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panied him to HornellsviIle, where
lived one Of his children, a daughter,
who had grown up and married during
his absence. Berry coming home n
finding out the situation went to Hor-
n~ellsviIle and found his wife. He asked
her if she would come back, or if she
intended to go with O'Connor. She
decided to return to Owego. O'Con-
nor left on the next train, taking with
him a son, a young nan of II. He is
going to South America. He says that
after being released from Auburn prison
he went to st. Louis, where he Joined a
gang of bank robbers. They robbed an
Illinois bank of s240. 600; O'Connor's
share Of the spoils was $4,000. With
this he fed to Cuba. He was followed,
arrested, brought back and sentenced
to ten years in Joliet. His treasure he
secured in Cuba. On his release in
1876 he went directly to Cuba and re-
covered his spoils. With it he went to
Brazil, where he has acquired wealth
and position. He came to this country
after his family. He had in his posses
sion s26, 900 in cash, $4,000 of which,
it is said, he gave to his wife.-O ,pego
IN. ~ Times.
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The Trade outlook.

An extended tour during the week
among merchants, tradesmen, manu-
lecturers and representative business
men fully convinces us that the long
looked for revival in business has in
deed commenced. The progress at first
may be slow and gradual, but the up
ward movement has begun, and it will
sweep onward to increased dimensions
until all our industries are again in mo-
tion and honest labor finds steady en-
ployment. Retail dry goods merchants
are the first to feel the pulses of re-
newed activity. The outlook warrants
them with new paint and fixtures to
render their stores attractive. Many
of them are moving into more commo-
dious quarters, and all are preparing
for an enlarged autumn business. In
terror dealers say the agricultural COM
munities are in a good financial con-
dition. Three years of abundant har-
vests have enabled farmers to pay their
debts, lift their mortgages. wipe out
their taxes, and they now will supply
their families with staple merchandise
which 50 long, through forced economy,
has been denied them. Housekeeping
goods Of every description, us well as
all articles Of clothing and underwear,
will be among the frs. purchases made,
SO that country stores in all sections
q A.E f
will share in an increased trade. Fur.
niture, carpets, and house-furnislling
goods will be next in demand, and it
will be a liberal one, as the wear and
breakage in these departments during
the last few years has to a great extent
not been supplied anew, Articles OF
luxury will be more or less sought after,
and as business improves the circle oil
want enlarges, until all parts of the
great machinery Of business are again
in successful motion. The dry goods
jobbing trade breathes a new life and
seems to have caught a new inspiration.
Hopefulness has taken the place OF
doubt; purchases are made with u feel
Ing OF confidence that the goods bought
will be sold at profit, and that the re-
tail dealers are generally in a sound
condition. They anticipate IN increased
and healthy autumn business. Manu-
facturers are exhibiting a wise, con-
sentative spirit. They realize that
over-production has been the fruitful
source of their past misfortunes. Re-
duced hours of labor and a reduction in
the number of looms employed have
lessened the production of textiles, Sc
that the markets are nov comparative
ly free from a surplus. Let them b,
kept in this condition and It will inur,
to the profit Of the manufacturer, com
mission agent and jobber.-U s. Econ
onltsf.
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Around the Melon.

There is always a crowd Of people at
at the laying of a corner stone, q boat
race, trotting match or n military pa
rade, but no countenance wears that
look ofintense interest which is visible
when twenty-five or thirty citizens
gather around a two shilling water
melon and discuss the awful mystery
concealed beneath the rind. After the
melon had been .'hefted," thumped,
pressed and squeezed by each one of the
group in turn, the man who has crossed
the Alps, shot tigers in India, met the
Car of Russia and cleaned out Sitting
Bull on the plains of America, declares
his candid belief that it is a ripe melon.
Then the man who has owned nineteen
different farms, married four different
wives, written two books on agricul-
ture, and raised melons by the million,
asserts that the specimen before them
Is green. The crowd divide of, yea
and nay, and the owner of the melon
pulls out his knife and proceeds to
slowly perform the operation of "plug-
ging." The silence is so deep that the
ticking of a watch sounds like a fire
alarm. Men can be seen to shut their
jaws and grow pale. Not a word-not
a whisper till the old jack. knife has per-
formed its work. When the s'plug'' is
pulled out to view every eye is turned
upon 1t, every heart gives a throb, and
ithesilence IS broken by a general yell
of:
ssDidn,t we say sop,
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YELLOW FEVER threatens to be n
devastating scourge, this summer, in
the south. Thirty or more new cases
occur every day in New Orleans, and
the death rate is quite as large, in pro-
portion to the numbers, as it was in
the unequaled visitation of 1853. The
fever seems to be breaking out in other
places; no fewer than 100 cases are re-
ported at Granada, Mississippi; several
cases have occurred at v~icksburg, and
at river places between that city and
New Orleans. Memphis is striving by
every means-embargo and disinfect-
ants-to keep away the scourge. The
difficulty Is that no frost may be ex-
pected down that way before about the
middle Of October; and citizens are
fleeing from every exposed town. Two
cases are reported at quarantine in Bal
timore. Lfr4s
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FACTS AND FIGURES.

The Irish is the only nationality net
given to suicide.
Switzerland has a standing army of
twelve thousand men.
The population of the Australian col
ony of Victoria is now 1870, with
the males In the majority by 100000.
The single State of Ohio has 1926, OOO,-
600 invested in railroads, which in
cludes a rolling stock of $1,000 cars and
$500 engines.
The first telegraph line in Japan was
established near the end of 1869, and
now there are 125 stations and 5000
miles of wire in operation.
The number of paupers in England,
on the LIST of January, was TAI, s11, a
decrease of GAIL from the number in
1875, notwithstandingthe "hard times.n
The Unite1 States consumes annual
ly between six and seven hundred thou
sand long tons of sugar, less than Ii
per cent. of which is of home produc-
tion.
The potato crop Of the United States
for the past five years has averaged 49,
000,0 00 bushels. The crop Of 1876 was
the poorest for many years, the reduc-
ton being from 166, 0O0, 900 bushels in
1875 to 125, OOO, 900 bushels.
The statement that the negroes are
dying out a the effect Of freedom is
denied from South Carolina, where it
Is averred that they are rapidly increas-
ing. The census of 1880 will have to
be awaited to settle the dispute.
The cotton crop of the present wear
will be the largest since the war, and is
estimated ut l., 700, 600 bales. In 1880
90 the crop amounted to 1856, 900 bales:
1901, 4,437, 900 bales; lS75-76, 4,e32.-
$50 bales; ls76.77, i,474,O 900 bales.
Last year there were, in Ireland, 25,-
07S marriages, 1870, 49s births and o.
500 deaths; 3s,503 persons emigrated,
SO that, without making any allowance
fer immigration, there was a gain of
1895 in the population of 1898, 9O6.
According TO official returns the
wheat crop Of France was pa, SOC, 600
bushels in 1877, against 2G6, 0oO, 900
bushels in 1876. Latest mail advices
indicate favorable prospects for and av-
erage yield Of the wheat crop'of 1873.
The registration list of San Francisco
shows the number Of voters of the city
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Of OF.
ine ciasncatioh W ma
$500 natives ol ne oni'eu
@ .o'oio' iorelgh' <i,o''- lheie
h~a'iohah'ies represent"
Ihe eclipse stopped agame oil base
JAIL AZ oaica' sew I'm r
mus. no' asa
neseni' ooui
aiu
In hosting hcavy machinery OF other
weights by means OF puhey-blocks' II
the ropes stretch anu lne DOCKS come
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THE Empress of Austria is now n
grandmamma, and yet no n could
with justice give her more than thirty
or thirty-two years ut the outside. Her
waist is still round and rs small as
when she was a young princess. and
not, as now, her majesty. Sometimes
her face wears a most lovely color, and
after ~galioping up and down two or
three times the long avenue of the
Prater, she looks younger and prettier
than ever. She leads a strange life for
an empress, and avoids society rs much
as possible.
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To BLOW out a kerosene lamp: Raise
the flame until It just does not smoke,
and then blow sharply n the top OF
the chimney. The light will he in
stantly extinguished. The philosophy
of the action is simple and interesting.
Blowing over the top of the lamp causes
a ratification Of the air which the air
Of the chimney rushes up to Gil, thus
being lifted, as 1t were, away from the
fame, which of course must cease to
burn. Blowing down the chimney is
thus avoided.
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0'ooNN0R's FORTUNE.
How 1t Was Made BY Robbery, and
How He Lost His Family.

x.. EM
This place has a very remarkable,
but entirely true story, which is the
general topic of conversation. In 1868
a man named O'Connor kept the Gate
NIL House, three miles from Owego.
lie was arrested in that year, tried and
convicted for passing counterfeit money,
and sentenced to two years in State
prison. He was married and had two
childrep.s He never returned bone,
and his wife, believing him dead, was
married in 1869 to a shoemaker named
Berry. A day or two ago O'Connor
made his appearance in Owego. Berry.
his wife's second husband, was absent
from home. O'Connor obtained an in
terview with his wife, and she accom-
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pIrnY PARAGRAPHS


oet rid Oh your Jog ana curIa'i eN
pehses.
money Is SLOW ABOUT circuiatioh- we
saw a uihne ioa' IN d paker shop yesVei-
nay
A maj who is out OF town don't feel
1t half SO much rs the nan who is out
Vi money.
The sea may moan and the wild gulls
lily, but N swallow Of old ocean cures
sentiment for the whole season.
"Who hath woe!'' suddenly exclaims
a Cincinnati paper. Let's see-who
was it that had "Whoa, Emma?r
We pass our lives in reerettiup the
INST. complaining of the ~uresent and
INDUCING false hopes OF the future.
A great bore is he who talks at II
great length about himself, when you
nave something to say about yourself.
A minister at Troy who wanted his
salary raised to keep the wolf from the
door was the OTHER day robbed of $6. 600
in bonds.
II 10 little tro,h,as thu. uo,r n.
heart ont. II ia easier IN throw a homh-
shell n mile than n feotber-evcn with
artillery.
-
SOU ~" 'eP"'"o'' oi'ee i's
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THE French statue, representing lib
efty, for New York harbor, will be the
largest piece of sculpture known, stand
ing 220 feet high.
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A CORRESPONDENT of the Philadel-
phia Times says that in the London
Times office they do not ''distribute'
type, it being cheaper to make new
type and lay the cases than to distrib-
ute composition. The Times not only
manufactures its own type, but all other
material used.
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ALL the new party leaders are will
! Z ling to go cut speaking for the cause :
at $50 a day, and board, except Ben
Butler, who wants $3.50 and drinks.
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REAL workingmen are finding them
selves too busy to turn out and make u
lion of Kearney.
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The Greatesf Medical Discovery since the Crea.
ton Of Han. or since the Commence Ha
n,enf Of NE cayiaiaa Era.
There never has becn.a time when the
healing OF so many different diseases has
Deen caused by outward application as the
present IL is an undisputed fact that over
sort TO the use of ordinary plasters.
DR.. MELyiN'S CAPsfcUM PoRous PLAsTERs
are acknowledged by all who have used
they. ever before tried, and that one OF these
plasters Will do more real service than q hum
dred Of the ordinary. kind. All other plas-
tiers are slow Of action, and require TO be
worn CONTINUALLY to effect q cure; but with
these II Is entirely different; the instant one
Is applied the patient will feel its effect.
Physicians in all ages have thoroughly
tested and well know the effect of Capsicuni;
and ~ has always been more or less used as a
but II is only ofa very recent date that its I'D
yantages in a porous plaster have been dis.
covered. Being, however. convinced of the
wonderful cures effected by DIR. MELvIN's
CAPsIcUM PoRous PLAsTERS and their supe-
riority over all other plasters, they now
acLnaiiy prescribe them. in their practice. for
SUCH diseases as rheumatism, pain in the side
and back, and all such cases as have required
the use of plasters or liniment.i After you
nave tried other p~lasters anu liniments. and
cure, ask your druggist for DIR. ME1.vIN's
CAPSICUM POROUS PLASTER. You can hardly
6eiieye your own convictions of its wonder
iul eHectS. Although powerful and quick in
It's action, you can rely on It's safety for the
most delicate person to wear, as it Is free
rom lead and other poisonous material COM
monty used In the manufacture of ordinary
plasters. One trial is a sufficient guarantee
OF Its merits, and one plaster will sell hum
dreds to your friends.
Ask your druggist for DIR. MARvfN's Cap
SicUM Porous PLASTER !, and take no other;
or on receipt OF % cents for one. 81 for five, or
das. ri -"
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SATURDAY. AUGUST "a, 1878.

AUSTRIA is still chasing her part of
the Turkey.
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ALEX. STEPHENs weighs a ton-in a
! nominating convention. rW NJ
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An Enthusiastic Friend Of Sanford's
Radical Cura. 4.

MEDIATION, GRANT q BowRx's FINE AND1
- MAnIxE IN~suRAncE AoxNcY,
25 Pine Street, 81. Louis, No., Feb !. 1sT-S
.A;,A- MELLIEl. washington Az. City. Dear
Hellier: / have for some years been troubled with
Catarrh. and for the past two years have suffered
seriously with H. Noticing your advertisements OF
tryit Ihavc used only I've bottlcs. and as a result
s a,neii s ~ mnSn l and Tfit sn ~. Psesumo on o9r Pert
youtake some e..urcst get II more prominently
before the public, that Others may have such relief
rs Ihavo recommended Il to quite n num-
Der Of my fricnds. all Of whom have Expressed TO
with them.
o. really think II particularly adapted 70 wants Of
and those who need IL should NIT. Iwll risk the
assertion that 1000 I OF. walls Gas q Gample) to DO
given away Will sell as many bottles. u
tn zone piap. Let TIC p opie have u; thcynecd
course you could largely increase this number.
Why notify It? Yours truly, WM. BOWEN.
Sold BY all Wholesale and Retail Druggists and
Dealers IN Medjelne throgghont the United States
and Wholesale DruGRfsts, Boston, Mns3-
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s.xyorp's fsaprcAL cuEr yon cArAnru Is q SAFE.
soIm M an ia r. im moan n. sece LOT ~ Snta VIZ a. eseT9T
u 10 purely . Vegetable disttlation. and u applied
locally by fneufdation, and consfitutioually by In
tefnal administration: Locally applied reHSf6 In
std1tdneous. IL soothes, heals. and clcanscs tho
struetion, dnincss. or dizzlness:, constitutionaily
the ia aeid poison n riiS which rs e 4 D ai%ay Pp ehasre u /,
Catarrh. stimuiatesthe stomach, liver, and kidneys,
the formation Of sound. healthy tissue, and finally
obtains complete control over the disease. Tho
dies utterly fall, OF sixyoRDb RAprcAL CrrK ara
affested ~ tnopsands WIG eratsinliy
garding It that cannot be substantiated BY tho
grcut and good medicine. and worthy al conf
dence. Each package contains . Treatise on Ca
cd full directions for It's use In all cascs. Prices
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Didn't we say so?''
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CAPITAL NOTES.
LAND GRANTS,

LAND GRANTS.
Washington, Jan. 25.-Mira Clark Gaines
has been at the general land Office to ascer.
tain to whom was issued patents for upwards
of $4,000 acres..of land, granted and con.
firmed to her father Daniel Clark in 1901
and 1904, by the board Of land commission.
ers. The grants are in Missouri within 7a
miles of St. Louis and aggregate between
10000 and 1900 acres.
FOUR PER CENT LOAN.
Washington, jan 25.-The secretary Of
the treasury decides that the department
cannot receive for collection and deposit
drafts issued by bankers and others, in pay.
ment of subscription to the four per cent.
loan. The law does no! contemplate re-
ceipts of drafts by the government, in any
payments, and though the secretary desires
to afford every facility possible to the sub.
scribers to the loan, he does not feel war.
ranted in imposing upon the assistant treas.
urer the labor and risk of collecting such
drafts.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE,
Washington, Jan. 25.-The house Pacific
railroad committee this morning heard the
argument on the Texas Pacific railroad bill
Mr.. Storris, for the Southern Pacific railroad
company, ,contended that the Texas company
had not completed its railroad as the Law
required, and it was not competent to adopt
measures to secure its speedy completion.
NOMINATIONS.
Washington, Jan. 25.-Ths president ha.
appointed Frank c. johnson, and Glen
Studebaker, honorary commissioners from
Indiana, to the Paris exposition.
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YANKToN DAKOTA TERRITORY, FRIDAY EVENING

before the motion comes on, is sufficient
indication that in the opinion of the govern
ment, the peril against which it is to guard
US, is by no means pressing, though it is
absolutely necessary that Russia should re-
ceive the hint that she has tried our patience
too long,
A provincial Journal says: "Duke Of
Cambridge, field marshal, commander.in-
chief, who was visiting in the country, was
unexpectedly summoned to London by tel
egraph Wednesday morning.
THE PORTE ACCEPTS Russ1A's CONDITIONS.
Constantiuople, 1:25 p. M, Jan. 25.-The
Porte having yesterday accepted the Rus
sian conditions, peace is regarded as virtu-
ally concluded. The Russian conditions
have not yet been officially made known,
but it appears certain that they greatly ex-
ceed the conference programme, and stipu.
late both for territorial concessions and pay
ment Of a war indemnity.
EARL CARNARveN.
London, Jan. 25.-In his remarks in the
house of Lords, Earl Carnarvon said Lord
Beaconsfeld severely criticised his speech
to. the deputation of merchants early in
January, but that his grounds for resigning
we're the dispatch Of the fleet being ordered
to the Dardanelles, and the decision to ask
for money vote.
SIR STAFFORD NoRTHcoTE
London, Jan. 25.-In the house of com.
mons this afternoon, Sir Stafford Northcote
replying to question put by Marquis Hart.
ington said T: at was only this morning that
formal communication from Russia, con-
tanning the basis of peace, was received, and
in consequence of private communication
last evening, the fleet which, Wednesday,
was ordered to the Dandanelles
was ordered to stop at the mouth of the Oar.
danelles. He was not authorized to say
whether any minister had resigned. The
vote to be proposed is six million pounds
He was not aware of the conclusion of an
armistice, or Of the signing of the prelimin
inaries for peace.
In the house of Lords, Earl Csrnarvon j,
making long statement why he has nov
resigned.