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L" Catching a Bob"

eSterday afternoon when Mrs.
Blaine, of Fifth street, asked the doctor
if her boy Samuel would live, the doctor
looked very serious and replied:
He may, and if he does he will know
more than ever before"
Samuel is aged thirteen, and since the
snow came he has been engaged in
catching a bob as the bows call it
when they Jump on a farmers sleigh
He was over on Fourth street Yesterday
when a farmers team came alsng with
a hay-rack, and Samuel took seat on
the binder" He rode short distance
and then let go and stepped into the coils
of rope dragging behind, and before
he knew What was up he was dragging
along through the slush. He gave an
awful yell as he realized his situation.
but the farmer lost his hearing wears
ago, and sat on his seat as stiff as Car
diff giant, while the horses ambled along
at an even pace.
" Whoop. Hay Say, you! Oh. muir
der" yelled Samuel, as the slush ran up
his pantaloons and his back was raked
on the knobby street, but the farmer
was thinking of home. sweet home. and
he didn't reply. You, therei Whoopl
Hi Hot erasmus and blazest' roared
Samuel, as he slid on his back and side
and felt his coat going over bis head.
The farmer drove up Fourth to La
brosse, and then went west, and there
wasn't hub or pond of water that Sam
uel Blame didn't find Sometimes he
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USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

UNIVERSAL medlCines-warmth, rest,
cleanliness and pure air.
A DAY BOOK copied from blotter in
which original charges are first made
will not be received in evidence as
book of original entries.
A WIFE cannot be convicted of receiv-
ing stolen goods when she has received
them from her husband.
If a person who is unable from illness
to sign his will has his hand guided in
making his mark the signature is valid
MONEY paid for the purpose of settling
or compromising prosecution for sup
posed felony cannot be recovered back
by the party paying it.
PERMANENT erectlons and fixtures
made by mortgagor after the execution
Of the mortgage upon land conveyed by
it become part of the mortgaged prem
ises.
SAUsAGE.-For thirty pounds of meat
well cut, add twelve ounces of fine salt,
six ounces of pulverized sage, four ounces
of black pepper, two tablespoons of mus
tard, summer savory to the taste.
HOP YEAsT-Take of hops one TN cup
Tor pint full; put a kettle over the fire
with eight pints of water in it, tie the
pint of hops up in a small sack, kept for
that purpose, put the sack of hops in the
kettle with the eight pints of water; now
pare four good sized potatoes, slice them
up for frying, put them also with
the hops and water, cook until the juice
is the color of good clear coffee, then
have a pint, good measure, of wheat
flour in large pan or crock; set the
steamer in over the flour; now pour boil
ing hot hop juice and potatoes over the
| flour. Work with potatomasher al
| the potatoes through the steamer into the
| flour and stir well with the big spoon al
| together; then put all back into the ket
| tie and put in the following One gooC
! big iron-spoonful OF salt, two of sugar
and one each of soda and ginger. Their
| put the kettle back On the fire and stil
| ali the time steadily for fifteen minues
take of, put in jug with a funnel anC
cork well; put in a good cellar. Max,
! this yeast once and you will never like
| any other. One cup of this yeast make.
! five good loaves of bread, and two bis
| spoonfuls are enough for a mess of buck
wheat cakes. This yeast, made Will
care, and jagged and corked well, vii
keep, in a good cellar, six weeks in III,
! hottest weather.-Erchdnge
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minutes, when they separated The
night was very dark and they were soon
out of sight; when the policeman
reached the body life was extinct.
1t is supposed that the lynching was
done by three anti-horse-thief societies
in the county, aided by unknown parties
in this city, but nothing definite has been
decided yet.
The excitement which has led to this
foul result has been growing for some
time. several mysterious murders having
been committed here recently-seven in
the space Of four years.
The trial of Howard was protracted
and exciting, and the jury, being out for
nearly four days, finally compromised on
a verdict Of murder in the second degree
1t was feared Howard would be lynched
last Friday night, the jury not then hav-
ing agreed and it being generally
thought they would agree to disagree.
But precautions were taken to prevent
it then and Cd Saturday morning the
verdiIt was returned. On Monday after
noon he was sentenced, and Judge Max
well impose upon him the extreme TigOr
OF the law-imprisOnmen for life. Every
body here in the city seemed satisfied,
and the lynching fell upon the city to its
surprise and horror. But Howard 5
behavior during the reading Of the
sentence, laughing in the face of the
Judge and receiving his doom with
firmness, and his attempt to smuggle a
revolver into the courtroom for the pur.
pose, avowed atterward. of shooting the
Judge he was delivering the sen
tence; his boast that he would escape
from the Penitentiary before SIX
months and return here to kill all
who had appeared against him in the
trial, and the appeal of his case to tic
Supreme Court, reached the ears Of the
! Figilantes last night and the result was
/ as stated above.
| The whole proceeding is most bitterly
1 felt by the citizens here, and the perpe
traitors are denounced in most unmeas
urei terms. A large meeting of citizens
passed resolution to this effect this af
{ tgruppu
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Last week Mr. David Swing, of Cas-
cade, concluded that he would demolish
few hundred ducks and geese who had
contracted the habit of squatting in his
cornfield. He had no gun, so he stepped
over to Mr.. Smiths, his neighbor just
opposite, and borrowed one. Mr.. Swing
was believer in the time honored max
i'm, put in plenty of powder and drive
the pellets hard if you would kill, F" and
so he took that gun and proceeded to
load it. He first measured out handful
of powder and poured it in each barrel,
then added another handful for good
measure. Some of the powder spilled
out and he inverted his flask and
held il over the muzzle for a minute or
two. Then he rammed down newspa-
per into each barrel and followed up
those with an awful charge of shot. Two
more newspapers went down the cavity
and then the charge was complete. Thus
prepared Mr.. Swing started out, but the
ducks and geese had evidently received
a premonition of what was in store for
them; none were to be found, and very
sadly and very much disguised Mr.
Swing returned the gun to its owner In
half an hour after the latter saw ire
mendous flock of ducks pitch down in a
pond hardly fifty yards distant from the
fence back of his barn. He crawled up
very cautiously to the fence, rested his
gun upon the lower rail, took dead aim
and pulled the trigger. What followed
Immediately after Mr.. Smith does not
distinctly remember He has dim rec
objection that he crawled up to shoot
some ducks; that he was in the act of
pulling something when an explosion
took place that shook the country for
miles, and ratified the bells in the church
steeples When Mr.. Smith came to he
found himself in the front room, sur
rounded by an anxious circle of friends
while the doctor was feeling his pulse.
The fence was blown away entirely,
| likewise one side of Mr.. Smiths face,
while the gun has not been found One
hundred and five ducks were killed out
right, and shot enough was deposited in
the adjoining fields to start a lead mine.
Smiths ears are still ringing with the re-
port, but he swcars that Swings ears will
ring still louder as soon as he is able to
| use his crutChes. Swing believes that
| there is trouble brewing and is ready to
sell out his farm and join the grasshop-
per sufferers of Dubuque Her.
! AID
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Lynching of neS Moines Murderer.

DIS MoiNE- Iowa. Dec Is
MONDAY afternoon, IN the District
Court Of Des Moines, Charles Howard
WAS sentenced for life in the State Peni-
Tertiary for the murder of John John
son, in this city, in June last This morn
ing at three o'clock some 500 Eigilantes,
With their faces hiaCkened. surrounded
ihe Jail, overt : and bound the
TALLER hand and foot, and took his KEYS,
ana then overpowered in the same
manner the Deputy Sheriff and
the special guard of five men who had
Deem detailed by the Court to guard the
prisoner Unlocking the doors, they
found their way to Towards cell, where
ne "as in bed with his wife, The latter
being now under Indictment as acces-
svFN 10 the murder The woman. see
ing them coming, threw herself over
the areast and her arms about
the Of her husband: but She
d thrown off and rome
p 7Out Towards neck, when he
was ediately ierked out of bed. siyor
eight igilantes leading him with the
rope At the door some twenty more
took hold of the rope and he was
dragged, with no clothing on but an
undershirt, through the hall. down the
steps and out throuk the Court House
yard the jail being in the basement
" lHe Courthouse, and hung to lamp
pos At one Of the gates The whole
"a old not occupy fifteen minutes
ines stayed near the body about five
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They Rescued the Dog.

THE other day a young man nance
| Benjamin Machamer. one of the hes
| hunters in Northumberland County
/ made re narkable escape from well
! into which he fell. This well is in the
lower part of the town of Trevorton
/ near the old rouud-houSe. So long 4
| time has elapsed since it has been in use
/ that It's existence was almost forgotten
1t Is about eight feet wide and eighteen
feet deep, and at the present time con
tdins ten feet of water. Ii was covered
with plank the day in question Mac
hamer started out in pursuit OF game, ac-
Companied by his dog, a valuable setter
Ills path lay near the old well, into
which his dog had the misfortune to fall.
/ through a hole caused by the dccaving
plankS. The dog was highly priced by
Mr.. MaChamcT, who, in attempting to
rescue 1t, fell in himself. In an ordinary
sized well the situation would have been
dangerous, and in this case il was ex-
tremely so, as the unusual width of the
well prevented him from bracing him
self against the side. The only possible
way for him to get out was to climb up
one side. and, as the wall was very
closely built, this was a difficult feat.
But II was T'ruggle for life. and Mr.
MaChamer, bel o.. a young man Of power
ful strength and great energy. resolved
TO try. He succeeded in almost reach
ing the top, only to lose his hold and fall
back. Again and again he climbed UP
the side of the wall. and each time fell
back into the cold water beneath,
Every time he fell back the half
strangled dog would spring upon his
shoulders, thus bearing him down and
keeping him under water In spite of
this difficulty, however, he would sue
coed in regaining the wall. At one time
he became faint from the effect of the
impure air He had found a small stick
floating on the water, which he inserted
in the wall and placed one foot upon It,
then put both hands in another aperture,
thinking if he did swoon he might posi-
bly, hang there until he returned TO con
seriousness. The faintEesS. however.
passed away, and be again attempted to
reach the top. Finding that his clothes
greatly impeded his progress, he sue
ceeded in dIvesting himself of his coat
and boots, one of which he threw out,
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PaHetko.-To yure long letter ov three
pages and two postcripts, in which w
ask mt il horsc-trotting and horse racing
hal improved the breed Of horses, | an
swer out loud, l don't think it haz
No man kan prove to me that the horse
kan pillow more land draw more stun to
one load, or travel faster on less feed,
than fe could siXty-tivc years ago
Ii he kant prove this he kant prove
that horse racing haZ been ov emmy ad
vantage to horsts or to men.
Speed that yu kant use, only to gamble
with IL the same kind ov improvement
hat marked kar3s and loaded dice are
over the old plan.
| like sports oy most kinds, but insist
upon calling them hi their right nam ;
BafHa5dS.-l send yu hi to-day's Dst
the following savings for yurc album. |
hope they will meet yure views and
make yu feel better:
AZ long NJ 4 man can escape death
he allWus fears it.
When il is fair weather don't fail to
take an umbreller with yu. When ii
rains do Just rs VA plCaZC about it
IN. B.-An cid Shaker told me this
long ago.
Wine quite often makes a man Il
crate bore, and when il does he is the
most nauseating dose we are obliged to
take
The ded sure things is what has
allWuss beat the world
never knu IA man who allwuSs lived
III taking the chances but Hhcn he cum
% die had 10 be buried ut sumboddy
elses expense.
Whisky makes a CRATE menny VIE
men to-day and phools tomorrow.
Knowing men understand that '.Isky
ain't judgement
Most every boldly thinks that they
are oy CRATE consequence in this world,
but the fakt IL chat when the most ov
them cum 10 die they slip out ov life as
noiSeless az a rat into biz hole, an nobod-
TN knows and nobody kares WHARF they
hay went to.
AwkwardnesS IL allwuSs an evidence
to me uv sum kind uv merit.
Genius sez in paragrah what The
man o. talent wants a page and half
to tell in
Tharc IL one thing lucky about it:
those people who git snubbed the most
are the ones who kan stand il the best
lash Rjf}iHgs an y Ug.E5g
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leaving the other with the coat to sink to
the bottom. Thirteen times he climbed
up the side of the well, and thirteen
times he fell back into the well. His
perseverance surpassed that of the ira
ditional spider, for he had great odds to
contend with. At last, almost worn out,
he made final effort and reached the
top. He didn't wait for the dog, but
started for home Immediately and told
his story. His father and. another gen
tleman returned at once and rescued
the dog Mr. Machamer states that he
was in the well an hour. The escape was
wonderful.-PotSpille (Pd.) Journal
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WILHoFT's ANTI PERIODIC OR FEVER AM
AGUE TONIC.-This invaluable and StaudarI
family medicine Is now household word and
maintains its reputation unimpaired. Its in
dorsed by the medical profession aud pre-
scribed daily in the Charity Hospital and
other Hospitals in New Orleans. Wilhoft',
Tonic is thus highly recommended by the
leading medical men of the country. and is
worthy of such Endorsement WnEELocK
FINLAY " Co, Proprietors, New Orleans.
Fox SALE BY ALL DRUGGI-TS
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MOSES :. BEACH, /
III. W. STEELE, !
JOHN MATTHEWS, /
RETREN nIIT
J Judges
REIREN BILL

The Board OF Managers unanimously
approved the report and recommended
for this machine the Gold Nedat IF tie
Institute.
The Board of Direction unanimously
approved this recommendation, ami
awarded the Go}d KedaI to Wheeler &
Wilson, the only gold medal awarded for
a sewing machine by the American In
stitute for many years.
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II Runs LIKE \ PRAIRIE FIRE Din
WALKERS VINEGAR BTTTERs runs Ike Il
prairie fire. The fame of the Temper
ance Tonic is, however, but poorly ex
empliied by this figure of speech; for 4
prairie fire runs only in one direction
where's the reputation of the Bittcrs
spreads toward all points of the compass
There is not square mile of inhabited
territory in the United States where thi,
merltOrious preparation is not appre-
clated. If any theoretical gentleman
thinks he is prepared to show that there
is nothing in it, we advise him to &C
TO the Prairie States. in the Mississippi
Valley, to the deltas OF the Southern
rivers, to New England in fact, any
where within the limits of " Uncle Sans
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so doing he can raise heartier and more
general laugh than has ever vet shaken
the sides of an intelligent people. Per
sons who have been cured can't help
laughing at other people who tell them
that the medicine which saved their lives
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ANNA 5. GETsINGER, Of Honesdalc, Pa
writes the following: After suffering for
nearly two years from gia in the breast
passing up into the throat, face and head,
was entirely cured and restored to health by
using DIR. L. Q. c. Wishart's Pine Tree Tar
Cordial
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YOU get the same accommodations more
attention and better fare at the Sherman
House, Chicago, now han under any. preyi-
Gus management of that excellent hotel. aud
far less money. In times like the present these
are important c0nsidcra ions.
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FEARFCL-the amount Of money thrown
away in not buying shoes protected by Sill
YER TIPS. Parer is toe wise, and insist that
your shoe-dealer should keep them.
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OUR readers should note the advertisement
on this page, headed Free For One Year" 1t
is an extraordinary proposition, but there Is
no humhug about il, aud We trust such liber-
ality will be encouraged
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In cold weather the best collar YOU can
wear is the Elmwopd. II makes the neck
warmer while il tts so nicely you do not feel
1t around your neck Another advantage is
it keeps clean longer than any other collar
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DR.. r. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, y. Y: D,0r Sir
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procured your Golden Medical Discovery
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yet there is a drop of joy in every word
write. Gods blessing rest on you and your
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LANES O. BELLS.


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Fine new rosewood piano, for $500.
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"a Drop Of JOY i'm Every Word"

Those whom the people dislike live
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