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i. q! a, t Délét‘ivsafi'lgy‘y WV. Briggs, y ts Pringlpay, VC bjfmfizémgpm 105 mal ._ ) 23, 197] } § GIVE’UJ'PHP- f Bid 61 the ghey the! Gene’ml damn”) ‘ O0 the Puesda rork, OP { 18t, 1871 ma} Delaware ; he Ctemeral f Homer & N -_ X. Bristo] : Marshall 8, Ohinp. | plage of Van Ring. of George W, Chap. place of Davi{h, on the lnst:day of : for the Sixth Judi 3 Sixth Judital whose terim of of. / 20 emate District a aid khaki??? be Elected Wagher; F. Davidson : the place of Edward of Townsend 'Bhaver on the last day of Boards, Inspec» is directed to 0&1)- asto tha sup, of cauvrags» % representatives in of Aisembly. in Sen- at which a of Assembly the Bqveral elec- keep a separate in congress, tobe d; also. a separate eadorged, \Renate box in which all doesed \agsembly in said several in the order named the estimate Istent \with the pro- , of State. PROPOSING Af AELATIVE T0 That seation two of so that it shall from the or may be con- famous crime. and or or wager depend. shalt psy, give or other prop to influence any - elector from vor or from holding amendment Legislature, to bo and that, of the Gonstitue to the.-time of Clerks a . - f tor the extension rs of Appeals, | t the sixth article by adding, any. of the causes pédmg in that provision, to ho, mers of Appeals. f service. of tho t exceeding iwo af the foregoing o be at the rt in conformity jorstitution, it bG ime of such elet* d. Clerk. in. Clerk. ORK, Fa, state. original vondlt\ hereby certify and of the g. of Albay» Institite, - Instiubiby wip | I Hlecti succecding' thepfilrsg 4 officers to be ; t VQIrBI-i STAMFORD AND BLOOMVILLE MIRROR, CS? POBLIEHED ' EVERY TUfiliDAY mOBNXING At Stamford, N. Y., by BIMOMNM B.,. CHAMPION; WWW +. %e ns Trems-In Aovamom-One Dollar for a year; fifty cents for six months; twenty-five conts fox\ thrée months. - Pipers stopped when the time paid for expires, unloss otherwise directed. An K bafore the name denotes the expiration of the subscription. Advertisements, of 10 lines or less, inserted for 26 cents por week; $3 for 3 months. Cash must accompany the orders | RAINBOWS OF GOLD. ___ \If you can get to the foot of a rainbow be- fore it fades away you will find a bushel of gold.\ --Legend of Fairy Lore. When I was a child 1 was solemnly told, When the rainbow appeared in the sky, That under its foot was a bushel of gold That any could get would they try ; So I ran where the splendor came down to the ground, But it fleeted as fast as I ran, Aud with all of my search it was nothing I found ; Yet I'm doing the same as a man. There's the rainbow of love, when affections are ._ young, The brightest, we think, of the lot ; We follow, to find it a thing of the tongue, Or a foolish abstraction of thought. There's the rainbow of fame, with its amaranth crown ;. We chase it in emulous strife ; We reach where its foot so enticing came down, And find -we have wasted a life, e Hope's rainbows are ever abroad in the air, Alluring us fools to pursue ; We follow and follow, and find nothing there, Save a sprinkle of glittering dew. Earth's rainbows of promise, so fair to the sight, Are but fictions, at best, to the mind ; Their gleams give at most unsubstantial delight They fade and leave nothing behind. Then what of the rainbow that gleams beyoud death, The promise hereafter ! Who is there -can tell If after the parting of body and breath, He is sure under that rainbow all will be well? Can be certain it is the last bow to allure, The one that stoops down on the bushel of gold - The gold he at last shall possess ? Who is sure? Alas! 'tis a secret we can not unfold. NAMELESS. There is no heart but hath its bitter anguish, 'There is no eye but hath with tears been wet, There is no voice but hath been heard to languish O'er hours of darkness it can ne'er forget. There is uo cheek, however bright its roses, But perished buds beneath its hues are hid ; No eye but in its dewy light reposes, But broken star-beams trembie 'neath the lid. There is no lip with merry laughter ringing, However light and gay its words may be, But it hath trembled at some dark upspringing ~Of stern affliction and deep misery. We are all brothers in this land of dreaming, Yet hand meets hand, and eye to eye replies ; Nor deem we that beneath a brow all beaming The flower of life in broken beauty lies. Turnxwoop, Sept. 8th, 1871. Eptror Mir®ror :-In your issue of Aug. 15th, in speaking about a fishing excursion to the Beaverkill and holding of divine service in the school-house, you say : \Women with infants in their arms, walked three and four miles thro' the wilderness paths to bear preaching, a loxury not awarded to there once a year, as a general thing.\ If, by luxury, you mean the exellence of that particular meeting, you are correct, for it was indeed an excellent one, and the only fault we- have beard found with it is that it was too short. But, if you mean to say that we do not have any mestings once a year, you are wrong, and convey a wrong impression upon others. We do not have regular preaching, but occasional preaching, which amounts, as a gener- al thing, to at least once a month. As to our \wilderness paths,\ they are all wagon roads, and passable at that. You say, \no preaching in a town which has four school- houses is hard, when they desire it.\ We have no preacher in the town, but bave at least twice the number of school-houses yon mention. | Our section of the country is comparatively new, but we have no desire to be held up to the public in a more unfavorable light than we de- serve, Y ours truly, * mor em -se y B lm eA . \The last word\ is the most dangerous of in- fernal machines. Husband and w1feé should no more strive to get it than they would straggle to -- get possession of a lighted bombshell. 'stmme I A cynical man says the reason women are 80 fond of writing letters is that they rejoice in the opportunity of saying all they wish without the possibility of an interruption. 1 s . board the boat is a young colored boy, one of . | This was repeated several times, until finally the STAMFORD, DELAWARE Co., N. Y., TUESDAY, 8 Stns an\ EPTEMBER 19, 1871. of Hartford, which runs up the Connecticut river from the landing at Peck Slip in New York. While she wes lying at Pratt's Ferry a few days ago, waiting for a megsenger from Hart- ford, the second mate thought he would improve the time by Sshing for bass. So he got his line, 11.001: and bait, and made everything ready ;‘ lighted a cigar, and casting his line into the wa- ter, art down patiently to wait the result. On ambitions Kanakas who came from the} Sandwich Islands, and eventually turned up as m boat hand on the City of Hartford. Like all of his amphibious race, be can remain a lon time under water. He took it into his head to pl??? a joke upon the mate, and, divesting him- self of his clothes, he jumped into the water on the side of the boat opposite to where the mate sat, hopefully but dreamily awaiting a \bite.\- Prejsently that official was startled \by a strong puli\ at the line. Hig slumbering eyes openea wide, his breath came fast and thick, for he thought he had captured oue of the biggest of the \big\ bass which abound in the river. He attempted to pull in his hook, but it resisted ail of his efforts ! 'Then he thought he would \play\ the firh for a little while; and so he would let out a few fathoms of line, and then draw inagain. boy, thinking he had carried the joke far enough, held on the line and came to the surface with it, Jost at the tmmg the mate, with bigger eyes than be ever exhibited in all his life before, expected to land a big fish, and so shouted to the man on deck. The astonishment of that of-fish-al can be better imagined than expressed when he saw the woolly cocoanat-head and rolling eyes of the Kanaka emerge from the waves. At first he thought he had caught the °d-I fish\ that Vie- tor Hugo wrote about; then he did'nt know what it was ; but finally, the boy, blubbering and blowing like a porpoise, struck out for the boat, and the laughter of some of the hands who were in the joke rang in his ears, he acknowl- edged himself \sold and treated all round. This good story is, in every particular, a true one. o _- _- <P 9 @ - Critical people, who blame the printer for every litele error of spelling that creeps into the paper, will be interested in knowiog that at the the recent session of the Orange County Teach- ers' Institute, held at Newburg, a list of fifty difficult words was orally given to the 94 male and [emale teachers present, every one of whomg misspelled some of the words. Recollect these are teachers, who did their own spelling. and oct editors, who buve to correct the bad work of compositors. The report showed that the word eschinuation had \bothered\ the terchers more than any other. In the 95 papers examined, there were no less than fifty different spellings for this word. One teacher spelt the word apos- tasy thus ; Eippossteca. Out of the 93 teachers one missed but three words, and one of these was verbally corrected by him immediately after banding in his paper ; while another missed 45 out of 50 words dictated. In the 94 papers ex- amined, there were 2,663 misspellings-an aver- age of 28. We'l] bet our oldest hat that ninety- ty-four editors, take them as they come, can do better thao that. A Wabash (Ind) doctor thus tells the story of the fever and ague of that affiicted district : \It comes creeping up a fellow's buck like a ton of wild-cate; goes crawling through his joints like iron-spikes, and is followed by a fever which pro- hibits the patient from thinking of aiything but Greenland's icy mountains, It isn't the 'every- other-day' kind, but gets up with a man at day- night. His teeth feel about six inches long, his joints wobble like a loose wagon-wheel, and the shakes are so steady that oue can't hold a con- versation except by putting in the dashes.\ Tas Orasr Woripn.-There is a dignity in going away alone which we call dying~--that wrapping of the mantle of immortality about us ; that putting aside with a pale hand the az- ure curtains that are drawn around this cradle of a world; that venturing away from home for the first time io our lives, for we mre dead, and seeing forsign cosntries, not laid down on any maps we have read about. There must be love- ly lands somew bere starward, for none ever re- turn who go thither, and we very much doubt if any would if they could. ioc Atta Gail Hamilton tells us of a tarried woman who held. independent of her busband's control, thirty thousand dollars. This money she receiv- ed from him when he was in good business and in full health,. Hie becams paralyzed ; and she at once took a paramour and sailed to Europe, leaving her husband an annuity of three hundred dollars, and supporting her paramour out of the fortune which ber husband had given her. ' mon al & -S dti \The second crop of apples growing on some lady apple trees at Wurtsborough are looking very fing. The first crop is gathered,. Two of the trees have blossomed again, the third time this season. Fishing for Bass -A Fuony But True. Story. | _ A. strange story is told on board of the City] light, and sleeps in the emall of his back all| A Murders Fight for Life. Deputy Sheriff Ford, jailer of the. county jail at White Plains, opened the door of the cell where Wednesday morning at seven o'clock, as| - Tha \9211536 here have'been with the fatt that Mgjor Johno Ledyard Hodge, appofited Buckhout, the Sleepy Hollow murderer is cop., in January, 1867, a deputy paymaster of 'the ar-. fined. the culprit sprang. upon the. officer, seizing him by the throat and pushing him out into the jail yard. He soon tripped him and both fell, Buckhout kept a firm hold of the Sheriff's thrort, Theae was no one within hearing. The iwo men rolled avd tumbled about the yard, first one and then the other gaining the advantage, for about fifteen minutes. Buckbout's intestion was evi- be a defaulter to the government to the abhsount ' of: about $500,000. * ° ' .On of his extraordinary counts of other paymnstei‘s‘and’ on special serv- deb, until about two years since, wher he astigned dently to choke the Sherif into insensibility,| him as paymaster of the bounty cerfiifieatesqu seize the keys, and make his escape, The Sher- glif was aware of his objéct, and resolved to fras- trate it. By a desperate effort ha released him- self and grasped the murderer's throat.. The Sheriff then placed his knee upey, Buckbout's breast. He found in the murderer's possession, secreted in his clothing, a well,. sharpened, case knife, which he was endeavoring to draw out. Mr. Ford, with a well dirscted blow of his fist square between the eyes, knocked Backhout senseless for an instant, and then jerked the knife away and threw it across the yard. He next slipped a pair of nippers on the desparado's bands. He was not one minute too soon, howev- er, for at the same instant Buckhout regained bis consciousness and with almost superhoaman strength shook the Sheriff off and sprang to his feet. The officer sprang behind him and garrot- ed him ; but Buackhout freed himself and brought. his uplifted hands down on Ford's head. The blow glanced and Buckhount fell-to the ground face dowuoward. Ford fell upon him instantly. He seized the desperado by the feet and, getting a leg under each arm, dragged him into his cell. Slamming the door after him, he tarned the key just as Buekhout snapped the nippers and made a roush. Utterly exhausted, Mr. Ford went to the office and sat down. Just then Sheritf Brund- affairs, repaired to the cell and found Buckbout as quiet as a kitten. When questioned about age entered, and being informed of the state of 3701111, ~ Ele will be tried by court martial, which . 1 r 9 the Second Anditor's office. (n} This was a 'highly responsible position, the' payments sonjetimey amounting to $500,100 pér. month, but the Paymaster General nescrts tat ho placgd the most inspli¢it confidgheg £4 not betray his trust. Ox Thursday last theo- Paymaster General distovered, as he thought, an erroneous change in the rétairns of Hodge, and by letter requested him to explain it. He still could not believe that his deputy was 'dishonest, torily ardered him to close his accounts by Mon- day last. On the next day. Geb. Brice received ['m letter from Mpjor Hodgo (zonta‘ffiig‘g’ fession of his guilt, and stathig that ht On Monday. Hodge was placed, under amest, h | where he was placed in close conflneimgn}t wit 'a sertinel to guard hig cell. Rodgers, He has a wife and four children, who are plunged into the dsepest grigf at' his miston- his conduct he pretended to know sothing gbout| service. 1t can bardly be expected tlint any it. He seemed unable to explain away his bloody nose and head, and blandly told tha Sheriff that he bad not seen tho jailer that morning. Buck- bout will remain ironed . and chained to the floor until he goes to the scaffold. the knife is the mystery. acon divs How he obtained| What Horace Grogley thi portion of the amount of his defaleatjon: will be recovered, except perhaps, a few thousind ddll&ts ffom the sale of his private property. of Cen: Grait. : | gave expression to the following with' that ad- Mr. Bonner is reported to take the defeat of| mirable frankness, that ho occasionglly Indulges PBexter's great time by (Goldsmith Maid very un- fin. Said he : kindly. The Ledger stoutly declares that \eve- \If we renominaté rybody knows the Maid never saw the day she|stand no more horse-jookey and. presént-taling could do that without running ;\ adding that] Presidents ; w6 have had enough of them. ] 'tell < even if she had made 2:17 she would still be one| you, gentlemen, we must take a new departure, second behind Dexter, who is claimed to have| and I can assure you that we of the Hast ars do- made 2:16 in a race on, the Fashion Course|{ermined that it shall be done.\ F fave 'bedd ogainst a trotting horse with running mate,| rather quiet about it so far, but I want every- The, Spirit of the Times is also quoted by Mr.| body now to understand what I think.\ When Bonner, to the effect that Goldsmith Maid should we take hold of. Grant, it will not boe with silk pot be considered the equal of Dexter until she| gloves on our hands. It has got to 'be 'done.- bas equalled his time on the Fashion Course.| We must throw Grant overboard, or. we shall, be But, as if appreciating the weakness of his posi-i defeated.\ . With regard to what the candidate must be to receive Mr. Greeley's support, he said furthe't : \I want to nominate a man, who, if elected, will elevate the office to where it was in former di n man who will not take presents or use the rail- itary or hisoffice holders to advance hig'own as- pirations for a second term, and in the mean timd tion, Mr. Bonaee mow says that he will give $100,000 for any horses that will beat Dexter's time to a road wagon, 2;213¢, or pay $10,000 to see the feat performed. 'The horsemen of New York are all more or less exercised in mind over this performance of the Maid, and Mr. H. N. Smith, the owner, has given a banquet at | $500,000 Stolen by a Government Official. . 1 ptr Toul Con \ t .C | my and stationed in this city, had beech found to :~ | the Paymaster General, in ©1866, detailed him '' for daty, employing him in adjusting 'the acs - bis deputy's integrity, and fully believed he would ~ but expected that he would be able to malko an | explanation.\ . This he fatled to do, and General: Brice then fntiniated his and * a full cons\ \ : i6 had been © making fraudulent returng and' otatemonts since *' 1866, and that the niongy thus obtaixied 'had been | spent in gold and stock gambling in New Work; ~ ‘ t AY and on . Tuesday conveyed to Fort Mcfié‘ 31fo One of Hodge's sisters is the wife 'of /> doubtless impose a penalty, a certain term - F imprisonment, and dismissal from tho military - wn 3 tige --- = While Mr. Greeley was th Claim?) Iatye1yf,‘lhe , rant, wo , shall certainly be defeated, The public will ' Delmonico's in commemoration of the event.. In neglect the intérests of those whose ruler he is. the inevitable speech, reforving to the statements | Besides, I want a man who is above méto pleéas- put forth by certain parties jealous of the time nre hunting ; a man who will not dawdle away made by his mare, that the Milwaukee track was one-fourth of his term amid the follies apd friv; , short of a mile, he, lead the assurance of gentle] olities of a watering place ; and one, who, when men whose word would not be questioned, and |ealled apon for an expression afigsyl v3 du 10- who had measured the track, and it was sixty | litical and other subjects of national interests, feet over a mile. a nono o-- @- Amee <-- mnie Parker. can give them in clear, comprehensive lapguage. -- Tax Systsn..--A correspondent husband and \shadows\ him day and night. Her|of the Jowrral of Commerce complains. of the jealousy seems to be on general principlee-thére | way in which business is done now-a-days, and 'seeming to be no particular case in point untilthe enormous expense «\mcident to t‘hg army of Saturday afternoon when she slipped upon Car- | drammers\ he is forced to employ. The editor, rie French talking to her husband and knocked | replies, advxsxpgpthe merchant to drop the whole her down, and pounded her while she was down. | tribe and advertise his goods liberally, thus mak- Of course a policeman being a conservator a great saving in expense, and reaching & the police, could not see éven his own wife break | larger business. The vicious system of .drum- the law with impunity, and accordingly marched | ming up trade, the Journal? adds, is demoralizing, her off to the station bouse, and upon his testi-|and costs too much .to: be profitable, 'The man moay next day she started on a three months'| who advertises, instead, can afford to sell at low- sojourn to the work hoase, ' The testimony of thgdaughter of the parties | newspapers. or rates, and thus he can fasten to himself the trada ho attracts by his announcgtment in the The old-fashioned way of tclling to a recent Iniiana divoree sult seems conclu-) the public what you have to sell, in plain simple sive : . terms, is worth more than all thenew inventions, \Father got mad because mother starched his | and traders will bave to go back to it. stockings. Mother picked up the stockings and woo z 4p hit father on the bead with them, and it sounded Am C eresung OI t rened_ as though they were sticks of wood. Father| crime\ garnered in New York city is a wire win- - Among the most interesting of the \religs of then stuffed a hot wheat cake dowa mother's| dow ladder, the like of whith bas never beféofe throat, and then mother set the dog on father, been seen. L6 is about ten feet long when stretch- and iwisted the dog's tail to make him bite|ed out, made of steel wire about a quarter of an harder.\ orly 4 ~ A horge-car conductor in Brooklyn has been | room over the one which he wishes to enter, fined fifty dollars for throwing a passenger off hi inch thick, with cross steps of polished wood about six inches long. .the burglars get in, 13139; s | tens the hooks to the window sill, drops the ' . t + . E i ', pulls it -in car. The offence of the passenger consisted in| der outside, and runs u his ladder, pulls 16 in, offering a five collar bil I, having no other change, and folds it up into such a compass that. he can in payment of his fare. h pack fo a small hand bag. That's the kind of man the people want, and. They do some queer things in Boston occa-| that's the kind of man we haven't got now.\ _ sionally. Thers is a policeman there . named avems Mrs. Parker is very jealous of her}. ¢~
