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The COnFM.

POLICE CoURT-Jud0e Smell
To-day, Lincoln Hill, profanity; s. or days.
Gray and Davis failing to exhibit q light pile
OF building material In the street at night; $40
30 days. Annie Fltzhugh, colored, keeping dis
orderly house; SIS or 60 days.
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Philadelphia yesterday Judge Fell sentenced the
men Who were recently convicted OF violating
graves IN the Lebanon cemetery. Robert Chew
was sentenced to two years Imprisonment, Lev
Chew, to eighteen months, McNamee to eight
months, and Pillett four months
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FRIDAY and Saturdays special bargains at Hahn
& Co :, SIC eth St and 1872 Pa. ave-:
ChildS spring heel button, Soc
Ladies' solid, Serviceabe shoes, sc.
Ladies house slippers, 15c.
Misses AMI boys school shoes, 50 and 15c.
Gents all leather working shoes, 75c.
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A SINGULAR Casa special dispatch to the
Baltimore Sun from Hagerstown, Md, March 90.
this vicinity. and who has for a year past been in
bad health, this morning inflicted upon himself a
mutliation OF body OF singular and rare occur
effects. - w.
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AS AN fnducement to the public, for a short
time only, lwill sell tickets for IS, or for $40,
each ticket good for one dozen Cabinet Photo
graphs taken and finished In strictly first class
style. Regular price S per dozen.
PAUL TRALLES, Photographer
BOG 9Th street bel. Pa. ave. and ID street.
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FrssELL's ICE CREAM and Charlotte Russo.

soc SHOOK Kids, In 614 TO s, colors Cochrane' 3
Uptown
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NEW MAPLE SUGAR. new maple syrup, and new
New York butter. No retailing. Spicer Comp
ton Co., S3i La. ave.
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SPECIAL NoTICE--100 wOven-wire mattress at
the lev price OF $3.50 Wash. B. Williams dealer
In fashionable furniture, carpets, ETC., No. 39 9TH
and SIS. NV.
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ANNIE FITZHUGH, young colOrad woman, was
lined s5 or so days by Judge Smell today for keep
Ing disorderly house IN South Washington.
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StandtfOrd's kOumisS, 9th and f NV
A pleasant tonic and agreeable stimulant
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STILL given away: ALWAYS given them AWAY. tea
GoLp-FILlED plain rtngs. g 10 s. Prlcg,s.
For social news read to-morrow's Record.

We most undoubtedly sell the best liquors an
all mixed drinks for 10c. 9l1 ID street
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Go TO j. BROCK, SOC 9TH street. for Your boots and
SHOES Special bargains for week
20O pair ladi'S' Kid button JotS s.. So worth go
l.5 pair ladies' Kid button, warranted, 81, worth
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$50 pair ladies' fine KID beauty. 81 50 worth s.
Ladies' French Kid. hand sewed, St, worth So
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LOCAL MENTION.
The WeaflneH

The Weather.
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER
WASHINGTON, d. C., March 30, 1888, $50 a m (
For the middle Atlantic states cloudy weather
with rain or snow, easterly shifting TO colder
northwest winds, falling followed by rising
barometer.
SPECIAL BULLETIN - FAIR WEATHER TOMORROW.
On Saturday fair weather Is indicated in Ten
neSsee, the ohio valley and middle states and
Clearing weather In New England.
THE LIFE RING f1re-escape has been adopted by
the prOprietOrS OF the Arlington Hotel, OF this
Fort William Henry Hotel, at Lake George, Y. Y.
These three hotels are under the management of
AeSSrs ROeSSle Son, who unSurpiSSing In their
efforts 10 provide for the safety OF their numerous
patrons
SOUVENIRS given away tomorrow to every pur-
CHASER at NJ AugenStein's, ST. 9TH St n. W. when
the following bargains Will be sold: Antique
chamber sets, ZIG; tea sets, A pieces With moss
rose and gilt band 81 IS: oil boiled table covers
81 syTap pitchers with patent drip, re- large
ct, l5c.; 4Qt., 19c.; LOOT, 24c., il doZ. silver
plated knives, 95c.; \ dOZ- silver plated forks
doz: table spoons. Sc; y doz silver platei tea
reductions In baby carriages
STILL given away: always given them away; tea
sets, owl pitchers, French vases, lamps, cups and
saucerS, tea pots, toilet sets. plat and other
things OF use TO hOuSekeeperS given away to pur-
chaSers OF teas and cofees by the Enterprise Tea
company, corner OF 4th and Pennsylvania avenue,
capitol Hill; branches 322, 3y3 324 Center market
%, - IStern, and 14S Northern Liberty markets.
Pure and fragrant Mocha and Old Government
JaVaS. Maricabd. Santos and Rio roasted daily in
our patent steam 70 tSter Just received 100 bags
or choice cOffees, AMI 115 chests or pure Mojune
GuDpOwders and choice Spring Leaf teas, to be
sold a, so cents per pound; wholesale trade and
lunch rooms at special prices; teas and cOffees
direct from importers j. III. and J. /. O'DonneI
proprietorS, Jobbers and retail dea lers in teas
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CIT Goes RiDht

9l1 street. says: II have received great benen
from the use OF Browns Iron BitterS
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HoUSFKEEPERS will find IL to their advantage to
carefully read the Enterprise Tea Co.'S. adyt-
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To Make a Good Salad Dressing
IN the ordinary way, good condiments, plenty OF
Dressing supplies these requisites. All grocer
sell 1t.
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FREE IACEs for Light Infantry Fair, ladies'
Cochrane'., Uptown.
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The WEEKLY STAR, large double paper OF fifty
tN columns, VIII De sent postpaid for one dollar q
year. Try it
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SAVE eyesight and dollars Consult Fl. Fl. Hem.
pler.
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Health Is Wealth.
TO have both, drink Wright & Johnsons nure
LIQUORS and all mixed drinks for 10c., gil D
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LundbOrg's Rhenish Cologne.

Mother swans Worm Syrup.
Infallible, taSteleSs, harmless cathart1c: 10
Ieverlshness, restlesSnes, worms, constipation
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HAHN's 81 ladies' new style fine laced shoes

UNI--coRNs. (only popular cornsl Cochrane'
Uptown
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"A1derney Dairy WaROns.0
Fresh Alderney Butter, churned every morning
ana delivered IN h-b. "Ward" prints, Soc per 10.
Also, cottage cheese, buttermilk and sweet milk
sc. per qt Cream 15c. pint.
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ut Goes Right to the Spot,
This expressive phrase adequately describes the
erect OF glass OF Hub Punch drank clear OF
mixed. Sold by grocers and druggists
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New v Cent Pieces.

Johnson's, 9th, near street-High grade Oys-
ters SCI we'd In every available style: Also Devled
Grabs, Clam Chowder, choice Fish, &c. Steamed,
Roast and Boiled Oysters q speciality, Families
| furnished. Ladies' saloon first door.
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HE Following Immense Bargains
VIII be sold tomorrow only at r. Goldschmid's s12
1tn ST n. W.; French china fruit plates with broad
colored borders, gold lines and handsome painted
centre 1oc each, combination glass set containing
covered butter dish, sugar bowl, cream pitcher
spoon holder. 81 in dessert plates, preserve sau-
cers1 dish and fruit bowl on high stand only CSC,
bottle silver plated dinner or bottle breakfast
casters Sc, handsome u gal water pitcher with
j doz. engraved goblets Sc, 6 each decorated
= En ~ , china cups, saucers and plates
with frame "a by $685., white stone china cups
and saucers 4Sc. IS dOz, decorated china chamber
sets 10 pieces s. 25 decorated with moss rose 81
Ice cream dish with saucers on stands CSC,
carving knife and fork Soc. new design in deco
rated china dinner sets l1S pieces only $500 worth
$Saoo 4S sheets OF colored or white shelf paper
l0c., backing brush with whisk broom and 8
boxes OF olacking &c. real Matoca pitchers l5c.,
large bars OF superior laundry soap 12c., silver
plated tea spoons 43c y doz, table spoons &c. y
doz, forks 75c. doz, knives s5c. y doz-. roller
skates zoe pair, also 100 baby carriages OF the
best manufactures sold at reduced prices
Our Motto IL
quick sales and small proflts. Punches, smashes
and cocktails 1Oc., from pure liquors only, at 9l1
street
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MCGEss Arlington whisky commands notice
Rch, pure and elegant 81 Ut bottle, a gallon 404
9th street.
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SAFE DEPOSIT co.

SECURITY FROM LOSS BY BURGLARY,
~ ROBBERY, FIRE Oh ACCIDENT.
IdE NATIONAL SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY.
CORNER 10TH STREET AND New YORK AVE.
feIpeiuai Charter Act of Congress January 22d 1867
Rents Safes for s. to So per year. and takes ali kinds
OF oec1ces and VAustles Special Deposit Ut lowest
BENJAMIN P. SNYDER. President.
CHARLES C. GLOVER, Of Riggs Co., Vice President
JOHN CASSELS, Treasurer
ALBERT L. STtRTEVANT Secretary.
c. E. Nyman, Asst. Secy.
DIRECTORS:
BENJAMIN P. Snyder. Charles @. Glover
John Casseis, Henry A. Willard.
Albeit L. Sturtevant Thomas Evans
John g. Parke. ana
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NEW HOSIERY, great bargains Cochranes, Up
town.
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THE NEW FIvE-CENT NICKELS will be paid out
Tor few days longer at Drivers.
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OH as SfH srs Ri M EokfRiwrsr. NTH

For the week. Commanding MARCH nth. 1885, the
toioTins Siecisl BARGAINS in r1ANoS and ORGANS:
no; Ia "a Octave Upright Grand Piano, Standard
MAKE. used months. Cost t625 property of retired
army orncer, and superb harsain. S335. No. A
brand new rrlsht consigned 10y New York maker In
S SSed OF ss,h; sle, No Alsnse and powerfui
dealers. q 1850 REGULAR. offered AZ $3.50 No 4-ono
Octave Square. 10y VIM. knabe 4 Co and Warranted
Nso. NO: h-Cne Octave Square, in good order by
H. Conrad ss5. No. 6.-one Daniel r. Beatty organ.
used months cost fl2S. stt60. No. One genuine
ShoninFer Orsan. good new, SIS. No. s.-ope s.
STOP New Brideerort Organ $50. No. s.-one q
Octave. double Reed. Mason & Hamlin Oman $40
NB-This unprecedented st of special prices 10 rre-
scented Tor the purpose OF inducing Close buyers 20
oke hold NJ once but wish b. state here veil
meaning person, with a small income has ever
Iwhen In want of an instrument The musi
CA education Of their chldrcn) been turned away.
neither Viii they go long my door ia open. Where
ssn price quoted the time IN only trhe his her.
Parties having instruments 10 dispose of will ind IL 70
tneir interest 10 consult the demand for such
goods at my store il unlimited.
mhl7 REFn
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CSucceesor to Perry Brotner.)
ASKS THE ATTENTION OF THE LADIES OF
WASHINGTON TO HIS ELEGANT
STOCK OF CHOICE
FRENCH DRESS TEXTURES,
INCLUDING ALL THE LATEST PARIS NOVEL
TIES, WHICH ARE THE CORRECT STYLES
FOR THE SPRING AND SUMNER OF 1888
MY SILK DEPARTMENT Is NOW REPLFTE
WITH ALL THE FASHIONABLE FABRICs IN
GLIDING GROS DE LONDRES MUSCOViTES
0TTOMANS, SATIN RHADAMES. BRoCADES
LOUISINES. SURAHS, SUMNER SILKS, INDIA
PONGEES AND eros GRAIN SILKS ALL BEING
OF The BEST MAKES AND AT HE LOWEST
NEW YORK PRICES.
JAPANESE AND CANTON CRFPFS.
IMMENSE ASSORTMENT OF BLACK GRFNA-
DINES. IN PLAIN. STRIPES. CHECKS AND
ALL THE --LATEST NOVELTIES" IN PARASOIS
HANDkERCH1FFS AND GLOVES.
EMBROIDERED FICHUS. PARIS JERSEYS.
EMBROIDERED ROBES, IN PONGEES NUNS
VElLlNGS. SATINES. ZEPHYRS AND BATISTES.
IL CHOICE Goops. PLAIN FIGURES. AND CoHaror
sEATON PERRY,
Perry Building
Pennsylvania avenue. corner 9th street.
hstaphshed Is4o mh24
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EASTER OrES1se.
NEW AND ELEGANT DRESS GOODS.
WE INVITE THE ATTENTION OF THE PUB
Lie TO THE LARGEST AND BEST STOCK OF
CHOICE SPRING DRESS GOODS THAT WE HAVE
EVER OFFERED. SELECTED BY MIR. SINISTER
THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK, AND OPENED THIS
DAY.
THE STOCK CONTAINS EVERYTHING NEW
AND DESIRABLE, AND MANY STYLES ARE
CONFINED TO OUR HOUSE. AND CANNOT BE
PURCHASED ELSEWHERE IN THIS CITY
boNNEI AND GU1NET BLACK SILKS. LUPIN'S
MOURNING GOODS. &C.
ONE PRICE
W. M. SHUSTER 4 SONS.
919 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
n B.-The best lie the cheapest mbol
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Hams ladies' Beauty a French Kid butte
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ATTENTION, LADIES!
Ek FIN n s eeG q" sssss
{ k# M II aa as ss ssss
E. 4 4 : 4 4 5 %ss 81 F.
GRAND SPRING OPENING
FRENCH PATTERN HATS AND BONNETs
ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, MARCH % AND 80.
REMEMBER
OUR PRICES ARE LOWER THAN ELSEWHERE:
OUR DISPLAY THE LARGEST AND HANDsOMEsT
OUR STYLES THE MOST ELEGANT;
OUR SHAPES THE LATEST AND OF THE MOST
MODERN DESIGNS.
HANDSOME AND EXPENSIVE OPENING SOU.
VENIRS.
ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED.
n G'S P A ace
S14 SEVENTH STREET
The Largest Retail Millinery Store in the United
States. rho7
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For temperance news read to-morrow's Record.
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GENTS s. nne button and gaIters at Hahns.
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SCRAP PICTURES.

SCRAP PICTURES.
II JAY GOULD. 42l era STREET, WONDERFUL
81 variety Of Relief and Scrap book Pictures Birth
day Carde. Paper Dolls. French Tissue Paper. Don't
book. mh26
OEO c. GWYNN 6O7 ~ street southwest DEALERin
\I CARDS, PICTURES. FRAMES, and MIRRORS,
BIRTHDAY AND EASTER CARDS.
Full Success in Copying Old Pictures. III
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES BOUGHT. AND THE
- highest cash pricss paid. Alsa. Mstchest Jsysl.E
aTeek naar H1nnsylyan'a ayenoe naEza
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OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER. !
WASHINGTON, ID. c., March 30, 1883, 9 80 a m.
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Ladies house slippers, 15c.
Misses ana boys school shoes. 50 and sc.
Gents all leather working shoes, 75c.
HAMS ladies' Beauty" "a French Kid button
soc. SHOOK kids, In 81. to s, eoiors Cochranes,
Uptown.
FrssELL's ICE CREAM and Charlotte Russo
New York butter. No retailing. Spicer, Comp
ton Co., s3i La ave.
LADIES' elegant hand-sewed boots at Hahn's
NEW HOSIERY, great bargains. Cochrane's, Up
town.
For temperance news read to-morrows Record.
THE NEW FIvE-CEST NIckEIs Will be paid out
Ior few days longer 1T Drivers.
AS AN inducement to the public, for a short
time only, win sell tickets for IS, for $40,
each ticket good for one dozen Cabinet Photo.
graphs taken and finished In strictly first class
style Regular price s. per dozen
PAUL TRALLEs, Photographer,
300 9Th street, bet Pa. ave. and ID street.
,Usr-coRss. (only popular cornsl Cochrane's,
Uptown.
HAHN's 81 ladies' new style fine laced shoes.
SPECIAL NoTIcE-1OO woven-wre mattress ut
the lew price o; $3.50 Wash. B. Williams, dealer
and ID SIS. NV.
III IHcu, DtfSill5- UPTOWN, COc0-
Hene'S
SAVE eyesisht and dollars. Consult H. II. Hem
pier.
Go TO j. BROCK, 500 9TH street. for your boots and
SHOES Special bargains for one week.
200 pair ladi'S kid button bots 81. so worth go
1I5 pair ladies' kid button, warranted, 81. worth
$3.50 ~
$50 pair ladies' fine kid, q beauty. 81 90 worth s.
Ladies' French Kid. hand sewed, 81, worth So
HoUsFKEEPERs will find IL to their advantage to
carefully read the Enterprise Tea Co.'S. adyt-
FREE LacEs for Light Infantry Fair ladies'
Cochrane'>, Uptown.
GENTS 81 fine button and CATERS at Hahn's
THE WEEKLY STAR, a large double paper OF fifty
sM columns, VIII be sent postpaid for one dollar
year. Try it
ANNIE FITZHUGH. young cOlOred woman, was
nned s25 or 30 days by Judge Smell today for keen
Ing disordery house IN South Washington
BASE BALL and organization news, to-morrow's
Record.
McGEs's Arlington whisky commands notice
Rlch pure and elegant 81 Ut. bottle, a gallon, 404
9th street.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22
A PitifuI Case.

Here is a pitiful case with which per-
haps some one Of our readers may have
to do. Fifteen years ago a blind girl
known as Maggy Smith lived in Chau
mont. Jefferson County, in this State.
The woman who had raised her told her
that her real name was Helen McAvoy,
that her father was in Ireland at the
time of her birth and her mothers death,
and that she (the wOman) had taken her,
having no children of her own, and kept
her hidden from her father.
Finding that the girl was hopelessly
blind, she turned her out of doors, but
it is supposed she informed the father
that Helen was in the New York Insti-
tute for the Blind, to which some kind
souls procured her admission.
The girl lately has discovered that
Search was made several years ago at
this Institute for her by her father, who
stated that he was a farmer of means liv-
ing in Pennsylvania, and anxious to re-
gain his child.
The girl, it is stated, ''was in the
building at the time, but owing to he1
assumed name was not recognized" She
is now utterly homeless and dependent
on her old school friends.
If this should meet the eye of hel
father or anyone who knows him, her ad,
dress will be given on application to the
New York Tribune.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22
Adu1teratiOn of Sugar.

Our Washington correspondent re-
ports that when the bill to prevent the
importation of adulterated tea is brought
into the House an effort will be made to
add to it a clause forbidding and pun
ishing the adUlteration Of sugar and mo-
Iasses also. In the light of a letter from
Mr.. Duncan T. Kenner to a glucose
manufacturer in this State, which has
become public, we hope that not only
Congress but the State Legislatures also
will make haste to declare fraudulent the
selling Of mixture of sugar and mo-
lasses with glucose, unless the quality
and proportions Of the mixture are open
lv stated. Whoever wishes to use gll-
cose has a right to do 50. And if any
one prefers to use Il mixture of cane
sugar and glucose rather than pure cane
sugar he has the right to do this. But
whoever sells such mixtures as ''sugar'
OF ''mOIasses" commits a fraud on the
public. and ought to be liable to severe
punishment.
Glucose is a much cheaper article than
cane sugar. It is worth only about half
as much and it Is much less sweet. 1t
does not improve, but, on the contrary,
it debases the cane sugar or molasses
with which it is mixed The mixture is
made for the dishonest purpose Of get
ting a high price for an article of inferior
value. 1t IS a fraud upon the public, and
ought to be severely punished. We
hope some member of our Legislature
will make haste to introduce a bill pro-
tecting the public against this abomin-
able swindle, and making its commission
a punishable offense.-N. y. Hcra}d.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22
Nothing TO Do.

A man who has nothing to do is pitt
able object. He is simply kept man.
He is living on charity. Some amiable
snoozer, now dead, has left him the
money that he lives on, and all he has to
do is to draw the money and eat, drink
and sleep.
No eyes can brighten with happiness
when he comes home, because he only
comes home when the other places are
closed. He cannot come home tired,
and be petted and rested by willing
hands, because it would be a mockery to
pet tired man who had got tired doing
nothing.
Such a man simply exists and is no
good on earth. If he would wheel bar
row and earn dollar, and get tired, and
buy a beefsteak with the dollar, and
have it cooked, and eat it while the ap-
petite was on that he got wheeling the
barrow, he would know more enjoyment
than he had ever known before. That
man with nothing to do on earth no
doubt thinks, as he lays around and
smells frowy, that he is enjoying life,
but he knows no more about enjoyment
than tom-cat that sleeps all day and
goes out nights to play short-stop to
lot of bootjacks and beer bottles. Such
man is cipher, and does not know
enough to go in when it rains. If there
were less incomes left to lazy young tel-
lows. and more sets of carpenter tools,
there would be more real enjoyment.-
! BltrLinQtOn HdlUkeye.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22
Pioneer COUrtShipS.

COurting, or sparkling, in the early
days on the Western Reserve, in Ohio,
was not a Irritation, but an affair of the
heart. and was conducted in the natural
way. The boys and girls who were pre-
disposed to matrimony used to sit up to-
gether on Sunday nights, dressed in
their Sunday clothes.
They occupied usually corner in the
family room in the cabin, while the bed
of the old folks occupied the opposite
corner, with blankets suspended around
it for curtains. During the earlier part
of the evening the old and young folks
engaged in a common chit-chat.
About eight o'clock the younger chill
dren climbed the ladder in the corner
and went to bed in their hunks under
the garret-roof; and in about an hour
later father and mother retired to bed
behind the bed-blanket curtains, leaving
the 'ssparkers" sitting at respectful
distance apart, before a capacious wood
Fireplace, and looking thoughtfuily into
the cheerful flame, or perhaps into the
future.
The sparkers, however, soon broke the
silence by stirring up the fire with a
wooden shovel or poker, first one and
then the other; and, every time they re-
sumed their seats, somehow the chairs
manifested unusual attractions for closer
contiguity.
If chilly, the sparkers would sit closer
to keep warm; if dark, to keep the bears
off. Then came some whispering, with
''hearty smack, . which broke the cabin
stiffness and disturbed the gentle breath
ing behind the suspended blankets so as
to produce a slight parental hacking
cOuph.-HARvEY RICE.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22
Intemperance in st. Louis.

The Grand Jury of st. Louis have
taken some pains to estimate the amount
of crime and pauperism caused in that
city by intemperace, and they put it at
eighty per cent. In their opinion,
however, any attempt to prohibit the
rum traffic would fail, and the best thing
TO be done is to lessen the number of
groggcries 10y greatly increasing the
price of licenses. They argue that an
immense fund for charitable purposes
would thus be collected, and that the
character of such places as could afford
to pay 81. 600 year for the privilege Of
continuing business would he much
better than the present average. Their
plan is being discussed by the news
papers, and finds 50 much favor that it
will probably be tried.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22
A Judges Suggestion Patented.

The Washington star says:-It ar-
pears. from statements made at the City
Hail. that not long ago Chief-Justice
Carter was engaged in looking over some
tables and desks at a furniture store, and
the dealer, in the interview, noted that
there was room for an improved mode Of
covering tables. The Chief-Justice, by
the way, has considerable mechanical
ingenuity, and, after studying moment,
called for some pieces of board and II
piece of cloth, and explained to the dealer
how he would cover the tables, and
thought nothing more Of it. 1t has since
been ascertained that the suggestion Of
the Chicf-,Justice was followed. and that
he now finds that there is pending III
the Patent Office an application for Il
patent based on his ideas.