops and stores
Of all descriptions. In the upper
stories lived the families of those
who had their business and callinSs
in the shops and stands of the plaza.
Under the arches Of the colonnade
which surrounded the buildings were
the stands and silver-plated showca-
ses of vendors of varities and dry
goods, diamonds. shoes, fancy goods,
ready made clothing, cigars and lot
terry tickets-in fact almost every
thing imaginable in the way of trade.
Over two thousand persons lived
within its precincts, and without es
timating the value of the building,
and its lucrative rental, the value of
the goods it contained is set down at
So, 600, 900. The fire was discovered
shortly after midnight in one of the
bodegas, and then it had spread to
the dry good store adjoining, and
such was the rapidity with which it
spread that two of the clerks who
slept over the latter store, unable
otherwise to escape, threw them
selves from the balcony to the
ground below. receiving injuries
from which one has since died. The
fire rapidly spread both right and
left, and at half past one the flames
both sides of the building,
and within four hours nothing re-
NAMED of the immense interest in
vested represented in the Plaza
del Vapor but the standing black |
ened walls. Since the fire was sub
lued parts of the walls have fallen
and inflicted death and serious
injury. The actual loss of life is not
known, but it is variously estimated
1t from twenty to fifty, while the po-
ice report only gives seven. The
oss of property has been variously
the lowest putting it down
It 5000, 900 and the highest at So,
,OO, 900.
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A FoRgER Observation-Disclosures
multitude of haggard murderers who
throng the Lincoln County Court, it
is soothing boon to contemplate the
cheerful face and engaging manner
of a delinquent whose crime rises no
higher than that perversion of the
photographic art which goes by the
suggestive literary name of forgery;
ind it is, therefore, with sense Dor
dering upon delight that we turn
away from Judge Fuller's long lines
OF man slayers to be confronted with
the genial felon whose name and
acts are expanded into publicity by
the Phoebe Record of Sept. II, as fol-
lows:
Yesterday morning VIM. Mulcahy
appeared in court 10 receive his SEN
tence on two indictments for forgery.
On these indictments Muleahy at
first pleaded not guilty; but subse
qucntly pleaded guilty. Being asked
by the Court if he had anything to
say, Mulcahy answered firmly mo,
Sir" On the first indictment the
Court sentenced him to year and a
half in the State Prison. On the |
second case the usual question was
put to Mulcahv, when he asked that
lis Honor consider that he Null
'ahy) had been six months in Jail
trial. The Court then SEN
enced him to one year in the State
Prison. Mulcahy was then remain
ed to Jail again.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-09-18

Ex-MAYoR CASTOR of Boston, in &C.
cepting the Democratic nomination for
Governor of Massachusetts,, has made,
we must confess, a very frank and sensi-
ble statement of the weakness and i'm
policy, as we'll as the insufficiency of the
laws existing in that State intended to
prohibit the sale Of Intoxicating liquors.
Whether the Mayor is bidding for the
rum-sellers votes or only stating with
candor his own earnest convictions We
have no means of determining; but we
concur in what he says, which is report
ed as follows:
Boston, September 16-Ex-Mayor
CASTOR, in a letter formally accepting
the Democratic nomination for Gov
ernor Of Massachusetts, thus alludes to
the Prohibitory Liquor law: AT time
when the State is suffering reproach for
the partial and dishonest enforcement
of some of its laws, it becomes our i'm
mediate duty to seek to execute such
laws with honesty and impartiality or to
repeal such statutes as cannot be en-
forced. An experience of twenty years
under what are known as the prohibitory
laws has proved that they cannot accom-
plish the great beneficial purposes for
which they were enacted. They have
NO: diminished evils which they were
designed to destroy, but have brought
with them, or with attempts to enforce
them, train of attendant evils which
have diSpraced the administration If
justice and have tended to corrupt pub
lie morals. Some other method Of pro-
noting by legislation, the cause OF tenn
perance should at least be tried. This
cause is to high and noble in its charac-
ter and in its purpose to attempt to bor-
row any aid from injustice, partiality or
l believe that legislation
IAN be made to assist those who are by
honest and earnest efforts seeking to eX-
end its beneticent influences.