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A Florida correspondent of the Hart
ford Times writes !: Green turtles-the
big fellows that abound at Key West
are also plenty all along the coast up to
Cedar Keys. 1t is hardly time yet to go
out for them but turtle fishing will in
May and June be quite business with
one class of seafaring men. They are
caught in large and strong nets. The
nets are anchored at the bottom along
the channels of certain places among
the islands, and stretched across, often
for long distances, the position of the
net being shown by floats. Once en-
tangled in the net the turtle is helpless !;
all his clumsey struggles only get him
deeper and deeper into the net. I saw
one huge fellow slowly lift his back out
of the water, sink, and raise again off one
OF the islands of Tampa Bay probably
he was not less than a 200-pounder.
Turtles weighing 500 pounds are often
caught in the nets but the fishermen
tell me they prefer such as weigh only
so, rs, and 100 pounds, for the reason
that these sell more readily and bring a
higher price in proportion, the reason
beng that turtles are commonly pur-
chased whole, especially by the large
hotel proprietors in New York and else
"hOAS, fehA ~ ouy olo WClShiuS oNCI
100 pounds would be likely to involve a
considerable loss. For 800 or 400
pound turtle the purchaser at Cedar
Keys pay only half price per pound.
The green turtle does not lay its eggs
on the Florida shore, nor do the fisher
men know where it does lay. However,
l found turtles egg on the outer shore
of one of the lower islands. 1t might
have been the egg of "loggerhead
This is the name given by the fishermen
to big sea turtle (not esteemed for
soup which does lay its eggs on the
Florida coast, and which is much more
active and ugly than the true green
turtle +; unlike them it will almost al ways
break out of the net by biting through
the strong mesbes. They will also in
tiict ugly bites upon the hands of those
who try to hold or handle them. A
block of wood is thrust into the mon
ster's mouth for safety.
A two weeks fishing voyage will often
give the sailor boat load of green tur-
ties. During the season, which lasts
from the last of April to July or August,
he will make from 5000 to 300 by the
sale of these creatures at eight cents
pound.
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to New Jersey and seen Russell Colvin.
The members of the jury which had
convicted the Boorns, however, hesitat-
! ed to accept anything short of the man 8
presence. and Judge Chase, who had
sentenced them, pointed to Stephen
Boorn's confession.
The third day came another letter.
81 have Russell Colviu with me,
wrote MIR. Whelpley. 81 personally
know Russell Colvin," swote John
Rempton, "he now stands before me- -
at is the same Russell Colvin who
married Ann Il BORN, of Manchester, Vt,
! made affidavit Mrs. Jones of Brooklyn.
But it would not answer. Pride OF
opinion is stubborn. Doubt of opinion
dies hard. Manchester intelligence.
not to say piety, was on trial, and it
behooved all good residents to hold out
sgainst conviction to the last.
However, Colvin, or Colvin's double,
was on his way. AS nc passed through
| Poughkeepsfe the streets were thronsed
| - see him. His story was printed in
! every newspaper and told at every fire.
side. At III udson cannon were fired in
Albany he was shown to the crowd from
platform; and all along the road to
Troy bands of music were playing and
banners were Haunting and cheers were
given as Colvin passed by. Some men
become famous from having been muir
dnred. Russell Colvin was famous be.
cause he was alive,
Toward evening of Friday, December
%, 1919, double sleigh was driven
furiously down the main street of Man
chester to the tavern door. Il contained
Whelpley. kempton, Chadwick and
the bewildered R1ssell Colvin. Imme
diately a crowd of men, women and
children gathered around, and as the
sleigh unloaded its occupants and they
took their place on the piazza, exhibiting
the last man to view, "That's Russell
Colvin, sure enoughi There's no doubt
about 1t y came from the lips OF scores
of the gazers. He embraced his two
children, ssked after the Boorns, and
started for the jail.
The prison doors were unbolted and
the news was told to Stephen Boom.
"Colvin has come, Stephen, said
the Rev. Lemuel Haynes.
"Has hep" asked the prisoner.
Where is he"
Here L am, Stephen" said his
brother-in-law "What's them on your
legs ?"
"Shackles !" replied Boorn.
what for ?"
"B cause they said murdered you."
you never hurt me in your life"
replied Colvin.
The sequel is soon told. Stephen
B corn was released from prison. as was
Jesse also. Russell Colvin returned to
New Jersey. But the judge who suf-
fered an innocent man to be convicted |
of murder by the admission of extra |
judicial confessions-the members of |
the jury who deliberated but one hour
before agreeing upon verdict guilty
upon evidence that should not hang a
dog-the deacon and church members |
who urged confession and preached re-
pentance-and the ninety-seven mem
bers of the legislature, sitting as a
co1rt of appeals, who refused re- hearing |
of evidence what became of them?
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AerOnautic.

Lucy Hooper in one of her Paris
letters, in speaking of the disastrous
ascent of the balloon Zenith 1 had
quite an interesting conversation with
M. Tissandier, who, though soreIy de-
pressed by the dreadful fate of his COM
rades, is in Lo physical respect the
worse for his perilous expedition. A
sensation of heaviness in the head and
general debility are the only effects
remaining SO far as his health is con-
cerped. He is a quiet, modest gentle
man, and seemed rather oppressed by
the universal interest which his adven-
lures have excited. 1t Is reported he
is the only one of the three who ate
nothing before undertaking the ascen-
sion, but the secretary of the aeronautic
society assured me that M. Spineli's
breakfast consisted merely of cup of
soup, a bit of bread, and a glass of
light claret; SO that the question of
food had nothing to do with his fate
M. Tissandier is not only the editor of
the scientific periodical entitled In
Nature, but he is practical aeronaut,
he and his brother having been charged
with the task of managing the balloon
expresses that went to and from Paris
during the siege. The aeronautic So
ciety, which, as its name indicates, is
devoted wholly to the investigation of
the question of aerial navigation, re-
ceives no support from the government,
but it has been acknowledged and is
now protected by the academy and the
institute. 1t is not very samptuously
housed, its present quarters being
merely a back room in house on the
Rue Lafayette. In this room are col
lected together all sorts of queer ma
chimes, the most imposing of which is
an enormous construction, with wide,
bat like, outspread wings, and won
derful couglomeration, in the midst
wherein or wherein the passenger is
to sit to maDenver the wings aforesaid.
OF curse the whole structure is fail
ure, bus it is extremely ingenious. A
can and did and does fly was exhibited
to me 1t looked not unlike n dragon
fly on an exaggerated scale. The me-
tive power appeared to be a thick chord,
formed of loose, separate flaments of
India rubber, which chord is to be
wound up or relaxed Mt pleasure by
means of key, and which Thus moves
the wings of the machine. The secre-
tarv assured me that it could fly with
velocity of thirty feet per second.
AS THEY entered dry goods store
yesterday you wonld have said that
love dwelt in both hearts and that a
dove of peace rested on every single
on the roof of their abiding place. She
saw a lovely dress aud she begged him
to buy, but he replied 81 can't dar-
ling, not before next week" Cant |
you, dear" she smiled Well, l viii |
wait. They had hardly passed ont oil
the door before he said ia like tn |
see myself getting That dress |" Aud he |
answered Yon couldn't buy one
side OF 1T, and if you could you are too |
stingy and mean to DO it !'-DetrOH |
Free Press. |
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tismaI scene which occurred in one of
the churches on last Sabbath. They
grew enthusiastic-as the ladies always
do-over the toilet of tue different per-
sons who were numbered among those
who received the solemn rites. One of
them remarked Mamie looked per-
fectly splendid in a magnificent mauve-
colored drese." Mauve-colored -
calculated one of her companions /;
why, who ever heard of any one being
baptized in anything save white 2"
{" oh, WE'LL" said the other, "white
will do well enough for some people,
but Mamie never expects to be baptized
but once, and she thought she would
get up something stylish. / am sure
nobody has any right to complain at
such thing, when it probably will
happen but once in ones lifetime.
This may properly be called the ruling
passion strong in baptism, as a gentle
man remarked who heard the above
conversation. Thsf5 is nothing like
going about things in a stylish manner
in these latter days.
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WHO KNOWS. OK. HOME oUrs-


VINO Knows where pins aud ueedles 20.
Nhere all tx" buttons stray?
no SHOWS where all the P-nUi : 90
Tha. somehow Get ayays
W. SHOWS hoN NIL the chlua bresks
lhat wasn't touchei air
now baby got 81 back brti-e
het never gets fall?
VINO snows whence all tie fashions cc-ne
Nd where they diss apasr?
WY one brief month should make fright
NJ VI wnat Was such dearr
VINO knows now little bills can swell
NJ, 70 such proiigisu- 5izse
VI Ahows, moved. what's going on
hEneath his very eyes ?
VINO knoSs just where her husband goes
"hsn "business Eeeps him out:
"no Knows when best to wear a smile,
md when TO wear pout?
VINO Knows the time to face the fact
That she's no longer youuge
VINO knows how bess 10 speak her mitII
And how to hold hcr tongue?
Who knows the most convenient day
To bring frienl tn dine?
Who Knows tho half of what he spends
On clubs, cigars aui wine?
VINO KNOWS one bonnet cannot last
A woman all her life
VINO Knows the woman il the same
When sweetheart turns to wife?
We WhN all TIRE pretty girls
Arc often last to 60?
How all the ugiy women wed
VINO never have a hesu?
WY small men fancy wives so large
And large men fancy small?
who knows. in fact. how balf the world
Was ever matched at all
Who knows how far TO trust friend.
How far to hate foer
Just when to speak a kindly Yes,
And when sturdy Nos
VINO knows-the grim OIL: Grecian sage
Says eravsly. from thy shelf.
The wisest man IN AL the world
Is he who knows himself.
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ACoNsUMPTIvE CURED.-When death was hourly
expected from Consumption, all remedies having
failed, accident led TO a discovery whereby DIR. ii.
James cured his only child with preparation of Can
nabis Indica. He gives recipe free on receipt of
two amps to pay expenses. There is not single
symptom consumption that it does not dissipate-
Night Sweats Irritation of the Nerves, Difficult Ex
peco atom sharp pains in the Lungs Nausea at the
Inaction of the Bowels and Wasting of the
Muscles Address, CRADDOCk CO, 1t32 Race
Street Philadelphia. Pa, giving name of this paper
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Milk as a Food.

Pure milk contains all the elements
that constitute the living organism, and
it may therefore be regarded as a typical
alimentary substance. 1t is the only
article of diet upon which human
being can, for any considerable length
of time, msintain healthy subsistence.
In its composition milk is SO like blood
that it may be injected into the veins,
not only without injury, but, if we may
credit certain authorities, in cases of
exhausting hemorrhage and of collapse
from cholera. with positiv. life-savIng
advantage. It is, however pre-eminently
adapted to the support of infancy and
childhood, and is good for food in
maturer years only as the man has
physical constitution in common with
the child. The building up of the
sturdy form of manhood requires cert ain
nutritive elements in greater proportion
than they exist in milk. 1t therefore
becomes necessary to add other articles
to the diet of the later years of child
hood aud more mature life. But milk,
furnishing as it does cream, butter,
and various adjuvants in the cooking
and pr paration of other articles of
diet, constitutes for all ages a very i'm
portant part of the food of mankind.
When pure and good it is, for all who
have an appetite for it, most nutri-
tons and healthy food.
BAPTISM Ia MoDE.-rhe Louisville
Courier Journal says: y party of young
ladies III street car yesterday, all
mindful of the presence of reporter
fInr. Il
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UNUSUAL GUARANTEE.-Col. J. E. Foster.
manager of the Texas Real Eatate and Gold
Drawi 6, makes this unusual and most liberal
proposition to purchasers of tickets Deposit
your money in any first class bank Uhere you
lire, take their certificate of deposit, endorsed
NTH these erdct 'oords: Payable only when
Fosters Texas Drawing takes place" Send
tho certificate instead of money, and tickets
will be issued to all sending such certificates
This plan keeps the ticket-holder's money at
home, till the management faithfully complies
with the advertisement.
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WITHOUT doubt hundreds of people
who will read this item are suffering with kid
ney disease in some form, which might be
cured with bottle or two of Johnson's Ano-
dyne Liniment, used internally. Why not
fru il
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DIR. WALKER tried various extracts
from herbs and roots, without bent fit.
He noticed, however, that Alcohol, that
bane of the human race, was used in
their preparation, and he determined to
exclude the poison entirely from his
own practice, 80 that the sin of making
men drunkards, while pretending to
cure them, should never lie at his door.
The Almighty blessed his experiments,
and in the Vinegar Bitters he has pro-
duced a pure, Misunderstanding agent,
which banishes disease in every form,
re-invigorates the system, and restores
strength to the feeblest sufferer. There
is no part of life's citadel where the en-
envy can make a lodgment, that the
Vinegar Bitters will not find him, and
put him to the rout. Lnspurity of blood,
is the parent of disease; the liver, the
stomach, the Lungs, the nerves, every vi
tai organ is affected primarily, from this
cause, and in this direction the Vinegar
Bitters acts with magical influence.
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Fosters TEXAS LAND AND GOLD DRAWING,
AT HOUSTON, JUNE 30th.-His first drawing
was conducted to the satisfaction of every
one. and many were the prizes drawn by Mis-
sissippians. -Ne,1ton (M,ss Ledger.
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The FAMILY SEWING MACHINE.-The
invention OF the Wilson shuttle sewing ma
chine exerts an influence over domestic COM
fort unequaled by any invention of the last
hundred years. AS an economical arrange
ment it enables one person to do the work of
ten in superior manner and with unspeak
ably more comfort. Machines will be delivered
at any railroad station in this county, free of
transportation charges, if ordered through the
company's branch house at 1879 Canal St., New
Orleans, La. They send an elegant ca.a-
logue, and chrome circular free on application.
This COMPANY want few more good agents.
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Parsons PnrgatiUe Pills, which are
now being extensively sold in this State, are
purely vegetable, and are mild and gentle in
their operation. One is dose. Good quail
ties, certainly.
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A MAN OF A THOUSAND.

If yOu would enjoy life use TUFTS Pills.
They produce good appetite, sound digestion and
impart vigor to body and mind
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Than ks s'From tho Depths OF the Hear t.

WELLINGTON, Lorain Co O.. Aug, "a, 1874.
DIR. r. " PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y:
Dear Sr-Your medicines, Golden Medical
Discovery, DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, have
proved of the greatest service to me. Six
months ago no one thought that could pos
sibly live long. 1 had q complication of dis
eases, -scrofula manifesting itself in erup
tions and great blotches on my head that made
such sores that 1 could not have my hair
combed without causing me much suffering !;
also causing swollen glands, tonsils enlarged,
enlarged or " thick neck, and large and nu-
merous boils. I also suffered from a terrible
chronic catarrh, and in fact was 80 diseased
that life was burden to me. l had tried
MANY doctors with no benefit. I finally pro-
cured one-haf dozen bottles of your Golden
Medical Discovery and one dozen Sage's Ca
tarrh Remedy and commenced their use. At
fret was badly discouraged, but after taking
four bottles of the Discovery began to i'm
prove, and when had taken the remaining 1
was we'll. In addition to the use of Discovery
1 applied solution of Iodine to the Goitre or
thick neck, as you advise in pamphlet wrap.
ping, and it entirely disappeared. Your Dis
covery is certainly the most wonderful blood
medicine ever invented. L thank God and
you, from the depths of my heart, for the
great good it has done me. Very gratefully,
Mrs. L. CHAFFEE.
Most medicines which are advertised az
blood purifiers and liver medicines contain
either mercury, in some form, or potassium
and iodine variously combined. All of these
agents have strong tendency t. break down
the blood corpuscles, and debilitate and other
wise permanently injure the human system
and should therefore be discarded. DIR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. on the
other hand, being composed of the fluid ex-
tracts OF native plants, banks and roots, will
in no case produce injury, its effects being
strengthening and curative only. Sarsaparila
which used to enjoy quite a reputation as a
blood purifier, is remedy of thirty years
ago, and may we'll give place as it is doing, to
the more positive and valuable vegetable al
teratives which later medical investigation and
discovery has brought to light. In Scrofula
or Kings Evil White Swellings, Ulcers, Fry
sipelas. Swelled Neck, Goitre, Scrofulous In
Indolent Inflammation, Mercu-
rial affections, Old Sores, Eruptions of the
Skin and ore Eyes as in all other blood dis
eases DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dissolve
has shown it's great remedial powers, curing
the most obstinate and intractable cases. Sold
by all dealers in medicines.
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UF. j. walkers CALIFORNIA FiitH
egar Bitters are a purely Vcgetar q
preparit' ION, made chiefly from the dlS-
tive hcrLr found on the lower ranges u
the Sierra Nevada mountains Of CaiitD1-
MIA, the medicinal properties of wi1Ca
are extracted thercfrom without the ga
of Alcohol. The question is ;tiDi Isr
daily asked, "What is the cause y Is
unparalleled success of VINEGAR H;T
TERS?" Our answer is, that they rainoys
the cause Of disease, and the patieut q
covers his health They ere TIT .lIsss
blood purifier and Iife- giving priWao.e.
perfect Renovation and InvigDfatHs
Of the system. Never before n tns
history of the world has "a medicine ,,ez5
compounded possessing the reInaiHa .
qualities Of VINEGAR BITTERs in healing lG'
sick of evey disease man is heir to. T'ts1
are a gent, pu rgstive rs well as ToD1Ei
-elieving Congestion or Inflammation -..
he Liver and Visceral Organs, III Biboas
Diseases.
The properties d DR., WALKFn'i
VINEGAR BITTERs are ApeTisTt, DiaphOIe.yi -.
CarmiHative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diurst''-
Sedative, Counter-Irritant, SudOrlhs, Alt5ss
tive. and Art~D'e--a-
n. II. MCDONALD q co..
Druggists ard Zen CTS. San Francisco. Caflth -
and cor. of Washington and Charlton Sts., n
Sold by all Druggists n nd Dealers
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DR.. WHITTIER,

No. GIT st Charles Street, St. Louis, Mo,
con inues to ALI cases of obstacles 10 marriage,
blood Impurities, very al ment or sickness which
results from indiscretion or imprudence with uh-
Ip 90 y, DR. ~. es abliSument Is char
Tered by the state of Missouri, was founded and
has established TO secure safe certain and re-
IiabIe relief Being IA graduate of seNeTai medical
college, and having the experience of a long and
successfl life In his spec Ties he has perfected
r, M dies hat efectuai in all these cases His
parents being treate by mail or express every
" here No matter VIII failed call or write From
the great numb of sppifCatio ions he is Enabled TO
keep his charges low. 36 pages, giving full
IN 4 fDr Two
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Catholic Brides.

A New York correspondent of the
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser writes:
The number of Protestant young ladies
of elevated social position who have
voluntarily embraced the Roman Cath
Ole religion OF late in marrying has
created considerable commeht, and
given life to a sort of genteel slang,
expressed in two Catholic
brides" There have been ruany stories
told of determined .aughters and heart
broken mothers and fathers, and the
stories were not without their effect
Since Easter four New York ladies have
become Catholics i'll order to become
wives and Colonel Smith. who married
a daughter of the late Horace Greeley
on SATURDAY., became member of the
Church of Rome at the solicitation of
his fance. Then niece of W. B. Aston
ton, daughter of the publisher; Miss
Badeau last week and Miss Morgan,
who married Spaniard. Love, they
say, is blind, and Cupid knows no re-
ligion. Nevertheless, these convert
marriages have caused the cornerstone
of society to shake p rceptibly, and the
rejoicing among archbishops and priests
is only surpassed by the chagrin of
ministers and rectors.
THE Rev. Esau Burden, a negro
preacher in Charleston, 8. c., adopted
a novel but effective way of raising the
money to bury dead parishioner.
Laying a five-dollar bill on his pulpit
desk, he said "Whon cover that?
bill of like denomination. The clergy
man then spread out two dollar bill
and repeated the question, "Who1l
cover that ?" and somebody responded.
50 he went on with decreasing amounts
until displaying ten cents, he shouted !:
CHOW for the Sunday school children
which of the lambs will cover that?
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MARRIAGE GUIDE.

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