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Euuldu't Pay the Postage.

\ New York artist not long ago sent
to an art firm in Paris letter containing
draft for $3.50 in payment of his ac-
count with them. A short time after.
ward the letter was returned to HIM by
mail, unopened. and bearing the stamp
ct the Paris postotiice. showing that suf-
hrient postage had not been paid on it.
he letter had been duly delivered to the
Paris art firm which, rather than pay
the additional postage. had refused TO re-
cclve it. New York Evening World.
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Thurman's Two Supporters.

A common theory about the admins
tratiOn's relations to the Thurman candi-
dacy is that, while the president has said
nothing, Mr.. Scott and Secretary Whit
ney desire Thurman's nomination in
order to patch up certain party differ
ences in Ohio, and because they sincerely
believe the old Romans name would add
strength to the ticket
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Dover, secretary; William S, Ladd OF
Lancaster, for committee ON credentials;
Daniel Conner of Manchester, for perma.
nent organization; Joseph G. Moore OF
Guilford, editor of The Mirror, for COM
mjttee on resolutions; George b. Chand-
Ter of Manchester. on notification.
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wa NO 1AXPS.
ST. LOUIS, June 5.-The Virginia dele
CATION has held meeting, and has de-
cided to insist that the platform commit
tee shall report in favor of repeating all
internal revenue taxes. Heretofore they
have limited their demands to tobacco,
but now they include all internal revenue
taxes. They expect support from North
Carolina and Georgia, but do not suppose
their demand will be recognized.
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SULlOWAY'S REELECTION.
New Hampshire Delegates Settle Their
Difficulty HarmOniOusly.

DIHHCU'US HH"f HhOH1UUsIy'
ST. LOUIS, June 5.-The New Hamp-
shire delegation have had several meet
ings, all marked by entire harmony. The
reelection of A. r. Sulloway on the ma
tional committee was very gratifying to
Mr.. Sulloway, and he took it as a fiatter-
ing Endorsement of his twelve years. con-
tinuous service. There threatened at one
time to be a contest between Mr.. Will
Jams and j. G. Moore for the place on
the committee on resolutions, but it was
amicably adjusted by making Mr.. Will
Jams the vice president of the delegation.
The decision was made last evening to
vote as unit on all questions, including
the nomination for vice president. The
vote was taken as to preference, but the
majority of the delegation is for Thur
man, which insures him the eight votes
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Ready for u Grand Salute,

NEW YORK, June Cit is expected that
President Cleveland will be renominated
this afternoon at o'clock. Arrarge-
ments have been made for firing grand
salute in front of Cooper Union as soon as
the word is received.
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Lyme.

The tenth marriage anniversary of
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Mayo was PLEASANT
~ observed OH Wednesday evening by
large gathering of their friends and
neighbors.-Mrs. Wright Hewes died
this week after long illness
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The Fountain of Youth.

Has been long sought for in vain. Paine's
Celery Compound. almost takes the place
OF TINS fountain. Ii Is now used by thou
sands OF old folks, whose renewed strength
and vitality show its wonderful power.
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Aunt Jennie says Hop Compound is
Just splendid in the Spring, made Il new
man Oh James," PINTs. soc. Try it. Big
success.
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PROBATE CuORTS AND COURTS OF INsOI,-
VENCY-BRADFORD DISTRICT 1868
Probate Courts and Courts of Insolvency within and
for said district will be holden the ensuing year follows
Bradford-At J. H. Watsons office in Bradford on the
second Tuesdays Of every month"; commencing January
nth, 1887
Corinth-At the Hotel in East Cornth on the third
Wednesdays of June, August and October
West Fairee-At the Probate office in West Fairlee
on the last Saturday Of every month.
S. M. GLEASON, Judge.
Thetford Centre, VT, Dec. /, 1886.
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GRAY DIES HARD.
The Indiana Candidate Will Insist on
Complimentary Vote.

ST. LOUIS, June Others was rumor
last night that Gray might come on, and
himself nominate Thurman, but there is
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MR.. CUNNIFF NOT ALONE.

Day StHte DtItSHCts TOT UrHy, TSIHCK anu
Stevenson.
ST. LOUIS, June 6-Mr. Cunniff of
Massachusetts says that his is not the
only vote for Gray in the Bay state
delegation. He thinks that four votes
may go to Gray, one to Black, and sew
eral others to Governor Stevenson of
Illinois.
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Gas lighting was introduced into New
York III lS9:i t.
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Three Pecuiiarities

Hoods Sarsaparlla, the great blood purifier
and regulating medicine is characterized by
three pecuiarities, namely:
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The result is amedicine of unusual strength
and curative power, which effects cures here
tofore unequaled These peculiarities belong
exclusively to Hoods Sarsaparila, and are
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-22
An Automatic Life Preseryer.

A new automatic preserving belt
has been successfully tested at Ridgway
Park, says the Phi adelphia Times. The
preserver can be made in the form of a
belt to fit around the body under the
arms or also be made in the form of a
vest. The belt is in the form of rubber
bag, covered with black Jersey cloth,
and is intended to be worn at all times
while on the water. 1t is ingeniously
constructed. Under the left arm is a
metal cap, about six inches in circumfer-
ence, perforated all the way around The
metal cap screws down lightly upon a
capsule about five inches in circumfer-
ence and half an inch thick, which is
perforated on both sides.
In the capsule is compressed gas. On
contact with the VT ter the gas is released
and fills the entire belt in less than FIVE
seconds after the wearer has fallen into
the water. The water enters perforated
holes on the outside of the capsule and
comes in contact with the mechanism
and releases the gas.
The capsule then automatically closes
and not a drop of water can penetrate
the inside.
The experiments were made from the
front of Ridgway Park. The wearer OF
the belts was Frederick Golden, nineteen
years of age, who was pushed and fell
o-erboard three times, each time the belt
being inflated and the wearer buoyant
before he came to the surface of the
water.
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A TayaS Eyjct10n

A San Antonio (Texas) landlord had
trouble in effecting the eviction of un-
profitable tenants. MIR. 0. Bergstrom
was the landlord, and the family he de-
sired to rid himself of bore the some
what shaggy name of Pfughaupt. Pro-
curing writ Mr.. Bergstrom placed it
in the hands of deputy sherills. Mrs.
Pfughaupt, it seems. was advised of the
coming of the iicials, and umping in
TO bed, covere he. self with blanket.
When the Ecers arrived she moaned
that she was sick unto death, and q
grown daughter and three smaller
Phughaupts flew at the sheriffs with
bromsticks, skillets, tin cans and other
articles of like character, sometimes
used for purposes of caressing. But the
doughty bailiffs fought their way
through the foe, and reached the bed
side of Mrs. Phughaupt with the papers,
when, to their astoni>hment, that lady
reached out with long pitchfork handle
and whacked one of the officers over the
right ear with it. Nothing daunted,
however, they gently lifted the pre-
tended sick woman from her bed, bore
her into the yard and soon had her and
the bcl!igerent children out of the prem
ises.-1 mes-Dem0, rat.
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Blackboard, the Pirate.

Not far from st. Simon's, Ga, IS an
island called Blackboard. The name, it
is said, originated from a pirate caiIea
Blackboard, who long ago inhabited 1t
with his crew of desperate men. A long,
black beard, flowing to his waist, gave
the pirate his name. When the govern
ment dispatched vessels laden with
money to pay off the men sent to colonize
the State, these pirates would lie in wait
to secure the treasure at any cost. Some
wears since colored man was plowing
on this island, when his plowshare turned
out s4O.0 in Spanish gold. A crafty
white man told him it was too old to be
GOOD, and that he would give him $3.50
for it. The offer was accepted, and
when it was beyond recall, the poor fel-
low found out that he had been swindled.
Even now on the neighboring island of
Jeckyl the trees are often found potched,
and the people suppose that these marks
denote the place where the treasure
booty of the old pirate is buried. Black
beard did not live to be very old. A
vessel coming by was attacked by the
pirate and his men, when the captain Of
the beseiged vessel fired upon him and
killed him. Chicago Herald.
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A Parson Prevents Judicial Murder.

A curious incident is related by the
New York Observer of the Rev. Gilbert
Taylor, of Tennessee. Mr.. Taylor was
q Methodist minister-a near relative of
President Taylor and man of property.
A young man was condemned to be
hung for murder in his town, but Mr..
Taylor was not satisfied that he was
guilty, and one night, passing the Jail
where the condemned man was confined,
he had conversation with him, and be-
coming satisfied of his innocence he
aided him to break out, and he disap-
peared from the community and efforts
to recapture were fruitless.
Some years thereafter Mr.. Taylor was
travelling on horseback in a wild part of
Arkansas, and being benighted stopped
at cabin and asked to he allowed to
remain all night. Only woman ap-
peared to be in the house aud she stoutly
refused permission. No other residence
being near, Mr.. Taylor insisted on stay
ing,r and finally stated that he was q
Methodist minister and that he was
Gilbert Taylor. of Tennessee. The wo-
man at once asked him in and called to
her son, who was hiding in the loft of
the cabin, to come down-that the
stranger was Gilbert Taylor, his rescuer.
The meeting was cordial one. and Mr..
Taylor had the pleasure of informing
the young man that he could return
home, that another person, on his death
bed, had confessed that he alone was
guilty of murder. There was joy in that
humble cabin that night.
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An INGENIOUS Criminal.

The old story of the jury that found
the prisoner not guilty and hoped he
would never do it again has close par
allel in a case recently tried in one of the
New York courts. The defendant, Ger
man widow, was on trial the second
time for arson, the first trial having re-
suited in a disagreement of the jury.
The testimo ony showed that she was
found last fall in her room bound and
gagged, with a fire burning in the middle
of the floor, and there was very strong
suspicion that the gagging were her own
work la Davenport Boys. The jury.
however, found her not guilty, and the
Interpreter could not speak word
of Euglish-informed her that she was
free. As she turned with smiling
countenance to leave the court room the
Judge asked her interpreter to say to
her that the case had very suspicious
look, and that she had better not go
around getting herself tied up and
gagged and having fires in her rooms:
The interpreter did 80, and electrified
the court by announcing that in response
she solemnly promised never to do It
again. The jury, no doubt, felt convinced
that its duty had been properly dis
charged. detroit Free Hress.
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Disprovfne Vital Statistics.

DlSprOV1n2 ttat SCdCtStiSS'
There was a cold, hard look in her
eyes and baby on her arm as she came
into the Crtic office and sat down in the
visitors chair, alongside of the editors
desk.
"You are the editor" she asserted,
confidently.
The editor did not deny the charge.
";n your paper not long SINCE" she
continued, ~ read an article on the CEN
sus returns made by the police, and in 1t
I noticed that the increase of population
in Georgetown from 1885 to 1888 was
only twenty three"
"Yes, madame" said the editor, be-
cause he hadn't anything else to say.
"Well, it's base SANDER on our town,
SIR" she exclaimed Indignantly, and dis
turbed the baby till it grunted. ''Why,
sir, on my block alone, the increase has
been twenty four within year, and this
one I've got is one of them"
eyes, madame" repeated the editor
with striking originality, sticking mis-
pen in the paste pot"
"Now, sir, want to sue somebody
for libel. It's either the police or the
newspapers" -,
"The police, of course, madame, said
the editor, recovering his wits.
".'s all the same to me, so long as
somebody has to pay for it. Good
morning. If any other member of the
GEORGETOWN Committee on Population
call, tell them, will you, that rye been
herep and she went out haughtily with
the baby Washington Critir. ...
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Matt. Carpenters Dramatic Death.

The dying hours of Matt. Carpenter,
the distinguished American jurist, were
strikingly and intensely dramatic. He
watched the play of disease on himself
as naturalist watches experiments or
a scientist a chemical reaction. He
knew that his disease had passed to it's
third or incurable stage, and he gratifed
a curiosity, abnormal and painful to his
friends, by watching himself the tests
which the physicians make to indicate
the progress of the disease. He pro-
cured chemicals and made tests b mself
with the interest but personal indiffer-
ence of a young physician in labora-
tory. Sometimes he would say to his
partner: cat this rate there are two
months left me, " or again he would assert
that nature and medicine had set back
the disease little. One morning after
examining test which indicated that
dissolution was not far away, he spoke
of it calmly to his partner, discussed it
as he would piece of testimony that he
intended to introduce in law case, and
then quietly made some notes ct .
speech he intended to deliver in the
Senate. He entered the Senate chamber,
his face whittier than his hair, bantered
and perple1ed a fellow Senator on the
subject of establishing consular court
in China. With one hand in his pocket
and all his exquisite melody of voice
and charm of diction, he delivered q
sreech on this unusually dry subject
tha entranced the Senate, and then as un-
concernedly as though going to the res
taurant for lunch, put on his heavy, fur
lined overcoat, stood at the door of the
Senate a moment, looking around for
what he knew was his last glance and
Quilted the Senate forever. And while
be was making the speech with his hand
in his pocket, he held in it the vial which
contained the test that told the story OF
his speedy death. York Sun.
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THE LAND OF HOPE.

There's beautiful isle in summer sea
In wonderful country awaiting me,
Where wealth with its blessings and love
with its crown,
Blend in harmony rare; where songsters
brown
Fling out sweet symphonies on each hand.
Oh, the land of Hope is beautiful land.
No sorrow or illness is ever known there,
No trial or weeping or touch of despair,
No burden to carry, no task to pursue,
No thought that is weary, no signing to do.
Our ightsome feet tread over glittering
sand,
Oh, the land of Hope is beautiful land.
But the fairy-like is.e in summer sea
Is million leagues too distant for me.
Though sailed DER the seas, and sailed ever
more,
could never catch sight Of its lonely shore,
Though we hear of its glory on every hand,
Oh, the land of our Hope is a phantom land
e B. Bohan, in Daughters of america.
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Starting IN Alligator Ranch.

Captain G. A. Eastman left this port
several months since on the little steamer
Balboa on trading voyage along the
west ports of Lower California and Mex
leo and has just returned to this city,
after having completed successful trip.
The captain is we'll known as pro-
fessional curiosity hunter, having at
times been employed by Barnum, the Ma
tional Museum at Washington and the
geological gardens and by Government
museums in the Eastern States and Eu-
rope, and has procured for them seals,
sea lions and other marine wonders. He
is also collector or rare plants, and be-
sides many valuable orchids, he has
brought with him a rare collection of
ancient pottery, consisting of jars, idols
and domestic utensils, presumably OF
Aztec manufacture, which were found
thirty feet beneath the surface in an ex-
cavation made on the Mexican National
Railroad near Colima. But what he
prides himself particularly upon is twenty
live young alligators, ranging from eight
to twenty inches in length, all OF which
are in prime condition, Notwithstanding
it is many weeks since they left their
place of nativity. With these as plant
the captain proposes to start an alligator
ranch on some one of the lagoons in the
vicinity of Petaluma or Sonoma.
Terrapin farms thrive in the State OF
Delaware, and their cultivation is not
considered beneath the dignity of q
United States Senator. The captain ar
cues that there is fortune in the pro-
ject, because alligator skins are valuable
and are beginning to be rare and expen.
sive. and he also claims that the beast
can be readily corralled and domestic
ated and their habitations staked off and
secured the same as an oyster bed.
The alligator is known to breed ra-
pidly under almost any circumstances,
is easily provisioned, and the protector
of this new enterprise claims that the
animal has been slandered by travellers
tales, which have hitherto prevented
their being introduced to the "glorious
climate of California" and their propaga-
tion for the sake of their valuable hides
thus prevented from.bccoming a remuner7
ative "home industry."-San Francisco
Examiner.
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BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES
A Russian Courtship-Keeping Him
Busy-Not for Himself-Her
Mother had Been
There, Etc,
BE miner said the ardent young Saw

Be Miner said the ardent young Saw
milegof,
In a voice with emotion quite husky.
|" My fondest devotion, oh, please do not scoff
Katinka Pojakaroluskis"
" Techcrnyschevsky, my friend," the shy
maiden replied,
sYour people are noble and rich.
Would Golgusoff's granddaughter be q
fit bride
For a nephew of Maximovitch"
II care not kopeckr he said. "In my
droshky
have you safe now, and laugh
At the wealth of Klitkin or Overhaul
oshki,
Gojavnik, or Pullerzedof.
"You are worth more to me than the gold
Of Slugmiski,
Brakemupski, or Sumarakof!
Katinka Pojakaroluski, it's risky.
But I'm going to carry you off,!
And this is the way the young Sawmilegof
Put an end to all further discussion,
twas simpler proceeding to carry her or,
Than to 60 on courting in Russian.
Chicago Tribune.
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Smallest Locomotive In the World.

Henry Case of Gloversville, N. Y, has
just completed what is said to be the
smallest locomotive in the world that
runs upon rail or by steam. 1t is made
of solid gold, silver, steel, and brass, and
contains 1886 pieces. The weight of the
engine is II pounds; of the tender ,
pounds; length of engine 81 inches
with tender, 10 inches; height, 81
inches; gauge of track, IL inches; diam:
eter of cylinder, SIG of an inch; stroke
Of piston, ] .inch-piston head fitted up
with sectional or ring packing; stroke of
valve, 1-16 of an inch; length of main
and parallel rods, II inches, connected
up with straps, bolts, keys, set screws
and boxes aronnd the pins; length of
links, 7-16 of an inch; width OF link. !
inch; diameter of eccentlics, / inch
diameter of drive wheel, II inches
diameter of truck wheel, inch. 1t is
fitted up with reverse lever, with thumb
latch and click-throttle lever, steam
gauge, etc. 1tcan be run mile in %
minutes, drawing a miniature coach
Neto York Sur.
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How COngressmen Live.

Representative Long, of Massachusetts,
in recent letter to an editorial friend,
corrects some mistaken notions as to the
manner in which Congressman generally
live in Washington. He says: "There
arc few persons of great riches who
now and then give enterta ;nments, and
live in an extravagant and profuse way,
as some rich people do in every other
community. But the great bulk of Rep
resentatives, including noticeably nearly
all those of controlling influence, are
men of limited means, who live in a
modest and simple manner.
"On the whole, should say that the
instance of Henry Wilson, which you
cite, is type of the present majority of
members. Our Massachusetts, Senators,
Dawes and Hoar, live quite as simply,
one in little tenement not better than
our ordinaey New England parsonage,
and the other in boarding house, which
you will not think extravagant when
tell you that, with the exception of my
self, the rest of the boarders are govern
ment employees, whose annual salaries
range from $4,000 rapidly downward.
Walking out with Mrs. Longa sundown
last evening, we passed modest door.
step on which, with his young children
playing about him, sat member who
pointed to suite of rooms as his lodg-
| ings, and whose dress and manner OF
living are as simple and unostentatious
as those of a Plymouth County farmer
and yet he is millionalre-the richest
ran, think, in the House; Western
lumber man. wise and hard headed, and
not ashamed, but proud, of the goad:
stick which he welded in his youth, and
with which he prlcked his way to for
tune.
"Among the leaders, Reed lives in the
fifth story of a small hotel; Randall in
house that would perhaps yield rent
of 5000 or $l0O; Mckinley, in two or
three chambers; Mills, in quiet board
ing-house; and so on through the list.
The House is full of poor men who
make no show; who are just such plain,
well-behaved, temperate, churchgoing
people as you and I meet at home; who
90 afoot and drive no fine teams; who
ape no fashions; some of whom 60 to
the few public receptions that occur in
the winter, but few of whom are able
or care to hold receptions or give enter
tainmeuts themselves.
"Fine raiment is so rare among them,
that an old suit which am now wearing
for the third summer has actually been
exploited by the newspaper reporters, in
the absence of any other sensation, as
sub. Getting me to the charge of being
well dressed !" and if Tom Reed should
cover his shining head with silk hat,
he would lose the Republican leader
ship. The member who lives luxuriously
is the exception. What is undoubtedly
true of few officials, especially of some
outside persons of great wealth, who re-
side and entertain in Washington in the
winter and are advertised in the society
columns of the Press, it is not true Of
the great majority of the peoples
servanta ~
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Pearl Fishing in Ireland.

Pearls have been discovered, it is just
announced, in several of tie Irish rivers,
and gentleman who is chairman OF the
Omagh Town Commissioners has arrived
in London, bringing with him a packet
of the gems which have been found IN
fresh water mussels of County Tyrone.
Some of these pearls arc said to be OF
fair size, measuring over quarter OF an
inch in diameter, while others range
downward to the size of small gun
shot. They are asserted, moreover, to
be of fine quality, and to abound in the
stretches of water where the pearl-bear-
ing mussels have now been discovered.
-pic0yune.