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United Mt Last.

. ~ quiet wedding occurred in Middle
town, Orange County, n. T., wit in the
the last few months, at which there were
no guests, the mother Of The bride being
the only witness of the ceremony besides
the officiating clergyman. In 1862, q
young gentleman, who was betrothed to
the lady, enlisted in the Union army.
His sweetheart made no effort to dis
suade him, and with a breaking heart
babe him adieu, and quietly buried her.
self in her home with her widowed
mother, the only living member of her
family besides herself. For a time all
went well, and loving letters cheered the
gallant soldier. After the battle of
Charlottesville, his letters suddenly
ceased. Letter after was written to him
and his comrades, but all that could DO
learned was that after that terrible battle
he was missing. His stricken sweetheart
never entirely abandoned hope, and lived
on, hoping against hope for his return.
After many weary years, her patient
troth has been rewarded, and she is now
o happy bride. Some time during the
fight he was taken prisoner, and soon
after he was sent to q Southern pison,
where he was kept about q year. He
finally escaped and reached the sea-
board, where he conceived the idea Of
pe~rsonating an English sailor. and get
ting to England on a blockade runne
After much delay and many disappoint-
meuts, during which his courage almost
failed him, he succeeded. He remem-
bers sailing through the blockading
squadron. After that all is blank. He
learned afterward that he had been taken
i'll, and o af ,er insane. On his ar
rival in England he was taken to al in
sane asylum by the captain of the block
ade runner. where he remained until u
year ago, when he was discharged cured,
but penniless. He succeeded, through
friends in the asylum, in obtaining q sit
uation in a mercantile house, where he
won the esteem of the principals, to
whom he told his story. A leave of alb
sence was given him; he came to Middle
town and found his old sweetheart. O
a lady OF thirty-two, still faithful to his
memory. They were quietly married,
and are now in England, where he pro-
poses to remain for a number OF years.
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An Interesting Fact.

In Hildreth's "History Of the United
States" it is stated that Manhattan
acknowledgements called New Amster-
dam !; now the city of New York-was
bought by the Dutch from the Indians
for sixty guilders, or twenty-four dollars,
and this only about two hundred and
fifty years ago. And yet, if the pur.
chasers could have securely placed that
twenty-four dollars where it would have
added to the principal, annually, interest
at the rate of seven per cent, the accu-
mutation would exceed the present mar
ket value of all the real estate in the city
and county Of New York.
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An Amherst Mass farmer lately Of
fered one Of the young ladies WHO teaches
in the public schools there O busbel Of
potatoes if she would wheel them heme
through the streets at an hour when tho
greatest number of students were taking.
their walks. He had them loaded Oh the
wheelbarrow ready for her, and she
pluckily wheeled them yhome,r telling
him that when he had more potatoes to
dispose Of in that way TO let her know.
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sAnf IaIrurp HancA.=

Free! Leisure Honr..-A splendid ~ page
family literary paper, full Of Choice Stories, Sketches,
Postry. ate. sent three months, with . pair Of beautiful
8IY thromos, suitable for framing , and 1aoT 1h s. 1hs
fst.n,ns taken) to Day mailing expenses. The publish
srs, i'll. PATTEN &Co,. LIZ William W Inona ST. ssn me-" i I ess.
g asaIsrs all LEISURE HOURS, price I cents.
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The prisoners in the penitentiary on
B~lackwell's Island, New York, recently
refused to work because their supply Of
tobacco was withdrawn by the commits
sioners, and a serious revolt was averted
only by the prompt arrest of the ring
leaders.
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Wonder Upon Wonder.

Given away-A strange, mysterlous andmost
extraordinary book, entitled 1.-THE Book Of Won
ders." Containing, with numerous curious
pictorial illustrations, the mysteries OF the
heavens and earth, natural and supernatural,
oddities, whimsical, strange curiosities, witches,
and witchcraft, dreams, superstitions, absurdi-
ties, fabulous, enchantment, etc. In order
that all may see this curious -book,rthe pub
fishers have resolved to give it away to all that
desire to see it. Address by postal card,
F. Gleason & Co., 1888 Washington street,
Roaton- Maaa. .t.rr... ~
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EoIrhnnks, scales.

In the month Of August fifty carloads o!
scales were sent out from the scale works, ant
ni~nety.nine carloads of materials for manufac
turing scales we're received at the works in the
| same month.-S. Johnsbmy (TL) Caledonaan
Cpn} D1
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MAKE NO MISTAKE. In Dooley's Yeast
Powder you get the best article OF the KIND IN
the world. fhe cans are always full weight,
the article itself the purest and strongest pos
sible, so that q smaller quantity than usual suf-
ices. Do you want your baking always per-
feet? Don't fail then to Use DooLEY's YEAST
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For Dyspepsia, Weakness and Debility.

EpbOu, N. D., may .. 1ofU..
Dear Sir-Having received great benefit from
the use of Peruvian Syrup, I am willing to add
my testimony to the thousands of others con-
stantly sounding its praise. During the late
war 1 was in the army, and had the misfortune
to be taken prisoner, and was confined in Sails
bury and other Southern prisons several
months. and bf came so much reduced in health
and strength as to be q mere skeleton Of my
former self. On being released, I was a fit
subject for q Northern hospital, where I re-
manned como two months and then came home.
My physician recommended and procured for
me several bottles of Peruvian Syrup, which I
continued to use for. several weeks, and found
my health restored and my weight increased
from ninety pounds to one hundred and fifty,
my usual weight, and Ithave been in my usual
good health ever since and I can cheerfully
recommend it in all cases Of weakness and
debility Of the system. whether arising from
an impure state Of the blood, dyspepsia, or
almost any other cause, believing it will in
most cases give entire satisfaction.
: 1 Yours truly, GEO. 8. BIxBY,
Sold by dealers generally.
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The Latest Fashion for Ladies',

Our attention has recently been called to the
Raritan Matelasse Cloahings, something entire
" new in the way Of heavy, thick, warm, WOODEN
goods, specially adapted for ladies' wear during
the cold weather now approaching. These
goods are the handsomest, and most stylish
ever seen, and so far as price is concerned, are
cloaks, sacques, dolmans, circulars and jackets,
for both ladies and children, and are to be
found at all the leading dry goods stores in the
country. Be particular to ask for the Raratan
Cloakings, and take no other.
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HendQuurters.
NEW YORK bTATE ASSOCIATION

> . Headquarters.
NEW YORK sTATE ASSOCIATION
For THE PROTECTION OF FISH N GAME, :
SYRACUSE, N. Y, June %, 1877.
To Colwell Lead Company,
63'Centre Street, New York.
GENTS. Web have carefully examined,y YOU
Shot here on exhibition, and have also received
the unanimous report Of all the clubs on the
grounds of the State shoot in favor Of your
shot. We cheerfully pronounce it a very per-
feet article, and recommend it othe sportsmer
generally throughout the country.
GREENE SrITH. President.
JOHN A. NICHOLS, Vice-President.
CHAS. R. WRIGHT, Secretary.
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The Miles, Alarm Money Drawer
M o~rt;o1o o1nnocf cDpnaah merchant

is an article almost Indispensable merchants.
Being capable Of variety of combinations,
and simple in its construction. it recommends
itself to merchants as. IN important part Of
their store fixtures TTl-tapping has become
90 prevalent tibet aa Ingenious arrangement
like that OF the Miles Money Drawer is indeed
o necessity. They are sold by Messrs. Fair
banks & Co., 81 Broadway, New York, and
the hardware trade. generally.-N. 7. Express.
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To Haines Bros, No. AS Fifth arenue, Aeo
York.. ,
Iowa State Fair first gold medal on Haines'
upright piano fortes. Must have two ,uprights
Immediately. A. REED q BUNS.
Chicago, Ill, Sept. %, 1877.
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From Washington.
Foreign News.

A great Republican meeting was held
in Paris and addressed by NJ. Gambetta.
In St. Petersburg, a socialistic plot
was discovered, which 'extended to Mos
COW and other Russian towns, and over
GOO arrests were made.
A frightful epidemic prevailed in the
Russian departments of Tiais and Kutes,
and the mortality was enormous.
Henry Meiggs, the well'known rail
road builder, died in Lima, Peru.
Frederick Simsdale, q London solicitor,
has failed for 81, 500, 600, his assets being
5000 600.
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Time will tell, and time has told that any
mans a fool who pays old prices. When Jones,
of Binghamton, Binghamton, N. y, offers
Five Ton Wagon Scales, on trial, freight, pre-
paid, at $50 each free price List. - !" ,
- lam Bilious. vr
Quirk's Irish Tea will make o new man Of you.
Sold by druggists at Is cts. q package.
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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-04-07

The WEATHER.--The depression which moved
off the New England coast on Thursday after
noon has taken northcastcrly direction and is
now traversing Nova Scotia, following the usual
course for disturbances on the North Atlantic
coast. The central pressure decreased rapidly
during the morning, but increased again as the
day advanced. Brisk westerly and northwest
erly winds followed the depression, and an area
Of snow and rain attended its movements. The
temperature has risen along the coast, but has
not changed much in the st. Lawrence Valley.
As we predicted, another depression has advanced
from the Southwest into the Mississippi Valley,
with rain from Texas to Cincinnati, and north
westward to bismarck; moderate TO low temper
nturc and light winds and Gains over large
area. between the Mississippi and the Allcgha-
MICS. northward Of Tennessee, the weather has
been generally clear. Fogs have prevailed on
tho Gulf coast, with very high temperature. The
Missouri and Mississippi have risen slightly, and
tho Ohio and Cumberland have fallen. The
weather in New York to-day will DC clear or
partly cloudy and cooler, followed BY rising tenn
psrsture and increasing cloudiness.
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of rehabilitation That is, If all other
difficulties in the way of peace should be re-
moved and Russia should be in the very
process of disbanding her armies the repe-
tition of last years outrages would change
the situation completely. AS it is thought
that Russia would not be displeased at any
event which might seem to fairly arrest the
process Of disarmament the early report of
these threats following that declaration may
excite suspicious that Russian agents in
spired the report. But the news came from
the troubled neighborhood in q special
despatch to the London Times, and Russian
stories do not generally come by that chan
-
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An important point in the foreign news is
that the Mussulmans in Bulgaria "have re-
commenced threats, the same as preceded
the last massacre" All the people of vii
lage near Philippopolis have been notified
that they have only fortnight to live-a
piece ofintelligence that reminds one of the
missives in this country of the ku Klux Khan
and the Molly Maguires; though tho whole
sale butcheries that last year startled Europe
sufficiently evidence that the grotesque re-
semblance does not go far. 1t is worthy of
note that the possible occurrence this year
Of massacres such rs were perpetrated last
year is touched upon in the declaration
made by Count Schouvaloff in London
before signing the protocol on the
31st nit. 1t is there said:-'If mas
sacres similar to those which have
stained Bulgaria with blood take place this
would necessarily put stop to measures
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The scandalous disclosures in relation to
the management Of some of our private city
charities are very properly attracting the
attention of the Board of Apportionment
and inducing greater caution in the distribu-
ton of the excise moneys among them The
action Of some of these societies in refusing
to allow any investigation Of their affairs to
be made, except under such rules and regu-
lations as they think proper to dictate, nee
essarily deprives them of public confidence
and should be an absolute bar to their re-
ceipt of single dollar of the public funds.
The Commissioner of Accounts, who has
been endeavoring to investigate the financial
affairs of the st. Johns Guild, reports that it
is impossible to do SO, since no books have
been kept for three years, and the moneys re-
ceived have been deposited to the private
bank account of one Of the managers. The
Childrens Fold scandal has been revived
by the attempt of the deposed manager, Mr..
Cowley, to force himself back into the insti-
tuition by a coup Tttdt. The State Board Of
Charities reports the management of the
New York Juvenile Guardian Society to be
utterly ENTHUSIASTICALLY. These are not pleas
ant subjects to contemplate. 1t is deplor-
able to be forced to believe that the
miserable crime of abusing charitable
trust is possible in this city At the same
time the poor shonld not be allowed to suf-
fer from these scandals. Indeed, there is no
good reason why they should not be bene-
flied by the disclosures. Every charitable
association should be soarchingly scruti-
we'll as the public funds should be given
only to those by whom it will be faithfully
transferred to the deserving poor. Then
the needy will receive more solid assistance
than they have obtained III the past from the
same amount Of contributions.
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Phair, the NIurd erer-An Aiibi.

Vermont furnishes IN event that is mildly
departure from correct and methodical con-
duct on the part of the authorities. In that
State in the year 1874 the crime of murder
was brought home to . young man by
evidence satisfactory to a jury, and this
culprit is now under sentence Of death.
But a. person has s'turned up" who
promises to prove that at the time the
crime was committed in Rutland, VT, the
alleged murderer was not in the place, but
somewhere else, on his way to Providence.
That the Executive should stay the arm Of
the law out of regard to mere expression
Of opinion of this nature must be attributed
to the readiness of the authorities to exhaust
the smallest chance that, may present
itself in the culprit's favor-to dis
position not to hang anybody in favor
of whose innocence o word can possibly be
said 1t is nearly three years since the
occurrence of the crime. On the trial the
whereabouts Of the murderer on the day Of
the murder was made out by consistent
train of circumstances, and did not at all
agree with his own account of his where
abouts. No evidence was produced on
the trial to sustain his own account,
and the jury decided against him. Now
man comes forward whose statement
amounts to an expression of opinion that
the prisoners story was true. 1t seems not
according to ordinary methods to stay an
execution on such ground. Doubtless the
Governor attaches weight to the story, and
that of course is sufficient: but it is evident
that man who knew SO little of the pris-
oner that he did not appear on the trial, and
who yet knows SO much that he can swear
as to the culprit's whereabouts on particu-
lar day in June, 1874, is person who
knows ut once too little and too much.
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The simplifcation and reform Of our
dock management can be SO easily effected
that any novel and complicated legislation
on the subject is naturally regarded as
offered in bad faith, or as covering somc job
which would probably be worse for the city
than even the present Dock Department.
Under the existing system distinction is
made between our dock work and all other
public work. The Dock Department is not
required, as other departments are, to re-
port its annual estimates to the Board of
Apportionment. Its expenses are not in
cluded in the yearly budget, as the expenses
of other departments are. The Commits
sioners are not responsible, as all other heads
of departments. Their expenses have been
on an average nearly quarter of million
dollars year. Their plans have been I'M
mature, their counsels divided, their heavy
expenditures altogether inconsistent with
the amount of work DONE They have helped
to increase our debt without having much
bettered the condition of the docks or given
any important advantages to commerce. The
law creating the Dock Commission and de-
fining its powers and duties should be re-
pealed, the docks should be placed under
the management of a bureau in the Public
Works Department, the head of which should
be a capable engineer, directly responsible
to the Commissioner of Public Works, and
all the dock work should be brought under
the provisions of the city charter and done
by contract, the same as all other city work
is done. This would sweep away the triple
headed commission, with its costly political
patronage, the boats, derricks and other ex-
pensive white elephants of the department,
and would bring the docks under the prac-
tical management of competent and re-
sponsible head. We would then have the
docks improved and the work done eff
GENTLY, cheaply and in business like
manner.
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PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Blaine is at Augusta. Me.

Blaine is at Augusta, Me.
Even ribbons nowadays are two. faced.
girl robbed Mr. Custard, OF Chicago, OF $50; and
he eustard.
Many lover has wondered how cat can walk along
the top OF spiked fence
In some parts OF the country the farmers be.
ginning TO feel their oats
The novel combination Of sky blue ana oive.grecn
was seen in elegant Paris costume.
London has statue OF young Enclishman which
in form is more graceful and beautiful than the great
Apollo Bevcdcrc.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Will get up IN tho middle OF
tho night to ot down thought or see whether there
is q mouse in the trap
The sweet OF spring comes slowly but surely and
the viocts mix punches tho Jersey hills begin
TO peep their heads above the ice.
Rome Sentinct:-"Evcn II u boy is always wnistling
Il want TO be an angel, 1t is just well TO Keep the
preserved pears ON the top shelf OF the pantry"
There arc nine things that Will make man mad but
one is enough when his wife tells him he can have
any dinner because she couldn't get the wash boiler OF
the stove In time.
Worcester Prcss:s-"At the age OF ten Dr.. Schcmann,
the cxcavator ut Myccne, presented his father with
Latin essay tho Trojan and was left Iathcrless
at comparatively early age.
MI Isaac w. Andrew, only brother OF Governor
Andrew who removed from the Office OF Inspect or
ut the Boston Custom House. after service OF four
teen years. has been restored by tho new Secretary
the Treasury.
.tndrews' Ba-ar:-"A party OF Chicago girls were
out Jumping the rope on the prairie recently.
unsophiscatcd Eastern man who passed over the
ground shortly after thought there mad been buffalo
fight there"
Moses was civil engineer. lie surveyed tho prom
iscd and.--Nev ORLEANS Republican, No. he a
mining engineer lie viewed 1.-THE landscape ore. -
Boston Post This is Horrible; he was Wall street
engineer. lie littc bare among the buIlrushcs.
Burlington Hdwk-Eye :-"Scicn,inc men say that
the use Of opium cngcndcrs a tendency to stcal We
now understand why Do Quincy, In his Confessions
Of OPIUM Eater casually mentioned that the para
graphst Of the Globe Democrat had been addicted 10
tho Of opium from the early age Of two and hall
years"
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policy has SO long been to adroitly do

policy has SO long been to adroitly do
nothing?
TO succeed he must persistently place
country above party. He must shut his
ears to mere party pleas. He must keep his
eyes fixed on the pledges he has given and
let party consequences take care of them
selves. He must not be alarmed at the op-
position of some of his party's leaders he
should rather welcome their hostility, be-
cause it will gather to him at once the en-
thusiastic support of the country, which will
hail in him the true representative of the
best and highest American ideas. If he has
courage and steadfastness thus to pursue
his own course undoubtedly party lines will
be broken, and very rapidly; but he will
find himself the rallying point of new
party, better than either of the present
ones, because composed of the best
elements Of each party which will
be strong and able enough to de-
fend him against all attack, and to
enable him to realize all the pledges he has
made to the country. But to achieve this
result he must act and not hesitate; he must
be as bold in performance as he has been
in promises; for only decisive action secures
confidence in followers; hesitation, delay,
are fatal to its growth. With the future OF
parties he has nothing to do; it is no part OF
his business to consider it. His policy is
the death warrant Of both the present par
ties. He cannot save them without miserably
failing to fulfil the just expectations he has
raised in the country; and he cannot be ac-
cused of destroying his own party. because
he is the servant Of the whole people, and
his policy is the policy of the whole coun-