Norwood. 9.—Wm. Baxter is very\5ick aM his frieh^s hay© fears as t<> his recjoyet;!^. The ‘^IiA Grdppe^’ has made its appear* apee in onr place, and a nnmber of our strong men have surrendered to the .power of this some of them are ■*y^ery.fich,..withJh,, Steven Carpehter is ‘qttite sick, and U - X . ilt<3oine ,*1 think he has - 'tl,-*: %d a shock of par-. ; v ^ S is. _ At the Orange hall last Baturday their -Ofiacers were installed for the year to oome by the Right Worthy Grand Mas* ter of Ceremonies Henry Heyl, who per formed the duty with grace and dignity. Alya Gran t was the marshal and acted hifirpart well. The grange now has over sixty members, and more coming in at every re^ la r meeting, Fahlio iastallation of officers at the Magonio ball last Monday night. They had a pleasant time, but not so large a company as thoy*wQUld have bad if the traveling had been better, , ^ .r There will be a donation at Lowe's hall Wednesday evening, Jan. 15, for V'the beneht of Eev, B. G. Blaisdeli. All vare c(n?di£diy invited, ■ The Depauvilie target shooting Club have a prize shoot on Thursday, for a ;rpurse of m o n e y sdtne less than fifty dol> lars. The guns to be used at that, time are shotguns, distance sixteen rods. . The guos to be Ipaded with No. 4 shot, and no one is to shoot more than twice untfl ffil have had a chance. Philip Ackert is improving after his -atmck of rheumatism. Mrs. Howard, living near Watertown, paid her friends here a visit during the ;■ past-week/ ' . Our. cheese factorJes have finally got ;ten rid of their cheese. One sold and the otner shipped their’s to be sold on commission. B. Hallady is the agent for insuring in the ^atige. . Join the grange and get * your insurance at cheaper rates, and sare lots of cash by so doing, if you are a farmer. ' At the annual meeting of the Baptist church and society, it was voted unaminaoUsly to retain the present pastor, Bev. B, G. Blaisdeli, for another, his fifth : ■year.', ' J. O. Spencer lives with his son-in-law Wm, I. Easton for this winter. Nelson Easton expects to move to Watertown as he has a job of work to do there, ST. XAWIiM^'CE. tlan. 9.—John Wells, who has been I ! ness was the cause of his leaving, prevails in nearly every fami ly, and Boctor Buchanan is kept on the road almost continaaliy. The weather prophet who said we were . to have an open winter can get a cigar by calling on Capt. H. W, Bogart. Miss Elsie B. Edwards has recently closed a very successful term of school in the Pme Grove district, and has now returned to her home in this place. Robert Thompson, of Dexter spent Sunday With his daughter-in-law, Mrs, W. A. Thompson w hois cpiite sick. Our merchants complaih of poor coT leetions this year, the reason given is ttaz the farmers have not yet received their pay for the hay and grain sold last fall. . The citizens think they have just reason to complain this year at the high •taxes they are compelled to pay. Quite •a number of places are valued at more than they could possibly be sold for. The M. E. church people are having a week of prayer this week. Quarterly •meeting services will be observed next Sunday, Presiding Elder Cali will be '.prea'enl,' A very pleasant wedding took place at tho residence of Mrs. Billon last Sun day evening. The contracting parties were John Walker, of Perch River, and Mrs-Clara Austin, of this place. They 'have the good ■wishes of their many friends for their future happiness. A. D, Curtis and family, of Three Mile Bay, spent Sunday and Monday with "friends in town; FISHEIFS EANDING. dan. 9.~Capt. BobiOEion and wife, Jan. 9.—Your humble scribe thinks of Olay tom visited, friends here last perhaps that it may do some of the fault week. finders .along the river good to know Samiiel Marshall has been very sick how people back from the river live and during the past week, but is reported bow they get along. You complain of better at this writing, dull times and low wages, what would dnpt B, Calhoiin made Mannsville a you think if work was so scarce that yon business visit Severn^ ago. would have to work for 63^ cents per ■ to*..- ’■ .’.’i ■-»••Edward Shertliff, ofLansdowne, Onfc.; day and hard to. geu woik at that? There is the guest of Charles Dano. are lots of good able bodied men hete H . M*. J o h n so n sp e n t Sunday w ith that would be glad to get work for 75cts. a day and board themselves, and this Clayton friends. Miss May Carnegie is home on a visit. place is twice as large as Clayton or the' The winter term of school in this dis Bay, with lots of factories and excellent trict commenced Monday with F. Fox, shipping facilities. Trade in the stores is very dull. You also complain of high of Depauvilie, as teacher. prices, but you do not know what you W. J. Bobinson recently sold his farm are finding fault about. The prices here to Elmer Calhoun for §1,300. Mr. Cal average as high as your own and the houn took possession of the same last people here do not complain half as Saturday. Mr. Bobinson has purchased much as you do. But such is life with the Kittle farm. Consideration |3,950. the human family, you always think Bey. A. Shorts is building a new house ‘ your lot is the hardest, and some one here, and when finished it will be one else IS doing better than you are. There of the finest residences in town. 13 a box factory, kindlingwpod factory, The New Year’s dance given at the hub factory, sash, door and blind factory, hall was well attended, and those pres saw mills, broom handle factory and ent had a very enjoyable time. The or many other industries here that employ chestra furnished excellent music for a large number of people, and still theie are more than can find employment, the occasion. The “Grippe” has .made its appearance although they are ready and willing to Work at anything. They are not like here, ,______ some of onr people that rather. Jay idle 'l.AFAKaEVxi/tE. ■ than work for 124- cents per hour in the winter. Now I don’t want any of you to Jan. .9,-—The “La Grippe” has got a think that because 1 live in the Bay that grip on. the citizens of this place and vi ham partial in the least, for ibis is the cinity. The doctors are kept busy. blace of my birth, and until I went to Mr. and Mrs. O. Mason, of Wisconsin, jive with you 1 thought this the nicest are here visiting relatives and old ac jplace imaginable, but in isn’t. It does quaintances. They went from this place pot hold a candle to theThousand Islands. some twenty-two years ago. lYou don't realise what a paradise you Miss Palmer, of Richfield Spring, is live in until you leave it. ’ the guest of Mr, and Mrs. A. B. Beard llEBW O O Jl. sley , of this place. Benj. Wood, of this place, fell Sunday Jan. 9.—Fred Hartman’s ice-boat went and broke the tip of his shoulder, down in thin ice one day last week, and S. B. Grenell was in Syracuse this 'Wally Holmes and Earl Truvally narrow * week on business. ly escaped drowning, Hartman . jumped Mrs. J. Wetterhahn, of this place, is to firm ice. very sick with inflammation of the bow George Buoyer and wife, of Prescott, els. Ont., spent New Years at E.'H. Smith’s. The tax collector Will receive taxes at People here are sadly effected with one per cent, this week Friday. influenza. Cats and dogs are down -sick The temperature ran up to 55*^ above, with la grippe. Monday noon. Remarkable warm The New Year bail at the Bollinger weather for this time of year ! Did we house was largely attended. hear some one remark it was going to Miss Lilly Layng is teaching school at snow? We hope it may prove true, for San fords Corners. it will be a welcome visitation to lum Musquitoes were buzzing around here bermen, and thousands of others who last week. will get work by it. And some steady Normal school students have returned: cold weather may stay the hand of the to their studies. prevailing “La Grippe.” Wrill Kimball and Miss Eiizrbeth Soper OMAIl. were tnamed on the first iast. Mrs. Mary Newton has completed Jan. 9.—Mrs. M. D. Townsend and son her visit in Brockviilo and returned to Frank, are spending a few weeks at Wm. Utica. Philow’s. Phillip May, formerly of this plac/e, Mr. Cbas. Grappot is confined to the was recently married to a lady in Binghouse with influenza. hamptOB,they were here last week spend Mr. and Mrs, John Garlock spent New ing the honeymoon. _____ Year in Philadelphia with friends. A Rem arkable CaVe iu Indiana. , School closed Friday after a term of H. H. Sturm, of Indianapolis, a,nd four months, Mr. Bendlet has taught a Bichard Penckert, of Sfiencer, have dis very successful term of school and won covered a cave near Spencer. Last night they explored it. The entrance in many friends in this village. a hole 20 feet deep and about 3 feet in Mrs. Nellis is visiting her sister, Mrs. diameter. At the bottom begins a nar John Kilbourne in this village. row and steep passage, running northeast Miss Mamie Newton has returned home about 35 feet. At the end of this passage from Antwerp where she spent the hol- was a step off of about 5 feet, and imme diately to, the left was a chamber about lidays, 8 feet, in diameter, the walls rising grad Mrs. Wm. Collins has taken possession ually in the form of a cone, meeting at of his ne w house. a point overhead 30 feet from the floor. The walls were hung with numerous On the evening of the third the young stone pendants, water at the time drip people of Lafargeviile and Omar gave ping down. A passageway, 18 inches Miss Hattie Holloway a surprise, it Being wide and 10 feet long, led from this open her nineteenth birthday. Games were ing toward the northwest to another indulged in and the evening passed off chamber similar to the first, but about 60 very pleasantly. feet high. A passageway then brought the party Mr.s, G. Livingston is visiting her into still another room, it being a little daughter, Mrs. Townley, inBochester. smaller than the first. From this a nar Mrs. E. S. Collins is at her daughter’s row isle, 60 feet long and 7 feet high, led in Stone Mills. northwest to a very smal^ opening or Mr* and Mis. Jomes Mahana spent Sun . manhole, through which, the reporter crawled with a lamp, and found that the day at P. Newton’s. passage was blocked by a large quantity Sickness prevails in our little village, of sand and debris, brought by the rains influenza being the intruder. that pour at times down the whole cave. At the end of this last passage there Miss Libbie Grapotte who is attending school at Bed wood spent the holidays at led off two openings, about as large Us a stovepipe. Stamping on the ground her home. brought out the fact that a chamber was Mrs. Ghas. Wilson, of Theresa, made at some place under this last, passage. this place a flying visit last week. This week a hole will be drilled to find Lewis Grapott and Willie Counway, of if such a cavity exists, and also the en trance will be enlarged, making it easier Philadelphia, spent last week in town. of access. The fact that the water dis William Garlock has now bought out appears downward, the upper current of Mr. Torry’s blacksmithing business. Mr. air, and the hollow sound above men Torry says he lias gone for good this tioned, go to prove that there is another time. cavity, probably larger than any of the Mr. Joshuay Wiley passed from this rest. The estimated depth of the cave from the general surface is 150 feet. The life to the world of eternal rest Thursday party spent an hour and fifteen minutes Jan. 3. He had many friends, and was under ground.—Martinsville (Ind.) Cor. highly respected by all. W hiz, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Jan. 9i—Joshua Wiley, died Jan, 2nd, aghd 77 years and 6 months, of consump tion. He had been failing gradually for the past three years. With all the kind faithful attendanc© of his loving life companion and family, and the skill of attending physicians, the dread disease . eouJfi not be stayed. Mr. Wiley was aniieh respected by all who knew him, he has been a resident of this neighbor POINT PENINSTJLA, hood for the last thirty-four years, as a farmer. He was a carpenter by oceupa Jan. 9.—Mud is the order of the day. tion in thb'earlier pary of his life, and was a true man in every relation of life Many of the young people attended wMeh;he occupied. The afflicted family Fox’s New Year party. have the sympathy of the entire commu Professors P. M. and W. M. Wiggins nity. and Misses Ella and Mattie Wiggins' spent the holidays at their home here. JUfVEEVIEW. Several of our citizens are sick with , Jan, fi.'—The fishermen have departed, the Bussian epidemic. -A cheese factory Is talked of. P. J. Casey hag en p ged with a relia J. B. Morgan is the new clerk at the ble nursery firm* and .will soon call on Riverside house. the people to offer bargams in stock m Martin'Bates is to run an egg wagon his line, for oiir store next fcummer. Henry Withey made friendly calls Nearly all our young people attended her© recently. ■the New Year%, ball. Mr. and Mrs. L. C, Angell spent Sun Rumor has it that ‘Messrs. Laird and day with friends here. GreenKef are to build alarge ecore here Don't faff to get prices at the Clayton 'in the spring, _ '■ ■ brick yard before bnffdmg. W ant V o la p u k in tk e B o sto n Sclxools. A'petition was received by the school board from the Y o la p u k club req u estin g pertuission to use a room in one of the school buildings of the city projier for the purpose of teaching Volapuk. The club offers to furnish teachers free of charge for such pupils as shall attend, with the understanding that the conduct of the schools shall be under the super vision of the school eomimttee. An order giving the club the permission asked for was assigned to the next meeting.—Bos ton Becord. Circumstantial Evid«nc®, Clara—Yes, I knew you were there last night, though I did not see you. Hayriesse—Darling girl! It was a man ifestation of that subtle influence which Is felt by the souls of those that truly love. Clara—^No. I saw the reflection on the ceiling, caused by the light ‘ falling on your head.---FittsbuTg Bulletin. EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS. several Attempts te Start a Horse While the priver "Was Booking for a Brick. Kiill milG S M Il PRICES DOWN, DOWN, DOWN. A bay horse drawing a heavy express wagon.balked on Dearborn street, near Washington, about noon the other day. The horse, was a vicious looking animal with a sinister eye, peeking nostrils, and We are going to give the people of Jefferson county a benefit, long, reclining ears, and he balked with such determination right across the cable track that the ears were stopped as far down as Monroe and La Salle streets, and the gripmen all swore as gripmen will. Our entire stock of Cloth and Plush Garments will be marked fit a A crowd of young clerks, old business men and jolly little typewriter girls figure positively BELOW T H E REACH OE ALL COMPETITORS, gathered on the sidewalkj and all the Please femember this.' Our stock is new and freslR GOffiprising all the office boys in the block took front seats,- latest and most desirable stylek kv ' I after their habit, and awaited develop ments. The driver, who was a tall, thin One large lot offered a t t h e first cost. If you are interested don^t youth with a red -neck and freckles, left his seat, and by way of opening bus'''—-' delay your visit to this department. . kicked the horse rudely in the abdo A member of the Humane socisty caught Por Boys, Men, Ladies and Misses, one big sample lot of Pine Cash- ^ the boy by the collar and shook him, and . everybody laughed except the boy and moreUk.ves and Miueim. SVLTJKO PO ll A « 0 N 0 ALMOST. ‘ the member, of the Humane society, who BAKUALNS SALE OF UOSUiEV ! CLOSIKO SALE OP PTTRS ! glared at eack other. “Has anybody got a lump of sugar?” the member Of the Humane society asked Snell as the people of this county never gazed upon. after a while, the bqy having gone to look for a brick. : f‘i have,” a typewriter girl replied, An endless variety of rare bargams. diving into her handbag. B E D B D A Ip S E T S A K D 0 0 ^ The member of the Humane society said, “Thank you, miss,” bowed, rolled Heavy fleeced blankets 85c to, $1.00 8 lb Comforts only $1.00. ■k k back his cuffs in the manner of the gem tleman who is just about to make a P R E S S G O O D S.—'Good Tricots at 12-jc. Extraordinary bargains in - Ladies cloths, broadcloths flannels silk warp henriettas, &c. .nickel disappear in his ear, and then at of Our MuiniuoHi J)ir 0 ^ tempted to thrust the sugar into the This Enom bus Sale ihelndes eTery^D^ EmpoHuni. We mean Business. I f you Doubt it, a caU w ill conyince horse’s mouth. The horse’s ears flapped back, his eye reddened and he grabbed .■■■ T o » . B e y o n d A ' D o o b L . ■ at the Humane man's arm with his pink jaws. The Humane man yelled, “Wlioa!” and jumped away; the young men in 116, 18, 20 and 22 Court Street, kWatertown, N. Y. the crowd laughed hoarsely and the girls shrieked. . Banker George Schneider had been standing in liis window watching the In Italy, Turkey, Greece, Asia Minor, performance, and he now came down Egypt and many of the oriental coun stairs and walked through the crowd. tries the archaic images of the deities “In the old country,” he said, “ we were painted red; and it has been said used to make balky horses, move in this that the traditional practice was intend way,” and he got oil his tiptoes and ed to please “the color sense,” by which threw his arms around the horse’s neck. is meant that these images were regarded The animal snorted savagely and shot up as pretty gewgaws. This is not likely, 5 inits angry head till its neck looked like a and the true explanation is that the stand pipe, and of course Mr. Selineider color of red was sacred. . All prf^-tine went with it. When he had gone up so creeds can, with probability, be traced high that he could almost see the roof of ultimately to two origins. ‘ They are, i n ' the Tacoma building he let go, and, fall different disguises, th e . worship of tlr ing, struck Tailor Joe Day. Mr. Day sun and the \yorsIiip of liumanity. Red changes his trousers every hour, and lie became tliere|ore an exceptionally odious now wore a pair of gobelin blue trousers color when the, ascetic temper gained with white flecks. When,he jumped out possession of | religion. of the way to avoid Mr. Schneider he The author of “The Wisdom of Solo rubbed some axle grease off a wagon hub mon” betrays a profound antipathy to '.s'-'. with his trousers and swore Softly. Mr. the color in j;he following: “Or make it Schneider blushed under the taunts of like some wild beast, laying it over -with the crowd and withdre w to the bank. , vermilion, and with paint coloring it 2 in. 3 in. ■ ; A red faced man with a sandy mus red, and edvering every spot therein.” tache, who wore a checked scarf around The coloring was very offensive to him, his neck, then came forward and re and he ’ describes ,in ■another place the marked: “ ’Ere's the honly woye to do ,volu25tuary, .as crying; “Let us crown the blooinink think.” He took a hitch ourselves with rosebuds before they are ing sUap. from a horse attached to a withered.” Afterward a fresh associa buggy near by and passed it behind the tion was added, and scarlet typified not balky horse’s right front leg.. , only the sins of Babylon, but their pun-' The first person solving' the aboye Then he began to pull and haul, and ishment also.—-Exchange. will be entitled at oiie purchase,; to ' Assistant Postmaster John Hubbard, a 25 .per cent, discount oil any A Cat 'j?iiat "Lives oii Canaries. who has a good voice, started to sing . George Fair^ of . the Haymarket thea amount over one dollar. “Saw my leg .off.” E Verybody, in the The second person willbe entitled crowd knew “Saw my leg off,” and tre, says: I have a tiger cat, a pug dog, the ,chorus was large and enthusiastic. seventeen geld fish, and forty canaries. to a IS^per cent discount. Officer Laviii paused on his way home The dog is the most snbinLssiye of the The third person will be entitled to dinner, saw the unhitched horse, and lot.; , Ho has been licked so many times to^a, 8 per cent discount. •. . T calmly drove off with the buggy, accord that his tail won’t curl. Ever sec a pug ing to the ordinance regularly made, and dog with the curl taken out of his tail? provided. The owner, a little man with I’ve got one. But the cat is the boss. a plug hat, camn out of the Graimis Mrs. Fair,is very much attached to the block at this juncture. and assaulted the cat. I wanted her to- sell, the cat, or let Englishmaii, and somebody began welt me bring,it do.ivii, here, or kill it—any ing the balky horse with a barrel:stave. thing to get it out of the house. No, This was the signal for a combined at sir, she wouldn’t have it. Said the cat tack, and everybody who could geff near could stay in the house as long as she enough took a hand in liainmering the did. One day she went home and found poor brute. While ting bombardment a lot of feathers on the floor, and the cat was at its height the driver came. up. asleep on top of the piano. The cat had He inquired for the member of tjtie Hu eaten the canary—several canaries. I mane society, and finding that he had said to Mrs, Fair, “I guess the cat will gone he climbed into the wagon, glared go now,” but she said no. For two or contemptuously at the crowd, kicked the three days we noticed that the cat didn’t horse in aii uiigentlemanly like manner, eat anything. He refused beefsteak, yelled ‘‘G—ee—t—eer—app,” and drove mutton chops, whipi^ed cream, and all of the. dainties. He had tasted the oairnaway.—Chicago Tribune. ,.ry, and nothing but caiiary would sat isfy him. So we are raising canaries Stealing a CUiW. A remarkably intelligent elephant now to appease the cat’s appetite. The working on a new bridge in Ceylon, says do^ eats the bones and the crumbs which Murray’s Magazine, had a young one to fall from his master’s table.—Chicago whom she was perfectly devoted. It Tribune. died, and she became inconsolable. For L im b s <>f t h e M in d . merly the gentlest of creatures, she grew One is curiosity; that is a gift, a ca irritable and even dangerous. One morn pacity of pleasure in knowing, which if ing she broke the chain -which confined you destroy you make yourselves cold her and escaped into the forest. ; and dull. Another is , sympathy; the A full line bi Western Steer Beef, ■ •One night, about ten days after her power of sharing in the feelings of living Eresh and Salt Pork, Hams, escape, the officer who had been'- in creatures, which if you destroy you make Shoulders, Bacon, Pork and Bo- : charge of her went out to lie in wait for bears at a pond in a jungle at some ffigna Sausage. ■■'. ; t distance. ‘ . . '/ power of enjoying beauty or ingenuity^ As he and liis native attendant were which if you destroy you make your returning, early in the mof ning, the na selves base and irreverent. Another is tive silently nudged him, and they saw wit, or the power of playing with the in the dim,, gray light an elephant with' lights on the many sides of truth, which her calf making their way toward the if you destroy you make yourselves camp. They both sprang behind trees, gloomy, and less useful and cheering to CONSTANTLY ON.HAND AT THE and -when the elephants had passed the others than you might be. So that in LOWEST MARKET PRICES. CALL native, insisted that the older one was choosing your way of work it should be AND SEE US. their old friend. ; • your aim, as far as possible, to bring out When they reached the camp they all these faculties,; as far as they exist in found that the truant had indeed re you, not one merely, nor another, but all turned, and had gone from one person of them. And the way to bring them out to another, touching each with her is simply to concern yourselves atten trunk, as if she "were exhibiting her tively with the subject of each faculty. To adopted .child, which she had evidently cultivate sympathy you must be among ,fle v\’'riles : ‘-Was at work'on a fanu to t begged, borrowed or stolen during her living creatures, and thinking about absence. . them; and to cultivate admiration you Her good temper and usual docility must be among beautiful things, and m iliam ' Kline, IJgrtisfeui-g-, r a .. returned at once, and her owner blessed looking at them.—J. Ruskin. the good fortune -which had enabled her to steal a child. A liUdri' Man. more, Batvftor,' Me,. Writes: “ I His highness the gaekwar of BarodaT a Bombay paper remarks, is a man.whom Hroofs of I.a2:iness. When Gyrus W. Field otvned The fortune has smiled upon from his yoiith.: Mail and Express he occasionally poked The romance of his life would read ah around the various editorial rooms to most like a dream from the “Arabian reader? Write to uaand leam a lt iibofttlt for ynurSetf. W<V get some'idea of how his paper was being Nights.” Taken from the hills a poor arestariinfS many; we rislV start you i f you don’t delay nmii conducted. “Who is that man who sits little herd boy, adopted by a princess, he' in that room to the right up stairs?” he is clad in purple garments, decked with mce asked of his managing editor. jewels, and has a scepter thrust into his^That’s Mr, — , our exchange editor,” hands. With loyal and, peaceful sub world. Larifiest, Size, Gre-dtest bargains ever knorv-n. XsfentJt Inbei-iil terms. B% m pneyfor ngfwits. Any one can replied the managing editor. “Well,” jects, a beautiftii stretcJi^of country for wanted. beeoiue n siiecessral iisent, Sells iiself o n .sight—Httla «r «.> necessary. Wherever shown, every one-ivawtt to jrtit said Mr. Field, frowning, “it’s my opinion his state, magnificent palaces and well . talking cBase, Agents tfike-tliDUSands rii orders With rapidity jivv, * that he isn’t worth'his salt.. As often as filled coffers from which he can afford before know n. Grbat profits aivjait fiver • I have been in tliis office I’ye never seen to indulge his artistic irastes and his love for what Is beautiful, he is a prince wbrni^even pripces might envy,—Monfront of him.”'-^St. Louis Republic. 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