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Prom NJ, Ja,-JA Hnsnoi ~, CrroIioalacs IN he Plfl
dsIla Tnes
New YORK. June 2l.-As | came up Wall
street mi. morning met charles Conor. who accord
u- 60 tradition is the leader OF the New YORK bar |
never auci,d the man In all my active journalistic cX
ptucntC Rave never run across Kind word spoken. a
Mind iced done by charles Otouor But tor all he
l. historic figure. aud his name viii azure in cucyclo
Ia Is Hs one once horne ON campaign bHnnersuA Pres
druua campaign Ills connection with real estate
mHdr him rich m early lfe llls advocacy o. Nelson
thAsn's clam 10 the estate Ot Mime. Jumel made him
richer He wears his hat ON the back " small hcnd
A. pale rs white turuip rarely Smiles often sneers
AMI has eyes that roll like those OF Barnum's AlhinoA
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To THE EDITOR or THE SuS-Sr: Arc the
people down town going To have music IN the battery
Park mi. summer II they aye. why begin at oucei
surely thc summer has advanced enough and 10 would
lr "a zinc recreation Tor the WORKING class az people 10
slthd couple 40 evenings every week alone ru
loving the sea breeze from The bay. hat also m listening
10 TIE strains uf sweet music Let the heads the iV.
lnruucut tn whose care s matter lies give It their at
uuuuu At their earliest convenience. ID. H. NJ.
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The Impor.nnt Event OF the Day.


Tfhgrdm IN me WcsH Pies
NEW YORK. juno 1G,-Tho important political
event OF the day j. the attitude ct TnK suN toward
Tldcn Iexpresses willingness 10 accept 1ilden again
as the Democratic standard bearer IN lssp
THE suS being regarded the most intelligent AMI in
nuenual newspaper IN New York, its uterances this
morning attract great attention.
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In view Of the splendid prize set before
then-a vase the Intrinsic value o, which is as
nothing to its obituary value as the gift Of g.
WASHINGTON CmLDs. A. M.-the failure Of the
Columbia four to get in first in the Schuylkill
race last evening is n surprise TO their friends
IA II must be n disappointment. to the boys
themselves. Better luck next timcl Better
luck. the time after. TO the Princeton boys. who
brought up the rear Yesterday; and our con-
CALCULATIONS to the Pennsylvania boys. the
happy victors G. WASHINGTON 0.IILDs. A. NJ.
the poet Of the tomb. will De proud Of them.
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cororsa Mason. celebrating st, JoAa'. Day.

NEW HAVEN. juno 2l,-The colorcd Masons
celebrated todny - Johs Day and the 2l anniversary
OF the widows son Lodge OF This city Tho procession
included local lodges Grand LODGES Of New York, Sew
Jersey, ANA Rhode Island. KNIGHTS TeWplAr Command.
erlcs ana lodges from several States. and many officers
Of ht{h rams. Following the parade was On Grafton hy
Bishop Moore ot the Methodist Epi cOpa Zion Church.
Chaplain of the Connecticut Grand Lodge The esviurs
mas evening wiI include pToDenady concern and ball
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That the murderer OF Mrs. HrII should

That the murderer OF Mrs. HULL should
have been arrested at a negro revival meeting.
listening to a sermon on Hell. would seem
queer enough to suit anybody. 1t Is hardly
more remarkable than the conduct Of n recently
convicted murderer In the north OF England
who. after cutting his victims throat md rob-
bing him Of his va.uab!es went comuosedy TO n
Young Mems Christian Association meeting
whore he was subsequently found. praying fer
vently. Although the plumber was found IN his
pockets. his counsel insisted that It WIS NOR
ally impossible that n man whose hands were
red with blood should seek refuge in such a
place. and asked for an acquittai, on the ground
that such conduct justified the jury IN enter
tanning u reasonable doubt Of tho pr.soLor's
guilt. 1t WIS urged by the Government, how
ever that such freaks on the part Of murderers
were by no means unprecedented. and could
not be held to inyalidAte u strong array OF cir
cumstantial evidence and the Jury. after two
hours elaboration. brought in a verdict Of
Guilty.
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But for the sharp eyes Of Boston re-
porter. The negro Cox might have been ut large
still; indeed. might have slipped through the
fingers Of justice and made of to some foreign
country. 1t detectives called in the aid Of re-
porters oftcner fewer criminals would get away.
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The boiling Ohio Nationals succeeded yes
torlay in putting together a platform more to
their taste than the one set up by their brethren
At Columbus. Having done that, they rested
from their lHbors, endorsing neither the Demo-
cratic nor the Greenback State ticket But there
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CAMDEN. n. Y. June 2i.-rhere met in this.
village saturday Gilbert HYATT aged "a James lIar
MS ~; Joseph Beckwith "a aud Seth Rice H. an of
whom served together in Can't StoddaTds company al
SAckettI Harbvr IN the war VI 1914
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And Nancy Francis the Cook See tlcir portraits in
4T'"| Ls'''si Au'''H's~ SsasyaFe,, NJ l.2iO.-1dp
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Mr.. THOMAS FRANCIS BoURKT, who Is
somewhat prominent MS IN advocate OF Irish
Independence. was questioned on Saturday last
by st. Louis reporter Mr.. BOURKE said that
not even in its apparently most prosperous
times was the Fenian organization here and at
home better in hand" lie added
" In 1855 and isdG We had. numerically an immcn'e
examination Thus really NruNtu us VutrmirV. lNtu
there we're more men hnuaued with 10 who came in
without really understanding the responsibility they
were assuming they wiltcd NJ the fret 'ur,ak' We
wecdvi such lauplc now Ir numbers We are pot
BIZ strong then. hut every nov enrolled under
auds whattscNi cctcd OF him and think We are vastly
ahead iu that fvslcct'
Mr.. BoURKE supplemented this warlke state
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-11-28
Literature for the Young.

The AdUdnce, several years ago, con-
tained a capital article on the namby-
pamby character of the books prepared
for the young, especially those recepta-
cles known as Sunday-school libraries.
We do not believe much in those books
where every page is designed to illus
trate the virtuousness of virtue and the
viciousness of vice, and where all vigor-
GUS thought is pruned of, reminding one
Of the symmetrical arboreal forms in
Dutch garden.
The tendency at this day is to furnish
the expanding mind with an intellectual
pabulum corresponding, in the animal
economy, with tapioca and arroW-root,
at a time when it Graves a more nutri-
tious diet. John Quincy Adams, at eleV-
en- years of age, read Rollins History,
and we do not believe his mind was
dwarfed thereby. We recently picked
up in a bookstore a copy of Robinson
Crusoe," emasculated (by some one who,
no doubt, really thought he was render
ing an essential service to the youth) of
all words over and above one syllable.
Now, De Foes style is so pure and
simple that it can be comprehended by
a boy as soon, almost, as he has made
any progress in reading and spelling
The narrative itself will arrest and rivet
his attention, and what harm is there if
he pause over a tWo-syllable word or ask
its meaning? He is performing a men
tai exercise which to him is of the
highest importance, and which serves to
discipline his mind.
We have often thought that, in our in
tellectual training, we might draw les
son from the regimen adopted by the
prize-fghter. He discards light food
mush and milk and bran puddings-
and resorts to mutton-chops and beef
steaks. This nutritious diet tends to
produce muscle, and not fabby flesh.
He walks or runs, not over lawns closely
shaven with a scythe, or paths leVeled
with roller, but over rugged places, up
hill and down; .precipices are scaled
and streams leaped over. There are in
genious devices whereby all the muscles
of the system are brought into play.
Each day he is plunged into cold bath,
and then rubbed till his flesh is all aglow.
A man subjected to such regimen
must "exult," as Mrs. Stowe has some
where said, ain the intense conscious
ness of life"
So in the intellectual training. The
mind should be furnished with books
full of strong and vigorous thought
such books as are suggestive of new
spheres Of contemplation. and which
bring into full play the reasoning and
reflective faculties Force the mind to
grapple with difficulties. A frivolous
person once remarked to Emerson, 81 do
not understand your book" to which
the Concord philosopher replied, my
dear sir, 1 should have been wofully dis
appointed if you had"
A book which does not suggest reflec-
ton, but lulls the mind into a dreamy,
listless inactivity, is not worth the paper
on which it is printed. The intellect
should be aroused and startled by being
brought in contact with obstacles to be
overcome, and Anteus-like, it will gath
er strength from every repulse.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-11-28

Petty Worries.

What a blessed thing it is that We can
forget! To-day's troubles look large,
but week hence they will be forgotten
and buried out of sight. Says one writer:
If you would keep book, and daily put
down the things that worry you, and see
what becomes of them, it would be a
benefit to you. You allow thing to
annoy you Just as you allow fly to set
tie on you and plague you; and you lose
your temper, Tor rather get it), for when
men are surchaFged with temper they
IRE said to have lost it; and you justify
yourselves for being thrown of your
balance by causes which you do not
trace out. But if you would see what it
was that threw you off your balance be-
fore breakfast, and put it down in little
book, and follow it up, and follow it out
and ascertain what becomes of it, you
would see what a fool you were IN the
matter. The art of forgetting is blessed
art, but the art of overlooking is quite
as important. And if we should take
time to write down the origin, progress,
and outcome of few of our troubles, it
would make us so ashamed of the fuss
we make over them, that we should be
glad to drop such things, and bury them
at once in eternal forgetfulness. Life is
too short to be worn out in petty worries,
dettings, hatred and vexation.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-11-28
Married in Reno.

Judge Richardson, says the Gazette,
doesn't pretend to be a parson, and
therefore isn't as well up in the marriage
ceremony as the Shiny supporters of a
decaying hierarchy are. A young cou-
pie stood up before him the other even
ing, and the judge inquired in a cross
questioning tone of the groom:
care you a citizen of the United
States?"
The groom took hold of the waist-band
of his trowsers and tugged, saying:
Il voted for Tilden, Judge"
"Why Jamesp family exclaimed the
blushing creature at his side.
"It's fact, Emmer," protested James,
rather Indignantly, and glaring at the
Judge.
His Honor coughed and demanded Sc
verely:
"Do you, sir, as a citizen of Nevada
and a lawful voter of Reno, solemnly
declare that you will forsake all other
evils, and cleave to this one?"
"Pve money to bet on itp responded
the groom, growing pale, but placing his
arm around the waist of the shrinking
bride.
'Then," cried the Judge, bringing his
fist down on his desk, "God has Joined
you together, and - the man that
puts you asunder. The feels Just what
you like to give, young fellow"
1t was pretty liberal, and the Court
set them up and kissed the new wife
several times besides.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-11-28
The Annie in the Bottle.

On the mantle piece of my grand
mothers best parlor, among. the marvels,
was an apple in phial. It quite filled
up the body of the bottle. and childish
wonderment constantly was, 'How could
it have got there? By stealth I climbed
a chair to see if the bottle would IN
screw, or if there had been a joint in the
glass throughout the length of the phial.
l was satisfied by careful observation
that neither of these theories could be
supported; and the apple remained to
me an enigma and a mystery.
One day, walking in the garden, 1 saw
1t all. There, on a tree, was phial tied,
and within it tiny apple, which was
growing within the crystal. The apple
was put into the bottle while it was little,
and it grew there.
More than thirty years ago we tried
this experiment with cucumber. We
laid bottle upon the ground by hill
of cucumbers, and placed a tiny cucum-
Der in the bottle to see what would be
the result. 1t grew till it filed the bot
tie, when we cut it off from the stem,
and then filed the bottle with alcohol
and corked it up tight. We have il
now, all as fresh, with the little prickers
on it, as it was when we first corked it up.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-11-28
4 Romance in Real Life.

An observant spectator Will notice that
the first floor windows of a large house
at the corner of Norfolk street, London,
present a peculiar appearance. The
shutters are up, and they are covered
thickly with dust, while through the
chinks can be seen the blinds, also thick
with dust, and moldering away with age.
These shutters and blinds have been in
exactly the same position untouched for
forty years. During that time no human
foot has entered that room. And the
reason is this: Forty years ago-more
than forty-Lord Dysart was engaged to
be married. The day was fixed, the
wedding morning arrived, the breakfast
was laid out in the spacious and hand
some room, the bridegroom was made
ready to proceed to church, when it was
discovered that the bride was missing.
A note in her handwriting was found
addressed to the bridegroom, briefly in
forming him that she had eloped that
morning with his best man, gay and
gallant captain of dragons. The Tilted
bridegroom did not say much, but he
went alone to the rooms in which the
wedding breakfast was laid out, with his
own hands put up the shutters and drew
the blinds, locked the door and took the
key. He gave orders that the doors
should be nailed up and barred with
padlocked bars, and that no one should
enter the room again. When the house
was let it was stipulated that the room
in question should remain untouched,
and the sum of 5000 per annum was paid
to the tenant to compensate him for the
deprivation of the use of the room. The
room has never been entered since the
day he closed it, and there are the WED
ding meats" moldering silently away,
and the ornaments crumbling into dust
in the funeral gloom.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-11-28
Olive Logan on Advertising.

suppose you don't know what sort OF
pen am writing to you with; ] don't
suppose you care what kind of pen /
am writing to you with; yet the pen !
am writing to you with is an epitoIne OF
all that has ever been printed, spoken OF
sung regarding the value of advertising
TO the mercantile community. Observe
the following facts:
In Paris, recently, saw a friend who
had Just come over, using q pen Of pecu-
liar construction, designed with special
reference to those untidy persons who,
like myself, ink their fingers when they
write. Now, my friend is a man whose
hands are as white as lilies, with finger
nails like rose buds in tint; noticeable
hands, even remarkable, considering
that he is an elderly man, and who occa-
sionally helps with the lighter work on
his farm in Nebraska. Catch him mixing
his fingers 'Why, where did you get
that nice penP p 1 asked him with vista
of blissfuf exemption from an unkind
middle finger opening upon my Joyous,
exDectant mind. "In Omaha" he an
swered. 81 used to ink my fingers be-
fore got" He did. He linked his fin
gers! That was enough for me. 1 got
the name of the merchant from whom
ne bought the pen, the price of it, and,
inclosing the money, sent from Paris to
Omaha for that pen. By the last steam
er it came to me. There had been q
little delay. The stationer at Omaha
was out of them, but he sent up to Sioux
City to the man that advertises them
for another lot. And now, here is where
the laugh comes in, 80 prepare to pucker.
The pens are an English invention, and
tons Of them can be bought in London,
if desired. At the stationer's next door
I could have got what had sent for to
Sioux City. But how could know that
dealt with the man that advertised. 4,
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-11-28
Satisfying the Barber.

One time there was barber. And one
day feller he cum in the shop to git
shafed, and he handed the barber a card
wich was wroU on like this way:
For my Hair-Taller, clone, lard,
bergmot, pematum, oil, tonnick, restora-
tiff, pitchooly, gum, beeswhacks, kerri-
seen and tar.
"For my faee-Cole cream, cam frice,
powder, ham fat, sof sope, glissern, pol
tice, rooje nammel, giant sement, shoe
blackn.
''For my Muchtash-Do, starch, glew,
mortar and solder"
Wen the barber he red it he was Jest
dlited, and he sed to the feller: "You
are the most sensible man wich has ever
set in this chair, yes indeed, 1 never see
a man of sech good taste"
And then the barber shafed the feller,
and tole him all the news which he cud
think, and never stopt tockin, the barber
dident, while he shafed, cos he was di'
lighted. But jes as he got dun shafn
the fellar, and was getting reddy to put
them things onto him, 'cordin to the
memmy randem, man wocked in and
took the feller by the ear, and he sed to
the barber, the man did: ''This felleT's
got to go now, cos he is a escape; if you
want to finish him yon must fetch them
things over to the deef and dumb ward
of the lunattic sylum."
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-11-28
Divorce in other Lands.

An Arab may divorce his wife on the
slightest occasion. So easy and so COM
mon is the practice that Burckhardt
assures US that he has seen Arabs not
more than forty-five years of age who
were known to have had fifty wives,
yet they rarely have more than one at a
time.
By the Mohammedan law a man may
divorce his wife orally and without any
ceremony he pays her a portion, gen
orally oHe-third of. her dOwry. He may
divorce her twice and take her again
withoNt her consent, but if he put her
away by triple divorce conveyed in
the same sentence, he cannot receive
her again until she has been married
and divorced by another husband.
By the Jewish law it appears that a
wife could not divorce her husband; but
under the Mohammedan code, for cruel
ty and some other causes she may di-
vorce him. -
Among the Hindoos, and also among
the Chinese, a husband may divorce his
wife upon the slightest ground, or even,
without assigning any reason. She is
under the absolute control of her hus-
band
The law of France, before the revolu-
ton, following the judgment of the
Catholic church, made marriage indisso-
luble, but during the early revolutionary
period divorce was permitted at the
pleasure of the parties when incompati-
bility of temper was alleged. The Code
Napoleon restricted this liberty. On
the restoration of the Bourbons a law
was promulgated 8th May, 1916, declar-
ing divorce tobe abolished that all
suits then pending for divorce by mu-
tual consent should be void, and such
is now the law of France.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-11-28
Whole Number 1860.
Helm One Annfhnr

This little sentence should be written
over every heart-stamped on every
memory. It should be the golden rule
practice, not only in every household,
but throughout the world. By helping
one another, we not only remove the
thorns from the pathway and the ankle
ty from the mind, but we feel a sense Of
pleasure in our hearts, knowing we are
doing a duty to a fellow creature. A
helping hand or an encouraging word is
no loss to us, yet is benefit to others.
Who has not felt the power of a little
sentence? Who has lot needed the en-
eOuTagement and aid of a kind friend ?
How soothing when perplexed with
some task that is both difficult and bur
densome, to feel a gentle hand on the
shoulder, and to hear kind voice whis-
pering, do not be discouraged I see
your troubles; let me help you" What
strength is inspired, hope created, what
sweet gratitude is felt; and the great
difficulty is dissolved as the dew before
the sunshine. Yes, let us help one ano-
ther, by endesvoring to strengthen and
encourage the weak; and lifting the
burden of care from the weary and op-
pressed, that life may glide smoothly on,
and the fount of bitterness yield sweet
waters; and He whose willing hand is
ever ready to aid US, will reward our
humble endeavoTs, and every good deed
will be "bread upon the water, to return
after many days." if not to US. at least
to those we love
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-11-28

The growth of the nails is more rapid
IN children than in adults, and slowest
in the aged; goes on faster in summer
than in winter, so that the same nail
which is renewed in one hundred and
thirty-two days in winter, requires only
one hundred and sixteen in summer.
The increase of the nails of the right
hand is more rapid than those of the
left moreover it differs for the different
fingers, and in order corresponds with
the length of the finger, consequently
it is the fastest in the middle finger,
nearly equal in the two on either side
Of this, slower in the little finger and
slowest in the thumb. The growth of
all the nails on the left hand requires
eighty-two days more than those Of the
right.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-11-28
A Mutual Mistake.

A mutual mistake was once made by
Lord Guildford and lady of quality in
the house of Lord Melville. There was
a dinner party, at which Lord Seaforth
was to be present. As Seaforth was deaf
and dumb, Lady Melville, before the
company arrived, sent lady friend who
was familiar with the dumb alphabet
into the drawing room, to be ready
against his lordship's arrival. It hap
pened, however, that Lord Guildford
was the first to make his appearance,
and the lady, taking him for Lord Sea-
forth, began to sign to him nimbly with
her fingers. His lordship happened to
be an adept in the deaf and dumb
alphabet, replied in the same way; and
so they went on talking in this noiseless
manner on their fingers till Lady Mel
vile entered, when her friend said
aloud:
'Wen, I have been talking my best to
this dumb man."
'Dumbp cried Lord Guildford, in
unfeigned surprise; "why, my good lady,
! thought goa were dumbp
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-11-28

TRUTH IN BRIEF.-Anybody can soil
the reputation of any individual, how
ever pure and chaste, by uttering a sus-
picion that his enemies will believe and
his friends never hear of. A puff of
idle wind can take million of the
seeds of thistle, and do a work of
mischief which the husbandman must
labor hard and long to undo, the floating
particles being too fine to be seen ana
too light to be stopped. Such are the
seeds of SANDER, so easily sown, so diff
cult to be gathered up, and yet so per-
nicious are its fruits. They know that
many a wind will catch up the plague,
and become poisoned by their insinua-
tions, without ever seeking the antidote.
No reputation can refute a sneer, nor
any human skill prevent mischief.
Be thyself blameless of what thou re
bukest. He that cleanses a blot witt
blotted fingers makes greater blot.