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Taxes paid for Non-residents. Also, Agent for .the sale of PASSAGE

TICKETS to or from all the principal '

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south of the Central House. v7n44-tf

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Attention paid to "*' "". '

T H E P A Y H E N T OF T A X E S In Benton, Sherburne, Morrison and. t'leiras counties.

Townlvts for sale in St. Cloud. 1 v&ril8-tf v- :L. A.t?M.

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the Departments at' Washington. J ' •.' \ t&f Particular attention paid to the col­

lection of Bounty and Arrearages of Pay of Sol tiers, Pensions for Disoharged Sol­diers or for the heirs of those who have diod in the service.

Offioe in 8d story, Broker's Block, over J. C. & H. C. Burbank & Co- V6n"2_'"

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Neatly -Fticed- 'a/ttf*0 Warranted. Old Verge and Lupine Watches made in­

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The highest,mark^i price in Cash paid for Hides, r , ..„•, ANTON SMITH. , Washington av., St. Cloud. • .vvQftlS-ly

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IMPORTANTJNDIAN NEWS. THE MURDERESS OF THE JEWETT

KILLED.

HOW THE SCOUTS1 -TREAT INDIAN PRIS­ONERS.

JO«N StmWARtfZ; Keeps constantly- on hand

Saddle*, Harness, Carriage Trimmings, $c.

St. Germaine street, near Washington are-»u>. Saint ^loud,. Mjnn; f _ 4 T i

' J W. T: TITTTI.B," MANUFACTURER OF CABINET WARE.

Building and Carpentering attended to.

Bear the 8tearos House, Lower Tow», ST. CLOUD, •;'- _ ; , •• :. , r , . • MINN.

SAUKCBNTRErH - " * W-MINN., Having opened a

WOULD respectfully state that be ; is prepared to do all kinds of work in

his line on short notice and in such style as to warrant satisfaction. ••'.'. - - n42 3m

S T , P A U L ; H A T S T O R E .

WHOLESALE S E A L E R i Y TWB"

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. Corner of Rotwrt street And the Leveo, St. Paul.

R. O. STRONO'S

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H E N R Y W r ^ f E ^ f i l r , C ARRI AGEMAEERv-

I H A V E removed to my new Bhop near the Bridge, rhere I ain prepared to do

all kinds of work in the Carriagemaking line. Wagons, carriages and sleighs made) in a neat and substantial manner at low rites. Particular attention paid' *o repair­ing, -tfju takiMZikiW*-

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WM. R. HUNTER, P H Y S t C I A N A N D S U R G E O N ,

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<8T. CLOUD, MINN.

Nath'l Pope CaXisln, e i -A^Bd| | ;-V^R^>-3ak-N J B Y

WASHINGTON, D. C.

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For the Ft. Cloud Democrat. A N S W E R TO "A P I C T U R E . "

OBW. SHERMAN.

I ask thee not, Fair One, to mourn When Death, with visage etern,

Hath me to that far country borne, From whence no steps return:'

I would not have a single tear To dim thy beaming eye,

When madly o'er my soldier bier The wild winds whistle by.

But, lady, weep if I should live Through all the battles strife, , -.

Lo»t to hiner !- i f fa|se Heart gJw*. And thus destroy a Life;

If passion weaves Its loathsome spell; If waves of trouble roll;

If in my heart dark vices dwell; If I destroy my soul.

He C o m p l a i n s o f the SwppressUn o f Hie Official Report*. '

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wm*sfr.Mij rF<#]»e,at Though all the world seems dead;

O! let no bitter tear-drop fall, i No "joy has gone" be said. I'd rather by thy tmile be bless'd,

(Then lAtve wonld guide me, dear,) 8o, when age called me to my rest, -1 would not need a tear.

' CUABXES THOMAS, Ft.Snclling, Minn., May 22d, 1865.

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Kb4)^e|jra»tjr rontler.

were going down or returning, and he did pot believe any other party had ap­proached the frontier. • .-, "V

After the scouts had anived and ob­tained, what in Jormation, they deemed important the young scamp was sent to join his associates in crime.

There is no doubt about this being the party-that murdered the family on 4be Winnebago reservation, as they had with them a gVeat supply of men's, wo­men's ao(il children's wearing apparel, bedding, curtaiiis, dishes,"knives' and

| Jlorks, spoonsV'&fe., Ac; 'They' also had a mare and dblt and two hdrsestifciat were ;teken iVom the w h i f f s , ^ ^ the horses was shot during the fight.

In the face of the thrilling reports of hordes of hostile Indians having "infest­ed fhe settleraents, it m • a; reckless tfi£ regird of 'public' opinion for me ^"say that CsMpbell arid his five associates constituted the entire force of hostile Indians that have visited the settle­ments since the opening -of spring, and yet-1 affirm positively that'there have been' norie^thersfrota the hostile camps in the n6rthwest.; I f other hostile In ­dians hive been there they came across

issburh !0ut "i "do !not: be^

FOBT WADSWOETH, D. T., May 19. Cfcirre«ponrfence of the St. Paul Pioneer.

\ Major Brown receiced-a dispatch on the 16th* from Ecaoajinka, chief of the scouts stationed at the Hawk's Nest, conveying the gratifying intelligence that a party of.,ten scouts, .under Two Stars, % W i ftfm&mng from the frontier, and killed four of them. The fifth being well mounted fle<J difl^Tig the fight,:a|d wa^rQmpi^ line of march, it is truly interesting to ly pursued by Two Stars and One Road, ~ x l ' »!•-•• «•« .,

who pushed him so closely that he aban­doned his horse, and plunged into a large UStjB. i f l e *|id bqerj fired i4^9"&' i h e la'dies toward Ifie^sjldiers. *Wk eral times id after he reached the lake—with what suc­cess is not known. The scouts having expended all their ammunition took the horse and all the plunder of the In­dian, except his arms, leaving the scoundrel nothin and moccasins

The ouly. c ^ s u a j t y ^ ^ w g ^ o scoutb waroccasidne«l by the^bhrsirngof a gun during the flight, u hich terribly lacer­ated the hit nd of one of the most relia­ble, energetic and firm men of the par. ty. Two of his fingers were entirely carried away, and many of the muscles of the hand and wrist utterly destroy­ed. When the messengers, lett the camp he was still bleeding profusely, and was* suffe^rt^gireatrpain!'' • ^

During the flight a young man of 18 or 19 years was taken prisoner tempo­rarily, from whom the following infor­mation was obtained: The party start-, ed/rom Chiefs' Bluff, Two ot the sons of White Lodge, John Campbell and nine others formed the .original party, and their destination was this post, and the Indian,sangps in the. vicinitv; their objc^^v^lto:Bte .^hofee i sod to WB whites and friendly Indians. Four other Indians subsequently joined them and the party numbered sixteen when it reached the Coteau Finding the chances unfavorable for "their business in this vicinity they concluded to go in

The four that joined after the party had started, went toward the James (they are probably the four that stole nine horses from the James River Yariitdriai8J):two of i h ¥ original party went down the Coteau (they returned from Buffalo Lake on foot,) and then kept together until they' reached''the

tained two horses, and the why>e Lodg­es' sons'* and' two btheW turned back. Campbell and five Indians proceeded toward the settlements, and finally reach­ed the Winnebago reservation, where

lie*eTn8r>-uWbem

; ;y i GBAPHIC fimkx" How Our Armies are Restoring a Vtt-

I loir Sentiment In the South. • -j.:s

Correspondent ojjfftt GMeag} **&&:> IM THE CiTToraloBu^^iA^.'May 11. As Our advancing and victorious ar­

my enters and takes undisputed posses­sion of the smart little towns along its

witness the gradual decline of Southern prejudice against the "Yankee nation" as displayed by the peculiar manner of

the^oidfersi firstent^r1 the 'town atld? b -" gin to promenade, there is nothing but closed doors and closely curtained win­dows, that give every house a \com-

ance,, and wouM make one not acquaint-, ing hni hw bree«'h:cJoflt|ed with their sly tricks to suppose that in shape of clothing. he;had entered the silent, city of,,,the

dead. At the end of the second hour}', the smallest possible corner of the cur­tain is seen to rise slightly, and a email portion of the human face divine is seen to dart suddenly back, and the curtain falls again. At the end of the,third hour a solemn though pretty face i is seen inJ'Very'^clpsd prox'ihiity^> t6 thie glass, while the body is hidden by the folds of the drapery that covers the btA-er half of the window. At the end of the fourth hcur both curtains are drawn aside and the dear creature stands cour­ageously exposing' her-lovely form to the admiring gate of. the vulgar Yen!-kees as they pass. At the end'of the fifth hour the door is seen to open a few inches, and a female profile is seen to protrude through the slight opening, and a nice Jittle gaiter advances as far i s the outer edge of the door-sill, and taper fingers' steal out and play With the knob 'of the door.. At 'the' end'. of the sixth hour the door is thrown back against tha wall, and its place supplied by the ample costume . of a lull'dressed Southern belle. Soon the passing sol-

,. CAMP NKAB ALKXAHDBIA, VA., V

. .;" •:'" ' "';!,M»yi^ 18^5. -. J D K A E BOWMAN : I am just arrived.

All my army wilt be in tniday:^ I have been lost to the world in the" woods 'for some time. Upon arriving at the set­tlements I And I have made quite s siirlWohg^the' people%%hoine^ and ifce most sinister motives have been ascrib­ed to me.; d a*Ha4stt *rfi oj %nm

.' I have made frequent official reports of my official action in all public mat­ters, nnd all of them have been eareful-Iv suppressed, whilst the most ridicu-lous ndnsense has been industriously spread abroad through all the newspa-pers.;' •• . • - ' . • ' . J«T _ . . - - J

-? W61I, yo^ ^ o w ^ w h a t importance 1 attach to stfch- matters, and that Thave been loo long fighting with' "real rebels,, •with musfcettlb ^eirnfln'd8,W'b^:s£ia'r-r

ed by mere non-combatanfs, no matter how-high their civil: rjiiik or station.1^— I t is amusing-to observe how brave and' firm some men' become when all dan­ger is past.'1' - " o: ' ;:;v,; . v' ; B«»S

-; I have noticed on fields of battle 'hrav*' m en n ever insult the; captured or mutilate the dead; but cowards and1 lagi gards always 'do. •' i Cannot' i'onf recall the act, but' Shakapeare records! how poor Faletiff; fhe prince of cowards and Wits,, rising from* figured, death bed, scabbed again the dead,Percy-and car­ried the' carcass aloft in triumph to prove his valor. So now when the re-rebellion in our land is dead many Fal-staffs appear to brandish the evidence of their valor, and seek to win applause and to appropriate honors for deeds that were never done, •

As to' myself 1' ask' no popularity, no rewaV^Jbut^i dare the War Depart ment to publish my official letters-and reports. I assert that my official re­ports have, been purposely1 suppressed while all the power of the press, has been malignantly turned against me.' :

I do want peace and security and the return to law and justice from Maine to, the Rio Grande., T If- it does not exist now substantially, it . is for State, rea-! sons beyond niy comprehension. •. It may be thought stnngc that one. who has. no tame but as a soldier •. should be so careful to try to restore the civil pow­er of the government and the peaceful jurisdiction of the Federal courts, but it is difficult to discover in that fact any just cause of offence to an enlight­ened and free people j but when men choose to slander and injure' others they can easily invent the facts for the pur­pose when the 'pfOpiosed 'victiiriis far awa^/'ehgagedviri public:sci vice of their own bidding. But if there is consola­tion in kuoWiug that:

>trbth:liesi in'tfie bot tom-ofa ;well,; the Yankees have perseverance enough to get to that bot­tom. ; : ! : p*'•'•',

search* of fa mor^/lavorablf locality . H dier hears a few notes of the "Bonnie Blue Flag** suiig' very soft and low.-At the end of the seventh hour she ac­tually ventures to stand on tne veran­dah * steps, and g even:: smiles upon the "vandals'' on the sidewalk. At the end of the . eighth hour she discovers that Yankees wear no horns, and ven­tures down, to the gate and bending both hands upon the pickets, she bends

£% &&?W "PttiT^, m ^i** *?*?* •$&?*¥* He will also attend to Mail Contractors'

ClaiBis, business before Indian Bureau, &o. Subsequently' Campbell Was

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JOB fM^lMtiv , SKNP f ODK OROIBS t 6 "'';

fhe Democrat 0<ltc«>.

Special attention given to the collection of Clams for Indian Depredations—Sioux, $e.

EEM^S,TO._:_ :'>>"^'-- P]

BOB. A. Baojosv," XT. B. Senate. Hon. M. 8. Wilkinson, V. 8. Senats. Hon. T. A. Hendrfcks, .V. 8. Seam, and late Com­

missioner of the Land OSee. .V ~ } . ' / . \ .-, .'~.-V. Hon. Wm. Wlndom. Hettpw <rf RepresentatlTos. : Bittenhotue, JTant * Co, Bankers, Washington.' Hon H M Sice Minnesota.'

Hon! John Wilson; Third AsditorU. 8. Treasury. Hon. Geo. C. Whltlnf, late Commissioner of Pen­

sions, and BOW of Dept. Interior.

, Also to the District Land Officers gener­ally, and to all who have had land business at the seat of Qovernment for years back ; Charges moderate. A retaining ft* expeet

ed in every ease. M *-•-'•'-•'--•;-•' 1 9 * Office No. 6, first floor ••Intelligen­

cer" buildings, 7th street, Washington t v7B3^en

the house of all they could <

ipbellwastok c^rry.—-

en pris-oner, and at the time of Ma capture both their hands play with the latch

the Entire party was surrounded. ' The five Indiaus were subsequently obliged to move very cautiously, as they were pursued by the whites. Thoy finally eluded the pursuit,,and had all reached thfeCfoiot without iojwry,; 5EW« ipirty had gone to the settlementB he saidj at the earnest and repeated sofmitation of Campbell

I When asked it there were any othor party ! u e * i r r f ^ O a i c 1 ^ t h W i P oth­er party had visited the settlement, and that no signs had been seen below the head of the Redwood either as they

the street, and laughs heartily at the pranks of some officer's fractious horse, and exclaims '•Oh m y ! he will surely be hurt I" As the . ninth hour approaches its close, she stands on one side of the gate and chats treely with a real living Yankee on the, other, while

Yours truly,

ja A H A I J N T E D HOUSK IN PlTT8BURp. —A gentleman newly arrived in Pit'ui-

on Pennsylvania avenue.' "He soon discovered that his house was haunted; he saw male ; and lemale^splrits flittiAg across the room, and beard the usual

alarmed, ahd invited a number of *his friends to his house for the purpose of solving the mysteryi. Among 1 t lose presept was a wp^tor, of, >Jie Pittsburg -Chronicle, who writes as follows:

Books were lifted from the table and slammed down upon one another; .bells were rung all through the room; the piano (although tightly locked np) was

her.head forward, boks up and down plajed; a guitar suspended above the chandelier, where no human hand could reach it, was made to discourse most excellent music; doors, tightly, locked' were opened and slammed shut; sparks of fire were Carried about the room j one fellow, a> disbeliever in spir-itualism, was *' choked j>y.t an j, unseen hand, and almost frightened out of his witSj and many other marvellous things were witnessed. .. •" . \ I The phantoms Which appeared were a beautiful woman, aqd a most horrid demon, who seemed to attend upon her.' The skeptic above alluded to made a frantic attempt'to seise the female fig­ure, which instantly vanished and left

At the middle of , the tenth hour the gate is opened and both have disappear­ed into a beautifully furnished parlor where the "Union as it Is to be** SO" fat at least, as they are concerned, is fully restored. Thus we see the Union sen­timent is restored Wherever the army

goes. • • #fdw •: ': .: 'tit -p.h

JeflerioU Davis,—T'oWt like, I own, To kick a rebel even when he's down;

: But yet this question answer if you can, What bat th e boots revealed in thee* a man !

Youro reepecttully, Mh. POSCH.

him insensible upon the floor, while the landlord tried to-^ut a bdllet through the demon by firing a! pistol at h im.- -t h e place, after these violent demon­strations, became "too hot" for either occupants or visitors, and the house was cleared and is now "to let." Truly a wonderful story.

- rThe new line adopted by the play­ed-out Confedency-Msrino-line.

M B THIRD SBRIBS OV U V K N -THIATIKS.

The great success of the 7.80 Lban must always be looked upon as one of the most powerful evidences of the strength of the! United A States Govern ment; and of its strong hold upon the confidence and affections of the people. On Saturday, May 13th, the subscrip­tions were over thirty .million dollars, and tor the week ending on that day, over, ninety-eight million \ dollars,, and. in the. three months that the Loan has been in charge of$jfo Jay Cooke, orer, jive hundred million xfjollarr. ^ These large .receipts wjll enable the Treasury t o pay; off onr. armies as I hey are dis­banded, .and to. iapidly r discharge the various obligations. that hayc beep in­curred .during, the, war,;. $istpry will show that a great war-debt, to , individ­uals has never before been., so promptly paid;, and we think all will agree that Secretary McCull.Qch , deserves great clredit^for^lihe^.abilj^y^'he |ias mani­fested, not only, i n securing the means, but for the financial skill he has displayed in so directing these va^t re­ceipts and- disbursements as not for a moment/ to disturb the equilibrium. ot* commerce, embarrass individuals^ or i ^ any way tighten (.be money market. It is doubtless true that the Secretary, of the Treasury might have negotiated the. remainder of bis Joans at six percent.

, | interest instead of 7.3Q, but so much valuable t; me would ueccssarily have been lost in popularising a new loan that, the great object of the Government via., an immediate supply oil* money suf­ficient to pay all the debts incident to the war,-, would have been defeated; and besides, the difference of interest Would not have been equal to three dajrs' expenses. The policy may have looked "peiiny wwe," but the: best fi­nancial authorities, as well as common sense, pronounced it "pound foolish As it is—and will be, no soldier will go home without his greenbacks, and the floating debt in the shape of vouch­ers, requisitions, &c, will be wiped out as rapidly as the proper officers can au­dit and adjust the accounts.

v. The Second Series of the 7.30 Loapy was exhausted on. Saturday, ifciay/ 13th On Monday, the Secretary of the Treas­ury authorized Jay Cooke, the general Subscription Agent for t j . S, Securi­ties, tp receive subscriptions forJ^O,-000,000 of a, Tbird Series, which i»aU that is authorized by Congress, and is without doubt the last loan at this high rate of interest that will be offered by the Government.. •..*•. *« . : fr' i

There is no change in the terms or conditions,of this Third Series, except that the Government reserves the right of paying interest at six per cent, in gold instead of seven and three-tenths in currency—a right which would pre­suppose a return to specie payments, and make six pet cent, in gold even better than the higher rate in currency —a consummation most devoutly to be wished. «

"- The privilege of converting the notes into 5.20 six per cent, gold bonds at the end of three years, or receiving pay­ment at maturity, at the holder's option is retained, v • ;, :;«•.. i; c-jibx:i '«-•

unearthly sounds.. He became much The first day of the Third Series opened with a subscription within a. traction of five millions, and the month of June Will certainly see the last of the 7.30s out of market. How early in June we cannot predict, but parties who wish to make" *wre"*pf a portion would do well to be in time.. '

Full particulars may be found in our advertising columns. '

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The ext'eoi s f d Ticf turage, abunc and thepgeneralljryness Less o t ^ i e climate, have t« tention of farmers to the subject -ef. sheep husbandry j and the exper.ir;'^* thus fai; has proved eminently success­ful, as jwill appear frouiJhe foliowiiig extracts of letters addressed- to the

ed in his report of 1861. One tanner writes, ««My sheep have done • better here by one quarter, than they did in New York State. I have sheared 198 this spring, clipping fVom them 1000 pounds of good,' clean-washed wool, cr -over "five pounds gejfj head. 1 think this one of the finest States in the Usi-on for sheep; raieing/' Another writes! ,«A8 far as my observltidn goes, all the grasses that grow^on our high, rol ing prairies, as also nearly' all the flo»rfr= and weeds, are eaten with great avidity by sheep. rTne blue-joint grass, howf ever, seems: to be the favorite, ar^dtbe pea-vine, which always, fjeows with thye is eaten-frith great relish in-winter, wh«»n made into hay." I airi -of "the' opinion* that oUr coinniun upland^ralrife hay is fulljr equal to any domestic ;hayl .,. j a the Eastern States.""" * * , * ' ^ 6

have a eomfbrtable logflbeep house cov­ered with straw; but, in the>coMest:: 9 weather, my sheep seem to prefer sleep­ing in th8*%pew"air?s • < * - * : Fronx-experience andobsf*v»tiQP>.i know this country to be far superior to either New Turk or Illinois, and I believe it . to be equal to any country for sheep

ftOWing/f..^;^ fcv-Ldfl sV o t ,::'],-: Wool growiog is s t present consider­

ed the most profitable branch of hus-bandrj;; The large cities of the East­ern States are the great market for the surplus, produce of the Western ^tatcs? Minnesota is so far removed from these • that until the proposed system of rail- r roads is completed, a large portion o f v ^ the profits of the heavier articles will be coDsamed in transportation. It costs 30 or 90 cents pei bushel to transport 3

wheat., f>qm. Minnesota to ' ISew York, whilst wool can be carried. thither for. two cents per pound. An analysis of statistics shows that the -actual cost of :• pooducing a bushel of wheat, would -produce two poundslof wool. Thecbm-parative profitableness of the two pro­ducts; will be seen at a glance-—Mir.-. nexota, as a Horns, for Emigrants. . «f ,.,^

MASCULINE A N D FJBMININE.—Punch

slanderously: says: . "The sun is called masculine from his supporting and sue- , taining the moon and finding her where­withal to shine away as she -does at '"" night; and from being obliged to keep " such a family of stars besides. The moon is feminine because she is~ con­stantly changing, just as a ship is blown about by every wind. The church is feminine because the is married to the State, and Time masculine because he is trifled with by the ladies."

—General Fremont has put chased the elegant mansion o f General James Watson Webb, on the plank road, three miles below Sing Sing, and intends, tc . make it his permanent residence.

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H I S T O R Y — W e clip the following from the Cleveland Leader, dated Meadviile 1«sy :21st:"-^ Jfi'M* !?*»>, if>u' - -''

Mr. Taylor, the proprietor of the Me Henry House, has taken from the win­dow of the room occupied by J . Wilkes Booth last summer while here, the pane of glass upon which Booth inscribed with a diamond ring the following in­scription and prediction: u Abe Lincoln departed this life, August 13 ,1864 , by, poison •* This glass is neatly framed in a dark-colored frame, with corres­ponding background to make the wri­ting show to batter advantage. For several days past it has been hanging np in a conspicuous place in the office of the McHeory House, and has at­tracted muoh attention. I understand that it is the attention to send it to the Sanitary Fair at Chicago. '"; ';;'

—The President has declined the gift of a coach and horses, tendered him by the merchants of New York, acting on'the belief that persons high in authority should not receive pres­ents. . H ' • ;: I .-• • c.';i; U

-r-General/" Sherman's * "buBBmers" were death on digging for hidden treasures. Different squads of. them dug up a newly buried mule six times in quick succession; and the poor crit­ter was not allowed to rest until his head and cars were left above groutd as a sample of the* kind of treasure be­low. ' ' '" '" -:;

—An- unsophisticated countrvman, the other day; coming to Washingtoti, SRW a military officer, f o l l o w e d l i l t re­spectful distance by two orderlies, in full gallop. "Good gracious I" said he, 'haven't they caught him yet? I was in about three weeks ago, and they was a-running; after him then." 'd' I r - — ••:•• .•• ' . , ' r-

To SOFTEN O L D P o t r r — T a k e a

common poker at a dull red heat, and move it slowly over the old putty, say a t the rate of two feet per minute, and you can

knife:

cut it off'with a1

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-—Four hundred prisoners « i ladiacapo-lis were released last week after taking tjba oath.

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