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The Bridal Tour,

Young Spriggles and his Amarantha
Jane had just been married and were 60.
ing upon their bridal tour They didn't
know whether on their return they would
board with the 'old folks or take rooms
in private hotel. Being only clerk,
Spriggles' means were limited, and he
could not expect much at first in the way
of living.
"Of course" he said to old Dodge, a
wealthy member of the firm, who had
kindly granted him three weeks leave
of absence, 1--WE must be in style, you
know, sir Ispose you took rusher
when you were married 1 mean you
took an extensive one and showed your
wife the sights -
"Yes," said Dodge with a nod I'll
tell you about it. made long prepara-
tions for bridal tour, and the girl that
was to be my bride helped me We had
| it all fixed and everything laid out be-
forehand l worked hard for it and she
worked too. 1t was to he the grand event
of our lives and we wanted that it should
be success We felt that as the new
life opened so should it continue l was
earning five hundred dollars a year THAT
WAS good pay for salesman Ave and
thirty years ago-better than three times
that amount now,ss things go. We were
married in the morning at the house of
my wife's father Then we rode two
miles to the substantial cottage had Sc
cured for home. MY money had made
the first payment on it, and Mary's mon
ey had furnished three rooms in it.
"And we ate our frat meal thereafte,
in our own house; and l thence went tC
my work, and my wife set about hel
work. 1t was a new life, and we wert
determined to succeed if possible. Ant
in the success that followed was unal
loyed happiness. In less than three years
my house was paid for, and my HON
was my own. Come storm, or come sun
shine, we had roof to cover us-a roo
from which the hand Of man could no
turn down.
Il doubt, young man, if ever brida
tour WAS happier or more profitable thar
was mine; and / know that the exercis
of housekeeping upon her own accoun
was invigorating and healthful. Bn
then, we married for real, earnest livins
and loving We believed we should fine
life's purest joys in the discharge of life
sacred duties.
81 declare" pursued the old man, witt
a tear glistening in his eye, 81 shoult
like those first blessed days of my owl
home-life to live over again. But it ma,
not be And" he added, with regret
full shaking of the head, II fear tn
young men OF the present generation
viii not live them for my viewing"
! Spriggles walked away scratching hi
head He wasn't sure that he had reall,
caught the drift of the old mans re
marks.
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trouble here. Papa hardly knows what
way to turn. He says it will be mirat
Gle if he escapes bankruptcy. Frotliing-
hast has robbed him of several ilou-
sands, and has absconded He can oh
tain no clue to his whereabouts but he
is now fully satisfied Of your inroceice.
The above was from one Of Maria
Bafnwell's s letters to Arthur-simply an
extract; but IL set our hero to thinking,
and be no longer doubted that the man
calling himself Ripley, was Frothinghsst.
He confided the matter to Uncle George,
and that shtewd operator suggested lbe
propriety Of setting the police on the
track of Ripley. A description Of his
person was placed in the hands of The
chief Of thepolice force, and before night
Ripley was safely under arrest. Late or
the same afternoon, policeman came
and informed Arthur that the prisoner
{ Ripley ] desired an interyiay, With bin
before his examination
Arthur accordingly went, and was
shown into the room assigned to the
prisoner. Frothinghast, alias Ripley,
was pacing impatiently up and down the
apartment when Arthur entered. He
turned upon him abruptly:
CoNCLUsIoN NEXT WEEK
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Selert Shrv.
Morrison's Vindication.
BY II sLINGsBy.
CHAPTER II.
A FRIEND In NEED.


"Here | am last in the Golden City!
"Six months of weary monotony on
ship.board, and | am at length once
more on terra .frma. We'll, well, it seems
odd to be thus thrown in strange city,
but have saved at least couple Of
hundred by working my passage around
the Horn, besides learning all the ropes
of ship, and some items of navigation
that would be Greek to older sailors than
nv self. Five thousand miles from home,
in strange city, with capital OF as
many hundred dollars A small found
alton, indeed, upon which. to build the
superstructure of fortune in four years
less than four years, in fact, for six
months of that precious time is already
consumed But ! shall work hard at
whatever turns up-early and late
never once hagging in my purpose, nor
deviating in the slightest particular from
the straig ghtforward course / have mark
ed out; sustained, in the meantime, by
the encouraging reflection that Faint
heart never won fair lady But,frst and
foremost must look up hotel or lodg-
ing house, aud then write lsng and af
fectionate letter to Maria, who will be
anxiously awaiting it.
'Here is the Miners Hotel. This will
do as well as any. will go in and see'
At the conclusion of this last reiec-
ton Arthur Morrison, for it was he,
stepped into the bar room, or Office OF
the Miners Hotel, and accostcd the
clerk, a fashily dressed young gentle
man with dyed mustache and flowing
locks, ringleted ike girls.
"Can you accommodate me with sup
per, lodging and breakfast 7" demanded
our hero, with feeling Of blended pity
and contempt for the effeminate dandy.
"Yes,sah! Name if you please and
he showed the register toward Arthur
with supercilious politeness.
/ Our hero affixed his name 10 the reg
lister, and as he did so cast his eyes over
the list of names preceding his own
Suddenly he started, for the fourth entry
above his own was name familiar tt
him from childhood-:"George Morri
sonv'
Turning to the clerk he said, 81 see {
familiar name here in the registry
George Morrison-is he stopping here
Yes, ,ssah! He'll be in presently.4
Would you like me to point him out, o.
do you know him by sight, sab ?"
80 once knew him if he is the person
I think, but whether should be able te
recognize him now is more than | cal
tell. II l should not, you will do me .
favor by pointing him out to me whe,
he comes"
every well, sah-I'll bear it in mind
sab !"
Arthur seated himself and patientl,
awaited the arrival of his uncle. H,
came in presently, but not having seen
him for good many years, our here
failed to recognize him until after the
clerk pointed him out.
/ He was stout square built man,abou
forty Eve years of age, with norid, be
nevolent physiognomy,a and very brisk
confident manner, such as that class US
ually have whe are more habituated tt
command than obey. Arthur approach
4 ed with q somewhat undecided air, ant
Iaceosted him:
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Fatai Settlement OF an Old Eeud.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. PA terrible
tragedy occurred last night at Watson
vile, Santa Cruz county, resulting in
the instant death of j. Gilkie and Dr.
C. E Cleveland There had been an
old and deadly feud between the men,
and last night DR.. Cleveland started out
avowing his purpose to kill Gilkfe A
man named Devoe tried to make him
desist, without avail. The men met.
drew pistols, approached to within two
feet of each other, and fred simultane-
ously DR.. Cleveland fired twice and
fell dead on his face. Gilkie retreated
a few steps, leaned against tree, then
also fell to The ground dead. Both had
been drinking hard during the day.
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Spain,

MADRID, FEB. II ggf-s-sevetfes hyntiu1l'
has been going on in Biscay for several
days. General Dorregar Bay, with 25,
600 insurgents, holds the heights above
Somorostro. The Republicans have ta-
ken the first height Their losses are
heavy and wounded are coming into
Santamder. The heet has left that port
to attack Portugalete, which will be
simultaneously assaulted by land and
water. The latter feet entered the riv-
er on Friday, and found that Portusa-
lete had been abandoned by the Carlisss
BAYoNNE, Feb 81 The Carlists have
taken the town of Vinaraz, in Valencid.
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suniigh, in the House.

The house should be 80 placed that
direct rays Of the sun should have free
admission to the living apartments be-
cause the suns rays impart a healthy
and invigcrating quality to the air, and
stimulate the vitality of human beings
as they do those of plants, and withou,
sunlight human beings, as well as
plants. would sicken and die The as
spect, therefore, should be southeast
Popular Science Nonth'y
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The Scale of Fortunes.

If we may credit the observation ot
a Boston writer, there is inevitably an
ascending and descending scale in fam
lilies in regard to money. That is to
say, wealthy young men begin where
their fathers left off, and end where
their fathers as business men began
in poverty 1t follows that our mill
ionaires Of the future are the young
gentlemen who are at present skilfully
conducting the onerous details of the
peannt candy, and boot-black trades
One clever little match merchant is
mentioned as one of the coming gold
princes. Having nothing but the power
and the determination TO work, he hor.
rowed . little while ago S25, all oil
which astonishing fortune he invested
in matches. He presently sold his stock
at good profit, paid his debt, and be
gan business untrammeled, putting
every spare dollar in hank, and being
now the possessor Of $500, a.quantit,
Of matches worth S75, and money
enough besides to give him daily com
fort. This is the sort Of boy to know
his catechism and never go swimming
on Sunday, and naturally to, grow ~
rich and respected.
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Nuehv
The GHOST THAT JIM SAW.

KANSAS PACIFIC RAILWAY.
1873.
"Why, as to that" said the engineer,
"Ghosts amt things we are apt to fear,
Spirits don't fool with levers much,
And throttle-valves don't take to suoh;
Aud as for Jim
What happened to him
Was one-half fact and t'other half whim.
Running one night on the line, he saw
house-as plain as the moral law
just by the moonlit bank, and thence
Game drunken man with no more sense
Than to drop on the rail,
Flat as fail,
As Jim drove By with the midnight ms;l.s !
Down went the patents. Steam reversed
Too late! for there came thuj' Jim cursed
As his fireman, there in the cab with him,
Kinder stared in the face of Jim,
And says, What now?'
Says Jim, what now2
I've Just run over a man-that's howl
The fireman stared 1T Jim. They ran
Back, but they never found house nor man
Nary y shadow within a mile,
Jim turned pale, but be tried to srnile--
Then on he tore.
Ten mile or more,
In quicker time than he made afore.
Would you belieyait!-the very next night
Up rose that house in the moonlight white;
Out comes the chap and drops IS before.
Down goes the brakes and the rest encore
And so, in fact,
Each night that act
Occurred, till folks swore Jim was cracked.
Humph! let me see; it year now, most,
That met jim, East, and says, 'How's you
ghost"
Gone says Jim, 'and more, it's plain,
That ghost dou't trouble me again;
- 1 thought shook
That ghost when took
A place on an Eastern line-but look:
What should meet the fr.t trip out.
But that very house that we talked about,
And that self-same MANI "Well," says I, 6
guess
It's time to stop this here foolishness."
So crammed on steam,
When there came scream
From my 6reman-and it broke my dream
You've killed somebody Says I, "Notmuct
I've been thar often and thar amt no such,
And now I'll prove it" Back we ran.
And-darn my skin!-but thar v1s a man
On the rail, dead,
Smashed in the head
Now, call that meanness!" That's all Jill
said. BRET HARrE.
t-Neu York Times.
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Beecher on the WHman's Move.
nlent.

New YORK, Feb. 21.-Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher said to his congregation
last night that history wonld not show
a parallel to the efforts making in the
West to suppress dram drinking, which
he characterized as the scourge of the
household. He said it is an evil that
has defied legislation, but now, under
the Providence Of God, there has arisen
moral cyclone, perfect tempest Of
influence against it.
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PoRT JARVIS, N Y, Feb. 22.-At
P. M. to day an engine ran off the track
at Uniondale, on the Jefferson Branch
between Susquehanna and Carbondale
and fell down an embankment seventy.
five feet, instantly killing the conductor
John R. Harding, engineer Cramer, fire.
man Daniel Cronan, and the brakeman
Thomas Rafler.
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starch Una, for Feeding Infants,

1t is asserted that various expert
ments have proved that the saliva, as
we'll as the pancrealic juice of newly
born animals does not possess the pow
er of transforming starch into sugar
and it is therefore inferred, with good
reason, that any substance containing
starch is unfit for food for very young
infants, as their physiological condition
is probably similar to that of the young
of carniverous animals generally.
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Japan. .

LONDON, Feb. % Dispatches from
Nagasaki say the insurrection is spread
ing and that the situation is critical -
The insurgents are advancing on that
place, and at last accounts were so near
that fort that foreign residents were
preparing to leave
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Gfiegraphif.
Italy.

ROME, Feb 22.-The Popalo Romano
says Cardinal Antonelli has sent cir.
cnlar letter to all the Bishops asking
them to come to Rome, as the Pope
wishes to see them before he dies.
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Fg The following is list Of the
different Governors Of the State Of Ohio
from the year 1889 down to the present
year, and the time they served. 1t will
be found a very convenient table for
reference:
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There are six young ladies in Wash
ington that haven't been called the
reiening bellies Of Che season
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CHARLES McLEAN'S ESTATE.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber
IN has been appointed Administrators on the
estate Of Charles Mclean, late of Monroe coun-
", deceased. ELIZA .. AsLhAk.
fnW, ,TlwS,
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f.tr h"'C tic pleasure Ol Att1Te3Sl0g
Mr. George Morrison, formerly of New
York ?"
"Thank you! that's my name, sir,r
responded the stranger, eyeing our hero
with a sharp but good natured expires
sion.
"Perhaps you will consider me imper-
Itlnent in assuming so much liberty; bu,
had you q brother named Robert 2"
& had, sir; but believe he has been
dead several years"
HYes. sir-l am his SON."
"W hat! is it possiblel Are. you Ar.
thar p
Il am, Uncle George"
"Give me your hand my boy! never
was so pleased at anything in all my life
When did you arrive p
81 have just got here-not been ashore
more than three hours"
aiLuckY, really lucky, in finding me
out so soon; but What do you Intend do
ing, my boy ?"
II intend to get rich as speedily as
possible, uncle-thst is if there is any
opening"
"That's the way to talk it Have you
any capital to begin 7"
Not much-a matter Of FIVE hundred
or so."
Never mind. We can make that up
I've a plenty of dust, and have beer
thinking of sending for ven for some
time. I've made my pile in the rise O.
the city lands. / dug away in the mines
for six years, and instead of depositine
my dust in banks l just invested in land
in this city. Why, my boy, sold lo
this forenoon for two thousand dollars
that only cost me fifty five dollars sever
years ago" Here he lowered his voice
to confidential whisper.) My prop
ferty in this city, Arthur-this city slon
lis taxed for q hundred and eight,
Thousand, and can sit on my oars, now
and it will double in two years"
IL congratulate you, Uncle George
you are far richer than l thought to fin,
you
"You see, my lad, I have had my eve
open. But is there anything in particu
lar that strikes You favorably that you
like to 60 into ?"
81 am we'll used to the. jobbing and i'm
porting trade, uncle, if had capital"
"Didn't l tell you I'd make up 70
that and l will. How much will it TAX
TO start you in good shape' Recollect
everything doubles here, and the bigge
splurge you make in the beginning, pro
yided you do it shrewd, the sooner yo
will get rich"
81 see-and think / could profitabl
manage all the capital that l could com
mani."
"That's it, No general ever won
battle that lacked confidence in himself
| have forty thousand dollars lying o
deposit at the different banks Will tbs
dopp
"Heaven bless you, Uncle George!
had no expectation of receiving sue
lprincely aid. With that amount ca
Z start o. an equal footing with the best G
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The reservoir. which was emptie1 through
this break. covered one hundred acres, and
WAS several feet deep. By force of its
d. scent the water carried away the dam of a
lower reservoir, about fifty acres
The merged contents of both deluged the
country for miles, and did great damage to
farms and buildings, though by great good
fortune no lives we're lost. The dam was OF
earth, and had stood twenty years. The dam
age is estimated at $3.50, coo.
Oshkosh, Wis, was visited by destruc-
tive conflagration on the 14th inst. About
1900, 900 worth of property was destroyed.
Iowa Falls, Iowa, had a Sl3o, 900 blaze on
the l4th of July.
The property destroyed at the recent
Oshkosh wis., fire was insured for S763, $50.
Corrected reports of the Oshkosh (Wis.)
fire state that the losses reach at the present
estimate about $500, 600. The insurance so
far rendered by agents reaches nearly
S225, 900.
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PORRIGA.

Prof. Blanc. a weli-known acropaut. re-
Gently met his death in London while testing
a new fying-Inachine.
The report that the young Duke Nicholas,
OF Russia, who stole his mothers diamonds.
had been banished to Siberia, il denied by the
st. Petersburg papers.
The Paris Figaro has ieen suspended for
all attack upon the Assembly.
1t il exported that secret negotiations have
been entered into between tic President pro
Concha.
a hold attempt to as-as-inate Prince Bis
marck was recently made at k~i-scngen. Ger
many. While driving in the country the
Prince was fired at. the ball grazing his wrist
and inflicting a slight wound. The would-Je
assassin was promptly arrested, and barely
escaped i~ynching by the excited populace.
His name is Huffman. He belongs to Magde-
burg, and il a cooper by trade.
An American. Dockery, has been tried
at Havana by court-martial and sentenced to
death.
A Madrid dispatch states that the Carlists
have ordered one Republican to be shot for
every shell that may be fired by the fleet off
Bilbao.
1t is announced from London that En-
gland, Germany and Russia have agreed to
unite in recognizing the Spanirh Republic.
A naval officer from our West India squad
ron, who arrived in Washington last week,
says the ~Spaniards 10 propose to abandon
entirely the eastern part OF the Island of
Cuba, with the exception of the ports, which
will be defended to the last. All operations
in the future will be confined to a rigid block
ade Of the coast, 70 az to prevent the intro
duction OF arms and ammunition. The insur-
rectionary region is being fenced in with a
sort of stockade, strengthened by block-houses
at short intervals. 1t is not designed to make
any further attempts to suppress the insurrec-
ton within these lines.
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THE CROPS.

A Washington dispatch. July Is, says the
cotton planters report to the Department of
Agriculture i'll accordance with unconditional
promise of their June reports, shows an in
crease in the condition of the plant in every
State. The percentages Of average condition
are higher than in June by the following fig
ures: Three in Louiriana. 4 in ATkan-as. 6
in Florida. Z in South Caroliua. 3 in Missis-
sippi. 10 III Alabama, II III Georgia, Il in
Tennessee and Texas, and Is in North Caro-
lina. Texas.aud North Carolina return a con-
dition above the average. The following are
the State averages: North Carolina. l02
South Carolina. IS: Georgia, 81 Florida, 96
Alabama, % Mississippi, Sc; Louisiana, 80
Texas, l02; Arkansas, 81. and Tennessee. 81.
As compared with July OF last year, the con-
dition is higher except III Florida. Louisiana
and Arkansas, though the difference is slight
in Tennessee and Georgis. and not very wide
in Mississippi and Alabama.
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CRIME AND CRIMINALS.

A party of nine German farmers, residing
five miles south Of Toledo. Ohio. go: into a
fight a few nights ago, while returning home
from a saloon, where they had been spending
the day, and Michael Smith was stabbed and
killed. and John Simmons mortally wounded.
All the others were more or less injured by
knife-thrusts.
a fearful tragedy was enacted near Nc
Connelsburg. Pa. the other day. Mrs.. John
Meats, while La oring under q state of mental
alteration, and while her husband WAS sleep.
ing. shot and killed Kim instantly. She then,
with a razor. inflicted a horrible wound upon
the head and neck of one OF her children, and
with a pitchfork almost killed another.
In the Court Of General Sessions, in
Brooklyn. Lizzie i. King, alas Kate Stod-
dard, who, it i'd supposed, murdered Charles
Goodrich, has been pronounced hopelessly
insane.
The grand jury Of New York has found
three more indictments against the convicted
Police Commissioners, Charlick and Gardner,
for violations OF the election laws.
john Kaiser, a shoemaker at Franklin,
Ohio, shot his wife dead. on the night of the
18th inst, and then lodged two shots in his
own head, instantly killing himself. He had
been drunk four weeks.
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GRyRRdL-

The number of emigrants from the United
States to Europe is steadily increasing. Hard
times and want of work are the causes Of the
movement, which has a counterpart in all the
panic seasons known to American history.
Gen. Pope, OF the Department Of the
Missouri, lays a large share of the blame
for the Indian outbreak upon the shoulders
of those traders who have established whisky
ranches on the frontier for patronage by
~ruffians and desperadoes, these latter people
having committed innumerable outrages upon
the Indians.
race at the Saratoga regatta, and in the single
scull race Yale was victorious.
1t is reported from London that the At
lantic cable which was laid in 1866 has been
successfully replaced and is now in perfect
working order. The shore end Of the new
cable was successfully laid at Rye Reach, y.
H., July Is.
Goldsmith Maid, on the Saginaw Mich }
Driving Park, on the 10th inst, tro ted not
o ,ly the three fastest consecutive heats
on record, but two heats, the slow
slowsst of which was better than the best time
on record. The race WAS for e special purse
of s5,0 600 offered by the Association. and d.
vided as follows: 80 500 to the first horse {:
81, 500 to the second, and 81 900 to the horse
which beat the best time on record. Gold
smith Maid won three straight heats, in 2:l9i.
2:164 and ZIG.
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7

Recent Congressional nominations: NJ.
H. Dunnell, Republican, from First District
of Minnesota; f. n. Gates, Anti Monopolist,
from Sixth District of Iowa; H. o. Pratt, re-
nominated. from Fourth District Of Iowa.
The Democrats of Indiana have ominat
ed the following ticket Secretary Of State, j.
E. Neff, Randolph county; Auditor of State.
E. Henderson, Morgan county; Treasurer,
L. c. Shaw, Marion county; Superintendent
of Public Instruction, J. H.. Smart, Allen
county; Acknowledgement, G. A. Buskirk,
Gibson county: Judge of the Supreme Court.
Horace 2. Biddle, Cass county.