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Tne Markets.


BALrINohE, November u.-vfrginfs sfre., peel.
ers, al NfrgtDias consolidated, 6lZ; West Virgin
as, l21; horthOsrolina stxee, old, 3: do. neg, 10
DO: special tax, bid to-day.
BALTIMORE, November lL-Cotton unchsneed-
ow middlings, IA Flour UNCHANGED. Wheat
western dull; southern steady; Mary land white,
l.l2gl 81 other grades unchanged. Oorn-sonthern
firm and In good demand; white southern, 7s(dsl
yellow southern, 7b&9; mixed western dull and
1oninsi, s.. Osts quiet and hrm-southern, es6sS:
western mixed, 62G6s; do. white, es I've duII'
Gay unoh.nsed. SrSvisions hrm; stock light.
clear rib sioee, n1G12. Bscon-shoulders, q: clear
rib rides, SaS 9s,t; bans unshanged. Lard, llSS6 a
N1. Western butter nrnsr and higher and IN eoe6
temsnd-choice TO fps tub. OQc,l: choice roIT III
Petroleum. unchanged. Coffee nominal ana m.
Stsngsa-, WHISKY urn and scssoe aud IN improved
bEw YORK, November IL -Flour ouief ana m
changed. Wheat quiet and steady. dom del an
sIw fcsK, November II .-ssocts .esive. Money,
d eolo, To-: lxehsnse, long, <sssi short, sSS.
h.z. New hves, l0s1S. Erie, 81; preferred, -.
LosDos: soyeneer u. so r 5-Ths amount OF
balance to-day IL fe< 900. Rrie, -.
TRANKFoRT, November u.-Bonds, GI. for the
iE2Ce Of le61.
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bIThe general ratification OF democrats OF
initely postponed.
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sLARD's FIRST FRosT.

LONDON, November 1.-THE first heavy frost
night.
REPUBLICAN, SUCCESSES OVER THE CARLIsTs
HENDAGB, November 1.-THE republicans
opened hre upon the csrlIst entertainments at
Mount ST. Mario yesterday, aud carried several
pOsltloLs with severe lOss 70 the insargsnts.
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TIE HEALTH CosGRBss.-At yesterday af-
ternoon's session of the Americana ublc Health
association, papers were read on "The Con-
struction Of Hospitals, !" " Hospital Architec-
Of Municipal Boards of Health" In the even
ing Rev. Samuel Osgood delivered discourse
on 'sThe relations Of health and higher cul-
ture..
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BALLS, &c.
THIRD ANNUAL BALL

THIRD ANNUAL BALL
Nj GRSERE.o SSEREoH Lopez No; UNITED n
q ~ Vpp r1lp SkLLOwS' HALL. 9TH stree. E.l~A
~ oheDAf. Nov, l3,h. The Oommittee sro
gisIks1 70 make this the Ball Of the sesson Pis-
ssLo viii furnish their choicest music for the
N1n,, JAMES MORROW,
LONh-H Chairman Of Oommfffea
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REPUTATION IN VIReINrA.-The conference
Of the Virginia state authorities and the bond
holders closed last night. The object of the
conference was to get rid OF the six per cent
bonds, the interest coupons of which are by
their terms receivable for state taxes Ii is pro-
posed to exchange these for four per cent.
bonds, the interest payable SENT annuslly, and
to refuse to receive the coupons for taxes, ex-
cept those clipped from bonds held in Virginia.
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TIE FOLLOWING are the receipts from cus-
toms sources for the week ending November 7tb.
New York, s1,79O ,OOO Boston, Abs, ,268. .3O
Philadelphia, S142 6S9.2l; Baltimore, 800, ,7O4 a
New Orleans, (week ending October 3Ist,l
23g6I5O5 O
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DEATH OF NAVAL OFFIoRR.-The NAVY
department has received Information of the
death of Lieut. Commander Edwin A. Miller
which occurred at Williamsburg, Mass, 'Novem-
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Foreign Notes.

DUN
MADRID, November 1.-THE TmparciaK de.
clares that Don Carlos was st He end age, and the
french authorities refused ID interfere with his
movements,
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APPOINTMENTS OF the following assistant
surgeons In the army of the United States have
Just been made, the candidates having passed
examination before one or the other OF the med
icsl boards convened at New York and San
FRANCISCO Charles X. Wynne, Fred. G. Aims
worth, Valery Howard and John Van Ransel-
lear Hon, n. Y; Holmes ID. Paulding, ID. c.;
George w. Adalr, Mich; Paul r. Brown, n
T.; EDWARD u. Moseley, Pa; Donald jackson
Nd; james A. FIndlsy, Pa; Aug. A. DeBed-
e., MIMI; John b. Hamilton, H.; Timothy g.
WILCOX, n. Y, and Lewis NJ. Mans, Md.
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SoMR EXCITEMENT has been created among
the soldiers element here by the announcement
that Secretary BristOW, at the instance of ex-
Gen. MOsby, has restored TO a clerkship in ms
department. Miss jackson, OF Alexandria, who
IS the daughter OF the man who killed Colonel
Ellsworth. The facts are that the young woman
was appointed to the clerkship by Secretary
Richardson, and that Secretary BristOW inter-
tered TO prevent her removal after ascertainiug
mat she mad been an efficient clerk, and thai
on account of her efficiency she had been pro
NOTED to one of the higher class clerkships-
Washington diSBdfCh 10 " T. Past
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THB CHEvALTRR JoAo De SoUzA LoBo was
received yesterday by the President, and pre-
sented his letter of recall as minister for Por-
tugal. The usual regrets and compliments we're
interchaDged.
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JOE W. DwYER, of COshOcton, Ohio, has been
appointed revenue agent, vice Brssher, re-
signed, and has been assigned to duty under
and Ohio.
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FOR PURSE OF slOO.
best IL to Harness. owners Ito ZE
drive. AATOA
Mack. W%SN~
hr n. MAYORS enters m Fanny
Mr.. ID. Campbell enters b, e. Jim Divine
POOL SELLING ON TEE TRACK.
>, T. RRITTON, President.
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INDIANAsEET IN TROUBLE.-The following

INDIAN AGKNT IN IROUBLE.-The following
was received at the War Department last night:
PORTLAND, ORKGOE, November 10th.
AdJHtdnt GeneHdl, Washington. Please notify
the Indian Bureau OF the following dIsDa tcI
trom Indian agent, Lapwai agency:
"SheTih is going TO take fOrcible possession OF
H'sslon claim, which includes all Of nv agen-
cy. nay instructions are not TO use force In
1ans threaten to burn everything. Can Van
deyer or smith come Immediately? Particulars
mailed"
Signed: o. o. HowARD.
Brig. General, Commandinu
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T HARRY DONEHUE,

T HARRY DONEHUE,
COST UMER,
43S IlTH SHEET, EEARE
New snd neatly ftted-up Parors and Show rooms
aCd = dCEbly-iucreased stock Of
Masquerade aEd Theatrical Costumes,
com pIising several hundred aud costly Dresses
t9geiher with even variety Of COstume-Lsdies',
G-Et's and Children 's-fOr
MAsQUE BALLS AND PARTIES,
PRINATE IHEATRICALs
TABLEkVX AND OLD FOLKS OONUERTS
p. S.-Whh . thorough knowledge OF our busi.
ness, devote OHrsel 10 the aad wishes Of
our psrons, nId b. courteous and polite attention.
reasonable charges, and disposition TO ID ate
and please, We seldom fail 20 give satisfaction.
Ocsg 3In
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BARON DE SAINT ANNA, the neyIy-appointed
minister of Portugal to the United States, was
day presented to the President by Secretary
FISH The usual diplomatic courtesies were
exchanged. The Baron has taken a houss on
street, next door to Surgeon General Barnes
Ihe Baroness, his wife, is the niece OF Baron
X; Anethan, former Belgian minister of foreign
affairs.
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TIE PRESIDENT has received an invitation
TO attend the one hundredth anniversary dinner
to be given by the "First Troop, Philadelphia
city cavalry in the armOry of the troop on
the evening of the 17th OF November, lS74, at 8
O'Clock.
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1874 CLOTHLrG! 1875
TBE LARGEST AEsORTMKNr
KEAp THE FnLLoWlEa .

sEleIdiilf lfue = Diagonal, Basket, ani Worstsd
y ~, breasted hrgtlsh square FRoOK COATS
~ l.sts 60 ualShi At s r. ls, SIS, s20 sld SIS
ISr Eeh-trmeui BUSI : ESS SCIT5 fer sS, 8 10 sl2.
: rs : y sHd ( q and DRESS SUITS at si5, Sis;
80. Sz5 sEd 81, = nag1i5ccut line Of OV q
CoAAss ineluctng very geutesl Uvercoat for IS.
handsome Melton OyercOat for aT,a fus W hit,
Iey Overcoat for Sss aid an elegant ObfprbIIIa a
SVeFcost Tor 81 Q ana : IL Black, Blue ard Brown
Beaver tyeTcoats ~ : 2 aud IS, nue English a.
sfysr IN Blue Brown, Drab aud Smoke color All
ven nsud-oul-I N trimmed ard lined, At SIS: yery
me Astf aCan Beaver OyerC1ats at e10 and o1s.
E2d many other styles. For Youths splendid HUs
o. Busfress eutts from 81 % SIS; Yonths' DreSs
suits ircn Is 70 p and e25; Boys Suits in great
variety, IRON ss 70 y, Business PAntz from "a 10
4 aLc Lac Dress DoSskIn and Fancy Csssirosre
fants a. ? Ices ranging from 81 50 to SIS "A bean
Liul iiEe OF Children = suite ard Oyerooats
1rEs . careful Inspection OF nay GOOD. besora
CHASING elsoE here, assuring the public thzs
never before have bad such variety OF car.
Uents 10 please al tastes aad desires. "a
sccCmmC date all purses, or 70 give
such entire satisfaction.
A STRAUS,
IoIl PENNSYLVANIA AVESUH,
oetl1r Three DOors from lIth Street.
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The CLAIM of the widow of Capt. Fry (who
was murdered in Cuba by the Spaniards) for
800 due him at the time he left the United
States navy for the confederate service will
have to be decided by Congress, the law of
March z, 1867, being held by the accounting Of
hcers TO prohibit its payment. The President
and Secretary of the Navy both favor the pay
ment CT the claim.
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l.. MOXLEY,
COST ER,
COS 10th Street Northwest.
large collection OF Fine Artistic BALL, TAB
LEA ard THEATRICAL COSTUM ES kept on
MASKED BALLS and PARTIES supplied ct
costume, and all Costumes delivered and called for
T.. d XLKY,
octl9-4m sos 10th street
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EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

INTERNAL REvRNUK.-The receipts from
this source o-day were 1896 1882.
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s1,451 $50 in rational bank notes were received
at the Treasury to- day for redemption. This is
the largest days receipts since the Inauguration
OF the Redemption Bureau.
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HORSES CALLED AT 2 80. TROTTIHG TO
COMMENCE AT 3 O'CLOCK PROMrT.
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oL9so. on Exhibitisn and sale ,HIv he
TRK ST.. TfE Sr,
SAhkklYERr.
No. ass Ith street., between aud D sfreets sis III
doors above Odd rellows' ii all,
Uholoe Ou PAINTINGS, kngraytngs, Ohromoe, ko
Also, largest stock Paper Hansinxs, Windog
sEsdes, PICTURES, trames, Picture Cords ana Tse-
ssssi Kings, Nsils, &C., In the District.
~ TERNs CASH.
* Please remember Name and Humber. Jelly.
A LII KINDS or GENTLHMKNY OAsT-OFF
N WEARIHG APPAREL can be sold 20 the very
best edv sntage By addressing calling on JUsTH,
6l9 ID street. between 6th and 7th streets north
Sest. ~ Notes By mail promptly attended TO.
Casn paid iYs-tr
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ADJUSTMENTS.
TOOle
FORDa TONIGHT.
UNCLE DICKS DARLING,
BLESSED BABY.
FHIDAY-BEHKFIr NIGHT,
"DEARER THAN LIFE.n
TOOLE MATIsEE SATURDAY. novll.n
NATs0NAL THEATEn. NELSON
Mr. j. G.. sayille.-....--...L lessee aud Manager
COLOSSAL SUCCESS,
houses crowded nlsh'ly with me elite and fashion
.I .I the elty 70 witness the Marvellous Acting Of
MISS NEILkO
,see VIII appear THIS "wednesday EVENING,
NoyeH Der u, in her unequsled rendition Of ROSA
LIND, in shakspesreis charming comedy,
AS You LIKE IT,
supported specially by
hth. j. III. BAhNE8.
fnursday, Nov mber u, ROMEO AEO JULIET
~ FRIDAY, benefS Of MISS HETLsoN Vi 'uii'''
SATURDAY AT Eoa S9CTr3GK SsT1SIx GBAED NEIL
r. A c E
BRIGHTWOOD PARK,
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, Nov ember 18th.
HORSES CALLED AT 2 80; TROTTIEg TO
COhAEhCE AT 3 O'CLOCK PROMFT.
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George washington's six-in-Hand.

As there has been good deal of talk
in congress and out of it about Gen.
Washington's coach and six. it is we'll
enough to have the facts. In the cur
rent number of the New York ledger
Mr.. James Parton, the walking library
of historical facts, throws light upon
the question. He tells US that George,
the great and good, kept carriage and
six when he was president OF the United
States, but that he did not charge the
expense of the same to She contingent
fund. The result of the discussion in
the first session of congress about the
compensation that the president should
receive, fixed his salary at $4,000 per
annum, and 10 extras. When Philadel-
phia became the seat of government
the legislature of Pennsylvania assigned
the president handst me house for his
residence, but he declined to accept it.
But to return to the carriage question.
Before congress had decided the prob
lem of salary, Washington had ordered
handsome coach from England, which
arrived in New York in 1889. Mr.. Par
ton writes !: F.. fr.r. ~.
"The vehicle, of which Mr.. Lossing
has given the pnblic an engraving and
a description, was very handsome and
substantial structure. The body and
wheels were of cream color, then very
fashionable, with gilt relief, and tie
body was suspended upon the old-fash-
ioned, heavy, leabhern straps, like those
upon which stage-coaches we're formerly
suspended. p, Part of the sides and front
were shaded by green Venitian blinds,
inclosed in black leather curtains. The
lining of the coach was of black glossy
leather. The Washington arms were
handsomely painted upon the doors,
with the motto-so perfectly character
istic of ashineton-'E 'E3ritu8 acta pro-
bat'-The result proves actions. Upon
each of the four panels Of the coach
was a picture emblematic of the seasons,
executed by an Italian artist of repu
tatioB. .af ..-. -.
"Usually, the general had only four
horses harnessed to his coach, but in
tn yelling between the seat of govern
ment and Mount Vernon, It was often
matter of necessity to nse six Mem
bers of congress may rest assured that.
the coach, its horses, and all it's appnr-
tenauces were paid for with Gen. Wash
ington's own money. It was an honest
coach in every respect, for. at the end of
the second term its builder came to
America and settled in Alexandria,
where the general informed him that
not a nail OF screw Of the vehicle had
started. Fifteen years after the death
of Gen. Washington, when it became
tho property OF the late Bishop Mead,
of Virginia, it was still a sound, service
able coach, though too heavy for ordi
.---..,- -rrr, .t.F. EEHHHA#.t
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At the Vatican.

A correspondent from Rome describes
a visit to the Vatican "The gorgeous
Swiss Guards, who look like nothing
else under heaven, and are probably the
most snowy soldiers on the face of the
globe, filed back at our approach like
shattered rainbow, and we were imme-
diateIy lost in the labyrinths of the
palace. We climbed stairs that seemed
cut ont Of solid marble quarries, for
there was nothing to be seen but marble
in some shape or other. Again and
again we were met and passed by
guards priests and monks in robes of
many fashions and colors, pass us 1.-The
place was alive with people, and yet
none of them seemed familiar to my
eyes. We entered one room, passed
into others, all of them having fheir
separate uses and most OF them III
charge of officers who looked as little
like the last lot as possible. Finally
we came to court, one of the twenty,
where were carriages, and footmen in
livery, but. how they, ever. found their
way thither I dare not conjecture. Be-
yond the court the chambers we're more
splendid than the last. New guards
and pages, in new uniforms and liveries,
moved to and fro through the endless
suites of rooms, and kept everything in
a gentle state Of .commotion. Here we
left our cloaks and hats. Here we took
our rosaries and tokens in hand, and
pressed from one chamber to another,
perhaps waiting few moments in each
room while my companion spoke to gen.
tlemen in waiting, clothed in crimson
satin and looking very impressive in
deed. Rooms that we're frescoed to the
very floors finally gave place to rooms
hung with splendid tapestries OF inesti-
mable value. 1t began to look like bu-
siness. The chambers were heated with
the great brazen pots Of Goals, such as
one meets with in all the italian gale
ries~ and in the churches, when the
churches are heated at all. These bra
ziers look little heathenish, and are
none the less interesting for that rea-
son. They are big enough for human
sacrifices, some of them, but they are
seldom hot enough to hurt"
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Hand shaking.

How did people get in the habit of
shaking hOnds :? TIL ans" is IrrU rIr
to seek. In early and barbarous times,
when every savage or Semi-savage was
his own lawgiver, Judge, soldier and
policeman, and had to watch over his
own safety, in default of all other pro-
lection, two friends and acquaintances,
or two strangers desiring to be friends
and acquaintances, when they CHANGED
to meet, offered each to the other the
right hand, the hand alike of Otfense
and defense, the hand that wields the
sword, the dagger, the club, the toma.
hawk, or other weapons of war. Each
did this to show that the hand was
empty, and neither war nor treachery
was intended. A man can not we'll stab
another while he is in the act of shak-
ing hands with him, unless he be a
double-eyed traitor and villain, and
strives 70 aim cowardly blow with the
left while giving the right and pretend
ing to be on good terms with his victim.
The custom of hand shaking prevails
more or less among all civilized nations,
and is the tacit avowal of friendship and
good will, just as kiss is of a warmer
passion. Ladies, every one must have
remarked, seldom or never shgke hands
with the cordiality of gentlemen, unless
it be with each other. The reason is
obvious. It is for them to receive hon.
age, not to give it. They can not be ex-
pected to show to persons of the other
sex a warmth of greeting which might
be misinterpreted, unless such persons
are very closely related 10 them bY
family or affection, in which case hand
shaking is not needed, and the lips do
more agreeable duty.
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A D0ubter.

There was a man who lived in Cass
county, Georgia, many years ago, who
had once been in the state legislature,
and never neglected an opportunity TO
emphasize the fact He was perfect
infidel as to new discoveries and new
sciences, being we'll satisfied that if
the world should turn over the water
would spill out of lis we'll, and only
giving in 10 steam cars by slow degrees.
But all the vials of his contempt we're
poured ont upon the ideaof telegraph,
and he was wont to say that nobody
need try to come "the green" over him
in that way, for he had been to the leg
fslature. Finally the state road was
built, and one day workmen began to
put up telegraph posts right in the
front of the house and to stretch the
wire. His exaltant neighbors thought
they had him oD that occasion, and
asked. "WeiI, old fellow, what do you
think Of telesraphs nov?" He was cor
nered, bat died game. Drawing him
self upan inch taller, he sad, "Gen-
tlamen, when was in the legislature I
gave this subject my very attentive con-
sideration, and I said then, as I say
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Wasted FertIlizer.

The farmers Home Journal says
on every old place in central Kentucky
there are such things as old wood-piles,
where chips have accumulated and de-
composed for fifty years ; then there are
Ola piles Of ashes, sometimes three or
lour feet deep, which have been accu-
mi5ulating for the same length of time ;
Shen there are old straw-piles and
heaps of stable manure which have
never been hauled out again there are
deposits under the hen-roosts, some
anes two feet deep, which are equal to
.he best Peruvian guano, and when these
Me all hauled out, we will go to an in
Ssu gnsu tlhie supply Of rich molds and
aIlivial deposits Of decayed vegetable
natter which have been collecting for
sSes, IN places on branches and creeks
saeh run through most farms. We
ave still another supply yet in the
muck mud, which, if dug out in the
summer time, when the marshes and
ssNSlmpy places are dry and hard, it can
l. " nanled close to, if not quite to where
I IN, u wanted, aud the winter freezing
s;l! stl pnlEerlze itRndsput il in fine con-
WHO'D Tor a crOp next season.
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Bachelors Dreams.

A writer in the Court Circular says
"Were the history of confirmed bache-
lors truthfully transcribed, it would be
found they had often been in love in
the days of their youth. Although now
exalted, they were originally but
human. They dreamed and worried
about childish faces and azure eyes and
chestnut hair, like other wiser men.
They sent valentines, and wrote verses
where dove rhymed with love and
feyes' with 'sighs.' Further than this,
at more than one ball they have dreamed
CONNIE al reoe vj'agt ans, that the
sylph in their arms might be a lovable
companion and pleasant toy-thing, and
that it would be very jolly to look across
the table and always meet those pretty
eyes, instead of the gooseberry-colored
Iuminaries of a lodging house 'Blavey.
But these dreams belonged to the Pc
riod of cigar and some brandy and
soda. Alas in the morning, as a
pound of steak and several eggs were
consumed in all the prosaic sternness of
manhood, the young lady's face was apt
to he forgotten, to be sneered at, or to
be eftaced by unpleasant recollections
of Jones, whose wife has twice presented
him with twins, and whose temper is Of
the shortest"
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rnchan+ad PARK in Colorado

1t is a beautiful valley about mile
in length, walled in on either side by per-
pend cular walls from two to three hun
dred feet in height. There is but one en-
trance to this enchanted spot, and that
is by a very ragged and dangerous
pathway, and the foJtman experiences
great difficulty in the descent. Upon
reach ing the valley We could hear the
rustIine of the wind through the lofty
pines on the cliffs above us, sounding
like the roar of some devastating hurri-
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Poetry in a Police Court.

"Great spoons, what are you do ng
here ?" exclaimed his honor, as Thomas
Dougherty, man of seventy-hve, was
handed ont. His gray locks waved on
the morning breeze, and his trembling
legs could hardly sustain his body.
They say was drunk, " answered the
old man, mournfully. "Well, / don't
care if YOU were," continued his honor.
"Amau of seventy five has special rights
and privileges which for one shall re-
spect. You can go, old man.. Do you
suppose that I'd send an old pions er
like you up there to tackle corn-beef
and mush? No, sir. II you've got
any home go there; if you haven't come
up and stay all night with me. Send
you up! Why, old man, some day this
summer as you sit in your arm chair on
the shady porch your pipe will die ont
and fall from your aged hand. You
will sleep. The sound of faint. sweet
music will reach your ear, and in your
dream you will see the faces of wife,
SONS and daughters-those laid away
years ago before the frosts Of tine
whitened your hair. Some one will
come to wake you. They will sse your
smile and wonder if the dreams Of the
old ara thus bllssfuI. They viii touch
you and start back. The old man will
have gone to bis rest. Go nov, old
man-may the world be kind to you"