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A QUESTION TOUCHING WILLS.

The Pittsburg Commercial of recent date
says: In the Orphans Court yesterday a
question of law of some importance concern
ing wills was before Judge Hawkins. The ap-
plication of Christian Rudolph, Jr., forletters
testamentary on the estate Of his deceased
mother, Mrs. Anna Rudolph, had been re-
fused by Register Hoerr, on the ground that
the two witnesses to the will had not sub
scribed their names as witnesses. In other
words, the Registers position in refusing to
admit the will to probate seemed to recog.
nize distinction in the application of the
law az between cases where the person max.
ing the instrument signs his or her name
or makes his or her mark. Mrs. Rudolph,
who could not write, had been instructed by
her attorney to have her signature by mark
to the will attested by two outsiders, mean
ing two disinterested parties. She misap-
pretended the term, and though two neigh
bors, who lived in the same building with
her, and were not relatives, witnessed her
signing the viii by mark, they did not attest
her signature by subscribing their names to
the instrument. The Register was cited to
appear before Judge Hawkins yesterday,
when issue was joined and the 10th inst.
fixed for the argument. II is contended on
behalf of petitioner that the statutes on the
subject Of wills is clear in its terms requiring
the Register to admit such will to probate.
In fact, even where the testator is not able
TO himself, but directs another to sign for
him, or expresses his consent to the terms
of the will, the instrument is made valid.
Register Hoerr contends that there is no
precedent on the subject, and that his object
in refusing letters testamentary is to estab-
Esh one"
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A ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.
Marriage of IA Couple After Forty Eight
Years of Separation.


The particulars of case wherein fiction
is discounted have recently come to light. A
romance in real life in which the first act
was played nearly fifty years ago, has just
been brought to happy termination by the
union forever of two fond hearts, which
cruel fate had separated by distance of
400 miles for half a century, lacking two
years Forty-eight years ago John Saun-
ders, one, of the wealthiest cattle kings of
Montana, who was then poor youth, with
nothing to recommend him but spotless
reputation, brave heart and a love for the
beautiful and pure, became enamored of a
Kentucky belle, whose father was a rich
man. His tenderness was reciprocated, but
tho parent of the young lady refused his
consent to the marriage, and was inexorable
Young Saunders was powerless 10 change
the old mans mind, and was too honorable
TO press himself in family where his pres
enee was unweleome. He, therefore, sought
an interview with the girls parent, who for
the last time told him to abandon all hope
of marriage as far as his daughter was con-
cerned, as the difference in their social posi-
tons was an insurmountable barrier.
How much are you worth y asked the
young lover. .k
!" 1 could transfer my property into mil
lion dollars cash, was the naughty reply.
Every well" answered young Saunders;
tomorrow morning ] leave for the West
to carve out "a fortune, and when | can size
up to your million dollars will return and
claim my bride, for know she viii be true.
The young man kept his promise. Aftera
long and painful interview With his manor
alta aud witha small outfit he struck out brave-
ly for the western Territories Since that
time forty-eight years have elasped, during
which, with varying success, he has dipped
into numerous enterprises from the British
line to Sonora. He. came to, Montana in
early days and embarked in the cattle bust
ness with firm of Helena, with such re-
markable success that the firm now own
nearly 10000 head on the Teton. About
month ago Saunders figured up his assets,
concluded he was worth million, and i'm
mediately left for Kentucky. He found the
love of his young days waiting for him, con-
fdent aud hopeful of his final arrival The
two were married with as little cere-
mony Us possible, and expect to be suff-
ciently happy for the remainder of their
days to compensate them for long years of
hope deferred and separation. Butte IN.
IT, Inter-Ocean.
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THE ARCTIC WHALING FLEET.

The twenty or more whale ships which
mostly started again for the same destina-
ton. These vessels will not arrive in the
Arctic before long time. They fish
by the way, making long stretches out of a
direct course, sometimes getting well over
toward Japan, and sometimes nosing about
the Okhotsk Sea, for any chance to strike a
few whales in this latitude. Besides the
feet of sailing ships, there will be three
steamers in the Arctic this season, viz. The
Belvedere and North Star, of New Bedford,
and the new steamer now on the stocks at
this port, which win be completed inside of
the next two months The sailing ships are
all old-fashioned, short, oak built ships,
which have done good service in other bust
Arctic. Some of them were packets fifty
years ago. They are still strong weatherly
ships, and seem to be Independent of all de-
cay. The cold weather of the Arctic
and the saturation of oil have ten
dency to preserve ships. Unless these oil
vessels get nipped in the ice, they may be
good for at least a quarter of century more
of good service. By that time there will be
no use for anything but the screw steamship
in whaling. Even now another use of steam
in whaling has been introduced-the steam
tender or small boat with steam, strong
enough to tow dead whale long distance
and tow the whale boats to the fishing
ground. Steam cannot be used in following
whales on account of the noise. But it can
be used as an auxiliary in the ways suggest
ed, and, it is said, with substantial advan-
tage. A great many whales are struck and
lost. But steam tender to hitch on and
tow thirty or forty miles is the latest i'm
provement in whaling. The old sailing yes
sells will wear ont in the business. They do
not represent great deal of capital Now
and then an old ship worth So, 900 or SO, 900,
and twice that sum in the matter of outfit,
will come into port with 1000 barrels of oil
and as much bone as can be stored away
The interest on capital is small. The profits
are large. That is why these old bluff
bowed ships soaked with whale oil are SO
dear to the hearts of their owners The
steam whaler with outfit, costs anywhere
from $4,000 to 1920, 900 according to size.
These must come into port with large fares,
or the venture would be a losing business -
San francisco Bulletin.
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NEWSPAPER MENTION.

A writer upon Longfellow in the Provi-
dence Star says "There is an affectation
of Indifference or disgust at newspaper men,
ton among those who are most anxious to
secure it. The people who are most severe
in denouncing the alleged misrepresentation
and exaggeration of the public press are
those who are not satisfied unless their most
trivial acts and unimportant movements are
recorded in style only betting the de-
scription of great confagration. Mr.. Long
fellow was free from this weakness, while
both he and Charles Summer did not hest
tate to say that they were always gratifed
by friendly newspapernotices of themselves.
They both said that no man could afford to
be ungrateful for such notices. for they were
positive advantages.
Mr.. Longfeilow always seemed to me to
be on such lofty plane of thought that it
never occurred to me that he could be af-
fected by adverse criticism until he once
wrote me I am about to send out anoth.
er volume, which is the same as putting
ones head under the guillotine' rsmem.
bered at that moment all the foolish criti-
cisms and nonsensical parodies that had fol-
lowed
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owENDoLEN MAHAFFY's LOVE.

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~ nv. snug nun, papa!
en'oisn maii'iy salo 'heSe wofas
d".Niy, anu wis'i an earies'ness 'iiat snow
- ~ Nv" ner "hoie heare was wrapped up IN
~ ouns ai'ou ~ WHOSE Denan tney were
A ~ ""s Deau',iul evening IN
- nv .no Ces.i0 m"na"Y no SOUND
800 s,'o ''to oioeA snence' save the oc-
s'l 'isse = oiioAes Deneatn .ne nag
s.9' a,'- 'A9 .vu ,wls'etius u 'ne swat
s ~ - ''Ass ns'''su Deuea'h 'he caves ana
= vs'on o'ues sieepy gooa.nlgns.
ssss.., esVse was Aus'oef' eiahanys
-st s ssa ieais aso' when uwanooien
""' ou' DAoy anu rue PROUD tather haa
- - ~ 'e''s ~ '-'o'''e' puoAes VI
s ss.ap " Aesp ne' i'oin howhng
aas a ~. ~, :. wv, sAe Ao"Se on' 'e n'u iouna Us
MA 49,. ". - 800 sis,us ~ rop :
bar,a -. 100 'aN,n 'ne NUS wa',
49, ;. - " 80 As o"n 'n''''' a,u
D. NY o'oa, was on 1e
.s,,,,s,ness Asassss-i7AAe usp Srsulilsu tns oiu
During all these wears that Gwendolen
and Oscar had been growing mn together
there had risen In their hearts n passionate
love almost wicked in its intensity. and not
two months aeone thew had pliobted their
troth and sealed their vows with a barge
tooth-startino kiss that made Gwendolen
club herself for all she had been missing II
was the ayowal of this SECOND contract that
had caused grim. y;saoe5 ola Mr. Mabafrv
to rear his horid front and declare that Il
should never be
$50 Won have given this vouno mar.
your heart nv lass ~ said the old man !;
cold sneerine tones.
"Yes. father. I haye.n was GwendolenA
reply " and I shall never renent INV ac.
ton"
"You had much better.n said her father.
while a baleful LIGHT shot from h;s eves
.'haye kept your heart and piyeu him your
liver for it's little need you,ll have for the
latter if you depend upon him to furnish
food IN Keen II going n--.nd with don,o,
like lauob he started ovsr town 10 oo, mi,
Two summers have come and gone
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RICHMOND AND pocAHoNTAs.

Why has no poet ever risen to sing the
praises of Richmond, on the Jamesf Have
they all been absorbed in the tobacco bust
cess, and have had no time for musical
numbers2 Or have the duties of chiyalry
outweighed in their minds all the duties due
poesy2 Surely this Virginia city is one OF
the most charming in the United States. II
It's hills are not so historic as those of Rome,
they bear memories that may move the
hearts of Americans Along this rivers
banks, in the young days of the colonies,
we're done deeds which thrill us now to re-
member Did the James rush as madly
down when Pocahontas walked hero as now
when we stand ON Libby Hill and look of
toward the sacred place where she threw
herself down to save the life of the white
man2 am not going to have one doubt
but that that is the very spot OF course
nothing is more sure than that she had the
place surveyed, the survey legally attested,
and a diagram left to each of her descend
ants and in Virginia the descendants of
Pocahontas are as numerous and as preten-
tious as are the Massachusetts, families
whose forefather's came over in the May
flower. How gricvous that the Indian girl
should have saved Smith to have become
herself Smith! To such ignoble uses was
the daughter of the red man put I'D
Ladys Letter to the Boston Transcript.
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A Gymnastics LONG FALL.
The Sensations OF n Man who Felt Thar
Death Was Very Near.

We were playing in Havana The same
people go to the theatre every night, and
they demand constant changes in the bill.
My brother Tom was taken sick suddenly.
His ladder was up in the dome ready for
the leap for life" and the people began to
clamor to have sit done.n / finally agreed
to do it. The feat consists, after the per-
Torrance of a variety of tricks on the ladder,
in swinging yourself into motion and jump
ing to taut rope, running from q ceiling at
an incline to the wings. The jump was a
long one, and the house WINS very quiet
when began to swing preparatory to taxi
ing the leap.
threw myself at the rope, and when l
was in mid-air, / saw il was no 90 and that
l was done. l struck out desperately with
my feet, in the hope of helping myself for
ward, but only reached the rope with the
tips Of the fingers with my left hand. Both
hands and both feet were extended in spread
eagle form, If you like. / ought to have
struck the rope with both hands fairly in the
centre of my body with the legs across the
line, 80 as to distribute the strain of sustain
ing my weight over my whole body. AS it
was, it all fell on my left arm and my body
swept in toward the rope like whip-lash
or course let go, and then began to turn
spirally like corlsscrew and then go down.
l instantly realized that must not land all
spread out Igathered my left arm close
into my body, pushed my head forward and
drew my legs together, struggling 10 get
into shape to fall on my side. did fall
Just that way forty feet on wooden stage.
My arm was driven into my side and rib
was broken. The arm was shattered and l
was laid up for many months.
While was going down in an instant 1
saw over again, as vivid as life, every fall
that ever witnessed They came up in my
mind, one right after another, like successive
flashes of lightning, and seemed to be ex-
periencing all of them in my own person.
But worse than everything else, great
deal worse than the shock of arriving, was
the terrible shrek of agony that went up
from the audience. II was like heartbrealE-
ing wall of agony. can hear il yet, and
hear 1t every time think of the accident
From an Intereiep NTH Wilhnm Haalou.
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A NEVADA ROMANCE.
Why Two Lovers Of the Sagc-Brnsh Region
Kept Their Marriage Secret.

At the last session of the Legislature Miss
NJ. Hortense Kittrel daughter of Ex-Attor-
ney General Kittrell, was chosen as clerk of
one of the Assembly committees, and Henry
H. WEIGH was minute clerk. Both were
young, and, as their duties brought them
frequently together, the acquaintance thus
formed grew into friendship and blossomed
into love. The natural result was marriage,
and the ceremony was performed in San
Francisco on the 18th of March, 1874
little over year ago. For reasons best
known to themselves, and in which the
general public is not interested" it is ex-
planned, they kept the marriage secret
Mr. WEIGH went to Eureka, where, being a
capable accountant, he obtained employment
as deputy in one of the county offices.
His bride remained with her father at Reno.
The young couple kept their secret well
for not until recently did even the nearest
relatives of the lady know anything of the
affair When in this city not long ago, she
had the sweet audacity TO ask mutual friend
il he had heard from Mr.. WEIGH recently"
informed the other day of tho facts in the
case, went out to Eureka to take look Mt
his son-in-law, whom he had never seen
He found manly looking young fellow,
about 25 years of age, and six feet two inches
in height.
The Eureka Leader says the inspection
was no doubt as satisfactory TO the father as
il had been to the daughter, for the young
man and his father-in-law departed ON the
same train for Reno Mr.. and Mrs. WEIGH
have given no reason for withholding the
fact of their marriage, but their friends have
volunteered the information that 1t was ow-
ing to the groom's financial inability to pro-
vide at the time of his marriage the kind Of
shome to which he desired TO take his bride.
- Virginia city Chronicle.
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FACTS ABOUT TIE SEAL.
Where They AbouRd-Preservatiom Of the
Alaska "ROokeries,v


1t is somewhat singular fact that we owe
the preservation of the great seal "rooker-
les of Behring Sea, the only ones now ex-
isting ON the face of the EARTH to the shrewd
good sense of those graspine, irresponsible
autocrats, who as governors of the old Rus
sian American Fur Company, exercised the
powers ( absolute despotisnl over all that
region which we now own and style Alaska.
l say it is singular fact, simply because the
breeding grounds of the southern seas, where
upon these valuable pinnipeds bred in count
less myriads when first discovered and motto
ed by Dampter in 1887 and Cook in 177l-.
"a, having been utterly eliminated from the
faces Of the hundreds Of islands Of the Ant
artic by the greedy, misguided slaughter and
waate Of all nationalities- american, French,
English, Spanish and Dutch 40 much SO
that scanty thousand skins or 10 are now
only to be procured from the whole of that
vast area where in ls0l-36 hundreds OF
thousands and even millions Of nelfs vera
ing feet of the seva,,,l nations above ,,,s,,.
toned No mora e,r.s,,;,,,x a,,a,;o;,,,a ,,,;,,
petters than the R,,ssia,,s ore L,,o,v,, 81 Ri
tory, VET their nrasarvat;oo 81 tbosa saa,.
rooha,;as o,, ~, p.;,,,,,,,. ra,a,,a, .,,a,-s
al ar ra...,.,....,s.. -. -.
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A ToUoH NuT .--"Whatl" exclaimed AZ
Austin justice to culprit " have you the
audacity to say you do not recognize this
pocket-book?" Yes, sah.p "But il was
found in your possession" SIN my what
did-you-say, jedge?" "In your possession.
This pocket-book was found in your pocket,
SIR" "Jedge, you has done tole two stories
about dat ar. Fust, yer said hit was foun'
in my possession, and don yer lowed hit was
foun' in my pocket. Bofe dem yarns can't
be true. Eff de jedges on de bench can't tell
de troof, hits no wonder dat poor nisera-
BILE niggah like me got led astray." The
justice drew long breath, and once more
producing the pocket-book said "You de-
MED just now that you had ever seen this
pocket-book, I now ask You again, did you
ever see this pocket-book befores" "Why,
OF course Hit am de same one you showed
me minute ago. Yer must be losin' yer
mind, jedge." Remanded to jail without
bail Texas Svtings
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AMERICAN PAvEsrENrs IN LONDON. Visit
ors to this city must be astonished at the ap-
parently perpetual laying down of wooden
pavement to the continual obstruction of
our main thoroughfares. The fact is the
pavement of the future is q question not
solved yet. An American patent is being
tried in Queen Victoria street and seems to
possess great merit, but in this and every
other large city where SO many cooks are
employed to make the same broth, merit has
q hard battle to fight. When Sydney Smith
was told that the churchwardens of st.
Psul's thought of putting down wooden
pavement round the great sanctuary, the
reverend gentleman observed that they had
but to put their heads together and the
thing was done. London Letter.
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MA POETRY
nor QUITE rHE SAME.


Not quite the same the springtime seems TO me
Since that sad season when In separate ways
Our paths diverged. There are no more such
days
AS dawne0 for us In the last time when we
Dwelt in the realm OF dreams, Elusive dreams
Spring may be just as fair now, but it seems
Not quite the same.
Not quite the same is life since we two parted
Knowing It best 10 go our ways alone.
Fair measures of success we both have known,
And pleasant hours; and yet something departed
Which gold, nor fame, nor anything we win,
Can all replace. And either life has been
Not quite the same.
Love is not quite the same, although each heart
Has formed new ties that are both sweet and
true; kAA4A
But that wild rapture which OF old we knew
Seems to have been something set apart
With that last dream. There is no passion now,
Mixed with this latter love, which seems, some
~ how s8a
Not quite the same.
Not quite the same am l. My inner being
Reasons and knows all that Is for the best,
But OIL the justified yearntng in my breast,
The vanished self, that ever more must be,
This side OF what we call eternity,
Not quite the same.
Ella Wheeler.
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CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES John Will
Jams, a merchant, of Rutledge, Georgia,
sued desperate. The defendant entered
the store in furious passion, held out the
summons in one hand, cIutched long knife
in the other hand and said. Williams,
have you sued meS" Williams knew that
an immediate " Yes " wonld make him sure
of stab. "Let me get my spectacles 80
that can read the paper" he said. He
went behind the counter and came back, not
with bis glasses, but with IN axe across his
shoulder. Eyes" he said, ~ have sued
you" GAN right" replied the desperate /;
81 guess I'll pay the bill"
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C.. A. Dc G.. III. SKTLLMAN,
AtfnrueVs-af-

SOUTHEAST COR. BRIDGE AND UNION SITS,
LAMBERTyILLE, N j.
Collections and all legal business Entrusted to
ourcare will receive prompt and faithful atten-
ton.
C. A. SKILLMAN, G. II. SKILLMAN,
C6,tasellof-ai- Lar. .iHoraey-dt Lac.
July q 1873
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MONEY SAVED.
Deeds and Mortgages written
and Acknowledged for 81.

Of Agreement, Bills of Sale, Leases. Notice to Ten
ants, Chattel Mortgages, Mechanics Leans and
other legal paper written correspondngy low.
RH Bills collected. First-class Fire Insurance
Companies. both Stock and Mutual. represented
VIM. LYMAN
No. So CoryelI street, Larnbertviile, M.
April %. 1850.
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THE ETNA
FIRE INSURANCE CO.,

VI HAMHEONDs ~
Losses Paid In so Years, $4,000 900.
Losses paid at a single fire In Chicago, So >
500. 600, and at Boston, 1000, 600.
Chartered 1919, and doing business for go years.
No Company in the United States can approach
it in tina magnitude of Its losses and the prompt
with which they have been paid.
ASSETS or THE co.JAN. f.ls7s ss.si4 l47.7s.
Feb. II. 1879. WIN. LYMAN, AGENT
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--Whst's in a name: A landlord expects
two yer cent. more rent where the street is
called an avenue.-Louisviite Courier-Jour
1lnI
The Portland daily press., 1882-03-30
What Wife, Means.

Says Ruskih: "What do you think the be su-
tiful word wife comes from? 1t is the gre at
word in which the English and Latin lalN-
guages conquered the French and Greek. I
hope the French will some day get word for
it instead OF that femme. But what do you
think it comes from? The great value of the
Saxon words is that they mean something.
Wife means weaver You must either be
housewives or house-moths, remember that.
In the deep sense, You must either weave mems
fortunes and embroider them, or feed upon and
bring them to decay. Wherever a true. wife
comes, home is always around her. The stars
may be over her head, the glow-worm in the
nights cold grass may be the fire at her feet,
but home is where she is, and for noble wom-
an it stretches far around her, better than
million-shedding its quiet light for those who
else are homeless. This, believe, is the wom-
ans true place and power" s
The Portland daily press., 1882-03-30

GAMBETTA, having lost his following in
the Chamber, has, like his predecessor Thi-
ers, taken up journalism as a means of re-
establishing his former authority. The jour
nails now under control of the ex-dictator
are the richest, most widely read and, in
certain sense, influential in France. Thiers
was able all his life to bring an enormous
pressure to bear whenever it served his pur-
pose, through the medium of lie Petit Jour
nal, the circulation of which in the memora-
BILE struggle with McMallun in 1877 reached
500, 900 copies day. With such an agency
TO speak for him among the voters, Gambet-
ia will be sure of not lying fallow during the
two years left the present Assembly to serve
out their mandate. Meanwhile, fear on the
part of the more conservative wing OF the
party has given the Ministry solid ma1orl-
ty, which it can probably hold until the leg
islature is renewed.