Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1874, Page 2

A HERO, AND A MARTYR, | biame, which is customary and wholesome; and speer - a te READE. | . F. Frid Sor ates, by Mr. Upon the second day of October, 1856, The G asgow Times told the world a moving story. | A little boy was drowning in te Ciyds. ‘There were 4 score of peopie on the bank; bat they only groaned, and glared, and dattered at the child» screams and struggies; not one hat both the courage and the skui w plange im aad | Bim. | vepat preeeatly came an elderly man who was A peerless swimmer and diver, and had saved more than forty lives tm that very river. a Alas! he was now stoad bliad; a little giri, his | Brand daughter, wae leading him by the baud. | } Furnished exclusively to the publica {ton in the United 8) Yet te him bis blindness seemed uo obstacie. “Let me to bit a save hiw yet. : But, is the general dismay and agitation, his appeal was uchecded «@ first. Tuen be sereamed out tu generous fury, Ys datt fules. & mon diens socom with bis e’en jast diag me in to aim, ama ye’ll ‘anted, bat his stion sad an let me tw him!” be cried; His prayer would have bee granddaaghier, witus gul’s 4! reasoning fears, clung round his knees, sat screamed, aa, yo Wada, wadaal” This caused a hoatstion wien there was no longer mom-nt to lowe. ‘The boy sank for the last time; » deep groan trom the spectators end, and the poor bind hero went 2 vow! in despair, and ying ilk= ac 5 atterward said, in fing the < wasa leddie E away. +t Wout On to euamerats the gal- <very JS 2 Lemocrt vatere ani tue whole story set me to weigh the valgar griefs ign distress. scvet things thst net ; now they scemad sme i lant exple lo-t thinking. sd From that my mind want fen to dames Lom heroes, w! canon: zed Strang porary, ba history I often and a tain made me *% Int books, ant £ e tears of 4 Weare ot OF poetry > men » look was the and no nat benevoleut cour eo many Lam was hs rewsed on hs amity, anda at 19,hehearda was potent as aton land, aod ever in the water, bat imp Shey would iuto the water; aad so & young thet he cod have saved nging his armas about in ag Tight be prowl tod ‘and is tt se? can wee A noble distress, tho joarnal’ Ir m bert, and bear h 2 bim my But, un‘ rse I m7 The eyes, that can no louger see, motio. Ba, toc mors, I was always golng—goi it James Lambert. At last, fam ashame Selkirkshire and went to» I shook off « ro Glasgow to in his youth, « martyr in Bat I bad lived tong e: when you seek a man, w erly twelve years ago, dead from four i on the road to Giaszow, I blame myself bitce for my oe- sin, and actually said to myself, very earnestly, when, batng in fef of time,” this maa, a hero ho was alive ald. you find he has been from this moment ‘The very ge of my heart shall be ‘The firsttings of my hand. o That was fue @ften repeate vor and sincerity, wating. In Glas yy, not to de you, [had igh resolv great fer- 4 chen goue ow procrasti- ingairies after landlord, and all radesma i knew ia ter beard of hia ir. d my fear th d, while I was busy er, my tardy avi drove od for the chi this fashion 9 ask you to And hauting an honest . + ond Jans 1 rt, © van in “he Gisde, vearsags. I b from England to Bim, ant I can 6. thing of him, alive dead. If yon w oT with your ma- chivery, be pdtige to you.” | Now the oth area not a) yack to take anew ides as Toast may be; but the Engiish c said atonce, “that is quits o should go to the parochial! ¢: tweaty min lented. and g me every assistance; the Scottish chief, on the contrary, though mani- | featiy taken thought before ha spoke; | thought, with iagnise, for tall t conds. y Strr,” said he, very slowly, “1 fon—to thaat.” Then he tarned 4, in & hollow vaice, “Send me a detective. ‘This done, he tock down my name and aldrees in @lasgow, and what [ knew about James Lam- keen. lean —a human wes. ie in walked a mot ength and youthful beauty, thet made ma Te was about twenty-two years old, st nt! and the breadth, spt of bis chest, ineredi hn Heenan strip, and re- & and breast. and every satin skin mapped with musctes, ithe offscatptors hat exagze' feal demigods, not reai men. | and, abc die.” Until f saw veal bis bu'ging by b of ml detic bh name Ih rt to Me. ers and now; he's fo aud went to we I thanked the f heartily, ani retired to my hotel. About e in the evening, Detective Her- thank hope of fin alive, Ltoak the go ud interviewed Herc be wes to band. oid me he w “Well,” suid f, on t often meet your match—eh: Be binshed # iiitie, and smiled, but it did not weake bim bemptions, as tt might a «mali man, sey a ife-guarasman, or drayman. Ho ea! and whiles,mair. a wi the room we wers ” theeves,” said he » a wile wi’ a talao’ ny face, and the like. emaa pat bis hand w and cried ‘thieves.’ Sy { The door waslockit, you msy * pit my foot till": —"* W up the chimuey No so fac as that, sirr. Awae: I ad maybe two or three of them. Bat there were nigh adizen o’ the warat char- acters in Giasgee. However. I was in for't. y2 Ken; 0 I was in the middle of them before they bad time to think, and collared twa old offsn- cere. ‘I'll tak this handful,’ says [, ‘aud Ul come back for the lave’ (8) marched ‘em oot and the gentlewan at my heels. He was giad to wend clear, sud so was I. My hairt beat hard that time, I shall assure ye; but I didnatetth agabonds see thast, ye ken.” He intimated ‘at it was sil gas for any one man to pretend at he could master balf s dozen, if they were “olute “Na—we beer the law in oar hairts, { they-beer guilt in theirs. Taat's wha hes the odds, sire.” * (ter @ conversation, of which this is only & sment, we returned to James Lambert, and ‘old me he expected news, good or bad, by ak of day, for he had firty licemean qaes- med him, wad often employed in captures. @rethe man forit. You | tow ‘in the | | | bey wark © Woe, or & las The other pi through tee wir Tan up the stir. be sure. a beats, in the likeltest parts of ec ple’ a 8S “bat [ am those veeder = ground; now my poor hero went to bed with this hitherto blamed ro) wa (4) Cry me to him, i. c., Cry we Pfind kim. — (2) Tae lava—The rest, | and then my | lants (F) | holes and al herein my smattering of the British drama stood my friend; | soaried, and said—out of Str Peter— He has died on purpose to vex me. Lheard po more till half past one next day, gigantic and besatifal detective called. This time he had a huge pocket-book — enormous—tin 8 word, sach a pocket-book as he a man. He oj Bewspaper with sn ‘of James Lambert, t. Iran my eye over «« That will be the man, sirr 7” Yes.” weel, then we've got him,” said he, We What bim alive?” “Ou ay an old man, irr. He will not be mair than ¢ is in vara good héalth. He's not ** Have yeu seen him with your own eyes?” said 1, still half increjulous. Ye may be sure o° thaat, sirr, 1 wadna come here ti) I had spoken Lim. He stays at No. 36 Little Street, Catton.” 1 thought Calton was some other town, but he told me it was oply a suburb of Glasgow, and all the esb-men knew it. Then [ thi ed him for his zeal and ability, and stood a sovereign, which be received with a gratefal smile, but no abatement of his man!y dignity; and I took a fly that moment, aud drove wW Little Street, Ualton. yo reason No 35 was hard to find, and I got out of the fy io explore. 1 found ths popa- istion ina flatter, aul it was plain by the s sift gathering of the juveniles. ard their saucer eyes, that this was the first triumphal car had entered that missrabie street. However, ig there was amazement, there was civility; au they vied with each other in directing m: to dames Lambert. | mounted a stair, as directed aud knocked at a door. A woman's voice sa come in,” and I entered the room. There was bat one. On my right hand, as I stood at the door, ard ing nearly oue-third of the room, was a arge wooden machine for spinning cot- siled with wooden quilis nd it the bed in a recess. ately on my leit was a table with things vered With a linen cloth. Exactiy op On my right band of long. ion; the upper part bi polished by use. Be ite me the fire-place. it the window, bot in an embrasure. Av old wom/n sat before the window; a young woman«atallin a heap the otber side of the fire; aud in front of the fire stood a gray- headed man, with well-cut features, evidently nd. He was erect as a dart, and stood batore his own fire in an easy and genticman-like at tade, which does not, as a rule, belong to work- ingmen; they generally slouch a bit, when not at work. “Does Mr. form. He replied civilly: “1 am James Lambert. Woat is your watl with “Mr. Lambert, 1 have coms from some dis- tance to have a talk with you—aboat yoar ex- ploi aaving liv “ Aweel, sitr, (ll be very ha erackwiye. Wife, give i+ 9 When I was seated, he said, ter the da t ye"ll excuse it. lsaw meant. Before be could explain, « young man led for him, no doubt by appoititment; and Lambert begged me to excnse bita for a mo ment; he had @ weekly pension, ani they woul net pay it after three o’ciock, but it wasnot far; would return directly. He then lett me ed between the twe women. I looked hard at the young woman. She never moved, and seemed quite stupid or stupetied. [ looked at the table on ber side of ¢! som, and wondered what was under the linen clo’ © be a prominence or two, each as od; unequal Light would ecanse, aud I fancied it must be the best teapot, and other china, cover. ed to keep off the aus ‘The young woman was rep round to the oldone, and praised ber husband. y,” said she, “he bas becu # curioas mon inhis 4 mODv & great faitour (C) he did— snd mony @ good suit he destroyed that I had to pay for.” . The last sentence being uttersd earnestly and its predecessor apathetically, coupled with tue streason the “1,” gave mo the measure of the oman’s mind. However, I tried her sgain, Did you &é any Of bts explvite?”” “Ne, na; | was aye milading my wark at hame.' I caw leetle o° hie carryings on.” 1 said ne mors; but remombered Palisay’s wite, and other egotistical medivcres; aud tarned to the young woman; but she seemed unconscious of my voice or my presance. From this Impenetrabie I turned, in despair, to the covered table; tried to see below the cover with my cagle eye, and bad just settled positively it Was the cliina tea service, when, to my greai relief, James Lambert retnrned, and conversation took the place of ule speculation. We soon came to an understanding, and 1 asked him to give me some details, and to bogin ai the beginning. *-Aweel, sirr,”’ eaid he, ‘the firat case ever I bad wasa baker—they ca’t ® case ye ken tho noo; aw thing case—an awfu’ fat man he Was. Iwas aboot fourteen or fivwen then, but & gey guid soomer(#.) Aweel, eicr, me and Kap Rankin, aod John Murdock, and’ a hantie mair lada, weut don tv the bathing place, an’ We were divairting vorsel res in the water, when the baker strips aud comes out cn the deal. Noo yell understand there was shallow water and deep, and the deep was at the far end o° the teal. They ca’ it - sebulen: an & chair. Ve are in ab nt, so I tarned = oot to the ad 0° the deal, aud dives tu heed tire, as Siyde belanged to hi dizaa cowe up for « while, amd I said te the other ‘Heeb, airs, ye'll see a bonny d up be comes paanting, and Daashing Present | and flinging his arrms; aud doon he goes again with baith cen giowering. ‘Maircy on us, ane, ‘the mon’s drooning.’ However, he comes up again baaching and aplatteciug. I wae ready for him, and just swam ferereicht dim, ani took bins by rm. That will letye ree what a enseless cant I was. I sald hae gone and tung him ae end of my gallows, or my naepkin, (G.) and towed him tn; but, insteed of that, he gat aad o’ me and grippit me tight to his brasst, ‘snd took me doon with him. Nov, tell me,sir—y’ are 8 soomer yourse 1 sald **yes.” **What was our lives worth, the pair? Him a twapty stane mon, and mc # laddyy” Not much, indeed, unless you could stip Ay, but I could na; he huggit me till him. Aweel, sirr, if be was wild, i was desperate. i fleng my heed back and gat my knees up to his breast, aud after my knees my feet, and I gied the awfu'est spang with my fe: ainat bis breast, end 1 got clear, #’ but the skin o’ my foretinger, that I left in bis hond. I raised to the surface and called to the boys to mak’ a chain. I was afearedtodive for lim. Bat by Gude’s malrey be came up yance mair, just to tak leave 0” Scosiland. I got sbint tim a: gave him a sair crack on the beed, drove him forud, foilowed him up wi’ @ push, and thea the Vout to hia,abd pailed nua to the deal, and roomed ashore, and [ haina here a minute when I swooued | away from him.” low was that?” I as [ think it was yp eartednesé at sight o’ wy fin * bintd, and the skin away sel’ the bak nd gaed ai What, # con @ was two ger tle ed me ff neha ‘t men saw the affair, aud I went hame sucking my salir finger; aud my mither gied me an aw-fa hiding ter spoiling my thes. She took me by the lug (/f), aud wade <murrder! sympathetic creatures the women In L ferens acriter ocu- and withering & ht and leit, as pisyfal men shoot par- ‘ofortunatels er of them ob- witherod ber; the hero's narrative ik glances were al ded. these los? ae wy friend Li female se tridges. rerved Ih sad my basil ual | “Andon the impassive ice tue ligatnings play.” James Lambert, duly questioned, then related bow a personal friend of bis bad been seized with cramp in the middle of the Ciyds. For, sirr,” eaid he. reson of te het and cold currents, aad saad- His friend had sunk for the last time; James Lambert dived for him, and brought bim up trom the bottom and tock him ashore. “ And, sirr, maybe ye watua think it; bat the | resoolt was—I lost my freend.’? “What do you mean?” ssid I, staring. “He just avoided me after that. see me twaree (1) times too; but I ob wasn easy till he w: and bymby [ saw pase mair O° the 1 he said without pas- ston, and apparently culy to discharge bis con- science, a8 faithful narrator of real events, sud men as they are in life, not books, But 1; who am no hero, boiled, I took no time to digest this human pil}, and then questioned him. But lL omittwo cases—to use bis own words—as they had no particular feature. “The next case, sirr, was an old wamman: ye ken the wives come on Glaxgee Greea to wash. Well, this auld wife gone oot at ‘the three stance’ to dip her stonp i the water, aud overbalanced herself and gone in heed frst, andthe stream carried her oot. The cry got ap, ‘there's a wamman droouin.’ I was a lang way off, but I heerd it, apd ran down and into the water after her, clothes and all. She was floating, sirr, but her heed was doon, and her fect wp. I never saw the like im a° my life. I soomed up to ber, and lifted her pnir auld gray heea out 0° the water—a rale river-nd face she had—and broucht her ashore on my arm as quiet a# a lamb, and laid her doon.”” teNot a? thegither nT think, by “Not a’ tl ry ink, but nigh hand it, Inst ecared like oot 'o” her senses, “puir saul? vara sune she began to tremble all over and greet sair. 1 turned my Dock, no’ to myrel’, and went aside and ridded my ciaes. Aweel, sirr, the first word she spoke was to airved he dit, aod took out an old | Lambert live here?” said 1, for | ppy to basa | > litter, and did not Know what he | the Clyde ts a deadly water, by | He came to | nothing in this men’s career, and would dilate the more cvivnd incideniws, James Lambert prefaced a curious story by letting me inte his mind. +*isy chis time, sirr,”’ said be, “I wasaye prowiing ajout cay ana night for vectims.”” “Teil we truts, dawes, Yuu bad tue price Of By artist. You wanted them to fall in, th you anighi pul hem oat, aud show your dexter- Feat Dinna mak’ me waur than! am, ha! hat b: Nay, but ye ken, tn those days, folks was nasac woguathted in souming, and accidents was wair commun; &Ud sae, It sach @ thing was to be, i wad like to be there aud save ’em. Ech, the Sweetness o'1!— the sweetness o't!"” “Lruised every murning between three and four, snd towk ® walk; it was a kind 0’ my vaturgand the river was ay the first place I rah tae. Awesl, ae morning, before "twas well IL ght, Lheerd high words, sud there wasa la f ichung (P)onalad, avd chatrging him w beein’ her ruin; ani presently she runs away skiriing, and flings hersei’ into the river. The iad be just tarns on his heel and waiks away.” Lexpress my surprise and horror—no matter in whAC terms, He replied, lo'tily, “My dear sirr, d’ye ken this’—there hare been men in the’ name o’ men, that were ittie mair than broom besows.”” 4 acquiesced, ‘2 Was ha for sport neither, The lass knew the water, and straicht (0 the deepest pairt, epposite Neison’s Monument; her class buoyed Ds up, and I got ber outeasy eneuch She was ha A-hore amement, When in she flees again the Galt hizzy. Nuvo the water maistly coc thir sort o” lasses, and reconciles them to terres firtee. Butshe was distrackit, she was just » woman that wanted to die. Sol went inagain, and lectured her a’ the time L was pulling her Oot. ‘ifae ye a’ quarri wi’ Him that made ye, ye daft cummer’((), eays 1; and Lheld heron the bank itsei’; but uf 1 was strong in the water, € Was stronger on lend wi’ ber daféness, and 1c tung me Oi, and in again. ‘Vera weel, my ~~ i. Sae u'ye ken what I did noo 7" “I just drooned her. I pit her heed under W ster, and keep it thore til 1 made he: th bitterness 0” dethe, tor her Mi cu, sir, but it sickened her o” yon xume. ght up a quarto’ Ciyd, and then she lay Tolled @ bit, and pu’d the grass, and then che sat up quict asa lamb; and i stood sentinel over her teadychip, aud my claesa drippin. By this time @ wheen folk cam’ aboot to see, and doesna the Jad that was wi’ her step forrad and complain to me. ‘Ye'd little to do to interfere,’ Saye he; ‘she was wi? me; she was na wi’ you.’ pat,” says I, ‘d’ye begroodge the lass her life?” ‘Not 1,’ says he; ‘but y? fwd no need to meddie; what's your business?’ So I gied him his anewer. Says 1, *You have taen her charac- ter, and turned her on the maircy of the warld, and noo it’s a’ your vexation that ye couldna’ all outhve behvoved to come forrad, confession. ‘Wite,’ says _[, ‘I’m the mon.’ she looks me all over. ‘fhe Lorrd protect y she cried. ‘The Lorrd biess ye!—U'm a pi auld body,’ seys she, ‘I bao nacthing but my —— bay (A) Bat come you wi’ me; ani I'l) pit itaway, and get ve twaree schellin for savin je fra deeth.' " “Heeb, sirr, 1 felt it awfa’ keen; it was just her livelibood, ye ken, Ler wasning bi hae” and [ just and [teli’t her I end a gude Somerville’s mill ower | the water; ‘and,’ says I, ‘if ye wait for me Saturday afternoons, when I lirt my wage, I'll ‘les hae a scheliin for ye.’ ”” And did she?” . said he; then, thonghtfally, « was ower puir to gi€, and ower decent to take. All our otber provincial dialects are barsh and ugly; but the Scotch is guttural on the con- fonants, and on the vowels divinely melodious: Lwish I could convey the exquisite melody of ames Lambert's voice in speaking these words, Puir—auic—body! at ye hae?” The story itself and the brave, tender hero's tones were so manly, yet sosweet, that they brought water into my eyes; and I thought this tale at least must touch some chord even inthe ul) domestic heart. But no; I looked at the young Woman and sie sat all of a heap, still strapped in herself, dall, stupid, and gloomy eyoud description, avd the narrative, far from tourhing her, never even reached her. That «as evident som-how. Thought L to myself, “Ob, but yare 4 dour wi ‘arr. Perhaps you will be incredulous at my think ing in Scotch; bet the truth is, 1 am little bet- ter {bana chameleon; 1 take the local color willy nil. After aaay in France, 1 began to think in French ‘oa Scotiand, Scotch. I think in bad French and bad Scotch—very. But that | 's a flimsy detail; the broad fact remams. So I dubbed her # ‘dour (Z) wife;” and really I telt wrath that such pear)s of true narrative shonld be poured out before young Apathy and ancient Mediocrity. Of Mediocrity there is no cure; but there is of Apathy, at least in Scotland. ‘Chat cure ts— Whisky. When whisky will not thaw a Scotch body at all, ‘O, then be bold to esy Bassamio’s—dea | So I beckoned a dirty but attentive imp, that | gl smed, sli eyes, in a dark corner, and sent | him eut for a great deal of whisky; and post- pone) my inquiries til! after the thaw. | But, the imp coald return with Apa | e, several ruotsteps were heard on the hree or four men entered, all in uck suits. A few words of subdued greeting passed, and then they removed the | white linen cloth from what I, with my eagie | eye and love of precision, tad toventoried as he best ten servi | 1c was the body of a little girl, lying in her | little cottin, The lid was not yet on. Sue looked itke frozen wax. € Brat c e, T cast my sye young woman. She never moved nor | looked, but she shivered by the tre when the men touched the coftin bebind her. She was the dead chlid’s mother. Evan I—ia spite Of my eagie eye—conid see that now. I whispered to James Lambert, ‘I have in- truded on you at a sad time.” Ye haena intraded at all,”’ said be out low Then he toid me, before them all, wha: made it worse was, that the (ather bad goue away and been seen thess three daya, Ay, but,” sald Mrs, Lambert, clappit a cebelltu in ber hand, needed naething; I'da gude wits wage. J was warking be rid of her inthe Cly you, ye Diackguard,” sa then he challenged m ready to take ot my and Isys bis hund on n him,’ says he; ‘an’ ye’ he, ‘and this is mites’ Vother stood up ard tought for aboat tive minutes, But oh, he mapped it. My lad just barbed him. Gied him two black een, anil the binder eud laid him sprawlin’ and simot ered 1” blaid.” “ Bat the woman?” She was na @ woman. She was but a lassie, about nineteen.”* Little foot! and thought she was rained for life—when ali her life was before her."” “Ye muy tay that, sirr; why, that very year wasns she married on # decent tradesman? 1 olten saw her after she was marricd; but she done your wark. at il they went, aud ye mauna et ths gentleman think he is ane that drinks. | wadna speak to me. She couldua ‘louk me Na, he tea real, quite, sober, decent man. { straight’ the fuce. She'd say, ‘Gude morning,’ “He is thaat,” said the bereaved mother, though—when she couldua get by m2.” © Ungrateful little brute!” | Na, na; it was na ingratitude aya; it was | jast shame. Aweel, she ueedua run fra’ me the present | noe; for 1 canna see her, nor ony of those 1 hae rpeaking for the Hirst time, but ia a crushed and exactly denying that,” said Jame: Sut whaur is be—a. saved.” This made me gulp a dove, I said, “Sbe us you by her sm eelf. ’ She would have been sure to blab, in su @ case; so she thonght you would.” It was evident that this quiet, sober, dacent | man, upon ths death of his daaghtar, hv! gone | away on the fuddie, and lett his bereaye, wile | to bury the child how she coulst. J are the dire realities of life, especially &mong the poor. With what different eyes I looked now upon the poor creature, bereaved mother, and de- | serted wife, whose ‘deep and numbing agony I bad taken for sulin apathy—wita my eagie eye. And now came in au undertaker, ant the cof- fin lid was to be screwed on. Before this was done all the wen, myself included, took a last loo at her, who was taken away so early from the troubles of the world. “Ay, sir,” said the undertaker to ma, ‘it is | Just clay going to the dust; and nover was a ruer word, nor more pictorial. hat clay | seemed to have lived. | ‘The lid was soon screwed down, and thon, to my surprise, the undertaker delivered a prayer. Now, that was the business of the minister; aud besides the undertaker had the reddest nose [ ever saw. For ail that, he delivered a grave, feeling. and appropriate prayer, aud then the deceased was carried out for interment, and I was lett with James Lambert, his daughter, and | his wite. I aeked James Lambert would not the | minister meet them at the grave. | SaaS “Na,” cald he, “there's tao minister init. | READ ESTATE AGENTS. and he Was uneasy, and came and askei me if "owas true I had'taken his wife out o’ the water, ‘Ay, said I, ‘her aud twarree main. ‘What Jehe to do i’ the water?” says iis. ‘That et business,’ says 1, ‘mine was to tak’ her o questioned me had she been drinking. ‘Like eneuch,’ says I, ‘bat I couldna say.’ Hs questioned me, and questioned me; but I pit the coliar on, ye ken. I behooveid to clear the wite a’ I could. 1 Ice neither; but I was tlicted wi’ a sooden obleevion o” sma’ parteeca- iar, baw! Law! J didna think mackie o’ yon carle. He hada rare guile wife; they a’ saldso, and whaar was the sense o him diving Into her past life, to stir the inud?”” | (P) Fletebting—Scoiding. ) (2) Cummer—4 wom: mum of the y »p RE CONTINUED J} oeye———{_{£}$}E[=@an9nRnB93]EESeeeeee it, and when I had- “Aweel, then,” said he, ‘she was mistaen: | for maun tell ye that some mischie!-maker | tet on something or other about it to her man, | DRY 6o0ons. RAILROADS. PD EESE Goons. ‘ 5 | RALTIMOBE AND OBIO RalLguaD, : er — SHAWLS. BOGAN & WYLIE, WINTER poses 8 eye INT. SCHEDULE—Novaxexs 15, iste BLANKETS, poser ~ wae FLANNELS, BOGAN & WY UL nm CASSIMEBES, Bocas S wret 2 ek & WY LG Water Proofs, Cod: rwear, ROGAN & WYUIS, | BOGAN & WYLIE, | | Hosiery, &c.. BOGAN & WYLI AT LOWEET Paices Bois as lezo” | _Bovis-tf Tru Starse 8. W. | —____77 Stussy 5. W. DY GOODs MARKED DOWN. ° . tie m., Baitimore and Kolay. Lupin's Block Bombaring, $1 0, $1.75; worth g2 LY m , Baltimore and War Mtattons aod 2%. : = A New York, Philadeipois, Bost =, Nor Lupin's Black Castimere, 62c., $1, 1.25, $1.50 and Baicimere. ‘ai Relay, 3 ib. s Baltimore, rel and Betay. All shodes Cashmere, 5), worth 75 cents. 8 Frederios, Potnt of Bock», and Way Bewatifel Dress Goods,’ rev uced from 40 to 30 ceats, | politan Brawn) ‘ Alpacas, pe % at * % re, Annapolis snd Jntortan! j Mobairs, 50, 60.75, 90 cents and $1. . more and Way Stations. | “ W sterprocfs,75, $1, @1 25 and @1 50. ° Begerstown. beste, aot Way | AN Wool Blankets reduced irom: 610 80. (via Metropolitan Breach) 160 pairs Kid Gloves, W cents per pair; former price | > D., Baltmore and Belay. 180. 6, Obioago. Bt. Louts, Lyatertile, (pet!n- Rott ng bam Linces, $5, 45, 8, 62,75 conte and $1. aperier Onssimer © boys’ wear, » Very oben: Bert Printe,ticente. a A fall line of Cloths, Roeskin and Cassimeres. Ladies and Geuts’ Underwear in great variety. Pu Gurhersbare ‘of hocks, Martinsvarg a2 Give ns acall. man Cars. | Sve LUTTRELL & WENE, fo | novig ae 1950 Ps. avenue, corner 2th at. irae » Bait ;= Lae | [p®Y Goons veny cuxar Ulncipaatined weeerae | SUNDAY TRatys. ' at Se CABTER'S, 707 MABKET SPACE. lee and 6.10 p. he Wek Pictsbure Teain.—%.30 p,m., stoppin the weex Be All Tra jowse Station. For further toformatt Srp y at wed Obfo Ticket Ofices, Wa a Statton, tA Peansyivania avenues, where a = aken for Baggage to be cheoked and revely as during Be Yard wide French Ostico, 13% cents. Yard anda otton, 134% ©. 1,78 conse, sriling the cheagest Stik Mohair Black Se couts, Werth 71 Stop qt Piaduct Noes » Ball a be od Wwitul wew Drese @o-de * PHOS: R, SHAEP, Master of Transportation j ¥ery Beary Qanton Flannel, 1) edata, LOM COLE, Geuerat Agoxt ory beavy orth ® Large aseor tof OF the far Men and Boys. a hn a Very bem Oalicos, only 8 cents. PALtToIORE & PUTOMAU KAILY CAKTER'S, T CORSER Gru ann BetTieets rovlt tr 707 MABRET SPADS ate exber 29, SA74, trains will ru THAINS # BAYS EUK TRAINS 48K MON TO PUOHASERS OF DRI Goo lonking reduced from ¢ 1 Flannels at 25 co prices. Blanket, Tow. 4 t. Bargains fa Black ways on baad. Breas nd at popular prices. Y BAXTER, PaLTiMon 7 am, a Wa Brows, daity. ccommode- 8:58 a.m 5: in. ay Past Line v.40 mo Fivania event, Noto, and for « % PMCURE AD & co. 405, Ae ee ARS NOW OFFERING ee er bones! Eos tor Pai ez.8 Cine Worsted Bu Fax Lace yo Fringe, someth a; Guipure ms) Kxpress, West #:58 p. m., daily, New snd Beiting a York Night Exrreas a» 5 D (A desntifal Lyons Gros \c Satie Grain ynet received at $135, worth $148) 10:19 p m.. Paciiic Bxyrees: 3a | SHR faced Velvetn at @2 and up, for Trimmings and | Brday’ we for Coat Velvot will be taken isy leaves w: ned at Sew York prices Sp. m. for West, be ‘ Tren teay ¥ 2 at 6:53 om ntaoe. fer sara. Taesdsy ond Briday, and 340 5, 1d), 769. and up. anday, © et et Bowle with traiw +120 and ni Creek line, Traine tear 8:33 Riegant Paris Kids, Sc. ard np (a bute rr m. and ner mattis on 140 Udo tt + Ap | Oauten Finnnel ; best makes) ‘and 4° p.m. connect at Odenton w! Abdrosc: <she kioomn th : Call and examiue our stec BRODNEAD & CO. 1208 F street. betweon Vth snd Ub. oom BRE st Bowls wiug thelr orders at Tick orth weat corner, of 13th strect and P thwest Cor ner Gih erect aad ect3-tr BOOKS, STATIONERY, &e._ W BOOKS avira. Ponasy! Lad to ve : ar % Dulewso, Soanay WM. BALLANTYNE’s, Easts EL. DUBARRY, Gen ‘ B. 8. YOUNG, Gent Pass’ Agent Ss Seventh Street, reas Rear * 204 Literntore in the F 4; by Hast 1874 pexnsvivas gourr 875 ¢ Beuttish Philosophy h : 10 TEE : Hapgire of the Or fellow. ostzwser, got? : = svcls in Scuth Arorien: by Pani Mate 827, 500TH, AND SOUTRWES: ete, the Personality and Ministry i Koly Ghost. Ba nic inna : ¢ es Burning to Waste, the Story of a Tomboy. + , = 27ers Alargenomber of new Juvenile Boor 2 = gigeel of oases eaten: 2 THE GEEAT DUUBL® TRAUB RGUTS, vita SEE THS STYLISH NOTE PAPER | Eavclopes and Cards to Match, Embracivg several entirely new shades ef Uolor snd Shapes, at the FASHION LEADERS IN SUPERIOR STATIONERY. act Beevery, Paisce Btate-room Day and Sy With montern tmprovoments, Ted miles saved te Westera snd Cent MAKS GONNZOTIONS brongh from WasiINGTUN to the WEST NOBILIS without chance. Tickets Dy thts route can orner of street Pennsytvas avena corner of 6th street ans consyiteute sveonne, . doctoral Hotel, whore retiable tuivrmatton wii be be procored st the 911 PENNSYLVANIA AVEN jen ab all tite, ansengers tickets St these offlces ons | SOLOMUNS & CHAPMAN, ~6 Secakntatts in Paiste Care for Onieegs | Agent once’s* ineo” Pitteburg, Buffalo and Elmira, Beebe ee Sarena LIME, ED. &. YOUNG, enera) Pen The wives daur pa tell him, or he'd be speering “Why is na tbe gude man here? ” and then he'd TTH® BEAL ESTATE EXOHANGS, cobie rebuke. Whisper, sirr. Has ye | No, ole Tra STRAT a. Ww. irved that the womenfuik aye screcus EB. ¥.MFAEHTZ, Late with Fitch, Fox & Uo., ar NOTABY PUBLIO, OONVEYANOKR, REAL ESTATE ANDGENERAL AGENT ocl)-eod.a* _INSURANCE COMPANIES. FIRE INSURANCE. Bilagars Fire Icsurance Company of New Fork— Ancois, #108298. Sorpluc, §4biS30, Bepubitc Fire Inanrance Jompany of New York Assets, 870,08. Burplas, $440,000. Manhattan Fire Lasurance Company of Now Tork—Asseta, @O6,450. Sarplus, $356,000. fouet Fire Insurance Uoinpany of Philadel Pa.—Assets, $563,000. Burpius, $263,000. ire Insurance Company of Vir- etuia—Asects, $315,000. Barptas, @118,00, WILLIAM L. BEANHALL g 00., tr Agents, 607 7th street northwest. t her ebild bo prayed over, | d, by & layman, sooner than expose | d to the cevsure of the Church, | ‘is made my bowels yearn, and, for the | La 1 myself directly to ber. 1 nobody can conagle a a child; that ts beyond the power of 5 Bat, if it is’ part of your trou- | ¢ that you are teft without help,and perhaps | ard put to it for expenses, I cau ba of some je tise to von in t.” "Phen I putted eat or three of those deplorable old rags, Scotch one-pound notes, by means of which the na- | tops! malady is perpetuated, and passes from | band to hand. I don’t know whether it was the stale words, or the old rags, or both; but the poor woman | burst out erying and eobbing with aimost terri- bie violence. We did what we could for her, and tried to get her to swallow a few drops of whisky; bat | She put her hand up and turned away from It. ‘The quick-eared oid man found this out some- how, aud explained her to her face. “She can | take @ drap sa weel as ony body; but noo she blames it for ber mon being away.” Then, rather roughly to his wife, “Hets, ye fule, | let the lass greet. What’n harm will that dee her? Soop after this the two women exchanged one of their signais, and went ont together—I think to pay the undertaker; and such is the decent pride of the Scotch character, that to ba able to | do this was probably @ drop of comfort in the bitter cup of their affliction. When they were gone, the old mau’s expres- | eive features brightened a Little, and he dre his etool nearer me, with a certain genial alac- rity. | There are bookmakers who would not let | you know that, madam, lest you should tarn from their hero with aversion; but, when I deal | with fact, lam on my oath. At all evenis, un- mother t THE GREAT METROPOLITAN DOLLAR STORE, IMMENSE ASSORTMENT! BNEW FALL AND WINTER GOU BICES LOWEB THAN EVERI GOODS BETTER THAN BYES NOW 13 THE TIMH TO BUY! Hers ares few of the bargains offered :—Boya’ ‘be Girls’ Meriso Kmbroidered Caps and H. d Merine Freuch Hoods, Hand Kult Zephyr Japs ud Knit Sseques, §1; SiK and § 5 » #2 BO and $2, In $2; Obilarers’, derstand him, belure you turn from him. You a iit pon ee Me ent very cleaziy, the past throagh a eats sas Rice tt ee a ; but this man, being blind, could not see 51, Bons » pat British Soc the present at all, aad saw the past clearer than Large Whit you do, for he was compelled to live init. He | v 2; Ls. | bad never seen the granach''t ha had lost; an | Tes ee ee | unfamiliar fragment of we, OP this geueration had 8 man of his own him, and led him back 6 he knew by aight and by Witte Sirie only uuargé Napkive, $1 per d to the grave; sat beni Obildrer 28 to So. a pair; Ladi Fand Ladies? 6 White d Wool En- ery superior styios, nll teed. “Well, Mr. Lambert—now tel! me.” Weel, elrr, ye've heerd o’ the cailant they Rubles, $1; very hands sme Stk ed Siipper Patterns culy @ joves for men and ladins, Wadia let mosivs—Heon, sire, you wisa wana | 10TH @) and 9100: Ladies’ Pigskin Gagutleis wastit (Mf) noo UM mak’ ye the joodge whether aires only $1 atx eolid ates! fuli Silver Plarod Teculd uo hse eaved that anv, and twarree | Dessert or Table’ Kulves, 2 per set; oie Tab mais. There's a beck thay ca ring Coon fra’the horse brae near Stockwell Brigg. The b: ‘the Plumb’ nto the Ulyda were aye ons of Forks, warranted ix ted on White M. warranted plated on White md five-bottle Castors, $1; Sine for sporting in the beck, because it was shallow | {itto. 8% beat. Mutts Knives. 00.5 Napkla Hinze by ordinar, and ye'd see them the color o' | Clothes Brushes 45¢.. 600 aud 3); Bubbor Drossing | Vilets, and no’ bauf sae sweet, wi’ the dye that | Combs, 25c., Hc. and $1; 0 i 3 ¥ronch Plate Mir- ran I the beck. Aweel, ae day there was a gi, Bi ‘ailets, 260, to $1; Pio- | band o? them there: and @ high spate (N) me . Mo. up to $2; Brack. coom dvon and catehed them, and the resoolt Backs, was I saw ano o’ th’ arsembly in the Clyde. I | Gbelves: Table 21; ton pin Distoud had warned the neer-do-weels, yo ken, mony’s etc nC oust Kalves, " ‘Work Backets from 2c. up to $1; Waxhetands, | the time. By good luck, | was oa far away, $i: Lanch Baskets, 95 sud Ge.; wl Straps, 25 | and went In for Bim and’ took him by the ear. | aud 60- ; splendid assortment of Vases and Gene ‘C’way, ve little deevil,” says I. [had na made | ments from Me. up to $1; foe Chromos ia immense three strokes, when I’m catched round the neck | *@riety, Ho, $1 wed $2. It ts impossible to enumerate and describe the thousands of articles. Come and see for yourself. No trouble to show goods. Three floors of my large establishment are packed with goods to the celling. wi’ enother calian.”” Where on earth did be spring from?” “I dinna ken, I was attending to number ane, when number two poppit up, just to take leave 0 Glasgee. I teli’t them to stick it in to me, and carried the pair ashore. Directly, there's @ skirl on the bank, and up comes number three, far ahint me in the Clyde, aud sinks before [ can win (0) to him. Dives for this ane, and has a wark to find him at the bettom. Brings him ashore in a kind o’a dwam; but I had nae fear for his life; he hadna been doom lang; wy lord bad a deal'mair mis- ebief to do, ye ken. By tbe same token he came too vara sune; and d’ ye ken the first word he aid to mer? ‘Nay, but guess.” cant je ead ‘Dinna telt my fayther!” hat ha! ha! | ha! bat reg ‘deake, man, dinna tell my B. SILVEREERG, METROPOLITAN DOLLAS STURB, oota)-tr_ 319 Tru Or., WRaR PEnwertvania Av, [erential HOTEL CaF. ADJOINING NATIONAL THEATEB. Ladies snd gentiomen will be served with all the DELICACES OF THE SEASON at the above Oafe, which is Sret-claas in all its p- peiniments the we coenet to public THURSDAY, No- fepter!” ba ha! hal Ua ea novo Lm J _8 PEIRO i ever *aw & men more tic! ingn James Daubert was at mice bY &straw, | AHR BUFFALO LITHIA WATER | placng him T wae evabled FOB SAL. +, tO 10se my own gravity, Nas iuckered with mirth, aud detects tad tn cortate fort f dis ene Pach hates Bat,”’ said bo, ‘‘wad yon be'ieve it, some o°- | Sictails is this clatio made for shane io tie ieee ficious pairson tell't bis feytuer, in spite o' us peculiar to women, in affections of the kidsors bath. He was Poptgeerig tera Je called | bladder, and and fa derangemenis of On me an aril vers bairti and digeste me arefreshmont. And I thoucht mairo'tthan | _,B0xes. conaicing tx ga'lona to glam, delivered I bas thoucht o’ a hantle siiler on the like occa- tions.” pater’ to be paid After two savings that would oh carer oe ee | ES ‘ (L) Dour—Grim—severe. Latin, “Durus.” a cae See 4 ae reen ene: a eee a = 0) Win, eto.—Tenses of the old verb = ‘ “head” to go. Basen: “ ree ae" | WWE HAVE 4 Lanor bist oF suBsoaIE 4 AUEXANDKLA @ Wass | To the verions POPULAR AND SOTENTIFIO ans | MAGAZINES, atid desire to tuctease tt, aud re- ALEXANPHIA SPREDE HC | cotimens those desiring suy good Magazise or i! C&xee OF B ann Birrs | tustrated paper to Local tr * SUBSCRIBE Sow. Wo goarantes prompt delivery and ontire satis- e We ere dit y recetving auditivus to oar Beautitolly Bound ant Minstrated Books 7, 3,9. Iis.m., 1,3,4,°$,6,7 » a 8 ally, ‘nil o 16F rains Waxy except | re vow displayed upon 0 tock of Jnvealle ave ta ck of beantifal | a.m.) and 6-33 p. photegraphe ut very low prices, and agreat variety | Siter'traina daly exert Genser A wonderfully executed Obroinos "Our fa 9 8. m. and 4 y m. councct with trains op raviug ing are pori-et. | washington and Oh BR rer) face perarotin | RICHMOND FAST RXPRESB loaves « tiful 2ept Bunday, at 6 p. m., arrive at Bicbawad 1 WARREN CHOAT® & C0., * GiwaT SOUTEEEN EXPRESS, ria Bionmont, VskKNON KOW, - eaves Washington 11:33 p.m, datiy yexcope Sus a ‘or sale at Ofions corner Sth strect and Ponacyly | N EW BOOKS aia avends, and corner 6th street and Pennsy!vantis R ved at Re, where paatenger: can leave o ders for bag: Sod residence SHICLINGTON 8 BOOKSTORE, Corner 4% street and Pennsyleanta avenue, es Ten Old Matis, by the author of Widow Gold- A Beck of Geld’ by tie author of Joxeph the Jo Lorna Doone, by the anthor of Maid of Sker. / ESTMINSTER HOTEL, Fyuire Arden by Mrs. Oliphant, ~ oe Tin BORD ERAN PLAS. est Lawn, by Mrs. Holinoa,aatbor of Lens Rivers. | Sormer ef Arving Place 10%b Street Sunny Shores, or Young Anicrios in Italy nod Sus. New rouk. th liver Optic Only one bicek from Union Square, the arm cen thy ’s Brilliant Story, Linley Booh- sai yet qutet location fu the city, In the immediate vicinity of all rT ment ons Obaste as fce, Pore a» Seow, by Mrs. M.C. Despard. m4 the principal ‘of amasement and an retail stores, rged ye Gentianella, a Novel, oy Mra. Randolph. oro the Dest season: rine Siuition ¢ ‘any rooms bie Coors aud Other Poems, by Thomas Bayley = a Oe FEEBIN rich, Dyh teed B. +. Proprietor. | Losing to Win, by Theodore Davies. {Y. —— meet, New Funny Picture Becks, beautifully pristed tn | colors and bound handscom ly popular with the your; Masquerade Blocks, Expression Blocks, and Acro- bat Blocks, fail of fan and froite sad most bril- Nant in costume & Books, Pass Books, Day Books and Ledg- | ers, Note, Letter and Cap’ Papers, Pens, Luk and ererything in the Bta! ry Hin®, wholagale and retailat SHILLINGTON’S BOUKSTO 3B novwd Gor. 4% stroet ana Pa a ____ EDUCATIONAL. VENING WHITING OLASSES for LADIES H™e" ‘S mores, & . 799 @ STREET, iy; Will be tagense- JS. MISCELLANEOE “spy COND TOP k HYDRAULIC CEMENT,» The ondorsigned sre now prepared tw farntsh sbove celebrated CEMENT to dealers and cou iors 8th erate 5. G. 8 J. M. WATRES, No. 45 seed E 24 ASP GENTLAMEN, at Nts. Jensen's scuvol, | 2°82 wan in 2. eet Lortwest = —— bovil-im"" "JAMES CORRIDOS, Teacher, WAY oftae late: oe tore aA one O LN (10 of the lates: Now York styles of Park sud Pouy Phateos, Lop Boggies, Sash an ea] | MYISS FLORENOS SCHLIRCK £8, Teacher Top aud No- Lo ne Door sm AR the Piansiors: ud 8: MADAME Jame 7 rT a ond Oar a taren SOBLIESEF ~-ocher of the French Laugouge D exchange. Onl before: purcaasing’ more hare aeses £US DAYS acd FRIDAYS, on Ospito ?. D. SCHMIDT & OU., No. £19 iid street. be f Miss Calkine’ echool,(Withall Hall, cor- | wween C sod D, Warhingion,and 84 Darcie | Syne Sh B.omtneete southeast, | THURSDAY | street, Baitimors, Ma. ariiy” reridenee, S26 Isth stroct northwest, nov?-tan Le cies Lime Eee FRENCB,AND CLASSIOAL IN- WOOD-BUBNT LIne 4“ BIITUTE for young ladies, Y18 Now York pyowue norshwesty Mrs, sAEGELO JACKSO 9@ couts por barrel, ee apt tee aanunual session begins on THOMAS #aneY, Lith of teptomber, 1874, paatas. atte B street, bet. 10th and Len a. #. La SEMINARY FOR LADI F adaetaas MARX FOR FOURG LADINO ORTLASD (iMPORTED CEMENT, FOE A. TYSON & SISTR: making Artificial Stone or any Kind uf Goucrete .» Prines George Oo., M4. wo for Cellars, water pe ge build beat Samet la tie worst.” Bole ageat for Drateis dest Osment ta . : 0} y of Octumb! WM. GUINAED, MERCHANT TAILORS. f Octumbia, os A SUINARD, PS. eure STATEN JSLAND, 3. ¥. DYSING ESTAR BF; MBEDHANT TAILOR. S*4CRuMENT—ESTARLIGUED Tene Dey Seeaee, Orvecies Farene Geren, The oldest and largest off fer tint iy the ocantey oe: 0. | usy bein the world, A. FIEHER, Arcut 2 ae . B.—uarantes givee teat Bo celee robe ot Ovtans AaMY AnD NAvEee OO" orig Four articles soon, to get them back iu time, arog HERCHAEE EALOR. | "A eisuen, grusr Ghage soouRER, 3} ox mew Bo: 369 Pent 's are. Wasniveton epRUisurias oF ite Scie Pua Caiss Ladies Dresses cleaned withou them e| BANKERS. hentlemen’s ‘Cisthes cleaned = with. snrinting. Giease spete removed +80 thst they meved 16 7.8109, INVESTED IN WALL street | “Kia ne cleaned on mhort notice. Prices moé often leads to fortune, No liability, “The | orate: puncteaiit recaranveet ‘sori B10 orotic sent tree by HIOKLING & Ou., | ati Punctuallt y a Bankers and Brokers, E TFaBsISHRKD reer ki seal-8: Gitta Rat tees, dora Bana Joun Bray Proet [out ty10. B. Puxweies, Gent E.™ as ap Sup kans, SGenticmen'® Garment Gleaned wimow ind eoLD, eovennmsns | 2 ee BON. eraiaes te cashed in advance. Nea BARDON S PRICE F, FS 2089, mses 9B aire * CONFECTIONER AND CaTEBS: northweat, ets Ho, 690 TRNTH STRERT, _ scBetgeen M and F strects, Washington, D. 0, Ex raseLES | | UMBER. nie and Wale RN uot RAN. ee he Pag te kent g STEAMER LINES. Wits Sukssonnner POTOMAC RIVER LANDIVESs After thie date tho sicamer FILUT BOY wit be ran as follows Leare W ington from @b street TUESDAY and SATURDAY mor Toeh@k, for Landings ae fr errioman, returning ou! i Pendey Xancrts every THTRSDAY mo-nine, » for Lendl: as fardoen as B tug om Pridey morntre | take forty Dost m wet ae, ERT WHE WUL* DELPHIS ALEKABDRIA Va, ¥ acu. INGTON AND GROBGETOWS, DO Line Dati when Ptr 3 *Wharves, Philsdeiphta, } Korth Wharves, ESDAY ‘sod SATURDAY, nd FRIDAY, at ® pec at Phiedelph weekty Line of uae @, Boston and New age in Bow on by thie ee. PR. Acont for WM. P OLYER Ss Go sinous. to F. A. BERD, Alexandria, Va Walvo &. PEARCE, ¥Y Devons ston : Gelivernd by Koox’ Rupes. neral OMes, 605 P A™* pati MAIL STAM LINE CARRYING AMERICAN FLAG. Hing every THURSDAY from Prado) ORLY QUBESSTOWS at LIVERPOOL, 1 ’ THAMBDIATB ani STERLAUS ACCOMMODATIONS UBSURPASS FY Rates we low ae by another fiomt-ciase Line PLTYR WEIGHT & SONS Fr * FRARK W. ANF “ ane 1 Line ef . } “= JLLADEL eam exon : 7 be qc_uUNa Etonmera . ® nprcitad Seow pasrags oromalog (oe Moridian f woth ing © vote I2ISM AND NOKTS AMP “Jan MAIL STEAMSHIPS, NEW FORK AND Li RPOoL LING AT CORK HARBOR . > |, Feom New Yous | eS) Was., Deo, ¥ 2 a... Wed 6 { Wet, ; | % asl" Kowa ow ‘ WEDNESDAY sar ad * do ast carry atocrage pass ¥ Paraeed.—Uadin, @H, @ snd ps0 | his. « ra Lickets on is: | Acte terme, Stscrese at iow rates, Liverpool and Que BSutiwrnt, aud for cal pe oaoeng Ww lisuner, | _ian®e-iy BN. Agert, | WAY 28g nOTON. Nour wer 7 BUSTUB, AND P = — The fre tron iu OF 8TRAMbu ire WASEINGION AND NEW YORE. iat Got Mesawhipe £0. KSIGET ene Tt end {ALEXANDRIA the same day at 19m. iformation appis te BP &. D&B BAM, ceca! wharf 63 Warer Sy OF BP KDE office of the President, ue “* 3. W. THOMPSO Ah dol-vercd “DINGE AND 1805 AWnine F FOR STOKES, Mancfaciored & M. @. OUPELA 03 Fone SPP SP eRae, one door ont of Teh et a8 for Stores, Public Builings, bi Private Residences. - LMOB ¥ ia MES for Stores, ot Aust tory prices. pe eAGS, CAMP-MEBTING TEUTS for exit or gent for ip mua root Awnts Az 2 toe proved ow P i. “4 } Awsines SSD AWNING Faves Of seaproved Siyis and Pattern, | for Stores, Butale, Pabilo Balldings, City and Come try Bostdeuces at factory prices. Mannfectared by JOBEN 0. ROGAN. 713 Market Bpace, b Fiaxe sod Camp Mot Bote * and $b streets, for sale or reut, o Mildewed Proor used by defective b: fs, provided the Price 3% cer HOUVBES sna PIGNS patoted ty tne very i ty le and tn the most dorable mauner, ing thorun «bly equipped for eve tm wy tine i respectiaity ask @ & The’ heretofore met SGe ian sirset Detweon iy je avenue, Dear eth etre at, Besidanoe $4 Btls street vorthonst, mech LINED PIPE always ou bara snnsylvan! Mine Were December 29 FD AND LASTGRANDGI IN AID OF THE Masonic Relief Association, OF ROBFOLK, Va. WAY PUSITIVLY FILED. SUESDAY, 29th December LAST CHANCE ined by Act o* the Vir ane or (paesed Marea via, iss. 50,000 TICKETS—6,000 CASH GIFTS. $299,000 10 BE GIVEN AWay ‘One Grsna Ca-b Gif of......... One Grand Oush 4ift of. One Grand Cask Git of, Que Grand Cash Gift Of nme ‘One Grand Oueh Gilt of, ae Ope Grane Cash Gift of sEco