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The New York herald., 1879-09-19
CRICKET.

THE GAME To-D,Y BETWEEN THE GENTLE
MEN OF IRELAND AND THE STATEN ISLAND
EIGHTEEN
The cricket match at Staten Island to-day will
probably prove the most interesting game that has
us yet been played between the Gentlemen of Ire
land ard home team. The eighteen of the Staten
prise Messrs. A. Harvey. J. r. Moore. c. W. Bance,
p. donaldson. Z. Sprague. V. Miley J. Lee, Z. W.
Stevens. NJ C. Eyre. L. Outerbridge. p. Allen. Z. J.
Adams A. F. Manning. B. Kirkland J. Hitchcock. F.
Satterthwaite. j. Rawson and q. Lane. Among
the above several that played in the st.
Georges eleven. including Mr.. j. X. Moore,
who made IA and Is against the Irish bowling.
and the Irish gentlemen may expect to find better
bowling and hcding than they have yet encoun-
tered Several of the above players will be likely
retire the first second ball. they have had
no experience with the bat but in the field they Will
show what they learned at baseball. The number or
players eighteen. must also be taken into considera
ton, with many good men in the field the
Irish will not be able to hit the bowling US they
please for the fear of getting caught 1t the
in the field th.t took several wickets at Syra-
cuse the players We're caught on hits that would
have scored three or four against field OF eleven.
The match will be played on the grounds of the
Staten Island Cricket and Baseball Club, at Camp
Washington. Tompkinsville. hear the first landing.
Every arrangement has been made for the accommo-
daion of the players and the public. The ground 10
excellent order and the wicket is above the
age. The grand stand will afford good view of tho
match. tents have been PITCHED for the accom-
nodation of the ladies' who will be admitted tree.
The rcfreshmcnt stand will be under the charge Of
Mr.. Henderson, and the players will ind every
commodation at the cluD house. The game Will
commence at eleven A. VI. and continue until half
past hve Il. NJ, with an hours interin.ssion for
lunch. The Irisn players were expected last night
ut the Pavilion Hotel. and ball is to be given IN
their honor tomorrow night.
The New York herald., 1879-09-19
MATCH BETWEEN GRADUATES OF THE UYIvEH-
sITY OF PENNSYLVANIA AND HAvERFoRD COL

PHILADELpHrA Pa. Sept. Is. 1879.
The result OF the first day OF the cricket match
between the graduates of the University of Penn
sylvania and Havertord College was:---lraverford.
l22: University, 50. Tho second days play started
under discouraging aspects. The sudden death OF
MIR. William VI. Baird. of this city, Obliged his son,
Il. Loper Baird. and Mr.. Hopkinson, relative, one
OF the strongest bats of the eleven. to quit. The
score at o'clock to-day stood:-6j for the Uni
versity in their second iuning.
The New York herald., 1879-09-19
THE INTERNATIONAL" MATCH.


The Massachusetts, team made an aggregate total
Of
The daily gazette., 1879-10-24
Progress abroad.
TWO GREAT RAILROAD PRoJ Jscrs

TWO GREAT RAILROAD PRoJEcr
Two great railway questions are touch
ed upon In the Republique FrancaiSe---
namely, the line which the French gov
ernment Is seriou-ly thinking OF con-
struoting IN Central Africa and the lido
European, q Dupbrates Valley project.
On the former subj ct the French paper,
gives summary Of the proposals ana
the means of executing them. 1t is
another example of the great energy Of
which France Is giving proofs both at
home and abroad. The general idea Is
to make the Soudan the centre of three
lines starting from Algeria In the north,
from Senegal in the west and GabOn in
the south. The three principal French
settlements IN Africa would be thus
united, and civil zaiOn would be carrird
into heart OF the unknown continent.
Some of the regions to be traversed are
known to be fertile, and should the vast
enterprise succeed, France alone would
reap the benefits to be gaised by open
ing up new and extensive fields Of trade
ana commerce. With regard to GabOn,
a possession on the Gulf OF Guinea, q
practical way has yet to be found via
Oxoone, BencDe and Lake Tchad From
Senegal the road is to run to the French
post of.::M edine and thence from st.
Louis to Dakar and Bamakon. The
most important explorations will, how
ever. have to be made before plan can
be adopted for the line fiOm Algeria to
the Soudan. No less than four proposals
have been made, and each has Its advo-
Gates. One Of them would go to the
Great Salt Lake Of ANA dghOr, q most
imp ortant strategical point, from four
| teen to fifteen hundred kilometres dis
tant from Thu buctoo on the west and
SOkoto on the south. Much remains,
therefore, to be done. But the commits
| sion 10 by no means idle.
The daily gazette., 1879-10-24
.r.L TIME TABLE,
w,IxrNoTor'

.,vr wrLxrNoTor.
~. ,,.,.ss. az q IA q 80. s;.s; rs. s:$ .s
lSN, iO.Sos. m' on sundays' z.H
ssS'.Sss, r Psise, o. . q, p IN. q, =, 80,
.i%oiSs:: Isl, Is'o 10. ! Z osa "a M. ;. .is.p; q
? pioDss ,a and washington ! M r1o' sun.
lhnoEi Isl, Isl i.O4, ols. p'"
"t1s.; t1si.;s.l,. 81" .:s z p m no SUNDAY
' ,..,,.. $40, 81, = m;io''s%p
g . SUNDAY 'T.!H's r.! sls am; los, 90"
10 sunday s,Un I 'Is'%iihern ISs"Iihern R; RI r.; '2' q
plnglooo y m; no sunday tra,n; y: . m
,N. spRs%stsrn K. X. Z H. 10 o5 = mi
lsSarec ceniay train, $40 a m.
ON. SunSrsns At wILMINaror.
lIss ARRls.. % "a. = 81. 9i0 ! 08 a m |;
hIlslsea,pa e 81 Il 81. So, 81, ~. - % "a, "a,
W. !, S. g. 10 n, II 10 p m. ou ,om
NJ ". / oG, 8 "a a m; j? -, ~ o. 2.
Ne, 10, m, y IN sundays; IL w. l 10
;paP m' 2M, : N, sH. am; i22,
ss;s, s,lIi,9sI,'sSp ~ p M o" Sundays ." . !"
aI..%Dips,ou, s"s m , y aan; 2 M ~ = "a
v.nlnml; ,s n; on sundays . o. a III y"
q. .,, 100 a m; no Sunday
blu.. Castle: go am IL w M
yM Is. ~. no Sunday trains:
igP PPa1e m r r.; $50 IL 10 q IL
DsA*an,oo no sunday trains.
n;,g,on u; d Northern X. H.. W'
3ll@ilnsss'n' 4 . m. no sunday trains.
n,..Ye IN, Western X. r.: % . IN
esHT'. NJ; sunday train. o.25 ? m;
~ VI sIiLxIsowoN ri LEAVE PHIL
, street and washington ave
Bicsa Bsn so, 10 80, II IS q m; 30, y U'
X All. Q 45, II 80 pm; on suh-
'S, a m: NJ 6 OO,s IS, Il 80, p m.
r,r ~ second and Market streets
INT! m /, ia, 3b5, $50 II 30 IN
na.aiavs. o 30. II n, o m.
The daily gazette., 1879-10-24
ALur0e Nu,n6es. of Safes.

On Wednesday last Sheriff McFarlan,
of Chester county, sold tweDty-four pro-
perties, at his Office, in West Chester.
This is quite a number of sales for one
day.
The daily gazette., 1879-10-24
Af1er tbe hot wave, which has pulvel

After the hot wave, which has pulver-
lied the roads and dried up the streams,
we are to expect the delightful season Of
haze and heat called Indian summer,
which usually sets in about the first ct
November, This may last a week and
the tempering down another week, SO
that II we get any winter winds and
SHOWS they must all come in furious az
gregate, making them the more terrible.
Tue season has certainly been unprece-
dented.
The daily gazette., 1879-10-24
THE FOLLOWING PRIZES,

l $50 Prizes, Sll2,4 400
= Whole Tickets q. Halt Tickets, ii.
q Tickets, 80. 81 Tickets, 500
All applications for club rates should be
made to the home office.
Full list Of drawing published in Louis
Vile Courier Journal and New York Her
aid and mailed to all ticket. holders. For
tickets and Information address 7. j
COMMERFORD, Courier Journal Build
Ing, Louisville. KY.
III. u.thud,sat-d&w3w.f ....r.1
The daily gazette., 1879-10-24

1857 Prizes. amounting to ......... sll0 400
Responsible corresponding agents waiit-
ed at all prominent points, 10 whom
liberal compensation will be paid.
Write clearly stating iull address, for
further Information, or send orders by ex-
press or mail addi essed only. to
M. .A.DAUPHIN,
p. o. Box s92, New Orleans, La,
or same person at
No. 8l9 Broadway, New York.
The particular attention. of the Public is
called 10 the Jdct that the entire number Of
the tickets for each Monthly Drdt0ilg Is sotd.
ing are sold and drdDn and paid. This is
not the case tDuh any other company
All our Grand kxtraordiI airy Drawings
are under the supervision and manage
ment of Generals q. y. X Rauregard and
Jubal A. Early.
octll 4wd&w.
The daily gazette., 1879-10-24
-@l:Sth
Popular Monthly Drawing of the
Commonwealth Distribution Co.,
MAoAULEy's THEATRE,
In the City OF Louisville, on

In the City Of LOuisvflIe, on
OCTOBE ER 80, 1879.
These drawings, authorized by act of
the Legislature OF 1863, and sustained by
all the Courts of Kentucky (all fraudulent
advertisements OF other lottery companies
who claim the sole ownership of call the
grants in Kentucky" to the contrary not
withstanding). occur regularly on the last
and are supervised by prominent ciLizens
OF the State.
Grand and unprecedented success Of the
new features.
Every ticket-holder can be his own
supervisor, call out his number and SEQ it
placed in the wheel.
The Management call attention to the
grand opportunity presented Of obtaining,
for only 81, any of
The daily gazette., 1879-10-24

CyELECT SCHOOL.
y Miss Mahaffy's select school for chill.
dren will reopen on Sept. lst, on 10th street
setween Market and ShiPlsy Sts. a2O-If
The daily gazette., 1879-10-24

NOhboHO'
WESTERN FARMS 9ti0 per
ct. ist MoRTG'E GuAR'T'D.
European Tickets q Drafts.
The daily gazette., 1879-10-24
FACTS VS.. CLAIMS!


grounds for seeking ingenuity
production of the
the stylnh most
gresve and until all aeetvss consumed
OAK HALL, however Court
OF Claims be continually Calmly
presenting all brief Of seevdnt facts
of a a Die verdict
These facts embrace Others
tualy combnes them all
Does goods? products will
equal them. g. -t.m.U e,
another the
largest retail clothing business in America.
Does another claim superiority spends
for than the resah goods
Does another claim to Oak Hall spends the largest
for advertising machineyor everything embodies
goodsq
clothing
another largest another
stock equal that Of Oak Hall. -..... lg ., .. -.
progress superiority economy Oak Hall
cells all comparison
THESE ARE NOT CLAMS-THEY ARE FACTS.
WANANAKER & BROWN, :.
OAK Hall. Sixth and Market Ss., Phila
TIE Largest Clothing House in America.
sep5 't'i' b.. .-
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-20

for long time drag and perpetual an- noyance to him.
 The fall season was then at hand, and his customers, the country merchants) began to drop in as they arrived in town in pursuit of new goods. He had tried all of them on their former visits, but ndTy button would they purchase, hence it would not be polite to repeat the operation now and risk another refusal, so he supplied them with all the dry goods and Yankee notions they were in quest of, at the same time directing his shipment, to slip into each box so many gross of the old buttons, taking particu- lar care to charge in the bill rendered, for only one hatf of the number sent, and to let no mortal know it; so away went the boxes, south and west, with the poor buttons snugly secreted llike the silver cup of Joseph i'll the sack of Benjamin. The sequel proved that the old shoemaker had this time taken the right measure" of the majority of his customers, for HedLIy every one lO a uldH WdS chuSuS III the trap. The mistake of sending double the quantity charged, was supposed to be a little bit of carelessness on the part of the clerk, and that inasmuch as one half cost nothing, it would be wise policy to liquidate the bill promptly, and say noth- ing about it.
 | Whether they ever got clear of them, | MT. M. never yentured to inquire the little game he had played Was an original one, to say the least, and he was greatly relieved to find that he had played it with so much success.
 This article must close for the present
 my scribblinss for the BEE, as it would
 be fruitless to continue them with merely anecdotal sketches of old mercantile eel
 ebrities, who, (although their names were
 familiar as household words on change
 in their day and generation) would be quite unknown to your readers, for they have long since closed their stores and
 passed away. c.
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-20
HousatOnic Railroad.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT,


 Iassenger Trains leave Newtown, going North at 104T a. m.. and 5.33 P. Going South. at 615 and Il 40 a. and 4.55 P.
 Express Freight Trains, going North, leave at 12 40 D m., and .25 pm. Through Freight at 1o35 D. m. Going south. Milk Train at 725 p. Sun- day Milk Train at .45 ?,
 lO4T d. and 5.33 p. m Trains connect at Brookfeld function with trains for Danbury- 10 AT a. Tn Train makes close connection at State Line with B. X A. fast train for Albany, with through car. arriving at 2.5O D. m., train arrives Saratoga 6:45 p. m., connecting with the popular Chicago and St. Louis Express for the Vest 5.33 D. Train makes close connection at State Line for Albany and the Vest arriving in Albany at l005 D. m- Saratoga 123O midnight, Passenger Trains leave Hawleyville going North at 10.57 m and 5.44 p. Ill. Going South, at 6.65 a. n. Il 80 a m., and 4.45 p.
 1O57 a. m. and 5.44 p. Trai ns connect at Brooxfield Junction with trains for Danbury: also for Albany and the West.
 Express Freight, going North at 1.20 and ' 50 p. Through Freight at 1o.55 D. m
 Milk Train, going South. at 7.05 P. m. Sunday Milk Train at 7.30 p. m.
 Milk and Freight Trains have passenger accomo- dation.
 Passenger trains connect with Shepaug R. R. to and from Lit .hfield At Canaan with Ct. West R. R. Through tickets sold and baggage checked from Newtown for Albany, Saratoga, Buffalo, Suspen- sion Bridge or Niagara Falls, Chicago St. Louis and principal points west. From Hawleyvi1le for Albany, Saratoga, Buffalo, Suspension Bridge or Niagara Falls
 HID. AVERILL, General Ticket Agent.
 L. B. STILLSON, Acting Superin ntendent. Bridgeport, Conn.,. August lst. 1873.
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-20
His Name in the Paper.

We all know him: The editor was sit- ting in his sanctum when man. labor ing under considerable apparent excite ment. walked in with the paper in his hand, and pointing to a small paragraph. read The genial "Colonel Mumblechock thinks of taking an Eastern journey soon. May he enjoy pleasant trip, is the wish of his many friends "Now, sirr' said the excited man, ''I am Colonel Mumble- chock, and have called to inquire by what authority you make this use of my name in your paper?" First time I ever saw it." replied the editor, glancing at the item, but I suppose it is all right. My local reporter is quite enterprising i'll his pursuit of news" "Bat never gave him permission to use my name in this man. ner, persisted the Colonel. "Very like ly," said the editor. "But you are going East ain't your Certainly" And you haven't any objection to your friends wishing you pleasant trip?" That is paper, and in the future you will oblige me by leaving ii out" ''Of course" said the editor, eff you desire it," and the Colonel bowed himself stiffiy out. John. :" said the editor to his office boy, follow that man and see where he goes and come back and report" John did as he was requested and shortly after he came back and reported that Colonel Mumble- chock went to the counting-room and bought twenty-five papers which after marking something in them, he ordered put in wrappers and was busy in direct ing them.
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-20
A Shower of Fire.

Major Williams, of West Kansas, who keeps the Railroad House, (says the Kan sas City Journal. gave reporter the fol- lowing account of phenomenon that oc- cured during storm I had been asleep about two hours and half when was awakened by an outer door slamming vio- lently, as ifburst open by something heavy thrown against it. hurried to close it. when, on looking out, saw a sight that can never forget, and which was so strange that I never could have believed the like if ha in't seen 1t. The air about the house seemed to be perfectly full of balls of fire raining down from the clouds, the bright ness of which even the vivid flashes of lightning could not hide. called my wife to witness the wild and te rrible scene. and we viewed the phenomenon for about five minutes. One ball of fire fell about twen- ty paces distant and about the size Of 8 pigeons egg, which was visible quite q while I marked the place where it fell as nearly as possible from where l stood. but on account of the wind, which blew almost with the force of a hurricane, and the rain which had begun to fall. iid noe venture outside. This morning. however. about six o'clock, I went out and looked around carefully for long time for what might be left. but cold find nothing.
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-20
PUBLKC INSTITUTIONS.
VIEWPOINT.


 Mails open From the South II 20 D. m and 600 p. m. From the North, 12.0o m. and 500 p.m Mails close :--Geing North, l0.30 q. and 445 p. m. Going South, H. 25 a. III. and 4.45 D. m.
 z. $. PECA r. NJ.
 CHURCHES.
 TRINITY CHURcH.--Main Street, Rev. Thos. ". Haskins, Rector. Services l0:30 8. m Sunday School 12 n Afternoon service at l. CoNGREG ATIoNAL.-Nain Street, Rev. James P. Hoyt, pastor. Services, 103O a. III. Fellowship Meeting Il 40. Sunday School, 12 Tn. Afternoon service 1 o'clock. The seats are free CArHoLrc.-Main Street. Rev Father Mccartan, pastor. Services. 1915 a. Sunday school, 12.30 P. m. a.. -
 SOCIETIES. .1.-e- fs#a OLIVE BRANCH JUVENILE TEMPLE No. IA. Public meeting every Sunday afternoon at o'clock, in South Centre School House.
 MYRTLE JUVENILE TEnfPLE.--Public meeting every Sunday afternoon at 530, in upper room of Academy. ST. PATRICK $ TEMPERANCE SocIETT.-Rev. Father James McCarton. President; A. Gallagher, Vice President T. J. CorRett, Secretary; J. Madigan, Treasurer
 VIEWPOINT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. Daniel G Beers, President; Charles Berstord, VicePresi- dent; Mary |. Morgan, Treasurer; Miss Mary co 8, Secretary; Miss Charlotte Nichols Librarian Irustees-A. SUillson. NJ. C. Hawley, Edgar F. 1awley.
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-20
ADVERTISING RATES.

lows just lightly kiss the shores. to the champion swimmers riding like dolphins where the greatest breakers flash up their spray in the sunlight. In the middle grounds are thousands jumping, playing, rolling, swimming, trying to swim, practic- ing fraud by digging the toes of ones foot into the sand. Artemus Ward would say this is a great place to study nature, particularly that portion of it that relates to the anatomy of the human leg. The first thing that strikes the students who is able to grasp the subject in all It's bearings is the melancholy fact that so many girls with pretty faces have such awfully thin thin legs. Here are legs whose .calves make no more graceful contour than would red beet nailed to bean pole, legs without any calves, and and legs whose calves look as if by some freak of nature they mad been put on the shin bones. The sight of these things alone would make you sad, incline 10 a life of celibacy, or dive down to the bot tom of the deep blue sea and become a prey to melancholy and the sharks, were it not for the view of the really handsome legs that you see around you.
 The police regulations of the island Is such Tn surf-bathing there is perfect free dom and abandon to the the delights of Neptune's embrace without license. A pretty girl screams and clutches your arm, and you are at perfect liberty to half embrace her while guiding her shore
 ward, only don't attempt tu embrace pretty girl before she gets scared at ! Neptune's pillows. The fact is, that Is
 to say, an old batchelor friend of mine sasserts it as fact, that the pretty girls
 scream, not becavse they are alarmed, but to secure some attention from the
 sterner sex. The assertion may be true
 or false, but one thing is very certain, I propose to give myself the benefit of the
 doubt as long as my freedom of bathing
 lasts at Brighton Beach, with the promise
 however that no old females nor thin
 ones nor very fat girls grab me in the
 expectation of being lowed ashore. In
 such an emergency I have resolved to dive. AUGUST.
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-20
TE2.9 9V.EEERS' GUEDE.
Shepaug Railroad.

SUMMER ARRANGEMENT, commencing June
 9th, 1879. h.. Passenger Trains leave Hawleyville at 10:5s a. m. and 40 p. m. arrive at Litchfeld at 125O and T35 ?. m- Saturday Special leave Hawleyv vile at TAT p. m., arrive at Lit enfield at 950 P. m
 Leave Litcnfield at 7:30 and 2:45 P. nl., ar rive at Hawley vile at 9.23 a.. m. and 4:37 p m. Sunday Milk Train leaves Litcfeld at 4:30 p. nl., arrives at Hawleyville at 7:15 p. m. .x45. * Monday morning special leaves Litchfeld at 4.4o E. Hi , arrive at Hawleyville 6.26 a.. Passengers not taken on Freight Trains
 c. H. PLA1T, SUPT.
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-20
Old New York Merchants.--stephen F. Mum again.


 In former article related some an- eedotes of this old merchant, whose namc, twenty-five years ago, was familiar to every Knickerboeker then living in Goth am; although he did not spring from their stock, being native born New Eng lander.
 He was originally shoemaker by trade In the place of his nativity, but abandon ed that occupation early in life when he removed to his adopted city, commence ing there as dry-goods merchant, by which business he laid the foundation of his fortune. He had no foolish pride (af- ter becoming millionare) in concealing his former occupation as simple cob- bier, on the contrary he believed with Pope, that,
 ''Honor and shame from condition rise
 Act well your part, there all the honor lies;' and he was right, and so he acted upon that principle all through life.
 "The cobblor npron'd and the parson go.n'd.
 The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd," were all the same to him, possessing an independent spirit and strong will for his own he would, as Halleok expressed In his poem of Connecticut,
 Shake hands with King upon his throne,
 And think it kindness to his majesty"
 MT. Munn's residence was OH tho west side of Broadway, near Broome, onSpring street, adjoining Dr. Cheesemans, as stated ill my first article; the basement of which, during the latter part of his life, was converted into an office where his tenants called to pay their rents, for he had then withdrawn from active busi- ness, finding that the management of his real estate required all his care and at tention. Nevertheless, he loved to go down town among his old comrades, ire quently on foot but returning in an om- nibus. On one of these occasions he was joined by neighbor of about the same age, and as they reached the shop of a shoemaker, who was employed by MT. M., he desired his companion to stop with him while he gave Crispin dressing for 8 badly fitting pair of shoes he had just made for him; this he did in the severast terms, and ill such a loud tone of voice as to attract the attention of crowd of pedestrians who were on their way down town, 'swhen I was a shoemaker" he said, "I should have been ashamed of do- ing such patchwork" etc., and proceed ed to instruct his frightened pupil in the art of shoemaking, a lesson fancy that he never forgot.
 He had not the fullest faith in the hon. esty of his fellow man, if there happened to be any strong temptation to win him from the path of rectitude, and on one occasion he tested it in the oldest man ner. Becoming saddled in some way, taken for debt, think, with large lot of buttons, which were so entirely out of fashion, that all efforts on his part to dis pose of them were unavailing, 50 he re solved upon new course, and by a little fnesse, to rid his shelves of what had been