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Lodges of Free MasOns.

The following statistics of the number
of lodges of FIRE. Masons which existed
at the end of last year will be read with
interest In Germany there we're 342
lodges; in Switzerland, 33; Hungary, A ;
Roumania, IL; Srrvia, l !; England a. d
Wales, 1887; Scotland, 3a4; Ireland, zs9;
Gibraltar, 8; Mata, 4; Holland and
Luxembourg, 46; Belgium, Is; Denmark,
7; Sweden and Norway, Is; France, 2S6;
Spain. about 3Ot: Portugal, %; Italy,
liO; Greece, IL; Turkey, 26; Egypt, rs;
Tunis, 2; Algeria, IL; Morocco, 2; the
" est Coast of Africa, IL; African Island,
25; the Cape, 6l; Arabia (Aden), l; In
dia, 1ls; Indian Islands, IL; China, 13;
japan, 5; Australian Islands, 4; Australia,
229; New u aland, 81; UniIed States, o.
s94; Canada, 535; Cuba, 80; Ha,ti, 80;
West Indian Islands, IS; Mexico, l3; Bra
zils, 256; other States in South America,
179-a total of about $1,000 lodges. The
number OF Free Masons is about 8,0OO,-
900.
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n Telegraph ic Sum mary

|thousand troops have been or
Pom England to enforce Lord
prd South Africa. -ilev. Fred. !.
brooklyn, N. y, has failed in
putt before the Nottingham As
egotiations with the striking
Porers and sailors at Liverpool
iailed.-Precautions against
e are being taken at st. Peters
vicinity. English aud Medi-
ports have established careful
hs of vessels from the Black
esident Greyy decreed appoint
ld changes in the French army
affecting eighteen generals and
olp' commanders.-Cases OF
ever are reported at Halifax, N.
Ut lilther by the one hundred
Regiment.
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ASKING CoNTRlBUTIoNs.-R Mr..
Sheppard, pastor of Mt. Salem NJ. K.
church, near Wilmington, Del, which
was destroyed by fire Sunday morning,
February 2nd, was in Chester few days
ago looking up some of our well-to-uo
Methodist brethren, to ask contributi onss
FIR rebuilding the church. He visited
Mr Samuel Riddle, of Rockdale, brother
o the late 5ames Riddle, who lived on
the Brandywine, and who at his dea'
lett 10000 to build the new church. That
gentleman gave him considerable support
a. did also several other pe'sons IN our
city. Many of our citizens remember
Mt Salem church, having spent many
pleasant hours of ears gone by In that
editice, and they have kindly feeling for
that old monument of primitive Me'ho'
dism in Northern Delaware.-Chests'
Times
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The Board Of Ed dueatiOn.

Il Second attempt TO Hold Meeting.
The Board OF Education attempted 10
hold meeting last evening, having fail
ed on Monday evening There were pre-
sent, Me.sr-. Eckel, Heisl-r, Davidson,
Lobdell, Kent and Sp-aKman. After
waiting until $50 o clock those present
concluded to go home, and not hold n
meeting until there were suffi cient
number OF members to make quorum
would pledg> themselves TO attend a
meeting to be call, d by the President.
The members of the Board should al
ways endeavor to attend the first meet
ing in the month, as it is at that ng
the pay rolls are passed, and there are a
number of persons in the employ of the
Board, thai cannot afford to wait so
long Tor their pay.
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Brief Locals.

Eggs are selling at % cents per dozen.
Remember Emerson's Ministries to-
morrow evening.
The Germans will give ball this even-
ing at the Opera Ii ouse.
When will the Board of Education
raise quorum.
Get DR.. Gallagher, the dentist, No. 1876
Market street, to remove your aching
teeth.
For neat and cheap sale bill leave
your order at the GAZETTE job office.
Read the advertisement of the Boston
One Price Shoe Store, and be governed
accordingly.
"a Celebrated Ease" at the Opera
House on the 22Dd inst.
The Board of Education holds an extra
meeting at O'Clock this afternoon.
The regular mohthly meeting of the
Association for the Suppression of Crime,
will be held at the Holly Tree Inn, this
evening, at 1;30 O'Clock.
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SECOND EDITION
south Africa.
THE BRITISH DEFEATB BY THE zULUs con-
FIRMED.

THE BRITISH DEFEAT BY THE ZULUS CON
FIRMED.
LONDON, Feb. 11.-Summo onses were
issued this morning for Cabinet Coun'
Gil 10 be held at 2 O'clock this aft 'rnoon
to deliberate on the reverses to the Brit
ish troops in Il uluund.
Official kilograms announcing the de-
feat were received at the Colonial Ofhcr
| at 1890 o'clock this morning. They sub
stantidly confirm the details of the affair
heretofore given in these despafc ches.
The news of the defeat caused a sensa-
ton throughout London. The demand
for ne ewspapers at all the suborban sta
tons was greater than since the outbreak
of the Franco-German war.
THE LOCALITY OF THH DKFEAT.
The defeat of the British column by
Cetywayo, the Zuiu chief, brings a crisis
in British affairs in South Africa. 1t in
wolves as a probable result, a costly and
| ted Gus war with the maj prity of the
otber Coffre trib IS, which the Zulus will
double be able to bring to their assist
| ance. On The 18th Of January as already
| reported, Colonel Glyn's Column had an
| engagement with the Zulus, and the
British loss was set down a, trifilng. The
conclusion of the cable despatch referred
to now becomes very significant "The
Zulus oiierslight resistance, withdrawing
into the interior az the troops advance.
Sklrmishing, without noteworthy result,
is reported from differenG points,"
1t would appear probable from this
that the Zulu chieftain purs ued the tac-
tics of inducing the British to follow him
until he he'd separated the column under
Colonel Gk u, with which Lord Chelms-
ford would appear to have been at the
time of the disaster, from the mai body.
l Nt,a.s, Il tad, ha .s,.d a
palc ch of this morning, the bowling Y Znlus
fell upon the camp aud massacr-d every
body. The scene of the defeat is the vii
laye of InsanduSana, on the Tuzela River
forming the northern boundry line of
Natal. The country is wild and rugged
and such as to make bush warfare ex-
tremely tedious aud dangerous.
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EPISCOPAL CONvoCATION

The second days session of the North
ern Convocation of the Diocese of Della
ware was held in Calvary =. e. Church,
yesterday morning. The services were
conducted by Rev. j. w. Clemson, Rev
j. w. Kaye and Rev. T. Gardiner Littell
The sermon was preached by Rev. II. A
Skinner.
In the afternoon the question, Chow
can we retain our young men in the Sun.
day SCHOOL," was discussed. The discus
sion was participated in by Revs. Glenn.
son, Ware, Frost, Spencer, Kaye, Littel
and Skinner, and was thorough in IFS ma.
ture aud comprehension. The session
will be continued to-day.
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RESOLUTIONS PRESENTED.

Company G, Sixth Regiment, of Cam
den, N j., on Monday, through Sergeant
Alex. J. Millette, presented to Com any
A, American Rifles, of this city, st of
resolutions, handsomely frame d convey
ing the thanks of the Jersey soldiers for
courtesies extended by the Rifles on the
occasion of shooting match, in Septem-
Der last, on the banks ofthe Brandy~ine.
Sergean. Millstte came down with the
resolutions on Monday evening, and they
now adorn the interior of the Rifles
armory.
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CRUSHED TO DEATH.

Sir Men Killed and Several Mortdlly
Wounded by Land Slide-Ierribie
Scene in Il Railroad Cut.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. II, 1S79.-A
horrible accident occurred this morning
about eight o'clock in the large cut on
Commercial alley, in the eastern portion
of this city, whereby twenty-five work.
men were buried beneath falling noun
tain of clay, causing the instant death of
six and the fatal wounding of as many
more. The cut was excavated for the
track of the Chicago and Alton Railroad,
and where the accident occurred the
banks of clay rose up ninety feet on each
side of the road-bed. The cut is nearly
three hundred feet long, and as the men
were working, nearly in the middle, a
large land slide occurred,an they were
unable to escpe, the way being blocked
by horses and wagons, which formed a
wall obstructing the passage out.
REsCUING THE VICTIMS.
The crush was all over in fifteen sec
onds, and those who escaped went TO
work with will to rescue their comrades.
1t was estimated that ten thousand yards
of earth fell in, and in less than an hour
six crushed and mangled bodies were
dug out and taken to the Police Head
quarters, and six wounded ones to the
hospital. G. A. Hern, one ofthe wound
ed men, died at four O'Clock, and two
more cannot recover. The list of the
victims is as follows -
DEAD.
Thomas Casey, Edward Hines, James
Hagan, Daniel Lucit, Richard Ryan,
Peter Bagley, c. A. H-rn.
WOUNDED.
James o'Brien, John Kennedy, James
McClusky, John Harper.
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Floating Hospitals Suggested.

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 1.-The st.
Petersburg Sanitary Committee have
proposed to cleanse the canals and to Or
ganize barge hospitals on the Neya, which
could be anchored in the Gulf of Bosnia,
and also to organize sanitary committees
in each district of the city and province
of st. Petersburg.
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Night school Closed.

The night school, which has been open
In No. 8 school, was closed for the season
on NJ onday evening, by Superintendent
Harlan. The school was open thirteen
weeks and was very succe sful, the at
tandance being large, and the scholars
were very orderly and courteous to the
teachers.
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Destroying old Paper Money
10 Prevent the Spread OF the
Plague.

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 11.-General
Loris Meikoff, Governor-General of the
plague e-stricken districts, has summoned
the Governors of the Governments OF
Astrachan, Samara, and Saraloff TO Ia :
rtzin, and proposed that all the old paper
money now circulating he exchanged for
new through Kama Volga Bank, and de-
stroyed, The attention of the medical
authorities is now concentrated on Sill
treno and the neighboring districts in
llabited by the kbirziz.
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A SERIOUS FALL.

Albert Thatcher, Esq, while coming
out of his residence on Pennsy lvan,a
Avenue, yesterday morning, slipped on
the ice and fell to the ground, cutting a
severe cash in his forehead, over the
right eye. He has since been confined
to the house from the effects of the fall,
but hopes to be out a. ain IN few days.
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ORGANIZ ED.

At metting of the newly elected
Board of Directors. of the Artizans Saw
ings Bank, held last evening, the follow
ing officers were elected.
President-Geo. w. Bush.
Vice President-Geo. s. Capelle.
Secretary and Treasurer-E. T. Tay-
lor.
Auditor-Chas. w. Rowland.
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An WILL REVENGE HER DRAD.
Endorsements for Cape Col
e' ''' IN England number about
>a'la men, The government is
i'qulrlns concerning private
| ne Assistance, which is the
n siilp IN the harbor, is being
prepared for service, at Ports
i'' W. IL. Smith, First Lord Of
'a''y' speaking at Westminster
stated that troops sufficient to
'r"ssle with the Zulus would he
"s 10 The Cape within a week
'ed he had every confidence ir
helmsford. 'eo ~
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ohL las proved an immense
? London, New York and phila-
lPa IS earning lots of money in
" 'o' eh'elprising managers
'eipllia seats must be taken a
'''' ana although it is now in
tex at the Broad-street Thea
u Interest in it is undated, and
y Enough 1t would be flourish
wheh the roses bloom
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1icauions for To-Day.

Nv rmds, shifting TO ioesteriy and
erly, sight Jati IN in tempera.
rIsing barometer during the az
III ere'ting.
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more Post office have been using X ller's
Roman Liniment with remarkable sue
cess and do not hesitate to recomme nd
it in streng terms. e. B. Tyler, Post
master,
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A NEW TRIBE .

This morning, a number of Grand Off
GERS Of the Grand Tribe of l. O. X. NJ,
went down to Delmar, for the purpose of
instituiing q new tribe of Red men, near
that place.
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a''lon of the wages of the labor.
eseu oy the New York Loan
l"'ement Company on the Me-
railroad extension from
1u4 ~s' a nal half to a dollar and a quar-
dssa,, sas followed by a strike, and
n,a', 'vrled the work. The com.
n"dia'ely employed other ,r ,abnr. ,bl,,.
,no' 'e slad to accept the reduced
aees' and some of the paw me,
Ldred 1oah sns yesterday y morning a,
'S,eu Su, aaa' and SIKH street and Eight
ers ans %s,e as,. soon interrupted b,
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-DIEI,

SAXTON. In this city, Oh he 10th inst,
Annie W., widow OF the late James
Saxton, In the 54th year of her age.
The relatives an friends of the family
are invited TO attend the funeral, from her
late residence, NO. 70, L. Third street, on
Thursday afternoon. Services at 2:30
O'clock
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STREET IEsTERDAY.-The
fNtl was less active, but prices
e'a'ly higher. Government
r. quiet States higher and rail
''s' Money on call lent at I a
ana closed at 2 a2b per cent
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Aprominent Republican Dead

Mr.. John Haves one OF the leading
Republ cans of Sussex county, died at
his home near Greenwood, on Monday,
of pneumonia. He was a large land own.
er and "a prominent man of the county.
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EOR RENT.

No. 1921 Tatnall street
No. 100 Tatnall street.
No. 10O5 Tain al street.
No. s3' Tatnall street.
NJ. s26 Med son street.
No. 7l3 Jefferson street.
No 90l GiIpin avenue.
No 903 Gilpln avenue.
No. 604 West 9th street.
No. 6If West 9Th stre e.
No. 5ls East 7th street.
No. b03 East 10Th street.
NO. 1908 LON bard street,
ana many Others large and smaIn.
STORE PROPERTIES.
No. I'll Market treet.
No. 8l8 Mark 1t street.
y. W. Cor. 7th Il Spruce Sta and o,hara
No. II M irket street.
EVANS PENNINGTON,
Ieol2'dtf Cor. 8th d NJ Arket Sts
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NEW Adv ERllSEMEN rs.

NJ OTICE-The >, xth nnual meeting
~ the Stockholders of the German la
Building and Loan Associa ioa, No. 2,
Will be held Wednesday he 18th inst, at
~ O'Clock to rec ave the reporG OF the
Auditors and for election of officers.
NJ. l.. I.lCH rENSrEIN,
fah IN RI EecretarV.
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ucial and Com IN errta1.

r,sIsaTos. Del. Feb. IL i1S
4 Stock quotations. furnished ny
! 20. Clayton House Building
non. Del, al u M. to-day.
ReTocK QUOTATIONS..
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bal Stocks and BON DIS.
ilmington N arkess.

atNGroN. Dei., Feb. IL, 1879
IONS al the BraEdywlne Mills for
GRAIN Corrected Daily,
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RsT EDITION..
EAL) & CO..
|xxrRs & BROKERS',
AND DEALERS IN

AND DEALERS IN
R)yDs, LOANS. MORT
rs com VI ERCIAL PAPER.
nx HOUSE. WILMIs0roN, DEL
coupon, and General Collec.
,,s,ts 10 aud drafts on Greh
tnJ oIner parts OF the world.
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been no light or fire in the cargo box
where the fire originated.

been no light or fire in the cargo box
where the fire originated.
AT Fort Scott, Kansas, Bill Howard, a
negro, who cruelty and diabclically out
ragged Clara Pond, twe've.year-old daugh.
ter of George Pond, was discovered in an
old mine half a mile distant from the resi-
dence of Pond, and about six mi es from
St. Louis. After some little parley, Howard
came forth and delivered himself up, after
being prom sed by his captors that he
should receive no bodily harm from
them. The cortege arrived in town,
and the prisoner was promptly
lodged in Jail. Excitement rose to a
fever heat, and threats OF lYnching were
announced with emphasis, the facts in the
case being so horrible as to be without
parallel in the history of crime. About
seven o'clock in the evening crowd of peo-
pie numbering fully one thousand, &C.
canpanied by thirty masked men in solid
line, with drawn revolvers in their hands,
marched to the Jail, overpowering al re-
sistancs, tore the iron grating from the
window of Howard's cell, and forcibly took
him out. A rope was tied around his neck,
and amid yells and shouts, the demon was
dragged by hundred hands the distance of
five blocks, and hung to lamp-post ON the
corner of the public square. After hanging
a few minutes, he was taken down, and his
remains were burned to ashes in the sduare
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GOOD WORD FOR DRAGONS.

Mr.. Waterhouse Hawkins, eminent
in scientific circles on both sides of the
Atlantic, in recent lecture before the
London Institution, openly affirmed his
belief in the existence of dragons in the
days of yore. He urged that our fore.
fathers used their wits like ourselves,
and could trust the evidence of their
senses. The ancient myths were not
founded on fancy, but were the exag-
geration of some fact. The dragon
formed part of all mythology, and,
furthermore, there were analogies to it
in the animal world. The structure of
the flying fish fitted it for seizing its
prey on the wing. A little lizard, known
as the flying dragon, still exists, and
there were traces of resemblance in the
squirrel which can all but fly, and the
bat which can perfectly use its wings.
In all these and other classes there
were similarities. When we 20 back to
the pterodactyle, the iguanodon, the
hadrasaurus, and other extinct mon
sters, we find additional analogies
which greatly strengthen the scientific
probability of the existence of creatures
nearly like the dragon of tradition. If
its existence be scientifically possible,
it is more likely that the widespread
belief in dragons should be based on
truth than that their conception should
be evolved out of the study of the
clouds or other natural phenomena.
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FOREIGN SUMMARY,

There were shocks of an earthquake in
Northern Persia Saturday and Sunday.
Minach was much damaged, and the ad.
jacent villages of Tark and Mannan were
totally destroyed. Out of one thousand in.
habitants, only few escaped death.
A FAMINE is reported in upper Egypt,
which causes terrible suffering. In some
villages people, naked, like wild beasts,
dig for roots. In one town women and
children fought over scraps of bread. In.
land villagers are said to be starving like
dogs.
LORD LYTToN, viceroy in India, tele
graphs to London that Yakoob Khan has
apparently determined to make desperate
resistance to the further advance of British
troops toward Cabul. Yakoeb Khan has
sent six hundred of his adherents with six
guns to Dulkoh. Mnch severe fighting is
still to be apprehended. Several small
skirmishes have recently taken place. Col
onel Brown is concentrating his command
at Jellaliabad, and Colonel Roberts is NOV
Ing with all his men toward Pelwar. In the
region of Kandahar all is quiet, but the
Viceroy evidently anticipates no little
tsouble in the immediate future. Another
telegram from the Viceroy of India men.
tions the reports that Yakoob Khan has
sent detachments to Khord, Cabul and
Tezen. 1t adds that Colonels Brown and
Roberts are concentrating their forces al
advan ced points.
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INSTANCES of marriage resulting from
correspondence between strangers are
frequently read of, but the Chicago
Tribune tells different story about
pair who, after exchanging letters, met
by appointment in that city. "The sur.
prise with which she discovered that he.
instead of being twenty.seven, tall, dark,
and aristocratic, was forty-three, stumpy.
red-headed, fat, and bow-legged, was
only equaled by the rapturous amaze
ment with Which he discovered that she,
instead, of being willowy of figure, just
eighteen, with warm golden hair, an
opalescent complexion, and blue eyes
Like impid lakes, was six feet one, if che
was an inch, fifty-two if she was a day,
weighing three hundred pounds if she
did an ounce, and with no warm yellow
or any other hair of her own"
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A ROMAN stamp is preserved in the
British Museum. II is the very earli-
est specimen we possess Of printing by
means Of ink, or any similar substance.
1t is made of metal-a sort of Roman
brass, the ground of which is covered
with green kind of verdigris dust,
with which antique medals are usually
covered. The letters rise flush up to
the elevation of the exterior rim which
surrounds it. It's dimensions are about
two inches long by one inch broad. At
the back of il is a small ring for the
finger, to promote the convenience of
holding 1t. As no person of the name
which is inscribed upon it is mentioned
in Roman history, he is therefore sup
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The whole world has good chance
TO laugh at New York City, for it has
built two towers without counting the
cost. Six or seven millions or more
have been spent on the towers of the
Brooklyn bridge, and they have rushed
into this without even considering care
fully whether the largest vessels could
pass under without risk, or the effect
upon adjacent. property, or the loss of
revenue from ferry companies. Now all
these considerations are forced upon
them and threaten to stop the progress
of the bridge. The towers must remain
there, however, a monument to the fool
ishness of New York City in this gen.
Grafton.
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The familiar belief that cleanliness
is next to godliness is not part of the
Afghan creed, for they are said to be a
very unclean people. They have such
an adherence of water that they never
bring it in contact with their bodies.
Being Mohammedans, they are bound
to do certain ablutions by their faith ;
but they find substitutes which are al
lowed instead of water. There is one
tribe who are said to get three new gar
ments only in their lifetime-the gar
ment being in each case blanket. The
first is given at birth, the second when
they are married, and the third when
they die. Each blanket is understood
to have been ceaselessly worn till these
events entitle the wearer to new one.
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ADAM was farmer while yet in Par
adise, and after INSTALL was commanded
to earn his bread by the sweat of his
brow. Job, the honest, upright, and
patient, was farmer, and his firm en-
durance has passed into a proverb.
Socrates was a farmer, and yet welded
to the glory of his immortal philoso-
ply. Cincinnatus was a farmer, and
the nobiest Roman of them all. Burns
was farmer, and the Muse found him
at his pillow, and filed his soul with
poetry. Washington was farmer, and
retired from the highest earthly station
to enjoy the quiet of rural life and pre-
sent to the world a spectacle of human
greatness. To these names may be
added a host of others who sought
peace and repese in the cultivation of
the earth. The enthusiastic Lafayette,
the steadfast Pickering, the scholastic
Jefferson, the fiery Randolph, all found
an Ell Dorado of consolation from life's
cares and troubles in the great and ver-
dant lawns that surrounded their home
steads.
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COLONEL EZRA MILLER had a very
unique dinner at his farm. at Manwah,
Bergen County, New York, recently.
1t was dinner of buffalo meat, milk and
butter. TIE colonel has taken great
pains aud expense to domesticate the
buffalo, and has bred and crossed them
with ordinary cattle on his place. He
claims that they are as tame and afec-
tionate as common cows, and will get fat
on what our cattle starve upon. The
milk and butter are of excellent quality,
and a good robe is now worth from
twenty-five dollars to thirty-fve dollars
The company witnessed the killing of
the buffalo, and the meat was served in
different styles. 1t resembles beef very
much.
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Old (,OuDleS.

The Pennsylvania couple who were
married few days ago at the ages of Sc
and 81 are considerably outdone by two
representatives of the Jewish race in
Russian Poland. The bride was a
widow precisely 100 years old; the
groom was a youth Of So. Indeed, the
bride has daughter, with whom she
has lately lived, whose age is as great
within four years as her step-father's,
while Observation-Disclosures
is girl of IS. Notwithstanding her ad-
vanced age, the bride is said to be strong
in her faculties. She goes out of the
house alone, hears and sees perfectly
we'll" and retains all her mental powers.