Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1880, Page 7

OMAPLIERL “Large and ro garden; healtny neighborhood; within Teach of a raliway station; good boys’ s¢ Bear; not fur from Loudon; cheap! 1 With somethtr in her vot sister Margaret ran off ou ber itngers t 1 of my requirements Or a house. I bad ju: hildren, au fortably before t “You want d from India with my six father’s return. comfort. 1 be we live upon nothing in England.” Her husba ing to him, exaggeration the ta over again, With a sil ht Ja deeper infusion ot con ue given above atale » took a seat. “DiMcult,” he satd ora rl. it might be done. I have it,” savi turning to hts w1i “What? The cleverer than I 11 ught you.” Now. Jam id my sister. rising 1 her feet and iookir 1 husband seve “it you advise Eleanor to that house you do it SS YORE wat xexponsitdlity “Hiwaslk, ty MANS | TTT operon Lanvantene Tie tace receded,and passed into the de¢per shadow, ull tt appeared | sof or it “Sit down again, Margaret,” he sald my fr. Is there any surtic Ewanor should not take “There is one e to do the Will st a Week. * She has an Indian servant at any rate, who must stand by + But tht erself, of her feelinss. You smile, games. © yes; know you tuink me sbsurd. Very ly? am absurd; but remem. ber this—there stioke witaout s: Beside, | know tr ants, Mrs. an fdtot. Sh — “Stay a moment,” said my brother-ti-tav and be addressei himself to me El tell me the tru. u: are youa bellever In cass “Does t tn that the eligtdie nous ts ciaimed, Much stimulates by very go0d reason—shi misework herself. Nu si Thad beard. “If so, 1 will take It atouce, Write te the ave or me. James.” Ido believe ¥ 1 going mad,” worthy st Pp ber nands sensible man. Y James, things done in a harry. or, listen t ‘d_ from the last tema She toidn ps; itis aous of your secou | E rrupted. “Don't tell me. If | show ftself. If there ts + tainking of your story. and at least vorrectine betrayed Into telling 3 ody else might imagine thereupon entered 11 lon of the’ house, vid desire, and for_a reat which was so fs udvantages, as toseem 1 he S u the thing off thet eon : have paid and som has gota bad name tn the > owners, however. thiak 2 tenant comes and stays for VAVE a good effect on Uh: 2 Margaret says, Your nts will be to y. ‘They will see vistons and You may hav eal of the work yourself. By an old housek per, a Mrs. Wee the lower roous. id We nots t tell the Tam af thier My bro’ not paid.“ 1bOFRoOC 23 In “She was that. a w ‘noon early in ti with my tore tue deep por: 1 coun’ For onee, deseri That roliowed hard upon it wer antiy justin adise indeed . I feit, aband- -arthly paradise was a p.r- ‘y Tul on the ay to my hush. e house was b self pleturesqu ad the neat b. It was an trregular baildiag, red brick walls were half smotu iat is. yond the garden in lawn, bounded by the grand 1 el ich form a deic round During the first few w ned LO change my good op! front was a old beech Lord B vne circumstance I did not It but I persuaded myseif tt was trivial, and to be affected by IC proved ultra-sensitivensss: de. side. Fhad been warned beforehand. Iwo 0} the lower roo led bY an old wo. man. Sue wi mer, I was told, of oar landlord's. M ears agoshe had beea wonse Keeper tosome reiatlves of his who lived ta tue house, and she had lived in tt ever sinc I wished to se er and have some conv with her. I disitked, in the first pls one of whom I knew nothing house; and tn the second plic to warn her to keep the ghost story that might be) secret. My three Enclisn ser- Vants Were Lorth country girls. I had taken good care that they should be utter strangers to the neighborhoad: but I knew It the pus ity Of seeing a ghost were suggested ty they woula promptly make the po: Tiainty, and then my troubles woul i I sent a polite message to Mrs. Weevil, askiag for an interview: and she came vo my room. She was not a prepossessing woman. Her age might be somewhere between sixty and s enty; abd as she dropped an awk’ on entering | felt that she was giviag me a homage Which she did not pay willingly. I sald [understood that she had permission from the owner of in tt. “Yes, mavam,” she sald: “but not from a3 anxtous (Whatever the owner as is the owner of the ‘ouse now, | ma‘am. Sh concealed sulxiness a3 1 Went on to ask her if she could not be induced to find accommodation for herself in some of the cottages on the ad- joining estate, so as to give us the house to our- selves. She studbornly retused. No, ma‘am,~ se went on to say, “I a Old woman as has lived here for nigh tw years, and I never gives tronble to no oD only wishes to be let alone ma am—yes, | means to st. I Saw that it would serv ent to try to dissuade her an aty t and I means to stay, no purpose at pres- and 4s I did not wish to quarrel with her, 1 changed the conversa- | tion. I sald I ‘ty rstood there were sou Ish stories current about the house betng haunted, and { tt, that Id say nothing to my servants ants ‘ll let me alone, ma 1 has no Wish to meddle n her to go. She was certainly ‘Ro troubie about the house: and she was very seldy er by me or the servants. She ally, as if to make her necesstites might 2or Of her rooms both in x ‘ou Won't stay as 4 smile. But the wers faded: Urees grew red, ast thelr shivering 1 It was an early winter. In No- col4 was Intense, and the days sioomy. Many years had passed ‘ot 4 winter in England. aod h. I made the best of ngrmyself and the ehild- the doors and wintows to the gros vember th were sbort Ten i fapnel. keepii closed and having lar, . 1 could do two of them Ul. | Thetr iLivess was not serious; but nursing and looking after them gave me much to do, for thetr ayal (Indian nurse) was suffering at’ th moment from 4 severe cold, which rendered her ost Incapable of helping me. Such was my position when, one moratng my Rousematd asked to see me. I knew what tls seen geattd Was hot surprised to hear that she led to leave us that very day. Her mothe: wanted her, she said. ian hl ied reason. She Was impenetrable. 1 offered her bigher wages. She said, tremblingly, that she | y if | were to offer her a buadred | ‘oto perceive that the news of the ghost story had got abroad, and I asked her it there Was anything In the’ house of which she Was afraid: but to Unis question she was | dumb. I said I would see her again, and sat down to think, with my sick child in my lan. Eves while I was thinking, there came a knock would not s pounds. 1 be at the door of my room. I crted out, but my heart sank. ome tn, My cook was at the door. The girl who helpe1 in the kitchen and house was Deniind her. oth looked scared, and announced that the: golvg. I did not know what todo. To gain time I ordered them back to their work. I had no money in the house, | sald. The bank, as they kKhew, was some miles distant. They bad no right To leave me without due notice; in fact, I would not let them go. So I said.’and hoped uteted for a time. But late that evening the ayah came to me with consterna- the three English servants By that time the children were in bedand and Vanish as suddenly as they everything Was still. I bade the ayah go to her dif_icult to thin +f rea of fleas room wit the younger children, and atter and biood locking my bedroom door, sat alone, thinklug. f bad passed through an exciting day. Tee | ment: ight was chilly; | was tired and not very well. | face took a mor ‘That the warmth of the fire and the comfort of my favorite toun; chair should presently | they cause a delight sense of indifference to all | terrors. and every ahnoyance need not de considered they were tion in ber face. bad left me! THE MYSTERIOUS HOUSE. well furnished: good ore Unan a Suspicion of scora anxious to settle thaus com- comfort,” continuel my sister, “and you don’t want'to pay for every you Anglo-Indlans tuink eae tn a8 she spoke. Turn- | fiht house! ‘Then you are Do you remember ibé story Williams tyid us | covered cons: | blocd-letting heip | up. to do a good | | ery such as I thot | ahem; the other and the expectation | | Seif: “T shall tind oat the se | ai | denly approached 11, and had not ard courtesy | house to occupy certain rooms | manifested. I thought, a certain little | | would afford me sutt the privacy of my sleeping room had again been | invaded. Taking up my candle and tne bit of cloth I then passed quietly out, locking the | door of the room, and carrying'the key with ‘oped, Whatever she thouvat of | res Ia the rooms and | woncerful. As I sat there I gave way to the iunagine, fast asleep. I say I tmigine because there was nO witbess present: and of what we do or what we don't do, in that strange indefintre border-land of sensation whieh separates wak- ing Ume from sleeping time, we can never be | pleasant compulsion, and was svon, perfectly certain. So far as | know I stept for some considera’ time. It was a sensation, I believe, of my fee waxing cold that Orst loosened the bonds of slumber. While I was in that semt-conscious | state, Which has a pecullar discomfort. I be came dimly alive to the fact that there was in the room some presence other than my own. | There was movement—a stirring tn the alr, as if some Creature had come tn. ‘The eveuts of the day returned to my memory, whic still only balf alive. I started up, ru awake and tn my right mind. : When I went to sieep I was alone. Yes, cer tainly. But even tf tt were not so, what strange pale face was this now gazing atme across tue dimly-lighted space of the Shadowy room? I was but half awake. My nerves were !n an ex cited state. The ghost tn the house had been my And now this strange face, | dvancing on me out of ihe of my own fancy? Or Was it'some one piayingatrick upon me? In last conscious \dea which seemed to bi gloom, was tt a crea! any Case, LOW Was my Ume to fathom the mys: tery. Trying to be courageous and gather my 1o be suddenly swaliowed up in the drap the heavily curiatned window. I rusaed tor ward, but was uot swift enough. Be touched the curtatns the face had disappeared. | was certain, however, perfectly certaln, that as I drew the curtains open I felt resisia ‘0 my hand, and opened window. At first i felt as If abc faint; but my will, fortunately, was strong, aud i threw the curtains aside and put my hatd un the window. I. was closed. [ tried tne bar, which could only he tixed from the fasid+, aad it was as I had jett i early fo the eventag. At this discovery my agitation overpowered Ine; my head swam, and ffatnted. When I re rece pected, what I afterward found to be the case, that I had struck iny head on some article of furniture and was bleeding. This tnvoluatary ed to revive me, and I sat if Thad been struck by a frost-wind. 4 was absoltite cheerfulness as contrasted w the horrible h turning, and managed to ring the b ‘he ayah came, a! summoned her at an hour when she suj posed I had retired forest. I didnot tell her at I had wiinessed, only asked her to ligut acandle. She did so, and as the lght fell upon | Y my face, she gave a light seream. I had forgot | ee a atthe moment that blood was tricktiug from | dy ot high or [should noi have As - q | tractive in appear candie. Ait was, thad | ("ct ive In aucholy mother, th out suitors. ‘The sult of one of these was, the wound f had received sked her to light th to make the best excuse I could In answer fo. her inquiries. I satd | must have slept long by | the fire, and moving about the darkened room | had fallen and burt myseif. Tue wound, how- ever, was found to be a mere scratch; and in few minutes the ayah had succeeded in remoy ing from my face at] marks of the disister, Tasked her to leave the candle with ms, and Allow me {0 retire to rest. She did s after the door was closed upon her, I proce with the candle to examiue the window mor minutely. ‘The mystery was as much a mys- tery asever, The wiudow had certaluly not been opened by any one, and no tre visible On the wil gress OF ing! and Was about to turn and quit the room ogether, So much did my fears oppress me, when something lying on ‘the tioor within tie Tevess attracted may attention. I stooped and picked ft up. It Wasa small ptece or whlie cloth—a few inches square—very frall in the exture, as if halt-rotred with damp ud adorned with a pecullar kind of © I bad seen before, but could not recall where. On one edge there was edges belug irregular and jag Tr looked Like a pie: wrenched out of a garment by the foot being suddenly placed upon it. [felt had mad? a covery. eturoing to the firepia med clear e ce I sat down to think. that my visitaut, however he or s dan entrance, was ho spirit. ‘This plece of nen was certatnly' not ing there wuen T had closed and barred the indow for the night; nor could it pelong to the apparel of ar mber Of my household. It Was hot unlikely toat it was part of the loose garment of dingy white whica ! uow reme bered my strange visitant wore. 1am naturally strong-minded, ant began to recover my compostre gradually ald Lo of the chain 1s between my fingers. before heard of ghosts trampling bits out of tx : pery, and no doubt the ghost I saw had been nearly as mitch afraid as myself when I so sud- sol away without a little ta ‘This accounts, too,” 1 h “for the resistance which I felt to my hold of the window cur- I was more than ever persuaded that a trick was being played upon me. I did not fesi, wow ever, as if 1 could sleep in’ the room that night. tt my visitor was, as I suspected, a morcal ill myself, there is nO Saying what héor she mizat be induced to attempt, should the desire of re Venge prompt a second visit. My life was not safe In such circumstances, when barred win. dow and a locked door were not suilictent. to i Ler me from Segoe I resolved for that | night to occupy the bedroom where my es Salbve wraites 2ach with. | MY household duties, wi Cluest children slept, which I could reach with- | Diy household du oe two out disturbing the rést of the house. I was about to take up my candle and go, when I imagined I heard a sound behind me. In my state of nervousness, I started, and hail almost dropped the candle. 1 looked toward the window, but the curtains hung motionless, &ud were parted as | bad left them. . A thought struck me. If my visitor were to return alter I had retired, how should 1 kuow? I pondered the matter a tittle, and then pro. ceeded to action. Trickery must in this case be met by trickery. I weot to my workbox, took outa reel of thread and drew off a tew yards. There were curtain fasteners on each side of the window, about two feet trom the | tioor; and between ‘these I stretched and made | fast the length of taread, so,that no one could enter the room from the window recess ta the | course of the night without unconscionsly breaking the frail barrier I had erecte ‘This ent proof as to whether me. Ifelt myself stronger in the presence 0 | muy children, and soon managed to fall asleep. £ CHAPTER I. My first quest next morning on leaving the apartment where I had slept was for the pur- | pose of ascertaining whether my bed-room had been again entered after Ihadleft tton the previous evening. { unlocked the door and cauuliously looked in. Enough light came through between the drawn curtatns to show jue that the room was apparently as I left it 1 advanced to the window and found the thread there, unbroken, and evidently un- | touched. I must confess | felt. somewtiat dis- appointed. My fears had probably exavger- sted my conceptions of the danger, and f had | anticipated a second visit as more than prob- wble. After tninking, however, [ came to the con- | clusion that It was better as'it was. Had my ‘Strange visitor for any purpose entered my room | a second time, and found that I had quitted tr. | the effeet migbt have been the reverse of ta- vorable to a discovery of the trickery, which discovery could best be forwarded my making @s littie change in my usual habits as possible. it Was not improbable; seeing that no suspicion had been aroused by the knowledge that I had changed my sleeping apartinent, that the “ghost” might be emboldened to’ pay me a visit On the following night; and by that Ume I hoped to be abie Uon of my strang 9 arrange for the intercep- itor, and the detection of In the course of the morning I made up my mind how I should proceed. Mrs. Weevil generally lett after breakfast on her errands to the neigiibor- | tne trick. | ing village or els ewhere, not generally returo— ing for a few hours; and I thought this a good Ume to obtain an interview with Andrew, the old gardener, who, | saw, Was engaged trim- | Ming the walks in front of the door. I had no | 1 asked ‘her mother's | doubt now that what I had seen had beeu also appearing to the servants who had so suddeuly departed on the previous evening; and I had no doubt also that Andrew Knew the whole story about the ghost having been again seen in the house. [opened the parlor window and spoke with him over the balcony. “Will you ore = Andrew? 1 should like to Speak Ww He stood for a moment in hesitation, scrat ing his head. I think he would have’ pretend anything to entering my house at that moment; but evidently he did’ not see his way to refus ing. A few moments later he was in the draw- ing-room. “Andrew,” I began, with some intentional ‘y were Solemnity of manner, “you see the position I indicated that he con- sidered the position an exceedingly unpleasant one. “The story has got about,” I went on, ‘that this house ts haunted.” He turned pale. Cuthink it is haunted?” 1 asked, looking at | am in.” His expression him nxealy. He hesitated for afew moments, shook hts head slowly, and succeeded finally In Saying: “Wat ls folks to think, ma’am?” “I acknowledge,” 1) answered, “that the thing has a queer look: When people appear, like ourselves. “Tain’t possible Ik: Durning indignation that for the peace “No,” Tanswered him; “It ts not possible. Rowse about Save ‘been by the Ne the owner of tht futerest in keeping 1t empty. Andrew was naturally shrewd. As I spoke there came Into his face a new look of keennes:. my | eyes, for] could not be at all sure that 1 was | | about this hous 1 am told they it Thus stimulated, Andrew told me that the house and grounds had originally belong: Lork B—, father of the present lord; whose park was commanded by our.front-windows. On the marrtage of a favorite Sister with Mr. koupel, aman somewhat beneath her ta posi- | Uon, he gave her the nouse. | pair'lived in much uabappiness tv was sald; and here their only chtid, a daugbter was bora, After running through ‘his wife’s money tne , n left alone. the widow, 9 daughter, determined to The rent of husband died. Wii and her now grown- let their house, and live abroad. the furnished touse, with its excellent garden, would bring them in an tncome suflicient 0 enable them to live quietly tn so town, ore I | ab the same time a gust of | colder air rushed against my face, as if from an © t9 | riously. those who still spoke myteriously about the circumstances of the the poor lady had met with foul play. for it wes sue had really been mardered—and murdered | by herown child. as some dared to whispe would never rest in her grave. And when singular appearances came and went, strange sounds were heard in the hous empty vasness | was lying tn the broad Of the curtained window, and I feli a tricking sensation on my forehead, and sis I remained partly stunned 1. I felt a creeping sensation, as roy while, my heart bean to beat less audibly, aud i rose to my feet. At that moment the emibers | Of the fire suddenly sank tntd the bottomor the | grate, sending up a faint flickering light, waich very ready Lo dil puil-darknegs that had hith- erto prevailed. 1 felt my courage re- rmed that I” shouid have} was accomplished, Mian was neither 1 to who! aud | 10) ded | form er employ was | cisds Of any possible means of | Ue re jection, Imbittered by ss. I felt more nervous than | >)! in the navy; bat nis pay of letting their house furnished, be would bring them in a sufficient income to en- able the young wife to live in comfort whtie her remarke ud Dla being weak: but I si toms of alarm; but mar, and tnelined, after whi j tee a Sirallar view with myself of the sitia- ‘on, namely, that we were being made the sub- | y. in order 10 | drive us out of the house. He asked about Mrs. Weevil, and If I had ever been in her rooms. sald 1 had not. them. The door of exactly as found. bave menuoned, both t smith had made a particular examinatton of the bow-window of my bedroom; but had fatled to waken ‘suspicion in the Our search had so tar been entirely fruitless; and I was beginning to feel more per- | plexed than ever, as, after what Andrew had | told me Of Mrs. Weevil, and of her son’s former relations to the owner of the house, I had some- how begun to connect her tn my mind with the mysterious appearances which had given it sueb a bad faine. find anything to slightest. door, W recently Deen lubrici again. difficulty cou! for a candle, robes to the ‘hink of them as creatures of flesh was Andrew's com- and I observed == gg oo — his re healthy hue. The quiet tone I had assumed reassured him. Ghosts. whea can be reasoned about, lose half their But Andrew, if we look at these things from another point of view—" i eagerly asked, a3 [ Lomeli allow him time for expression of of ones” I said; “there Is another. Before I believe in your in'erpretation, Andrew—pefore I believe it possivle that spirits can wander about the world for no other reason than to = People, I must test mine.” 13 eyes, awakened to new interest, were looking at mine very inqutringly. I explained at once. -*What I mean fs this. [ suspect a trick. Somebody has a spite agalast | house—somebody has an “Be there another? “- Yes lie smiled. “There has been queer things done,” he observed, with a cautious impar- uality. “You have been here some weeks,” I sald, “Have you heard anything during that ume about the people who owa It? ed here once.” complaint, heart disease. But there w ath, and decis Now thi was the germ of the ghost sto ald far and Hear that Mrs. Roup> for an ancient housekeepet sto) S nineteen years of a irit and cheerful tempe! ntalied by poverty, and a sad mel young lady was not with rding to her mother and herself—thi . Was Mrs. Weevil. the steward’s mother. it was nature should reject ht n. It was perhaps no less deeply into the steward’: pul. ‘he fact in @ Monetary polnt of vie ible than the Steward. He was a Heute: but as he had nothing in the they carried out Mis. Roupel and Was away from her. village at onc if he thought I had taken lea’ Tunderstan’.” he answ i one of your erran vide , but I 1 took him, as also the joiner and blacksmith, into the parlor and told them my experiences of the previous evening. | Andrew exhibited symp- found the joiner a seastble T told him. to cis of some diabolical tric! » joiner and the black We were inthe act of quitting te house keeper's sitting room, afraid that she might return before we had had tn el n I noticed the blacksmith kneel down on the floor of the inner apartment and exam- ine the foot of one ot the bed, ancient Elizabethan, with heavy faded ings, and stood on a iloor covered with a out of which long use had extracted alm traces of {ts original pattern. joiner stooped down beside him; and I then observed that the caster at the foot of the bed- post was glistening with oll, as if ft had put | le .; and we all three then noticed that there was a distinct dark olly streak along the carpet, as if the bed had been | moved forward obliquely for a few feet from where it stood, and then been moved back ‘The jolner at once rose; and, taking hold of the bed, be found that he could pull it forward easily and without making the slight est noise, till {t was about a foot from the wall against which it stood. At this point we uouced that the bed seemed to dip slightly to one side, as if something were yielding to its weight; and af the same moment we observed a panelling stiently open in that part of the wall which had formerly been bid behind the hangin; 1 was tn a high state of excitement, and with «ho owned the house, by depriving 1. come that would otherwise Dave been derived My first impulse was to leave things as they were in the apartment ull the arrival of the ag and confront her at once with the evidences we had discovered of her malevolent viices; Dut on a Second examination of the x It Was found that it contained a false boi tom, easily removed. under which were found a pair of loadea pistols. This struck us as being searcely in keeping with the idea that Mrs. izant of the mischievous been carried on here for sO many years. These were rather the weap- ons of a person who was both able and willlug to use them should an emergency offer Abd what was sull more puzzling, while we had thus far discovered the means by which tae ghostly reputation of been maintain Weevil alone was operations which the bouse had there was as yet no trace of the manner in which access was gained, either to the bedroom which I occupied. or to any other parts of the house which had been so to mysteriously visited. In these circumstances. it Was agreed at once to replace every we had round them, except that the blac took the precaution of drawing the charge out of both pistols, stuffing the barrels afterward to the required depth with paper, so that on being probed they might still appear as if loaded. This done, the bed was moved back to ils place, When the panneiling of itself We then left the apartment, the sh was, though not without ‘some aitiiculty, so fastened as uot readily to excite elon that tt had been tam- it was now two hours Weevil might return at any momeut. men therefore d-parted, “but first arranging with me that they should return atter dusk. | bringing the village constable along with them, toawall with me the events of tie event J felt certain somehow that the “ghos! wiih the object of driving me the house, as other Cenanis nad been uriven before. Here the marrisd ihe woman's sus 2 foreign But while this project’ was belug dis- cussed the widow dled suddenly and myste- An inquesi was held over her: for strapge suspicions were circulated abroad ‘The Verdict was that she had died of the fam {ter noon, and Mrs. red that | y.” the old gar- y good keeper of s Proposed that the joiner and blacksmith should take him along wita them to the village, and keep him under sur veillance till the evening. saw them ail out of the place, without, 30 far as 1 knew, being seen by any one; and still more glad when the ayah shortly afterwards returned with the children, as I could not help feeling armed in the house by myself, at we had discovered, and espe- cially what we had fatled to discover, namely, ying the ghost could obtain access to different parts of the house so treely report represented, and as I had myself {np one instance painfully experienced. CHAPTER UL practice, Mrs. Weevil did turn to the house that day till far on in the afternoon, and after she had entered her rooms I couid hear her bustling about with an activity and notse quite unprecedente: experience of ‘her habits, This rather Iwas afraid she had suspected, from tne appearance of her rooms. notwithstanding our rein removing all traces of our presence that some one had been there in her absenc: and this might be sufficient to defeat my hop: of bringing to light the tricke 50 long and so systematteally practiced. But 1 ‘onished when, seerets: hence and ROW the , Scarcely spoken of at first above the breath, SO dark IU was aod monstrous, was by- and-by openly discussed. On this part of the story old Andrew was He warmed to the theme indeed, and would wlilingly have given me, had 1 destred tt, a fil and particular account of tae various people who from time to time had been oriven from the premises, But I, holding still tomy point, that trick had to do with it, re- stratned bis tlow of language, and endeavored close quesuoning to ‘tind out what he knew about the daughter of Mrs. story were true, was the hgunted house. elicited the following facts. Miss Rompel about the period of death. She was then a youag he ly at- Thus, 1n spite of the I was glad when I ‘imorous and considering w ow the person pl. Unlike ber ui Roupel, who, {f his esent Owner of the that had been was sull more aitermy return, she sent ami the ayah that she wished to spe her an interview, searcely knew what answer to make. to refuse to see her, this might complete the suspicion which she perhaps entertained, a 1 did see her I was afrald that [ might by s word or look betray the knowledve of which 1 iad become possessed. whole! had better see her, and answered ac To- embered their cld antecedents and were p-oud—lttle short of an tinpertinence; for the e nor less than Lord house steward. The old housekeeper, m, belore he bestowed the house upon ster, the old lord had apportioned two about an hour K with me, itt 1 that Miss Roupel, niece of nis " suit with atural that tempi, Should I thougat upoa tne tered the room with a basket over he dropped a courtesy; aud from t ilow of words with whi he the conversation, she st S that from the day when he was forbidden “house Where his mother lived the young man changed. Veople spoke of nbt3 biiwk looks, of his hard way Specches, and some predicted a bad end tor im. Meanwhile Miss Roupel, now lett alone by her mother’s death, married’ Mr. Egerton, a man, scarcely more med to put ona frank- had no® before on Y slight intercourse 1 had with OF his crue! cy nical am,” she went on, “f were just < im, tosay as I would be yoin' from Ube’ouse for atew days; my son, as { Lora B—., being took very badly ma’am; and as he hi Ii'm, it holds as J, ma’ do my dooty—yes, ma'am.” id without once stopping to take breath; and I could not heip observing that she was slightly flurried in my_ presen seemed to Keep talking as much to hide her un $8 aS to enlighten me regarding her T satd | was Very sorry Ml, and that It was’ very proper she in the circumstances, attend to him. ‘has he no servant in the ve DO one to walt upon ato, as his mother, must ving it | d, if this was her deliet. she must have been “often sore pinched,” for the house could have brought ip very little. I thanked him for his story, “Ni ‘you must do something more for m: Got . iid the carpenter and blacksmith. Tellthem I want them on im portant business. There must be n will pay them well fer thelr wor derstand?” For the old man was staring delay. I Do you un- “leastways. tbe over to Brookford tor mother, Who stays there, ma'am she courtesied agatn in the excess of her a few days to see h d slowly, “Bat yhat will you be wanting with them ma‘am?" “You will know all in good time. bring their tools. Now go Andre Aud mind, Andrew,” After I had dismissed her | did not know What to think. This was an tnterference with my plans on which I had not coanted. ho one to advise with me, and felt much per plexed, As evening approached and the gioom of twilight J had a strange nervous feeling, such as I had only once before experienced, and that was tn India, during th when the mutiny was at Its height, and every footfall made us start, as if next moment were As the dusk deepened my anxiety increased; and when at jeugth the ayah conducted the joiner, as I had before In structed her, to my room’ I was almost too Andrew and the black ‘staith were for the time detained in the kitchen, as I wished to talk the matter over with Une Joiner, as the most intelligent of the three. ‘diny room! I was surprised to find a second person behind him, whom he tn- troduced to me as Mr. Burrowes, the district inspector of police, who had been on an offictal visit to the village that day, and who, when he heard the story, volunteered his services in place of the constable. His presence at once gave me great relief, and this was enhanced When I found be had long experience force, and was entering rofession into our from the joiner nuplimented me id I had displayed and expressed his ac- ig that we had since toned to him my un- that afternoon with Mrs. ‘ad left the house, he was He questioned me appearance wher and as to whether she ‘h affected by her son’s !liness. wered his several questions to the Y.and he after thinking awhil | Ingup and down the room, turned to They must —go quickiy. | ‘Say noting io Ing the joiner smith In by the back entrance, for I «do not wish them to be seen coming here to-day by_everybody.”” Notwithstanding these bold words I must confess that when Andrew started on his me3- Sage. and T was left alone—for the ayab had gone down to the village—T felt a litt Tdid not belleve in spiritual presenc did belleve in wickedness driven to desperation 1 was bidding defiance to a foe of whose re- sources I was utterly ignorant. detlance should be taken up? Mentally, Ite t strong enough; physically, 1 was conscious of et about the performance of ‘h occupied me tally e terrible days to be our last. neasy. overpowered to speak. What it mv As he entere the London detective With the enthust plans. He had heard alres What had passed that day: co highly on the presence of min on the previous evening, quiescence In everythin | He proposed at once to visit er apartments was, as usual, locked; bu- the blacksmith had Ittle dit- uuty In successtully picking the lock, and | electing an entrance for us—Andrew ‘being meanwhile sent to keep a lookout in the garden Ubat no One approached the house unawares. There Was nothing to attract attention tn | Mrs. Weevil’s apartments. Tully examined them; but no means of egress from either of the rooms could be discovered, save the door by which we had entered, te Windows haying iron gratings outside. took the uimost care When, however, 1 ment expected Interview Weevil, and that she & good deal taken al closely as to her manner and The joiner care- is she was In the room, We ‘hat nothing was dis- arranged; and any plece of furniture or apparel which we had occaston to disturb was replaced thing be carried out as you for- Previous to this. 1 should merly proposed. See that your family retire t rest at their usual time, w tt 4 ance as possible of anythit if the woman has taken alarm, nol lost by waiting can be more ci with as litte appear- al going on. thing will be {ill to-morrow, when her rooms arefully examined by daylight. In. you show me the bedroom disturbed last night?” the joiner folowing; Ined where, to use his in which you were | conducted him thither, and after he had ascertah own expression, | bad first seen the ‘4 and where and how he at once intimated to retire to my room my chair by the fire as on the ning and either sleep or appear to sleep, as was most agreeable to myself. Beyond the window stood a large wardrobe, in which, all quiet, he and the selves; the blacksmith and t et as a guard upon the keeper's room below. The had arranged, would keep of the house, but so as not to be the party had disappeared, his plans, He sata | as usual, seat myself in atter the house was joiner would conceal them- ‘he gardener being door of the house- village constable, he watch on the outside It was an ee pet | st all Abastynal, the ‘The duties of the household, in the absence of my servants, fell somewhat heavily on the ayah and myself; and the ti for me as I bustled about, ut to bed; after which the ayah also retired. uring all this time everything had been car- rled on in our customary way, Mr. Burrowes and the rest of his helpers betook themselves distant apartment up stairs, all the evening ughter and noise ime passed quickly Seeing the children for the time to a and the house had with the mingled sounds of Iai inseparable from a large such asours. But now all had slipped quietly to their Bwrowes and the joiner were, Wardrobe at the other end of I was Seated in my lounging-chair, as on the position thinking, I ceuld ig tO myself how near we were all making ourselves ridiculous. The ad Suspected was out of but the ordinary mem- bers of the household and the watchers could Possibly be in it; and here was my bedroom fire, making-belle with two mefi concealed in the wardrobe, hoping tocatch—we did not know what. ‘The humor of the situation so stro! at one time, that I conld refrain from bursting into laughter. a Mr. Burrowes having put himself trouble on my account, combined with a re- membrance of what I had experienced du twenty-four hour my feelings; and I shor away in the dim remembrances in India; to my distant husband: long separation; to the of that fearful mutiny, up before me; to- was silent; the men ‘rent posts; Mr. I knew, in tae my bedroom; and previous evenin} As Isat in t not help observin: suppress my feelings, but stood silent as the two men went round and looked into the Spening thus discovered. They asked which I presently brought them; when we found that the recess was a small place, about five feet bigh and two deep, and that It was formed of solid mason-work on all sides but the front. A box, large enough to Mill the whole space of the bottom, was attached to the wall by strong iron staples, as if to Fs its removal; but curiously enough, the box itself was not locked, though supplied with a hasp and padlock. The lid was at once lifted, when we saw stuffed into it, as it hurriedly, a mass of white garment, which we found to be an old chasuble or surplice, that must nave formed at one time part of the ceremonial of a priest. We Drought it forth ht and examined it, and there, in the skirt of the garment, we found that a ece had been torn out, which was exactly itted by the bit of white embroidered cloth which I had picked up in mp bedroom on the "This was evidence indis- putable bog Dada or whatever my ghostly re at least was the garment that had been worn on that occasion; the more 50, that attached to the upper of the garment was a kind of hood whic! the head and face, would ‘uncertain old woman whom I the house; no one ei revent ly affected me ually sobered my thoughts terrible nights and days whose Tortora ‘still Tose ere was a thud on the floor, and 1 started. I had been asl The ren burning ie fire was fused state to trim tt, w! what I had seen on the pre the imperfect when drawn over light tho grim agpsct tnat {nad soon on the previous evening. "T felt within mea to grow suddenly darker. { am certain that left to myself, I should at that moment have fainted right away, for the whole thing had been so sudden and found me so unprepared that tn mv confusion I forgot all about tne business of the night. But just as the white figure seemed to be approach- ing the curtained windows I saw two oe ee ae ey ugon oe _ bebind, then a sha violent Strugzie, in = ; % which all three rolled on the Moor. as Irlocked | Comvécting and Co vogether in a deadly embrace. The white figure — bad managed to wrench one arm loose, and in another moment there was the sharp click of a Names. pistol. Thanks to our forethought, the weapon was harmless. By this Ume the ‘nolse of the — THE FACTS Faliy Sustained: struggle that was golng on had brought the I wonld not for 8500 be back where I was two blaci ith and Andrew up to my apartment; and with their hep the white figure was ina | Week8aeo, when I commenced the use of Dr. 0.W. ELERY aNd Onamwomme Puss. My eufferings, whic® were intense, from Neuralgia known to the majority of the company—it was | 82¢ Headache, had completely broken me down; the steward! He tured his back on me with a | but these Pills have entirely cured me. Indeed, I © another man. For further information - | call at my residence, 113 Warrenton at., corner of few seconds*manacled and led forward to the | BENso light, bis white garment—an old surplice— hangibg In tatters about him. He was at once stifled oath. fool 1 Leaving him now helpless, with his hands : fast behind tis back, in charge of the blac smith, Mr. Burrowes’ led the way to the hous keeper's rooms below, the doorof waich w: found to be locked. It was at once burst open, and, taking a candle with us, we entered. 'h outer room Was in the Same‘condition as I had seen It during theday; bat the {nner room showed the bed drawn ‘forward and the - ling of the recess which we had discovered standing open. Nobody was there. ‘Taking the candle forward, to examtne the recess, Mr. Elict, Boston, Mass. c.C FISK. tom In addition to, that which we had dis | commending them to my friend covered, and that by Its removal an op-ning aa : . 5 sufficient for one perscn at a ti GW RATA: ‘TORS st, Draven, Mae down a trap-stair into the ¢ Burrowes and ihe joiner at taking the lght with them, the rest of u ing as directed : fice; : Watching the Jobb \AN WAGENE minutes 1 heard Pa room, ahd rushing tulther, found that Mr. Bur roweS and the joiner had reached It from the | © cellars, Into which the trap-door led, the whole of the Woodwork of one std of the windo¥ of ty room being ingeniously made to move back upon hinges like a door, yet so constructed that who have used my 8. M. PETTID acter at Navy Yard: VA. KENN factarer, Cambridzeport, Mass., ker wi 5 ¥, for which pleare « When the steward was searched there was found on him beside the pistols a bunch ot du plicate keys, which could Open any Chamber, or sleep for weeks together, but now | other lockfast place, in the house. | ly. They are the best medicine in t ‘The constable having been called in from the 4 “full garden, the steward, who had hitherto stood | Nervousness. Respectfully yours, ait end sullen, with a dark expression of A. B. CARGILL. mialii2 and revenge upon his face, was handed / eNSON—Des i yo over to him, and he was instructed by iissupe. | D> ©: W- BENSON—Dear eee vee rior to convey him to the local police office and | CELrky AND Cnamosite Preis for the express purpose of increasing my appetite, which they did n escape. | to wy entire satisfaction. Itakexrest pleasure in ardener. who, since the | recommending them to my friends. Yours truly, place him Ina cell. ‘The blacksmith he ordered | to accompany the constable and see that the | piisoner dfd not effec Meantime the ghost” hag been discovered to be but flesh and vod like bimseli, had become as bold as a lion. | : . volunteered to stay In the house with us ali| Dr- BENSON, who advertises bis Cex night and help me to soothe the tears of my pour terrified children, while Mr. Burrowes, | I. N. SOPER, 30 Park Bow, N. ¥. reader with detat answer to a quiet of the hous Mrs. Weevil was at once In the grip of the or | ail orders promptly fi fear. | She was absolutely thunderstruck, 3 quite lost her presence of mind. Without’ vei. | ** lug her anything of what lad happened, Mr, | PFS threughout the | Turrowes asked for her son, the steward. Ai | cine.—**Toledo Weekly Blade.” first she hesitated, then sald he was tl In be No," said Mr. Burrowes: “he is not tn be penough by tls time In the so you had better just tell us a but I may mention that in al the window the door Finis are prey Neuralgia, Nervousness, and Indises nara vroke taped ad | of etther Bick, Nervous, or Dy length what the reader can guess in great meas. | Neuralgia, Nervousness, or Sieeples ure tor blinself: but the sum of her story. Ww: this. ‘The mother, equally wita her son, hated Miss Roupel for despising his addresses, and took the means we have. scen in order to each successive tenant oul of her house. She assy anae also admitted that after the sydden death of | 8: Baltimore, 3 Mrs, Koupel it was they who bad spread the | 7 ougSIANA SEAZE LOTEEME. stories changing foul play against the dant L — In answer to a question from Mr. Bur Se she confessed that it was she who had TES NOTICE ed the ghost on the previous evening: but | au she bad never before shown herself to auy one row! Who did not at once fee and quit the house. | Dauphin as below. Jn all cases the TICKETS My attempt to get hold of her, therefore, had caplbg: and next morning had gone to her | son and told him she durst not play the part of ghost any longer, as the present tenant nd her ground, and they would In | & swwindier. A Splendid Opportunity TO WIN A FORTUNE. RST GRAND DISTRIBUTION, CL! cherished course of malicious practices against Miss Roupel; and her son determined to take o his revenge upon me that night by first. Irigt eaing me and then robbing the house, atve which they were resolved to take the tirst opportunity of quitting that part of the coun .. uy. Their cupidity bad been aroused by the | 11TH, 1981, . sight of some trinkets In Indian jewelry which 2st MONTHLY Deawins. I possessed; hence the design io ro me, In a — other to cover thelr purposé the old nag was Louissons Biate Eotors Oompane. sent tome with the story of her son being Ill; nec ahd _as he had a secret means of access to the | {es lexislature of the stat ed at thus being at last bafiled in their long- | —nhad brought the old surplice from Lord B—' vote, Securing its fran house, in which elther of them, as occasion | mates, ‘and thus depriving the innocent object | {Ud of over $360, vu0. of | 12% ITS GRAND SINGLE NUMBER DISTRIBU- of thelr hatred of her chief means of polo. TION will take place monthly on the second ‘Tues- Fuoeues te ae trouble . appreh aa Le old Woman at thyt time, but he Took care It Newer Scales or Postpones that she should not leave the country till after = aaa the trial of her son tor housebreaking and | Look at the following distribution: lelony, when she had to appear against him as OAPITAL PRIZE, 830,000. a witness, cle.was found guilty. and 8 P 40,2 | 100,000 TICKETS AT TWO DOLLARS EACH. renal settlement. Mrs. Weevil, ashamed to ALF TICKETS, ONE DOLLAR. show face in the neighborhood, departed noone erecta ») knew whither. for the ghost story. as soon as {ts saifent points were Known tn the netghborhood the house not only lost its bad character, but I be- came for the time quite a kind of heroine,every- body praising my courage and sagacity.” I had the pleasure, some weeks later, of entertaining in the house Mrs. Richard Egerton, the former Miss Roupel, whom the neigh borhood.conscious APPROXIMATION PRIZES. ¢1 unjust condemnation, “recetved witn open 9 Approximation Prizes of 8300.. arms.’ After the term of my tenancy expired 9 Approximation Prizes of 200..c.. the charting house let for a more suitable 9 Approximation Prizes of 100.22... rent. and ever since, I believe, it has formed an — adequate source of income to its worthy owners. 1,857 Prizes, amounting to. ...0-. Chambers’ Journal. For further information, write clearly, givi maiden’s sighs, full address. Send orders by express or Kegistered hrowxh the livelong diay Letter, or Money Order by mail. Addressed only to JIow their wear’ longine sighs M. A. DAUPHIN, Wear the time away! 5 Languidly they mope abou All their hopes are fled; They are in the cold left New Orleans La, or M. A. DAUPHIN, at No. 319 broadway, New Yoru. Leap-year’s nearly dead, ‘ or 43. P. HORBACH, Sa eA 605 14th st. n.w., Washington, D. “*A heart they’ 1 mm When the festive leap-year’s passed.” A CURIOUS BAILKOAD SCHEME, rooved Pavements in which Vehi- cles of Differemt Gauges may be Used. The “Grooved Pavement Company’ tioned the board of aldermen, yesterday, for authority LS lay in BOanw ay, trom Union square lo the South Ferry, and in the streets amaz which lead from Broadway to the Fulton, Wall Street, and South Ferries, five sets of tracks, with three ralls in each set. ‘The company Proposes to have the tracks gauged to suit LUMBER. LY LOW PRICES. every kind of vehicle, and they ask the privi- | FLOOBING (DexssEp)........-$2-60 and $2.75 lege of running vehicles for carrying passen- gers and paggage at intervais of we minutes, 2a speed that shall not make the time less than twenty minutes from Union square to any | BOARDS, THE BEST......--..... of the ferries; the fare to be five cents for each passenger and fifty pounds ot personal bag- Sage. As a considerauon for this franchise the company agrees to keep the streets in which | BOARDS, Common... the tracks are laid well paved and cleaned, d to pay the city one cent for every full fare _ collected. The company also asks permission ‘0 lay one hundred feet of these tracks on the north side of 14th street, at Union square, on ’ NTERPRISE: which to make an experimental test of ’ its al = ee oe : as Sind with the expres- S101 e opinion that this scheme may lead EMPLOY to the use of compressed air as a motive power Wa HAVE IN OUR for all kinds of vehicles.—N, ee ¥. Sun, AN ARCHITECT, READY T@ FURNISH ESTIMATES Advice te Marksmen. Sergeant A. B. Van Heusen, of the Twelfth kegiment, New York, was formerly a member ot Company E, Tenth, of this city.. He coaches the members of his lent while, practicing at Creedmoor. “Van,” it ig said, can make a Toarksman Of any one who has eyes and will follow his instructions. ‘The Sergeant is an au- thority on rifle practice. Nothing is theory with him. Every point he has demonstrated dozens of times in’ practice. Here is his advice to marksmen before the butts, which may Prove valuable to guards- s : Hold your ritles loosely and pull off with a twitch. Grip your gun as sir Spoor ian evaevae | TRO as if it was your friend. Control your, rifie, don’t let the rifle PRBE OF CHARGS. WILLET & LIBBEY, (6rH STREET AND N. ¥. AVE. SPRAGUE'S 8QU: BETWEEN: “Saba NN. L. MARKET SQUAEB. novi control you. 80 care! and steadily that XES Soman know when it is going on. Hold T* ror you can look mm the IAL IMPROVEME: to the after smoke Clears away. SPEC! ae Don’t fineh or twiren ane "When you sy zeta aim, hold your and fire with JANUABY 1, 1881. a steady pressure of the trigger. If et are | The time fixed by Congress for six per cent inter- Dee ee eat 8 moment, Keep cool. em- | est and abatement of penalties on ail just as careful about aiming as you are,—Al- that ten per cent from date of — PETER OAPBELL at (TRE OUT 70 De Bunian.—Tho logtalature Si Fennaylvanis avenue, or 308 ous wea, has a § ht to authorine s ‘muntcipality. tO |, "Gaga once Sortnermetion. That will cost you rel Temains terlea, The right of burial in a church-yard 13 a privilege en: ‘as the ground conunues a churen-yane sod a ht of the chi to abandon it; and who is merely a pewholder, or has relatives Buried in the yard, "and ieas nd Sontract relation Colds, Hoarse- fia aac tg levatue aneuee th | Efi wptaee cs wtp aly PETER CAMPBELL, 12t 1431 Pennsylvania avenue. of the dead from ceme- | nothing. decl8- removal of the such church-yar 1 ‘boxes. pairs the obligation of @ contract.—Alban ARTHUR NATTANS, Pharmacist, Late seonat a is decls A4th and Ists, and 34 and Dn.w, Eiiag ee neing Facts Set Ferth in Plain Words, with —= FOR COUGBR, OOLDS, BRONCHITIS, AS’ deed, your Cairny ssp Cramomine Prous are worth their weight in gold, as some of your cus- tomers have ssid. T Lave been a great sufferer with Headache for over twenty years, and nothing ever did me any permanent cood until I got hold of CELERY AND OWAMOMILY Prots, and they have Burrowes found the box had a movable bot. | acted likeacharm, and I take «reat pleasure tn re i also refer to the following well-known persons jemselves or in their fam. +iLL & Co., 10 State st., W. S, 147 Summer st.; United States | Dr. C. W. BENSON—Dear Sir: Enclosed tind | me ix boxes of your | 1 could uot de opened by any one in the room. | Crurky ax Cuamosiue Puts. Before I bacan | takin your Pills I could not get a decent nuet’s P splendid e world for x AND | Cuawowte Prius in this paper forthe cure of | 2, 8 Nervousness, aud Ini accompanied by the jotuer, proceeded to the | Headache, Neuralcia, Nervousness, aud Indixes house of the steward. I need not burden the | ton, isa reliable <entleman and an eminent practi- tioner of lone standing, and any moneys sent him y mis erwise wil ext pplied Was lumediately opened, and old | PY ™silor otuerwise willbe honesty applied, and , ax Dr., BENSON person- y superintend his entire business, ‘he entire nid are endorsing his 1edi Pr. C. W. BENSON'B CELERY ASD CHamovrce ed expressly to cure Headaches, on, and will cure any case, no matter how obstinate it may ba, rT) HOCK AND RY®. TOLO BOOK AND RYE TOLU BUCK AND RYE TOLU BOOK AND BYR (Trade-Mark Secared. | THE GREAT APPETIZER. AND SURE OUBB MA CONSUMPTION, AND ALL DISEASES OF THE THROAT AND LUNGS TOLU. The most acceptable proparation TOLU. --- TOLU. — TOLU. kaown for Bronoht: TOLU. esi TOLU — TOLU. Pulmonary Affections AN EXOBL- TOLU. —— TOLU. = TOLU. LENT APPETIZER and TONIC, for TOLU. smear TOLD — TOLU. general and family use. Theimmonse TOLU. — TOLU. 7 TOLU. and increasing #aies and testimonials TOLU. — Poeotoral and TOLD. . TOLU. received datly are the best evidences TOLU of ite virtues and popularity TOLU. . TOLU TOLU. PUTUPIN QUART SIZE BOTTLES TOLU. — TOLU TOLU. GIVING MORE FOR THR TOLD. — TOLD. — TOLU. MONEY THAN ANY TOLU —_ TOLD. — TOLU. ARTICLE IN THE MARKET TOLU = TOLU, — TOLU, PRICE #8 PER BOTTLE TOLU. _ TOLU. —— TOLU. CAUTION TOLU DON'T BE DECEIVED by unprin- TOLU. — cipied dealers, who try to palm off TOLU. common Reck and Rye in place of our TOLU. TOLU ROCK and RYE, which is the TOLO. ly MEDICATED article made, the TOLU. GENUINE having a PROPRIETARY TOLU. GUVEBNMENT STAMP ON BACH TOLU. BOTTLE. TOLU. LAWRENCE & MARTIN, TOLU. PROPRIETORS, TOLU. CHICAGO, LLLINOTS. TOLT — TOLU. 8OLD BY DRUGGISTS, GROCKRS TOLU. and DEALERS EVERY WSERE, TOLU. J.C. ERGOOD & CO., WHOLESALE AGENTS IN WasEINGTON, D. 0 A. Vou oR A CO., nov}0-9o12m Banrrvors yeptic Headache, or 8. Price 50 conta & box, OF ix boxes for S250, sent post «to any address. Sold by all wholesale and re- rive | tail drucwists, and st Depot, 108 North Eutaw correspondence should be with M. A. : : 1 alarmed her that she had great difficulty in | Hemselves are sent, and never circulars offering certificates or anything else instead. Any one pro- | posing to offer anything else by cireular or other- t2- This is a Special act, and hi been repealed. y be found out. ‘They were both en- | WS, on his own behalf or that of the Company, ie AY NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20a 9 prizes, $300 each, approximation prizes... 2, 74 Y brizes, “BW each, approximation prize... 1,410 ‘This institution was rewularly incorporated by is08" for the term. of itabie pUrpUsEs: S68 for ie ol house, he readily affected an entrance after he | twenty-five years, to which contract the sn Supposed the family asleep. It was her son | vilablefaith of thestate is pledied, which pledice Who had first pat her upon these evil practices | las been renewed by an overwhelming popular se in the pew constitution pd December 2d, A.D. 1579, ae capital of oltered, was in the habit of territying the in- | #1,000,0W. to which it has since added ® reserve The JESS F moet nutritious, Patent Flour that ever was exhib- ited at afair. Remember that + -8110,400 Responsible corresponding agents wanted at all points, to whom liberal compensation will be paid. er find @#-All our Grand Extraordinary Drawings are under the supervision and management of Gens. G. (Oil City Derrick, | "P. BEAUREGARD and JUBAL A. EARLY. dl —27Tsa— PorvuLaB Montaty Daawixe or ran Commonwealth Distribution Co., AT MACAULEY'S THEATER, In the City of Louisville, on FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, Isso. ‘These drawines occur monthly (Sundays excapt- | ed) under provisions of an Act of die General As | semb Printing and Newspaper Co., approved Apri 9, incorporating the Newport 78. mever The U. 8. Circuit Court on March Bist rendered the following decisions Ast-That the Commonwealth Distri- | bution Company is legal. 2d its dra The Company {| fond: Head carefully the lust of prizes for tue ings are fair now on hand a large reserve DECEMBER DEAWING, 1 prize . $20,000 | 100 prizan. @1000a8 19, G00 1 prize 10,000 | 200 do., 850 each. 10,008 1 prize .. 5,000 ) 600 do., 20each. 12,008 W dk 1 ”) | 1,00040.,10each. 10,000 €i, ‘ + 60H ea 10,000 rizes, 100 each, spproxunstion prizes... “90d 1, 960 prizes... rae ae ee 112,400 Whole ticks lf ticket: Si 2 tickets, 860. Botickots, S100. Remit Money or Bank Drsft in letter, or send Express. DON'S BEND BY REGISTERED LE’ TEK OR POSTOFFICE ORDA. Orders of and upward, by Express, can be sent at our ex. CUBS. BR. M. BOARDMAN, Conrier Jonrnal Building, Louisville, Ky., er 307 and 309 Broadway, New fork. 1703 N.Y. t ect 605 1 LWAYS WERE AHEAD: ARE STILL AHEAD 5 OF ANY AND ALL OOMPETITION FIRST PREMIUM, ox Tee GOLD MEDAL, ‘Awarded again to CEES, lebrated MINNESOTA PAT UR, for being the} \T PRO- ext Sand the CKLES, the whitest and strongest, and in every respect the most beautiful of al! Minnesota Flour, was awarded the FIEST PREMIUM las" year. — It cane out vie- torious then against all otper competitors, and itis “OQOOK OF THE WALK” again this year, and any and every housckeeper wo ward BNOW- WHITE BREAD, ROLLS AND BISCUITS, Mould ask the grocer for "CERES," the chainpion FOR SALE BY EVERY GOOD GROCER. WHLESALE DEPOT Corner Ist st. and Indiane WM, M. GALT & Co, P. 8.—They are also the sole Wholesale Avents for this District of Hecker’s Self-Raisine Flour aad Buckwheat. decls-m, w. fm METORE“L, COOKE & Ce., BTOCK BROKERS, 68 Broadway, New York, fork Stock Exchanse ; a.so deal in Stock Priv- igre Contracts ‘Correspondence ‘at close rates wy other remedies for OUUGHS, THRU: NG DISEASES. Bold by dramists. METTER, UPEBRSEDING Peeei IS SUP) e14; 0 tepleoim ALEX. BOBT. OHISOLM, Prov’r. taxes due Shot on the ground will have to be | before July. 1879, expires ep pe After STOCK TELEGRAPH pavare BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK. H. H. DODGE, BONDS, STOCKS AND INVESTMENT SECUB- IZIES BOUGHT AND BOLD ON COMMISSION, No, 5839 A5th street, (Oonoonas BurLprNc.) AGENCY FOR PRINCE AND WHITELY. Brock BRoxens, 64 Broadway, New York, class of SEOURITIES it and Sold on and 1916 Pennsylvania avenue. * J. W. SELBY'S. L*®*™ sonnson & 00., Bankers, ‘WASHINGTOR, D. ©.,