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Busine ss Directory. Wickham & Ca s e , ATTOBNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW , BOUTHO J LP . L I. •• A. L. Sweet , M. D. ( Physician and ' Surgeon , SOUTHOLD . L. !. _. ¦ 9\ Calls by day or tight promptly attended to. C. M. Ledyard , 7. Commission Merchant, SOUTHOLD , L. I. Dt7~ Fruits , Vegetable! , mnd Prodnoe Mat abroad on iKiisounble commission. Good returns guaran- teed. . . I hIso buy nnd sell for cash , Fruits , Vegetable * . Visit*. Poult ry, Butter , E ggs , etc. Suff olk County M utual In- surance Company. I I- H- CASH , FltK KtDKXT A5CD TbEASUBEB , IVcouic , Ij . I. \ . II . OVEUTOX , Kr.cnF.TAnT , rec onle , I.. I. ; 7s\ 11. PliTTY , KSU.. AxroiiNnr , itirerhead , L. X. W m. H- Terry, Practical Undertaker , A*n> SEALFB ur IFurnitnre &> Hardware , BOUTHOLP. I f. I. Israel P eck , rBoramoB or xsnt Suffolk County Nursery. 80UTHOLD , N. Y. B!J- Fruit , Shade, and Evergreen and Datdlnon * Orurunental Tree * , fer sale. Geo. O. Terry, Sealer in CO A IL* and WOOI> , SOUTHOLD , Ii. L Yard at Terry ' s Wharf. Richard Carpenter, T A I-IV O R. SOTJTHOLD , L. I. BW The latest fashions , and low priese—ter nit the times. C. M. Terr y, DENTIST BXVEBHEAD , It. I. ¦ V I warran t all my work , which is as good a* tsdneement as I can oner to the public for Its pat * f onaga. ' T. BAUMaNll7~ r HiixT »esas» MaJk ex- and Ciu> x*iazjre TriM im»r , Al so DEAI.CB In wrenB OABBIAOE and WORK BoCTBOIiD , L. I. All kinds of repairinjr done in a workmanlike nupi^r at reasonable prices. 80UTH0LD SAVINGS BANK. IN THE VILLAGE OF BOUTHOLD , Is open Daily from lb o ' clock A. M. to 1 o ' clock P. If. TRUSTERS i BENBBEIiAER T. GOLDSMITH , President ffi&x '&MM?* ' } Vice-Presidents. REMIT HUWTTIKa, Treasurer and Secretary. WM. WIOJ CHAH, Attorney and Counselor. Joseph Latham, Eire L. Ooldsmith, Henr yjrTerr y, HutoHnjon BrC sss, Aumutu * J erome , John B, Howell, &t$ssf- w dsfA. t Moses 0. cfeyeland, . „ BarSba s H. Booth! ¦ • • T homas A. 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It seems to be an extension of the great famine in India. -—Fourteen children and three teach- ers were drowned by the capsizing of a boat in the River xtlaokwater , near the town of Bailieboro ogh , county Cavan , Lreland. - —A lar ge gang of laborersv at work in Washington at 60 cents per day were driven from the work by organi zed par- ties , and the police had to be oalled in to prevent violence. . —The West has again been visited b y serious storms , and much damage has been done in several localities. —All the Powers except Turkey have ratified the Berlin treaty. —Lord Salisbury says that England has no secret engagements for the fa- tore. —The number of Paris exhibition medals has been increased. —Further Bulgarian outrages are re- ported. —Internal Revenue reports \ show a decrease for 1878 of nearly $8 , 000 , 000. —The British ship Loch Ard , Gap- tain Gibbs , from London for Melbour ne , with a cargo valued at $350 , 000., was lost hear Cape Otway on the morning of June 1. Miss Evey Carmiohael was the only passenger saved out of seventeen , and a midshipman named Thomas Pearoe is the sole survivor of a crew numbering thirty-two. Forty-seven lives lost. —A special dispatch from Ameriou s r Oa., announces the receipt and sale at that port of the first bale of new cotton. —Valuable pine forests on the Tipper Ottawa river , in Canada , are being swept by fire. —A stage from Deadwood to Cheyenne was stopped near Lightning Creek by six masked men , who rifled the mail sacks , stealing the registered letters. They forbore to rob Rev. J. W. Pickett , the only passen ger. —The nailmakers on a strike in: the Old Hill, Dudley, Rowly and Hale ' s Owen (Harriots , England , for an advance of thirty per. cent , in their wages , .num- ber 2£, 000 , They express an unanimous determination to hold out. . —The English Government says the Sohouvalofi-Sa lisbnry agreement cannot be produced. —Turk ey has virtuall y agreed to Aus- tria ' s demands regarding Bosnia. —D eaths from yellow fever ore re- ported in New Orlean s. —Au stria is preparing for trouble in Bo snia. —T he Italian agitators have held meetin gs in a number of cities. . —-Pre sident MaoMahon has signed the Be rlin Trea ty. . —The evacuation of the Shumla forts continues , -— Captain Bogardus won the return pigeon shooting match in England. —The schooner Par allel reports that off the the coast , about one hundred , miles north of S an Franc isco , the fell in with a Ja panese junk. There was not , a living person on board , but a number of corpses were found , s ome shackled t ogether. They must have , been dead a m onth £t least. ' Some of the b odies were dressed in costly mate- rial. Ther e was no food on the Teasel. —The Secretary of the Treasury has made a call for $ 6 , 000 , 000 mora bonds. —The New York State) convention of Nationals met at S y racuse , and chose Mr. Fer guMou as temporary chairman. After on excited contest , ali o!'the four New York dele gations were entirely thrown out of the convention , and the latter then wont off and resolved to hold a convention of their own, —In Ohio , the Nation als adopted a platform and nominated Andrew Roy for secret ary of state . The platform denounces almost all the f in a ncial acta passed by„ Gongress durin g and since tho war , and makes many demands in the name of t he workingme n. A move- ment favorin g repudiation was silenced by a s peech from Gen. S. F. Gar y. —Northern Peru bos developed a new industry by k i dnappin g unfortunat e Obinamea and Bellin g thorn into some- thing like slavery. —The defalcation of tho treasurer of tho Boston Boltin g Company is runnin g well u p toward the respectable figure of a million dollars . It is the old story of rcokloflfl s peau, ' .ation, —The worked out coal mine near Pittston , which has boon on fire for more than a year , has baen surrounded by a deep outlin e;, so that the adjoinin g min- in g property is removed from all danger. Tho work is re garded as a good deal of a . triumph in en gineering, —-Reports from the Mennonite settle- ment ,, forty miles north from Yankton , D. T., bring the intelligence of a cloud burst in that region , submerging a large portion of the country and drowning seven persons. The west branch of Ver- milion river , which is ordinarily two rods wide , is filled to a width of over a mile and a depth of from ten to thirty feet. Mi tch destruction of property is reported. —Wilson Howohins , living near Flov- anna 0. H., Va., murdered his wife , his mother-in-law and his child , and then kitted himself. , ' -^-There will not be an international rifle match this year. —From San Antonia comes news that the Diaz farces have oaptured the Lerd- isto General Esoobedo. If this proves true it may be an important event for the Mexisan government. —Secretary Sohurz , in reviewing a decision , on the rights of settlers , de- clares that a Kansas settler who attempt- ed to pre-empt a * farm on the Kansas PaoifioV land had a right to do so. —Minnie Warren , the well-known dwarf , sister to Tom Thumb' s wife , died atFall Biver , Mass., in childbirth. —The Democrats of Texas nominated Judge , Roberts for Governor. —A frightful explosion of a boiler at- tached to a threshing machine tookpLwe on a farm near Belleville , 111. Two men were instantly killed ,. two mortall y wounded and three others severel y in- jured. ' —A balloonist named S. D. Atobinaon fell a distance of 200 feet while nna lri»ig an aseension at Elmwood , I1L , and was instantl y killed. —A miner named John Strumminick , working . at the Thomas collier y in Shen- andoah , Pa., while jumping from a car in the slope lost his foothold and was precipitated to the bottom , a distance of 100 yards. He was horribl y mangled and will not recover. —The town of Gatlettsburg, Ky., was almost entirel y destroyed by fire. The loss is heavy. —The workshops of tho new State prison at Concord , Mass., were burned , with a loss estimated at $160 , 000. —Letters from Rev. Mr. Butler , a missipnary at Labrador , state that the reports oj ^e recent famine were ver y muc& ex(Qr ge iate <i. ; Sui cide on ExklMtfon. A dramatic suicide oooorred at Capron , DX A local dispatch says : Early in May last George W. Burleigh , wto was an old resident of Ohio , -rune to this town ostensib ly to start a wnsorial . es- tablishment. Burleigh was a man of varied accomplishments. He had a fine education , antrVas versatile in conver- sation. While at Capron he was often in depressed spirits. On Sunday he published a card informin g the citizens that , in order to gratify an often ex- pressed curiosity on the .part of his townsmen to witness some each tragedy as the hanging of Sherry and Connoll y, in Obioago , he would on the evening of the 28d mst. deliver a lecture in Thorn- ton Hall , and at its - oonoluunon gratif y his hearers by shooting himself throu gh the forehead. The price of admission would be $1 , and the am ount realized should be used in his funeral expenses , and the remainder be invested in the works of Huxley, Tyndkll and Darwin for the town library. His idea in ending his lift , was to secure eternal peace by annihilation. At the apponttedtime the hall was crowded , and alter the delivery of an infidel .lecture of wonderful power , in a manner and tone which marked him a s an ade p t , he suddenly drew a Der- ringer , p l a ced i t t o his for e head , and , despite attem pts to prevent the rash deed , fir e d a rd f ell i nt o the a rms o f two friends who were on the wings of . the stage for the purpose of hindering the execution of the design, The large- s i zed bullet literall y tore hi s brain to pi eces. He left a request that bis bod y be forwarded to Cincinnati friends. ITEMS OF INTEREST. —Reports from Cork aver that the potato disease is universal over the scuth of Ireland. —Possibl y truthful sign on a chearj store : \ Don 't go anywhere else to be robbed—-step right in here. \ - K —There are several editorial positions at present vacant in Germ any, 250 writers for the press being in prison. —A paral ytic woman in a Frenoh .hos- pital was cured by sudden fright at the murderous feats of an escaped lunatic. —If r. Thomas Mort , who spent $500 , - 000 tiying to solve the problem of send- ing frozen meat to England , has died in Australia. —If it is true , as stated , that whisky is good for snake bites , one may judge from appearances that there are. many snakes in Albany. — \A schooner of beer for five cents, \ is translated b y a French newspaper so as to read , \ In America you can get a boat full of beer for five cents. \ —A dog is always restless and uneasy, unless he has fleas enough to keep his mind and claws busy. Some peop le are the same with regard to trouble. —Any geologist will tell you that every flint was formerly a sponge , and every man who runs a free lunch trap will tell you that a \ sponge \ .is always a \ hard case. \ - —The secret of war has been well de- fined by an unknown Chinese author : \ Soldier he come on , he come on , he come on quite near , we go way. How can two men stand on one spot , so ?\ — \ What fine dark hair you have got , Miss M- 1 My wife , who is much younger than you , has her hair quite gray /' \ Indeed , \ rejoinedMisa M- \ If I had been your wife my hair no doubt had been gray too. \ —If a . shop boy has a load of tinware to take out he invariably chooses the sunny side of the street and the hottest hour of the day for his errand , so that all persons near can enjoy the reflections oast by his pans and pails. —There is a jai l at Deadwood , a log hut 30x20 , within which is a smaller one with iron grating doors. It is white- washed and surrounded by a six-foot fence. The guard is composed of one muscular man and four bull do «, s. —A bullock, the property of a farme r near Peterborough , in England , tossed a boy six years old , who was feeding it , into a dyke of water. The animal then jumped on the child , and lay. on him in the . water until life was extinct. ; . . —This is from the Latin , and ought to be remembered : Opportunity , has hair in front ; behind she is bald. If you seize her C y the forelock you may hold her , but if suffered to escape not Jupiter himself can catch her again. ^ —MaoMahon is said not to >be over felioitious in his remarks. , Pa s sing through a hospital in Paris , he was fold that a patient had meningitis. \Avery bad disease , \ said MaoMahon. \It either kills you or leaves yon demented. I h ave had it myself. —It takes one hundred and twenty- three trunks , paekageiv and parcels to contain the traveling outfit of James Gor don Bennett and sister. A. family of eight persons out West ear. travel from p lace to p lace wi th no more lu gg a ge than a tobacco box and a dog. —It is probably not an exorbi tant es- timate , says Dr. Foote ' s Heidth M onth- ly, t hat we quote from a wester n paper to the effect -that over . seven. ' milli on pounds of patent purgati re p i l l s ore manufactured uaoh year. BuA then there are forty million people to take them. —Some offic ers of the Jewish syna- g o g ue in Liv e r p ool wer e lately t r ie d for cruel t y t o animals in allowin g a bullock to bl e ed to d eath , instead of slau ghter- in g him in the usual way. Profe ssional ex perts testified that there was no cruel- ty in it , and t he charge was dismissed. —Master Borden , of Fall River , a g ed six , nnd Miss Fa s h , a g ed f our , eloped , or rat h er embarked on a train to el o pe , when t he cavali e r ' s heart failed him and he j um p ed , leaving his inamorata t o be carried t o tho nex t station , whenc e t h e conduct or sent her back. -When l ittle Thomas stoops to toy with berri es , jam and jelly cake , no art can s oothe tho chastened boy—no nos- trums ea se his stomach ache. And if the griping pains -def y the m e d i c i nes prescribed to foil , his parents will do well t o try tho limpid liquid castor oil. — Fulton Time* , —Sir Garnet Wolsoloy ' s salary as Gov- ernor of O ypru a in £5 , 0 00 a year, The garrison is t o consist of 10 , 000 men , 7 , - 000 of them natives of Ind ia, and , no* cordin g to tho Spectator , will cost £1 , - 000 , 000 a year. This , with \ improve- raon t s , \ e tc., the same p aper t hi n k s , will make the is land cost Groat Britain at least £ 2 , 000, 00 0 a year for ten y ears , after which it may possibly pay its own expenses. —An item is going the rounds of the nrn aa to the offoot thut a SUM cure for di phtheria is sulphur , either aa » local a pplication or placed in quantities of \one or two toaspo enfuls on burn ing coals , lotting the pat ient inhale the fames. \ Dr. E , Wengev , of GUmon , I II. advises any one intending to try this remedy first to Inhale the sulp hur fames from a burn ing match , and t hen to form some Idea of the effect o f two teaspoonfnl s of sulphu r on tho pa tient, —A tramp knookod at the door, and , uneipentodly, the head of the family d poned it. \ Young m«ui , \ aaid the lat- ter , \ I landed how twenty y«»» •fro . » worse times than the pre sent with two shillin g s , and washed dishes in the country for a livin g, and now look at me ?\ And he threw bis chest ont and beamed. \ Sit, \ replied the tramp, '• can yon direct roe to anybody who has a lot of di shes to oIaou ?\ On the 33d of Jnne an attack was made by brigands upon the village of Tbor , in the S panish , province of Catalonia, while the population were at church. Eleven men , armed with daggers and revolvers , posted tborjMHlvoa at various points , six of them going to the church. Four stood at the door to prevent e g ress , while two walked b oldl y in and o rdered the p riest to conduct tliom into the vestry. After rifling his pockets there , and takin g all the valuab les pertaining to the altar , thoy conducted him back , and with a low bow , naked him to continue the moss. They em ptied the pockets of the principal members of tho con g regation , and then conduc ted thorn home by turns , takin g all valuable article s thoro which wore porta- ble. After this they were reconducted to the* chunk and guarded. The richest man .of tho . placet named Ohan so , was not only ro b b e d , but carried off to a nei ghboring wood with his valet. In the - evening, tho vn lot was sent to C hanso ' s relatives with a request for $4 , 000 as ransom , if they wished to pre * serve his life. In the meantim e , the nei ghboring villages were aroused , the forest was tMor oiiod , and three o f t he br igands woro caught. Tho rest escaped , and Ohanso was saved. i Fighting Brigands. , The Smallest of Mothers. The St. Louis Timea says : Mrs. W. H. Bristol , better known as Fannie Bur- dette , who has been traveling for years with Forepaugh' s circus , gave birth on Wednesday night , ir, the Commercial Hotel, to a child weigfling eight pounds. The mother weighs about fifty pounds and is only thirty-two inches in stature. Her husband is of full size , being six feet in height and weighin g 145 pounds. The infant was healthy and well devel- oped , but in order to save the life of the mother it was necessar y to sacrifice it The pangs of maternity lasted seven hours , beginning at eight a. x. and end- ing at three p. it , and had the little woman not pos sesse d an iron constitu- tion she must have died. During the whole of these long hoars of agony she maintained almost complete silence , ut- tering only lew moans , and straggling against all extraore unary exhibitions of pain. The coup le -have been married two years , and this is their second child. The first was much smaller and was still- born. Mr. Bristol was formerly a door- keeper in the employ of Forepaugh' s circus - , and in this capacity became ac- quainted with his wife , who was then traveling under the management of that show with a twin brother , who is an inch shorter than herself. They were called the Burdette twins , and always traveled together until Mrs. Burdette ' s confinement last spring . wben the brother continued the engagement alone. They are in the twenty-first year of their age. Mrs. Bristol was born in Montgomery county, Md., on a farm near the village of Damascus , where her parents still dwell. She has a brother and a sister of the ordinary size , and her father is above six feet. The old man Smith is a self-sufficient sort o f c : d fellow , and prizes himself u pon his ridin g abilities, One day he es p i e d hi s y oun g hopeful leadin g a c o lt to wat er rather gingerl y, and r e marked : \ Wh y 02 earth don 't you ride that b east ?\ \ I' m 'frsid to; 'fr oid he 'll thr o w me/' \ Brin g that boss here , \ sna pp ed the old man. The colt was ur g ed u p to the fence , and b race d on o ne side b y the boy while t he old man climbed on to the rails and stocked himself on th e colt' s back. ' Then he wa s let g o , and th e o l d g entleman r o de p roudl y off. Paralysed by fear the c o lt went s l owly for about tw enty rods with out a demonstration. Then like li ghtning his four logs bunched togeth- er , his back bowed like ft viaduct arch and t h e old man shot u p in t he air , turned seven se parate and distinct somersaults an d lit .on the small of his back in the middle of the rood , with both le gs twist- ed around bis neck. Hasteni ng to him tho young hopeful anxiously inquired : \XMdft hurt you , po ?\ The old man rose slowly, shook out tho knots in his le gs, brushed the dust from his earn and h air , and rubbing his brusod elbows , g rowled : \ Well , it didn 't do sne a darn bit of good. Yon go home. \ A fflplesEatle Answer. A latter from Vir ginia City says ;— This is a terrible place for gambling. Faro is tho favorite game , .but for those who like it therois als o poker (unlimited) kono , sixty-six and euchre , One man had a marvellous slice of lack. He started in to play * f &ro ; ho played thirty , two hours without stoppin g or sleeping, ard eatin g a hasty bite as he played. Lost $ 1 1 , 000 in that time, was nearly broke—bein g left with hut $30 or so , which he staked—ho was so exhausted that he fell asleep ; and ' yet so excited was the brain that he oonttaued auto- matically to play, knowing noth ing. Br this time there was a crowd around. Well , he actua lly won foaolc all he had lost an d about $18 , 000 besides. He would probabl y continu ed on playing, but he burst the bank. It was only then that t he spectato rs discovered ho had been slee ping. Eye witnosse s state that when he was awakened , he was the most aston- i shed man they, ever saw, thou g h he mana ged to wa lk off quite comfortably with $38 , 0 $0. . A Gambl in g Story , -A CsUlfornla Mining Story. Not mra y utiles from Shasta City is the gulch , of which the following min- in g, story ia told : It is a pretty deep ra- vine , with rocks showing all the way up the sides. Gold in paying quantities had been found along the stream but it seemed to disap pear a few feet from the chan nel. On e day, while a gang of busy men were toiling in the stream , a stranger , evi- dentl y green at mining, , c am« along and l eaned on ragged elbows to ' •watch , with protruding eyes , the results of their toil. The min er nearest him took out a $6 nagget , and anxiety overcame the greenhorn. \ S-o-o-y, \ he asked , \ where can I go to diggin ' to find it like that ?\ ' The hardy miner stopped his w o rk , and giving the wink to all the nays , so tasn »w jokb saouia not ue ion , p oin t ed u p on the barren rooks where no go ld had ever , been found. \Ye see the t rough looldn * place ?\ \ Yes , y es , \ said th e now hand. \ Well , tbor it is rich. Jes ye stake out a claim , an g o tor . work , an when w e finish here we 'll come u p , too, \ Th e n the new hand thanked the honest miner , and the boys all grinned appreciation of the jeke. Ts ktt afternoon there was a solitary fi g- ure p ickin g awa y o n the slo p e , and every time the m iners looked up they r oared with laughter. Bnt about the next day the greenhorn struck a pocket , and took ont somethin g like $80 , 000 in a few min atoa. Then ' , innocent t o the last , he treated al l around , and ' thanked the miner who sent him u p there , and to ok his money and went down into the valley and bou ght him a farm. Then the unha ppy miners arose , leaving their old cl aims and dotted that hill-side for days , but thoro were no more pockets anywhere in the nei ghborhood ,
