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" ClaWing Off. /"

Yesterday as a policeman was strolline
past 4 hnase on Fort street east Il woman a
year "r Two over forty, having her sleeves
rolled up ana her hands covered with -four,
ran ous to the gate and called to him.
" Ia Il little lelicIte,' she said as she
leaned o.er the gate and tried to blush.
but I'm Il person that knows my rights,
and besides, | IN I'll alone in the world and
II, one t. advise me-"
Speak your mind freely, madam" re-
Piled The ofieer. is he tipped on the pickets
with his baton.
You know all about the law, don't
you? She inquired
Everything, madam, | can tell you how
to go To wor< in an admiralty case, and
bring you from that down through divorce,
bankruptcy, arson, burglary, false preten-
ces hiiching a horse to :; shade tree and
getting intoxicated"
"It's a little delicate" she softly said
as she rubbed the -four off her hands, g but
as | said before, Pm all alone"
"Trust me, raadam-repose confidence
in me, he replied. swelling out his chest.
"Well, s'posen you were widow"
'Yes. madam"
., And s'posen one of the boarders gave
you a brcast-piil?'
Il sec, madam"
"Ahd s'posen be smiled at you, and sent
you poetry, aud asked you to ride out on
.,,l Ia ni,yI,hp cd
around that You were engaged ?"
Proceed, madam-I congratulate you."
Mo- you mustn't, for s'posen after all
this he suddenly began to claw off, and
didn't smile on you amy more, and didn't
praise your cooking, and took another
woman 10 the minstrel show ?"
"Ah! the traitor! Perhaps he has
transferred his affections to some one else."
THAT'S what | think. | know it's a
little delicate, but Pm all alone in the
world, you see, and want to know if there
isn't a law to bear on him? It isn't right
to go on and encourage lone woman like
me and then claw Off"
g He ought to be roasted alive, he had!'
Il don't know as I'd want him arrested,
but I'd like to have you call on him and
make threats. Tell him he's liable to state
prison for clawins off this way. tell you
it's a pretty serious thing to go and encour-
age woman of my age and then skulk
around behind the hen-coop all of a sudden.
Isn't there law?
"Lets see? l hardly think there is"
"Well you can call ON him. Take him
alone-look ferce-have your handouts in
sight. Just tell him that you know all
about it, and that Pm good-hearted, pleas
ant, rich, and that he better be careful how
he prances around or he'll think tornado
struck him."
The officer promised, and she rubbed
cloud OF flour from off her hands and ran
up the path with light heart.-Detroa
Free Press.
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COLONEL BowIE.-A correspondent of
the New York Tribune relates the follow
ing remember a story ] heard forty er
fifty years ago. stage was going along an
Arkansas road. On the back seat were three
women on the middle one, two men, tall
and muscular while the forward scat held
only small man, wrapped up completely
in blanket After a time one of the pow
erful men on the middle seat lit cigar and
smoked The smoke went up full in the
face of one of the women, who was both
Young and tmid She sickened, and then
requested the man to stop smoking. This
declared, II have paid MY fare it is GUS
tomary 10 smoke, and | viii smoke as much
as have II mind to- Accordingly he took
cut Il frt sli cigar and started tile smoke
cloud again. The woman coui,! only add
that ''Smokers ought not 10 forget TO be
gentlemen. This suggestion excited the
mans rage to white heat. At this point
the small man on the front seat laid aside
AIS blankel, baV His ieit hdhu oii tiie khee
Of tie eni~.sed rnffian, in order to withdraw
his attestion from the woman and to him
self, while with his right hand, lie drew a
bowie-knife from its case between his
shoulder blades Pointing the weapon at
the heart OF tie brute. and looking him
square in the eyes, the little man said .
am Col. James Bowie. and, unless you
throw that cigar away in one minute, Twill
put this knife into your heart, as true as
there is Il Cod The rufIian comprehended
in an instant with whom he had to deal,
and threw his cigar out of the window
without adding y word. Col. Bowie re-
placed his weapon, drew his blanket about
him and relapsed into condition Of ap-
parent indifference.
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Relations of Gen. Grant and Secretary
Bristow.

Washington Letter to springfield Republican.
| The secret of the removal Of Commits
| sioner Douglass is out at last. The Presi-
dent cared little about it, one way or the
| other, but Mr.. Brstow, his Secretary, did.
lie was bent on breaking up TIE old ring of
otliceholders, and, while he alleges nothing
against Douglass, lie insisted that there
| should be a complete change. "We have
been losing millions, :" he told the President,
"and these officials are powerless to stop
the leak; suppose we try some new ones,
and see II Iney VIII not dO better" And
Gen. Grant, protesting Gas he always docs)
t that everybody all round was honest enough,
consented to the change. Mr.. Bristow is
the first Secretary of the Treasury we have
had for many years who is actually bent on
stopping all kinds Of stealing in his depart
ment. There has been a gradual descent
till finally we reached the awful degrada-
tion of Nh Richardson's brief term. The
thieves stole right under his nose and he
did not see it. Some of his enemies insist
that he did know it., but | believe that
stupidity was his worst fault. | am sur
prised that Gen. Grant allows Mr.. Bristow
to make such war upon the whisky thieves;
not that believe that he would knowingly
keep thief in office or interfere for bis
protection, but he finds it hard to believe
that anybody who is friendly to him is
dishonest. I think the President is enti-
tied to considerable credit for his retention
of Mr. Rristow. Pelhaps he pardons a
good deal of zeal in his case because it is SO
clear that it is not caused by Presidential
aspirations. For one cannot be mistaken
as to the motives of this man; he is doing
his work for pure love of honesty and
hatred Of knavery. Other public men may
labor for personal reputation but he works
for the honest collection of the revenues.
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A GUN MANUFACTURED IN AN HOUR.

4 GUN MANUFACTURED IN AN HoUR.-
4 gentleman recently called the Remington
gun factory at Illion, N. Y, with the view
OF making the purchase of some arms. He
was shown through the works, and evinced
great interest i'll all the processes AT the
close of his tour of inspection gun was given
him aud repeatedly discharged in his pres
ence. lie was then told that since his en-
trance into the gun works every part vi the
identical gun just lired had been manniAc-
ture.l and put together, and that his own
eyes had witnessed every stage OF the work.
He then Offered; to purchase five car-hSds
of guns which The Spanish inspectors had
recently rejected, probably with the view
of getting some small reduction, and paid
the Messrs. Remington the price named in
the original contract. It is supposed that
this unknown gentleman was an agent OF
Don Carlos. If this be the case the span
ish government has through its officials
quite ovepreached itself.
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A Fortune by a Single Breath.

Wilmington tDe Letter to New York Times
The Kent county Supreme Court has been
engaged all this week With very import
ant case. Under the laws of Delaware the
| property of a wife who dies without issue.
descen9s not to her husband, but to those
of her own blood. Ten years ago, Ilenry
Stout, a wealthy Dover merchant, died,
leaving his property to his three children.
Five years ago his only daughter married
the Rev. II. Hall, Of Lewes, and a year la
ter she died in giving birth to her first
child. The latter, it is claimed by the
father, lived for a few minutes after being
delivered, but this Mrs. Halls brothers
denied. If the babe breathed for single
second after birth then her mothers
| property descended to her husband. If it
was dead when delivered, however, the
mother died without issue and it's mothers
property descended to her brothers. To
| settle the question the brothers brought
open suit for the property, and the case oc-
cupied the attention of the court the entire
week. For the plaintiffs Senator Sauls-
bury and ex-senator Comegys appeared
and the defendant was represented by ex-
Judge Layton, ex-Congressman Smithels
and Edward Ridgely, Esq. The first wit
ness called was DR.. George Goodell, who
attended Mrs. Hall in her fatal sickness,
| and delivered her Of child. He was posi-
tive the child showed no signs of respila-
4;o,, ~, ~, of+o, I;,+I,
was all the material evidence offered by the
plaintiffs at this stage of the proceedings
DIR. Page, who was also present at the de-
livery, was called by the defense. He be-
T with his ear upon its chest he had heard its
heart beat; he also saw the the temporal
arteries vibrate and the umbilical chord
throb.
DR.. Penrose, Professor Of Obstetrics in
the University of Pennsylvania, being
called as an expert, said, that, from the
testimony he had heard, he felt positive of
the chld's independent and distinct exist
| ence. Drs. Jump and Shoemaker gave sim
liar testimony. In rebuttal, DYs. Cahall
and Ezekiel and Cooper testified that the
child had no other than u fetal life, and
| that its existence was necessarily imperfect
and indistinct-of no account whatever in
establishing the defendants claim to his
dead wife's property.
This closed the evidence, and the case
was argued at great length by the counsel.
Yesterday morning the arguments were
concluded, and Chief Justice Gilpin deliv-
cred in elaborate charge to the jury, who
were then given the case, and today they
returned verdict in favor of Mr.. Hall, the
defendant, basng it upon the suppostion
that the child drew at least one breath iii
this world, sutfi icent to possess Mr.. ii. with
fortune
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a Scaly Girl.

The Milwaukee Netos says There was
young girl at the police station recently,
not over sixteen, with prepossessing face
and good figure, whose body and limbs
are covered with scales about the size Of
a fish. Medical gentlemen who have ex-
amined her says that she presents the most
extraordinary case of malformation on
record. These scales have the chameleon
like iunction Of changing their color. The
scales on her arms, while the writer was
present, changed twice from pale amber
color to "a blood red, and back again. They
do not overle each other as in the case of
fish or reptiles, but appear TO be imbedded
in flesh-in sort Of mosaic work; and in
color changes, the transformation does no
take place at once in all the imbricated
plates, but varies, some turning red, while
others retain the amber color, which seems
to be the primary hue.
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KILLED BY HIS OWN INVENTION
Melancholy End of an Enthusiast in
Field and Water Sports.

Yesterday morning Samuel II. Mead, the
inventor and patentee of the Mead Meigs
safety explosive bnllet, was accidentally
shot and instantly killed in his residence at
GA Madison avenue. He was preparing to
go with his father to Martha's Vineyard on
shark-shooting frolic. Nearly all the
preparations had been made and the Young
man was starting from an upper room with
the last load Of odds and ends in his arms
and hair trigger rifle in his hand, when
the weapon struck against some article of
furniture and was discharged, the ball en-
tering his forehead. His father, who was
in the parlor, heard the report and ran up
stairs to find his son dead.
Young Mead was only twenty four years
old. Four years ago, after having patented
a number of improvements in firearms, he
took out the patent for his explosive bullet;
but ascertaining that General Meigs had
applied for patent OH a missile of exactly
the same character he sought the General
and proposed that they should operate to-
gether. The MeadMeigs shell " is
combination of the breech-loading metallic
cartridge with hollow Or explosive bullet
containing fine gunpowder. penetrating
flesh or striking any hard substance the
bullet expledes and tears the object to pie
ces. These bullets are used IN Alaska for
obtaining specimens for the museum Of the
Smithsonian institution, and by the Wheel
er exploring expedition in Arizona. They
are also employed by Major General Custer
and other bear hunters in the Black Hills
country Of Dakota Territory.
Mr.. Meads last invent ion for which a
patent was applied for short time before
his death, was an arrangement by means of
which the recoil Of the Gatling gun may
be so utilized that reloading after each sue
cesslve discharge can be done automatical-
ly, provided the cartridge hopper is kept
supplied.
MI Mead was an enthusiastic sportsman,
and for several years spent his summers
hunting strange animals. His frolic among
the sharks off the coast Of Massachusetts
promised to be the pleasantest of his life,
and for long time he had looked forward
to it with delight. -Neao York Sum- 21st.
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The Broken Doll.

Bine eyes, with their long, dark lashes
half ycl.ed in fearful mist,
And Q, such piyitul qaivcr
On the sweet little mouth kissed;
was only "A childish sorrow,
And yet how keen was the smart,
As she held up her precious dolly,
BIOken-the pride of her heart.
In lns arms folded her closely,
AS whispered with confident smile,
. Don cry dear. I'll soon have it mended =
Bnt her tears tell faster the while.
And she so2bed, so, thank you, dear auntic
But that wont do. for you see
Ii you mend it ever SO nicely
1t would always be patched up to me -
She had spoken, that sorrowfnl baby,
a deeper truth than she knew.
And l thought with her head on my shoulder
If Its meanings as sad as true;
thought OF the shatlere treasures
We prize in maturcr years
ot tht hopes, the loves, and the friendships
We mourn with such bitter tears.
Thought how we gathered the fragments
With labor as fond As t was vain.
just 10 find thar the marks of the mendng
Could change ali our pleasure to pain
Just to tind that the patched-up treasure
Could never be precious again,
And sighed as | thought OF the hca taches
Our broken dolls lttt ill their train
, h NE. what IL dismal story
Our lives would tell at the best.
If, content with our fair. trail play things,
We made them our stay or our rest;
II we looked net above for our treasures,
Uishadowcd by time or decay:
nd this is the lesson our Father
Is teaching us day by day
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LOVED AND LOST fell in love with a
fat girl once. 1 loved mad1y, because
was loving 207 pounds Of girl. She was
amiable, tender-hearted, good-natured and
true, and think she loved me. We wefc
to be married in the fall, and | should
probably have been one Of the happiest of
husbands, when an accident dashed my
prospects. She fell overheard just as we
were about to leave the wharf on steam
boat excursion. Three or four sailors
plunged after, and they got gang plank
under her, cable around her waist and
towed her to the wharf. Then they rugged
q derrick and lifted her out by sections,
but they were SO long about it that she
took severe cold, and the result WAS
death. There were months and months
after that could never pass load OF hay
without thinking of my lost Amanda and
shedding tears, and even to this day never
see au elephant Or rhinoceros without her
dear visage rising up before ME.
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INVITED TO PEEL OFF.--We had little
fun in town fhis evening. af the expense of
three gentlemen who went out last night
an Il fishing excursion. They expected TO
be absent a few days. but came in to-day,
dressed in n paper collar, pair OF spurs
and q blanket, and on being asked why
they were erowding the season, explained
that last night about twelve o'clock. while
they were quietly sleeping, they We're
awakened and told to peel off them store
clothes. They did wake UP, and finding
themselves confronted by two escaped
convicts, with double barrelled shotguns
pointed threatinely at their heads, they
concluded that it WAS too warm To wear
clothes and did peel off in double-quick
time. The conyicts immediately changed
theis striped salts for these, and went on
their way rejoicing. ~ Gafeesfon Nears.
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THE DEAD or FNAPLEs-SHoCKING MoDE
or BuRIAL.-A correspondent writes from
Naples: The 'ampo Santo BeecElio, the
great charnel-house of Naples, contains
three hundred and sixty-tiye pits under y
wide-paved square. Every evening the
stone which covered one of those pits is
removed and the common dead of the city
for the day are thrown into it, without
even winding sheet to cover them. The
old man, the young child, the rough la2za-
roni and the tender maiden are dropped in
together in one indiscrminate mass, quick
lime is thrown in to consume the bodies,
and the pit is sealed for another year to be
opened at its close. We waited not to sec
the revolving scene, although, tas city carts
were arriving with The dead, but drove to
the Campo Santo Move. the cemetery fnr
the aristocratic dead, and hele was sur
prised to find a burial ground laid out will
snch refined taste, shaded with the cypress
and other trees and adorned with ;ombs Of
the most costly description. Many ni then.
were IN the form Of chareis buift.f line
Italian marble eIaboraieiT finisled- After
what heard of the burial Of the dead at
Naples and after what had seen it the
Campo Becciio, ID was Il relief Il, enter one
! that indicated 50 much refinement oi feel
ing. =
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VOL. 8, No. so.
POETRY.
The Maid and the Mongoian.

4 maid heard, Mongolitns are meek"
SO she sailed off to China to seek
And find whether she
Couldn't marry a he
Tea-roostCr Or mandarin meek.
She found gay heatheA-Fing Wi,
A chap who stood seven feet high.
Says she Good gracious! what fun!
Oh yol sun OF IA son
OF gun, come and marry sweet l.
Something must have bothered the sight
OF one eye as he whispered -Al light.
Mnchee high old gailee!
oh Hunkee Doree,
Me no workee! you washee. all right
Then soft to herself said she May,
Civilization has Travelled this way
So, taking her lat,
She 60 up and gat,
Aid is still going east, dare say.
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This i llow s,m Ward. The King Of
the Washington lobby, cooks a ham . |
soak it for four days in @ater, changing it
failr times a day, tiisn boil il five hours in
elder. viii, i wisp Ut new hay; then baste
it sitii brandy, sherry or clalet, according
TO the weather !; aud when they have tasted
4 slice IL that ham uhy, they win pass any
thing want i'll Congress.
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TOPICS OF THE TIMES.

Here is che Yute account of the creation :
g In the beginning the earth was covered
with mist. You could not see before you.
The great spirit took his bow and arrow
and shot-shot so we'll that he scat tered the
mist. The earth became visinl TO him,
but there were no men upon it. Then he
bake. Men came out white the first had
not been strong enough. The Great Spirit
began his work again, and this time the man
came out quite black {; he had remained too
long in the oven. 1t was necessary to try
the third time. The experiment at length
succeeded, and the man came out done to a
turn he was the redskin, the most perfect
of human types
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The Grasshopper Plague.

LEXINGTON (Mo.), May 28.-" Thee are
millions of them," is the report from most
all parts of this county. The grass and
dog fennel will not last much longer, and
as soon rs they are gone the grasshoppers
will make an onslaught on the crops. Their
wings are developing very fast, and it will
not be many days till the largest proportion
will be able to elnigrate.
RICHMOND (Mo), May 28.-since the
heavy rain OF Wednesday the hoppers are
travelling in southcasterly direction. eat
ing everything as they go. There is no
garden i'll this locality that they have not
eaten up.
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IN NEBRASKA A

OMAHA, May 28-Heavy showers have
prevailed throughout this State during the
past two days, greatly benefiting crops and
proving fatal to the grasshoppers.
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IN MINNESOTA,

NEW ULM (sIinn.), May 28.--Spung
wheat is doing well in this vicinity, but 1t
is feared it will be destroyed by grasshop-
pers, which are very thick in some locali-
ties. The probable yield cannot be ascer-
tanned vet.
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President Grant and family, including
Mr.. and Mrs. Sartoris, viii spend the sum-
mer in the Grant cottage at Long Branch
His nearest neighbors will be George W
Chllds, ex-Collector Thomas Murphy, and
Mr.. Seliglnan, the New York banker. Sec
retary Fish and family will pass the season
at their country seat on the Hudson. Sec
retary Belknap and wife have engaged
apartments at the Pequot house, New
London.
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NEWSPAPER DECISIONS.

One 60
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= Beet-root sugar can be made in Cali
fornia at seven cents pound, including
every expense.
Middletown transcript., 1875-12-11
A Remarkable Story.

A few days ago Mr.. Walker, of
Strawberry Point, Iowa, mysteriously
disappeared. He has just returned
home and tells strange story. He
says be started for Elkader, and on the
way was seized with queer sensation
in his head. He remembers drawing
from the bank at Elkader between
$4,000 and $4,000, and started for home
with his horse and buggy Then he
remembers nothing more. But 1t turna
out that he went to Dyersville, took the
train for Dubuque, thence to Pennsyl-
vania. visited an aunt whom he had not
seen for many years. and started west,
taking a route be had never tried be-
fore. On the way bis reason suddenly
returned, and finding himself in city
with which he was not familiar, inquir-
ed its Tame, and was told '.Clintou.
A more astonished man. he declares.
never was known, and be hurried home