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- JOHM H. REED, Eemor& Prorunctox.] \NO. 19, VOL. IV. _- BUY \'Where you can buy _... “um-ls 8oUuTH mi; R OF L L FROM NEW YORK. | Bpringtield las the Cheapest. _ |rammmcome ...l. so 00 is 0 ss \ | Rockville Cunter .... . 80 as ss -- | Baldwlville 35 so 715 acs ' Freeport at J s wt having parchased the Stare lately || ar 85 Is h -_1 hifumpit , Ridgemood 42 a ; Bouth Oysterbay ...... 45 so 421 (P/H. Weyant & Do., ,. .).. Lat # & mm L. Babylon and Service . 50 2g so , * Iayshore: l. 65 r \of the Trading Pab- to K m ° llll . 60 80 1 ”afimm-Mu Mam“. is #5 mu Detnines, Ginghems, Muslins, Al- Buyyille To #0 108 | paceas Mohair Claths, Fivicy Dreas Bike Point ta or dor y is Goods, Hartheare, Weud Patchogue... i...... T5 #s tio ba'k Wure, &c, do., ' -- | - of which intend to se Lat avery senall ELECTION NOTECE. automate mol - - PhReroN 2 | @ooth : Orries or nex Sel acrant or brorm GROCERIES, of all kinds, Albany, A-nn 1, toes. HARDWARE, a General Assortment, \%b {U (e County t Garen + Genta! Eire. BOOTS & SHOES, a General antértment, thin to ix “W5?- Tr Ea'ifiwfii HOOP BKIRTS.a genefAl amsortment, (h; At! NORMAL iy, next the \WOOD WARE, a General ashortment, , A Ghorervor in the place of Reahen E. Fan (autumn n Osman! mum, A Uentmumnt. Governor, in. the place of mL Woodard ‘ 1 esioner, in the of Rob C. Dorn. Enosits atts « As ofdrat Prison; Pace of Hewer A. | 'Genemat an mufimvao‘rfr'flfm‘ I A Cleribofthe Court of Appeais, t. the piace or Pat. | DRESS TRIMMINGS, a General ass't, |, All bore 01 ofice will etre on t a ast day of \. HERLINE p gor ann Rtertors of Probléaband VePrendent FEANNELS & SHTRTINGS @ gon aartt. |, mative In the Pofty Ares Congrene of the | yang\ BOYS' HATS CAPS a Lflh'fifldfl“: st Guest Michmood and | heral assortment, STATIONEIY, a General Assortment, | COUNTY OFFICERS-Also to be elected for | CL THS, a General Assor a. { READY MADE CLOTHING, agon Amor, | WISE\? inane r w. Downing. = Genomnl- Wiliam @LABSIWA Assortment, | AB «of tie Jn the EARTHEN W AIE, a GeneFni Assortment, Two Justic's of Sesstans, in the place of Waiter Prank. CLOAKING, a Geneal Amortment, ln and Jene\ M. HOBIERY & gum-1 Assortment Twp Commie to the Pa of A. Rosman 2-3 YANKEE NOTIONS, a gent mmmort't, of occasioned by i i qualty ni Georee Downing. | PAINTS, OTL&& BRUSRES, a gen'l amont., All Whose tame of othon wih arpire on the inse aay of | BALMORAL 8KIRTS, a gen'l mmsorty HERD rou. Ae.. ' WOOLFN GOOD8, a General Assortinent, | HOMER A. NELSON, Sreretary of State. CO TON & WADDING, a gen uss, TABLE COVEIS, a General Assortment, UERIFES CPPICK, L YARNS & ZEPHYR Wornteds of all kinds, Joris, Querne On 'M, Y. iy ar a w, copy ota tt om the Recresar certify that the above dar received by me, we intend to. keep 1B ids of Goode requisite | ~FOR THE COUNTRY TRADE, | Ou I'lqfl—ry Department. as. Reretorore, wilibs con- - Haz reduget the Mrs. Losea, { WINDOW PAPERS, |- Dated Angas ' '''CsonbR punuaxb, sher. I wixpow sHAaDES, ams wesnene ettectee mntece sHape rixttms THOMAS R. AGNEW, \ WALL Papal, «C. £0 860 & 262 GREENWICH ST., | CoRNIER CF MCKEAY 8 | New york, pref Thas, coppiies stoaR. LOUK andall dads of GROCERI Ms, From 10 to 20 per cent. With whose mustetwnoe we will it to please ind accom» BBCP JAPAN Tred. an on, newt BREAKFAST TRA. 61 on. an sehe etre cal. We lavite #5 ThA, 20 Cents. COPPRK® MOARTRD «nd GROUND, 1 Cente to to , . (Beat In market) (Vin. Kmbfll lllll remains with us,) of goods, and make | 1000 B ures PL.008, all r ml-mflullkm ing ex in Peay then h my wl Bawity cheaper than aur Stare in New Yok Ar we l- .filfli'fl. We 1,0dn Barrels IBM“! 0, and P. Rt wfi h.m\‘.~ nll Wag, (THOUAK R AGNEW ontuples hie own storm. owns | lant Pal hall‘s-mt; Mum“ hie E. PIANK COE'8 nwmmhmrfiy-fl“ 6, IXPF-ziu'fllil OFP (y onx c. max, tle at $88 par tim. | No. 10 Rast ourth Ht., wht tiee co pou Ant gee Coote compere enumWJ-nwlw Jan-guE'Ln-lnmfih Phranastxn, 1897. we ‘.....‘r:.==.':...... flick Good le-flzyuuum Orders for dipment and wreign orders speciaity atten- dod to. Yi Premium. Afffor Midale: dvandadby Anferican | Institute to . JOHN C In100, 1644. 16% and 1050, Also Gold Medal at the - vauma/yq my $8 BOWERY, N. Y | .. In inny < mmwmmn asr wan-manhu- An . @erttemen'a mflh ot mama“ warcme or Aut rie marr at mrotom rrioks. ASSORTMENT OF OBD stLYPX Coops « w epoing y PRESENTS _ At ticir varcams. Richest and Hamdroment Patiorna of Biteer- mhlflbflhln’n Clothing! w.:..wn.n!, CLOTIHEH that in: consequence of the | un- him aluce hle en- 58 rem STREET, nu-mflmlfimmmm infarge. ment and I andl in addition io bie Hock, bock u Nem aut eod In stder to give Tapldly Inccesaing Demais m in tal he bas wich himself his inoihery Mr. J. Tayler Wilde, perde ara cod mat rag Cig delt heh colle ol “Tm-h:- af “tn-1mm Pour she o Chenier Trade w aik v2 BOYS CLOTHING! - Will hereafier be mde more thm ever A SPECIALITY This Depat imens ass been theroughly reongeuieed. THE MOST COMPETENT & SKILLFUL SERVICES OBTAINED ! In all branches f “mica-awful: ©0008, SELECTED FR ALL TME RINCIPAL MOUSES in WEW YORK and warranted to be of the heat produced in this conatry | wor Imported.. These haye been manurnciured in. she Must THOROUGH AND CARKPCUL MANNER taro Suits of Every Descripiion, Siyle, Size and Fashion ! Forming the TIIE LARGEST AND MOST COM- PLETE STOCK OF CLOTHING ! to be found In New York or. Js vitnity, All our Goode | we bought for Casa at the lowent ruse, «nd will be sold ! wklow The pmors or any orie : Thelmaectfltboh 'The Best Garmen! The Lowest IN THE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT. Custom Dopu'hnoni atiencJon wi!l also be given to the GEN- ART Deval the reputadon ot whici is populssiy ackno w be to none F good choire 4, welerddons of elegant and dora: eton nad. domenile: welt he coustantly add- w mees vie domands or the seasons. and wo sacs y the | Pj aste of she mont tnvidtous. W. L. WILDE & | 53 Fourth t., and 98 Broadway B OOKLYN, E. D. w. .. wiuor. afi un ___ a Tavior whioe LORD a» TAYLOR, mroe. 461, 448, 46 and 467 roadway.) Co ner of Grand Mizeet | waw your. whl, uss, ast, Peo, and 26% Grand Me , Corner of Chrlasie Street, orren at Retail An Unusually Attractive Stock of New and TYASHIONABLL DRT £00305 Imported by themselves expresily for the foevé CITY RETAIL TRADE. 'They are also Dally Recatving From Auctionar yhu, Look or Fall and Winter Fabrics, Including Aitys, Drom Goode, Mew for Baite, Shaws, Closke, White Goode, Hosiery and Up- holstery Goode, wilt be sold ./ n AT A VERY SMALL ADVANCE gusts - AT THE GRAND STREET ONLY, uepets, Mattromen, viding in Great Variety Nery Low wnormmata Nos, #61 to 467 Dun-n, am a w\ has rue up their shreda of dry | W bark.... The shart HUI-huh. the , ground of the fares. burnt in askes or char- lm from mere ' “Chill\ a mu ne av, Srom sii Alk. allvoos grt di “nah-rink- - * red to black sess, and thousatice of the trunks hm-w-ndhm ha. ~- pun-mu..- and buaochloas All these firek ow. - the melancholy monuments of he conflagra-\ feceiv@ that great aud \Wi And Jerus took the loaves; and when be) tion, Where the fire. hewaver, has been pest | which came. Consumed \with i% us in | had given thankghe to the disclbies same time, the ghibs is springing green Jim the Australis bush daringthe viii ihe | and the disciptes to them that were set down. emerald ; the shrubs are again protruiog f ash | of all ordioary yhars the Wuk This year -John vi. > ssema from the earth ; and the trees, as If In- vised wii au y 15d Titihee and Bread, broad, my soul ortes !Iving bread, Ob Father, hear my d Though every other | Thou canst my waut supply : | The livieg: yead, 1 vigoonied by the fire, are pating lune-n! shoots and leaves ull the wey “P111“ In fat, the Mimos (ribe, the Wpul ®, “a. ayself thou ari, ally vejatce in a scorching; and when _| | Ob feed my bung' ll... taloting bedi. fires desitoy wie Bucalynj}6. trees, they up and succerd 1 is eustoinacy Too long I've grumbled oer a crust, de of the Wattlés, to therefore, in pianiing anns bake ay pluage them Into boiling wate. or scorch them Tlll gu- hunger, bursing thirst; l {whit dumb ; ~~ bere putting ther Into the earth, But now I hear in my despair; At the cause 07 hese bush fires cvery rim- Thou hast enough, enosgh to spare. wer are auffciently pattent to. obserrailon, Both pative and coldtiféts, who oilt in the Bread, living bread, that I may live And thrive before thy lace ; bush, make fires, leave them g when A full \Wk!“ 1 my fin. they go away. Sree are good. dfly tia lmmnlouhunympun minimum-03 or fallen truuk ol. a tree, Beboid the mtikitude who ful you may see \“'”““~ we yee Iravel through m willl Burning. The These three ditys we hate inger'd rond, trunks ojrees will burn on for weeks. Theis In thy diaciples wake: | want therefore, fo the summer, only a little Oh bid us ait apon the ground, wind to blow the sparks or fames of these fires And bless tae bread sod brook : Bless Lord; mum-puma“ Into the dry grass,and s bush fire ia jnevitable., Break to each souls capacity. I have myscif seen bullock-drfvers make a Are at noon to cook their dinners as they haled on the read, go away and feave It burulug, and Th Jew than balf an hour aRerwards Itis canght the grass.and has spread over an Inconceivable extent of the forest, In a tew hou' such a fire, wiil a breexe will have raged through miles of | forest; and will not stop UIN Its progress Is i~ winnmonflynfi‘n“ These barley loaves unto the taste Are like to finest whent ; How pleasant in this mountains waste, Wito thee, my Lord, 'o eats Dows to the grass flow sigiif bf good, Whea man partakes of heavélily food. “flhflw The soverigu Lord of all ; And every soul that mery proves, (fue ohm. gram. You es, as you travel on dflfiW’db cbustat evidencos of theas fires sweeping along or d interior “in ® l-ilu.. tie mountains to the very tops olesitng. evaiy- but the largest And io#t solid trees be- ”L4- these accidental canses,now Inowioul- ab?b Increased by the sens of thousands of dig-} ger who are iraversing. the country in all dle recifons, and who make fires at eveiy healilag p-ace, the natives set fire to the bush to d 're out the game, which hey stwod prepared to at- sack In ife flight ; and also to destroy the long Black Thurscay is one of the most. remarka- | #7 81988 abd make It give place to young | b'e days to the aomals of Australia, JFis a day , *W9¢t fraa, 69 which the kanga?oos and oh- as freqnenily referred to by. the people in this # AM wit? fed more Iixurtanity. They are colony, as innt of the Revolution of 7868 in 2 the bab, tob, of burking the forest to cut ( England, of the first Devolution in Frubce, or | ofl tae pussfit, or the drive before them aooth- 0? ibe establishment of ludependaace in the U- ° and hostile trike, | nlued Bates of America. Great political events| The squatiate fire the foreft on the same have, es yet, bad a rare rocurrence in. this ool. Pr'atipal as the matives in one respect ;. that is, | ony ; national ones are but twa-the discovery | to destroy the bourse grass snd obtain young, af guid, aud the accurrence of she Great Dusk | (res' pastures. They do bu¥n up their stub- | Fire, par exo#fférreo, of Thursday the Oth ef: bis of some geoerafl} conserted day, which \ Febromy, 1831. 'That in a day. memorable in | hen communicatiog its fame, in meay | ste popular mind for he tersible and unerimp. | localities, to the forest, produces ex- ' led devasta fon, and whitch. will m.dout\ con and disastroon bush fires,. For /the ttowe so revwnt for yearato comm, negliginee of leaving these fires burning in the Busii-fres are almost daily occuerance in one bush, fere in ponalty, but nobody over part or another of the Australian colonies, dar] regardd i, bitsuse da not bellove It is ever Ing the sommes, . They aries from vaviout ean- Indlered. | ses, and are, in many instanona,ocigloaied pur- posely, bith by natiypesad from I- | does of uff'y. The Jong day grass of ihe wild , e summi- “Md-away. crud In the ed; the roos slong with-siartling rapidity. |- muskeity, vorumed smdlrh on | ‘h-Mtthw hung-cum“ e beftlie the conflegratinn, the vt | she serut, ma it is called, un- blese careeriag through th' Aira, or Jeaplug derwood of ihe toreat, h the h] along he tops of the tre## , the flying of droughts and beats of suber, are ns lgultable | of horses, troops of kangaroos, and . other whd , as the grass, sed burn. with equal rapidity, ond aaimais from lis wrath, Whole boss of birds | a much intemse heat. .These again commrunt-| with wild eries rushing headiong before it, or Piscellancous, BLACK THURSDAY. THE GREAT BUSH FIRE ot VICTORIA re winume nowe. All these firés posses, more or los, a certain mtaguifioence. The rush anu roar of the Anties their wide front marching rapldly on Mite the long-continued drought. dried | up to a suite of thuder. NYE of the trees were. so dry that they mht I have observed be nobwdered In the wa- tercontnes wore in toiny €nié# ex- haliited, mnd ln'il reduced .' W pter holes and whict bat i known - before since the white nian Tito\ the ool- 7 ony, to. fail were mew \parched and ervoked with heat. Wend \édhpininis sent to the newspapers four \the ttera in Mann-waxing: is a We hear sheep and vast numbers ofcatle actually dy- dug of thins and obal ai ln thik. atate of things, game., one ofthose bot winds from the nertis ever' the whole country ke a and wilfling you in their coupee, Mke; tigirgath of a turuace. , These winds bear directly on the surface of the earth, ru aking. do'\ w- torrid vollence and scooping up and M with them cleads of dust and fle Adhd, 4o[dange Uf whole flocks of tlimt you see your hand before: ~, They how! round the m «the most , stormy nights of wur Decedibet, setifing fine dust through \amount and uh“- ‘flmhcmhl ee ra In! him Mn- mum-m I‘m-n ManM-At‘nm- Ing, that when the wind I6. ovér, ihiy deo! wipe up the dust shake out flu out it E But itis only nit-hm“ they can do any thing coolly ; for /the hesk ls, dur- ing um; prevalence, perfectly: prospating. These known in Bydney m \ Brick felders,\ are still more tertllle, owing to the, greater heat of the cl mate ond the prore and, natura of the soll. . Durhig thelr bontineance tho thermometer will rite, not to 110 'degreos, ma colonial wrhere 4, but 16 140 degrees, follage of the forest the blast, and corn eroge someilmcs ac- tually redured to aldet in the oar; Tt was after the -long, severe t, and the tinder condiijon of the grass and foll In the summer $1880-1, which IQ ve just spoken of, that one of these hot . w come. \The whole eonntry ly, wah well prepared lor ig.:lilon-ready for the match, and there R was | - The various fies on the isdui@inina and Jn the bash received the kind ing, firmes shot forward . wiih inoy/wiad and the whele country was speedily one oonifing- tation | Lighted at so ung! M blazed and roared tm “mm-l \ity MM. of ”Lus- mflfluuu ordinary basbfires to bett \bit &. to \hh filmes, but tome awful 'of miller . ed tha foredt vo r before It of stabile ened the atmosphere, anid a beat dofiniliadide the breath? mluhhmmfimmnm wheolimg.around afer it, in anzioty : for their es of the espécially, to whs Mimose grouse | yeung ; ar in hope of the feast. which the my» | which frome a medPum betweeg She shribe ant rikie of opossums, bundicoots, kangatnos, ras, word the loflied! ti re«| fying squtire's, serpent, and ether, Inbabitani® | quarter, of a friwce bested 1o :( Beon the «people Mad tories) Abeiore the re- morssiess evemy In all 280 In every quarter, avon over an of the fuvest are sure to be prégeats rous- “4.4.3 The tod alive in their reironté-thi hollow fed from which abound every thy lodly grass Y their fiocks to Ars, too, runs quiv‘anent. hmmmd Aires shail ”gm Toi whit Foam tw mm...“ minu- maging HIV“ M‘ u‘ © in -“~dl bur-0 an”. and the terrillh sour af built-Wuha- tnbig-the trees constitution sine | “dawn-“db add “filing; Jt may manna—- 'That it masd thes, aad ; even speed,) ;thare 4 uo. mysery ufll- nun 5&er wo A reagan