, 1875-02-07

natural impenetrabiiitY OF his skin and the &C.
quirod toughnesse Of his bootleg causing it to
turn aside from Its origins1 course.
OAKLAND.
MrsuEILANEOU8 ITEMS.
The Oakland Literary Society will hold tta next
regular meeting at the residence of the Rev.
LOWS Meredith, Tuesday evening. Members,
visitors, and al others rho desiTo to spend an
evening Of literary enjoyment aTs requested to
be present.
a party VAS rendered 10 Hiss Lille Ford, Fri
day evening, 1T the residence Of her parents on
Oakwood avenue, it being the occasion Of her
birthday. Tho house was taken possession OF
by tho invited guests at IN early hour, and held
By them until latc in the night. Many members
OF the '.Pryor" Club, Of which Mlss Ford is .
member, wbre present.
Wednesday and Thursday uere good days Tor
the coal-deale1s and plumbers.
The members OF the Ellis Park Club, Fauer-
Gu Chapter, Landmark Lodge. Cottage Grove
dored Aid. Clarke and wife reception RI Cars
Thursday evening.
The soirco given By tho Forestvillo Club At
their hall on the corner Of Forty-lfth street and
Langley avenue, Thursday evening, ras largely
attended special car was chartered by tho
members OF the club to convey the invited
guests to and from the city. The Club holds its
soirees every alternate week, ~ announced II
last Sundays InI5UNE.
.sStarted up again, +" and "1cady to serve the
wants OF our former customers, as heretofore,
is the announcement placarded Oh the outside OF
that butcher-shop that died about ei1 weeks ago.
w. T, Smith, ueil-EuoMn lawyer OF this CITY,
{.at o5r oGv
proposed residence park, Oh Vi1cenues avenue.
uear Thirty-eisht streat- His property covers
shout acres Of ground, and lie has commenced
erecting a cow OF houses running entirely around
tue west and north and south ends Of tho prop
erty, while the centre will be fitted up for park.
Thievea have not been plying their vocation so
strongly during the past week as they have the
few preceding ones. They have probably stolen
all that is worth stealing, and tho Geld weather
frozo them out. The police force are now on the
alert for straggiers, and all SUSPICIOUS looking
characters Who are acen ont on the streets ''late
O. nignts are strongly interrogated By the of1i-
cera, aud, II they cAupot give satisfactory 10
coun: OF themselves, they arc marched down to
the police-station, where they can siumber over
night, and in the morning coaf1ont the face OF
tho etern Jnstice, to whom they must give sat
1sfactory account or suffer the severest penal
ties Of the Law, as they may be mesed out by the
'Juatice dispenser"
The silent football OF the canvasser and the
en.erprising map agent il no longer heard On the
front doorstep; be, too has taken the hint, and,
lko the wandering Arab. has folded up his tent
and stolen away for parts uDknown.
The ladies' Of st. Marks Church (Episcopst)
gave social entertainment at Carr's Hail. Mon
dAy evening. Tho ladies Of tho church propos-
ed last spriog to take upon themselves the Ee-
sponsibility OF purchasing nsw pipe-organ for
the church, and they not only proposed to pur-
chase ii, but also to pay for Ii. And since then
they have been giving their social entertainments
every suo weeks, and the proceeds we're used
in helping to pay the debt incurred in purchas-
ing tho organ 1t cost 50, 500, and Is all paid for
within few hundred dollars.
''Old Boreas did not forget to call and stay
at Oakland, Wednesday and Thursday, whiis on
his journey to the Atlantic Coast. Stoves were
ali patronized to excess and coal-dealers' til}s
we're filed to overaowiog. The orders fur coal
vere SO large that coal7deatels could not fiji
them until two Or three days after, whiic the in
dlyidual who ordered sat at home swearing ''bc-
cause that coal didn't coma ;''he burnt up all tho
kindling- wood that could be found within 3 mile
Of his house, md when that wss all used up, he