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She sald \My dearest Luke !\ , And he looked, ard then she looked. \I'll bave thee, if thou - wilt |\ And he wilted, and then she wilted. momo $ @ #lie w an i BOIL IT DOWN. Whatever you have to siy, my friend, Whatever witty, or grave, or gay, - Condense as much as ever you can, And ray it -in the readiest way ; And whether you write of rural affairs, Or particular things in town, -*- Fast take a word of friendly advice,- f Boil it down.. For if you go splattering over a page _ When a couple of lines would do, _ Your butter is spread so thin, you see, That the bread looks plainly through ; So when you have a story to tell, And would like a tittle tenown, To make quite sure of your wish, my friend, Boil it down. When writing an article for the press, W bether prose or verse, just try To utter your thoughts in the fewest words, And let tliem be crispy and dry ; And when it is finighed, and you suppose It is done exactly brown, Just look it over 'agaia, und then ' , Boil it-down. For editors do not like to print An article lazily long, Aud the busy reader does not care _ For a couple.of yards of song ; Bo gather your wits in the amallest space, If you'd win the author's crown, And every time you write, my friend, . , . Boil it down. ‘ th fite, tth d. A woman was walking, and a man looked at and followed her. 'The woman said, \Why ao. you follow me ?\ - He answered Because I have: fallen in love with you.\ The woman said \Why are you fn love with me? My sister is much handsomer. She is coming after me; go and make love to her.\ The man turned back and saw a woman with an ugly face. Being displeas- ed, he went again to the other woman and said, \Why did you tell a story ?\ 'The woman ans- wored \Neither did you speak the truth, for if you are in love with me, why did you go after another woman ?\ | T l} 0 G# The seats of members of Congress have been raised sevéral fnckes as the only possible way of elevating their occupants. Who is the straightest man in the Bible ?- Joseph, because Pharaoh made a ruler of him.' «I'm sitting on 'the 'style,' Maury,\ as the fel- low said, when he ecolly sat down on his sweet- heart's new bonnet, A young lady went into a music store and ask- ed the clerk if he had \Loving eyes.\ He re- plied, \I'm told so by the girls.\ \Are you a christian ?\ .“t§To,'sfi'r, Iaam‘gditorg of the Democratic paper in this place.\ \Then in the name of God, let us pray,\ replied the de- voted minister. An Eastern paper heads its coluran of city news, \Our Inocglliyre.” The head id express-. iveand appropriate, but thé last word is evidently. misspelled. rishm i p byby 6 An Irishman who was recently run over whole train of ears got up and asked for his cap. and said he \would not run another such risk as that for tin . dollars. Lazy Joreg.-A young man in the street be- | i y, was asked if he ing charged 'with being logy, was asked if b took it frgom his father.-\I think not, sgud flag disrespectful son ; \father's got all the laziness ever had.\ - . The nomination of 'James H.! enator, of your District. can publi¢an electors; at. portion comprising the who, (believing them to be consistently vote for -Mr. 1 do, to be linked in by Custom 'Housé and nd contrary to the senti. tion of the Republican can and. will no more 8 rurming on the ticket nomin-] I the platform of. the Syr- the founders and stand-| - ublican party, such as ts, Moses H. rphy asd Rascal , refased to par- uvertion, decming it be- | H sociate with semid 'Tom ascal Conklin, who, with the| W. \I pied several delegates from \The followin rors drawn to of Sessions to village of Delki, in and f {xi-g. on Monday, Graham for Sing hardly be pleasing. particularly to (p County of Delawa honest men, carnot Graham, knowing hi with corrupt Tort Ma Rascal Conklin cli ments of the . party, who coosig | vote for candidate ated in accordance acuse Convention, than ard bearers of the- fie Horace Greely, Grinnell, who, PIC. to .the Re I © a year;| fifty cents for fix months; twenty-five can’t; for| three month®. - Papers stopped when the time paid 1. An X « ' on. Advertisemonts, of 10 lines or leas, inserted for Andea-John 25 cents per week; $8 for 3 months. (Cash ninint Davenport--Nathan Delhi-Charles A. Hancock-Wm. A sanc A. Twaddle. | _- Hamden-Samue! Minu. Middletora- Wm. Streeter, J. H. Dean. honcat por How It RAPPENED. ___ O. Rober knowing Tom Ma to be rottea to ticipate in the State Co neath their dignity to as Murphy, or even R people's money, the roral districts. Taig, Mr. Mirror, nature of the crew: partly only his own, by the above T. ‘ plainly spoken, stoten from But let me remind Mr. « | barder task to. his tion, than ever before. The people are awake t any attempt on his part, reetly, to corrupt the elect be brought not only l Courts, if defeated or is quite in keeping with the! Bamely, buying bis election, 3 the bulk furnished him « wrenched, or more the people. _ _ Graham that he has a old scheme at this elec- Andes--Alfred R Bovina-James (G. Ormiston. Colchestst!=-Sflag H. bert, Gidéon Miller. Delhi--Geor Franklin~-Chsrles Do H. Barnes, Albert Hamden-Luther S. ~ Kortright-E, D. Masonville-John John King, {Pliny K. Scofield. AX. and R. C o the emergency, and either directly or indi- ors of the District, will 'efore the Senate, but before | even elected, _ - rrr dite. pdp garoo Flop. plained by a lady corres- uri Democtat, writing from « This Flop is thus ex poodent of the Misso Saratoga :- \Those who have studied and practiced so in- ' | defatigably that of what Sazo terms are flopping vigorously wi accomplishment ; others, ridiculous failures, smile from the fortunate pared with the sensation. all have sneceeded in getti the motion to a scientific exac the benefit of some of the St. Louis ladi explain the nature of the dingnity of the gentlemen tions me net to tr teries of the flop, pot for you I the 'kanga- th the new not a few at first, made used many a sarcastic ones who came pre- Now, however, nearly ke position and 'kangaroo flop.' 'The of our noble city cau- y to inveigle them in the mys- Therefore, gentlemen, thi. is . You ate permitted to retire until Ihave given a lesson to the few ladies who I | know are dying to know how to First, you must draw your should neck, lean back as far ss you when you did the Clrecian Bend, pin your elbows [close to your sides, draw up the lower part of\ [your arms ina line with your chin ; now let [your hands hang gracefully (you need a fan or; | mouchoir, in one hand), and lear on one side (it must be a stiff lea | do if you had a boil on one side _I - After you have succeeded in getting lito this position. affect a silly expression, if you are not fortunate to have it nataorally, and walk with a. swagger-quite a positive sw f were hung on hinges. As this art requires mach practice, I would advise you not to try it ou the streets, or in public diniug-rooms right away .- Some of the ladics here do it beautifully. and it is surprising what a talent many of the genticmen bave for affecting the flop. Unless you have pret- ty bands, with each of the right fingers covered with diamonds, don't try | the flop.\ ¥ Gp wwe vans We can bardly realize the financial loss and buman misery of suffering Chicago. A tract of nine square miles, compuctly built over, a vast plain of smoking ruins; one hundred thousand people, utterly destitute and homeless, huddled together is churches aod schoolhouses, apd in 'tenfa on the bleak prairie. . Such was the fury of the flames, driven for- ward by a fierce gale, that they leaped aeross both the main river and branches, and from block [to block, with almast the rapidity of lightoing, and nearly all of the vast multitude, driven from their homes, have lost all of their 'elothing, ex- cept what they had onand what they snatched [ap, before fleeing from the devouring fire. Chief Justice Chase wears a gold dollar 'at- tached as a charm to his watch guard. - He says: *I put that on my watch guard when I issued the first greenback, intending to keep it there till the greenback was as good as it-was. I wore it for a long time, and things looked so bad that I began to despair of ever realizing my expecta- tion. So I put it away-locked it ap out of After a while a change came for the bet. ter, and I took it out once more; but I begin to be atraid that I'l have to lock it up again.\ oom mv mein -~ 6 ~...... . A communication from Rt. Rev. Dr. Foley, the Catholic Bishop of Chicago, states that \the cathedral, six churches, orphan asylums, Houses of the Good Shepard, aud Sisters of Mercy, are all destroyed by the great fire.\ cisely $65,958 of thirteen mill able to pay and eighty 'do' the flop.- erk up in your leaved forward: of the entire debt. re complimenting extinguishment of th mown 0 -# time:. Work is going on in earnest on the Rondout The track layers aro at and but a few days must elapse be- horse will have crossed the Rox- e gangs of men are grading in cods near Moresville. On the ack to Roxbury, which will f November, a new lime-table: our bead over as you would of your neck.. and Oswego Railroad. Halcotville, ug as if your hips | fore the icon the three mile w completion of the tr be about the first o will go into effect.-Kingston Argus. young lady wished a young what papers would she no Observer, but as ma- Nzawsrarers. -I a gentleman to kiss he mention ? No Spectalor, ay Times as you like. . |__ We wish to add that she would like it done. with Dispatch, no Register, or Journal kept of it, and for him not to Herald it..or mention. it to a Recorder, nor Chronicle it should be the on} be excluded as ready to Gazélte it, her lips should 'be lig ourselves that no Arg the only Reflector amployess of the Brook! The daily expense of st ence, material, ect., makes the yearl alone, in a single year, $2,025,750, C 4 p # omnes fellow was entrusted to the who fed the boy poorly. One greyhound, whereupon fellow if he knew what made The reply was : \I expect he A shrewd little care of his uncle, day he happened he asked the little the dog so poor. lives with his uncle.\ AuBaxy's loss b contributed $50,000 more. & is & list of Grand and Petit Ju- serve at a County Court ang Court be held at the Court HGuse in the or the County of Dela-. the 27th day of November, Graxo Jurors. Peter P. Calhoun. W. Osborn. Edgerton. ___ _- © _ . Brown, Edwin Busfield, A. Ten Brogck, James Roxbury-Samue!l L Shout, Patrick LL. Yan t,, Charles Moffatt. tos Steamford-Edward Mclean, Chauncey B. Tompkins-Bilicott Evans, Wim. Close, Squire - 'Pravis, Francis Greenman, Samuel Green- Walton-JFohn W. George W. Fitch, Perit Jurors. Glendonning\ Smith, John Hanford, Huoter, Alston W. Harl- ze W . Stoutenburgh. las, John A.. Bowers, [ oble, Isaac Elderkin. McDonald. Mclaughry, Kii O Roberts} Parker, Alex. Pellett, Teed, Jr., Lacins Bench. Meredith--Lowis B. Strong, Thomas McQui-| yMiddIetown—---W Rozbury--Urio Sidney-- A mos Stamford-J oh ompkins--Augustus Flowers, A. M.. Cable, Sylvester Peck, Sanford Cristian, James Rus- sell, Nathan L. Boyd, Edgar B. Owens. Waltoa-Charles Watrous. rr sll Prying off the Public Debt. Mr. Boutwell, in his s stated that the p m. R. Sanford, Elijah Hewitt. n Ganoupg. Finch, Wir. McClelion. a Thomas. I peech at Cincinnati, ublic dabt on the 1st of March, 1866, was $2,530,763,889,80, and on the Ist of July last he published it in his monthly debt statements as $2,464,805,405,51. By deducting the amount of the debt July 1, 1871, fom what it was March 1, 1866, it will be seen that, ac- cording to the Secretary of the Treasury, it has been reduced in five years and four months pre- 484.29. This being an average ions a year, we will, therefore, be off the entire debt in just one Aundred nine years and siz months, provided nt rate of taxation is kept up. Last year's receipts were $831,398,481- 52-one-third 'This is why the Republicans r. Boutwell for his rapid abroad, I¥er lips y Repository, and the Sun should much as possible. Should a Mes- singér get it, the World would soon know it, for News gre now carried by Telegraph whore it was formerly done by the Courier, who was always In the act, the Press upon d the Union perfect-- that is our Stznderd of kissing-first assuring use eye was upon us, and present the Mirror, The amount of one day's pay of officers and yn Navy Yard, is $5,550. orage, machinery, subsist - is not counted in. 'his amount of salaries and wages yard, in a notoriously perceful A& oo y the Chicago firs (insurance loss) is over $800,000. Her citizens have now | mm -___________ STAMFORD, DELAWARE Co., N. Y., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1971, - _- No. 23, x gfggflflgfimlaflRROR, (if If!“ ($132? and the Tom Murphy Ring. - ~ Tdst of Jurors _ _. ~~~ Twelve Hundred Read at Peshtigo-As Many . More at Chreen Bay, _. .c; Minwauke®, October 15th. - Laterngcoonts from Northern. Wisconsin confirm all previous reports and rumors. 'Phe loss of life th the neighborhood of Peshtigo will reach overtwelva hundred. Fifteen per cent: of those injured can- not recover. > _ 0 ~ <octE o sages A member of therelief committeo.'sent from Milwankeg with applies, fays the only survivors were those who were fortunate enough to reach the water, many throwing themselves 40to- mill poads. clioging to floating logas . A nuinber of these were drowned by being thrown from the logs by maddened horses and eattle that. rushed Into tho. water. | 'The fire swept over a tract of country eight or ten miles wide. Every baild- ing, fence, and all the timber. were completely destroyed. 'The pasnlafiou of. Peshtigo num- bered 2000, one third of whom perfahed:that fear- fal night, Reports from. the east shorg of Gréon Bay place the logs of life fully as high as at Pash- tigo. . The same acooint states: that the imme- | diate wants of the people are supplied, but large amounts of provisions and clothing will bo re- quired for the coming winter, 'The Mayor of Milwnaukes has issued an appeal to:the-people'of the country for aid. 6 The 'Torrible Hurricans at Halifax, - Bostox, Mass., Oct. 16.-Hallfax despatches estimate the damage by the late. hurricano at $200,000. to y, hol, The shorea of Halifax harbor on Friday morn- ing presented an appearance of wreck and 'ruin never seen before. Wharves were shatterdd ; several vessels high and dry and othars dismas- ted,. Altogether,; some thirty vessels, mostly figher- men, suffered. | 'The bark Fannie, from Philadel- phia for Europe, was wrecked and a portion of ber cargo strewn aloug the shore. ‘ The schooner W, H. Hatheld, from New York was dismasted and her huil stove in. 'Three men were drowned off the harbor while sotting nets. The railway track from Halifax | to Bedford, was damaged to the extent of $10,000. ~ . nik >* Heavy Show» Storms in the West. ~ j‘f, Orana, Oct. 14.-Thero was a ¥ory 'severo enow storm on Thursday last flea}: Rawlins sta- tion, Wyomiog. 'The snow was hreo snd four feet deep in some places. Passengers on, the traing NEON; they were delayed twelve hours, with nothing to eat and very little fael, ° CHr1oago, October 15.-No sang mat would look at Chicago to-day and laugh It is too grim. 'Ten thousand men are bankrupt ; 75,000 women and children are homeless and penniless nay, worse, hundreds of calcined corpses are still entombed in these ifhmfly cellurs, the aily tissue mingling insiduously with the air we breathe, - and the gaunt, friable bones turning to oxide of lime, | It is assuredly a spectacle for tears, un- less we are to ndogb tke Oriental indifference to the misery of our kind. l. The Ohio election resulted more favorably to the Democracy than could have been expected. The canvass for the w@overnorehip was virtually abandoned two weoeks after the nomination. Our candidate for Governor, who had made ar- rangements to stump the State, was. taken sick and abandoned the fisld. Rumors of insanity followed and this tended to demoralizg' the Ds- reocraty. | But notwithstguding this, the Deino- jorsts made a good fight for the Lepislature, electing over one half ofthe Senate, thre mak» ing a majority in that body. In the House the | Republicans have but 18 majority. a * ' At almost every step in life wo meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderfal things, but of, whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear a word. 'The effervescence of youth and passion, and the fresh gloss of intelieet . and imagination, endow them with & false brilliancy, which makes fools of themselves and oflier .peos ple,. Like certain cbintzes, calicoes and ging hams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stund the sun and the rain, and assunic a very sober aspect after washing-day, | _. s ow = - ... - A good story is told of {popular railroad con- ductor, recently chosen dercon of a church in Middlesex county, Mags. A few Sundays ago it became his duty to gesist in takicg up a col- lection. He surprised the congregation by start- ing out with the chargeteristic ejaculation, \Tick. ete, gentlemen !' 'The contributions that day was unusually large. ; A. three-year old boy in Iown City recently fell on an open knife, which divided the jugular vein. The blood sparted forth, when the boy's mother with great presence of mind, caught the severed vein in her hand and held it \two hours, until a surgeon could arrive. The latter mended the break, and the boy is recovering. \ an.. fim. attics, ie R \I have this evening been preaching to a con- gregation of aeses,\ miid a conceited young pare son, | \'Then that was the reason you called them \beloved brethren,\ replied a strong-minded lady:
