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= large black and white cat, which
had been proving about the tenements
in Flushing avenue, near Walworth
street, Brooklyn. yesterday morning, at
tackled the two-year-old son Of JOHN
Dobson, at Sol Flushing avenue, and
| severely scratched and bit its face. Mrs.
Dobson WAS in the lower halfofthe ten
ement. Her soa cried to her tlat the
cat was eating his brother Willie. she
ran to the front stoop and found the cat
on top other child, lis claws IA the pa
hy's face and It's mouth close 10 It's
cheek, Blood was flowing freely from
the wounds that had been made. Mrs.
Dobson screamed and ran to pick up her
child. The cat gIared at her, spit and
then Jumped of and ran away. The
baby's face was red with blood flowing
from five deep scratches and two bites.
It was sitting upright when the cat stole
up the steps, and as it reached forward
It's tiny hands to play whit the aa-
ma spraug into its face, knocking I.
over; The cat was chased by Office.
McAYey, who fired enc shot after it,
missing It. Another cat Il the sams
house was then killed. DR.. Logan
dressed the wounds. The animal had
been. CHASED from house to house i'll the
ueighborhood for some days because o.
It's apparently ferocious disposition. The
neighborho0d last night Joined in yig-
oroUs huntior it. The cliJd'8 face swell
ed aueh in the day andic grew feverish
Toward evening.
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p oE TIC Al.
>0-NJsosolne-S7-os--1-1-c-a-e->~-7----
THE DECLARATION.
/ BY n. p. WILLIS.

Twas late, and gay company was gone, S o.
And light lay soft on the deserted room
From alabaster vases, and a scent ~ 81
OF orange leaves and sweet yerbena came
Through the unshuttered window ON the air;
And the rich pictures, with their dark old tints
Hung like twilight landscape, and oil things
seemed flushed into sumber. Isabel 81
The dark-eyed, spiritual Isabel,
Was leaning on her hare, aud had stayed u.s.
To whisper what could not When the crowd 4
Hung on her look like worshipers knel
And with the fervor of lip unused essasssAs
10 the cool breath of reason, told my love.
There was DO answer, and took the hand
That rested on the strings, and pressed kiss
Upon it unforbidden-and again
Besought her, that this silent evidence
That was not ind fferent to her heart
Might have the seal of one sweet syllable o..
kissed the small white fingers as spoke,
And she withdrew them gently, and upraifed
Her forehead from its resting place, and locke,
Earnest at me.-She had been asleep.
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y girl ate seven pounds ofheayy we'd
ding cake, in order that she Nigh.
dream Of her future husband. She
dreamed that a man with teeth foot
long, dogs feetand a hair lip, sat on her
all night. and rather than marry him, she
contemplated suicide and an early tomb,
where the bobolinks sing.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-07-11

Affection can Withstand very severe
storms Of rigor, but not long polar
frost Of downright indifference. Love
will subsist on wonderfully lite hO}e,
but nc, altogether without it.
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- D. -

A dull man IS so near a dead man
that he is hardly to be ranked in the list
OF the living; and he is not to be buried
whilst he IS half alive, so he IS as little
to be employed whilst he IS half deaJ.
-Savil,e,
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Undertakers should be careful fwhat
they say. One Of them said to sick
ly-looking man who was passing lis
place: Good morning. This is n;ee
day to take ride" The siekly man
winced.-Daa5lpg Nels.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-07-11

Many people are busy in this world,
gathering together handful Of Il orns
to sit upon.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-07-11

Don't you think" she inquired
amiably, THAT most men are possessed
with the deyiI:n lie said he thought
they were, particularly after they were
married.
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Let HIM who neglects to raise the fall
len fear lest when he falls, no one will
stretch out his hand to lift him up.
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In days of yore nothing was holy
but the beautiful.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-07-11

Most men are afraid ola bad name,
but few fear their conscience.
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SHENANDOAH HERALD.
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like the wild beasts around him and
missing no chance to strike blow.
IL is not u month since two army
scouts crossed the lonely haunt, and
halted long enough to see that the
graves had not been disturbed. They
saw the path OF the sentinel leading
from grave to grave. They saw the
skeletons Of the red men slain by the
shadow. They saw the shadow itself.
They were leaving the valley when
their ears were greeted by hooking
laugh. and from Il bed of rank grass and
dry weeds quarter of a mile away
they saw The SHADOW bcckoning them
to come forward. The shadow seemed
to be q mana gaunt, long-haired hu-
man being, dressed in rags, which had
once been an army uniform. It held
UP IN the ar ard shook at them car
bine and sabre, and when they gallon
ed away. If sent a leaden ball whistling
past their heads.
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JUSTICES OF THE PEACE,

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE,
DAVIS DIsr.-Dr. G. A Brown, Daniel II. spengler
Jas. B. Jackson
SroSEwALL H. Grab;ll, Ell CofeIt Sn eden
Whitaker.
JoHssroN.-J H. Rodafer, Martin Strickler
Levi IL. Cutler.
MADlsoN.-Jacob Lantz, James J. Cofman,
Samuel Rinker. a
AsHBT.-Sarn. Ha,nrlan Samuel Kingree, Jacob
Z. Miller.
LEE.--John H Kagey, Geo. M, Tder, John M
Pence
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SCHOOL. TRUSTEES.

SCHOOL TRUSTEES.
DAv1s,-G. A. Brown, Joseph Windle,
SIoNEwALL.-Jas: ", Smoots, D. F. Slsiker, Jacob
Spigle.
,JoHSsos,-E. B. Shaver, Daniel Bowman, silas
Munich.
AIADIsoN,-Jos. Conner, S, NJ. Lantz, Samuel
Schmucker. : q kflt .'-t i-=t
AsHBY.-Monr5e Funkhouser, A. j. Myers Sam'l
Hamman.
LEE.-G. M. Tidler, Jacob Nef, B. B. WierAan.
- ROAD COMMISSIONERS,
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GUNSTABL.ES.

SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
H. Grabill, Woodstock
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COMMISSIONERS OF REVENUE.

COMMISSIONERS OF REVENUE.
George C, Hannah, Woodstock.
Geo j. Grandstaf, Edinburg.
Christian Miller, Mt. Clifton.
SURVEYOR.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-07-13
DeyOured by a Bear.

A shocking story of devouring by a
bear comes ~ us from Fredericton juno
ton. An old man, named Thomas An
derson, on Tuesday last, was chopping
wood in Hardwood Ridge. Not return
ing at the usual hour for dinner, the peo-
pie with when he boarded felt some anx-
iety for his safety, he being very fee
BILE person. Night came, but with no
tidings of the missing man. The follow
ing day the settlement was alarmed, and
a strict search instituted, revealing the
fact that the old man had been devoured
by bear. Bears footprints were found
Oh the ground, which was despatched
with blood, and near the foot OF tree
were found the boots of the unfortunate
old man with part of the legs in them.
Not far from this was discovered a por-
ton of his head dreadfully mutilated.
From the footprints, plain in soft soil,
and the blood along the tracks, there is
no doubt but the unfortunate man be-
came prey to bear.-St. John (N. b. }
Freeman.
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The Wanderings Of Family Bible.

Long years ago Ezra Osborn, of Long
Hill, Springfield, departed this life, leav-
ing behind HIM the record of a Revolu-
tionary soldier and Mrs. Abigail Osborn,
who ultimately sought the aid of q
youthful lawyer, named Henry Morris,
to get a pension for her.. The law re-
quired proof that the widow of soldier
had been married to him before his SER
vices expired, and in proof of this a
small family Bible was forwarded to
Washington in 1888 that the Pension
Bureau might peruse its record of births,
marriages and deaths. The pension was
secured and the lawyer soon dropped the
business. The other day Gen. Lee re-
ceived letter from the bureau saying
that an Osborn heir was wanted to which
the Bible might be returned, and giving
the name of the lawyer who sent it.
Correspondence was exchanged, and the
book was sent to Judge Morris, who
drove down to Long Hill and gave it to
Chester Osborn, son of the veteran, 80
years and 6 months old, who gladly fur
nished the Government with receipt.
Mr.. Osborn is the oldest member OF the
First Baptist Church, and lively and ac-
tive still.-BOstOn Globe.
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Miraculous Escape.

A railroad incident occurred recently
on one of the East India lines, which
was startling as it was singular, and may
be said to be one of the most miraculous
escapes on record A train WAS ap-
preaching bridge on curve. When
the bridge came within sight, at dis
lance of 800 to 400 yards, the engine
driver was horror-struck to discover that
it was completely in flames. Finding
his brake power totally useless in the
emergency, lie jumped off, as did also
the fireman, just as the train entered
upon the burning bridge, over which it
rushed, Fortunately with unabatedspeed,
through continuous flame that rose
furiolisly above the height of the rail-
road-cars. The wooden sleepers were on
fire, and parts of the rails themselves
were red-hot. The whole train, COM
posed of number of cars, passed safely
over, and not passenger was injured or
scOrched
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-07-13
Sold Again.

The benevolent old man looked out
from the window of the car, and whistled
to newsboy. Three dashed in at the
front door and four in the back. The
benevolent old man bought a paper of
the smallest boy. In making change the
lad dropped two cents. He went down
on his knees in an instant and soon found
the money. However, he did not cease
searching. Suppressed sobs were heard,
while he dug his fingers in the holes of
the mat The passengers became inter-
ested. whats the matter, my boy ?"
said the benevolent old man, lowering
his glasses and peering over their rims
Give gone and dropped dime, an
can't find it, whimpered the boy as he
thrust his hand under the seat. dad
ii wallop me when gets home. " 4" New
er mind, let it CO." said the benevolent
old man. Here's another one" The
boy took the coin meekly, and, MS he
passed the conductor remarked "sold
again. "-NeW York Sun.
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Effects Of Tobacco on the system.

Some years ago the French Govern
ment directed the Academy of Medicine
to inquire into the influence of tobacco
on the human system. The report of
the commission appointed by the
Academy states that large number of
the diseases of the nervous system and
of the heart, noticed in the cases of those
affected with paralysis or insanity, were
to be regarded rs the sequence of ex-
cessive indulgence in the use of this ar
ticle and it is remarked that tobacco
seems primarily to act upon the organic
nervous system, depressing the faculties
and influencing the nutrition of the
body, the circulation of the blood, and
the number Of red corpusclcs in the
blood. Attention is also called to the
bad digestion, gbenumbed intelligence,
and clouded memory of those who use
tobacco to excess.
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Death In Life.

The other day I heard Cabinet Min.
lister talking to young chap who want
ed place. "My young friend" said
he, "don't apply. Saw WOOD drive
COWS, anything honorable, but preserve
your independence. I have man in
my department who has been in forty
years.
Forty years2"
eyes, every day of it. He came in in
1926. Well, he gets about the same
salary he had to commence with. The
other day he came to me, saying Il
ought to have died forty years ago.
You don't mean that, said. Yes,
said he, 1 mean that. L have been
buried in this building forty years. and
! had just as well been buried in the
grave. What's the difference between
tombs? OF what advantage have / been
to myself in here? L had nothing when
came in, and have got nothing now. 1
am disqualified for anything. If 1 was
turned out to-day l would starve to-mor-
row. So much for a Government posi-
ton that young men are so anxious to
get. They had better let it alone. =
Cincinnati Commercial.
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Rhetoric and Statistics.

1.-The day we celebrate. Let the
toast go round. This the Sabbath day
of liberty. Let the people all go mp to
the temple and worship. Bells will peal
forth their merriest notes; flags will wave
in every breeze around the world; bon
fires will blaze; cannons roar; eloquence
and song will contribute their share to
the general rejoicings. Why not? A
country whose farm products in one year
reached the fabulous value of 80, 447,-
538, 65S; slaughtered animals, $685.
956, 1916 garden products, $40, 900, 900;
orchard products, $47, 100000. For
bread 2S7, $50, 600 bushels of wheat and
761, 900, 600 bushels of corn. The prod
uct of oats reached 282, 900, 900 bushels,
3,000,0 900 bales of cotton, 100, 900, 900
pounds of wool, 1886, 900 tons of hay,
262, 1872, 600 pounds of tobacco, $1,000
hogsheads of sugar, 100000 gallons
of strip, and IL, 1877, Alb bushels of po-
tatoes. Such are the sum totals fur
nished by census reports of 1870.
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soft soap, and tablespoonful of the
Magical Mixture for washing. Let
these ingredients boil together Eve min
utes; then put the boiler ON the corner
of the range and put the cloth in, stir-
ring it around, but not letting it boil.
The color will not be injured in the least
By this process.
A HOMEMADE CARPEr.-An Eastern
lady says Have any of you a spare
bed-chamber, seldom used, which you
would like to carpet at little expense
Go to the paper-hanger's and select a
paper looking as much like carpet as you
can find. Having taken it home, first
paper the floor of your bedroom with
brown paper; then over this put down
your wallpaper. A good way to do this
will be to put good coat of paste upon
the width of the roll of paper and the
length of The room, and then lay the
paper, unrolling and smoothing at the
same time. When the floor is all COW
cred, then size and varnish, only dark
glue and common furniture varish being
used, and the floor will look all the bet
ter for the darkening these will give it
When it is dry, put down few rugs by
the bedside and toilet table, and you
have as pretty carpet as you could
wish.
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Strictly Confidential.

"My folks are going to the country
to be gone all summer - enthusiastically
exclaimed little girl yesterday as she
met another on Cass avenue.
"Your pa must be awful rich, replied
the second.
"Oh, no, he isn't, but if you'll never
tell anybody I'll tell you something"
Il never will-hope to die if do"
"Well, then, pa was telling ma that
we'd all go out to Uncle Johns. Ma
she'll work for her board, pa will work
in the saw mill, I'll pick berries and ride
horse to pillow corn, brother Tom will
go round with lightning-rod man, and
while you folks are in the awful heat
we'll be putting on airs and fixing over
our old clothes for fall. Don't you tell,
now, for ma is saying to everybody that
she must have the country air to restore
her shattered nerves. detroit Free
Press
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S%biMIAIIcIfsI.
The Necessity for Pure Air-How tn Obtain
from Halls Journal Of HEALTH

[From Halls Journal Of HEALTH
Night air and damp weather are held
in great horror by multitudes of persons
who are sickly or of weak constitutions;
consequently, by avoiding the night air,
and damp weather, and changeable
weather, and weather that is considered
too hot or too cold, they are kept within
doors the much largest portion of their
time, and, as a matter of course, continue
invalids, more and more ripening for the
grave every hour; the reason is, they are
breathing an impure atmosphere nine
teen-twentieths of their whole existence.
AS nothing can wash us clean but pure
water, SO nothing can cleanse the blood,
nothing can make health giving blood,
but the agency of pure air. So great is
the tendency of the blood to become i'm
pure in consequence of waste and use
less matters mixing with it as it passes
through the body, that it requires a
hogshead of dir every hour of our lives
to unload it OF these impurities; but, in
proportion as this air is vitiated, in such
proportion does it infallibly fail to re-
lieve the blood of these impurities, and
impure blood is the foundation OF all
disease. The great fact that those who
are out of doors most, summer ana win
ter, day and night, rain or shine, have
the best health the world over, does of
itself falsify the general impression that
night air or any other outdoor air is un-
healthy as compared with indoor air at
the same time.
Air is the great necessity of life; so
much so, that if deprived of it for mo-
ment we perish; and so constant is the
necessity of the blood for contact with
the atmosphere that every drop in the
body is exposed to the air through the
medium OF the lungs every two minutes
and half of our existence.
Whatever may be the impurity of the
outdoor air of any locality, the indoor
air of that locality is still more impure,
because of the dust, and decaying and
odoriferous matters which are found in
all dwellings,. Besides, how can indoor
air be more healthy than the outdoor
air, other things being equal, when the
dwelling is supplied with air from with
out
To this very general law there is one
exception, which it is of the highest i'm
portance to note. When the days are
hot, and the nights cool, there are pc
RODS of time within each twenty-four
hours when it is safest to be indoors,
with doors and windows closed that is
to say, for the hour or two including
sunrise and sunset, because about sun
set the air cools, and the vapors which
the heats Of the day have caused to
ascend far above us, condense and settle
near the surface of the earth, 30 as to be
breathed by the inhabitants; as the
night grows colder, these vapors sink
lower, and are within foot or two OF the
earth, 30 they are not breathed. AS the
sun rises, these same vapors are warmed,
and begin to ascend, to be breathed
again, but as the air becomes warmer
they are Carl sd so far above our heads
as to be innocuous.
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About the House.

HUCKLEBERRY BREAD. One quart
-four, one pint sour milk, one teaspoon
ful soda, one and half pint berries;
mix as stiff as biscuit dough.
To CLEAN CoLoRED SnK.-Wash in
warm soapsuds, rinse in clear, warm
water, dry quickly, and iron on the
wrong side while yet rather damp. If
there are grease spots on the silk, press
with tolerably warm iron under brown
paper.
IT is worth knowing that if one volume
of castor oil be dissolved in two or three
volumes of spirits of wine it will render
paper transparent, and, the spirits rap
IDLY evaporating, the paper in a few min
utes becomes fit for use. A drawing i'll
pencil or in India ink can thus be made,
and if the paper is placed in spirits
of wine the oil is dissolved out, restoring
the paper to it's original condition.
ScALLoPED OYSTER PLANT.-Boil oys-
ter-plant or satisfy till very tender
drain off all the water and rub through
colauder; add butter, pepper, salt,
and milk, and mix well together. Put
in q baking-dish, cover the top with
bread-crumbs, with here and there small
bits of butter. Bake delicate brown.
Celery-salt may be used for a flavor, but
not quite as much as one would of COM
mon salt.AC Christian Union.
REMOVING TEA STAINs.-The stains
will come out of buff linen lunch cloth
being put in the boiler in a suds made
=. two pailfuls Of water, teacupful OF
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-07-13
A Boy in Love.

The following letter, from boy 60 a
woman nearly twice as old as he, was
made public in Virginia City (Nev.
court 60 want you to guess who this
is from he who wrote this loves you from
his very heart you know him very well
his name is d. A. A. If you guess who
it is you touch him on the back and he
will bow to you he is boy not q man,
but if you are sure of it You can write
me II letter 1 heard you say that 1 just
suited your ideas and you just suit mine
and if you will wait for me will try to
make you happy but if you say No you
will make me unhappy for life for / love
you as hard as any boy ever loved girl.
you may be older than me but / love
you all the same don't show this to any
one for god sake"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-07-13
Killed in his sick.I,ed by Lightning

In the rain-storm of Thursday eve
ming bolt of lightning struck the house
ef Mr.. Edgar l.. Morrison, who keeps q
groceryin small two-story frame house
in Douglass street, near Schenectady
avenue, Brooklyn. Some OF the family
were just beginning their supper in a
back room on the first floor, while Mrs.
Morrison, with young friend of the
family, was watching beside the sick-bed
of her son, Benjamin +. Morrison, aged
26, clerk, who had been confined to
the little low room over an extension OF
the house with consumption in its final
stages. His mother sat by the table a
few feet from the bed and lighted lamp
was beside her. The young man was
speaking to the visitor when suddenly
there came a sharp crack and the blaze
of lightning was in the room. The bolt
struck the trimble-down chimney in the
center of the roof, just over the room
where Benjamin Morrison lay, ran down
the chimney, knocked out the tin cover
ing which was plugged tightly in the
stovepipe hole, burst through the
wall, carrying away the plaster on both
sides of the partition; jumped down to
Vic DhStDOuiu, uiii ilppcu anu spiiltcIeu
it. Another arm OF it followed the
chimney to the floor below, leaped to
the table where four persons were at
supper, turned over the dishes and
blackened the food, aud then passed
away. 1t did not set fire to anything,
but it scorched the laths where the plas-
tering was torn Off, and burned the base
board. Mrs. Morrison was thrown from
her seat in her sons bedroom against
the wall, down which the lightning ran.
The lamp was extinguished and over
turned, and the hat of the young visitor
was blown from her head Mrs.
Morrison says she was completely dazed
at first. and thought that the roof had
fallen. On reighting the lamp she
found that her son had been killed. She
looked in vain, though, for any mark
which the lightning had made. The
body was not the least bit discolored,
and he seemed to have fallen asleep.
The lightning did not touch his bed, but
ran along the Dashboard by the side of it.
The meal OF those who were at the
table was rendered unfit to eat. 1t
smelled strongly of burned gunpowder.
They felt an electric shock as the light
ming flashed Ky, but beyond this they
not disturbed. -Nea0 York Sun.
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A New Way OF Raising the Wind.

Two gamblers were in Leavenworth,
Kan, several years ago, with about $50
In their pockets. They desired to get
money enough to go to California. They
went to separate hotels. One registered
as physician, and advertised remedy
Tor cholera. The other put up large
quantity OF yeast powders into spmple
packages, with a little croton oil in each,
and hired q boy to distribute them.
Soon family after family, affected by the
croton oil, felt what they believed were
symptoms Of cholera. The sale of the