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vertisement to the one she had answered
in Manchester paper. Suspecting it
was from the man who had victimized
her, she answered the advertisement,
and received reply signed cdr. Will
kins,' and dated from No. 4 Osmaston
Street, Derby. She wrote one or two
other letters to him, always assuming a
fictitious name and address and altering
her handwriting; and, having become
convinced as to the identity of the man,
she communicated with the police. De-
tective Mcclellan was consequently sent
to Derby, and as he and other police
officers, with the lady and gentleman,
were watching No. 4 Osmaston Street,
they saw the prisoner 60 there for his
letters, and he was arrested. At first
he said the detective was joking, but
when the lady appeared he admitted
having defrauded her, and said he had
done so because he was short of money
In his pockets were number of letters,
which showed that he had long carried
on this system. He is an upholsterer,
and he has wife and children living
The victim of this fraud is lady-likt
person, about So years of age. The
prisoner was handed over to the Man
| chester detective.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

EPH. HOLLAND, well known sport
ing man, has been sentenced to 10 month:
in the Ohio Penitentiary for fraudulent
practices at the last Ohio State election in
Cincinnati.
MAJ.-GEN. WIN. B. HAZEN has beer
selected for the position of Military Attacht
TO the American Legation at Vienna, for the
purpose of observation of the military oper-
ations between the Turks and Russians.
THE New Hampshire House has voted
TO lay upon the table a resolution indorsing
the policy of President Hayes.
The President aud family returned to
Washington from their Eastern trip on the
3Oth.
AN agent of President Diaz, of Mexi-
co, has arrived in Washington, for the pur-
pose of urging the recognition of the Diaz
Government by the State Department.
GEN. GRANT announced his intention
to leave England Immediately after the 4th
Of July and go to Belgium, Switzerland,
Norway, Sweden and Russia, in the order
named, and on his return from Russia will
spend some time i'm Paris.
MRS. MARION ADAMS, sister OF the late
Mrs. President Andrew Jackson, died at the
Hermitage, in Tennessee, on the 2Sth ult.,
at the age of - years.
LIEUT.. CATsBY JONES, formerly of
the United States Navy and of the Con-
federate ram Merrimac, has been killed in
a street encounter at Selma, Ala.
LIEUT.. FLEMING, of the 18th Infantry,
convicted of appropriating funds intrusted
to him by inmates of the prison at Alcatraz,
Cal, has been sentenced to dismissal from
the service and confinement at hard labor
for three years i'm the Iowa Penitentiary.
Col. j. 0. MARTIN, Secretary of the
Masonic State Mutual Benevolent Insurance
Association Of Indiana, committed suicide
on the Cd by stabbing himself with knife
Mp. JOHN w. CLAPP, Secretary of
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The st. Louis NarrOw-gauge
Railroad Project.

The Executive Committee appointed
by the St. Louis Convention have made
the following report and recommends
ton of routes:
The building of the st. Louis, Kansas and
Colorado Narrow-gauge railroad, commence
ing at the City Of st. Louis; thence through
the counties of St. Louis, Franklin, GascOn-
ade, Usage and Maries to the Usage River;
thence westwardly by the most practicable
route through the States of Missouri, Kansas
and Southern Colorado.
We also recommend the building of a mar
rOw-gauge railroad, commencing at st.
Louis, running through the counties of st.
Louis, St. Charles, Warren, Montgomery
and Galloway by way of Jefferson City
through Kansas to Southern Colorado.
We also recommend the building of the
St. Louis and Kansas Central Railway, to
commence at Lebanon, Mo-, and running
through the coal fields of Barton County,
Mo-, and Crawford County, Kas.; and also
via Fort Scott, uniting in Fall River Valley
and running thence westwardly to Ellsworth
and Beloit in the State of Kansas.
We also recommend the building of mar
row-gauge road from Kansas City to connect
with the main line at the most practicable
point.
We also recommend to the consideration
of capitalists the construction of the Pierce
City, Missouri and Fort Smith Narrow
gauge Railway, from the most practicable
point on the st. Louis, Kansas and Colorado
Narrow gauge through the counties of Co.
dar, Dade and Lawrence, in the State of Mis-
souri,, and through the counties of Benton
and Washington to Fort Smith, Arkansas,
and thence to Red River, in Texas, to con-
meet with the Texas Narrow-gauge road at
Marshall, Texas.
The committee further recommend that
an immediate organization of companies be
made of each line for the purposes of carry
ing out the objects of this convention.
The following resolution was adopted:
ResOtUed, That the people of the different
counties through which the proposed lines
of narrow-gauge road design to pass be re-
quested to call meeting of the people, and
appoint committee of one or more to col
lect and compile statistics of the acreage of
land in cultivation, the amount of produc-
ton of grain and stock, imports and ex-
ports, and Of what kind, the number of pop
ulation, taxable wealth, rate of taxation,
amount of bonded indebtedness, and such
other statistics as may be beneficial to the
interest of the road, or for the interest of
capitalists, where such information has not
already been furnished; also that said COM
mittees forward, as soon as may be posi-
Bile, said report to the Chairman of this Con-
ventiOn.
Also the following:
RESOLVED, That a committee of five from
St. Louis be appointed of which Hon. Eras-
tus Wells be one and the Chairman, to pre-
pare an address setting forth the advantages
of the narrow gauge railroad system gener-
ally, and of the various proposed st. Louis
lines; and to organize such companies as
may be necessary to carry out the proposed
lines of road.
The Chair (Mr. Wells) appointed
Messrs. Giles F. Filley, L. c. Norvell, j.
B. Maude and E. Morrison to cooperate
with him on the committee.
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in the class does not appear, and indeed
need not be mentioned, for from the
very moment of her entrance Miss North
bent her energies solely to the task of
defeating the SO young men her timid
gaze had discovered sitting on the col
lege fence.
She was the daughter of physician
in Bristol. Conn, and from the inaugu-
ration of her teens had taken kindly to
Greek roots at the hands of q Yankee
school-master, so that she was well pre-
pared for the ambitious task, and to do
justice to the young men, though they
magnanimously ignore the advantage
it must be admitted that the cruel SoPh-
more favored her studious intent with
partiality not shown any of the finale
freshmen" Miss North, however, ear
w showed that her talents were not con-
fined to "grubbing" She modestly re-
fused an invitation to join the ball club,
but developed liking for the gymna-
stun, and is said during her junior year
to have swung the Indian clubs as well
and more gracefully than any
man in the class. During the four
years there were times when the tender
conscience of this fair student was Sc
rious hindrance to petty rebellions
against class discipline, but even these
unpopular characteristics are now re-
lated by her chrivalrous classmates
Being the youngest member of "'77,"
it is to be supposed that Miss Jennie
was the pet of the class; certain 1t is,
she was present at all the class contests;
waved her handkerchief, somesay herhat,
at every class victory on the ball ground
or elsewhere, and in every manner
prominently identified herself with the
interests of her classmates. There were
few young men malicious enough to
assert that Jennie would spoil her
complexion" but Miss North seems to
have feared none of the dangers incl
dent to a collegiate education.
At what time it dawned upon the male
mind that ''the little girl of the class"
was in fair way of carrying off the
highest honors is not definitely known,
but it is stated on good authority that
when this discovery was made a united
effort on the part of dozen young men
in the class attempted to defeat her,put-
ting Miss North to the inconvenience of
studying late into night, by which means
she triumphed.
Miss North leaves college with the in
tention Of teaching school for awhile, as
she has two little sisters to care for, but
hopes eventually to become a practicing
/ physician. 1t is an interesting fact that
Bates College was the earliest Gin 1869
to open its doors to and Gin 1859 to
graduate a woman, Miss Mary w.
Mitchell who is now a professor at Vas
sar, and it has now secured in Miss
North the first female valedictOrian. At
the present time the New England col
leges receiving women are Wesleyan,
Waterville College, Vermont University
/ and Bates
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Matrimonial Frauds.

The Sheffield (England) Telegraph
says: In the Derby Police Court man
named Walter Wilkins was placed in
the dock under the following circum-
stances: Detective Mcclellan, of Man
chester, said that in November last an
advertisement appeared in the Manches-
ter Guardian to the following effect:
WANTED-A widow lady as housekeeper
to a widOwer, a professional gentleman; a
lady of means will be required, ultimately
with view to matrimony.
To that advertisement lady replied,
and subsequently the prisoner went to
Manchester, where she lived, and had
an interview with her. The prisoner
then went to London, where he was
joined in few days by the lady, and it
was arranged that they should shortly
be married. He told her he was pos
sessed of considerable wealth in Amer
lea, and wanted to proceed there imme
diately after the wedding had taken
place. She consented, and he obtained
from her sum of ESQ for the purpose
of paying their passage, ego to buy sur
gical instruments Che having asserted
that he was doctor, having obtained
his diploma in America), and Els to
buy dress for her. The night preced-
ing the day fixed for the wedding, how
ever, she received from him letter in
which he said that in consequence of
illness he had determed to proceed to
America to go under medical treatment,
and advised the lady to remain with her
friends until he returned in good health
in three months time to marry her.
She did not hear of him until few
days ago, when she saw similar adj
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The Story of a "Sweet Girl
Graduate"

A correspondent of the New York
World sends the following from Lewis
ton, Maine:
1t has been duly announced in the
World that the salutatory and other ac-
customed orations at the annual com
mencement of Bates's College, in this
pleasant little city, were delivered on
Wednesday last with their usual excel
lence and effect, in which announcement
appeared the transformations statement
that Jane Rich North spoke the valedic-
tory. Under ordinary circumstances
this might and undoubtedly would have
sufficed for Bates and the people here
abouts who are interested in its affairs,
but on investigation the circumstances
do not appear to be ordinary. The
name Jane implied young woman
incredulous as it seemed that one of this
sex should have carried off the highest
honors in class of her superiors, men
and the young lady the valedictorian
proves to have been.
To her classmates, many of whom
still reman in town, and who are found
properly, if somewhat unexpectedly, en-
thusiastic upon the subject of her many
and varied talents, she is known as
Jennie North, and is described as a
"perfect brick of girl" whose career
in college has been continuous justif-
cation of the coeducatiOn of the sexes.
Miss North entered the class of ", four
years ago at the age of II. She found
as her classmates SO young men and a
single representative of her own sex.
What stand this other young lady took
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~ Elferes, Lew Day, Mrs. Manuel and child,
H. ID. Horton, George Woodward, VIM. Os
born, Geo. Wilmote, French Frank, Peter
Batterie, r. Druene, II. Backridge, ii. Bland,
Jr., Manuel and John Chamberlain; Com
pany f, First Cavalry-Sergeant Gum,
Sergeant Ryan, Corporal Thompson,
Trumpeter Jones, Privates Armstrong,
Burch, CoIbut, Halbut, Donnie, Liston,
Mosforth, Shullan, Shaw, Blair, Connolly,
Douche, Lewis, Martin, Quinlan and Sulli-
van; Company H, First Cavalry-Lieut.
Theller, Trumpeter Marshall, Saddler Gal
win, Corporal Lee, Corporal Curcan, Pri-
rates Crawford, Morrissey, Shay, Werner,
Cavanaugh, Edward, Nelson and Simpson.
Wounded: Mrs. Ben Norton, T. Swartz,
Joe Moore, G. Sheaver, L. d. Sergeant, Cap
tain Trimble, U. S. A, VIM. George and H.
C. Brown.
The British Mediterranean fleet has
anchored in Besika Bay. The British Cab
met has officially informed the various Cab
inets that the fleet was sent there for the pro-
lection of British interests and the Christians
in Turkey.
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" iva Dogs"

There are two dogs in the South End
at least one lives there, and the other
passes through twice a day-that de-
serve more that usual consideration.
One of them, stout, snuff-colOred fell
low, with white head, and neck and
fore legs, accompanies COW over the
river every morning, where she pas
lures on the open common. II stays by
her all the time and goes back with her
in the evening; probably drives her
back as well as out. for he seems to
have sense enough, and to fully match
the stories every body has seen of the
intelligence and fidelity of the Scottish
shepherd dogs or " collies." The 9TH
er is fine black Newfoundland on
West South Street, called Beecher,"
for his brains, who every morning waits
for the paper-carrier-whO rides part
of his route for speed-and as soon as
he sees the horse coming he walks into
the street to be ready, takes the paper
in his mouth and carries it into the
house, corner of West Street. The horse
knows the dog, too, and stops "a soon
as they get together, without checking,
and the pair frequently indulge in lit
tie playing Observation-Disclosures
News
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THE MARKETS.

ST. LOUIS. July :. 1871.
BEEvEs-Choice to Fancy, $500 SO; Good
to Prime, Sc. 25H6.50; Native Cows, S3OOG3.sO'
Texan and Indian, g 40d5.OO-
HOGS shipping, A35945O
SHEEP-Chpped, s3.O0d425- ,o
FLOUR-ChOice, SS75dS.9o; Xxx, Si-S9c6.iO:
WHEAT-Red, No. 2. Sl.s26l.S21Ti No 3, Sl-12
9I.72k.
CoKS-No 2 Mixed, 47a471Ic.
OATs-NO. 2, 33k oslo
RYE-NO. 2, 56G51c-
TIMOTHY SEED-Prime, <i.e0Gl.70
TOBACCo-Dark Lugs, $27563-75: Medium
Dark Leaf, S6.500s0O.
BUTTER-Creamery, 20G25c.
EGGs-Fresh, SH 69c.
PoRK-standard Mess, sls.2OalS.25. -
wooL-Tub- washed, Choice new, 4OG4lc;
Unwashed Combing, 20635c.
COTTON-Middling. Ike.
NEW YORK.
BEEyEs-Sative Steers, 5000 1875; Texan
and Cherokee, S7.7j09.00-
sHEEP-S4. 25G6-5O; Lambs, s6OOSs.5O-
HOGs-Live, S.25a5.60.
FLOUR-Good to Choice, S6.6586.75.
WHEAT-No. Chicago, Sl.596l.6O.
CORN-Western Mixed, 56d60c.
OATs-Western Mixed, 30d56c.
PORK-Mcss, <14 259 l4-30.
CoTToN-Middling. I214c-
CHICAGO.
BEEvEs-Commou to Choice, So 100 20
HOGs-COmmOn to Choice, - 55OO
SHEEP-Common to Choice. S2.5Oa425.
FLOUR-Choice Winter. s9.OO39.5O; Choice
Spring superhne, $5.0005.5o.
MHkAI-cDFaDSs NJ - Ea-7t A-fef
No. 3, 81 23al.24
CORN-No. 2, 47s<647xc.
OArs-No. 2, Hd32Ac-
RYE-No. 2, 61d62c.
PORK-Mess, sI3.259l3-30.
KANSAS CITY.
BEEyEs-Native Steers, SS-2565-50; Native
Cows S2.0064.00-
HoGs-S3.2564.10
FLOUR-XX to Patent, S2.50d4.50-
Corn MEAL-90c6Sl-00.
WHEAT-NO. ), S1-5fd1-55.
CoRS-No. 2, 34S34zc.
MEMPHIS.
FLoUR-Choice, s9-0049.50.
CONSUMED, 62d65c.
OArs-White, 5366Oc.
COTToS-Middling, &c.
NEW ORLEANS.
FLOUR-Choice Family, $1,000 1918.
CORy-White, 60d65c.
OATs-St. Louis, safe.
HAY-Prine, Sl6006l7.O0.
PoRK-Sew Ness. Sl4.37H a14.50.
BACoE-6x 96xc.
COrros-Middnng. IKE
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WAR NEWS.

A dispatch of the 29th said that a
heavy battle was in progress at Byrgos, on
the Danube, where the Turks were desper-
ately resisting the crossing of the Russians.
kilograms of the 30th from various
points on the Danube give particulars of
frightful bombardments along that river.
At Rustchuk the German, French and Aus
trian Consulates were completely riddled by
the Russian shells, as was also the military
hospital. The Turkish bombardment of
Giurgevo was equally fierce, but apparently
less destructive. The Car has taken up his
quarters at a farmhouse near Turnu-
Maguerilla. The headquarters of Grand
Duke Nicholas have been transferred to
Sistova. There are additional reports of
Russian reverses in the vicinity of Batoum.
A st. Petersburg telegram of the 1st
says: "A dispatch from the Car announces
that the Turks are retreating, and all Bulga-
ria except the quadTilateral may be consid-
cred in the hands of Russia" A Bucharest
dispatch, same date, reports every thing quiet
on the Danube for the preceding two days,
except few skirmishes around Sistova.
1t was reported on the I'd that the
Roumanian forces were preparing to cross
the Danube near Kalafat.
The Russian siege of Kars, according
to dispatches of the 4th, was likely to be
terminated, by the defeat of the Russian
field armies of the left and center and of the
investing force before Batoum.
A telegram from Constantinople, 9th,
says the Russian retrograde movement at
Kars will, it is believed, be fastened by the
report which has reached Erzeroum of the
great spread of the instruction in eau
cassus. An official dispatch from st. Pc
tersburg announces that the Dobrudscha is
completely cleared of Turks as far as Ira
JAMS Wall. Russians continue to cross the
Danube uninterruptedly day and night.
The following is the Russian explana-
ton of the reverses suffered by their armies
in Asia Minor: Gen. Louis Melikoff having
reached the Araxes Valley by way of Kars
and ErZeroum, to prevent an attack in front
and rear, before proceeding further west
had to turn north and attack levin. The
attempt failed, and Gen. Melikoff fell back
to the Araxes Valley, where he heard that
JHe SOulucTH COluuluj uHutI Llcut.-
Gen. Tergukassoff, which was to
have met him there previous to the joint
march on Erzeroum, was likewise defeated
near Delibaba, and had retreated. Lieut.
Gen. Tergukassoff is seemingly determined
to retrace his steps to the frontier and res
cue Bayazid, while Gen. Melikof, according
to the latest intelligence, intended to take
up position in the AraXes Valley and hold
the road to Kars against the victorious force
from levin. A Bucharest dispatch of the 9th
gives the following disposition of Russian
troops in the vicinity of the Danube: The
5000 Russians who have crossed the Dan
ube at SistOva comprise 10000 cavalry and
$50 cannon. About $4,000 more Russians
are concentrated between SimnitZa and
Turnu- Magurelli. The army which crossed
at Sistova has been divided into three bodies,
the principal of which is marching on Rust
chuk and the other two towards the Balkans
and Nikopolis, respectively.
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In reply to a Postmaster, who wishes
to know whether it will be considered a
violation of the Presidents order for a
Postmaster to sign a call for State
Convention, he being a member of the
State Executive Committee, Postmaster
General Key expresses the opinion that
to merely provide for a meeting of a
convention and to call it to order, with
out attempting to control its organiza-
ton or future action, would not be in
consistent with the spirit or purpose OF
the Presidents instructions. This view
of the matter has since been Endorsed
by the President and Cabinet.
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COLONEL DEQUERALTA, recently of the
Cuban Army, and member of the new
War Commission now representing the
Cuban cause in this country, has issued
a manifesto in which he says:
AT no time since the first blow for liberty
was struck, nine years ago, have we Cubans
been so near the realization Of our hopes as
ut the present moment, and il is a matter of
regret to us that America should be so indif-
ferent TO our fate, and more especially the
colored populations s we are not only fighting
forliberty and independence, but soforthe
abolition of slavery. We need arms and am
munitiOn. We do not ask for filibusters.
We have enough Cubans on the island, and
in exie-mOre, indeed, than we need-to
plant the Cuban flag even in Havana itself,
if we only had arms and ammunition. For
the last three long years we have not re-
ceived a single round of ammunition from
outsiders. We have TO fight for it and take
it from the Spaniards. We, however,
made agood deal of powder on the island,
and then refilled cartridges picked
up from the enemy. This is a
slow process; still our little army of $4,000
men is now well clothed, and this has ena-
bled us during the past year to maintain the
offensive with considerable success. NV eff
forts, and those of my two colleagues, now
in this country, are in one direction only-to
open the eyes Of the American people to the
struggle at their own doors in one of the fin
est islands in the world, and to enlist not
only their sympathy, but the active support
of their Government, in granting us bellig-
erent rights
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GEN. MATA, the representative of
Diaz in Washington, announces that he
has full powers to treat for the protec-
ton of the Mexican and Texas borders,
and he can foresee no reason why he
should not be recognized, if our Gov
eminent follow precedents in similar
cases, including those heretofore pur-
sued with reference to Mexico. Gen.
Mata says that Mexico is as peaceful as
could be expected after such a revolution
as placed Gen. Diaz in the Presidential
chair, and he emphatically denies the
truth of the statement that his mission
is to negotiate the sale of five Northern
States of Mexico to the United States for
500, 200, 900, less the amount OF our
claims against Mexico growing out of
border raids. He says that the Govern
ment in Mexico which would propose to
ALLEVIATE any portion of Mexican Terri
tory could not stand Single day.
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order of the Diaz Government to Gen.
Irevino, instructing him TO resist with
force of arms the invasion Of Mexican
soil by United States troops, etc. The
Mexican order was briefly discussed,
but no action taken. 1t is stated that
there is no indication that Gen. Mata,
Diaz's representative, will be at present
recognized as Minister from Mexico, OF
that there viii be any change in the
policy Of the Administration respecting
the order to Gen. Ord authorizing the
pursuit of marauders on American soil
into Mexican territory.
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A Good Sunday-schOOl Lesson.

Deacon -, a staid, cool-headed
gentleman, well advanced in years, was
until recently a Sunday-school teacher,
remarkable for the evenness of his tenn
per and for his deliberate speech. He
once had class of bad boys-One of
them a very bad boy-who tried in many
ways to provoke the teacher to wrath.
One day, while the old gentleman was
explaining one of the striking incidents
in the life of Christ, the young rascal
deliberately spat in his face The good
deacon, without a change of tone Of
his voice or looking round, proceeded
with his explanation, but before wiping
his face, his right hand, by back-hand-
ed stroke, came in contact with the
mouth of the refractory pupil, and as he
is a blacksmith and that was his ham,
mer hand, it required considerable
drenching with water to stop the free
flow of blood from the lips whose impu-
dence needed this lessor. Boston TrGU-
eLLer.