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THE VILLAGE POSTMASTER.

The Detroit Free Press gives the an
ncxed description of u scene at rural
post office, on the arrival and distribu-
ton of the mail:
"Half an hour before the arrival of
the mail people begin to come in. The
merchant who expects a letter, the black
smith who thinks he may possibly get
one, the carpenter who hasn't had one
the laborer who hasn't the slightest idea
that he will ever get any thing more in
teresting than circular advising him at
once to insure his life, before it is infer
entially too late-the farmer who has
friends out West or down East and who
can confidently count on his weekly pa
per, anyhow. AS the mail boy arrives
at the door there is a ripple of excite
ment which extends even to the bare
footed boy who has been sent down with
the three big coppers to mail letter
directed in cramped, old-fashioned
hand. One can see by the way he looks
from the letter to the jars of candy III
front of the store that he is specializing
on the risk of dropping the missive into
the river and investing the money where
it will do Uncle sam no good.
There is hush while the mail is being
distributed. The pampered arstocrat
who can afford to pay box rent at the
rate of forty cents year keeps his eye
CONTINUE ON THE FOURTH PAGE,l
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LOVING A WHOLE FAMILY.

Il don't want to make any trouble,
but there is one man in this city who
ought to be gibbettedr' began a blunt
spoken woman of 40, rs she stood before
the officials of the Twentieth
Station day or two ago.
When they inquired for particulars she
handed out letter and said:
"Observe the envelope. The letter is
addressed to me. You will see that the
writer calls me his jessamine, and wants
me to set an early day for the wedding"
When the captain had finished the let
ter she was ready with another, saying:
'And this is directed to my daughter
Lucretia. You will see that he calls her
his rosy angel, and he says he can't live
if she does not marry him. It's the same
man."
So it was, and his letter was as tender
as spring chicken. That finished, she
handed third, with the remark:
This is directed to my daughter
Helen. It's the very same, and in it he
calls her his pansy, and he says he dreams
of her."
"Why he seemed to love the whole
family" remarked the captain.
"That's just it. I'm widow with
two daughters, and he was counting us
all at once, and engaged to the three Of
use at the same time. Oh! what wretch
es there are i'll this world.'
eyes, indeed. It's luck you found
him out"
eyes, it is. If hadn't he mighthav
married the whole caboodle of us. If
Lucretia hadn't opened one of my letters
and if hadn't searched the girls pockets
while they were asleep, we'd have
thought him an innocent lamb"
"And do you want him arrested?''
"No. | guess not, but want this mat
ter to so into the papers as a warning to
other women Just think of his sitting
up with me Sunday night, Lucretia We'd
neslay night. and Helen on Friday night
and calling each one of us his climbing
rose! Oh, sir! the women ought to know
what deceiving animal man ISL
Eyes. he's pretty Tough
:. 1t has learned me lesson" she said
as she was ready to go. "The next man
that comes sparkling around my house
has got to come right out and say which
he's after. If It's the girls l won't say
nothing, and if it's me it won't do 'em a
bit of good to slam things around and
twit me of burying two husbands!
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THE LOST COLLAR BUTTON.

"My dear" said Mr.. Spoopendyke,
feeling up the chimney. have you seen
my gold collar bntton?''
- saw it the day you bought it." an
swered Mrs. Spoopendyke, cheerily; 81
thought it very pretty. Why do you
ask -
'Cause I've lost the measly thing,
responded Mr.. Spoopendyke, running the
broom handle up into the cornice and
shaking it as if it were a carpet.
"You don't suppose it is up there, dc
you ," asked Mrs. Spoopendyke. "Where
do you suppose I'd leave tin the
hash ." and Mr.. Spoopendyke tossed
over the things in his wifes writing
desk and looked out of the window after
it.
"Where did you leave your shirt p
asked Mrs. Spoopendyke.
"Where did leave my shirt? Where
do you suppose l left it? Where does d
man generally leave his shirt, Mrs. Spoo
pendyke? Think l left it in the ferry
boat !? Got an idea | left at prayer meet
ing, haven't you? Well, didn't. | lef,
it off, Mrs. Spoopendyke. That's where
l left it. lett it off. Hear me??' AnG
Mr. Spoopendyke pulled the winter
clothing out of the cedar chest tina
hadn't been unlocked for month.
.s\Vhara ;S tho shirt now - Dersist Of
Mrs. Spoopendyke.
where do you suppose it is =? Where
do you imagine it is? I'll tell you wher'
it is, Mrs, Spoopendyke; its gone tt
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How to Judge a Horse.

The following simple rules will be found
| horses:
Never take the sellers word; if dishon-
est he will be sure to cheat you; if dis
posed to be fair, he may have been the
| dupe of another, and will deceive you
through representations which cannot be
relied upon.
Never trust to horses mouth as IA
sure index to his age.
Never buy a horse while in motion:
watch him while he stands at rest, and
you will discover his weak points. If
| sound he will stand firmly and squarely
upon his limbs, without moving any of
them, the feet planted flat ON the ground,
with legs plumb and naturally poised.
If one foot is thrown forward with the
toe pointing to the ground and the weight
taken from it, disease of the navicular
bone may be suspected, or at least ten
derness, which is a precursor of disease.
| If the foot is thrown out, the toe raised
and the heel brought down, the horse
has suffered from lammitis, founder, or
the back sinews have been sprained, and
he is of little value. When the feet are
| all drawn together beneath the horse, if
| there has been no disease, there is mis-
placement of the limbs at least and
| weak disposition of the muscles. If the
horse stands with his feet spread apart
or straddles with the hind legs, there is
| weakness in the loins and the kidneys
are disordered When the knees are bent
and the legs totter and tremble, the beast
ruined by heavy pulling and will never
be right again, whatever rest and treat
ment he may have. Contracted or ill
| formed hoofs speak for themselves.
Never buy horse with BLUSH or
milky cast in his eyes. They indicate a
constitutional tendency to ophthalmia,
moon blindness etc.
Never have any thing to do with a
horse who keeps his ears thrown back
| ward. This is an invariable indication
of bad temper
If the horses hind legs are SCARED,
| the fact denotes that he is a kicker.
If the knees are blemished the horse
| is apt to stumble.
When the skin is rough and hard and
does not move easily and smoothly to the
touch, the horse is 4 heavy eater and his
digestion is bad.
Avoid horse whose respiratory or
gans are at all impaired. If the ear is
placed at the side of the heart, and a
wheeling sound is heard, it is an indica-
ton of trouble. Let him go.
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Bridgeport as witness in land suit.
Idea. Ask man where his shirt is
You know | haven't been out of the
room since | came home last night and
took it Off and Mr.. Spoopendyke sailed
down stairs and raked the fire out of the
kitchen range, but didn't find the button.
Maybe you lost it on the way home"
suggested Mrs. Spoopendyke, as her hus-
band came up, hot and angry, and began
to pull stuffed canary to pieces to see
if the button had got inside.
"Oh, yes! Very likely! I stood up
against a tree and lost it. Then l hid
behind fence, SO wouldn't see it. That
is the way it was. If 1 only had your
head. Mrs. Spoopendyke, I'd turn loose
as a razor strop. don't know any thing
sharper than you are;' and Mr.. Spoopen-
dyke clutched handful of dust off of
the top of the wardrobe.
SIT must have fallen out" unused Mrs.
Spoopendyke.
sob. it must, Ell? Unjust have fallen
out? Well, | declare, | never thought
of that. My impression was that it took
buggy and drove out, or a balloon and
hoisted out, " and Mr.. Spoopendyke then
crawled behind the bureau and COM
menced tearing up the carpet.
"And if it fell out, it must be some
where near where he left his shirt. Now
he always throws his shirt on the Tongue
and the button is under that"
a moments search soon established
the infallbility of Mrs. Spoopendyke's
logic.
'Oh, yes! Found it, didn't you?" pant
ed Mr.. Spoopendyke, as he bumped his
head against the bureau and finally
climbed to perpendicular. "Perhaps
you'll fix my shirt so that it won't fall
out any more, and mybe you will have
sense enough to mend that Tongue, now
it has made so much trouble. If you
only tended to the house as l do to my
business, there'd never be any difficulty
about losing collar BUTTON
sit wasn't my fault" began Mrs. Spoo-
pendyke.
Wasn't, ell? Have you found that
coal bill you've been looking for since
March?"
eyes"
Have, ell? Now where did you put
it? Where did you find ito"
Gin your overcoat pocket
How to Judge Horse.
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EO w TO
GET almost
Everything.

Do you know how TO get
in the easiest way and to best
advantage what you want for
dress and house-furnishing
First, how: Write for a
catalogue; see what you can
learn from it about the things
you want. Ifsa1nples can be
useful to you, ask for them
and state your wants so
plainly thai exactly the right
samples can be sent.
Second, where: The place
where goods are kept in the
greatest variety; where they
arc sold for what they really
arc in respect to quality !;
where prices are lowest;
where most care is taken
to serve customers accept
ably; and where you have
the right to return whatever
is not satisfactory.
Ihcrc-no matter where
you arc-if you make your
wants known and avail your
self of your privileges, you
will get the best things in
the best way, promptly and
without trouble or risk;
sometimes by mail, some
times by express, almost
always at less cost for car
rage than the money you
save in the price.
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Lives OF
HANCOCK E GARFIELD
Evaporate Your Fruit.
NEW METHODS, NEW MACHINERY.
Cheap, Practical, Portable
PRICES, $50, SIS, SIPS.

illustrated Catalogue Free to all.
AMOS STOAFFER, Sec, Cha1nbersburg Pc.
r AIDES AND STOEE-KEUPERS.-
Lean ret Choice Goods cheap. hy writing ON Il
Postal Tor our Price List. which enables yuu to
order by mail the best way. and see the many
kinds OF Merchandise we keep tor sale at surpriS-
L.iceS. Ribbons Frngcs. Nc. if requested We
sell Wholesale and Retail Tor Cash down. A new
combination system enables lis to quote very close
prices. We have 81, - and 50 packages of notions
which cannot be bought for twice the money else
where: all wanted i'll every family Money re-
turned if not satisfactory. Houghton 4 button,
S. fremont St. Boston, Mass
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A NEW BOOK.
SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.

TNHE School Commissioners of Cecil
IA county will meet at their Office, in Elkton.
for the transaction of current School business on
the SECOND TUESDAY of each and every
month. JOHN SQUIER,
May 2, lS7&-u Secretary.
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The Jug war on the ground, and the
rumstrap tied to it, and as l stopped the
the thing took up the loose end an held
| it toward me.
drawed back little, an the words
jumped right out o my mouth afore l
had thought 'em up:
| What do We want o me"
| Then the thing smiled again, an max
ing a moose in the end O the strap, it
slipped it over its head, and motioned to-
ward the pool, then took it Off again and
held it toward me, grinning; it wanted
Inc to drown myself!
As the idea came full to me, | gave a
terrible cry and fell on the earth prayin'
Prayin' for to be saved; for | honestly
felt strong desire to follow the motion
o the ghost For full minute | strug-
gled, an | look ed up. The jug an strap
were still alore me; but the shadder wal
gone, and a kind O ripple in the water
told where.
Jumped to my feet, an run to the
road, climbed into the wagon, an whip
ped old Jen all the way home. An what
time do you think | got there? Half past
three in the morning. had been six
hours in that mile o tarmarack swamp.
Since that night Eve quit drinkin, an
| drive home from that railroad now the
longest way round.
Ted heaved deep sigh, then refilled
his pipe al. d began to smoke. His story
was ended.
And the thing, Ted-what was it, think
you? asked the Squire.
| You tell said Jones; the devil may be.
About the rumstrap: did you ever get
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CharleStOWn Academy.

CIarlcstown, Jefferson county, w. Va.
4 thoroughly Preparatory School for College and
University. Full line OF apparatus for in
struction in the sciences. For Catalogue giving
course OF study testimonials. and expenses. apply
to WIN. IL. kABLE. A. NJ. Principal
THE BONANZA FOR BOOK AGENTS
is selling our two $piendidly illustrated books
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Hancock zGarfeld

the first written by his lifelong friend. Hon. j.
w. FOKNEY, an author Of national fc'ne. and an
ardent admircr of the superb soldier: the second
written by his comradein-urms and personal friend
Gen. JAS. ). Brisbin, author OF ride celebrity.
Both Off cial, iompriced. immensely popular and
selling beyond precedent. agents double
profits by selling bOh Outfits 5Oc. each. Act
quick and coin money.
HIEEAKD RKoS. Us Chestnut St Phila
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-04-03
CAUTION.

thereby warn every saloon keeper 70 give sell in
toxicationg drinks 10 my father, p H. FREELANp under
severe penalty of the law EVA FREFLAND.
Dated this 29th day of March lSs0-apr3lw'
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People who were awake in Ottawa about half
after eleven or twelve o'clock on last Thursday
night will remember remarkably brilliant flash
Of lightning during the storm. II was almost
binding in its brightness and the thunder sue
ceeding was like the roar OF a cannon In ones
back yard. Where did it striker was the qucs.
ton; and morning showed the world that the
new residence of Mr.. S. S. Scott on the east side,
was the victim. The capcrs Of the bolt were
certainly very remarkable. 1t evidently took
first to the rod on the tower in the southwest cor
ncr of the house, after which ID shifted by the
rod 10 the main building east whence, shattering
the insulator, it went down into the house
through the roof tearing OFF the shingles for a
space about foot square. Thence 1t friskcd
about the interior Of the house, darting along
gas pipes, the castings, gilt mouldings, dc. In
one room the Gilt mouldings were blaCkened and
alsosthc walls near the moulding, AS though they
mad been burned by fire, whence it went through
the easing and wasted itself into the open air
without, having,rpp oil bit of siding TO force
a passage. In another room the plas'ering was
torn from the walls and hurled to the opposite side
of the room and in one place the nails were drawn
from heavy hard wood door. Having played
about the various rooms of the house part of the
bolt followed the gas pipe to the cellar where
about a foot of lead pipe near the meter was
meted away, spatterings of the molten metal
being cast upon nower-po near by. The leadcn
pipe being melted away the gas was ignted and
burned in full force Of the pipes in Il flame some
Two feet hi Ii. Fortunately the servants were
still up, Though the rest Of the houshold had re-
tred), who alarmed Mr., Scott so that no damage
came from fire, the supply Of gas being at once
shut of at the meter which was uninjured. No
one in the house was injured. and the actual
amount of damage to the building is not great.
The house was well supplied with lightning rods
considered perfect
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D. McDOUGALL & G. s. PAINE.
IltOtWfVF 1T IlNW.
Il. hIA. u .

CuArE or ILLINOIS. Ia SALE Co.'s
- In the Circuit court JpHe term. 1881.
Eva T. RurHham g. Freeman Durham II ChdnteTU.
Affidavit of the uonsidtnrs OF Freeman BurDhan, the
above named defendant having been fled IN the clerks Of
nee # the Ircult Court Of said county notice therefore
hereby given to said president defendant that the
complainant Med her hill of complaint in sad court on the
chanCcry side thereof the tvenyfth day OF February
lO and that thrrcupou lssu.i out Of said
wherein said pendHg rrurnahe on the second
Monday in month Of June next ~ Is by law required
New unless YOU the said Nonresident defendant above
named shall personally be- and appear before said tcs
Court on the the thereof 20 be holden
Ottawa and for the said county, on the second Monday
in June next and plead answer demur 10 the sald
com planan- bill of complaint the and the matters
and things therein charged and stated will be tab o.
fessed and entered against you according 10 the
prayer Of said hill ROSWELL W. HOLMES, Ii.rk.
Ottawa. Illinois. April LIT. 1870.
ID NrDOVg q &. :. PAINE, Compile Syrs. aprN-iW
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Around the Court House.

The following were this week granted licenses
to marry:
VIM. s. Longworth and Samantha i. Walker.
Henry lrion and Amelia Brurl.
Isaac Dunayan and Mary A. Laierty.
Patrick Corcoran and Mary Price
Ilelmig Franz and Amelia Lautleman.
John D. Brady and Anna Cooke.
John S. Barr and Lizzie Blaisdel.
Alfred A. Wilson and Capitola b. Doph.
VIM. NJ Geddes and Jennie Parker.
Abner r. Kelley and Mary J. Beal
Claiming Woodbridge and Mary Scott.
John j. Richards and Bertha Bennett.
REAL ESTATE.
Sixty eight real estate instruments were this
week filed in the recorders office. The money
involved, compared with last week was:
April |. Mar p.
Sales. ..............$4 4, 1868. Sll3, 4004l
Loans .............. 23,Sl0O0. 2s,7SS,59
Were:
Nathan Mcdowell to Fed lo,t, Mar. -, nwq
nwG >, 81, l. Dmmick, -, 900.
To lots |, = 3, :, blk 10, Mendoza, orig, 5000.
Ann jenkins to David Phillips, Mar, 2G lots l.,
3, 4, and nh =, blk 60, Ncrm. Coal Co. add. Strea-
tor, $1,000.
T. Z. Shaw to J. II. King Mar. %, lot VIII sh
lot l, blk 81 Ottawa, orig, $500.
To lot g. blk Al, Mendoza, orig, 1926.
Catherine A. Bailey to Thos. l.. O'Connor, Mar.
30, VIII neq 81, 81, 3, SO. Ottawa, $1,000.
VIM. A. Shu: er to John A. Hayes, Mar. 80 VIII
lot >, blk % Streator, $1,000
THE JAIL.
The Jail received on Wednesday the person of
Henry Roland of La Sale, charged with out
raging children in that city. He was examined
by local justice and in default of bail ($l 000)
was sent to Jail to await the action of the grand
jury. He was arrested on complaint Of Thomas
Gartside, whose l0-year old daughter confronted
Roland with the story of dastardly crime. 1t ap-
pears from telegram that Roland a FrenCbman
of 40 years of age has been guilty, for some time
of enticng little girls 10 and II years old into his
studio, and, by making them presents, taking
their pictures and allowing them to play on the
piano, succeeded in getting them to submit to
his embraces and to allow him to perform a
nameess crime. The Gartsidc girl testified that
Roland induced her to meet him IN his studio;
that he got her on his lap, exposed his person to
her, and tried to ravsh her; and in her childish
way told of horrible crime against nature he
coaxed her to assist him in. Roland, OF course,
denies the crime and claims it is all put up
job"
y. p. Clark, of Utica, was on yesterday lodged
in Jail on compliant of Sophia Grce, who de
carcs that on or about May 10, 1879 ana at divers
other times, Clark committed rape upon her at
Herrs farm. Clark was put under bonds of
$4,000 by local justice, in default of which he
comes here.
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doubt not Miss Coombs always successful here)
will be greeted with large house.

doubt not Miss Coombs always successful hcre)
will be greeted with large house.
ROMEO AND JULIET.
On April IL and II will he given at the Opera
House the ,rayesty of "Romeo and Juliet" 1t is
a killingy funny piece and " i'll be given IN CAPT,
tai style by our local talent, The Aurora Ddly
Ne'cS thus outlines few hints Of its character in
notice of the play rs given there hy the Idle
Hour Club
select and very large audience greeted the
first presentation of Romeo and juliet" with
hearty applause, at the Opera House last eve
ming which was well meritcd. The most nota.
BILE scenes and chorus, and which appeared to
delight the audience the most, were the lunch
and minuet jigger Of act ID the snore and cat
scenes and choruses Of act Sd, the marriage and
duel in Friar Laurence's cell, 4th act and the
apothecary shop in the 9TH, and stomach pump
in the 9th acts.
Robson and Crane, the famous Two Dromios,
will be in OttawaApril 10Th, giving their version
OF the COMEDY of Errors"