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{ | f 5 a -- Rs VOL XXIi, NO. 14.1 I [3 ARIO | AND GENERAL ADVERTISER BSERVE -------- PORT PERRY, PROVINCE OF ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1879. {WHOLE NO. 1111 orth Ontario Obserurr, A WEEKLY POLITICAL, TURAL § FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 1S PUBLISHED AT PORT PERRY, ONT., EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, BY BAIRD & PARSONS. TERMS.--$1 per annum, if paid in ad- vance ; if not $1.50 will be charged. No subscription taken for less than six months; and no paper discontinued until all arrears ate paid, 4 RATES OF ADVERTISING. For each line, first insertion .. $0 0! Subsequent insertions, per line ... Cards, under 6 lines, per anndmi .... . aha . 002 5 00 B&F Letters containing money, when ad- dressed to this Office, pre-paid and regester- ed, will be at our risk Advertisements measured by Nonpareil, aad charged according to the space they oc~ cupy. : Advertisements received for publication, without specific instructions, will be inserted until forbid and charged accordingly. No advertisement will be taken out untilpaid for. A liberal discount allowed to Merchants and others who advertise by the year or half-year. B&F These terms will in all cases be strictly +. ed to Job Department. Pamphlets, Hand Bills, Posters, Pro- grammes, Bill Heads, Blank Forths, Receipt Books, Checks, Books, Circulars, Business Cards, Ball Cards, &c., of eyery style and selor, executed promptly and at lower rites shan any other establishment in the County. pey™ Parties from a distance getting hand bills, &e. printed can have them done to take home with them. J. BAIRD. H. PARSONS. AQRICUL- "Business cards. ONTAR10 BANK. CAPITAL $3,000,000 PORT PERRY BRANCH. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. A Savings Department is now open in connection with this Branch. Deposits of FiveDollars and upwards received and inter est allowed thereon. No notice of withdiawal required. A.A. ALLEN, MANAGER. RN HAM, Clerk of the Third Divi- J. EEN Office in Bigelow's Block, Port Perry, Office hours from 10 a. m, to 8 p. m. INO. & D. J. ADAMS, Money, Land & Insurance B® ROKER S HAE large suths of money on hand for Investment, Mortgages Purchased. A number of excellent Farms for Sale or to Rent. AGENTS FOR THE "ALLAN T. C. FORMAN, INSPECTOR vf WEIGHTS § MEASURES For the County of Ontario. Port Perry, Nov 1, 1875. 46:tf OHN CHRISTIE, : J TOWNSHIP OLERK, ssuer of Marriage Licenses--Conveyancer, Commissioner &c. Office--Manchester. T ©. FORMAN, . ISSUER OF Marriage Licenses. One door west of thie Walker House Port Perry. s. Professional Cav re Ee = H. SANGSTER, M. D, Physician, Sur- J. geon and Accoucheur, Coroner for the County of Ontario PORT PERRY. Ofee over Nott's Furniture Store, corner of Queen and Perry Streets. Office hours from 9 a. m. to 12 m. Residence, the dwelling recently occupied by Mrs. Geo, Paxton. the County of t. WARE, C vr for R. WARE, Orono oY Ontario, Physician, Surgeon coucheur, Ofiice, opposite the town hall. Port ferry. Act. 1874. new Marriage 1st, Port Perry, July ENRY CHARLES having been re- appointed Marriage License Agent-- (after sixteen years duty) continues to fur- nish Licenses as herctofore--at Port Perry. RS. McGILL & RAB, Physelans, Surgeons, &o., &e, Ofice and Residences, King st. Oshawa, WAL WEILL, M.D. FRANCIS RAE, M.D. \ 9H AM. F. MCBRIEN, M.D, M. R. (. 8,, Guy's Fospltal, London, England. The kiye R. Oshawa, E. FAREWELL, LL. B, County Crown ») . Attorney for Ontario, Barrister, Attorney, Solicitor, and Notary Public. Office late gs cupiad by 8. IH. Coch¥ane, Esq. Brock str Whitby. I YVAN I. BNGLISH LI Chancery, Attorney, Convey Oshawa. OMec--Simeoe street, opposite the Post Omee YOUNG SMITH, LL. B., Barrister, At- G. v-at-Law, Solicitor in Chancery, and Insolvency, Notary Public, &e. OfMece--MeMiilan's Block, Brock street, Whitby. os R. RICHARDSON Re-appointed Issuer Marringe Licenses. Under the New Act. Office, lot 10, in the 1st con. Brock. Brock, Aug. 5,1 oe 33 ERXRY GRIST, PATex SOLICITOR = AND H DrAvGHTMAN, Ottawa, Canada Transucts business with the Patent Office and other departments of the Government Copyrights and the Registration of Trade Marks and Designs procured. Drawings, Specifications, and ¢ther Documents neces- sary to secure Patents of Invention, prepared in receipt of the model of the Invention. W. Maurice Cochrane, TTORNEY-AT-LAW, Solicitor in Chan cery Notary Public, &e:, &c. Office hours punctually from 9 a.m. to 5 pm. Money 10 Loan at 8 per cent on all kinds of good security. Office, Bigelow's Royal Arcade, PORT PERRY. , (late of Beaverton.) 0 Attorney-at Law, Solici- {or in 'hancery, Conveyancer, Notary Pub- tic, &e., &o. Office over Brown & Currie's Store Port Perry. ILLINGS & MeGILLIVRAY, Solieitors, Notaries Public, &e, Port Perry. Z& A large amount of money to loan at 8 per cent. John Billings. } P J. A. MURRAY, ATE Patterson & Fenton, Surgeon Dentist. Office over Corrigan & Camp- bell's Stor-, Port Perry. Au work done in tac véry atest and pst style and warranted to give satisfactiory Ma Port Per rch 28, 1877. C. N. VARS, L. D. 8. d Bi inserted on all the latest princi- ples of the art, and as cheap as thie cheaj est, and as good as the best. Teeth filled with Gold and Silver. Teeth extracted without pain by producing local anaésth- esia. Dentical Rooms--in Cowan's new block, over Atkinson's Drug Store, King Street, Oshawa. Barristers ' John A. McGillivray. A. HURD, Attorney at Law, and Solicitor in Chancery. Office in the Royal Arcade, Port Perry. HE Subscriber would beg to inform owners of Horses and Cattle that having completed a Session in the Ontario Veterin- ary Colege, Toronto, he has now located an Port Perry, for the practice of his pro- fession and is now prepared to give advise on and fully treat all di to which horses and cattle are liable. From Ww SPENCE, CosTrACTOR, BUiLbER, &C. returning his sincere liberal patronage be- stowed on him in the past would inform the public generally that having bought a pro- perty and moved into the Village of Prince Albert, he will in future give his whole attention to his business as Contractor, and is now ready to undertake Stone Work, Brick- Laying, Plastering, and everything connecte therewith, which he will exeeuteon the short- est notice and in the best and most durable style, and at the very Iowest figure at which a good Job can be done. The best material and first-class Workmanship, The Subscriber in thanks for the very Prince Albert, April 5, 1875. WwW. MM. WILLCOX ne 4 Xe Bw LICENSED AUCTIONEER. ETURNING my sincere thanks to my R numerous friends and patrons for their liberal patronage bestowed upon me as Auctioneer during the past cight years, I would now beg to offer my services to all who may have Farm Stock, Implements, or other property to sell by Auction anywhere in North Ontario, the township of Mariposa or Cartwright. A My long and extensive practice as Auc- tioricer has enabled ie to judge the value of Farm Stock with an accuracy second to none in the County, and this is of import- ance as if the Auctioneer is not a po judge of the value of Stock he may soon lose far more than his fee in any sale, Bill stamps always on hand. Sale Bills arranged and notes supplied free of charge. Days of Sale niay be arranged at the Osserver Office, where a Sale Register will be kept. Terms Liberal. W.M.W. Port Perry, Sept. 4, 1877. BE. MAJOR, ICENSED AUCTIONEER. All parties wishing his services can call at the "Observer" Office, Port Perry, and arrange for i sti and closg investigation 8 of Sales. ho Tt Bowes and Cue . Glen Major, Oct. 10, 1876. Jong practice in treatiag the of suc bai Fa with the great advantages derived WM. GORDON, from & Session at the Ontario Veterinary |y a A or, &6 College, Toronto, I flatter myself placing their Horses and Cattle treatment will find it to their ad Any order or communication fo at Mr. Allison's Drug Store will be OR the Township of Brock, Uxbridge] Scott, Thorah, Rama, Mara, Mariposa and Eldon, p&y- Parties entrusting their Sales to me may rely on the utmost attention being given of JOHN & DAVID J. ADAMS, Office In Mr. Ross' Ontario Buildings, Port Perry. Port Perry, Jan. 23, 1870, JAMESLUND, MONEY, LAND & INSURANCE BROKER, ONVEYANCER, Commissioner for taking Affidavits in Court of Queen's Bench, &e. MONEY 10 LOAN In any manner to suit borrowers, Mortgages Bought, Accounts, Notes, &e., Collected and profi pt rehilttances made, The party borrowing money can got it without commission, at the Lowest rate, and is allowed to fix his own time for payment of interest once a year (not in adv e), and he can at any time, just as el stances permit repay part or all of the Company binding thems Iv gage Lo ot- such sum, wh r large or small, and apply it as a direct reduction of prineipal, ininediately cancelling the Interest on the sum No extra charge is exacted on such repayment. Loans made from 2 to 20 ars on farm, or good productive town property. In all cases where the title is perfect, the cost will be very slight to the borrower. As am acting Lolth as Agent and Valuator for several Conipanies there can possibly be no publicity in the transaction. If. the title is perfect the money will be paid here In two weeks after making appliea- JAMES LUND, Broker, &o., Parrish's Block, Cor, Brock and Bascom streets, Uxbridge. Uxbridge, May 17, 1877. MONEY TO LOAN. The undersigned hasany amount of Money to lend upon Farm and Town Property, at Unusually Low Rates of Interest! Loans can be repaid in any manner to suit the borrower. Also several Improved Farms, and Wild Lands for sale, cheap. Investments made in Municipal Deben tures, Bank and other marketable Stocks, Apply to JAMES HOLDEN, Broker, &e. Whitby, April 10, 1873. 8. M. SPENCE. Manchester, October 17, 1877, NOTICE TO FARMERS & OTHERS MONEY TO LOAN. NIE undersigned would say to the owners of Real Estate, that he has in his hands a lauge amount of priv funds which he 18 prepared to invest for periods to suit borrow- ers--interest at eight per cent. Expedition and most reasonable terms assured. H. CHRISTIAN. MONEY TO LOAN. HE Subscriber is prepared to lend money | on improved property for terms from | one to twenty years, Agent for Westery Canxapa LoaN Axo Savines Company, He has also been instructed to invest a large amount of Private Funds. Inter st Eight per cent. No Commission. : N. Ff. PATERSON. Port Perry, May 20, 1878. Solicitor CLEMENT DAWES, J AS Money to Loan on Farm security in any manner to suit borrowers. Mort. giges bought at lowest rates. Accounts, Notes, &c., collected on reasonable Com. mission. Apply personally, or by letter to C DAWES, Auctioneer, &c., Port Perry, [Private Funds;] T'o Loan on good Farms, at 8 per cent in- terest. LYMAN ENGLISH, Barnister, &c., Oshawa November 21, 1866. WESTERN ASSURANCE COMPANY. INCORPORATED 1851. OAPITAL . . $800000. (With power to increase to $1,000,000.) - HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO. " pey~ Insurafices effected at the lowest ewmrent rates on' Biildings, Merchandise, attended to. to their interests. : and other property, against loss or D. BATEMAN. WM. GORDON "| by fire, Port Perry, March 27, 1878. Suriderlaid, Brock. JNO. & D. J. ADAMS, mie Agents, Port Perry. 8 el 1 T. H. WALSHE, Port Perry, Jan 22, 1879. Jusic i ICENSED A for the Township]: =' } F. GTON, Teacher of Musia ROE: Perry. ae dealer in Musical In- siruments. idence, on Union Avenue. \T1SS S. 8, HARRI HARRINGTON, Teacher of Musle. 2 lentions by Fost or 1 pition goliniser. Residence, on ion Avent, Port erry. « ' The VICTORIA = i MUTUAL Fire Insufince Company of Canada, HEAD OFFICE,....... HAMILTON. P v one of the best com pani: in the Dominion, and parties having property to insure will do well to consider the many advantages of insuring with this Company. H. Wa di aington, Ont. Canuington, Sept. 36, 1876. faa, of Brock, Thorah, Mara & Rama in North Ontario ; Mariposa, etc., in the Coulity of Victoria. Residence--Cannington, Brock, Orders left at this office, or at his rgsidence will be punctually attended to. Debts col- lected in Cannington, or otherwise, and prompt remittances made. Remember WHITBY STEAM MARBLE WORKS. J. & R. WOLFENDEN, WALSHE, the North Ontario Auction= | eer. : THE ONTARIO Farmers' Mutual Insuance Co'y! Head Office, Whitby, This Company is now filly organized and is to accept risks on Farm Buildings their contents, country School Houses hes. Those wishing to it.ure and A RAILROAD DETHCTIVE'S STORY. ' Yes, it was a mysterious affair," said detective Rollins; * but I had litle trouble in working up the case although T had some time in finding the chain which belonged. to the broken link I had discovered. -- It all came about in such a queer way that if I should live & thousand years I should not forget it. ¢ Well, that's no way, Dick,' cried Uncle Billy Franklin, tho genial Master of Transportation after wait ing along time for Rollins to con- tinue--'that's no way of getting over the road. But it's just like men in your business ; stirring up one's dorman curiosity, find exciting one's expectations,«o that they settle themselves back for something good or not, as the case may be, only to be placed on nettles by long pauses, like that in which you are now in- dulging. Come, drop alittle sand, pull ber wide open, and take a tun at tho hill of your story.' + Ay, Aye, Dick!' exclaimed Jack Sprague. 'You're bullitined for a yarn, so pull out, my boy.' 'You should be the last man to hurry an engineer, Juck.' repliod Rollins, 'either of one of 'the com- pany's kottles' or a story. In either case one 13 compelled--if he does not wish to run the ris of breaking down or 'sticking' on some hard pull--to examine his machinery, dropping a little oil here and there where there is danger of wear or rust, and, after satisfying himself that his guides, cross-heads and eccentrics are all O.K., pull ahead with a clear track, a good fire, plenty of water and fuel and a good train behind. ¢On the morning of the 10th of December, 1870, I was sitting in the telegraph office at the depot in D-- congratulating myself on the dearth of business on my line, on account of the terrible weather then experiencing, and 'chinning' | the operator, as we sat back in our {comfortable arm chairs testing the merits of some 'Lone Jack' in which I had been investing, when click, click, went the call over the line for we were the headquarters office. Now, among other things, useful and otherwise that I have picked up in many years service with the ralroad is the art--if such it may be called --of telegraphy I cannot manipul ate lightning myself to any great extent, but I have no difficuly in understanding the strange language spoken by the many mouths of tel- egraph line so that when Rob and 1 beard the call for tho headquarters office, wo involuntarly suspended our talking and smoking, and lis- | toned for what was to follow. ¢ Headquarters answered, and then bis message, as near as I can rem- ember, was sent flying over the wires : '"¢ Agent Pancoast of this station (Attica), was found dead in his office at 6:30 this A. M. That he committed suicide, is evident from the fact that all the doors were securely locked, and it was necessary to force an entrance to his office. -- The body was lying about the cen- treof the floor, and near by was a lirge pocket knife--supposed to be his own--covered with blood, Te bad stabbed himself in soveral places near the heart, failing thus to reach the seat of life, cut his throat almost from ear to ear. Safe-key found on person, and contents of safe stppos- ea to be O. KX. 'In a minute after this message had been turned in, there came an- other from headquarters, calling D . Then followed : Rollins there? '1s quick I" 'Of course, Bob told them 1 was. 'Proceed to Attica on No. 2, and investigate death of Agent Pon- coast," and us the train was due in five minutes I had little time for preparation, Answer * 1 was ready, however, when No. 2. pulled out, and was soon driving through snow and sleet, on my way to the tragic sceno. 'I had now an opportunity to study over the sad affair and the causes which led poor Pancoast to commit the ra:h act. As was my citstom I drove my thoughts from the present, and, as the saying is went to the foot of the matter.' 'He had been agent at Attica for LIST OF To be awarded at the Spring Show of the Sceicty, to be held at Mauchester on Tuesday, HOR Best Blood Stallion, with Pedigree. Best Draught Stallion, Imported Best Draught Stallion, Canadian Best Stallion for General Purpose Best Saddle or Carriage Stallion. Best three year old Stallion for Gener Best threo year old St Best three year old Stallion for Draug Best span Gen. Pur, Horses, Geldings Best Saddle Horse, Gelding or Mare Best Draught Brood Mare, in foal or Best Gon. Pur. Brood Mare, in foal or Best Saddle or Carriage Brood Mare, DURHAM en} Ticket....... sree. Ticket ........ .. Best Milch Cow, with Pedigree and e a Calf since September 1878.... Best Aged Bull.......occt wo eiivinnniinnas Yearling Bull, (age to be on numerical Lumber Wagon, Wooden Axle Single Buggy, without Top..... allion for Draoght, Imp Best three year old Stallion for Saddle or Carriag Best span team IHovses, Geldings or Mares. Draught . Best Single Driving Horse, Gelding or Mare. Bost Aged Bull, with Pedigree....... ss. .sesssennssssssnscssssnans, $3 Best two year old Bull, with Pedigree (age to be on numeri Best yearling Bull, with Pedigree (age to be on numerical 2 Best three year old Milch Cow, with Pedigree .. . CRADE CATTLE. Two year old Bull, (age to beon nime Milch Cow, with evidence of having kad a calf since Sept. 1878 3 Throe year old Grade Cow...cccceiiiisiissssnsrssssrnsannasisssseaess 3 IMPLEMENTS, &C. * Reach, Scugog and Port Perry Agricultural April , 1879, SES. 1st 2nd 3rd . £3 2 wd 3 2 a 3 3 al Purpose ht, Canad or Mar foal by her side. foal by her side in foal or toal by her 3 aii 0 El SCR SR Sl SNS BO IO EO LO LO CO 1D LORS 1D OO -- CATTLE. od --_ vidence o -- «» w Wow - td pd pk pt vical ticket) I ticket) .. uv Single Buggy, with Top Single Open Pheeton ..... w.veeee Two Seated Double-Spring Democrat Iron Plow..... eve Gang Plow ......... General Purpose Plow--Iron Plow excepted. ...cee... Wao gman as senses ron Harrows...... . Wooden Harrows " Grain Drill and Sower. Turnip Drill....... , Scuffler .... Land Rolle Horse Rake. Grain Cradlé et of Draining Tools 26 Drain Tiles . aeay Two Quarter Bunches of Shingles Barley Fork Single Reaper -" Single Mower . Combined Mower and Reaper ." cases thereby support a Home I C Specimen Cooper's Ware, not less than four oe 13] kk pt pt pet BO LO DO 1D BS BO BO ID BOO BO IO ID LO 19 w ooD CODD bt pk hb bd pd bd dh pd pd pd pd bd sehae Sweepsracs Prizes, --Mr, 8. H. Christian gives a sweepstake prize of $5 for the best Stallion shown ; Mr. G. Houck, of the Revere, House gives $3 for the 2nd, and the Secre- tary of the Society gives $2 for the third--all classes to compete for these prizes. The the season, 4. CHRISTIE, money will be payable at the same time as other Stallion Prizes. The horse gettin First Sweepstake Prize must have a night stand at Manchester ono night each week during 8. H. CHRISTIAN, the J. GRAHAM, Treasurer, President. somo five yoars: ho was also agent for the U. S. Express Co., doing the railroad and express business in the samo office. He was a singleman and slept at the Jepot office. He kept good company--in fact, was a consistent christian, there being few of that kind of Christians, one's attention is attracted when one of that class is fonnd. As ho did not drink, gamble, drive fast horses or speculate, and consequently was not in financial troubles, why did he commit suicide ? 'But did he commit suicide ?' 'That' question I mentally answered in the negative, when an hour later I'stood in the office and viewed the body and surroundings. It was still lying in the same posi- tion ag when found, it had not been disturbed further than for an un. authorized examination of the pock- ets, in which were found his watch, asmall amount of money and the key to the safe. I took the later, and opening the safe oxamined its contents. 'I found but a fow small express packages, of small value, according to the figures marked on them, with the receipt book belonging to the agoat. It showed no other entries than the packages mentioned, and if, as I supposed, he had received any valuable packages from the moss- enger on the express the night be- fore, or for railroad freight, he had noglected to make an entry of them or had been murdered cre he had an opportunity. how my thoughts were drifting. 'But how account for the office |as being the one next door to the| being securely locked--as well as'beadguarters to C ' the outer door----and no possible signs of a forcible entrance on doors or windows ? ¢ What easier than for the murder. er to slip into the treight-room un- perceived, after Pancoast had hurri- ed out to the trrin, conceal himself behind the freight, and, when the agent had locked the outer doar, follow him into the inner office and perpetrate the deed ? 'I procured a light and went prowling around in the dark corners behind the freight, scanning every- thing carefully, and just as I was on the point of roing elsewhere for my clue, my eye caught something deeply imprinted on the top of a box which on examination, I found to be foot the impress of a boot heel. Now you may say there was no- thing strange in that ; but when I tell you that a man standing on top of this box could just see over the top of tho pile of freight and watch the inner office, you would know that I picked up a broken link--that that impress was to mo what the broken twig, or faint imprint of a is to the scout on the trail. 'Here, then he had stood and watched with baleful eyes his vie- tim. From this lookout he had planned the time and manner of attack. . Then, stepping carefully down, he approached the uncon. scious agent, with open knife in readiness for the fatal stroke, grasp- ed him, drew him quickly backward and with one lightning flash of the blade across the throat and the deed was done, But to make sure his work he had used the knife in giving several stabs in tho region of the heart; and then arranging the body and dropping the knife near, to give the appear- ance of suicide, ho had opened the safe, abstracted only tho valuable packages, locked the doors of the office and freight-room with dupli- cate keys, and fled, leaving as he thought, no trace, ¢ But ag I studied the heel mark in the soft pine I knew that he had left a trace--a link that I determined shodld be fitted to a chain that should bind him hand and foot. As I have said the exact imprint of the heel was deeply impressed into th+ yielding pine. The maker of th boot to which that heel belonged must have leisure and a tanciful turn of mind, whennengaged in its manu. tacture, for ho had made in the centre a 'perfect star, and there it was, every nail distinct. It was use- less to try of tracing his course without, for it had been snowing all night--and in fact all day--and of course every mark was long since obliterated. 'As I expected, the coutry cor- oner and jury returned a verdict of death by suicide. I immediately had a consultation with the railroad express officials, to whom I impart- ed my belief of murder, but caution- od thom 10 let ths impression go forth they were satisfied with the verdict, and then the chances were that the murderer would. not take alarm and fly. My idea tvas that he was no stranger to that section, You sce by that last! rn and that he would, tuless startled by the fact being made known that Pancoast had not committed suicide, romain, for fear that his going away would create suspicion. 'I visited all the boot and shoo stores in that part of the country, ostensibly to by a pair of boots, but I was hard to suit. I managed to discover, howover, that none had made or sold a pair of boots or shoes with a star in tho heel. 1 toll to inspecting every shodded foot, and tho marks they might made, with indefatigable perseverance. It grow to be such au mania with me, that I greatly surprised Mrs. Rollins by mechanically raising her bootses, and she laid them aside to don her slippers ono evening, and examining tho heels thereof; and she fell to expatiating oh tho beauty of the fit and the cheupness, foaring, the dear little woman, that.l was growing parsimoniously inclined. I bad boots and shoes, from num- ber nothings to unheard of sizes, mixed up in my dreams, and when one night I missed the Express and took the Fast Freight for D--, and threw myself down on a seat in the cabooso and fell asleep, it was not surprising that I fell to dream- ing of the perplexing solution to the mystery attached to the' murder of Agent Pancoast. 'I seemed to be in an invisible! shape, wandering around from! placo to placo in search of a | pair of boots with a star worked in | the heel with nails. At last I step-| ped into a store, which I recognized | Great ¢broad-treads," with strange devices | worked in the heols with huge nails, | flitted before me, and ranged them- | selves on the long counter by the | side of little shoes with no heels at | all. Dainty ladies' shoes and gents' | boots seemed of their own volition | to leave the shelves and boxes and! come down for inspection. ¢ At last camo the pair I had look- ed for so long---a pair with a perfect star worked in the centre of the heel. I bad already reached out my hand to take them up, when before mo stepped a man [ had known by sight as a sort of nc'er-do-well, who had been braking on the road for a few weeks, who, taking possession of them with an air of ownership, stalked out. ¢ As ho slammed the door I awoke, and, starting to my feet, with the! exclamation: "" At last I have found | him!" found myself face to faco| with the man of my dream. His slamming the door coming in had] awakened me, and now, with pale| face, he stood before me and asked | what I meant; and then, before I bad | recovered from my bewilderment, | he laughed nervously, and with al remark that I was dreaming, picked | up bis lamp and started out. But | before he reached. the door Iwas myself again, and in an instant had | my hand on his shoulder. « «Not so fast, my friend," said 1. ¢Sit down here and let me see your boot heel. "What the deuce is that for?' he asked with much surprise. "Do as I tell you,' I answered, pushing him into a seat. "By this time the other brakeman and the conductor bad crowded up, aud stood lost in wonder at my pro- ceeding. I now raised his foot, and a thrill ran through me as I saw that 1 had found tho chain. There it was--a star in the centro of the heel. 'Who made you those boots 2' I asked. ) ¢ 'Watson next door to headquar- ters, in C----,' ho replied, «My droam to a dot! I was now sure of my man; and pulling out] the knife with which the murder had been committed, and which 1 had carried for just such an occasion, I opened it, and holding it up before his eyes, demanded in an abrupt tone : " John Peters. is not this your knife ?' "His bravado instantly deserted him, ard turning as pale as a corpse he stammered out that it was. "You never saw a fellow weaken so quick, and when I put the 'brace lets' on him, he 'squealed' the whole thing. 'It was a sorry New Year for him for it was on that morning that 1 stopped from the train at Attica with my prisoner, and hurried him to jail. His trial came of in due course, and as he had fessed to | ) | was at the train, and concealed him. self behind the freight; and he had stood on the box and looke over the pile of freight watching his chance to slip out, he had seized his victim from behind, cut his throat, and then, afier stabbing him arrang- ed tho body and knife to give the appearrnce of suicide. After poss- ossing himself of two valuable pack. ages in the safe, and taking a large roll ofibills from the murdered man, he locked the door with duplicate keys, walked to the next station, conceal- ed bimself in a box-car on the night freight, and reached C. without being seen by anyone. He had been 'breaking extras' on the road for some time, and the very next day was offered and accepted a per- manent position, knowing that his doing so would keep suspicion from attaching to him. 'He deserved hanging, if any murderer ever did, but he got off with imprisonment for life.' Hifalutin? A marriage down South has moved a local editor to remark calmly and classically thusly :--¢ The chivalry of the gallant doct- tor has garlanded bis chaplet with the fair- est and sweetest flower that blooms in thio parterre of beauty, whose fragrance will im- pregnate with redolency every impulse of his generous heart, The brightest star that radiates the galaxy of fascinating women shines upon and illumines his pathway with her bland smile and alluring light, whose resplendent effulgence growing with undim- med lustre, each revolving season will pilot the ingenious victor of so estimable a prize to the haven of happiness, The life of the intrepid bridegroom is coronated with the richest and most beautiful jewel that gleams in the casket of love, whose diamond brill- fancy will color with a more genial hue the laurels wreathed around his brow, gleaned from their voyage down the stream of time May joys and blessings as exquisite and hallowed as those engendered by a shower of roses scattered down by the hands of the Peri from the far off gardens of Paradise crown your wedded futureand increase with the lapse of years,' A --reee If, as is said, happiness cpnsists in occu= pation of mind, the average editor should be moderately content. With two men sitting on his table reading exchanges, a book agent whispering in his ear that he'll never get such a chance again because here wasn't but one made, a boy or two hanging around the outskirts with a Lase ball item concealed about their persons, a compositor fainting away for a translation of some of his pecul« iary awful chirography, a couple of patrons pressing him for a seven-dollar puff for a dollar-and-a.quarter advertisement, and a feraniougslooking individual sitting just out. side the'door with a heavy weight cane and a crumpled copy of the paper in his hand, waiting for a 'chance to see him alone,' the newspaper man may be said to be just in the suburbs of occupation, and threatening to be quite busy in time. : --._ i. P .zzLZ A good place to get a husband--DBy the ear, Think twice before you speak ; especially at an auction sale of old tin pans. Never step on a dogs tail unless the other end of the dog isa mile away {rom the tail. We have yet to hear of the first woman who propose to do a thousand washings in a thousand quarter hours. A muwrriage notice in an exchange com- mences ¢ Lynch-Pynn," which is quite ap-- propriate for a marricd couple, as any felloé can see, It is sort o' consoling to know that the fools in this country are only four per cet. of the whole population. This is not count« ing the! narrow escapes.' A careful investigation of all the experi- ments io that line, reveals the fact that it takes about fifty cents worth of Paris green to kill fifteen cents worth of potato bugs. Spare the rod and spoil the child --Solo~ mon. The ancient paragrapher evidently believed that the first step toward making the child an angel was to make him sore, An impossible feat for a female pedestrian is to walk a thousand miles in a thousand hours past one thousaud millinery stores dis- playing the latest styles of spriug bonnets. When we ars young we waste a good deal of time in imagining what we will do when we grow older, and when we are old wo waste an equal amount of time in lying about what we did when we were young-- in teling- about the cold winters and troubles experienced in gaining our knows ledge. | bo a Jennie June says girls should be taught to help themselves, We sat opposite to a 1 : delicate. bl y yed, sp sixteen, at the boarding house table, and saw her help herself toa plate of soup, a sirloin steak, a cliicken's wing and drum- stick, two baked potatoes, threo plates of corn, two pickles, four hot rolls, a dish of macaroni, a quarter of a mince pie, a wedge of apple pudding, with sauce, and two dished of vanilla ice cream, They do help thems selves, 3 ------------ More Trouble in India. Cavcurta, March 10 --Affairs in Mandae lay are creating grave anxiety. The garri- sons in British Burmah have been doubled, The B have i d the telegrap line b Rangoon and M The situation in Upper Burmah is very serious the murder, no defence other than the insanity dodge was set up by his counsel. ; "He had gone ovor from C. for the PH It is stated that while the massacres at the instance of the King attended by every possible atrocity. The kicked, and on the train which reached Attica only amounted to forty, the killing was